and forge a new and united future? jagath weerasinghe, welcome to hardtalk. i m happy to be here. sitting here in your home, which is also your studio, i wonder how far you ve been influenced as both an artist and an archaeologist by sri lanka s past? i m totally influenced by that. i m totally, yes. everything i do has something to do with the past of sri lanka and the idea of the past, that we keep performing in the present. yeah. but it s notjust sri lanka s past, it s a particularly bloody past that you choose to focus on. why? that is what i call the history of the present. you know, we have a long
space to the younger generation. ..that. .. ..who would think critically and take the country into future. but what my point is, has always been you need good education for that. and that s what i expect from the current government. jagath weerasinghe, thank you very much indeed for coming on hardtalk. my pleasure. thank you so much for having me. thank you. hello there. the first half of the month was very wet. it was also very mild.
but what my point is, has always been you need good education for that. and that s what i expect from the current government. jagath weerasinghe, thank you very much indeed for coming on hardtalk. my pleasure. thank you so much for having me. thank you. hello there. the first half of the month was very wet. it was also very mild. but the weather this week is going to look very different. it s going to be cold and frosty, going to have some icy patches around and the risk of some snow. predicting where the snow
have been killed. a metre of fresh snow has fallen, and many areas remain under threat of flooding. president biden has declared a state of emergency, freeing federal aid for the state. those are our top story this hour. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, with me, zainab badawi. i m just outside colombo, the capital of sri lanka. this beautiful island nation has been plunged into its worst economic crisis for more than 70 years. it led to widespread protests and forced the resignation of the president last year. and all this after a long running civil war in which around 100,000 died. i m at the home and studio of one of sri lanka s most influential artists and activists, jagath weerasinghe. can sri lankans put behind them their bloody past
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