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i'm feel gail. welcome to the program. nato has officially welcome to finland as it's 31st member ceremony took place at its headquarters in brussels. initial foreign minister peca harvey still described the official accession document, signed the official accession document and handed it to us secretary of state antony blinking. secretary blank and describe finland succession, nice, fastest in the history of the western military alliance as a historic moment is halting from the russian invasion. if you crate. finland has a 1300 kilometer a border with russia and one of the strongest land. our lease in europe. now here's what nato secretary general against oldenburg had to say. i'm deeply proud to welcome finland as a full fledged member of our lines on the look forward to also welcoming sweden as

soon as possible. at times like this, friends and allies are more important than ever and filled and now has the strongest friends and allies in the world. president fulton wanted to slam nato's door shut. to day, we show the role that he failed, that the gression and intimidation do not work. instead, no less, ne thought he has achieved the opposite. more nato and our door remains firmly open. oh felons, president sorely minister says he's country will work relentlessly to secure a neighboring sweetens membership of nato as soon as possible. it is sir a great day for finland and her. i want to see

that it is, sir, in the bottle day for nato to security and stability are those sir elements which we feel very strongly and turn well, we can all think that ye, thir, people can leave the in secured staple circumstances. that's the basic element, offer, happy live her and to you. i guess know that things are very happy already now. and i would also see that this is a processor from 30 to 31. and like you said, a very nearby future to 32. that is, that the, the for sweetest membership, very hard, we have doing that together with them together with you. and to that,

we'll continue from penny's point or so swedish membership is most important. let's go straight to our correspondence. terry schultz, who's outside nato headquarters. good afternoon at terry a pretty significant moment for nathan. certainly a big moment for finland. and as you say, a big moment for nato nato had wanted finland. and of course sweden as well to join the alliance. now that might not make sense to some people, because of course, you're gaining a 1300 kilometer border with russia. but everyone inside nato feels that it's much better to have nato securing that border than to leave finland alone. should there ever be a risk on that border with russia? and so what changes is finland expected to see now? there won't be many changes i in finland as has been integrated with nato very, very closely as a partner, as has sweden for many years, for decades,

finish soldiers have had exercised with nato soldiers, a lot of interoperability, which is why finland was able to access the exceed to the organization so quickly. so i think what will change is the feeling of fins that they will never again be left alone as they felt they were after world war 2 in the winter war. they know that if russia were to step until across the finish border, that 30 other countries are bound to come to their defense. and russia has warned about a potential consequences of a nato true deployment in finland. and what is that likely to look like if it happens? russia has threatened finland on so many occasions over. it's a history that i think the fins take this with a grain of salt. of course they're not going to leave themselves unguarded. as a result of this, but russia is constantly threatening finland and in fact is constantly assaulting finland through cyber attacks through disinformation campaigns. that's why finland is one of the most resilient countries in europe because it's lived with this kind

of threat all of its existence. so in finish strata, just say that at the moment, russian does not have the capacity to launch a military assault on finland because it's completely taken up with the war and ukraine should the war and ukraine. and as everybody would like to see happen then, finland will be watching very closely to see if russia does station assets again along the finish border in order to make that threat at least possible. so left for a year for finland to join. how difficult was that process for they to do for friends? it was much more difficult when it was a finished swedish tandem bed, because turkey is at this moment, still refusing to let sweet and joined the alliance. it says that sweden has too lax an attitude toward kurdish groups. kurdish militants that live there in sweden, primarily the a foreign terrorist organization. the p k. k, which frequently holds demonstrations in sweden. a far right activist also

unrelated to the p. k. k. burned the qur'an there, of course in january it's not illegal to do so in, in sweden and it is in finland. so once the 2 nordic countries detached their bids, it allowed finland to move into the alliance more quickly. so what to sweden now have to do to get the green light from turkey. give everyone else in nature of said yes, everyone in nato also says that sweden should get the green light from turkey. it's only the turks and the hungarians. we should also point out which have not agreed to let sweet and join there was this deal made at the madrid summit last july that it had some pointers that that turkey wanted to see sweden do in terms of changing its laws, allowing weapons exports. and those things had been done. secretary general stilton berg repeat frequently, that sweden has done everything it should do to get into the alliance. so this is really dependent on turkish president recipe air to one and probably on his re

election campaign, which is currently under way to see when he will drop his opposition to letting sweden in. but there's a lot of pressure for him to do that before the vilnius summit in july. in fact, lithuanian foreign minister today are arriving here at nato headquarters told turkey don't ruin our summits. ok, thank you very much for that to territory shows nato headquarters. the united states were a former u. s. president. donald trump is preparing to surrender to prosecutors in new york before an unprecedented court appearance. he's the 1st sitting or indeed former u. s. president to face a criminal prosecution. i was accused of covering up payments to adult film actor stormy daniels. the former reality tv stand president is the biggest story in town, a game arriving at trump tower, donald trump, heated quickly inside for more talks with his legal chain his support is rallied

loudly nearby, while others demanded justice guiding him on off hooker's payment. 10 years ago or 7 years ago is a misdemeanor. and it should not be a felony case by alvin. brett, i don't think they have anything to walk them up for. i think this is just a political persecution of somebody that they don't like. and on top of that, i think its electron interference countries very divided at this point. so it's important that we understand that this is not outside of justice. a criminal case against trump would be unlike anything the u. s. has even experienced on tuesday. he is expected to surrender himself at the district attorney's office. before being arraigned at the criminal court with the charges will be read to him.

authorities are bracing for protests. as always, we will not allow violence or vandalism of any kind, and if one is court participating in any act of violence, they would be arrested and held accountable. no matter who you are. while tramp was the focus of attention in new york city, president joe biden was visiting a factory in minnesota. he has consistently refused to comment on the charges against trump. monday was no exception. for livermore, afterwards about the future of our country. just remember, it's just important. remember who we are. we're the united states of america. there is nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing beyond our capacity for champions bound to continue with his 2024 presidential bid come. what may, in this case is even seen

a surge in his support among republicans. but opinion in the country remains deeply divided with more americans than not saying he should face charges over the stormy daniels, case straits to our washington bureau chief and his paul, who is actually outside the court building in manhattan. where this arraignment is due to take place. so welcome. as i've described the scene for us that i feel so the closer we get to the moment when donald trump is expected to enter this building here right behind me the, the more a kind of the buzz is rising early this morning. there were hardly any protesters, but now we see maybe a 100150 or so. but there are at least 3 or 400 journalists. i think it's fair to say on one process brought us of i is like to media people covering him or her. the police presence is high and i had the chance to talk to some police offices. they

are on high alert. i don't expect anything like january 6 or so to happen, but they're all metal, like friends is all over this place here. and many streets are blogged around the court. how is here and manhattan. so everyone is ready for some tension on the streets later today. and as i said at the start, mr. trump is the 1st. if your former president to face a criminal prosecution took us through the significance of this moment. i. so this is the 1st time in history. it has never ever happened that a, a sitting president or a former president has been a will be a rain. so these pictures we will see when he will be taking into the court. how is this is really like historic. they will take his fingerprints. he probably will not be handcuffed and as for now, we don't know if the photographs are taken, which normally is happening. however, he will

a leave his car and walk into the court house and he will have officers. a around him to protect him, the charges will be right to him. we expect $32.00 or so charges. and then we expect him to leave fatty a fast or fairly soon again after that. and he will be flying out or back to florida where it's expected to address or the nation, so to speak, and share his tag of this very day. he's not he doesn't need to pay any bail. that's also interesting because while he's not seen as a threat, any all at this point, so he will be flying back to florida and we will hear from him personally later today. and our, all these than legal problems expected to affect his chances in the 2024 presidential election. that's a good question. so some people say it might actually even help him. because or

when you talk to his support or they see this indictment as an american, they say, or the other kind of complaints about him. it's not worth them for him being indicted just because he was paying hash money and why that might be even mad or more is all the attention he is getting here. phil, you know, the whole media scene is covering him again. he gets a lot of air, time empties, or his campaign already said that within the 1st 24 hours after these indictment was announced, he was able to raise $4000000.00. so he definitely, i will make the best out of this media attention. he is getting through or because of this indictment. thank you for that. or if they're in a poll in new york, let's take a look at so some, all of the store is making news around the world now. and we'll started russia

where authorities of charge the 26 year old woman at with terrorism, that's in connection with the bombing of a cafe in st. petersburg which killed the flatland petoskey or influential pro war blogger, crumbling claims. ukraine was behind the incident. keith denies involvement. at least one person's been killed and dozens more injured in a train crash and the netherlands authorities say high speeds at night train derailed after hitting construction equipment left on the track rail services on the british route have been cancelled. australia has become the latest country to ban that chinese owned tick tock from government devices. intelligence services are recommended the band because of fierce beijing could be collecting use of data. china has protested and calls on australia to treat chinese businesses fairly. now ukraine says that russia suicide drones have struck the city of a desa in an oven, ice attack, defense forces,

say they shut down. 14 of the 17. iranian made sha had drones targets in the black sea port. one of the craft it a local business, but there are no reports of casualties. germany's vice chancellor has paid his 1st visit to ukraine since the full scale invasion began about hardback and joins at present the landscape on a visit to a village and on a visit to a village where russian war crimes are alleged to have taken place. he visited the school base with land. nearly 400 villages were held captive for almost among 11 people were killed. the ha, back expressed regret that germany did not help to arm ukraine before the invasion . we changed our position, but it took too long and was too late. i know that i think not all of the gentleman could, his food would say the same, but i hear your shame that it was too late. and part of my job was in the last year

to help you bring weapons as often as many as we could. and this is an ongoing promise o. a german vice chancellor brought more than just apologies on his 1st visit to ukraine. a political correspondence, julia sat, deli told us more. yeah. well, he is germany's vice chancellor, but also the economy minister. and what he brought with him was a delegation of german industry business leaders. and that is because his plan with this visit was to try to help ukraine rebuild after it has been consistently attacked by russia and help spur ukraine's economy. he said that he wants to focus on the infrastructure, the energy infrastructure, but also on rebuilding houses and roads. and that is something that he says, germany's government is committed to also because a german government says it will guarantee these investment by german companies.

german companies will negotiate the deals themselves, but germany will provide a guarantee and that is something that germany doesn't normally do in war zones because the risk is so high. and it shows that in this case, the german government really is committed in trying to, to help you crane rebuild. julius how deli european commission president i was sort of on the line is traveling to china this week before leaving, she laid out a framework for resetting the use relations with beijing. friends, president emmanuel macro will also be joining a talks focusing on trade on the war in ukraine. he went german chancellor laughed sholtes and he went shot michelle of the european council. and he went spanish prime minister pedro sanchez, all made the pilgrimage to beijing shuttle diplomacy with a major player on the world stage. but not just diplomacy. they all went to talk trade. that trading relationship is huge. you countries exported $240000000000.00

worth goods to china last year. much of that was in high margin items like heavy machinery, energy infrastructure and cars. european countries also don't want to be sidelined as china's international influence. grows facing, is asserting itself, not just in asia, but in africa and the middle east. setting the stage for a superpower rivalry with the us. chinese communist parties, clear goal, is a systemic change of the international order with china at its center. we have seen it with china's positions in multilateral bodies which show its determination to promote an alternative vision of the world order closer to home, your opinions want china to help rain in russian aggression against ukraine. china

is russia, economic lifeline. and at the end of march, chinese president, asian ping made a high profile visit to moscow. spain has pressed she to meet with his ukrainian counterpart as well, so far to no avail. others want to prod beijing harder. oh, china continues to interact with proteins. war will be a determining factor for you. china relations going follow it as a permanent member of the security council, china has a responsibility to safeguard the principles and values that lie at the heart of the un charter. and china has a responsibility to play a constructive role in advantages and bouncing

a just peace. beijing has been tight lipped about russia's war, aside from releasing a 12 point piece plan that was dismissed by the west is overly vague and too easy on moscow. the 1st point called for nations to respect territorial integrity and sovereignty, but made no specific demands on russia in regards to its invasion of its neighbor. so far, europe doesn't have much to show for its attempts to influence beijing. european leaders might ask themselves how much more credibility to invest without alienating the u. s. a traditional ally that is doing all it can to isolate china. thank you. as look at this with andrew small who's with a german marshall fund, think tank has a focus on asia. a welcome to d w. you think china's actions over ukraine really will determine the use attitude to its largest trading partner? i think will be a large commercial relationship with china, regardless of m,

how it handles its relationship with, with russia and its policies towards ukraine. but i think that is going to be one of the strongest messages that's delivered when it comes to significant swipes of the relationship, the political relationship. how hard to go on the risking are on alignment with, with other powers, particularly with the united states. but with other partners in asia as well. and i think this will have a conditioning effect across the entire relationship. and that message is particularly focused, i think, on concerns right now as well. and particularly after his visit to russia that they are seriously contemplating providing lethal aid to put in an artillery ammunition and some, some other weaponry. and so i think that's a real concern on the european side to signal to, to china, that they shouldn't cross that red line. and if they do, it will lead were a bigger deterioration in europe's relationship with china. but i think there

aren't very particularly high expectations that china's actually going to do anything constructive or that this is going to be a means of improving the bilateral relationship. i think it's robert and i just on that back point, been very bad. these lectures seemed to be sort of the standard form before people go to china and lots of our european leaders have go gone to china, you deliver electra, then you go and do your business deal. so it's, it's almost, it's almost hypocritical. we know you're not gonna change, but we have to say this. now, where's the contract? well, i mean, i think the speech from a sealer on the line was, was quite unusual for commission preston or even for our european leader. it was exceptionally stock. it's not something we've heard from, from, from, from either commission, pressed them in the busts or french president or a german chancellor. before i think it was particularly focused on being very clear about where china is now headed on this teaching ping and how europe's relationship

it would have to change to the result. i think exactly as he suggest the, the fact that macro is taking such a substantial business delegation on this visit does point in another direction. but the strategy that from the lion laid out was one in which m, as is true for the u. s. as it's true for japan, the will continue to be this very large trade relationship between the 2 sides. but they're going to be more and more areas in which this di risking particularly in areas of high technology and but other forms of dependency on critical materials in other areas that needs to change on, on europe spot. and that's something that we'll just have to be decided on a european basis. it's not going to be decided and by exchanges in beijing. and are we clear what the finger risking means or will look like? well the minimalist version is basically to say, look, when it comes to the green energy transition, the level of dependence on china, full rarest critical rule. materials is extreme, as is, is

a 90 plus percent in various areas. so the needs to be a diversification of sources of supply and in, in all of these, in all of these areas. but that's, and i think that's already something that the e u is, is moving forward on an individual member states moving forward on, in a hot piece. if this is when it comes to, for instance, am investments in china market dependency on china. and whether that's really going to be something that's the european side am, starts to revisit. we've seen an over the course of the last year, an expansion of investments from certain key german firms, for instance. and we're going to see various contract signed. and with the french companies during this visit, i think that's going to be the harder thing for the to, for the european side to rest itself away from her. and i think where there's a lot more tension in europe about what that would amount to thank you so much for that that andrew small, my german marshall fund. thank you. that of bangladesh,

where a fire has broken out and renowned at retail complex in the capitol, becca v. a. banga bizarre is known for his cloth vendors and his home to 3000 shops, army units are helping firefighters tackle the blaze. oh, what was once a thriving market in the heart of deca has been reduced to smouldering ashes ah, shop owners, watch and shook as their livelihood goes up in flames. aloud. now like a bagger, i have no one in this world. i have only you a law to have been several fires in this market already. in 1995 bunker bazaar completely burned down. bangladesh has a history with industrial fires that have killed hundreds in recent years. lax regulations and port enforcement have been blamed. what are the don't go on that if i had died, but my shop survived, at least my children would have

a source of income. these would be that. but how can i provide for them now? i wasn't, i won't even be able to buy them a new dress for easy. i have nothing. i said. many shop owners had stocked up with clothes before adolf hitler, a festival marking the end of the holy month of ramadan. in just a few hours, thousands of shops have been destroyed, as hundreds of people watch on fire fighters, air force helicopters and soldiers tried to get the blaze under control. a feature update. i'll have more at the top of the hour d w. news asia with bearish banner j is next. a good ah, ah, ah ah,

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