on our website, d, w dot com ah, it's a presidential trip to the middle east crafted by 3 p. it's the pandemic, the palestinians, and the pariah. to day joe biden arrived in israel. his 1st visit to the country is u. s. president, a visit delayed by the corona virus pandemic, and a visit with lo, if any expectations on reanimating talks about the 2 state solution between israelis and palestinians. later this week, it's off to saudi arabia, a kingdom that candidate by once labeled a pariah. which president, by now is calling a partner. i'm bring gov and berlin. this is the day. ah, my continued support. even though i know it's not a near term interstate solution,

i'm sure president minute can make some kind of difference. but kind i can say right now understanding people really need this because we are going backwards free to prosperity. democracy for israel is in palestinian life, not the best opportunity to try any kind of change. the world is not paying attention to us and no one's looking towards us. these have a nice that's not going to happen. also coming up, the ukranian town of boucher became a by word for brutality after russian forces were accused of committing war crimes there. now the beauty volunteers from cheve are in town to tease out a timeless truth, that human dignity is more than skin deep. but we have no maybe choice to me, to cry or to show our feelings. no, no, we're here to help this. i will not be struggling. leslie, we must be happy,

smiled ah, but to our viewers watching a p b as in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with president biden's 2 visits, one he's been looking forward to the other. he sees no way around today by no arrived in tel aviv his 1st visit to israel's. it's becoming us president, it's a visit. the white house says would have happened earlier, had there been no pandemic standing in the way later this week by and we'll travel on to saudi arabia. it's a visit that would probably not be happening at all, had there been no war in ukraine, no inflation. and no skyrocketing fuel costs on the campaign trail 2 years ago, bite and vows to make saudi arabia a pariah saying the saudi crown prince. his role in the murder of journalists, jamal co shogi, revealed a kingdom lacking any redeeming values. president biden's opinion,

it may or may not have changed, but the realities of geo politics certainly have by now says he hopes to reorient not rupture. the u. s. saudi relationship. in other words, he's hoping the saudis agree to pump more oil on to the global market. it will be a delicate balancing act for the u. s. president, making his visit to israel. look more like a walk in the park. we have this report. 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 leader of to friends in ty, but he faith up already firm. because the connection between israeli people and the american people is blown deep. his phone, 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 rear form the unshakable

. remember the honest aisd israel security. including partnering with israel on the most cutting edge defense systems in the world bite and then visited java m a memorial for victims of the holocaust. he lit an eternal flame of remembrance and met survivors. the visit by a president of united states is always important because it helps to amplified the voices of the survivors. it helps to humbly fide. ready blight of the victims biden's visit comes at a time of political turmoil in his room and we'll take him next to the west bank and then to a controversial stop in saudi arabia. ah, so what is joe biden hoping to achieve with this trip to israel?

i put that question to our correspondent rebecca readers in jerusalem. well, i don't think there's going to be any major strategic deals that come out of this trip. there are gonna be 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 that already born deep ties, as he said himself that 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, 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 job is the pedals to the territories and talk to me about how unusual it is for a u. s. president to go what's not unusual at all bran infected probably would have a more unusual had he chosen not to visit, not to meet with muffler at abbas. pretty much every year 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 for diary issues or something else. so really it, it is pretty standard operating procedure. 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 with it, 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 trump administration. so, 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 it's, it's a course very controversial, not least of all because of saudi arabia's human rights record, questionable human rights record one could say, you know, a president joe biden himself, cold, saudi arabia parias day and also referencing the crown prince. muhammad been seldman dare say to do with their dealings with their alleged rent 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. there was our correspond that rebecca readers, they're reporting from jerusalem. i want to take this now to try to parsi, he's executive vice president at the quincy institute for responsible state craft for the is considered one of the leading voices on us policy in the middle east. street, it's good to see you again. i understand that earlier about julia today, you were part of a panel discussion entitled biden's trip to the middle east, bad deal or shrewd diplomacy. so which is where i

was the moderator and according to the panel, if there was clearly at bad deal, it will be a deal at all the most likely scenario. or maybe that it won't be anything at all in the sense that there will be a lot of the rhetoric, a lot of photo ops, but in terms of actually signed the agreement. but the, the thing that, and the reason they saw these one which is written, defend act between them in the united states in which the, which was committed to defend the issue. it does not appear to be very, very likely that the question is, when it only be the type of photo will there actually become something? because i was expecting iran and defense policy to be the 2 elements that by would be able to address in both israel and saudi arabia. maybe the glue holding this trip together. certainly is the glue from the perspective of the saudis and israeli. this is not only threat perception that the but it's also

a perception that needs to remain in place if you want to see there's a warm up of relations between the saudis and the israeli. but that in and of itself. however, creating a defense around that is not something that necessarily will stabilize the region. and it's also not something that would be helpful to the united states. and start with tony, blinking himself wrote in the new york time in 2017. when donald trump was pursuing this out and was seeking together with the saudis to create affinity and i even coalition on and he wrote in the new york time and place g r, commission, masquerading as a thief agreement or a defense pack is a bad idea because it will intensify conflict in the region and potentially drag the united states in it. it would have been much better hero would be nice to be

side was instead, 1st of all of these different parties, these are some of their de stabilizing, or if it's good advice in my view, if my, if i stay buying it to the other than paying lip service to a possible to state solution between israelis in the palestinians. this trip is not going to do anything to move the needle is it's a trip that is not even designed to move the needle. it's probably not even designed to provide much live service either because an expansion of the abrams record, which is essentially that we set aside the hosting an issue and move forward with normalization between our state and angel was listed. then this is not about resolving it. it's about moving beyond the israeli palestinian conflict to have normalization and trade even though these railings continue to occupy palestinian territories and keep millions of passing on their occupations. so we should have no

expectation that it will move the needle because it does not even have that ambition. and let me before i let you go, let me bring up saudi arabia one more time for me, for ryan, down to partner. what does president biden have to do here other than avoid a photo op with him shaking the hand of the salty crown prince? well, i'll be very frank, i don't think president biden is going to get much out of this out. i don't think there's going to be much production that will have an impact on all the prices. in fact, if all prices is just driving force and then buy them would have been better off going back into the yvonne used to deal and bringing yvonne to the market because there's more spare capacity there. and also a very large reserve of that is just seeing. and so i'm not so sure the price is really is the driving force. yes. but my point being it, unless the saudis feel that they either get something that's to happen this 8 m b s, meaning or if they are, unless they get some security assurances,

i'm not so sure that they will give anything if i will treat it. let me just ask you before we run out of time, then the iran nuclear deal. if i'm hearing you correctly, i mean chances for reviving that deal are about as good as 0 right now. yes, and i think frankly, further reduce as a result of this because the idea that you can have a g p a wrong deal that stopped your vision on the vaughn, especially this arms or, or preventing iranian from having that armament while at the same time building an anti even military coalition, you might get to deal, but even there stood and he will not laugh because that's not what you need in order to make sure that he agreement will be laughing and durable. this is the opposite of that. it leaves me with the impression that the abiding restriction had by now completely given up on even having data. and we don't treat of ours the

executive vice president at the quincy institute for responsible state craft trade is always good talking with you. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight . thank you. thank you so much reading, appreciate ah. the ancient greeks wrote that the universe is comprised of 4 elements, one of them, fire a blessing and a curse. and that takes us to california yosemite national park, where firefighters have been battling wildfires that have been burning there since last week. now the washburn fire on the western flanks of the sierra nevada was 1st reported on july 7th. just 2 days later, infrared drone footage showed the ring of flames had doubled in size and they are burning close to the mariposa grove, which is the habitat of $500.00 mature giant. you see the right there. so coin of these world famous trees are the biggest on the planet forest rangers. have set up

a sprinkler system to protect the grove, including the 3000 year old grizzly giant and knock on wood. there has been no serious damage to any of that. we hope is going to stay that way. we want to crossover down to yosemite to talk with garrett dickman. he is a forest ecologist with the national park service care. it's good to have you on the program. what's the latest tonight on to fight back against the fire? is it under control? the fire still burning, but firefighters made a lot of progress in the past few days, and they've steered the fire largely around a mer persaco. but chance chris and the community. ready on and it's now largely burning. i kind of deep in the wilderness and some rugged terrain. and you put in place of a sprinkler system around the grizzly giant. so is it,

and of course the whole world you know, wants to know this is it, and the other giants, acoya is, are they safe from, from harm. we're feeling a lot better about dependent condition of these trees across the grove. now as we continue to make progress and you know we, we haven't really had used the sprinkler system, fire hasn't reached the grizzly giant and it remains in, in fantastic shape as the rest of the trees. we have lost a single sequoia yet to the spire. that is excellent news about gender. tell our viewers. why the grizzly giant, if so iconic. oh, it's just something you have to experience for yourself. i mean it, it is a massive tree. it's over to palace 200 feet tall, several 1000 years old. i'm in it is true to its namesake. it is a grisly looking tree and it is really beautiful. yeah, i mean, the pictures are impressive. i can only imagine what it's like there when you, when you're standing in front of it. the giant sequoia is they actually, if,

if i understand correctly, they actually need forest fires. and they are adapted to deal with the flames. and need them to reproduce, is that correct? that is correct. they have really thick bark branches are charlie high up in the canopy. so they're able to resist that, you know, fires and so grizzly chance probably seen i over a 100 fire. it's in its lifetime and it's generally speaking, low intensity fires and what we've seen across the range in the past few years will last 20 per cent full of giants. quite under it is that these are fuels driven and climate change driven fires that, that are really something that these trees and are not adapted to it. give us an idea if you can, garrett of how, how did the firefighters contain the flame when we're talking about these wildfires?

well we've, you know, luckily we have 50 years to prescribe fire history in the mariposa grove in part to, to reduce the fuels and in part to, to aden the reproduction, chance credit, siemens because they do need fire to reproduce. and so because that lower fuel loading ticket from all these prescribed fires, and they've been able to engage pretty directly with the fire and keep it from make any progress into the ground. so you know, that means every year there has to be a certain amount of wildfires just to keep these force alive. right. that's correct. i mean, there is a chance quick grows prior to, you know, fire suppression with experience, fire every 10 to 15 years, either through lightning fires or through indigenous family. karen digman, forest ecologist with the us national park service get. we appreciate you taking the time to talk with tonight. you and your colleagues are doing very important work. thank you. thank you so much for having me. appreciate it.

ah. in south korea, environmentalists have taken an innovative approach to try to reduce emissions. they've filed a lawsuit on behalf of their children. parents are suing the government, saying that the country needs to reduce pollution for the well being of the next generation. even the yet to be born are represented in this legal battle. we have this report, he don't young is pregnant and worried worried, the planet will be too hot and her unborn child won't have clean air to breathe. she so concerned she joined her feet as to a lawsuit, demanding the south korean government do more to protect the environment. thank and then i to pay on that. it was not for all i'd say my baby county we had on yet and hasn't admitted a single gram of coddled. i'll hide into the world. i got there when i you for his

his her, i'm so concerned about the world that my baby will face her closely so many disasters . i joined this. hello sir tanya. i guess that is fetus is one of about 60 co plaintiffs under 11 years old. who are mounting a collective legal campaign lawyers say may take years, e says her unborn baby offers a strong symbol it or i believe not only to perspective that the older generation, but also future generation should be fully considered on issue surrounding the climate crisis. and that should be an open platform where they can participate and has discussion coming back. south korean environmental as are also pushing for a shift in behavior. across from new president use of y'all's office, greenpeace recently demanded high honor, his campaign clerk, to ben internal combustion cars by 2035 splunk near hadn't donald beach. now we need effect of leadership from the president to tackle climate change and transition the domestic car industry into eco friendly cars. it's changing our cars

is the most significant way to cut down on greenhouse gas emission, missing all dancing up and going into pollution effects. more than just warming the planet. the issue of air quality had become a regular concern with bad air days prompting the government to warn people to try to stay in doors. as coven 19 declines and factories ramp up production with more traffic, it's expected people will see more read on their air quality apps. young people have mixed feelings about the lawsuit. they also recognize that everyone needs to do more. calling upon k tanager seek young name a law suit might be a strong measure to deal with this issue to mercy at all. but it seems better to have more campaigns to change behaviors and on corner of the war. they should take legal action only as a last resort. so now and it not, that was all for god. look at him. i believe the government needs to work on it or

whether it should go together with individual efforts. so we don't expect him. mother e, don't he on admit her fetus is a bit of an unusual claimant. tick ocoee on the day. i 1st had my baby's heartbeat . i went to the forest and saw a woodpecker. and i made my baby wood paneling hurry and see the passenger side, woodpeckers want to live safety in the forest. i want the world and the environment to be safe, where our babies will be born in a couple for e and her baby. more than the clock is ticking in the face of so much ugliness, they dare to look for the beauty around the capital of ukraine. keep a grip of hair dressers. amputations are offering their skills to survivors of the russian invasion. people who have lost homes or loved ones, some who have been tortured or even raped. he ws nic spicer med up with the so

called beauty volunteers during their recent stop in boucher a town synonymous with the horrors of war. they have survived the very worst. now these future residents want to look their very best with free haircuts, manicures, facials, and massages. because the beauty volunteers have come to town, the groups founder all have ballistic as, as they help those who suffer because of the russian invasion, agree, browse home. their houses are damaged cash, but they want to steal a mice will then sell. it was the maybe they built their life. yeah. ah, or stylus dennis tech and then go had to flee the war. they east himself. he says

he's just doing what he knows best. right now i can do this. i don't know what i do, you know and make some people happy. barbara gala, tim and then co says the volunteers are kind of battalion fighting and what he calls the beauty front. but their work is often anything but skin deep to speak for them to understand, understand they are more and hale and we'll try to understand feelings and it's like art therapy. i think with some of the people here say the treatments, give them more than inner piece. they can spark hope. sure crashing is will it have smith, c, butch, any better future? this was the one the for city, a beautiful european country. when wasn't, we cannot be slaves with. we want to be free to live in dignity, to earn money, to raise children, to rebuild our town. we will have better times. the beauty volunteers group have

been making trips for around 2 months now. the only go to places that were invaded and occupied by russian troops. and they include some of the very best hair stylist and nutrition and ukranian camp. mom with founder all how says the volunteers have to be strong. the here many, many painful stories. but we have no maybe choice to me to cry or to show our feelings. no, no, we're here to help. that's why will not be strong. we was we must be happy smile. the beauty volunteers are hoping to expand, raise more money, visit more towns and cities. and as the war grants on that there's every chance they'll be able to continue work, which they call the way of serving their country. and that is beautiful. but the day's almost done, the conversation continues on line. we will see you tomorrow. everybody take care.

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