into what you have to say filled its commitments. sweden has amended its constitution, changed its laws, expand the counterterrorism of corporation, and resumed arms exports to key nate the house re committed to the fight against terrorism, including by updating our actions on an i have a pointed on a system 6, a general to sure as my special coordinator for counselor titus, and ensuring our response remains strong. effective encore haven't know all the ally has suffered more tires to tax then took here and i'm glad we have been able to address it to kias legitimate security concerns in the way that enables sweetness, membership to move forward, look forward to welcoming sweden as

a full natural light in the very near future. sweden has highly capable forces and years of experience operating with nato. you are all of the integrated thing even more deeply into the lines. just in the last few days, the british aircraft carrier h m. s. queen elizabeth vista guttenberg us the bumpers exercised with the sweetest jets allowed and swedish special forces train on the baltic. sea sweetens membership will make nate to stronger sweetness fully ready to join. make to the time hoss, come on. following the submission of the vacation documents, and i'll count on speed throughout the vacation by the turkish parliament.

tomorrow i will attend the name to industry for them. let me thank you for hosting the event head and stuck on. so this is you have to know the sign of how close reading is to make to our security relies on lower technological edge and on our defense industry. so it is important that major companies from across the lawrence on the on will be present rushes war against ukraine has the pete the allied stocks ramping up production is essential to meet ukraine's needs on to ensure our own defenses. speed on volume matters. us restaurant prepares against the use winter as a weapon award. so let me find freedom for its major financial. i'm going to type it in on military 8 to ukraine, including your latest $200000000.00 support package for our munition equipment to

ukraine. today we also address the reason that much to critical understand infrastructure in the baltic sea. all us and sweden are working together to establish the facts. and they thought is strengthening our presence in the region. this includes more surveillance under conditions as well as more ships on the night to come on natal with all of us do this, we will do what this necessary to protect and defend our allies. finally, we discussed the situation in the me least on these sorts of spawns to the horrific terrorist attacks. lawrenceville hamas eastern has the right to defend itself in line with international law. the protection of civilians is essential on

a welcome efforts to ensure that to many 10 aid reach this call. so that to nato psychiatry and started. but who was talking in stockholm sweden today about sweden's membership of nato. and we can get more on that by all correspondent and brussels. christina manuel. hi christine. can you just give us a sense of what we heard from the nato secretary general? the i know you had an extra tenacious equity general you installed. the guy reiterates that sweden had sold, it's the end of the deal, essentially, highlighting that it had amended its constitution that it had resumed on to expose arms exports to, to a key that to keys concerns about terrorism had been addressed. he went on also to highlight how crucial a member of sweden would be to the native alliance. highlighting that at that

sweden membership would make nato strong that he talked about sweden's highly capable forces that sweden was already cooperating with names nato, highlighting a number of joint exercises in that regard. we have to point out that this is a anticipated. he said that that sweden's membership was, was going to be secured in the very near future. of course, one step closer, we all officer the news of that the take he's president or the one had taken a bill to parliament to the turkish parliament to approve at sweden's nato membership. this was, of course, a big hurdle, took his opposition, which effectively ended at the in july at that summit in vilnius when it was clear that took his present. as one had ended, he's opposition to sweden joining nato. of course, a step still needs to be paid and that parliament has to approve that bill or indication so upon them it will because president of the ones policy does enjoy a majority in into a case parliament along with this partners. so again,

that is ration from the native secretary general, that sweden's full accession into data is, is very much in the near future. and that this is going to be a strong boost for the nato alliance. that is, of course, historic and significant because of the state that because or the state that and yet because of course, sweden ended decades of new trying to see when it's applied financial membership back in may shortly off to russia's invasion of ukraine. that's right, christine, i mean, he made a very clear point. did he is calling to key swift rushes occasions of sweden's nato membership? can you tell us what the scales for the to case of president friendship type? i'd want to to sign the rest of the case and we'll just to say, but it is likely that the a sweden will be allowed membership of nature as well. any of those scales would have been tipped a roundabout july when the us president joe biden got involved in these negotiations. essentially,

it took the us president saying that the us would sell if $165.00 jets to turkey, something around 40 of those, and various other weapons that the turkey was interested in. it also took commitments from nato that it would be addressing to a keys concerns around terrorism. the longstanding issue had been to a key feeling that sweden was harboring terrorists was talking specifically about political organizations affiliated with the p k. k. that is a, a group that took you has designated a tear, it's a terrorist organization. the us and the european union have to. so there was those commitments as well as suite and also committing to, to, to re, to, to helping took he's been to, to join the european union. so these would have been some of the, the, the, the, the issues or the steps taken to bring us closer to this day. it was clear at the volunteers summit, when president edwin had indicated that he had ended these opposition to,

to sweden's accession into 2. if it was clear that it would be months because of course turkey's problem, it was in recess at the time and only coming back in october. we understand that now they will be some, some processes with in the church parliament, but they, nobody anticipates that. there will be any opposition within the bottom. it's a game the point being that the prism to it once the policy does have the majority in parliament. all right, we'll leave it there. but thanks so much for that replacing christine one but in brussels. so you're watching dw news life from violin. here's a quick reminder of our top story today. how much has released 2 elderly hostages? the is really women with us transferred to egypt, then handed over to the is right e mail it traits before being taken to a medical facility in tell it leads that husbands all still being held captive by some ox in gaza. now one of the 2 hostages released from gaza by the is the mr. millicent organization. hamas has given

a news conference from hospital of to ongoing medical checks. you'll have that lift shit. so she was adopted and placed on the back of the nurse, a bike before being forced to work for kilo, which is through tunnels that are run by columbus. she did also say that hostages would trace as gently by the captors, and that they quote, took care of every detail, including medicine and food. had also sharon helped her about the recount odeo. i'm sorry thing

the of the time now israel is expected to launch a ground offensive into gaza in retribution for the terrorist attacks and to free the hostages that are still being held. and garza franklin, which is a former british army officer and

a senior lecturer at the university of portsmouth in the u. k. and when i spoke to him earlier, he told us more about what is ray, the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu strategy might be now. oh, good afternoon and yeah, there are multiple vectors of advice going into nothing. yeah. who's come on the group at the moment? first of all, there's a dispute capacity between the military advisors and, and political advisors come back to in a 2nd about whether or not was the time to begin this campaign. this is further complicated by american perspectives to the effect that they don't believe that there are achievable goals. and the coverage is right. the plan and the particularly concerned of course, about an aftermath of not making the same mistakes that we made in iraq and afghanistan. so it's a highly complex situation, of course, that's complicated by the hostage situation. i suspect no decision is going to be

made for several days and to be no offensive for that time. but look, it's, it's crystal stuff, but it's very complex. a very difficult decision. you mentioned the us to austin situation, how much is still holding more than $200.00 hostages. what would a ground invasion mean for them as well? the assessments are being constantly updated extremely dynamic, and the advice going to, as well as commanders and political leaders, will be roughly like this that they may have identified certain certain places where costs are located. and they may fail or may not, that they can get these out and that will be way to gain state potential disadvantage of delay, which i don't see that many frankly, but that's not what i think doesn't really count out. certainly these wiley hostage release teams will have identified certain places by now it, well, so hostages have pulled the spider's web of tunnels. that's the key thing here. but

the deposit, the decision on the coast that further is complicated by how much using the hostages as an extensive negotiating tactic as prolonging this time, increasing computers. and of course, allowing them more time to prepare. the us is reportedly saying it once as well to delay its military operation to give us the hostage negotiations more time. so are you suggesting the further delay wouldn't play into the hands of thomas militarily? you know, i think it cuts a cuts 2 ways and this is id problems will be always interested in getting more intelligence, understanding the bottom of that going to fight. but of course, honestly, american speak about hostages or other concerns and, and even great to concerns. and that's the real pay the us has for horizontal extensions escalation of this. and just by way of example, one example of us has sent over yesterday and i'll be sending all what a cold terminal high altitude intercept is. now these are only use that not useful

to gauge the published in, you know, how much so nobody says plus they are designed against a radian ballistic missiles. so the us is very concerned now about the escalation. and i feel i need that the time taken in consideration, particularly for any off to my i'm the operations taken together. that's the site to try and reduce as far as possible the political significance of heavy casualties . that time would be well spent. hostages, of course, are an extra advantage of the longer these, this goes on the coast to move the chance of we'll have to just be released but the dangerous. this is how much the ghost writing tactic to, to, to prolong this prolong, how can these, well, let's not make the mistake of thinking this is he might of these like amount of time releases that not quite so much feel analysis. that's another tracks that franklin which in the u. k. thank you for more than 2 weeks into the war. israel has stepped off its bombardment of gaza saying that it is hissing. how most

militant targets, how much lead goes. a health industry says more than 5000 people has now been killed. and those strikes causes hospitals have been overwhelmed by the number of casualties, clinics, all sorts of stuff, medicines and beds. and they're running out of fuel to power generations among the most vulnerable patients. on newborn babies, that tiny child struggling to brave life support. it wouldn't stand a chance at god as large as hosp to the head of the intensive care unit for pretty much your bath worries that time is running out for its patients. well, when i see them here, we call on every one to send the necessary medical supplies for this critical department for the total or else we will face a huge catastrophe with less unaccompanied care to think of either. and that's nice, easy electricity's out in this department's auto body, whether off $55.00 babies,

i'm the one i'm in a come self. i'm seeing a boyfriend will lose any of those who need electricity, but within 5 minutes of that higher because of how much since how much is deadly attacks on october 7, he's right, it was in force and you totaled blockade of the gaza strip. electricity has been cut, minutes and fuel for generators of cost running out all the while these rated air force compounds gods are related. leslie to bombings have flooded, causes, hospitals with casualties. some of the women were pregnant with just give us a day, not the we have a baby who was to live with at 26 weeks of the meal and the weight 880 crowns. some of the houses of so many mother was referred from the north and the number then after the house next to her was hit by an as striking or domestic. dia,

i'm. the mother was referred to to the delivery room and she was panicking. we just didn't see it on his face now once you realize that she was in the delivery findings, they'll do live with this baby. and he was admitted to the intensive care unit with him. and that kind of where you left us with that and i received the hospital isn't guys as north is where i was expected to launch the ground invasion soon added peril for the hospitals patients the all access to further south is also struggling to cope model. so despairing of the new bones have not been up, there was a shortage of capabilities and hospitals, and we're afraid that things will get worse and that we won't find treatment for our children. on the 5 by the end of the world, health organization says that at least $50000.00 pregnant women and gaza are not receiving necessary health care. the 5000 due to gets passed soon in a life threatening environment that you haven't taught so that will,

that floats on. the ukrainian prime minister, dennis from a whole are attending a german ukrainian economic form and balance say of the event is focusing on rebuilding ukraine. and tossed is obviously very challenging given that russian attacks on the country are continuing to tune tents, artillery full outsource. he's in the southern ukrainian region and so on. as now ordered a full stiff actuation of children. officials say the mobiles and $800.00 children are expected to be moved to safe areas. ukraine says russian forces have been shelling civilian infrastructure the inseparably recent kathrina. let vanco is an advocacy managers to save the children and ukraine. i asked her the a to explain why families might not want to leave areas that all on the constant showing. absolutely, thank you for having me. um, as you said, there is no such place senior creative for children,

but specifically in the areas close to the front line. children's face, great danger of showing and coming in contact with mines. so as we observance of instances, the intensified showing of these areas um government of ukraine has ordered, forced hot or mandatory evacuations. this is not the 1st time it's happened. it's happens in these areas. um, previously, depending on the shift in the front line. um, it is up to 1000 children and their families that are affected by disorder specifically. and the mandatory evaluations are required when families do stay in the areas um, even after the general evaluation calls have been in place, which is the case here. i mean, i actually work with, sorry, go ahead as we work with families on the ground um,

just to share with you um the reasons why they stick around as you said. so um, usually we see these as economic reasons. so um families stay in their homes for as long as they can. and then when they leave, they usually are actuated almost empty handed. and as they are like you to see for areas of ukraine, they have to start from from scratch. um, so one of the families that we've supported and continued to support uh is the 3rd to 6 year old. oh i know. but for, for children, she had moved up from south of ukraine from time to talk to a few crane in august of last year. and as she told the story, the apartments that they were renting um came almost bare barebones apartment, costs them about half of their monthly assistance provided by the government to them as displaced families. okay. and they run out of economic resources is

basically the issue. catherine, i wanted to ask you about the, the longer term psychological impacts of this kind of displacement for children. and for the families. i mean, you're saying they're essentially going with nothing. it can't be easy. but what about a longer term effect or i'm so an important part of this mandatory evaluations . as we work with the car, is ensuring that children and their families are not separate. and um, so the psychological impact to foreign children of course, is immense. both in the us, they are closer to the front line areas, but then as they are displaced they partly for economic reasons. as i've mentioned early, often times families have to forego things like buying their children sweets or even celebrating with the birthday cake. so of course i'm a big part of it is um,

social um social connections, the children lose them as they move. often times they are left without their friends on the schools are often online or in a hybrid format where they are only able to attend schools. partly. so the peer to peer bonding is really missing. katerina katrina and co i'm so sorry to have to interrupt to you, but we have run out of time, but like to thank you so much for giving us an insight into the situation. kathrina live in anchor the from safe for children in ukraine. thank you. let's to south korea now and so says a bose carrying a group of north korean citizens. apparently seeking to defect has crossed into south korean horses. the vessel was intercepted of the eastern port city of folks chose and those of on board what brought to safety. the 2nd known case of north koreans crossing the sea border to seek the section in recent months,

9 people across the west and c boundary on a fishing boat in may and most north korean escapees make the way through china and southeast asia. i spoke to john list, frank smith is in the south korean capital, sol and austin for more details as well. they're not telling us everything is certainly about the identity of the people that they've retrieved from from the see that's the waters between and south korea and japan. they did retrieve again and they haven't custody one man and 3 women that were traveling from the north to the south on a about a 7.5 meter wooden boat. again, as you mentioned, this last happened back in, in 2019, and on the sea. but in may on the west sea, there were 2 families that came loose. 9 people also that you mentioned earlier,

they were tracked for seen by fishermen. there early this morning at about 7, 10 am and then tracked using thermal radar before they were again picked up. and yet, can you give us a sense of what happens now to those on board? i mean, and what kind of lives can they now expect? well, just a reminder, north and south gray are still in the state of where there was no arms to sign at the end of the korean war in 1953. so the 1st that confirmed that it is their intention to the fact to, to live in south korea, then they'll go to a place called hon. one that's a resettlement sort of center where they'll stay for a mandatory 3 months and received some language education because the language is between north and south are a little different now. they'll also get some counseling, of course, as well as, and cultural education and, and job training. and then when they are released from that, after 3 months,

they'll get a housing stipend and, and some health care as well. and yeah, mm hm. so we're hearing that this is the 2nd known case in recent months, but how often do we see defections from the know a slight this as well right now there are something like 34000 north screen defectors in south korea. the majority of those came sort of in the, in the 20 ten's prior to covered 19 when the numbers dropped. that's in, in early 2020. they've rebounded a little bit about a 1000, came in 2019. and then just uh, maybe a $140.00 or so. so for this year, there had been reports during cobit of some malnutrition in north korea. so south korean officials are bracing themselves for, for more to factors to come from the north and frank smith's reporting from so thanks so much for that. or with that you are up to date. remember,

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