ah this mm ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, u. s. president joe biden walks a tight rope insensitive talks in the middle east bivens and saudi arabia for summit on security. and oil is also match with the saudi crown prince asking him for support. also coming up europe welters,

as temperatures across the continent. the summer heat has already caused devastating wildfire in france, portugal, greece and spain. and ukraine accuses russia of using a captured nuclear power plant to store weapons and shell targets. nitro and other cities come under fire. ah, i'm monica jones. good, happy with us. you as president joe biden has joined a summit and saudi arabia biden met saudi arabia's crown prince. muhammad been summoned, raising the issue on the murder of dissident journalist, jamal castro, ve the to have had frosty ties since bite and bow to make the kingdom a pariah over the killing hole. re earliest, dw washington correspondent carolina shamore. y biden. changed his mind to engage

with the crown prince. what 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 gcc summit or bite and it's trying to do here is to reset 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 dates start over, especially after bite? and one said that saudi arabia is a pariahs state. and where we go from here. now of course we're 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 at his announcement before he is started this trip of wanting to promote you as interest in the middle east, we can rapidly see and conclude that protection of oil is of course in the focus. and one of the main concerns that biden 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 for bite. and, and for the democrats in an election year. so president biden is hoping for saudi arabia to produce more oil. said our abs has at that the see to ensure market stability and that they will not produce more all without consulting fir thiel 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 open plus countries have set up a meeting for the 3rd of august, or 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, a middle east region expect from the west, from jo by briefly, if you would while they know that the, you, as is very interest said 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 arabia, the middle east, and to 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 your. i did all the correspondent career trim over there in washington for us. thank you. so much the british government is holding an emergency meeting to planned for unexpected record heat. wave temperatures of the

coming week could reach 40 degrees celsius for the 1st time in the u. k. southern europe has been scorching for days already. the residents in the spanish captain, madrid doing their best to keep cool and hydrated. spain is suffering from a dangerous heat wave that stretching across much of southwest europe. and rising temperatures are coinciding with storing energy prices and consequences of the war in ukraine. i don't know, somebody all families have to be frugal when using the conditions. electric fans, because electricity bill has surged a lot more more than 80 people have died in the extreme temperatures which are expected to extend it next week. the sweltering heat has also said of devastating wildfires forcing authorities to evacuate thousands of residents. several forests in portugal are blades more than 2000 fire fighters are battling wildfires. after temperatures reached a record 47 degrees on thursday. the heat wave is due to reached the shores of the

united kingdom on monday. authorities in london have already taken steps to provide release at 220 year old canal and the canary wharf. financial district has been designated a swimming area allowing for an unusual commute to work for some now that we see the heat wave coming, people and alga yeah. are actually that's a great way to cool off. i don't need to rely on going to who i can actually do this outside anesthesia say like this. but as global temperatures keep rising, released from the heat promises to become more and more of a luxury ukraine says russia is using a captured nuclear power plant to store weapons and attack targets. the national nuclear agency says hundreds of russian troops have taken control of this

apparition plant in southeast and ukraine. it accuses moscow using it as a base to shell, the surrounding region. one of the alleged targets is the city of ne pro. the government says this video shows russian strike on the city regional governors. there's 3 people were killed. attacks on urban areas have killed dozens in recent days. dw nick spicer is in key. yes. and he told me earlier, what is happening at the separation nuclear plant, which is under russian occupation. there are concerns in other of our church 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 to work at the plan that we can trust them. and another shell fell on a transformer. have that shell blown up as it was supposed to. all of the cooling systems in the nuclear power plant would have stopped and it would have gone into meltdown to the stakes. are really, really high. the russians are there is because they've been coming under all kinds of very, very target a targeted attack elsewhere in the country with new western weapons, dw is next spice of their reporting from keith. and he has a quick look now at some other stories making use the head of a major art show in germany has resigned to often exhibit with anti semitic. your elements prompted protests, the organizes of document essay. sabina form on is stepping down by mutual agreement. the show takes place every 5 years in the city of catholic a military helicopter has crashed in north western mexico, killing 14 people. the presidents,

as the aircraft, was on a mission to capture a drug kingpin rafa ala carte o quintero of the world, a holla, hata cartel, was arrested alia south korea's a capital sol has celebrated its 1st pride festivals. since the thought of the pandemic, thousands of supporters turned out was police on high alert to prevent clashes with conservative protesters. the mayor has hinted that a central plaza would be closed next year if participants in his work over expose their bodies. sri lankan parliament has begun choosing a successor to the deposed president to go to buy a raja pack. so lawmakers will select a new leader to serve the rest of roger parks as term. he fled into exile as mass protest to wrapped it over the national economic crisis. 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. gotcha, by a roger pox or 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 moment maggie, i want to stress that i have always done my best for my motherland. video that i thought submitted to my utmost to the country and in the future to i would contribute to the country. already loaded up done was it the 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 vick grimacing head, 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. the knockout of the year in middle of the 3 candidates, if we support the most suitable person, things will be all right, fall going on. on the only one the position, then things will get worse logon all the dominant ever be able to move forward. not only say that it under, but the all of them are there that other what we have to tell the newly elected president is please rescue the economy. are they given what i want? the mike, the under fi, rodger 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 did others. marina chaudhry is in colombo and she told me how the election process works. 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. so far there are 3 nomination and the 3. 1 of them is on the co. my finger, who is the choir and prime minister, and the inter and president at the moment ander, the 2nd one that we know, which is also a popular choice is cited fema garza. 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 roger boxes. so this will be a secret ballot boarding that will 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 picks the sports 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 gives 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 def, of the sports are soon in the future. people routinely be observing what caused that person take in terms of political reforms and economic reforms. exactly, because a lot of what's been happening up basically all of it is because a sri lanka is in a huge economic crisis. on the resigned president roger poxy said in his resignation letter that he did his utmost to avoid an economic catastrophe. but he was blaming the corbett 19 pandemic for hampering his efforts. is this the thing to that claim? well,

definitely call with 19 pandemic did impartial duncan 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 go to bad government. some of them are caused a major dorm to the economy. one of them was sweeping tax cuts in 2019 just before the last presidential election of the populace measure. the 2nd one was the overnight ban on the use and import of chemical fertilizers by the good or bad government which led to a major drop in full production and hands impacted the economy as well. and there are many other such policy decisions that are quite questionable. no writer dw madeira chaudhry reporting from colombo, thank you so much man, era. and in football, news by munich have agreed to allow strike, or robert live and ask it will join barcelona by and accepted the spanish clubs

latest proposal, a multi year deal worth up to 50 1000000 euros by a previously insisted limb and asking her to remain in munich until his contract expires next summer. lender van dusky said several weeks ago on social media that his time at bio was over. and just a quick reminder of our top story. you as president joe biden is attending a regional mid east summit in saudi arabia to discuss security, an oil supplies that after a period of friction between washing and re out of saudi arabia's human rights record. the watching did all the news from the team. thanks for joining ah, every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some tips.