ah ah this is the w news life from berlin, joint plates from the united states and israel on iran. you as president joe biden . that is why the prime minister. yeah. pete signed no security agreement. they promised to do whatever it takes to prevent a run from developing nuclear weapons and says, the waste, what white bread both around to agree to a nuclear deal. russia strikes deep in the heart of ukraine. at least 20 people are killed up in the south. if the city of been in central,

you pray far from the front lines of the east and south of the country, plus sri lanka, on edge of the days of turmoil troops are on patrol in the capital, colombo, the government pre imposes a curfew to restore order protest is the government buildings and consider the next move and germany march the anniversary of one of its worst natural disasters. many survivors are angry, still waiting for help to rebuild a year off the floods, through their homes and businesses. ah, i'm painful and welcome is where the payment is. the year le pete has welcomed you as president joe biden to jerusalem on his tour of the middle east in there, one to one, talk spite, and urged unpaid to join other middle eastern nations in a united front against iran. analysts say tape round is rapidly approaching

completion of a nuclear weapon is by the lead of bound to never let that happen on friday byte. and we'll meet with leaders from the palestinian authority and saudi arabia before returning to washington is what the president had to say about his vision for dealing with iran to day. you and i also discussed the murder commitment to ensure in iran, never change a nuclear weapon. this is a vital security interest about israel and united states and our dad 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 iran throughout the region. including support for terrorism, ballistic missile program, the continues and the poor for ation of weapons to terrorists and proxies like cows, blah. rebecca read us is in jerusalem for us. michelle, the cook. nice. following the american response to the story from washington,

rebecca bite and said the us would use all elements of its national power to stop iran from requiring nuclear weapons. how is the nuclear threat from iran shaping alliances in the region? and the threat of iran, as it is widely perceived across the region here, is shaping alliances here in the region profoundly. i mean, you know, it's a little bit like the old adage, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. so we're seeing alliances or potential alliances that a few years ago seemed impossible. now they're looking probably just a few years ago under the trump administration, we saw the ab hm accords. that was the normalization of time between israel and 3 of its arab neighbors. that was seen as a huge step in progress. and now we're looking at a potential defense the lines of course, that's not official yet, but that ease being spoken about here on this to her of on president biden's who are of israel. and so we're talking about a defense, a mindful directly in relation to that iranian threat that received iranian friend

here in the region. so he did is really couldn't be shaping this region any more, michelle, do you have something to say there? yeah, well it's interesting that joe biden in israel pledged that to the united states would use all of its capabilities if necessary, while at the same time, joe biden, having argued that at the very core of his trip to the middle is east, is to see more stabilization that would prevent the need for us troops to be engaged in that particular region. again, the price here is seen as too high, and the sell back here as well, is that the whole trip is there to find a way to stabilize the region so that prices energy prices also go down. so yes, joe biden says, the u. s. stands with israel and potentially against iran. the nuclear deal with iran seems less likely to be revived right now. but also a u. s. president,

very reluctant to have to engage in any kind of military way. the price here politically would be very high. michelle and next stop is the palestinian territories. is there any change in the you ways approach towards the conflict between israel and the palestinians. but what we have seen again from joe biden and that will be welcomed as that. he's once again pledged that the u. s. stands with the idea of a 2 state solution, although biden also cautioned and that that would could be many years away. so i wouldn't be surprised if on the palestinian side there could be an element of disappointment coming out of this meeting unless that he has much more to show it for. for now, this seems to be as so of us force that it's back as a power broker and the palestinians, and their interests not being at the forefront of this visit quite clearly. there are definitely going to be when it loses here. rebecca biden will meet palestinian president martin what abbas, what's expected there will advocate i just rightly pointed out

nothing really expected a by way of a movement on the piece process. so that is clearly michelle pointed out a disappointed disappointment for the palestinians are, but you know, we are expecting that they were made for around about half an hour. lots of things will be discussed. and of course, as michaela said, you know, the fact that president biden has re committed or re stated his commitment to the 2 state solution will be seen very warmly on the side of the palestinians. but they will no doubt be disappointed that he's coming with no plan with no framework or how that might look that unlike most presidential visits when they meet with the palestinians, they normally go with a kind of a road map of how they perceive to go forward. that isn't going to be the case to morrow. what we will see some promises of more funding for the palestinians and potential or other packages. it will, you know, other promises that will be revealed to morrow, but nothing by way of the peace process. and that is a big disappointment,

as is the fact that, you know, president bind clearly isn't really putting the 2 state solution as a priority. as part of u. s. foreign policy. though he says that it is, you know, set certainly something that the administration hoping for. he doesn't say it happening for a very long time. so very disappointing there. yeah, i mean, hearing that word time and a kid to day disappointment when it comes to this tour. biden's last stop is going to be saudi arabia. mikaela. he's expected to broach the subject of human rights, but he also needs saudi arabia, doesn't it? yes he does, if he is to deliver what he's promised here in the united states and that is more stability, the tea in the region. and we don't expect anything historic, like anything else. moving towards a saudi arabian recognition of israel, that would truly be historical. this is, it keeps getting called historic but trying to see more integration of israel in the region also points to the fact that he seems to be banking much more on that

kind of alliance than actually finding a resolution of return to the nuclear deal with iran. that can be seen as a change of policy to some degree and also a tailing in with trunks policy. because after all he launched that very process of some kind of normalization the steps towards israel and its neighbors in the region and. and the whole world is of course, watching with baited breath. will there be a handshake between us present biden. and mohammed been some on the crown prince of saudi arabia who us report showed an intelligence report at the very least signed off, if not ordered the death of jamal cars, saki the journalist, to work for the washington post. our correspondence covering biden's middle east to michelle, a chris' name, washington, d. c. and rebecca, readers in jerusalem, thanks to both of you. ukrainian president blood of mister lansky has condemned

a deadly russian strike in central ukraine as an open act of terrorism. several russian missiles struck the city of unit, so is footed shows the immediate aftermath. local authorities say at least 3 missiles hit an office, balkan damage near by residential buildings. police report at least 20 people killed, including 2 children, and a 100 people wounded. many of them still in a serious condition. let's cross over 3 d w. m m o shot in keith. what more can you tell us about this attack that was far from the front lines. exactly. irvin. he says in fact her, her west central weston ukraine and it's a place you know, you've been mentioned in some figures. there's thousands of people who are still missing. there's over 50 people who are still in hospital in the hospital with serious injuries over 30 of them are so suffering from serious injuries that they're still over 20 and it's rising by the hour. but these city, vanessa, is in

a place where there's a lot of people, including people from here and key of but also people from the eastern side of the country house with you since the beginning of the war. because i felt it was safer . i spoken to a lot of people during my stay here in ukraine, whose family had her, has moved to vanessa because they felt there was shelter from that kind of attacks and her attack and today shows that. oh, really, i've been saying that time and again, but nowhere really feels nowhere really is safe anymore here in ukraine. yeah, a place that says safe, no more. how is this attack part of roches strategy in this war? well, it's difficult to see or any other strategy done, no doubt. that of you know, scary out of the population. you know, russia said in a time and again, it didn't attack civilians that had hired, you know,

strategic targets or when it struck was me size. but you know, day and day out don't missile strikes actually happen on civilians. it was a few weeks ago came and sugar shopping mall. danny was shouted yard in don't ask was over 40 people, dad there. and now we need sal was already over 20 people and dad, you know, this is happening on civilians every single day here in ukraine. let's talk about how this was caused global grain shortages because you kind of rush or appear close to a deal right now to get ukrainian grain flowing to the rest of the world. turkey's defense minister is announced a provisional agreement to allow shipments through the black sea, turkey and the united nations help broke of the deal expected to be signed next week is the day and a stand off that's left more than 20000000 tons of grain stock in ukrainian porch in manuel is this the breakthrough? it's being car stacks. well, those are m farm, you know,

cautious optimism, if indeed a grain or will be allowed to sick, allays again in the black sea. but there's a couple of things that are not quite sure yet. first saw, this is an agreement, is a verbal agreement hasn't been signed yet. it's expected to be signed. next week we as president vladimir zalinski say he's grateful to the united nations and to turn key for having played a part in that deal. however, let's not forget that the black sea east to the mind at the moment. so ha, how will the brain as circulate, and also we're talking about over $20000000.00 tons of grain of moments where does also harvesting are happening. so even if, you know, there's a solution of farm for dis, a grand, how long will it take until it all goes to where it's supposed to go? and will you know that the next harvest have enough room in, you know, the silos where they usually are stored to so many open questions as far as a potential hunger crisis goes it in many punch the world. tell us more about

what's at stake if that deal doesn't come through in those shipments. don't get move. well with us they get simply yeah, you mentioning you mentioning it, it's a hunger crisis, new meeting and not just you know, here in ukraine, people have enough to eat at least in places where we can report on. i'm not talking about occupied areas which are difficult to accept, or the problem is that both russia and ukraine are among the biggest exporters of going into, well then for example, africa depends highly on the at a need to grain continues to be blocked. to heave that is not sufficient amount of rain being delivered there, then this definitely going to going to be an even worse hunger price is in countries which need ukrainian exports to most the w e. mom loves us in the ukrainian capital for alleged attacks on civilians he had been at so or butcher

ukrainians won't rush, are held accountable in the international criminal court. the i c. c. held a conference in the hague today to discuss its approach to suspected russian walk right. your credit, investigate his you. officials and ministers from over a dozen nations agreed to coordinate their investigations. around 20000 cases are already open. you claims president, florida lensky as the court to open a special tribunal to prosecute national leaders. the dutch foreign minister, one of the host to the events, says it's a vital step toward a unified approach to international justice. just like a climate strategy and a covert strategy, we need an accountability strategy strategy driven by the universal belief that all of us, all of us are protected by law. ensuring that all roads lead to justice now and in the future and yos,

are watching this closely among them. andrea should have from the european center for constitutional and human rights. could this conference act as a type of deterrence to would be war criminals in this conflict? and change how things are going on the ground the conference itself is extremely important to say to fine and particularly put political will behind accountability . so for that, it's important investigations will take a long time prosecutions as well. and it's also very important to include the local civil society as well as to put victims at the forefront of investigations and something the long term can change, but it cannot direct the answer. conflict, of course. can you take us through the kind of war crimes at stake here? i guess what i was just referring to before these are suppose it attacks by rush or on it's on civilian areas. could be included in this long list.

almost daily, incidents being reported that need proper investigation to establish the truth, to, to document what's been happening and to collect evidence that can later be used in a court room and for full to standard needed there. so, so there are many instance of war crimes of crimes against humanity that, that warrant investigation. and that's why it's so important that no 45 states committed to create system dialogue group on accountability for ukraine to have a long standing process and commitment to accountability and to those investigations and prosecutions. how do you get in there and investigate? i mean, a you relying on ukrainians to take photos, take videos of what's going on, but at multi level. so there's a lot them ukraine, civil society is reporting to many victim throughout the turn to civil society than to state authorities as a matter of trust and so on. so many witnesses and victims outside the country that

all reporting to civil society ought to or crumbs units and other other countries neighboring countries, but also germany. i'm so it's a variety of what's happening and of course forensic investigation happening on the ground in ukraine that needs to be brought together and, and compiled and being coordinated, of course. and once this is all over and goes through the course, how you actually ensure war criminals are held accountable midst the chaos civil war. it needs proper and thorough investigations and case building and then at a later stage arrest warrants and a few get hold of people for extradition or through arrests to put some trial and then present the evidence and then go through that step by step. so that's, that's the regular practice also in war times the number of areas accessible on of prime side. so some other crime says i'm not accessible, which is of course more difficult, but there's open source investigation possibilities to also collect the evidence

there as well. thank you. very much for bringing some insight into this process of preventing war crimes of bringing war criminals to justice. thank you. she lank as president go to by our roger pacha has landed in singapore a day after fling mass protests in his country. flight believe to be carrying the president, his wife and their body guns landed at singapore and port earlier today. protest is injured. anger is still waiting for his official resignation. they've agreed to leave the government buildings. they've been occupying for days. the prime minister, who is now also the acting president as we impose the curfew in the capital and is calling for com army drugs line up outside the she london parliament. there is relative, come in the capital colombo protest does have agreed to leave the presidential palace where they had camped out for days. but the remain determined to achieve the

demands removed or the more the president and our prime minister who cannot still progress my killing people. and they look in sure that you do this from a half a day earlier. protestors had over on the prime minister's office soon after president got to buy a roger bucks out was reported to have fled the country prime minister on it became a senior. now also dr. president called on the army tourist or law in ardo. when he thought that you knew that 30, because of today's situation where the security forces advised me to declare a state of emergency hidden and opposed curve to your vehicle. and therefore, i am now implementing a state of emergency and the curfew. need you had to pick them up, the master finances, fascist threatened,

pardon pathogenic helping. i think i don't wanna protest us ignored the gulf view, which was again imposed for a 2nd day while the president may have left the country meek and on the crisis isn't going away any dine soon and neither the protesters are really jamara. sophia, is an opposition parliamentarian for the national people's power party. we asked her who will fill the vacuum left behind either now absent precedent. i need to go ahead with the appointment a resident and the party does meeting that is going to be in by the apartment several days ago that on the 20th of this month, i will elect a new resident currently de some confusion as to the status of

the acting president because a legal that appointment has been because there is no communication from a who, as you know, i left the card g r e d, i mean the amount of soria and opposition member of sheila, because parliament is a quick look now at some other stories making use france has celebrated its national holiday with a parade on the shore. lizzie, in paris, french troops launched together with eastern european nato allies in a show of solidarity before the holiday, french president, my mama, home praised ukraine for standing up to rush and aggression. all he would stop, kevin spacey has pleaded not guilty to 6 offense judges. one celebrated actor arrived at london central criminal court when he faces charges of assaulting free men in england between 252014. a trial date has been set for june of next year. tons of human ashes have been found in

a forest near the zone down concentration camp and poland full to be the remains of 8000 poles killed by the nazis in 1939 whose bodies related dug up and burned in an attempt to cover up, investigators say they will continue searching for more roommates. today marks one years since catastrophic flooding hit parts of western europe, killing alden, 200 people, and causing millions of euro's worth of damage to homes and infrastructure. germany and belgium were affected west with entire communities. devastated funds also caused extensive damage in the netherlands, luxembourg, switzerland, and austria. in germany, one of the worst hit areas was the r valley flash flooding that caused most of germany's $185.00 deaths a year. later, much of the damaged infrastructure is yet to be rebuilt and frustration among victims is 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 taking cars, houses everything with it, and leaving lasting marks on the people here. men outside, unseen for life. are you afraid of water? even if taking a shower on her, do you hear the sound of the water coming out of the shower head and it remind you of that rushing sand and the wetness. nafrica food uti a 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 annually as neighbourhood reddish alton,

if i guess i'll never forget it, i'll get this massive water. just popped the door open and my kid yelled at work my, my mom help man, 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, they're safe, nothing happened to them. and, and they said i didn't, it's 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 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 they're not enough. mohammed's hair salon is an exception. think that either through death is still adam. 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 wanna condenses 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. he w reported his by to is in i deny, which was devastated by the flooding. she sent us this update right here where i'm

walking. now this used to be fields. this used to be where the people are blessing what they're doing every day. but as you can tell, it's exactly what the last slide happened. one year ago after the mess of floods, or this was washed away. now they're trying to bland greenery here in case of another flooding that could absorb the water more easily. but as you can tell, we're still a long way off the w t. s advisor and reminder about top stories. us president joe biden. andy's my, the prime minister ya yi, laugh he'd have signed an agreement pledging to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. following that meeting in jerusalem by and said that you west would continue to work for lasting peace between israel and the palestinians. at least 20 people have been killed in russia. miss al, strike on the central ukrainians. if you have been so far from the front lines in the east and south of the country, president florida mesa landscape called the attack and open act of terrorism.

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