Pledge to address corruption and reduce economic burden on true lancome. And that resonated with citizens who have been burdened with high living costs and rising poverty, even at a time when the economy overall seem to have stabilised. Now, anura kumara dissanayake promise to cut income taxes and slashes tells taxes on food and medicine, his also promised to renegotiate terms of the imf programme to make it easier for sri lankan. But experts say that he can manage to realistically deliver and fund the populous promises, while balancing sri lankan s. The foreign reserve is at $6 billion that can last forjust three months. Imf bailout line that forced his territory in order to boost government revenues is also halfway through and a deal to restructure the huge foreign debt by still not finalised. Stabilising the economy and manoeuvring lenders especially bilateral partners india and china will be one of the first test. This party so far has had a no experience in running a government, e
Andrey kordochkin, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its a great Honour And Privilege to be here. Well, its great to have you in the studio. Let me take you back to February 2022. Putin orders an all out invasion of ukraine. Within days, you, a priest in the russian Orthodox Church, choose to speak out against the invasion. When you did that, did you feel that this would be the end of your career in the russian Orthodox Church . I think that when the war has begun, very few of us could actually give a prediction of what is going to come through. So i think that many people would suggest that the war would be over in a very short period of time. So i dont think that any of us was acting out of any kind of prediction. And i think when i spoke out against the war, i dont think that i really felt any choice. I thought that it was a moral imperative on behalf of any christian or any sensible and reasonable person, to try to stop it, or at least not to be a part of what one may call a moraljus
And Table Football is finally Coming Home this Weekend ive been to the birthplace of subbuteo in kent, as it stages the World Cup. And good morning. Today we will see some Sunny Spells developing across many parts of the uk, but like yesterday there will be the risk of some heavy and thundery showers. Where you catch them they will really be intense. Bring you all the details very shortly. Its saturday 21 september. A former manager of fulhams womens Football Team has told the bbc that extra precautions were put in place to protect female players from Mohamed Al fayed when he owned The Club. Mr Al Fayed, who died last year, was also the owner of harrods until 2010, and has been accused of rape and Sexual Assault by dozens of Women Who worked for the Department Store. Harrods says its utterly appalled by the allegations and has condemned his actions. Our reporter simonjones has More. How widespread was Mohamed Al fayeds alleged offending . Dozens of women have come forward to say that t
Backup vocals and funky beat plays that s one of many remixes that donald trump s false claim that haitian immigrants are eating household pets has spawned that one by the musician the kiffness. False it may well be but the claim has dominated news cycles, and onejournalist set out to find the source of the now debunked rumour. Jack brewster is enterprise editor at newsguard and he s been telling us about how he did it. Yeah, so finding the source of this claim is almost as interesting as the claim itself. We went to the screenshot that everyone was sharing online, purporting to come from the person who originally shared the claim, and it was posted first in this private facebook group. And when it was shared on x which is where it went viral somebody had redacted the name at the top, so you couldn t tell who was the original poster of this claim. But my colleague and i noticed that a couple of the letters were exposed at the top and so, we zoomed in and after about a few minutes
This is bbc news, the headlines. At least 32 killed in lebanon after two days of exploding Device Attacks targeting hezbollah. Pagers and walkie talkies have been banned from flights out of beirut. Israel widely believed to be behind the attacks has announced what it calls a new phase in The War the United States is urging calm. The bbc reveals that the former Harrods Boss the late Mohamed Al Fayed has been accused of rape by five female ex employees. Evacuations in Northern Italy as Storm Boris batters the country causing severe flooding and landslides. And in the uk calls for urgent Maternity Service Reform after two thirds of hospitals inspected fail to meet safety standards. The bbc has revealed that the late Mohamed Al Fayed former owner of harrods, the uks largest Luxury Department Store has been accused of rape by five female ex employees. The egyptian born businessman rose from a poor family in alexandria to buying the world famous Department Store in 1985. A Bbc Documentary h