in northern ireland to try to help restore power sharing at stormont. and, a triumphant ukraine wins the eurovision song contest after claiming the popular vote. finland s government has announced it will apply to join nato. its parliament is expected to approve the application within days. sweden is likely to do the same. nato foreign ministers, who are meeting in berlin, say they want a rapid accession because of the crisis in ukraine. the secretary general of nato, jens stoltenberg, welcomed finland s application, and said it would increase nato s shared security. president putin has already called finland s move a mistake. from berlin, our europe correspondent, nick beake, reports. a fresh aerial attack lights the sky above the besieged mariupol steelworks. this is where the last of the city s defenders have been holed up, a final ukrainian stand against a relentless russian bombardment. but as well as by land and by sea, russia continues its assault from the air, foc
thatjust continues in any case. in terms of the offensive itself, the general in charge is trying to be more coherent. one of the reasons the ukrainians have recaptured areas right up to the russian border is because the russians have withdrawn. the battle group is around 15,000 20,000 troops, and they are not committed yet. they have got the troops they have withdrawn from kharkiv, plus these 15,000 in belgorod, who they will certainly feed into the offensive and at the donbas region. undoubtedly they are losing troops and equipment at the front of the offensive. what they want to try to do is get some momentum going forward and then feed in more troops to build on that