blockbusters like the new top god levy 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. and these, all the attention it can get. charlie angela al jazeera can ah, hello, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. finland and sweden have handed in their formal applications to join nato. they have long been neutral that russia's invasion of ukraine rapidly shifted public opinion in favor of nature membership, algebra america is that james bears as at nature, had forces. as you could remember, if you go back before the invasion of ukraine before february than public opinion in both sweden and finland was not in favor, overwhelmingly of joining nato. and yet in both countries, opinions change the political dynamics of change. he saw the finish parliament in

the last 24 hours, vote $188.00 in favor, 8 against joining nato. and now we have the 2 letters going in from the 2 ambassadors from the swedish ambassador, and from the finish ambassador to the nato secretary general nato. now has 2 more countries, won't wanting to join that. meanwhile, russia says almost $700.00 ukrainian faces at the other style scale plant have surrendered. in the past 24 hours, it's unclear though, what will happen to them. ukraine wants a prisoner swap at russia, want some to be labeled terrorists petro pumps and run dry and sri lanka. as the government struggles to pay for new supplies of fuel, the energy minister told motorists to not to cure and petrol stations because deliveries will be available in 3 days. u. s. president joe biden has condemned when he calls a poison of white supremacy. he has been in buffalo and new york state where he met families, victims of the mastery saying 10 african americans were killed in the racially motivated attack in new york state on saturday. israeli forces have rated several

neighborhoods in the janine refugee camp in the occupied west bank. more than 40 military patrols stormed a number of palestinian homes, and 2 palestinians were detained. one of libya's rival prime minister says he'll move his government to the city of cert. from wednesday fatty chicago had attempted to enter the credit. the capital tripoli on tuesday, but supporters of arrival administration led by abdul hamid to be about blocked. the move mexico's president says us policy on cuba is medieval, and under his manual lopez, illinois is urging the end of us sanctions. his reaction follows the u. s. president, relaxing some restrictions on travel and sending money home. mexico urging joe biden to invite cuban leaders to a summit in los angeles next months. well, those are the headlines. emily will have more news for you here on al jazeera, off to inside story, to stay with us. ah

. all look after security in west africa, molly pulls out of the regional g 5, so had forced flaming a lack of progress and internal disagreement. self is it time for a new strategy to confront on groups? this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm how much of job a founding member of a multinational west african security alliance is pulling up. molly is part of the g. 5 sad joint force fighting armed groups linked to iceland,

alcohol in the region, but the soldiers have struggled to contain the violence. molly's military government blamed the withdrawal decision on the lack of progress and internal divisions. it also accused a country outside of the region of trying to isolate molly without providing details. molly has come under international pressure since the army seized power in a coup in 2020 will bring in our guests in a moment. first this report from nicholas huck. molly says it no longer wants to be part of a losing force. 5000 soldiers from burkina faso charred molly martini, near, or in the g 5 to hell. it was formed 5 years ago to combat arm groups linked to isolate and al qaeda. but it struggled to reduce attacks because of lack of funding and disagreements among member states. molly was due to take over as chair of the force in february, but opposition from member states angered its military rulers. when you go to suppose, if you just think side the opposition of some g 5. so how many states tamale's

presidency is linked to maneuvers by state outside the region aiming desperately to isolate molly, while his government accuses former colonial power, france of excluding it. once friends, now foes, the 5000 french troops deployed almost 10 years ago to protect molly's government from attacks or pulling out after the military, coups and 2020 leaders of the gentle hired russian mercenaries from the wagner group for their protection. the gentiles refusing to hand over power to civilian rule for another 2 years. and as a result, neighboring countries have imposed sanctions on the landlocked country, sealing its borders and halting. trade prices have exploded. for example, the price of soap has doubled and food is much more expensive. basic necessities have become affordable and this is because of the embargo. if this continues, we won't be able to survive. this is unsustainable. state coffers are becoming empty with just enough to pay civil servants for

a few months target has offered to mediate between molly's genta and regional leaders. while the un peacekeeping force remains, the un secretary general warns of the debilitating effect. while these troubles are having the rest of the region threatened by armed groups, while he is increasingly isolated, with russian mercenaries remaining to deal with a country on the brink, nicholas hawk for inside story. all right, let's take a look at the g 5 sa had a joint force. it was formed in 2017 and has forces from martinez, molly jared or keena, faso and chad, to counter armed groups in the region. but it overlapped with existing mandates from the you in african union and the west african regional block a co us that overlap meant all those organizations competed for limited financial and human resources. france supported the g 5 and gave it substantial military and financial support. but molly's military leaders have asked paris to withdraw all

its troops and germany and the you have reduced their involvement. and molly, instead focusing on un operations. the alright, let's bring in our guess in molly's capital, obama, call me on coral. yes, stomach, a 1000000 politician and president of the party for civic and patriotic action in freetown in sierra leone. emanuel acquitted annette director of the research at coffee, an international peacekeeping training center, and in some mellow and france. jacqueline senior research fellow at the global policy institute, a warm welcome to you all, and thanks so much for joining us today on inside story. young corey, let me start with you today. so the spokesman for molly's transitional government says that the opposition of some g 5 south had member states tamales, presidency is linked to maneuvers by a state outside the region. aiming to isolate molly, could you elaborate on that statement?

is the spokesman referring to france or, or referring to another country? well, i will say for why, so, of course, the money here we are from the french government to isley my a g l a b is the form of this new. ringback and also i'm looking for funding. ringback so when we say that there are no mil to state influence, you know, because chad is in the past and return in february and i'm rotating presidency. my was this is human presidency studying. and finally that never happened. so

we see this as a fresh go on to you to isolate emmanuel with molly pulling out of the g 5 joint force. what does this mean for security in west africa and who ultimately is now going to look out for security in west africa? the link there has been some sort of confusion about what should be done relating to the securities praise bye, a hell of west african states. well, we see upon locally a kind of quote of our troops are presenting is to secret, is to shift. seeking to respond to prevent and degrade. the threat that we are facing mal is decision to withdraw her from the edge. if i was to help for me, it's a natural quote to move soon of the come african is. i think us,

in those centric miley centric policy that janitor seeks to implement our i loosen this is going to be the last step. after the dismissal of the french from molly and other european troops, who have really never succeeded in bring the security to man. and i think for me, this is the bottom line that we need to be clear that goals will start to bring peace and stability to them. some of them when they do so sort to seem to put their blame on the intent as feeling and their presence of the work know group as contributing to the insecurity, i think is truly a very big i do it. but it itself has not just come out of the don't rows into the politician, one of our sort of fidel is to,

to she's to credit the crib relating to governments that have gone to release time dawn to our put of course and comparisons influence. there were specific principals involved in principals that is previous governments boldly ted originally blenders and simply just kept quakes. so moody has become description boy representing the color to sheila a little more to naturally institution. and because the on the wall, i'm not sure chemist. agenda or bob, i live, you know, some section of their populace. ok. yeah. linda enforce. says he led by france through of who us to undermine their for totally. and i think that is critical about their mildly, an increase in that independent spouse and assets and is so great is a we are seeing such resist ventilator and chat. we are seeing it in aspects of new

se, emmanuel, i'm annual, i'm sorry to interrupt. you let me get back to the point you're making in just a moment, jack, let me ask you, were you surprised by molly's decision to leave the g 5 joint force and, and from your perspective, is it time for some kind of a new strategy to confront armed groups no one that surprised at all. because a actually, the g 5 was almost a dead r, as in michael would have said about natal was brain then, really not at molly at stop cooperating with the french. molly is at the core offer at a geographical and military center of these are this region where do need folk operation between 5 states is necessary in order to combat terrorism. and ah, now that money was no longer cooperating with the french, it meant that the g 5 had not much of

a roar edible. dora de g 5 was to provide to coordinate international headed to the region and also to help military ye armies of the region in the fight against terrorism. now that when mary decided to go to her own, it was, it became, it was impossible to achieve. and we can see now that for example, the corporation to maria suffered from it down is probably benefiting less from injunction hence than are the origin. we see that marie, a position of money is very hard to understand for somebody bought a claim that is because france was not successful against terrorism. but actually france as was fairly successful, do not manage to bring peace in the area. it was not just due to the french, it was due to a failure of governance or on the part of the barnacle authorities leaving the

north of the origin interstate offer really very poor administration and great and security and military physical and economic and security. and therefore, are at some point, maddie decided it seems it to the french that many, many c straw as big as a leader. offer movement, kind of fighting, do your crew, your bar in the presence of the west, in the region. and especially the presence of france, and it seems to be wanting to fight it and play at east fight, in which it would be helped by russia at the wagner division, which is more there to protect the magenta and to protect money. an interest in union of many, many, many experts. so yeah, no, no surprise at all. you see that money is carrying on. it's in its approach to the

situation which you are accused of friendship or young once got used there before you got cool. i've heard interruptions, but i just want to get a reaction. i see me on choro you. you were reacting quite a lot to where jack was saying so, so i want to get your take a go ahead and jump in. well, you know, preferably, you know, i just like minded to come to the understanding we're not finding is the more it we just clearly are. so we just one, you know, listen with the best. we don't want a leash to dictate, we want to quit b k r a nation mom wanted to say in the rest of the world,

those who want to keep us in the complex unity is not the time has got we have that money as a nation. we have to respect our decision to extend other nations to fight terrorism. and this is car because the g a that has been implemented for now use se miserably. we have today with really less than 5 months on molly breaking with asking for partnership. so your situation has significantly in this is not by a nuisance other observers. so we have to come to an end for us is not a our position is we want to stand straight. we want to issue

a new one respect, a partner that will actually work with our sovereignty is welcome to money in this. so having said that, i think that we should put these in hundreds my way fully in with this or other people might come from defy what was to begin with an absolute organization that was never to function because a lot of funding levels or those issues and then the money but which was never what i. ready 5 which is dismantled so less big. ringback what we do is just sitting that we want to reclaim our mom was it was an issue residency surgery. and the conference of the hands of this guy was,

it was me here in bo and then for the president who money, it never happened. there was no release and so it has become a 5 to absolute organization. so money, right? we do for you 5 emmanuel a. let me ask you the g 5 south has joined force has been fighting arm groups linked to iceland al qaeda in the region. but the soldiers have struggled to contain the violence. why has it been so difficult for the g 5? so i have joined force level is very basic for training, limited logistics, limited integral probability, and always this perception on big rather looking down on their members of the team and pulling their screens and or pulling direct mary on it. let me go back a little bit and provide the historical context of why malice decision to

withdraw is critical. malice behavior right now is almost reminiscent of don't talk to him. his behavior in ghana, in the 19 fifties and early sixty's leading to this. yeah. yeah, cool. and also was sampling in man and, and i said this very clearly, leaving the g 5 cell is, is going to be part of one t, an arm of the citric ashes that a janitor is going to take to read, claim mildly, sovereignty. its identity is sense or agency and some of these fairly arrogant responses coming out. i re, particularly this statement by the defense mean is that you know about this disrespectful behavior to one of them who is simply not acceptable. and i think, you know, should we do good where they're then from the wolf?

it would basically the agreement is that silence is great and the rest is weakness . you know, those will see, to bring goods to matter. must become good enough and to see how do we listen to another sort of in state and she own that we come back now and love grades in a man left our kids the interest of that. now, i just said to the 1000000 people in reading them around at is not going to help because when people go either one of the french legion did much worse under countries, well, private military companies and on waste it up on the well. and also wanted, for me and a he started out discussion about miley extended service, both international, respectful, you, my rights,

the rules role and also one of my young people to do what shock, what's the relationship like between molly and france right now and where does that relationship go from here, the crash of aysa non existent, actually it's a come from traditional or, and it, sir, it's a shame because there's so many millions in france. and we have so many human links between the 2 countries asked when he could your legs and their 2 countries we is share, easter, even dory, as you could on your history. but a lately, actually france was more seen as a helper army of liberation, but eventually came to be seen as a now army of occupation. but i think it's part of a campaign which is spreading draw of west africa at i wouldn't maybe sustain it, but considered a russian nurse. i burn it works. i had some influence in whipping up anti french

feelings in the area. we've seen it in republic of center africa, where now are since 2016 the wagner, the russians are there and bring themselves to all the mineral resources, diamonds and gold. in the, in the north central africa, we see that in many they're trying to the same. we can see that this moved to was unsticking. the french is so taking place in synagogue synagogue, which is origin a country. because it's not just as a head to terrorism, there is and sitting door region and going up to the gulf of guinea and to the ivory coast. and it's kind of a sitting process and some people are arguing every county. no, but definitely, you know, that africa is a treasure chest. every one was in on africa, and as

a resentment mackenzie, all the countries want to be there in africa, china, russia, turkey, de, arab emirates, a every one was to be able to head them, sent me narrow resources of africa. and therefore, want to take the place of the colonizer the crew yet east. and in the case of west africa, france and embodied nigeria and gunner, it was britain. but frances remained as wheat and gross links, which he ignoring your a, a good dependencies, which makes it d, i door can print ad, in spite of its efforts to break with it's true, france has exploded africa for a long time. but since then, there's been a trying to re bonaza relationship between the countries and, and france is no longer the same as it was even 10 years ago and has been big changes are long and her and back home. and therefore, it's, that's why this,

why the french are worried is part of a, you know, my lee is just a small bees, even a much bigger game, which is all about, or some countries wanting to exert influence on fe. we government, whatever. and people say the ad you enjoy to go to say is very weak government, very often a jack arises from his next question. i'm sorry to interrupt you again, but we, we are really starting to run out of time. yeah. young girl, let me ask you it. i, it looks like you wanna react somewhere. jack was saying, i'll let you do that. but also, i want to ask you about the fact that molly's military government has also saying that it's security forces to worded and attempted coup, led by army officers and supported by an unnamed western state. what more do you know about that? and where does the investigation into it stand? well, is the, is the young frustrating than many people are come to be

and then we lead to the new era war or that we cannot continue to exploit people and countries let them in the town has come where the people at the time too is still there so that then once you 870, there is no way back for us will be a lot to change if attitude from this part of that is to be after 2 to partnership, then you were to you or is converting to was after 21st century is going to be so proud to position itself to be a part of be escrowed and this out of behavior that you know,

we did this or i didn't what you should also become. but coming to answer your question, yes, there was, it is an attempted a president us in our number one. it is not in by organizations for admissions. ok. we love the way molly is being led today. we have never been so proud in our county to be standing all to be assuming and sorry our so it. ready will be the fact that you will just have a nice it may issues trying to isolate mom, so we take from fight or so day is to take down our. ready our military leaders, we're with the people. ready they will say,

and one digit one minute out, 10 men will stand up in this day. this is not the model one man, this is in model our nation understanding and having you decide that wrong. the fresh control from the french lou is from there were no dot t o r t r e r r i will we have run out of time. we're going to have to leave the conversation there. thanks so much. all of our guest here carol? yes. um, okay, emanuel questioning and jacqueline and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com. and for further discussion go our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. you can also, during the conversation on twitter handle is an a j inside story from him. hamilton building the whole thing here, bye for now. ah

join the debates. it is no, he job bad didn't go, you know, i mean, if anyone here talks about women that i was a, does this bill seem to have been says notes because of 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 dream on al jazeera don

ah, ah. oh, short films of hope and inspiration. a series of short puzzles, stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. ah, ah, al jazeera selects, i care about helping us engages with the rest of the world. i cover foreign policy, national purity. this is

a political im house here to paul. what are we telling the good story? we're really interested in taking you in to a place that you might not visit otherwise. and to actually feel as if you were there. ah hello, i'm emily angland in auto headquarters. these the top stories on al jazeera in an historic move, finland and sweden have submitted their formal applications to join nato. both countries have long stayed neutral, but russia's invasion of ukraine as rapidly shifted public opinion in favor of joining the alliance. at diplomatic edison, james bass reports from brussels. nato secretary general yen stilton burg, welcoming the ambassadors of the 2 countries that want to become the newest members .