was wanting to despair badly. oh, in the free credit, and we'll go with it. i was born in berlin. starts july 22nd on d w. ah ah, this is the w slide from berlin joint pledge from the us and israel on iran, us president joe biden, and he's really prime minister gala pete signed a security agreement, and promised to do whatever it takes to prevent tehran from developing nuclear weapons. also coming up, russia strive steep in the heart of you cried more than

a dozen people are killed after missiles hit the city of minutes in central ukraine . far from the front lines in the east and the south of the country and tre, lunk, on the edge. of the days of turmoil troops on patrol in the capital, colombo after the government re imposes occur few to restore order as to leave government buildings and consider the next move. ah, i'm going to have else as well come to the program. israel's prime minister yale up here has welcomed us president joe biden to jerusalem on is 48 hour middle east trip in there, one or $1.00 to $1.00 talks biden urge sloppy to join other middle eastern nations in the united front against iran analyst say is rapidly approaching completion of

a nuclear weapon, israeli prime minister vowed never to let that happen on friday by the will meet with leaders from the palestinian authority and saudi arabia before returning to washington. he has what the u. s. president had to say about his vision for dealing with iran to day. you and i also discussed the marriage commitment to ensuring iran never obtains a nuclear weapon. this is a vital security injures to both israel and united states. and i would add for the rest of the world as well. i continue to believe that diplomacy is the best way to achieve this outcome. and will continue to work with israel to counter other threats from a ran throughout the region, including support for terrorism, ballistic missile program, the continues and the plug, ration of weapons to terrorists from proxies. my casper law will also continue building you as president joe biden,

as speaking then i am not joined from jerusalem by the w. israel coast bards. tonya claim, atanya, italy. this just wrapped up that press conference. what stood out for you while the student is sam. what's ha pita, then tim prime minister of israel, and he has said, i mean, he referred to the russian war on ukraine and of course, to the nuclear threat to even a thing bout, you know, come to, it needs to be able to defend itself. and he said, you know, the only way to stop iran is to put a credible military threat on the table. that was very much the focus of his a long statement way with reference to he also talked about mr. biden, flying directly here from israel to saudi arabia. israel is really hoping for some steps to start some kind of normalization process to start a, you know,

normalizing diplomatic ties with saudi arabia. so data voice, very important to him. are we heard in the statement by you as president joe biden? you just said they still time in reference to yvonne. they still time for diplomacy, but he also highlighted adapt a basically, i know there was an agreement on, you know, that he was seeing yesterday. israel defense system like the iron dome that the u. s. is one of the biggest, a military assistance support is off a swell, that this is very important. and also he reference that he is the 1st president. ah, indeed to fly from a television apple directly to saudi arabia, you know, trying what we've been talking about in these past 2 days. you know, to, we integrate, ah, israel into the region,

into those countries that would like to normalize that half normalized, their diplomatic ties. what wasn't so much a topic here, although i did and reference it and he said, you know, there should be a clear vision and a past 2. it's a 2 state solution with the palestinians. but that was clearly not so much. and you know, on, on top of the agenda i, what we've been hearing here so far, you mentioned that the palestinians there biden will meet palestinian president mahmoud abbas in the palestinian territory. what can we expect there? while i think that the palestinians also are the passing in leadership also watched very closely what was said at the price conference. now although, as i said, you know, mr. abiding mentioned. and he said, you know, that both people have, you know, deep roots in this country and they should be a solution to the conflict. that doesn't seem to be really, you know, an, an,

an appetite for more steps right now being taken, it's more about, you know, keeping this possibility open to manage the conflict. and i think the policy in leadership will more see to reset, know, diplomatic ties that were almost cut off under the previous administration. a donald trump or the previous a you as president, had moved the u. s. embassy from our tel aviv to jerusalem. and we're standing here right at the location where happens. i don't know if you can see it, but the president is moving right now. you might hear. no, the cars are moving right now here from the hotel, back to the, to another place. so the policy is to have to wait and see how the reaction will be to morrow he will be meeting our present or the policy and present mahmoud abbas in bethlehem. but i think for many palestinians, they would like to see some more concrete steps because didn't really see an end to

this conflict. much engagement of for the united states here are correspondent tanya grandmother in jerusalem. thank you. tonya, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has condemned the deadly russian strike of the heart of ukraine as an open act of terrorism. several rush missiles struck the central city of vineyards on this mobile phone footed shows the immediate aftermath of the attack. local authorities say at least 3 missiles hit an office block and damage near by residential building police report. at least 20 people were killed in strike, including 2 children and the 100 more wounded. many of them in a serious condition. a little earlier, i asked our correspondent in key of nick connelly to give us more details about this attack. well, indeed, when it is a city that is it 400 kilometers is the closest front line to that city. it hadn't

seen much in the way of russian attack, cynthia, early stage of this war when a military targets on the edge of city had been bombed. so the downtown basically, this is, this is their 1st experience of this kind of devastation and interesting enough, this was right slap bang during the middle of the working day. most of these message act happened at night when there are few people about. but this was just before 11 am local time. so lots people about going on their business and seemingly no military target, at least in terms of infrastructure, anywhere near by, at most, some offices, military logistics offices, but no equipment anywhere to be seen. and the ukraine government is saying that this is just part of a continuous russian strategy to try and so panic by the front lines to basically force ukrainians to put pressure on their own government to come to some kind of agreement with russia to cave in to russian demands because basically this once again shows them that wherever they are, how far away they think they are from danger. they are always within range of these

russian cells. now this is of course a demonstration of power. but is this really a sign of strength from the russians, or is it the son of desperation? well, definitely, there's been a lot of talk in ukraine of a recent days. but the successes that have been achieved with the help of russian of, excuse me, american rocket artillery systems against russian targets those high mars rocket launchers have enabled ukraine to really go for russian logistics hubs for their. i mentioned deborah, and we've seen that the russians basically have a lot fewer in the way of shells to use gates, ukrainian targets already being starved of supplies. and that really has now force russia to go to these kind of tactics to use missiles, cruise missiles, and attacks from the air that can be done from russian territory. far away from any ukrainians who could reply so sensitive that russia is running out of options. and is running in the direction of these kinds of missile strikes that often as we've seen in recent weeks, are most likely to create significant civilian casualties. or i'd like to stay with

us because this strike cos a cloud over what many had seen as a ray of hope. after months of global grain shortages and soaring food prices, ukraine and russia appeared to be just inches away from a deal to get ukrainian grain flowing to the rest of the world. again. after hours of negotiations and is stumbled turkeys. defense minister announced ukraine and russia had reached the provisional agreement to allow grand shipments through the black sea turkey and the united nations helped broker that deal expected to be signed next week. it would end the stand off that is left more than $20000000.00 tons of grain stock in ukrainian ports. and let's go back to the economy and key of nick, what should we make of this? is this the breakthrough? it's being cast that well, there are lots question mark. so hang over this deal, how in practice this is actually gonna work? how, who's gonna remove those mines that are busy, blocked the access to those black sea port since the beginning of this war?

and given this attack in vanessa and just a general climates of near distrust and basic open hostility between ukraine, russia, how the ukrainians are really going to justify their own people taking way these defenses to make the shipments possible. i think it's still very difficult to see. there's been talk about turkish military or navy capacity to somehow guarantee these safety provisions for ukraine. but for now, i don't really see that this is anything that ukrainian leaders can explain to people in odessa, in mich alive, who have been attacked by russian force in the see time time again in recent months, reminders again her name. what's at stake here? what was he for ukraine? this is massive. economically, ukraine. farmers are sitting on lost his crop, an anal bring in this year's crop and often enough to have anywhere to put all this grain that hasn't left the country. it's also near in, crucial for the rest of this country's economy. other ukraine business is desperate

to get. there are their products out, the landlords, his aunt coping with the kind of volumes needed. and then more important, obviously this is for the wider world. ukraine has enough grain to feed itself and actually prices are dropping here because the grain isn't going out. but people in places like syria, lebanon, who incredibly depend on ukrainian grain for their daily bread. yet these prices are still sky high. and until this grain gets out, the price is going to stay there. so in a way, this is potentially more important for ukraine's green consumers, mainly the middle east and north africa. that is for people here on the ground to at least work in terms of food, have enough to see them through this wall. good of yours, nick, commonly there for us in the ukrainian capital. keith. thank you. nick. to sherlock of our, the interim government. as we imposed a curfew a day after angry crowd storm government buildings, the prime minister was now acting president, has ordered security forces to restore. com. protest as have agreed to leave government buildings as people still wait for the official resignation of president

. what a buyer road or park south e fled the country while it is going through a devastating economic crisis. larry spoke with correspondent oliver maya and he gave us an update on the situation in the lincoln capital colombo. yeah, well it certainly weigh more come today before there was a hectic day yesterday, people were protesting in front of the office of the prime minister. the police use your gas yesterday evening. we were the parliament also lots of tear gas coming from the police. lot of the people and today i just talked to protestants. they said that like the choir before. the storm. i mean, the situation is still that the president hasn't really resigned. the prime minister has taken over as an acting president and the people are very, very mad and they demand a resignation right away. that's what they want. and they say they have to gather

their strength. now for the next upcoming demonstration, if the president and the prime minister don't resign in the upcoming day, the problem is, is set that he will resign. and so what the hold up, where is the president now and when can we expect the former resignation? yeah, lots of questions where i don't have a definite answer to the fact is that president, but they got to buy a pack of flew to them all died yesterday, which is not the final destination as sort of a final destination may either be a poor or a tony array be that's probably weighs heading to any set before he hasn't reached his final destination. he will not resign and that's what makes brought so angry and pretty much the same as for prime minister, i need to become a thing and he said he's going to resign when the new government is being built. and that's probably gonna be next wednesday. but it's also a thing that people are not very sure about here. and you also might be running as

a president as well, which people do not want that. all the people want to be bullied to go to buy a pack. and that i knew because is gone and that the right way actually now there are shortages of fuel, food and medicine, among other necessities. how our ordinary sri lankan scoping very, very tough for all of these people. we talked to many of these people, for example, just a few days ago we talked to a guy who has been standing with us took, took in front of a line of a fuel station for 7 days. and 7 nights he hasn't really left the que slept in his the took took and it's a really rough for him and his family because his family at home is wiped is sick. he can hardly provide any medicine. he has no fuel to drive her to the hospital and every one is just pretty much struggling to survive. they cannot buy of food because food has gotten really expensive. medicine is not their fuel,

as i already mentioned, is not there. so pretty much everyone, especially the pores, are really struggling right now in this country. oliver my, their reporting from colombo, thank you very much. oliver. a spate of wildfires is scorching parts of europe. firefighters are battling blazes in portugal, spain, france, and croatia. portugal has bard, public access to at risk forests, and in france, more than 6000 people were evacuated from campgrounds and villages. a mass of hot and dry air blown in by african winds, is driving temperatures up to 46 degrees celsius and play a red alert for almost half of portugal. much of the drought hit country is at maximum fire risk. dozens of blazes have already forced hundreds of residents to evacuate. some watch on helplessly as the flames edge closer.

aren't you afraid not? i mean, i am afraid for where can i go? jump into a water tank. let me stay here and watch. been armed with god and hoses, resident, try to save their homes. fire currents are hot at work, but stretched thin some arriving too late. federal give up. there are 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 battle. a nearby forest fire, thousands of evacuated campus took shelter, their holidays ruined as realities set in well, with us, we sit on tv and say, it won't happen to us, but when it does, it's

a bit strange. it's not reassuring all the people yelling the smell smoke, it's scary. if you go on 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. today marks one year since catastrophic flooding hit parts of western europe killing more than $200.00 people, causing millions of years worth of damage to homes and infrastructure. germany and

belgium were affected, the worst with entire communities, completely devastated. the floods also caused extensive damage in the netherlands, luxemburg, switzerland, and austria. in germany, one of the worst hit areas was the r valley flash flooding there caused most of germany's 185 deaths a year later. much of the dumbest infrastructure is yet to be rebuilt, and frustration among victims is only growing 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 not i'd answer for that. are you afraid of water?

even if taking a shower you hear the sound of the water coming out of the shower head and it remind you of that rushing sand and the wetness. laska full. 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 are flooded. hundreds are still missing, including a newly as neighborhood the reddish albany, if i guess i'll never forget it. oh, good paul. this massive water just popped the door open and my kid yell diatra 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. and, and they said i didn't mix puffy at 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. she's been, 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 either through death a syllable. 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 acquaintances in a. yeah, my heart is dancing. mine has fallen in his. i'm tonton. once again, the r is a harmless looking stream, but for many here, the havoc caused a year ago is far from over anti dummy report, a test visitor is an old now that's in the western german region, the, our valley that was devastated a year ago to us take us back for a moment to the summer of 2021. why was this particular region hit so hard? and why was it so unprepared? let's have a look behind me. this little stream here is actually the source of this catastrophe a year ago. and maybe let's look behind me. this is all the damaged it cause right

here, all of this, they used to be houses, but now they are gone. they had to be demolished because they were so severely damaged by the floods. this house right behind me is still standing, but it all, it is also set to be torn down. and in the next few weeks. and here you can actually still see just how high the water level was rising that 9 up until the roof. this is how devastating it was. so yes, people were unprepared and the reason is twofold. firstly, they tell me here. they weren't warned early enough and they won't want clearly enough by the authorities. but secondly, they also under estimate at the floods themselves, people here a used to the water levels of rising from time to time. but instead of leaving their homes and finding shelter, they actually stayed there. try to save valuables, moved up 1st floor, 2nd floor. at some point. they were surrounded by the water, so they only could stay on their roofs. some of them waited all night to be saved

by helicopters the next morning. now it is a one year on us. have you spoken to people there how their coping? what's the mood like mixed reactions really? i've spoken to a lot of people in the last few days and some they have been able to move back to their home, some of been insured. so they got money, which now serves them to rebuild their lives. but most people here, they did of not any insurance. they were promised and bureaucratic and quick aid from the state, but they say that hasn't arrived the way they wanted to. but everyone agrees here, the solidarity has been enormous. they speak of around 100000 people. they came here into the region, helping people voluntarily. just because they had the time, they used their holidays to lend a helping hand. he and they say without their help, there wouldn't be as nearly as far as they are now. and the reconstruction to san

diego, the impression their, their lessons have been learned. that is a very complicated question. because right here in the valley, 30000000000 euros have been allocated from this, from our government to help the people here rebuild vina more sustainable, safer. but we are facing a fundamental problem. he, in this valley heavy rain to something that is not unusual here already a 100 years ago. there were times when rain was falling enormously. but what has changed between a 100 years ago and now is the density of the population. meaning in the meantime, we've build bridges, houses we've built of roads ceiling, the grounds. so now when a lot of rain hits the ground here, instead of seeping away and using the width the width of the delta, it can't actually find that way into the broader delta any more. so all these man made obstacles are now basically holding back the water,

making it rise more so that means floods and more likely to arrive here and with regards of climate change. heavy rain is also something that is more likely to really a compromise has to be found between save, set, making the houses his safer, but also giving nature the space it needs dw reported as of out of our thank you to her. let's have a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines. france has celebrated its national holiday with bright on the shelves. it is in paris, french troops march together with eastern european nato allies in a show of solidarity before the holiday, french president manuel my call praised ukraine for standing up to russian aggression. hollywood stock having spacy has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual offences. they want celebrated actor is accused of assaulting 3 men, england, between the years 252013. the trial date has been set for june,

watching t w c. as a reminder of our top story, u. s. president joe biden, and his railey prime minister yale appeared to have signed an agreement pledging to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. and that's it from the other news team for now. ok, next is conflict zones. tim sebastian, interviewing us conservative commentator david from i'm gab elvis in berlin for me on the new steam thought ah, with

ah, who entered the conflicts own confronting the powerful 18 months after the violence on capitol hill? it's clear that the us democracy was in greater danger than previous we believe my guest this week from tom about david from writer and columnist for the atlantic

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