i'm sure president minute can make some kind of difference. but kind, i can't say right now, i understand even people really need this because we are going backwards free to prosperity, democracy for israelis and palestinians is like not the best opportunity to try any kind of change. the world is not paying attention to us and no one's looking towards us. this would be nice. that's not going to happen. also coming up, the ukranian town of boucher became a by word for brutality after russian forces were accused of committing war crimes there. now the beauty volunteers from cheve are in town to tease out a timeless truth, that human dignity is more than skin deep. but we have no maybe choice to me, to cry or to show our feelings. no, no, we're here to help. that's why when he's drunk, we left, we must be happy, smiled ah, but to our viewers watching on tv us in the united states, into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with president biden's 2 visits, one he's been looking forward to the other. he sees no way around to day by now arrived in tel aviv his 1st visit to israel's. it's becoming us president. it's a visit. the white house says would have happened earlier, had there been no pandemic standing in the way later this week biden will travel on to saudi arabia. it's a visit that would probably not be happening at all, had there been no war in ukraine, no inflation. and no skyrocketing fuel cause on the campaign trail 2 years ago, bite and vows to make saudi arabia a pariah, saying the saudi crown prince. his role in the murder of journalists, jamal ca, shogi, revealed a kingdom lacking any redeeming values. president biden's opinion, it may or may not have changed, but the realities of geo politics certainly have. by now says he hopes to reorient not rupture. the u. s. saudi relationship, in other words, he's hoping the saudis agree to pump more oil onto the global market. it will be a delicate balancing act for the u. s. president, making his visit to israel. look more like a walk in the park. we have this report. it's not the 1st time joe biden is visiting israel, but it is the 1st since he became the president of the united states. he is meeting with israeli leader to friend and ties that he faith up already from because the connection between israeli people and the american people is blown deep. his phone deep among the leaders was israel's defense minister who briefed biden on the iron dome. the iron door mrs. rail state of the art defense system to intercept miss isles. biden's dress. the 2 nations close cooperation on defense projects where reform the unshakable, remember the honest aisd israel security, including partnering with israel on the most cutting edge defense systems in the world. bite and then visited yad vashem, a memorial for wicked homes of the holocaust. he lit an eternal flame of remembrance and met survivors. the visit by a president of united states is always important because it helps to amplified the voices of the survivors. it helps to humbly fide. ready blight of the victims biden's visit comes at a time of political turmoil in his room and will take him next to the west bank and then to a controversial stop in saudi arabia. ah, so what is joe biden hoping to achieve with this trip to israel? i put that question to our correspondent rebecca readers in jerusalem. well, i don't think there's going to be any major strategic deals that come out of this trip. burgundy no surprises. it is believed from here. brent. but it is of course, very significant. it's always important when the u. s. president comes to israel, he's hoping to strengthen that already. boned deep ties, as he said himself. and that's something that the, you know, the special relationship between the us in israel is something that the u. s. are always very cain to, you know, show their support for, but he's also trying to sort of shore up stability a little bit in the region, you know, try and find some more peace and security in the region than perhaps in previous years. and how may be smooth the way it seems for original pe salons that would counter threats now from iran. so in that st, he's here to kind of negotiate between 2 sides who've been foes for many years, and try and arrange for some yeah, regional alliances. i say defense alliance between those 2 states and we know that his next stop is the pedals to the territories and talk to me about how unusual it is for a u. s. president to go that what's not unusual at all been infected probably would have been more unusual, had he chosen not to visit not to meet with moffatt abbas pretty much every year as prime minister since bill clinton in 1994 1st met with the palestinian authority has done so when they come to israel with a few exceptions are largely for diary issues or something else. so really it, it is pretty standard operating procedure. the visit on friday is only half an hour . so the palestinians quite disappointed that, you know, the president is spending 2 days in is round is half an hour with the palestinians . but of course, you know, they, they're happy to greet the president of course, and with it, with that visit is coming a promise of more funding and opening up of more funding towards the policies that were, that were cut under the trump administration. so, but definitely sort of an un waited visit and something that is not gotten not going unnoticed by the palestinians. and it was, we could say probably be one of the, the more easier parts of his trip. his final stop we understand is going to be saudi arabia and that is going to be the most controversial part of the president's trip. why is there? absolutely it's, it's a cause, very controversial, not least of all because of saudi arabia's human rights record, questionable human rights record one could say, you know, a president joe biden himself, cold, saudi arabia parias day and also referencing the crown prince. muhammad been seldman dare say to do with their dealings with their alleged rent role in the killing of journal as jamal kashodi key. so this is a $180.00 turn around by the president. but it comes at a time when russia has invaded ukraine, amusing rate, or oil prices rise across the globe. that something that he's trying to take home domestically to lower the price at the bows. if a people in the us to try and make this trip more popular domestically, and of course ahead of you are the midterm to come november. that was our correspond that rebecca, readers, they're reporting from jerusalem. i want to take this now to try to parsi, he's executive vice president at the quincy institute for responsible state craft for the is considered one of the leading voices on us policy in the middle east street. it's good to see you again. i understand that earlier about julia today, you were part of a panel discussion entitled biden's trip to the middle east, bad deal, or shrewd diplomacy. so which is it? when i was the moderator. and according to the panelists, there was clearly at bad deal if there will be a deal at all the most likely scenario, or maybe that they won't be anything at all in the sense that there will be a lot of the rhetoric, a lot of photo ops but in terms of actually signed the agreement, but the, the thing that the and the radi than they thought these want, which it written defend act between them and the united states in which he was committed to defend the issue. it does not appear to be very, very likely that the question is, when it only be the type of photo will there actually become something? because i was expecting iran and defense policy to be the 2 elements that by would be able to address in both israel and saudi arabia. maybe the glue holding this trip together. certainly is the glue from the perspective of the saudis and israelis. this is not only a threat perception that they have, but it's also, it's the perception that needs to remain in place if you want to see there's a warm up of relation between the saudis and the israeli. but that in and of itself. however, creating a defense act around that is not something that necessarily will stabilize the region. and it's also not something that would be helpful to the united states. in fact, what's tony blink and himself wrote in the new york time in 2017. when donald trump was pursuing this out and was seeking together with the saudis to create an even foolish on. and he wrote in the new york time and place g r, comission, masquerading as a teeth agreement, or a defense pack is bad idea because it will intensify conflict in the region and potentially dragged the united states in it. it would have been a much better hero, would be nice, not to take sides, but instead, 1st of all of these different parties, these are some of their d, stabilizing it good advice in my view. if the device, they still bind it to the other than paying lip service to a possible to state solution between israelis and the palestinians. this trip is not going to do anything to move the needle, is it's a trip that is not even designed to move the needle. it's probably not even designed to provide much lift service either because an expansion of the abrams record, which is essentially that we set aside the hosting an issue and move forward with normalization between our state and angel. was listed to say that this is not about resolving it. it's about moving beyond the israeli palestinian conflict to have normalization and trade. even though these railways continue to occupy palestinian territories and keep millions of palestinians on their occupations. we should have no expectation that it will move the needle because it does not even have that ambition. and let me before let you go, let me bring up saudi arabia one more time for me, for right now to partner. what does president biden have to do? here other than avoid a photo op with him shaking the hand of the saudi crown prince. well, i'll be very frank, i don't think the president biden is going to get much out of this out. i don't think there's going to be much production that will have an impact on all the prices. in fact, if all prices is just driving force of this, then by them would have been better off going back into the yvonne new deal and bringing evolving onto the market because there's more spare capacity there. and also a very large reserve or that is just seeing. and so i'm not so sure that price is really is the driving force. yes. but my point being it, unless the saudis feel that they either get something that will happen this 8 m b s, meaning or if they are, unless they get some security assurances, i'm not so sure that they will give anything like well, let me just ask you before we run out of time in the iran nuclear deal, if i'm hearing you correctly, i mean chances for reviving that deal are about as good as 0 right now. yes, and i think frankly, further reduce as a result of this. because the idea that you can have j c p a wrong in your deal that stopped your vision on the vaughn, especially this arms or, or prevents the iranians from having the armament. while at the same time building an anti even military coalition. you might get to deal, but he will as soon as he will not laugh because that's not what you need in order to make sure that he agreement will be lasting and durable. this is the opposite of that. it leaves me with the impression that the abiding restriction has by now completely given up on even having data and wish you the truth of ours, the executive vice president at the quincy institute for responsible state craft trade is always good talking with you. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you so much, routing, appreciate ah, the ancient greeks wrote that the universe is comprised of 4 elements, one of them, fire a blessing and a curse. and that takes us to california yosemite national park, where firefighters have been battling wildfires that have been burning there since last week. now the washburn fire on the western flanks of the sierra nevada was 1st reported on july 7th. just 2 days later, infrared drone footage showed the ring of flames had doubled in size and they are burning close to the mariposa grove, which is the habitat of $500.00 mature giant. you see the right there. so coins of these world famous trees are the biggest on the planet forest rangers. have set up a sprinkler system to protect the grove, including the 3000 year old grizzly giant and knock on wood. there has been no serious damage to any of that. we hope is going to stay that way. we want to crossover down to yosemite to talk with garrett dickman. he is a forest ecologist with the national park service care. it's good to have you on the program. what's the latest tonight on to fight back against the fire? is it under control? the fire still burning, but firefighters made a lot of progress in this past few days, and they've steered the fire largely around america, the giants, chris and the community. ready one and it's now largely burning. i kind of deep in the wilderness and some rugged terrain. and you've put in place of a sprinkler system around the grizzly giant. so is it, and of course the whole world you know, wants to know this is it, and the other giants, the corners are the say from, from harm. we're feeling a lot better about dependent condition of these trees across the grove. now as we continue to make progress and you know we, we haven't really had used the sprinkler system, fire hasn't reached the grizzly giant in it remains and in fantastic shape as the rest of the trees, we have lost a single sequoia. yet to the spire. that is excellent news. a bit, you know, tell our viewers. why the grizzly giant, if so iconic. oh, it's just something you have to experience for yourself. i mean it, it is a massive tree. it's over 2 pallets, 200 feet tall. and several 1000 years old. i'm in, it is true to its namesake. it is a grizzly to looking tree and it is really beautiful. yeah, i mean, the pictures are impressive. i can only imagine what it's like there when you, when you're standing in front of it. the giant sequoia is they actually, if, if i understand correctly, they actually need forest fires. and they are adapted to deal with the flames. and need them to reproduce, is that correct? that is correct. they have really thick bark. branches are actually high up in the canopy. so they're able to resist that, you know, fires and so grizzly chance probably seen i over a 100 fire. it's in its lifetime and it's generally speaking, low intensity fires and what we've seen across the range in the past few years will last 20 per cent full of giants quite on earth. is that these are fuels driven in climate change driven fires that, that are really something that these trees and are not adapted to in it. give us an idea if you can, garrett of how, how did the firefighters contain the flame when we're talking about these wildfires? well we've, you know, luckily we have 50 years to prescribe fire history in the mariposa grove in part to, to reduce the feels and in part to, to aden, reproduction. giants, korea, siemens, because they do need fire to reproduce and said, because the lower fuel loading from all of these prescribed fires and they've been able to engage pretty directly with the fire and keep it from make any progress into the ground. so you know, that means every year there has to be a certain amount of wildfires just to keep these force alive. right? that's correct. i mean there is a chance to crows prior to the fire suppression would experience fire every 10 to 15 years either through lightning fires or. ready indigenous gary digman, forest ecologist with the us national park service get. we appreciate you taking the time to talk with tonight. you and your colleagues are doing very important work. thank you. thank you so much for having me. appreciate it. ah. in south korea, environmentalists have taken an innovative approach to try to reduce emissions. they've filed a lawsuit on behalf of their children. parents are suing the government, saying that the country needs to reduce pollution for the well being of the next generation. even the yet to be born are represented in this legal battle. we have this report. he don't, he is pregnant and worried, worried the planet will be too hot and her unborn child won't have clean air to breathe. she so concerned she joined her feet as to a lawsuit, demanding the south korean government do more to protect the environment, getting in to pay a lot to do and that's all i see my baby and haven't admitted a single gram of commerce. i'll hide into the world. i got to you. i'm so canada and about the world. my baby will face. so me just joined tommy. he's fetus is one of about 60 co creek. it's under 11 years old. who are mounting a collective legal campaign lawyer say may take years, e says her unborn baby offers a strong symbol. you read all, i believe not only to be the older generation, but also to generation should be really considered on issues surrounding the climate. and there should be an open room where they can participate and discussion south korean environmental us are also pushing for a shift in behavior across from new president noon. so your office, greenpeace recently demanded high honor, his campaign clerk, to ben internal combustion cars by 2035 blank nahant on the beach. we need effect of leadership from the president to tackle climate change and transition the domestic car industry into eco friendly cars are changing. our cars is the most significant way to cut down on greenhouse gas emission. you seen an o doubting, up alone either. pollution affects more than just warming the planet. the issue of air quality had become a regular concern with bad air days, prompting the government to warn people to try to stay indoors. as coven 19 declines, and factories ramp up production with more traffic, it's expected people will see more read on their air quality apps. young people. busy have mixed feelings about the lawsuit. they also recognize that everyone needs to do more. kirk hung up hung to town later seek young name. a law suit might be a strong measure to deal with this issue ta, mercy, total. but it seems better to have more campaigns to change behaviors and on cornell. ok, so they should take legal action only as a last resort to now and it not that was it all for god look at and i believe the government needs to work on it. but it should go together with individual efforts, so i'm not expecting mother or e, don't he on admit her fetus is a bit of an unusual claimant. tick ocoee on the day. i 1st had my baby's heartbeat . i went to the forest and saw a woodpecker, and i named my baby wood paneling hurry and see the pond just sight woodpeckers want to live safely in the forest. i want the world and the environment to be safe, where our babies will be born within a couple for he and her baby more than the clock is ticking. ah, in the face of so much ugliness, they dare to look for the beauty around the capital of ukraine. keep a grip of hair dressers and petitions are offering their skills to survivors of the russian invasion. people who have lost homes or loved ones, some who have been tortured or even raped w's nic. spicer met up with the so called beauty volunteers. during their recent stop in boucher a town synonymous with the horrors of war. they have survived the very worst. now these future residents want to look their very best with 3 haircuts manicures, facials, and massages. because the beauty volunteers have come to tell the groups founder all have vilicki says the help those who suffered because of the russian invasion, every route home. their houses are damaged but they want to steal a might not have mice will then sell it was the maybe rebuild their life. yeah. ah, or stylus dennis taken unco had to flee the warranty east himself. he says he's just doing what he knows best. right now i can do this. i don't know what i do, you know and make some people happy. barbara golub at him and then co says the volunteers are kind of battalion fighting and what he calls the beauty front. but their work is often anything but skin deep to speak for them to understand, understand they are more and he'll and we'll try to understand feelings and it's like art therapy. i think with some of the people here say the treatments. give them more than inner piece. they can spark hope and the show crushing it will. it helps me see butch and better future. it was the one the for city, a beautiful european country. when i'm wasn't, we cannot be slaves with them. we want to be free to live in dignity, to earn money, to raise children, to rebuild our town. we will have better times. the beauty volunteers group have been making the trip for around 2 months now. the only go to places that were invaded and occupied by russian troops. and they include some of the very best hairs, stylus and do titian's ukrainian capital founder. all ha, says the volunteers have to be strong. the here many, many painful stories. but we have no maybe choice to me to cry or to show our feelings. no, no, we're here to help. that's why we want to be strong, who we must be happy smile. the beauty volunteers are hoping to expand, raise more money, visit more towns and cities. and as the war grinds on, that there's every chance they'll be able to continue work, which they call the way of serving the country. and that is beautiful. but the day's almost done, the conversation continues on line. we will see you tomorrow. everybody take care with enter the conflicts own, confronting the powerful 18 month after the violence on the capitol hill. it's clear that the u. s. democracy was in greater danger than previously believed. my guess was weak from thomas david from writer and columnist for the atlantic magazine. he says the stakes were, i'm still are frightening. conflicts on next. on d w. a climate event. what could the future bring in 45 minutes on w with ah, come mike speaking, how can miss passionate hatred of a people be explained? a gold hon. go. a history of anti semitism is a history of stigmatization and exclusion of religious and political power struggles. it's a history of slender, of hatred and violence, or even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jews is still pervasive. oh, a history that you semitism this week on d. w. o o o. 18 months after the violence on capitol hill. it's clear that us democracy was in greater danger than previously believed. testimony to the january 6th committee described the craze. donald trump grappling with his own secret service, determined faleen. his arm support is to congress and overthrown jo biden's election victory. america's been.