so far arthel and damn the prospect of potent invading ukraine looms this coming week someone else is stirring up more trouble again, secretary of state antony blinken is focusing on him after regime says has a missile that can hit the u.s. and shake the world they discuss the nuclear threat. so far this year regime has conducted seven missile tests, all in a one month span. you know that s more than all of the missiles he fired last year. one of the tests we are told is a ballistic missile that could hit u.s. territory in the pacific. the administration says it s open to talking to the regime but so far no talks are scheduled. as tensions rising between russia and ukraine there growing questions about china s next move is the world of watches and to see just how western powers react if russia
here is the very latest for us tonight. kevin, evening. reporter: germans in a tough spot with this one. from the white house s perspective a bold declaration from the president who by the way had the policies to pavement way to the north stream 2 pipeline in the first place. today in a joint press conference with germany s chancellor, the president declined to elaborate how he planned to somehow stop the russians from going forward with the project if they invade ukraine. if russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of ukraine, again, then there will be we will there ll be no longer a north stream 2. we ll bring an end to it. reporter: a warning from the white house if russia invades ukraine, the u.s. and its european partners will hit russia right where it hurts in the wallet by way of shuttering the nord stream 2 pipeline.
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russia to germany. this is what the president said at the news conference. if russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing the border of ukraine again, then there will be there will be no longer a nord stream 2. we will bring an end to it. how will you how will you do that exactly? since the project and control of the project is within germany s control. we will i promise you we ll be able to do it. now the german chancellor was much less clear on his intentions, refusing to explicitly mention the pipeline by name. and later, in an interview with our colleague jake tapper, instead he reit tated that the u.s. and germany are on the same page and despite the gas pipeline insisting that nato s
won t germany explicitly say the pipeline is done? well i think it s domestic political reasons, don. for why chancellor scholz will not say nord stream will be done if russia invades. there s a big constituency for the pipeline in germany. germany uses a lot of russian gas. if there s invasion and disruption not from the pipeline that doesn t have gas flowing yet but a disruption in gas supplies, energy prices are going to go up in germany and other places, too. i think scholz is wanting to avoid blame for making that happen. larger message is he stood at white house with president biden, said they were going to be united. biden took responsibility, saying i ll shut it down if russia invades. that s probably the larger message sent to vladimir putin of course while emanuemanuel ma,