a fuller life, one of the most insightful discoveries in the history of mankind. more life starts may 28th on d, w. and ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the u. s. president offered his full backing for finland and sweden's nato beds. they meet every night are required, and that in order countries race to joined the alliances, russia, wages war on ukraine, but turkey seems set to derail their plants. moscow says more than

1700 as of fighters have surrendered. there are now fears russia may take reprisals against the prisoners and put them on trial for war crimes. and in the bonus negroes. relegation play of hamburg hold the advantage after being had in a tense, 1st leg in berlin. ah, i'm pablo fully 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 the start of accession talks alleging the to country support 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. see 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 application is 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 native se, if you would have turkey's president, edwin has made clear that he has objections in addressing the turkish parliament. on wednesday, he accused the 2 nordic countries of supporting kurdish militias of turkey considers terrorist groups. i go what on nga?

we have finished. president said they were trying to address turkey's concerns, the whole alliance, assa nato allies. we will commit to turkey security, just as turkey will commit to olive 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, a confident the turkeys reservations will be overcome. 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. well, earlier i spoke to jonathan cats about nato's potential nordic enlargement. he's a senior fellow at the german marshall fund, and i asked him what is needed to shift to turkey's opposition to allowing finland, unsweetened join nato?

yeah, i sure i share the belief that, that, that these, the objections the tricky 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, 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 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 person that by and said today. and so let's hope that diplomacy works and this moves forward. 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 sweden and finland would be moving in this direction. the entire effort and present abide in this play session important role is really highlight the importance of the trans atlantic 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 senate, which is going to have to vote on this. this 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 and 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 in the 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 nato members state has their own process and the one, the one simply 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 allies that we couldn't see this move forward quickly, but it's hard to, to tell what each government is going to do. this is all being laid out right now for the jonathan katz 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 mighty opal. 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 them 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. or yet. no, i didn't really know what to expect considering what we would have liked and what we've got tons of the 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. all 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. here are some other developments now in the warren ukraine. the u. s. senate has overwhelmingly approved nearly $40000000000.00 in new aid for ukraine. the emergency package includes military, economic and humanitarian assistance. the decision came as the u. s. authorized to shipment to ukraine of another $100000000.00 worth of weapons and equipment from pentagon stocks to stand. german chancellor, olaf shalt says ukraine's allies will not accept a peace dictated by russian president vladimir putin. addressing german lawmakers ahead of a european meeting on ukraine later this month, chancellor shelves pledge to supply more weapons to crane and to work quickly to

make europe independent of russian energy authorities in the us state of massachusetts, massachusetts have recorded their 1st case of the rare illness, monkey pox. this comes as a growing number of european countries report cases. u. s. doctors are now investigating whether the cases in the united states are related to the european outbreaks. monkey pox is a rear viral infection, usually found in small mammals and west and central africa. the spread of the virus is usually caused by people traveling to those areas. that's why doctor is at the massachusetts general hospital and the year with where 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. authorities say they're 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 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 a lab. 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 dives 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 talk to frank for it's thrilling when in the rope league on, when safety team arrived back home to a big welcome in the city around 100000 fans have packed frank for its main square

to hail the man who beat glasgow rangers on penalties, coach or glass not go keeper, kevin trap, and raphael gray, who scored the waiting penalty. are among those soaking up the claim. last year says he's going to party right through till saturday. another giant of german football hamburg beat had to berlin in the 1st leg of the bonus league, or relegation play off. the visiting fans travel to berlin in huge numbers and they're backing help. tom berg taking 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 descent for his debut and a half a shirt. injuries forced coach felix ma got to play the 22 year old. he did well to

perry robert glenn so short on 32 minutes but there was nothing he could do of at humbug. second tough winner ludovic rice couldn't have miss his cross any better than the hamburg funds went wild. a bitter moment for christianson and for her to but the keeper's injury time saved from young jamera means the berliners must only overcome a one goal deficit on monday. easier said than done in a hostile hamburg. the gree composer vangelis who wrote the soundtracks for chariots of fire and blade runner has died at the age of 79. his career in use expand more than 50 years. i to, he wrote the soundtrack for ridley scott's film, conquest of paradise which topped the charts in many european countries. ah,

dennis had no formal training and said he never learned to read music. that's all for now after the break, rob watts will be here with the business news. so at operation, keep up to date and all the latest news and information on our website, d, w dot com and you can follow us on our social media accounts. i'm pablo funniest for me and the team here for them. take care seats the top of the next. ah, ah, nico is in germany to learn german lodge, benita, why not learn with him online, on your mobile and free the c w e learning course, nico speak.