thank so much for speaking to us, john ferrara, general secretary of people's action for free and fair elections, as well as the executive director of the national peace counsel of sure lanka speaking to was that from colombo is with me recopying if anyone is joining us right now what is going on and what you're looking at live pictures in colombo, it's just past 1 pm in sri lanka on the day that president roger poxel was expected to formerly resign. overnight we learned, he fled to the most thieves, which is of course, the on him chain, neighboring sher lanka. he went on a military jet and he hasn't been heard from since he had pledged to stand down today. wednesday. busy after these mass protests that we've been seeing for weeks for months now in shore lanka. but now we're hearing the last sort of half an hour so that the prime minister run no vicar misinger has now been appointed acting president. something many of the protests are clearly, very, very angry about les returned to steph wanston, who is in colombo. clearly protesters have lost their patient. absolutely, and we saw some

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