hello and welcome. 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 russi
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there will be no tv cameras allowed inside. so we willjust have to wait, there is this press conference we expect later in the day from the district attorney alvin bragg and again, this speech we are expecting from donald trump when he returns to florida. . ~ , ., from donald trump when he returns to florida. ., ~ , ., ., from donald trump when he returns to florida. . ~ , ., ., ., from donald trump when he returns to florida. ., ~ ., ., , florida. thank you and of course we will follow all florida. thank you and of course we will follow all those florida. thank you and of course we will follow all those developments l will follow all those developments as they unfold. live now to rachel tausendfreund who is a senior fellow at the german marshall fund, an american thinktank based in berlin. thank you for being with us. the first former us president to face criminal charges so how is it playing out on the world stage? anytime you have a former president charged with a crime, taken