of our people were exterminated $6000000.00 jews, like microbes to be annihilated even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jews is still pervasive. history for tooth number 2. so this week on d. w ah, ah ah, this is did all the news live from berlin us present. joe biden tries to walk a tightrope insensitive talks in the middle east by miss attending a regional summit and saudi arabia to discuss security and oil supplies. that a day after refusing to shake the hand of the saudi crown,

prince 5 is now asking for support. also coming up a week after a political revolutionary rapid entry lanka, parliament begins choosing a replacement for austan president to put a buyer and jap accept. and ukraine accuses russia using a captured nuclear power plant to store weapons and shell targets. one of those alleged targets, the big city of nitro, yesterday by rockets. ah, monica jones, good to have you with us. you as president joe biden has joined a regional summit in saudi arabia. leaders from the alliance of 6 golf nations have gathered in the city of jetta, apart from biden. it will also be attended by the king of jordan as well as the egyptian president and iraq's prime minister on friday by med to saudi arabia's

crown prince mohammed been so non raising the issue of the murder of dissident journalist jamarcus, shoghi, that you have her to prostate ties since by and vow to make the kingdom a pariah following pasha geese killing. 30 aster, dw washington correspondent, catalina chim. why, why biden changed his mind to engage now was a crown prince or president biden himself said that this trip to the middle east is mainly about promoting us interests, especially in economic terms, but also security. so what we're seeing here is a huge you turn in biden's foreign policy and it's a real re calibration of his relationship to saudi arabia. so as we saw this morning during the g, c, c, some, it would bite and it's trying to do here is to reset of the relationship to saudi arabia until the middle east. he wants to see if the u. s. and saudi arabia can work together in a different issues, like for example, energy,

but also climate infrastructure. and for security, of course, the question remains, how do they start over, especially after bite. and one said that saudi arabia's pariahs, tate and 2 or 3 go from here. now of course are working together is always a good thing, but it is quite a change of hearts. what exactly does the u. s. president want from this visit? well, if we follow his announcement before he is started this trip of wanting to promote you as interest in the release, we can rapidly see and conclude that protection of oil is of course in the focus. and one of the main concern step item is taking to the middle east gasoline prices worldwide. and also in the u. s. have been increasing during the last month. and this, combined with the highest inflation in the u as is just the worse makes up for bite and, and for the democrats in an election year. so, president biden is hoping for saudi arabia to produce more oil. sarabia says that the c to ensure market stability and that they will not produce more or without

consulting 1st seal pick plus group. president biden said yesterday, after his meeting with the crown prince of saudi arabia, let's look and see what happens in a couple of weeks. and we do know that the opec plus countries have set up a meeting a for the 3rd of august, where the old charges, of course, will be a main issue on the agenda. so we'll probably no more after that meeting. i what does the white middle east region expect from the u. s. from jo, by briefly, if you would while they know that the you as is very interested in their own protection, but also in their position in international politics by doing has made clear that he is also there to strengthen relationships with them. and in his words, he doesn't want to leave a gap in international relations for russia and china to feel so he wants to avoid a stronger ties between a sally rack. yes, the middle east and russia or china. but the truth is that they already have

a relation with them. china, russia, they're already there. so they are the ones who can choose now who they want to cooperate with. adobe correspondent, career timo. the in washington for us. thank you so much. she longed has parliament has begun the process of choosing a successor to depose president a got her by a raja pack sir. lawmakers a task with selecting a new leader to serve the rest of roger paxis term after he fled the country on wednesday. following mass protests until a successor is appointed, prime minister, and ill vickery miss singer, will remain an entering precedent. it's a brand new day in colombo. the family, dennis d, that's ruled sri lanka for decades is gone, and lawmakers, a meeting to choose a new president. after months of protests go to buy a raja parks are fled to singapore and formerly stepped down from the presidency on friday. his resignation letter read out in parliament showed little remorse made up

law one mo be mother margaret. i want to stress about her, always done my best for my motherland. who did it that i thought suited my utmost to the country and in the future to i would contribute to the country. already loaded up done was do me lawmakers will vote for a new president next week. the chosen candidate will then see out roger pucks as tom, until elections in 2024 of the 3 candidates expected to stand. one is ronald v grimacing here. the current interim president and former prime minister, a long time ally of the ousted president protestors want him gone to for a fresh start for the country. then i got of the year middle of the 3 candidates. if we support them, a student person, things will be all right, fall, give them and i'm not the only one, the position, then things will get worse, log and all the dominant never be able to move forward. i can only say that it end

of the odd denver further. what we have to tell them you like to president is please rescue the economy. are what i wonder that might be under b. roger parkside has left sri lanka in the midst of its worst economic crisis since independence in 1948 in particular. fuel is in desperately short supply. security has been tightened around the parliament amid fears that the law makers choice for president may not be enough to com protesters. or did abuse veneer or chaudhry is in columbus for our sir. many ref started by perhaps you could walk us through the election process. well yes, monica, the parliament was convened today. the process has started. the parliamentarians were there to decide the future course of action to form a new government again from what we know so far. the boarding for the next president will be held on july 20th. and the nomination for the same will be filed

a day before july. the 19 i so far there are 3 nomination and the 3. 1 of them is ronald, become a singer who is the current prime minister and at the interior president at the moment ander, the 2nd one that we know which is also a popular choice. aside from madison, he is the leader of the principal opposition party in the country. and the 3rd one is the dallas, alabama who belongs to the political party of the raja bucks or so this will be a secret ballot voting that would be undertaken by the parliamentarians. but we have 2 more days right now. so we may actually see more nominations coming up. oh, i see. so who ever makes it in the end? what will the new precedent have to do to restore confidence in the political system? that is definitely a huge challenge because her had as evident by the process that we have been seeing for the past 3 months, people have lost faith, they have lost confidence in the administration. and every big leader right now, that would be a huge challenge for the person who takes this course of the president later on. a

one big demand that has been there since the beginning is that of abolishing the executive presidency system in this country. this system gets enormous power to the president to the head of the state. there has been ongoing demand that this should be done away with to whoever dicks of the schools are soon in the future. people will keenly be observing what caused that person dig in terms of political reforms and economic reforms. exactly, because a lot of what's been happening up basically all of it is because her shrill anchor is in a huge economic crises and resigned her president roger paxis said in his resignation letter that he did his utmost to avoid an economic catastrophe. but he was blaming the cove 19 pandemic for hampering his efforts. is this the thing to that claim? well, definitely call with 19 panoramic did impartial anthony economy, but it did impact a lot of other economy than the world. so the blame can't entirely be put on the

pandemic. when we listen to the public curious, especially to the experts and economists, they make it very clear that a lot of faulty policy decisions were taken by the good or bad government. some of them are called the major doom to the economy. one of them was sweeping tax cuts in 2019 just before the last presidential election of the populace to measure. the 2nd one was the overnight ban on the use and import of chemical fertilizers. by the good of our government, which led to a major drop in full production and hands impacted the economy as well. and there are many other says policy decisions that are quite questionable. no writer deal, we use money roach. audrey reporting from colombo, thank you so much man. era. ukraine's nuclear agency says russia is using a captured nuclear power plant to store weapons and attack targets. the agencies president says, hundreds of russian troops control the suppression nuclear plant in south east and ukraine,

which russia took in the invasions early weeks. he accuses russia of using the plant as a base to shell, the surrounding region. one of the alleged targets is the city of a neat pro. the ukranian government published this video on its telegram channel, which it says shows a russian strike on the city. the regional governor says 3 people were killed by russian missile. it's one of the latest in a series of attacks on urban areas that have killed dozens of people in recent days . earlier i spoke to dw st. nick spice in kiff, and i asked him, what exactly is going on at the separation nuclear plant, which is under russian occupation? there are concerts in over of a turn, noble level scale if you think about it. this is europe's biggest nuclear reactor, 6 reactors at work generating electricity. there are some 500 russian soldiers who are there. and the head of ukrainian atomic energy agency says they are shelling cities nearby and using rocket launchers. they're essentially making any kind of

repost impossible unless you want to set off a giant meltdown. now listen, when the russians actually moved in to the base, they shot one of the reactors with a tank shell. nothing happened this from the employees work at the plan that we can trust them. at another shell fell on a transformer. have that shell blown up as it were supposed to. all of the cooling systems in the nuclear power plant would have stopped and it would have gotten to meltdown to the stakes. are really, really high. the russians are there is because they've been coming under all kinds of very, very targeted, targeted attack elsewhere in the country. with new western weapons, t w's expire a reporting from key. if in football, news by a munich have agreed to allow strike of robert levant ski to join barcelona, i accepted the spanish club latest proposal, a multi year deal with up to 50 1000000 euros. by previously insisted levin dorski had to remain in munich until his contract expires next summer. lemme ask,

he said several weeks ago on social media that his time at bion was over and for more on that day, quite exciting. i transfer saga he with me the studio, chris harrington from tito. he is full as chris fizzle. i mean, i heard that a lemon dusky actually attended to by a training earlier this week. how does that fit together? yeah, i was flabbergasted. a bit shocked to see him show up. he was late, you know, he didn't really interact with many players. he didn't say one word. i got you in arg was mine. so clearly he didn't want to be there. but physically he looked gray . you know, there's back and forth saga, you know, had been going on a while. he all already confirmed or social media and even doubled down. subsequent to this post say in his era it byron was over, you know, was basically says that his spirit wouldn't be there. so i'm glad to see her barcelona come with an offer that a buyer accepted because before i think it was her 3rd attempt by and made it really clear, they wanted 50000000 euros just to come to the table. and that's what the verbal

agreement was made, according to the oliver kind of the new, a sporting director bar munich. so it is fair to see, you know, finally that is done because, you know, there was some disturbing news. he, his family was receiving death threats from the buyer and fan base. you know, he played 8 seasons scored over 230. the only one, everything under the sun. so i think it's a win win situation. okay, is it a win win situation? where, where does this leave by munich? what bar munich pulled off a cou many would argue in getting sadie, my ne, from the premier league, you know, typically players want to end up in the premier league, that's her destination. you rarely see a player in their prime jump ship, come to the bonus lager, and i should be really interesting. he lives up very versatile player. it's the next chapter for bar milling plus there's gonna be extended his contract. and for all intensive purposes, we could see, you know, what happens, but he's been in his 1st training so your mom is happy to be there. and i think the players are pleased to have him. and i am looking forward to see if he can feel

those big boots left by levin doughty, and if he can shoot, although send score all those goals. of course said levant, ask it at dia database. chris harrington, thank you so much. thank you. it wasn't the w news sir, but to stay with us sir, because coming up next is well stories the week in reports. remember you can always get more news on our website. let's dw to com, or on instagram, on facebook and on twitter i, monica jones and berlin for me, and chris harrington right now, and the team behind the scenes. thanks for watching. they would say what makes the genesis? he'd just been a gene love on banding thing away from that, but i'm not even know how to work my own car and.