absolutely come on the fact of the rajapakse is we're going to carry through their plans either for a new constitution or in this case what they have settled for is an amended constitution is no surprise to anyone i mean the basically the rajapaksa bandwagon which began with top iraqi proxy contesting the presidency he went to the people asking for a mandate essentially to make the necessary changes to the constitution to allow him to do what's necessary for this country to report that confidence and essentially the people voted on mass for him and we're seeing that essentially indication of that coming to fruition in the parliament just a few minutes ago 156 m.p.'s voting to change the constitution as opposed to $65.00 voting against it this obviously brings that huge sweeping range of powers back under the umbrella of gotama rajapakse of the current executive president of sri lanka he has the power to appoint to dismiss the prime minister any minister he has the power obviously to take on any ministerial portfolio to make sweeping appointments to a wide range of institutions very se

yeah so entry longer there rajapakse says have really been able to intensify their our territory an agenda over the past few months they've been doing things like controlling independent reporting on state feeling and fever of all speech but what really illustrates this is the calling of early elections which were actually had to be postponed and jerricho then one team so this left the national legislator out of session beyond the constitutional deadline allowing the executive to kind of rule with out this over say and much fewer checks on the power and that the same time as we mentioned muslims have been suffering from very intense keep going within the country and. they have been labeled as super spatters that the media has singled out cases where muslims contracted the virus so that there are really a bunch of aspects in she locked at that kind of illustrates some of those issues that we highlight including abuse of power. restrictions against marginalized communities stifling of the press and elections that have been held with some kind of undermining of their credibility all right we'

against it this obviously brings that huge sweeping range of powers back under the umbrella of gotama rajapaksethe current executive president of sri lanka he has the power to appoint to dismiss the prime minister any minister he has the power of his leave to take on any ministerial portfolio to make sweeping appointments to a wide range of institutions very sensitive institutions the judiciary the national police commission essentially also the whole system of appointments which for which the previous government in the 19th amendment had set up a constitutional council has been done away with now there's a parliamentary council but essentially most of those decisions and the power rests with the one man the executive president gautami rajapaksa. so hariri has again been named lebanon's prime minister with the country in the grip of a political and economic crisis his appointment was announced after consultations between lebanon's president and various political groups hariri resign from the job last year following anti-government protests saying the holder has more. solid how d.d. has returned

against it this obviously brings that huge sweeping range of powers back under the umbrella of gotama rajapakse of the current executive president of sri lanka he has the power to appoint to dismiss the prime minister any minister he has the power of p.s.v. to take on any ministerial portfolio to make sweeping appointments to a wide range of institutions very sensitive institutions the judiciary the national police commission essentially also the whole system of appointments which for which the previous government in the 19th amendment had set up a constitutional council has been done away with now there's a parliamentary council but essentially most of those decisions and the power rests with the one man the executive president gautami rajapaksa in the news ahead saad hariri is back as lebanon's prime minister for the 4th time promising to rescue the country that rejected him and also the hunt for the most wanted man in georgia with the latest on the bank robber on the run and the traumatised hostages he left behind. hello the weather is slushy set. barack ros the middle east lots of pleasant

amount of oversight all of this is getting swept away by essentially what is the tidal wave of the rajapakse as it was always going to be a done deal in terms of the showing that got harvey rajapaksa had at the presidential elections where he asked for a mandate to change the constitution to bring in a new constitution big continued that line at the parliamentary elections and essentially got a sweeping majority in parliament and this is what they're doing right now big did submit the draft report those to the supreme court to ensure that it was in keeping with the constitution the supreme court found 4 different areas which needed to be amended or which needed to be put to the people in a referendum because they said it wasn't considered con in keeping with the constitution some of those. essentially legal immunity for the president the president's ability to dissolve parliament 8 essentially ahead of its. another sort of contentious issue is the fact that dual citizens are going to be allowed to hold office to contest in parliament and as well as hold office it's been a huge issue with som

this obviously brings that huge sweeping range of powers back under the umbrella of gore tarbert rajapakseof the current executive president of sri lanka he has the power to appoint to dismiss the prime minister any minister he has the power of the asli to take on any ministerial portfolio to make sweeping appointments to a wide range of institutions very sensitive institutions the judiciary the national police commission essentially also the whole system of appointments which for which the previous government in the 19th amendment had set up a constitutional council has been done away with now there's a parliamentary council but essentially most of those decisions and the power rests with the one man the executive president gautami rajapaksa saad hariri has again been named lebanon's prime minister with the country in the grip of a political and economic crisis is appointment was announced after consultations between lebanon's president and various political groups hariri resign from the job last year following antigovernment protests so no hoarder. sad how the the has returned to power t

against it this obviously brings that huge sweeping range of powers back under the umbrella of gautama rajapakse of the current executive president of sri lanka he has the power to appoint to dismiss the prime minister any minister he has the power obviously to take on any ministerial portfolio to make sweeping appointments to a wide range of institutions very sensitive institutions the judiciary the national police commission essentially also the whole system of appointments which for which the previous government in the 19th amendment had set up a constitutional council has been done away with now there's a parliamentary council but essentially most of those decisions and the power rests with the one man the executive president gautami rajapaksa. almost a quarter past this news are in here's what's coming up saad hariri the name does lebanon's prime minister designate it could be the 4th time he gets the job he's promising to rescue the very country that rejected him. to be it want people to not to forget about our situation not prepared to fight the opposition and winds york's top prize for h

against it this obviously brings that huge sweeping range of powers back under the umbrella of gautama rajapaksethe current executive president of sri lanka he has the power to appoint to dismiss the prime minister any minister he has the power of the asli to take on any ministerial portfolio to make sweeping appointments to a wide range of institutions very sensitive institutions the judiciary the national police commission essentially also the whole system of appointments which for which the previous government in the 19th amendment had set up a constitutional council has been done away with now there's a parliamentary council but essentially most of those decisions and the power rests with the one man the executive president gautami rajapaksa. to hong kong where around 1000000 people could emigrate to britain in the next 5 years under a new visa britain confirm the details of the offer which was made in july and path to citizenship was outlined to those with british national overseas status looking to leave its former colony this comes after china broke the terms of an 1904 handover treaty by