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to shoot lankin, i wear another member of the roger packs. the family has been shown into cabinets by 0, roger pack size. now the finance minister is brother, our prime minister and president, while his nephew is also in the cabinet. the family is dominated lanchen politics for 2 decades now. for 9 days has more from colombo bass and roger pock. say the latest roger box to enter the sri lankan parliament. that takes the total number of family members to 7 in the legislature of this country. now, bustle, roger pox have for a long time being known as a brains on the strategist behind the roger box, the machine. he's kind of the midst of fix it, if you like, who does all the sort of deal the in the go see ations the wrangling and chops out the strategy. all the raj blocks the machine and that's what. 7 we have heard in the previous years, and now he's been brought into parliament, sort of a friendly mc resigning to make way for his entrance into parliament. mind the round part of the prime minister and form a president. obviously, switching port

despite avoiding that default for now should anchors finances are in a precarious state, was for lankin, president has appointed his brother as a new finance minister. the sign of how serious the situation is shanaiah because economy was in trouble before the pandemic between 20052015. colombo borrowed billions from china, accumulating a mountain of debt for expensive infrastructure projects. you may remember sure, lanka was forced to hand over its strategic humble toto port on a 99 year lease to a chinese company in 2017. that was because it failed to service the $1400000000.00 debt from beijing used to build it. the government that rose to 101 percent of g d p last year, up from 86.8 percent in 2019 credit rating agencies are concerned. it may not be able to service its debt according to bloomberg. the probability of a one year default was that 27.9 percent. the steepest in asia to make sure it can make free payments. the government's put limits on the amount of money that can leave the country. the central bank says it has currency reserves of $4000000000.00 enough to buy imports for

sir lankin narrowly avoid defaults on its death, but serious financial problems remain rather detailed from columbus and rescue. devastated parts of western india. the survivors of the heavy rains called deadly flood the stories after the break. ah, the info has not finished. his potential damage yet is no longer a typhoon, nor really a tropical storm. i put it on here just to show you where it is. and the smaller one, the 5 pack is almost still naming as a tropical storm. it's winds about $85.00, miss brown. again, it is cause it's increasing wind and rain in tokyo, but most of the damage potential is further north as well in home shape. so china, 1st i think we'll, we'll see the worst of it. so though in far so my stop being identified as the storm, the rain which you see is this orange band, is a long way north and east, and it's falling to some degree overland. it's already on there already started. so there'll be more off the same for the south, it's a dry picture. things are slowly improving. so, hong she then is a very weird course. this, this thing took in fat. it observes gonn