ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, the sri lankan president bowels to public pressure, and resigns protest is in colombo defy a night time curfew in celebrate the news that go to buy a russia pack that has dipped down they calling for an oil hold of sri lanka, leadership in a devastating economic crisis. also coming up roches,

strikes central ukraine, at least 23 people are killed off to miss tiles. hit the city of vanessa. far away from the front lines. plus the political crisis in italy, prime minister mario draggy office to resign, but the president says no draggy saying he could no longer lead the government off to losing the support of the populace. 5 star movement ah, i'm john driebe. thank you for your company, sri lanka. is president gotta go to buy a rush epoxy has resigned from offers. following months of protests, he stepped down off to fleeing to singapore. through lanka has been hit by ways of demonstrations against what is its worst economic crisis in decades. a night time curfew is now in effect in capital colombo,

by thousands of people to find the order to state hein pouring out on the streets to celebrate the president's resignation. barbara, on the streets of sri lanka, people celebrate off to hearing. the country's president has resigned. they say this is a triumph for democracy. daughter is a huge ricky mist rather here more than 3 months. and i would like to say like, it's this, i mean, at this moment, i feel is that a good lesson for all caught up at 4 digits, inter lanka, yasser, extremely happy velocity because we love to be god, allah, blizzard. and we always know most valvo both are in the gandhi. i'll be sure to be bolos is the ex extremely heavy divorce. president got to buy a raja pox off flattery lanka, to the mall div, ending up in singapore before emailing his official resignation. his letter awaits legal procedures and verification from the countries speaker of parliament in order

to be confirmed. to longer hassey months of anti government protests with people storming government buildings and taking over heavily guarded compounds . many a frustrated with the worsening political and economic crisis that's caused food and fuel shortages. getting back in a day earlier, protestors entered the prime minister's office. the man who they worry, we'll take over the country. some occupied the sitting areas, and others took selfies. the army has been brought in to restore law and order after prime minister for neil victor, i'm a singer now the acting president called for a state of emergency demonstrate as have agreed to vacate the occupied buildings, but many say they still don't have confidence in their leaders oh yeah, i don't any was my go, oh, what have you done?

oh, well the president's resignation is a stance. the protest to say they want a complete overhaul or sri lanka. leadership. they vowed to continue to take to the streets until they believe there is real change. oh d, w, use me near a child. you're using sri lanka, capital colombo, aliya. she sent us this update on the reaction to the news off the president stepping down when i'm getting mixed reaction, but not in the way that you would expect the i think that they're very happy that go to better to book that design. but also they're very sad that a defeat looking at the state of the country, the situation in which he has lived. but thank you for they know that it's going to take a long time for the video for the country to come back to normal. think anonymously, politically, but the, i'll be happy. this is the one 5th period. the mean what it might look for the boss or 3 months for the predictive bid road with m p to live evening. but i soon as the

news came in, the 100 the projects of year, they're 100 the demonstrators yoga celebrating bethany song. they're walking up and down the road, playing jump in and jump and singing songs and celebrating medic, letting them either victory or their people whom manero chantry and columbus rely. could they well to easily now, which is in political turmoil, off to prime minister mario druggie tended his resignation, but the president rejected it. druggie said he wants to resign after a key coalition partner, the 5 star movement refused to back a government bill. drug you survived a confidence vote in the senate despite the rebellion, but he says the coalition backing, his government no longer exists. no, you seem a good day. as a journalist in rhyme. earlier we asked her to explain how it came to this quite surprising offer from drunky to resign. what essentially happened today was a very crucial boat in the senate in which essentially it was

a vote on the cost of living, build some 26000000000 euros working the bill to help them and business deal with the high energy costs and all the $5000.00 movement which is part of the unity government coalition. government led by prime minister my drug essentially said that they would boy caught this because they didn't agree to this particular bill. they felt that the government should be doing more to help citizens and the particular the were again, a specific provision in the bill which talked about allowing rome to build trash incinerator on the outskirts of the city to deal with the trash problem in the capital. something that the 5 time when it's always been again, so they didn't vote again, but the centrally boy caught the bill. so while the bill and the motion of confidence was actually passed, it was without support by some movement, something which mario druggie has already said very clearly in recent gains that he

will not continue needing the government, the coalition government without the support. that's what he said. he came into this role as prime minister back in february of 2021. he wants that as a unity government to push forward the reforms that the country needed at the time . now he has gone up to see the president, july corolla to hand it needs resignation. but we're now hearing that president ryan has rejected it. and essentially has called on him to return back to parliament to see whether he does indeed have a parliamentary majority. another 5 thought movement that was part of this government has seen a lot of defections in recent months. lots of members of that party have moved on to other 2 different parties or to join other parties. and so perhaps he has the numbers in parliament. we'll have to see where the body draw accepts. this idea that said martha rella has put forward, but he has indeed rejected this offer resignation. sima kupta,

there were ukrainian president, florida me. zalinski has condemned a russian missile attack far from the wars front lines. he's called it an open act of terrorism, the russian rockets, he'd an office block and damage residential buildings in the central ukrainian city of vanessia. at least 23 people died and around 100 more were wounded. 3 children are reported to be among the dead. ukrainian forces claimed the attack deliberately targeted civilians in locations without military value. russian missiles have been striking deeper into ukrainian territory. vanessa is in central ukraine far from the front lines. thousands of people from the east had fled here after russia invaded, seeking safety, with a lake will live when the 1st rocket hit. glass fell from my windows. you cool? because i called and when the 2nd wave came, could you know,

it was so deafening that my head is still buzzing. that were horrible. ukrainian officials said 2 missiles struck the city on thursday and ignited a fire. those are quite high precision missile to live with the russians knew when they were hitting. this is a civilian building will give a probable while addressing a conference in the hague, focused on investigating suspected war crimes in ukraine. president vladimir lensky said the attack deliberately targeted civilians showed you. today in the morning. russian missiles hit the city of vin. it's an ordinary peaceful city. cruise missiles hit 2 community building. the houses were destroyed on medical center was destroyed. cars and trams were on fire. this is an act of russian terra. it's a wallet that all he's calling for a special tribunal to investigate russia's invasion. the kremlin,

has repeatedly claimed it is not targeting civilians. but each day, russian missile strike c t's in the southern city of nikolai of rockets hate early on thursday. just one day after an attack, killed several people in the eastern donnette grey jan, ukrainian troops, a trying to re enforce new defensive lines with the help of weapons from foreign allies. boomers, the china, the china do much, but the think about it. danny was lying in a trench and taking a risk to his and i think that it could be the last i need to have a drink through the last night that i go to sleep like the spot they were finding us. russian forces have failed to make any major gains in the east in recent days that ukrainian authorities say the constant strikes have made life here too dangerous for civilians to stay in

a quick round up of some other world news headlines now, a swedish court has handed a life sentence to a former rainy and prison official for crimes committed during a 1988 purge of dissidence in iran. the trial is the 1st related to atrocities in the 1980s iran iraq war. the court said how made new re assisted in the execution of many political prisoners. molly's military lead government has temporarily suspended un peacekeeping troops. rotations emitted growing dispute with ivory cars . miley early arrested for he, 9 of oriend soldiers for allegedly entering the country illegally. it says they were mercenaries, ivory coast says the men were part of un peacekeeping forces. ivana trump, donald trump's 1st wife and the mother of his 3 eldest children has died at the age of 73. the former president made the announcement via social media without

providing a cause of death. ivana trump was born in the czech republic and married donald trump in 977, they divorced 15 years later. us president joe biden has pledged to do whatever it takes to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons. he made the comments after meeting with israel's prime minister. yale appeared in jerusalem biden is currently on a tour of the middle east. talked about that. we had a very long conversation ultimately conveys which i didn't know nothing about, even though they like different sports. it was clear that the team leaders like each other and they both agree that iran poses a serious threat. us president joe biden and israeli prime minister. yeah, le pete made that clear in that price conference, but they differ on how that threat should be addressed today. you and i also discussed immersive commitment to ensuring around never change

a nuclear weapon. this is a vital security interest about 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. words will not stop to mr. president. diplomacy will not stop. the only thing that will stop by iran is knowing that if they continue to develop their nuclear program, the free world will use force the document by indicated he would be prepared to use force as a last resort to stop iran, acquiring nuclear weapons. their joint declaration also included a commitment to expanding israel security alliance with arab states, biden. and la p then headed off to join an online summit focused on developing a new partnership with india and the united arab emirates. the 4 countries want to

work more closely on energy and food security. specifically the merits promise to $2000000000.00 project to promote agriculture in india. it seemed by many as a 1st step toward listening denny ties to russia. after that, biden's wellborn to see president get back and enjoy another warm israeli reception on friday, he'll meet with the palestinians before traveling on to saudi arabia for more delicate negotiations. ah. okay. prepared to be, feel incredibly unfit. now a japanese man is climbed into the reiko of books by running up and down mount fuji 4 times in under 10 hours roy away to completed the grueling 57 kilometer run in 9 hours. 55 minutes 41 seconds meeting. the former will record by almost 2 hours mount fuji is japan's largest mountain standing at more than 3700 meters. it

normally takes climbing 10 hours to reach the top just once. okay, quick reminder of our top story for you. now sri lankan president is valid to public pressure and resigned. protest is a celebrating off to parliament received a letter of resignation from go to bio russia. poxel business news is off next. don't go away. ah. people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away and the border families play on the tags in syria to these credit owners with.