is also water acting. president of ronald with what i'm a singer out claiming he's an ally of roger parcher. he's one of 2 front runners to take on the presidential role. the other is leader of the opposition sergeant. pay my dance on your right. for the 1st time since 1978 parliament, we'll choose the leader instead of a popular vote. whoever comes out winner, he'll have to rescue sri lanka from economic collapse and when over an exhausted and angry public. we'll talk to an analyst about that right after this report for manure hipa, sorry, the gold base area in the heart of colombo has become a 2nd home, a lecturer and social activist. she has been involved in the action from the start prior to these are all st. petersburg actually then v ways out a through social media against the guitar bit ij a box and the government criticize it. and by posting some post and it was of the writing for the newspapers, but actually understand that not enough. ah, so then because of bending, we understand and we need to do, we need to do some more than that. missouri has seen the early protest grew into a

it comes after for leader, go to buy a roger parcher officially resigned after fleeing the country. for months, 3 lincolns had been demanding the removal of roger puncture, who they blamed for the country, severe economic crisis. on the streets, us re lanka. people celebrate after hearing the country's president has resigned, they say this is a triumph for democracy. america is a huge ricky mist rather here more than 3 months. and i would like to say like, it's this, i mean, at this moment i feel is that a good lesson for all caught up at 4 digits, inter lanka. yeah. i say extremely happy for us because we were about to go down about it and we always the most marvel barza in the gandhi. i'll be sure to be burbalow is the ex extremely heavy divorce. president got a buyer. raja parks are flattery lanka, to the mall deeds ending up in singapore before e mailing. his official resignation to longer has a months of anti government protests with people storming government buildings and taking a very heavily guarded comp. many a frustrated with the worsening political and economic crisis tha

was it, or was it a clear sign that this is the end of president roger parcher and his family's grip on politics? well, we need to keep in mind that the purchase started several months ago. the produced started in march any to be expanded and spread to different parts of sri lanka. and the d mind has been very much clearly for the resignation of the precedent as well as the departure of the road to puck says, from acting politics. so that warning signs have been there, people have been peacefully protesting for months. what happened on saturday, as you quite rightly said, was remarkable in terms of the numbers that came out. and the fact that after months of protesting, they were able to breach an into board the presidential palace as well as the official office, the secretariat. also that sent a clear message that time was up and the president had to resign as well as the prime minister. and in that context, it's still shocking that they're still holding on to office because the people have been very clear with their demand. when it comes to the process of appointing new political l

to flee the country after being blocked from living by airport staff in colombo, who to buy are roger parcher has promised to step down on wednesday when civil unrest continues. the are countries. political crisis is also hitting citizens at the fuel pump, with record prices the to conserve fuel. the government is asking people to work from home and as close schools, restaurants have even switch to cooking meals on wood fires for 7 days as our moore hardin has been waiting here in a kilometer long line for gas in sri lanka, capital colombo, he turned a new fuel delivery was coming, he spent day and night here since i didn't, the gas in there is simply no more fuel. we have no more gas at home to cook. we used to have an income, but for weeks now the money has stopped coming to one and we love, we can't go on like this. life is hard. i don't know where to make matters worse. his wife is ill. he tries to spend a little time with her every day at lunch time, risking losing his place in line in early and then i keep calling him when he is there waiting. it's the tormenting. thank that have made m

the former president go to bio roger parcher has fled. the country and hope saw a breakthrough on easy global food shortages. ukraine says this negotiate it's negotiators, are close to striking a deal with russia to resume granite sports that talks with free supplies to feed millions facing hunter. ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. u. s. presidential biden has landed in israel. it's the 1st stop on his 1st trip to the middle east as american head of state. he's under pressure to balance human rights concerns with america's geopolitical objectives in the region. by them was briefed on israel's missile defense system. after landing. i will now visit the yard bush memorial to a holocaust victims. after 2 days the jerusalem, the u. s. president will then go to the occupied westbank that palestinian lead up mahmoud abbas is expected to voice his concern over israeli settlements. the president's final and most controversial stop will be in saudi arabia, where containing iran increasing all production and human rights are on his age