a quick reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera, the speaker of shoreline, cuz parliament has confirmed that president got to buy a roger paxis resignation has been accepted. he s now in singapore, to flee into the mold. these on wednesday, under pressure from mounting demonstrations against his presidency protest does want a new government to end the country deep economic crisis. what roger baxa had sent a letter on thursday announcing the resignation, but it had to be authenticated. out here with steadfast and as more of michelle and can capital columbus the speaker also more than 12 hours to verify this latter. and he s now saying that it s indeed legal latter that it s according to the constitution. now a valid resignation. so that s what he is announcing now to the public here in 3 lunk. of course, this means the and quite ungrateful downfall of the box of family who has been in control and the government here for most of the last 2 decades. china s economic growt
your child was there with me. so rosalind, doha, remind her of our top new stories. a nationwide curfew was ended in sri lanka, falling unprecedented demonstrations of the capitol. it s leader got the by roger boxer has fled the country and ordered prime minister running a week from a singer to replace him. but protest has defied a state of emergency and stoned, wicked. i m a single office. they re demanding. both leaders stepped down immediately. the face of a worsting economic crisis stepped fastened reports. ah, people are well well when these protesters are chanting, they celebrated a small moment of victory when they heard president got there by a jap bucks i had flat. but soon after his early morning escape, the mood turned to anger. thousands of people march to the office of the man they fear could be roger box. asked successor daniel, we come a singer, he s dandy in the poet can mobilize them. you know, he goes past, although it will just as hanging saw hand upon a an
Strategic and international studies. Those still in the hall, come on in. Look forward to having you here. My name is john henry. Im president at csis. My role today is entirely ornamental. Just to welcome all of you and to say how thankful i am to matt greene is here, bill lin will be with us later. You have made it possible for us to do the Global Security forum and we appreciate the opportunity. We have got a real lineup to a real lineup. We have the chairman of the joint chiefs coming. All six of the vice chiefs for the military services pit it is going to be a good day. The first panel is going to be a Stellar Group and we want to say thank you to michelle and tom and jennifer. Thank you for moderating. Kari is the genius who has been pulling this together. She picked the topic gathering storm. It refers to Winston Churchills famous autobiography really of the interwar period and how it was building up to what became the tragedy of world war ii. We dont want to imply that we are h
Those still in the hall, come on in. Look forward to having you here. My name is john henry. Im president at csis. My role today is entirely ornamental. Just to welcome all of you and to say how thankful i am to matt greene is here, bill lin will be with us later. You have made it possible for us to do the Global Security forum and we appreciate the opportunity. We have got a real lineup to a real lineup. We have the chairman of the joint chiefs coming. All six of the vice chiefs for the military services pit it is going to be a good day. The first panel is going to be a Stellar Group and we want to say thank you to michelle and tom and jennifer. Thank you for moderating. Kari is the genius who has been pulling this together. She picked the topic gathering storm. It refers to Winston Churchills famous autobiography really of the interwar period and how it was building up to what became the tragedy of world war ii. We dont want to imply that we are heading in that direction but we want
Greece. They did not explicitly ask for it. That is a real change from before, but there is no movement from the imf, from jack lew, and from donald tusk at the eu at the commission asking for a change of actual right now. Tom we will have a special focus in the 7 00 hour with alan ruskin of Deutsche Bank. Lets get you to top headlines. He is unpracticed on this. And in greeley. Brendan it appears greece blinked. Alexis tsipras has proposed a bunch of spending cuts, tax hikes. In return he wants a 59 billion bailout, wants longterm debt to be made more manageable. Francois hollande calls the new plan credible and serious. That is the most important word there serious. Voters rejected a similar proposal in the referendum on sunday. A few hours from now, the Confederate Flag will no longer fly on the grounds of the state capital in South Carolina. The legislature voted to take it down in the wake of the murder of nine black Church Members in charleston. Nikki haley, the governor signed i