the wording catastrophe. climate change starts july 13th on dw, the . this is dw news, lived from berlin, turkey drops and supposition to sweden's nato bed and was surprised breakthrough turkish president. friendship type bird one at last agreed to fax, reading the membership of the military alliance. after blocking the applications stock home made over a year ago, the news comes as nato summit gets underway in lithuania. so coming up,

the prince aimed to join nato is unlikely to be met quite so soon, but it hopes to get a road map to membership on the summit. others in the alliance worried that could provoke flattened air pollutants, and unusually heavy rain and floods caused dozens of desks across the huge waves of northern india and bring destruction and misery their way. the sierra kelly walked into the program suite and as on the verge of joining nato after turkey suddenly dropped its opposition to stop homestead to enter the alliance. turkish president recham type air. the one has agreed to forward the application to his parliament to be ratified. now the swedish prime minister and the us presence and have welcomed this decision. the surprised announcement came

shortly before the start of nato's annual summit. in the 20 and capital vilnius. the need to somebody didn't vilnius hasn't even started yet, but it's already shaping up to be historic. to our case president edwin nato secretary general stalsen book and sweden's prime minister, kristen ho talks ahead of the summits and afterwards the swedish prime minister was clearly pleased. you're a veteran gone. guess i am very happy that the 3 of us have shaken hands, the president of turkey, the secretary general of nato, and myself. on this joint declaration, you may have somebody and that we are now taking a very big step towards the official ratification of sweden's membership in a tow. it has been a very good day for sweden. somebody brought dogfish out of you. sweden have been neutral for decades, but following rough as invasion of ukraine,

but nobody country applied to join the military alliance. now, the deal seems almost done to complete things. reasons, accession tonight though is always thought except the benefits, the security of all nathan laws. at this critical time, khaki, however, had been reluctant to accept sweden's bid after stucco and refused to expedite took his citizens. but uncle are considered as a terrorist. and the last minute twisted. edwin raced eyebrows when he also said she would only support, suite and succession if the you presume membership talks with this country. and another issue that sparked angry kentucky the burning of the koran during a protest and still come to the t wouldn't nato members have to approve sweden succession to the alliance. hungary still has to give its approval, but it's probably been postponed diversification both before it's summer break. and

let's crossover now to the w. corresponding band triggers. who has the view from billy is so bout, it sounds like the path is cleared for sweden's membership. is that squared hungary is the last toddler that the swedes have to take, and it's not clear yet when they hungry and call them into the boat and rectify it . and the swedish membership bit, and you never know because the prime minister victor all bundled somewhat of a loose cannon and they to and also in the european union, he has very close ties still to russia. he's criticizing the weapon delivery to ukraine. he's also criticizing the sanctions again to russia, so you don't know, it has also some issues with sweden because reading is criticizing all buns, records bad records when it comes to the rule of law and democratic values. so we haven't heard from victoria on yet, but the, the secretary general of nato, again,

stalking back was quite optimistic that the hunger reboot now dropped its opposition and, and boast, turkey and hungry vote, a boat on sweden and so that sweden can join actually at some point in the fall. what are the top things meantime, on the agenda during the to day native summit? a yes, after this reading drama is now resolved, the. the summit will focus on ukraine, ukraine's also asking for membership to become the 33rd member of nato because or ukraine attacked by russia is seeking more protection and more help from they do about the, the summit of it only deliver some predictor, assurances for the presidency lensky who will come here to vineyards in the past. the membership is due very much down the road because all the members agree that the country during the ball can not join nato. and the other big topic is actually

the defense of nature itself. they want to deter russia by drawing up the 1st comprehensive defense plan, off the and the end of the cold war. and this defense, ben has actually originally 2000 pages. it's top secret and it describes how to move around. 500000 troops at nato, in a territory to the eastern thing. in the case of a russian at tech. but you have to keep in mind that these troops, us still own the troops on paper. they are not there yet. and they do has to boost that to beef up and its troops, and also it's beth and right in europe to be able to defend itself against a possible russian to attack battery guard. and billy s. thank you. well, one country that of course, wants to be right behind sweden into nato is ukraine. but that prospect is

significantly tough or given it's a country at war. despite that ukraine is now calling for the alliance to show it a clearer, more unequivocal path towards membership. so what insurances canada expect to hear at the nato summit beginning today? let's get more now from brussels. since rushes full scale invasion last year, ukraine steps you to prime minister all hust if a nation now has been making curricular trips to brussels. love being cards to convince officials here to give her country a pos, to what's natal membership and literally coming to you from the country and the war was to my children remaining into while i'm here in brussels, we're are starting to get my application for the moment this decision shall be taken and this will not them is now, ukraine says it's already fighting with all kinds of wisdom made to weapons. and they have proven themselves as the 1st line of defense for europe. and they have

been waiting for need to store to open for many years in 2008 doing their summit in bucharest, romania, nato leader. as promised ukraine would become a member of the alliance. but they stopped short of saying, when and how for fear of provoking russia, and some nato countries, us too cautious among them. germany, let's get plan on clear statements from nate to that ukraine has its future inmate too. but it is also clear to all concerns of the admission of a country. that is, a drawer is simply out of the questions for musicians to dig life, and here's why nato nations take a collective defense blanche to protect each other in case of an attack. this problem is known as optical 5 for the need to funding act is at the heart of the lines. so admitting you create includes, puts, need to, into direct conflict with restaurant. but it's immediate membership is out of the question. why not offer ukraine

a road trip to accession or make clear it comes directly after the war and it's what's many of ukraine biggest spit cars are pushing for ukraine. should be member of the nato allies because it's pro 4 of our come on the security and to of course, we need to to be united. so that's why we are open to discussion about the day. so it, in my opinion, and we should present the path so to, to, to reach this goal. but in the meantime, ukraine is fighting a war and this year and no, that's why behind closed doors, the u. s. and some european nations are frantically working on security assurances they could individually offer, such as providing ukraine with weapons, advanced technology. and between those efforts are being closely watched in russia, which has always seen nato's growth as

a threat to its own security. something via lions denies for the time being there appears to be no alternative to the fighting for ukraine negotiating with russia. now, what do you mean giving up territory and giving in to an unjustified clinton patient all hashed? if i knew you should not, is determines to keep pushing. still hoping to see sooner rather than later ukraine slack raced at the alliance as headquarters in brussels. so what does this nato summit mean for ukraine? economy has more on that is the view from keith. nick, what would make ukraine happy coming out of this summit? and what is most realistic of the i think sarah, that no one here really expects membership during the active phase of this war. i think that was clear in advance. but i think the real concern is, how long does that take once the battlefields have gone quite, is ukraine can be formed off with some kind of a guarantee that don't provide the kind of collective security and that guarantee

of nato troops fighting on ukraine. so if it is a tax in the future, or is it going to get just kind of promises of training and equipment. so that's the kind of question. how long off the war ends? is it going to be a quick question of a few months as this being the case for sweden and finland, or is it going to be something that takes significantly longer and i think is real where you have it. once the kind of active fighting is over, that the kind of solidarity and simple to crane will die down and it will be easier for these things to be delayed and kind of made links to you. and we still don't even know what his name is. and then so he's going to turn up in vilnius, you've said running into this summit that he's not willing to turn up just for the polite kind of handshakes and the photo ups. he's only going to go if he thinks that ukraine's will even get some things risk. and we have to mention, you know, just to put this on the context that the prospect of ukraine joining the alliance came, came up back in 2008, 15 years later. it's now still under discussion. how do ukrainians feel about that? next of the, like you look at the social, a jay about 90 percent of ukraine,

supports joining nature that isn't significant up on the policy. i think this most recent russian invasion has made it clear once again what risks being neutral, at least on paper or what not, being allies to significant military blocks has for ukraine. and she told me she pregnant will say that decision was. busy as the genuine mistake that was actually provoking russia by making it to the west, wouldn't send up for your brain fully. they say that cry me a wouldn't have happened if your credit being and nato may say that. now letting you credit it would actually still russian invasion. they say that your birthday is may be unpredictable, but not suicidal. that it would actually realize that this is not testable, that ukraine is not part of its 7 phones. if the west actually made that step, that actually taking that step is not gonna up the risk of it actually down the risk would make it less likely that russia comes into some of the military intervention in this part of europe. so that's definitely the kind of message from here. there's a real worry that the same countries between germany who courses back in 20 o 8 will make this decision more difficult this time around t w corresponding to connolly and keith. thank you. a dozen of

people have died in flooding as torrential rains sweep across northern india. the flash floods and lands lives destroyed highways across several states. authorities were forced to shut down schools in the capital daily on monday, signed to say that india, seasonal monsoon rains are getting heavier due to climate change. heavy as a normal monsoon rains tend to be a river into a raging torrent. in the north indian states have him on shall per dash, the rushing water destroyed roads um damage, power lines, and communication systems which time put, rescue assets or distribution will take them. road restoration will take some time, but our priority is to restore electricity and mobile networks so that we can receive information regarding any other stranded paper. so we can rescue them. we have

a so where the was, was not the guys have got them go. scientists say climate change is making them on soon rein, stronger, and more unpredictable. thousands of people have died because of the floods across northern india. sally was inundated with the highest rain full in a single day for 40 years. swelling the i'm in a river which runs through the house of the capital local media report say thousands of people are already being moved to shelters. as the rape reaches dangerous levels. the south west stuff, but job pool as big as hospital or medical college where left wading through the woods, the floods such was say false. they had no time to evacuate the patient's hospital and they get caught on everything despite being such a big hospital. so much water has been said within just 3 to 4 hours of rain. so you can imagine but conditions in other hospital patients are facing problems. they

have not been moved yet of which we have a son. yeah. as health work is try to pump out the water from the hospital rooms. india's weather agency is full costing more rain in the days to come in with that. now you're up to date business with steve beardsley is up next. reporting on a big step towards steel making in europe fueled by hydrogen instead of cool. so it's sarah kelly and breland. thank you so much for watching the hello guys. this is the 77 percent. the platform for offices you'd be issues.