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Completing Sweden's accession to NATO is an historic step that benefits the security

of all NATO Allies at this critical time.

It makes us all stronger and safer.

Turkey has agreed to drop its opposition to Sweden joining NATO, which is holding a

major summit in Lithuania just 20 miles from the border of Belarus.

We'll speak to the head of Sweden's oldest peace organization, which opposes NATO membership,

we'll also look at Ukraine's push to join NATO with the nation's Katrina Vandenhuvel.

Sweden as another heat wave descends on Texas, the migrant death toll is increasing.

When you take water away from people, you know, what are you saying?

You prefer for migrants to die?

That he has been very, very intense, you know, with a heat index getting up to 115 to 120

on a 100 daily basis.

We'll also look at Governor Greg Abbott's law that just went into effect eliminating

water breaks for construction workers in Texas.

And we'll talk to a TV meteorologist in Iowa who resigned his job after receiving a death

threat over his reporting on the climate emergency.

I'm Chris Gloninger, the former chief meteorologist at KCCI in Des Moines, Iowa.

I went to Iowa so I could talk a little bit about climate change with my audience, but

it did result in a death threat last summer.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the war in peace report.

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