Have been dashed after he was knocked out by Daniel Dubois in the fifth round. Hello, im kasia madera. Start with some Breaking News from Sri Lanka. The left wing opposition candidate, anura kumara dissanayake, has won Sri Lankas first president Ial Poll since the country defaulted on its international debts two years ago. That news just coming into us here at the bbc. He won when second preference votes were Ta Ken into account after winning about forty percent in the initial round of counting. The opposition leader, sajith premadasa, came second, with the outgoing president , Ranil Wikremesinghe Trailing in third. Breaking news from Sri Lanka on that election. The left wing opposition candidate, anura kumara dissanayake, has won Sri Lankas first president Ial Poll since the country defaulted on its international debts two years ago. We will speak to our correspondence on the ground. She willjoin us live with the latest on that. We start in the Middle East, where israel says hezbollah
We are expectIng reactIon to come In, but thIs Is the sItuatIon In SrI Lanka. Anura Kumara DIssanayake has one the fIrst presIdent Ial Poll sInce the country had to default on Its InternatIonal debts two years ago. He won second preference votes. When they were taken Into account when he won 40 In the InItIal round of countIng. The OpposItIon Leader came second. The outgoIng prIme MInIster TraIlIng In thIrd place. Anura Kumara DIssanayake heads the natIonal Peoples Power AllIance and It Is a party. That alIgns Includes hIs Peoples LIberatIon front party, a party tradItIonally backed, that has tradItIonally backed, that has tradItIonally backed stronger InterventIon and lower taxes. Its campaIgn for let thIs economIc polIcIes. WIth thIs wIn, SrI Lanka wIll see for the fIrst tIme, a government that Is headed by a leader wIth a strong left wIng Ideology. We are expectIng Anura Kumara DIssanayake to dIssolve the. To dIssolve the parlIament and then call for parlIamentary electIons after ha
Stories later this hour, but first we want to bring you a special report. Women in iran have told the bbc how their online activity has been spied on by the authorities, leading to arrests, threats and beatings. Their testimonies come two years after the woman, life, Freedom Protests ignited by the death of Mahsa Amini in Police Custody after she was arrested for wearing the mandatory hijab loosely. Bbc verify Reporter Reha Kansara reports. A warning, this report includes distressing accounts of violence. Chanting i took off my hijab and didnt even wear it as a shawl around my neck. I didnt care to hide who i am or where the photo was taken. I wanted to say we exist. Chanting in 2022, anti government protests swept over iran after the death of a young woman in custody. The Protesters Battle Cry women, life, freedom resounded across the world. But two years on, Irans Government continues to clamp down evolving surveillance for a new era of digital resistance. Arresting thousands of prot
Oldest and most prestigious film festivals, was certainly star studded this year, and among the figures making an impact was 49 year old angelina jolie for her portrayal of the celebrated late opera singer maria callas in the picture maria. Emma jones was at the venice film festival for talking movies. Emma: angelina jolie is portraying a woman said to have had the voice of an angel. American born greek soprano maria callas, who died in 1977 aged only 53, is judged to be the world s greatest ever female opera star and certainly the most famous. She s been the subject of a documentary maria by callas. A fictitious reimagining of the last week of her life is the subject of maria by chilean director pablo larrain. That is not what the doctor told us we should do. Was he even a doctor? asjolie is seen here as callas, talking to her butler ferruccio, played by italian actor pierfrancesco favino. And that is why he took a sample of your blood. But he said even before the result of the test
It s the beginning. It s the start of the whole season. All that and more in this festival review edition of talking movies. Venice, one of the world s oldest and most prestigious film festivals, was certainly star studded this year, and among the figures making an impact was 49 year old angelina jolie for her portrayal of the celebrated late opera singer, maria callas, in the picture maria. Emma jones was at the venice film festival for talking movies. Emma: angelina jolie is portraying a woman said to have had the voice of an angel. American born greek soprano maria callas, who died in 1977 aged only 53, isjudged to be the world s greatest ever female opera star and certainly the most famous. She s been the subject of a documentary maria by callas. A fictitious re imagining of the last week of her life is the subject of maria by chilean director pablo larrain. That is not what the doctor told us we should do. Was he even a doctor? asjolie is seen here as callas, talking to her butl