telling when tide s would get to vote again. washington s ambassador to berlin has issued a stark warning to german companies over a controversial pipeline that would supply russian gas to germany while bypassing eastern european countries richard grinnell reportedly wrote to several companies involved in the construction of the north stream two pipeline reminding them of u.s. sanctions on the russian energy sector also criticized project on social media the us has long opposed north stream saying it undermines european security. or else bring in our political correspondent simon young simon who exactly is did the us ambassador write to regarding these possible sanctions and what was in the
change in. time is taking on britain s exit from the european union but many political hurdles have yet to be cleared. and joined now in studio by daniel tetlow he s co-founder of british in germany that s a k. a group campaigning for the rights of u.k. citizens here in germany good to have you with us this morning daniel with or without a deal britain is due to leave the european union the end of march that will change the status of e.u. citizens living in the u.k. and of u.k. citizens living in e.u. member states can you tell us what it will mean for u.k. citizens like yourself living here in on the constant. or british in germany is a campaign s organization standing up for british citizens living in germany part of an umbrella organization called british in europe which covers around one point
along with several european countries as well i should point out opposes this project because they say that it essentially hands power and leverage to russia because of the issue of the way the gas flows through europe a lot of it currently comes through the crane that would be so that means that this project essentially bad the ukraine is back to some other countries like poland where gasoline. and so that s that s one solely debate the other thing is people point out that america may well be keen to sell its shale gas to europe although it s difficult to do that the moment because it s quite expensive now presumably the u.s. investor in writing these letters is doing that with the approval of the trumpet ministration but the ambassador himself has ruffled quite a few feathers during his time as ambassador news got a lot of scorn for that what else is riling the germans all the while he has got it
the u.s. want to slap sanctions on firms involved in this pipeline what the united states along with several european countries as well i should point out opposes this project because they say that it essentially hands and leverage to russia because of the issue of the way the gas flows through europe a lot of it currently comes through the crane that would be so that means that this project essentially bad for ukraine is bad for some other countries like poland where gasoline flows and so that s that s one certainly debate the other thing is people point out that america may well be keen to sell its shale gas to europe although it s difficult to do that the moment because it s quite expensive now presumably the u.s. investor in writing these letters is doing that with the approval of the trumpet ministration but the. ambassador himself has ruffled quite a few feathers during his time as ambassador news got
letter yeah this is been reported in the build them zone talk one of the big sunday newspapers published yesterday and he seems to have written the german firms involved in the new and stream. project the big ones of into unit but there are a number of other specialists. and obviously if they will block from working on this project it could have a big be a big problem because difficult to find alternatives to do you know firms that specialize in on the c. engineering what he said he s essentially that these firms are undermining the security over ukraine and europe is he as he puts it if they if they get involved in this project so it s a pretty serious warning felt this project. just remind our viewers it s already underway it s a multi billion euro pipeline the construction is is already moving forward why would the u.s. want to slap sanctions on firms involved in this pipeline well the united states