and from chad critical debate, could china actually help in russia's invasion of ukraine in depth analysis of the days global headlines inside story on al jazeera ah, ah ah. ah. finland and sweden abandoned decades of neutrality and submit applications to join nato. undeterred by turkey's opposition to their membership,

ah, i'm how much room this is out of here, alive from doha. also coming up, markets in asia opened in the red on fears of rising global inflation and the impact of the war and ukraine. the u. s. president invokes a cold war air law to help ease the major shortage of baby formula and enlisted the help of the military. 042 year wait for victory is over for germany's i talked frankfurt football team as it wins the rope. a league final beating scotlands rangers. 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. i'm looking forward to pursuing that conversation. i'm today we have food and sweden submit their applications. and this of course is a process and we will work through the process as allies and, and his partner's, you know, tony huge here as being supporting the open door policy on 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 terrorist 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 side lines 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 turkey's 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. russia says more than 900 ukrainian fighters for murray, a pulse of star steel plant, had been sent to a prison complex. it says they include $700.00 more soldiers who surrendered on wednesday. this video, released by the russian defense ministry is said to show you craney and fighters 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. beg, has more from crematory. we understand they are 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 the russian held 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, though those fighters are seen us are defending mary polis a, making this heroic stand. and many of them went on line when though at a, at the as of steel plant 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, or russian 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 spark concerns. it could 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 adapter. 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. you americans. don't cut me outside. we asked him 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 your son. i would to you a part with my own hands while all what about what burke? 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. 2 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 mc alive in the early stages of the war before being pushed back. but now with more you will, and that her soon 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. gosh harry, you folios 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 crater. look, i see what was that yellow? these are the straps and the parachutes. canopy has now been recycled, but are through these korean army says it's only offensive in the south. oh, but the link, 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? i doubt that i meet al jazeera. nikolai of the un security general has warned of a global food shortage in the coming months due to the war in ukraine. but he says, talks can prevent a crisis. antonio terror says he's an intense contact with several countries to restore ukrainian grain shipments and revive russian fertilizer exports. both countries produce a 3rd of the world's wheat supply. and the war threatens to tip tens of millions of people world wide into food insecurity and famine. russia must but meet the safe and secure exports of grange thought. the new canadian ports, alternative transportation routes can be explored, even if we know that by itself, they will not be enough to solve the problem. and russian food and fertilizers must have unrestricted accessed to world markets without in direct impediments. i have been in intense contact on busy shoe, at the senior leadership level with the russian federation, ukraine, turkey,

united states, the european union, and several other key countries. i am hopeful, but that is still a long way to go. trading on the asian markets is off to a negative start. stocks have fallen on fears of rising inflation around the world, worsened by the worn ukraine and locked downs in china. it follows a dark down wall street where stock suffered their biggest drops in the early days of the cobra. 1900 pandemic florence louis is in sulphur us. she says global inflation is making the markets extra skittish. 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 as they're going to be a lack of growth opportunities for companies. so investors are worried about a broader economic slowdown in general. and then there's the wider background as

well. you've got china's 0 coven policy. 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. so all of these things are weighing heavily on investors. mine's now, stocks are generally risky anyway, 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's cost as risky investments and putting that into safer once the war in ukraine is also being

blamed for worsening britons. cost of living crisis. inflation had a 40 year high after rising 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 were struggling to put food on the table. the citizens advice charity says an extra $750.00 people are being referred to food banks every day. the leader of the u. k is opposition. labor party has told parliament the prime minister doesn't understand what the public is going through. he just doesn't get a toughie. yeah, he doesn't actually on the side, what working families are going through in this country struggling about how they're going to pay their bills. a whilst he differs. british households are slapped with an extra $53000000.00 pounds on their energy bills every single day. meanwhile,

every single day dolcy oil and gas jams raking. 32000000 pounds in unexpected profit. mister speaker, we will look, ah, we will look at measures and we will look at all the measures that we need to take . this is bianca to get people through to the other side. still had on al jazeera, it's truly historic moment. for us soccer, a landmark deal to guarantee the us women's amends. national soccer teams get equal pay. plus, i'm assuming in havana standing in one of the countless lines, what you've been say they are spending too much of their lives coming up. i'll tell you why. a

they've been infrequent dustin sandstorm to see across north africa and the middle east. one significance recently you will have dispersed. most of it's just now it's still being brought down the wind. so it's fairly hazy atmosphere and that's the seasonal wind blowing down the gulf. it plays out of iraq, if you're unlucky, it's full of dust. lastly is 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 said he'd been the case the whole to pass of pakistan. we've had significant thunderstorms further north which brings the dust and then relieves the heat in islamabad for the most part. last not true intent to the rising towards 50 on friday, at least in the good part is central pakistan, another heat wife. now you'd like to see rain at this time, the year in kenya, ethiopia, in somali, as you can see, the shells 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 moving through a good part of south africa as it moves through the suitor. it will turn into snow . eventually, andy, up in causal natal, limpopo with significant dam ppos. ah, we always missing around the was this whole re money which is only looking at how to make the next profit, devastating economies, devastating ecosystems, putting 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 decline much more, given him a financial incentive to do to pricing the planet on al jazeera. ah

ah, you're watching al jazeera, a reminder of our top stories, this our, the u. s says it's confident finland and sweden will be accepted into nato. turkey is 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 as of style still works. moscow says the troops have been taken to a former penal colony and russian control territory. trading on the asian markets is off to a negative start. stalks have fallen on fears of rising inflation around the world, worsened by the worn ukraine and locked downs in china. the 1st lady of the united states has kicked off her 6 day tour of latin america. jill biden's 1st stop

is ecuador. she'll also visit panama and costa rica. the trip will emphasize the importance of the us partnership in the region, but it comes just weeks before us summit, which latin american countries are threatening to boycott. echo says this, expecting an answer from the united states in the coming hours on weather cuba, venezuela and nicaragua will be invited to next month. summit of the americas, the u. s. has ease some of its sanctions on venezuela after the mexican president and some other leaders threatened to boycott the meeting in los angeles. unless every country in the region is included. washington says any more lifting of sanctions will be tied to progress and talks between the venezuelan government and the opposition. manuel rob, hello, 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, 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 in his willa 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 are 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. in to when people are lining up for hours to buy food and often there's not enough to go around it facing its worst economic crisis in 30 years. our latin america editor lucio newman reports from havana. 55 year old, allow the lena to late. that is returning home empty handed, after spending hours in a queue to buy butter. life is a struggle. she says, especially since her daughter migrated to spain, leaving her to care for her grandchildren on her monthly minimum wage was $20.00 at the black market rate. our, she shows us a refrigerator full mostly of water. what of amino i do child, i have 4 children to feed. i have no choice but to go on the street to solve this and that a lot. she explains the chicken by 10 packs of cigarettes for $200.00 pesos on her

ration card and sell each one for a $150.00 on the flourishing informal market. i long lined for everything from food to fuel revealed in economy in distress. law people's tempers are short from chewing most of the day. in this case, for 2 bottles of oil, scarce items are sold with a ration card, but most things are no longer subsidized. what are you, whether i'm filling it, think when i got it i'm, i've been here since 5 a. m. and i've got numbers 1170. it's now 10 am. and there at least 800 people in line hoping to buy chicken cubes. cash starved economy is collapsing under the weight of harsh economic sanctions imposed by washington and append demik. that's paralyzed tourism cubis. economic engine, in all this, aggravated by 3 digit inflation, spots by

a long overdue monetary reform. but often i saw last year, not as duncan, the boy if, aiden. we were obliged to valuate our currency by 2300 percent. one of the biggest valuations ever seen in the regional havana state, one tourist hotels are empty, even as new ones are being built. the few russian tourists to came this year left as soon as war broke out in ukraine for fear of being unable to get back home. thousands of ordinary cubans who invested in bread and breakfasts before the pandemic are now desperate. here's another sign where they rent rooms in central havana. i'm going to check to see how they're doing because there's a sign here that says, god bless my business and those who visit. but we'll see just how many visitors they've had. i when i started this with i receiving all of a love it, it went back on the lateral. it'll say it again. it,

it doesn't let my little middle shows as her guest registered all she hasn't had any since last year because i've got very wrong with that income. i could buy things for my grandchild without it were hard pressed on a so like this should teach it, planning chief says q was trying to diversify its economy to increase biotechnology, industry exports and food production. ambien, sam, ben, he'll implement randomly a part of what we have been taking measures to strengthen and give more autonomy to a state say shouldst enterprises. which in our view of the fundamental actors of our economy in coming up one moment than men to her. it's clear that maintaining centralized control is still the priority. despite police for greater freedom, for the fledgling private sector. those who to hoped that the way out of this crisis would be to follow the example of vietnam or china would just have to keep waiting in line. lucy and human al jazeera, havana reports in israeli media suggest the military doesn't plan to investigate

the killing of al jazeera journalist city, and i bought it in the occupied westbank should. ian was shot in the head by israeli forces while on assignment and jeanine. on the day of her funeral israeli forces stormed the procession and started beating mourners, causing pall bearers to almost drop her casket. that didn't stop thousands of palestinians from marching through occupied east jerusalem to take part in her funeral and burial. members of the international community have condemned her killing and continue to call for an investigation. a block there was with al jazeera for 25 years, covering the story of the israeli occupation. she was known as the voice of palestine. us president joe biden has invoked the defense production act in a major step to use 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 has also ordered the defense department to use military aircraft to import baby milk from overseas. the short of stems from

a recall by formula maker abbot in february, after 2 babies died. joanna hatch is on the board of directors for mothers milk alliance, a community milk sharing organization. she says a long term solution is needed to. these are short term solutions and short term solutions are necessary to help families that are in crisis right now. i think i'm all for myself and for the organization that i'm a part of mothers knock alliance, which supports facilitated donor milk sharing in our community. and the long term solution also has to be creating sustainable systems for families to be able to have the support they need to establish breastfeeding, to have time to be with their babies to continue rest feeding. and then when breastfeeding doesn't work to have safe alternatives, including donor milk, and as a supply of baby organization here in madison, wisconsin provides an alternative formula, supplementation for some families. so donor milk is an option for families who are facing a shortage of formula for organizations. like ours,

we facilitate sharing in the community. so we connect families who have too much now were able to donate, who are healthy and whose babies are healthy to share their additional milk with families who might not have quite enough to feed their babies. there's also options such as more established formal milk bait, such as the main milk base alliance of north america here in our region. as well as other forms of community milk sharing among our family and friends who may share breastmilk in order to feed their baby's health. officials in the u. s. or warning that cases of cobit 19 are rising and could worsen over the coming months about a 3rd of the population lives in areas considered at higher risk. with reported cases up 26 percent from last week. us doctors say around one in 10 coban, 1900 patients will end up developing the condition known as long covert. the symptoms aren't completely understood, but include fatigue, pain,

mental impairment, and hard problems. hydro 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 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 and chest pains. we're talking chest tightness, we're talking intense, debilitating headaches. this is life with long coven, 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, but let some 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 an 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 dead hated 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 took clerk 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 unknown 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 id, but the help can't come soon enough for those who are suffering and wondering if they'll ever get better. all right, is there heidi joe castro al jazeera baltimore, maryland? equal pay is on the way for men and women who play for us national soccer teams, the landmark agreement ins, years of legal action by female players over gender discrimination. and in an unprecedented move prize. money will be shared between the men's and women's world cup teams. the current holders are the american women's team. john henderson has

more from chicago. the women of the us soccer federation of 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 one 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. i and truck frankfurt has ended in european trophy 42 year drought. the german football beach collins rangers to win the europa league final victory came after a tense penalty shooter. if you could give me a little live off can eternity to witness the magic moment is super awesome. and these are the moments in life that need to be.