let's go straight to set, bathrooms, lifers in colombo stuff. it's been a very eventful 24 to 48 hours in inter lanka. bring us up to date with the very latest. yeah. well, a lot of anger here on the street of colombo, as you can see here, behind me, a lot of professors went to the prime minister's office just over an hour ago. they are police, a fire tear gas and water canada to them. and then they started marching around the city and thousands of them. and now they have arrived here at the state, television and radio offices. basically what we're seeing right now is that the prime minister has a clear the state of emergency and the western provinces, and also impose emergency matches for the whole country. basically also saying that people who are writing could be arrested. but a lot of people are demanding his resignation as well. the main demand right now because we haven't heard from president a box that since he flat land kind of early hours off today. together with his wife and 2 bodyguards, he's now in the mildly, but they also want the

and titanium was designed for a bit b colombo and sewn by hand. in 2025, the european satellite will focus its attention on the surface of the planet. while the japanese magnetic orators main objective is to find out why mercury is the only planet besides earth to have a magnetic field. with certain times, mercury, and other planets and outside the system of visible from here on. and sometimes 2 or more planets are visible on a single path. but the planets all that around the sun at very different speeds. so this kind of a planetary conjunction is a bare event. in late june 20, 225 celestial bodies aligned in a kind of planetary parade across the heavens. action, moss, jupiter and venus will still be visible for a few more weeks. the string of puff lined up along the horizon. close i. gabriel asa from columbia had a question about that. why did the planets we see in the night sky, shine like stars even to the naked eye? a few of the small dots of light up in the firmament, standout, while most of them keep a constant distance to each other, a sele

in colombo _ shortage. thank you very much for your time. in colombo where - your time.ousands of protesters remain on the streets, remain in the government buildings, in the presidential residential house and another prime minister's home as well which has been set on fire. demanding new governments in their country. demanding new governments in their count . a . ~ demanding new governments in their count . v country. back here in the uk, let's have a look _ country. back here in the uk, let's have a look at _ country. back here in the uk, let's have a look at what _ country. back here in the uk, let's have a look at what weather - country. back here in the uk, let's have a look at what weather has i country. back here in the uk, let's have a look at what weather has in store for us in the days ahead. hello there. it is not quite as hot today. there is more of a gentle north—westerly breeze this time. these are the temperatures as we head into the early part of the evening. highest numbers across north southern parts of england and wales typically the mid—20s still. cle

the baby colombo probe is heading there on a long and securities route. it will be making a number of fly biased, pos mercury to calibrate it's trajectory. the 2nd fly by was in late june 2022 on the prob, sent back some selfies as a momento law. and we already have a soundtrack from the fast fly by the spacecraft. will have to do full moon fly buys before it reaches its mercury orbit and withstand some rather extreme conditions. all 1000000000 euros. that's how much the european space agency and japan's jack space agency shelled out on their bet be colombo project. although mercury is relatively close to the earth, studying the innermost planet of our solar system is still a major challenge. viewed from the earth, mercury is easily obscured by our central star, the sun. that makes observations with a telescope very difficult, and any one wants to fly to mercury has to contend with the sun's relentless gravitational pull. all european space flights are monitored here at the aces operating center in darmstadt, germany, in order to enable bebee colombo to r

but tens of thousands of people is dreaming in to colombo in any way they can on our drive. here we saw dozens of people on foot with backpacks living around colombo, even people who had been walking from out of colombo were also hearing that trains, which had been a sort of haunted up people, storm railway stations, and literally forced to have a employees to put trains on the tracks and bring them into colombo and the one thing they see that they are taking that country back. today's the independent stay for me. been born in this nation, not mine in 48, because to day we have thought far freedom from the tyranny from the scoundrels, from the bleak gods, from the rascal, the rooms, and the glee, the politicians who have run our nation below ground 0. and this is exactly what the government tried so hard to prevent. the thousands of people converging on the capital to urge the president and his government to go. they brought in a curfew, they had to remove it the next day. they essentially wanted the distribution of fuel. what have a little stocks were available were frozen.

which earnest marlin maria sing here is then colombo following that developing story. and he updated us on the situation that i yeah, i'm actually at the main site. oh yes. so the new a that the president has decided to resign on the 13th and wants that new scheme out that they are still remaining summer deciding to disperse. yes, and we are all wandering a nice because will bother you haven't had any communication. se bad about except for the fact that the had to communicate to the speaker that the bill to sign on. and the prime minister has also tweeted that he'll resign to facilitate an establishment of an all party government. might that steady the situation at the moment? yeah, because i think i was earlier at the prime minister's residence with these private residents, which was set on fire. and one of the reasons for this was the violence escalated a bit of a back by the police. so at that site over there days also, i think i was just, i just came from that feeling off the escalation because of these announcements because of these resignations, again, prime mini

his base agency showed out on their bet be colombo project. although mercury is relatively close to the earth, studying the innermost planet of our solar system is still a major challenge. viewed from the earth, mercury is easily obscured by our central star, the sun. that makes observations with a telescope very difficult, and any one wants to fly to mercury has to contend with the sun's relentless gravitational pull. all european space flights are monitored here at the aces operating center in darmstadt, germany, in order to enable baby colombo to reach an orbit around mercury. engineers have had to calculate a complicated route. the total travel time, 7 years. this kind of computation and maneuvers are extremely complex because we are flying to our do the sun, which is like a, well, it is an extreme gravitational pull in that area. medical is very close to it. we're actually mixing 3 different types of energy. we're actually flying with our rocket, the iran 5 that is launching us in space. we're using electric propulsion on board the spacec

he is there in colombo as well. so firstly, let me just ask you about the legality of this, this, this decision to speak a giving us the news that ronald become a singer is, is now president. does it? what is your reaction to that camera? a big surprise because, you know, that president bush top is of the country. we have not yet to be did not see his resignation letter be heard about a resignation letter. but date was not publicly shown to us, so he did not come on television and announce his resignation. and then be suddenly heard that their prime minister, ronald promising had assumed the position of g a president. but that didn't matter so much as the fact, but it also announced that he has become a curfew. and not only a cultural, an emergency throughout the country. and this is quite appalling because here is a peaceful protest of peace. full is a mere peaceful revolution where people are happy with the government got a president to leave the country, but peacefully and yield their declaring cost you and her a

history. bevy, colombo, has now from close to venus twice each time. the probe has given up a bit of its kinetic energy to the planet that is allowed the probe to approach mercury's orbit around the sun. bebee colombo, as passed by its research object at 200 kilometers distance between them twice so far. and in keeping with the times has sent cosmic selby's of the planet end itself back to her. but the probe is still traveling too fast. it has to slow down another 6 times through swing by maneuvers would the help of mercury's gravitational field only then after 7 years of flight, who the prob and current orbit around the planet and split into 2 observations, satellites, one european and one japanese. that's when the real challenge begins. not only use the solar radiation on mercury, 10 times stronger than on earth. in addition, mercury's daytime side heats up to 480 degrees celsius. for asia project manager as have montaigne own, it's been an unprecedented challenge. when did he almost stuff you did my tell you only database a visa was way up to 120 de

on our drive year we saw dozens of people on foot with backpacks living around colombo. even people who had been walking from out of colombo were also hearing that trends which had been, are sort of halted. are people storm rear stations and literally forced railway employees to put trains on the tracks and bring them into colombo and the one thing they say that they are taking that country back. hello, mask has confirmed he is terminating his $44000000000.00 tank over of twitter. the tesla ceo's legal team says the company breach the deal, but twitter says it will so masked to enforce the agreement. the police chief in the japanese city of nara, where the former prime minister should so ave was assassinated on friday, says he can't deny they were problems with his security ave was shot and killed while giving a campaign speech. oh, and muslim pilgrims are marking the 1st aid of aid and her in mecca. this is expanded high. she is now coming to an end after 2 years of severe restrictions because of the pandemic. 900000 people were able to attend lucy. most of them came fr

michelle fernandez audra 0 colombo. well, gonna run with an a. roger is a senior research associate at overseas development institute in london. he joins us now from colombo, thanks for being with us here on al jazeera, now with the politics of this economic collapse it's, it's easy to lose sight of the plight of the people themselves. can you describe just how bad the situation is? so yesterday saw people who were hungry and living, essentially on one meal a day. and having spent a long time the better cuz maybe 3 nights, plus 3 my picture cues went in their frustrations on the government in power. and it's a timely reminder that corruption and mismanagement have political consequences. the free lunch and economy has been undergoing something called speculation, which is a contraction, as well as 50 percent inflation. some of this is spot by the russia, ukraine conflict, and the timid recovery from the economic effects of covey but mismanagement, has been an important feature. for instance, the not darby roger, but the government announced tax c

shejoins us now from colombo.t is great to get you on the programme, and what astonishing scenes we are seeing outside sri lanka. in that report that we are hearing that the president pledged to resign by wednesday. that hasn't happened yet. there is now that interim president, and acting president in power, how other people taking it? well, the president did promise to resign on wednesday 13, it is thursday the 14th entry lankenau and we have not seen a resignation, so we basically have a president that has fled sri lanka and basically in exile. i mean, we don't know exactly where he is. it is reported he is heading your way. we do have an acting president indistinct speech in sri lanka. as you point out, those reports that president gotabaya roger pascoe is on his way here, but there is a state of emergency in the country and a pledge to elect a new president byjuly 20, is that going to happen in this process? there's a curfew in sri lanka at the moment that will be lifted shortly or may have been lifted shortly

we can now hear finally a bit more from colombo. ,., ., ., colombo.ant thing to remember is _ colombo. the important thing to remember is that _ colombo. the important thing to remember is that there - colombo. the important thing to remember is that there is - colombo. the important thing to remember is that there is a - colombo. the important thing to remember is that there is a lot l colombo. the important thing to | remember is that there is a lot of anger and frustration with the political class but you talk to people and say, who is going to be best to take over, who will lead the country out of this worsening economic situation? nobody really has an answer and i have said this time and again, this seems to be a crisis of uncertainty and nobody knows where they are going to get fuel and how they are going to get their next meal and nobody knows who might be leading the country even in the next few days. now we can turn to the uk where just six candidates remain in the running to be the next conservative party leader and prime minister. conservat

's may near a child trees in colombo forest near a great to see you. is there any more information on where to go to buy a raj epoxy? is he was loss reported to be in singapore, but it's been down your unclear what's going to happen now. well, you're right after you left the country in the early july 13th and it was negative . won't be due to what that is, what the latest information we have been if you are in a bad thing up or from the in the country. but then also said that you have not taught an asylum and neither have you been granted one so far. we do not know whether he's last the same thing for, for a while, but for a while over the last will be for some of the country. okay, now that he has gone, does this mean the crisis is going to stabilize and a new government can be formed? well, you know, that is what people are expecting now the parliament is supposed to reconvene. so and more probably in the early days of the coming week, the speaker of the parliament is supposed to announce give a formal announcement of board books resignation anytime

he joined us from colombo. so yesterday we saw chaotic scenes with a number of people injured. how was the situation in colombo at the moment? i mean, right now it's a pretty fees peaceful. it has been a day like with the vibe in between of a party and the revolution or the people were celebrating today. they were going into the president's palace. um, hundreds, maybe thousands of people going there and seeing how i got to buy at at parks. i lived in his luxury villa there. they were occupying the pool area. they went to to the gym, they were walking around in the garden and they really enjoyed what they called a victory yesterday. that the prime minister and also to buy early parts of the president of the lanka, said they are willing to resign when the next upcoming week center. people cannot quite believe it to yet they are still protesting. here behind me, they say they won't be done until you go to buy our auto parts has actually gone from waters. and until they have a new government here. so the president and the prime minister have both promised to step down and the oppos

history. bevy, colombo has now from close to venus twice each time. the probe has given up a bit of its kinetic energy to the planet. that is allowed the probe to approach mercury's orbit around the sun, bebee colombo, as passed by its research object at 200 kilometers distance between them twice so far. and in keeping with the times has sent cosmic selby's of the planet end itself back to her. but the probe is still traveling too fast. it has to slow down another 6 times through swing by maneuvers would the help of mercury's gravitational field . only then after 7 years of flight, who the prob, enter an orbit around the planet and split into 2 observations, satellites, one european, and one japanese. that's when the real challenge begins. not only is the solar radiation on mercury 10 times stronger than on earth. in addition, mercury stay time side heats up to 480 degrees celsius. for asia project manager as a montaigne own, it's been an unprecedented challenge. when did he almost stuff? she did my tell you only database a visa was going up to 120 de

by roger paxis, a residence in colombo. many thanks. and dave, now ela moss has concerned that he's terminating his $44000000000.00 takeover of twitter. now the social media company says the little su, tesla c o, to make sure that the agreement goes through. katya lopez, holly on reports, a $44000000000.00 deal to buy. twitter is now off the table. the richest man in the world. elan must says he's terminating the contract 3 months after locking in the agreement. he accuses the company of failing to provide information about fake accounts on the platform, and whether they make up fewer than 5 percent of users. twitters board chair says it kept its end of the contract and is planning to sue. i think twitter probably would prevail in this. i would think simply because there are, there is a deal now he must, can get out by paying a $1000000000.00 fine or $1000000000.00 bits, but sorry, fine. a $1000000000.00 penalty. and my guess is that that's what he's trying to prevent is not having to make that $1000000000.00 payment for money. the focu

we report from the scene in colombo. these protesters want a new beginning for sri lanka, a new political culture so that they will not face a similar economic crisis in this country. the uk defence secretary, ben wallace, rules himself out of the conservative leadership contest — as the field starts to get crowded with eight people now ruling themselves in. as japan grieves for the former prime minister shinzo abe, voting begins in elections for the upper house for the upper house of parliament. i feel very, ifeel very, very, very, very sad. and the sense of loss is just so great that i do not know how to overcome. and in the tennis, elena rybakina wins the women's singles title at wimbledon — the first player from kazakhstan to win a grand slam title. hello, and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. sri lanka's president gotabaya rajapaksa has announced he will be stepping down. it comes after protesters stormed his official residence and set fire to the prime minister's house. hundreds of thousands of d

the situation in colombo right now? right now when i took, when i walked to other industries in columbus in the morning it was much more common, much more peaceful in colombo and people who could find fuel of going around a l. so and at different price at the president's house, the people treat people like worry. i spoke to a family who was there, they wanted to come and see the place. and there were people making breakfast there . and it is much more much more peaceful lean while the prime minister's house is still still burning. the still small coming out of his house right now as we speak . and that's, that's, that's about it. that's really it's much baseball in columbia today. so he a relative return to some semblance of normalcy there. with the president and the prime minister ready to step down. is it clear what happens next or well president and the prime minister had there not officially resign. the prime minister said that he will resign, but he did not officially resign. he did not give his resignation in that

and i asked him a short time ago to describe the situation in colombo. i mean right now it's pretty feast people. it has been a day like with a bite in between us a party and the revolution that people were celebrating today. they were going into the president's pallets, 100 maybe thousands of people going there and seeing how that bio lift in his luxury been there. they were occupying the pool area, they went to the gym, they were walking around the garden and they really enjoy what they call the big 3 yesterday. that the prime minister and also go to buy a part of the president of the lanka, said to be willing to resign in the next upcoming week. and people cannot quite believe it yet. they are still protesting here behind me. they say they won't be done until that by 2 o'clock. so i was actually gone from office and until they have a new government here. so the president and the prime minister have both promised to step down, and the opposition parties have met for talks. how curse are they on trying to establish new government? the really tough to sa

many are chowdhury with the view from colombo, thank you. so much you as president joe biden is holding talked with israel's new prime minister year le pete at this hour. biden has called america's ties with israel bone deep during his 1st trip to the middle east. since taking office as president biden's visit will also include talks in the palestinian territories. it's not the 1st time joe biden is visiting israel, but it is the 1st since he became the president of the united states. he is meeting with israeli leaders just run than ties that he face already form because the connection between israeli people and the american people is blown, deep blown, deep among the leaders was as rails defense minister who briefed biden on the iron dome. the iron dome is israel state of the art defense system to intercept miss isles. biden's dress. the 2 nations close cooperation on defense projects where rear form the unshakable come every be honest. those de israel security, including partnering with israel on the most cutting edge, the french systems i

now thank you so much for that. grinnell fernandez is reporting for us from colombo. we're going to bring in bonnie fonseca, who's a senior researcher at the center for policy alternatives. she's joining us from colombo as well. welcome to al jazeera. what is your reaction to renault? of acronyms single being voted in as new president he seems to have gotten quite a significant support by getting 134 awards. so the members of ali mans has decided that the next president should meet you, not in the promising they see going against the cause and the demands of the protesters and abruptly. so it will be very interesting to see how the 8 tracy dang lima to move forward when dad's real anger towards him. and i don't know how he's able to going to be, but mother and in such a contest. are you worried that the roger pox of family will still have some sort of influence over? houser lanka? will be governed and run, particularly with the election of the best prime minister, who of course served under the roger boxes. well, run you. the premise being has, sir, this find me said

i'm marita cima in the for like in capital colombo, thanks so much for your reporting. this estate up. the news from berlin. business news is up next week. my colleague christy, pleasant stay with us for that. and there'll be more news at the top of the on anthony, how it in berlin for now. thanks. watch. ah, good morning. how can this passionate hatred of a people be exclaimed, you tom.

we report from the scene in colombo. lanka, a new political culture, so that they will not face a similar economic crisis in this country. also on the programme... for the keys to downing street and leadership of the tory party, eight candidates have now entered the race. the body of japan's assassinated former prime minister is brought home. police admit security flaws over his shooting. and moscow—born elena rybakina, representing kazakhstan, wins the women's final at wimbledon. good evening. after months of protests in sri lanka over a deepening economic crisis, fury boiled over on the streets today as thousands of people stormed the residence of the president and set fire to the home of the prime minister. huge crowds enraged by the authorities' handling of the country's worst crisis in decades broke through police barricades and overwhelmed the security forces. the prime minister has agreed to resign and reports say the president will step down next week. from the capital, colombo, our correspondent anbarasan ethira

one ah, the ongoing bond and some colombo was purchased in march towards the home of the shrunken prison. ah, we begin in japan. the nation, stunned by the assassination of former prime minister oceans obeyed. he was shot dead on friday during a campaign speech in the southwestern city of nora. people have been paying tribute, some lang flowers at the sight of his murder ave was japan's longest serving prime minister, killed in one of the worst attacks? not politicians since the 2nd world war. and these alive pitches from outside. mister abe's residence in tokyo were expecting his hers to be brought from nora to the japanese capital. we believe it's already on the way as heavy security, as you can see outside his home, with many members of the press, photographers, et cetera. there at the moment. when you details are emerging about the man that shot and kill japan's former prime minister are 0. is jillian wolf reports? oh, these are the moments before japan's former prime minister sions obey was assassinated . and this is the man that shot him standing among the crowd in the city of nora

i'm re to cima in the for like, and capital colombo. thank you so much. sports now and germany are through the semi finals. if you are 2022, after bidding austria to nil, gemini kept their composure in fiercely contested game in london. this for the 1st half. and right at the end to seal a meeting with either france or the netherlands. players was like amber contribute to like jimmy icon, eva 0. 1 of our own icons, mac made us from de w sports. is he the tell us more mark, a good win for jim? yes indeed. i mean, it was typical germany in this tournament. it was very clinical not a lot of floor flare, but got the job done. leaning goals gotten the 1st half and, and captain alexandra pop right at the end. they were surprised, actually, austria, quite unheralded. but it was quite a tough games and quite juicy tackles. there obviously was a bit of a darby feel given that the austrian speak german and quite a lot of the austrian players play in the german league. but they, they got it done in the end. so germany weren't among the favorites when we were talking

we report from the scene in colombo. these protesters want a new beginning for sri lanka, a new political culture so that they will not face a similar economic crisis in this country. as japan grieves for the former prime minister shinzo abe, voting begins in elections for the upper house of parliament. the uk chancellor nadim zahawi has added his name to the conservative leadership contest — joining a field of eight, including sajid javid and jeremy hunt. and in the tennis, moscow—born elena rybakina wins the women's singles title, representing kazakhastan. in the last hour, the united states has urged the sri lankan government to work quickly to address discontent in the country. discontent is putting it mildly — protesters have stormed government buildings, and the president and prime minister have pledged to step down. it's all due to to months of economic mismanagement. sri lanka is suffering rampant inflation and is struggling to import food, fuel and medicine. our correspondent anbarasan ethirajan reports from the

from out of colombo. we're also hearing that trains which had been our sort of halted our people, storm rear stations and literally forced ruby employees to put trains on the tracks and bring them into colombo and the one thing they see that they are taking that country back. today's independence day for me. been born in this nation, not mine in 48. because to day, we have fought far freedom from the tyranny from the scoundrels, from the black gods, from the rascal, the robes, and the li, the politicians who have run our nation below ground 0. and this is exactly what the government tried so hard to prevent. the thousands of people converging on the capital to urge the president and his government to go. they brought in a curfew, they had to remove it the next day. they essentially wanted the distribution of fuel. whatever little stocks were available were frozen. i essentially transport public's transport was stopped, but people were not giving up. and if you look at the far back around the she lanchen f

no, our channel was told about this at the russian embassy what is happening on the streets of colombo and what caused the protests will tell matvey popov that it started out as a regular demonstration that takes place every week here and it looks more and more like a coup in the footage that comes from colombo, the largest city and the unofficial capital of the country , excellently, it is clear that the military, who was assigned to guard the residence of the head of state, does not interfere with the storming of the building at all. some couple of minutes and the object was seized by another question, that the president was not there for a year, both raja paksu managed to hide in the streets. colombo riots do not subside, the efforts of those military and police who are still trying to resist the demonstrators is clearly not enough security officials much less clash. dozens of people have already suffered a building with columns in the background. this is the old parliament building. now the crowd has seized the presidential secretariat there, and the local television broadcast it p

we report from the scene in colombo. these protesters want a new beginning for sri lanka, a new political culture so that they will not face a similar economic crisis in this country. as japan grieves for the former prime minister shinzo abe, voting begins in elections for the upper house of parliament. ifeel very, very, very, very sad. and the sense of loss is just so great that i do not know how to overcome. the uk chancellor nadim zahawi has added his name to the conservative leadership contest — joining a field of eight including sajid javid and jeremy hunt. and in the tennis, moscow—born elena rybakina wins the women's singles title representing kazakhstan. sri lanka is in the grip of chaos and uncertainty after a dramatic 2a hours which has seen the country's president and prime minister pledge to step down. they were left with little choice after demonstrators stormed or set fire to to their official residences — a howl of anger after months of protests about economic mismanagement. sri lanka is suffering rampant

he joins us from colombo. so pack us off the what avi alternatives to a raj, a pucks, the government. well, as soon as the presidents resignation is announced, the prime minister becomes the acting president according to the constitution. and that is for a period of 30 days within which parliament must decide who amongst such members will be elected to serve the remainder of the raj boxes. that's the constitutional position. and i understand that the prime minister, mister, the machine has called the lead up meeting of all party leaders. but that's the legion of the opposition always in hospital at the moment that he know his party with him. so do you think that these protests are strong enough to lead to that change and enough for roger pucks that to stand down? yes, i think so. i mean, i think the general expectation is that an announcement a resignation will come either today or tomorrow. i think the whole question is, is where is 1st and raj flexible in terms of going to exile and all of those things have

rajini vaidyanathan, bbc news, colombo.or more on this i'm joined now by asanga abeyagoonasekera, who is a sri lankan political analyst, and currently a senior fellow at the millennium project think tank in washington dc. thank think tank in washington dc. you forjoining us on i very thank you forjoining us on this very dramatic set of developments that we've seen just in the last few hours. finally a resignation. that we've seen just in the last few hours. finallya resignation. do that we've seen just in the last few hours. finally a resignation. do you think this will help to stop the protest permanently? definitely. this will be _ protest permanently? definitely. this will be a _ protest permanently? definitely. this will be a key _ protest permanently? definitely. this will be a key factor - protest permanently? definitely. this will be a key factor to - this will be a key factor to de—escalate the political tension. for three months the protesters were asking for the right resignation it's a huge victory for the protes

here we saw dozens of people on foot with backpacks living around colombo. even people who had been walking from out of colombo were also heading that trains which had been a sort of halted up people, storm rear stations and literally forced to obey employees to put trains on the tracks and bring them into colombo. and the one thing they see that they are taking that country back ilan mosque has confirmed that he's terminating his $44000000000.00 takeover of twitter. the tesla ceo's legal team says the company breached the deal, but twitter says that it will sue mosque to enforce the agreement. the chief of police in the japanese city of nora, where the former prime minister since obey was assassinated on friday, says he can't deny that there were problems with our base security. he was shot and killed while giving a campaign speech. he was secretary of state entity blinkin, says he had a frank discussion with china's foreign minister wearing ye when the 2 met on the sidelines of the g. 20 meeting in bali. beijing says the to reached consensus on improving t

did up lose money rotary reports from colombo. every single day, 100 q or pure at the passport office in sri lanka, bushed by circumstances they wish to leave the country. one of them is 50. do you, roy, germany, the girl who has been coming here for 3 days now? with her husband and son, or to have a husband. i have come here with my husband and my son to get their passports made . and if we want to leave from look, there's no work for us here. there's nothing has been cut amnio. germany has worked as a caregiver for years and her husband as an order rickshaw driver who have lost a livelihood because of the cotton prices and she long and are finding it difficult to even survive. what she wants now is a better life for her 19 year old son, which she knows is a far cry in her country. germany says that it's not just her but boundless others who are suffering. people here have been reading for div standing in q was outside the department of immigration and emigration and colombo. many of them who have come from other parts of the cou

she's also in colombo. i don't know if you were able to hear or see what we were talking about with steph. there. the military just working out of the prime minister's office and she walking away from the protesters is something some lab and where you are oh, well, i'm actually on the, on the other side of the road. and if you can see, we could just pan this way. you can see this big group of young people just walking . now they've just turned up to walk essentially towards that prime minister's residence, which i was pointing to. um, just a little while ago about this are some of the university students or they're still many of them streaming through. so all marching on the pres, prime minister's office. this is a giving way to that anger and frustration. now that they hear that run a vicar missing her has a assume those powers is acting president and declared this state of cove. you in the western province and emergency island wide and obviously you, you've been talking to processes. you've been speaking

he w. minear chaudhry was at the scene in the sri lankan capital colombo. well, yes, i'm right on the same street where the prime minister's office is located. it just coming from there. they are all over the place. there are hundreds of people inside the premise of the prime minister's office. they're cheering their reasons. logan's, they're raving the plague of felucca. they are sitting on the roof of the prime minister's office with their finally managed to force their way in sight that been too long. gone to columbia multiple times and every time of thumb, the situation has gotten worse. we have seen roles and hues of people outside a few stations outside looking gas station. they're not able to get anything. the prices of the medicine that short up the ambulance services have announced that they've gone to cater to every area because they're also out to fuel. so the crisis has only declined, but the thing is that economic crisis will not be stabilized till the time the country finds some, some stability in the politics in the government. but that is wh

you're using sri lanka, capital colombo, aliya. she sent us this update on the reaction to the news off the president stepping down when i'm getting mixed reaction, but not in the way that you would expect the i think that they're very happy that go to better to book that design. but also they're very sad that a defeat looking at the state of the country, the situation in which he has lived. but thank you for they know that it's going to take a long time for the video for the country to come back to normal. think anonymously, politically, but the, i'll be happy. this is the one 5th period. the mean what it might look for the boss or 3 months for the predictive bid road with m p to live evening. but i soon as the news came in, the 100 the projects of year, they're 100 the demonstrators yoga celebrating bethany song. they're walking up and down the road, playing jump in and jump and singing songs and celebrating medic, letting them either victory or their people whom manero chantry and columbus rely. could they well to easily now, wh

w correspondent, manero chandry in sri lanka, capital colombo, madeira. thank you. italy's government of prime minister, mary drank, he is on the brink of collapse off to one of the parties in the coalition, refused to back a bill in parliament. druggie said this move amounted to a vote of no confidence in his coalition and he tended his resignation to the president. his resignation was refused and drank. he said he'll seek a vote of confidence in the parliament next week. the crisis blew up when the populace fivestar movement, which is part of the drug in coalition government said it would not support an important economic bill say the vote count which plunged italy into political crisis. representatives of the 5 star movement boycotted emotion in the senate. prime minister mario druggie sort as a loss of confidence in his government. fivestar leader just said the contact the former prime minister, seen here at the hand over a power has been critical of many of the government's policies. his party has been falling in the poles in recent months and tensio

anbarasan ethirajan, bbc news, colombo.ka has run out of foreign currency and has imposed a ban on petrol and diesel sales for private vehicles. so why is the country experiencing such turmoil? caroline hawley explains. sri lanka's best known perhaps to the world as a place of beautiful beaches. a country of 22 million people that was recovering from a vicious civil war. like everywhere else, it was hit hard by covid — but the roots of this latest crisis are far deeper than that. these are the rajapaksa brothers, who have dominated politics in sri lanka for years. gotabaya, on the right, president now for a few more days. mahinda, on the left, a former president — until recently, prime minister in his brother's government. critics blame them directly for the country's woes. we got here because of sheer incompetence, mismanagement, and greed. and the rajapaksa family embodied that. they embodied three things that have brought sri lanka down — the first is authoritarianism, the second is corruption, and the third is ethnic ch

from colombo, in a part of the city were demonstrations, have been taking place. it's been a very long and clearly a very remote tuesday in colombo, particularly. but of course, also for, for sure lanka, for viewers who are just joining us to bring this up to date. if you could and what's been happening. so basically we have the day starting with that rather sort of startling news that present gotta be a roger boxer, had managed to flee the country that happened in the early hours of the morning. he was on a military flight that took him to the more lives, obviously, getting clearance from the maldives. and that happened in the early hours of the morning. this obviously, after the president tried to leave the country on a number of commercial flights yesterday, but being tortured immigration officials, refusing to stand passports of his entourage and, and other complications. so he had to look at other options now. then what happened as the day progressed, one of the 1st things we heard from prime minister on a vicar missing her was a declaration of the state of e

history. langkow dozens are injured as security forces clear, the main protest kept in the capital colombo, tensions remain high after the countries foreign. a new president with close ties to the nations ousted former leader. also coming up. italy enters a new period of political instability. the president dissolves parliament, paving the way for early elections, and follows the reservation of prime minister at mario druggie. off to his national years, he government collapsed. and you as president joe biden tests positive for coven 19th. the white house says he's experiencing mild symptoms and will continue to carry out his duties. ah, hello, then i'm really mohammed so long can security forces have cleared a protest camp in the capital colombo, it was the base of the anti government protests for over 3 months. the crackdown comes off that should anchors new president or neil vick from a sing her was sworn in to office. many protest to see him as a member of the country's political elite and a continuation of the previous administrations politics. demonstrators say they will not support t