ah ah this is the w used lie from berlin tree line because presidents bows to public pressure and resides protests to celebrate after the parliamentary speaker receives a letter of resignation from god to bye roger pox out troops continue to patrol the capital law for the government re imposes a future restored of russia strike central ukraine. at least 21 people are killed

out of the south hit. the city of been stuck far away from the front lines of the battle and played from the united states and israel or iran. you as president joe biden, and his re the prime minister. yeah. you sign a security pack, promising to do whatever it takes to prevent a brand from developing the aware ah, i've been visible and welcome to lincoln president, go to buy a roger puncture has sent in a letter of resignation. officials say they're still confirming itself, anticipate the speaker of parliament is said to make an announcement on friday. protest is in the capital. colombo are already celebrating, is despite an ongoing curfew announced by the countries acting president of japan is currently in singapore,

seeing the mass protest. ah, let's go straight over to our correspondence, the nearest chandry, who joins us from the main purchase, cited colombo, the nearer. what can you tell us about the resignation letter? why then just a little while ago you are doing their own people started getting the wrong. no one had the good about 9 and a little information game. when the media all the look a gaming and get a new one after that and the brown head nodded. well, now the bank with the now with the both resign yesterday on tonight,

that it will be a. d place, as i mentioned, but those protests look like they're still going on at least people are out on the streets. oh yeah. i mean i've been to learn more name, but i mean, you're out there. read with you. had been the mean, then i put them on the line. lauren in he looked with me. but now i don't avenue them out. when i'm coming in the crowd running late. people are thinking that dancing. nolan, bending debit had their big be done. a lot of crowd of people are making a lot of noise that b belong to planning and building. so if the protesters have got what they call their big tree or what's next, they are going to pack up and go home after what's, what's been days of demonstrations of occupying government buildings,

going through the prime minister's office, storming the presidential palace. well that's the last thing on their mind, backing up and eating the projector that i live in today. i know with going on with the, with the prime minister in the morning. i oh, you know, with more than one in our and be with the how correspondence in columbus when they were children, talking about the humanitarian crisis there in sri lanka. and the latest news

coming in just now of the sri lankan presidents resignation and letter of resignation. having reportedly been received by the parliamentary ukrainian president, vladimir lensky, 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 footage shows the immediate aftermath. local authorities say at least 3 missiles had an office block and damage near by residential buildings. police report at least $21.00 people were killed including 2 children. that we a 100 people were wounded. many of them are in a serious condition. i asked that corresponded my while. shes about the attacks invented so far from the front lines. exactly of any size, in fact her or west central western ukraine. and it's a place, you know, you've been mentioning some figures, there's thousands of people who are still missing those over 50 people who are

still in the hospital in the hospital with serious injuries over 30 of them are says from serious injuries a destiny is over 20 and is rising by the hour that these city vanessa is in a place where there's a lot of people, including people from here in kia, but also people from the eastern side of the country have sought, refuse since the beginning of the war, because they felt it was safer, are spoken to a lot of people during my stay here in ukraine, whose family have, has moved to the next hour because they felt there was shelter from that kind of attacks and her attack. and today shows that really i've been saying that time and again, but nowhere really fields and nowhere really is safe anymore here in ukraine. yeah, a place that says safe, no more. how is this attack part of russia's strategy in this war? well, it's difficult to see or any other strategy done. her dad, that of you know,

scary 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 miss hours. but you know, day in day out, don't missile strikes actually happened on civilians. it was a few weeks ago. graham and sugar shopping mall. danny was shattered yard in don't ask was over 40 people at dad there. and now we need sal was already over 20 people and dad, you know, this is happening on civilians every single day who 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 in the united nations help broke of the deal expected to be signed next week is a day and a stand off that's left more than $20000000.00 tons of grain stock in ukrainian

ports in manuel is this the breakthrough it's being cast at. ah, well, there's room farm, you know, cautious optimism, if indeed a grain or will be allowed to sit, 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. this is a verbal agreement that 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 turkey for having played a part in that deal. however, let's not forget that the black sea east to the mind of the moment. so ha, how will the brain circulate? and also we're talking about over $20000000.00 tons of grain of moments where there's also harvesting are happening. so even if, you know, there's a solution of farm for dis grey and how long will it take until it all goes to where it's supposed to go? and will you know that the next harvard have enough room in, you know,

the silos where they usually are stored to so many open questions as far as a potential hunger prices goes in many parts of the world. tell us more about what's at stake if that deal doesn't come through those shipments. don't get well, what are they good simply you mentioning you mentioning it if there's a hunger crisis looming 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 grain in the well then for example, africa depends highly on the need. the grain continues to be blog to heave that does not sufficient amount of rain being delivered there. then there's definitely going to going to be an even worse hunger prices in countries which need ukrainian

exports to most d, w. m l welsh us in the ukrainian capital alleged attacks on civilians. ukrainians won't rasa. held accountable in the international criminal court. the i c. c. l. the conference in the hague today to discuss its approach to the suspected war crimes, ukrainian investigators e. u. officials and ministers from over a dozen nations agreed to coordinate investigations around. 20000 cases are open. you claims president blood of miss lensky asked the court to open a special tribunal to prostitute russian leaders. man, that's foreign minister, one of the host to the event says it's about a unified approach to international justice. just like a climate strategy and go with strategy. we needs an accountability strategy. the 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 the united states and israel have doubled down on their opposition to iran's nuclear program. is it talks between is ready by me to stay at a peak at u. s. president joe biden, in jerusalem after one on one talks. both leaders said they would never let in iran develop a nuclear weapon. and let's say tay runs nuclear program is getting close to that threshold on friday byte and will continue his release to a meeting with leaders from the palestinian authority before heading on to saudi arabia. his while the president had to say about his strategy on iran to day you and i also discussed the marriage commitment to ensuring a ran, never obtain 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 can or other threats from iran throughout the region. including support for terrorism, ballistic missile program continues, and the proliferation of weapons 2 chairs, approximately cash bar. awesome, and your billing? well, our chief international editor richard walker is following the story. richard, the perceived threat from iran is reshaping the middle east. how close are the us and israel on this? yeah, well it was interesting to see in the past conferences now we do both leaders of course, re stating that they really profound opposition to iran, getting a nuclear weapon and sharing this concern that that is getting closer all of the time. but there was a difference in emphasis. layla, pete, the, the israeli prime minister, very front and center with the need for using the threat of force to dissuade iran

from proceeding further. joe biden, while acknowledging that the united states would be open to using as a last resort. also he said this an interview yesterday to using force still saying that he believes that the diplomacy is the best way to try to avoid that. the thing is, the talks around the iran nuclear deal would have been dragging on for very long time . there's not much optimism about those talks really achieving that at the moment. so, so you, the u. s. position is a little bit in a kind of limbo sort of still ostensibly holding to that. but it is interesting, you mentioned how it's reshaping the middle east, this threat from iran. that is very much the case. and you saw that a couple of years ago at the end of the trumpet ministration, the so called abraham accords. so agreement between israel and other countries in the region in bahrain. but also morocco to normalize relations to start building kind of normal ties between those countries. and there's really

a prospect of this process going further. how would you say by the close to what israel is changed compared to don't truck yet will of course it, israel, donald trump and joe biden very, very difficult. different leaders of course. but you do see biden picking up on these abraham accords, which came in at the tail end of the trumpet ministration and hoping to kind of develop those forward for, for instance, as potentially the prospect of saudi arabia, even a normalizing relations with israel, which would be a huge, not a historic step, a lot of a lot of curiosity about whether that may be coming soon or sometime a little bit further down the road. and also a lot of talk about whether these kind of growing relations between israel and other arab neighbors may develop further in a military sense for forming kind of defense relationships. very much aim towards

iran. so all of these countries basically having the common enemy of iran and increasing their coordination on the defense level. so there's things that really biden's kind of picked up from the trump administration and is trying to run with to an extent now talking about trying it is going to be a lot of trying when it comes to saudi arabia. that's a real balancing act is a that's right. this is where even it is always like beyond balancing at for joe biden. this is really a backtrack. i mean, he has been saying for a long time that mom had been someone who we see here on the screen, who is the crown prince of saudi arabia. the de facto leaders, ravia, is somebody who should be treated as a pariah over human rights. in particular, the murder of the journalist jamal could show g, which is u. s. intelligence pretty squarely at his door. but joe biden is going to saudi arabia now as part of this trip. this really reflects

a kind of recognition of a couple of realities. first and foremost, the very high oil prices that we see at the moment. the americans would love the saudis to be turning their gushes up and producing more oil to try to keep prices down. and also bite and said this openly in the press conference, a concern that if the united states is not more engaged in the middle east with sadie ray, but also with other countries. that that leaves the door open to particularly china, but also russia to move into a kind of a power vacuum there. so almost kind of restating america's need to be engaged in this region. and that means talking to people like him. first for us president richard walker. thank you very much for coming in and explaining the intricacies in both their in the middle east to a quick look now at some other stories making news around the world. the government

of italian prime minister mario tragic faces collapse of the coalition. part of the 5 star was boy quoted boyhood competence voted parliament. what we've been trying to about on the release party opposed druggie survived the vote. 5 stars withdrawal of support could still trigger an election. france has celebrated its national holiday with a parade on the south. lizzie and paris, france troops, much together with eastern european nato allies and a show of solidarity for the holiday amendment. for the french president praised ukraine was standing up to brush aggression and wholly would not kevin spacey has pleaded not guilty to 6 offense charges. after arrived at london, central criminal court wearing faces charges of assaulting free men in england between 20052013. the trial date has been set for june of next year. it watching the w use still to come. why would pick is don't get

a headache from bashing their heads against the tree all day. you study revealed some interesting insights. it looks like it. europe is sweltering in its 2nd major heat wave in just a few weeks. it's fueling wild fires across a vast stretches of land in france, spain and portugal, temperatures of sword, across much of the south and west of the continent, reaching above 40 degrees and parts of spain and portugal. in particular, you can see the red there showing the highest temperatures. a massive hot and dry air blown in by african winds, is driving those temperatures up to 45 degrees celsius and some parts. portugal as bod, public access to at risk forests. 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, shawn helplessly, as the flames edge closer. aren't you afraid not? thank me. i am afraid for where can i go jump into a water tank. let me stay here and watch better. armed with god and hoses, resident try to save their homes. fire crews are hot at work, but stretched thin. some arriving too late. for to give up, 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 south with france. vacation views were interrupted as water bombings filled up to battle. a nearby forest fire. thousands of evacuated campus took shelter, their holidays ruined as realities set in well,

we're selecting. 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 and croatia, defamation coasts, picturesque seaside towns where smothered in smoke. flames whipped by high winds, have already destroyed homes, farms, and all the 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 mocks one years since catastrophic flooding hit parts of western europe,

killing more than 200 people and causing millions of euro's worth of damage to homes and infrastructure. germany and belgium was hit with entire communities devastated the floods also caused extensive damage in the netherlands. luxemburg, switzerland, and austria in germany, one of the worst affected areas was the, our valley flash flooding there caused most of the $185.00 deaths in germany 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,

unused for life. 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 is nafrica foot 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 r flooded. hundreds are still missing, including in you the as neighbourhood reddish alton, if i guess i'll never forget it, i'll push pull 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 present and visa hi, dennis, nix casias. 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 lauren for months he gave haircuts outside. now finally, his salon is open ago. thank god, but there's still a lot missing of them, of course, but it took a long time just to get to this point. at one or 11 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's hair salon is an exception. think that i'll who does a 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 mine acquaintances in. yeah. my heart is dancing. mine has fun in his. i'm tonton. once again, the r is a harmless looking stream. but for many here, the havoc it caused a year ago is far from over. no, ever wondered if woodpeckers get a saw head from hammering their beaks into trees all day. scientists used to believe the bud skull could absorb the impact, but a study in belgium revealed something else. woodpeckers smacked their heads against trees and forests, the wild eva. when the bud ham, as a tree with its beak experience is a 4th. that is more than 10 times the 4th that would give a human concussion. it doesn't seem to bother the birds,

but evidence to show how they cope is scant. we went to different sewers, across europe, with high speed camera. and we filmed these birds during backing the scientists and slowed down the films and analyzed how different parts of the had moved in relation to each other. we almost get the headache ourselves by looking at these videos. so it's a logic response to think. yeah, they must have some kind of al metal or an airbag thanks to their brains. but the more you think about it, do you the less it makes sense for these birds? if woodpeckers heads cushion the blow from the tree would make their head butting less effective, say rather than absorb the shock of the impact. the birds had acts like a stiff hammer and resist said. the bad, small size and small brain help it cope with impact. the smaller the brain,

the lower the load to resist the shock woodpecker skulls have spongy bones which are light but very strong in their skull. the space that contains the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord is small. to prevent damage from the fluid sloshing around one theory suggests veins and the bad neck may be compressed. so the brain sit tight to in the skull. the suppose it shock absorbing qualities of the woodpecker skull has in spite protective materials and helmet design. but these newly discovered rigid qualities could now lead to a new generation of materials resistance to stress. i. finally, a japanese man has climbed into the regular books by running up and down mount fuji 4 times. in under 10 hours, i await a completed the grueling 57 kilometer running 9 hours 55 minutes and 41 seconds, beating the for the well record old of by almost 2 hours. not for g is the largest

mountain in japan any more than 3700 meters. it normally takes climbers 10 hours to reach the top. and that's just once you get 4 times amazing. oh, i'd rather just take a photo found for g d, w. news asia is up next week. melissa chan. you're watching dw news life from building will be back south of i ah, [000:00:00;00]

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