corruption and political crimes. in our series guardians of truth watching on youtube dw documentary, the data we news long from berlin, turkey agrees to back sweden's band to join nato. the breakthrough came at the start of the alliance's annual summit in lithuania, or out of occasion. both and hurricane parliament is expected in the near future. also coming up a month into his counter offensive. ukraine's army is struggling to recapture

territory from russia. we'll look at why it's for ring so difficult. the welcome to the program. nato chief, he installed and berg says that turkey has agreed to back sweden's been to join the military alliance. he said turkish president, richard type air, and one made a clear commitment and agreed to forward sweden's application to join nato to his parliament for approval. salzburg made the comments after meeting with earl on an sweden's prime minister of justice on in the lithuanian capital vilnius. the city is hosting a 2 day nato's summit, which comes as the alliance carries out it's biggest revamp of its defense plans in decades. so let's cross right over to d, w 's, brussels bureau chief. i like some of the fun nomine, who is in vilnius to night. i like some of the wine and friends of an order on

suddenly changes mind. this breakthrough is a real surprise because only this morning, president other one was not ready to drop his objections. and instead to us even making can you demand slinking sweden's need to aspirations to turkeys, ambitions to join the european union? so talking about 2 different institutions and t installs back talk about that and he's press conference a bit. but i think to understand the decision tonight, we also needs to speculate a bit. so we know that president ad one met with the you were a pin council president showing me show that he was from is that the you or you members are ready to read invigorates a. there are a lot of relations with turkey. he had a conversation with the you as president joe biden. maybe he was also then

promised that to the, the, the, the deal to buy at $165.00 to jets could be soon a done deal. and of course, they were also promises made by sweden and need to itself. so i guess that's what he was able to reach to reach this night was a sort of package that he was satisfied with that. and in the end promise to drop his objections against sweden's natal membership. yeah, we'll learn more about the circumstances as the dust settles. this is all very recent news. is this change of heart then link to any condition or well, there are at least 2 conditions that were mentioned in the press conference of nato cheap and stalking back. once of them is the problem is by need to, to establish and use special co ordinate to the on counterterrorism. and then the

problem is by sweden to work closer together with turkey to fight terrorism. and those issues, or the matter of anti terrorism is very important for turkey. i've been speaking to experts who told me that turkey feels that nato is not taking their concerns seriously enough. they have to deal with in surgery organizations on their soil. there have been terrorist attacks, so i think, but by establishing this especial coordinate to and by sweden, from is to work closely together with turkey on that matter. nato and sweden are taking the turkish concerns no more seriously. and no one has agreed to take this to his parliament as soon as possible. now, with someone as unpredictable as him, that can really mean anything. is there a timeline here?

no, we don't have a timeline yet. just a promise that ad one is ready to do it as soon as it is possible. now, this was tied to some prior work done by sweet and right. turkey wanted some concessions made by stock home. and can you remind us what steps we didn't have to take to get to this point? so well they have to do, they have to do a lot. a sweden has decided to toughen its anti terrorism legislations. it to make it not possible to a, to go off to people who are helping to commit and a terrorist attacks, but also a to accuse people off helping or financing such organizations. as for instance, the p k. k organization that is listed as a terrorist organization. in the u. n. n u, as they had to change the constitution,

and they also lifted an arms embargo against her key. so the understanding adds new to was that sweden has really met all the demands put forward by to okay. mm hm . now turkey wasn't the only hold out, can we expect hungry to follow? well need to the secretary general installed into that started back, told us today that he's confident because hungry has been saying as he put it, that they don't want to be the last day to country to rectify sweden's natal membership. but for now, we have not heard anything from the young during prime minister to all by and of course to make it official to enable sweet, sweet, and to be a member of the alliance. not only turkey, but also hungry needs to rectify a sweden's nato membership. and i see that we as brussels bear chief alexander

phenomena with the latest from billing. yes, thank you so much. i, it is residential line is also arrive for the nato summit. but before heading to lithuania, you sound over in london for meetings and downing street, and then with king charles is meeting with british prime minister. she soon act was overshadowed by washington's decision to supply ukraine with cluster bombs, which are widely band, including by the u. k. this like the semester by means that the relationship between the 2 countries remains quote, rock solid ukraine says a russian attack on a residential area of a town in separate a region has killed 7 people and hospitalized 11 others. the local you creating governor said the attack hit a humanitarian, a distribution point at the school near the front line, cr insured pictures of the destruction, which it said was caused by a russian guide of blind bon. that struck a school where residents were collecting a rush, i denies deliberately targeting civilians. it's been more than

a month since ukraine launched is highly anticipated counter offensive. what progress has been relatively slow you creams. army is confronting a host of obstacles that have blunted its advance, including better prepared russian troops and large mine fields. ukraine launched at the spring offensive in june after months of anticipation. but so far gains have been modest. even president below them here is a lensky, has acknowledged that the counter offensive has been slower than many had hoped to know if everything is easy. there are some difficulties because 1st of all, all on his mind that we would like to be making bigger gains. that's smaller than what we have on these case. a look at ukraine's geography helps to explain why. for months the front line has been largely unchanged. it's thought ukrainian forces

would try to push through russian lines in the south and east is one of the areas that has seen heavy fighting is around the southern town of or a cave. as satellite imagery show, the land is mostly patchwork fields and those fields are flat on which poses specific risks for ukrainian forces trying to retake the land. it means having to cross open fields which have been heavily mind and which are exposed to a fire from the air, as well as from russian troops hiding behind the tree lines. and beyond those open fields, ukrainians are encountering elaborate man made trench defenses that the russian forces had months to build. the defenders also had time to put up so called dragon's teeth to stop tanks. then there is the learning curve of in military experts say russia has picked up from its mistakes earlier in the war, and as adjusted its tactics to the conditions on the battlefield. still,

analysts say ukraine's counter offensive is capable of making progress despite the unforgiving terrain. but it will take time mark can see and is there a tired us marine colonel and a senior advisor at the center for strategic and international studies? and earlier i asked him about his expectation of the ukrainians counter offensive. i think many people are helped by this time of the offensive, they would have broken through the russian defences and got into the open spaces beyond had a chance to use all the armor and armored vehicles that they've received from nato and the united states. that clearly hasn't happened, so they are still moving forward so they have not in military terms culminated. they have not run out of steam. but the hope had been that they would be further along in the arc. and we've heard that from both ukrainian officials and us officials. it was clear always that this wasn't going to be a walk in the park. were the west expectations,

maybe not realistic. so i think some of the expectations were not realistic. i heard many people speculating about trying to retake a premier, for example, would you require getting to the coast and then jumping over a body of water clearly out of reach at this point for the last couple of months, a boat before the counter offensive. you saw officials trying to tamp down these expectations general milli, for example, i said that you know, it was going to be a tough fight. it was going to take some, some time. so wasn't everybody i think, who had expanded expectations, but there was a sense out there that, you know, maybe this kind of offensive would bring victory or something close to it. yeah. what's are kids in the ukraine in defense ministry has reacted to concerns the counter offensive is going to slowly. let's take a quick look at a video of the ministry put out on twitter and then continue talking the

with their changing the message here to you. this is very ups track. we are out here doing the fighting for ukraine and we know very well what we're doing. so my question to you is kind of ukranian troops of 4 to continue their offensive the way they started. or do they need to change their strategy maybe so hard to say it's at this point, they're probing for a week just they just need to break through in one spot. and that's still possible if they're attacking on along a number of places on the front line. so they still have some combat powered

reserve. i think they're gonna keep this up for some time. the video makes a couple of very important points. and of course, it's very clever, you know, it's just this takes time and that the koreans know what they're doing. now, one of the challenges they create is have, is that the demands of this kind of an attack your of $4.00 to $5.00 complex. so again, troops requires a lot of skill, it requires coordinating combined arms and not all ukrainian units of receive the kind of training that they would need to really be skilled to what that. so they're really being challenged on their training and for adults continue to all underwhelmed though, could that lead to ukraine? supporters growing more and more and patient? well unfortunately, i think we see that now there have been a lot of complaints about a forever war that this war might go on for a long period of time consuming resources and cause of casualties. there's long

been what you might call a piece party in both united states and europe. that would prefer to go see ations . the problem with negotiations is that there's no overlap between the 2 sides. because ations within this, in effect, be an m places, fire and a partial victory for put me as someone who knows what combat is like with that kind of pressure do more harm than good on the battlefield. so there are no short cuts, and this is going to be a long war. the ukrainians are determined to liberate all of their country. i think they're going to cheap added. if this kind of offensive is disappointing, i think that they will regroup, retrain, re equip and try again. let's look at the other side. then the wagner mutiny the chaos and mosque out and put, and looking weaker than ever at this point. how have all of these things affected?

what happens on the battlefield? well, unfortunately, so far they have not affected the battlefield. they've had tremendous political importance. of course, the turmoil in moscow and what the relationship is between putting in for goshen, but on the battlefield. i don't think that there's any effect. wagner had already pulled out of the front lines was already in its training camps are reorganizing, so there wasn't this whole but all of a sudden opened up. and as far as we can tell, the average russian, our unit on the front light is not a reduce the, you know, it's a, it's effectiveness or combat power. so unfortunately on the front line, things continue as before, as retired years, marine colonel mark can see and thank you so much for your analysis. thanks for having me on the show. let's take a fresh look now at some other stories and making headlines around the world today

. israel's parliament to set to hold a 1st vote on a bill that would limit the supreme court's power and give the government a greater se and the appointment of judges. the reform proposals have sports months of mass protest. critics say the legislation in life corruption and abuse of power to move a prominent or reigning wrapper has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for voicing support for last year's protest against the regime. to marcia le, he could have been sentenced to death on the charges brought against him. hundreds of people died and thousands were arrested after the death of a woman in police custody last september sparked mass protest. us lawmakers are calling for an investigation into prime a popular energy drink, arguing that is high levels of caffeine are dangerous for its target. market of children. drink is back on youtube. stars logan paul, and k is i and has become an obsession along their followers. then you want

security council is to vote soon on extending the delivery of humanitarian aid to syria's revel. health ne, 4000000 people live in, in the province. many were forced to flee their homes and serious 12 years civil war and now live in camps. the delivery of 8 increased significantly following the devastating earthquakes in february, the rabbits, the region, those a deliveries are now in danger of stopping unless the security council agrees to extend the mandate. in february, he lost his home. his house collapsed during the earthquake. what things could be worse, his family survived without harm. and now the 10 of them lived in attend non his wife and their 8 children. they get groceries once in a while from agencies, the one the given them, well, they bring us water and help with it. can sometimes we even get $150.00 cash so far and with gods help, we have been able to survive. oh, i see him though. we visit

a temp camp in the province. hundreds of thousands of syrians live here, even though it's been 5 months since the earthquake, they are still waiting for their city to be rebuilt. money is almost always in short supply, but one thing is going well. an aide organization associated with turkey is building them new sanitary facilities. we're on the brink of a massive humanitarian catastrophe. a war has been raging for 12 years and the people's suffering from the earthquake are the same ones that lead to war. their needs are immense, little with me that says that he and that's a, of the people living in the area surrounding it live are cut off from the rest of syria. islam as rebels controlled the region, humanitarian aid comes almost exclusively from turkey. but the un resolution allowing a to be delivered over the bubble. her a border crossing is running out. we do need to extend this resolution. it's all my advocacy need time to implement to manage and program their faith will be decided

on monday by the security council. it depends on the veto power of russia. a close ally of the syrian president, bashar assad, non shocker, and his family are waiting along with other survivors across the shattered corner of syria. tens of thousands of people are leaving so long as the country struggles to recover from is the worst economic crisis. in decades. government figures suggest some 122000 people left in the 1st 5 months of this year. that's the same number that left the country in all of 2021. soaring inflation is driving millions into poverty. the lentils and rice is all this couple can afford. and they also have to skip meals for long cause chronic economic crisis has hit them hard. for diet, accountant, milton, put right on, sees over the last year, the situation has become more difficult. yeah. with the modern

that last year we had money, but no goods. now they're good. so we don't have the money money here to see the price of goods has increased significantly compared to last year. you're going to get rid of that address family lives in a working class area of colombo, the sea life has become an affordable the government has removed subsidies and utilities doubling the water and electricity bills. put it on the home is also them due to leaks from the water line, but municipal authorities have no funds left to fix it. yet the couple of the biggest funding is expensive. medicines. federal has chronic as plus and public hospitals used to provide free medicines. but the government program has now been suppressed. now the think that out of an inhaler, it costs around $2500.00 rupees. so i didn't buy one because we don't have enough money. that's frontier, that's been. i mean,

we used to get medicines for free because now they chose to buy from the pharmacy. only small amount of medicines are available for free loss. due inflation, lack of basic necessities and crippling international debts to good nationwide protest. the former president go to biology book, so was forced to flee the country g. have since we're doing the tight security, but things have worse. and in the meantime, for ordinarily people, roger punctures success load, i'm going to become a single, is hoping to get the economy back on track with an i am a fill out worth $2900000000.00 the program and pulls us tough measures increase taxes, removal of subsidies, all in all mobility for citizens. if you have combating the 2020 to a peer me, at least as of availability of essentially was like for any electricity,

mcmillion park leave, you look at the public, the numbers. it has a we have added 4000000 new people below the policy, the government officials are spinning the hopes on the i m f program and she long cause crisis into 2 full years. that is now and defending champion documents, continued his march through the wimbledon, drawn with a 4 set when over poland, who were in hor, cash on monday after winning the 1st $0.02 on sunday evening. the 23 time grand slam champion returned to the court on monday and dropped the 3rd accent before smoking his ticket to the quarter. final documents has now $132.00 consecutive matches at the all england club and is a hot favorites to win the world's most prestigious tennis tournament for an incredible 5th time in a row. also on monday,

mera andre of us fairy tale wimbledon debut came to an end for the 16 year old russian was beaten by madison keys from the us under. if i looked on course to become the youngest player to reach the quarter finals since 1997 when she led by a sense, n 41. a keith who is currently rank number 18 in the world tightened up on her errors and celebrated a hard font. come back when to advance to the next round. lot via has wrapped up the latest edition of its song and dance festival. one of the largest amateur of coral and dancing events in the entire world. tens of thousands of singers and dancers were on hand to the life of crowds in the capital re, uh for some participants. the songs and dances are deeply personnel as data ways your shadow reports. so these phones convey a sense of belonging, hope and belief. they convey a lot for

a free lock. the country located on the beach every 5 years, 40000. i'm a to, for almost from all of a lot of young god that the celebrate at the moment some intense fest, the to this year, lena, ego ship, i and otto months. 3 of those are taking part in the festivities that they just met each, aka for the 1st time here. i'll email it comes from russia. she has locked in and sisters when she was younger. she's silent and a lot of young flyer in mexico. and she often went with her ensemble till we got to perform, but no, she lives here and teaches at the russian school. one quarter of luckiest population speaks russian. elena says she is building bridges to help connect to the 2 cultures. and it's expensive workers because some of the children who are at

the lab in kindergarten now speak fluent, laughing over them. others hardly ever used to speak it at home, what their school things are more difficult for them to mollify coordinating. and of course, dancing is as important documents as seeking is 200. it's part of the identity of months. these are found on google c bucks or in the best of luck to you to time. so we could drive nearly 3 hours, 3 hours with he's done some sample. but if that's ok, you all know when my sister and i were little, our parents brought us to live pious to take dance less than school as we drove 10 kilometers to take classes. since then done so you must become part of my weekly routine. but out of out the yeah, the song and dance festival starts at the 150 years ago. during 50 off of those. he has lots available spot of the soviet union bigs in some of the native songs what band. but when you use a soft pumps,

millions of people in the multi countries demonstrate that peacefully for their new independence and sing folk songs as a sign of funded diet. it was this thing that will do the reason why you always fun, hard to read in freedom, in lafayette park on yourself. there are many songs about this because they are intertwined with my own life story. with i cannot imagine who i would be without these phones to go. the extra position is that to might explain why they use. i'm a to a dentist and singles 3 hers for g s. preparing for the festival is ego. her souls become much more intense to the last few days before the show. then there is hardly any time for anything else. even when i'm but my family supports my hobby. they are my wife does sometimes, but my children do as their father, i'm happy they share my passion. best foaming on stage in front of 10000 people. it's exaggerating, and twins a week long so is over. is it the farmers celebrate together until they are

making the most of the to because of they have to wait 5 years until they can meet again. and a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you today made a change in stoughton work. says that turkey has agreed to back sweden's been to join the military alliance. he said turkish president, branch of type are on made of clear commitments and agreed to forward sweden's application to join nato to his parliament for approval. as soon as possible. often the news for now, but speak with us, i'll be back with more after a short break and here taking you through the day of see you then by the the, the

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independent, making black lives matter co, signed a spot on racially motivated to the same sex marriage as being legalized in more and more country discrimination in quality are part of every day life. for many we ask why? because life is diversity, make up your own mind. for mines with this war of aggression and luxury of food in that hope to divide nato, what do you got? was an a lines that grew closer and expanded, but at nato's annual sum into unity is once again put to the test ukraine ones the gathering and villainous to show that it's already a de facto member. but the road to actual membership is promised.