this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. president biden tells mohammed bin salman, saudi arabia s de facto ruler, he holds him personally responsible for the murder of a dissidentjournalist. he basically said he was not personally responsible for it, and he took action. record temperatures, health alerts and fires burning out of control, europe struggles to cope with an unprecedented heatwave. children were among the civilians killed by a missile strike hundreds of miles from the front line in the fighting against russian forces. sri lanka swears in a new acting president, but will it be enough to end the unrest triggered by crippling economic crisis? president biden has told the de facto ruler of saudi arabia that he holds him personally responsible for the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi. his comments came during a vist tojeddah, the latest stop on his tour of the region. the american leader fist bumped with mohammed
Nishan Duraiappah, the Chief of Peel Regional Police, was aware of a Supreme Court ruling that found Sri Lanka’s police chief had personally participated in torture, and still decided to meet him in Colombo, according to a report in Global News.
The head of one of Peel's police met with a Sri Lankan official who had been found by that country’s highest court to have 'participated in the torture' of an arrested man.
The one-year ban on Chinese research ships shows Colombo ‘did not wish to trigger any tensions’ with its neighbour, given India’s economic and military capabilities in the region.