more life starts may 28 on d, w. mm. ah, this is the w news life from berlin, russia, greece through a deal to evacuate a self study. hundreds of ukrainian soldiers a hold up beneath the steel planted. merry also supplies a low and ukraine is mounting a counter attack in hop, keith, pushing russian troops away from the city all the way to the russian border. from neutral to nato, sweden's prime minister announces a country will apply to join the military alliance. just days off the fiddler said,

did it do the same? moscow has warned, of far reaching consequences of the big sent back for his belie and its allies in lebanon's, parliamentary elections. the iran backed party and its part as a set to lose their majority in parliament. laws got correspondent in a route what people there are expecting from the new government. ah, i've been phys all in welcome. it's been a long time coming. the russian defense ministry says it's reached an agreement to evacuate booted ukrainian soldiers from the besieged self style. steel plant in the southeastern port of money awful. the ministry of moscow said that a cease fire was in effect as a humanitarian card or would be established to allow the injured fight as to leave the still works. but for treatment in a town held by pro moscow separatists in the country's ne,

ukrainian forces have mounted a counter attack, pushing russian troops away from the 2nd largest city. ha. keith is also heavy. fighting in the eastern region of lou anne square residence, still reluctant to leave ukrainian tangs and heavy artillery on their way to the lou hands region. russia has increasingly turned its attention to east and ukraine, but the ukrainians are making preparations. one of the cities, the artillery is going to as litzy, chancellor, do not every one there is ready to leave despite the russian threat with him, your source is good. tell me seriously. what are you doing here with the children? do you understand that this is a war zone warriors with a whole number? yes. or is ways to just right now we have to avoid shelling and make our way through a very difficult situation in order to reach the people we res. but people just sit here and think everything will be fine tomorrow. unfortunately,

everything is not fine. book on you got a short angelina about her mother has been living in a bunker for over a month with her 2 children. she doesn't believe the police can bring them to safety in london, but almost from the school graham, i know so many people who were evacuated and then simply dropped off on the street . i do not think leaving as an option of them were rules written, written only 20 kilometers away lies the town of obese. new russians de tv claims that it's under russian control, but the ukrainian military says it still has reason to celebrate. it says its troops have pushed russia from the north, eastern city of ha, keith and, and then as far as the border with russia, with nature has said that ukraine can win this war. russia war in ukraine is not going as moscow hub clone. they failed to take you there, pulling back from around cartoon there. major offensive in the last has sold

russia is not achieving. it's so teaching objectives and ukraine has received another moral boost from the countries when in the eurovision song contest. even in the most dire conditions, like here in a bunker below the as of style steel works and marion poll some soldiers perform the winning song. yeah. just be around you. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, staying with the besieged steel planted merry, awful. i spoke with dw mathias, boating, i and keith about russia's announcement that it would allow an evacuation of injured ukrainian soldiers out of the plant, but to russian hill territory. this not very likely that this is going to happen. first of all, this is just one side or seeing something, and it's not been confirmed by anybody else. on the, on the other side, the fighters in the still plan to have said they would,

that they will not surrender to the russian forces. and russia has offered to bring them to russian control territory, which mean that they would be in the hands of the russian forces. the reason why they have not surrendered so far and why they keep up this fight, although it looks more dire and more dire, is that they don't want to fall into the hands of the russians. the as off battalion with these the, these fight is, is a very symbolic battalion. russia has boot much of its narrative of not see a fighters and of nazi government and ukraine around this battalion, which has nationalistic groups. and they have made clear that they're not going to fall in russian. and so i can't imagine that they would agree to be brought to a hospital on russian control territory. sweden has announced that it'll seek nate who membership following villains decision to join the alliance. prime minister magdalena and her son called it in a storage change in the country security policy. it ends 2 centuries of swedish military neutrality,

both sweden and finland want to bolster their security. following russia's invasion of ukraine turkeys expressed concerns over them joining saying they must 1st provide security guarantees. it moscow president vladimir putin warned that the bids by the nordic countries would aggravate tensions between russia and the west. with the application process expected to take up to a year, the swedish prime minister warned the kremlin might interfere. in the meantime, sir, you call miss reading will be in a vulnerable position while application is being considered. russia has announced that it will take counter measures if we join nato. now we cannot realize we didn't being exposed to, for example, this information attempts to intimidate and divide us. but it is also clear that sweden is not alone. and some laura house, dw, correspondent, and nato expo. terry schultz about sweden's historic. you turn to give you an example of how sudden this reversal has been. just in march prime minister anderson

herself said that she thought joining nato would be d, stabilizing. she's had to come around after public opinion shifted, and as you mentioned, after finland decided that it was going to go ahead with membership, sweden simply felt that it couldn't be left alone outside the alliance. and his article 5 guarantees would about sweden and finland when it comes to russia and roches threats. you know, both of these countries have long lived in the vicinity of, of russia, of course, finland sharing a 1300 kilometer border. so they are used to having to deal with these hybrid warfare tactics, these, these threats, whenever they do something that the crumbling doesn't like. so they have been prepared that as they moved closer to nato membership, there would be threats coming from moscow and, and today, even the crumbling saying it's not really against the membership, it's simply against more military infrastructure and troops being stationed in these countries. i mean, i don't think they're going to be that reassured by that statement,

just as they don't get overly alarmed by by new threats. they are resilient already . they have asked nato allies to provide reassurance measures for them. in case there is retaliation once they decide to see back seek application. but before the alliance the security guarantees would apply for them. so they're prepared and preparing as finished. prime minister on m. r and put it yesterday. and what did they preparing exactly when it comes to infrastructure? are they going to hold back because of these threats of russia? do you think both countries i, i think that there will be a different approach between finland and sweden. sweden has already made clear that it will ask nato for allowances not to have troops permanently stationed in sweden, not to have nuclear weapons on swedish territory. finland may want some of the same opt outs. that's not quite as clear yet, but these are things that there is a precedent for, for example, with norway and denmark. both of them have have special arrangements with nato. it

measures that they're public demanded and, and that's certainly going to be the case here in sweden. where we've been speaking to people in the street who say that even some of them in favor of nato membership may not be comfortable with having nuclear weapons here or, or having a nato bass here, for example. and i mentioned turkey, will it use it's vito to block their membership? it didn't like finland and sweden's position on on some kurdish kurdish parties. i've been with sweden and finland to say that they follow the line on this, but all the same, a native secretary and stilton berg has definitely been having conversations with turkey the united states will get involved. and the swedish government today said that it was going to open talks with turkey on reassuring them that it does not hold any positions that are contrary to any other european union use on this subject. because any one country can hold up the accession of a new member. so it's really important that this be worked out. they don't use

terry sholtes in stock on thank you. started, mapleton has conveyed a meeting of the russian leg collective security treaty organization. for the 1st time since russia launched its invasion of ukraine, there was alexander lucas shanker, was one of the presidents attending the military alliance meeting at the kremlin. the summit is time to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the collective security treaty. tensions between russia and nato nations are currently growing over the nato membership bit by finland and sweden, members of the c. s t o. include russia, a media by the ross, kazakhstan, cutest on. and to get this done, let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories making headlines. former labor minister elizabeth born is frances or will be francis 2nd female prime minister. going to replace resigning jone, asked the government shuffle plans to be great. president manuel, my home interest party ahead of me 3 elections. he hopes to secure

a majority for his reformist agenda, including a controversial pensions over a whole over a 1000000 north koreans have now been infected with covered 19, according to local state media, and elected leader, king john has lasted health officials and ordered the army to help bring the pandemic under control. a nationwide lockdown is in place. the president of guinea, so has to so parliament and denounced, oh, the parliamentary elections model battle cited legislators on resolvable differences with the presidency. the countries experienced for military coups in as many decades. most recently in 2012 is february 11th, people died of violence described as an attempt to support lebanon's. his bella and its allies looked sent you lose. they a parliamentary majority, according to preliminary results from the 1st general election since the countries economic collapse, both as to the straits to celebrate the supporters of opposition candidate saying

they hope to deal a blow to the ruling politicians who they blame for. the crisis. turned out for the elections was long, dw, corresponded rebecca rita's in beirut, covering the election for us. i asked her what the new lebanese government might look like. oh, but it's still a little bit too early to be able to make any predictions. as you said, you a sale vote to still trickling in, but even after the votes are all completely counted at lebanon takes, is notorious for taking a very long time to form government. so exactly how it will look is hard to say at this point. but as you mentioned, has will, it does look to be losing its parliamentary majority, that instead going to the far right christian lebanese forces are part of the circle. saudi us alliance. and they will be able to, they might, may compet alliance of coalition government. they'll have to nominate a prime minister who will then be able to form

a cabinet. now that could take mom. so lebanon has been known to be without a government for 2 years, at a time, as these sort of infighting and faction behind a, behind the scenes faction fighting goes on. but what is clear and what was really going into this election? one of the huge issues was the hezbollah issue, and it does appear that people have voted with their fate many going into these electron saying hes villa has caused all the problems. other people saying that his blood isn't the only problem in this country, and we need to deal with corruption on all levels. but people certainly voting with their feet. a lot of independent candidates, also winning states. we're looking at maybe 10 states with the cycle change, opposition? candidates and, and bell play an important role as you've got these 2 opposing blocks 1184 on one side has blur on the other. and these independent candidates playing quite an important role in the middle here. what ever sort of coalition we get, however long it takes? what are people expecting from the new government? because i bet the list is long. very long

indeed. are the one word that really could sum up a going into this vote was change. people really want to see a change in this country. it was the 1st vote since the countries near complete economic collapse, 80 percent of people in his country now live below the poverty line, the car he has lost 90 percent of its value. the electricity is on for one hour a day. people have to survive with generators, but they can't afford fuel to run them. so people really living date today and they won't change, they're really fed up. most of the people have spoken to said, you know, that they weren't gonna vote for establishment policies. now, obviously, there were other people, and that's why the lebanese forces have come out in front who believe that lebanon forces were the only way to make change because it was going to get his val are out . other people saying that isn't the case. but that is definitely what people are calling for and it is does seem to have been heard and hated. and, you know, i think that the, the got the new government, whichever form it takes, is going to have to listen to that. rebecca or it is reporting for us from beirut.

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