[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin. nato's expansion plans in jeopardy turkey blocks talks on finland and sweden joining the military alliance as nato ambassadors fail to reach agreement on the process. a stark warning from the united nations over climate change key indicators of global warming hit new records and scientists. st time is running out. moscow says nearly 1000 ukrainian

fighters have now surrendered to russian forces in matthew pope. what happens to them next to is not clear? ah, i'm pablo foley as welcome to the program. there is no consensus yet from nato on allowing finland and sweden to join the alliance. the 2 nor to country submitted their beds early on wednesday. turkey is the sole member opposing him. president regime type out of the one says the nordic countries are harboring kurdish terrorists and refusing to hand them over agreement from all 30 nato countries is a requirement for new members to join the alliance. which did recently, we asked for 30 terrorists that are living in sweden. they said they would not extradite them. says that it is that if it's over, jackson,

they will not give us terrorists, not but, but they ask us for support to join nato lee. all the she will do, nation is a secure, she formation dollars a security organization without the nurse or we cannot say yes to deprive in a security organization of security. yeah. all right, well let's go straight to d. w correspondent, dorian jones, who joins us from it's damn bull dorian, good to see you. now turkey's president regime tie of added the one has objections, as we seem to sweden and finland joining the alliance. what does he hope to achieve? well kind of person nerd one. this is all about double sanders. he says that finland and sweden want to join nato because they do have genuine security fears due to the fret post by russia. but so finland and sweden, he says, are not respecting turkey. security concerns is accusing. the 2 countries are providing sanctuary for a group that on crow blaine for carrying out the failed coup attempt in 2016 and

also full members of the militant group, the kurdish group, p k. k, which is internationally designated as a terrorist organization and has been fighting a turkey state for several decades. encore also says that these cannon even countries are also providing refuge for supporters of the syrian kurdish group. the y p g, which has been for so fighting turkey, which isn't designated as a terrace group. now encore expects movement expect change on these 2 countries stance and the message from prisoner on to day to his parliamentarians was very clear. he said, unless a change has thought they shouldn't send diplomats here to change turkey's mind. will dorian isn't president out of the one in danger of isolating turkey further within nato, nato? well, i've been present, urged one police. he really isn't. of has a very strong position. he has a veto. old may 2 members have a veto over any new applicant. and present one has made it very clear that he is prepared to use it. now it does come at

a time when turkey has been trying to rebuild its relationship with its nato partners, which has be deeply strained over, present, heard one's close ties to russian president vladimir putin. but the, the old one has come out strongly in support of ukraine. has been a saw, an opportunity from tokyo nato partners to rebuild relations. but this present route has, is posing a major setback to those efforts, but unquote, believe that this is an issue that is prepared to stand for a mass, a question of principle, and also a question of security. and at the end of the day, on crypt, lisa has an awful lot of leverage to extract major concessions, not only from finland and sweden, but also probably from washington to dorian is the risk of any other countries objecting like turkey has? well i think that, i mean there was concerns about countries like possibly hungry which to has close ties with moscow. but the fact that that the, any country can wield one veto is enough. i think the one that has concerns will the just stand by and be very quiet and watch on crew. take all the flack and

pressure and there will be pressure on that is very clear. the talk is for mr. met child for sure. louise in washington, where he'll be meeting with is your counterpart, and this is expected to dominate talks, but on cra at the moment, it's any, a very clear message. it is not going to back down. there is concern to uncle could over play hand, but the end of the prison earth, one of his more than 20 years and power has a reputation as a man who taught him blas. dorian jones, in a stumble. thank you. russia says nearly 1000 ukrainian fighters have now surrendered at the as of towel, still works in matter you. pl. ukrainian authorities are hoping they can be traded for russian prisoners of war. but some lawmakers in moscow are calling for them to be put on trial and even executed. ukraine says talks are under way to evacuate fighters still in the plant. there are fears. the ukrainian fighter is defended, the as of style plant in marty you. paul could face rough justice from moscow.

russian tv show defeated troops being led away from the sprawling steel plant. russia says there'll be treated according to international norms, but there have been calls to designate the feared as of regiment, a terrorist organization. or a russian lawmaker taking part in peace talks with keith said russia should considered the death penalty for the us regiment in the st. louis, missouri. it's porcelain. they do not deserve to live after the monstrous crimes against humanity that they have committed and that are committed continuously against our prisoners. upwards of lesser bloom, shaw ukraine officials remain hopeful, their soldiers can be exchanged for russian prisoners of war. as national welcome from our side, we can say that the negotiation process is ongoing and that the rescue operation itself is also ongoing wood up to an or let us through i. there is also been some unprecedented criticism of the war from unexpected quarters. sam aguilar enough enough that the main problem with our military and political position is that we

are in full geopolitical isolation. and that however much we hate to admit that virtually the entire world is against us. and that's the situation we need to get out of threats in lat, that we got them. are you paul victory? marx, a rare win for russia's military in its 3 month invasion of ukraine. but it could be short lived, finland and sweden have made a joint application to join nato, a further set back to moscow's ambitions to contain the expansion of the block. let's go to ukraine now where i'm joined by did you corresponded mathias bellinger in hockey's? i'm, it is good to see you. now. moscow claims that nearly 1000 fighters have surrendered at the as of style and still works. keith is hoping for an immediate prisoner swap. what's the most likely scenario? well, if her an immediate prisoners was likely they wouldn't have fought that long. it was luckily a long time ago that they would not be able to win or to get out of there by their own

a force. and it was also long clear that ukraine did not have the capacity to break through the lines and get them out of there. so the fact that they have stayed there so long and so as it looks like, or even starving in the end, or was due to the fact that they thought they would be mistreated in russia or possibly even killed. so this anxiety, this is shared by ukrainian society, is still there and we are also hearing from moscow. some signals met people in the politicians in more in russia or public figures, calling for their, for the execution or, or to, to see them in court, et cetera. so all of this is on the table, ukraine is of course hoping for a prisoner swap because that's the best thing they can hope for. but it's far from clear whether this will happen. let here, stay with us and we'll be back with you in a few moments. now, a russian soldier has admitted killing

a civilian in northeastern ukraine just stays into rushes, invasion for 21 year old kid guilty to charges, including premeditated murder and committing a war crime during a trial in the ukrainian capital case. it's the 1st war crimes trial held and is likely to be one of many. the young sergeant admitted he shot dead a 60 to me relatively, and our bicycle in the eastern sunni region on february 28th, and cranes, prosecutor general, as it is investigating nearly 11000 potential war crimes or back to mad he has building a who's in high keith, now as we've just heard, a russian soldier has pleaded guilty in keith to charges of war crimes. what more can you tell us? so yeah, we've just heard a bit of the specific cc. he was a command off a tank or a operating group and they came under fire and they tried to flee from the scene and on his way back,

he shot the civilian from an automatic rifle. on the there are many such cases. the prosecutor general has opened investigations into many of these are killings of civilians. all these atrocities are i have seen a for a photo which had a lot a lot, a lot of cases and i'm a hot breaking cases. of course it's so they're trying to establish as much as they can. of course, many of these soldiers or might not be, have been captured or they might have, they might either be dead or, or back in russia. so i'm, it's far from clear that or how many of these cases can be really brought to court . there's also ambitions to bring them to international court, but this is something for the future. this case marks, however, a step forward for you create in because it's the 1st person that is really in

court. it because of what they have done during the war. now you are in that case, tell us about the situation there at the moment. hockey is one of the cities that has been ha, embattled for a long time, is one of the cities where the conditions, where most dia, the city has been shell do for weeks and weeks. you see, behind me, this is the regional administration. a rocket hit this building and there are many more damaged houses around here. this is the very city center. so this is not near the russian positions. the more north you go, the more to the closer to the positions you see artillery shelling and it's much worse today we went to a village outside of the city, a village that was occupied by the russians and has been taken back by the ukrainians recently. um, the village is completely anti people that people have fled the village after the ukrainians took it back. that would the road was open, so they came to the city

a but fighting is still going on there. we've seen speculations whether russian troops would withdraw like that it from the key of area once they were pushed back . and once they came, came under under pressure from the counter offensive. but this has not happened so far, yet they have dug themselves in and fighting is going on. maybe 20 kilometers that way from where i am standing, a ts bellinger in the ukrainian city of hockey. thank you. the united nations has launched a 5 point plan aimed at averting a global climate catastrophe. the un secretary general antonio terrace is warning that time is running out as temperatures rise. scientists are also sending the alarm for key climate indicators hit new records last year. they include greenhouse gas concentrations and rising sea levels and much of the world is already feeling the effect. it's a heat wave that one in 6 people on earth,

a currently struggling through blistering heat, has scorched india. and pakistan for week on the weekend temperatures hit a record high of 49 degrees celsius in the indian capital daily. where i'm 74 years old. i've never seen new delhi go through this much heat ever in my life. we used to hear about the heat and not just on that. we used to think of it as an unfortunate event when rochester used to go through 48 degrees celsius. this year, all the records have been broken recorded the climate change though. ready made extremes like this hotter and more likely the heat has killed crops and hurt harvest. the farmers themselves can't catch a break either that we may get next thursday, or we're also exposed to more heat, to have to work with cloth wrapped over a head. and if we don't look at a headache,

we cannot afford to stop working again because like what again, heat makes people less productive, but staying outside for too long as many workers and even children are forced to do, can cause fatal damage to organs. temperatures will keep rising as long as people continue to burn fossil fuels in a bit to keep whether extremes like this from wrecking communities. world leaders in 2015 promised to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. this century the average increased might not sound like a lot, but the effect it has on extreme is a matter of life and death. or earlier, i talked to professor baterri, tell us the secretary general of the world me to a logical organization. i asked him whether the piracy agreement had failed or just simply not being enough. so we have seen progress. we also saw progress at

glasgow or climate conference last november at the g. 7 countries treated countries in europe and union. they've been making places to keep us on this 1.5 degrees track. but the rest of the 20 countries countries like china, india, russia, brush, the south africa, they were not ready to make sub split seas. and that's why we are not the heading towards $1.00 degrees. we are either heading towards $2.00 to at 3 degrees warming . what else can be done then? so we're, so we have to convert though in the system said to be dependent on, on renewable energy, nuclear energy and also find energy saving means we have to convert our transport system to be more based on electric vehicle, public transportation, and perhaps either gender in the future, and we should also stop deforestation,

especially in tropical rain forests and, and also favour more match italian diet because the rain forests are very much got to peter capital and bad produce example. so it be so and, and this overall consumption is of course and the issue and especially the buy goods that produced by using a coal fired. and if see that, that's also one of the, one of the challenges and opportunities to become more climate friendly. what can, how can countries be convinced to significantly up their carbon reduction commitments? it has been demonstrated clearly that also from economic perspective, it's going to be much cheaper to mitigate the climate sense than to live with the consequences of climate science. it's even up to 20 times more expensive if you let

glamour seems to happen and we're not able to mitigate it. so it's also financially viable to, to pay attention to climate mitigation and start using these climate friendly needs . that means ship a produce and etc. and transport sector and also other sectors that be dealing with lately we've seen this extreme heat in india and pakistan, but we've also seen other extreme weather events. what other effects can we expect within the next 5 to 10 years? so this make it the trend in climate will continue for the coming to gauge anyhow. and we have already lost these lazy or melting and sea level rise game that will continue for the coming sensor is because already i concentration of carbon dioxide . and that means that we have to be also at that attention to i'd update on a very powerful way i'd have to climate change is to invest in early warning

services. and even in countries like germany, there seems to be an opportunity to improve those folks. i'm describing events that took place last summer could have been handled much, much better with the hydro because we have would have a function in a better mentor, professor for terry tell a secretary general of the world meteorology go organization. thank you for joining us on d. w. thank you. well, here's a quick look at some other news related to the war in ukraine. the international criminal court is sending forensic experts and investigators to ukraine to probe possible crimes against humanity. western allies accused russia of committing war crimes including murdering civilians. is stony as army is taking part in joint military drills with us forces. tensions in the baltics are growing after the invasion of ukraine. a stoney is foreign minister says nato is beefing up its

presence in the region to spain now where women suffering from painful periods may soon be entitled to paid time off. the cabinet has approved a draft bill that would allow workers to claim medical leave during menstruation, if they have approval from a doctor in spain, periods becoming less taboo and may be less painful for women in the workforce. the government has proposed a new law allowing work is to take as many days as needed to recover from severe menstrual pain every month. sac, i will eat no more. going to work in pain, but no, we're taking pills before arriving. and having to hide the fact that we're in pain and can't function. all of those women who need it will be able to use paid leave to deal with periods that caused us disabling pe unless i must roughness a consolidation. got buffy done this. under the draft law,

the state would pay for the recovery time, not employers, and not workers who sometimes sees up holiday allowances or take unpaid leave to cope that spanish doctors association estimates that extreme period pain effects around a 3rd of women campaigns. hope this bill will be the 1st step for workers suffering from under research conditions like endometriosis not get em us and gay. we don't want this to just be 2 or 3 or 5 days a hobby, ethan, and then you go back to work as if nothing ever happened. what we're asking for is for this to be a 1st step towards investigate research and finding a cure it. so that period paid really stopped being such a problem for many women. when i get the element in the road that will lead the hell they say them, villanova, i'm okay if spain passes the baylor would join a handful of mostly asian countries that already offer a menstrual leave law. and it would be

a european 1st. but the draft floor is controversial. not all trade unions support it. and some believe it won't help women in the workplace. i mean it, but if it, if this is seriously damaging for women, when you consider the opportunities they could have a help desk that wasn't, that it wasn't a good idea. i think some people will take manser leave without being in terrible pain. so this law will really need to be better policed or levant us in the navy federal for the loss control. spanish lawmakers still have to vote on the bill and it's not clear whether the governing coalition will get enough support to pass it. north korea struggling with an outbreak of coven 19 authorities have registered more than 1700000 cases to describing the illness as fever related. but there aren't not enough tests, and pyongyang appears not to have vaccinated it. citizens ah,

a warlike approach to an invisible enemy. north korea is putting on a show of strength. who young footage from state media shows thousands of army medics have been mobilized on the one. i'll begin family as always is front and center. okay. i thought you didn't handle that for yes, ma'am, young japan, but between displays may not be enough to combat the abandoned wave of covert. 19 and global fios of a public health crisis remain high. the democratic people's republic of korea, the piano k, has announced sir there to stay to media their 1st outbreak of corbett 19 doubly joys, deeply concerned at the risk of further a spread of coffee 19 in the country, particularly because the population is unbox. united. not korea has one of the woods was health care systems. it's hospitals are believed to be poorly equipped with few intensive gay units. and it's one of the only do you when members days

that has not rolled out much vaccination against gov at 19 but an uncontrolled outbreak could have consequences beyond not korea global. i think her to, which was as has repeatedly said, that where you have unchecked transmission, there's always a higher risk over new variance emerging. and part of that strategy of suppressing infection of actually is yes to save lives are in terms over reducing hospitalization and deaths. but also to keep pressure on the virus. so we don't see the same race of evolution of the virus around the world are young as not responded to offers of international aid and assistance. outside observers believe that not korea's outbreak is almost certainly greater than what it is, reporting and doing nothing in response could have far reaching consequences. football's europa league final kicks off in just a few hours time. 2 clubs that are hungry for european glory face off. scotlands glasgow rangers haven't won

a major international tournament in 50 years. and the german side antarctic frankfurt last hosted to a or how east it a european trophy in 1980 fans are out in force in the spanish city of seville. oh, oh. oh, glasgow rangers, fans getting ready for their team to take on german rivals. i tracked frankfurt on wednesday night. oh, beautiful. yeah. able level with amazing banking really in savannah. i'm here with my dad, and it's mandy i made a living just find the human family. thank the we've probably

a little of years and it is amazing. frankfurt fans are also here and for now at least the streets of seville are full of football harmony. ahead of the block, buster europa league fine. oh boy. the a just sounds very nice. people be so much fun. we have made photos with these people. yeah. it's great far it's a great party with the scottish. oh there's paper. i'm here with us. all my name frank for firms like us. we are 50000 expected of course not everyone really got into the stadium. i dont have a ticket, little it's bad, but i will have a big pot fan event on the central place as i was on pan, cynthia, from public viewable really enjoy it. and i really like tanya, that countdown is on what happens on the pinch. we'll decide which teams fans are

still in such high spirits after the final whistle. will police and seville arrested 5 and hust frankfurt funds late on wednesday night following writing and clashes ahead of european. the final police said around $200.00 frankfurt fun, somewhere in balaclava, attacked a classical ranger supporters who were seated on the door bars in the area around the cathedral. when the police intervened to break up the crowd, the 2 friends through glasses, slayers, and tables at the officers before 3 or 5 of the people arrested, were germ and a reminder of the top story we're following for you. russia says nearly 1000 ukrainian fighters have surrendered in the still works in mattie you. pl keith is hoping they can be exchanged for russian prisoners of war. you're watching d. w news coming up next. and d, w, and use asia. the political crisis behind shoreline because economic one,

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