activities. as an ally, finland will contribute to nato s collective deterrent and defence. . membership of the alliance provides security for finland. finland on the other hand provides security for the alliance. the finland commitment to security of member states will be reliable as an ally. that strengthens regional stability. membership is not targeted against anyone, nor does it change the foundations or objectives of finland s security policy. finland is a stable and predictable nordic country that seeks peaceful resolution of disputes. the principles and values that are important to finland will continue to guide ourforeign policy important to finland will continue to guide our foreign policy also important to finland will continue to guide ourforeign policy also in the future. nato membership does not change everything. but being an ally requires finland to adapt to new ways of thinking and some changes in legislation as well. a lot has already been done. for years, w
that the next press conference regarding the mass shooting in mass casualty event out in monterrey park, california, will take place 11 am eastern. msnbc will be covering it and i want to thank you for watching the katie phang show. we ll be back next weekend saturday and sunday and velshi starts right now. good morning, i m ali velshi. we are following breaking news right now out of california. law enforcement sources they re confirmed at least ten people are dead after a shooting in monterrey park just east of los angeles. ten others were injured and taken to an area hospital. it happened last night around 10:30 pm local time. li county sheriff s homicide captain andrew meyer described the scene at a press conference just a few hours ago. when officers arrived on scene, they observed numerous individuals with location pouring out of location. screaming and the officers made entry to the location and located additional victims. the monterey park fire department responded
opinion is very much in support of this. in fact 80% of the finnish population are in favour ofjoining nato. early on we heard from the us equity of state who was tempted to say that maybe this is the one thing we can thank vladimir putin for. now, all eyes will be on sweden because their application is still in there but has been stuck with the turkish president stalling that application, accusing stockholm of embracing kurdish militants and allowing them to demonstrate against turkey on the streets. my colleague matthew will be here in a few minutes bringing you the very latest. you are watching bbc news. do go to our website, as always, if you want even more information on all the stories you ve been watching on the bbc. from the other team in london, thank you for your company and thanks for
teenagers, so the question. the interesting, thing leo, if you have this progun which starts in school, a program for older, adults how do you measure success overtime? what does success look like on this, front how you measure it? it is a very difficult thing to measure in numbers. what we have to look at our, for example, the precip s that shows the finnish population believes and trusts in governments and the media. the newspapers. and what we are thinking is that it is not important to fight against the small minority who are against everything that the government says, for example. but we need to strengthen the majority that believes in the government interest in the government. that is really important. but it is extremely difficult to measure in a numbers. we have to look at the different ways of how society is working, and what can you
The number of inhabitants in Sweden with Finnish backgrounds has increased substantially in recent years, new figures have shown. The news comes via a new study results published by Sisu uutiset, the Finnish-language counter part of Stockholm-based news agency SVT.