over the last half hour or so with me in the studio is that dw chief political correspondent, melinda craig, and listening at live and lithuania is our correspondence. yuri rossetto. so let's just join your 1st out. welcome your a. so what are the big takeaways are from what we've just heard? while the german chancellor sat exactly what people here wanted to hear from him fail, namely he underlined to germany, some more resolute stands on military and not just political support for ukraine in the fight against russia. this support is crucial and sold discussed the security situation for the baltic states on nate was eastern flank or with the lead us off with any letter and to stony. he said his goal of was to sent a signal, a clear signal of unity over united europe and the united nato, to russia in light of its war, of aggression against aggression against ukraine. and germany would stand with the rest of nettle, he set and to defend every inch inch of nato territory. and germany would also, he said, increase its military efforts in lithuania, up to the set goal of every gate strength pres

discuss this with a w such a little. correspond to melinda craig. welcome, belinda. an unusually robust rebuttal from the german chancellor. absolutely. especially given the fact that he is not given to tooting his own or germany's horn, but in fact, office is very restrained in his pronouncements and here he pushed back hard against that criticism that germany isn't doing enough. and also said it needs to be looked at essentially as a, as an overall package. what's your, what germany is doing? so not only the supply of weapons and equipment that he detailed there, but also financial and humanitarian support. and then he went on to talk about the bonus tugs the parliament's passage last friday of this 100000000000 euros special fund to essentially equip the german military up to a far more competent and modern level. and he said, when we do that, we will have the strongest army in europe and one of the strongest militaries in nato as a whole and unusual pronouncement from this chancellor. and particularly in view of the fact that germans are often restrained about ex