again now with this is dw news. life from both in turkey puts a roadblock on the path to nato membership for finland and sweden, turkish president. bridget tie a better. one says he won't support 8 the country joining the military alliance, accusing both nations of harboring what he says. a terrorists. russia agrees to a questionable deal to evacuate. hundreds of ukrainian soldiers pulled up beneath the steel planted mariano pl. added ukraine as mounting a counter attack in hockey, pushing russian troops away from the city all the way to the russian border. plus

a big set back for his blind it's allies in lebanon's parliamentary elections. the run back party and its partners. is that to lose the majority of parliament? yes. count correspondent in beirut. what people there are expecting from the government? ah, i baneful and welcome. we begin with some breaking news out of turkey. president bridget, i ipad one says his country will not approve the nato bids of sweden and finland. and one says delegations from those countries should not bother coming to anchorage to try to persuade, in different, like earlier, sweden said it would seek membership in the military alliance following finland's decision and ending 2 centuries of swedish neutrality. both sweden and finland want to bolster their security following rushes invasion of ukraine. t w's. terry

schultz is install call. terry, the turkish president appears to be throwing a spanner into the works. that's right. we had heard earlier threats by turkey, that it may not be fully in favor of sweden and finland joining the alliance. but then over the weekend, there were reassurances from the turkish foreign minister that that on her was not actually seeking to delay the exception of these 2 countries. so this reiteration by the turkish president may come as quite a surprise to stockholm in helsinki and not a welcome one at all. filaments with would be the 1st native members to hobb of people's how the people or ed ones are or to come up against problems with anyone. tell us what this means for finland and sweden in their bits to join nato. well this is obviously going to have to be worked out because the new members can only be admitted to the alliance by unanimous consent. that means that or to one

will have to agree to let them in what he's accusing sweden and finland of doing is not, is sending back not extra dining. some members of the p k k, the kurdistan people's party, which everyone considers a terrorist organization. if not extradited them at his request. now the european union did put the p k k on its list of terrorist organizations in 2002, and sweden have been and finland have reminded on her that they obey all of these rules. but now everyone seems to be bringing up specific cases of people. he's asked to be sent back that they haven't done in sweden and finland aren't the only ones who were planning to negotiate. this. certainly this will be an issue for nato secretary general, un stolberg. and the united states will have something to say about this as well, because all countries except turkey have assured sweden and finland that they want them in as quickly as possible. that this isn't the best security interests of not just these 2 countries, but the whole alliance. so this is definitely something that's going to be taken up

by all of nato. how do you suspect this will go down with all the native members? certainly everyone accepts turkey and croatia at times as also had said it was going to possibly try to delay it. but all the other members of nato can't wait for sweden and finland to join. would have loved for this to happen years ago. and if promised them that they will pursue the ratification process as quickly as possible . so is certainly going to be on cobra on one side and $29.00 countries on the other. and i would suspect that they find a resolution to this because there are plenty of ways that countries like the united states can leverage turkeys, interests, and convince them of this would not be the way to go to deny to countries, accession to nato. can you tell us more about what it one was alluding to members harboring on people he labels as, as terrors. i'm not familiar with the individual details of these cases,

but he has said that he has asked for extradition of certain individuals from sweden and finland. and these countries have not been willing to do that. so i would presume that they've gone through court cases here in it, or, or at least some sort of scrutiny here in sweden and also in finland and that, and that perhaps air to one's accusations against these individuals were not deemed to be worthy of sending them back to what would be a dangerous situation for them. so we didn't finland are, are well known to be strong advocates of human rights. and they would not look kindly on flimsy cases if, if that's what occurred in this situation. this is what air to one is bringing up are these individual cases of, of non extradition and calling that harboring terrorists the governments of sweden and finland would certainly argue that. ok, thanks for the clarity. terry schultz from stuck on the russian defense ministry says is reached an agreement to evacuate wounded ukrainian soldiers from the

besieged as of stars. still plant in the southeast and port of mariano. both the ministry of moscow said that a cease fire was in effect and a humanitarian car door would be established to allow the injured fighters to leave the still works. but for treatment of the 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 give is also heavy fighting in the eastern region of lou anne square residence, a 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 lizzie chancellor, do not every one there is ready to leave despite the russian threat with him, your source is doing well. tell me seriously, what are you doing here with the children? do you understand that this is a war zone warriors?

yes, there 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 or can you call us? and helena back, 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 down, but almost unless qualify as well. 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 written, written only 20 kilometers away lies the town of business. russians de tv claims that it's under russian control. but the ukrainian military says it still has reason to celebrate. it says it's tubes have pushed russia from the north eastern city of hockey. and then then, as far as the border with russia, with nature has set, the ukraine can win this war. russia war in ukraine is still going us will scold,

have planned they failed to take here. they are pulling back from around called kid there, major offensive, and almost as 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 stell steelworks and mario pole. some soldiers perform the winning song, b z spear i rang, you won't go to school. i spoke with dw mathias boating, a in care of about russia's announcement that it would allow an evacuation of injured ukrainian soldiers out of that plant. this not very likely that this is going to happen. first of all, this is just one side of saying 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 wouldn't, 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 been 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 are not going to fall in russia. and so i can't imagine that they would agree to be brought to a hospital on russian control territory. let have a potent has convened a meeting of the russian leg collective security treaty organization. for the 1st time since russia invaded ukraine, there was alexander lucas anchor,

was one of the presidents attending the military alliance meeting at the kremlin summit. its time to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the collective security, treating, treating changes between russia and native nations. i'm currently growing over the native membership id by finland and sweden, members of the c s t o include russia, menia, others as a thank you to stan and to jacob it, let's get you up to date on some of the other stories making headlines. mcdonalds has announced it'll sell all its restaurants in russia and exit the market following the invasion of ukraine. fast food giant closed its outlets in russia, march, 30 years after opening its 1st branch in most was pushing square for the labor ministers. but one will be friends with 2nd female prime minister appoint to replace resigning zone stakes. the governmental shuffle aims to invigorate president the memo mac hans interest party ahead of alimentary elections. he hopes

to secure a majority for his reform agenda, including a controversial pension. so the whole president of guinea, purcell has dissolved parliament and announced that early parliamentary elections morrow embargo cited legislators and resolvable differences with the presidency in the country as experienced for military coups. in as many decades. most recently 2012, this february, 11 people died in violence described as an attempted. lebanon's has belie and its allies look said to lose the parliamentary majority. that's according to preliminary results from the 1st general election since the countries economic collapse, voters took to the streets to celebrate the supporters of opposition. candidates saying they hope to deal a blog to the ruling, all the decisions they blame for the crisis. turnout for the elections was low. c, w corresponded rebecca recess in beirut, covering the election for us. i asked her what the new lebanese government might

look like. already had still a little bit too early to be able to make any predictions. as you said, you a sale votes are 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, hes villa does look to be losing its parliamentary majority. that instead going to the far right christian lebanese forces part of the circle saudi us alliance. and they will be able to, they might, may compet alliance, a coalition government. they'll have to nominate a prime minister who will then be able to form a cabinet. now that could take mom, 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 this electron saying his bullet 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. the 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. if 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. okay, what ever sort of coalition we get in however long it takes? what are people expecting from the new government? because i bet the list is long very long. indeed, 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 in the countries near complete economic collapse, some 80 percent of people in his country now live below the poverty line. the

currency 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 day to day and they want change. they're really fed up. most of the people have spoken to said, you know, that they weren't gonna vote for establishment parties. now, obviously, there were other people, and that's why the lebanese forces have come out in the front, who believe that lebanese 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 got the new government, whichever form it takes, is going to have to listen to that. rebecca written reporting for us from beirut at a reminder of the top story. we're following foyt savage, present wretched tie, a bad one says he's country will not approve the native bids of sweden and finland . edwin accused both nations of harboring what he says, the terrorists added that delegations from those countries should not bother coming

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