ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight, the u. s. president, the saudi crown prince and a fist, but the u. s. president arrived today in saudi arabia and offered no handshake. instead, a fist bump to the prince that he once found to make up

a ride. also coming up a russian missiles rain down on the ukrainian city of michel live in the central city of denisa brush and air stripes. it claimed more than 20 lives, and europe's welters as temperatures across the continent rise this summer's heat. waves have already called devastating wildfires. in france, portugal in spain. other regions are facing the threat of fires due to the extreme heat. ah, i bri. gov is good to have you with us on this friday. u. s. president joe biden is in saudi arabia on a highly anticipated but controversial visit. he's due to attend a summit of arab leaders to morrow, but his visit has become a delicate dance upon arrival to day he bumped fis with mohammed, ben salman saudi arabia's crown prince,

and de facto leader biden had refused to speak to the crown prince until to day pledging to make him a pariah after the murder of journalist, dissident, jamal cush, oak fight, and said that the matter was top of the agenda. in his talks with the prince to day respect to the murder of cr shogi, i raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what i thought of at the time. and when i think of it now and knows exactly, i was straightforward and direct. he said he was not personally responsible for it . and he took action against those who were responsible and, and we, and then i went on to talk more about how that dealing with any of i'm opposition to the or criticism of the saudi administration. and other countries was viewed as to me, violation even right. so did the u. s. president, just put this very uncomfortable situation to bed for good to talk about that. i'm joined now by our correspondent to kill the cook. no,

she's in washington. b keller, we just heard the saudi crown prince. mom had been salman. he told the you as president, i'm not responsible for the murder of journalist jamal, cuz shogi biden says, i think you are. i mean with that, does this put an into the story for american voters? probably yes, because american vote as at the moment i'm very much concerned about bread and butter issues about soaring inflation at the highest level in for decades of rising prices, which is pretty much the same thing. and also prices at the pump. having increased by 60 percent in just one year, having said that, this is a matter of principle and turbine is already getting quite a bit of flack over here at criticizing that. yes, he vowed he would raise human rights. he did raise cash. so he, but at the same time, this is a pretty much a climb down from his vow to make saudi arabia parias state over the mud. and as

was indicated by a u. s. report at which he helped put on track by the u. s. intelligence community indicating quite clearly that the very saudi crown prince, who he fist bump today, was responsible for at least signing off, if not directly ordering. the mother of timo, kaz shogi, and just to cite it democrat here, adams, if a leading democrats who said that this was an example of how all writ, autocrats a can influence a u. s. foreign policy in the middle east. having said all of that, americans here are very much busy with themselves at the moment. yeah, that's a very good point. it's still surreal though, the video that we were seeing there of the saudi crown prince going down the line of all of these u. s. officials and fist bumping them all at you if you could read their minds, you would know that they would of think to themselves. this man is a possible murderer. but as you say, for the u. s. voters,

that's not top of the agenda. what about this summit of golf cooperation of the gulf corporation council rather with countries such as egypt, iraq endured that takes place to morrow. what can we expect from that? well, this is the moment where the other side will have to deliver and clearly and joe biden delivered what saudi arabia wanted, which is basically introducing mohammed been selman the saudi crown prince who are on the world stage as someone who would be accepted also as the next leader of saudi arabia potentially for decades to come because he is still a young man. now, as these gulf states sit down together, the united states would want to see more output in terms of oil and gas, particularly oil. and it looks like he may well get that, but to bind again was pressed on the issue. you know,

how fast will this deliver for americans here back home. and he pointed towards the next couple of weeks or months. so he doesn't look like he will have anything immediately to bring back on air force one when he returns on thursday. the w's because of nerve with lucas tonight from washington, because we're thinking is a quick look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. a 25 year old black man killed by police in the us state of ohio last month was shot $46.00 times. and that's according to an autopsy of jaylin walker, who, despite being unarmed, was done down by 8 officers after he tried to run following a minor traffic violation. the incident is triggered weeks of protests. the search for a new leader is beginning intro lanka, prime minister raw neal, vic, ram singleton has been sworn in as a caretaker, president, amid and economic and political crisis. now this follows the resignation of go to buy your project poxel. we fled the country. parliament is due to appoint

a new president. next week, russia space agency and nasa have signed a deal on joint flights to the international space station. this is a rare example of cooperation between washington and moscow since the invasion of ukraine nasa astronaut. we'll go back to using russian saw use rockets and russian cosmonaut will be able to fly on us made spacecraft. russian missiles again pounded the southern ukrainian city of nikolai on friday injury at least 2 people. meanwhile, rescue cruise continued to search for survivors in the central ukrainian city of the nita. at least 23 people have been confirmed, dead killed by russian cruise missiles, and that includes at least 3 children. plumes of smoke rising to the sky above ukraine's southern city of mac alive its been the target of russian missile strikes in recent days, causing powerful explosions on the ground cause completely burnt out and covered in

debris. rescue teens continue to put out the flames and set through the rubble looking for any signs of life. this area is home to 2 of the cities biggest universities. the buildings took a direct hit, much of it destroyed and beyond repair. in the central town of vanessia, hundreds of clematis to the west and far from the front lines residence or reeling from a russian attack on thursday. many people were killed and injured down all night. according to updates we understand that there were 3 rockets and had here previously, experts round fragments of 3 rocket engines. 2 missiles were shot down beneath sheer region by our air defense forces. so overhaul ukrainian or 30 say the strike was carried out with rushes high precision caliber missile accusing moscow of the

liberty targeting civilians. acclaim russia, denies emergency teams comb through the rubble, looking for missing loved ones. the targets here, a medical center, a concert whole, and a park where mothers would take their children. 4 year old lisa who has down syndrome was one of the victims who lost her life. the only doctors fear that her mother who's in the hospital in critical condition, won't make it if they tell her, the news is the message. yes. if we tell liters mother now that her daughter has died, there will be no chance of her being released from hospital as the death toll rises and many tried to come to terms with their loss in ukraine, people are bracing for further attacks in the coming days earlier i

spoke with our correspondent expire in key. then he spoke to me about the significance of michel live in rushes. invasion of ukraine. o. nicholas is about 230 kilometers south, where i'm sending in a 100100 kilometers to the east of the crown jewel of the russian campaign, which is that port city of odessa, the biggest port in ukraine, the port from which the greater part of ukrainian wheat and goods are shipped out when you take that port, you basically paralyzed the ukrainian economy. of course, it can send things on trains and trucks and into the rest of europe, but it completely changes the configuration of the economy. so that's why the fighting is so intense there, but there's fight back from the ukrainians in the area with particularly with these high mars american rocket systems that are doing very precise and very devastating work on russian ammunition depots. and perhaps one of the reasons why we're seeing

these strikes on civilian targets is hard to get in to the mind of the kremlin in the russian generals is that their traditional artillery is really taking a very heavy head with this new imported weaponry. and we know that russia continues to insist that it's only targeting ukrainian military infrastructure course. that's not the case. the attack this week on the city of the needs is another example. so do we know what is russia's offensive strategy right now? well, president zalinski says it's terror. the point of striking a civilian targets intentionally or not. i is in soleski a vision, an attempt to sort of cow the ukrainian population at the front of many ukrainians i've talked to. all it does is make them while despise the russians more and the less he has a 93 percent approval rating. it doesn't seem to be causing any change in how ukrainians feel about striking

a piece deal with russia. the great majority of ukrainians think they're on the path to victory. so the actual strategy of the russians is difficult to ascertain. but striking civilian targets, whether you intend to or not with such regularity is in the formulation of human rights. people at the united nations, a war crime that was the w correspondingly spicer, they are reporting from t large parts of southwestern europe have been baking under sweltering temperatures for a 5th day running. it's the 2nd heat waving wigs for southern france, spain, and portugal, and the hint of sparking wildfires forcing thousands to evacuate. and of course, it's ruining watts of summer vacations and in england, which is normally much cooler while they are bracing for extreme heat in the coming days. it's not the kind of thing you hope to see on holiday smoke from wildfires caused by scorching temperatures. just a stone's throw from the beach,

but that's the reality. inter molina, near malaga, southern spain. and it's not just here for the north in extreme madura fires have been burning for days, destroying thousands of hector's and forcing residence to evacuate, including here in the village of las missed us with us that we've got 5 minutes to get out and leave everything we have i'm worried, i'm looking after 3 grand children, much of neighboring portugal is sweltering to with temperatures in the forty's celsius and climbing. here to wildfires have destroyed large swathes of land affecting thousands of people. this man fled his helm in the central lay re a region as flames approached. though it was becoming really intent so over here. and there was quite a wind pulling, pulling the flames. i couldn't actually see the flames until we actually left alone . there not one decided to go in southwestern france finance her full thousands of

locals and holiday makers to evacuate villages and camp sites. many have thought refuge in makeshift shelters. and the heat wave is creeping north. the u. k. has issued its 1st red warning for heat ever. when the full cost is expect, ties are 40 degrees celsius next week, topping the u. k. previous record of 38.7. this heat wave is an indication the climate change is here. we are seeing these problems now and they're going to get worse, need to do something now, a red warning signals, a risk to life. so it's hard to cope with these types of temperatures in the u. k, because we're just not used to them. so our bodies are not acclimatized, these types of things, and we don't have the house, it's designed to keep cool. we don't have air conditioning, and our infrastructure is not built for the heat toe. you k hospitals have already won't, of effect in heat related admissions was a good time to take

a dip and some water like that. isn't that gorgeous the world's best surfers? they have been enjoying themselves right there at the corona open on jeffries bay in south africa. conditions were described as perfect for the latest stop on the world championship to work brazilian surfer tatyana western web stove, the show with this magnificent running the final clenching top spot and moving up to 3rd in the overall rankings. i mean, we all wish we could do that surfing world championships. we're forced to take a 3 year break. during the pandemic. competitors are visibly thrilled to be back on the water. again. we're all set to go beyond the obvious citizenship and then we're all in as we take on the.