people clearly have the solutions, the future the 77 percent, every weekend on d. w with this is the w news life from berlin, u. s. president joe biden visits the palestinian territories by that holds talks with palestinian president. bob bought a boss in the west bank city of basically have a meeting as part of biden's 1st middle east trip, which will also take him to saudi arabia. new with crime is born in as free lunches

in from lita off the days of the political turmoil. the protest is joy over the resignation of president. go to bio. russia could be short lived and russia targets southern ukraine. several missiles strike the port city of nikolai of command on heavy bombardment in recent days. ah, i've been fizzle and welcome you. as president joe biden has held talks with palestinian leader back about a boss in the occupied waste bank. it meeting is part of biden's 1st, middle east trip, as president biden has reaffirmed washington support for a 2 state solution for israel and the palestinians. he didn't come with any new proposals will restarting this old piece process. instead, the pairs talks focused on economic aid for the palestinian people and were

expecting president biden and president abbas to speak following their talks. you're watching live pictures from bethlehem, where they news conference is expected. any moment will bring you biden's remarks. life here on d. w use. first, let's bring in our correspondence tanya kramer, in bethlehem. tanya, what are you expecting from this sir? from these talks my yes presidential by navarro chair about over an hour ago, slightly behind schedule. he was visiting a policy in hospital in east jerusalem or before i know he had been holding, holding talks with the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas. and he said, we are expecting some statements from both leaders. so to understand a bit more of what is there on the table, what both have to say, we understand it might be some more measures being announced them initiatives, like for example, upgrading the mobile system in the occupied westbank. but also in garza,

i from the 3 g to 4 g. that would be a really a relief for many people here. but also other measures are like he already announced at the hospital that shit there was a pledge for some more aid and financial aid that is very important that this aid also restarts us inside. the chombo administration had cut off most of the a to the palestinians. but of course, that we also expect to hear bit more about, you know, what are the next measures? is there any policy involved as does it go beyond, you know, economic measures and initiatives? because people want to really see that something will change here on the ground for them. tanya, how a palestinians viewing this this visit? well, i think the many different opinions here talked to people here and leading up a to the visit. of course, people are welcoming a that the u. s. president visit is visiting here. it's always important also to

highlight, you know, what's the, what's going on here. also the conflict because globally there's not much interest her at the moment of, on what is happening here. that's at least what people are saying. people also would like him to highlight the killing of fir, the american palestinian journalist trina, our clerk y covering a military rate or in the occupied arrest bank in the northern or west bank. and you know, to talk about accountability here also with the israel about it. but in general, people are not expecting that anything will change on the ground. i mean, they're really hoping, you know, to see some pull political measures, some policy changes and some push from the united states, you know, to end the occupation here and to have a vision for their own state return to you soon. thank you very much for bringing us up to date there. and we'll move to sri lanka 1st. prime minister ronald week

said i am a singer, has been sworn in as acting president. it comes after for leader, go to buy a roger parcher officially resigned after fleeing the country. for months, 3 lincolns had been demanding the removal of roger puncture, who they blamed for the country, severe economic crisis. on the streets, us re lanka. people celebrate after hearing the country's president has resigned, they say this is a triumph for democracy. america 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. yeah. i say extremely happy for us because we were about to go down about it and we always the most marvel barza in the gandhi. i'll be sure to be burbalow is the ex extremely heavy divorce. president got

a buyer. raja parks are flattery lanka, to the mall deeds ending up in singapore before e mailing. his official resignation to longer has a months of anti government protests with people storming government buildings and taking a very heavily guarded comp. many a frustrated with the worsening political and economic crisis that's caused food and fuel shortages. getting day a day earlier, protest is 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 renelle vicar, 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 anyway. i don't know what the builder. 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. oliver, my eye is a south asia corresponding for the general public broadcaster id oliver. the prime minister is now also the interim president. what's next? it's difficult to predict really what people say is that there's gonna be an election them held by parliament next wednesday. and there will be a new president elect, some people think that the prime minister, former prime minister, i need to become is sing a was now the acting president will also run for president. and that's quite a tricky situation because the people were celebrating yesterday that the guitar by

era to pack sales. finally design pro, i resigned from office, but they do not want any vicar missing as the next president of this country. so the next days are gonna be tricky, and if i'm going to become a singer really becomes the new president of this country, than the turmoil is going to continue against the lanka. uring, colombo, how are locals receiving this news? i mean, yesterday, as i already mentioned, they were really happy when the message got through that they're going to buy or roger pack so resigned. there were like tears of joy, really the protest. her said that we finally reached our goal that he resigned, but the future as i already mentioned, there's really uncertain as well. there are not so many names circulating, herm, of who might become the next president of the lanka. and the people just told that it's going to be a name that is fresh. you know, that brings hold back to the people because people have been suffering here for

weeks for month even. and they do need a fresh start in silica and because they hold the, the current leaders in the outgoing leaders as those responsible for driving the country into an economic crisis, which has also become a, a humanitarian crisis. hasn't it? totally. i mean, people are really suffering. we are shot with a lot of people here. people who are standing in gas and fuel lines for days, sir, for 7 days and night, sometimes they sit in their little auto and they just hold that they get like one liter fuel and they didn't get it for a week. then they go to the black market, pay at $6.00 times more than usual, just to be able to drive around with the car. they can't really keep their families . families are struggling to put food on the table for their children. then medicine is rare. he and see lanka right now it's not being imported because they don't have any money to import these goods. so a life is very tough for the people. and that's why had they have been protesting

for such a long time for nearly 100 days. and finally, they need a change here. so oliver, what, what sort of president or what would whoever the next president is? have to do to change that situation. lots of stuff actually, and he needs to unite the people at 1st that he needs to give them the feeling that they all belong together and no matter where they come from. and he also needs to solve that huge debt problem because he like has over $15000000000.00 of that. and there's no concept right now in the how to pay that money back. there is talks with the international monetary fund, but they have said they see nor no clear concept and how they want to pay it back. so there needs to be a solution for that as well. although my a thank you very much for giving us a clear picture of the situation. barry and sri lanka you're welcome.

russian missiles have struck 2 universities in the southern ukrainian city of nikolai, of the head of mc life's military administration. at least this footage of the strikes videos posted on social media, purportedly show the aftermath of the attack. according to the city's mer, at least 10 missiles hit on friday morning. the full extent of the casualties is not yet known, but at least 2 people were reportedly boned it let's cross over to d, w 's mom while shes in keith. what more can you tell us about this latest attack on mc alive, while ben mickely se so really closer to the front line? in fact, it is also a front line. nikolai f itself is not occupied yet, but the region around it, or there's parts of it that are occupied by the russian army by pro separatist groups as well. and did city is cynthia under basically constant shelling 10 me

size early this morning. they fell out between other buildings. they fell on to universities. we dont have an estimated as to how many people have been injured at least 2 people have been injured, but we do not know more about are possible other casualties. but these kind of attack, especially in the southern part and in the eastern part of ukraine, has become a daily, happened on a daily basis. now, how are you craniums coping with this situation? when you say this sort of stuff is happening on a daily basis? well, you know, as much as you can see, a form of resilience when he comes, for example, to air read alarms. yesterday. hearing here if we had a series of air read alarms or which lasted one of them for several hours, another one for 10 minutes and you can see people in the streets, you know, they just stand to their everyday life day. they are very resilient on that account . however, when we get the news that we got yesterday from vanessa,

with dozens of people killed in a residential area by and, you know, by selling those news really affects people. when it says a place, you know, where a lot of people, even cuba, her, but also people are from her eastern ukraine sense their family because they thought it was safer. and when places that are away from their frontline are being hit, as is the case very, very regularly. well, people here really feel that there's no way safe all around the country. there are reports the in the mean time that the russian parliament been recalled from holiday for an extraordinary sessions, who consider unspecified government initiatives. it is that the war in ukraine that they're going to be talking about we can safely assume that the war in ukraine know will be something that will come out doing this extraordinary session only. but it is no, no, not to give too much of a head start to parliament when it comes to what is going to be discussed. but we

also know that, you know, the vast majority of the russian parliament supports vladimir putin initiative when he comes to the war in ukraine. we could think about the discussion of a possible referendum in occupied territories when he comes to their annexation, or perhaps even their annexation, their facto will be discussed. it is something we'll find out for me later today. did hobbies, emma welsh, us in the ukrainian capital. thank you. the effects of the boring ukraine are being felt across the globe. ukraine is a major exporter of grain, but russia's invasion made stocks of wheat and corn can't leave the country. grain shortages are pushing up prices, threatening food security in many parts of the world, including across africa is next report was produced by french public t v. news ships from russia or ukraine have all but disappeared from african ports. they were a common sight here before the war,

but now they no longer supply the continent with grain. other countries have taken up the slack. this cargo ship loaded with wheat is arriving from argentina, but down is not enough. the people of senegal and other countries on the continent, fear that prices will soar. oh, how much the small one is $0.15 the other $0.30 a year, almost half of the population lives below the poverty line below so every penny is counted. wow, i'm then getting if the price of bread is raised again, it will be very difficult for a sandwich sellers because we already have high prices. the goods are already very expensive. to day, a ton of wheat costs more than $450.00 euros. this is twice as much as last year. for the moment the state of synagogue pays the difference. this makes it possible to freeze the price of flour and bread.