hello and welcome. celebrations have been taking place in sri lanka after gotabaya rajapaksa became the country s first sitting president to quit. he did so after months of angry protests over the rapidly rising cost of living, and shortages of food and fuel. the delay in handing over his letter of resignation was, it seems, to do with his flight from the maldives to singapore. from colombo, rajini vaidyanathan reports. a moment to savour, after months of struggle. now there s joy. these demonstrators had one key demand, that the man they blame for their economic woes resign. tonight, president gotabaya rajapaksa did. protesters say they are celebrating what represents a victory for people power. it s the end of the rule of the rajapaksas, after a week of turmoil on the island. just yesterday, at the prime minister s office, security forces were overrun by protesters. it was one of a number of government buildings taken over by the masses. today, protesters handed it back to
Attended the incident and treated the woman for stab injuries, but she died at the scene. A 22 year old man was arrested in the colindale area on thursday afternoon and remained in custody. Thousands of people have joined pro palestinian protests in the swedish city of malmo ahead of israels appearance in the semifinal of the eurovision song contest. The climate activist Greta Thunberg was among the crowds that gathered in the citys main square, waving flags and chanting. The man performing for israel, eden golan, was booed during the rehearsals. A bbc investigation has revealed the saudi authorities have permitted the use of lethal force to clear land for a futuristic desert city that is being built by dozens of western companies. A former Intelligence Officer says he was ordered to evict villagers to make way for the line, part of the neom eco project. You are very welcome to the programme. The People Living in rafah say the last two days have been punctuated by the almost constant s
well, under plans announced on thursday, from next april, there will only be one single rolling news outlet throughout the day, a move that will see job cuts here in this building. mark lobel is here. why is this happening? the bbc is pursuing why is this happening? the bbc is pursuing a why is this happening? the bbc is pursuing a digital is pursuing a digitalfirst strategy which means it wants to increase its digital offering but it s against a backdrop of cuts because the license fee is funding bbc news and that has been frozen by the government over the next two years. so the latest proposal is to take these two news channels and merge them into one bbc news channel, meaning there will be 70 uk based staff who will be 70 uk based staff who will lose theirjobs and that includes ia chief presenters. the challenge also is that the agenda isn t always going to be the same for that world
properties. former president says james pursuing a politically motivated investigation. james office said in a statement, quote: our investigation will continue dine terred because no one is above the law. not even someone with the name trump. meantime, breaking tonight, there are growing concerns within the defense department about extremism within the ranks of the military. why now? national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon tonight with the story, good evening, jennifer. good evening. bret. the pentagon released its new guidelines on extremism in the ranks a year long be review spawned by the january 6th attack on the capitol. new dod guidelines about what amounts to extremist behavior including liking certain posts on social media that call for violence or overthrowing the government. will they be monitoring social media 24/7 of their unit members or any recruits. there is no monitoring. there is no ability for the department of defense to monitor
the basis for the prosecution, at least as reported by the new york times, is that when sussman did that, he told them, i m handing this over not on behalf of a client. he says that he was doing it on behalf of his cybersecurity client who had dug up this suspicious data in the first place but the suspicion planted by john durham and company was that sussman was secretly representing the hillary clinton campaign. there is reportedly evidence that sussman billed some of his work to the clinton campaign at some point, his large firm was representing the clinton campaign at the time. his lawyers say there is an innocuous explanation for that. here is the key point about this investigation. quote, some of the questions that durham s team have been asking in recent months, including of witnesses it subpoenaed before a grand jury, suggest he has been pursuing a