michelle fernandez for us in colombo. still ahead on al jazeera, welcome to babylon, how tourists have been enjoying iraq's cultural treasures again. ah, richard, he has begun the freeform world copies on its way to cattle group. your travel package today. hello there. let's have a look at the weather across europe, and it's been about the pleasant warmth over recent days, particularly for western and central areas with clear skies. in germany with sunshine, people could enjoy the blooming cherry blossoms over the we can now we are going to see that warmth. continue in cities like paris as well as london. but there's going to be a bit of a dramatic cool down for the likes of madrid. as unsettled conditions, sweep into spain by tuesday. now for the north west, we aren't going to see some rain edge into western parts of island and britain. but still some funny spells to be found, particularly in southern areas and not the sunshine for scandinavia, we got high pressure in charge here. some flood warnings out the southern are

let's go to michelle fernandez his life for us in colombo. so a new cabinet ministers, but the prime minister and the president remain the same. is this likely to satisfy protested, while on the face of it, it doesn't really seem so because as we have all heard during the last couple of weeks there mean sort of rallying cry has been go to go home or roger boxes go home . the fact that there are no other roger boxes other than the president and his brother, the prime minister mind the roger properties quite telling they have a basically called to other brothers and a number of nephews from that cabinet. as they have with a lot of the old god, a lot of the old more senior faces are not are in this new cabinet. 17 are sort of new appointees out of which there are a handful of those who held portfolios before a one or 2 at the maxine faces. but the few who seem to have survived this cut seems to be got arbitrage. parks are loyalist now for the protesters. they have always sort of taken up. this cried that it should not be the old faces that they

michelle fernandez, auto 0, palumbo, the south african government is deploy 10000 military personnel to search for people still missing after flooding and to help restore power. it's a week since record rainfall began pounding the east coast, flooding durban and surrounding regions. 443 people have died, but more than 60 still missing. in one town near durban, community members joined police and sniffer dogs to try and find a woman swept away by rushing waters. or dozens of people who rescued from the atlantic ocean near the canary islands. $61.00 refugees and migrants including 9 children, were picked up by the spanish polk coast guard. they were taken to a port on grand canaria human rights groups say at least 4400 people, including hundreds of children, died last year, trying to reach spain from africa. now, chinese authorities have reported 3 corona virus tests in shanghai. the 1st of the cities latest outbreak, shanghai is in its 3rd week of lockdown as the country continues to enforce a 0 tolerance approach. another round of mass testing is also due to take place. june, we just

all right, michelle fernandez, live for stay in the capital, columbia middle. thank you. pakistan's opposition is challenging. a decision by prime minister in one can to dissolve parliament and hold a new election in 3 months. cannot been facing the prospect of defeat and a confidence vote table by m p. 's. the supreme court will hear the opposition's petition on monday. as on the ben j report now from islamabad, members of parliament arrived expecting a vote of no confidence, but in what some say appeared to be a planned exercise. the newly appointed law minister said the resolution was linked to a foreign conspiracy to contact them with. the deputy speaker immediately dismissed the note for spoke against by mister emmon han minutes after he appeared on state t. v. presidents i'd go advised his dear. i advised the president to dissolve the national assembly under article 58 in austin nation to prepare for fresh elections buyer's visitors. and on cue the president announced the dissolution of the assembly. opposition and bes, called the actions illegal and unco

michelle fernandez, live for us in that colombo, we're going to head live now back to ukraine. way un secretary general and tony a good terrorist, he's touring the country. he has been me, the capital bard yang path, and then he went on to butcher and now he is in the air pin. he has vain at speaking to a residence, as well as members of what appears to be craniums military force. gutierrez, his co, from moscow, and keith, to work together to set up aid and evacuation cargoes seem more than 2 months since rushes invasion of the crime. the conflict says to the limits of you in diplomacy and has been the biggest challenge yet for the secretary general. if he's to be heavy security following the secretary general as he moved around and he speaks to local residents and assess the damage, you can say a house building that has been damaged by some sort of a strike. and so he's been assessing the damage and speaking to locals, about what they have been witnessing and what they've been enduring over the last 2 months since russia's invasion. all right, let's bring in our correspondent

we'll bring in our guests in a moment, but 1st, michelle fernandez reports from taking a look here. another full shop where people are trying to buy some treat for the new year. but i remind that down here of what the situation is, a generator just to keep things running for the power of because many, many people are suffering with paul caught just one of the issues. that's the reality of the economic crisis. the truck is going through and we're just hearing from the government that they have decided in the interim to stop debt repayment are too late in the coming. they've been asking for it for months and months, and the government insisted that it was in control. but now deciding to put a halt in the interim and can centrally restructure debt. then what i found, i do go that route with the guy. now everything has gone up in price. i came to buy close by. they are so expensive that the question is, is it enough for months and months, economist, opposition politicians have been asking the government to put a hold on its debt repayment to negotiate a sort of a plan default. and meanw

michelle fernandez is joining us from the thick of it in columbus. so tell us about this nationwide strike how big it is and what the protests are demanding o. 2 d o one day sort of tool can strike by trade unions across the different services. both government and civic government unions was to express solidarity with protested. had a good faith just down the road from the president's office. that campaign go to go home is what the trade union have. oh, so i said silly, supported. and that's what these tokens strike was. it was across the boards of different sectors. the post sets of, he says, the railway union, the dentist, the labor secretary, did all of these across the board. so in colombo, we did see a number of protest marches all culminating here in good faith. or we had all of these for some of them, a big group gathering outside the main railway station and marching on here. but right throughout colombo, you saw those groups of marchers making their way yet. but the same situation has been duplicated. in the $25.00 districts of the country,

michelle fernandez reporting that. thank you. the white house says it is disappointed with a court ruling that struck down a nationwide mask mandate on public transport. a federal judge in florida ruled the u. s. centers for disease control and prevention had overstepped its authority becomes as new cases are increasing to 100 reports now from chicago. with new cases rising along with covey, confusion mask mandates in the us or more muddle than ever. in florida, a federal judge appointed by been president, donald trump, on monday, struck down a mask requirement on planes, trains, and buses across the us, seeing the biden administration exceeded its authority. it doesn't matter to me what they do of florida. i'm so will be, where am i some travellers say they're happy join mass. last school in the white house says it's reviewing that decision. so this is obviously a disappointing decision. the cdc continues recommending wearing a mask and public transit. as you know, this just came out this afternoon, so right now the department o

michelle fernandez is in colombo and she reports the government must be feeling the pressure there are certain signs that they're trying to sort of take measures and steps to respond to some of these both. we saw the government, the cabinets, step down, the president appoint an interim government, then bring in an entire new cabinet of relatively young new faces. ah, but it is not seem seeming to have pacified all of these protests as they say. new faces justin cabinet won't do. they want a clean sweep from the president, the prime minister and the cabinet to go. now, there also seems to be moved within the opposition parties to do 2 things. one to bring a no confidence motion against the government. that would be passed by a simple majority. the other option is also to bring in sort of constitutional reform. the president and the prime minister have made that of noises about willing to being willing to accept these. but at the end of the day, nothing much has moved. stella had on al jazeera tension is rising, and a breakaway region of moldova were at the border as ukraine and russia.

michelle fernandez reported from lucon. us. roland, co. your were the news, our head? how post to increase the number of women in the workforce could help improve india's economy on world champion? tyson? sherry, ways in for saturdays, heavy weight show down theater on that story and ah, it's the weekend, here's her forecasts for europe and africa. have her on good to see you. so pulses of rain across iberia. we're also going to see that snow over higher ground through the parent east as well, and that stretching into the else it's really piling up over the else. see it on our weather map here, may power up some thunderstorms for the south of france. this could lead to some localized flooding. ok, let's see what else we got going on. some cloud cover through the balkans temperature is doing pretty much what they should for this sunday. you're eastern med, pleasant stretch of weather a here a bit more cloud cover though for is stumble that could generate some showers, but in the south suns out in on talia with the high of 28 degrees. well cool breeze coming off the nort

michelle fernandez, still had on al jazeera family name linked to an oppressive pass, but it's not slowing down the front. right to be the next president of the philippines and the environmental cost of coverage. we looked at plastic pollution problems in hong kong. ah, richard, he has begun the, the full world copies on its way to cattle kill travel package to the hello there. let's look to south asia and it's all about the scorching heat, those relentless, hot and dry conditions plaguing northern and central parts of india. people trying to get some relief from that heat. now we have got heat wave warnings out for northern and central areas, temperatures touching into the early forty's in places like new delhi. now they could be some relief coming on thursday. we've got funder storm watches out. those clouds rolling across woods, the ne, bringing some sharp, a thunderstorms as well, isn't gusty winds to places like rochester. we could see some sandstorms here, but much of the weather action is going to be that northeast corner of india and bangladesh. we have a look at the 3 day in darke

michelle fernandez reports in columba. c sure, and tara is police open fire against anom protestors in rumbled financial anchor. the protested had blocked a railtrack as after the government raised fuel prices by more than 130 percent on tuesday. $24.00 people were injured including 8 policemen. many of them bleeding heavily were taken to the hospital in an audio statement. police spokesman the hotel, do a blame protest as for the violence my own, don't you answering all either can. i mean was they were want repeatedly to disperse, but protestors did not listen. they tried to set fire to a tanker burnt a 3 wheeler taxi and damaged property. the police use tear gas to break up the crowd. at which point the crowd responded by throwing stones in order to control the situation. the police opened fire police and they used minimum force to stop the group from trying to set fire to an oil tanker full of fuel. but rights activists have express skepticism at this explanation. they say there is no justification using live ammunition

michelle fernandez has more from colombo, coming less than 3 hours before the island wide curfew was due to take effect. the announcement took people by surprise. now on our way here, we saw lot of people scrambling to get home, most of them clutching a bag of vegetables, of onions, of potatoes. because given the situation, people are not stopping stocking up much, not even this, this sarah mc good shop. obviously, the single time a new year's coming and little roadside kiosks like this do come up and the guy running it tells us with such little notice to be able to pack all of this up and start again 36 hours from now. that on monday, rather than do that, he's hunkering down here. he's just open here because obviously is open to the elements and he's going to be here. so are people are really being inconvenienced, given the short notice now. ah, there's no reason that's been given for the curfew, but what everybody thinks it's being impose is because there was a massive protest that's expected to happen on sunday. now very much a part of our social media campaign. and it's being sai

but 1st, michelle fernandez reports from colombo. this is the colombo shot of hub, is teeming. you can see stalls selling so wrong, and people are sort of taking a look here, another ford shop where people are trying to buy some trade for the new year. but a reminder down here of what the situation is, a generator just to keep things running for the power. ah, because many, many people are suffering with power. just one of the issues. that's the reality of the economic price is the truck is going through. and we're just hearing from the government that they have decided in the interim to stop debt repayment in the process of going to the i m f. they will be looking to restructure their debt. that announcement has come today. some economy said this is far too late in the coming. they've been asking for it for months and months. and the government insisted that it was in control, but now deciding to put a halt in the interim and can centrally restructure debt. when i come out to gorda with the guy, now everything has gone up in price. i came to buy clothes by the are so expensive

michelle fernandez reports from colombo. oh independence class was a rallying point for young children, kids on monday and rally, they did all echoing a common theme enough is enough. the president at his government must resign people the failure. but now i think it's time that we make a stand and debbie stand up at our rights because this is ashi lunk, i asked you to protest as had planned the major show of strength on sunday. here at this monument in colombo bill to celebrate sheila cause independence from britain in 1948. but instead that currently does impose the curfew band, any public gathering and medicaid at all roads that lead to independent square. ah, or monday university students added their voice to the protest. we are doing what we can just stand in. you're standing all brown. i was sitting here to see a not rabble renewed. are better concrete. now they're not going to get in there. not going to be pacified by the, you know, minor to angel, ron pansy, by viet algebra. did you want to see everybody said that stu

michelle fernandez, report from a capital angry, frustrated, and desperate for justice around the president's office. in colombo, under the eyes of the police, shalanda is facing its worst economic crisis. in decades. all saturday the protesters kept coming. most of them young people in what reported to be the biggest protest over the crisis to d. o public service. so we are here to say that always as needs to be heard and he needs to be respected. and his grades his needs though and no because it had gone up to the limit that to well be broke and obey any more. the crowds came from all of to lunches, diverse communities. this course to read, give us stolen money back, and this is corrupt jewelers are playing with our future. in recent weeks, the price of essential goods rocketed and cooking gas and fuel became scarce. hopa, last up to 30 hours economy see a massive drop in tourism revenue due to the east of bombing of 2019, and the pandemic, coupled with a loss of government revenue due to a major free election tax stuck proud to blame. not is not in a foreign currency for the government to

michelle fernandez is more now from columbus. protestors that, ah, sort of crowded around the presidential secretariat complex. 9 are not moving, i mean, many of them have sort of dug in here for days and days and said they are here for the long haul. they will only look back once a present. good toby, roger pox and his government stepped down. now the singular tamara traditional new year on the 13th and 14th of, of april of year is a big thing yet in alaska. but the protest as and those coming here to these protests ground don't seem to be missing anything. in fact, we saw quite a few people in that new year best, you know, dressed up to the nines, but still here under these scorching skies coming. some of them holding national flag, some of them holding post as a wanting to be part of this. a movement essentially, that is calling for a go tabi, roger pox and his government to go home. now the government has tried a number of mean to trying to appease the protest, says they 1st had the entire cabinet resigned. those talk of appointing a new cabinet, but that hasn't really materialized. th

michelle fernandez has this report from columbo emergency regulations are 36 are curfew, and special new rules. preventing people from gathering in public places failed to silence people's voices and protests like this. you're hearing the holland behind me all coming together despite the curfew to express their anger and frustration against the current government. i mean, some of the signs, even within this group, it's go home, roger boxer with 225. that's an odd to the $225.00 representatives in parliament. it says create a we've a go home. got are. these are the sort of tag lines or slogans of this public demonstration that we're seeing across the country are not just here in the capital, colombo, but around the country. not the economic problems that brought shanker to its knees . and now directly impacting ordinary sri lankan in the form of skyrocketing prices, of their essential goods, rice doll, milk powder, as well as cooking gas of fuel. even those who have the money can't actually shows them they spend hours in long queues. and what people say is, while this is obviously not

michelle fernandez reports now from the town of ramble, comma sherman. the luxury was shot by police on tuesday during a fuel shortage protest. a friend of the 42 year old father of 2 explains what he saw. bicycle again that i'm good with that i saw him running after trying to retrieve his bicycle, made it worse than the policeman shot. he fell on the ground and then i saw the same policeman, tracing people and firing a senior officer was telling them to keep firing and they did it on some of the feet of a luxury was the family's mean breadwinner, his wife brown, guinea, and 2 teenage children are in shock, lima, lima, delegate of what it was either now i'll be waiting till justice is done for what happened to my husband. i don't know if that'll happen, but it should say some day. right, so that what happened to me mustn't happen to another person for testers rallied in drama can earlier this week to condemn the shortage of fuel and large increases in the price of essential items. tensions escalated as police attempted to disperse the crowd. a police com

michelle fernandez reports from colombo. she long as national health services. the only option for those who can't afford private healthcare. these each treatment here at the national hospital in colombo, or in a network of state hospitals. but the country's economic crisis has hit them hard wood up. most people are helpless. we are told to buy everything from outside. even the needle used to check sugar levels has to be from outside. there is no point coming to a government hospital for treatment that in doctors have been warning of an impending. busy medical disaster, as they see shortages affecting their ability to treat patients. many doctors are reluctant to speak on the record, but some union members are speaking out. there may be a situation if this continues. when a paper or person come with a road perfect accident won't be able to get the surgical services. i can't exactly say when it is going to happen, but if nothing rescuer will thing happens, we may have to see one dark beer like that. the private sector is also facing shortages of hot medication, p

as michelle fernandez reports now from the capital columbus. after days of protest again, tr lunk has government. 17 ministers take their oath before the president most are young with little political experience. probably not me out of buddha, the crisis that exist today is a good opportunity to bring changes to the system. the people are asking for that you have got that opportunity along with that, i am asking young people to assist that process. so says delta 0, that prime minister my in the roger potter wanted more experience people in the cabinet. he did not attend the swearing in the president's decision to bring young people into the cabinet is seen by critics as a way of acknowledging and responding to demands made by youths in countrywide protests against him and his government. the country is suffering its worst economic crisis since independence from britain in 1948. a shortage of foreign currency has left the government, unable to import basic essentials, leading to price increases and shortages of food, medicine, cooking, gas, and

michelle fernandez, is outside the president's office. the protests outside the presidential secretary in colombo entering its 3rd day. as you can see, protested a sitting atop barricades outside the main entrance of the secretary. usually they wouldn't be allowed to get this close. but this time they are being allowed to sort of wind their frustrations and have they're just behind the barricade. there is a huge presence of police and special task force personnel. now people are digging in for the long haul. if i can just show you over here. stocks of water for the protest is freely available. lots of people donating these things. there's a huge amount of food we've seen cooking stations. i mean, at the moment we're not yet up to lunchtime, but cooking stations being set up and established as everybody lends their pot. and the protests, the seem well organized, they say that they will stay intense like this camping out here. literally, overnight, you do have a series of tens, if you can just see over here for people who are stuck here for

i michelle fernandez. i work as a correspondent for algebra here, aiden colombo in sri lanka, but i've been in the media reporting on sherlock of for over 20 years now. thank you so much for bring your expertise to us. how shall welcome back to the stream. good to see. remind our audience who you are and what you do. i said the sierra member man opposition in sri lanka to have to enter had a welcome to the stream. cuz introduce yourself type international audience. i'm john kara, i'm the executive director of the national peace council, which is the piece building and you which focuses on addressing the issues of ethnicity and really been which had divided out people for the last several decades . going back to independence and even beyond looking forward to hearing more from them to have. i'm just thinking, ha ha, and me now. how many protests have you been to in the last month? how pretty think all day. how say you stopped? well actually i'm taking a break today because we started a protest walk of 117 k

the funeral, michelle fernandez is in rubber connor and has more on the funeral. not the people, many of them will come to the funeral. a while we've, we're here have expressed anger, essentially that of protest demanding, you know, not for anything, you know, not handouts, but basically to be given fuel that allows him to get on with his livelihood. and come in the latch on the man who was killed in police gone for in that sort of clash with the police. a was looking for feel he'd been waiting for 4 days a feel for his laurie. he's someone who apparently supplies the elephant orphanage, which is also down the road, which is the same area where his residence is down. that road behind me. you can see banners, white flag, and bunting, all in preparation for the funeral. and he had been unable to do his job for days and days because of the fuel shortage. so people sort of raising the fact that this is not right that the government has got things completely wrong. and one of the killing things with this kind of thing. you generally see politicians are coming to such f

given, sweeping past to make arrests protests against the government escalates on to serious michelle fernandez reports now from columbia. things are busy, much calmer here at the top of the road that leads to present gotta be roger boxes . resident of course 2 nights ago, there was complete ma'am, with thousands of people surrounding this area in protest of the rising cost of living. and the shortage of basic essentials, you can see the barricades are still here on san bye. and what has happened is that the president has brought in these emergency regulations on friday to what he says ensured the uninterrupted supply of goods and services. but for many people, the concern is how authorities would use these emergency regulations under the public security ordinance to crack down on dissent and public protest. now, protests have been happening daily, multiple protest throughout the day. some of these organized by opposition parties, but in an unprecedented manner, norman ordered a she lumpkins a stepping out out of their comfort zone to make their voices heard about their anger and frustration. f

michelle, fernandez all the nations from colombo shrine. co cabinet has just resigned in the past hour. now to pakistan on the opposition, there is challenging a decision by prime minister iran calm to dissolve parliament and hold it election in the next 90 days. upon him, his deputy speaker refused to hold a confidence vote, which con was expected list. a supreme court is due to hell, a petition. on monday sullivan job aid reports now from islamabad. o members of parliament arrived expecting a vote of no confidence, but in what some say appeared to be a planned exercise. the newly appointed law minister said the resolution was linked to a foreign conspiracy to contact them with. the deputy speaker immediately dismissed the notice boat against prime minister in mont hon. minutes after he appeared on state tv. presidents, i go advised his dear. i advised the president to dissolve the national assembly under article 58 in austin nation to prepare for fresh elections. buyer's visitors and on cue the president announced the dissolution of the assembly. opposition and bes paul, the actions

out as here as michelle fernandez reports now from colombo, the opposition, some luggage, unable of a gaze, who you see members are just behind me here at this barricade. that is preventing protesters from going towards independence square, the sort of monument of independence here, inter lanka. as you can see, there's basically a bank of police. there's military and 3rd special task force ah personnel that are behind the line over here. these barricades have been constructed right across the road, all entry points, preventing and blocking off the independent square. and it's gotta go home. that's a rallying cry, obviously of the opposition. but even among the ordinary sher lumpkins, who are trying to organize to come together, despite the 36, our co feel that the government has announced that there are attempts for them to come together. that is just on the outskirts of colombo in a place called mariama. ordinary people have come together to protest despite the coffee and our bearing in mind that the government has really brought in all its arsenault to try and prevent these protests

want him to leave us, and you'd want a new cabinet to do what is right for the generations to michelle fernandez has more now from columbus. now that a 100 thousands of protest says that have come out here to day. many of them coming out voluntarily and all of them say they have had enough that. c to go to her, must go home, reference a, go to alberta, butter are busy here behind the scenes, a lot of food. all of this donated voluntarily if we could just go, there's buns that biscuits, there's flask of hot tea and coffee loads of water bottles. and all of those things donated obviously by people who are pretty much backing the. 2 process here we see a little medical table, which is full of things like strep. so for those who are shouting, or you've got basic medical supplies, are things not privacy to more of a cough syrup for the rain. and even something we saw was that among the people, distributing food and our drinks, hot drinks are things like cup of tea is to ensure that people stay well in this weather. and like you said, i can assure you, this gentleman over here are distributing hot tea

michelle fernandez, auto 0 fillable, the south african government is deployed some 10000 military personnel to search for people still missing off to severe flooding and also to help restore power. it's now a week since record rainfall began pounding the east coast flooding durbin and the surrounding regions. 443 people died, but more than 60 people are still missing. in one town and community members joined police and sniffer dogs to try and find a woman swept away by the rushing waters. more than 270000 children might not be able to return to class on tuesday because of damage schools. now, dozens of people who been rescued from the atlantic ocean near the canary islands. $61.00 refugees and migrants including 9 children, were picked up by the spanish coast guard were taken to a port on grand canaria rights groups. at least 4400 people, including hundreds of children, died last year trying to reach spain from africa. dozens of people have been arrested during 4 days of riots in sweden, triggered by a far right group announcing plans to publicly burn copies of the koran rallies. protest is

michelle fernandez reports from colombo bring for a better year ahead. in order to sherry could only manage to afford the basics. this new year, milk, rice, and bananas. with atlanta, marty life is very difficult. now things are very expensive. and previous years we celebrated the new year. but this time, we can't do much with others. in this crowded colombo neighbourhood echoed her plight. this family struggle to find the milk they needed for this new year. tradition. they say everyone is finding it hard to make ends meet, that difficulties. what's brought together these protested to the president's office. they denounce guitar by roger parson, his government for failing the people. this are gone one who does a lot, the gun, they are corruption and all they have. they didn't do anything. every time dave, dave is not our money. poppy by labourer do a lot do now, are we voted for them? not expecting they would be like this, destroying the country, a bit prime minister mine the roger pucks of the president's brother, says he's willing to talk to the protes

michelle fernandez as more now from colombo, sri lanka, national health services, the only option for those who can't afford private healthcare. they seek treatment here at the national hospital in colombo or in a network of state hospitals. but the country's economic crisis has heaped them hard, mangled up when most people are helpless. we are told to buy everything from outside, even the needle used to check sugar levels has to be bought from outside. there is no point coming to a government hospital for treatment. doctors have been warning of any bending medical disaster as their face shortages affecting their ability to treat patients . one doctor sent this recording to his friends and colleagues. it went viral. we. busy have the student lead newborn babies and we are very soon we are running out of all the stops. and i, we have come to a stage of kind of reusing the endotracheal to ubs for ventilating a new baby, which is how you, me, and acceptable. and i hate to do it, but there's more adoption. many doctors are reluctant to speak on the record at some union members are speakin

michelle fernandez is in colombo and she says the government must be feeling the pressure. there are certain signs that they're trying to sort of take measures and steps to respond to some of these both. we saw the government, the cabinets, step down, the president appoint an interim government then bring in an entire new cabinet of relatively young new faces. but it is not seem seeming to have classified all of these protests as they say, new faces just in cabinet won't do. they want a clean sweep from the president, the prime minister and the cabinet to go. now, there also seems to be moved within the opposition parties to do 2 things. one to bring no confidence motion against the government that would be passed by a simple majority. the other option is also to bring in sort of constitutional reform. the president and the prime minister have made sort of noises about willing to being willing to accept these. but at the end of the day, nothing much has moved. it's been a month since china's biggest city, shanghai went into lockdown because of a co with 19 outbreak. there h

michelle fernandez has been at the protest in colombo, now there are hundreds, thousands of protest says that have come out here today. many of them coming out voluntarily, and all of them say they have had enough that to go to her must go home reference or go to alberta, butter. obviously here behind the scenes a lot afford all of this donated voluntarily. if we could just go, there's buns, there's biscuits that flask of hot tea and coffee loads of water bottles. and all of those things donated obviously by people who are pretty much backing the process . here we see a little medical table, which is full of things like strep. so for those who are shouting, or you've got basic, our medical supplies, are things not proceed, of course it up for the rain. and even something we saw was that among the people, distributing food and our drinks, hot drinks are things like copper keys to ensure that people stay well in this weather. and i, like you said, i can to show you this gentleman over here, are distributing hot t. it's happening. so lots of people coming voluntarily know to people who can'

michelle fernandez reports on this now from colombo. angry, frustrated and desperate for justice around the president's office in colombo, under the eyes of the police, shalanda is facing its worst economic crisis in decades or saturday, the protesters kept coming. most of them young people in what's reported to be the biggest protest over the crisis to d. o public service. so we are here to say that always as needs to be heard and he needs to be respected. and his grades his needs though and no because it had gone up to the limit that to well be broke and obey any more. the crowds came from all of shalana as diverse communities. this course to reads give us stolen money back. and this is corrupt jewelers are playing with our future in recent weeks, the price of essential goods rocketed and cooking gas and fuel became scarce. hawker last up to 30 hours economy see a massive drop in tourism revenue due to the east of bombing of 2019. and the pandemic, coupled with a loss of government revenue due to a major free election tax cut pro to blame. not as not in a foreign currency for the gove

warren, the story with michelle fernandez, joining us from colombia, tell us more about how the government is dealing with this external debt. it seems to be dealing with things far too late, according to economists to have been calling for essentially a sort of a moratorium or a plan this debt restructuring for many, many months now they've said don't allow the foreign reserves. what of a precious little foreign reserves that are remaining? don't use them for the debt repayment. instead, restructure the dead. talk to people, negotiate and keep those precious foreign reserves for your imports and for us and for services. they decided against that. and just this morning we had an announcement to say that it has decided that in the interim, all debt repayment are going to be stop. now economies do say that the, the sort of advantage of this is that they will not be officially or formally a sort of in the dog house, so to speak, for defaulting on it. never sin shall up again, de dependents in 1948. have they actually defaulted on dead and the government put on a brief 15 saying they weren't g