his formal resignation is expected to be announced at some point today. the bbc understands the president s military jet has landed in male, the capital of the maldives. he had been in hiding after protestors stormed his residence on saturday. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan sent this report from colombo. many sri lankans feel that leaving is their only option, in a crisis defined by endless waits. hundreds queue for passports. a chance to leave their troubled homeland in search of something better. many trying to make it to the middle east, like vasana, whose hoping she ll find work as a cleaner to support her six year old. how do you feel about wanting to leave sri lanka? your heart is in sri lanka? she says she s going because she s struggling to even get food and that s one of the reasons why she s trying to find work in kuwait. me, i m planning to go to uk. we don t see any future. so that s basically we want to move on this country for our kids, not for
In the book, the narrator - Hemingway's alter-ego - chronicles a tale of excess, of constant and in some ways desperate carousing broken only by trips to the bullring to watch the bloody encounters.
bull running festival is under way. thousands have gathered in the streets of san fermin, in anticipation of the release of bulls, along a course of sectioned off streets. guy hedgecoe has more from pamplona. the pamplona san fermin festival has now got under way. this is one of spain s best known festivals. people come from all around the world to take part in it. the centerpiece of it really is the running of the bulls, which takes place every morning throughout the festival, whereby several bulls are released on to the streets of the historic center of the city, and they run through the streets from one end to the other, chasing participants who take part in this. those bulls are then taken away and in the evening, each evening throughout the festival, they are killed in bull fights, those same bulls. this is an extremely popular festival across spain
this is bbc news, the latest headlines. after months of mass protests against his rule, the president of sri lanka flees the country. the first round of voting takes place later in the race to be britain s next prime minister. hundreds of protesters gathered in pamplona following multiple complaints of sexual assault, as well as one rape, during the city s bull running festival. local police have said they are investigating and that no arrests have yet been made. these latest allegations are reminiscent of the notorious wolfpack case, when a woman was gang raped at the same festival in 2016. the bbc s azadeh moshiri has this report. whistles. hundreds of whistles sounding the crowd s anger as, yet again, pamplona s famous bull running festival