This is al jazeera and these are the top stories. Russians are paying their respects to the last soviet union leader ahead of his burial and moscow mccallegh. Gorbachev will be laid to rest in the coming hours. The kremlin says president Vladimir Putin will not attend shlang his former president is back home less than 2 months after he fled during the nations whist. Economic crisis and decades could buy a raja pox. A has been blamed for pushing shrill anchor towards financial disaster. Nathan and is, is in colombo for us. So far the reaction is somewhat muted. The return of got up a raj bucks that happened so fast. I think that the protests is in general in the country as a whole, or are taking stock or they want to know, you know what, this means, what his intentions are, are he is currently in the building that you see behind me. This is a government, a bungalow that has been allocated to him as a former head of state. That is right. Obviously a heavy amount of security, or there is
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