one of. their journey of thirty to forty frequent on a secret mission. that was the obvious osca schrenker reporting from caracas here in berlin the u.s. ambassador richard grinnell has cordoned germany to abandon its north stream to pipeline project the pipeline will run from russia and the baltic sea and supply gas directly to germany now it s set to go into operation later to syria in an opinion piece written for d.w. grinnell along with two of the u.s. ambassadors in europe said the project would drastically increase russian energy leverage and would pose a security threat to the whole of the west dinette had previously threatened german companies involved in the construction of the pipeline directly with sanctions the german foreign ministry advised the companies not to respond. and for more on the story and we re joined by a political correspondent hans brand he s at our parliamentary sunni s welcome hans
saying that the united states are now becoming an export of natural gas have become so in recent years and they re looking to export this gas to europe as well so in some sense richard grinnell is also. promoting united states commercial interests here in europe. appears to be quite a controversial figure here hans doesnt it. yes indeed. well something like a donald trump here in germany somebody who for the american president. cuts a figure that is very similar to the one that on from cuts and the united states grenada is brash he does not stick to diplomatic protocol he interferes in a sense in the affairs of the country where he is being hosted where he is a guest in a sense for instance by threatening german companies involved in the pipeline project with sanctions he has also said that he wants to promote the interests of
a sense in the affairs of the country where he is being hosted where he is a guest in a sense for instance by threatening german companies involved in the pipeline project with sanctions he has also said that he wants to promote the interests of right wing populist parties in europe including the right wing populist syria in germany so he s being very undiplomatic in many of his stances huns from the dumbass political correspondent thank you very much you re watching news coming up ahead the long. list billions international film festival kicks off. a visual feast awaits the city s movie lovers patient enough to get tickets. but first in ukraine late last year the country s christian orthodox leaders greeted the new church independent of russia that s after they receive the blessings of also dr sanjay
cause i think he s getting ahead of himself a little bit at the same time there s the prospect of a summit with russia and turkey and germany and france you know as another way of moving forward on peace. angela merkel says she s open to all those ideas of the she wants to give peace process to continue as well and she said yesterday the important thing is to avoid a humanitarian crisis in in northern syria but i think anything that could shorten the war there that would appeal to angela merkel and to other european leaders so there seems to have been progress on ukraine and the two leaders do have some common interests regarding energy what was that that they talked about yesterday we have as this know would stream to pipeline project would bring even more russian gas through the baltic sea to germany a very important project for russia putin said you know this would make russia an even more reliable energy partner for europe don t trump by the way says it would
can how will john i react to this rather hostile move. well i m not necessarily certain it s hostile you have to remember if you look at some of the chaos that we re seeing coming out of the white house right now and out of washington. china is increasingly realizing that it can t rely on the u.s. in terms of supporting its economic backbone and instead it s turning more and more to europe and we re seen kind of some strange bell bedfellows being created between germany and china they might necessarily have the same goals when it comes to human rights when it comes to social democracy but their in their economic goals their goals their interest in free train are definitely allied so i wouldn t see i would expect that strong response from china of thank you very much. now according to a pipeline project that s just recently been heavily criticised by u.s. president donald trump that is highly controversial within europe to construction work on north stream to has begun and if everything