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i leave her with with this is dw news live from berlin, joy by didn't meet the saudi crown prince and challenges him over the murder of the king. dissident d. u. s. president arrived in saudi arabia on friday and offered not a handshake rather a fist to the prince. he was about to make
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a pariah also coming up. russian missiles, ryan, down on the ukrainian city of mc alive in the central city of unit c. a rush and air strikes kill more than 20. as risky was still search for the missing class. europe swell to says temperatures across the continent saw this summer heat has already caused devastating wildfire in france, portugal and spain. and the german soldier is sentenced to 5 and a half years full, plotting a fall rise terror attack. prosecute aside the former office of powers as a syrian refugee, and he planned attacks on numerous politicians. ah, i'm jared read. welcome to the short. you as president joe biden says he's confronted saudi arabia's crown prince over the moon of dissident journalist jamal
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to san jay biden. is in the kingdom on a highly anticipated but controversial visit. when he arrived, he bumped fists with muhammad been summoned. the crown prince into factor leader biden had refused to speak to him after casualties. murder in 2018 u. s. intelligence says the crown prince approved his killing. of this ma'am, that has set off a storm of criticism. u. s. president joe biden, hell talks with saudi crown. prince, mom had been silman, a man he once promised to make a prior over the murder of u. s. b s john list. jamal kush old g casual g fiance reacted to the meeting with the tweet. seeing the blood of the princess next victim is on biden's hands. the u. s. president has counted the criticism. thank you, bill here. respect to the murder of cash yogi, i raise it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what i thought of it in time. and when i think of it now,
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he basically said that here he, he was not personally responsible for it. i finally came on was he said he was not personally responsible for it, and he took action against those who were responsible human rights groups waddy, that this is far from enough. now, saudi arabia has never been a rights respecting country. it's ever been a country where you can speak freely, but what we've seen in the past 5 years is a total shut down of the space for any public criticism or any hint that you might disagree with the authorities. the leaders discussions ranged from regional security to clean energy initiatives, but saudi oil is being seen as the driving factor here. especially if it can replace russian supplies on the global market. the main reason for preston biden's visit to saudi arabia is to attend the gathering of leaders of 9 countries from the gulf cooperation council. but the meeting that was set to draw the more scrutiny
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has already taken place. earlier i spoke to our washington correspondent, carolina chima, and i asked her what biden's interactions with the saudi crown prince say about his policy towards the kingdom. well, toward the end, these kind of visits between world leaders are normally carefully choreographed towards the final press. of course, the conferences and the joint statements of both parties. so we can definitely say that this is very much about the uptake. some say it was just a fist bomb and that, that is different to a hand take a shake. the truth is that this doesn't matter. the fact is that what we're seeing here is a big big you turn in biden's foreign policy and it's a real, a re calibration of his relationship to saudi arabia. the prince and the president of the united states had a meeting that last is more than 2 hours, and this is also part of this image, and of this change that we're seeing. and all of this is happening after president
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biden said, during his presidential campaign, we are going to make them pay. meaning the princess rabbit and the prince and his country, they are going to see the fact that they are a paranoia. so now he is saying completely the contrary, that this trip is all about promoting you as interests, especially in economic terms, but also in security terms. that was d. w, washington correspondent carolyn, that she moist speaking to us a little bit earlier. let's get a quick look now at some of the other stories making world news to day. sri lanka is prime minister renewal vick, remy singer, has been sworn in as a caretaker president made an economic and political crisis. it follows resignation of go to buy a raj epoxy who flip the country parliament is due to appoint a new president next week. an autopsy shows that a black man killed by police in the u. s. date of hire. last month was shot $46.00
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times. jaylin walker with gun down by 8 officers after he tried to run following a minor traffic violation. the incident has treated weeks of protest rushes space agency and nasa have signed a deal on joint flights to the international space station. it's a rare example of cooperation between washington and moscow since the invasion of ukraine nasa astronaut. we'll go back to using russians or use rockets and russian cosmonaut will be able to fly on us made spice craft in ukraine authorities in the city of n e t. c. s i. a 4 year old girl was among the casualties of a russian miss. i'll strike on thursday. this attack killed at least 23 people and risky workers had been climbing through the rubble, looking for survivors. elsewhere in ukraine, russian mythos of again struck the southern city of nikolai, the authorities there reported the attack wounded, at least 2 people. plumes of smoke rising to the sky above
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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 search 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,
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experts round fragments of 3 rocket engines. 2 missiles were shot down in the miniature region by our air defense forces. so before 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 home through the rubble, looking for missing loved ones. the targets here, a medical center, a concert hall and a park where mothers would take their children in the 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 ethos mother now that her daughter has died, there will be no chance of her being released from hospital as the death toll rises
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and many tried to come to terms with a loss in ukraine, people are bracing for further attacks in the coming days earlier we spoke with the w correspondent, nick spicer, who's in keith. he told us about the significance of mikko live in russia's invasion of ukraine. nikolai was 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 paralyze the crating 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
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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. mixed up in keep there. here in germany, a court has sentenced an army officer to 5 and a half years in prison for planning a terrorist attack. prosecutor say the officer named as franco, a posed as the syrian refugee and plotted to attack multiple politicians, the case shot to germans and stood a debate about the depth of right wing radicalism in the military. it is the end of one of the most extraordinary cases of far right terrorism in germany. fullness for
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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. ah, the court found him guilty of planning attacks on high ranking german politicians and ult off i legally. possessing weapons. with another staff court is convinced that a defendant wanted to commit a politically motivated act of violence. judges made clear that he also harbored a nationalist and right wing extremist adela johnson. i that said his district is in on with anger clack escapade water. although the jail sentence was below the more than 6 years that prosecutors had asked for, they caught the verdict him major success. it's been dia, quite satisfied with the verdict, despite a lower sentence than the one that we asked why. it is an important success and the fight against right wing extremism racism and anti semitism in germany,
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deutschland and franco, he said he regretted hoarding the weapons, but has consistently denied planning any attacks for protest standing in front of the courtroom. this is not an isolated case, but a case that shines a light on far right extremism in the german military. large parts of southwestern europe have been baking under sweltering temperatures. it's the 2nd heat wave in weeks for southern france, spain and portugal with the heats barking wildfires forcing forcing thousands to evacuate, also ruining holidays and brisson normally much cooler is also 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 in taura molina near mulligan, southern spain. and it's not just here for the north and extra madura fires have
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been burning for days, destroying thousands of hector and full thing residents to evacuate, including here in the village of last missed us. we've got 5 minutes to get out and leave everything we have. i'm worried i'm looking after 3 grandchildren, much of neighboring port to go is sweltering to with temperatures in the forty's celsius and climbing. here to wildfires have destroyed large slaves of land affecting thousands of people. this man fled his home in the central lavery, a region of flames approached it was becoming really intense. so over here and there was quite a wind pulling, pulling the flames. i couldn't actually see the flames until we actually left. and the last one decided to go in south west and from 5 full fountains of local and holiday makers to evacuate villages and campsite. many have sought refuge in
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makeshift shelters, and the heat wave is creeping north. the u. k. has issued its 1st red warning for heat ever. weather full cost of expect ties of 40 degrees celsius next week, topping the u. k. previous record of 38.7. this 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 harder to cope with these types of temperatures in the u. k, because we're just not used to them. so i bodies, and not acclimatize 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. you k hospitals have already warned of a surge in heat related admissions. is a quick reminder now of our top story. us president joe biden has rise the issue of
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the murder of journalists, jamal kashodi, with saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed been solomon spied, and it's in saudi arabia trying to main relations oft, attentions over the kingdoms human rights record. and you're up to date here on d. w. world stories is up next week, reports on russian generalists in exile and people returning to their bombed harms in ukraine is more on our website, d, w dot com and on social media to i d, w. and i'm tired reading building thanks to watching have a great day with with with.

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