i m in sri lanka, an island that charms you with its warmth. ready? yes! engine hums. here we go! ..a tiny nation of dramatic extremes. ..and unique wildlife. we know each and every one of them. it s just like family. but it s been through decades of struggle, from a brutal civil war. this became one of the most heavily mined areas in the world. explosion. ..to one of the greatest natural disasters of our time. and now. those are buttermilk chillies. they re not spicy. ..it s recovering from its worst ever economic crisis. 0h! aftertaste. yeah. whoa! i first came here in the year 2000, and i was struck by the laidback island mentality. but sri lanka s been through a lot since then, and i want to find out how it s changed. keep it going. hold on! in this second part of my adventure, i ll be searching for a side of sri lanka i ve never experienced before. being out in the nature, it s like one of the best feelings in the world. 0oh! and i find out how this sri lankan staple mig
look at this. simply stunning. i m in sri lanka, an island that charms you with its warmth. ready? yes! engine hums here we go! ..a tiny nation of dramatic extremes. ..and unique wildlife. we know each and every one of them. it s just like family. but it s been through decades of struggle, from a brutal civil war. this became one of the most heavily mined areas in the world. explosion ..to one of the greatest natural disasters of our time. and now. those are buttermilk chillies. they re not spicy. ..it s recovering from its worst ever economic crisis. 0h! aftertaste. yeah. whoa! i first came here in the year 2000, and i was struck by the laidback island mentality. but sri lanka s been through a lot since then, and i want to find out how it s changed. keep it going. hold on! in this second part of my adventure, i ll be searching for a side of sri lanka i ve never experienced before. being out in the nature, it s like one of the best feelings in the world. 0oh! and i find out h
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were unfounded, politically motivated charges meant to suppress opposition. mr navalny always defended his innocence. he was only 47 years old. the kremlin denies it played any part in navalny s death. he spent his final days in a russian penal colony, where prison officials say he died after going on a walk. as the bbc s russia editor steve rosenberg reports, navalny was seen in good spirits just a day ago. smiling, crackingjokes, smiling, cracking jokes, this was alexei navalny yesterday as he gave testimony by video link from prison. even court officials managed a smile. but today, russia s prison service said that mr navalny was dead. it claimed that inside this penal colony he had fallen unconscious and that medical teams couldn t save him. russian tv rarely mentions navalny. it read out the prison service statement about his death and moved on to other news. he was vladimir putin s most vocal critic, a protest leader, and anti corruption campaigner, who had long clashed
joining a mission to repair the coastline. you can buy anything here. and i dive into the heart of its capital city. everybody that we would expect to be in sri lanka is right here. look at it. it s packed, it s crowded, it s got a really old world feel about it. i m here at a crucial stage for sri lanka as the island aims to bounce back yet again. this is the west coast of sri lanka, under two hour s drive from the capital city, colombo. i want to start my adventure with a different perspective. a bird s eye view, in fact. that, i believe. ..is a flying machine. they call it a paramotor, and that is how i m going to see the coastline right now. 0k. here we go. yeah. looking forward to it. thank you. i can t believe i m actually going to do this. motor whirs here we go. whoa! what a feeling. cannot beat this. absolutely beautiful. this perspective is unbeatable. i thought, as a child, we d all be flying like this every day as a matter of course. now my dream s come true. sri