hey, we still have time to out. i'm going with his subscriber all morning with ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the u. s. president offers his full backing for finland and sweden, nato beds, with the nordic countries race to join the alliances, russia, wages war on ukraine. but turkey seems to derail their plans. with

moscow says more than 1700 as of fighters have surrendered, but there are no fears. russia may take reprisals against the prisoners and put them on trial for war crimes and mounting concern over a rare and potentially deadly illness. a growing number of countries are confirming cases of monkey pox will ask an infectious disease expert how worried we should be ah, i'm pablo foley as welcome to the program. u. s. president joe biden has given his full support to sweden and finland joining nato. the nordic countries applied to join the alliance this week in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. but turkey

has blocked this start of accession talks alleging the 2 countries support a kurdish militant groups. the finish navy training alongside a u. s. warship. it's a site that may become more common here in the baltic sea. if finland and sweden are admitted into nato. that something president biden told the leaders of both countries he fully backs. they are proud to welcome and offer the strong support of the united states. for the applications a to great democracies, and to close highly capable partners to join the strongest, most powerful defensive allies in the history of the world. but while biden may be keen to welcome sweden and finland into nato, se if you would have turkey's president, edwin has made clear that he has objections in his durham addressing the turkish parliament on wednesday,

he accused the 2 nordic countries of supporting kurdish militias of turkey considers terrorist groups cycle. what on in the we have finished, president said they were trying to address turkeys concerns the whole alliance, assa nato allies. we will commit to turkey security just as turkey will commit to our security. we take terrorism seriously. we condemn terrorism in all its forms, and we are actively engaged in combating it. we are open to discussing all the concerns. turkey may have other nato nations competing. the turkeys reservations will be over come, but for now, at least it looks like it may be some months before sweden and finland can take part in these baltic drills as nato allies. let's take a closer look at nato's potential nordic enlargement with jonathan cats. he's a senior fellow at the german marshall fund and joins us from washington. welcome

to d. w. what is needed to shift turkey's opposition to the finish and swedish applications? yeah, i sure i share the belief that, that, that these, the objections the turkey is put in place can be overcome. and of course, turkey has experience terrorism and loss of life. the p k. k. terrace organization is listed as a church organization in the united states and elsewhere. so there's, there's some legitimate concerns in turkey side about is security concerns. and so it's raising them right now. you've heard leaders in both sweden and finland both say that they will respond. there's diplomatic efforts under way to engage and so on one hand that process is taking place. the most important thing is that this doesn't become for mr. eric one, a political football for him domestically given his poor standing and potential for

upcoming election. and so we want to take this out of, of turkey's politics. let's put it back into the important security. and right now we have the most furious security situation in europe, in decades, finland and sweden right there. i need the support to move forward as quickly as possible, as president biden said today. and so let's hope that diplomacy works in this before jonathan. how important is joe biden's show support to sweden and finland? this is, this is critical. and of course, a year ago today, we would have never have thought that that suite in finland would be moving in this direction. the entire effort and president abiding the play such an important role is really highly the importance of the trans when the community today to address mr . putin's war in ukraine, the by an administration has been the lead on with partners and allies. and so having to present support, send

a strong message to all nato members and including the us senate, which is going to have to vote on this. the next step is to bring these 2 countries along with other parliament and other activities across native membership. so this is a real big, important jumpstart, and that's why you saw the president with the prime minister and president today, talking about moving forward, moving quickly, membership of nato. now you said moving quickly, now it can take years for a country to join nato. how long do you expect the process to take for sweden and finland? well, the expectation in the united states, what i understand is that they're going to try to move this as quickly as possible . hopefully before august. if not, then in september. so i can talk about the us us standard approach, of course, senators have their own mind and how they want to do this. but we already see strong signal to support both from republicans and democrats in washington to move

this forward. now each need members state has their own process and the one, the one stumbling block that we see right now is which you raised earlier, which is jerky. you've got a, you know, address these issues right now and move forward. but i don't see any stumbling blocks across the nato alliance that we couldn't see this move forward quickly. but it's hard to tell what each government is going to do. this is all being laid out right now for the jonathan kath's from the german marshall fund. thank you. thank you. hundreds of ukrainian soldiers are facing an uncertain future after surrendering to russian forces in the port of medieval. moscow says most have been sent to a prison camp in eastern ukraine, controlled by russia. keith hoped 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 stell fight is reporting on how they've been treated. or 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 nevada's office. 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 face of the as of style soldiers remains far from certain. let us take a look at some other developments in the war in ukraine. russian missiles have had a grain warehouse in eastern ukraine, official say the storage facility, south east of sap, what asia is now completely unusable. russia has repeatedly targeted ukraine's grain warehouses and other civilian infrastructure. a move likely to exacerbate food shortages at home and abroad. the u. s,

senate has overwhelmingly approved nearly 40000000000 dollars in new aid for ukraine. the emergency package includes military, economic, and humanitarian assistance. the decision came as the u. s. authorized the shipment to of to ukraine of another $100000000.00 worth of weapons and equipment. from pentagon, stocks, time german chancellor, olaf shouts says you cranes, allies will not accept a piece dictated by russian. president vladimir from addressing german all makers ahead of a european meeting on ukraine. later this month, chancellor shells pledge to supply more weapons to ukraine and to work quickly to make europe independent of russia and or sovereignties in the us state of massachusetts have recorded their 1st case of the rare illness, monkey pox. this comes as a growing number of european countries report cases, most recently in france. u. s. doctors are now investigating whether the

massachusetts case is related to the european outbreaks monkey pox, if a rear viral infection usually found and small mammals, and waste and central africa. the spread of the virus is usually caused by people traveling to those areas. that's why doctors at the massachusetts general hospital in the u. s. 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 aspect. 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 and just over the weekend at on some of the cases 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 and sweden have become the latest countries to confirm cases following britain, portugal and spain. authority say they're monitoring the outbreak closely. it's not likely that it will generate a significant transmission, but we cannot rule it out. so we have to be very careful with monkey pox is similar to schumann, smallpox, though milder. most people recover from it and a few weeks. symptoms include fever and headache, feeling tired and swollen glands. viruses 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 trans matching. and so what we normally see is

maybe one or 2 people get infected from that case and then it dies out because it's not very infectious within human population. while authority stressed of the risk to the general public is lower, their urging any suspected cases to self isolate immediately in football and after i'm frank for it's thrilling when in the euroleague on wednesday, the team has arrived back home to a hero's welcome in the city around 100000 fans have packed frankfurt main square to hail the man who beat glasgow rangers on penalties. coach oliver glassner goalkeeper kevin trap and raphael bray who scored the winning penalty. are among those soaking of the claim. glassner says he's going to party right through till 7 . if you tired after that. another jain to of german football

hamburg beat had a berlin in the 1st leg of the bone. this league is relegation. play of the visiting fans, travel to berlin in huge numbers, and they're backing helped tom berg take an advantage into next week's return match . depending on who you believed, anywhere between 7525000 homburg funds were in the olympics. study on, on a balmy night in berlin, but there was plenty of home support to that. one of the most nerve wracking games in the german calendar. this was the atmosphere into which young danish keeper oliver christianson at to descend for his debut and a half a shirt. injuries forced coach felix maga to play the 22 year old. he did well to perry robert. glad so short was 32 minutes but there was nothing he could do of at humbugs. second, tough winter ludovic rice couldn't have miss his cross any better. and the humbug funds went wild

a bitter moment for christianson and for her to but the keeper's injury time save from young jamera means the berliners must only overcome a one goal deficit on monday. easier said than done in a hostile hamburg. well, that's all for now after the break, rob watts will be here with the business news. and don't forget he can stay up to date on all the latest news on our website. eat of you dot com and you can follow us on our social media accounts on pablo valley as from the team here. brit. and thanks for watching and i'll see the top of the next her a she's got is just a thought they will grade. he will will.