the, the business dw news line from ballot. nato street says the alliance is now bigger and strong, got off the swedes accession. the swedish flag is raised at nato's brussels headquarters and a special server. they installed the hit south. its ross as president vladimir putin claiming he has faith and it was a night of few surprises. this is oscar christopher know alton, i'm a slaves. most of the major prizes of the academy awards,

including best picture, best director and best practice the i'm good. how about is welcome to the program? the swedish flag is now flying that's nato's headquarters in brussels. it follows a special ceremony to formally mark sweden, succession segments in its place. in the, as the military alliance is 32nd members. coming to years of to the northern country applies to join following russia's full scale invasion of hugh. i'm all of those attending suite as prime minister and nato's secretary general again stole. who had this when pressed on tooth and launched his full scaling nation 2 years ago. he won't the less nate, the more control over his neighbors. he wanted to destroy ukraine,

southern states. but she said the nato is bigger and stronger. ukraine is closer to nathan membership than ever before. the security situation in our region has not been the serious since the 2nd world war. and russia would stay a threats to you. atlantic security for a foreseeable future. it was in these lights, sweden applied to join the native defense alliance to gain security, but also to provide security. the deputies process correspond to terry schultz has been at night. i had called us today and i also have people that are taking a victory lap now off the wall. it's been a rocky accession process for suite after, as you say this very long, 2 years. and especially even this last year when finland was admitted to the alliance, having gotten all the, the approval from all the other allies

a year ago that live sweden in a position where it felt very vulnerable, almost like it had a target on it. there was new member of finland on one side in norway on the other side, but sweden was not in. and so there's a huge, really sense of relief. you're around nato headquarters. both swedish prime minister of christmas and the secretary general against oldenburg, were, were clearly happy even laughing a little bit. and you don't see that very often here at nato. so everyone is really in a good mood that this finally, this process finally has come to an end with the re raising of the swedish flag here. now we heard a moment ago from the swedish prime minister, and he said the russians threat to euro atlantic security tip the scales for a sweden to join nato. and that breaks for the long tradition of neutrality. why the sweet and st joining nato is a safer bed and stay neutral as well. one of the points he made this morning and, and we notice also from nato's change and as military pastor is it,

they don't believe this threat from russia is going away any time soon. not only will the war and ukraine not to be over quickly, but then russia will turn to other neighbors perhaps. and that's, of course, if you're in the baltic states or you're in the nordic area, you feel like you could be next. now this, we just defense minister who we've spoken to many times on our air used to say without article 5 without being a nato member. we can hope we can wish we can even assume that other countries would come to defend us. but we cannot know. we only know once we have article 5, and that's what nato membership gives sweden. that was the w, as correspond to terry sills reporting from brussels. now let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. in indonesia, at the desk toll from the weekends, flash flooding and land slides has risen to at least 26 officials, said 11 others were still missing on the island of somal truck. while floodwaters are receiving risk. assets have been handed by outages and damaged roads.

at a meeting in cairo, 3 libby and leaders have agreed to form a new government to oversee the late elections that they be a was amends to hold the vote in 2021 of the more than a decade of conflict that was postponed, of the disagreements over the candidates and election rules, china's legislature has wrapped up its annual session and paging with that, a good signing off on a more than 70 percent. boost in different spending, the tightly controlled week long event. so the routing communist party is plans when the universal support, as expected, or to portugal knob where the center right democratic alliance has claimed victory in a general election. the type of the contested vote took place to use that of schedule because long time social is prime minister and tony of cost us step down. he was facing corruption investigations. the results of seeing

a search and support for the far right. but gave no party and all tried majority leaving the country facing and on such a political future. v for victory, supporters of the democratic alliance celebrate as the leader of their center right party luis montenegro takes to the stage to claim victory. mill cool, louise, my commitment is to respect for will freely and democratically expressed by the portuguese people to bring about change free. that change will be achieved with a new prime minister high school. we have a new government to move, and we have new policies available in goal novice because montenegro ran on a platform that promised tax cuts for companies and the middle class and a voice to united portable after 8 years in power, the socialist party is conceding defeat candidates federal nuno santos already

stepped up to congratulate the victors, even before the count was complete. believe the good joseph everything indicates the surface polity will not get the most votes. get a police. so i want to congratulate ag for its victory but it's unclear if the democratic alliance is montenegro will be able to form a majority. coalition, montenegro has said his democratic alliance will not negotiate with the far right to the party, which solved their share of the vote. search and sundays election. j goes headed by ex football commentator entre ventura. he ran on an anti immigration platform focused on stamping up corruption and easing some taxes. the still much quote goes up into the 4 years of socialism in portugal for you guys. and this time the people have said what they want. you like to think they set the right wing must go better

or whatnot, and that's the right wing to govern, uses it. what's a good? last wind up on monday, just a given portugal for the next 4 years of the rising popularity of tega indicates a right wing shift in the country. the social is one the last election in a landslide victory. but after corruption scandal and rising inflation, voters seem to be turning toward new parties and a new direction. that was few surprises at this is oscar. it's the knight's belongs to the historical by a pick up in high. i'm a 17 awards, including for best film and best director. it's stock healey and murphy also took home stacked the price period terms and maria se oppenheimer often hymer talked. it's a night of domination with the award for best picture. it's 7.

winds included. christopher nolan for best director robert tiny junior for best supporting actor and kelly and murphy winning his 1st oscar for best actor. we made a film about the amount of created the atomic bomb and for better or for worse, we're all living in oppenheimer's world. so i would really like to dedicate this to the peace makers everywhere. to ceremony generally steered clear of politics. but the brief mentions of international tragedies were powerful . jonathan glaser used his zone of interest international feature. when to echo the films method you to account the humanize ation to says, what are the victims of october, the 7th and israel? well, the ongoing attack on gaza, all the victims of this tissue. and as i should,

how do we resist the night? were nearly every award was an apparent foregoing conclusion. best actress was the biggest surprise. going to em, us doing for her performance. interesting. lily gladstone from killers of the flower moon, had been to do with 1300 on the producers, kept the audience on their toes with a few unpredictable moments such as going on. john c. no streaking across the stage to nights best costume design and the short warming cuts away the dog from anatomy of a fall classics. and when it came to best song, billy irish may have won the award. ryan

gosling stove and night with his performance of i'm just can from barbie, an oscar where the performance in itself the and earlier i spoke to w's film expos, scott brooks's book, and he has his take on the best picture when i opened up the fact that oppenheimer did so well, really basically cleaned up the oscars this year. i think that's a sign that this was a return to sort of the oscars of old because oppenheimer is one of those big old hollywood historical ethics. the kind of used to always win at the oscars, but i've sort of been replaced in the last number of years by smaller independent international film spencer streamers. you've had to was like coda a nomad, land moonlight, parasite winning the best picture of. but here you had in another, an old big, big studio of film, oppenheimer winning even beating out it's, um,

it's more sort of mainstream commercial live a barbie. i'm. and i think it's interesting because these are the kind of movies that holy hollywood used to really treasure and, and warner at the oscars, but they sort of fall out of favor and the last couple of decades, really, it with the sort of rise of superhero movies and, and franchise movies so, so this uh, oscars i think, was returned to that sort of old school hollywood celebration of these type of big epic, a films that really only only with only the steel system can really do problem. and any nominees that you think what role of a deserving when as well, i was among most people expecting that lily gladstone would win the best actress oscar for colors of the flower moon. she was the 1st 10 digits woman dominated for that honor. and i expected, as most people did that you would be the 1st and did you just a person to win a best actress?

if it's kind of hard to say that she was rob though, because emma stone, one, a best actress, report things directly and storing performance with that in that film as a, as a women's are literally rebuilds herself in this kind of frankenstein like story from your best alonzo most i'm so that performance was, was amazing and was really sort of all and they are um where, where's the lead? gladstone performs includes the flower room is a bit more restrained, a bit more subtle. and so maybe that cost or um so i would have liked to see really gladstone when i think she may be deserved a to win. but i can't take anything away from emma stone. that was a phenomenal performance and, and well deserving of it. awesome. so you mentioned international productions earlier now the german language from zone of interest one is best international film. it was produced in the okay. did you see that coming? oh yeah, most definitely. it was one of my favorite films of last year. and after i saw how

it was received, was sick this specifically in the us. i expected it to win a best picture. it was the 1st time a u. k. a best picture of best international feature. it is the 1st time of u. k. film has one in this category, and it was also interesting to see a jonathan of lasers comments because of this film. he said, although it is about the whole cost, it is very much a reflection of the world we live in now. and he encourages people looking at this movie to think not about the past, but about what's happening now. but what he said in his a word, comments about the dehumanization that's happening right at this moment. um, do you particularly signal that the war in gaza and the human eyes ation that he sees in the treatment of both israelis and palestinians, victims of complex. so very much, very political movie about a load is about the one of the most horrible things of the past is very much of what's happening at this moment. the w feel next. good scott rocks for that. thank you very much god. and that's it from the avenue in front of that will be,

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