u. k. dash butler has more from paris at a nato defense ministers meeting in brussels. yes, dalton berg though, said that nato would certainly not cancel these exercises this year. and in fact, it would not be a good thing to do. so he would send the wrong message. he said to moscow at this particularly difficult time, or when russia has been stepping off its rhetoric when it comes to a threats about using nuclear weapons. or we've heard a lot for moscow about that. we know that the nato alliance says that it's taking those threats very seriously. indeed, it is watching them closely at this point. the line says that it really feels, those threats are more about trying to deter western powers from taking part in this conflict. but nevertheless, as i said, being looked at a very seriously, in fact, the us defense secretary lloyd austin, said, any nuclear strike by russia would receive a response from ukraine's allies. he didn't exactly say what it would be said. it would be a physical response. we then heard a little bit later from the french president, a manual magazine

u. k. dash of butler as more from paris after nato defense ministers meeting in brussels against dalton. but though said that nato would certainly not cancel these exercises this year. and in fact, it would not be a good thing to do. so it would send the wrong message. he said to moscow at this particular different difficult time when russia has been stepping off its rhetoric . when it comes to a threat about using nuclear weapons. we've heard a lot for moscow about that. we know that the nato alliance says that it's taking those threat very seriously. indeed, it is watching them closely at this point. the line says that it really feels a threat some more about trying to deter western powers from taking part in this conflict. but there's less, as i said, being looked at very seriously. in fact, the us defense secretary lloyd austin fed, any nuclear strike by russia would receive a response from ukraine's allies. he didn't exactly say what it would be that it would be a physical response. we then