[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. you as president joe biden derives. it is real key off a high stakes trip to the middle east. today. biden paid tribute to holocaust victims of israel's yard. the shim memorial, a moment of reflection, the head of what promises to be days of difficult diplomacy. also coming up a nationwide curfew is now in effect, across sri. lankan earlier protest restored the office of the prime minister, who now claims to be acting president and hope for millions threatened by hunger

and starvation. ukrainian negotiators say that they are cautiously optimistic about talks with russia on resuming brain experts. ah, i bring. gov is good to have you with us tonight. joe biden is in israel at the start of his 1st trip to the middle east. as u. s. president. on his 1st day he declared his country's bone deep bond with israel. he also met with defense officials and he paid respects to holocaust victims. but the diplomacy will grow more difficult by the day biden is due to address a host of tough issues among them. israel's sectarian strife, iran's nuclear program, and saudi arabia's human rights abuses. it's not the 1st time joe biden is visiting israel,

but it is the 1st since he became the president of the united states. he is meeting with israeli leaders to strengthen ties that he face already form. because the connection between the israeli people and the american people is blown, deep is blown. deep among the leaders was israel's defense minister who briefed biden on the iron dome. the iron dome is israel state of the art defense system to intercept miss isles. biden's dress, the 2 nations close cooperation on defense projects where reform the unshakable, remember the i states to israel security, including partnering with israel on the most cutting edge, the french systems in a world bite and then visited god for sham a memorial for wicked times of the holocaust he lit an eternal flame of remembrance and met survivors. the visit by

a prison tonight that state is always important because it helps to amplified the voices of the survivors. it helps to amplify. the blight of the victims. biden's visit comes at a time of political turmoil in his room and will take him next to the west bank and then to a controversial stop in saudi arabia. ah, we're earlier i spoke to our correspond rebecca readers in jerusalem, and i asked him what joe biden is hoping to achieve with his trip to israel. well, i don't think there's going to be any major strategic deals that come out of this trip. burger. me no surprises. it is believed from here. brent, but it is of course, very significant. it's always important when the u. s. president comes to israel, he's hoping to strengthen those already born deep ties, as he said himself that that's something that the, you know, the special relationship between the us in israel is something that the u. s. are

always very cain to, you know, show their support for, but he's also trying to sort of shore up stability a little bit in the region, you know, try and find some more peace and security in the region than perhaps in previous years. and try, maybe smooth the way it seems for a regional pe salons that would counter threats now from iran. so in that st, he's here to kind of negotiate between 2 sides who've been foes for many years and try and arrange for some yeah, regional alliances. i say defense alliance between those 2 states and we know that his next stop is the pedals to the territories and talk to me about how unusual it is for a u. s. president to go the but not unusual at all brain. in fact, it probably would have a more unusual had he chosen not to visit, not to meet with moffatt abbas. pretty much every you as prime minister since bill

clinton in 1994 1st met with the palestinian authority has done so when they come to israel with a few exceptions are largely for diary issues or something else. so really it, it is pretty standard operating procedure at the visit on friday is only half an hour. so the palestinians quite disappointed that, you know, the president is spending 2 days in is round is half an hour with the palestinians . but of course, you know, they, they're happy to greet the president of course. and a we, that with that visit is coming a promise of more funding and opening up of more funding towards the policies that were, that were caught under the tromp administration. so at, but definitely sort of an un waited visit and something that is not gotten not going unnoticed by the palestinians. and it was, we could say probably be one of the, the more easier parts of his trip. his final stop we understand is going to be saudi arabia and that is going to be the most controversial part of the president's

trip. why is there? absolutely, if it's a cause, very controversial, not least of all because of saudi arabia's human rights record, questionable human rights. reco one could say, ah, you know, a president joe biden himself hold saudi arabia parias day and also referencing the crown prince mohammed ben selman. they say to do with their dealings with us, that they alleged a role in the killing of journal as jamal kashodi key. so this is a $180.00 turn around by the president. but it comes at a time when russia has invaded ukraine, amusing rate, or oil prices rise across the globe. that something that he's trying to take home domestically to lower the price at the bows for people in the us to try and make this trip more popular domestically. and of course ahead of you are the midterm to come november t w's rebecca readers with the latest in jerusalem. rebecca,

thank you very much. well after months of protest assure lincoln president go to buy a raja coxa has fled 1st to the mall div. now he's reportedly on his way to singapore, where he's expected to seek asylum and officially stepped down as shrill lincoln president, earlier on wednesday, protesters storm the prime minister's office, former prime minister, running the grimacing, is now the acting president. but protestors want him gone as will the grimacing. it has now as parliament to nominate a new prime minister. nationwide curfew has been imposed until thursday morning. we say the show lincoln president has still not handed in his written resignation. and earlier i asked allan keenan from the international crisis group in london. if the chalet can leadership is trying to buy more time here. well, that would appear to be the case. i think in go tabi, his case to bit more clear. and he is liable to criminal prosecution,

for of alleged war crimes and other crimes within 3 lanka. and as long as he is a head of the state, he has head of state immunity. so i think he wants to get somewhere where he is, has asylum or where he's feels very secure, some other country ah, before he gives up his head of state position and becomes more liable to prosecution. so it's, it's probably he's looking for a place and the rumor is he's travelling from all the to the same to singapore, to night. whether that's where he'll stay or pop somewhere else. who knows? so that may explain his delay, and the hope is that he will actually sometime soon resign, which will clarify a little bit of, of the picture. what renelle vicar missing a is, is aiming for is a little less clear. he's always wanted to be president. he's run for president multiple times. he clearly has long desired the position. so it may just be that he wants to be and in that role when he has a chance, ab but it a but unfortunately,

his immediate turn to a state of emergency, his calling the protest movement, fascist. and announcing his desire to, to bring order. that is extremely dangerous and very worrisome and his, his, of his assumption of the position of acting president, which is very, i thought, i believe unprecedented in sri lanka. but certainly very unusual on is, has inflamed tensions because he's as much a target of protesters wrath. and of the general populations ah, anger at the established political elite as batavia. so it's um what, what to blanket want is a clean, it's a clean start and run. oh victor missing is far from clean start. there was allan keenan, there from the international crisis group in london. here's a quick look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. pope francis has appointed 3 women to the vatican department that chooses new bishops. the 2 nuns and

a lay woman will become the 1st women to ever serve on the body. the move comes, as francis seeks to give women more influence within the government of the catholic church. a tokyo court has ordered 4 former managers of tapco, the company that operated the fukushima nuclear power plant to pay the equivalent of $94000000000.00 us dollars in damages. shareholders had sued them for not implementing safety measures that they say could have prevented the 2011 disaster which was triggered by of su nami. amber heard has lost a bid for a new trial in her defamation case with her former husband, johnny depp. on wednesday, a judge rejected her lawyer's argument that one juror had not been eligible to serve. in june, herd was ordered to pay deb more than $10000000.00 us dollars for defaming him. things of that nature. turkey's defense minister says that russia and ukraine have made progress in their efforts to get urgently needed grained exports out of

ukraine. he said the talks will continue next week in the hopes of a final deal on releasing 20000000 tons and wednesdays discussions. it is table ended with a tentative agreement about how to transport the grain across the black seat stockpile stuck in ukraine. have caused global prices derived 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 it fashioned wall dusk, was it? the shower, ukrainian grain cannot enter the international market now because that hordes are not working. the see route was the most important because of this is the demand for grain decrease report was measure sir, but 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 a desa 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 mines 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 ukrainian farmers warsaw and it's 1st, 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. a fringe report into the chaos which more of the champions league final in paris back in bay has blamed police and organizational feelings. liverpool fans were initially blamed. the report concluded that was unfair by the lessons that the report shows should be learned ahead of the 2024 parish olympics. it should have been a celebration of european football, but mays champions league final turned into a nightmare for liverpool fans. french police fire tear gas, it english supporters of the tensions fled when huge. ques built up at the start, the fonts in paris, the most watched annual sporting event on the planet had to be delayed by over 30

minutes. officials, including the french interior minister, initially said liverpool fans were at fault, but now were report by the french senate blames police and organizes including the french football federation and european body wafer. for what happened, sit and notion more. it was a mistake which took place at the administrative and decision making level. it was all quite vague. i see no one really felt responsible for the overall organization . he has possibly some liverpool fans without tickets and troublesome. local youth exacerbated the problem, but police were accused of having a quote outdated 980 view. the british fans were hooligans submitted the use of gas concern people, even if they were not directly targeted. it appeared to be particularly aggressive towards supporters who came from countries went to gus is rarely used, surely contributed to the support of feeling they had been exposed to an excessive use of force for liverpool loft, the match to real madrid. but to mom,

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