Hello, im matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live three hours the German Foreign ministry has summoned the Russian Ambassador after arresting two men suspected of spying and planning Sabotage Attacks on military sites. German prosecutors accused the men of plotting an explosion, and being in contact with the russian intelligence service. One of them had been photographing potential Military Targets in germany, including us Military Facilities which assist ukraine. The arrests came as ukraines Prime Minister warned the bbc there will be a Third World War if ukraine loses its conflict with russia. In a moment well speak to our correspondent Gary Odonoghue in washington, but first, our security correspondent, gordon corera, is in our newsroom. With gordon corera, is in our newsroom. More on those gordon, with more on those german arrests, gordon, tell us what the authorities are saying about this plot. Are saying about this plot. There does seem are saying about this plot. There doe
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in terms of number, simply because iran is subject to huge sanctions already. he cannot for example sell things from the uk to iran, particularly drum parts, missile parts, things like that. you re targeting a specific number of individuals and some defence many fractures and things like that, so it s symbolic, though. essentially this is the united states in the uk saying that yes, we should continue to maintain collective international diplomatic pressure on iran, following its unprecedented attack on israeljust over the last weekend. so essentially it is, the international community is saying we need to stick with israel, we need to keep it as an international coalition against iran, to put more pressure on the iranians, but keep the diplomatic pressure on the side to the israelis, that means you don t have to go hard with any kind of military retaliation against, as a result of their own s attack.
other things like border security which they believe should be happening before any money goes anywhere else around the world. garzat anywhere else around the world. gary o donoghue. anywhere else around the world. gary o donoghue, thanks so much for that, thank you. some in return for support to ukraine, the british foreign secretary lloyd cameron is among those supporting the proposal. well, the principle is a simple one which is there are frozen russian assets in the uk and europe and elsewhere. we should be finding ways of using those assets to help ukraine in its defence of this appalling illegal russian invasion. it s quite obvious to me that one day, russia will have to pay reparations for this illegal invasion and so we should use those assets in the meantime. but it s important we try and get agreement amongst our allies about the right