Apparent assassination of a former chechen commander in a berlin park last summer germany ordered 2 Russian Diplomats to leave the country last week. Prime minister boris strongs and votes in the u. Case general election his conservative partys leader of the Opposition Labor Party narrowed in the final week of the campaign. Im sumi so lets go to thank you for joining us it is an issue that has been causing a friction between germany and the us for years and now it has escalated the north stream to pipeline is being built to transport gas from russia to germany but the u. S. Says it is a National Security risk because it increases europes dependence on russia as a result the u. S. House of representatives has now approved sanctions on the pipeline a move that has angered many here in germ. The sanctions target the specialised ships that lay the pipes. Only a few companies in the world possess the technology to lay deep sea pipelines none of them is russian if they continue to work on no