ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. joe biden is on the next leg of his middle east tour. b, u. s. president arrives of the saudi arabian city of jetta to attend the summit of arab leaders in saudi visit is the most controversial stop on the president's trip . and ronnie over crimson, g is sworn in as sri lanka as interim leader after days of political turmoil. but protestors joy over the resignation of president, got

a by are roger parks that could be shortly. and russia target southern ukraine. several missiles strike 2 universities in mich alive. the port city has come under heavy fire in recent debt. and the court sentences, a former german soldier to 5 and a half years in prison for plotting a fall rights, tara ah, i'm gabelle as well come to the program. you as president joe biden has arrived in saudi arabia on a highly anticipated but controversial visit. biden. is due to attend a summit of arab leaders, but his visit will be a delicate dance. he has condemned saudi arabia's de facto leader, crown prince mohammed ben solomon for human rights abuses. but now biden needs the

saudis help to bring down oil prices. we'll go live to saudi arabia shortly. but 1st we have this report. this with us diplomacy in saudi arabia not long ago, former president donald trump performing a sword, dance, trump, and it did the ministration, embraced the country, and it's crown prince mohammed been so mom known as m b. yes. that was despite the country's widespread human rights abuses and the murder of dissident journalist jamal shoji at the saudi consulate in istanbul. multiple investigations said the order to kalika, so she must have come from the top. from ben salmon himself. many world leaders condemned m b. s helping in a more new mobile service. that puts president joe biden in a tough spot when he was a candidate, he called for saudi arabia to be treated as a pariah nation. but by needs to address oil

prices, which have spite largely due to russia's war in ukraine by an also needs the saudis help against us adversary. iran, which is ramping up its nuclear program. washington is pushing the saudis to cooperate with israel, despite the history of mistrust. and conflict against iran, both countries consider to iran and arch foe. saudi arabia with its huge oil reserves, has made itself impossible to ignore for decades. it's used its power over energy markets to both hurt and help us. in the 1900 seventy's, the saudis contributed to the u. s. economy tumbling into recession with oil embargoes. but in later decades, the saudis were seen as a dependable partner in providing oil and as an ally in an unfriendly region. then came september 11th. most of the hijackers of the plains that flew into the world trade center and the pentagon, were saudis many with high reaching connections?

but washington played it down. this friendly attitude continued when mohammed been sa, mom took over. he cultivated ties with president trump's family before and trump refused to condemn him for the casualty. murder, lena, joe biden prefers to speak to m. b. s. his father, king salmon, who officially rules the country. but the king has been ill and is rarely been seen in public in recent years. all that oil and the enormous psalms, the kingdom has to invest world wide, keep saudi arabia irrelevant. and that means dealing directly with whoever's in charge. now let's bring in solomon on, sorry, he's the founder of his saudi american public relations. a fast committee that's a lobbying group that aims to strengthen ties between saudi arabia and the united states. he joins us from jetta now. president biden wants saudi arabia to boost its all production to get more oil on the market and drive the prize down. said likely

to happen. thank you so much for having me and hi, todd of yours on. i don't think that rod will take a drastic measure to be honest with regards to its energy policy at the moment. it's clear that the high oil prices are primarily caused by geo political issues in europe. so it's not a formal oh or traditional supply issue. so i suppose reality is somehow in the middle trying to stabilize that energy market, but at the same time, we definitely will see ways through which we can actually mitigate the effects of a high a oil prices. because sometimes sarabia is very key in, in, in, in trying it's best to stabilize the market and it is a member of public plus. so they cannot actually go buy their own and take

a decision without having or the other members to be agreeing upon. the policy with regards to oil demand, or saga ethics, or after the killing of journal. as to marco shoji, joe biden said the, he would treat saudi arabia as a pariah nation, and now he's changed course entirely. why? yeah, i think hey, gill has said, and actually he said to be independent of public opinion is the 1st formal condition of achieving anything. great. so i personally think we should give credit for biden, for mr. bided for admitting yesterday that he and the u. s. made the mistake by not engaging effectively with the middle east. so that's why i'm actually optimistic right now. not over optimistic, but i'm optimistic about that expected overall outcomes of this summit. rod is going to renew the u. s. commitment towards the middle east,

and it's me somehow create a new security architecture. it will also reduce the tank in between the allies. so it is very important specifically for the reason that the summit is not only about saudi and us, but it's also has the 6 plus 3, which is 6, g, c, c countries plus jordan, egypt, and iraq, and with the united states. so it's gonna be a complete renewal off the strategic plan field or the strategic kit for an aspect of the middle east. can i just come back to the, the aspect of human rights, their daughter play a role in us saudi relations? yeah. okay. when it comes to human rights, it's actually not picked up. we'll in the media for some reason, but if we go for the real data like towards the bank, for example, in 2020 has rank sarabia the biggest reformer when it comes to we're in rights

and the world bank said everyone can check it out specifically on the field of business and law and we are speaking of reforms that are unprecedented during the last 5 years. we've seen more reforms in the kingdom than the last 50 years. so nobody can deny that. but the idea of poking sarabia with the justification of saying things about the human rights records, i personally believe as a saudi citizen, that human records and the human rights records and sarabia are way, far better than so many different countries. and i could actually say including the united states, the opinion of sama, i'm sorry, thank you very much for coming on the program. make the search for a new leader, begin century lanka, as former president go to buy or roger park so officially resigned after fleeing the country. prime minister ronelle with crimson jay who was sworn in as acting president has been nominated by the ruling party to stand in the elections.

freelance guns are now waiting for parliament to convene on july 20th to appoint the new president. ronald promising. he has been sworn in as she long cause acting president. but he might not stay in office for long an especial statement. he promised to restore law in order and to crack down on those he called insurgence. iraqi martini the yasamin stopped working. i will take immediate steps to establish the rule of law and peace in the country. academia i recognize the right to peacefully protest. lambert, summer time on gauge and access sabotaged. crocker anto target are not massive. protests fullest president going to buy a raja bucks out to feed the country and ultimately resign. oh, the broadest and celebrated the news of his resignation. and now one with promising

he had gone his with no it will, it was to go home as was me. so next logan was really running to go home to thousands of those even essentially nothing change says go daddy and it is a big thing. but ronnie still yeah, and he's in iowa. i'm not bet, luca missing it has already caused out on the bottom and he was in which he will stand as his body's candidate for president. thou art condemned abernathy parliament to eddie. now again, i do put through error reports that other groups are trying to influence members of parliament, head of the vote next week to elected president. so don, i'm going about, i will create an environment for parliamentarian and independently express their views, my dear you and after the war, it will be several days before she longer gets a new president. while the nation goes through

a political up even the long lines outside betral stations on getting any shorter. earlier i spoke to journalists on the i, we put us in a, in colombo. but also if this provisional change in leadership will calm the protest . i well right now it doesn't seem so just because i go to japan when he gets in saying that they are really satisfied by they want to run a week from a senior, who they think is also a working read the right boxes to go to. now you are in colombo that how the local say receiving the news that because it actually continues to remain in the holes of par. yeah, that's right. so when i spoke to some of the people in here in colombo, most of them are very happy they, they actually tell them that they actually think that a god,

that the economy will be better now. and that they can go back to their old lives. in fact, a mother that i spoke to, she said that she would like to see her children going back to school. that's because we just didn't have not gone to school. so they want a sense of normalcy. and they believe a going, and then of course, they also want to go to and then things will somehow calm down it. now, roger parker has fled the country as we've heard. but there are accusations of war crimes hanging over his head as well. what are these accusations and how important is it to hold them accountable for it? well, even when he was a, you know, conflicting at the election, people knew that he had a, you know, these criminal offenses, these walk crimes against a still overwhelming the majority watch. it for you,

it's just because of the economic crisis that people have like, you know, turned in a way against the right person. but it is essential that we hold him accountable for all kinds that you've done in terms of, you know, killing innocent people during the war time and then even killing journalists. so it is extremely important that ride the buses are held accountable for what they've done. our department is also being held responsible for driving for longer into economic crisis. can the interim government turn things around quickly? well, i do need to speak with her missing a said that they are trying to do things so that they will really get they probably back on track. actually asked people to work with him and they had meetings also. but it, well, i think before, before an election is done,

new president elected they, it will be really hard for the government to do anything because people, the people, the politicians are really divided right now. so until an election comes, i don't think we have the issue, ricky, assurance that a things will be fine. journalists on, you know, we put us in our reporting from a colombo there for us. thank you. russian attacks in ukraine continued to kill civilians in different parts of the country in southern ukraine to universities. when i hit in mich alive, the regional governor there release this footage of the strikes, is that 10 russian missiles hit early on friday reports say at least 2 people were wounded. meanwhile, rescuers in vinegar are continuing to search for people still missing. after missiles strike yesterday, at least 23 people were killed, including 3 children,

a number of others are still in critical condition. now let's go to kiff, where dw correspond. expirence standing by. nick, tell us more about that attack in mic alive. what's the significance of targeting this area? well, it's about a 100 kilometers from odessa, which is really the crown jewel for the russian army. that's the port that essentially all of the ukrainian goods are shipped out of are the biggest port. and if you take that, you cut off all the ukrainians access to the scene ability to basically have an economy, they'll have a land bridge going all the way to romania more or less. so mic alive is about 100 kilometers away from there. so it's one step towards taking odessa, but it's going to be a hard fight. the city itself is really under siege. there's half of the population is gone. are only about 230000 people left. and those who have remained behind are

the elderly. the sick and people who have no place to go. now russia insists is only targeting ukrainian military infrastructure that's clearly not the case. the attack on vinegar is another example. what is russia's offensive strategy now? well, you know, you'd have to ask vladimir putin, but it's, it's, it's a classic war of attrition and the style of fighting. but russia has engaged and since world war to sometimes $50000.00 shells fired in a single day, you know, they've only taken 5 per cent more territories since the beginning of may. so the advances have not been that big despite the spectacular strikes. we keep hearing about and it's worth noting that back in may, the united nations was saying that targeting areas were civilians may be, constitutes a war crime. whether or not you're actually deliberating those, actually deliberately targeting those areas. you need to be more cautious. it's estimated that about 20 percent of the russian missiles that are being fired are

hitting civilian areas. whether or not that is intentional. it's hard to prove. president zalinski certainly thinks that's the case. he's called a terrorism. i'll just tell you to conclude here we hear about these missiles strikes, you know, we live in an age where there are pictures on twitter, on instagram, on all the social media immediately as soon as something happens, when we hear about a missile strike, twitter is full of pictures from people in the zone, you can see what has happened. it's pretty hard to invent this kind of fact. the kremlin sometimes says that the ukrainians are actually attacking themselves in order to buttress public opinion in the war against russia. however, president lance, he has a 93 percent approval rating and if you talk to people in the street, there's not a lot of people who seem to have their will to fight flagging or who are willing to believe the russian version of events lit up is next by so that in the ukrainian capital. thank you, nick. now the effects of this wall are being felt across the globe.

ukraine is a major exporter of grain. but russia's invasion means stocks of wheat and corn can't leave the country. grained shortages are pushing up world prices threatening food security in many parts of the world, including at, especially in africa, is next report from senegal, was produced by our colleague from the french public t. v. news ships from russia or ukraine have all but disappeared from african ports . they were a common site here before the war, but now they no longer supplied 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 sor, oh, this will, how much the small one is $0.15 the other $0.30. here almost half of the

population lives below the poverty line. so every penny is counted. while i am the heading. 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, it today a ton of wheat costs more than 450 euros. this is twice as much as last here. for the moment, the state of cynical pays the difference. this makes it possible to freeze the price of flour and bread, but this sudden increase worries. the millers was old. read up against cynthia. today the senegalese baguette is subsidized by the state in the same way as it is in many north african countries. egypt, denisia, and morocco. but the question is until when it is there, not a risk that we will be caught up by the reality of prices. that's the big question . so some bakers are trying to find solutions at their level. i'm glad you gave, for example, has already changed his recipes. lube agnes. this is millet,

you take the flower and mix it altogether. all preliminaries in his establishment. he trains his apprentices to make bread with products that are a 100 percent from synagogue. who is it? read luck. we must reduce the amount of wheat imported in the lum glen, replace it with our own serials you, if you go to the coating, while there's mann yolk there bananas and sweet potatoes in nigeria. the same thing is that a and all these countries, they're serials that can make bread, but local grain is more expensive than imported. wheat and financial support from the state is needed. if nothing changes with the increase in the price of wheat, the un announces that within the next few months, more than $40000000.00 people could be lacking food in west and central africa. donald, to have a quick look at some of the stories are making headlines today. be repeal commission is taking hungary to cause over a controversial l g. b t q law,

the lower band school material that seen as promoting homosexuality or gender change. the government of prime minister to albany justifies the measure as preventing child abuse us basketball star brittany griner has made her 4th appearance in a russian court. the olympic gold medalist has pled guilty to carrying vapor cartridges containing cannabis oil, loya se the oil was prescribed by her doctors. if convicted on drug possession charges greiner could face up to 10 years. in a russian prison. russian space agency says it signed a deal with nasa on flights to the international space station. russian cosmonaut will be able to fly on us made spacecraft in exchange for american astronauts using rushes. so use rockets. the deal comes as relations between washington and moscow.

i have their worst and decades a caught in germany, i sentence an army officer to 5 and a half years in prison for planning a terrorist attack. prosecutor say the officer posed as a syrian refugee and targeted multiple politicians. the case shocked germans and stirred up a debate about the depth of right wing radicalism in the country's military. it is the end of one of the most extraordinary cases of far i terrorism in germany. furnace for soldier franco. a has been sentenced to 5 and a half years behind bars, his crime plotting to conduct a terror attack well posing as a refugee. the court found him guilty of planning attacks on high ranking, german politicians, and also i legally possessing weapons. given out is that the court is convinced that a defendant wanted to commit a politically motivated act of violence. judges from a clear that he also harbored

a nationalist and right wing extremist adela johnson. i that said this district is in the family class escapade border. although the jail sentence was below the more than 6 years that prosecutors had asked for, they caught the verdict him major success been quite satisfied because the verdict, despite a lower sentence than the one that we it is an important success in the fight against the right wing extremism, racism and anti semitism in germany, deutschland, i'm, frankly, a said he regretted hoarding the weapons but has consistently denied planning any attacks for protest, the standing in front of the courtroom. this is not an isolated case, but a case that shines a light on far right extremism and the german military. all correspond husband is at the court in frankfort. he has more details about the verdict. the crucial

part about the verdict is that this is an active german officer from the german army who has not been convicted of having planned a actual violence against that. so that could have been in danger, a danger to the security of the state. in other words, the german acting german officer has been convicted of being a right wing terrorist. this is quite spectacular in german society the the penalty to which he has been come in 5 years a time and a half years in prison is somewhat lower than the prosecution in fact demanded. and i think that is an indication like the court to acknowledge that the plans that he had were not so far develop that they could actually be put into action a cali transplant reporting there. now, house warning comes from the world's global weather agency. the world mental logical organization says a heat wave currently spreading across europe is likely to worse and apaloosa.

southern pass off the continent have been sweltering in temperatures above 40 degrees celsius. but breaking records in parts of spain and portugal, with extreme temperatures likely to become more common due to climate change. one of spain's biggest cities is changing the way it deals with its summer weather forecasts. seville in southern spain is no stranger to heat. soon residents will become even more familiar with scorching weather patterns. heat waves here ought to be named just as storms are elsewhere. the city wants to draw attention to the life threatening danger of extreme temperatures driven by climate change. we believe that giving this phenomenon, giving these heat waves a name and a category is the best way for us to do that. and when a heat wave in our methodology reaches a category 3, it receives a name, a category 3 heat wave means very high health risk to the entire population. the

current conditions in spain are ranked as category too, but even that's enough to exacerbate wild fires burning across the country. fire cruise, fear worse is yet to come. ok, man of what worries us most today is a southern wind that can move the fire and the rise in temperatures that we are suffering this week. more fires a raging across europe south, including in portugal, france, croatia, italy and greece. the current hate wave is expected to expand across more countries . though so far unnamed, it won't go unnoticed. and a reminder of our top story today. you as president joe biden as arrived in saudi arabia to attend the summit of arab lead us. it's his next stall on his middle east strip off to visiting israel and the palestinian territories,

the restated his support for the 2 state solution for israel and the palestinians. astra lanka, prime minister ronay albert from his cindy, has been sworn in as acting president protest as a celebrating off to his predecessor go to buy out of park. 70 formerly resolved to lancaster parliament is about to convene in the coming days to choose a new lead that said, from the new steam foot out thanks lot. mm hm. ah, with

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