Comparison to the United States. I think comparisons across europe may be a little more challenging to make and put in a positive light. That has certainly been the focus and the delay to locking down the country certainly was an area of real criticism for the government. I suppose this morning, we are also focused on what is going on near to you in terms of hurricane laura building across the atlantic and a ready to make landfall. We are watching louisiana, watching texas. We get this red headline across the bloomberg from the Hurricane Center saying laura is seen rapidly strengthening to category four hurricane. This is new information this morning. That is a big number. Hurricane 4 is much bigger than a hurricane 2. 4 is getting very, very serious. This is the acceleration north , west the gulf of mexico of new orleans as well. In new york city, always quite good with our first word news. On the second night of the Republican National convention, speakers tried to humanize President
Well the use of the term novacek when it comes to the nerve agent that the german side say this alex in a valley was poisoned with or casts a spark to march of 2018 in the case of. His daughter a year earlier in sols period in the United Kingdom where not a truck was talked about then we saw hazmat suits places being cordoned off a lot of people on the scene testing the the locations that had visited we havent seen that with Alexei Novelli of course hes been under an incredible mount of medical attention since he was transported here to burlington but we havent seen the same type of of scenes we saw in souls perea couple of years ago. Peter youve given us the background on this story and broken down the German Response for us but what about the russian official reaction. Officially so far all weve heard from kremlin spokesperson to me to the press corps is the early one hasnt been in touch with with moscow on this issue or expecting that to change because what we did hear from us as we
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Thanks very much on joining me here on to the point coming to you from berlin and my guests here in the studio are kirsten vest far from the German Institute for international and Security Affairs who says north stream 2 has serious political implications but the Collateral Damage of u. S. Sanctions is far reaching also with us is michelles 2 month Foreign Policy experts with the berlin based we do need to cite he argues that europes quarrel on nordstrom too is the biggest failure in german Foreign Policy in more than a decade and a woman eric rohmer author and journalist who writes for the Los Angeles Times and eric believes that the u. S. And many other countries have long warned germany about the pair. No string to those warnings were however big no. Thank you very once again for being here in berlin today with me because then i would like to begin with you as an Energy Expert to tell us what makes north stream to so important and so very controversial. I thought i would say the pol
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