refugees have started trickling into india from sri lanka, according to save the children, 2 out of 3, sri lankan families are struggling to find enough to eat. so those who can have started arriving by boat across the narrow street that separates sri lanka and india most landing on the island of rummage warm. it's not far about 20 kilometers, but it's the open ocean and the crossings can be risky. so far, the newcomers are mostly tamils, the ethnic minority group that fought a devastating civil war in sri lanka for decades. they've come to india's tomlin. i do state a region that shares deep cultural and linguistic ties d, w ages critical. narayan is in ramesh where i'm in, the southern state of tom will not do a critical what's the latest, what are you seeing and hearing down there, i am standing in raw, michelle, this is the coastal down because the southernmost don't alpha off in the i the southernmost to thought this is bed, and yet this real guy actually. so this is there for the past few months due to the economic crisis in free lanka. many sri lankan refugees are coming here illegally thr

many sri lankans know the country is moving through an uncertain period.are that the battle is yet to be fully won. the main goal was to ask the president and the government to step down and change the system and do the things that are necessary to overcome the issues that we have already in the country. sri lanka's economic crisis has now turned into a political crisis. if a new president is not chosen in the coming days, it could further add to the uncertainty. but continuing political chaos could complicate efforts to pull sri lanka out of its worst economic crisis. anbarasan ethirajan, bbc news, colombo. the downfall of president gotabaya rajapaksa brings an end to one of sri lanka's most powerful political dynasties. in 2005, his older brother, mahinda rajapaksa, was elected president. mahinda oversaw military victory over the separatist tamil tigers in 2009 — ending the country's brutal 20—year civil war. it earned him huge support from the island's sinhalese buddhist majority. he remained in power until 2015, when he was defeated by the opposition,

at the world bank, now an adviser liaising between international financial institutions and the sri lankann the situation. it's extremely serious, in economic terms. and that is why the people are so angry — because the reason why sri lanka has no foreign exchange at the moment is because of the misguided policies of the rajapaksa administration. for two years, they've actually been bleeding this country dry. now, that's why they're angry with rajapaksa and stormed the president's palace, and so on. but the point is, even when rajapaksa leaves, the debt problem and macroeconomic crisis will remain. so we have to be solving that problem — and that's what we've been working on for the last six months, working with the imf and various stakeholders in sri lanka to devise an economic reform programme that will try to reverse some of these policies that got us into trouble in the first place, and try to put sri lanka... indeed, but looking at the events of this weekend, as you point out, people are very angry — but what prospects are there of any bailout from international financial institutions

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one is wrapping up it's response to get a 2 millions of sri lankan hard hit by the economic crisis. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. from spain to greece to the united kingdom, much of europe is sweltering under temperatures, more often felt in desert regions. record heat, strong winds, and drought conditions are stoking severe wildfires across several countries. on the iberian peninsula alone fires have driven tens of thousands of people from their homes. he has killed hundreds more. scientists say that climate change is turning infrequent extremes into a more regular reality. spain is on fire. with more than $70000.00 hatches of land already going up in flames. this year. residence of this town in the north western province of zamora, were battling on monday to stop their homes being next. but an attempt to dig a trench to stop the approaching fire almost came to a deadly end for one local man. after his digger was engulfed in flames of you. fortunately he was able to make an hour with skate and was taken to hospital with serious burns elsewhere in the province, passen

this week on d, w ah, today on d, w, news, asia, the rice narrows as sri lankan lawmakers prepared to replace their ousted leader who fled the country. time is also taking away for the millions of people going hungry medicine and fuels are also in short supply, who will rescue sri lanka from economic collapse and north korea claims. it's nearing the end of its code 19 crisis. while a new wave of infections hit its asian neighbors, driven by some variance of ami kron. ah, i've been phys all and thanks for joining us. a shake up in the race for sri lanka, next president. the main opposition leader has dropped out such it prima dasa said he's throwing his support to another contained on making it a 3 way rice on twitter. theodore says, said he was withdrawing his candidacy for the greater good of the country and would work with the opposition for victory. he's throwing his support behind dallas, alabama, of former education minister, and part of a distant wing in the bowling party, acting president around it. victor massena has the backing of the s l p. p. leadership, but faces cold from

what powers does this emergency declaration given the sri lankan authorities? extraordinary cause that which was passed by the interior of acting president, enhanced by ours to all the security forces. and this being the police as well as the army. the police said what wants to be and i present for just once have been deployed. if you look behind me knocking in the shadows, not if ami, so would just be an israeli avoid what happened last week if you remember. if i missed this ugly scene, stuff was broke out. the gas was fired and i bet, let me become a single, the active prejudice should go to stop elements taking over these. by that he bench strange element, the radical fringe elements who are trying to keeping hijacked, what is essentially a project. and i'm, or it's a, we understand security as tight as parliament chooses a new president. how high meantime is the risk of fresh protest that was really the outcome nixon in parliament if will contain this, the 1st rather than the idea was a unity. but given the situation at the moment, the opposition is divided

as they look around the lavish rooms, sri lankans continue to contend with a deepening economic crisiss the right thing to do? is this the right way to go about it, storming the presidential palace? well, the people have been demanding for the president to step down. with respect, we've asked him to step down multiple times. so the people are realising that, well, unless we physically go and take him out of the chair, he's not going to leave. and when will your protests stop? when will you be satisfied? when will i personally be satisfied? if we go to a new election and hopefully people will vote for principles, morals, and ideals that the person running for the election holds and not the person itself — because when it comes to politics in sri lanka, it's personality—centric. after months of frustration, this feels like a release — crowds surging through the doors to get inside this presidential palace and get a peek of what life is like for sri lanka's political class. a palace overrun, a country in crisis. protesters say they won't leave until the president officially quits. but eve

welcome to the program. sri lankan lawmakers have elected 6 time prime minister by neal, where chromos, single as their new president. the decision means that he who is currently acting as president will officially keep the job until 2024 who deal with chromosome that is a controversial choice. as much of the public see him as being too close to for precedent . really got to buy a rat to puck, sir. but he won the backing of a large majority of lawmakers. it's brigand correspondent, madeira chowdhury, who is joining us from the sri lankan capital columbia. what more do we know right now? mania? well sarah, as you rightly said, donald drama singer is now officially the president of felucca. and as you mentioned, he is indeed a controversial figure. all the past few days, we have been seeing protests and big protests by the people here who have been very, very clear with their demand. after buddha barrage bucks i resigned that they want to run it to go home. that was their slogan from gotta go home to johnny go home. that has been their slogan. that was very evident on the 13th of july. a

sri lankans say the developments are unacceptable.testers have decided to leave the government buildings they had occupied, but they are adamant they will continue. >> everything is lost. all this fighting, fighting because of food and money. that's why the people go home. a new government, a people's government. >> with them, no corruption will be fixed. >> ranil came to power promising to solve problems, and he doesn't do anything. during election time, they embraced people but haven't delivered anything. they have to go. >> more from colombo -- >> they are heading to the presidents house now. protesters are shouting slogans. they said to come and nowa we are going to regroup and continue to protest elsewhere. it has never been our goal to occupy government buildings. they've occupied since saturday when more than 200,000 protesters stormed the residency, this old colonial building, but also the secretary, the prime minister's house. they will keep rallying grounds near the president's secretary. what happened on wednesday, violence

many sri lankans blame him for the economic crisis which has crippled their country, leaving it shortfunds to buy medicines or fuel. our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan was with protestors outside the presidential palace in colombo when the news of president rajapaksa's departure was made public. there is a real party atmosphere here at colombo seafront, which has been a protest site for many weeks, one of the main demands protesters have was for gotabaya rajapaksa to go. their slogan, their chant was "go home, gota". we now know that president gotabaya rajapaksa has left the country. he fled on a militaryjet with members of his family. we don't know where exactly he's headed to. he'd been in hiding for the last few days, ever since his home, his official residence, was overrun by protesters. it wasn'tjust his official residence, in fact over there his presidential secretariat, his offices, that was also overrun by protesters. you can see the aftermath now. days on, the protesters here are sleeping on the grounds and on the steps. we also know that the president's brother the former

today the sri lankan budget is hemorrhaging billions of dollars. in the recent past tree lanka suffered a civil war, win tannel separatist trying to create an independent state. they were defeated at the cost of $80000.00 lives. these a former sri lankan army soldiers who fought in the civil war heroes. but now their banning making ends meet. to day they questioned the great sacrifices they made for all my back. i saw that they were not as isabel, and that my mother gotta get on without a known again and again with the mom and i did you. i wanted a dog it come up if you want to do what they want about around the war ended in 2009 and former soldiers don't want to see their nation. my in civil conflict again, things used to be simple. they fought against a terrorist group, partially funded by western countries. though i winning a monitor the luck. well, i got a lot of that today. it's ordinary people who are suffering from the sanctions imposed on russia and it's resulting economic meltdown is a do. but many other, do you at the end of everybody's r

many sri lankans blame him for the economic crisis which has crippled their country — leaving it shortto buy medicines or fuel. i'm joined now by david brewster, a specialist in sri lankan politics with the australia national university. great university. to get you on the program, david. great to get you on the program, david. just to start by saying, the dramatic developments we've had just in the last hour of so, what is your sense of how they will impact sri is political situation go forward? your riaht political situation go forward? your right there's _ political situation go forward? 7m;- right there's extraordinary scenes of the last few days with the storming of the presidential palace and the attempts by the president to leave the country being blocked by other countries and his own officials. so we're not yet sure where he's going to or in deed what the procedure will be, the constitutional procedure will be in the coming days to appoint first of all in acting president and a permanent president. but what is clear is that this instability is not short—lived, it's going to co

d w's south asia bureau chief, marita shima is in the sri lankan capital, colombo. i asked her to tell us more about this hastily arranged vote. you know, jerry, after all the political drama which took place yesterday and the opposition tried to bout a huge challenge in the end, it was a decisive victory for john became a thinker. he 134 of the boats and his nearest rival got only 80 to no fault finding that it was quite a historic vote for the 1st time. buyer limit was electing a president. the last time something similar happened was back in 1993. when that then president pre mother and he was the father of the current opposition leader was assassinated and been parliament appointed a successor to him. but he wasn't elected. now done, it become a singer has be very clear about working within the constitutional framework. so his election is completely legal. but what he lacks, terry, is the public mandate. you see he lost his parliamentary seat in the last election . he was appointed on a national list to parliament and he has this one member. so people wonder, ca

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. ♪ the sri lankan president, gotabaya rajapaksa, has resned after days of antigovernment protests.ajapaksa sent his resignation late -- resignation letter from singapore, where he fled to. demonstrators are celebrating on the streets of colombo, defying a curfew. the governor the central bank says the country needs a stable government as soon as possible. we have this update from colombo. reporter: antigovernment protesters are celebrating the news of the resignation letter of prime minister gotabaya rajapaksa. these people have been here the last few months, demanding the resignation of prime minister rajapaksa and other cabinet ministers, accusing them of mismanaging the economy. the last five days come of the situation here was dramatic when crowds stormed the residence of mr. rajapaksa, about 100 meters from here. that forced him to flee to the maldives and thing -and then singapore. now, the prime minister assumes the position of acting president, needs to be sworn in and approved by parliament. if the parliament doesn't accept him, then there will be an election by members of

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for many sri lankans, the name has become synonymous with financial mismanagement. a new leader could restore some public trust. whoever takes over has a hard task of bringing sri lanka back from the brink. the economy has been in shambles. people are struggling. we heard from a woman that lost her job. she cannot see or feed her children three meals a day. she says her family has to deal with no fuel for cooking, and frequent power cuts. [ indiscernible ] things are not expected to get easier anytime soon. >>> u.s. president kicked off his first tour of the middle east since taking office with tough talk on iran. about a meet, they will try to keep a lid on nuclear ambitions. in an interview recorded before leaving washington, joe biden said leaving a landmark agreement betweeiran and world powers was a gigantic mistake from the last president. channel 12 asked about his future intentions. >> you say you will ensure that they will not have nuclear weapons. does that mean you would use force against iran. >> as a last resort, yes. >> their limits put on the nuclr pro

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so what sri lankans want is a current -- is a clean start.rent: so if they are not going to get this clean start anytime soon, where do you see this situation heading? guest: well, the ideal, which is far from ideal but is the best option, is for him to resign, for gotabaya to resign, then the speaker becomes the acting president, i believe it would be called interim president, until parliament sometime next week votes on a replacement president, who will act for as long, up to the full remaining part of gotabaya rajapaksa's term, but possibly a shorter period. that president, selected by parliament, would then have to come up with a prime minister would also have to win the confidence of parliament. so it should go as the constitution has described to parliament. it should not be through backroom deals between the rajapaksas. but whether he will, once gotabaya resigns, whether he will then leave the stage and follow rules as laid out in the constitution remains to be seen. brent: the process is codified in a remains to be seen whether or not

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president rajapaksa — whose family has dominated sri lankan politics for the best part of two decadesnced he will step down on wednesday after demonstrators stormed his official residence and set fire to the prime minister's house. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan reports from inside the presidential palace, which is still overrun by protesters. these scenes would have been unthinkable days ago. sri lanka's seat of presidential power — now a sightseeing destination. security nowhere to be seen, as thousands push their way into a palace taken over by protesters. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka. a building that is normally heavily fortified, now a free—for—all. at president rajapaksa's private pool, we meet carpenter ruan chiminda, who's taking a dip, a moment of relief after he walked hours to join the protests. translation: my kids are hungry. we don't have fuel. we don't have cooking gas. we don't even have fuel to do ourjobs properly. how does it feel to swim in the president's personal pool? i'm happy. i'm so happy. moments ofjoy and curiosity. but whe

the sri lankan government did not exoect _ for us.kan government did not expect such a _ for us. the sri lankan government did not expect such a strong - did not expect such a strong reaction from the international community at hundreds of heavily armed soldiers starting this place yesterday morning, removing all the tenants and banners and the empty government protesters had put up and beat up many of these protesters. all these things are going on and the president's office isjust behind me and the soldiers also to control, this was stormed by huge crowds ten days ago following this public anger. now, the un human rights council's workgroup on sri lanka which also includes the uk, they came out with a strong statement saying peaceful protest, the right to hold peaceful protest should be respected, not only that, the senior diplomats at the us embassy, they all came out with a strong statement saying expressing their displeasure over what they described as a high—handed in terms of sending heavily armed soldiers on peaceful protester

we asked him if the sri lankan leadership is trying to buy some more time. well, that would appear to be the case. i think in gustave his case, it's a bit more clear. and he is liable to criminal prosecution, for of alleged war crimes and other crimes within sri lanka. and as long as he is a head of the state, he has head of state immunity. so i think he wants to get somewhere where he is, has asylum or where he's feels very secure, some other country ah, before he gives up his head of state position and becomes more liable to prosecution. so it's, it's probably he's looking for a place and the rumor as he's travelling from all the eaves to the same to singapore, to night. whether that's where he'll stay or hop somewhere else. who knows? so that may explain his delay. and the hope is that he will actually sometime soon resign, which will clarify a little bit of, of the picture. what renelle vicar missing a is, is aiming for is a little less clear. he's always wanted to be president. he's run for president multiple times. he clearly has a long desire to posit

ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, the sri lankan president bowels to public pressure, and resigns protest is in colombo defy a night time curfew in celebrate the news that go to buy a russia pack that has dipped down they calling for an oil hold of sri lanka, leadership in a devastating economic crisis. also coming up roches, strikes central ukraine, at least 23 people are killed off to miss tiles. hit the city of vanessa. far away from the front lines. plus the political crisis in italy, prime minister mario draggy office to resign, but the president says no draggy saying he could no longer lead the government off to losing the support of the populace. 5 star movement ah, i'm john driebe. thank you for your company, sri lanka. is president gotta go to buy a rush epoxy has resigned from offers. following months of protests, he stepped down off to fleeing to singapore. through lanka has been hit by ways of demonstrations against what is its worst economic crisis in decades. a night time curfew is now in effect in capital colombo, by thousands of people to find the order to

more than 2 thirds of sri lankan household cy day eating less as a result. schools and office is currently closed to keep people off the streets. people are angry and frustrated, and they blinding politicians for the crisis. especially president, go to buy a raj epoxy and his family which dominate politics. prime minister ran neil. the creamy singer informed parliament sri lanka insolvency on tuesday. he said the economic crisis would be around until at least the end of next year. he added that bailout talks with thee. i am, if depended on finalizing a debt restructuring plan, with credit is in the coming weeks. he's more of his remarks to lawmakers, me the guardian asked that an hour of the our country has held talks with the i a murph bought the been on many occasions before you lost our la. but this time, what the situation is different from all those previous occasions here, but about the light in the past. but we have held discussions in this as a developing country, acne it, yes, alaric. but now on the situation is different. i'm with dent that very no

as they celebrate, sri lankans are l they celebrate, sri lankans are still suffering.hey trust to take power? rail workers will walk out on strike again on wednesday 27thjuly, at the height of school holidays. the ongoing dispute is over pay, conditions and jobs. the rmt union has rejected a new li% pay offer from network rail, calling it paltry. 0ur correspondentjon donnison is at london's king's cross. soa so a one—day strike this time for top what impact will it have? for rail commutersjust top what impact will it have? for rail commuters just making their way home this evening, it's going to mean another day of pretty major disruption of the three days strikes last months. this will be a 2k hour walk—out, as you say, but it's going to be an extremely difficult day to travel on the trains. 40,000 workers going on strike. it comes, as you say, after the union rejected a pay offer from say, after the union rejected a pay offerfrom network rail say, after the union rejected a pay offer from network rail yesterday would have meant 4% this year and a possible further 4%

it's response to getting aid to millions of sri lankan hit hard by the economic crisis. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. the climate emergency is making itself felt across europe. record breaking temperatures are fueling wild fires, burning out of control across hughes, waves of france, greece, portugal, spain and italy. many of these areas are also suffering severe drought. the heat wave has now moved north east reaching as far as the united kingdom. many places are sitting temperatures far higher than they are used to surpassing 40 degrees celsius in some of these areas here in europe. now the conditions have cost hundreds of deaths, including several people killed by wildfires. in spain. spain is on fire with more than $70000.00 hatches of land already going up in flames. this year. residence of this town in the north western province of zamora, were battling on monday to stop their homes being next. but an attempt to dig a trench to stop the approaching fire almost came to a deadly end for one local man. after his digger was engulfed in flames, ado fortun

found millions of sri lankan rupees, they were lying in a closet.est information about what is happening in the country against the backdrop of an acute crisis. reporting by dmitry melnikov the street is celebrating the victory the president is happy. since the resignation of which all the last months the demonstrators have been seeking, his whereabouts also fled. it is unknown, the government also resigned no fuel external debt, $ 51 billion, but the people rejoice, although there are no hints of an imminent improvement in the situation on the island, people have been asking for several months that the president resign, asking him to transfer power to the people, but the government only did what it tried to retain power by any means, the deposed, but not resigned president is preparing shpaks, according to some reports, he left sri lanka by plane, while others ply on a warship around the island. it is said that he may have joined his brother, the former prime minister mohinda. raj paxi, who has been hiding from citizens for 2 months at one of the m

hundreds of sri lankan soldiers have been deployed here.riers away from this protest site and i can see another barrier away from where i am now and the soldiers have pushed them barrier away from where i am now and the soldiers have pushed the protesters to a designated area where they can protest. the soldiers also took control of the president's office which was stormed by large crowds last week. they said they would hand over the building to the government this afternoon but then this operation came early in the morning and i saw soldiers coming from two different directions and forcing the protesters as well as journalists away from here and now i see a number of military vehicles and police watercannon and cars and vans and heavily armed troops with riot gear. i also saw about 50 soldiers walking so the government is sending out a very clear message that we are not encouraging these protests here and they have pushed them to the other side where there is a designated protest area. this has triggered a lot of anger and i can see the re

last month, un said land mines were maiming or killing many children in the country. sri lankan, all makers have elected 6 time prime minister, renella quick rama, single as their new president. the decision means with graham a singer who is currently acting president will officially keep the job until 2024 . and he's a controversial choice. as many of your public see him as being too close to a former resident got a bio roger pox v, but he won the backing of a large majority. lawmakers dw south asia bureau, chief of rita cim us in the sri lankan capital colombo. i asked her earlier to tell us more about this hastily arranged boat. you know, jerry, after all the political drama which took place yesterday and the opposition tried to bout a huge challenge in the end, it was a decisive victory for john in became a thinker. he 134 of the boats and his nearest rival got only 80 to no fault finding that it was quite a historic vote for the 1st time. buyer limit was electing a president. the last time something similar happened was back in 1993. when that then president prima vasa and he wa

i began by asking him how sri lankans have reacted to gotabaya rajapaksa's departure from the countryanger towards him about the mismanagement of the economy and to the family for taking advantage of ordinary sri lankans. people are frustrated with the economic crisis is not improving, and they sought to push him out of power. we have heard time and again from a variety of people saying, look, wejust want a handful of honest politicians to take this on and start making a difference. how realistic is that, even as an idea, given the dynasty of the rajapaksas, the nature of the political establishment in sri lanka? it's going to be difficult for anyone, any politician to navigate sri lanka out of this economic crisis. because a lot needs to be done in orderfor sri lanka to be on a pathway to fiscal solvency. so even if the person rumoured to be the next president when parliament reconvenes to elect someone, don't forget, in 2019, that person lost by io%, so he's not very popular with the general populace. it's not going to be easy for any politician to garner the support of the people n

in the evening, protesters also broke into his private residence in colombo and set it on fire. sri lankan journalist marlin aria sing says the resignations of the president and prime minister could help restore call. yeah, because i think i was, i was a private resident which was on fire. and one of the reasons that this was a bit off a back by the police. so at that site over that days also i think i was just, i just came from that feeling off the escalation, i because of these announcements because of these recognition again b a, b and b are not too slow. i mean, it's not a. so that's kind of the latest on the war in ukraine authorities. they're saying russian shelling in the eastern region of don't ask, is relentless civilians being caught in the crossfire as russian forces regroup. for a fresh assault. with these people are waiting to collect the pension, which even as the sound of bombardments creeps ever closer, every day we are being of actually a to nothing to go on no pension and no place to go. we sit around and wait team with maybe somebody will give us something jeremy, yester

the united nation says over 5 and a half 1000000 sri lankan are in need of life saving assistance. but those fuel shortages, we just thought about main supplies, copy transport, official figures, show food inflation, has reached 80 percent. milton pereira cannot afford enough food, and it shows at age 74, he keeps his hair neatly combed, but other features bear witness to long waits for the next small meal. i bought it . it's very difficult to live. even a loaf of bread is expensive. we have 6 children in the family, and one we have to get meals. 3 lumpkins are cutting back the world food program says 5 out of every 6 families are skipping meals, eating less or buying worse food inside his kitchen. pereira shows what his family can still put on the table, because in my mom, we can only buy about 250 grams of fish. and sometimes that is only one fish. we have to cut it into many small pieces, so everyone in the family can eat because we don't have much money. sometimes we give it to the children that can be and we adults only a degree at a nearby vegetable shop. there's no lack of s