ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, u. s. president joe biden arrives in israel, taken off a high stakes straight to the middle east butte speed as paying tribute to a holocaust victims that the country's yacht for shame. memorial, after declaring his country's bond deep bond with israel. but days of difficult diplomacy lie ahead. also coming up, protesters since for lancaster storm,

the office of the prime minister, acting president of the former president, were to buy a raj, a park shop, please. the country, the prime minister, is now asking parliament to nominate his own, replace, and hope. so a breakthrough on easing global food shortages. ukraine says its negotiators are close to striking a deal with russia to resume grain exports. the toll free supplies to feed millions facing contract. ah, i'm gabels. welcome to the program. you as president joe biden has landed in israel . it's the 1st stop on a strip to the middle east as american head of state. he visited the yard burcham holocaust memorial where he lit the flame of remembrance for victims often 2 days

in jerusalem. the u. s. president will then go on to the occupied west bank that palestinian leader mahmoud abbas is expected to voice his concern over his railey settlements. the president's final and most controversial stop will be in saudi arabia, where containing iran increasing all production and human rights. on his agenda. in 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 new 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 pacific greater pace, greater stability, greater connection is critical,

is critical. why my ad for all the people of the region. i asked d. w correspondent, atanya cram or any other shame to tell us more about joe biden's visits to the holocaust memorial. we are having technical problems there earlier. also spoke to our washington correspondent, michelle, a cushion about you as israel relations and what has changed since you as president biden has been in office? well, certainly what hasn't changed is a very deep commitment present. biden. describe this as bone, deep upon arrival, and israel's prime minister le pete spoke of a friend and ally coming. israel's president said he came as a brother. so it reaffirms that a commitment, there will be security talks also about the iron

b projects. so clearly both sides engaging in defense but also in future technology, but biden arrives as he is under pressure back home. the polling isn't looking that great, although it's slightly on the way up, even his own democrats don't with the majority of them, according to pulling, don't want to see him run again as president, and he felt the need to explain why he's heading into the region particular to saudi arabia, he wants to reduce risks, he wants to tackle inflation also through this trip to the middle east. and for that he needs to deliver stability and clearly also with the message that he will indeed still stand for us to state solution in the future. although he himself recognized upon revival that that is some time still in the future will, reaffirming his commitment to israel. now top ishall is of course, iran's nuclear program. walker and washington promise its allies, israel,

and saudi arabia. well certainly m he must not promise too much. he has been adamant that particularly when i am meeting saudi arabia's crown friends and b s. as he is known, he would talk about human rights. everybody is asking themselves whether they will indeed be a handshake there. how close the united states will allow themselves to be positioned alongside saudi arabia. but this is a lot about iran and broken iran nuclear deal with us present. donald trump cooled off that was seen as a way by joe biden as well, a to rein in iranian influence. and as a concern that iran, it could team up with rasa and china. so there's a lot of geopolitical thinking behind this very trip at which wants to see the u. s. demonstrate that?

yes, indeed. it is back on the international scene. a lot of question marks after the pull out the disasters pull out and out of afghanistan, and that it will not just provide stability, but also through those potential new allies, always alongside israel, a counterweight to russia and china looking towards the into pacific as well. the location of the in washington for us. thank you. now let's listen to the w. correspond tonya crime. and what she told me about joe biden's visit to the holocaust memorial. and yeah, i mean, it is largely ceremonial. it will take part in a memorial service. he will also meet with 2 holocaust survivors here that was important to him. if you could hear and see that it is important for him just right off to lending and his comments. he actually spoke about how his family told him

how he was taught, how important it is to never forget what happened to never forget the holocaust and to be a witness to that. and it's also a key component in his administration's policies. and he also said that again, that is so important to combat anti semitism and extremism around the world. and just, you know, before the president arrived he, i talk to the chairman of yet for shame. danny diane, he said to me, it is of course very important to have a personality like you as president like to biden, to come here and to talk about a fighting on to semitism. what is 5 know if you to achieve with this trip to israel? i think there are several components add to this trip on the one hand, of course there, the bilateral issues. it was very important for both sides that i to abide and come to as well. of course as a, a time of transition here. once again,

that was of course not plans because there will be elections in november in israel . on the other hand is a lot of talk about the integration of israel in the region because the region has really changed in the last couple of years since last time. mr biden was here as vice president then under barack obama and more countries have actually signed a peace agreements or normalization agreements with israel. and there's a hope in israel that there will be a push for that to deepen that. there's talk about a defense alliance, although an informal one of course pers fullness against a common threat that is perceived here from i, yvonne and also there's to hope from the israeli side that there will be some kind of push or some hint or towards or personal with her possibly saudi arabia, but u. s. officials had also said and read up to this visit that there shouldn't be too

many high expectations for breakthrough here. now was there a reaction there in israel to job well, i think this is chester the 1st day and yeah, seeing and hearing there the memorial service in yet for shame. so are people, you know, one to see, but he has to say on thursday as a whole day of meetings among our political leaders on friday, he will be then traveling onwards to meet with palestinian leaders in the occupied territories. so i think people understand, you know, many of this is also symbolic, but it's always very important to have at the u. s. president are coming into town a interest to them for us. thank you. tony. in a sri lanka, prime minister and acting president, run the over cram is cindy has asked the parliamentary speaker to nominate

a new prime minister. this comes off, the protesters stormed his office demanding. he stepped down. demonstrators also want president. god to bye. are roger pox up to step aside if let the country before he was due to hand in his resignation? protest as blame him and his long ruling family for sri lanka, worst economic crisis in decades. ah, she lanka is on the brink of change. a people's uprising has ended a family dynasties long group on bar after the president. sudden departure i li protesters 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 pointer, 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 of the protesters with yogas. 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 renewal. this is a great opportunity for people to see these buildings because the people did not understand when they were talking. i thought maybe more them in at them, and it's only now they realized the luxurious lives of children that they had paid for with tax money. whether whether the demonstrations have been taking place across the capital city of colombo for months now. now they're both foreign. that is the most prominent right. it has come to speak. now, the partition to realize the follow up to people and listen to the b b. bowes,

commands the island nation is facing its worst economic crisis since its independence. 1948, but with public trust and the political class running critically more, it's not people who will ultimately dig the country out of financial ruin. dw corresponded manero. chandra is in the sherlock and capital and early i asked her about protesters breaking into the prime minister's office. earlier today they were hundreds of projectors were stormed into the prime minister's office and his residence, demanding his resignation. they did some resistance on the security closely. they also say something, i guess shilling, but eventually they were able to force their way in around the same time, the emergency was also announced. basically, a nationwide independent emergency was announced in the western performance of the

country under which colombo may be attending right now. also fun, but ongoing, the emergency has been declared, we haven't seen any dramatic increase in the presence of your people here. and there are still hundreds and thousands of protesters behind me in terms of the secretariat know the military sites, or can we expect a to maybe well, there is no indication of any such thing happening yet. in fact, they have been reported the prime minister having formed a committee of the commanders also to take care of the law in order situations. now the speaker parliament says he expects the president's resignation letter today . will that satisfy demonstrate to staff? well, it definitely will. that is what people have been waiting for since morning for the weekend. it was reported that the president would. america will submit a 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 official yet, but do many. it also seems like this diplomacy 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 on. so i think a lot of doubts among people to plug that questioning is legitimacy. when it comes to acting president, especially when it comes to announcing the image and see because people have not seen the official resignation letter, you know, talk about the humanitarian crisis in sri lanka right now. explain to us how bad is it? well, inflation is on the rise for what do you going to rise in the past few months? cation 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 necessity with like a local can got to not even available that much whatever it is available for people

are not going to do or did. people are not able to afford medicine. been evidently not human for transport sector has been. it's been buses of teens or even medical people because all the people i've been out in jobs i've been using now drilling with thank you very much money or the human rights activists. rookie fernando travelled a 100 miles on saturday to be part of those protests. and i asked him earlier how he feels about the situation in the country right now. it's a mixture, a much full per because of the human is that the people's uprising as achieved. but it also a lot of fear and so it can be immediate about whether there will be some kind of a stuff because we've already seen at 3 locations in columbus being used to be seen before, people being subject to being people being of the race and maybe something to the

nation. so let's say maybe, but in the long term there's a lot of fear the funny because i believe let me put the same question to you that it puts correspondent, money or earlier. other fears that the military could take sides or take matters into their own hands. in the past, we've seen the military shooting at people that have happened in when people are 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 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 they have a very great danger that i serious, violent, on least today by the state, by the police forces. people are, you know, people are not just people who are as ordinary people. we get very angry. and we might, there are these ending chaos. so they have a great banjo that was a stance violence as they have been trying to do to be me and also on the 9th. so we might be some really good creation. now what needs to happen to have real change in sri lanka really need it. the thing of course is that the president must have family resigned, is hoping that the service is going to stand president as a media media division and competent people. practitioners were paid by public money, so it's really amazing that he wants to make his public and most of the people, australia called to the speaker without using the media, the vision and the speaker has been picked up as well. when i was supposed to speak

to b one and i was saying that the prime minister in appointed a president and later saying that the president of the mission later to be during the course of today. we don't don't know whether to be the speaker or not of the trucking company, but at the same time, i think in the long term, of course we need the economic recovery, the need some long term. he can make policies particularly in dealing with that, but also we need because the policy is the plus and the most marginalized and the at the heart of the, not just investors, not just the market being the priority at the same time. you also me bring them recover democracy when democracy has been really damaged constitutionally and legally, but also in practice. an important part of democracy is the whole new medical minorities are treated. so any long term progress must include how we deal with the conflict, what a metro cities, and also the economic problems that you've been pissing more recently. that was

soon as activists. fernando in colombo. that's of look now as some of the other stories making headlines today. according tokyo, has ordered for a former managers of tech co, that's the company that operated the fukushima nuclear plant to pay the equivalent of $94000000000.00 us dollars in damages, shareholder to them for not implementing safety measures, they say could have prevented the 2011 disaster that was triggered by quick and it's an army a court in france as jailed a former london official for 20 years, finding him guilty of complicity and genocide. the humble she about time is the highest ranking rwandan to face trial in france. over the $9094.00 massacres, the 78 year old was found to have taken past part and planning mass killings. thousands of people in southwestern france of fled their homes as forest fires,

threatened villages, and towns firefighters from other parts of the country have been brought in to contain the places burning along the atlantic coast drop conditions and a heat wave of helping to fuel the flames. the war and ukraine has disrupted global food supplies, delegations from ukraine and russia, have no met and turkey to discuss resuming grain exports from a black c ports, including odessa, b. u. n. has proposed safe corridors through the sea to get the grain out. stockpile stuck in ukraine, have caused global prices to rise sharply, making foods, 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, the ukrainian grain cannot enter the international market now because the courts are not working. the c route was the most important because of this,

the demand for grain decrease report was 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 keep his 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 open in puerto, i don't see that the green and farmers will soil and it's filtered if

ukrainian farmers will not survive rule and be able to feed the african conscious, 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. key supplies are 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's report to him from his table for us, and earlier i asked him how close we are to a breakthrough in achieving an export agreement through the black sea. while it does appear, the ukraine is the most optimistic out of 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 centers 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 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 of 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 a gurgling the take the gert, ukrainian grain, alt smuggling armed into ukraine. but i think the key obstacles are that facing a question of trusts. basically, ukraine doesn't trust russia, that if it removes its minds, that russia won't launch major attacks thickly on the crucial port of odessa. russia said that it will guarantee will not do this by that is seen as little

offering little or a hope for ukraine. they want her 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 easing of 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 as also a key obstacle, and we'll fuel concerns and fears that mosque with possibly using the that the danger of a world 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 juan while turkey always insist said it is an honest broker, it's taking a balanced approach as one the reasons why turkey in says is not enforcing international sanctions. president, one does have very good relationship. both the ukrainian president and his russian counterpart vladimir putin are an earl. one says, 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'll come to a solution to solve this world looming world food crisis. and the fact that turkey is, again, hosting talks with both ukrainian or russian official will on the school turkeys important role. despite growing misgivings, among many of its western allies of possibly turkeys, exploiting its position of not enforcing sanction, possibly they've been accusations of it in legally importing stolen ukrainian grain which turkey denies and possible financial sanction busting. but the fact that turkey still plainest pivotal diplomatic role will go some way to silence or 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. doran johnson assemble there for us monday. thanks darren and a reminder of our top stories. u. s. president joe biden is in israel at the start

of his 1st trip to the middle east since taking office. i'm later re thought the jump a sham holocaust memorial. ahead of talks with israeli leaders in the area also includes a controversial visits to saudi arabia. she lanka has imposed a nationwide her few until thursday morning. the decision comes off. the protesters stoled the prime minister's office. and after the president go to buy a road to park, so fled the country just hours before he was due to resign. i'm forget, you can always get dw news on the go just op, from google play or from the app store. that'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world, as well as push notifications for any breaking news. you're watching the w news coming up next in d w. news asia. more on the terminal in sri lanka, protesters on the streets, the president and exile. so what's next?

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