sri lanka is looking far and wide to ease the economic crisis. this week, the president had a phone call with russia s vladimir putin to get hold of cheap fuel. discussions were described as very productive. emily unia, bbc news. let s return to our breaking news, the home of sri lanka s prime kalani kumarasinghe is the features editor at sri lanka s daily mirror. kalani you re in the capital colombo. what have you seen? i would like to ask you about the most recent line that we are hearing is that following all of these protests and the storming of the presidential and prime minister s s, that the president will resign next week? over the last few hours things escalated, we sawjournalists being attacked by that really got to the
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boris johnson s nicola sturgeon saying, look, it was borisjohnson s decision to make this visit to scotland, and she would say there are important things to talk about, recovery from covid being top of them. really important things for all the different nations to talk about. and yet he is not taking this opportunity to come and talk to me. you know, when it became clear that this meeting, there was not going to be a meeting scheduled, it was interesting that it was the snp that took the initiative on monday to make the offer, to say come and see us. from the prime minister s point of view, the government point of view, you heard there, in the letter he responded with yesterday, he said, there will be lots of opportunities to talk, not just with the be lots of opportunities to talk, notjust with the first minister of scotland, but the leaders of all of the devolved nations. so, ithink what this represents, to an extent, is the difficult relationship between the first minister and the p
Following the Prime Minister-s announcement to the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Tuesday 22 February designated the initial tranche of sanctions on Russia. The sanctions package targets oligarchs and banks associated with the Kremlin.