the size house this document trees research before the slide. now main street, the . this is the, the, the news coming to live from berlin turkeys leader says he may finally agreed to let sweden join nato, but there's a catch present. the other one says, other alliance members will have to open the doors for turkey to join. the european union is pitch comes as native leaders prepared to meet for the annual summit for the war. and ukraine is top of the agenda. and russia hits

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to the one said his country could agree to sweden joining the alliance if the european union resumed its long stalled membership talks with anchor. at one made the comments before departing for vilnius, where he's set to meet with swedish prime minister of christmas. and later today, the to day summit comes as nato is carrying out its biggest revamp of defense plans . in decades. they the secretary general, you installed the bag has responded to anchor's demand, saying they present a new angle to the debate. but he added there was still room for discussion on support to key assumptions to become a member of the european union. at the same time, we need to remember that will be agreed and madrid was a specific list of conditions that street and has to meet to be a full member over the lines and student has met these to conditions. we don't have any sort do we don't have any guarantees. but of course now we have the momentum of

the summit, what they need to share. we, we use the comment and to ensure as much progress us as possible. earlier i spoke to dw alexander phenomenon in vilnius, and julia han is stumble. i 1st asked you what lead are the one to make sweden's nato membership dependent upon the e. u resuming accession, talked with turkey as well. this move came quite as a surprise to many here add one brought up a you a session in a phone call with us president biden yesterday already. and then today, before departing to lift the ania, he to report is basically saying, look, meeting a tremendous or at the same time you members. and there is such an expectation here among the attackers population as well. and that's why i expect to be so clear, the pol for full try to shoot you membership. and then in return, we may green. lloyd sweden's bit to join nato. now at this is, i should mention a new condition, a new the mom's vote for would by add one, but

a pretty unrealistic one. membership points between talk into european union have been suspended a few years ago over concerns when it comes to talk you soon. right situation, the rules low of the countries slide into authoritarianism on the add on add one knows that. so the pessimistic reading here is that he is putting forward new conditions because he may have already close the door to sweden joining nato. he wants to drag out this whole ball gaining process even further. but then again, president edward is a political lead, a full of surprises. so i think we really have to see what will actually happen that the summit of billing is so new conditions coming from uh, the one uh, alexandra, what kind of response can we expect from nato in the as well, which is charged from nato secretary general, the installed vertical set of that so he things that a positive decision on sweden is still possible here in building use. but he also

made clear then that when it comes to sweden they have met all the conditions needed to become a member of the lions. and you can really tell that allies on not very happy with the new demands expressed by the turkish president whitley too. and yes, presidents, no data telling us reporters, he and bill new steps, the list of demands has to be final that he hopes that there will be no new demands . and we also have to say that even though 22 members of the alliance are also members of the european union, nato cannot decide anything on a, you exception talks those uh, 2 different institution institutions. and as just, it's julia just mentioned that talks with the you were suspended due to continue and backsliding and reports. it's such a important areas such as the respect for the rule of law in turkey. so it is

indeed unrealistic that those talks could be received quickly yearly and if they're the ones proposal is rejected. where does that leave sweden given that right now turkey is blocking and it's succession tomato as well. needless to say, i believe that it would be a huge disappointment for sweden if they do not get the green light of the summit and bowing as i do also think it depends on what add one wants exactly. maybe some sort of positive messaging on the whole you topic is already enough for him. we've had the need to achieve say that he is in favor of talk. he's you aspiration. so maybe we don't really need to see some sort of practical outcome. he and that would be enough to add one and keep in mind that this whole ball gaining process for him is about more than sweden's anti terrorism laws talk. he also wants to buy upgraded

f. 16 fighter jets from the us and add one is in 2 weeks with us president biden. so i believe a lot can still happen tomorrow and the day after. and we should really keep all eyes on that summit to see what kind of outcome we will see in the end. yeah. well, turkeys blockage of sweden's nathan membership. it is not the only topic on the agenda there in vilnius for the summit. alexander, what else can we expect from that summit this week as well? we can certainly expect native leaders agree here to approve new defense plants that de till what would happen if need to, if there would be an attack on a tow territory. and it's all about strengthening the eastern slang. so that's here on the agenda and the number issue on the agenda is of course, what the alliance is ready to offer ukraine, what kind of membership perspective we know that you create an ukraine cannot

become a member of the alliance as long as the war continues but to elyse might be close to agreeing to offer you crane sort of a fast track to achieving this goal. once the war is over, apparently they are close to agree on dropping the membership action plan for ukraine. this is a plan that countries who are aspiring to join the alliance needs to follow what, of course, whether they agree on all of that. we will see at the conclusion of the summits, alexander phenomena, julia hon. thank you very much to you both. meanwhile ukraine says a rushing attack on our residential area in a town in this operation region has killed 4 people and wounded 11 others local ukrainian governors. so the attack hit a humanitarian, a distribution point near the front line, killing 3 women and

a man. ukraine shared pictures of the debris which it said, resulted from a rush and got an aerial bomb that struck a school where residents were collecting aid. russia denies deliberately targeting civilians. earlier i spoke to our corresponding economy and keith and asked him about the latest russian air strike on ukraine. so this was in the town of bodies of which is pretty close. the front lines just south of the regional capital, is that what it is? it's a matter of it doesn't know. so it comes as to the front positions of the credit. the only way a lot of that kind of most intense fighting is going on right now. the scenario that often comes under fire, we believe from the emergency services only around there that, that figure in terms of food as might still arise. more people still believe to be under the rubble. and these guided emblems, really all a real issue in this part of the country, especially if they allow russian fight strip to stay further away from the danger

of ukraine's anti aircraft systems and send these very lethal weapons in which are basically an old school gravity boom. with a kits attached with basically wings attached to it allows it to live over quite some distance and these are just much heavier weapons, much heavier will have than most deal with systems that would only be used in this situation. so we think on time again, real serious and casualties when it comes to a manager in age, most of facing growing that part of the country, they keep the location secret till the last limit because any grouping of people, any kind of crowd that is seen by drones of a head immediately attracted attention and often it is that kind of attention that kind of attacks. so this is a very, very dangerous situation for students to be. well, it's one more reason why ukraine wants nato membership, but present zalinski knows he's not likely to get that at this wage. nato summit in billy is nic and instead. so as he says he's looking for the best possible result from that summit. what exactly does he expect? next? i think we're all guessing,

and i'm pretty sure he even ukraine's government hasn't finally understood what it is. it's going to be offered. we heard about these potential israel style security guarantees which push it doesn't involve us around the 2 countries putting that troops on the line will they commit to the us, at least them out to do, would be to provide weapons. and basically just to go and financial support, and i think we're disagree. the beginning of it wasn't expecting any may to a membership while the school continues, but they were expecting a clear commitment to membership as soon as the war, its current phase is over. and now i think they're worried that this kind of security guarantee is going to be basically a kind of small assault kind of compensation that would then be used to kind of kick the topic of full nature membership down the line long enough. and potentially the fairly soon you can, once the bombs don't fully ok if the facility and the council is already with you, ukraine will decrease in those countries that alone, being skeptical about extending those guarantees. 2 grand would then use that as an option to kind of block full nature membership from understand that present as

a westgate has been talking about progress that is, forces have been making in the counter offensive against russia. what more can you tell us about that next? as well? certainly, ukraine has taken a 100 fact. i'm so tired treat in recent weeks and by some estimates that's more than the russians. they will take over the whole of the winter. but it is very typical going because you can always now facing mind feels that the russians have laid a very kind of heavily engineered defense lines that allow the russians to really dig in sits in and to kind of make it very difficult for the ukrainians to go into a fence and that's where those cluster bombs that the us and that promise come in. they, if you listen to the ukraine. yeah, this would be crucial in attacking on the vehicles on the russian side, but also groups of russian soldiers. and crucially, they are available in very large numbers in those american also in contrast to conventional nations that are running dangerously low and weights really proving very difficult to up the production in any kind of, you know, short term scales of kind of logistics. so that is the hope that once these us

cluster munitions, it all very controversial, especially once they arrive in the front lines. it will be more realistic for ukraine to push for. and to actually start sending those russian front lines back in closing to kind of a kale fixing that we saw last thoughts. and when the russians have to basically escape flea from kind of thrown into a box of i can reach. nick, thank you very much for now. our corresponded into a nic only. if you're one of those people who feels the world is moving too fast, this might be the spectator sport for you. more than $200.00 racers slotted out at the annual world snail racing championships that took place in a small village in eastern england. and needless to say, there was no need for a photo finish. it's the grand prix of snail racing. the compliment also, king glen says hosted the snail racing well championships since the sixty's. it's

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