do need to reflect, president erdogan can t make a decision on his own. he now refers it on to parliament, who has to then pass it. but he has agreed to work with parliament to make sure that does happen. it s interesting when you look at some of these issues that erdogan previously raised things like pkk, a group that he and many of you as a terrorist organisation, saying sweden wasn t doing enough many view. there s issues around things like fighterjets to resume herfinished resume purchase from the us. with the issue ofjoining the us. with the issue ofjoining the eu, it took a separate organisation, was thrown into the mix as well. all those issues feeding into the potential delay in accession, but we don t know the details of how exactly, but it seems sweden will go the way of finland. during those, both countries spoke at the same time. life spoke to the finnish foreign minister, and she told me she always viewed this very much as a joint process. it was sweden a
through streets, leaving drivers stranded. there are others believed missing. the national weather service says large areas are expected to see heavy and persistent rainfall as well as thunderstorms, with vermont and north eastern new york most at risk. on the flip side of that is the situation in montevideo. last week, it was reported that uruguay s capital was just days away from running out of drinking water, amid the nation s worst drought in 7a years. the government has told the population of 1.3 million that reserves in the city s reservoirs are at 1.8% of their capacity. there has been some rainfall in the last week, but nowhere near enough. joining us now is mariana meerhoff, professor of the department of ecology and environmental management at university of the republic in uruguay. thank you very much for coming on the programme. how acute is the
The tiny South American country of Uruguay has faced a historic drought over the last three years. Freshwater reserves are now running dangerously low. In an effort to overcome the water shortage, authorities are now supplementing public drinking water from new saltier reservoirs. And it is causing an uproar.