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ultra lancoste government and fuel prices are going up full of thoughts into the comment section and be part of today's chat. alone, grazing an unprecedented political and economic crisis. where meets long for case crush re lung have demanded for the rest, the nation of president gold, tabby roach spots. the primaries are not in the right spot and a change in government. the president and the prime minister need to go, and there has to be a change that a our conversation to dial me now. hoshevely had good to have or 3 if you, with us from, for lanka. renelle, please introduce yourself to an audience around the world. i am middle fernandez, i work as a correspondent for jazz that are here. sure. welcome back to the stream. good to see. remind out audience who you are and what you do. hi, i'm marcia. i'm a member of the, a man opposition. i'm in industry lanka had to have here and she had a welcome to the stream. please introduce yourself, ty, international audience,

honesty and really been recover divided out people for the last several decades. going back to independence and even beyond. looking forward to hearing more from john, i'm just thinking hasha and me now. how many protests have you been to in the last month? how prolific all day long it does. and i actually walked 17 kilometers yesterday with about 8000 people. and that's gathering momentum. and by the 1st of may, we probably would have 100000 people congregate in into the city asking that is asking for that. i said, nation of the president and prime minister. now i know for reporting on these protests regularly, what can you tell us about the wave a form of who is in them? what are people asking for?

i think they've been sort of building in terms of numbers in terms of regularity. i've literally, for the last 2 or 3 weeks, almost every single day. i've been on the road been on the field covering this protest, listening to what people have to say. there's not just like harsh political parties that sort of leading munches it is. it is basically workers, private sector workers, the fishermen, there are teachers, there are trade unionists from all the health workers and basically an amalgamation of ordinary citizens. there was another political party, the national people power coalition that also did a similar. busy march for 3 days from down south. and there was a phenomenal crowd and very much when you looked at those who had come, there were mothers, you know, holding their 2 kids hand with a backpack because they've been walking for the 3 days. there were old really old

people who had sort of, you know, probably become pensioners and was struggling given the current economic situation in the country. so that is the one sector of people. then of course, there's the ongoing, sort of sit in and develop station and protests outside the president's office, which we're seeing at the unit 19 the. busy the people are not moving, it was, you know, set up and then talked about and tried to be sort of this by the government as you know, young people having fun. some people described it as a beach body, but it's a 19 day beach party then. and the resilience of those young people is, is, is quite something to protect that it will happen because these protest peacefully here, what has been quite remarkable about what's happening is, is the peacefulness because and the involvement of youth. and this because most of

those who are protesting and demonstrating from the civil society are you. and they are the ones who have been leading the purchase. especially the ones that me know talked about outside the president's office. these young people in the past, we saw them as sort of radicals and as wide and potentially violent. and we have had in our country to major youth in the insurrection, by the thing, her least, a marxist type of insurrection. that was, that were bonding 71971, and another one in 108880 9. and then the insurrection that took place, that also was made by young people, but this fun and very violent. but this one is extremely peaceful so far, despite the fact that there had been attempts to provoke violence. and but the, but the, basically the people involved in it have issued violence and the really very happy

about of course, dan trust. john is defined, the incident was the, there was a feel protest and somebody died at that fuel protest. i'm going to bring you in just in just a moment because you reported on that death that tragedy. first, let's hear a little bit if you're reporting and then please come to the back of it and help us understand in the context of the protest. is that an unusual situation that happened with that man died protesting about the fuel hikes? that's have a listen. it's have a look coming the luck shawn was shot. i saw him running after trying to retrieve his bicycle with it and the policeman shot out. he fell on the ground and then i saw the st. policeman chasing people in firing. a senior officer was telling them to keep out there that we did other than that i will be waiting till justice is done for what happened to my husband. i don't know if that'll happen, but it sure. today some day he writes about what happened to me on a daily. busy wage and as people that needed fuel for their laurie's. in fact i'm in the luck. john was a guy who ran

a laurie. he hired it out. he used to take jobs waiting for fuel and he was unable to get it. which means obviously on the other end, he was not making a living for those 4 days. and ultimately he and hundreds of people seems to be on purpose. and they just want us to be a no for the fuel. so that kind of up tensions all the more police game in the police spokesman tells us that the we've been waiting for it for so long that the last thing we want to do. and that's all right. what happens? yeah, if i'm going to jump in here, i mean look, i'm, let me just move on now here what the problem here was that the lease but the one. so while in exactly the, the people will not run the police a while and the point and in from the program we actually reached out to the college administration. and we tried really, really hard. we were very close. but as you can see, they didn't say yes, but i do have a comment here from the finance minister, ali sabri, who did a press conference recently. and he was saying, sorry,

apologizing for the economic chaos that they don't deserve the kind of hardship they do. the hon. you all understand it's heartbreaking for us to see that. and we have come here to find a solution. and again, i must apologize that we have to put them through these hardships. not only my, our problem is, has been accumulation of the problems of the one issues, but successive governments in this country and that i know you up to date with these, these as serious discussions we, i international fund yet about a bill and package. so he did that before he returned back to shall anchor. thank you very much for clarifying that survey. i talked to the i am at the, i mean it's funny that he says that people don't deserve it. and who created this? yeah, it's the trigger was a 2 parties. he has won no cutting taxes and then to banning the import of chemical fertilizer that created this, like you said,

is we are reaching out to various countries. but i don't see money flowing in. india has helped us quite a bit of china has, on the other hand said look, we are not going to be the start sitting the lawns, and that's a concrete that has already got created and help me out. make sure that i've got this right, that a country can, can no longer afford to pay the foreign debt because they have to pay for food and fuel. that important medicine. important because that you need for your citizens in your country rather than putting down your with that and i get that like how should, before i move on, su, we are in my jobs because this is, this is paula selected before because some payments would be made meaning trance or dream transactions would go further chaos because of forms would not be able to purchase or import goods without paying cash up front hutcher. this is very serious

and i'm going to bring it down to glossary level. again, if i may, i'm going to put in it ross, me a ra sake ross. he spent just a little bit earlier about the situation when you're going to ice races. what is available? how difficult is it to survive right damage for like his rascal festival? the seat message is already people are scanning a sometimes, so when you get here, see who? well, unfortunately many people have died standing in the skills in like these families. the guy says you're good. yeah. what i'd like to add to what resonates said is that the prices have double virtual double, sometimes tripled. and people's incomes have not, in fact people are losing jobs because of the downturn in the economy. now the major problem for the government, i mean, the real problem the government is facing in terms of the, of the political thinking of people is that people think that

a government where we cannot buy our food, the food that we need for our children. and the milk milk powder, the fuel, the cooking gas, a did, they believe that is the government that's responsible and that's why they're also so angry. and they're not letting up on this because they think this government leaderships told us that the minister, this is a cumulative impact it's, it's come to us from the past. we have been living beyond our means. we fought a war for 3 decades. and our living standards didn't drop be in fact, at the end of the war, we have be became so called upper middle income country. why? because we were borrowing, we were the mark me now. can i introduce somebody that we spoke a little bit earlier? i hate it, a veteran politician from the sheila can political scene. carol, julia, syria, when shall anchor are assessing the current administration and what they want to happen. now have

a lesson the situation in the country's tal doug on that then we have was shorter your fuel. the other thing with the then you are referring to was a little bit of that element that they think they can make it up as they go along. if they've managed to secure and fix this problem, even with the i m f with the bridge financing, they're seeking from sort of friendly countries from multilateral donors and all of that that it will kind of tied over as much as we had the finance minister you know, making those comments that we heard. i think that the is a factor that the former speaker was alluding to, that you know, that they don't really, you know, they haven't really taken it seriously. and that is also a sort of a general. busy sort of a feeling that this government is so interested in sorting its own sort of future. it's political sort of stability out that what's happening out to the man on the

street is something that can be you know, sorted out and they can move on. so i think that is something that's of concern, just do it just to make one point in terms of one of your previous guests in terms of the food shortages and things like that. i think we're not in a situation where people have reached our vision point to be fair. it's not as if you go to the shops and the shops are empty. there are in an increasing number of people. obviously from the start of the far more modest income groups, you know, daily wages that are finding it very difficult to buy stuff because sometimes things like milk powder, gas and what have you. you can just buy if you have, you're at the right place at the right time and you have the money and that's been sort of costing more and more. but there are certain products, obviously which the government needs to put on foreign exchange, like mid powder,

like rice now and things that which i began ask. yes, i go squeezing a little bit of youtube and then i'm gonna go straight back to hush cuz i know you've got some thoughts and you can have the last thought in this show. so this is prime minister, right? a pack sir? at, at it's been muted, buying opposition parties in shall anchor, that they should be constitutional change of the president doesn't have at so much power in appointing prime ministers, ministers, ex, extra and there is a push. the practice is, are asking for the current administration to step down. how did the prime minister address this is? have a look, ma'am long as you in there, but no i, when i was, i don't worry not. i could be sense correctable wrong, but i won't resign. i shall got a show. he some thoughts from youtube. so calon i says, got to go home. talking about the current administration. roger packs or family has

ruined sri lanka at the roger packs of family has so much to answer for a lot of push. they in al youtube comments, asking for this family to step down to resign. hasha. yes. before that, i also want to make a comment about god. them not being serious, like mr. carter does who dimension, why? because this is pure incompetence, pure incompetence, ah plus arrogance of this government. or didn't understand the gravity of the problem. they were not serious. if they understood the problem, they could have resolved this much idea without, you know, creating this absolutely horrendous situation for people in this country. now, the people are angry and they want all the boxes to go. now as the opposition, we have now got, i believe sufficient numbers are to bring in

a no confidence motion against the government, which means we can a essentially unseat i. i like the very end of the sites. i am just curious for us. we'll do a little bit of protection and now ha said john, thank you so much for helping us with today. should i should when we come back to talk about children can when you come back on the screen, will that be a different administration? yes or not it's a tough question to answer. ah, but very likely there will be a different administration. i likely thank us funky on each available next time. ah .

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