coming up at a30, the media show ros atkins speaks to the chief executive of channel 4 about its future. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. finland s government has announced it will apply to join nato. its parliament is expected to approve the application within days. sweden is likely to do the same. nato foreign ministers, who are meeting in berlin, say they want a rapid accession because of the crisis in ukraine. the secretary general of nato, jens stoltenberg, welcomed finland s application, and said it would increase nato s shared security. president putin has already called finland s move a mistake. from berlin, our europe correspondent, nick beake, reports. a fresh aerial attack lights the sky above the besieged mariupol steelworks. this is where the last of the city s defenders have been holed up, a final ukrainian stand against a relentless russian bombardment. but as well as by land and by sea, russia continues its assault from the air, focusing its fight o
we must all work together to address the hate that remains a stain on the soul of america. our hearts are heavy once again, but our resolve must never, ever waver. the uk government says it wouldn t be deterred from taking action over post brexit trading arrangements in northern ireland to try to help restore power sharing at stormont. and a triumphant ukraine wins the eurovision song contest after claiming the popular vote. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. sweden and finland have confirmed they will apply for nato membership ending decades of military non alignment. the finnish president, sauli niinisto, called his country s decision historic. however, sweden s governing social democrats, said that as members they would not accept nuclear weapons or alliance bases on swedish territory. reports say both countries are planning to hand their membership applications to nato on wednesday. nato foreign ministers who are meeting in berlin say they want a rapid access
their membership in nato would increase our shared security. president biden says america must do all it can to end hate filled domestic terrorism following saturday s mass shooting in buffalo that left 10 dead. and north korea announces a further eight deaths as it it s six in the morning in singapore, midnight in stockholm and one in the morning in helsinki where finland and sweden have announced their intention tojoin nato in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. we ll get to that in just a moment but first i want to tell you about this exclusive report: a bbc team have uncovered further evidence of potential war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. since russian forces were pushed back from kyiv at the end of march, the bodies of more than one thousand civilians have been discovered in the bucha region, just outside the capital. now the bbc has learned more than half of the dead were shot, in what has been described as executions. in this special repor
security. president biden says america must do all it can to end hate filled domestic terrorism following saturday s mass shooting in buffalo that left 10 dead. and north korea announces a further eight deaths as it battles a covid outbreak. welcome to the progamme. finland and sweden have announced their intention tojoin nato in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. to russia s invasion we ll get to that in just a moment but first i want to tell you about this exclusive report: a bbc team have uncovered further evidence of potential war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. since russian forces were pushed back from kyiv at the end of march, the bodies of more than one thousand civilians have been discovered in the bucha region, just outside the capital. now the bbc has learned more than half of the dead were shot, in what has been described as executions. in this special report, the bbc s sarah rainsford has been investigating one case. i want to warn you