spending towards the margin of 2 percent and that is what we are doing the budget for next year said to not 0 quarter of 1.42 percent 5 years ago we were 1.18 percent we will continue this step by step process 1.5 percent until 2024 when that the defense minister has now presented a plan which foresees improvements in our nato participation so that we will reach the 2 percent margin in the early thirty's that is guaranteed. and our chief political editor nick elocution is standing by for us at the german parliament in berlin good to see mahela what else did the chancellor have to say what was have message. well her message was 1st of all and that's how she started a pledge towards nato she said that the security of europe depended even more on nato today than it did during the cold war she also struck a very very much