the wording catastrophe. climate change starts july 13th on dw, the business dw, and use live from fair lin took, he agrees to back sweden's application to join, nice heart. the surprise frank truth came just ahead of the alliance's annual summit, at least the wayne e a n n z a stand or 5 president to kentucky's president. 31 has lasted nearly a year for an alignment. also it coming up. a mom seemed to it's counter offensive,

ukraine's homage struggling to recapture territory from russia. we'll look at why it's printing so difficult. i'm one of the world's biggest song and dance festivals wraps up in left field. the 40000 seniors and dances the lot, the crowds in rica with the message of belonging and believe the i'm jared raid, welcome to the program. sweden needs to join, nice heart off to turkey, suddenly agreed to drop in some position. it'll now back stuck on the speed to become the alliances to the 2nd member that's according to 9th or chief. you just don't in the he said to the case president richard type 31 made a the a commitment and degree to full it's legions application to his pile them into

approval. stultz and bug made the comments off to meeting with the one and sweden's prime minister of chris deshawn in the list, the wine in capital vilnius. the city is hosting a 2 day nice or summit, which comes as the alliance carries out. it's the biggest revamp of its defense plans and dig guides. and the sweetest lita of chris just on welcome to he's backing. let's hear a bit more from him. you're a veteran gone. i'm very happy that the 3 of us actually can handle the president of tacky, the secretary general of nato and myself on this joint declaration. and that we are now taking a very big step towards the official notification of sweden's membership in nato occupancy. and all, it has been a good day for sweden for them, but all dogs, us out of you. we can go now to washington, washington, dc, and speak to elizabeth bro. all he is a resident fellow at the american enterprise institute. elizabeth,

thanks so much for your time i'm. i'm interested. what do you think might have convinced the one to relate and back sweden entering. nice. so i said, we assume he's, he's got something for his sudden change of heart thing, which is the nature of special well, the nature of the which that, that's, it is new as an 8th of his a do guess stuff. it's wrong for him. and he also got to lead an on the, on the counter terrorist himself to time to go to 1000 about then yeah, i would, i said what, what really sealed is the is the fact that people were going to get tired of as i know it was i say to the boss, i'm understanding for him early on in the process one year ago when he said, well, we have concerns about titles, militants is sweet. and i think there was some understanding of sympathy, but just to keep adding new a new conditions, which is where he was doing that,

didn't the dear him to his talk is a fellow named some member states and. and his opposition was there in saying that i think if that's at this point, he just said, well i've, i've made my points and i proven that i can block things. when i know i can of elizabeth, you'll saying the opposition was wearing scene was he's really ever about suite and then it's attitudes to code is militants or about to accuse it's accession to the you. so i think originally that was uh, since you're concerned about talking to a tradition in that sense in sweden and that was the 1st part of that and member end of understanding. i think you have us remember turkey pity 9 and sweeten signed last summer and. and then sweden went home and, and this week government went home and, and fulfilling the requirements or conditions that

a high degree to and that's m o u and, and then came back and said we have done our homework and then talk is about how long we want this and this and this as well. and i think that's when the people, governments, and ordinary citizens realize, well, maybe it's, it's about more than the cards militants in sweden. but i think to, to mention turkish membership in the u. s. sounds sort of condition that was over the top and that's what he did this morning. it was over the top and it was just never going to fly for one because nature is not the position to ground anything, but it goes to the european union. elizabeth, what methods do you think the scenes russia of letting me person and, and also way do you think it might leave to accuse russian relations as they to handle this brandy? and today, it was a extremely convenient that, that turkey played this game even if it was it,

it originally about the genuine concerns. it turned into a strategic game. and that was a big inconvenience for nature, the week of may. so these are the russia because they don't this united but what, what they did very well, thus was demonstrating to everybody including russia that sweden is very much profit of the family, even though it has assigned on the dotted line. yet it is very much probably the time that was mentioned in every meeting, among the nature of the ice, a native wide v things. it was a constantly feature, the nature communications, and that sense of message, i guess we are having a little bit of a, of a, of a hit gap box. so we will join us, don't get any ideas. and that's it. in the end signal strengths visa vi, russia not turkey. and president ad running particular is a very skilled checks to interpretation. he's very good at playing several games at the same time, but he wouldn't have to figure out where this puts in with regards to russia

because he has been playing these multiple games that that's on my ad off in his head. that with the rest of us come figure out, i think he will emerge weekend these are the russia and indeed these are with well good to speak with you and get your insights with elizabeth for all day and from the american enterprise institute. thank you so much, elizabeth. okay, well, move on. now ukraine say is a russian attack on a residential area of a town. in this operation, your region has killed 7 people and hospitalized 11 others, the local ukranian, golfing. to see the attack, he thinks humanitarian aid the district distribution pointed to school near the front line. your crime said pictures of the destruction, which it said was closed by a russian guided glide bomb. that struck a school where residents were collecting. i russia denies, deliberately targeting civilians, and it's been more than

a month since you cry and launched. it's highly anticipated. counter offensive progress has been slowed. ukraine's army is confronting a host of obstacles that have blunted its advance, including better prepared russian troops and launch mine fields. ukraine launched at the spring offensive in june after months of anticipation. but so far gains have been modest, even present below them. there is a lensky has acknowledged that the counter offensive has been slower than many had hoped to know if everything is easy, that sets and difficulties. because 1st of all, all on his mind, we would like to be making bigger gains. that's smaller than what we have on these keys. a look at ukraine's geography helps to explain why. for months, the front line has been largely and changed. its thought ukrainian forces would try to push through russian lines in the south and east. 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's the learning curve of in military experts say russia has picked up from its mistakes earlier in the war and does 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. here's some other world news headlines now. spines, colors, god has rescued. id 6, migrants from the bodies. neither canary islands are risky. planes bought at the vessel carrying the migraines from subsaharan africa. because cod rolled the id man and 6 women from the vessel to upholding the canaries. a prominent a randy and wrap it has been sentenced to 6 using prison for voicing support philosophies. protest against the writing seem to match the way he could have been sentenced to death onto the charges brought against him. hundreds of people died in thousands were arrested off to the death of a woman in police custody last september. spunk, mass protests, c ice levels in the on top take rates the record long as in june. that's according to the humans, whether agency land, according to the world may through roger me to are logical organization. ice levels of the south pole was 17 percent of the life. the average since records began last

month was the harshest june on the record at 50. a bit of change of pace. now we'll go to let fia, which is wrapped up the licensed edition of its song and dance festival. it's one of the largest image of coral and dancing events in the world. tens of thousands of singles and dances were on hand to delight the crowns in regard to some participants, the songs and down since a deeply personal w. c. rivers, csr reports. these phones conveyed sense of belonging hope and belief. they conveyed a lot for a free lock, the country located on the beach every 5 years for 2 phones. and i'm a 2 at the for almost from all of a lot of young god that the celebrate at the moment some intense fest, the,

this year a, lima, e, goshen, and ottoman. it's pretty of those are taking part in the 1st day because they just met each author for the 1st time a i'll email it comes from russia. she has locked in and sisters when she was younger. she's silent and a lot young flyer in mexico. she often went with your ensemble to riga to that form, but no, she lives here and teaches at the russian school. one quarter of luckiest population speaks. russian says she is building bridges to help connect to the 2 cultures. it's expensive workers because some of the children who are at the lab in kindergarten now speak fluent laugh in somebody. i'm others hardly ever used to speak and at home. the things are more difficult for them to mollify coordinating and lock. but according to the dancing is as important documents as seen, is strongly it's part of the identity of months. these are found on google c bucks

or in the west, the nazi 2 times a week. he dries nearly 3 hours, 30 hours with his dad some assembled. 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 lessons. we drove 10 kilometers to take classes since then done soon that's become part of my weekly routine. but out of town the to the song and dance festival starts at 150 years ago. during 50 off of those again, slots available spot of the soviet union. big then some of the native songs, what band. but when video software about pot, millions of people in the multi countries demonstrate that peacefully for their new independence and sing folk songs as a sign of sunday night. it was done that they sing and it will do. the reason why you always fun, hard to begin freedom in lafayette park on yourself. there are many songs about this because they are intertwined with my own live story. i cannot imagine who i

would be without the songs. you oversee the book, the book ship as easy as that to might explain why they use. i'm a to a dentist and singles, 3 hers for years, preparing for the festival is eaten. her soul 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 and they are my wife does sometimes, but my children do as their father, i'm happy they share my passion. that's holding on stage in front of 10000 people. it's exaggerating, and twins a week along, so is over. is it the farmers celebrate together onto them making the most of the to because of they have to wait 5 years and, and again quickly the attendance now in defending champion? no. you'd like to, i'll give it to continue to use march through the wimbledon, draw with the force that we know i have a poland who bed whole coats on monday,

after winning the 1st tuesday. it's on sunday evening. the 23 time grand slam champion. return to the quote on monday and dropped the 3rd set before booking these ticket to the for the final documents is now 150. 2 consecutive matches at the old lincoln copies the hook favorite to win the world's most prestigious tennis tournament. to the 5th time in a row, and after so break and stephen bean slave will be here with dw business. i'm tower draining, building duck away the and he's actually to the special hot spots in germany. dw travel extremely worth a bit. the.