since russia invaded ukraine, new to has been driving across the board every day. crossing the border is always tricky, but the women say that today they have a lucky day because the border guard, if someone they know it's going to be hopefully much easier to bring the goods in. the notice we leave to find a less chaotic situation that in the past few days, people stimulus exhausted this time. i'm not crying. as you can see. the notice mission has been accomplished for now, but you will return with more goods, as long as russia missiles and buckets force people out of ukraine. ah, angry purchased sin shall langkow to president godson by a roger pox. a fleas ahead of a promised resignation. protested break into the prime minister's office asking run

out victim a thing to quit. ortiz appointed the acting president. ah, hello on money inside. this is out of their life and doe halls are coming up. jo bought in his g to arrive in israel and the next 3 hours on his 1st trip to the middle east. as u. s. president, a 66 year old, hong kong activists known as grandma wong pleads guilty to charges unlawful assembly. ah, we begin the program inter lanka. weather is growing anger after the prime minister was appointed acting, president. thousands gathered at the offices of the prime minister run, overcome a single in colombo to demand his resignation. despite his state of emergency being

declared, money have scale. the walls broken through the gates. protesters have also entered the state tv am radio offices, security forces have 5 tea gas with the crowds. so far they haven't discussed. earlier we have from the speaker of sri lankan parliament who cited the constitution to point the prime minister to the presidential post on look on my left, tommy as the president has left the island, i was informed that in terms of article 37. so to section one of the constitution, the prime minister mister ronald rick grimma singer, was appointed to cover the duties of the president. as go straight to michelle fernandez, who is live for us in colombo, renelle, bring us up to date with the situation as it stands. so basically as you can see of behind me relative. com. returning to the area outside the prime minister's office. that's where i am. if you just look over my

shoulder, if i step away from the camera, just through the fences, is the prime minister's office here in the heart of colombo or people milling about the front lawn outside the office. and if we just tilt up a little bit, we can see the sort of porch and balcony are you will see the presence of special task force commanders. obviously they are keeping a certain watch on the building and maintaining security. a little bit down the corridor, a number of windows where you can see people are sort of peering out on to the lawn . that obviously includes members of the protesters, a journalists and members of the public are what we have heard in the last sort of half an hour or so. is that a d acting president, rule or run over grimacing has declared himself ah, says that he has appointed a committee of the 3 armed forces commanders, as well as the defense secretary. and they have been tasked with restoring law and

order. now obviously those things a little bit are sort of alarming for the people of this country because still they are looking at the legitimacy with which runner vicar missing her is taking these decisions. we did hear from the speaker that the president got our beer. 5 roger pox her had informed him that run over promising her has been appointed as acting president. but the people of this country who have really come together to wage this struggle to remove the leadership, are still to see any proof of that. the so called letter of resignation of resin, gotta be roger boxer, which will allow all of this movement hasn't been forthcoming. the speaker says that the president called him and told him that it will be sent on wednesday. but beyond that, we haven't seen any hard or fast proof. again, we're being told that runners because seeing her as been essentially appointed or given the authority by the president. again,

that he's no proof of that. and given the different bits of rhetoric that have come through in the last few days for the protest, as we've launched this major push on all these institutions to assure the people's power. it's not enough and they see they will stay put until they see a proper and formal exit. so let me know if that letter does come through today as has been promised. will this take the people off the streets, or is there more that they want? well, the letter we're talking about is the resignation letter. present gotta be a roger boxer. but the problem is if that resignation letter is indeed in existence and it is sent formally and the public is able to see it, it just opens another can of worms, which means by virtue of his resignation. prime minister ronald vicar missing her, basically gets to step in according to the constitution when a president resigns,

according to the laws of this country, the prime minister takes over as acting president. and bear in mind that ronald victor, missing her, is an individual who was voted out of the last parliament. he was not able to secure and protect his ord parliamentary seat. he only returned to parliament of through the sort of back door because the of the one national list, which is a very technical allocation of one parliamentary seat to the, to his party was given to the party and run in a vic grimacing. assume that seed. so it's not as if he has a public mandate, and even when present, gotta be a roger boxer with that huge public outcry and his brother, my him, the roger boxer, a resigned. and he brought in running will become a singer. there was a massive outright because people said this man has no credibility, that he has no legitimacy. but we've got him basically in the role of prime

minister and now literally at the verge of taking on the presidency. and that is something for the people. it's a concern because it's not something that they have wanted, they've shown very clearly, that they do not want him and it, it clearly shows he has no mandate or, or credibility. thank you for that. michelle fernandez there for us in colombo. sarah fonseca is a former presidential candidate and a retired army chief. he says people have been making it clear. they don't want more of the same leadership that robert means the people are not that have been that. but then vitamin to he film and read the vitamin daddy who are yet getting the whole lot and actually it really contina. he's not that the but it will be, but it only contains a very unpopular person, but he spends 30 net, but he did this. he got has grading it, working,

it that he already had the affairs, but he thought it both faith and dad. i knelt down like it'll be like you to take place as a result of it. he's not in favor of that, but it's okay. we've interrupted that because we've gone live to the u. k. parliament, where at getting prime minister prime minister forrest johnson is taking some questions or just seen at the need of the opposition customer sit down. let's have a listen to parse. johnson, the ability to speak my mike trying to really last, mr. speaker, we're, i'm focusing on is continuing the government of the of the country. i just told you, mister speaker, tomorrow from tomorrow. $326.00 pounds is arriving. never mind, not going to speak. dorms, dorms in guns, i don't mind with 3 and 26 times is arriving is arriving in the bank accounts of

8000000 vulnerable people. and how can we do that because we took the decisions to get the strong economy that we currently have. but i'm afraid i will resisted but sort of growth growth in ne, at no point. 5 percent. yeah. which they weren't anything. we have seen. i told the performance because 620000 more people who paid in payroll employment before the pandemic. a began, and one of the constellations of leaving off is this particular time is beaca is that vacancies are at an all time. yes, nama built him some slack, faced with an uncertain future, a mortgage sized decorates his bill, adobe sent for somebody else's flat. i'm not surprised, he's careful not to upset any future employers. uh huh. so he isn't even simpler. why does he agree that offshore schemes can pose

a risk because some people use them to avoid tax bio hair? oh, it's a big i'm proud of investment to this country attracts from, from around the world and he's talking about of people from offshore people investing in the u. k. i actually through to see either we've had, i think, 12000000000 and 10 alone or come in in the last in the last couple of last couple of months. i think it possible me to speak a he's referring not to me, but some of the 8 brilliant candidates your car advice. i help him let me just tell, let me just tell him that name. you tell him any one of them were white. the floor with hampton. oh did you say the furniture has to be re good. one of the members already on one bill. i'm sure those one another prime minister. any one of

them would white to fall with captain crash rooney. snoozed best hands. and after a few weeks time, that is exactly what they will do. they will unite around the winner and do just that. yes, he's been single week that he won't revenge on those of the room. did his an idea prime minister if he really wants to hit them where it hurts. he should tighten the rules on tax avoidance. yeah. but at a very low, does hickory or anyone running to be prime minister should declare where they and their families have been domiciled for tax purposes and whether they've ever been a beneficiary of an offshore tax scheme. oh, well i really feel his fitness is beaca to the best of my knowledge. everybody in the parliament, everybody in this house i pays their full whack oh tax in this country. and i think

that people should, that members of members across the house should be, should be, should cease this constant verification of each ally, the people pay their fair share of taxes. and quite right. what we're doing, and it's thanks to the tax yield that we have had that were able to support the people whose country in the way that we are so. so we been able to increase a universal credit or by a 1000 pounds. i'm, it's a speaker. our putting 3 on freezing funds into the to from to morrow into the bank accounts of those who need it. most mister speaker, and a thanks to the policies we have pursued. as i have just told you, or we have unemployment at or near record lows. and that is what constance, because they are very happy to see people languish on benefits. we believe in getting people to try and looking for is to think. i'm not sure he's been keeping up with what's happening last few days over the weekend. the candidates to replace

him a promise. 330000000000 pounds and giveaways. but that's roughly double the annual budget for the n h us. suddenly they haven't found time to explain how they're paying for it. even though one of them is the chancellor and another one was chancellor. until a week ago, they all boxed 15 tax rises. now they're acting as if they've just arrived for the maroon saying, it should never happen. doesn't t agree that raw the desperately rewriting history, they should at least explain exactly where that getting all this cash from? i'm actually mrs. big and he's good. he's got a great year i've been listening very. are the listening very carefully and all the, all the commitments that i'm listening to a very, very good we will continue whoever is in that he will continue to put more police out on the street. it's ok for me already at $30500.00. that he thinks we're going

to got to $20000.00. however, tech said we'll build the then we can think about it, but we will bill the 40 new i asked my guy, i asked my delivery unit yesterday was they don't want it in and like it's because they voted against the funding. other makes it possible, mrs. bigger and a day of also in just in the last, in just in the last period in which he has been on his make to extra commitments of public spending with $94000000000.00 pounds which would be thousands of pounds of extra taxation for every family in the country, this is because that's the difference between them and us with totally, totally diluted to the big i now to be fat. the stool. i think that's the last time i hear from you today. i think otherwise you might be able to bike of level. the people comes teeth 3rd just to be fair to the new chancellor. he's at least attempted to spell it out. he's promised tens of

billions in tax cuts. i was confirmed, he was caught, he had a chess, the police and school budgets by 20 percent upon that the member for stratford had to bolster is complaining. but he said it on tv. uh yesterday and yesterday he said, it's simply not right. but families are saying that bill skyrocket and we do nothing. was the char, so speaking on behalf of the government prime minister, where they promised huge spending tops and when he said that they're doing nothing on the cost of living crisis. i melissa, this is speaker. this is really of pity, pitiful stock from the hockey, though t against the 39000000000 pounds, or which is necessary to pay for those 50000 nurses which were recruited where we

will recruit by 2024 to speaker, which is necessary to pay for those hospitals are those doctors and those guides and that treatment date. they don't have a leg to stand or mrs. beka and, and i can tell him something else. the reason, the reason we've got growth now at not point 5 percent inmate is, is because we took the tough decisions to come out of a lockdown on july. the 19th last year, which he said was reckless miss. never forget. he said he was reckless. we, our economy would not be strong enough now to make the payments. we are 2 are fantastic and a chest and they know, yeah, i really am going to miss this weekly nonsense from ha ha, let's, let's move on. let's move on from his current chancellor to his former chancellor. last week he resigned accusing the prime minister of not conducting government

properly, competently or seriously. he suggested the prime for is not prepared to work out or take difficult decisions and implied that the primes to kind of tell the public the truth. yesterday, he claimed his big plan is to rebuild the economy. that even the prime minister must be impressed by that john sodium bross decorated ha, can the prime minister think. c of any job says form a chancellor, my a pad, but being cheaper summers. civility for the economy, but he now claims is broken. okay, prime minister, mrs. big guy, i think everybody who's played a part in the last 3 years has done a remarkable job in helping countries who are very difficult. i. i just want to say to him, really make good mrs. be the next leader of the of my party may be elected by acclamation, said possible, or this will be our last or our last call from patient as possible. so i want to

thank him. i want to thank him for the style in which he's conducted himself. i think it be fair to say he's been considerably less lethal. other many other members of the class. i'll tell you why that is actually why that is. community hasn't come up with a just say they said this room bench expect better baby, and i'm sure the going to get it. i minister a reason for that, mrs. because over, over 3 years with us in spite of every opportunity he's never ready come up with an idea, a plan for this country. i can tell you that at the end of the end of 3 years is because we got breaks it down, which he megan full time. we didn't have the carfax in the world. i got like nancy, i'll get in touch with him. make a speaker. and we played a decisive role in helping to protect the people of ukraine from the brutal

invasion and helped to say ukraine, mrs. big. and i'm proud to say that we are continuing and every one of the 8 candidates will continue with the biggest ever program of infrastructure skills and technology across the country. a way in a way that will benefit the constituents of every member of this house. mister speaker, and it's perfectly true, it's probably true that i leave not at the time of my choosing. i absolutely true. i'm proud of the fantastic team work that has been involved in project both nationally and internationally. i'm. it's a speaker. i'm also proud of the leadership that i have given. i will be making my old ha ha,

with convicted double child rapist on market a whole and pitchfork was granted put all last year by the independent little board in the face of enormous opposition from whistleblowers on my south west the shore constituents only 2 months after he was released, he was called to prison for having reached his license. okay, let's leave those sir. p. m keys there and to speak to our correspondent. don't hold paris live in london. jonah said this was the 1st time that sir johnston is facing prime minister question time since he announced his resignation, which he had to give under pressure from party last week. or what did you make of what we've heard so far? it sounds like he was very much defending those 8 candidates who have made it into the ballot that will end up replacing him

when he was his 1st being who since resigning potentially if the leadership contest is by some surprise wrapped up next week, his last be infused most likely his penalties that prime minister is questions sparse. johnson taking the opportunity to again highlight the successes of his term in office as prime minister successes on health and dealing with corona, virus policing, employment breaks it of course, as well. and his opponents kiss tom or the leader of the labor party for water and all of that say he's diluted to the bitter end. i'm going to miss this weekly nonsense from him. yes, of course. far as johnson keen in the face of questions for mr. tom or about the disarray that the government finds itself in. now in the midst of this bitter leadership contests at a time when a country can barely cope without effective government, high inflation,

the cost of living price is going on as well. or is johnson making the point that any one of them, any one of these candidates, would wipe the floor in a contest against labor? and as soon as this leadership contest is sorted out, they will unite around the winner. and to remind you, we are at a point now the 1st ballot of the contest to take place this afternoon. there are 8 candidates in the running. they must gain 30 votes, a minimum of 30 votes from their fellow m. p. 's and the conservative party is to stay in the race. anyone with fewer is eliminated. and so those votes will go on in the coming days until there is a field of just 2. and those 2, by the end of next week, will be put to the membership of the conservative party around the country. in a summer campaign, before a new leader of the party is a non stop to a vote. in september, a new leader announced and a new prime minister on september the 5th. okay, thank you for that. china hall there for us in london years. president joe biden is

on his way to the middle east on his 1st visit to the region as us president. if i stop is israel, where security has been increased ahead of his arrival are the most. i meet with palestinian leaders in the occupied west bank a bite and has been a steadfast supporter of israel for decades. he's expected to face questions about the killing of the palestinian american jealous arena berkeley my counterparts from washington since his days in the senate to go biden has been an odd and supporter of israel were there not in israel, the united states of america would have to invent and israel to protect her interest in the region as vice president the bomb administration, he took point on what was still considered viable negotiations in the palestine israel conflict. these began to all 12010. when you israeli settlements were announced on the eve of the bite and visit to the region something b u. s. viewed as

a slap in the face by then israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. we've got a big agenda today. but as president joe biden was eager to host the new prime minister, fairly bennett in the white house and reiterate his unwavering support, us will always be there for his room. is an unshakable partnership between our 2 nations on arrival. president biden will be greeted by a le paid yet another prime minister, though he's in an acting capacity until i get another round of israeli elections later this year. the political uncertainty in israel is another hurdle to long term diplomatic discussion. president biden will also meet with the opposition benjamin netanyahu. a close ally of former president donald trump, who may well return to paula. later this year, this would require another reset in us israel relations. human rights issues will also loom over president biden's visit to israel and the occupied west bank,

where he's likely to face shop questions about the u. s. report on the killing of i'll just the or a journalist, sharina black clair which bound she was likely kill by unintentional gunfire from israeli positions, but could not reach a definitive conclusion about the origin of the bullet that struck her. the inconclusive report was met with anger by palestinian officials and family members . i suspect the president will try to use the report in a positive way. the indicate that the u. s. was willing to take a look at this issue. this is something that the trusted ministration almost certainly would not have done the killing of sherry and i bought clo was not an isolated incident. opened the years, dozens of media individuals and organizations had been the target of israeli army forces in may last year, a building housing, international miti offices, including those of out 0 and the associated press were destroyed in an air raid.

there were no cause was really accountability then either. and despite the pledges up the bite and administration human rights issues and likely to impeded desire to keep israel as its closest and most valued ally in the region. mike hannah, i'll just sierra washington. stephanie and i have explained some of the challenges biden will be facing the last time president joe biden was here in the region was in 2010 in his capacity as vice president trying to revive talks, which in these ratings and the palestinians. but just hours after landing here, these really government announced the construction of a $1600.00 new settler units here that are much slomo. according to reports had left joe biden furious and publicly stated, this was very much against what was needed to rebuild trust between the 2 sides. well now he returns as president, no much loma has turned into a massive illegal settlement. no settlements have continued to expand both here in

the occupied west bank and an occupied east jerusalem at sight. it is one of the main obstacles to peace by the palestinians. and under the previous tromp administration, this was never criticized. but under biden, washington is taking a stronger stock. president biden, however, comes here at a time. this really political turmoil. he'll be meeting with the intern prime minister yellow p to could no longer be prime minister following november's elections. and it'll also be meeting with opposition leader benjamin netanyahu. a man he's known for a very long time, but you clearly looked gloom biden. we'll also be meeting with the palestinian present mahmoud abbas here in bethlehem, where it's impossible to miss the wall. really the symbol of israel's longstanding occupation and efforts to restrict the freedom of movement of the palestinian people. but the ministration has made it clear that this trip is more about integrating israel into the region rather than reviving long stalled peace talks. a

fresh round of talks between russian on ukrainian delegations about grain exports to taking place in turkey, united nations and turkish officials, trying to ensure the safe passage of millions of tons of grain struck, stuck in ukraine. ships that held up at ports and faced the danger of minds laid in the black sea. it's added to the pressure on the global food supply leading to shortages. in many parts of the world, travel chaos is expected across europe. airlines have been forced to cancel thousands of flights due to strike action. and staff shortages the decision to limit the number of to passing passengers to a 100000 a day, a london busiest airport heathrow said to make matters even worse. meanwhile, spanish base cabin crew to local salon's also planning strike action throughout july. and the scandinavian airline s a s will resume talks with unions, mid a pilot walk out of his salary's chinese military is condemned. the presence

of a u. s. destroyer in an area of the south china sea, it claims beijing said the u. s. s. penfold passed in a the parasol islands which china occupies but also claimed by taiwan and vietnam. the u. s. 7 fleet said unlawful and sweeping claims in the south. china sea pose a serious threat to the freedom of bessy's. the that in hong kong activist, known as grandma wong has been jailed for 8 months. the 66 year old pleaded guilty to charges as unlawful assembly. she has been detained several times and is known for her waving a british flag while taking part in the 2019 pro democracy movement. adrian brown, his mother. well, grandma wong is the nickname that was given to her by young protested during the demonstrations here in 2019 a wong whose real name is alexandra wong, has been a political activist now for more than 10 years,

but she really rose to fame during the unrest in 2019 because she used to wave a large british flag at many protests. and of course that was to the authorities, a flagrant provocation because of course, britain was a former colonial ruler here. and he tried to get the impression the people were still homesick for colonial rule. now one appeared at the court behind me on wednesday, she was convicted on 2 counts of a legal assembly in january, and the magistrate sentenced her to 32 weeks in jail. that's around about 8 months now. it's not the 1st time that wong has been jail. that has happened on 2 previous occasions. she's also been arrested on multiple occasions. but it is a reminder that here in hong kong, the room for political descent is getting narrower. all the time ah.