The government ran out to foreign reserves and was unable to pay for imports, leading to shortages. Michelle fernandez is in colombo, she says many people have been surprised by the former president southern was head. Its all unfolded so quickly and the former president s arrival and or return has happened literally so quickly that people havent had time to react as yet. I mean, he did arrive late in the art of as of last night just before midnight, and he was whisked into the property. You can see behind me, its a government resident, obviously an official government bungalow. And thats where we see if you do see theres a Police Checkpoint thats been established. Its pretty much um, in, in colombo, in the city. Theres no huge amount of barricades preventing movement around it. But obviously there is a significant amount of security. There is a members of the presence god as intelligence is military. And we can even see sort of on balconies up there. There are people with keeping a clo
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Ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories cons, returning to iraqs capital of supporters of she, i believe, and walks out all solder, leave baghdad, green zone. So to give support as a deadline, to end their demonstration, but turned violent on monday. At least 30 people were killed. On the other hand is on the streets of baghdad. With more the have a started leaving the area dismantling their tents, moving all their furniture, everything they brought to the area. Its becoming very quiet. And this, this departure has been facilitated by the government. The kids take a Prime Minister. Most of alchemy who has ordered all roads to be open, all a bridges that have been blocked since the clashes erupted yesterday. And also ern including the hanging gear bridge, a main bridge in baghdad. The care field that was in place has been lifted. Life is getting back to normal in better dads, the streets. Humanitarian organizations in pakistan are struggling to get aid to more than 33000000 pe
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This is al jazeera and these are the top stories. Russians are paying their respects to the last soviet union leader ahead of his burial and moscow mccallegh. Gorbachev will be laid to rest in the coming hours. The kremlin says president Vladimir Putin will not attend shlang his former president is back home less than 2 months after he fled during the nations whist. Economic crisis and decades could buy a raja pox. A has been blamed for pushing shrill anchor towards financial disaster. Nathan and is, is in colombo for us. So far the reaction is somewhat muted. The return of got up a raj bucks that happened so fast. I think that the protests is in general in the country as a whole, or are taking stock or they want to know, you know what, this means, what his intentions are, are he is currently in the building that you see behind me. This is a government, a bungalow that has been allocated to him as a former head of state. That is right. Obviously a heavy amount of security, or there is