healthier and fuller life. one of the most insightful discoveries in the history of mankind. more life starts may 28 on d, w. ah, this is the news line from maine and more ukrainian fighters leaves the other style steel planted mario, paul, under russian. god, moscow says more than 1700 have surrendered, but there's been no independent confirmation of where they've been taken. he hasn't commented on how many are still there. also on the program,

the u. s. president office, he's for packing for finland and sweden's native bits. they meet every nato requirement and then the nordic countries race to join the alliance as russia wages war on craig, but turkey seems set to derail left plans and marketing concerning for a brand potentially deadly illness. growing number of countries are reporting cases of monkey pox. laska infectious diseases expert. how worried we should be ah, i'm from gay. a welcome to the program. hundreds of ukrainian soldiers facing uncertain future after surrendering to russian forces in the port of mario pole. moscow says most have been sent to a prison camp in easton ukraine, which is control by russia. steve hopes to get the soldiers back in

a prisoner swap. but moscow has threatened to put some of them on trial soldiers surrender to an unknown fate. this footage, released by the russian defense ministry, shows ukrainian soldiers laying down their arms after weeks under siege at the as of style steel plant. of the 1700 soldiers, russia says, have surrendered this week over 700 did. so in the past 24 hours. amid international concern about their fate in russian hands, the international red cross has registered hundreds of the soldiers as prisoners of war. moscow has also released footage of what it says, a surrendered as of style fighters reporting on how they've been treated. i d. l. a yet no, i didn't really know what to expect, considering what we would have liked and what we've got. it turns out to be better than we expected with what i am now in

a hospital in the city of novas offs. i'm being treated well. no b as miss treating me physically or psychologically the treatment is good. the government and keith is hoping to exchange the soldiers for captured russian troops. but pro russian authorities in ukraine's east have suggested that some could be put on trial. while in moscow, hotline lawmakers, a demanding that captured ukrainians, face the wrath of russian justice. all of which means that the fate of the as of stell soldiers, remains far from certain date of the correspondent, mathias billing, or is in ukraine. second biggest city ha, have a he told me about ukrainian reactions. so news of those soldiers being captured, people obviously worried about them. they have been following this very closely. it was very emotional. these people have defended murray you for a very long time,

and that has also had an impact on the overall war. so many people here see them as heroes. and of course, the fact that they are now in russian hands, and the fact that nobody knows whether this prisoners will ever happen, that the 2 sides seem to have talked about, of course, has people worried him. and so what's the latest on the fighting around the country while fighting is intensifying in the don bus region, especially around the city of c for the next. that's probably the next big for the next city that, that is suffering in a very on a very large scale. it's being shell, the russian troops are on the board. are pretty much like in hockey, where i am now that which has been shown for 2 months and almost like my uber, although it's not completely surrounded. but it's michelle from these 3 sides. so

that's for the people there are suffering a lot. and this is probably the most, this is the next most is a battle here, right? and where you are there in, ha, if you create 2nd largest city, what's going on there was a bit little bit coming back to life because the russian troops have been driven away. however, fighting is still going on outside of the city just a little further from the city. so the city is not being sold as much as before. but of course, like every city in ukraine, rockets can still hit people are carefully coming out of the shelters, especially in these northern districts that have been show during the whole time. and some people don't trust it, which word j at the subway station. many people told us they don't want to come out yet. they're still afraid that something might hit, and hockey, thank you. and some other developments in the war. a new crane russian missiles have had

a grain warehouse in the east of the country. officials say the storage facility, se of separation is not completely unusable. rushes repeatedly targeted, ukraine's gray warehouses and other civilian infrastructure move likely to exacerbate food shortages at home and abroad. u. s. senate is overwhelmingly approve nearly $40000000000.00 in new aid for ukraine. the emergency package includes military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. the decision k as the u. s. authorize the shipment to ukraine of another $100000000.00 worth of weapons and equipment. from pentagon stocks, united states senate german chancellor, olaf showed, says, ukraine's allies will not accept a peace dictated by a russian president. vladimir putin. addressing german lawmakers ahead of a european meeting on ukraine. later this month, chancellor shoals pledge to supply more weapons to crate. and to work quickly to make europe independent of russian energy. will you as president biden's,

given his full support to sweden and finland applications to join nato? 2 countries made their formal applications on wednesday in response to russia's invasion at turkey has blocked a start of accession talks in the nato council accusing 2 countries of harboring kurdish terrorist meeting. the nordic leaders and the nordic countries leaders. the white house today, as the biden gave him his enthusiastic backing for military and operability, sweden and federal, and have strong democratic institutions, strong militaries, and strong and transparent economies. and a strong moral sense of what is right. they meet every nader requirement and then some having to new nato members in the high north well hands, the security of our alliance deepen. our security cooperation across the board on

a smith is director of research and analysis of the european center of excellence for countering hybrid threats. i asked her whether she thought or took his opposition to sweden and finland that night. her membership i would be overcome. i believe so, it might delay a little bit and the whole process and it is kind of an understandable one of those things that belongs to this process that already nato members are always testing, perhaps the new comers, but i believe that this will be overcome how what will turkey receive in order to remove its objection? well, that's a, perhaps a little bit early to say i because both the, the finish precedent. i'm from the swedish side, uneven from the us side. they said that we take the matter very kind of practically calmly. we look up the list to we start discussing it and go kind of on factual at

bases. i'll forward to it. so i think that this is the process needs to be there. and the diplomatic mean, so the ways to go forward, it normally takes years for countries to join night or how long during spent the process to take this time for sweden and finland probably till end of this year. and why so quickly? well, perhaps nato has been practicing already taking a new members. they also have learned that perhaps the countries like finland, sweden might in fact strengthen their lions in the, in the end. this might be a good idea. and also the fact that there is so certain, perhaps the reason to think about it, the fact that these processes could be a little bit longer. so that there isn't that kind of a gray. so situation of time for too long. nobody saw the turkish attractions

coming. good. all that like are to be other countries who have doubts about this latest expansion. well, it is in the way that perhaps nobody saw it coming, but to be honest, perhaps the trick is precedent. who makes the decisions? and the policies had not said anything about it. so in principle, in fact, turkey is still saying what it has all the time said that it supports this, but that it wants to go through this negotiation process. it is possible that there is someone else, but so far, no one else has come forward. so perhaps turkey is the only one. ok. russia says it face to face niter expansion as a threat or a firmer than swimming, expecting and doing prob, preparing for retaliation of some sort. well, at least from the finish perspective, i have to say that we are always prepared for anything that might come over the border from the east. so in that way,

the situation is not too new. obviously there war in ukraine has changed a lot and the understanding that russia is ready to use military, the, on its borders to its neighbors, et cetera, has kind of changed a little bit this thing done. so it is clear that russia has several times said that it's going to make its own threat assessment and then it will react. how exactly is it military means? so political means about the spokesperson kremlin, said they let the military to decide. so it remains to be seen, but we are prepared and knowing a little bit of russia something will come. thank you for that. hannah smith from the european center for excellence for countering hybrid threats. thank you. and also in the u. s. state of massachusetts have recorded their 1st cases of the rare illness, monkey pox. this comes as a growing number of european countries report cases most recently in france or

u. s. doctors. and now investigating whether the massachusetts case is related to the european outbreaks. monkey pox is a rear viral infection, usually found in small mammals and waste and central africa. the spread of the virus is usually caused by people traveling to those areas. that's why a doctor is at the massachusetts general hospital in the us were initially surprised to be confronted with the disease and a patient during the course of their admission, they were identified as a possible monkey pox suspect. and this was really unusual because the patient had no travel history, no exposure to animals, that would be known to be reservoirs. however, the team thinking about the patient and hearing a just over the weekend about some of the cases, the united kingdom thought more broadly about the patient's diagnosis. doctors and now working to establish whether the infection is connected to small outbreaks.

currently being seen in europe. italy in sweden have become the latest countries to confirm cases following britain, portugal, and spain, authority. se, then monitoring the outbreak closely. it's not likely that it will generate a significant transmission, but we cannot rule it out. we have to be very careful with a we monkey pox is similar to humans. smallpox, though milder. most people recover from it and a few weeks. symptoms include fever and headache, feeling tired and swollen glands. the virus is usually transferred through close bodily contact or bodily fluids. while the world health organization says the general public should be aware of unusual skin rashes. expert stress, there is no need for alarm. it can then spread from person to person, but it's not very efficient at transmitting. and so what we normally see is

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