chief says turkey s president erdogan has now agreed to support sweden s bid tojoin nato. that was a priority for us presidentjoe biden, who touched down in vilnius on the eve of the summit. it s clears the last major hurdle for sweden s accession. let s take a listen to what the nato secretary general jens stoltenberg, had to say. i think what we did today builds and we did in madrid because they agreed to invite finland and sweden to become members and the ratification process has been finalised or finland, finland is already a full member and now president erdogan has indicated they are ready to ratify sweden. our correspondent lewis vaughanjones has been following developments in vilnius. it seems this nato summit here in vilnius will be getting under way after a very significant concrete achievement. ian s stoltenberg, the head of nato, announcing that turkey had agreed sweden could start the process to membership. ,jens. why is that so significant? within nato, each a
wondering what this then means for the asia region. on the one hand you have the issue of, you know, china is obviously key for a lot more activity going on from the asia region, when it comes to nato and there is the proposal that there might be a nato liaison office opened up be a nato liaison office opened up in tokyo next year. so on the one hand, there are concerns about what might be happening in asia vis a vis china but on the other hand, there will be some that are concerned about what message this sends to the chinese. doctor sue thompson speaking to me a little earlier. it s been revealed that russia s pesident president vladimir putin held talks with wagner mercenaries, just days after he publicly accused them of betrayal for launching a failed mutiny two weeks ago. the kremlin has confirmed that the wagner leader