and coming up a full lunar eclipse, giving people the chance to see what s known as a super blood moon. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. finland and sweden have abandoned their military non alignment and announced their intention tojoin nato in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. the alliance s secretary general jens stoltenberg has described the move as historic while president putin, talking of finland, described the plan as a mistake . nato, the north atlantic treaty organization, is a military alliance which was formed in 1949 by 12 countries including the us, the uk, canada and france. after the soviet union s collapse in 1991, many former eastern bloc countriesjoined nato. finland which has a border of more than 1,300 kilometre russia and sweden want to join now. nato foreign ministers, who have been meeting in berlin, said they wanted a rapid accession because of the ukrainian crisis. our europe correspondent, nick
better to be ready to deter and to defend our values in europe. i want to rewind slightly, defend our values in europe. i want to rewind slightly, in defend our values in europe. i want to rewind slightly, in your - defend our values in europe. i want to rewind slightly, in your initial- to rewind slightly, in your initial answer you said ukraine must fancy europe s four. but it was ukraine s desire to be a part of nato that is so fundamental and central to this war taking place. why wasn t there a consensus in ukrainejoining nato in the same way that we are seeing support for finland and sweden joining nato? support for finland and sweden joining nate? support for finland and sweden joining nah? support for finland and sweden joining nato? that is a very good cuestion, joining nato? that is a very good question. it joining nato? that is a very good question. it is joining nato? that is a very good question, it is a joining nato? that is a very good question, it is a legiti