tim dawson. _ our trust in others. tim dawson, thanks - our trust in others.o sri lanka, where the presidential election has been won by a left—wing anti—corruption candidate. a warning — there is some flash photography in the following pictures. anura kumara dissanayake said his victory belonged to all sri lankans and promised a fresh start for the country. the poll, which went to a second count for the first time in sri lanka's history, has been described as one of the country's closest. in his first comments, the president—elect said he would put the demands of the sri lankan people first. translation: there was a need j for a government with a mandate from the people if you want to rescue the country from the crisis. we know in the recent past the mandate was distorted. the distortion of the people's mandate affected the parliament and other institutions beyond that. the people's mandate that is needed to take this country forward is being established. that was the main point of the presidential election, i think the general election should be held immedia

the tim dawson is deputy general secretary of the international federation of journalists and is joining us from london. thanks very much for joining us. and i'll just 0 attempt to begin with. what's your reaction to the raid and close of all to zeros offices in the occupied westbank? and this is actually actually shocking. i mean, it kind of comes as part of the long drawn out policy to try and stop the free reporting. there's been, you know, dentist have been locked out of the gaza strip. there's obviously been the terrible, terrible targeting of doing this thing. gaza. there's been suppression of critical media within israel and the attempt to stop out to the air from the coating. h h h, atrocious on so many levels, atrocious. that the idea that based within the area of the west bank, which is not supposed to be policed by them until it's atrocious lakes and coming back troops to deal with den list. you have nothing but microphones and no books that's clearly designed to terrify people. white wisdom, it's way in the morning. one can only imagine, but again, i suspect because they thou

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