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finland will become the 31st member of nato later on tuesday. the application to join the western military alliance was prompted by the invasion of ukraine by russia, with which finland shares a long border. our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has this story. finland only said it wanted to join nato last year. this afternoon, its flag will be raised at the headquarters in brussels, the quickest accession process in nato s recent history. president putin went to war against ukraine with a declared aim to get less nato. he wanted nato to remove our forces, our structures, from all allies that havejoined after 1997, meaning all allies in central and eastern europe. and he wanted nato to make it absolutely clear that nato s door was closed for any new membership. he s getting the exact opposite. he s getting more nato presence in the eastern part of the alliance, and he s getting two new members, with finland and sweden. finland s long frontier with russia, the scene of fig
formerly head of the british army, the ukrainian mp oleksiy goncharenko, and michael koffman, director of russia studies at the centre for naval analyses. good evening. welcome to the programme. a special edition tonight as we look towards the one year anniversary tomorrow of the war in ukraine. on this night a year ago, we were still largely guessing at what president putin had in mind. the russian troops had been massing for weeks along the ukraine border, though most ukrainians still doubted the intelligence that was coming from washington. but then just a few hours after the programme came off air, this. the first bombs had begun to fall. the air raid sirens wailed across kyiv for the first time, as russian tanks rolled towards the capital. and at that point, most people expected a quick russian victory. it hasn t turned out that way. the war waged by vladimir putin has been a disaster for his country. the resistance much stronger than he d anticipated. for ukraine it has
Stories were covering today. Gb views at gbnews. Com is the address to email. But before we get to all of that, lets have a little look at the latest headunes little look at the latest headlines with ray addison. Headlines with ray addison. Thanks, guys. Good morning. Thanks, guys. Good morning. Its 931. Our top stories, the government says at least ten british citizens have been killed in the israel hamas war and a further six are still missing. The confirmation comes missing. The confirmation comes after British National yakov was released by her kidnappers. Hamas says the 85 year old, along with israeli citizen nurit coopen along with israeli citizen nurit cooper, were freed on humanitarian grounds. Her husbands are still being held. Israeli sources say the move is straight out of the hamas playbook and it will not divert them from, quote, unrelent ing attacks on the terror group. The attacks on the terror group. The countrys president , isaac herzog , says every hostage must herzog
Give them to you as best we can. Lee has just set me a message saying, will the british living abroad be subject to the same rights . We cannot say that at the moment. Theresa may the rose released a proposal to the European Union. There has been no deal between the uk and eu. For the British Government has said is they wa nt to British Government has said is they want to have a generous and reciprocal arrangement but the details of what rights eu citizens may have. Paul asks, what was the arrangement . The dinner featured theresa may for a while. Michel barnier, the eus Chief Brexit Negotiator would come in and briefed the other countries on how this Brexit Negotiations are going. After that, we are expecting a briefing. At some point, this building and briefing rooms around will fill up with eu leaders who will tell us what they made of the dinner and what they made of the dinner and what theresa may said. Keep those questions coming. If youve got any questions, send them to bbcos. F