A member of this alliance. But even once that decision was made, none of this was easy, none of this was obvious. It has taken nearly three years of tireless diplomacy, together with extraordinary Secretary General of nato to achieve ratification by every nato member. Again, the determination of swedens leadership, the extraordinary diplomacy it has exerted, making sure every question was answered, every challenge met, every obstacle overcome, that is what brought us to today. Now, some doubted we would get here, we never did. Here we are. This of course is also built on an extraordinary foundation of partnership between sweden and nato that goes back many years. Sweden has long been an active partner with nato allies, training together, exercising, working together. Fundamentally, the reason this is such a strong powerful fit is because sweden embodies and promotes the core values that are at the heart of nato. Democracy, liberty, the rule of law. And it also brings unique capabilitie
Sentence. How did Danielo Cavalcante manage to escape from prison. And welcome to a special second hour of jose diazbalart reports. We begin this hour with the big week ahead in georgia, the clock is ticking for the final seven defendants in the wide ranging election interference case to enter their pleas or get ready to appear for their arraignment on wednesday. Joining us now nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, Danny Cevallos and veteran prosecutor paul henderson. Ken, where do things stand now as we await that wednesday deadline . Good morning, jose. Obviously the courts closed on this holiday, and we fully expect that all of these defendants will either waive appearance or come in and enter a plea in what is really a formality, this arraignment. The Big Questions looming over this case have to do with scheduling, have to do with whether mark meadows will be successful in his bid to get his particular portion of the case moved to Federal Court. And if he i
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The best thing since sliced bread palab ghosh, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Heres darren bett. Good afternoon. Most of the mistiness this morning is lifted but across some parts of Eastern Scotland it is still quite great and cool scotland it is still quite great and cool. If you have the sunshine it is feeling quite warm with temperatures at 20 degrees across east anglia. There are still some cloud around producing some showers and we have thick cloud moving up from france that eventually will bring some rain. That is heading into Eastern Scotland bringing some showers. But across southern parts of england in the midlands we start to see the Rain Gathering and that develops a little more widely this evening moving into wales and affecting Northern Ireland for a while. Then some real downpours later on in the south. Further north any cloud developing more widely overnight. Some lively weather by the early hours of the morning across Southern England and south wales, thunde