which continued to be pounded by heavy storms. ah, the southern chill anchors holding agent bailout talks with the international monetary fund as it struggles to contain a spiraling economic crisis. the government says it needs a $5000000000.00 lifeline. lack of foreign currency is led to shortages of food and medicine while fuel supplies due to run out within days. let s go straight to michelle fernandez, who s in the capital of colombo, and now tell us more about this and why the i m f is stepping in to be honest from what we re hearing. it s because shalana doesn t seem to have any other option. now obviously you had the economist, you had the opposition, you had specialist for months, almost a year or so, urging the government to go to the i moved to look at a be allowed to look at its debt, but essentially it stuck its head in the ground the government of the time and didn t do it, and right now they have their back up against the wall. things are really dire, sri lanka
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left us later, seeking a financial lifeline. shall anchor begins, bailout talks with the i, m f, to combat skyrocketing inflation and a few shortage and russia threatened to retaliate after lithuanian bonds, some rel transit to moscow s baltic sea exclaim of kellen in grand. ah, we begin in belgium, where tens of thousands of demonstrators have converged on the capital to protest against the rising cost of living. it s the latest and biggest day of action planned by unions. they ve called a day of strikes to demand a better pay and working conditions and more investment in the public sector. the industrial action has severely disruptive transport. airport has cancelled all outbound flights. i just did it when i came here to defend purchasing. powered the citizens because demonstrate is the only way to make the change. we cannot cope annual, even with 2 salaries as we will have. i m a medical teacher. both of us are working on. we cannot get our head above water. you must thin
history is the countries the 1st left us later. and russia threatened to retaliate after lithuanian bars some route trans transit to moscow s baltic. sea exclaim of kellen in brand ah, we begin the program with breaking news is rouse prime minister and if talley bennett and foreign minister yet lapierre have agreed to dissolve parliament. the move is expected to force the country s 5th election in less than 3 and a half years. that period we ll take the roll of inch from prime minister until the poles. for more on this let s bring in bernard smith, who joins us live from west jerusalem. bernard talk us through the details of what s happened. this coalition government has been stumbling along for the last few weeks. it s a miracle in many israelis, eyes that is lasted as long as it has one year. it was the strangest coalition government, israel s ever seen, a combination of parties on the far right the right, the left. and the 1st time that palestinian israelis had been involv