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a u. s. mast shooting and says, racism is being stroked for political gain. ah known historic move finland and sweden have submitted their formal applications to join nato. their ambassadors handed letters to the military alliance as chief eons dalton bag. both countries have long stayed neutral, but russia, the invasion of ukraine rapidly shifted public opinion in favor of joining nato. well, currently 5 nato members shall land borders with russia. they include estonia is unlocked via the entire eastern frontiers. no way just touches russia. in the arctic circle, la lithuania and poland flank, the baltic enclave of colin and broad. now finland's membership of ne show would add a 1300 kilometers to the alliances land border with russia, more than doubling its length. well, let speak to our different how to get it our james base, he joins us live now from brussels. james,

given what we've just talked about in terms of that border, we can see why public opinion went the way it did. can you talk us through what happens now? well yeah, it certainly is a radical change because the public opinion in those 2 countries was so different and it was only so different, less than 3 months ago before the russian invasion of ukraine. now these 2 nations, which had long cherished than normal lines status, our applicants can countries to, to nato. they've gone through all their procedures in that national constitutions and national systems. and they want to be members of nato, potentially. they could be invitee, countries sitting around the nato table, that nato summit that takes place at the end of june. if all the nato countries say yes. and then be erratic vacation process. that could last several months when the letters were put in and they were given to the secretary general of nato,

yet still to book he spoke. let's listen to what he had to say. every nation has the right to choose his own pulse. you are both made your choice off the photo democratic processes. you are, our closest partners and your membership in nato would increase our shared security. the applications you have made today in our ann historic step. and jane's as we've been saying this, obviously not an uncontroversial lose. and not all nature members are on board. there are currently 30 nato numbers of sweden and finland joined. it becomes $32.00 out of the current $3029.00. are very much on board with these 2 new applications. they say that these countries are countries that's worked with nato in the past because they served alongside nato in the balkans and in afghanistan,

they were based both nations in missouri. sharif enough, going to stand for a long time. i saw them there myself, visited them myself, and i can tell you. and then anyone who's seen these 2 military, i can tell you that they are very sophisticated, they are strong, they have plenty of resources, they have lots of aircraft. the things particularly have a large artillery force and also arctic weapon to warfare capability. so most of the nato nations say that be a real contribution to nato's security, particularly as nato would then have a border with russia that has doubled from what it was before. these 2 nations of join. but there is one country, one nato member that is currently opposed, and that's turkey. turkey says that these 2 countries harbor terrorism. now what

they mean by that is that they have given the haven to kurdish nationalists and to members of the good land movement that turkey would like to see extradited back to turkey. this could be a stumbling block, but certainly the u. s. a saying for now they are confident that they can resolve this. the key meeting will be coming up in just a few hours time. and that's when the us secretary of state will meet the turkish foreign minister that's taking place in new york at the un. dramatic james stays there for us in brussels. thanks very much, james. well, as james is just saying the finished president and the swedish prime minister will meet with us president joe biden on thursday to discuss financial applications. whitehouse correspond, kimberly how could have more on that visit. there already has been a phone call that took place last friday and this really was kind of setting the table for this upcoming meeting ad. oh, what we know from that phone call is that already discussed was the as sort of realization that there is this opportunity that exist to really strengthen trans

atlantic security with the potential membership of sweden and finland. and to really use us as an opportunity strengthen not only the defense as well as the security cooperation. so this is really what the crux of that conversation is likely to be what it takes place in person on thursday. now what we also know. 6 is that the u. s. president is likely to underscore the importance of natives open door policy and the u. s. president. support of that and really it is important also underscore that this is something that is bipartisan. in other words, not only does the democratic president joe biden support this, but also i, his republican rival, the top republican in the u. s. senate. mitch mcconnell, who we should point out was in stockholm, sweden over the weekend and really underscored his support that the goal was to see both finland and sweden admitted to nato as soon as possible. so of course we have

to remember that the reason for this is russia's invasion of ukraine. and the other thing that is likely to be discussed at this meeting of these 3 leaders when they sit down here at the white house on thursday, is really the, the focus of all of this mat is supporting ukraine. a, in the midst of expanding nato membership, who, meanwhile, russia says almost 700 ukrainian fighters at the as of style steel poncho, surrendered in the past 24 hours. it's unclear though, what will happen to them next? an alley, a group was taken to a form of penal colony and russian controlled territory. while the wounded, when taken to hospital for treatment, and ukraine once a prisoner swab, but says parliament is considering banning the exchange of as of members fess russian prisoners of war. what russia has been continuing its shelling and southern ukraine hidalgo. hamid joins me now live from mc alive. hod i believe you're at the scene of one of those strikes. can you talk us through what you're saying?

yes, this is actually the strike that happened at around 520 this morning. now this is what you see behind is a cluster of one story, residential houses that this is really the epi center of that strike. and everything you can see around me is completely destroyed. they are injured, but no one died in this tribe, which is actually difficult to believe. if you just look at the, the magnitude of the destruction here, you can see everything is completely charged and burned. and if you, if i was good, can show your inside. there is really absolutely nothing left. we spoke to the owner of this house. she is not injured, but certainly this is really a lifetime of memories gone in ashes. now the issue here, nikolai, is that this happens on a daily basis. there are those strikes that miss any kind of target that is an air

defense system in place. but more and more this city is being targeted. we spoke to military officials in and a for over the past 2 days and they say that they're being shelled either from the south that have sown region which is now occupied by the roches, all from what they believed to be miss out said from the black sea and also people are now more worried certainly with the changes on the ground in marie upa. there is a believe that now that russia is more or less in control of more, you pull it, has this land for a door from russia old way to dick for. i mean, it allows people, it allows a russia to reinforce, is present in the have southern region and may be pushed towards here. because if you recall, in the 1st stages of this war, the russians had actually arrived very close to this town of 400000 people is on

the black sea. it's, it's known for its shipyards at the soviet time, and they wanted to push and russia stated and wanted to take all this land all the way to the blackboard. see the c port of odessa and maybe also link all the way to moldova. so there is a certain worry that at some point they could be a push even though we been yesterday to the outskirts to the 1000 villages around nikolai of do ukrainians have managed to push the russians back. now the issue is, is the order wash is good to have a counter offensive now that the situation in my, you both seems to be more or less under their control. how to handle honey. they're on the ground for us in mich alive, thanks so much hotter. while moving on and sri lanka, ruling party has blocks and no confidence motion, and parliament against president got to buy a raj epoxy. it was triggered by growing anger and protests against the countries

economic crisis. oh, i. as 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. she'll stations have run out. while michelle fernandez has more now from colombo, where people are still queueing 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 petrol stations like this, it seems that those talks 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 contacts 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. i'll still had here on al jazeera knows enough to go around. we look at the new problems, the communal kitchens set up to feed, the poor employee. and a black african writer makes history on one of the big cycles that suffers and mishap in celebration. ah, with the base concentration. thunderstorms in south southeast asia moved eastwards. so from the philippines down to west papua, and just catching the eastern side of borneo, that's fairly wet, is a little bit dryer for the west, which seasonally, it should be largely because the concentration of heavy rains bit further north, more less the east of the monsoon. on its way to me, in mars, it's heavier in thailand recently too. but as this season changes the opposite way

in australia as recently been significant snow in the victorian outs and the heights in tasmania. will that snow is gone now and it will be rather sunny, slightly less cold, as it all goes across the tasman. see, there is rain further west lighting rain that came out of west australia to the south and it's still there on both thursday and friday is per, hangs round at $22.00. but in the tropics, particularly, and machine needs in queens, and we got another concentration of fairly heavy thunderstorms. persistent right? this area remember, has suffered flooding in the last few weeks. this won't be as bad, but unsure. the rain is welcome. in new zealand. seasonally normal at long last, or warnings out the amount of rain like to fall in south island during thursday, it fades away. the air then gets colder and it's more snow than rain on friday. ah,

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long been neutral, but russia's invasion of ukraine rapidly shifted public opinion in favor of nature membership. meanwhile, russia says almost $700.00 ukrainian fighters of the at the as of style steel, planters surrendered in the past 24 hours. it's unclear what will happen to them. ukraine is suggesting a prisoner swap. it russia one, some to be labeled terrorists, and people have been touring for hours for petrol after sri lanka, government warned it's running out of fuel the government's shores and foreign currency that it needs to import petrol, diesel and gas. now, u. s. president joe biden has condemned what he calls the poison of white supremacy . he's been in buffalo, new york state when he met with families of victims of a mass shooting. she had returns the reports back from the city. after visiting the site of saturdays, massacred a supermarket in a predominately black neighbourhood of buffalo, new york, joe biden spoke specifically of the philosophy that underpin the government rampage . but white americans are being replaced by norm whites for political ends,

through government subsidies and immigration, a view that's being expressed in the mainstream rights of us politics. i call all america to reject ally and i could them those who spread the live for power, political gay, and for profit. that's what it is. how's the solutions bite and focused on 2 areas? there are certain things we can do. we can keep assault weapons off our streets. we've done it before i did when he passed the crime bill last time and violence went down, shootings went down. it can't prevent people who may radicalize to violence. we can address relentless exploitation of the internet to recruit and mobilize harrison. we just need to have the courage to do that. to stand up. the mayor of buffalo said

he appreciate the president's visit 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 biting himself, admit, sees very unlikely to get an assault weapons about puffed in congress. from left to right, the suspicion of any attempt by the government to regulate constitutionally protected free speech yesterday. deborah terry and say you could begin fighting white supremacists, but in the end, the government could attempt about anyone. it feels is an element. the shooting has highlighted the socio economic foundations of american racism. unlike so many african american communities, at least this neighborhood had a supermarket,

though 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 suffering. we always been suffering on a sash and further down the east side. but now east side is now was women. we got your attention. retire not enough, is enough. change alika 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 us? she ever turn see al jazeera buffalo, new york, well weather experts have issued yet another warning on how hot, how the world is heating up with harmful long lasting effects. and un report says ocean temperatures and a certification are at record high is threatening marine life on the ground. increasing levels of carbon dioxide is causing extreme weather events. the past 7

years were the hottest ever dance course. drought and afghanistan, canada iran, pakistan. turkey took menaced on united states. the tinder dry conditions have triggered major wildfires, costing hundreds of billions of dollars, and it's also led to food and water shortages in many countries. the global energy system is broken and bringing us ever closer to climate catastrophe. flossing, fools out of devons, environmentally, and economically the water in ukraine and its immediate effects on energy prices is yet another wake up call. the only sustainable future is the renewable one. we must, enforcing will pollution and accelerate the renewable energy transition before we insinuate our only own time is running out. well, as we've been reporting right now, extreme weather is affecting millions of people across to south asia and the middle east. health warnings have been issued in northern india, where temperatures have reached 49 degrees celsius. had me miss our reports now

from you. danny. you again to tune de beds our doors as he prepares for a long day at this construction site where he lives with his family. in a makeshift shack like hundreds of millions of indians, he's forced to risk their health and work in the record breaking wheat. let her go soft recall. you redid misinger your 100 feet, but now we can do only 70 feet. are contractors often get angry with us because of this? i feel we need to rest for a day or 2. it's too hard, but if he don't work, what will we eat? some on parts of south asia arrived early this year. march was the hottest in a century in the region, while april broke several records. average temperatures are $6.00 to $9.00 degrees celsius above normal. some areas in new delhi recently, so past 49 degrees, jacob hubbard, in southeast pakistan,

reached an all time high of 51 degrees. dozens of people have died of heat related illnesses and pakistan, while millions are struggling with our basic amenities such as access to clean water and electricity. finally, got me know your disney ard gun at that. we haven't seen such a heat wave before. we're worried because i lie stock sick due to the excessive heat, the vegetation, dried up, the water tables going down. we have to use wet clothes to cover ourselves to try to beat the heat. the extreme heat is damaging crops and threatening to further increase fuel prices, making the poor even more vulnerable when so much of your population is in such a big re, had golden, the lot have the feed rust acid boulevard in these countries from that. so, so that a lot bigger school, another very big or it, but one interviewed you or this you did a lot with applied with factors. it baltic, vomit or the situation of these reasons. coaching temperatures have spurred demand for electricity causing

a cold shortage. the indian government says it live bought called to prevent power cuts, and it's not just the blistering heat exports. a global warming is changing weather patterns in the region. while rainfall in northern india has been much lower than normal. the north east is reading from heavy rains. at least 10 people have been killed, and landslides have cut off basic services for thousands of people. bob name it the alta 0, new delhi. one of libya's arrival prime minister says he'll move his government to the city of cert. from wednesday fatty bush aga had attempted to enter the capital tripoli on tuesday. but supporters of arrival administration led by abdul hamid to baber blocked the move nearby as had 2 governments since march when the parliament based on the east appointed basheba. as prime minister now was ready, forces have raided several neighborhoods in the jenin refugee camp in the occupied west bank. more than 40 military patrols stormed a number of palestinian homes, and 2 palestinians were detained. the veteran out there,

a journalist torino barclay was killed in that same marriage. and in 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 2 u. s congressmen also want the f b i to investigate her death. they are gathering signatures for a motion. when democratic congresswoman rashid, a claim has condemned sharina killing. she told al jazeera, the u. s. must be firmer with israel to push it to uphold human rights. oh, well mainly 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 in the work that us the united states. again, need to continue to speak up because our silence for the president, biden's you number is officials are using words that i feel like, are you careful or not strong enough to make sure that there's really

government knows we're extremely serious about again, upholding human rights. we found hypocritical, when we say, well, hope you've been rights in other countries and post war crimes. but when it comes to the apartheid government of israel, we are an eyelid. and now a palestinian warner at the funeral of sri and block has been arrested by israeli forces moma today. i was attacked by israeli police as he carried sharina coffin and occupied east through some last week. his account to what happened outside the hospital was widely shed on social media. the reason for his unrest is unclear. it's understood, he'll be held at least until next sunday. now, north korea's nita has accused officials of an immature response to its coven 19 outbreak. qindzhong one says that inadequate strategies for dealing with the crisis on making the situation worse. john young has reported around one and

a half 1000000 cases of people with fever like symptoms. just since the end of last month. rescue is in became a fast so are vowing to continue the a month long such for survive as in a flooded mine. 8 minus went missing when torrential rain flooded the zinc mine last month. such teams hoped the men might have been found in an underground chamber, but it was empty when they reached it. on tuesday law, some of the disease are gone. i the risky chamber has been opened in front of us. and despite all our prayers, we found the chamber empty of any human presence. this is a cruel truth. we have learned ourselves and that we are bringing to the parents of the victims. together with the mind, the government is committed to continuing pumping water out of the mind to search deeper in the earth to see if our brothers, our 8 brothers, were able to find a different refuse to the one we hoped to find them. and from what you, all communal kitchens and her are a lifeline for around a quarter of a 1000000 poor people. groups and women cooked together to ensure that families get

nutritious food. but rising prices are undermining their efforts. mariana sanchez, reports now from lima. in this tiny makeshift kitchen on the outskirts of lee, now women put together whatever they can to create a nutritious meal on the menu recently was rice, carrots, corn, and chicken bones caught up in tiny pieces so everyone can get some proteins. this plane, a fanatical, if possible, pan, then apple, we only eat lunch. there is nobody at her breakfast. and in the evenings, each one has to figure out what to put on their tables. a funny commercial kitchens around the country were a response to the pandemic that left for 1000000 impoverished people without jobs, but then 250000 feet on meals. that cost less than $0.30. racing fuel prices have meet some ingredients, like meat or chicken, impossible to buy and local governments donations to keep them going or waning. in

some areas, government distribution of basic ingredients stopped more than 4 months ago ethnic, i think that'll be that the local government does not remember. as at the top of the hill, they offer help during political campaigns. but then they forget spouses. some of these communal kittens feet 20 to 30 people every day. others 2 to 300, many say this is the last resort to feed their families. and they say, if they didn't have this, they wouldn't know where to turn to for help. to alleviate the pressure, the government has suspended some taxes from fuel and some basic products. but analysts said that insufficient, she, she knew are useless. no doubt there is hunger and it's going to get worse. inflation is here to stay for a long time producing the purchasing power of households, particularly of the ports. the government apparently believes the prices can be controlled, but this is not possible in their school. john, the finance ministry already estimates this year, investment growth will beat 0. community leader edy's accordion blames precedent.

federal castillo and bias historically only for the precedence priority is not the vulnerable families. i feel angry because he should be concerned about the people in need of even long leaders of the, near 3000 kitchens around the country said they are desperate. the women have postponed, a nationwide protest waiting for the government to resolve the fruit crisis. but they say their children are hungry and time is running out by the n, as i just, i'll just see that lee might be to now a bizarre accident when the champagne cork has nod celebrations for an african cyclist at one of the sports biggest events been iams or may from eritrea became the 1st black african to win a stage and the heroes at tahlia. but his race is now over after a champagne cork flew into his eye on the winters podium. doctors now say he needs to avoid physical activity to prevent the injury was saying i was bid,

sad about her that cut them the champagne of what the day. luckily i didn't suck the race because the, my i sis, i need some grist group give more followed through the i. so you're just her looking forward for the next season. ah, her that this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. finland and sweden have handed in their formal applications to join nato. they belong, been neutral, but russia's invasion of ukraine rapidly shifted public opinion in favor of nature membership. our diplomatic editor james bay, as is at nato headquarters. as you go to remember, if you go by.