so when will turkeys, parliament give the green white to finland? i put that question, judy w's, terry shopped in brussels. all those things are important now that the biggest obstacle, what was believed to be the biggest obstacle turkeys disapproval of both finish and swedish membership, is now unblocked for finland. it will move quickly for helsinki. so president air to one today said he would like to see this ratified by the turkish parliament before elections in turkey. in may, hungary has said it will also approve within the next month or 2, they keep changing the date. so i hesitate to believe exactly which day hungary will ratify, they had said they would do it before christmas. but in any case, this is due to happen within the next couple of months, and then it will move very quickly, president nina. so he said he would like to wrap it up on their side before the next parliament is electric, but that's the 1st week of april. so yeah, we're not exactly sure how the timeline will go, but it will move quickly. now this really is a tale of 2 cou

yes, very much . it is important, do you think the simultaneous entry of finland and sweden into natot is said well, okay , the finns will go first, and then the swedes, okay , it’s okay, it’s somehow important, or it’s a secondary problem, it’s ochen, well, it’s was so much yours that together and because of the purple lime, the relationship is excellent, the general story is better for us and for finland than it is for finland well, it’s just that he knows very well how to take advantage of such a situation, and he has, uh, everything about sweden’s day, which is considered unfair in our country. it's good for you and if everyone says that's all you nato members have already agreed and accepted everything, you can't say that if it's shown, we won't be members while we lived, it won't be because it's a security issue, and personally, sweden is waiting as quickly as possible, too, and that's all after all, such a situation is better than if it were the other way around, because now there will be a dream of two nato countries and, in fact , a security guard. i think that this is defini

that would not happen in finland, and that's why finland moved ahead.end: does the fact that these two countries are not going to join at the same time the way they had wanted to originally -- will that have a negative impact on nato and its stance with ukraine and its stance to be a bulwark against russian aggression? >> as you say, this is not the way nato wanted things to play out, certainly not the way finland and sweden wanted things to play out. sweden feels like it will be left alone and left vulnerable by being the only one outside of the nato alliance. inland tries to reassure its neighbors that once they are in nato, they will be even safer. nato on the side with norway, nato on the side with finland, so nato will take care of them, so they are trying to reassure the swedes of that, but it does look bad for nato that it was not able to stay united, that turkey and hungary both opposed two of the countries which are best trained, wealthiest countries. that does not look good as you are trying to stand up to russia and present a united front. in

he was one of the last nato members to ratify finland succession. after the vote was repeatedly delayed, only turkey remains and has announced its intention to vote on finland they'd soon then and had applied to join the lines together with sweden, but turkish objections to sweden's bed mean, finland looks likely to join 1st wealthy w, brussels corresponding carry schultz joins us shaft for more now. hi terry. good to see a so what does this decision by the hungarian parliament actually mean for finland? for finland. this means that it's just one step away from becoming a full member of nato. as you mentioned, they are just waiting on on camera, on the turkish parliament to take a vote. and now it took as president richard ty, everyone has said that he expects that possibly as early as this week just within the next few days. now especially that the 2 beds, the 2 nordic beds have been split, that makes it possible for finland to go ahead alone or what it actually takes so long to get hungary approval. that's a good question that the nordic countries

finland's foreign minister on this historic day for finland and the nato alliance. haavisto, and bloomberg's correspondent, maria tadeo. coming up, we are live from the conference in italy with eric li from chengwei ventures. stay with us for that conversation. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: welcome back. the 34th -- forum is kicking off in italy. top business makers will discuss the outlook for the european economy. francine lacqua is there with our guest. francine: thank you. we talked about the banking crisis and a lot about the shadow banking with mohamed el-erian. i am delighted to be joined by eric li from chengwei capital. you are one of the first venture capitalists in china. what can you tell us about china right now that people misunderstand? eric: in the last two or three years, the chinese economy has been going through a drastic transition, a restructuring, if you will. the last 20 years, the three major pillars of our growth, real estate, consumer internet platforms, and manufacturing. they have contributed a lot to economic growth. but they have sort of al

and in the beginning finland said it would. but lately, just in the last few weeks, we've really seen finland say that, you know, if they approve us, we need to go ahead, go ahead and nato said the same thing. so then it was clear that this is what would happen. and what, what, what about inside needle did other allies do? they believe that finland should wait for sweden to be approved before moving ahead or any security risks in leaving swedenborg. so there are some countries that made a very direct statement about their views, and they were particularly the baltic states, which said that the 2 country should join together. poland would have liked to see them joined together. nobody wanted t c suite and left behind because the swedes themselves feel a bit insecure about that. they feel like perhaps they would be a target for an attack by russia, if they don't have nato's article 5 that ever all the allies wouldn't come to defend them. but in fact, to rally up swedish self confidence, all of nato says, we would never leave swed

certainly not the way finland and sweden wanted things to play out. there are a few things going on here. sweden feels like it will be left alone and left a vulnerable by being the only one outside of the nato alliance. finland tries to reassure its neighbor that once we're in nato, you'll be even safer. you know, you've got a nato on the side with, nor we've got nato on the side with finland. so no sweet and we'll take care of you . so they are very much trying to reassure the swedes of that. but it does look bad for nato that it wasn't able to to stay united, that turkey and hungary both opposed to other countries which are best equipped, best trained, wealthiest, most integrated countries to nato, that there were devices inside the alliance. that doesn't look good as you're trying to stand up to russia and, and, you know, been present a united front in the end. no one really think sweden won't get through. it will just have had to, you know, pay a pretty high price in terms of public relations with, with turkey. patience is the virtue. sometimes yo

, and uh, finland seems to be ready.gary at the end of march will also hold a vote in parliament on joining finland without e, sweden finland initially stated that it would only join nato together with sweden, but now the sauli ninos. he says that it is not necessary and sergei sergeevich will not speak out against turkey's proposals. well , we see that erdogan is still once again. uh, showed miracles of pragmatism, miracles, chairs. uh, so to speak, he showed his temper, inside nato, including did not cross the red line of the united states and nato did not act straight to the front. e vs. the united states on the fundamental issue of the united states, this scheme suits finland's entry into nato without sweden. what do you think? i believe that erdogan knows very well the concept of offensive realism. i believe. he has those advisers who are pursuing a policy that suits, first of all , the ottoman empire, in quotation marks, and it must be clearly understood that they do not like half measures in the united states of a

had blocked finland and sweden from joining the military alliance. the parliament voted unanimously in favor 2 weeks after president red chip type oh to one made his support clear turkey's vote was the last hurdle preventing finland from accession. finland said to become the 31st member of nato, a feat made possible by turkey. finally, clearing the way the news was welcomed by many here. i think it's about time, so some of us have be waiting for it for some time already. so. yeah, it's your dad, it turned out this way. it gives us security about all the. and then we will finally belong to diverse, to divest and hit him is fair. helsinki had been trying to join the alliance for more than 10 months. but turkey kept blocking their recession, complaining that finland was providing safe haven to groups on currencies as terrorist public towards making them wishing that breakthrough came after finished president. saudi minister visited his counterpart in turkey room shortly afterwards. rach, update on the on agreed to support finland's bid. but despite the

how does finland feel?w ready is it, for example , to help ukraine, considering whether its allies protect it obviously affects what is happening in that part of europe, so we will follow the development of events. thank you, bohdan, for your analysis , our european correspondent bohdan tsyupen was in direct contact with us a year ago, the day before of the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine, the voice of america film crew visited sumy oblast to see if there were signs of preparations for an invasion from the north. at that time, the locals did not see a threat, but had plans in case of aggression a year after the start of the great war . olena adamenko met with two residents of sumy and oblast with whom we talked in february 2022, these people were at the center of events and it was because of their area that the invasion was taking place, which they managed to capture on camera. i woke up in the morning concretely already i was in the rear because they came from yunakovka, i arrive in khotyn, and

one made his support clear turkey's vote was the last hurdle preventing finland from accession. finland set to become the 31st member of nato, a feat made possible by talkie finally clearing the way. the news was welcomed by many here. i think it's about time, so some of us have be waiting for it for some time already. so. yeah, it's good that it turned out this way. it gives us security about all we and then we will finally belong to diverse to divest and hit hemisphere. helsinki had been trying to join the alliance for more than 10 months, but turkey kept blocking their recession, complaining that finland was providing safe haven to groups on kara seas as terrorists, follicles were conditioner. the breakthrough came after finished president, loudly minister, visited his counterpart in turkey room. shortly afterwards rach upgrade. i'd go on a greetings support finland's bid, but despite the hurdles this approval is considered to have come quickly this is a world record speed of 4 in a new member state, the choice maple. so fremont, manchester, pull it off. and what's that, sir? oh, it

oh, we do not have relatively a major problem with respect to finland on that. we are always on the learning that sweden should take concrete steps as did. this has led to a distinct change in nato's emphasis that the nordics joined together. the main question is not whether the feminine sweden are rectified together. the main question is that they are both ratified as full members. as soon as possible, there's been a shift in helsinki to finish president sally mister says joining together is his preference, but our hands, sorry, no, wait tight. we have applied for membership should be no say that no, we cancel our application. no, that we come with cleanser thinking more about their other neighboring now decades of opposition to nato membership, evaporated after russia launched warren crane will be very hard for decision makers to justify the people war, i think over 80 percent in favor of nato right now. and also we're seeing over 50 percent offends now in favor of going in in aid. so at this point, even if we're not read it by, the swedish prime minister of k

and in the beginning finland said it would. but lately, just in the last few weeks, we've really seen finland say that, you know, if they approve us, we need to go ahead, go ahead and nato said the same thing. so then it was clear that this is what would happen in and what do, but what about inside need? i mean, did other allies do they believe that finland should wait for sweden to be approved before moving ahead or any security risks in leaving swedenborg. so there are some countries that made a very direct statement about their views, and they were particularly the baltic states, which said that the 2 country should join together. poland would have liked to see them joined together. nobody wanted t c suite in left behind because the swedes themselves feel a bit insecure about that. they feel like perhaps they would be a target for an attack by russia, if they don't have nato's article 5 that ever all the allies wouldn't come to defend them. but in fact, to rally up swedish self confidence, all of nato says we would never lea

second president wretch up tape and says he will now support finland's bid to join nature. the announcement came off to his meeting with finished president saline nice dough in ankara and said that the turkish parliament will begin ratifying helsinki sped. meanwhile, the swedish foreign minister says on christ decision to only ratify, finland is regrettable. turkey had previously blocked finland as sweet and it's citing security concerns, but still said it has more from cra it was he still they both 14 land and natal. the long awaited decision to apple feel a bit to nato is finally made here in anchorage is finished all english millenniums . is it? we have seen that finland has taken sincere and concrete steps to bethel its commitments in the trilateral memorandum of understanding based on the sensitivity for our country security and the progress that has been made in the protocol for finland, accession to nato. we have decided to initiate the ratification process in our parliament. so seen on car are seeing that last week that has been passive towards victory, finland and

so what about finland? is it likely to become a full nato member soon, even without sweden while kurt clara, this is a very realistic option. would turn key signaling that they might be or care woods ratifying finland's application, finland's membership. while they still have objections, when it comes to sweden, of course, finland and sweden are saying that they would like to join the alliance together. this is what makes sense for the security of the region, and this is what is good for natal. nato officials is say, they don't want to split up the applications, however they would need to accept anchorage decision. however, we also have to stress that president ad one is facing a very tough re election in mit may, and nobody here expects any decision before that date. thank you so much for reporting nasty w's, brussels bureau chief, alexandra phenomena. and before we go, a reminder of the top story we're following for you russia unleashed as a massive missile barrage on cities across ukraine. there have bee

but turkey kept blocking their session complaining that finland was providing safe haven to groups on corner seas . asterisks. dog off belatoya were condemned lashonda. the breakthrough came after, finished president, loudly minister, visited his counterpart in tokyo room. shortly afterwards, rach upkeep, i'd go on a greet to support finland's bid. but despite the hurdles this approval is considered to have come quickly this is a world record speed of 4 in a new member state, the choice maple. so fremont managed to pull it off and that's what so ah, it took quite a lot of diplomacy. behind the scenes work, nato chief un stalson berg said finland, we'll make the whole nato families stronger and safer. but for now, the finish of feeling relieved with a renewed sense of safety feature. now for the business news with steve unbearably, including use president biden's call for a tougher rules on midsize banks to prevent future failures. don't forget, there is always more news, and an elf is around the clock on d, w dot com and you can of course, follows on social media. our handle there is

there is this final finland's final hurdle to joining the alliance. ah my many kips mccann and thanks so much for joining us. slovakia has said that it will supply a fighter jets to ukraine. now that follows a similar announcement by fellow nato member, poland. warsaw said yesterday that it would deliver for fully operational soviet era make 20 nines in the coming days. slovakia now says that it will donate all of its megs as well. so vacuum soviet era fleet was retired in 2022. ukraine has repeatedly urged western partners to send war planes to help defend against russia's invasion. marina moran is an analyst with the war studies department at king's college london. and i asked her why poland in slovakia decided to send apply to jets to ukraine now. well, this is an interesting question because both poland and slovakia have old soviet aircraft, which they can need to ukraine. and we've had this question before when we're this casting and delivering tanks to ukraine a year ago, it would have been unthinkable to supply ukraine with fighter chats becaus

finland have turkey tick. when can the fans expect to get the official to turkish ratification from him? well, it should be a formality. i mean, president one's a p policy controls. parliament has an overwhelming majority. so ratification should be very quick, although no one did seem to indicate a little bit about it. hopefully this will be rectified before the parliament closes for the election in may now quite what that possible delay could be is unclear, but i think that will be a little bit of concern and send them over. this appeared to be a formality, but if everything goes to plan that, that should be enough time in the next couple of weeks. parliament to ratify what you've seen as a myth amount of sweden. now dorian is the clear and obvious exception here. one has significant reservations. why is it one okay, to sign off on finland to join but not sweet? well, part of that was very clear about that. he said the same, the swedish case is all very different. he said walton and has met all the parts of t

i mean, do they play into this decision at all about of finland and nato? well, that's what analysts say that these upcoming turkish elections are key. and this entire process is going to be the toughest test at the ballot box for president reggie tie of ad one in 20 years. and he has been using particularly the stand of with sweden to stage himself as a powerful and influential international leader. as somebody the west, and in this case, nato has to listen to him. that has been part of the entire bargaining process. but the 2 nordic neighbors come from the very beginning, said they want to join nato together. but sweden has always faced much tougher objections from turkey, then finland for harboring groups which onqua considers terrorists. and now that the turkish government says finland has met the turkish security concerns . but it's still accused of sweden, of not having done enough talks with sweden were even dropped in january over a row about protests, including a public burning of the koran, outside the turkish embassy in stockholm. so this dispute

as far as i know, there is no such dialogue as finland has with sweden.l, we understand that turkey, sweden and finland have their own specific track, which is currently being worked out, this track does not exist when we talk about ukraine's prospects in nato and turkey's opinion on this, but turkey has a certain level of relations with the russian federation, this does not mean that this country is e- is an ally in the war of the russian federation against ukraine, but will turkey take a risk let's say this with these relations and individual points in these relations, they vote something for ukraine's membership in nato, they share these positions , relations with russia, modern export of agricultural products and some other points concerning ukraine. turkey, from the very beginning of the war, has called on russia to stop this intervention and occupation . it has always advocated that crimea is the territory of ukraine . the state also forms its policy in this way, and it is just very good for us because it is our southern neighbor. and we very much n

finland tried this system a couple of years ago for local passengers. she liked it very much.plicity with the machine. we'll have to get used to the menu in three languages. buttons. not everyone accepts a lot of paper bills, but then he dialed a number and got a ticket. by the way, it’s 10 cents cheaper than in a machine or from a driver, but there is practically a cell phone and a small account on the card. every athena buys mobile tickets, even inveterate hares progress re-educated. 30% of the people who buy mobile tickets in helsinki wouldn't buy tickets at all if it weren't for mobile tickets, says the helsinki transport authority's profits from maintaining phone tickets are constantly rising savings on face tickets. there is no need to print new machines, there is also no need for free riders , there are fewer, and the remaining hares are not difficult to catch. it would seem that the entrance to public transport, even the metro in helsinki is free. so the ticket can theoretically be ordered only at the moment when you see the conductor, but the finns wouldn't be finals

this may be the time that turkey expresses its decision to allow finland or to approve and ratify finland's decision to join the nato alliance. on wednesday, president erdogan hinted as much, saying turkey was willing to do its part and it would fulfill the promise made by its country. we had other reports that turkey would announce finland's succession. it would seek a face-to-face meeting between both presidents. and finland has accepted that inif iation. this is going to be discussed tomorrow but questions remain over sweden's potential membership of nato. this is a huge concern for nato, ahead of the nato summit. >> many thanks for that report. >>> coming up next, all eyes are on texas and a major legal dispute involving a widely used abortion pill. we'll look at the judge o overseeing the case. >>> more severe weather for the u.s. dallas and oklahoma are expected to get gusty wind, hail and potentially tornadoes. we'll have details for you when we return. when you find your reason to go on, past the pain, and past your limits. no matter what, we go on. biofreeze ah, these bills are cra

right now finland and sweden actively want to gain nato, i sat down with the president of finland to discuss the game-changing moment he says led to his nato push and i asked about finland complex relationship with russia, that is next. later my interview with fox new's benjamin hall who attack while covering the war in ukraine, his truly miraculous story of recovery, we'll be right back. k-d riz r >> shannon: russia is hitting ukraine energy infrastructure harder than it has in months. the goal to keep trying to wear down ukrainian civil knowias, the strikes put pressure on ukrainian leaders to shore up support from the u.s. and europe. in a moment, my interview with the president of finland on the plans to keep ukraine armed and his warning as china grows closer to russia. first to steve harrington in kyiv. hello, steve. >> steve: effects far beyond the war zone. one day been finish prime minister met zelenskyy, russia launched 81 missiles into ukraine knocking out heat and electricity for hundreds of thousands. on the ground, seven months of artillery shelling has turned into a ki

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so seen on car, i've seen that last week that had been passive towards between finland and turkey. and there'll be some of the 3rd party companies also got involved in the negotiations and based on their prisoner one on his team, accepted or agreed to approve the men's accession to natal. indeed, the officials here are seen that jackie says the beginning on has repeatedly said that turkey doesn't have any problem with fin as accession to nato, but the main security problems agreements were with severe. and so today there were no swedish or officials in ankara. however, present added one has been repeatedly asked about sweden's accession, even president or finland at sole in, in easter also has asked present added on to fast and sweden's accession to natal. i have a feeling that her phineas nato membership is not complete. without sweden, we have so much common interest having it being to really neighbor santa having in the baltic sea area going our shore. however, present as one has been explicitly cleared in his answers. he says that they have citizens agreements regarding securit

unlike finland, sued and must continue to wait for the approval from turkey. my luminous old loser fin length president welcomed the decision and repeated his dance that suit and must join nato nato membership. i have a feeling got her phineas nato. membership is not complete without to sweden. we are so much common interest having being to really neighbor santa having in the baltic sea area on our sure. so i would like to see in real news that we really need to the alley us. over 32 members, edwin's criticism of sweden became more pressing as turkey's snake selections are approaching. critics offered to on see he wants to win support from his nationalist waters. did i use terry schultz has been covering this story from brussels, and she told us more about when turkey's parliament could ratify finland's a session and where that leaves hungry now that the biggest obstacle, what was believed to be the biggest obstacle turkeys disapproval of both finish and swedish membership is now unblocked for finland. it will move quickly for helsinki . so president air to on

also on the program. turkeys president finally approved finland's bed to join natural pressure by ado on announced the move off to talk to the finish president and aka. but what about sweden and former office on the prime? the same, ron con, agrees to appear in court to face corruption charges using a political sandal. ah, i'm no massage as well. welcome to the show. the international criminal court in the hague has issued an arrest warrant for russian president vladimir put on the court that the warrant was issued over alleged war crimes and ukraine. boardman suspected to have been involved in the unlawful deportation of children from occupied years of ukraine to russia. the kremlin has dismissed the allegations and said the icy is warrant was meaningless. the charges are the says that the i c. c has even laid against the heat of a permanent member of the you insecurity council, russian president vladimir putin and his commissioner for children's rights. and now wanted for war crimes. there alleged to have been responsible for ukrainian children being forced from the occupied cities

and sweden during the cold war, finland really.sides formally maintained neutrality, but at the same time, sweden was much more aggressive towards the soviet union , hostile neutrality, and finland in finland was more likely such friendly neutrality. they gave them no economic relations in the soviet union there were good enough leaders in finland , even the soviet railway festivities came. uh, and now this transition of finland into such uh is already directly in a hostile military alliance. of course, this is a blow to the interests of the russian federation , to put it briefly. uh, as long as you see, exclusively negative is the result that i did not say. come on, this is a danger. eh, is that, of course, now, but the leaders of finland yet. she has not yet formally joined the alliance. they claim that they will not post on their territory. foreign military bases, but it is absolutely possible that after joining the alliance, the americans are not british. and, perhaps, some others will come and there will be baziatian shifts in

fins open, the schools, the teachers were men broad from finland. they taught him finish speaking russian and class. children were severely beaten with guards still or is a belief that on the quality scale were door ye sways. could speak about this guy, get a martin year for she ski fairly awful. i'm use a spine. yeah. not. so my li, if you know, and z pro chair pro chair pro chair, that's a smart city in law. got approval with that. well, what do you mean? you watch humanoid gear, but daily's but are ice cream? yeah. so i stopped. robert harper. yeah. me the city issue, are you with ali jealous? she's still more so misty back here here, but it was lush, i least, really gave a reagan has been studying the history of carriers since his university is he became interested in military issues. studied the policies and movement underground agents and the korean runs military activities. visual blooming just okay. show me any book you know, think look a little school level. she's the media never knows what it will signal to get the body to consider. person

partners sweden and finland should both join as soon as possible because it will not only strengthen security of the alliance but europe. but also the security of the united states as well. >> so to get back to the first question the criteria is not just to be a democracy quick. >> that is where that pieces. >> not the global democracy index quick. >> of answer your question. it is reflective of a regionally diverse set of countries that all share desire for accountable retrospective governance as well. >> there are many cases not invited. [inaudible] >> we are certainly sorry pakistan chose not to participate but it is a sovereign state and can make decisions for itself. does not change our willingness to work with pakistan. the work together on a broad range of issues we need to engage with them on human rights including freedom of religion and an important security partnership as well. [inaudible] is there anything about that or any type of reparations with house. >> there is a deep security partnership with those counterterrorismt efforts at it would just offer condolences to tho

finland has joined the pile that is working on the creation of a special tribunal against a terroristsupport the peace formula of president zelenskyi, we want this plan to start working we want ukraine to join nato as one of the allied states of this alliance ukraine has already received an invitation to the vilnius nato summit what will happen in july, and according to the president, our country expects specific proposals from the member states of the alliance there. even if we cannot be in nato during the war, we would like to have appropriate security guarantees on this path while we not yet in nato and precisely the appropriate steps for a meeting from the nato countries for a meeting with ukraine to these security guarantees . humanitarian projects are important for us today, the reconstruction of not only the entire industry, but simply helping our people, we are talking about schools, universities , homes for ukrainians today finland announced a new package of 29 million euros for education in the education sector we want education they lived in school in ukraine, that's why sa

so coming up on the program, the turkish president says he will back finland's bid to join nato. but sweden's membership and the military alliance is still uncertain. new as president joe biden's call for a tougher punishment on bank executives, as he tries to reassure the public after the collapse of silicon valley bank. and battling for the basics in the wake of psychos friday, lauins phase food shortages, and now the risk of disease. ah hello and welcome to the program. the international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for the russian president vladimir putin, along with russia's commissioner for children's rights. maria love over below. ver putin is accused of war crimes, after hundreds of ukrainian children were taken from orphanages and children's homes with menu already. now adopted in russia. the i c c says this is the 1st step in ongoing investigations into ukraine. the kremlin is repeatedly denied accusations that its forces have committed atrocities during its invasion of the country. they've branded the court decision null and void. neither russia nor ukra

the news came amid a visit by finland's leader to ankara.— released this statement shortly after the announcement. i welcome today's decision to move ahead with the ratification of finland membership in nato. this will strengthen finland security and sweden's security and it will strengthen nato. i hope that the turkish grand national assembly was vote to ratify as soon as possible. the most important thing is that both finland and sweden become full members of nato quickly. not whether the joint at exactly the same time. stay with us on bbc news. still to come, london's metropolitan police is expected to receive heavily criticism for racist, sexist and homophobic behaviour in a new report. today, we have closed the book on apartheid and that chapter. more than 3,000 subway passengers were affected. nausea, bleeding, headaches and a dimming of vision, all of this caused by an apparently organised attack. the trophy itself was on the pedestal in the middle of the cabinet here. now, this was an international trophy, and we understand now that

so having finland were been, nato is going to be good for the lions and for finland as well. for sweden's, sweden that seems to have to wait a bit longer for turkeys. what if occasion of its nato membership, it is not a problem to wait a few weeks or months, but of course, because they applied for a membership together with finland because it makes sense to have them both sir, in the alliance or to make sure that any security gaps in the baltic, c region for instance are closed then it would make sense to have them both in the lions and that's why the longer the process take said the more difficult it is going to be for sweden. it is a ironic is it, is it not that nato expansion was one of a pretext of mr. brewton. i used to launch his war in ukraine. so matters led to a potential expansion by 2 and also prompted nato countries to increase their defense spending. where the gaps seemed seen to be at the moment. well, even though some members of the alliance, a half began to increase their spending is because all of them see the need and the urgency to do so. we have to say the

now it appears that that focus has shifted to finland.ether it proves to be a positive point for sweden, that remains to be seen. but as you said, we've heard from both the turkish and finnish president hinting that these talks about to begin and turkey will fulfill its promises, will do as is needed. and of course we also heard from the finnish president earlier in the week saying that it was understood that in the event turkey would agree to ratify finland's succession to the nato alliance, a face-to-face meeting would be set up between the two leaders and that finland had in turn accepted that invitation. so this is certainly the expectation for today's talks, but we're waiting to hear from both as they are set to take part in a joint press conference around 9:45 a.m. eastern time. so we're waiting for more details on the next steps when it comes to finland's accession to nato. >> nada, thank you. >>> still ahead, fighting inflation in the european union, what are central bankers doing. >>> and more countries around the world are buyi

the news came amid a visit by finland's leader to ankara.enberg released this statement shortly after the announcement. i welcome the membership of nato. this will strengthen finland's security, it will strengthen sweden's security and it will strengthen nato. i hope that the turkish grand national assembly will vote to ratify as soon as possible. the most important thing is that both finland and sweden become full members of nato quickly. not to where theyjoin at exactly the same time. several thousand people have been protesting for a second night in paris and a number of other french cities. this follows president macron�*s decision, to force through pension reforms, without a vote in the lower house of parliment. demonstrators in paris lit fires and threw fireworks at police, who intervened to disperse the crowds. earlier, opposition parties tabled two seperate motions of �*no confidence' in the government — for its use of a constitutional mechanism to raise the national retirement age from 62 to 64. the actor, lance reddick — best known

did oh use terry schultz told us more about when turkey's parliament could ratify finland's a session and where that leaves hungary now that the biggest obstacle, what was believed to be the biggest obstacle, turkeys or disapproval of, of both finish and swedish membership is now unblocked for finland, it will move quickly for helsinki. so president air to one to day said he would like to see this ratified by the turkish parliament before elections in turkey. in may, hungary has said it will also approve. within the next month or 2, they keep changing the days. so i hesitate to believe exactly which day hungary will ratify. they had said they would do it before christmas. but in any case, this is due to happen within the next couple of months. and then it will move very quickly, president nina. so he said he would like to wrap it up on their side before the next parliament is elected. but that's the 1st week of april t w's. terry shorts, in brussels, former pakistani prime minister, emron. com has agreed to appear in court in islamabad. con left his home in lahore to make the 300 kilo

blocked finland and sweden's bids citing security concerns or thirty's decision to approve finland. but keep sweden waiting for his months of tension with the swedes out as he was poor rece reports from stockholm on how the problems came about. and what being kept out of nature might mean for sweden and their lives. stock home was were on their way home for the weekend when the latest blow to their country's hopes of join nato was announced. turkey would let finland in, but not yet sweden. the main reason take he has claimed that the government in stockholm is harboring what anchor calls terrorist groups, particularly the kurdistan workers party, the p k k. nowadays kick kicker hell has a black market here through the nada and took it on it and took a real sweden take it seriously. gender is a kurdish journalist. he came to sweden in 2005. he watched in january his tension between turkey and sweden reached their height when curtis protested in stock home hung an effigy of turkish president, russia. type err to one in response to his demand that sweden extradite a list of people. he

it's normal to the other thought that in we've seen that finland has taken sincere and concrete steps center to fulfill their commitments under the trilateral memorandum. you don't make young the agatha and considering the sensitivity demonstrated and you eliminate our country's security concerns of her and the progress swollen that has been achieved. vicki falling as she has invasion of ukraine. fin. leonard, sweden applied for nato membership. all 30 nato members must certify the applications. unlike finland, sweden must continue to wait for the approval from turkey by lumen holders. fin length president welcomed the decision and repeated his dance that suit and must join nato, nato membership. i have a feeling got her phineas nato. membership is not complete without sweden. we have so much common interest having being to really neighbor santa having in the baltic sea area on our sure. so i would like to see in real news that we really need to the alley us over 32 members. edwin's criticism of sweden became more pressing as turkey's next elections are approaching. critics off our de

also on the program. turkeys president finally approved finland's bid to join nato. branch of tie up here to want announced and loop after talks with the finish president in ankara. but what about sweden and german chancellor, olaf schultz meets japanese prime minister for me. okay. shita in tokyo for talks aimed at posting economic and defense ties. ah, i'm la. babble a lot. welcome to the show. the international criminal court in the heck has issued an arrest warrant for russia's president vladimir putin. the court said the warrant was issued over a legit war crimes in ukraine. hootin is suspected of involvement in the unlawful deportation of children from occupied areas of ukraine to russia. while the kremlin has dismissed the allegations and said the icy seas warrant was meaningless. the charges are the says that the i c. c has even laid against the heat of a permanent member of the you in security council, russian president vladimir putin and his commissioner for children's rights. and now wanted for war crimes. there alleged to have been responsible for ukrainian children being