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im at the home and studio of one of sri lankas most influential artists and activists, jagath weerasinghe. can sri lankans put behind them their bloody past and forge a new and united future? jagath weerasinghe, welcome to hardtalk. im happy to be here. sitting here in your home, which is also your studio, i wonder how far youve been influenced as both an artist and an archaeologist by sri lankas past? im totally influenced by that. im totally, yes. everything i do has something to do ...

it was not guilty of concealing information about flight control systems on its 373 max aircraft. flaws in the systems were found to have led to fatal crashes four years ago. now on bbc news, its hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. iam i am outside colombo, the capital of sri lanka. this beautiful nation has been plunged capital of sri lanka. this beautiful nation has been plunged into capital of sri lanka. this beautiful nation has been plunged into its capital of sri la...

im at the home and studio of one of sri lankas most influential artists and activists, jagath weerasinghe. can sri lankans put behind them their bloody past and forge a new and united future? jagath weerasinghe, welcome to hardtalk. im happy to be here. sitting here in your home, which is also your studio, i wonder how far youve been influenced as both an artist and an archaeologist by sri lankas past? im totally influenced by that. im totally, yes. everything i do has something to do ...

have been killed. a metre of fresh snow has fallen, and many areas remain under threat of flooding. president biden has declared a state of emergency, freeing federal aid for the state. those are our top story this hour. now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, with me, zainab badawi. im just outside colombo, the capital of sri lanka. this beautiful island nation has been plunged into its worst economic crisis for more than 70 years. it led to widespread protests an...

I tried to preserve at dambulla and what was happening right in front of my eyes could not reconcile. they could not live together. and for a moment i thought what was happening is inevitable. that was the thing that changed me. i said, like, "how could i think that it is inevitable?" because, you see, i realised that when you are confronted with a reality that you cannot really describe, you have no language to describe it, you try to escape from it by coming out some kind of a preposition. so ...

A trainee murals conservator. so im preserving these ancient murals. so on this particular day, i was coming to colombo and i walked into this... ..this bloody event and... actually, those things that i tried to preserve at dambulla and what was happening right in front of my eyes could not reconcile. they could not live together. and for a moment i thought what was happening is inevitable. that was the thing that changed me. i said, like, "how could i think that it is inevitable?" because, you ...

..arrested or taken by state thugs and taken to an office of the ruling party at the time and you were held and tortured... yeah. ..for around ten hours. yes, yes, yes. and you say that that was an event that changed your life in a drastic way. yeah. how? yeah. two things has changed my life. first was that 1978 thing. because my father worked in the supreme court, he was an interpreter and the acting clerk of assize or whatever, so i grew up in a family that believed in... ..in justice system a...

And i walked into this — this bloody event and actually, those things that i tried to preserve at dambulla and what was happening right in front of my eyes could not reconcile. they could not live together. and for a moment i thought what was happening is inevitable. that was the thing that changed me. could not reconcile. i said, like, "how could i think that it is inevitable?" because, you see, i realised that when you are confronted with a reality that you cannot really describe, you have n...