welcome to newsday. it s seven am in singapore and fourthirty am in sri lanka the bbc has confirmed that sri lanka s president gotabaya rajapaksa has left the country days after popular protests forced him to abandon his official residence and after several earlier failed attempts to leave. he left by plane. his destination is not clear but it s understood he had his but it s understood he had brotherformerfinance minister his brotherformerfinance minister has also left the country. president gotabaya country. president gota baya rajapaksa country. president gotabaya rajapaksa had promised to resign but remaining in position he kept his immunity from prosecution. many sri lankans blame him for the economic crisis which has crippled their country leaving it short of funds to buy medicines or fuel. our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan was with protestors outside the presidential palace in colombo when the news of president rajapaksa s departure was made public. there
In a stunning image, NASA s Webb Space Telescope captured the particularly rare transformation phase in the star and normally the last step before they explode.
Extraordinary images captured by James Webb Space Telescope show the last moments of a star as it delivers a final performance of light, gas, and dust before bowing out of the universe, what we know as its ‘death’.
in some strange way it is a pretty view of something decaying and dying, but we re able again to look at the material as it flows away from the star and understand something about the evolution of the star, so going from star birth in the star forming regions, all the way through to star death. but this is just the start for the telescope. over the coming days and months, more and more images will be captured. our knowledge of the universe and our place in it is about to be transformed. rebecca morelle, bbc news. you re watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme. four time olympic champion mo farah reveals he was trafficked into the uk as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant. after months of talks and missed deadlines, a deal has been struck to keep greece within the euro zone.