welcome to the program. germany's new defense minister boris chris doria says, hosted his u. s counterpart lloyd austin here in berlin for talks on ukraine. reason comes ahead of nato consultations on friday at which countries are expected to make critical decisions about further military aid to cave. germany's facing mounting pressure to allow allies to send german made tanks to ukraine a busy 1st day in office. shortly after getting his certificate of appointment, forrest historian met his yes counterpart, lloyd austin. both of them signaled their unified stance. i'd like to thank the german government for all that it is going to strengthen ukraine, softer french, and your contributions of security of systems from training for new crimes to friend bruce herbert and valuable these off to negotiate. so often in history, fight the federal republic of germany and the united states of america in augusta and side by side in their pro ciocca. but also on the concrete issues i walk in and be at the infantry fighting vehicle. it says that the patriot air defense system here or the m