so so shima are las pullin our chief political editor, michaela griffin, her. she's here in berlin, following events. mikaela last night the german chancellor was in washington. the french president was in moscow. they are both now here in berlin. do they have anything new to report? well let's be honest to night is not the night where there will be any breakthrough, even on the western side to find any kind of new common line. this is a 3 way debrief in the so called by my triangle format, which had been pretty much dead in the water for more than a decade. but now it emphasizes that any feasible format is being revived, the os c, e and the nato rasa and dialogue is continuing just to keep the rasa at the negotiating at the talking table. and i say negotiating because the minor my horn did come back with something that he claimed was new at that. and basically he had received assurances from putin not to escalate the situation further to stick to the previous deal. that's the bad uminski agreement. that's the basis of the no, no more d format talks. so there i

the t that is for sure. michaela griffin here and belinda connelly, and keep to both of you. thank you. if on, if russian vase that means tanks or troops crossing the on the border of ukraine again, then there will be we, there will be no longer a nor stream to we will bring an end for you. how will you do that? exactly. since the project and control of the project is within germany's control, we will, i promise you will be able do a will you commit today to turning off and pulling the plug in north. think you, you didn't mention it. you haven't mentioned it, as i already said, we are acting together. we are absolutely united and we will not taking different steps. people do the same steps and they will be very, very hot to russia. and they showed them it was those exchanges between reporters and u. s president bind in german chancellor schultz yesterday that are once again fueling suspicions that the u. s. and germany are not speaking with one voice when they threatened severe consequences for russia if it invades ukraine. my next guest tonight is a former european energy se

c. political editor, michaela griffin, she's back at the big table with me. they'll let, let us talk about weapons for a moment to you. in the past, germany as a, even as a member of nato has been able to get out of being pushed into cindy weapons anywhere. that doesn't seem to be the case in this crisis. you've got members of the u. s. congress. you've got people in london saying germany should walk the walk with us. but that's not what is happening isn't. no, that's something that germany is categorically ruling out. although it did in the past on the pest maga. so there are exceptions to the delivery of weapons into a conflict region, but it is now sticking by this principle. and it almost feels like there's a different currency germany has, in terms of approaching this diplomatically to the united states. that simply doesn't seem to convert because what germany has announced today is that it will strengthen its battle group in lithuania and send an extra $350.00 soldiers. it leads that nato battle group. it actually has a very large engagement within nato