we still have time to go. i'm doing all with his subscriber all morning. he was like ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, sri lanka is president vows to public pressure and resides, protest is in colombo, defy at night time curfew and celebrate the news that go to by russia. baxa has stepped down there calling for an overhaul of sri lanka, leadership being a devastating economic crisis. also coming up, russia strikes

a central ukraine. at least 23 people are killed, they're often missiles hit the city of vinegar so far away from the front lines. and the political crisis in the italy prime minister mario draggy office to resign . but the president says no draggy saying he can no longer lead the government off to losing the support of the populist 5 star movement. ah, i'm john driebe. thank you for your company. sri lanka is president, go to by roger pox, a has resigned from office following months of protests. he stepped down after fleeing to cinnapool, sri lanka has been hit by ways of demonstrations against what is. it's worst economic crisis in decades. a night time curfew is now in effect capital colombo,

but thousands of to the people have defied the order to stay at home. they've poured out on to the streets to celebrate the president's resignation. barbara, on the streets, us re lanka. people celebrate off to hearing the countries president has resigned. they say this is a triumph for democracy. missouri 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 for us because we love to be god, all of us again, we always the most marvel bozer in the laundry, i'll be sure to be bolos is the ex extremely heavy divorce. president got to buy a raja poxel 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. shanker 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 day and day earlier, protesters 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 his have agreed to vacate the occupied buildings, but many say they still don't have confidence in their leaders oh yeah,

i forgot. what have you done? oh, well, the president's resignation is a start. the protest to say they want a complete overhaul, austria, lunkhead leadership. they vow to continue to take to the streets until they believe there is real change. the italian government of prime minister maria drunky is on the brink of collapse. after one of the parties in the coalition refused to back a bill in parliament. druggie said the move amounted to a vote of no confidence in his coalition and he tended his resignation to the president. but that resignation was refused, and rocky says he'll now seek a vote of confidence in parliament next week. the crisis blew up when the populace 5 star event, which is part of the coalition. government said it would not support an important economic bill to vote count, which plunged italy into political crisis. representatives of the 5 star movement

boycotted emotion in the senate. prime minister mario draggy sword as a loss of confidence in his government. fivestar lead a just said the contact the former prime minister, seen here at the hand over a power has been critical of many of the government's policies. his party has been falling in the poles in recent months and tension has risen in the governing coalition. and the situation has been fragile for a while. it was only a question of when the coalition would fall apart. now it is finally happened. drug visited the president to resign saying he can only lead when all coalition parties fully support his program. but the president rejected his resignation. drug you will return to parliament on july 20 to seek its support and seem a good to is a journalist in rhyme. we asked her to explain how it came to this quiet, 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

a cost of living, build some 26000000000 euros work, and the bill to help citizens and businesses deal with the high energy costs. another 5000 movement, which is part of unity government coalition, government led by prime minister modern drug essentially said that they would boy caught this vote because they didn't agree to this particular building. 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 when it's always been again, so they didn't vote again, but the centrally boy caught it the bill. so while the bill and the motion of confidence was actually pos, pos, without support by some movement, something which body a druggie has already said very clearly in recent days 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 it, and a unity government to push forward the reforms that the country needed at the time . now he has gone up to see the president jamal rela, to hand it needs resignation, but we're now hearing that president martha rella 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 his government has seen a loss of defections in recent mon, lots of members of that party have moved on to other to form different parties of to join the parties. and so perhaps the higher the numbers in parliament will have to see where the body of drug accepts this. this idea that said martha rella has

put forward, but he has indeed rejected this offer resignation. sima gupta in rhyme, there will ukrainian president float m is the lensky has condemned a russian missile attack. far away from the wars front lines. he's called it an open act of terrorism. the russian rockets hit an office block and damaged residential buildings in the central ukrainian city of vanessia. at least 23 people died. darren, around $100.00 more were wounded. 3 children are reported to be among the dead. ukrainian forces claimed the attack and 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, was at lake will live when the 1st rocket hit. glass fell from my windows. you call

vehicle arkell, and when the 2nd wave came, would you? it was so deafening, not that my head is still buzzing, and the to put horrible. ukrainian officials said 2 missiles struck the city on thursday and ignited a fire. wasn't visible for these are quite high precision mas i'll still be able to, russians knew where they were hitting their policy. this is the civilian building. a horrible while addressing a conference in the hague focused on investigating suspected war crimes in ukraine . president vladimir zalinski said the attack deliberately targeted civilians, jordan euro, or is this yesterday in the morning? russian missiles hit the city of vinegar, sir, an ordinary peaceful city. good luck. cruise missiles hit to community building, see houses were destroyed. our medical center was destroyed. cars and trams were on fire. this is an act of russian, tara squalling. she sold it 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 cities in the southern city of nikolai of rockets hit early on thursday, just one day after an attack, killed several people in the eastern donetta grey jin ukrainian troops are trying to re enforce new defensive lines with the help of weapons from foreign allies. dollars, the channels, the channels, owners prefer losers. i think about death while lying in a trench and taking a restaurant is able to hear from i think that it could be the laughing t. i have a drink for last night and that i go to sleep. flip is what they were staying at 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. let's get a quick round of some other headlines now. a swedish court has handed a lie sentence to a former, a rainy and prison official for crimes committed during, in 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 newry assisted in the execution of many political prisoners. molly's military lead government is temporarily suspended . un peacekeeping troop rotations made a growing dispute with ivory cars. molly earlier arrested 49 of oregon 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 at donald trump in $977.00. they divorced 15 years later. saudi arabia is lifting restrictions on all airlines using it is based effectively ending a ban on israeli carriers flying over the kingdom announcement is a step towards normalization of relations with israel and comes ahead of a visit by us president joe biden to re at biden, is currently touring middle east countries, including israel, where he 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 in jerusalem. talked about that we had a very long conversation of ultimately conveys which i 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 his wally 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 immersed commitment to ensuring a ran never change in nuclear weapon. this is a vital security interest about israel and the 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. we love to stop them. the only thing that will stop iran is knowing that the, 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 stock. 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. vocal. specifically, the emirates promised a $2000000000.00 project to promote agriculture in india. it seen by many as a 1st step towards listening daily's ties to russia. after that biden drove on to see president yitzhak hertz oak and enjoy another warm israeli reception. on friday, he'll meet with the palestinians before traveling on to saudi arabia for more delicate negotiations. it's a quick reminder of our top stories. 3 lank as president has bowed to public

pressure and resigned. protest is the celebrating after parliament received a letter of resignation from go to buy a russia actor. and italy's pres, a prime minister mario draggy has offered his resignation, but it's been rejected by the president. italy is in political turmoil after draggy lost the support of a key coalition partner in the parliamentary vote. you're up to date stalk film is up next. don't go away. a man with the memories of a woman aah! ali from syria is born in a female body. forced into marriage, raped far from home.