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mounting evidence from china of a steep rise in covid cases, with many millions thought to be affected. we catch up with the ukrainian couple who married at an army checkpoint early in the war what are their hopes for the future? hello and welcome to bbc news. plunging temperatures, blizzards and icy winds are gripping much of the united states and canada, with more than 250 million people facing life threatening conditions. 19 people have been killed so far. the us state of montana registered a record breaking low of minus 45 celsius. the storm extends from quebec to texas. sancha berg reports. a blinding snowstorm in buffalo. this is what zero visibility looks like. no planes could land or take off. this northern part of new york state has been hit hard by the bomb cyclone in an enormous winter storm. further south, there have been floods. ~ . ., . floods. we have had ice, flooding, snow, floods. we have had ice, flooding, snow. freezing floods. we have had ice, f ....
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 th ....
minister is brought home. police admit security flaws over his shooting. and moscow born elena rybakina, representing kazakhstan, wins the women s final at wimbledon. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the ongoing economic crisis in sri lanka has erupted today with thousands of people storming the residence of the president in the capital colombo and setting fire to the home of the prime minister. after months of protests, huge crowds, enraged by the authorities handling of sri lanka s worst crisis in decades, overwhelmed the security forces. the prime minister has agreed to resign and reports say the president will step down next week. sri lanka is suffering rampant inflation and is struggling to import food, fuel and medicine. caroline hawley reports. the barricades were meant to keep the protesters back, but they were no barrier for the furious and desperate crowd, all suffering the effects of living in a nation in economic co ....
Their anger after yesterday s killings and there is evidence of the community who have broken apart and are engaging in acts of urban violence against the police. we have seen cars overturned and set on fire. the shelter smashed, classic urban warfare stuff that we saw a few years ago. no doubt the police will be intervening quite soon because they don t normally allow this stuff to go on very long without stepping in and firing tear and charging with batons to make arrest and deter further succession. it is hard to know if people carry out this violence are part of the kurdish movement or the black box, far left agitators who attach themselves to many political groups, it is impossible to say. it is impossible to say. there have been important it is impossible to say. there have been important questions - it is impossible to say. there have been important questions raised l it is impossible to say. there havel ....
Here, clashing with the police. the police were firing tear at protesters, so, this has been the response. in response to that, the fact that the protesters in the journalists were attacked, the news of that spread like wildfire, and you had people from other sites coming here, congregating here, and pushing back the police. this culminated in the burning of the prime minister s house. we also spoke to human rights lawyer bhavani fonseka who was at the protest earlier. it has been quite the day in sri ....