i this me, her women ninja sees into this week. wow. ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. you as president joe biden arrives in israel kicking off a high stakes trip to the middle east. b u. s. president declares his countries boned the bond with israel. but 4 days of difficult diplomacy lie ahead. also, coming up to lanka declared

a state of emergency protestors. storm the offers of the acting prime minister and acting president. gotta buy out roger parcher has meanwhile fled the country. and hope saw a breakthrough on ease in global food shortages. ukraine says its negotiators are close to striking a deal with russia to resume grain exports. the talks good, free supplies to feed millions, currently facing hunger. ah, i'm glad elf as welcome to the program. you as president joe biden has landed in israel. it's the 1st stop on his 1st trip to the middle east as american head of state. he's under pressure to balance human rights concerns with america's geopolitical objectives. in the region, biden was briefed on is ross, miss all defense systems after landing and will now visit the yuk,

the shame memorial to holocaust victims. after 2 days in jerusalem, the u. s. president will then go on to the occupied west bank. that philistine leader mahmoud abbas is expected to voice his concern of israeli settlements. the president's final and most controversial stop will be in saudi arabia, where containing iran increasing all production and human rights are on his agenda . and his opening remarks the president spoke about his goal of helping israel to further integrate into the middle east and community of states will continue to address as well as integration of the region, expand emerging farms and engagement like the know i to you to summit which will bring israel, the united states, the u, a together, and india as well. to deepen our economic cooperation between the middle east and in a pacific greater pace. greater stability,

greater connection is critical, is critical. why my ad for all the people of the region who is present, joe biden speaking, then i'm not joined by the w me to least correspondent rebecca returned to joins me from van gordon appleton. until it is rebecca. a lot of expectations hanging on this abide and visit in the region. what's on his agenda, and what is the israeli is israelis prime minister gala pete's priority? well, the expectations for this trip gearhart actually remain quite tempered and we're not expecting any major surprises and nothing that we don't sort of already know he's going to happen. or of course, it's always significant. every time a u. s. president comes to town and this trip is obviously no difference. and this trip is as you were just saying about strengthening, already very close ties between the us and israel. but of course,

strengthening ties with israel. and there are middle east in neighbors, other arab countries in the region. and that's something that president biden is going to be looking at and talking a lot with a head on a i and i paid, excuse me, on tomorrow. they're looking at signing what's known as the jerusalem declaration, where america will guarantee that iran will never have access to nuclear weapons at something that the israelis a longing to have. this is a very important trip also for you. i love it ahead of elections come november. he's wanting to obviously handle the photo opportunities with the president to show their friendliness and they, they do have a close and even personal relationship with joking, clipping about a previous job that they made, or when they'd met. obviously when joe biden was vice president of his is his 1st trip to the come country as president. his 10th in total is definitely symbolic,

but expectations about any surprised things to come out of it. and you know, and not expected out in mexico for by the palestinian territories. how on is it for you as president to go? that it's not unusual at all. get hard. in fact, pretty much every president since bill clinton in 1994 has visited the pallet, palestinian authority at bar a few exceptions are largely for, for reasons that are not political. but so it's actually not unusual. probably what would be more unusual if he didn't visit didn't make mountain road, abbas ab, but once again, nothing it really set to come out of that meeting. obviously there will be discussions a president biden mentioned it again, that his administration is for a 2 state solution that will of course, be discussed. but his administration has also decided not to really go ahead with any kind of plans to get that in motion. but any, you know,

any attempt at that would be futile. so there isn't really a plan, he's not going with a plan and that is on customary, normally when they visit the palestinian ladies, they go with some sort of a road map. but that isn't the case. this time ab, but it is a symbolic and welcomed meeting. now the final stop on the a bible agenda there on this trip is saudi arabia. that is controversial wise well, not least of all because of saudi arabia's human rights record. a president biden as he came into office describe saudi arabia and the, the crown prince fair mohammed ben solomon as a pariah. for his part, all their par, they connection to the killing of generalist jamal kashodi. so this is, are really a $180.00 turn around when it comes to relations with saudi arabia, really sobriety politic coming into it. when you look at what's happening with the crisis in ukraine and russia's invasion of ukraine and how that's affected oil prices around the globe,

president biden hoping that he'll get some assurances from saudi arabia that will, that will make the price at the bows or at home for the, his domestic audience or more, more, a more affordable. but of course there also will be talks about as a regional defense alliance. now that's something that israel and saudi arabia have been talking about for some time in the shadows. it's hope that this trip by president bond will bring that out of the dog out from behind closed doors and into the open. but no official alliance set to be to be decided on this trip. rebecca with reporting from ben korean airport. thank you very much. israel lunk, a prime minister, a wrong over crime is sinshay declared a state of emergency the ordered security forces to restore order. protesters in colombo, have been storming government buildings, including the pm's office demonstrate as i calling for his resignation. and that of president gotta buy out raja pasha who fled the country before he was due to hand

in his resignation. protestors blame him and his long ruling family for sherlock has worst economic crisis in decades ah, shall anchor is on the brink of change. a people's uprising has ended a family dynasties long group and bar after the president. sudden departure agree, protestors have now done that. focus on the prime minister who's now the acting president on woocommerce savvy. his at the, i have been informed by the president kennedy, but the good that since the president is out of the country, he has a point, a prime minister. i wanna make it, he must become a sink, a grandma under the constitution, but call up to carry out his duties and mafia rightfully strike to dispose the

protesters with tear gas. but the people are not going anywhere just yet. many a camp at the presidential palace immediately while the president's house and the prime minister's residence are maintained by tax money. who knew this is a great opportunity for people to see these buildings, because the people did not understand when they were talking about our thought, maybe for them in at them. it's only now they realized the luxurious lives of children that they had paid for with tax money, whether with any demonstrations have been taking place across the capital city of colombo for months. now. now the 1st follow that is the most prominent survey. it has come through, speak now the partition to realize the follow up with the bows. come on. the island nation is facing its worst economic crisis since

its independence. 1948, but with public trust in the political last running critical. it's not people who dmitri dick the country, auto financial ruin, o w correspondents. whenever a child re is in the capital, columbo money or we had earlier today, protest is broken into the prime minister's office. what can you tell us? well yes, earlier today they were 100 to protesters were stormed into the prime minister's office and his residence, demanding his resignation, did some resistance on the security closely. they also say something, i guess shilling, but eventually they were able to force their way around the same time. the emergency was also announced basically a nation wide independent image. and he was announced in the western problems of the country under which colombo may be attending, right? now also fun, but ongoing damage if you happen to be,

haven't seen any dramatic increase in the presence of your people to get out. still hundreds and thousands of protective behind me in terms of the, you know, the military take sides or can we expect a to maybe well, there is no indication of any such thing happening yet. in fact, they have been the 4th of the prime minister. having formed a committee with the commanders all 3 on places to take care of the law in order to situation. now the speaker of parliament says he expects the president's resignation letter today. will that satisfy demonstrate? is that well, it definitely will. that is what people have been waiting for this morning for the weekend. it was reported that the president would, america will submit to final destination to the speaker on wednesday, but he'll be all coming on with you at the end of the day. but we haven't seen that

fishing net there yet. but too many, it also seems like this to pull money for you because prime minister on it has already been declared as the acting president in the at so. so go to very large box up, which is also a lot of doubt among people to point the questioning is legitimacy. when it comes to acting president, especially when it comes to announcing the image in b, because people have not seen the official recognition that they get no talk about the humanitarian crisis in sri lanka right now. explain to us how bad is it? well in patient exam, derive forward you can derive in the past few months, confusion has gone about 50 percent. and then there are reports that i studied, that if you get much, was in the coming months, making it very difficult for people to afford some basic to deal with. like a local can got to not even available that much whatever it is available. what people are not going to do or did people are not able to afford medicine. it's

evidently not enough money for transport sector as well, whether it's the buses or friends, or even medical people, because all the people have been using open jobs i've been using now to let them do that. when you're thank you very much money or let's talk to someone with an inside perspective. on the protest, he travelled at 100 miles on saturday to be part of these protest. now he's with us, luca fernando. he's a human rights activist from columbia rookie last saturday. you said that you've never seen anything like this people's uprising. how do you feel about the situation now? it's a mixture of much for her because that human is that the people's uprising as a team, but also a lot of fear. and i'm certain, be immediate about whether there will be a kind of a distance because we want to see at 3 locations in columbus being used to be and

you've seen before, people being subject to being people being of the people. right. and maybe something to the nation. so let's say media. but of course, in the long term, there's a lot of here about because i believe, you know, let me put the same question to you that i put correspondent, money, or earlier, other fears that the military could take sides or take matters into their own hands . ah, in the past we've seen the military shooting at least one that has happened in when demanding drinking like i just happened often in the non, during the wall. the military has been accused pretty well. everything you know about on somebody, you know, very serious crime. so there's a lot of fear that the military should injure. and now on the, what this does. so do you think also from the purchase this point of view,

we're looking at more violence as well as the so far by and large. so been very peaceful. but i think the very great danger that i serious violent, i'm used to be by the state, by the police forces. people are, you know, people not just people who are the people, we get very angry and we might end in chaos. so they have a great binge of that, the stance because of the violence as they have been trying to do to be me and also on the 9th. and then we might be some really chaotic situation. now what needs to happen to have real change in sri lanka really needed thing of course, is that the president must formally resigned, hoping that the service is going to san president as a media unit, media division, competent people practitioners, were paid by public money. so he's really amazing that he wants to make his public

and most of the people, australia and come to the speaker without using the media division. and the speaker has been talking as well when i was by the speak to b one. and i was saying that the prime minister in appointed a president and later saying that the president beat the resignation later to be during the course of today. so we don't, don't know, even whether to believe the speaker or not of the trucking company, but at the same time, i think in the long term, of course, we need the economy recovery the need found long term economy policies, particularly in dealing with that. but also the need will be going on, the policy is the plus and the most marginalized and the oppressed. at the heart of the not just investors, not just the market being the priority at the same time, you also need to call them recover. democracy would be more christie has been really damaged constitutionally and legally, but also in practice. an important part of the mcafee is the whole numerical minorities are treated. so any long term progress must include how we deal with the

conflict, what metro cities, and also the economic problems that you've been facing. more recently, at the same time, i think the reports that the libyan speaker. now she'd as well, kim, if it's a line paula view is rights to the international rookie fernando in colombo. that thank you very much . let's have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today. a court in france has jailed a former rondon official for 20 years, finding him guilty of complicity and genocide. though on will she bow ties the highest ranking, rwandan to face trial in france. over the 1994 massacres, the 78 year old was found to have taken part and planning mass killings.

thousands of people in southwestern france have fled their homes as forest fires, threatened villages and towns firefighters from the from other parts of the country have been brought in to contain the places burning along the atlantic coast drought conditions. and the heat wave are helping to fuel the flames. it's a 2nd heat wave of the summer for much of western europe. temperature is above 40 degrees celsius, are sparking wildfires not only in france, but also spain and portugal. the seed waves expected to hit harder and last longer . authorities are warning of the danger the conditions, both especially to the elderly the war and ukraine as disrupted global food supplies delegations from ukraine and russia, and our meeting in turkey to discuss resuming grant exports from black c ports. ukraine's foreign minister says there are 2 steps away from reaching a deal,

stockpiles stuck in ukraine. of course, global prices to rise sharply. making food less affordable. alexander to books warehouse should be empty and ready for the new harvest. instead, it's full to the rafters with wheat from last year stuck here because a fresh as war. those grew big, ukrainian grain cannot enter the international market now because that horse are not working. the c route was the most important because of this is the demand for grain decrease. we porpoise measure. so that's the harvest won't wait. and the grain keeps piling up, even as the farmers run out of space for it. an estimated 22000000 tons of grain is stuck in ukraine. some of it is stored in silos like these in the port of odessa waiting for export. before the war, 90 percent of ukraine's grain was exported via ports on the black sea,

but helped by territorial gains. russia is now blockading those ports, and keith has laid minds across the black sea to defend its coast. the u. n. is proposing safe corridors through the sea to get the grain out and avert a global food crisis to result opening porter. i don't see that the ukrainian farmers warsaw and it's 1st, if ukrainian farmers will not survive rule and be able to feed 2 african countries known as the bread basket of the world. ukraine is a top global exporter of crops like wheat, barley, and corn. with the harvest stuck inside ukraine, tea supplies, and missing, and prices worldwide have shut up. the u. n says a solution must be found urgently to avoid starvation on an unprecedented scale.

dorian jones is in a symbol for us, where the talks between russia and ukraine are being held. dorian, how close are we to a breakthrough, really just 2 steps away as the ukranian foreign ministers put it while it does appear, the ukraine is the most optimistic on the 4 parties. in fact, the un secretary general tonia gutierrez on to say, said there is still some way to go before any agreement can be achieved, and that is similar, sent him who've been hearing from turkish officials and also russia has been probably the most coolest. so far as they are seen, as the ones that need really need to be one over are to secure any deal. but having said all of that, the fact that these talks have now gone on for several hours longer than previous talks. it does appear that they are discussing something, possibly hammering out a framework where that could come into immediate effect if all sized co sign off to an agreement are but we're still waiting. so what are the main obstacles for a deal? well, it is

a very complex arrangement. you have the whole idea of how you will remove minds from these port, how these corridors will work. how will you address russian concerns or any of the ships at her girding the take the gert, ukrainian grain, alt smuggling armed into ukraine. but i think the key obstacles are that pacing a question of trusts. basically, ukraine doesn't trust russia, that if it removes its minds at russia, won't launch major attacks thickly on the crucial port of odessa. russia said that it will guarantee it will not do this, but that is seen as little offering little or a hope for ukraine. they want to have possibly 3rd parties to provide some kind of protection rush rules that out. and the other key factor is also international sanctions. moscow has linked to any kind of deal to the lifting or at least eating off international sanctions. washington, which is in the forefront of imposing sanctions, have been very clear until now. they said there will be no eating of restrictions or sanctions on russia. this is seen is also a key obstacle and will fuel concerns and fears,

up mosque with possibly using that the danger of a will through crisis to force washington's hand and the rest internet community, the easiest crippling sanctions on russia. now turkey is hosting these talks who side as president, ad wall? well talk, you always insist said it is an honest broker. it's taking a balanced approach. i has one, the reasons why tokin says is not enforcing international sanctions. president, one does have very good relationship. both the ukranian president and his russian counterpart vladimir putin are an earl. one says he really, he's the only person and turkey the only person that could at least provide some facilitating roles. some if not mediation walter in this conflict, or at least so you come to a solution to solve this world looming world food crisis. and the fact that turkeys again, hosting talks with both ukrainian or russian officials, will under scroll turkey's important role despite growing misgivings, among many of its western allies of possibly turkeys, exploiting its position of not enforcing sanctions. possibly they've been

accusations of it in legally importing stolen, ukrainian grain, which turkey tonight and possible financial sanction busting. but the fact that turkey still plaintiff pivotal diplomatic role will go some way to silence our criticism. and that role will be fervor, underlined by the fact that president earth one will be sitting down with vladimir putin next week in tehran. dorian johnson assemble there for us. many thanks during some sports news, goss oldest tournament gets on the way on thursday. the open championship at the famed st. andrews a golf course in scotland as controversy this time due to a recently established series backed by saudi arabia. it has caused division among golfers, with some choosing money over tradition. it's gulf but not as we know it. the live series bankrolled by saudi arabia held its 2nd ever event earlier this month. staggering prize money of

$4000000.00 went to winner. brandon grace, he is not at the open, but other big name rebels who have defected to the new tour are still eligible to compete this week. australian greg norman twice when the open. but he is now the face of live and was banned from the champions dinner ahead of the start at st. andrews. one golfing great has been moved, the split reg norman's an icon and the came are gone. it's great play ha. we've been friends for a long time and regardless of what happens, he is gonna remain a friend. and he and i just, but unfortunately he and i just don't see i'd i, and what's going on. and simply saudi arabia has been accused of trying to sports wash its image by investing in gulf only families of victims of the september 11th, 2001 attacks on the u. s. carried out mainly by saudi nationals have even protested

against live tiger woods things. the rebels may be banned from future opens. some of these players may may not ever get a chance to play major championships, and that is a possibility. we don't know that for sure yet, is up to all the major temperature bodies to make that determination. but that is a possibility that some, some players will never get a chance to play major jeopardy of never get a chance experience. this for the sport is at the cross roads. it will be another uncomfortable few days. for golf. you're watching the w news is a reminder of our top stories. u. s. presidential biden has arrived israel kicking off for his 1st trip to the middle east since taking office is due to discuss slowing down iran's nuclear program. is it in the area also includes the controversial visit to saudi area coming up next in dw news,

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