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ah, i'm british manager, welcome to the dublin news. a sure glad you could join us in the past 24 hours for lumpkins. i've experienced a massive hike and fuel prices seen a new cabinets on in and her promises of constitutional reform. the catalyst for all this, the countries was over economic crisis since independence in 1948, a crisis that's left a tree, lumpkins short of medicines, fuel electricity, and above all food. the country is running out of foreign exchange to pay for these essential imports. the blame for most of this is falling on economic mismanagement by the government of president are butcher. he's resisted goals to resign, and on monday he appointed a new cabinet. this is what he told them. i don't want the summer that i believe that it's that we should have gone to the international monetary fund much earlier
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. mama, rece washington, you are gamer, not providing agro chemicals to farmers. alabama is also a mistake. i mean, we will now get fertilizer to our farmers once again a be of an ever people are suffering because of the economic crisis. we are at the guard booth and i deeply regretted get now that reference to farming just one of a series of missteps by the president's administration. the double correspondent manilla told that it wasn't too long to get a sense of the other government measures that prompted this country wide crisis facing acute economic discipline. and a lot of the people michelin can government find it says in the country has built up excessive debt and has gone out of the money needed to provide its people with essential commodities. but how did such a situation come about?
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economist condition digna. roger says the government's policies did not yield the growth they hoped for. over the past few years, she lanka has borrowed heavily for investing in infrastructure developments such as port roads, railways, and other types of projects. this projects have been relatively low return and has imposed in a cost on the country. big new roger, i've said the plan to make and russia war in ukraine has worse than the blow. but the policy missteps by the current government. what really pushed, sheila got over the edge. he says the biggest mistake was the far reaching that's got implemented in 2019. it's driving the government budget of sizable revenue. he also points to the ill fated attempt to rapidly switch from chemical to organic fertilizes. this had a negative impact on food production and also productivity,
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which fell in agriculture and is partly responsible for the present food shortages that we have. ordinarily she lungs are the ones suffering now. soaring food prices and then be power goods. and i will spend queuing at fuel station. sometimes returning empty handed, are adding to the restoration. the health care system is also under pressure. he'd bite supply shortages and substantial price hikes for medicines. but economist roger says he's cautiously optimistic. the situation can improve. if the right steps are taken at the right thing, restructuring sri lankan debt to proper negotiations, cutting expenditures and long term structural reforms to attract more foreign trade and investment. he says the measures are crucial to reassure the disappointed youth of the policy. there is a massive q outside the passport office of sri lankan trying to get passports. all
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the foreign embassies are inundated by people wanting to migrate. this will be a tragic for sri lanka if, if we have our youthful population not willing to be in this country. and contribute to its future neurologist as find me get tougher before getting better. that's my for now young. she lungs are taking to the streets as far as i can see, demanding change and hope for the future. and this is what many of those in the streets have to say about the crisis that's hitting the country. we are have the credit on the board because in arkansas putting on it because if you did something to do it blah blah, blah kid realtor, if bob hope would a better life because the of the ugly back was i'm coming here to overcome, perform this corruption validation i came here to show my support for the people
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who are doing the brother and also i believe that we need to do well, like to stop this got up. last year it will be suffering from corona this year. we are covering for economic growth now for oil is not there and gather phone is not there. dollar is not bad. gas is not there. i looked up problem go to local, local law liaison. got it. and don't, i mean also more is i'm on for he's a researcher at australia seek university in melbourne. i'm on for a 64 percent. hi. can these are prices a shortage of food? essential items. what are people back home telling you? what is daily life like for long comes now. so if i were to capture the life in one image yesterday and i this read, i can government relaxed face last, last. now you said that people could now stop value face math unless they're
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traveling in public transport and in savings. as soon as that message came out, doctors and others started putting out messages on social media. see, they were besieging, they were saying, please do not stop grabbing your for your smart because you, me get sick and we have run out of me. see that these are displayed the situation back home is that people are waiting for me. the same people are waiting in queue for fuel the price of brake, the price of a loaf of bread went out by 30 percent or night. so these queues are getting longo . these prices i getting higher and there is no indication that the situation to be will be reversed anytime soon. and we're also seeing these near continuous protests against the government, demanding that the president stepped on. although he still sticking to his guns.
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once again, the government of people relieve well from what you see since the protest started in april, the government has been trying to then on to sure that they're doing something. but you, when you look at what's happening on the ground, and the relief is not coming through to the people, the rises are not going down. the cues are not getting shorter and they proceed, he's got it. so the short answer to that is guy. the government has been unable to deliver any kind of relief to the people. will the government fall among? well, the way this redundant constitution is, is really if you go to get rid of a sitting president, the president i has to resign are there is an impeachment process which is quite
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complicated. so right now, the government can remain in trench as long as the presidency is there, but it will be and for all purposes, ease hamstrung government. it has been inactive cabinetry, shuffles from the 1st of april. there is no relief. ah, so the government can stay on, but it's going to be this be tough. but if you go and that is going to happen on the streets and people are just going to be coming on to the streets, deal day, some relief briefly on. so if you can monitored, do you see this crisis? changing sri lanka has already got the ways free. lanchen thought of the government, the ways are making allowances for their government in the past. it's all history
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now from now on month 3. i'm going to have shown is that they will hold government accountable and that one month don't deliver. they will make sure that it is for governments to deliver that time off. but additions being treated as say, my god is gone, finished. unfortunate circumstances that a month. all right, thank you so much for joining us today. ah, to me and my next fire citizen, the struggle to return to democratic rule may not be making international headlines, but it's certainly very much alive. it's visible and people attempt to buy cars, businesses owned by the military, the haunt her own hundreds of enterprises involved in everything, from telecoms to oil and gas, even beer. and it's, yeah that me and most people are taking a stand, one pint at a time. a cool draft beer and in 1900 street bar is
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a popular way to unwind in young guns bustling downtown. what beer you choose these days as a political statement. drinkers are turning their back on me and mar beer. wants the most popular brew in the country because of it's linked to the armed forces. they're sipping big international brands instead. beneath all, i wanna all the restaurants in 19th street used to sell me and mar beer. but now i don't see any. yeah, they go to tiger, to borg and other brands have replaced, it won't only lie highly, they'll do me and mar, beer was backed by the japanese brewing giant kiran and seen as a sign of the economic liberalization washing into the southeast asian country after the military relaxed its iron grip on power in 2011, it dominated the market, but brands without government links are on the rise. even though it anyhow, with any we know other beer browns are paying tax to the military. but we don't,
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all of our money going to them. we avoid is in that there's only me in my beer in the restaurant. then we don't drink beer, and i won't all you take out an intangible adult, olga olga batavia, though the analogy that'll go many restaurants don't sell the military's me and mar beer, and people tend not to choose me and mar beer any more annoying. and i will wealthy channel dod almonza is dead. we have to choose other brands on it like tiger machine, though they bill them, low legal aid lobby. although there is widespread public anger at the military crack down on descent, which a local monitoring group says has killed more than $1700.00 people. this is led to attacks on bars, still serving the beer and delivery trucks carrying the beer have been stopped and their cargo destroyed the boycott spreading to include other items with military links, including coffee and beauty, products me and mars consumers hoped to fight the hunter by putting
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