a very warm welcome to the programme, we begin in sri lanka where the president got a buy read your has not honoured his promise to resign, he flew to the mall deves 2a hours earlier but in the public letter he said he was appointing the prime minister to be the acting head of state while he was absent. and she drank a curfew is in force with suzuki forces clashing with protesters. prompting the un security secretary general in the last few minutes to tweet saying it s important the root causes of the conflict and the grievances of protesters are addressed, i urge all party leaders to embrace the spirit of compromise for a peaceful and democratic transition. their target heavily guarded. their mood determined. as news spread that prime minister ranil wickremesinghe had just been made acting president, crowds gathered in front of his office, one of the few government buildings not yet occupied by protesters. protesters are lined up along this avenue. on the other side you can
to attend over the four days at st andrews. the build up to the tournament has been overshadowed by the controversial liv series. players who are taking part in the saudi backed series are allowed to play in the open but organisers are considering a change to their qualification rules. world number one scottie scheffler who hasn t signed up to the new tour says he s looking forward to the possibility of adding the claretjug to the green jacket that he got for winning the masters earlier this year. it was always a dream of mine to be able to come here and play this golf course are to come and play discourse an open chappie at open championship is really special, just with the history and all the stuff i ve seen in this golf course and to be able to have a chance to win on sunday would be really special as well so we go out there tomorrow and do my best and put my head down and do what i ve done all year and just play good golf. morocco and zambia are the first teams to make it
story line an effort to win hispanic voters. if you are paying attention to jeb bush, you saw his toughest attack lines on trump were delivered in spanish. looks like trump is doing his own outreach, having a private meeting with the hispanic chamber of customer. sara murray, cnn, washington with. little news of our own here at cnn. we changed the qualification rules of the next republican debate which means carly fiorina could earn a spot with the other candidates. the change was made because there have been very few national polls since the last debate on august 6th. now any candidate who ranks in the top ten in polling between august 7th and september 10th is going to be included. that means carly fiorina will likely qualify for the next debate. be sure to tune in. the president has been stripped of his immunity and
tight? who is to blame? the candidates who weren t able to successfully navigate the state gop intricate qualification rules or party itself for crafting them that way? we went back and looked over two decades and we ve never had an issue of a candidate not submitting the necessary required signatures. so it s unfortunate, but only two campaigns did reach the legal threshold. several contenders who failed to make the ballot joined forces and filed a lawsuit they ultimately lost. forget write in votes. they aren t allowed. that means newt gingrich won t have a shot at any of the commonwealth s 46 delegates on tuesday. what really matters is the voters of virginia. they ought to have the right to choose among all the major candidates and the process that was so convoluted that only two candidates run before actually made it. it s possible months ago, many assumed the nomination would be settled by now. rick santorum s campaign didn t even attempt to qualify in virginia. but pol