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this is bbc news. the headlines at 5pm... finland tells president putin it plans to join nato. it says the russian invasion of ukraine has altered finland's security situation. russian troops have withdrawn from ukraine's second biggiest city, kharkiv, according to its mayor. it's been under constant bombardment since the invasion began. both sides say it's not clear when the war might end. translation: the west has declared total h brid translation: the west has declared total hybrid war _ translation: the west has declared total hybrid war on _ translation: the west has declared total hybrid war on us _ translation: the west has declared total hybrid war on us and _ translation: the west has declared total hybrid war on us and it's - translation: the west has declared total hybrid war on us and it's hard i total hybrid war on us and it's hard total hybrid war on us and it's hard to predict how long this will last but it's clear the consequences will be felt by everyone. a ban on buy—one—get—one—free deals on unhealthy food in england is to be put on hold for a year. a former health minister warns that it undermines the country's
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commitment to healthy living. i worry that its commitment to health disparities, to the ten year cancer programme, to the fight to lead a healthy life, to our whole commitment to making britain healthier. the fa cup final is underway at wembley stadium. liverpool are hoping to keep their quadruple hopes alive, as chelsea aim to lift the trophy, having lost the last two finals. bookmakers are predicting a rare good result for the uk at tonight's eurovision, but will it be enough to hold back the favourites, ukraine?
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the finnish president has told vladimir putin that finland will apply to become a member of nato within days. finland is expected to formally announce its intention to join the western military alliance tomorrow. russia and finland share an 800—mile border and russia says it has no hostile intentions towards finland and sweden, but has warned that their membership of nato would lead to the militarisation of the baltic region. the finnish president is said to have told president putin that russia's invasion of ukraine had "altered" his country's security environment. russian state media claims mr putin replied that abandoning decades of neutrality would be a "mistake" and any changes to finland's foreign policy could be "negative for bilateral relations". russia has cut off some electricity supplies to finland overnight,
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claiming it had not been paid for previous deliveries. 10% of electricity used in finland comes from russia. both sweden and finland are attending an informal meeting of nato foreign ministers, with both expected to announce their intention tojoin. our europe correspondent, nick beake, is in berlin, where nato foreign ministers are currently meeting. the americans in particular have said they are trying to work out what this apparent turkish opposition represents, because we have at present saying yesterday that he doesn't want sweden or finland tojoin, and that is because both countries, in his view, have terrorist organisations. we take from that he is talking about kurdish militant groups, the pkk in particular. i think the americans and the british will be trying to work out whether this is an attempt by president erdogan to get some concessions from the process, because remember, they need the agreement
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of the existing 30 members for them to join, whether it is a policy on behalf of the turks or represents more fundamental opposition to the expansion of nato. in terms of the timetable, what are we looking at for finnish and swedish applications and accession? well, interesting, this. over the weekend, sweden in particular, the governing party there, the social democrats, they have been meeting, the prime minister and otherfigures within the party have been talking about whether this is a good thing for sweden, because traditionally the party has been against sweden joining nato, so the indications are that they will be changing their policy on that. it is not every day you see that — apologies for the noise there. but in terms of finland, we think in the coming days, there will be a decision. the way it all works, assuming there are no major stumbling blocks in the form
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of turkish opposition, the thinking is, when there is a big nato summit in madrid, that would be the moment at which the countries join. so that is how it is looking for now. interesting that the finnish president spoke to vladimir putin and explained why finland wants to join, he says because of the attack on ukraine, but also the way that vladimir putin has suggested that no more country should be allowed to join nato, and the finnish president suggesting it is not acceptable, that individual countries have sovereign decision making in this sort of process. yeah, it did sound like a wonderful understatement, he said he would tell president putin that quite a lot of things have changed and that that explains why finland is now felt it needed to join nato. one would love, i'm sure, to be a fly on the wall for that particular phone conversation, it must have been an interesting one. it is a paradox, given that the war was apparently about preventing nato
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encroaching on russia's borders, and apparent aggressive moves by nato, as moscow put it, that the consequence of it has been to move nato even closer to russia. well, absolutely. if you look at the map of what the nato footprint would look like, you know, with those two countries joining, you have the likes of sweden and finland right in the north, all the way down along the russian border, you know, obviously belarus is an ally of russia, but president putin will be faced with this wall of nato, really, and something he was talking about at the end of last year as being completely unacceptable. many people have made the point that it is diametrically opposite to what he was hoping to achieve, and incredible over the last few months, how public opinion has changed in finland and sweden. for decades, in sweden's case, 200 years, they were content
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with being neutral, certainly in a military capacity. and now public opinion has changed, people think they will be safer within the western military alliance, within nato, and that has changed so quickly, and president putin, you would imagine, surely didn't envisage that or, as we have been hearing over the past few months, he thought that his troops' progress on ukraine would be much more rapid than it has turned out to be. nick beake at nato headquarters there in brussels, thank you very much for that update. speaking ahead of the meeting of nato foreign ministers, finland's foreign minister, pekka haavisto, explained his country's decision tojoin nato and why his president had spoken to president putin. we have 1300 common border and it is peaceful and we want to maintain that. it's important we communicate with our neighbour, we don't ask permission. each and every member country of nato has the possibility
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to prolong the process. there can be delays in the national parliaments and so forth. countries might have their own concerns but i am confident that in the end we will find a solution and finland and sweden will become members of nato. we will be talking in a few minutes to sir andrew ward, who spent five years as british ambassador in moscow. the mayor of kharkiv has told the bbc that russian forces have withdrawn from the city area and are heading for the russian border. ihor terekhov says shelling has stopped and residents are gradually returning to ukraine's second largest city. but he warned that many residential areas have been badly damaged or destroyed. 0ur correspondentjoe inwood has the latest from lviv. a parting gift from russian forces in retreat. this used to be the palace of culture in derhachi, a small town on the outskirts of kharkiv. 0n on thursday, it was destroyed. translation: we were hit by rockets. three floors were breached. _
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as you can see, the palace of culture is almost completely destroyed. it has nothing to do with military infrastructure. it's a civilian facility. it's a scene replicated right across ukraine's second city, much of which has been reduced to rubble. but kharkiv is known as a fortress city. in this invasion, it has earned that name. its defenders have resisted and now repelled the russians. the battle for kharkiv, it seems, has been won. it's a very different story from that of mariupol, where russia seems confident enough of the victory to be redeploying troops to the donbas region. the ukrainian government says it wants to arm a million men for what is increasingly looking like a long fight. that this conflict will continue is perhaps the only thing the two sides agree on. translation: today nobody can l
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predict how long this war will last, but we are doing everything in order to free our land as soon as possible. this is our priority, every day to work towards making the war shorter. however, it doesn't depend only on our people, unfortunately. translation: the collective west has declared total hybrid war on us, - it is hard to predict how long this will last, but it is clear the consequences will be felt by everyone, without exception. any diplomatic solutions will depend on russia, who today released these pictures showing their troops on the offensive. their top diplomat was also in combative mood. all over the kharkiv region, the scars of the battle for ukraine's second city. this is unlikely to be a turning point in this conflict, but with russian supply lines now in ukrainian sights, make no mistake — this is a major victory. joe inwood, bbc news, lviv. health campaigners have criticised
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the government's plan to delay a ban on multi—buy deals forjunk food by a year. ministers say they're putting the policy on junk food deals on hold to help with the cost—of—living crisis. here's 0livia richwald. as a country, britain is rather chubby and under the government's obesity strategy, junk food ads would have been banned before 9pm. multi—buy offers on food high in fat sugar and salt would also have been banned. but today the proposed junk food bans were delayed by 12 months. if the government doesn't see through these straight forward measures, which are by the way in line with where history is taking us, i worry if commitment to health disparities, to the ten—year cancer programme, to the five more years of healthy life longevity commitment to our whole commitment to making britain healthier. according to the latest figures
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14% of five—year—olds were classed as obese. by 11 it rose to 25%. some of the strategy has been put into place, like new calorie counts on menus. but is that enough? shoppers in leeds had mixed views on whether a delay on banning junk food deals would stop them eating more healthily. i do believe they deserve a treat and it shouldn't have to put us mums out—of— pocket do that. some places have taken off multi—buy offers, . it should be put on healthy foods maybe to stop obesity in the uk. j but of course with the cost| of living crisis it is difficult. the british retail consortium says supermarkets have been moving away from multi—buy offers anyway, but it welcomed the delay to changes in advertising. campaigners are urging
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retailers to promote offers on healthy food instead. in the meantime, the battle between bulging waistlines and skinny wallets continues. 0livia richwald, bbc news, leeds. 50 migrants have been told they will be the first to be sent to rwanda, under the government's controversial resettlement policy. the figure includes some people who had crossed the channel in small boats. it's widely expected that the plans will face a legal challenge, but borisjohnson said in a newspaper interview that the government would "dig in for the fight". borisjohnson is expected to meet representatives from the main political parties in northern ireland on monday. political paralysis there is continuing, as the democratic unionist party said it would continue to block the restoration of a power—sharing administration with the irish nationalist sinn fein. ahead of the visit, sinn fein�*s president, mary lou mcdonald, has accused the prime minister of engaging in a "dangerous
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game of brinkmanship" using the northern ireland protocol. borisjohnson cannot play games with the people of the north or with the island of ireland. he has connived with the dup to use ireland, to use the north of ireland, to use unionism in ireland as a pawn in a wider game that is being played out with the european union, and that is clearly a shameful tactic and approach, and it is one that is absolutely not acceptable. we will meet borisjohnson on monday in the north, and i know that michelle, as first minister, i hope, we hope will meet with the taoiseach in the course of the coming week also. let's return to russian relations with its neighbours, finland and
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sweden. i'm joined now by sir andrew wood. he was the uk's top diplomat to russia from 1995 to 2000. thank you for being with us. can i ask what you make of the announcement by finland and the expected announcement by sweden that they are going to apply to join, and nato's willingness, notwithstanding a bit of money is in turkey, apparent willingness to accept them? because tomorrow from our point of view, it's expected news. we have strong relationships with those countries stop they have good military forces and experience, and they have also experienced a lot of harassment from the russians over time and recently, so i think the person who should be concerned about it is president putin. i don't believe he calculated that any such thing would ever happen.
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are you worried that border could become militarised? in are you worried that border could become militarised?— become militarised? in principle, es, but become militarised? in principle, yes. but most — become militarised? in principle, yes, but most of— become militarised? in principle, yes, but most of the _ become militarised? in principle, yes, but most of the russian - become militarised? in principle, l yes, but most of the russian army become militarised? in principle, - yes, but most of the russian army is otherwise occupied quite a bit away. it will help our existing nato members, the baltic states, and we have troops in estonia, for example. i think it should be a deterrent to the russians in principle. it is a value for the russian society and the russian future that they should abandon some of the risk that is being forced down their throats. sometimes, somehow, a government which serves them and doesn't demand that they deserve it. in which serves them and doesn't demand that they deserve it.— that they deserve it. in the meantime. _ that they deserve it. in the meantime, where - that they deserve it. in the meantime, where does - that they deserve it. in the
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meantime, where does it | that they deserve it. in the - meantime, where does it leave, for example, countries like moldova and georgia that aren't in nato, because of the way nato is constructed, this is about dividing countries and the rest of it, particularly in moldova, couldn'tjoin stop are they made more vulnerable or can they feel more vulnerable or can they feel more secure? i more vulnerable or can they feel more secure?— more secure? i can't see any particular— more secure? i can't see any particular reason _ more secure? i can't see any particular reason why - more secure? i can't see any particular reason why the - more secure? i can't see any - particular reason why the russians would respond to swedish and finnish joining nato by taking moldova, which they have threatened to do, or georgia, which they have tried to do before anyway, so they are not going to direct their troops southwards to georgia. to get to moldova, they will have to go through 0desa and so on. will have to go through odesa and so on. ., ., ., , ., on. you mentioned the hope of eventual domestic _ on. you mentioned the hope of eventual domestic change - on. you mentioned the hope of eventual domestic change in i on. you mentioned the hope of - eventual domestic change in russia. at the moment, there is not much sign of that pressure. what do you think could change that, from the perspective of russian people? sooner or later, they will get aware
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of the way their services have behaved. they will realise that the invasion of ukraine was a foolish thing to do, even if they can be pulled by the idea that somehow ukraine was about to attack them, and putin is getting older and he is both odd and on his own. sir andrew ward, both odd and on his own. sir andrew ward. former— both odd and on his own. sir andrew ward, former british _ both odd and on his own. sir andrew ward, former british ambassador- both odd and on his own. sir andrew ward, former british ambassador in | ward, former british ambassador in moscow, thank you forjoining us this afternoon. good to speak to you. you know the expression he did her wrong? you. you know the expression he did herwrong? i did you. you know the expression he did her wrong? i did holly hamilton wrong, despite the fact that the football is going on. i've got one eye on the camera and one on the football. it's a huge day at wembley.
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we're well under way at wembley — the fa cup final between liverpool and chelsea has been relentless so far. it is somehow still goalless after 33 minutes. well, after the pomp and ceremony, it was chelsea's eduoard mendy keeping liverpool at bay after luis diaz went through. chelsea have grown into the game though, with christian pulisic going close. as it stands, it is all level so far. chelsea going very close. let's go to the pictures on bbc one. just under 15 minutes until half—time. jurgen klopp has never won the fa cup, and a win today would see them
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remain on course for that unprecedented quadruple we have been talking about. they are already into the final of the champions league, second in the premier league, and the league cup already secured. in the league cup already secured. in the last few minutes, mo salah has been taken off, which looks like an injury. a lot of worried —looking liverpool fans there at wembley. somehow, no goal so far. you can follow that on bbc one. nottingham forest lead sheffield united 2—1 after the first leg of their championship play—off semi—final. forest, the visitors at bramall lane, dominated the first half — philip zinkernagel�*s shot was saved but jack colback followed up to make it 1-0. blades defenderjohn egan was caught napping by forest'sjoe lolley in the second half — they'd had numerous chances but this one was finally put away by brennanjohnson, 2—0 to forest going into injury time. but in the 91st minute,
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sheffield united pulled one back — sander berg gave them hope going into the second leg on tuesday night. celtic lifted the scottish premiership trophy in front of their fans at celtic park this afternoon. the league title was already secured before their game with motherwell and it sparked a bit of a party as they won 6—0. craig templeton was watching for us. the countdown is over after grasping the league title on wednesday, now celtic can hold the trophy aloft. we aet a lot celtic can hold the trophy aloft. - get a lot of rewards for what we do, and there is a lot of pressure, but this is the special bit. this is the bit that you can't explain what it means, notjust for myself, but i look around and what it means to people and the joy we have given them this year. b, people and the 'oy we have given them this year.— them this year. a welcome fit for champions. _ them this year. a welcome fit for champions. a _ them this year. a welcome fit for champions, a guard _ them this year. a welcome fit for champions, a guard of— them this year. a welcome fit for champions, a guard of honour i them this year. a welcome fit for i
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champions, a guard of honour from champions, a guard of honourfrom motherwell, as you'll never walk alone orang orang celtic park, and fans were about to get a proper sendoff. david turnbull made it to matter and kyoko produced a moment of brilliance, putting celtic 3—0 up before half—time. jotter added a fourth and then an emotional moment that celtic fans will never forget, tom rogic says goodbye after nearly a decade at the club. you could say the celtic fans were in buoyant mood. they were about to go head over heels with a bicycle kick making it 5—0. in injury time, they scored again to make it six of the best. his season celtic simply better than the rest. elsewhere dundee united secured fourth place wiht that 2—1 win over ross county —
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sparking a pitch invasion after nicky clark's winner, and again at full—time!and rangers beat hearts 3—1. it was victory in the world triathlon championship series for great britain's men and women's teams. in the men's, alex yee outsprinted new zealand's hayden wilde in the final straight to earn victory in a tightly fought contest and in the women's georgia taylor—brown moved to the top of the event standings with her impressive victory after passing leader maya kingma to open up a huge lead. that's all the sport for now. head over to the bbc sport website for details ofjoe root�*s century for yorkshire against lancashire. and if you can't find it on bbc one the fa cup final is also live. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. and i'll bring you the latest on sportsday at half six. you are having an incredibly busy afternoon. see you later. it keeps you out of mischief!
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germany's foreign minister has accused russia of extending the military war against ukraine into a war on grains. speaking at a meeting of the g7, annalena baerbock warned that the conflict is stoking a globalfood and energy crisis. her warning came as india said it was going to ban the export of wheat. our business correspondent, ramzan karmali, has more. the warning was stark for the group of seven leading economies, there will be a global hunger crisis unless russia lifts the ukraine blockade. the german foreign minister said urgent action was needed to unblock stores of grain russia is stopping leaving ukraine. translation:— russia is stopping leaving ukraine. translation: , ., , translation: russia has deliberately decided to extend _ translation: russia has deliberately decided to extend to _ translation: russia has deliberately decided to extend to military - translation: russia has deliberately decided to extend to military war - decided to extend to military war against ukraine into a war of grains, a so—called wheat war to many states, especially russia africa. these actions are causing supplies to fail and prices to rise immeasurably around the world, and the threat of fatal hunger.—
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the threat of fatal hunger. russia and ukraine _ the threat of fatal hunger. russia and ukraine are _ the threat of fatal hunger. russia and ukraine are two _ the threat of fatal hunger. russia and ukraine are two of _ the threat of fatal hunger. russia and ukraine are two of the - the threat of fatal hunger. russia and ukraine are two of the world| and ukraine are two of the world buzzing from major wheat exporters and account for a third of global annual wheat sales. the g7 estimate 25 million tonnes of grain are stuck in ukraine imports. canada said the deal was ready to send ships to european ports so ukrainian grain can be brought to those in need. we are in can be brought to those in need. - are in agricultural power. we have a lot of knowledge and expertise in grain growing and grain shipping, and we will make sure to free ukrainian wheat.— and we will make sure to free ukrainian wheat. . . , .., ukrainian wheat. these warnings came on the day india _ ukrainian wheat. these warnings came on the day india said _ ukrainian wheat. these warnings came on the day india said it _ ukrainian wheat. these warnings came on the day india said it was _ ukrainian wheat. these warnings came on the day india said it was going - on the day india said it was going to ban the export of wheat. the move by india, second biggest wheat producer, was unexpected as, until recently, it discussing ways of increasing exports. india had been filling the gap in the market left by ukraine, but it's been hit by heatwave since march and inflation has surged to its highest level in it is. the fear now is food prices
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across the world will be pushed even higher and fewer hunger in poor countries will only become more acute. it's the final of the eurovision song contest tonight and thousands of fans are gathering in italy for the big night. singer sam ryder is hoping to end a run of bad results for the uk, but ukraine is hotly tipped to win. 0ur arts correspondent, david sillito, has been meeting some of the contestants. the feet belong to a singer called mahmood, here with his fans. and he's here in turin for his second eurovision song contest, representing italy. you have fans here and everywhere. everyone knows you. have you got used to all of this, what eurovision has done to you? are you used to this fame? oh, you know, for me
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it's always a new thing, you know, because the emotion is always the same, so...yeah. in the past, many looked upon eurovision as a graveyard for careers. but things have changed. for anyone who wonders what eurovision is all about, this is what it's all about. for mahmood, it's made him a star. and it's also done the same for last year's winners — maneskin. well, we've basically been touring nonstop, making new music. yeah. — going all around the world. so it's been like basically all we dreamt of. music: stefania by kalush 0rchestra. and while the favourites for tonight are ukraine's kalush 0rchestra, there've also been quite a few bets on a country that's rather struggled in recent years — the uk. # i'm up in space, man... sam ryder and space man has won many admirers. i'll be completely honest, it's quite strange walking around as part of the uk delegation,
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with people going, "you're going to win, you're going to win!" and we're like, "what? i" # and i wanna go home... winning is perhaps being a bit optimistic, but few expect another last place. the left side of the leaderboard for us is a win, put it that way. a top ten is a win. a top five is a homecoming bus tour, in my eyes. a win is panic stations — "what are we going to do?" "this is amazing." and given the uk's long fallow period, a bit of eurovision hope is an unexpected turn of events. # and i wanna go home. # david sillito, bbc news, turin. the prime minister will travel to the united arab emirates on sunday to pay condolences following the death of their president and the
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ruler of abu dhabi. he says it is deeply saddened by the news of his death and he was a widely respected leader and offers his condolences to the people of the united arab emirates. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. it has been a warm and largely sunny start to the weekend. we are going to see the weather changing and towards the south—west of england, by this evening, we have got more cloud and may be some showers. this will push northwards a memory effect more southern parts of england and we could get heavy and thundery downpours into the night. further north it will be chillier in scotland where we have some clearer skies but clearer skies by the morning. as far north as scotland. the heavy ones in southern england move away and the showers developing further north and moving further north allowing more in the way of warm sunshine to come through. as northern parts of scotland may miss the showers entirely. a little cooler than
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today around the north sea coast with breeze is beginning to pick up. there is more wet weather into monday. mainly for northern and western areas of the uk. again it could be heavy, possibly thundery. more sunshine in southern and eastern areas. cooler and wetter to the north. talking business. hello everybody and welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let's go ahead and take a look at what's on the show. tourism — it's one of the worlds biggest industries but as the journey out of covid continues to have some mighty challenges. with covid restricting china where the biggest spenders come from plus soaring energy and living costs, higher interest rates, and not to mention, a global staffing shortage in a war in europe. lots of hurdles. so i'm going to be discussing the road back for the travel industry with the head of world travel and tourism council known as the wbt c and with the industries biggest disruptor brian chesky, yes, the big boss of air b&b. plus, can cruising make a comeback?
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