all the rate a great time in the line. very much a line dw channel. your guy with recognizes where exactly. it was fun. i've learned a lot our culture history. all their d. w. travel extremely worth a visit. ah. this is did up the news asia today. as we look back at the major stories of 2020, to be focus on the top more in sri lanka and economic crisis triggered mass demonstrations that ended up toppling the government. did up to was on the ground and spoke to protest as about their experiences and their plans for the future. sri

lanka running on empty how food and fuel shortages made it for many a day. the battle for survival. one or 2 richer driver told us his story and how the economic hardship forced to lunk us best and brightest to seek a better life somewhere else. we have why many people gave up full in the country. ah, i'm british manager, welcome to the special edition of the dublin news asia. glad you could join us. one of our biggest stories this year was the political ta model in sri lanka where the worst economic crisis since 1948. prompted a people power style revolution. in july, weeks of mos protests culminated in the toppling of the government. then president gustavo roger bucks, i was blamed for the crisis. he fled the country after thousands of protesters

stormed his official residence. he later announced his resignation from single ball veteran politician running victimizing, he became sri lanka, new leader. he promised to put the country on the road to recovery with a debt restructuring program. so success for the protest movement or was it shortly after the new governments appointment? did others? i'm with our chief, i visited the main protest camp in colombo, where activists were bearing the brunt of a military crack down. this is what remains of the go to go gun up to a test camp in colombo. many who took part in the po chassis which led to the asked of president go to buy a roger boxer are gone. if you remain in the art defiant and it is right now, currently we're crossing her sitting on a table man, the wrong side of it is upon him to make the changes, we can really go. these are scenes from the d running victim

a single was elected by parliament. protest is at the presidential secretariat which they partially occupied. what angry here see him here as being too close to the raja bucks her family. the mood turned ugly, the night victim a single took the oath of office in the dead of night without warning, a military moved in to remove protested from in and around the presidential secretary at the protest, as were taken by surprise. he had already said david, vacating the government premises the next day, several people we talked to at the scamp, said they were beaten and assaulted on the night of the crack down. they said it was not the military who was behind these attacks, but hired mercenaries. when i was attacked, i was just down up with his medicaid,

me the barricade. there were videos also near the barricade. one of the guys pushed me. then i said, i know you are not on. you are one of the thug gangs then then he said yes. and he scolded in mean field and he kept his foot on my neck. honestly, i don't believe they are current military are person i would because oh, we didn't see the decency or the the discipline enough military among them. we strictly believe there were mercenaries. if this were true with the said, it would be a chilling reminder of the previous regime, which frequently used shadowy organizations to suppress dissent. for now, the huge tongue of crowds which forced the former president to flee, had gone from the streets. but those who remain still see a long road ahead, the all have the responsibility now to take this full weight. and we have shown that we have the power to de sac,

the intent to hold the government accountable till days an empty demand was infused shortages. and in the suffering of the people of she lanka, pebbles did lose. i'm with a tremor on the ground just a few weeks after the change of government in sri lanka and months later political tensions remain high with the country still deep and economic strife. and the powerful raja bucks or clan, still wielding influence. after weeks of self imposed exile out at president latavia, roger butter returned to felucca in early september. whether he's planning or to turn to politics is unclear, but some opponents fear. his presence could read night. the protests determined to avoid that she lincoln, lawmakers moved to limit the sweeping bars of the presidency. a key demand of the protest as the constitutional amendment was passed in late october with an overwhelming majority. parliament now has

a see the appointment of key government officials, senior members of the judiciary, as well as police and election officials that reverses the concentration of part in the president as happened under roger boxer data. so we've seen attempts to take the heat out of she'll anchors political crisis, but the country's economic crisis remains acute with a runaway inflation power blackouts, and shortages of food and medicine. global shortages of oil and gas have also kept the price of fuel at been full levels of the height of the crisis in summer. life was a daily battle for shoe lumpkins who depended on fuel for their living. we followed auto lecture driver dylan simpson to see 1st hand the hardships he and many others were facing since their fuel. so it is, i started in sri lanka, i swear, difficult to find feeling. so i have stayed with true for 2 to 3 weeks and it's

really hard to run my day to day life. even if i have to get fuel, i have to stay the whole night to get, you know, better in the federal state. and so i have, i mean to not from them, they were like, nope it earlier. and because of the fuel, to be honest, i didn't get that india. i was like, staying in the queue for the whole week to get like if i get picked up today or tomorrow, tomorrow i'll run the day and they have to, to moderate, to stay in the queue again. because of that reason. so i have to in may skip monday to stay in the queue. i will be loosing passengers for the one all day. i don't get burned. and yet that's a big loss for me. is that they only price that's gone. i really had a bad so it made me please the vendors, nick on the phone to price. everything in salem guys,

go on the prices i normally take every day. we used to buy bid to have with the tea in the evening. the price of the bed has been w. b 20. make me straight before lunch. sometimes i stop at my 1st place. i think i was more said so he saw it. so auto driver i have plenty of friends that will drive auto. yeah. they also have the i've been kept at their place because they couldn't find, feel right now at my house or using careless, annoying vocal costa. so this one really end up kiddos in medicine willows. they end up doing woods like him, haven't done engineering and it's hard to find a job. i have and get my degree it because i have a pending payment to be done. uh huh. so i thought i couldn't afford my honey

auto. and since this problem has been come up, it's very difficult for me to pay it, of course fees. some of my friends like they lever what's out there in the patrol station, like if they see in a process and bumping better, then quickly inform us the automated get to get then lo and stay in the queue to get better. i have come here to bump it so my pen gave me some theory and that wouldn't be enough for me to them the whole day of august. and i have bought my own there. i think i love to read the whole night to get through. so if i'm lucky, i'll get the feeling by tomorrow morning. i never thought that microphone cleveland update list. right nowadays. no. there will be a few things here, like i'd like to take some time for the country to recall. but

many didn't want to wait around to find out. i was did i lose money or child re discovered this is the report you're far from colombo. every single day. hundreds queue up pure at the passport office in sri lanka, bushed by circumstances. they wish to leave the country. one of them is kristy, do you, roy, germany, david, who has been coming here for 3 days now with her husband and son, to have a husband. i have come here with my husband and my son to get their passports made and we want to leave some locked as no work for us here because there's nothing bunker. com. neil gemini has worked as a caregiver for years, and her husband as an auto rickshaw driver who have lost a livelihood because of the cut in crisis and she long and are finding it difficult to even survive. what she wants now is a better life for her 19 year old son,

which she knows is a far cry in her country. germany says that it's not just her, but dauntless others who are suffering. people here have been waiting for div standing in q was outside the department of immigration and emigration and colombo . many of them who have come from other parts of the country had rented small accommodations in nearby areas to get their passports made audrey note, white people seeking to go abroad for opportunities is not a new thing. and she lanka, the number of people outside the passport office have shot up significantly in the past few months. young people especially feared they have no option, but to leave. according to government statistics, the number of passports issued from january to mid june this year is over 300000 roughly equal to the total number of passport issued last year. the job market is all miss up and down. but in the current situation, there's no jo pocket right now,

so it's why you missed in your time. there's no future here as far as reno, i mean i tried as ro, but i yeah, there's no hope. so makes sense to make a move pretty much. dr. bike is on the 7 am would do of the center for policy alternatives, says young people moving out in such numbers does not bode well for an aging society, like sri lanka. if this country gets back on the right footing with the systemic changes in order that they may, will come back and provide their experience and expertise to develop this country. but otherwise, we do have a serious because we are not going to have a critical mass of people in the most productive years of their life within the country. dr. 7 am with the says, this extreme frustration that the youth fees to do with the administration that frustration is bad. the bill here as the queue inches forward slowly is granted.

disappointed and exposed it. people continue to eat, they believe leaving is the only real. they can at least have a chance of creating a better future for themselves. and it is, of course the story will be following into the next year as well. here i'm deducting news asia, but that does it for to day on our website, the dublin dot com forward slash asia. you'll find more background reports to understand how sri lanka ended up in this. dia, economic crisis. and as ever, you can follow us on facebook and twitter as well, and see you soon. bye. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word, louis pinnacle. rico is in germany to learn german. why not learn with him? a simple online on your mobile and free to shop. t w's e learning course,

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businesses in particular to look for ways to say also on our show, look at the growing trend in india to rent items like clothing instead of outright purchasing them. book the show, european natural gas prices have fallen for the 1st time below their values before the war and ukraine to enlarge part to lower demands and improved gas, electricity supply in the near term. the price for a month ahead contract that europe's large largest exchange in amsterdam was trading around 83 years per megawatt hour on thursday. prices spiked in august, more than $300.00 euros as markets registered. a supply shock. that's when russia began curtailing pipeline deliveries. libya. colorado is the senior analyst at energy aspects. she joins me for more from london. livia, welcome to the show. i wanna start with gas prices. what does this mean for households and businesses in europe.