more than 300000000 people are seeking with because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. this is d deborah news a share coming up to date. she lumpkins are running out of petrol and their patience. demand for political change continue even as the new prime minister warns of was times to come, but get his leadership don't things around for the island nation. where in colombo, for on says ah,

i british energy, welcome to d w. news asia. glad you could join us. she like us energy minister says the country has no money left to pay for fuel imports. that essentially means she lankin skewing for petrol at gas stations. we get nothing. the small fuel reserve, the country does have, will only be released for essential services, like ambulances, as the economic crisis wesson's. so does the political one. on tuesday, parliament voted against an opposition motion to condemn president catawba, roger boucher for his handling of the crisis. protest as have been calling for his resignation for months, but he continues to remain unmoved. new prime minister on in victor, a messenger has warned the country has to face caught unpleasant and terrifying facts in many ways through lumpkins already facing them. but that's only increase their determination for change a it's been bigger and the people of she lanka are still on the street

feeds and slogans and singing songs of hope that they demand a better future and a complete political overhaul in that country. a familiar thief as the new premier has done nothing to assume a victim of thing. a season politician has been appointed at the prime minister of sri lanka. he has held the bullets 5 times previously, but never completed the full dumb while some people find hope in him. many others have their own doubts. many distress victor mussing how they see him as being close to the ruling raj bucks a family who they want gone from pow wow. we don't have any faith in the icon and prime minister to be honest, like no one has faith in him, given his history and leg, given the fact that he is basically got a reputation for being credited wishy washy and inept their normal height. they want to hide their corruption. that is why they have brought rick ramos singing as

the prime minister that i needed something as the prime minister it most recently. he is remembered for shooting the raj boxes when he was prime minister in the previous government. even that cynicism abounds about his appointment, the new prime minister has his desk, but out for him. needless to say bigger, my single piece is an uphill battle of willing and essentially bankrupt country out of its brave crisis or not. he has gone on all devoted to the body of the country to lead. they political differences, we find help him rebuilding a modem that is likely adorned order. john victrum roughly is a member of the main position and he says his party is ready to support only under certain conditions, even though we have disagreed with the appointment of the present prime minister because he doesn't have an independent majority in parliament to we are still willing to work with it and we've been opposition and be to cooperate. but if they

tried to play hard politics and if they porch members from our party and go that route, then certainly we will not be cooperating with this government. but no one has come up with solutions for the crisis, and the situation is likely to get worse, bushy lumpkins in the coming months. because my senior has wound he would be the most difficult once their life. and john me now for more from colombo, is dr. biker, sorta settled on, i want to, he's executive director of the center for policy alternatives. dr. so what i want to welcome, how confident are people in sri lanka that the new prime minister unbecoming sanjay is the man to lead them out of this crisis? i think their opinion is divided. there are people who dislike, crowded from a single day feed has always protected the raj boxes and,

but he's not being very honest leader, etc. then there are those, this is a feel that despite all of that, he is a technocrat one level and that she has good contacts internationally and then we will get the economy back on it's feet. and that there are those who agree with batons that are say, look, he's the man of the you are who can succeed. but in reality, i suppose we have a crisis of governance. there is an economic site and a political side. and you have to address those issues in coordination with each other working on the economic issue. however, strong ages is not itself going to get to protest is to go away or anything like that. i'd like to just go back to the 1st point that you made about people who believe that maybe he is protecting the departure family. i mean, so far for cabinet appointments have been made. all of them from president roger buck shows a political party. i'm wondering,

does that father lend substance to that view? that money become us and gaze? indeed that departures man? well, i mean he is the only member of his party in parliament. they didn't win a single seat in the last election. and what he is in parliament on his bonus sheet, showing that respect. yes, he would be seen as you know, giving the raj purposes of life in that he did not make any conditions for taking the job on. he said that the economies in dire straits of that sensibly was the reason why he was accepting the prime minister ship. however, once is coming to office. he has said that the 21st amendment will be looked out and it's been sent to the attorney general's department to come to cabinet surveys come move, but the political front. but the question is, is it not? and is it going to last for long enough to get the economy also on a sound floating? let's talk about the president of roger bucks. i mean,

he is also talked about reform along with their ronald vicar messing. and president boucher has talked about the vesting himself of all of these. all encompassing powers accumulated 2 years back. but nothing really has happened on that front and people are also asking for him to resign. did you help us understand the thinking behind all of this? i mean, the whole country wants reform and for president roger buckshot to go, but he isn't complying. why is that? i think godaddy raj baxa is not resigning despite the public camera for his resignation because he's not just president on his own. he represents an entire family dentistry who are accused at one level of war crimes and crimes against humanity. and at another level of having robbed left, right and centre. and so if he goes he will lose whatever immunity he gets from

prosecution. he and the rest of his family will be very vulnerable to prosecution, to be brought to a character. i think that's the principal reason why he wants to stay on in power. so people want a president got about our departure to go. and let's assume that he did what did make a difference to the situation in sri lanka? i mean, i only asked is, because should i go for instance, wants to be a lot from the i america. but having some sort of a stable government seems to be a prerequisite to receiving funds. yes, under the constitution of the country, if the president resigns, the prime minister becomes president and within 30 days, parliament should elect someone on its own. a member of parliament to serve out the unexpired term of the president to show the notion that there might be any sort of uncertainty and anarchy in all of that. if go to arbitrage, practice the designs is entirely incorrect. there is a process that has to be follow that he can be follow. now,

a number of those joining calls forgot about audio buck shows ouster are also former supporters who voted him into power. or i wonder if you think that is a change that we're witnessing in sri lanka, in terms of what people expect from their elected representatives. remember, both have the raj proxy came down, came into part in 2019 standing on the platform. all strong decisive leadership predicted to give the background of the 2019 easter bombings, as well as their relatives lack of cause initiative, incoherence of the previous government. however, his sort of performance in government has not been strong or decisive. i mean, he's only spoken to the country once in this crisis since the prices came to ahead . he has flipped and flopped on a number of decisions. and he's also showing that he doesn't have the capacity to govern in terms of understand comics as running. so we'll have to

leave it there for the time being, but thank you so much for joining us today. dr. microsoft is what i'm going to from the center for policy alternatives. thank you. thank you. oh, a change of theme now and onto a story about home, birds homes to be precise. and when he moved to india capital daily, the man in the next report says he noticed something was wrong when he didn't hear any birds chirping. so to bring back his favorite sounds, rakish country took up a hobby that has since become his life's work, giving birds a home, and teaching many others to do the same. these house sparrows have returned to the city after many years. thanks to one man who has been making homes for thousands of birds. his name is cash country really. but i used to get worried and think a lot about why we don't get to see any nests anymore. where have they gone?

so i used to feel sad. there were new terms introduced like global warming, climate change. birds like peacocks and cuckoos were disappearing. people used to talk a lot about these things from the comfort of their air condition rooms. i used to think that these people talk so much about these big issues. why don't they even think about where the nes have gone? so the delhi resident and his wife started to build nest for the birds with plastics and tetra pack. then they switched to eco friendly materials such as bamboo sticks after a lot of trial and error. that eureka moment came when we made over 20 next like this, and we sat down with our cameras. we waited for 3 days and people used to laugh at us, they would say, why will the birds go to your net? they make their nest by themselves. on the 4th day, i was sitting with my camera. people were passing by and laughing, but soon a male sparrow sat on one nest. i have a photograph of that sparrow on the nest,

on my website. he inspected it and flew away. the senate came back after 5 minutes with a female spare, and the 2 had straws in their mind. it sounds like a story from a movie, but it's the reality of my life. so when i saw this, i stood up and started clapping. the bird started coming to my knowledge. every country himself has built nests for hundreds of thousands of house sparrows and has won several awards for his work, but liberty big organizations in the country and people abroad. i also realized that they can do this. if my husband can do it, then others can also do this kind of work. not only for sparrows, but for other animals to talk to the a or b animals. now, country teacher's school children to make net passing the idea of conservation onto the next generation. boy, on this journey that i started on 2008 is currently at 250000. now i've taught this

to more than a 1000000 students, teachers, and corporations. and i think this journey is never ending. as long as i have the strength in my body, and i hope i will continue this work is my passion and my professional. an idea with wings. that's it for today is more on our website. we're back again to model the same time. so then uh hold slash again that i want that tags and into andes and meet you. i'm not a lot of to you anymore. we will send you back. are you familiar with this with the smudges were lions the what's your story? ready i was women, especially and victims of vine and take part and send us your story

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on the brink? blown welcome to the show. i'm stephen beardsley in berlin. it's good to have you with us. of the war and ukraine is also war on infrastructure, including gal, an oil pipeline serving the country. ukraine has already been forced to cut gas service from hundreds of thousands of households. russia has, however, spared its own transit pipelines. that is the system for delivering it's gas to europe. but could those pipelines be coming into play? what 2 major transit pipelines cross ukraine to europe. so use, and brotherhood. a gas volumes through them are through both of them are now becoming a bit harder to pin down due to the war. and the so use pipeline runs through the loo, hans region and eastern ukraine, which is now occupied by russian forces. ukraine announced last week that it would suspend gas transit at one of the pipelines hubs to stop service to that occupied area. on that stoppage effects at most one 3rd of the gas supplied to europe flowing via you.