training, bombs and the so-called death list, what a right wing extremist group was allegedly doing right before the capitol riot. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. sri lanka s president and prime minister say they will resign after protestors stormed the residences of both leaders as the country s seemingly endless economic crises boil over. saturday demonstrators broke through to reach the presidential palace calling for the president to leave office. and they also set fire to the prime minister s private residence. his office says that he was moved earlier to secure location. these unprecedented protests come after months of anti-government demonstrations across the country. they must go. it is time for us to think of the country. we left everything and came for the sake of the people. the president and the prime minister and to have a new era for sri lanka. i feel sad that they didn t go earlier. because if they had gone earlier, the
they must go. it is time for us to think of the country. we left everything and came for the sake of the people. the president and the prime minister and to have a new era for sri lanka. i feel sad that they didn t go earlier. because if they had gone earlier, there wouldn t be any destruction. it is time that we get our money back to this country. the prime minister says he is willing to make way for an all-party government to take over, the statement came after a meeting of party leaders held by the parliament speaker. and will ripley is joining us live from taipei. protestors got what they wanted in a sense, the top two leaders are gone. so what now? reporter: well, they will be gone in the coming days and i think that that is what will be crucial, to watch and see that the calm that they are seeing today will continue until wednesday when the president says that he will step down.
welcome back. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. the sri lanka president and prime minister say that they will resign after tens of thousands of people stormed their residences to protect the country s economic crisis. and just now four cabinet members have also resigned. this comes after months of protests across the south asian nation that reached unprecedented levels on saturday. at one point more than 100,000 people converged outside the president s palace calling for his resignation. the prime minister says he is willing to make way for an all-party government to take over. sri lanka s parliamentary speaker is calling for calm. for more, let s bring in a former bureau chief for the german news magazine and also
government and also would like to see an administration with a certain amount of stability. so all eyes are on those very opposition politicians who have been promising to revive the economy should they be elected to power. so this is their golden taunt. they opportunity. they have to ensure that talks ten and there are some good names in the opposition, some well-known economists. so one can only hope that they come on board and at least they put on the effort now in order to continue with negotiations with the imf. because if that doesn t happen, then i m afraid i really don t know how it will play itself out, if sri lanka is declared a failed state because that will leave the country open to all kinds of negotiations and
training, bombs and the so-called death list, what a right wing extremist group was allegedly doing right before the capitol riot. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. sri lanka s president and prime minister say they will resign after protestors stormed the residences of both leaders as the country s seemingly endless economic crises boil over. saturday demonstrators broke through to reach the presidential palace calling for the president to leave office. and they also set fire to the prime minister s private residence. his office says that he was moved earlier to secure location. these unprecedented protests come after months of anti-government demonstrations across the country.