welcome to newsday we start with breaking news. it s six am in singapore and three thirty am in sri lanka where injust the last hour the bbc has confirmed that sri lanka s president gotabaya rajapaksa has left the country days after popular protests forced him to abandon his official residence and after several earlier failed attempts to leave. he left by plane. his destination is not clear, but it s understood he had earlier tried to travel to the united arab emirates. president rajapaksa had promised to resign, but by remaining in position, he kept his immunity from prosecution. many sri lankans blame him for the economic crisis which has crippled their country leaving it short of funds to buy medicines or fuel. i m joined now by david brewster, a specialist in sri lankan politics with the australia national university. great university. to get you on the program, david. great to get you on the program, david. just to start by saying, the dramatic developments we ve h
welcome to newsday we start with breaking news. it s six am in singapore and three thirty am in sri lanka where injust the last hour the bbc has confirmed that sri lanka s president gotabaya rajapaksa has left the country days after popular protests forced him to abandon his official residence and after several earlier failed attempts to leave. he left by plane. his destination is not clear, but it s understood he had earlier tried to travel to the united arab emirates. president rajapaksa had promised to resign, but by remaining in position, he kept his immunity from prosecution. many sri lankans blame him for the economic crisis which has crippled their country leaving it short of funds to buy medicines or fuel. i m joined now by david brewster, a specialist in sri lankan politics with the australia national university. great university. to get you on the program,
2,000 light years away, it is a star going through its death throes. in some strange way it is a pretty view of something decaying and dying but we re able again to look at the material as it flows away from the star and understand something about the evolution of the star, so going from star birth in the star forming regions, all the way through to star death. but this is just the start for the telescope. over the coming days and months, more and more images will be captured. our knowledge of the universe and our place in it is about to be transformed. rebecca morelle, bbc news. let s bring you more on that breaking news we told you about at the beginning of the program. the bbc has received informationjust the beginning of the program. the bbc has received information just in the last ten minutes or so that the sri lankan president is already two of landed in the maldives. according to the bbc, the flight landed in mali and the president came out of
the airport and tight security for the airport and tight security for the days after popular protests forced him to abandon his official residence for that ijust forced him to abandon his official residence for that i just want to remind you that his brother they form finance minister also left for that as we been reporting the president as we understand it flew out on a militaryjet days after his home was overrun with protesters and he went into hiding. gotabaya rajapaksa earlier pledge to resign and waiting to hear if that doesn t happen and if the prime minister is expected to resign. gotabaya rajapaksa political dynasty has rajapa ksa political dynasty has ruled rajapaksa political dynasty has ruled the island for decades and they ve been blamed for mismanaging they ve been blamed for mismanaging the economy leaving millions of struggling to buy food, fuel and medicine. we will have lots more on that for you on bbc news. to state with us. that s it for now.
they could barely stand. this is newsday on the bbc. i m karishma vaswani. in singapore, our headlines. sri lanka is president gotabaya rajapaksa has sri lanka is president gotabaya rajapa ksa has fled sri lanka is president gotabaya rajapaksa has fled the country along with other members of his family following mass protests they are. the committee investigating the storming of the us capitol lays out how president trump incited extremists in a last ditch bid to remain in office. presidentjoe biden is travelling to israel for a series of meetings there and in the west bank, before heading to saudi arabia. his visit comes as israel has been carrying out military arrest raids in the occupied west bank this week a near daily occurrence since a wave of deadly attacks by palestinians against israelis in the spring.