the, the basic is the, the newest aisha coming up to date. she long cause never, i'm going crisis or yeah, since protest is forced to change and government really political change, ravines conducive. and poverty has only increased. what did she learn cause people followed revenue from achieve and where is the country headed? plus she lancaster plus fix problem. why the government is hoping defending some

types of single use, plastic will help it save the lives of wild animals. the . i'm very expanded. you're welcome. to deed of the news, a sure glad you can join us as sherlock, our struggles to recover from its worst economic crisis in decades. its people are leaving for better opportunities abroad. government figure suggest some a $122000.00 people have left the country to may of this year. the same number that left the country in own of 2021. faced with rising prices and growing poverty, the reasons for leaving are quite evident of the lentils and rice is all this couple can afford. and they also have to skip meals along cause chronic economic crisis has hit them hard for diet accounting. milton put right on,

sees over the last year. the situation has become more difficult when they met last year we had money, but no goods. now there are goods, we don't have money money here to see the price of goods has increased significantly compared to last year. you're going to got really bad. ross, family lives in a working class area of colombo, the city life has become an affordable the government has removed subsidies and utilities doubling the water and electricity bills. put it on the home is also them due to leaks from the water line. but municipal authorities have no funds left to fix it. yet, the couple of the biggest funding is expensive medicines. it has chronic as pump and public hospitals used to provide free medicines. but the government program has melvin's correct now that didn't get out of an inhaler. it costs around $2500.00

rupees. so i didn't buy him one because we don't have enough money. it's frontier that's been, i mean we used to get medicines for free because now they chose to buy it from the pharmacy. only small amount of medicines are available for free loss. due inflation, lack of basic necessities. i'm crippling international debt to good nation vide protest. the former president go to biology book, so was forced to flee the country he has since we're doing the tight security, but things have worse. and in the meantime, for ordinarily people, roger puck shot success load on. it'll become a single, is hoping to get the economy back on track with an i am a fill out what $2900000000.00 the program and pulls us tough measures, increase taxes, removal of subsidies, all in all the mobility for citizens. if you have combating the 2020 to a peer me,

at least as of availability of essentially was like for any electricity, mcmillion park leave, you look at the public, the numbers it has. as we have added 4000000 new people below the policy, the government officials spinning the hopes on the i m f program. and she long caused crisis into 2 full years and driving off a mall from the selecting capital colombo as human rights activist. i'm because that's good enough and she's also kind of the chairperson of the independent drunk making organization. the need them to each of them trust. i'm pick up a year on from the storming of the presidential palace quantavia, and i just buck sized back in the country. prices of a centrals remain high and debt relief is a work in progress. what has food on cuz people pile revenue from achieved as

well, what it has achieved is that uh certain things are different and certain things still remain the same. so what we see different uh the uh we don't have the electricity cups anymore. we don't have the, uh, the fuel cues, there is the, i'm a package that has come and we just being reported bad, you know, inflation has come down, it's drilled threats and generally 4 point one percent where food items are concerned. so those are things that people could say and they all seem a lot straight stability. but at the same time, what they do see is that the government is pretty much the same that we had a even during the adult people's struggle, the article layer. and we have a different president, but it is the same members, which means you do still have the problems with governance. you do have a corruption and you have the government attempting to cost repressive laws like

the anti terrorism bill. like the broad costing authority bill, which seemed a tailored to stifle dissent, to stifle political activity and criticism of the government and the massive security structure which exists. and they've said that they are going to, as part of downsizing as part of this, i'm f restructuring, etc. that they do plan to downsize all the costs right. size the military. but we don't see that in practice yet. and the large they'd be the surveillance on the harassment died. we did about just even yesterday yet. and i have the incident where the military, it decides as powers that he does not have to try to money to surveillance, harass civilians and stifle detect. let's talk about the political part of things that i'm going to be crossing of the current president. and you make it sound like the government under him is much the same as it was under good time budget bucks. i

will stop of last year at zillow to it is very much the same. is the same people from gold top and roger boxes, but it, it goes by team because it was the who bought it in parliament to elect toronto. that kind of thing. i had the president because he wasn't voted in by the public according to the constitution off of the president resign. he was voted in by gold top that raja bucks his body which means he's to behold and to him just yesterday's last couple of days. again we've seen news reports that they planned to give them up books positions and maybe ministerial portfolios to preston. some go topya's, large boxes party, so it's pretty much, you know, it's business as usual in, in some way. it's good. i bet, a 100 bucks. i was blamed for the economic crisis that you're not confounding sense in and not just him or other members of his family. they were all to and government including mine that i just bought to his brother. is there any sense of accountability does have to be a the, to go drop out your bucks or,

and the government of the previous government at least officially, we'd be held to task? well, let me give you an example of it as a parliamentary select committee that has been established. you look into the konami prices, the causes of economic crisis, and the persons who are members of this committee, or people from mainly from their history lock up. or there's an impairment of which is good, that they're raj boxes, party, and we do, we'll see a nama roger box this time, the former president mind the rajah fox. the also increasingly coming into the publics here. we see them trying to re establish themselves and enabled by president all know that kind of thing. so hence, accountability, i would say is amelia pipe dream. you know, i remember talking to last around the time that these protests were cutting. and i remember us discussing a, this mood amongst the protest as it please. the data is perhaps

a faster real shot at some political change from everything that seemed talked about right now. it appears that political change is way off. so that'd be the one that if she loved kyra tall, is ready for political change. i think she was definitely getting ready for political change and but the people struggle did it made at least the 2nd section of the population, a bit more politically aware. it made them realize that they have also civic duties, not just rights. it made them holds that elected representatives accountable. so we do have a slight awareness raising among certain parts of the population, particularly the young and people are tired of it. very tired of it, exhausted, actually because of also it'd be the, the bug is that the battery due to the pin on the prices. so they are they, are they do mind change? i think they do one change even if they're not out on the roads because they're

exhausted. merely trying to make ends meet. but everyone does one change. but we do not seem to have viable political alternate to where you have to leave at the time being. but thank you so much for bringing us all that a context on because that's good enough. and joining us from colombo and also the jefferson of the independent crowd making organizer from the new them different you of them across. thanks so much on the go thank you. the besides the economic and political of christ history long is also dealing with a plastics problem. the convenience of single use plastic is now proving deadly for the countries phone a. according to some estimates at least 20 elephants, for instance, have died from ingesting plastic. but it doesn't just stop at them. yeah. and otherwise that it moves to audit risk. now the government is considering

a band on 7 types of things and use plastic. the hope is the speed go some way to watch preserving through long test phone. a or these elephants are sadly not picky eaters. over the past decade, she longed officials say around 20 elephants have died from eating plastic, refuse those deaths. have prompted the government to once again cut down on the countries plastic problem. so you all know that to learn guys one know pilot conference for the board for re so you're not going use lot of plastic item. if you look at the numbers. uh, $1020.00 medium shopping bags i've been use per day and $10000000.00 papers are being used for the almost own item going design, creating a new ban on several single used plastic items will soon go into effect. but previous laws have made little difference. manufacturers have openly flouted

a ban on plastic bags. of course we read them a payment again, but of course, by reading we cannot the solve the issue. it's hard for many 3 lumpkins to kicks their plastic addiction. it's cheap and convenient, but also dangerous to animals and humans. bags and bottles, clog, waterways and drains. health authorities, blaine plastic waste for surgeon dungy, fever spread by mosquitoes who breeding stagnant water. but one company is working to get at least plastic bottles out of the waste stream. eco spindles recycles the bottles into plastic yarn repercussions into clothing for top international brands . and the 2019 world cup jersey for this re lumpkin cricket team. so as to leave the 10 barbers, i'd be news to make a decent environmental as a plot, the new plastic fans,

let's say cleaning up sri long as plastic mess remains largely few tile. unless the government gets serious about punishing those who break the rules. and that's about does it for today, it is most stories from the region on our website dot com, forward slash asia, and as ever you can for us on facebook and twitter feed back again at the same time tomorrow. we'll see you then to back the, every jenny is surprises. we've gone all out to give you some of the right people in your northern most count the police

the free time. but still very much alive. your guy to the special recognizes where exactly it was fun. i have learned a lot of our culture history, all their travel extremely worth a visit. the europe takes big steps towards producing green steel with hydrogen, but can't find a market with for production without losing its shirt or losing out the cheaper dirtier producers elsewhere of on our show that help us newest measure targeting ask in women also hits female business owners in the country and welcome to our show,

i'm seeing busy in berlin. recent days of senior uptake new steps towards the commercial production of green steel steel. that's essentially carbon neutral and production and transport. on friday, the auto supply company, instead of germany strike a major deal with hydrogen, producer h 2 to supply green steel. in the coming years. on the same day, the steel maker chosen group rolled out it's hydrogen production, arm caught new sarah to public investors who promptly put a 2 and a half 1000000000 euro evaluation on the company. other message seems to be clear. there's a lot of anticipation around green still, but the market is still young and there are plenty of questions before production begins on a commercial level. and we'll talk to an expert about that in just a moment. but 1st, here's an example of how green steel is produced. this steel mill is located right by the baltic sea in northern sweden. is the world's 1st successful pilot project for steal production using climate neutral hydrogen.