economies devastating equal systems pushing a price on the protection of nature. great economy of sound good. but it was all about privatization of nature. should our environment be for sale? what we're trying to do is persuade people to stabilize to plot much more given them a financial incentive to do the pricing the planet on al jazeera ah, we al jazeera with finland and sweden abandon decades of neutrality and submit applications to join nato. undeterred by turkeys opposition to their membership.

ah, i'm how much am jerome? this is, as is it alive from doha. also coming up, we report from a ukrainian city destroyed in russia's offensive where people are selling everything to survive. markets in asia open in the red as fears grow of rising global inflation and the cost of living blame partly on the war and new cramp and film festival, the term being an independent film. but even here, while you have built buses overshadowing events, we looked this ever widening gap in the film. the mystery. ah the u. s. says it's confident finland and sweden will become members of nato. despite objections from turkey, the nordic states handed in their applications on wednesday, kristen salumi reports. 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 i will be okay. with you as 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 come 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 shaqia as being supporting the open door policy of a nato, even before this war. but to be the gossip to this possible candidate already

candidate countries, you know, we have also legitimate security concerns that they have been supporting. a tentative organizations. turkey also want 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 kept it to himself. i did with me as the you asked, remained optimistic. we're confident that at the end of the day, feminine sweden will have been effective and efficient a session process. the turkeys concerns can be addressed finland and sweden are working directly with turkey to do this. but we're also talking to the church 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 be about setters of finland and sweden handed letters to the chief of the military alliance and sultan burg. both countries have been neutral for a long time, but russia's invasion of ukraine rapidly shifted public opinion in favor of joining nato. currently, 5 nato members share land borders with russia. they include the entire eastern frontiers of estonia and latvia. norway just touches russia in the arctic circle, while lithuania and poland flanked the baltic, ex clave of colon and grab finland, membership of nato. it would add 1300 kilometers to the alliances land border with russia. more than doubling its length. they have de roche. as 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 to 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 has 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 really sweet cylinder to different countries, they are modern countries. they score higher on corruption indices than the united states. you know, 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 gas 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 says more than 900 ukrainian fighters from mary appalled out of stock steel plant, had been sent to a prison complex. it says they include $700.00 more troops who surrendered on wednesday. this video, released by the russian defense ministry, is said to show you cranium soldiers handing themselves over to russian troops. but their fate is unclear. ukraine is suggesting a prisoner swamp, while russia wants some of them branded terrorists. is mary fuller, many of those who were at the stall plan have been taken out. not only the resolve battalion, but also other brigades, maybe some other units as well. these are not all wounded, but only those in the worse condition. we know that they are alive, and some are receiving medical care. unfortunately, this is all the information we have as a big has more from crematory sc. we understand there still, some of those ukrainian soldiers still in at that plant. now,

the presidents that lensky has said that the military intelligence and the most influential international mediators, are trying to negotiate or talk to try to get, to try to be involved in the evacuation of those remaining fighters. now they have said that they will not surrender an answer and is not a word that ukraine has used in even for those that have been taken to russian health territory. the the words that are being used by the ukrainians is that they have competed their mission. and this is a very politically charged issue. the, those fighters are seen us are defending mary polis and making this heroic stand. and many of them went on line or window at a, at the as of steel, flint saying that they felt like they were let down by the politicians in care of. so it's important for ukraine to at least try to see that they're doing their best to try to get those remaining fighters evacuated as for those that have been taken to rush and separate a russian back separatist areas. well, the ukraine is a saying that there is a exchange program, a formula, and what we've heard from the ukrainians is that there will be

a 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's progress and mary paul has sparked concerns. it could widen. that's offensive to target more of southern ukraine. but the ukranian army says it's fighting back against russian troops. suffering low morale with abdul hamid reports from the city of mich alive. it has become a grim, routine attacks and explosions while the city sleeps, followed by disbelief and anxiety. survivors wondering how they escaped if ferocity of a missile loved from afar on their homes. my rat can't contain his anger . you hope all of us 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 while all but you know what burke there few people left in, michel, i. if a few weeks ago there 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, darker equally. autobahn 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 crater. look, i see what was that yellow? these are the straps and the parachutes. canopy has now been recycled, but i flew awesome. these clayton army says its own be offensive in the south. oh, but the women, 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 advantages 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 nikolai of wonder whose turn will it be next adapted?

hamid algebra nikolai of ukraine has begun holding its 1st war crimes trial of the conflict. a russian soldier pleaded guilty to killing an unarmed ukrainian civilian 21 year old sergeant vadim. she marin is charged with shooting a 62 year old civilian through an open car window. he faces life in prison. trading on the asian markets is off to a negative start. stalks have been falling on fears of rising inflation and supply chain problems. it follows a dark day on wall street where stock suffered their biggest drops since the early days of the coven. 19 pandemic forest louis joins us lie from sol. forest. thanks so much for joining us. why are we seeing these broad losses across the asian markets? all send him market sentiment is really quite fragile at the moment. and analysts say investors biggest concern is inflation. when looking at global inflation, we're looking at prices going up fuel prices, freight charges, cost of materials,

labor, and investors are concerned that if inflation really takes hold, this will have an impact on companies. earnings companies are going to see their profit margins being squeezed. and inflation also means that we're going to be a lack of growth opportunities for companies. so investors are worried about a broader economic slow down in general, and then there's the wider background as well. you've got china's 0 cove, it policy which has seen government impose locked downs in cities across the country. this will have an effect on employment rate. it will have an impact on production output on supply chains. and china is the world's 2nd largest economy. so whatever it's going through will have a knock on effect on the global economy. and then you've got the war in ukraine as well, which will already seeing those effects globally in terms of rising prices. supply chain disruptions. the one ukraine has also introduced

a lot of uncertainty. so all these things are weighing heavily on investors. mine's now, stocks are generally risky, any way, even in the best of times and what more in these more volatile times. so investors are really looking for safe haven for the assets, and that safe haven is cash, particularly in times of rising interest rates. and we're seeing that in the us. so say what we're seeing really is investors taking that money out of what cost us risk investments and putting that into safer once. all right, that's how the zeros for in st. louis joining us live from sol. thanks so much for a palestinian warner at the funeral. a veteran al jazeera journalist, shitty and a block. leah has been arrested by israeli forces. i'm what i believe was attacked by israeli police, as he carries should, ins, coffin, and occupied east jerusalem last week. his account of what happened was widely shared on social media. his lawyer says, all the questions during his interrogation were related to the funeral. should he

was shot in the head by israeli forces while she was on assignment engineering last week. still had on a da 0, a possible p r. disaster for the u. s. as another latin american leader says they might drop out of original summit, plus it's truly historic moment for us soccer landmark deal to guarantee that us women's and men's national soccer teams get equal pay. ah. the journey has begun the faithful world copies on its way to catherine book your cattle package. to day the bin frequent dustin sandstorm, to see across north africa and the middle east. one significant one recently will have dispersed most of its dust. now it's still being brought down the wind, so it's fairly hazy atmosphere and its

a seasonal wind blowing down the gulf. it blows out of iraq. if you're unlucky, it's full of dust, lasley's, not an abu dhabi and dubai. at 4041 shows that it's still quite a hot wind. now willoughby or dust, i think there may well be. and i certainly been the case, the whole to pass or pakistan. we've had significant thunderstorms further north which brings the dust and then release the heat in islamabad for the most part, last dot true intent to the rising towards 50 on friday, at least in the good part is central pakistan, another heat wave. now you'd like to see rain at this time, the air in kenya, ethiopian somali. as you can see, the showers are pretty sparse. they are concentrated a bit further west, south of always and at the change of season come through south africa. we sent a big drop in tempe to recently, cape town, that is a cold front with a lot of rain is moving through a good part of south africa as it moves through the suit. it will turn into snow. eventually, andy, up, it causes natal,

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you're watching a 0, a reminder of our top stories this our the u. s. says it's confident finland and sweden will be accepted into nato. turkey as opposed to their membership, accusing them of supporting the kurdish p k. k. who they describe as terrorists. rushes, defense ministry has released footage of hundreds of ukrainian fighters, surrendering at mario paul's out of style still works. moscow says the troops have been taken to a former prison complex in russian control territory. there have been sharp, falls on asian markets after stalks had their worst day on wall street since the early days of the pandemic. growing fears of global inflation and the war in ukraine are being partly blamed. the war in ukraine is also being blamed for worsening britons. cost of living crisis inflation hit a 40 year high after it rose by 9 percent last month. that's led to soaring electricity bills. millions of household saw their energy costs increased by 54 percent last month. low income families are struggling to put food on the table.

the citizens advice charity says every day an extra $750.00 people are being referred to food banks. jayvon sander is an economist at king's college london researching inequality. he says the u. k. government must intervene. this is a wants to large time crisis and things are awful now, but they're going to get was to as things stand, 40 percent of families cutting back on food, 40 percent struggling to pay the energy bills, 40 percent unable to say one in 70 adults going hungry to put $6000000.00 children going hungry, and that would inflations at 9 percent. if they should, we'll get high with equal peak at 10 percent late this year. the average family, we have a 2000 pounds while salt. this is a wants and lifetime crisis of british properties. the government absolutely needs that. the 1st property up city has to be to increase universal credit payments and pensions. it lied with prices at the moment, the only increasing by 3 point one percent. and average inflation expects to be

over 10 percent this year. on top of that, restore the 1000 pounds universal credit uplift there. security payment going to low income household we had it during the pandemic should have it again. and also given the thought that every single household is feeling at a 1000 pound check that is taxed to every single household, the cost that entire package rated. so security payments in live with price is a $1000.00 pound check and bringing about the universal credit uplift together cost 10 percent of what we spent on upon debit responds. this country got through a pandemic, we shut down the economy, we could apps, he gets his wants the lifetime cost of living crisis as well. mexico says it's expecting an answer from the united states in the coming hours on whether cuba, venezuela, and nicaragua will be invited to next month's summit of the americas. the u. s. has eased some of its sanctions on venezuela after the mexican government and some other leaders threatened not to attend the summit in los angeles unless every country in the region was included. philip printer is professor emeritus at the

school of international service at american university. he says the u. s. has lost its leadership in the region. the summons began at 1994, and they've been held every 3 years since. and the goal is to find some commonality in the hemisphere and the united states looks to be the leader of the hemisphere in this and in the past they have reached some accommodations. they talked about democracy, they talked about development in 2000. busy and 12 of the leaders of the summit of the other countries at the summer pole, president obama, that of cuba were 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 uber, regain are re normalize their diplomatic relations. and so there is

the possibility of talking about coming from 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 being, is reemerged. and i think this is part of why the mexican president and close the guatemalan president are acting the way they are. us president joe biden has invoked the defense production act and a major step to ease a nationwide shortage of baby formula. that means that suppliers are now required to direct ingredients used in baby formula to key manufacturers. first, biden is also ordered the defense department to use military aircraft to import baby milk from overseas. the shortage stems from a recall by formula make her abbot in february after 2 babies died. advanced production act gives the government in building require suppliers to direct needed resources to infant formula manufacturers before any other customer who may have

ordered that good am also announcing operation fly formula. that's to be able to speed up the import of embryo formula and start getting more formula in stores as soon as possible. health officials in the us or warning the cases of cobra, 1900 or on the rise and could get worse over the coming months. about a 3rd of the population live in areas that are considered at higher risk. with reported cases up 26 percent from last week, people are being urged to wear masks and doors and to take more precautions. we've seen with prior increases infections in, in, in, you know, different waves of infection have demonstrated that this travels across the country and has the potential to travel across the country. so i think the important thing to recognize is that we actually have the tools to prevent it. and so we would ask you to wisely use these tools. us doctors say around one in 10 covered 1900 patients will end up developing the conditions known as long covered. the symptoms

still aren't completely understood, but include fatigue, pain, mental fogginess, and heart problems. how does your 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 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 $33.00 and was an avid runner before he contract 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 cove,

its 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, but let's 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 cove experienced 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 an acute, severe illness 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 systems in the us with dedicate did post coven clinics, medical experts say that is not nearly enough to treat the up to 23000000 americans

suffering long term symptoms. hello, hello. hey, 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 cove id. 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. alright, it's heidi joe castro al jazeera baltimore, maryland. equal pay is on the way for men and women who play for the u. s. national soccer teams. the landmark agreement in years of legal action by female players over gender discrimination and in an unprecedented move in the global game prize,

money will be shared between the men's and women's world cup teams. the current holders are the american women's team. the steel is going to have ramifications throughout the entire world. you know, it's game changing moment here in the us, but it has the potential to change how international soccer and international sport do business with the equalization of prize money for our men's and women's world cup, i think is just going to be a historic moment. and hopefully it will create change throughout the world. john henry has more from chicago. the women of the u. s. soccer federation have long said that they've offered better than equal. busy play for less than equal pay, and that's undoubtedly true. in the past. the men's team has been paid more and there's a big difference in performance. the women's team of won the world cup 4 times more than any other national team. and the last 2 games were the 2015 or the last 2 series were 201521900. that makes them the reigning. busy world 20 and now as we

look towards the women's world cup in 2023, the men have never gotten past the quarter finals by contrast. so it's been a bit galling for the women that they've been paid less than the men up until now. now they're going to be paid the same per match for a win and a major game at $18.00 to $24000.00 per player. same as the men. but the innovation here is that they're also splitting world cup funds. there's a fund of hundreds of millions of dollars that gets distributed to the mens team, a fund of tens of millions of dollars. it gets distributed to the women's team. and what they've done here is they've taken that pile of money for the men and for the women, they've put it all together and they're gonna dividing equally among both the men and. ready women, this comes, it is 3 months after the women, many of the women of the league have ended a lawsuit for an equal pay that will result in them getting $24000000.00 of back

pay. and it comes 6 months before the mens world cup in doha. the women are now looking forward to 2023. a 42 year. wait for victory is over for a football club in germany. yeah. i talked frankfurt has one that europa league final. this in the clubs title, drought for the 1st time since 1980 victory came after a tense penalty issued out against scotland rangers it's the 75th can film festival, where independent films are celebrated on the big screen. but in an era of american blockbusters, even can is struggling to find a balance between the big studio film franchises that attract massive audiences and independent films fighting to survive. charlie angela reports from southern france . aerial stunts for a list actors for a festival that seeks to promote independent films can still has to bring in big

hollywood movies to stay relevant. you have to look over the top gun, maverick, his head, not in competition for the palm door prize, but to lower the audiences media and the bankable stars with tom cruise being on it with a special tribute a bad lumens. elvis biopic is also premiering at the festival. oh will movies, but tension between these grand spectacles and the quieter often more thoughtful films is growing. films like arca, with no call chases, superheroes or celebrities. a story set and post revolutionary to nicea, that embodies a generation fight for a better life. it's in the running for the can prize, but it's struggling to secure distribution outside of europe. here the phil market produces say, investors are increasingly favoring commitment. franchises sequels, and remake ones considered more suitable for teenage audience or independent

filmmakers. a battling to find funding if they do get their films made, then competing against mass marketed, big budget reductions, lots of investments as going to those films. and that's great. like it's great that we can see those stories in, in the spring. but at the same time, we need our money into independent films and we need that kind of narratives are protected. so we get a wider aspect from our phones of narratives of representation on the screen ah, independent films do when more woods, but smaller audiences for hollywood produces, say, the idea that their movies are diving down is nonsense despite the theatrics festivals like can a still the place for smallest toys with a different pace. charlie angela al jazeera can ah.