with 11 mps, and counting, eyeing up the top job. and in tennis victory is sweet for novak djokovic, who wins his seventh wimbledon men s singles title. voice-over: live voice over: live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s eight in the morning in singapore, and 5:30 in the morning in colombo, sri lanka where protestors have been celebrating what they believe to be the toppling of the country s leadership. president rajapaksa whose family has dominated sri lankan politics for the best part of two decades has announced he will step down on wednesday. our south asia correspondent, rajini vaidyanathan, reports from inside the presidential palace which is still overrun by protesters. these scenes would have been unthinkable days ago. sri lanka s seat of presidential power now a sightseeing destination. security nowhere to be seen, as thousands push their way into a palace taken over by protesters. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka
it needed until we have reached that macroeconomic programme. sha nta shanta deva rajan there shanta devarajan there speaking to me a little earlier. japan s ruling party and its partners look to have won a super majority in upper house elections, just days after the assassination of former prime minister shinzo abe. it means the ldp could be in a position to amend the country s pacifist constitution a long time abe goal. earlier i spoke to william pesek, columnist and author based in tokyo, who writes on economics and politics for forbes and nikkei asia and started by asking hom how he thought voter turnout had been. well, you know, part of it is a sympathy vote, certainly. former prime minister shinzo abe was a bit of a polarising figure, but certainly there was a bit of a sympathy vote.