even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jews to pervasive history. but to so much of this week on d w ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, sri lanka declares a state of emergency. the announcement coming as protestors storm the office of the prime minister and the acting president. president gotcha. via a bunch of pock sir. had fled the country hours earlier before he was to to reside over an economic crisis. also coming up ukraine's forces, striking back and southern regions occupied by russia. the ukrainian military says

that it hit a russian ammunition deep hope, killing dozens of soldiers. plus he was president joe biden, heads to the middle east. it's biden's 1st trip to the regions taking office is 1st stop israel. but the presidents itinerary also includes the controversial business . ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program to lancaster. prime minister has declared a nation wide state of emergency. the move coming just hours after the president. gotcha. by a roger poxy and his wife fled to the nearby mall div on a military jet. fresh process are taking place with police fire and tear gas at a crowd. outside of the prime minister, his residence demonstrators had been storming government being demanding that both

leaders stepped down immediately. the president had promised to resign today. it is believed that he left the country to avoid being arrested after losing his presidential immunity. hotels, to blame him and his long ruling family for sri lanka, the worst economic crisis in decade. bringing dw correspondent, nearer chowdhury, she had english re lumpkin. capitol, colombo mirror. tell us you are joining us on the phone right now. what are you seeing where you are? i'm sure i can find the president. sure. sure. can you try? no. i'm sorry. did you have been going on since morning people actually launching installed? they are being charged. now i've been trying to resign. i guess book i'm trying to go to the terminal so i don't

want you. a to to ration has been going to mirror. what are the protesters demand? well yeah, right now they want the time when it can be acting for one thing i can stand the ministers think they just did on the 9th. so i should be one step down, and that is the immediate demand at the moment. we want to make different kinds of okay, and i mean, we're looking at videos there in the streets. i believe that you said that the situation at least where you are, has been brought under control, but given, given the underlying factors, how big is the threat of a further escalation? so i've gone to be sure about the situation right now. i mean, i'm charging me just a few hours ago

a few minutes ago issue i can be asked to reach me, but i have to check. a a artists not, i'm just trying to branch clarity golf you has been announced to be 100. 9 where you are at the moment i do not see any actually happening on the on the side of the desk. so i found to be sure you should happen to be or not. depends on where to be going to sure. from the secret about your should be she might go to bed. okay. many or just generally speaking. i mean you've been in the country. how have citizens been coping with the economic crisis doc, you want to use

the situation much less than batch i y, so talk to june. so if you want to talk to cooking. 6 back saying that be out of stock. i have not been able to buy medicines for their parents as much as they used to because of the medicines up shut up. so this situation. a and they decided to come back and just gone the menu chattering, joining us from the capital, colombo, and just to recap, are you been watching fresh protests? they are taking place to police are tear gas crowds outside of the prime minister's residence. a state of emergency has been declared manero. thank you so much for your reporting on the ground. let's had system. other news now in ukraine kia has been striking back in the southern air sun region now occupied by russia. ukraine

says its forces destroyed a russian ammunition depot and killed more than 50 soldiers. russian st media give a different account claiming at least 7 people were killed. earlier i asked nick connelly our correspondent in care of weather ukrainian forces. heading back in the south was a sign of the counter offensive that civilians had been told to prepare for it during the preparation to the counter offensive. we've seen ukraine using the new american delivered weapons rockets artillery systems. hi, mars's the name to attack russian. logistics helps russian weapons de opposed to basic deprive russia of that huge advantage. it's been having and taking advantage of in recent weeks, months just having $7.00 to $10.00 times more to re systems their disposal at least us those the figures that the ukrainians have been talking of. so basically trying to stop the russian positions in had san region which are already

a lot less well equipped than the rest of the east of the country. ahead of then trying to make some ground and push forward and really stop making progress and taking more territory for the 1st time in, in a couple months. and as that fighting continues, neck of the united nations has released new numbers on the human toll of the war. and i just like to, to walk us through some of them. they say that more than 5000000 people have been displaced. at least 5000 civilians killed, saying that that number is actually likely much higher. walk us through how people in ukraine are coping nearly half a year now into this war. it is amazing how this country has continued functioning, how the trains kept running, how mobile fi over phone connections have been restored after infrastructure has been destroyed, time and time again, an issue with electricity for now. basic services available here in kia, certainly, but also places pretty close the front lines, obviously in don't bass closest to where those artillery battle to be going on. some people have been left without power without internet or 4 weeks now. but

overall, the country is managing to stand up a lot better than any one had a managed, but it is now we'll see after so many months of fighting, taking it stolen there is the question is how long can individual families, individual ukrainians carry on? often without jobs, often living off their savings. how long can the government here carry on paying for pensions and wages as any big question mark over western promises of 8. we've had lots of discussion about western weapons deliveries coming too late and in smaller numbers than promised. the same is now the case with financial donations. the finance minister here and keith worried that lots of promises made in the early weeks of the war when there was all that potential view. grant have not materialized yet. and there is a real worried that as this drags on and attention gets taken to other conflicts to other issues that the cost living crisis in europe, that ukraine might end up having to really struggle to keep the country afloat and to keep the government machine working and is also a lot of worry around the world are not least because of the more than 20000000

tons of grain stuck in the country because of the fighting. nick, we understand that delegations from ukraine and russia are said to meet in turkey today to discuss a deal to resume exports for more. can you tell us on that front? i think it's not a huge deal of actors or he and key of that. they'll get some kind of agreement. the basic problem is that key of does not trust any promises from russia. so basically, you know, any kind of potential deal to take mines c minds away to remove them to allow those ukrainian main ukrainian ports of odessa and mccullough to reopen. that is all pretty tentative and not looking very likely. now the question about with the commercial shipping companies would actually send their private vessels into disputed waters, as is the case on a desk. but there is a small piece of hope through hopeful news from the south of ukraine, the far south in the danube delta, where we've heard that a new channel has been opened, that allows smaller ships to enter ukrainian ports, not the big ports which used to expose most the grain,

but that specially the 1st time now since being the war, that grain has been exported by c from ukraine rather than being shipped across the borders by land. so a small bit of hope is still a huge problem and new harvest coming in and no one really with an answer to where to put all this grain on top of lost is harvest the still there in the silos waiting to be exported, waiting to reach people across the world who are really struggling with exploding prices for their bread, nick connelly, and the ukranian capital here for us. thank you so much and here's a quick look at some other stories making news around the world. a french court has dale de former senior rwandan official for 20 years after finding him guilty of complicity and genocide. moran hugo rota is the highest ranking rwandan to face trial and france. over the 1994 massacres, the 78 year old was found to have taken part in planning mass killings. the u. s. says that it has killed the leader of the syrian branch of the so called islamic

state in a drone strike. my hair ago was hit in the north western area of syria while riding a motorcycle, the pentagon, se a senior ios official was also seriously injured. social media platform, twitter is suing billionaire eli mosque in an effort to force him to buy the company mosque is attempting to back out of an agreement to acquire, to voter for $44000000000.00 in its lawsuit. twitter accused mosque of ruining the company, stock value and disrupting operations for you as president joe biden is on his way to the middle east for his 1st visit since taking office. his itinerary include saudi arabia, a country that he once described as a pariah due to its human rights record, but where he now hopes to secure increased oil production to ease global prices. biden's 1st stop in the region is israel, a country and political turmoil after the collapse of its coalition government? israel's intern, prime minister, is expected to press biden,

to put pressure on its regional rival, ron biden, is also due to meet with palestinian leaders in the west bank some west jerusalem streets. a fully decked out ahead of precedent. jo biden's visit to israel and the occupied territories many here looking forward to his arrival i am sure president by me can make some kind of difference. what kind i can say right now. this is a problematic time. it's not the best opportunity to try any kind of change, but of course pumpkin that every time an american president comes to jerusalem, it's a great honor to me. but as a jerusalem, it's also a great hustle because the sushi will be closed and we won't be able to leave home . no, i think it's very courageous of him to come a few days after the prime minister is changed. come, i mean it shows how special the relationship is, mcmillan. mm hm. yeah. le, pete, her is heading. the cat, take it, israeli government will greet the u. s. president biden often refers to his long

standing friendship with israel. his 1st visit dates back almost 50 years on the agenda. iran and the nuclear talks a possible defense alliance with other arab states and steps towards a possible refreshment with saudi arabia. that going to some kind of turning point with iran. are they american allies that would need necessarily, you know, deal are reserved with this growing threat. they need to know that they have american beck did. they have strong america, did is confident of itself and that it will not let to, you know, create some kind of vacuum kia that will be inevitably filled with some other forces. the palestinian town of bethlehem in the occupied westbank is likely his last stop after a visit to east jerusalem on friday. graffiti of biden's predecessor trump still adorned. the israeli barrier partially surrounding the town. the u. s. on palestinian leaders hoped to reset diplomatic relations which reached an idea under

trump. some palestinians in the holy city hope for change. he sent him by then at the hottest wood and how quickly my message to biden, as please showed a true picture of what happens with the palestinian people. because distortion happens in the media and our true image is convey to the world and ada alliston. even people really need this because we are going backwards. the world is not paying attention to us and no one is looking towards us. what i had to go to not many palestinians a pushing for biden to bring up the recent killing of us palestinian journalists, serene abu act lay, which many blame on the israeli military off to the president, ends his visit here. his expect to fly to saudi arabia. and a quick reminder of our top story here on d. w. news, sri lanka has declared a state of emergency after protest her stormed the office of the prime minister and acting president. this after president. gotcha. by a roger pox up went to the country,

sydney fled the country just hours before he was due to resign. over the economic crisis. you're watching the w news live from berlin up. next. are documentary film, the internet's up. every thing, all that more to say with us, if you can, i'm sarah kelly and berlin is always more on the website. the w dot com. thanks for watching a man with the memories of a woman. oh, only from syria is born in a female body. forced into marriage, great far from home, ali can finally become good person. he's always wanted to be.