pay 5000 yes. dollars to name allison the aim this year is to raise $1000000.00. much of it for conservation initiatives. ah. ready finland and sweden formally applies to join nato, spurred by security concerns over russia's invasion of ukraine. ah, hello there, i'm. it's darcy, italian. this is al jazeera live from durham, also coming up. another group of ukrainian soldiers leaves the as up style. steel planted, merrier poll. ukraine suggests a prisoner exchange, but russia want some of them branded terrorists people to for hours, for petrol and sri lanka, after the government warns it's running out of supplies,

reach supremacy you wish to poison president joe biden pays as respects to the victims of a u. s mast shooting, saying racism is being stroked for political gain. ah, now in a historic moore of finland and sweden have both submitted their formal applications to join nato, their ambassadors handed letters to the military alliance as chief insults and bug . both countries have long stayed neutral, but russia's invasion of ukraine rapidly shifted public opinion in favor of joining nato. let's take a look at a map because finland, she has a long border with russia, 1300 kilometers. it's membership of nato would more than double russia's land border with the alliance. finland was also invaded by the soviet union back in 1949, and last part of its territory in what's known as the winter war. well,

let's bring in our diplomatic editor james bay as he joins us now live from brussels change. just looking at that map, you can see why a public opinion potentially went the way it did. can you talk us through what happens now? this is a very big development. ne towed to the 1st one was formed in 1949, the start of the cold war 73 years ago. and if that wanted sweden and finland could have joined then, but they cherish their status as non aligned nations that has changed completely. and it's quite changed completely. and under 3 months since vladimir putin ordered the invasion of ukraine, public opinion has shifted. they have gone through the procedures in both the countries and now they are applicants to nato. they put in their letters of application. the next phase is for all the nato countries to agree, and then for ratification. we heard at that event, when the,

the letters were put in from the nato secretary general yan stoughton boat. every nation has the right to choose his own path. you evolve made your choice of the follow them critic processors. you are our closest partners and your membership in neg do would increase our shared security. the applications you have made to they are an historic step. and as you've been saying, jane's though this isn't an uncontroversial nathan, not all nate, i members are on board. well, there are currently 30 nato members. that would be $32.00 if sweden and finland are allowed to join. but the process in nato is it has to be unanimous. now i can tell you out of the 3029 are saying yes, we want very much sweden and finland to come on board. the countries that served

alongside nato in the balkans in afghanistan, they have more military's, they have war plains, finland, particularly has a large artillery, has a large reserve force. and they say that interoperable with all the nato systems and they can join very quickly. and in terms of the pecking order of those 30 nato countries, these 2 would be the top 10 in terms of the military capabilities. there is one country though, at the moment that is saying that no, and that is turkey, turkey making the point that it believes these 2 countries harbor terrorists. that's their words. and by that i think they're talking about allowing people who support kurdish nationalism to live in those 2 countries and also some members the google and movement turkey would like to see some of those people extradited finland. and sweden have opposed that. that is certainly the stated reason from turkey, why it is not happy with the applications. the key meeting coming up in just a few hours time at the united nations in new york,

where the us secretary state will meet with the turkish foreign minister to trump put on some pressure and trying to get him to change his mind. change phase that watching all of that for us from brussel. thanks so much, james. all. meanwhile, the fates of ukrainian soldiers who made that loss stand inside the as of styles. steel plant is unclear. they spend months fending off russian forces and bombardment and marry a pole. moscow says more than $260.00 of them have surrendered. some have been taken to a former penal colony in russian controlled territory. others are being treated for their wounds. ukraine has meanwhile suggested a prisoner swap, but russia's parliament is considering banning the exchange of captured as of members for russian prisoners of war. while ukraine's president also says some fighters remain inside the steel plant. acid bag has more now from disney pro. he said that the evacuation is been overseen by the ukrainian military and intelligence, and he said the most influential international mediator so that we understand that

there are still some fighters there, but the ones that have been evacuated earth, most of them have been taken all of them, in fact, having taken to russian control the russian held territory, but russia says that they will be treated by international standards. but also the russians are saying that they would like to investigate some of these nations for crimes against a, against a civilian population. now that's obviously propaganda coming from russia. they've held on to this line that they have invaded ukraine to de nazi fight. but what's interesting about specifically about mario paul and the as of battalion is that this kind of feeds the russian narrative as of battalion it is a far right. a battalion, it was incorporated into ukraine's military infrastructure. and many of its members have been linked to far right groups. now that serves the russian propaganda machine. however, ukraine says that this battalion was incorporated into its military infrastructure and has now changed. but the, as a battalion is seen as to def,

are seen as the defenders of mary uphold the strategic port city. and this is very important for russia. this is the biggest victory to dates in terms of this war and many other parts of the country's, their face set back. so president vladimir putin want to make the most act of the situation and marable. now moving on, an sri lanka ruling party has blocked a no confidence motion, and parliament against president got the bar roger boxer. it was triggered by growing anger and protests against the country's economic crisis. oh, oh, you can see that people gathered near the president's office on tuesday, calling on roger pox at a step down. the government is running out of the foreign currency. it needs to import petrol. diesel and gas and fuel stations have run out. michelle fernandez has moved from columbia where people are still carrying for fuel. seems like

this outside, this patrol station in columbus are quite common. we've got lot of people waiting for information outside officers of federal sessions to find out how long they're going to have to wait. now, the prime minister run over grimacing her told the country that there was just enough stocks for one day. and from what we're hearing and looking at scenes in petro sessions like this, it seems that those stocks have been exhausted. people desperate you have hundreds of taxes, just down the road from here. waiting for supplies. mortar is basically a frozen, unable to do any of their day to day activities. the worst part about all of this is despite queuing, some, as long as 24 hours. they have no hope of obtaining any fuel. obviously, in terms of the political frond, the crisis front, we've got a new prime minister who has been sworn in promising to address the situation. but

he is not a miracle worker by any means. and despite the fact that he says he's appealing to the international community, drawing on a lot of those good contexts that run over grimacing a has. it's going to take a long while before the situation stabilizers or eases in any form or manner. for the moment. all we seem to be doing is going from one shipment to the next, unsure of where the future is going. well. indonesian foreigners are demanding that the government lift it, span on palm while exports as price as their drop dramatically. tom free prices have fallen by 70 percent since international shipment stopped last month. the government says at ban shipments from around top palm while exported to protect supplies at home and to help produce raising food prices than now you as president joe biden has condemned what he calls the poison and white's dependency. he's been

in buffalo, new york state, where he met families of victims of a mass. you're saying, she had her tansy reports now from the city. after visiting the sight of saturdays massacred a supermarket in a predominately black neighbourhood of buffalo, new york, joe biden spoke specifically of the philosophy that underpin the guns rampage. that white americans are being replaced by non whites for political ends, through government subsidies and immigration, a view that is being expressed in the mainstream rights of us politics. i call all americans to reject ally and i can them those who spread the lie for power. political gain and for profit that's what it is. as the solutions biden focused on 2 areas, there are certain things we can do. we can keep assault weapons off our streets. we done it before. i did away past the crime bill last time. and violence went down,

shootings went down. the can't prevent people or me radicalized to violence. we can address the relentless exploitation of the internet to recruit and mobilized harrison. we just need to have the courage to do that. to stand up. the mayor of buffalo said he appreciate the president's visits, the number of flowers, candles, and other items that were there, show the tremendous impact that this horrible act has had on the community. saw a rail resolve in the president to make a difference, to try to bring to an end nash shootings and in this country. but even biden himself admits he's very unlikely to get an assault weapons about the past in congress and from left to right. the suspicion of any attempt by the government to regulate constitutionally protected free speech. yes,

civil libertarians say you could begin fighting white supremacists, but in the end that government could attempt about anyone, it feels is an enemy. the shooting has highlights of the socio economic foundations of american racism. unlike so many african american communities, at least this neighborhood had a supermarket. now it's closed with residents relying on food banks. it was putting all their focus downtown. we build in downtown. but in the meanwhile, we cell phone and we always been stuffing on a fat and further down the side. but now each side is now. when we got your attention, we tried not enough to now change that to come a man. the conversation here is whether the sudden focus on this african american community will improve the lives of people here, or is this shooting just the latest manifestation of racism in the u. s. she ever

can't see al jazeera buffalo, new york home. meanwhile, police in the us state of california say, a man who opened fire in a church was motivated by political hatred for ty, one, prosecutors say david show was trying to execute as many people as possible. he's been charged with 1st degree murder and 5 counts of attempted murder. cho attacked elderly worshippers gathering for lunch on sunday, killing one person. stella had here on al jazeera, rising gas prices in nigeria, forcing many people to turn to wood and chuckle. we look at how that's accelerating deforestation plus on charlie ange, read $75.00 can film festival, where the red carpet is being rolled out for hollywood blockbusters, our house film delegations from ukraine is a film it is to gathers after a bruising 2 years. ah,

the journey has begun the faithful world copies on its way to catherine book. your travel package today there much a western europe, particularly northwest has been remarkably warm, the last few days helped by the churning weather in the atlantic, bringing suddenly wind up by the fact this city county cycle area of high pressures . just allowing the cool come down the eastern side than the warmed up the western side. so paris recorded 31 degrees, which is 11 degrees above average for may. it's not a record. was clear, significant in a city yet to find some way of cooling down. now paris won't stay at 31, but a good part of western europe will stay quite hold while the east sees a completely different type of weather. heavy rain out of sudden ukraine, back through radio, bulgaria to greece. but the warnings out in greece, the amount of rain today, it spreading into northern turkey. this is wednesday, thursday, we'll see it throughout turkey's fairly frequent shout. a dull day followed by

coolish wind. sampson the into the teens, not the thirty's. that whilst pass, we'll see a changed and a 25 was shouting through, france, belgium blo, countries and germany in spain and portugal might get even hotter. seville could break, it may record on friday at 41 degrees. those oscars still halt, particularly in senate gold. molly? but the shells every now and again. come but fond of the cool things done. cats are always official and line of the journey. healing the debate, there is no, he jogged bad little you know, if anyone here talks about women that i talked to dusty, this bill seemed to have been says, no topic is off the table. we were taught to see abortion as a one way ticket street to help all of the companies. they deny any responsibility, even though they have the resources and the power to fix it, where a global audience becomes a global community. the comment section is right here. be part of today's program. this stream on al jazeera.

ah ah. hello there, i'm is darcy at hand, ohio. let's remind you about top stories here. the sour finland and sweden have handed in their formal applications to join nater. they've long been neutral, but russia's invasion of ukraine rapidly shifted public opinion in favor of nature membership. meanwhile, it's unclear what will happen to ukrainian fighters who surrendered after defending marable's as of style. steel wax from russian attacks. new grain is suggesting a prisoner one, but russia one some to be labeled terrorists. people have been caring for hours for petrol after sri lankan government warned it's running out of fuel. the government has short a foreign currency that it needs to buy imports of petrol,

diesel and gas. now, one of libya's arrival prime minister says he'll move his government to the city of cert. from wednesday fatty rashondra had attempted to enter the capital tripoli on tuesday. but supporters of arrival administration led by abdul hamid debate about blocked the move. libya has had to governments since march when the parliament based on the east appointed basheba as prime minister of chicago, says the elections that were postponed were approved by the international community . and will focus on following the political process. good humor, how the little ursa that government has worked to delay and undermined the election . they refused to go to the election approved by the international community and the u. n. we did not resort to force or insults. we followed a political process sort of, we will never use corruption. we will never corrupt the political life. meanwhile, the tripoli based government of prime minister abdul hamid the baby described tuesdays developments as a desperate attempt to spread terror and chaos in the libyan capital. a little but

he had delicious resolution is lu future except through elections. the quality of field which we, we can confirm its over his railing forces have rated several neighborhoods in the janine refugee camp in the occupied west bank. more than 40 minute trip patrol stoned, a number of palestinian homes to palestinians were detained. the veteran al jazeera journalist, shaheen. okay, was killed in that same area jeanine last week. french president emanuel macro is pushing for a rapid investigation into her death. she was shot dead by israeli forces, while on assignment, she was an american citizen. and to us, congressman also want the f b i to investigate her death. they are gathering signatures for a motion. and democratic congresswoman receipt at lab has condemned sharina killing . she told al jazeera, the u. s. must be found the with israel to push it up, hold human rights. overwhelmingly you hear people saying that we must use

leverage of the money and the funding from the united states to promote human rights to push back against apartheid government, pushed back against the racism, the killings and the work on that of the united states. again, need to continue to speak up because our silence from the president biden to a number of his officials are using words that i feel like, are you careful or not strong enough to make sure that the israeli government knows we're extremely serious about again, upholding human rights we found hypocritical, when we say, well, hold human rights and other countries and post war crimes. but when it comes to the apartheid government of israel, we are eyelid. and in cairo, a vigil has been organized for serene by the egyptian journalist syndicate. the government rarely allows the syndicate to organize public events. now jailed russian opposition figure lexi. nev only has briefly appeared by video link out of

court hearing the 45 year old as appealing a 9 year prison sentence of fraud and contempt of court charges that he was handed back in march. the term is on top of a 3, a jail sentence is already serving for violating parole when he was thrown to germany after a poisoning attack, which he blames on the kremlin. the boundary has rejected the allegations as politically motivated on north korea is me there has accused officials of an immature response to its coven 19 outbreak. kim john urns says there inadequate strategies for dealing with the crisis are making the situation worse. chung has reported around one and a half 1000000 cases of people with fever like symptoms. since the end of last month. the wild health organization has offered help with vaccines. the democratic people's republic of korea, dpr k, has a mouse sulu there to state media beard 1st. outbreak of corbett named him was more than 1400000 suspected cases since late. approve doubly joyce,

deeply concerned at veteran school further sproat of course, name to him in the country, particularly because the population is unbox united and the u. s. is easing some sanctions on venezuela? to encourage talks between president nicholas maduro and the opposition. the u. s. recognizes opposition leader one glider as venezuela's, legitimate president and imposed sanctions to try to oust madura. washington says any major lifting of sanctions will depend on progress at the negotiating table. on me, mount mexico's president says u. s. policy on cuba is medieval. and under as manuel lopez alvarado is urging the end of us sanctions, his reaction follows the u. s. president, relaxing some restrictions on travel and sending money home. mexico is urging joe biden to invite cuban leaders to a summit in los angeles next month. the white house says only countries with an effect of democracy are welcome. theresa bo has won the past 2 years. have been

difficult for people like jewell pulido. he owns a small hostile in havana economic sanctions. a lack of tourism due to their pandemic, has worshipped the economic conditions in cuba. the u. s. as decision to lift some economy restrictions could have a positive impact on his business trauma that my joy is not fully convinced how much it will change things on the ground as will bottled on wednesday. but it's totally unpredictable. what will happen with the missions many promises have been made before, and we're still in the same situation. we can only wait to see if it favors us or not. if it happens, the u. s. announced it is lifting trump error restrictions that include limits on family remittances flights and a family reunification program. it was a campaign promised by joe biden, and it's supposed to alleviate the impact of us policy on the population. i guess it almost everyone here has family in the us and it represent a lot for us to get help from there. not only economically but also to be open to

be able to go there. and our relatives can come here. the possibility of being in touch with our families, lozano just normally the cuban government said the announcement is positive but does not modify the impact the u. s. embargo continues to have on the island. the u . s. decision comes as cuba past a new penal code that annually say curves descent in july, last year, thousands of people took to the streets to protest against the government. hundreds of protesters were detained and are facing use in prison for speaking against the political and economic conditions on the island. human rights group say the us timing was wrong. i mean you, yes and comparable. i would have liked to see biden announced we are going to open the embassy, give away the 20000 vases, begin with a re unification process. but i would also have like to say something on human rights, but we're going to sustain a fund was the civil society to assist the relatives of political prisoners or

other things about human rights? at the center of us policy wise is tough. economic sanctions have failed to bring about political change in cuba. and that's why for many, it's time for a new approach. there is, i will, i'll just either a major wildfire and new mexico has become the largest blaze in the u. s. states history, a cough canyon fire started a month ago now forcing more than $26000.00 people to leave their homes. is now banned through more than 1300 square kilometers and destroyed $260.00 homes. at least 2000 fire fighters. i'm battling to tries and bring the blaze under control while activists are wanting that a sharp increase in the price of cooking gas and nigeria is accelerating deforestation. then as almond addressed reports from connor gas prices have tripled within the past year, forcing many to use firewood to cook their meals. instead. it's been torn. javier

says my whole dose man switched from fi. wouldn't you call to cooking gas to prepare his meals? he says he tossed easier and healthier, but with high prizes eating deep into his earnings, his wandering, if that's a wise move. yeah, look like him up on one. okay. up under he go. i used to pay the equivalent of $1.50 for gas in the small cylinder. the price stripper? now. the rising cost of gas or cooking has pushed many nigeria to resort to use in wood and charcoal. here at the local chuckle, market in daughter new consignments arrived by the truckload. business is brisk. i now want what i will at years if we sell 2 to 400 bags of charcoal daily. on a very good day, we sell more than 500 bags and go to make those 500 bags. doses of trees must have been cut down cooking as a usage in africa's biggest oil and gas producer rules by 60 percent in 2020,

exceeding 1000000 metric tons. cells grew farther last year, but then slowed down due to reductions in supply for the country. now has to import gas at high prices. in 14 days, a lot of taxes anita vehicle from do you want to like food, make the product to be really high wind blunt county? does it swim as we are hugging the jumping cooking gas prices for nigeria is already struggling with rising inflation is also reversing. gains made in protected trees in a country wide. $10000000.00 are cut down every year or fisher. so there were increasing people's use of quoting gas will save millions of fries and the environment by the high jump in prizes of liquefied petroleum gas will make that harder to achieve. nigeria, still all company blames the rising cost and global price increases. but with the country still important, most of its gas users are bracing for more price hikes. ahmed edris algebra

cuddle, nigeria, rescuers in mckinney foster se they found no survivors. a month after heavy rain flooded a mine in the west. they hoped, 8 missing men might have been able to take shelter in an underground chamber inside the mine. but when they reached it, it was empty. the mining company says it will keep searching while the war and ukraine has taken center stage at the opening of the can film festival and france present. got a me of the lensky urged movie makers and not to say silent while many are dying. charlie angela is at the fest room. lisa lights, cameras, action can a 2 week celebration of cinema after a bruising 2 years for the big screen. 35000 film buyers and sellers, critics and celebrities, a gathering to do business and promote old genres of film. the festival is opening,

but the french comedy final cut a love letter to filmmaking and budget zombie movies from the teen behind the oscar winner, the artist, the films causing cri, walked the red carpet earlier to the flash of both, and the chairs from fans, but is actually ukraine, that's going to be pulling focus this year. every door has been opened for their delegations, and has lots of discussion here about how filmmakers can help the ukraine film industry rebuild itself host war. meanwhile, official russian delegations have been banned from attending a fuss to appear on the screen. was actually president lensky himself. and can you help out? yes, the high hate will end by disappearing on the dictates his will die. finally, we must, when we need cinema to guarantee this ending. yet each time it will be on the side of freedom, back fossil sly on to us. it's has always been, it will be above all the path of cinema. he was an all star jewelry, will consider the 21 competing films and pick a winner for the palm dual prize. a prize that can propel

a relatively obscure production into the main stream. but with only 5 films directed by women, i put forward the perennial question of diversity. this is a question for rebecca hall. as an actor in directed you think the festival is doing enough to address gender quantity and racial diversity with this lineup this year? the way that we are addressing those, the way that we're dealing with these things, needs to be address on a grass roots level as well. it's not just, you know, the festivals, the public facing situations. it's also about crews. it's also about all of my new share of what goes into the industry at large and a lot about to do with education outreach, help get people who don't have access to those doors in a room again has been called a cathedral dedicated to weld cinema. this year, films from japan, south korea and iran, a keenly anticipated by critics. no films from sub saharan africa have been selected in any category,

but that hasn't dampen spirit. founder of the african pavilion says, bill makers from the continent have a unique set the skill, i think they are very good at doing a lot with it. and it's make that the creativity is, as it's best. so we don't cancel the 1st of all to say your p and is joy. the film festival is leaning on blockbusters like the new top gun movie to draw the media's attention. but it is art how similar it seeks to champion between the explosion of streaming services and the closure of cinema theaters in these all the attention it can get. charlie angela al jazeera cam. ah, and then this is out of there. and these are the headlines, finland and sweden have handed in their formal applications to join nato. they've long been neutral, but russia's invasion of ukraine rapidly shifted public opinion in favor of nature .