its history and declared bankruptcy last year. lush market stalls concealed a real situation tree. langa lacks many essentials for living food, gasoline, medicine. the international monetary fund has promised $2900000000.00 in aid. this is on the condition that creditors also assist the heavily indebted country. one of sri lanka main creditors is china, and it is finally agreed to contribute. now the government and colombo is hoping for a rapid dispersement dang, i am if thank you. thank you. back the i m f to fulfill their commitment and grant approval for the program either in the 3rd or 4th week of march. after that, i think we will get the 1st round of financing from the world bank and the asian development bank done about their, their ben dana tree long as dead amounts to $46000000000.00. the government drastically increased taxes to meet reform demands, resulting in wide spreads strikes. a reasonable amount is not reasonable. i mean is that what is it? that reforms or one of the i m. s criteria for aid. putting the government in a tough spot. sri lankan will suffer from the debt bu

earlier i spoke with nico langa, he's a senior fellow with the munich security conference, and an expert on russia and ukraine. and i began by asking him if the relationship between the 2 leaders is one of the equals you know, let's be honest here. this is no partnership on i level of it. they really seem to need it. if they have to authentically underline their friendship many, many times, but i think what we really see is china is buying russian energy cheaply and china is promoting a plan that is not a piece plan because it doesn't. busy contain the information that russia leaves the territory of your credit. and if we talk about trades increasing, it's in fact russian raw materials of russian resources. so it's sending out cheaply to a much stronger china. and also china with these agreements is agreeing to buy more russian energy that funds the russian more machine, doesn't it? and so china, after today basically is agreeing to co finance the war and ukraine. is that an accurate assumption? i think this has been true before disagreements, but yes, china is financing to war of russia

regardless of the advertising of our agencies, a few years ago , the world tourism forum was held in langany travel companies visited our capital and city, and i am sure that in the near future we will have more tourists. and the sea. this is also a national park. the geological age of the namib desert is from 55 to 80 million years, a place where there is nothing like that . namib is translated from the language of the african people nama. but in fact, this is not so, there are also zebras and grain antelopes. and even elephants call them desert savannahs and elephants. and what endemics are found in namibia. what incredible examples of flora, for example, velvichi? this relic plant, the only one of its kind, lives in the north of the desert up to a thousand years in height. it is not higher than 30 cm, but its root go to a depth of 3 m. he, like an anchor , holds the plant in the sands of the desert from the woody stem. velvichi leaves only two leaves about 6 m long. they are able to effectively absorb moisture. mist and rasul tribes of the bushmen call this plant from the same tomba, wh

i'll make a stern of reporting from the dumbass, artsy, sher langa is to ask india for a $1000000000.00 known to purchase a central items like food and medicine. that's in addition to the 1st of a 3 part $1000000000.00 loan from international monetary fund for longer is broccoli with a deep economic crisis exacerbated by a sharp drop in foreign exchange reserves, and a devaluation of the national currency. the pandemic and global fuel crisis has led to assert and food prices with nationwide queues for fuel, as well as protests. for the latest on a development in sri lanka, we're joining the studio by the local minister of transport in highways and minister of mass media bundle laguna. we're donna, dr. been to laguna, we're donna and sri lankan ambassador to russia. janisa abbey wicker emma leah's. thank you very much for joining us in the studio. ah, and happy to have you here and right away, i just want to ask the minister, how was the 22, a 2022 fuel crisis. how has that affected 3 longest transport industry and has the country managed to recover yet? yeah, thank you. ah, that of of w

of course it is going to help c langa to a great extended school also to bring some sort of semblance of order. now the president of the country run over from a single has passed the i m f or so india and china, it's bilateral lenders. jazz, dan put her yesterday we received approval for extended credit by the executive board of the international monetary fund with the receipt of this loan facility. tr lanka has been assured by the international community that it has the capacity to restructured debt. the world has accepted that shoreline k is no longer bankrupt country and now has the ability to begin normal transactions. this be loud package will bring c long car back to the lawn market. remember, last year, sri lanka had defaulted, it had failed to vp its loan, and it was declared bankruptcy. and then it was unable to raise fresh ones. now it's going to happen is that it will be able to border more friends from more multilateral organizations. say for example, the world bank also coming to reserve. now with these $3000000000.00 below package, she lank i was going to have reserves i

so one of the targets that i missed has given to c langa is to bring down that inflation at least to say about 12 to 18 percent by the end of the year. i. m. s will do a review when every 6 months. so remember, this below package is a 3 or dean because she has to, like i can get out of its perpetual cycle of borrowing funds from foreign pow, the only by establishing more efficient e. all right, policies. it's not a permanent solution to say length of sealant. god itself has to decide what to do in future because i am, if means you have some external policies you have to implement and or you like it or not. there are some policies that you know, nobody can absorb at the moment. but still, people keep quiet because we are recovering from my unperceived and going to be crises. the issues like i has to address. yeah. he's dead demps and have to get together and come up with policies that they again had demonstrated to get out of the situation because you cannot go on like this forever. so i think unless she, lunk, i'll get it.

africa, 50 cars collided, everything happened on the east coast of the country near the city of um-x langa control of 35 people, five people were seriously injured. the highway was blocked, eyewitnesses told how passengers were pulled out of the crumpled cars, which were buried under other cars. black tuesday in france, unions went on a nationwide strike. truck drivers block major highways, airports across the country have partially canceled flights in paris warned of disruptions in work of public transport. and if oil refineries are expected to join the protests, then the car will soon not be able to drive in the fall either, and the strike caused a shortage of fuel at gas stations, the personnel of nuclear power plants also participate in the protests , they have reduced energy production since friday, as well as workers at terminals on the coast, which take liquefied natural gas traffic in paris and other cities. going overlap, participants of thousands of demonstrations. black tuesday can cost the country's economy 1.5 billion euros, the reason for the protest was the pension reform. a