many families still coming the rubble for loved ones. anywhere from 150,000 to 200,000 buildings collapsed, and more than 850,000 children remained displaced. attendance and railway carriages and other temporary shelters for hundreds of thousands of people. 0ur corrrespondent, anna foster, who s been covering the tragedy from the beginning. she reports now from antakya in southern turkey. these trains haven t left the station for a month. they re homes instead now, to earthquake survivors. yilmaz and five of his family live in this carriage. they sleep on the seats, the few possessions they have around them. translation: they wanted to provide tents to us, but i refused. afad the turkish disaster management agency says around 2 million people have left the quake zone altogether.
is meeting with members of his government to discuss the measures that they intend to put in place or are already putting in place. and we re hearing some quite extraordinary things. details are a little thin at the moment, but, for example, a ban on exporting foreign made goods, things like cars, railway carriages and so on, potentially also giving the state permission to externally manage foreign companies who leave, thereby keeping the staff in jobs, as i say. details are still a bit sketchy, but this is what they re talking about. we also know the us, the uk and the eu have also responded to russia s invasion with sanctions against russian oligarchs. well, the latest move by the uk government is to sanction the owner of chelsea football club roman abramovich. his assets will be frozen that includes chelsea but it will be allowed to keep playing. we ll look at that in a moment. let s first remind ourselves of the background to this. roman ambramovich is a russian billionaire.
can buy, but the kremlin line so far has been, do not worry, we have got this in hand. mr clement is meeting with his government to discuss measures they intend to put in place or are ready putting in place vladimir putin. the detail, a ban on exporting foreign made goods, things like cars, railway carriages. potentially also giving the state permission to externally manage foreign companies who leave their by keeping the staff in jobs. details are still sketchy. this is what they are still sketchy. this is what they are talking about. the second thrust of the kremlin s narrative, and this has been broadcast all over state television, this is a western aggression against russians, it has nothing to do with what is happening in ukraine. as you know, fatima putin does not admit to waging war in ukraine, he talks about this being a special military operation
i think what we are seeing, actually, is a continuation of the kremlin s script, which is essentially, we were expecting sanctions, we were prepared for them, we ve got measures to deal with them, it is going to be ok. mr putin has been a regular presence on the tv over the last few days and there is an element of reassurance going on. you re quite right, you know, most russians can t fail but notice that things are starting to change in their country. western firms pulling out, western shops shuttered up, people losing theirjobs, prices starting to go up, some supermarkets limiting the amount of goods people can buy. but the kremlin s line has thus far been, don t worry, we ve effectively got this in hand, and mr putin is meeting with members of his government to discuss the measures that they intend to put in place or are already putting in place. and we re hearing some quite extraordinary things. details are a little thin at the moment, but, for example, a ban on exporting forei
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Colombo (News 1st); 273 buses of the Sri Lanka Transport Board, which were taken out of service due to dilapidation were repaired and re-added to the passenger transport system on Thursday (31).
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa graced the occasion at Galle Face Green and these buses will be added to transport passengers in the most rural areas in the country.
Dilum Amunugama, State Minister of Transport Regulation, Bus Transport Services and Railway Carriages, Motor Industries, initiated the program under the guidance of Transport Minister Gamini Lokuge, said the Department of Government Information.
Vehicle imports were restricted after the new government came to power to rebuild the collapsed economy and as a result, there was a shortage of buses for passenger transport, said the Department of Government Information.