the mass campaign started as a protest against the government s handling of the economy and the soaring cost of basic supplies. dr niro kandasamy from the university of sydney says any new leader coming to power will face enormous challenges. there are several urgent issues that need to be addressed regarding who becomes president and we will find out on wednesday for sure but presently the country needs fuel, cooking gas, it has critical shortages in medical supplies and children haven t been to school so urgent needs need to be addressed and that means having negotiations with the imf which will also result in austerity cuts but the government has an opportunity to address some of those underlying issues and that includes taking a good hard look at expenditure so the military budget for 2022
that is something that sri lanka is still dealing with right now. so what next for the people of sri lanka, as they try to navigate themselves out of this difficult political transition? we can speak with dr niro kandasamy from the university of sydney. it s great to get you on the programme and i want to start by asking, we are at this difficult political transition for sri lanka, where do we go from here? there are several urgent where do we go from here? there are several urgent issues where do we go from here? there are several urgent issues that where do we go from here? there are several urgent issues that need - where do we go from here? there are several urgent issues that need to - several urgent issues that need to be addressed regarding who becomes president and we will find out on wednesday for sure but presently the country needs fuel, cooking gas, it has critical shortages in medical supplies and children haven t been to school so urgent needs need to be addressed a
in kids between 12 and 17, only 60% of those kids have been vaccinated. and the responsibility is the parents . parents need to protect their children. we have safe and very effective tools to do that. kids should not die, and they should certainly not die from this virus, and we have a way to protect them from doing that. and those kids, they are a pool of potential spreaders of covid and variants that may be more transmissible. that s one of the other reasons to get our kids protected as well. right. so many of these households where children haven t been vaccinated, you know, the parents haven t been vaccinated as well. there are about 17 million kids that this new cdc ruling affects, and when a child brings a virus home, not only are the parents also likely to get sick, but a parent is likely having is likely going to need to stay home from work to take care of that child until the child is
days, they re processing something that s just unbelievable, but when they see toys, they see a smile, they approach him, so shy, but by the end of it they re laughing, they re hugging him. he has been in tears, he says, from the reactions of the children that they ve been getting. but he s just one of hundreds of people who have come to be with the community and there are so many more ready to stand with uvalde. reporter: you touch on something so key, these children haven t been able to smile. they should be smiling, laughing, and playing, because this is the first official weekend of their summer break. graduations were canceled. and you talk about toys, along with that, something i ve seen in this area, there have been people showing up, but i ve seen food trucks and people eating. and it s almost as if food is comforting for the soul in these dark times. yeah, absolutely. you can tell that the food is a big part of the culture here. everybody knows that you come together and y
identity k-3, what do you think? well, i think parents have clearly awakened to the fact that first of all in many cases their children haven t been learning the basics that they need to succeed in the future. they realize that their children have been held hostage through a government-run union-controlled system and they are fed up with it. they didn t sign up to co-parent with the government. and so the focus needs to be on giving kids back to learning what they need to succeed and to thrive in the future. the fact that they are stating the fact that we don t rank in the top 20 in any of the subject areas as compared to our international peers. the focus needs to be back on children learning and children being prepared to succeed as adults. parents know this. they are fed up with the government-run, union-controlled system. candidates who actually embrace