other unforeseen consequences due to the guarantees prescribed in the fifth article on the 18th nato nato alliance association, its expansion concerns the military alignment of forces in europe and not the creation of a club of democratic states. russia is not now feels threatened, but it will be forced to take steps to ensure its own security through deterrence against the backdrop of an aggressive policy. in the west, more and more countries are looking for alternative ways, so according to the russian ambassador to argentina on the issue of joining brix, a consensus has developed between different political forces in the republic, and others look at bx as an alternative, as a kind of lighthouse if you want, which illuminates the path to another the future is a future that is built not on dictatorship, not on arm- twisting, not on mentoring, not on ideology e is not a punishment, not on e, if you want to spread a powerful alternative to the west brix calls the business-in edition. it emphasizes that major countries continue to show great interest in economic cooperation with moscow and this show

nato. nato is a defensive alliance, but the russian military would have to take this into account. and i would simply also note that for 20 years russia has sought to divide the nato alliance on multiple issues, sought to fracture it in order to paralyze it diplomatically and militarily. and the strength with which, and of the public and political strength of the desire to accede to nato by both finland and sweden has further strengthened the alliance and has shown to the family kremlin that its efforts to weaken the airlines have not only failed but have actually reverberated negatively. actu >> and if i could just make two quick comments in response to the question, senator cardin, first in -- your question on the impact of russia's calculation, the irony here is that vladimir putin said one of the reasons he was engaging in this brutal assault on ukraine was his concern about nato getting too close to russia's borders. well, what a miscalculation, what a strategic miscalculation! if that was his concern, he now has finland with an 830 mile border with russia and sweden saying they want to join nato. so that's quite striking. and second point is, of course, we a

alliance. i welcome the opportunity to share with you today. why the administration unequivocally supports finland and sweden membership in nato. we strongly support nato's open door policy, and firmly believe that these two countries membership in the alliance would benefit the national security of the united states and strengthen the collective defense of nato and the broader security of the euro atlantic region. as president biden said when he welcomed finish president, missed oh, and swedish prime minister, anderson, to the white house last month, we are proud to offer the strong support of the united states to the application of two great democracies and to close, highly capable partners, to join the strongest most powerful defensive alliance in the history of the world. end quote. likewise, i want to think the more than 80 senators who signaled their full support for sweden and finland's application for nato membership in a letter to the president. as well as the bipartisan senate resolution, 646, in support of their nato accession. this provides another endorsement for the strong and capable democracies. the administration has provided reports to

nato, nato 3.0. european defense budgets are rocketing up. sweden and finland have joined nato. unthinkable during nato 2.0 or even during 1.0. we see the alliance hanging together remarkably well in the face of this third invasion. the third being the second invasion of ukraine. we are very much in nato 3.0. defense budgets going up. sweden and family joining. -- finland joining. it's an unfortunate necessity we have to confront russia in such a dramatic way. patrick: we have a lot to unpack with elements of the new strategic concepts. i want to get your views on the russian reaction. senior officials in the russian government said the nato summit confirms the policy of "aggressive containment of russia." i am wondering if you see putin seeing this as a major threat. he's been making similar statements back to 2007. is this time different? how do you think people respond? adm. stavridis: putin has no option to respond. he leads a weak nation with the defense budget of $60 billion a year. nato defense budget of north of $900 billion. $60 billion versus $900 billion. he has an army he has broken apart fighting with the 15th largest army in the wo

in what way nato will force russia not to act as they are currently acting in ukraine, they are talking about the fact that nato will deter russia from attacking nato itself and the allianceis is logical and understandable, because the main task of this organization is the defense of its members, but still, nato failed to take leadership and responsibility for development situations outside the borders of nato, and this i consider to be the most negative consequence and result of this, precisely because if nato continues to act in this way, russia will have space for the maximum realization of its aspirations and tasks if they do not touch or interfere in the affairs of the alliance, i.e. if russia does not cross these red lines of the alliance, it actually has complete freedom of action in the caucasus and central asia or, er, in eastern europe, that is, the so-called post- soviet space is meant. well, actually, your conclusion is somewhat let's say it's debatable because, relatively speaking, we understand that now it's trying too hard to be more proactive, because it seems the concept of 2010 , which provided for a partnership with russia, it really looks completely si

nato summit that is wrapping up. nato is clearly standing by ukraine, our strains on the alliance being shown behind the scenes as energy prices soar? >> you are absolute right, there is such a renewed commitment by natoies, by the member states of this alliance to ukraine. we have been hearing for the past few days here in madrid. yen stoltenberg saying they are recommitting to ukraine, however long it takes, he is saying to support ukraine. we heard president joe biden just today saying nato allies will be protecting every inch of nato territory. as nick was just respect -- was just referring to their, the ammunitions reaching ukraire being used up incredibly quickly. ukrainian military forces are being outgunned 10 to 1. there is a desperate need for the chretien military to be supported, both -- the ukrainian military to be supported, to be bolstered. president biden announcing an $800 million military aid package to ukraine. president zelenskyy was incredibly frank saying that they need $5 bon a month to sustain themselves. while the alliance says they're committed and want to support ukraine, the issue is, that ukraine really needs help and needs help quickly. >> it is only ae of yearsplou ago t

nato. the uk is no longer part of the eu but they are part of nato and that nato alliance has proved to be unately very strong over the last few months since the war in ukraine broke out. what do you think this could potentially mean for the war and nato's support of ukraine? >> it's very striking that some of the strongest messages and regrets about boris johnson's the departure have come from zelenskyy and other members of his government. he is the uk's been some of the staunchest defenders of ukraine with the exception of poland in the last few months. it's been very strong and standing up and against vladimir putin in moscow, and also supplying arms with the arms that it could supply. britain has been absolutely at the forefront of trying to help ukraine and helping the america helping ukraine as well. that's important it's felt pretty much across the board and british leadership. and if somebody is to replace boris johnson, she is potentially more outspoken with regards to ukraine the boris johnson was. but it's not just the case of britain can do with it right now. frankly, nato and t

nato summit in spain, pump m pageantry in madrid. the 2 days of the summit of the 30 leaders in nato have seen the military alliance tightened ranks against russia. and the attack on one is attack at all and we will defend every edge of nato territory. every edge of nato territory. for our part, united states is doing exactly what i said, we do it prudent, invaded it, hatch our forest posture, your nato leaders agreed. a new strategy for the alliance at the madrid summit and being any pretence of partnership with russia. then that's actually his state, not on a defensive, in fact, nato as a defensive alliance, unless it does not attack other countries and has no intention of doing so on diagnose. it is not a threat to any one within its own neighborhood. in fact, it is putin who has made imperialism the goal of his policies and the object of his products must have some kingston's unapologetic. russia continues to wage its war against ukraine. and while a number of alliance members have announced new deliveries of weapons and additional military funding of over 2000000000 euros, keith says it's simply not enough, declared co brothers who represented ukraine here in person in madrid. one that ukraine's fight is a fight for

nato, no one really began to ask politicians and the media in the west whether they say that nato is an exclusively defensive alliance in the east, no one believes in it the official representative of the chinese species posted on social networks photographs carried out by the alliance. bombings yugoslavia afghanistan iraq libya with the signature of the bomb is the symbol of natoliance jokingly on camera for a century, the representative of china says the same thing, but already in the context of entire regions, the crisis and bloc confrontation that the alliance created in europe, nato is now trying to repeat in the asia-pacific region. this is a very worrisome development in a strange region and the international community must be on the alert and say a firm no, determination is important given that the alliance itself will stop in the military development of the territory. more and more countries obviously cannot alexander khristenko kirill zotov lead. the course of the special operation in ukraine new threats to asia from the west and the reconstruction of the expansion of border checkpoints and discussions of preferential status with buryatia were discussed today by the heads of the foreign ministries of russia and mongolia sergey lavrov's visit to ulaanbaatar. this is not only an understandable dialogue between friendly countries, but also a colorful cer

nato and after that already, finland and sweden will begin the necessary ratification by the parliaments of the 30 countries that are part of nato, after which sweden and finland must join the north atlantic alliance, let's start with nato, since the nato summit was held last week and there were a lot of talks with about what actually happened at this memorial in madrid, but the main question for us is why the ukrainian authorities still did not declare at this summit about the need or desire to receive a plan for the development of peacekeeping operations, let's divide the summit into madeidi on what was said publicly and what was discussed behind the scenes, what are the main results that we saw and heard. this is the first change in nato's strategic concept in 12 years, uh, because the last one was in the 10th year, and there russia was called a threat to nato, they are her they didn't call it an enemy, but in diplomatic language it's one and the same thing and it's an immediate threat, it's a threat, there 's really no diplomacy here, it's a fundamental change from what was before, since there were words about partnerships, now it's a partnership. goodbye. and of course china is called a challenge for nato there, i

nato alliance. he was mistaken. instead, finland and sweden responded by dropping their policies of military neutrality and applying for nato membership. as nato general secretary put it, vladimir putin wanted less nato and now he's getting more nato on his borders. finland and sweden will both be significant security providers for nato. this bipartisan resolution supports ratifying the accession of sweden and finland into nato. having served as president of the nato parliamentary assembly, i understand the fundamental role this organization plays in supporting freedom. finland and sweden's location in northern europe advanced decades of fighting alongside the u.s. and nato will strengthen the security. they have well trained armed forces, sophisticated modern weapon systems and have committed to allocating 2% of their gross domestic product to defense spending. both militaries are highly interoperable with nato forces, having participated in numerous nato-led operations from afghanistan, iraq, bosnia and hertz gogh vina -- hertz hertz and kosovo. they had a $12 billion. and i urge my colleagues to support members of nato t

nato how important it is to have such a security alliance in europe, what we need is leadership in nato hello president biden. hello present we need leadership. we need to press on partners who do not spend 2% of gdp on defense, the nato summit was held in madrid, spain spends 1.2% of gdp and after that they also carry out the sanctions regime against iran is similar to the swiss circus, because the biden administration. i think somewhere deep in his heart he wants us to buy iranian oil. they certainly don't mind the chinese buying their oil and the russians failing their drones. you know what is missing in the world, at least one person who is afraid of america, we need to instill fear in the bad guys and hope in the good ones. it is incredibly simple to have

nato issued its new 2022 strategic concept on label russia, the quote most significant underneath threat to the block. however, not every own within the nato alliance seems on board with both that and other key front and center policies. with more here shar t shorter dubin ski. at the nato summit in madrid, the alliance made it crystal clear, just how it sees russia to day leaders have endorsed naples new strategic concept. it makes clear that russia's russia pulses the most significant and dyadic threat to our security. but despite nato officials claiming that their one big united front, some divisions are showing through the cracks, the u. s. u. k and eastern european members want to see moscow weakened, permanent play, but other key block powers calling 1st swift ceasefire in ukraine and a diplomatic settlement that would allow all sides to walk away with a head held high to some degree. it's not clear just what nater chief yen stilton berg really wants either. if this becomes a full scale war between russia and natal, then was it suffering damage? death destruction at the scale, which is much, much worse than what you see in your crane to they yours over a correspond built of course to prevent escalation beyond ukraine. and that's the reason why nate was not a part

irresponsible to attack nato now, as well as to reject nato so that it does not protect us, because we are not, in principle, a member of the north atlantic alliance, nevertheless natos help us a lot in our bilateral bilateral relations with weapons, and here we understand that nato also sees putin's attempts to directly involve the north atlantic alliance in a conflict with the russian federation, and maybe putin is there is trying to really test nato's strength , it's clear that this will turn into a very big, very big bloody war, it's possible with the use of weapons of mass destruction, therefore, in this case, nato behaves sufficiently diplomatically and sufficiently, let's say so. things er doing all the necessary e-e steps are considered and that's why i want to support my college andrii because he said that the a-a decision on reorientation is actually nato in connection with the new e-e strategy that was adopted at the mother summit, in particular the recognition by russia the biggest threat and this will already mean that all nato forces will be completely reoriented precisely to counteract the russian threat and further ukraine can only receive from this

now, nato some have declared nato brain dead in the past, but putin's aggression against ukraine kissed the alliance awawake. nato now confronts is biggest realignment since the cold war. let's have a quick look on land in the air and on the water. nato has been present in the baltics and poland since russia's activity and occupation of crimea in 2014 as a deterrent so far. now the transition from deterrence to a state of alert, the nato troops already present on the eastern borders will be increased to brigade level. that means up to 5000 soldiers each and bases are to become permanent. germany has already announced its intention to lead the combat brigade in lithuania. nato's very high readiness joint task force will be increased seven fold in the event of an emergency to 300,000 soldiers more money will flow, â1 billion euros will be invested for the development of new technologies. the path is clear for finland and sweden to join the military alliance with this. nato will grow to 32 member states exercises in the event of an attack are underway. like in this maneuver in the baltic sea. does nato now have a pe

nato is quintessentially i the most difficult and bitter point for putin personally. and georgian government's position on nato is crystal clear and has- been crystal clear for the last 20 . years — we want to join the alliance and thisjoining of the alliance is not a transactional policy. that we want to get security and then do whatever - we would like to do. it is in the first place - what we call the value—based alliance and value based friendship with nato entire region, you know, the european union and nato as one euro—atlantic space. _ every eight or nine georgians out of ten believe very firmly, - we have to become members i of the european union, we have to become members of of the nato, i and no single government can change that in this country. but we've got a question about the eu again here in the audience. thank you for this interesting discussion. so my question is, what does georgia's application to join european union mean from president putin? _ you answer that. well, president putin, he said that he does not care about it, that he, as mentioned, he does not care about nato and he does not care about european union. but i don't think that he's telling the truth sometimes. he's lying. of course, for putin, georgian and ukrainian and moldovan applications for the european union are yet another reason to to be stronger on them, because it is another reason for him that they are trying to go away from from the kremlin influence

alliance will prevent conflict and protect our people and values. lewis: nato has a renewed sense of purpose. funding is increasing and it has a new strategic concept which says natows russia as the most significant and direct threat. and it will get two new members, sweden and finland. >> if you want proof that nato is a. the offensive alliance -- a purely defensive alliance, you could haveo better testimony then swindling -- sweden and finland, countries that have been neutral for decades. the fact that these peaceful countries have joined nato tells you more about nato and all you need to know about putin. lewis: putin sees nato as a threat. when it was created, there were only 12 members, but it has grown, particularly into eastern europe as a former soviet union countries joined. it has become the most powerful military alliance in the world and this is what it will look like with finland and sweden -- 32 members. nato's position toward russia is clear. here is frank gardner asking estonia's prime minister about putin. >> i think the west has been misled by putin. he has lied a lot and not kept promises. therefore, we should not believe him. lewis: while supp

nato. nato is the most successful security alliance in world history and it's rooted in shared values and shared concerns and interests. one of the most pieces of nato just happened a few months ago were three little baltic states lithuania estonia for decades were under the heels of the soviet union. it admitted to nato. difficult to defend an i'll tell you about the reasons i join with my colleagues. we should swiftly ratify the joining to nato of folks that will supply -- they will be security contributors to this alliance. the gig young man or woman from iowa our north carolina from missouri to hampshire delaware will have to risk or give their lives defending latvia or lithuania will go down dramatically if we have on that order of the northern end of the nato alliance in new 830-mile border between finland and russia. the russians know they will have to give attention given the unique history and countries aligned with our values will continue to contribute to this important alliance. in our meetings with heads of state from europe like chancellor schulte and the end of pacific in conversations with foreign secretaries like the united kingdom

nato members a do to sign off to day on the protocols for sweden and finland to join the military alliance. 30 nato allies made the historic decision to invite the nordic countries at last week summit. nato secretary general says expansion will further increase moscow's isolation in the wake of the invasion of ukraine. the membership bids still need to be fully approved, which means turkey could still stop the agreement to his president has again threatened to block the process of sweden and finland don't meet its demands to extradite terror suspects, linked to outlawed coded incorrectly for would assign a mass routing in the u. s. has cast a shadow over the countries most patriotic holiday. 6 people are dead and at least 30 injured a gum, an open fire from a rooftop in the chicago suburb of highland park. striking crowds gathered for a 4th of july parade. it was supposed to be a day of celebration of fun with friends and family. instead, people had to run for their lives. minutes earlier families with young children had been gathering for the parade when gunshot suddenly bang out panic perrins trying to protect their children. i remember hearing shootings and go, i like i'll, i thought

nato, in fact, in four months of the war, russia will receive another expansion of nato by two more countries regarding the threats from china, your interpretation of this history, the attitude of the alliance to this eastern flank of its security. the wording itself is not so harsh if it is russia, that is, it is more about strategic rivalry, again, we all saw in the statement of the minister of foreign affairs of china that even this qualification was very offensive official beijing, which believes that natoconditionally overstepping its authority and interfering in a region that is not covered by us in nato, the members of the alliance think otherwise. it is evidence that nato is aware of the threats coming from parts of the world and wants to expand its cooperation and its presence with the countries that are china's neighbors in relation to the baltic countries and the threat from russia through belarus there only through belarus does not have a direct border with russia, lithuania, for example, only has kaliningrad and a border with belarus, here is the latest information from our ministry of internal affairs - the ministry of internal affairs in ukraine has strengthened checkpoints due to the threat of infiltration of the ministry of internal affairs of belarus, deputy minister of internal affairs yevgeny yenin stated that the regime of control at checkpoints has been strengthened due to the threat of infiltration subversive intelligence groups from the territory of belarus, but rega

respond to any nato forces in sweden and finland, who have been formally invited to join the an alliance. >> there is nothing that concerns us about becoming nato neighbors. but -- members. but nato- for sweden and finland should understand they faced no threats before and now if nato threatens us, we will have to respond in kind. >> everything was going fine between us but now there will be tension. this is obvious and inevitable. i repeat, if they pose a threat to us. >> a french court has found 19 people guilty on terrorism charges attacks. 130 people had been killed in attacks across the french capital. thousands of people there the capital of ghana have gathered for a second day of protests over inflation. activists say they are angry about rising taxes, fuel prices, and allegations of police brutality. columbia's truth commission says more than 450,000 people were killed during their long civil conflict. names they were on drugs as prolonging the conflict. r. kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking and racketeering. the court says he committed the crimes for over three decades in the music industry. the news continues here on al jazeera after insi

nato leaders to support ukraine as long as it takes in madrid . the nato summit ended with the alliance moving forward to expand in size and in the number of troops stationed in eastern europe and the mystery of portugal vanishing. sea horse, these waters were once home to the world's largest population of sea horses will look at why the creatures have now all but disappeared. ah, i am ami annisa. welcome to the program. the u. s. supreme court has ruled that america's environmental protection agency does not have the authority to limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal fired power plants. the ruling by the courts. conservative majority marks a set back in the bible, administration's fight against climate change and means the white house will now have to work through a deeply divided congress in its battle to curb emissions another week. another u. s. supreme court ruling with far reaching consequences. this one concerns coal fired power plant and the extent to which the u. s. environmental protection agency can force them to cut emissions. the court ruled that the agency is not authorized to make decisions with such economic and political implications. today the court put the fossil fuel industries and interests over the over their own people. and that is, that's actually horrible. there is so much consensus right now that the climate crisis is our number one issue and the fact that we're already not doing enough. you as president joe biden wants to make the u. s. a leader on climate change. the plan was to make electricity generation carbon neutral by 2035, but that depended on having the environmental protection agency behind it. instead, the court says it's now up to congress to pass climate laws, but support for biden. there is far from assured or washington correspondent sumi so misconduct has this analysis on why it may be impossible now for the biden administration to reach its climate targets. it is hard to overstate the importance of this ruling from the supreme court. it severely limits the e p a, the environmental protection agency from regulating emissions from power plants. the supreme court saying here congress did not give a federal agency the right to regulate on big issues like climate change. and that power must rest with congress. but climate legislation isn't getting anywhere in congress were such legislation has been gridlocked. one of the very 1st things president biden did when entering office was to rejoin the paris climate agreement . he has made ambitious targets part of his administration's plans committing to reducing emissions by at least 50 percent this decade. the u. s. still really relies on fossil fuel power plants. they make up about a 4th of us greenhouse gas emissions. so the ability to rein in that production is very important to president by the climate plans and his ability to use a get executive power has been key so severely restricting the ability of the e p. a here to act is going to be a big blow to president biden, and his attempts to make progress on global warming. and that this all comes, i should say, as the countries witnessing devastating weather patterns that scientists attribute to global warming. things like massive heat waves, a droughts, wildfires, and flooding, and the disappointment can be sense beyond the u. s. as well. the united nations are saying today in a statement that it doesn't provide commentary on issues in individual member states, but said quote, we can say that this is a setback in our fight against climate change. when we are already far off track meeting the goals of the paris agreement, so blow a generally to global efforts to curve global warming to these sunni so misconduct in washington. nieto ended its summit to day with a tougher line on russia and a promise to increase true presence in europe. the meeting in spain also concluded with 2 countries, finland and sweden officially invited to become members of the alliance. pomp and pageantry in madrid. leaders of the 30 nato member states have tightened ranks against russia and the attack on one is attack at all and we will defend every edge of nato territory, every edge of nato territory. for our part, the united states is doing exactly what i said we do it prudent, invaded it, hence our forest posture of your nature agreed on a new strategy, ending any pretence of partnership with russia than that's actually history. in fact, nato is a defense of alliance. it does not attack other countries and has no intention of doing so was it? it is not a threat to any one in its own neighbourhood. i live, in fact, it is pooty who has made imperialism the goal and the object of his policy is on up politic gemacht arnold from kingston's unapologetic. while some members have announced new deliveries of weapons to ukraine and additional military funding of more than 2000000000, yuri's chief says it's simply not enough to catch co brothers who represented ukraine here in person in madrid. one that ukraine's fight is a f

nato summit to protest against the blocks policy. this year, spain is marking the 40th anniversary of its session to nato. the summit was dominated by the ukraine conflict and the alliance's efforts to provide more weaponry to kill the message. the protesters, however, focused on nato's endeavors, claiming it is no source of peace as they called, forced into withdraw from the blind. in australia, 7 in tenant people say that their governments alliance with washington increases the chance of it being drawn into a war in asia pacific. a war that would be against national interests. that is, according to an annual foreign policy poll conducted by the local institute, a prominent sydney base to the think tank. but despite the concerns, more than 80 percent of australian save that the alliance is important for their national security. that's a major growing tension between beijing and cambra. after australia leader attended a nato summit for the 1st time. earlier, my colleague nicky aaron discussed nato's swiftly evolving strategy with a panel of guests. they test his claims to pluck does not once a confrontation with my case. it was your take on that statement, considering the fact that many ukrainian trips were trained by nato instructors and now fighting with weapons su

nato trust said she wants to see the alliance expand around the globe with the goal of countering both russia and china. she has also said nato should be doing more to quote, protect taiwan from china. despite the fact that under the one china policy, which the u. k recognizes taiwan is part of china, so was soon asked be any better. well, the chancellor has not been nearly as outspoken as his opponent when it comes to global conflicts and he has voice concerns about the u. k. the economy as it continues to pledge support for ukraine. buddy has also said he sees the u. k. is funding for the nato alliance, continuing to grow in the future. first view on nato target as a flaw and also ceiling. so that's something that i can absolutely commit to. and also the most important thing to know is all defense spending is already full cost to grow, to around to an office and over time as a result of the investments that we're making. so it appears that once again, the u. k. as in a position where it's new prime minister will tow benito line and follow the advice of johnson who use his parting speech to tell his country to stay close to be americans and stick up for the ukrainians. the question now becomes will be the candidate who appears ready to go along with, with the alliance ones or the one who wants to shape the future of nato as an even more hawkish lions aiming to expand the current tangent, no matter the cost. it's an old trick the politicians have been doing since, since the time of the turn to destruction and media away from problems back home and using big international issu

nato alliance. once approved by all 30 current members of nato, these two nations will become integral members of the alliance. both have strong and capable militaries and are already net contributors to the security alliance. although militarily unaligned for decades, finland and sweden have long defended europe's high north, a region becoming even more important with the competition from russia and china in the arctic. both already demonstrated the intraoperability and the commitment necessary to join the alliance. finland already spends more than 2% of its gdp on defense and sweden laid out its plan to reach that mark shortly. both requirements for joining nato. these countries also bring additional capabilities to nato. both are intimately familiar with the north and east flank of europe. finland also trains u.s. forces in cold weather operations and the finnish avenue is suited to operate and defend the baltic sea where some navy ships have less maneuverability being blue water navy. they both participated in missions in afghanistan, the balkans and iraq. they operated with less restrictions on

what about the alliance is support for you. crane can kid now be assured that nato has its back? well, i think that nato is very determined to continue supporting ukraine and said you asked. busy president joe biden told us here in madrid at that nato is sticking with ukraine as long as it's takes. however, he couldn't answer that question. what is the outlook here? how long is this war going to last? and that is, of course, the question that is on the mind of many people and in europe and in the united states. because of course, supporting ukraine, it's one think, but says sanction in sanctioning. russia is also not painless for europe. and for the you ask, when we see what's going on inflation soaring prices. so everyone here is aware that the longer the war dregs on the bigger is the risk that the support for ukraine could dwindle. alexander, thank you very much. that was our brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena in madrid. china's president, she jane ping has concluded a visit to hong kong to mar 25 years since the united kingdom handed over control of the territory. during his visit, she praise

nato alliance. after decades of neutrality, the 2 countries are moved to join nato in response to russia's invasion of cray ratification will require unanimous approval by all 30 current nato states. vladimir putin has warned that his country's offensive in ukraine has barely begun . is also accused the west of fueling, the war declaring that western efforts to defeat him would bring tragedy to ukraine . the russian president was addressing parliamentary leaders to renew my solution. we are hearing that they want to defeat us up. will you on the battlefield? what can i say is good with let them try mosier more. we have often heard the wes wants us to fight it until the last ukrainian it that there it's a tragedy. the ukrainian people look, behold, but it looks like it's heading in that direction. no, she doesn't. but everybody should know that largely speaking. sure that we haven't even yet started anything in earnest. but at the same time we don't refuse peace talks. but those who refuse should no longer loss the more difficult it will be for them to make a deal without him sledging year. in would

nato members refused us our wish or to become a member of the alliance in this direction, we are refraining from any steps for the time being, we will not step into nato in the near future, and we did not expect nato make breakthrough decisions for ukraine at the summit. unfortunately, the alliance will not have enough collective determination to cross the red lines on putin's drawing, that is why the country is forced to look for other options to protect national security and safety, and its citizens are ready to consider direct security guarantees from various countries, said olga stefanishina, vice prime minister for european euro -atlantic integration. let's go to the panel, igor , write back, i'll answer, i'm less worried about the discussion, i'm more worried about the situation on the front line, this is now the main issue that i think should worry our ukrainians. like those who is fighting er defends those er good people who help all over the world and from these political documents that i read that reach me from world capitals i think that those world capitals that help us understand this perfectly therefore, now the military affairs are in the foreground, the political affairs are in the

military alliance. pomp and pageantry in madrid. leaders of the 30 nato member states have tightened ranks against russia as an attack on one is attack at all and we will defend every edge of nato territory. every edge of nato territory, for our part, united states is doing exactly what i said. who do it prudent invaded, enhance our forest posture, your nato agreed on a new strategy, ending any pretence of partnership with russia. then that's like the history. in fact, nato is a defense of alliance. it does not attack other countries and has no intention of doing so was it? it is not a threat to any one in its own neighbourhood. i know, but in fact, it is puting who has made imperialism the goal and the object of his policy is on up politic gemacht, arnold from games, johnson up politic. while some members have announced new deliveries of weapons to ukraine and additional military funding of more than 2000000000, yuri's chief says it's simply not enough to catch co brothers who represented ukraine here in person in madrid. one that ukraine's fight is a fight for europe. wake up, guys. this is happening now. you're going to be next. this is gonna be knocking on your door. just i

centuries an alliance that functions for the benefit of all countries of peoples, if before they said that russia should not be afraid of nato and in general, no one should be afraid of natod for adults. uh, talking so obvious. e stupidity. i would say just embarrassing. and now when they say that nato should take on a global dimension in terms of responsibility for security around the world when they say indo-pacific. they came up with such a term specifically for the indo-pacific region, and in order to try to lure india into their networks, nato should also be responsible for security in this part of the globe, in other words. they do not even hide it, especially the next line of defense of this defensive alliance will lie in the southern china sea, because china has already been designated in final documents. this summit in madrid, which recently ended as the main systemic long-term challenge. about the pacific rim index , peskov just said that putin had a telephone conversation with the prime minister today. india on the icy fashion render commented on peskov's statement by the president of finland to her. naturally. if you have not heard, then he said that he would

the fastest process in the history of nato regarding the expansion of the alliance. countries submitted in may in kyiv, it is actually clear that the path to nato actually be shorter than it always seemed . because as it turned out, it is possible to do without a plan actions regarding membership, which ukraine has not yet received, which the alliance said was mandatory well, and which in the end the scandinavian recruits did not need right now these two countries can actually be present at the meetings of the member countries of the alliance well, but they will not have the right to vote and he will appear only 30 parliaments of the member countries of the allies ratify the treaty on the accession of sweden and finland to donato , only then will they become full members of the alliance. there is hope for ukraine too thank you zoryana stepanenko from brussels well, some important news that just appeared on the website of radio liberty , the un human rights monitoring mission reports that as of july 4, that is, as of yesterday, 8,889 cases of death and 6,263 cases of injury have been confirmed of civilians as a result of the full-scale invasion