that is how she thinks most rain, so today lives, mother and julia for nearly 4 decades. she's for peace for me, for race of freedoms in your home, then they run in spite of bob barry cover, fines or our children should not inherit science from us. the an income, if you look into him nice. yesterday thoughts, july 29th on w. the, this is the, the news 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 remains conducive. and poverty it has only increased. what did she learn cause people followed revenue from achieve and where is the country headed? plus your locals. plastics. problem why the government is hoping spending some

types of single use plastic has been saved the lives of wines, animals, the i'm british manager. welcome to the the news. a chart that you can join us as sherlock, our struggles to recover from its worst economic crisis in decades. it's people are leaving for better opportunities abroad. government figure suggest some, a 122000 people have left the country to made this. yeah. 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 for long cause chronic economic crisis has hit them hard. retired accountants,

milton put right on, sees over the last year. the situation has become more difficult with the martin that 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 get rid of that. at 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 building is expensive medicines that are has chronic as pump and public hospitals used to provide free medicines. but the government program has melvin's correct. yeah, the think a lot of the new hillary costs around 2500 rupees,

so i didn't buy him one because we don't have enough money to anybody that sponsored that thing. it to me, we used to get medicines for free. up until 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 punctures successful and then become a cigna is hoping to get the economy back on track with an i am a bailout work $2900000000.00 the program and pulls us tough measures, increase taxes, removal of subsidies, all in all mobility for citizens. if you have combating the 2022, 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 i, the government officials are spinning the hopes on the i m f program. and she long cause crisis into to full use. and joining me now for most of the selecting cap, colombo is human rights activist, i'm because that's good enough and she's also got and the chairperson of the independent drunk making organization, the need them to tell them, trust i'm pick up a year on from the storming of the presidential palace, quantavia dodge bucks sized back in the country. prices of a central's remain high and debt relief is a work in progress. what history long cuz people pause 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 ultimate package that has come. and we just being reported bad, you know, inflation has come down, it's trails, but then generally 4 point one percent where food items are concerned. so those are things that people could say and they all saying 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 struggle with 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 broadcasting authority bill, which seemed a tailor 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 met restructuring, etc. that they do plan to downsize all the costs, right? size the military, but we don't one see that in practice yet. and the largest, they'd be the surveillance on the harassment died. we did about it even yesterday. yet another incident where the military decides as powers that he does not have to try to money to civilian harassed civilians and stifled to set uh, let's talk about the put a ticket part of things, the crossing of the card and president and you make it sound like the government under him is much the same as it was under good top badge of bucks. so we'll stop of last year. at zillow to it is very much the same. is the same people from the top here, roger boxes,

but it goes by team because it was they who bought it in parliament to electron. you'll become a senior, have president because he wasn't voted in by the public according to the constitution, off of the president resign. he was voted in by. go down there raj boxes body, which means he's to behold into them just yesterday. the last couple of days. again, we've seen news reports that they planned to give them up books, positions and maybe ministerial portfolios to present some good top is a large boxes party. so it's pretty much, you know, it's business as usual in, in some way. it's going to be a $100.00. i was blame for. they cannot make prices that you're not confounding, sent in and not just him or other members of his family. they were also in government to do mine that i was about to his brother. is there any sense of accountability, does it appear that to gustavo dodge of bucks? so and the government of the previous government, at least officially, we'd be held to task as well. let me give you an example of it as

a parliamentary select committee that has been established. you look into the comic prices, the causes of the comic 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 see a nama raj, a box this time, the former president mind the rajah fox and also increasingly coming into the publics here. we see them trying to re establish themselves and enabled by president, don't know, that kind of thing. so hence, accountability, i would say is nearly a pipe dream. you know, i remember talking to last the time that these protests were coming. and i remember us discussing a, this mood amongst the protest as it please. the data is perhaps a faster shot at some political change from everything that seemed talked about right now. it appears that political change is way off. so that means we do one

that if, if you look at all is ready for political change, i think you look is definitely keyed 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 whole or to 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 can 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 alternatives. we'll have to leave it

there for the time being. but thank you so much for bringing us all that a context on because that's good enough in joining us from colombo and also the jefferson of the independent crowd making organizer from the new them david showed them across. thanks so much on the go. thank you. the besides the economic and political crisis through 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. of these elephants are sadly not picky eaters. over the

past decade, sri lankan officials say around 20 elephants had died from eating plastic refuse those deaths have prompted the government to once again crack down on the countries plastic problem. so you all know that to learn guys one more time to call you the conference for that. it was for re, so you're not going use lot of plastic item if you look at the numbers to inconvenience hoping bags are being used per day and 10000000 people have been used for the almost own item going design for a new band on several single used plastic items will soon go into effect, but previous laws have made little difference. manufacturers have openly floated 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 clogged waterways and drains health authorities, blaine plastic waste for surgeons, and a fever spread by mosquitoes who breeding stagnant water. but one company is working to get at least plastic bottles out of the waste stream. the eco spindles recycles the bottles into plastic yarn, re fashioned into clothing for top international brands, and the 2019 world cup jersey for this re lumpkin cricket team. so we have to leave 10 bottles. i'll 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.

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we have a, getting a visa is more difficult than finding gold hosted to use force and for the future feelings about what's going on in the story. instead of being discussed across the continent, dw, and use africa every friday on the w the europe takes big steps toward producing green, steel with hydrogen, but can't find a market with for production without losing its shirt or losing out the cheaper dirty or producers elsewhere. also on our show that help as new as measured 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 to the commercial production of green steel steel. that's essentially carbon neutral production and transport. on friday, the auto supply company instead of germany struck

a major deal with hydrogen, producer h 2 to supply green still in the coming years. on the same day, the steel maker chosen cope 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. of the 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 product.