he swore his oath of office on thursday, and promised to restore peace and order. our south asia regional editor anbarasan ethirajan is there, and has the latest. dozens of sri lankan security forces have now lined up on the main road, very close to the protest site and many protesters from the other side, they are coming and talking with the officials, there is a tense situation at the moment, thatis tense situation at the moment, that is a stand off and these protesters, they believe, they suspect that the protest site over there might be cleared by these soldiers and as we speak, there is another group of police officers, they are over there, they are coming over there, they are coming over there to clear. in the last few minutes, dozens of security forces have now entered this protest village and now they
forces have now lined up on the main road, very close to the protest site and many protesters from the other side, they are coming and talking with the officials. there is a tense situation at the moment that is a stand off, and these protesters, they believe, they suspect that the protest site over there might be cleared by these soldiers and, as we speak, there is another group of police officers, they are over there. they are coming over there to clear. in the last few minutes, dozens of security forces have now entered this protest village and now, they are clearing all the tents these tensts that were put up months ago by these protesters. now, the protest movement, they have gone to the other side and there is a tense situation here where
that s all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that s bbc.co.uk/sport. goodbye for now. in the last few hours, the new sri lankan prime minister has been sworn in. dinesh gunawardena, who is a former minister, took the oath in the presence of president. the rest of the cabinet is expected to be sworn in later on friday. meanwhile, sri lankan police have been dismantling protest camps in the capital, colombo. they were originally set up by groups demonstrating against the economic crisis but in recent days protestors have expressed their anger at the appointment of ranil wickremesinghe as the new president. 0ur south asia regional editor, anbarasan ethirajan, has the latest. hundreds of sri lankan soldiers have been deployed here. early in the morning the soldiers came in and the cleared all the barriers away from this protest site and i can see another barrier away from where i am now and the soldiers have pushed them
this was an active protest site about 24 others ago. early in the morning the soldiers came in and cleared all the makeshift tents, the banners and tables and chairs from this protest site and they were moved away. i can see another barrier about 100 metres from where i am now, barrier about 100 metres from where iam now, people barrier about 100 metres from where i am now, people have been stopped, the protesters have been pushed to a designated area where they can protest and the soldiers also took control of the presidents office, this was stormed by huge crowds last week and the protesters have said they will hand over this building to they will hand over this building to the government this afternoon, then this operation came early in the morning and i saw villagers coming from two directions and forcing protesters and journalists away from here, i have seen a number of military vehicles, police water
site here in colombo. they had already urged the political parties not to support him, but despite that, he got 134 votes in parliament, with a 52 vote majority. that is quite a huge majority, and no one expected that he could get so many votes in such a short time. so, he managed it, but the irony is he came with the support of a governing alliance, which is rajapaksa s party, and so people are questioning how far he is linked with the rajapaksas, though last night he denied that he was linked to them, and he claimed that he had been doing politics all along against the rajapaksas, but not in favour of them. but many people would question that statement. at the same time, he also issued a stern warning that any attempt to topple the government or occupy the government buildings, they would be considered