jordan. this coming of course just hours after his controversial meeting with the saudi crown prince. >> and i'm kim brunhuber live at cnn center in atlanta where we'll have the latest on the missile strikes by russia targeting civilians in kyiv. we'll have the latest. well, it's 11:00 in the morning in saudi arabia, day two of president joe biden's controversial visit to the kingdom. right now we do expect mr. biden to begin a bilateral meeting with the iraqi prime minister. that will be followed later this hour with a one on one meeting with the president of egypt, and next out with the leader of the

uae. this is an incredibly busy day for the u.s. president on what is his first tour of the middle eastern gulf since he became u.s. president. the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi in 2018 has cast a pall. president biden hoping this trip will help move the two countries forward while still making clear he holds mohammed bin salman responsible for that killing. here's what he said after meeting with the crown prince on friday. >> i made my view crystal clear. i said very straightforwardly, for an american president to be silent on an issue of human rights is inconsistent with who we and who i am. >> some will find it difficult to square the president's rhetoric with him greeting the

crown prince with a fist bump. it was mr. biden who labeled saudi arabia a pariah just a few years ago. the president says he doesn't regret the remark, but both men close to ignore reporters' questions as their meeting started on friday. >> jamal khashoggi, will you apologize to his family, sir? >> thank you, thank you, guys. >> president biden -- >> let's bring in cnn international diplomatic editor, nic robertson. it can't be comfortable for the president. >> this was sort of a, look at it as a long race or a marathon, if you will, to get to their moment. there has been so much talk about it, wanting the moment, wanting to have that, that image and the white house not wanting to have something like that, that would potentially embarrass

president biden. and's like you get to the finish line and it snatches victory just as president biden is about to go behind doors, there's the crown prince at the palace. we'd heard there would be a fist bump. but their was very public and the cameras positioned. and it gives the saudis want they wanted. it gives president biden a headache. and they're both saying business was done. >> that's about resetting a relationship, which quite frankly over the last 18 months or so had become particularly frosty. uae and saudi upset, industrious tra with a lack of security

guarantees. let's be quite unclear, it is not unfamiliar for a u.s. president to visit this kingdom. almost every single u.s. president has visited the kingdom of saudi arabia over the last 18 years. what is that wider, that wider narrative that both key stakeholders here want to pursue at this point? >> there are global concerns. there is global energy security, global food security, which would affect a country like saudi arabia, because it's in a region surrounded by less-stable countries who are more at threshold on food levels. >> and we're seeing that across the region. >> we are seeing this across the region. they are sensitive to this. they are sense itive to climate change as well. this is what president biden talked about. the renewables, the hydrogen, liquid hydrogen. >> transition. >> and transition.

so there are these gains there as well. but i think what we're going to hear more detail on, and president biden spoke about their l this last night at their press conference, food security. this is something he said in germany and bavaria, that he wants these nations, these richer nations to stump up money to do that. >> yeah, and the food security story, which is just so critical to so many of the poorer countries in this region exacerbated of course, seriously exacerbated by russia's conflict in ukraine. you just have to go across the border from saudi arabia to yemen to see the effect of the food and fuel issue that is impacting a country hlike that. so the president bringing some

help, be that financial or in the frame of sort of economic initiatives across a myriad of different things. he wanted to take away commitment on oil. back home it is the price of gasoline at the pump which is a very difficult issue for joe biden to deal with tasas it is the democratic party. what did he get? >> it isn't clear. one of the reason it is isn't clear is coming into this, the administration said this was diplomacy better done behind closed doors. and we know that because the saudis have been very public saying we not an oil spigot, and we don't turn it on just to get additional security. that's a paradigm we want to move away from. what we heard from president biden was a sort of, well, let's see in a few weeks. i've talked about the need for

this. i think it's there. let's see what happens in a few weeks. rather than coming out and doing a reverse of what mohammed bin salman did to him, which was put him in a very embarrassing position, biden has stuck to his diplomatic tenants. the saudis on the other hand saying look, there are commitments under opec plus, and these going to be followed through. >> this is not just a meeting between the u.s. and saudi, although arguably that leg, yesterday afternoon, was pretty much the most important part, i think the white house would admit, and so would the saudis. this was a wider meeting of regional leaders. the uae and iraq and egypt who the u.s. president will have bilateral meetings within the next hour or so. is it clear how this region is

positioning itself with regard, the u.s., at present, and the wider region expects from the u.s. president? or hopes to get? >> it's very hard to predict. this region is changing. they expect the united states to keep up with that change. one of the indicators that they might be aligning themselves more deeply and over the long term with the u.s., was their commitment that biden said he from the saudis to invest in u.s.-made, g5, g6 technology. you have to go with us, because china's state will get the information. and you can't be a security partner. that's only part of the picture, and you can't say that fills the whole frame. >> very briefly. the quest to get israel better positioned and normalized with other arab states, how much

success has the u.s. president had, briefly. >> biden came out with an unexpected press conference to head off that imagery of the fist bump. that they can overfly saudi arabia. the saudis got out of that, a commitment from israel that they can have a bigger role in controlling influence over islands that are strategically important for israel that they've had a role in, that have been a flash point in the region for many, many years. and that was a give, if you will, from the israelis to saudis. so you see this slow thaw coming. but on thebig issues they say t can't until they see a leader they can deal with. >> thank you. as nic robertson, nick will

continue to work his sources as the u.s. president continues his day of what are key bilateral meetings with regional leaders here. right across the gulf and into the middle east. tough times and lots of tough talk it seems. let's head back to atlanta for our our top stories. kim. >> thanks so much, becky, really appreciate it. ukraine says russian forces are stepping up military strikes across the board. cities of odesa and the kharkiv region coming under rocket or artillery fire early saturday morning. ukraine says a rocket attack in the kharkiv region collapsed an apartment building and left three elderly people dead. in the east ukraine say it is pushed back against russian attempts to gain more ground in the donbas region, including an

attack on a strategic highway. scott mcclain joins us live from kyiv. let's start with the rocket and artillery attacks on several ukrainian cities. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: what stands out to me is the city of mykolaiv. it had rocket attacks on a university. there was more this morning, though they're trying to figure out exactly what the damage was and the casualties were. and the mayor says that of 142 days of war, they have only had 21 that have been quiet. 21 without artillery strikes. so that southern part of ukraine has been especially dangerous, especially active as of late of course because of ukrainians have been trying to launch their own push to take back territory around the city of kherson. you also mentioned the rocket attacks in daneap row. there was one on a residential area where two were injured.

others may have been trapped under the rubble after a rocket attack last night that injured 16 and killed three and in an industrial area and in total officials say as of late there have been 57 rocket attacks on the city. and in the eastern part of the ku united country, this must be frustrating. they wanted to quickly move on to focussing on taking the donetsk region. it seems that the front lines have barely moved at all over the last few weeks. the efforts to move them forward have been pushed back and unsuccessful. and in the meantime, they continue to drop bombs on the towns and villages on the other side. >> and that horrific attack, you've been covering that, what's the latest there? >> reporter: yeah, so according to the local officials, they are still trying to identify the victims, the victims that they found so far, 23.

so they say that of the 19 people who they have actually identified, most of them have had to be identified using at an dna testing because the bodies are damaged beyond recognition. i saw two women outside the hospital door in tears, and of course at the hospital, that's not uncommon. they wouldn't speak to me on camera, but we did manage to speak to them briefly, and they told us the reason they were so upset is because they had gone to every hospital in the region looking for their missing relative. there are still eight people from the attack who are missing, and this was the last hospital that they had gone to. this was their last hope of actually finding them alive. obviously, they didn't find them. they assume that they are somewhere amongst that rubble. on the scene they've been using dogs to try to sniff out any human remains, but given the

level of damage that we saw to the actual building and the actual structures, you can only imagine what the store of those explosions would do to a human body. >> really just horrific situation there. appreciate the reporting, scott mcclain, thanks so much. millions of people outside ukraine can pay the price for the war in the form of foot shortages. the former ukrainian food minister will join us to talk about ongoing negotiations on food exports. and a new first in the 2020 election probe coming up. the january 6 committee sets its sights on the u.s. secret service over missing text messages. details on that in a moment. and a senate democrat sinks his party's climate agenda. stay with us. ends right now. lactaid ice cream is the creamy, real ice cream you love that will never mess with your stomach. lactaid ice cream.

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>> reporter: homeland security inspector general on capitol hill. he briefed all nine january 6 committee members on his claim that the secret service erased text messages from january 6, 2021. >> one of the things we have to make sure is that what secret service is saying and ig are saying are fact, one and the same. >> reporter: he raised the issue with alejandro mayorkas more than once but ultimately turned to congress for help, telling congressional committees this week that many u.s. secret service text messages from january 5 and 6, 2021 were erased as part of a device replacement program. they were erased after iog requested electronic communications, but the secret service quickly shot back saying

it was part of routine phone replacements. the idea that they maliciously deleted text messages is false. adding that the inspector general requested them for the first time in february 2021 after the investigation was well under way. they confirmed to oig that none of the texts it was seeking had been lost in the migration. the secret service says they have been cooperating with the ig, handing over almost 800,000 redacted e-mails and nearly 8,000 microsoft teams chat messages. the agency has been at the center of intensifying questions after cassidy hutchinson testified last month. she was a top aide to white house chief of staff mark meadows. and she said that she was told that president trump lunged in the suv and tried to force his

detail to take him to the capitol on january 6. >> president reached up at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm. said sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. >> reporter: trump had dismissed hutchinson's testimony, but someone in the motorcade corroborated. >> mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge toward bobby engel. he motioned toward his clavicles. >> reporter: one official telling cnn that the agents dispute hutchinson's account, but huctchinson's lawyers say se stands by her testimony. >> if people have a different recollection we encourage them to come out and testify under oath. that's very different than putting out anonymous

statements. >> reporter: the committee has announced plans for an eighth and final hearing on thursday at 8:00 p.m. and will focus on what happened in the 187 minutes when trump was out of public view and not stepping in as rioters attacked the capitol. jessica schneider, cnn. georgia's republican party chairman david shavfer has received a letter warning him that he may be indicted. he helped organize a slate of fake electors in the state and has been cooperating with prosecutors and was initially told he was a witness in the investigation. shafer has also faced inquiries from fellow investigators and the house select committee. the atlanta-area investigation was triggered after former president trump's infamous phone call to georgia's secretary of state pressuring him to find more vote. here's part of that call.

>> all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. >> u.s. democrats are hoping to expand their senate majority in midterm elections this fall, since the senate's 50/50 split means every lawmaker carries outside weight. joe pmanchin represents west virginia which supported president trump in 2016 and 2020. he's told chuck schumer he won't support climate change or tax provisions in any economic package right now. >> i said, chuck, until we see the july inflation figures, until we see the july, basically federal reserve rate, interest rate, then let's wait until that

comes out so we know that we're going down the path that won't be inflammatory to add more to inflation. he said are you tilling me you don't the other right now? i said chuck, it's wrong. it's not prude. to do the other right now. >> he's open to extending enhanced affordable care act subsidies for two years. he won't support energy or climate provisions or tax increases. cases of covid-19 are increasing globally, according to the world health organization. the number of new infections rose for the fifth straight week, driven largely by the ba.4 and ba.5 variant. earlier, the director general warned the public on easing up. >> the waves of the virus demonstrate again that the covid-19 is thougnowhere near o.

as the virus pushes at us, we must push back >> and here in the u.s., the centers for disease control says more than half the population lives in a county where there's a high level of community transmission. los angeles county, the nation's largest, is on track to require indoor masks again as covid cases and hospitalizations there continue to soar. a show of resilience after a horrific mass shooting. the tops supermarket in buffalo, new york reopened friday. it's been two months since ten people were shot and killed in a racist attack. there were mixed emotions as customers returned to tops, a long-time fixture in the community. they say it's undergone a complete renovation with additional safety and security measures in place. there's also a memorial for the shooting victims inside the store, where across from the store community members have placed hundreds of flowers to commemorate them and pay their respects.

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welcome back to our viewers from around the world. i'm becky anderson in saudi arabia. u.s. president joe biden is set to be wrapping up his bilateral meeting with the prime minister of iraq about now and will soon meet with the egyptian president. next hour he's to meet one on one with the president of the united arab emirates. and from there he will head to the gcc, for a final round of

summits on a whole range of issues. this isn't just about u.s.-saudi relations, but arguably that leg of his visit here has been the most important and controversial. the president expected to announce $1 billion commitment, for example, to food security in the middle east and north africa. well, relations quite frankly around the region have been strained, but specifically u.s.-saudi relations, strained since the brutal murder of jamal khashoggi in 2018 and the alleged role the saudi crown prince had to play in that death. here with me now is steven carlin, middle east

correspondent for "the wall street journal." if you were assessing to date, and this trip isn't over for the u.s. president, but if were you assessing to date how it has gone, how would you rate it? >> well, i mean, i think the president dcame in last night, had this meeting with the crown prince, really scrutinized with how they were going to engage with each other, and i think it went off without anything really bad, anything really going wrong. so he, the president had to come and have these conversations. they spent two or three hours ago. >> but it's the optics. >> yeah, it was a fist bump, it wasn't a warm handshake. there were some smiles in this meeting. you know, i think it probably went about as well as the white house could have hoped for. the president, you know, even a few weeks ago was saying this meeting wasn't going to happen. he was going to make the trip but not meet with the crown prince and had to walk that back. it's never easy to do.

>> one of the things to point out here is the white house realized and the president admitted this when he was in israel, that the americans need to work harder with the saudis and the region. they fear that any vacuum left by de-prioritizing this region will be filled by firstly the chinese and then the russians, we are already seeing a lot of influence of chinese, russian business industry here in the region. so what is the president doing to reset that relationship? i mean, he's got a whole load of meetings, hasn't he, with regional leaders. i'm struggling to see an overarching sort of message from the region. it feels to me it's quite piecemeal what countries are looking for at this point. >> it seems that everyone's coming with a different ask from the president. everybody sits in a different

place and will have different priorities. the president will have the opportunity to speak with three of the key leaders this morning. obviously, it's his first trip and there haven't been that many visits to the white house from these leaders. there have been top-level engagements because of afghanistan, but this is an opportunity for them to hear from him. >> there were two themes as the president flew in here. one was the bettering of relations between saudis and owner countries, some of that i think the u.s. president has got. but the overall story is there's no road map. and the other thing, this is really important. the states seems to want a regional security arrangement here so that while they are still active in the region, they haven't got boots on the ground. hows to that come together if at

all? >> i think very, very slowly. this is something that's been talked about for years, that the previous president tried to create this area nato. >> which frankly people don't want here, sparsas far as i can. >> certain countries want it to a certain extent. but this might be the opportunity for more organization, for close cooperation, for example, on air defense, to protect countries that feel threatened by iranian missiles, to work together to protect themselves. for various reasons that doesn't seem to be coming together. there are various regions, qatar and the uae that have closer relationships that have to deal with iran that saudi can be more confrontational. there are some who are more comfortable dealing with israel for example i would be a boost to the alliance, and there are other countries that don't want to provoke iran by getting in a closer relationship with israel.

>> this is a region still roiling, there are some financial heavy weights, the likes of saudi arabia and uae and other countries in the region really struggling, not least by the high price of fuel and food. exacerbated by russia's war in ukraine. thank you, steven. fascinating times here. the u.s. president had wrap up his meetings here and be headed home within the next few hours. before arriving on friday, mr. biden met with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas in the west bank and confirmed his commitment to an independent palestinian state and two-state solution. but palestinians remain deeply frustrated over a number of issues, not the least of a trump-era decision to close a consulate. the head of the palestinian mission to the uk and former

head of the plo general delegation spoke earlier to cnn about that closure. let's have a listen to part of what he said. >> in fact, the lack of opening of such a very important diplomatic mission is also indicative of how serious the administration is about the two-state solution and how much they are willing to spend in political capital as opposed to rhetoric and statements. the consulate general is the key matter. because if you believe in the two states, you need two embassies. if you really brief elieve in t 1967 borders, then there is one missing. >> that does it from me here in saudi arabia. let me head back to cnn headquarters and kim for our other top stories, kim. all right, thanks so much, becky, appreciate it.

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all right, we'd like to show you what ukrainian farmers call a second front in russia's invasion of their country. have a look here. you'll see it here. wheat fields on fire, sparked by russian shelling. if ukraine doesn't produce and export its grain, tens of millions of people around the world could struggle to put food on the table. much of that grain is now stranded because of russian naval blockade, but the united nations is optimistic the ongoing talks in turkey could lead to a deal in resuming those exports. ukraine and russia have agreed on basic principles earlier this week and followup talks are to resume in the coming days. the u.n. secretary-general says

that's a very hopeful sign. >> we have seen a critical step, a step forward to ensuring the safe and secure export of ukrainian food products through the black sea. in a world darkened by global crisis, today at last we have a ray of hope. a ray of hope to ease human suffering and alleviate hunger around the world. a ray of hope to support developing countries and the most vulnerable people. a ray of hope to bring a margin of much-needed stability to the global food system. sf . >> for more we're joined by the president of the keefe yiv scho. thanks for being with us. russia seems to be targeting farm fields, accused of stealing and reselling ukrainian crop.

they are accusing them of waging a war on wheat. is that how you see it? >> that's correct. they also target infrastructure, agricultural infrastructure as well as logistics by shelling. and the areas that they have occupied and later left, they have took away the equipment, the farmers' equipment. >> so right now, aside from what you said, from the targeting of fields, the dangers that farmers face as well, there's also the problem of what to to with the products because of russia's blockade of the black seaports, but there's news of a hope of a deal to allow ukraine to export from those seaports. how close are we, do you think to an actual deal here? >> i'm more optimistic than let's say a week ago.

i talked to the government, some officials, who i informed about the process, the progress of the talks. so there's actually a realistic hope that there will be a way to export. >> are you worried at all that russia may not be negotiating in good faith here? i mean, they still have plenty of conditions apparently, and of course putin would still have to sign off on the deal. now i think we may have, we have lost our guest there. well, we'll see if we can reconnect with him. we'll see if we can get him back later. we'll be right back in a moment.

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13th are likely caused by the heat wave. spanish officials say at least 84 people are thought to be stead because of swelterring temperatures. they're warping that twarning te heat secti heat is expected to rise along with the death toll. the heat is very dangerous and dee struck trif. what's the latest on the heat? >> we have this almost insurmountable bubble of heat. it's just meandering around the area. the iberian peninsula is going to see yet more in the way of record-breaking heat, especially here across the border of spain and portugal. this is where we could see extreme heat continue for sure. notice madrid will see temperatures well above the century mark, 106 degrees fahrenheit. then you can see paris, 102, 104

by the time we get to monday and tuesday. really hot temperatures here, and guess what, it's not going anywhere anytime soon. we will see it push to the north and east. maybe a little bit of a cool down across portions of portugal, but it is very short-lived. we will see the heat return by the end of the week. lisbon, notice, 91 degrees for a high on saturday. but then we get a nice little cool down, 78 degrees on monday. meanwhile the rest of the reas region, madrid, paris, will be above the century mark. all-time records here. let's say france, 114 degrees. don't think we'll see that all-time record be broken over the next couple days, but notice the uk. 101.6. that one is certainly in jeopardy. the uk med office has issued their first-ever red alert for the heat monday and tuesday because the bubble of heat that

i mentioned earlier, kim, is bringing up to the north and bringing all that heat with it. so that temperature of 101.6 in the uk, all-time record high is in jeopardy. because we could be getting really, really close to that in london on monday with a high of 101. and that is well, well above that average, kim? >> those numbers just incredible. and of course all that heat leading to fires and worst fires in spain where we have al goodman, what can you tell us about the fires there? >> reporter: hi, kim. there are dozens of fires burning at this hour in various parts of spain. the newest and one of the most serious ones is in the south of spain on the mediterranean sea. that's an area very popular along the coast. heavily-touristed area for people from northern europe who come as tourists and some have retirement homes there. and among 3,000 people

evacuated, 1,000 more overnight, a late figure that officials have just said up to 3,000 now. some of those include belgians and english people who, a belgian man told reuters he's in his late 60s. his retirement home is down leerl here, his savings are in that home and is worry thad everything could go up in smoke. certainly fires in portugal, but many, many fires in western spain, also very high temperatures in celsius. these are temperatures in the 40-degrees range, 104 degrees fahrenheit. in one town in northwestern spain, just above portugal, near record of 44 degrees scentigrad. and the flip side, already in the 70s, not much after cool down.

you mention the number the officials have estimated have died. officials have said in the month of june when the first extreme heat wave hit this country, up to 700 people are estimated to have died according to officials, who look at those numbers based on excess deaths, what would be the normal, how many of those attributable to very high temperatures. everybody is trying to get off the street here by the middle of the day. kim? >> just incredible. all right, thanks so much, al goodman. appreciate it. well, as we mentioned, russian missiles hit the ukrainian port city of odessa this morning, and we're receiving reports of damage. our ivan watson is in odessa. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: we're seeing quite clearly quite a large fire here in an industrial complex over my

shoulder here. the residents in the surrounding neighborhood that i've spoken to, they say that they heard the, almost ubiquitous sound of an air raid siren around 4:00 in the morning and around 5:00 a.m. the explosion that shattered windows in the surrounding neighborhood and clearly caused substantial damage inside this industrial complex. we're not being allowed in by the ukrainian security forces. the firefighting is still under way right now. we don't flow know exactly what target was. the authorities are saying no one was injure mdd in this stri. we are seeing this pattern that has been developing of a missile and rocket war on front lines, artillery between the russian and ukrainian forces, but much deeper into civilian areas, rockets and missiles being hurled, dozens each day, on

thursday reports of dozens of rockets hitting in different ukrainian cities. the city of mykolaiv, about two hours' drive from odesa here, pounded repeatedly day after day, schools hit. universities hit. a hospital hit there. a hotel hit. the city rocketed on wednesday with devastating results of children and civilians, dozens killed and injured there. an eastern city also pounded yesterday, reports of a bus driver coming home from duty, from a day's shift, incinerated in that blast. this is not a conflict that really discriminates between military targets and civilians. and civilians are living in this period of real terror.

when you see, when you hear the air raid sirens, kim, ukrainians go to their phones. they look up websites, and they see reports of which provinces, which regions are in danger, and they take to their basements, because they don't flow whether or not one of these deadly projectiles could be coming through their roofs. >> some 70% of russian attacks have been focussed on non-military infrastructure. so, again, we don't know, we see the smoke coming over your shoulder there from the target in the industrial area as you said, we don't know what was in there, but certainly, many, many residential areas have been targeted. ivan watson, appreciate your on the spot reporting. that wrap this is hour of "cnn newsroom."

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