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ah, i'm jared read. welcome to the show. thanks for your company. sri lanka is prime minister says his country is now bankrupt and that there is no immediate end to the current economic crisis. sri lankan, so facing hardships on many fronts, petrol supplies have dried up because the foreign currency reserves to pay for fuel imports of run out. prices have sword with food inflation now running at about 57 percent annually. more than 2 thirds of 3 lankin household say they're eating less . as a result, schools and offices are currently closed to keep people off the streets. people are angry and frustrated and they're blaming politicians for the crisis. especially president got her by roger parker and his family which dominate politics. prime minister ra neil, the grim is singer informed parliament us real anchors insolvency on tuesday. he

said the economic crisis would be around until at least the end of next year. he added that bailout talks with the i am if depended on finalizing a debt restructuring plan with creditors in the coming weeks. his more of his remarks to lawmakers meet the carina, asked that an hour of the our country has held talks with the i m. f shop. i thought the been on many occasions before you lost our la, but this time what the situation is different from all those previous occasions here. but about the light in the past, we have held discussions in this as a developing country, acne it, yes, alaric. but now on the situation is different with dent that very night. we are now participating in the negotiations as a bankrupt country arguing near bankrupt. therefore, we have to face a more difficult and complicated situation with a lot than previous negotiations at theater. i put them on and then kathy doing oh,

let's go now to colombo and speak to journalist marlin ari singer. welcome to d, w. e. news asia. the government says sri lanka is now bankrupt. why is it bankrupt and, and how much worse? can it get? i thank you. yeah, i think it's safe to see that big rock bottom. but with every passing day it feels like you know, thinking even further. so it's more comic, i guess, like an economy spider. how did we get here? you know, that's been discussed extensively over the last few months. and we have also become like, close to the panel, or like, what are story to other countries in read the main cause with our production. so be a mismanagement political, incomplete, sam adams and misguided policy, you know, like overnight,

chemical fertilizers. which is why, in addition to all these, i mean, you also have a looming food to try and you know, currently, you know, i'm expediency about that right now. so this is the state of things or data. right now. you've touched on it to be dead. these, the stories of desperation and suffering, which is sort of veering into a humanitarian crisis. how is the situation affecting people? yeah, i mean, you're right, undeniably days. humanitarian cruncher? data shortage of life, saving, drums and medical equipment. the majority of small businesses have completely close down. you know, you have this business information and the data page are undergoing

human suffering because of the pay it off getting inflation. and as human rights activists are pointed out, in addition to humanitarian, it has also turned into a human life. you know, just a few hours ago, these will protest us arrested. and i'm getting reports that even you know, about 20 minutes back. protested against. right, so just a few days ago we had a footage of an army officer kicking because then that a future. and this man was not even a protest. i just asking some questions. so over the and we see this kind of incidence over the last few you know, the last few weeks. well, you know, pallet's course is good. so the tesa humanitarian crisis as the last a human rights and human rights crisis to people of course want to weigh out the i

m f. and the world bank though, are hesitant to come to the rescue of 3. like why is does well, the prime minister actually mentioned in the bottom and yesterday that the 1st round of discussion has been a success. and the assistance depends on the structure the program know that i am if recently stressed, that other challenges needed to be addressed. like, containing writing patients attending to the balance of payments, fisher and reducing the countries why not, they would be cut off. so in my opinion, correlation between diana and political corruption having a proper assurance that the government would stick to the condition of the steel ones. so these are some of the challenges i think which we are facing when it comes to the demon dynamics. lots of challenges that you've outlined day people in

sri lanka, say, the situation why the country is in this situation, is the fault of the powerful and dominant russia packs of family. why are they getting the blame? well, the roger family has been often labored as a primary business. and if you go back to go drive it up as a potential campaign can 1019 a kind of a, you know, i like a highly nifty sites. was created. you know, the political will get, it was bad, which means the war hero that so the water was very optimistic of a change. but then it was evident that the family just picked up where they left off in 2015 and started building them. and which eventually developed into the slope and which is over and over and roger, but i think people know, see that the decisions that got taken by the p and then finance the

finance. we need that other folks and then back it does about also financing. so for the short time has led to the current site. this is why the people are being that was about their us and big regional put. and he took a loan for farming, which he could not be back for this rattle and they'd been autumn. i never fought, he could take such a step and go away. before he took his life, he used to be tense, irritable, and used to keep to himself and a day he took his life. he said nothing at all to any. why do you get to deb? this is a guy is gonna be done now, take care of the farm with the hope of her son. she says things have become more difficult since she's not alone in her brief, in the past decade. sense of power, the farmers, most of whom thought cotton have taken their lives into the double region of

central india. this area has come to be called the graveyard of farmers. be that farmers often have to borrow money to buy seeds and fertilizer drop failures or pool yield means that can not be the money back into the fall into a cycle of debt and misery. they see they're not getting enough support from the government. irish pug, a farm activist, and a family himself is trying to help. and he says the cost of cultivation is increasing at the same time erotic monsoon, greens and the vagaries linked to climate change are adding to the family distress . been by then i would okay. if i day a farm is debt keeps increasing to me, but if he starts feeling depressed, magic hour after that, and he begins to question why he's alive. if he is not able to properly nourish her better and educate his children. i took that as her her mad about to get but i know with her yagi thank on the line will green north had depression when her husband died by suicide in 2015, unable to pay back his bomb debt of rupees, 50000,

or about 600 euros developer nodes and but, and 31 as a valid life. nobody should go through what i faced. my children suffered, they couldn't complete education. what they were led to ship can caught name will need why can't i got some financial head from the government? more do not manage to get the meager steep compensation to families of farmers who die best insight band me though in the navy i had to struggle a lot. i went to the authorities multiple times for the compensation, but they kept refusing either regrets that your husband did not talk to her in detail about his financial problems and i'm at nathan gap. maybe she could have helped her hopes and ambitions are not big. now she just wants to survive, so she can bring up her son that seats it to day on day w. news. asia will leave you with some images of the

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