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
welcome to bbc news we go straight to new york where donald trump will be in court in the next few hours, to face criminal charges. that has never happened before and as you d expect huge focus on the former president. these are live pictures from manhattan outside the courthouse. there s a heavy security presence as you d imagine. the charges relate to hush money paid to a pawn starjust paid to a porn starjust before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair. the full details of the charges will become clear when the indictment is unsealed. the former president with his legal team having added a prosecutor to his team making their final preparations. when were speaking with our correspondent a little while earlier he was telling us about some last minute moves they were anticipating when proceedings get going with the defence team going to ask for the trial to move out of manhattan to staten island so interest in the tactics there in terms of a little more supp
question with massive political and cultural implications. can you win if the majority of the country thinks you re wrong on the biggest issues of the day? we ll go live to iowa where some republicans will likely have to test that theory plus, we ll show you the body cam footage of monday s shooting in louisville that the police chief says shook her to her core for the doctor who treated those officers and other victims, outrage has given way to exhaustion for 15 years i ve cared for victims of violence and gunshot wounds, and people say i m tired, but it s more than tired. i m weary. that doctor will join me live in just a few minutes. and we re live in memphis where the only member of the tennessee three still out of the job is set to lead a march through the city the vote that could send him back to the legislature is potentially happening within the next couple of hours but we start with the republican presidential field about to get bigger just as the number of w
are still coming out of the rubble alive six days in. so it s shocking, it s also, in a perverse sense, quite heartening. in other news, us fighterjets shoot down an unidentified aircraft over alaska after president biden gave the order to seek and destroy . troops are trying to salvage the wreckage. welcome to the programme. we begin with the latest developments in the aftermath of the earthquake in turkey and syria. the united nations aid chief has described the earthquake in turkey and syria as the worst natural disaster to hit the region in a century. he has landed in the area and has been speaking to lyse doucet, we learned some interesting details from him, talking about over 100 countries having donated and about the scale of the challenge here, and one of the challenges is getting the aid into northern syria, and the difference, the contrast between the rescue efforts, some of which we are seeing now, between the two countries, turkey and syria. quentin somerville is