ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, sri lanka on edge after days of turmoil. the government re imposes a curfew a day after crowd storm to government buildings. protesters angry over the economic crisis are still waiting for the president's official resignation. after he fled the country also coming up the u. s. president joe biden emphasizes america strong

ties with israel, whose 1st middle east strip since taking office is due to hold talks with the country's leaders plus a ray of hope for global food security. the one says that talks between russia and ukraine on resuming grain exports our intake toward a deal that could mean the lead for millions of people around the world. threatened by george's and germany marks the one year anniversary of one of the countries voiced natural disasters. a year after devastating floods or through western parts of the country, many survivors are still waiting for their homes and businesses to be rebuilt. d w . revisit one of the worst effected community. ah,

i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. sri lanka, interim government has re impose a curfew a day after angry crowd stormed government buildings. the prime minister who is now acting president, has ordered security forces to restore calm. people are still waiting for the official resignation of president. gotcha. by of out of pocket a day after he fled the country amid the countries devastating economic crisis. protesters watched the nightly news from the presidential palace. they've occupied the residence for days on tv, the acting president, accusing the demonstrators of trying to grab power after they broke into his office . when he thought that who knew that, because of today's situation, the security forces advised me to declare a state of emergency and impose a curfew. but i'm thinking, hey, dale i, i am now implementing or is a state of emergency and a curfew. the utmost that again, we must defeat that they slash a threat and i think i'm going oh,

protesters ignored the curfew and the order to vacate public spaces. the crummy think is office is the 4th government building to be occupied in as many days as with the earlier conquests, as colonial era compound has become a tourist attraction for demonstrators and curious onlookers. the i didn't want a single country village. this is done today. we are very clear about it. we are not willing to pay poppy in a blue even to leave because the prism coming really strong. and we're just about becoming going time to come. i think they have a warning light on that to get. it's not just government buildings. c demonstrators also demanded access to the nation's public broadcaster in colombo. after discussions with staff, protest leaders, we're allowed to make life statements. i'll be,

i will let it drift cut off. i'll be to that all their struggle. historic moment for sri lanka and said state t v should not allow itself to be manipulated by politicians or at least one person has died in clashes with security forces. protests against the economic crisis have simmered for months. sure. lincoln's blame president go to buy a raja pac shot and his family for bankrupting the nation of $22000000.00. he's fled the country but as yet to formerly stepped down, protesters say they won't stop until he does. and d w correspondent, ma, near a chowdhury is following this story for us in the sri lankan capital colombo. earlier i asked her for an update on the situation there. well, after the dramatic developments that took place to yesterday to city up the us senate doubly much calmer. right now. there are not as many protested out in the street. but justin is that the prime minister gunman? victim, i think i had given

a directive to him cause of course you yet again in the columbia in colombo, administrative district, which is coming, which has come into effect from 2 as noon today and really be bad in 5 am. tomorrow morning. so as i said, they are not in a protest on the street, but they are expected to storm the streets again to day evening. and we saw yesterday that indeed they stormed official buildings, took some of them over madeira. they are calling for the president to step down as he pledged to do so by the end of day yesterday. 10 that indeed be expected his resignation. well that expectation has been there since july 9th, saturday when the demonstrator took over the residential secretariat and the presidential palace. and it was told that the president will submit to the for sure of the nation to the speaker by wednesday. but when they came and gone, and that hasn't happened yet, we haven't seen the official resignation yet. so people are angry,

people are frustrated, they're angry at the, i did the fact that good or bad algebra that even left the country because they want him to be held accountable. they want prime minister on the victim of things. i who was declared as the entire him president in the athens of waterbury lodge books, and they want him to step down. at the moment i'm finding at the, one of the entrances of the parliament of the country. people stormed like late last night. people stormed this building as well, but death think trying to lay these to weird, but they were pushed back. a lot of for death is also were injured and were taken to the hospital for that expectation is still bad. the ones that have ignition to come in, so that the process to choose the next president can begin. and in the meantime, how our sri lankan is coping with these shortages of food, fuel and medicine. well, not play well, as the political struggle goes on a day to day struggle has not gone down. people have moved to cooking on board because they can't find a cooking yet. people are standing in cues in front of fuel station for $4.00 to

$5.00 days, leaping in the cost because the con, get fuel inflation has shot up to, or will $50.00 person or what do you have shot up. people are not able to afford basic necessity. basic essential, they are facing a hard time, right? not a wild political struggle is going on. nick, an army crisis is getting worse and worse. many are chowdhury with the view from colombo, thank you so much. you as president joe biden is due to whole talked with israel's new prime minister. yar la p in the coming hours fightin has called america's ties with israel bow deep during his 1st trip to the middle east. since taking office biden's visit will also include talks in the palestinian territories. 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 says are already form because the

connection between israel, people and the american people, is blown, deep blown, deep among the leaders was as rails 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 cover the anesthesia israel security. including partnering with israel on the most cutting edge, the french systems in a world bite and then visited yad vashem, a memorial for wicked homes 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, and earlier i spoke with g w correspondent, tanya kramer, inter whistler, and asked her what's on the agenda for president bided today. while as he already mentioned, sarah, today's, the day of bilateral meetings, political meetings all day, and the kicks are for the meeting with the intern, our prime minister, yet ela pete and her. yes, president joe biden are here in jerusalem. they will be talking, they're expecting them to talk about iran, u. s. commitment to israel security, but also to the more global crisis to fall out of the russian war on ukraine of like the energy crisis and food security. that is actually a theme you know,

of this visit, as well as for the visit here in the region, you will also meet and that is more the focus on the is very media today as well with so former a long term prime minister benjamin netanyahu later prefect, visit there, who hopes to be re elected because to biden comes in a transitional period. ah, elections are aware as scheduled now for november, for a new government. and we will also be seeing a meeting, a virtual meeting between leaders of india, the united arab emirates, and israel and the united states also dealing our with technology innovation and again, food security and the energy crisis. tonya, why is it being seen as important for the u. s. president to be focused on the middle east region is especially right now while it took a chill biden, a year and a half into his presidency, to come out to the region and also to visit the closest allied israel here in the

region about. it also comes amid the clover crisis, the fall out of the war in a ukraine. so now all these topics like energy and food security. so mr. different components he had to bilateral issues between the, of the israel and you as also then talk to the palestinians. of course, i've already heard a, his president obama talk about israel and the u. s. commitment as well as security against a common threat like yvonne there's also a lot of talk about no to integration of or israel into the broader region. more countries have a started normalization of peace agreements or with israel. and of course, where the focuses on this visit is his more controversial apart, is his trip a to saudi arabia, or where he will be meeting with leaders from the gulf country. you will be there

at a summit. certainly talking about a, you know, old production, their energy that is controversial because a joe biden doing the presidential election campaign, had pledged to a, make saudi arabia pariah over the murder of the saudi. to on this to monica georgia and it's human rights record. so there are a lot of questions being asked him going there. tanya kramer introducing them. thank you so much. after months of global grain shortages negotiators in turkey say that they have reached a deal to resume grain exports from ukraine. after hours of negotiations in istanbul, turkeys defense minister announced ukraine, and russia had reached an agreement to allow grand shipment through the black sea turkey and the united nations helped broker that deal expected to be signed next week. the deal would end a month, long impasse that has left more than $20000000.00 tons of much needed grain stuck in ukrainian ports. unable to leave because of fighting in the country. un

secretary general antonio pathetic said that more work was still needed to finalize the deal, but held the breakthrough as a critical step forward in the world darkened by global prizes to thy. at last we have a ray of hope. it is hoped to ease human suffering and the leisure hunger it on the world's array of hope to support developing countries and the most vulnerable people revoke to bring a measure of much needed stability to the global food system. and from why, let's cross over to d, w. nick connelly and k of nicholas a few days ago. the ukrainian leadership said that it did not trust russia. with that in mind. what should we make of this breakthrough? well, definitely lots of question marks left in this negotiation process. no real information for me stumble about how he did physical de mining. this is actually gonna look in

practice in the black. see how those see minds that have stopped any shipping basically in getting into decimal. i thought like this in recent months, how that is going to be done. and if it is going to be done, how long it had take lot of experts in care think that that process, even if the good will, and the trust that the russians wouldn't take advantage of these ports being opened . if that were there, that could still take months. i think this is about the blame game. i think they're both sides. russian ukraine are acutely aware of the impact of the situation on consumers around the world, especially in countries that are low, medium income countries that are really now struggling in terms of the cost of living. so there's and need on both sides to show willingness to engage, to turn up to these talks. but we haven't seen any significant change in the willingness to compromise either side yet that would actually see this really make an impact on the ground. remind us of the sex neck for ukraine here, full of sci fi, ukrainian farmers, this is very dramatic. they are most them sitting still on

a large part of last is harvest. and already there harvesting the 2022 hobbies so most of them don't even have the capacity to store all this while they wait for some kind of solution. the alternatives by land are lot more expensive or they're often not even available because just the capacity isn't there. you have images of trucks are basically waiting weeks to cross the borders or into romania and into poland. and there's been some attempt to try and get the grain out by barges to the danube delta, but it's all in comparable in terms of the scale to what was in existence before. but you crane this is also a bigger thing. this is about it's access to the see in general and its ability to export anything from metals, to consumer goods, beyond the agricultural question. but i think in terms of average people and their ability to afford basics well enough. this is actually, you know, more in a deal for people in countries like as syria and lebanon, who are dependent on this ukrainian grain. because here in ukraine, as long as the ports are shut through price, they're actually going down. so this is potentially in terms of the humanitarian and in fact, something that's more of an issue for the outside world than it is for ukraine.

meantime, fighting has picked up in a south of ukraine, as we've heard, where most of the grain is stored and would be shipped from. how big a risk is that? and in terms of complicating matters what exactly, i mean this is the $1000000.00 question, potentially now some kind of solution on the situation out at sea. but if the fighting and mccullough of in a desa region really kicks off now as ukraine tries to launch a counter offensive, we might be a situation where the sea is open, but the land. the ports are closed by rocket attacks, artillery and all kinds of disruption. so lots more question marks about whether this is actually going to, or, you know, to turn into something real and something cock tangible. i think it's important to remember that this is about it showing willingness to engage and about the blame game more, while internationally and of the turkish hosts of this meeting. also very keen to show themselves is kind of broke as of piece and of solutions for the wider region . so lots of political interest. there are lots of reasons why people are engaging, but still very justified questions and doubts as to whether section or turn into something that really makes a difference economy in the ukrainian capital. thank you.

the united nations children's fund. unicef estimates that more than 18000000 children are not receiving schooling in nigeria almost double last year's figure. the trend is being driven by continued kidnappings and attacks on schools in parts of the north. many children flee further south with their families and end up on the streets of lagos, rather than in the classroom. d. w reports. they should be in school, but instead, these children spend all day bacon. 11 year old, i mean i used to be a pupil. now she has to help find money for family. it is how to survive. i own it. i came from can no, i'm looking for money to get to school, and i love, i've been here since morning, begging my mom can afford to get me back to school. and that's why i have to beg,

go to the designer. i'm a parent. i mean, it was only in her 4th year of primary school when surgeons attacks have village of nothing kind of state. the experience falls to have families to move a 1000 kilometers south to restart my now we bought a car out. i'm a current about my, we're glad actually, i would love to set my children back to school. if you thought i dounia, how might i do not prefer to be a beggar? but my husband died in the crisis up north piano come up. was i when i came home to i don't have any one. we lost everything that we do. yeah, that is why we came to lagers. i am begging with my children but not by choice. i wish somebody saw your young yuki i when she was hoping for a better safer future. but this was 4 years ago. amena has been on the streets ever since or been that one day. she can return to

a classroom 60 percent of alco score children are girls which means 10000000 girls are now other school in nigeria, most of them up north. but due to the crisis in that region, they are forced to come to places like legal incessant attacks, learn schools by criminal gangs, and must have doctors or students by bandits has largely affected school in, in them off since vocal her on terrorists, abducted over 200 school girls in the northeastern town of tobac, bruno state in 2014 dozens of other schools have been targeted. uni so says last year alone, about a $1500.00 students were kidnapped by gunmen. the insecurity is a big, big problem that we have to overcome. ah, and that must be looked at for the children's sake it's criminal. the bandits are allowed to go into school. kidnap 300 girls,

an escape and not meet justice. amena is sick in everything she can to pay her school fees. clone. okay, i want to go to school so i can become a doctor that has a my doctor, jim in b like many other children age. in spite of the challenges life has presented her amena and other niger and children. we need super species for quality learning because the future of a whole generation and that of a country east, a speak a spade of wildfires is scorching parts of europe with fire fighters battling blazes in portugal, spain, france, and croatia. authorities are linking an unusual heat wave to climate change. a mass of hot and dry air blown in by african winds, is driving temperatures and the iberian peninsula as high as 46 degrees celsius.

a red alert for almost half of portugal, much of the drought had country, is at maximum fire risk. dozens of blazes have already forced hundreds of residents to evacuate. somewhat john helplessly as the flames edge closer. aren't you afraid? not think me of the building. i am afraid for where can i go jump into a water tank. let me stay here and watch. it's been a gill. armed with god and hoses, resident try to save their homes. fire courage are hot at work, but stretched thin. some arriving too late. so to give them, there were no firefighters here. everything around the house burned down, the neighbors and my husband managed to put out the flames. we had no one else. the fire crews and aircraft only arrived now in southwest france.

vacation views were interrupted as water bomb is filled up to basle. a nearby forest fire. thousands of evacuated campus took shelter, their holidays ruined as realities set in longer so that we sit on tv and say won't happen to us, but when it does, it's a bit strange. it's not reassuring all the people yelling, the smell of smoke. it's scary and croatia, defamation coast picturesque seaside towns where smothered in smoke. flames whipped by high winds, have already destroyed homes, farms, and olive groves, many butcher. it started to fall on my head. my hair was on fire, we thought it wouldn't happen, but here it is. terrible. this is never happened. this is really scary. spain is enduring, its 2nd suffocating heat wave in less than a month. scientists say europe should prepare for more extreme temperatures,

droughts, and fires as climate change becomes an honest, capable reality. and today marks one year since catastrophic flooding had parts of western europe killing more than $200.00 people. and causing millions of euro's worth of damage to homes and infrastructure. germany and belgium were the worst affected countries with entire communities devastated their floods also cause extensive damage in the netherlands, luxemburg, switzerland, and austria. in germany. one of the worst hit areas was the, our valley flash flooding there caused most of germany's $185.00 deaths a year later, much of the damaged infrastructure is yet to be rebuilt. one year after scenes of abandonment, this used to be a tranquil village street with half timbered houses and gardens on the banks of the ar. the apparently harmless stream that became a raging torrent ticking cars,

houses everything with it, and leaving lasting marks on the people here monopolized amongst for vasa, you're afraid of water. even of taking a shower on her g. o you hear the sound of the water coming out of the shower head and it remind you of that rushing sand and the wetness. he's a snuff good food. jojo, hanrick's childhood home survived the flood, but an outside wall almost collapsed. after 8 months of work, the family was able to move back in at least 134 people died when the r flooded. hundreds are still missing, including annually as neighborhood this lady shall can, if i guess i'll never forget it. oh, good. pull this massive water, just popped the door open and my kid yell, dietary my,

my mom help mom help life. and then suddenly it was quiet. and i didn't see some people for 3 days. and then i saw them and i knew okay, that safe, nothing happened. to them isn't and wish i had didn't. it's next pa, theat. these are images from the days after the flood mud and debris piled up meters high. back then we visited mohammed abdul hamid who was trying to salvage what he could from his rented barbershop shopping. i've been here 6 years. i've lost everything in shambles for laura, for months he gave haircuts outside. now finally, his salon is open again. thank god, but there's still a lot missing, of course, but it took a long time just to get to this point. at 111 months, but hardly any work has been done on many houses. some are in danger of collapsing

. sometimes it's unclear who's responsible for paying to fix them up. not many people had insurance. state aid payments have not arrived yet. or there not enough mohammed hair salon is an exception. think that i'll who does is still and i'm really happy that the shops up and running again that every day life is back that i get to see my customers. we don't mind condenses in. yeah. my heart is dancing. mine has fun in this, i'm tonton. once again, the are is a harmless looking stream. but for many here, the havoc it caused a year ago is far from over. quick reminder of our top stories here on dw news, sri lanka into government has re imposed to curfew in the capital colombo, the prime minister, who is now the acting president, has ordered security forces to restore order after crowd storm government buildings

. protesters angry over the economic crisis are still waiting for the president's official resignation after he fled the country up next i'm d w. it is complex. so with my colleague tim sebastian who was interviewing us conservative commentator david for do stay with us if you can for that. i'm sarah kelly in berlin. more on the web site, w dot com. thanks for watching. ah ah, with

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