von nomine in berlin. alexandra, is there a consensus within nato members on sweden and finland joining this military alliance? well, military officials, officials that i've been speaking with are quite confident that there is a common understanding that's important and welcome to have finland and sweden join nato soon. and many of them told me that they were sort of surprised to hear about turkish misgivings here and there finish a foreign minister whom we just heard. also told me that he's confident that turkey will come around. and he also told us that he pushed a rubber, he pushed strongly again sir turkey's accusations that sweden and finland harbor, terrorists organizations for instance, extremist kurdish extreme ization organization's saying that that's not the case, that both countries are part of the anti ices coalition. but of course, to night, the ministers will have time to discuss the issue and also to hear more from turkey, even though, as i said many here, don't believe that turkey will go so far as to block a potential membership of fin lunch and sweden alexander this is

w is a brussels bureau chief, alexandra von nomine, who is in berlin for us following that meeting. so bring us up to speed on what else was discussed in that press conference. so when we talking here about the finished decision to join nato, to formerly filer application for nato membership, it was an upcoming as a surprise. because days ago they already said that they are in favor of their country joining the alliance to finish. a president described this moment as a historic moment as a beginning of a new era. and indeed it is a new era for the country. after decades, ultima literally you trial, etc. and thou, as you just mentioned, the finished parliament will debate the issue. but sir, the vote there is considered a formality because the majority in favor of and natal membership of a fin lunch is a certain alexander, there has been objections from taki on finland and also sweden joining nato. what's being done to dial down the tensions to get a deal on this while their foreign ministers in berlin came together or to speak with each other. and of course, also with turkey, we hav

the deputies bureau, chief, alexandra von nomine, spoke to nato, deputy secretary general merchant joanna and began by asking about the turkeys concerns of a finland and sweden joining nato. one member of nato. namely, turkey has signaled that they have misgivings about sweden and finland joining the alliance. could sir turkish veto, put the accession in jeopardy. we were yesterday meeting with a for mr. turkey. any the presence of the to foreign ministers of, of finland in sweden. and he was a very frank and i was a constructive discussion. tricky is unimportant ally and any ally when they have concerns, they have to put it on the table. it was the case yesterday and then constructively tried to find a way forward. so as i mentioned, i think this 1st, the former meeting of foreign ministers of nato, here in berlin was a success. i want to thank minister, their book and german allies for, for such a success. and i also thing that the discussion yesterday helped in this dialogue, which we hope will be constructive. and i'm confident that this will lead to consensus and to an expedited memb

w. bureau chief, alexandra von nomine, in brussels. and with us in the studio is a d w chief, political editor, michelle, yellow, christner. alexandra, let's us start with you in brussels. how much of an impact will this council meeting have from an you perspective? well, i think it was very important for the european union and for the european leaders in the and to be able to agree on this partial oil embargo on this ban on russian oil transported today. you shipped, sir, because at the beginning we sell some cracks in the unity. now there are so saying we are united and this is of course, a very important signal towards ukraine, but also towards russia. this is for presumably something that is going to hurt to european economies, but 1st and foremost, of course, it will have an impact on the russian economy, on the russian energy sector, and presumably on the russian war machinery. a day after day they european union pays russia up to 400000000 euros for russian oil inputs. today you are p and union and a big amount of that is not go

i want to go now to a d. w's, a bureau, chief, alexandra von, nomine, in brussels. alexandra, let's start where you are, how much of an impact will this council meeting have from an you perspective? well, i think it's very important to stress that despite some crags that we saw in the unity, eventually the leaders were able to get this deal done to agree on this partial oil embargo and stay united. sending a very strong a signal towards sir moscow. and it is important because we really have to consider that these sanctions are going to have an impact on european economies as well. and of course, there are going to hurt russia. we just heard that from a, at the expert at the beginning of our show, that it is going to have an impact on the russian revenues on the russian budget. because normally the european union pays millions of euro's every day for its russian oil imports. and a big chunk of that money is not going to be paid to rush in the future. alexandra, of course, there were struggles to reach this partial embargo hungry didn't want to back it in the 1st place. now it's avoided the

w. bureau chief, alexandra von nomine, in brussels. and with us in the studio is a d w chief, political editor, michelle, yellow cook. no. alexandra, let's us start with you in brussels. how much of an impact will this council meeting have from an you perspective? well, i think it was very important for the european union and for the european leaders in the and to be able to agree on this partial oil embargo on this ban on russian oil transport it today. you shipped, sir, because at the beginning we sell some cracks in the unity. now there are so saying we are united.

so d w. russell's bureau chief, alexander von nomine. many, thanks. alexandra. russian forces have entered the city of c everwood and that skin eastern ukraine. keith says its troops are battling to hold their position street by street. after days of intense chalet. russia is pushing to seize the entire eastern region of tom boss, which has already been partially in separate his hands since 2014 ukrainian president of a lot of his zalinski says. so yes, dennis has seen widespread destruction. similar to what happened in the port city of mario pal, a city under siege savannah. danielle has been battered by intense shelling for weeks. now russian forces have entered the city and fears a growing that it may share mary paul's fate. thousands of civilians. a thought to still be in the city, the largest in the loo, hence, creegan, still held by ukraine. according to the mare, the relentless bombardment has left it impossible to keep track of casualties. with russia, bringing its overwhelming advantage in artillery to bear in its assault on the

w, a brussels bureau chief, alexander von nomine in brussels. and d w. chief, political editor, michelle, yellow kutner. in our studio, i'm going to start with you in brussels. alexandra, what did you make of the statement? well, i was not surprised that of course, the european commission president as well as the president of the repeal council. both of them were very happy with their results dressing how important it was to stay, remain a re, a united. they talked about the oil embargo and that is going to have an impact, but of course they also stress sta and it was in particular the european commission president was upon the lion who stressed at that europe is well prepared for such a step that they have been thinking about getting prepared to make sure that they won't be any problems with regards to the energy security and another topic that i think it's very important for our audience as well. is how much, how important it was for the european leaders to speak about food security. of course, they're not concerned about the situation in the