the swedish prime minister, ulf kristersson, called it a good day for sweden.e's what the native chief had to say about it earlier. -- nato chief had to say about it earlier. >> this is a vital security contract. nato will be stepping up work in this area. i will establish for the first time a nato post ospecial coordinator for counterterrorism. completing sweden's accession to nato is a historic step that benefits the security of all nato allies at this critical time. it makes us all stronger and safer. >> our correspondent, jessica parker, his life in washington with a look at the upcoming summit. this is indeed a significant summit, turkiye paving the way for joining. what has changed? >> a significant development. as you say, what we are hearing from the secretary of nato test -- secretary-general of nato, stoltenberg, calling this a necessary step. all nato members need to agree to new and aspiring members. this had been a big roadblock for sweden. turkey had accused sweden of hosting kurdish militants and talks have been going on hosted by stoltenberg bet

. _ us presidentjoe biden hosted sweden's prime minister, ulf kristersson, at the white house to holdt the economy, climate crisis, and his country's bid tojoin nato, which biden said he's "anxiously looking forward" to. this ulf kristersson, at the white house to hold critical talks about the economy, climate crisis, and his country's bid i spoke to deputy secretary general of nat rose gottemoeler about the significance of sweden joining nato. what would sweden bring to the alliance? ,, ., , ., ., , alliance? sweden has already been an extraordinary - alliance? sweden has already| been an extraordinary partner of nato. they have been for many years now, participating in the baltic air policing mission where nato together with both sweden and finland already are members of nato, working together to control the airspace over the baltic sea at airspace over the baltic sea at a time in the russians have increasingly been impinging on national aerospace. it's been an importantjoint effort and it goes to show how in the partnerships, sweden has already developed this terrific military inte

the swedish prime minister ulf kristersson called it "a good day for sweden."s vaughanjones is at the site of the summit with details of how the deal unfolded. it seems this nato summit here in vilnius will be getting under way after a very significant concrete achievement. jens stoltenberg, the head of nato, announcing that turkey had agreed sweden could start the process to membership. completing sweden's accession to nato is a historic step. it makes us all stronger and safer. ~ ., ., , safer. within nato, every country _ safer. within nato, every country has _ safer. within nato, every country has a _ safer. within nato, every country has a veto. - safer. within nato, everyl country has a veto. turkey safer. within nato, every- country has a veto. turkey had some reservations and the beginning of the day the two sides seemed a long way apart. president erdogan, starting to talk about things like opening a doorfor turkey to eu membership before sweden then is allowed to open the door into a nato membership. eu and nato, of course, completely separate organis

us presidentjoe biden hosted sweden's prime minister, ulf kristersson, at the white house to hold critical talks about the economy, climate crisis, and his country's bid tojoin nato, which biden said he's "anxiously looking forward" to. the meeting comesjust days before biden heads to europe for next week's nato summit, during which ukraine will once again be front and center. we are stepping up to protect our shared democratic values including providing security and humanitarian assistance, a great, great deal as ukraine bravely defend themselves against russia's brutality. the un's nuclear watchdog says its inspectors need greater access to the russian—occupied zaporizhzhia plant in ukraine. they want to make sure explosives have not been planted there. it follows a claim by ukraine's president that objects that looked like explosive devices had been placed on the site. our correspondent gordon corera has more from kyiv. the warnings over what could happen at the nuclear power plant has been becoming more intense. president zelensky and his last overnight address said his last overnight

what is more important to the swedish prime minister, ulf kristersson, is that his country will now feel under the nato umbrella. you simply have to look at the map to realise that it's something missing when sweden is not a part of nato, and as i have told nato systems themselves, we obviously seek common protection by applying for nato membership, but we also want to stress that we do think we can provide security as well. we have capabilities that are extremely rare and very specific, and we want to use them for common protection, so i think we do bring good things. let's bring in carl belt, the former prime minister of sweden in the country's foreign minister for many years. very welcome to the programme. the swedish prime minister sitting out the benefits to sweden. what do you make of the reaction in moscow today? i sweden. what do you make of the reaction in moscow today?- reaction in moscow today? i think the have reaction in moscow today? i think they have to _ reaction in moscow today? i think they have to say _ reaction in moscow today? i think they have to say something. - re

so swedish prime minister ulf kristersson has said that he's extremely worried about the consequencesch the quran desecrated amid the quran is desecrated amid growing muslim anger at a series of attacks on islam's holy book. so is a worry that the so this is a worry that the swedish prime minister has not just fearing just because of his fearing local retaliation , he's also local retaliation, he's also fearing how that's going to affect sweden's standing the affect sweden's standing in the kind of global political arena. so sweden are worried about what turkey are going to think of this because they need . sorry, this because they need. sorry, one second. who needs turkey needs sweden's backing or sweden needs sweden's backing or sweden needs turkey's backing. >> sweden is turkey's backing to join? >> yes, i thought. how sweden not in it. >> i think it's already been okayed.i >> i think it's already been okayed. i think turkey came out and said, yeah, no, we're going to do it okay they're to do it now. okay they're leaning. they're away leaning. they're pivoting away from yeah. i mea

so swedish prime minister ulf kristersson has said that he's extremely worried about the consequencesch the quran desecrated amid the quran is desecrated amid growing muslim anger at a series of attacks on islam's holy book. so is a worry that the so this is a worry that the swedish prime minister has not just fearing just because of his fearing local retaliation , he's also local retaliation, he's also fearing how that's going to affect sweden's standing the affect sweden's standing in the kind of global political arena. so sweden are worried about what turkey are going to think of this because they need . sorry, this because they need. sorry, one second. who needs turkey needs sweden's backing or sweden needs sweden's backing or sweden needs turkey's backing. >> sweden is turkey's backing to join? >> yes, i thought. how sweden not in it. >> i think it's already been okayed.i >> i think it's already been okayed. i think turkey came out and said, yeah, no, we're going to do it okay they're to do it now. okay they're leaning. they're away leaning. they're pivoting away from yeah. i mea