The nato summit now under way with ukraine s bid to join the alliance. that s hanging over the meetings especially as we already watched him with his key deliverable regarding sweden. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has pushed for a fast track membership because russia invaded his country. that happened more than # 500 days ago. yesterday he called on nato members to send a clear signal his country will join the alliance when the war ends. president biden and other leaders have said ukraine s membership will have to wait until the fighting s over because it would otherwise drag the alliance into the war. biden expected to meet with zelenskyy tomorrow. the secretary-general said yesterday much of the senate will revolve around bolstering the alliance of the support in ukraine. meanwhile the alliance prepares to welcome sweden a long side addition finally made real after turkey decided to back the bid. claiming sweden was supporting a kurdish minority that his
The war with russia is over in order to avoid nato allies being dragged directly into that combat and eventually creating a much more terrible global war. creating a much more terrible globalwar. iii creating a much more terrible global war. iii thing that s going to be on the agenda is going to be on the agenda is going to be sweden. they in fact applied to be a member of the nato alliance at the same time as finland. they have encountered roadblocks. most specifically in the form of turkiye. turkiye considered sweden to be harbouring kurdish extremists. they consider them to terrorists. an sweden, president biden would hope, will soon become a member of nato but that relies on him presumably talking to richard skye bowden one on the sidelines of that and convincing him to overcome the objections and overcome the accession to the alliance but there are a lot of things to thrash out and i am sure that we will see a lot of headlines to come.
Kurdish militants. however, as you said, the real issue could potentially be this f-16 deal that president erdogan wants additional f-16s from the u.s. they re not going to get an advance. they want both more f-16s and f-35 jets. this is something going on behind the scenes. u.s. officials including president biden have said the two very not tied together and that this sweden issue has to be resolved before the f-16 deal can get resolved, but surely there is some back room dealing going on and it may end up being a one-for-one kind of agreement. pentagon reporter for politico, lara seligman. and, jon, don t go anywhere. still ahead, republicans in iowa make an interesting choice for the 2024 presidential caucuses. we ll have the responses about that decision.
Militants that are living there. let s go to work peter correspondent was funjones. president biden arriving earlier and very important discussions. arriving earlier and very important discussions- arriving earlier and very important discussions. 5, 5, 5, , discussions. taking off tomorrow but toda , it s discussions. taking off tomorrow but today. it s been discussions. taking off tomorrow but today, it s been characterised - discussions. taking off tomorrow but today, it s been characterised by - today, it s been characterised by frankly, stakes in the frankly, raising the stakes in the keyissues frankly, raising the stakes in the key issues around this is sweden and he says they re introducing a new factor in this of the doors open factor in this end of the doors open to turkeyjoining the eu, it will factor in this end of the doors open to turkt sweden the eu, it will factor in this end of the doors open to turkt sweden joining , it will factor in this end of the doors open to turkt sweden joining nato. .l factor in this end of the doors open to turkt swedenjoining nato. but factor in this end of the doors open to turkt sweden joining nato. but we open to sweden joining nato. but we nato works, every country effectively has a veto about new members joining effectively has a veto about new membersjoining in so, turkey has that power. interestingly, this is been quite rapid dismissal of this,
That the counter terrorism measures particularly for the kurdish, and members for the kurdish opposition, that turkey did not feel they were strong enough, and the rest of nato seems to believe that sweden has done everything that it should do, and now erdogan has come up with something else, and we have heard from jens stoltenberg that there can be a positive message, and we have heard from the german chancellor that he believes that they can become a member, and it is not clear how this impasse can go around, but this is an issue to bedevil nato. and what about ukraine? there is a question of zelenskyy over the weekend and i don t know if it is questioning if he was going to attend, but more saying that he does not want it to be just, that he is not going there to have fun, and this is clearly a huge moment of talking about where ukraine s and the point of the war where they are, and the future of the quest to join nato. yeah, and it is kind of super
Sweden has applied to join around sweden s membership of nato. sweden has applied tojoin nato around sweden s membership of nato. sweden has applied to join nato over a year ago. most countries support it. at the moment you countries have not ratified the decision. what is hungry and wanted turkey. turkey is still playing hardball put up the turks have said we want sweden to do more to crack down on kurdish militants, turkey accuses of being terrorists. sweden has acted on that but the turks say we re still not happy with what they ve done. the turks are also hoping to get more military deals with the united states, especially on f 16 fighter aircraft. this afternoon the president on his way here said by the way, if the eu paved the way for turkey to join well then turkey would allow state two sweetie to join nato. which i have to say left a few jaws join nato. which i have to say left a fewjaws dropping in brussels wasn t sweden. making it very clear he considers it to issues very separate. as we speak the turkish
One of the main focuses of the meeting was climate concerns, and earlier this morning biden met with his british counterpart prime minister rishi sunak discussing the economic ties outlined in the atlantic declaration, as support for ukraine and whether sweden would join nato. that could have more potential today since erdogan said the country could approve it if turkey can finally join the european union. turkey has largely stood in the way of sweden joining nato, claiming the country is supporting kurdish groups that ankara believes are terrorists. in london, president biden did not take a lot of questions from the press, he dodged questions specifically about his phone call conversation with erdogan. however, he did reiterate the importance of being here was to stress the relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. and now the trip moves on. he s currently in lithuania as the nato summit is only about to
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The state of play there? it is bogged down. the state of play there? it is bogged down, to the state of play there? it is bogged down, to be - the state of play there? it is bogged down, to be perfectly honest. jerky is bogged down, to be perfectly honest. jerky is not bogged down, to be perfectly honest. jerky is not keen on sweden at all. it jerky is not keen on sweden at all. it considers jerky is not keen on sweden at all. it considers that sweden is harbouring kurdish extremists who it considers harbouring kurdish extremists who it considers to be terrorists and at once considers to be terrorists and at once to considers to be terrorists and at once to hand them over. sweden says no, once to hand them over. sweden says no. we once to hand them over. sweden says no. we have once to hand them over. sweden says no, we have provided a shelter to these no, we have provided a shelter to these people and they haven t broken these people and they haven t broken the law these people and they haven t broken the law. the nato secretary general has spent the law. the nato secretary general has spent many long hours in the capital has spent many long hours in the capital of has spent many long hours in the capital of turkey trying to find some capital of turkey trying to find some sort of common ground here. nato s some sort of common ground here. nato s 31 some sort of common ground here. nato s 31 members have to reach unanimity nato s 31 members have to reach unanimity on netting in a new memhen unanimity on netting in a new member. it only takes one member nation member. it only takes one member nation to member. it only takes one member nation to say we don t like it and a new member canjoin. can tjoin. they new member canjoin. can tjoin. they are new member canjoin. can tjoin. they are politically at different ends they are politically at different ends of they are politically at different ends of the political spectrum, turkey ends of the political spectrum, turkey and sweden. none of this is helped turkey and sweden. none of this is helped by turkey and sweden. none of this is helped by the fact a few days ago some helped by the fact a few days ago some plantar koran publicly and sweden. some plantar koran publicly and sweden, and in a very devout muslim country.