out with friends. the met police say they had contact with student nurse owami davies on the day she was reported missing by her family. a car bomb in moscow kills the daughter of putin ally aleksandr dugin, a vocal supporter of the war in ukraine. the exam board pearson has apologised after some btec students didn t get their results on time, putting their university places in doubt. good evening. welcome to the programme. dock workers at felixstowe, britain s largest container port, have gone on strike, bringing operations to a halt. there are warnings it may cause serious disruption to supply chains, providing everything from fresh food to household goods, clothing and parts for industry. almost 2,000 workers are taking part in eight days of action. their union, unite, has rejected a 7% pay offer, saying it is significantly below inflation . the port authority insists it s a fair deal. almost half of britain s container goods pass through the port in suffolk. here s our b
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
we begin in sri lanka where gotabaya rajapaksa has sent a letter formally handing over power to his prime minister, but stopping short of a resignation. our correspondent is in colombo with the latest development. we just had a statement from the office of president gotabaya rajapaksa, somebody that the protesters behind me, they have spent months camping out here in the centre of colombo, desperate for president gotabaya rajapaksa to resign and they blame him for this country s economic woes but we have had a statement from his office and it doesn t look like it is very clear exactly what he is planning to do. i have got the statement here. effectively he doesn t resign in this statement and he says that he is transferring the presidency to ranil wickremesinghe who is currently the prime minister, while he is out of the country, so this is a man who promised he would resign but he hasn t done that yet, and this is now leaving even more uncertainty, we are reading to the stat
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