[000:00:00;00] the, this is dw news line from berlin. free lock is gearing up for our presidential election for millions of odors and will be the 1st chance, choose a new leader of the country's economic collapse. our correspondence takes us to the capital columbia, also coming up as well as leader, our son norris industrial us says the red lines have been cross and promises retaliation. he blames israel for the mass bombing of devices in london and syria. calling is a quote,

massacre the, an air until berlin. thank you very much for joining us. we begin this entry long code word 2 years after an economic meltdown triggered mass protest. over 17000000 eligible voters are set to pick a new president. despite initial signs were fragile economic recovery, the country is still facing massive debt. and while sri lankan usually vote along religious and ethnic lines, many of them will be keeping the stage with the economy in mind when they vote saturday. we bring you this report from colombo, so good, i'm the guy and his life shop on the molly used to do pretty well. like now they're struggling. they've spent most of the feelings just to make ends meet. i'm can no

longer to be that of the printing business has been hit hard by rising cost stuff to all materials, fuel and electricity in the last 40 years and a half of us. and i had up to 5 employees working for me with the crisis to orders for printing gradually. and then i had to reduce my stuff in the beginning, i said some of mine when she looked at that i'm what i found all my jewelry because of the cost of leave me i am unable to buy back, so it's owned by the bank. now, my husband does all kinds of work nowadays to look up to the family. that work includes driving an automatic shock. sometimes even they will have considered before the crisis one and for sri lankan slip and fall with the the what it bang says this struggling to afford basic necessities like food medicines and fuse to good nationwide pool test. since 2022, the economy has been bad for a long time. just or what do we use?

the wall street lumpkins protested yet in central colombo. they force the president to flee and brought down the government. but they go on to me is still in prices as say, the number one issue that what this one does, the politicians stock of the nation the got instead of going about the communities. that is what i want the going to insure in need of the country is to economy criticality and also stay with it. and also people expect the non cut them non cut off government for the last 2 years. the government has stuck with the i m . s. plan to stop sri lanka going bankrupt, but it's got and foreign minister told us there is still work to do things. oh, okay. but the, i don't out of the, would you kinda expect that to happen if we a stay compared to what you are looking after the poor by letter, but providing them lunch, providing them flipping. i said providing them for the occasion for the health, as for less, some, in some cases,

free price and russians. his boss president running to become a sing gate is running into selection, hoping to move in the full. i'm a veteran of sri lankan politics. his economic policy is closely tied to the i am if plan, since he's been in charge, inflation has dropped from 70 percent to 5 percent. interest rates have fall in the 2 piece trenton and forward and reserves increased a much weaker messing gate. also faces claims of protecting cut up the officials from the previous administration. challenging him is subjects payment. that's a good politician from a center, spotty. he's pushing for changes to the $2900000000.00 that i am, if bailout seems to adjust economic reforms and revamped taxes to reduce the cost of living. but all eyes, i don't know, the commodity, somebody who's popularity has village since the protest. his anti corruption

message and promises of a political overall seems to resonate with waters. one thing systemic change his spot. the also wants to renegotiate the i'm if the none of the candidates for much of traction force. so let me go and show me molly. we do not feel like bolting for any practice these time. even so the election on saturday will have crucial implications for families like this across the country. let's bring in journalist a month to pereira, a cover 3 lanka, and the wider is a pacific region and he joins us now from melbourne, australia. welcome dw, would it be? so we've seen that many candidates are vine for presidential office. how would you describe the move to move motors? what do people want? but i think the mode among this really long involved as is whether they want to

continue with the same. all exam on all means that they are going to break away from what has been 3 long and but it extends independent and really make a drastic decision. uh so if you, when you speak to the voters at large and read, i'm comforted. lodge, you'll get defense, that there is no clear front dry. if you look at the lights, we're not gonna be elections in the boss. always it as being either a 2 cos raise or sometimes it's been just a one clear frontrunner. now this time you have 3 clear candidates with fuzzy about don't they dump on, right? because in the slide you've been with us and under the model design. i so the mood depends. we will have you speak to you speak to the colombo based uh they'll probably be looking at the victim of thing right now, but then the young wrote,

as you can see it on got and they probably think on the blog as that goes on. why about choice? so the more right now is mixed, and there is no clear indication at as to say that there is a clear front runner as well. now just 2 years ago there were mass protests which eventually brought down the government as we just found out last report. are you expecting to see any turmoil or complications on election day so far the election to run up to the election has been peacefully compared with the vice for a long can stand to go back to election in the positive been elections where the runup has been very clearly, wireless including as, as the nations and the forms of why this time, it has been relatively calm. but the green line has the, uh,

buzzing that, that would be wireless. you see the m, b, j, b, b, the, and the messenger and b b group pointing to the pause of the groove mazda by the, the people supervision from which led to uprising in suite, on the latest being in the doing the 91988. and they denied, and we've seen a lot of kind of like image as being brought back saying look, this why the boss can be done. and then we've seen a few incidents of support to being attacked. now the, the in b, b is also tools as opposed to has to be much, much more peaceful. so, so far we haven't got any indication that the election and the pause election period quote good while it, but the law fios that widens,

could be instigated artificially created. if the vote doesn't go in favor of a sudden candidate all candidates. now these elections come at a time that india in china are emerging world or emerging world powers and rivals, and they are vine for influence in the in the pacific region. could be the collections influence how sri lanka, approaches their relations with both countries. or is it the outcome is the n b b candidate under a lot of design. uh uh comes out as the rena, that really to be a complete overhaul of how these regional, as well as global pilot. look at st on got and the week a vision of that relationships. it's very long. if the model of the other 2 front, brenda is riley williams ingles, i have been with us a thumbs into but i don't see that kind of

a major change. but if the n b b take us victory, their religion just because they're following policy. number one from what they have put out in the portfolio. eas, somebody different from what others have bustled and some are different from what 3 and that's pursued. in the last 2 or 3 tickets. so you will see that's kind of a change. if the, if the victory e is the n b b. all right, i'm afraid we'll have to leave it there. that was turn was a month of pereira, thank you very much. for your analysis, you, my god, is really a fighter jets have carried out a large number of strikes and has bull of forces in southern lebanon is really gentle. also heard in the skies over be route, as well as leader responded to this week's mass attack using exploding painters and walkie talkies. and it's our lives and dress. hassan and us rela, accuse,

is real of the attack and described it as a declaration of war on the lebanese people. free is really strikes hips, something living on while is really g. it's flew love over favorite breaking the sound barrier of the axes time to take place exactly as his beloved leader made this address by the name of a 2 day a 2nd or more minutes on tuesday. and in one minutes on wednesday, the history of the enemy was a mean to kill and no less than 5000 people in 2 minutes without caring about any limits on the, on they have no problem with where they are killed. what are they doing? how they were killed. baba well mine domestically wasn't to be located yet. and dozens of people have been killed and thousands injured off to hundreds of pages and walkie talkies used by his belie,

exploded. his beloved blames israel and admit the bombings have delivered a severe blog. while the attacks appear to have targeted the groups, members, many civilians have been caught up in the violence. hospitals have been overwhelmed . residence and now fearful of the electronic devices. or in the middle of it you can we expect any good from 0 because children are being killed that are on the bed in 10 small devices and they would that the need to deal with that. we don't even know of cost miscarried, my children might subbing children. all of us involved them who don't feel safe. but if we have 5000 injured and just do data on, this isn't a small model as well. mean by who can think on the phone? no, when i heard about what happened, i left my phone on the motorcycle and walked away and on my iphone with my system and now i have i signs and when concerns are running us about the life science and

lithium batteries with my siblings, starting to avoid doing, we're touching the funds on of a fair ring. they might fix it, like it's a normal reaction. we are a country that has been handled yet that we have nothing uh by that. so lemme through meanwhile is round his nose. acknowledge the attack. it's defense minister says the country isn't a new phase of one. who is the move. i add to the goal is to safely returned the residents of the nose back to their homes. as time goes by has spun, i will pay an increase in price on this legal bill. he's velocities, it will continue its attacks on northern israel as long as the war in guns a continues and is vowing retaliation for the bombings of recent days. earlier i talked to david doubt, he's a senior fellow on israel 11 on and has the law at the foundation for the defense of democracies in washington, dc. i asked him how much closer the region is to

a wider conflict. i wouldn't say were necessarily quotes or at least if we're talking from the perspective of head beloved response. if you look at the secretary general hasn't withdrawal like speech today. it was mostly an exercise and damage control. a re, emphasis that has below will continue the state of the in tempo of attacks against israel. but it begin on october 8th when it begin packing his role without convocation to uh, to support its allies. because this trip until aspire to, to get enrolled, and a promise that it will retaliate, or these become a communications device attack at some point in the future, but he didn't specify it time didn't fight, but it specify the nature of such a retaliation. but from headboard side, it doesn't seem like they're that they're bits interest in turning this into a wider conflict has changed from these really side. however, we see patients running out with diplomatic efforts to return this citizen of

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