and north korea is battling its first reported covid outbreak. we will look at what south korea is offering. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. we begin with a seismic shift for european security. on sunday finland s government f formally announced it would join nato. parliament is widely expected to endorse the decision, and from there nato leaders said the approval process could move quickly. sunday s announcement mark a historic policy change for two countries that remained neutral for decades and it s likely to anger russian president, vladimir putin, who long considered nato expansion a threat to russia. claire sebastian is standing by with reaction. and first, let s go to nic robertson live in helsinki. a vote will come on whether to join nato, and probably that s a forgone conclusion. how does the process move on from here? reporter: it is a forgone conclusion, and the president yesterday, when
sunday s announcement mark a historic policy change for two countries that remained neutral for decades and it s likely to anger russian president, vladimir putin, who long considered nato expansion a threat to russia. claire sebastian is standing by with reaction. and first, let s go to nic robertson live in helsinki. a vote will come on whether to join nato, and probably that s a forgone conclusion. how does the process move on from here? reporter: it is a forgone conclusion, and the president yesterday, when he spoke at a joint press conference with the prime minister noted not only that this is a historic moment in finnish politics and finnish
appear to act in the national security interests of the united states? of course, we find ourselves in the position where germany and we heard it from german chancellor angela merkel and others over the past year. saying we need to look to ourselves for unity in europe. we cannot rely on the united states. we will hear this message. right now, as i say, it is stunning silence. there s no applause because there is none to give. everyone is trying to figure out how do they tackle this. germany giving us an idea. stunning silence. nic robertson in helsinki for us. american politicians and world leaders are not the only ones stunned by the president s comments in helsinki. here is the late night reaction. where are the servers? i want to know where is the server and what is the server saying? where is the server? we know where the server is. he is standing right next to the master. putin did say the meeting
very pleased. thank you. by cozying up to vladimir putin after bashing european leaders at the nato summit, donald trump has one long-time ally to plot forward without the united states. nic robertson live in helsinki with the latest developments. bring us up to speed. reporter: christine, good morning. one of the newspaper headlines in helsinki captures the mood here in this city at least. put putin, 1, trump, 0. that is the interpretation placed on the summit here. german has been saying germans say it is time to set their own course and the united states cannot be relied on. helsinki may be in the rear-view mirror will look as if it helped crystal crystalize the european thinking. the united states is not the partner they signed up to be
president trump says not dealing with it at the time. we are following this very important summit around the world. we have phil black in turnberry scotland and nic robertson live in helsinki. phil, first to you. tell us more about the president s time in scotland looking ahead to his time in hake sinky. we helsinki. he tweeted that he d be spending two days of making calls, having meetings and hopefully playing some golf. as we sink right now, president trump is out playing golf on the course just behind us here at turnberry. he s only just moved out of our line of vision just in the last few moments, but over last half hour or so we ve watched him play about three, three 1/2 holes of golf. we could show you some video there, he s wearing a black suit, a white cap as he s been making his way around this