alice cuba, haiti, jamaica, and especially honduras, down through costa rica, little less than that form in mexico. it's hot with occasion with shells no more that in south america, the seasonal rain is now a long way north producing flooding in some parts of columbia. even may be southern venezuela, but the stormy weather was off the coast of uruguay is now going off shore. so for thursday's forecasts that will breezy in rio, but largely a sunny picture ah, with bold. and i'm told stories from asia and the pacific on al jazeera. ah the u. s. says it backs finland and sweden joining nato, but turkey threatens to block them. ah,

one more matheson, this is our does here live from doha. also coming up, we report from a ukrainian city, destroyed in russia's offensive where people are selling everything to survive. wall street poses nearly 4 percent done driven by rising inflation as the water ukraine helps push up worldwide food and fuel prices. opposable p r. disaster for the u. s. is another latin american leader says they might draw part of a regional summit. ah. the u. s. has come out and support of finland and sweden joining nato. it says it's confident the 2 nordic countries will be able to join the military alliance. despite objections from turkey, kristen salome has the latest. the united states is eager for sweden and finland to join nato and strengthen the alliance. but one country is standing in the way you

can convince turkey to accept their bed. i think i am not going to turkey, but i think we're going be okay. o. u. s. secretary of state anthony blink and travel to new york to meet with his turkish counterpart at the united nations. foreign minister melvin kava sulu came to express his country's objections, namely finland and sweden support for kurdish nationalist groups. that turkey views as terrorists. i'm looking forward to pursuing that conversation, and today we have fallen and sweden submit their applications. and this of course is a process and we will work through that process as allies and, and as partners. you know, tony gear as being supporting the open door policy of nato, even before this war. but with regard to this possible candidate already candidate

countries. you know, we have also legitimate security concerns that they have been supporting a terrorist organization. turkey also wants them to lift a weapons embargo imposed after turkey invaded syria to attack kurdish groups. the meeting here at the united nations on the sidelines of a ministerial conference on food security appeared cordial. both sides expressed confidence. they could work out their differences, but the meeting ended with no announcement. if any progress was made, the turkish foreign minister captain to himself did with as the u. s. remained optimistic, we're confident that at the end of the day, feminine sweden will have been effective in a fission session process. the turkey's concerns can be addressed finland and sweden are working directly with turkey to do this. but we're also talking to the turks to try to help facilitate as an invite in. we'll meet with his finish and swedish counterparts at the white house on thursday. kristin salumi al jazeera,

the united nations earlier finland and sweden submitted their formal applications to join nato. their ambassadors handed letters to the chief of the military alliance, gen stored them both. both countries have been neutral for a long time, but russia's invasion of ukraine rapidly shifted public opinion in favor of joining nato. i think at this stage we have to give our ice on the ball and that is of very smooth and fast ratification of our membership in every nato and a country. so this is what we are focusing now. and i think our most important her job in nato is to defend our own country, our own region. now also making sure that the whole nordic nordic region is secure . currently 5 nato members share land borders with russia. they include the entire eastern frontiers of estonia and landfill. norway just touches russia in the arctic

circle, while lithuania and poland flank, the baltic exclaimed with colon and grad, freeman's membership of metal, wood, and 1300 kilometers to the alliances land border with russia. more than doubling its length, they, the rush is a professor at national defense university. he says the nordic bid to join nato goes against russia's main goal. he claims that his reasons for the ukrainian invasion are to prevent the expansion of nato. and yet he's caused 2 countries with it. one instance, centuries of neutrality to calculate based on their own self interest that their best chance for survival of the nation is to join nato. so he is revived, more than anybody else in my lifetime, and it really shows a spectacular policy failure. if you look at most expansions since the cold war, they've been countries that are emerging from communism that have really broken defense infrastructures that have issues with democratic governance and corruption

. when, when sweden, a channel under 2 different countries, they are modern countries, they score higher on corruption indices than the united states, that they are more democratic and less corrupt than most of the advanced democracies in the world. have they have modern militaries that have already conducted deployments with nato garrison and that have conducted exercises with nato, so they bring no downside and a lot of military capability. it's a real addition to the alliance. russia has more than 900 ukrainian pfizer. some modern pulls also style steel plans have not been sent to a former prison. complex. it says include $700.00 more troops who surrendered on widens day. this video, released by the russian defense ministry, is set to show you cleaning soldiers hunting themselves over to russian troops. but their fate is unclear. ukraine is suggesting a prisoner swap or russia one, some of them branded terrorists. i said,

bake has more trauma to ask. vendor stanley are still some of those ukrainian soldiers still in up. so, i don't know the president, that lensky has said that the military intelligence and the most influential international mediators are trying to negotiate or talk to try to try to be involved in the evacuation of those remaining fighters. now they have said that they will not surrender. an uncertainty is not a word that ukraine has used, even for those that have been taken to russian health. her for doing the words being used by the ukrainians is that they have completed their mission. and this is a very politically charged issue, the those fight to the scene with defending, merrier polar and making the heroic stand. and many of them went on line window at the as of still bunch things that they felt like they were let down by the politicians and kids. so it's important for ukraine to least try to see that they're doing their best to try to get those remaining fights as evacuated as well . those that have been taken to russian separate russian vac separatist areas. well,

the ukraine, you the saying that there is a exchange program, a formula, and what we've heard from the ukrainians is that there will be some sort of exchange for seriously wounded ukrainians for in exchange for seriously wounded russians when that will take place and how that will take place as of yet is not clear. russia says it'll interrogate the troops to determine whether they were involved in crimes against civilians, dosage a body has more. there was a move by as a country's prosecutor on edge tuesday to ask the courts to declare thee as of battalion a terrorist organization. and since that request, we've been hearing from a number of high ranking lawmakers in the lower house of parliament, that is the state duma. and they've made their views very clear. according to the speaker of dumont the nazi criminals, as he called them. they are not to be exchanged for any russian soldiers because they need to be put on trial. we've also been hearing from another senior lawmaker

and by the name of the leonor the as so ski who is also part of russia's negotiating scene with ukraine. he had some much we're on severe views. he called the as of saw as of battalion and animals in human form. he said that the death penalty should be brought back for them as also they should be put in as through international courts and to go through trials because of the alleged war crimes and they've committed against russian forces. now we understand, and this is certainly the view when it comes to the lawmakers. we've also been hearing from a number of local media outlets over the past 24 hours. and the view is very much the same in set up of what we expected would be a celebration of russia's final, a 1st official victory in a large area. that is mariel, poland, strategic port town. that is so important. we are now hearing of what people think should be done with these are ukranian fighters that are now in russian custody

rushes progress and modern poll has sport concerns, could no widen. it's offensive to target more of southern ukraine. but the ukranian army says it's fighting back against russian troops. suffering low morale, huddled the humming repose from the city of nicola of it has become a grim, routine attacks and explosions while the city sleeps, followed by disbelief and anxiety. survivors wondering how they escaped the ferocity of a missile loved from afar on their homes. margaret can't contain his anger. you will before the law of europe sold us out. americans don't cut me out. we asked them to close the sky, but i didn't. why trite is to protect their children. i'm going to appeal directly to the other. do you understand to i'm talking about you son of i would to you a part with my own hands, but

a little bit about what burg there. few people left in, michel, i have a few weeks ago, they were nearly half a 1000000. they'll still here have to rely on handouts, as there's no more drinkable water. with the economy at a standstill, people are selling whatever they own to pay his utility bill. he tells us, even though there are no buyers, the russians have actually reached this point on the outskirts of nikolai, of, in the early stages of the war before being pushed back. but now with more you pl anderson region effectively under russian control, there is concern that they could be preparing for a counter offensive obama. that might be why people are not returning to the town of bush tanka, yet. it was recaptured about a month ago. it just looks like every town village of city, the russians occupied, dark cherry equally. us have one will only now remembers the night it all started

from her house was among the 1st hit parish. it bombs fell from the sky, leaving a huge creature. look, i see what was that you all of these are the straps and the parachutes. canopy has now been recycled, but are through the ukranian army says its own be offensive in the south. oh, but think the moral of the enemy is low and they are not advancing on the ground because they can't break our lines. the sanctions are having an impact. they can't produce certain weapons any more. but one of the russian advances is their artillery systems. their range is longer than ours and can hit us hard. russia also holds the upper hand when it comes to attacks from the sky. and each night the people of michel, i if wonder, whose turn will it be next. i doubt that i meet al jazeera, nikolai of a palestinian mourner. the funeral of veteran al jazeera journalist,

sharina bottler, has been arrested by israeli forces, or more elbow. claire was attacked by israeli police as he carried sions coffin in occupied east jerusalem last week. as a calendar, what happened was widely shared on social media. his lawyer says, all the questions during his interrogation were related to the funeral. shooting was shot on the head by his reading forces while she was on assignment in geneva last week. still ahead on our 0, we look at the serious long term impacts of coven 19 on patients. how they could swap the us health system. plus, i mean an independent even here with overshadowing event. we let this ever widening gap with the journey has begun. the faithful world camp is on its way to cat hook your

cattle package today. the summer sons warming things up nicely in the hunt. you having had a bit of a dicing from this rain stag, gone off shore into west pacific. got no more than a few showers in archive to worry about, say, mr. and north korea, some parts of northern shot of it. basically the sun's warming things up in the south. we got more rain trying to develop and it will come to something south of the yank scene, maybe in the long the pearl river valley heading down towards hong kong, which looks largely dry rather humid. wet weather seemed quite light to get very close to if not cover taiwan for the next 2 days. and he sat line southwards through the philippines. that would sit away. it will be fairly wet. i think good part of borneo su marsha looked dryer singapore and call loom to look fairly dry as well. me and bart, definitely not. that's wet along with that sin strip of india as well with this on shore breeze. and india picks up rather more now north caroline trust to under

pradesh. and these a potential flash flood shows most of india still in the pre monsoon heat that particularly true. imagine british and beyond. dell is up to 45 to 46 is cool down a little bit every now and again, we get shower through northern pakistan and northern india. but for pakistan in particular, it's mostly once again, getting very hot, official airline of the journey for over a century, american parents have entrusted their sons to the boy scouts of america, hoping they would gain skills that would improve their lives instead, countess young lives were ruined. by predators within the organization. i knew there was so much, but i could not figure out where it was coming from me in a 3 part series, full plunge investigates, a massive scandal that wrote the united states scoutmaster parked one on i was just 0, lou

ah, watching out just a reminder about top stories, this are the u. s. says it's confident finland and sweden will be accepted into nato talk. he's objected to the joining accusing of the nordic countries of harboring what it calls terrorists. rushes, defense ministry is released. footage of hundreds of ukrainian fighters is surrendering audio poles also styles feel works. moscow says the troops have been taken to a former prison complex in washing control, tell the trade a palestinian mourner at the funeral of veteran al jazeera john on the shipping of law class has been arrested by is when you force or more i will have a i was attacked by israeli police as a county sherman's cough and then occupied east jerusalem last week. mexico says is

expecting an answer from the united states in the coming hours of whether cuba, venezuela and nicaragua, will be invited to next month's summit of the americas. the u. s. is eased some of its sanctions on venezuela after the mexican president and some other leaders threatened to boycott the summit and los angeles unless every country in the region is included. washington says any more lifting of sanctions or be tied to progress in talks between the venezuelan government and the opposition and all rabble or has more from mexico city. the summit of the americas is only 3 weeks away, and the united states is essentially scrambling over the deathless. now all of this begins with the president of mexico, of essentially saying that he would not attend the summit of the americas unless every country of the americas is in attendance. specifically speaking about cuba, venezuela and nicaragua. now since then, other leaders in the region have expressed similar sentiments. this includes the

presidents of brazil and of guatemala, who also said they would not attend the summit unless every country of the western hemisphere is in attendance. what's been surprising to many is exactly how much influence the mexican president is able to wield on this topic so much so that the united states has already sort of sort of ease certain restrictions and policies toward cuba and toward venezuela. now, mexico is also going to be hosting a 4th round of negotiations between been as well as government and the venezuelan opposition. here in the near future, the position essentially that mexico's president is taking right now is that the region is in desperate need of multilateral solutions. specifically, to the growing number of migrants arriving on the us mexico border, specifically migrants that arriving from countries like cuba, venezuela and nicaragua, the president of mexico saying that these solutions are unattainable unless everyone has a seat at the table. well, joining us from washington, d. c,

philip brenner, he's professor madison at the school of international service at american university. very good to have you with us or on. i'll just, you know, thank you very much indeed for the benefit of our viewers around the world. can you briefly just give us an indication, some context of what the, the summit actually it aims to achieve. both the summits began in 1994 and they've been held every 3 years since. and the goal is to find some commonality are in the hemisphere and the united states looks just be the leader of the hemisphere in this. and in the past they have reached some accommodations. they've talked about democracy that talked about development in 2012. the leaders of the summit of the other countries up with somebody told president obama that cuba was not invited to the next summit. in 2015, they would not attend. and president obama then initiated some negotiations in cuba

. and by 2015, the united states and cuba regain are re normalize their diplomatic relations. and so there is the possibility of talking about common problems. the united states has lost its leadership in the region because it's been acting unilaterally. the old notion of the united states being hovering giant is reemerged. and i think this is part of why the mexican president and close the guatemalan president are asking the way they are the united states just 2 days ago, told the guatemalan or attorney general that she would not be able to get a visa. and she and her family would not be able to get a visa company states because she has been uncooperative on issues of corruption. well, that's the reason, the geometric president and watermark said he wouldn't attend in case of

mexico. they're going to show the foreign minister, but the president or attend, which means the really, the summit will fall apart. well, no significance at all. let me ask you about that because i was with so many so much around the world is we will be cover regularly and all the 0 the the standing is that once the leadership is there, predominantly to put essentially their stamp on would have agreements agree whatever agreements are reached and of course it's a p r exercise for everybody involved. much of the tangible results tend to be organized by the negotiating team. so if the leaders don't turn up to this summit, does it actually make a difference? do the negotiation still go on? it's just that from a p r perspective, at least as far as the us is concerned. it's a bit of a disaster. you make a very good point, and here's the problem. the united states has let this summer fall apart. it hasn't presented any substantive issues that can be negotiated even at

a working level. they haven't even invited the member the people, the countries to the summit yet. they did not prepare for this. they are not ready . their best tactic would be actually the say the summit should be delayed until december after the u. s. midterm elections and blame the war and ukraine on that. do you think that there is something deliberate behind this in terms of the, by the ministration? or is it more likely perhaps that given what has been going on around the world? and also, of course, with the ramifications, proven, covered 19 and the economic ramifications within the u. s. as well. that essentially the administration has just taken his eye off the ball and has almost put this on the back burner until it's too late. that's precisely right. president vitamin had the economy falling apart. he had coverage. he had ukraine.

so he had many other things on his plate and, and latin america wasn't causing any trouble except for migration. well, the cubans started coming to the border 115000 cubans in the last 6 months. this is an enormous change from a year ago when it was 15000 in the same period. this is part of it is attention the matter. but as you say, a little too late and just briefly, sorry. i mean, there are always one is and loses and situations like this on the if america does for want of a better phrase, get a pure black eye on this who wins. there are obviously other countries around the world who are very interested in creating their stamp within these countries who gains if america loses in this. unfortunately, i don't think there are any winters in this or might be alluding to china, which has very large number of investments. it's been supporting, been as well and,

and it has a lot of trade. the region, peru, for example, as china is, is number one, trading partner, not the united states, but china, it doesn't have political interests in the region. it stayed away from politics. and i don't think there are any, when it is the hemisphere has common problems, ticklish poverty inequality. and those needs to be addressed and covert as emma's here very hard. and so by not having a summit that has any meaning, everyone loses for the banner is professor emeritus at the school of international service at american university. so we appreciate your time for joining us and i'll just, you know, thank you very much indeed. thank you. federal health officials in the u. s. wanting the cases of covert 19 are on the rise and the could get worse over the coming months. about a 3rd of the us population lives in areas that are considered at higher risk. with

reported cases up 26 percent for last week. people are being ours to wear masks indoors and to take more precautions. us doctors say around one in 10 covered 900 patients will end up developing the condition known as long covert symptoms. still aren't completely understood, but they include fatigue and pain, mental fogginess, and how hard problems. hydrogen castro has more from baltimore 5 minutes of play time with a 4 year old son is enough to raise michael clark's heart rate to a concerning level just a little bit. if he decided one day he wants to run away from the a probably can't chase him. what are we going to do? clark is 33 and was an avid runner before he contracted cove it in march 2020. now more than 2 years later, he still feels crippling fatigue and a long list of other symptoms. i'm a fraction of the person that i had hoped to be that i used to be. so we're talking, shortness of breath, rhetoric, in chest pains, we're talking chest tightness,

we're talking intense, debilitating headaches. this is life with long cove id defined by the world health organization as otherwise unexplained post covered symptoms that last for at least 2 months. many people like clark have symptoms that appear to be indefinite. he says he's made lifestyle changes to cope, and it's fortunate to have a job that lets him work from home. many others are not as lucky. i've seen personally in my support groups, multiple people that have died by suicide because the symptoms of the long covert experience was just too much to handle. and they couldn't withstand the pain anymore. i think that it's time to shift the focus from cove it as a acute, severe illness that has a mortality rate, which is very important, but also to start paying attention to those millions of people that are living disabled. and that are going to need programs and support from the government from

society at large. johns hopkins is among the about 60 hospital system in the us with dedicated host covert clinics. medical experts say that is not nearly enough to treat the up to 23000000 americans suffering long term symptoms. hello, hello. i have it to clark multiple referrals and months of waiting to be accepted into the johns hopkins clinic. here. he'll get a rehabilitation plan. there's still no cure for long coded. the novelty of it is something that we have to live with because it is a big known as to what the long term complications are going to be. the u. s. government has launched an effort to study and treat long cove it, but the help can't come soon enough for those who are suffering and wondering if they will ever get better. already. second, heidi, jo. castro, al jazeera, baltimore maryland. thousands of worshipers have gathered at the jewish holy site

and northern israel a year after $45.00 people were killed at this time. pete, it happened during the annual commemoration of loc boma candles were let in memory of the victims. tens of thousands typically visits mount met on, but this year only $16000.00 people were allowed, often inquiry, find a major safety lapses and over crowding is the 75th. can the film festival where independent films is celebrated on the big screen, but in an era of american blockbusters, even canada, struggling to find a balance between the big studio film franchises that attract massive audiences and independent films fighting to survive. charlie angela reports in southern france. area for a list actors for a festival that seek to promote independent film can still has to bring in big hollywood movies to stay relevant. to offer the navy top got maverick, his head, not in competition for the palm, the prize,

but the audience is media. and the bankable stars with tom cruise being honored with a special ship over by opec is also preparing the festival. and i will be going to put in jail wells movie, the tension between these grand spectacles and the quieter. often more thoughtful films is growing. film like arca, with no call chases, superheroes or celebrities. a story set in post revolutionary to nivia that embodies a generation fight for better life in the running for the can prize. but it struggling to secure distribution outside of europe. here the phil market produces, say, investors are increasingly favoring comments that franchise the sequel. and really considered most suitable for teenage audience, independent filmmakers a baffling to find funding if they do get that film, then competing against mass marketers, big budget production,

los with investment is going to build films. and that's great, like a trade that we can see those stories and cream. but at the same time we need money into independent films and we need that kind of narrative protected. so we get a wider pack trend of films, of types of representation and screen ah, independent films, do win more woods, but smaller audiences for hollywood produces say, the idea that their movies are diving down is nonsense. despite the theatrics festivals, light can a still the place for smallest toys with a different pace. charlie angela al jazeera can ah, this is audra 0. these are the top stories view.