will come into place. the finnish president talked about what he hoped would get out of this for finland but he mentioned sweden a number of times, talking about the fact he is time5, talking about the fact he is working closely to help sweden also become a nato member. sweden applied at the same time as finland. he also mentioned a response to a journalist asking about russia, the pressure put by rush out onto finland. he said we do not want that others say what we should do and what we can do. i think it is a good time now to bring in christine ages an associate professor in politics and international relations at the swinburne university of technology in melbourne. thank you forjoining u5 thank you forjoining us on a programme. fir5t thank you forjoining us on a programme. first of all, your reaction to the news that finland has a scientific on the 315t official member of nato.
could come to the fore. the case in georgia that is also in a grand jury. you have the special counsel looking at not only the classified documents but the handling of january 6. there s a lot bubbling. martha: jonathan turley saying that trump is probably thrilled that this is the first one that he s facing because it s the weakest and most tenuous link between as david spunt pointed out this very old charge that i guess covid allowed it to be a longer statute of limitations. this should have been off the books in two years and trying to link it to an election scam that makes it a felony. we ll watch. we re waiting for robert costello to come out. thanks, bret. good to have you. so the new pressure put on california governor gavin newsome to push through $640 billion in reparations payments.
pulled out. there have been attempts in recent years to try and revive the deal. they have stalled because iran has limited its cooperation with the un nuclear inspectors. there are many countries who say they need to have progress in terms of the inspections before can be made on the deal. iran s president for his part has said that he expects the iaea not to have pressure put upon it by western powers. so it s a very complicated situation. we will wait to. what the iaea has been saying is that it needs access to some of these areas to figure out what happened in the past and also to figure out what is happening now. past and also to figure out what is happening nova past and also to figure out what is happening now. bethany and vienna, thank ou happening now. bethany and vienna, thank you very happening now. bethany and vienna, thank you very much happening now. bethany and vienna, thank you very much indeed, - happening now. bethany and vienna, thank you very much indeed, thank
of the university had pressure put upon them by pro israel groups who were donors to harvard university. you ve made that allegation. i ve not seen any evidence that you ve provided to back it up. are you still sticking to that? well, what i said is, i mean, the dean himself said he initially vetoed my fellowship because of my criticism of israel. so he s on the record on that. he said he did so because of people who mattered to him. he s denied that they were donors. you know, were these people who were worried about what donors would say? you know, who knows? he doesn t really have a personal record on israel palestine. i need, i do need, for all sorts of reasons, i need to be clear that dean elmendorf has said that donors did not play a role in a decision to withdraw the fellowship. he said the decision was based on his evaluation of your potential contributions to the school. that s his position. yeah, that s his position. i mean, it s kind of preposterous because i actually
continuing to report on israel. but i do worry about this growing tendency to try to silence criticism of israel by claiming that every critic is anti semitic. and i mean, it s obviously not true. i mean, you can have some anti semites who criticise israel, but there are many, many people who legitimately criticise israeli repression who are just labelled anti semitic. and that is, you know, it s bad for free expression, for the defence of human rights, but it s bad foranti semitism, because. well, if we may then. no, let me explain. i just want to refer to where you re sitting today in harvard university, because you were offered this fellowship at the kennedy school of government within harvard university. and you seem to believe that that offer was briefly rescinded because the leaders of the university had pressure put upon them by pro israel groups who were donors to harvard university. you ve made that allegation. i ve not seen any evidence that you ve provided to back it up. are