this is bbc news, i m gareth barlow. our top stories. sri lanka s president gotabaya rajapaksa will step down, after protesters stormed the palace and set fire to the prime minister s house. we report from the scene in colombo. these protesters want a new beginning for sri lanka, a new political culture so that they will not face a similar economic crisis in this country. as japan grieves for the former prime minister shinzo abe, voting begins in elections for the upper house of parliament. ifeel very, very, very, very sad. and the sense of loss is just so great that i do not know how to overcome.
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until recently, prime minister in his brother s government. critics blame them directly for the country s woes. we got here because of sheer incompetence, mismanagement, and greed. and the rajapaksa family embodied that. they embodied three things that have brought sri lanka down the first is authoritarianism, the second is corruption, and the third is ethnic chauvinism. and all of this came to a head when gotabaya rajapa ksa became president. as sri lanka s economic problems mounted and fuel prices rose, protests broke out earlier this year. ordinary people turning their fury on the government. on the 1st of april, a state of emergency was declared, but the protests went on. on 12 april, the government announced it was defaulting on its entire foreign debt after running out of money to import supplies. in may, mahinda rajapaksa resigned as prime minister and had to be rescued from his home after it was stormed by protesters.
welcome to bbc news. i m gareth barlow. our top stories. sri lanka s president gotabaya rajapaksa will step down after protesters stormed the palace and set fire to the prime minister s house. we report from the scene in colombo. these protesters want a new beginning for sri lanka, a new political culture so that they will not face a similar economic crisis in this country. as japan grieves for the former prime minister shinzo abe, voting begins in elections for the upper house of parliament. the uk chancellor nadim zahawi has added his name to the conservative leadership contest joining a field of eight, including sajid javid and jeremy hunt. and in the tennis, moscow born elena rybakina
this is bbc news, the headlines: sri lanka s president gotabaya rajapaksa will step down after protesters stormed the palace and set fire to the prime minister s house. hundreds of thousands of demonstrators descended on the capital colombo after months of protests over economic mismanagement. sri lanka is suffering high inflation and is struggling to import food, fuel and medicine. as japan grieves for the former prime minister shinzo abe, voting begins in elections for the upper house of parliament, two days after his death. there are suggestions his murder could boost support for the governing liberal democratic party, of which mr abe was the leading statesman. the uk chancellor nadhim zahawi