correspondent nadine barber joins us live. sarcozy has not been arrested, he's under formal having. what does this mean? >> well, that's right. he's under formal investigation for three things - influence pedalling, corruption and benefitting from the broach of professional secrets. now, he was placed under formal investigation in the early hours of wernings after around 18 hours of questioning. he was - he actually arrived on tuesday morning at, say - at police headquarters outside paris, and he was questioned for a long time before being taken to meet with investigating judges, who placed him under formal investigation. then he was released in the early hours. the same situation for his lawyer as well, who has been charged with influence pedalling. the allegation is that they were involved in trying to seek inside information on a case against nicolas sarkozy, surrounding his 2006 presidential campaign, there were allegations that he may have illegally received financing from france's richest woman, lillian bettan core. the investigation was dropped, but this year judges tapped th

nadine barber says announcements about further sanctions are expected on thursday. after several hours the foreign ministers agreed to come up with new names and new companies to be added to the list of existing sanctions now that is expected to be presented on thursday. they also agreed to start looking at possible measures against whole sections of the russian economy. financial services, energy, and defense, that would be if they didn't see more concessions more cooperation from russia. in eastern ukraine, and particularly an end to what they see as the constant know of fighters and weapons into eastern ukraine. they say that that flow has created the conditions which led to the shooting down of the passenger plane. that was with something that was addressed by the e.u. policy chief at the end of the talks. >> we in particular call on russia to use it's influence over the illegally armed groups to achieve access to the site. and we urge russia to stop the increasing flow of weapons, equipment, and militants across the border. so we with can achieve rapid, and tan