Joining us is Charu Lata Hogg of Chatham House.
In Sri Lanka, defiant protestors have continued their occupation of the presidential palace as opposition politicians met to discuss forming a new government. In the face of overwhelming public protests triggered by the dire economic crisis the country is facing, President Rajapaksa has pledged to resign on Wednesday.
Extraordinary scenes in Sri Lanka as crowds storm the presidential palace in Colombo and force the President to flee. It’s the culmination of months of protests over the dire economic situation.
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is so extreme it has just one day’s worth of petrol left.
An interim prime minister has been appointed in Sri Lanka following days of political violence amid the country’s worst economic crisis since independence. The former prime minister of the ruling Rajapaksa family has been slapped with a travel ban – and a nationwide curfew remains in place.
Security forces in Sri Lanka have been ordered to shoot on sight anyone considered to be taking part in violence – as anti-government protests continue around the country.
The country’s known nothing like it since the end of the civil war. Mobs attacking each other on the streets.
There are fears that pollution from a stricken container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka could cause an even more severe environmental disaster.
The man accused of running military death squads during decades of civil war in Sri Lanka has been elected President with an overwhelming majority.
We’re joined in the studio by Charu Lata Hogg from the foreign affairs think tank Chatham House.
We’re joined by Sri Lankan journalist Faraz Shauketaly.
At least 207 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in a series of explosions across Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lankan government has denied its ambassador to Brazil is on the run, after a human rights group filed war crimes charges against him there.
Jon Snow
Our return to Sri Lanka’s killing fields coincides with the President announcing that there will be no “international component” in any “investigation” of the civil war or the alleged war crimes.
After years of Sri Lankan government denials, Channel 4’s evidence of war crimes and extra-judicial killings in Sri Lanka’s civil war is vindicated by a leaked government report, writes Callum Macrae.
