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Burden on sri lankans. And that resonated with citizens who have been burdened with high living costs and rising poverty, even at a time when the economy overall seem to have stabilised. Now, dissanayake promise to cut income taxes and slash sales taxes on food and medicine, his also promised to renegotiate terms of the imf programme to make it easierfor sri lankans. But experts say that he can manage to realistically deliver and fund the populous promises, while balancing sri lankan*s financial...

Welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. The un has warned that the middle east is on the brink of imminent catastrophe amid fears of an allout war as israel and the iranbacked group hezbollah in lebanon carry out large crossborder strikes. Israel said hezbollah launched more than a hundred rockets from lebanon towards them. Hezbollah said the attacks were in response to the wave of explosions of pagers and walkietalkies thats widely believed to have been car...

Killing at least 20 people. Israel hasnt said whether it was involved. As the fighting intensifies, un chief antonio guterres says he fears lebanon could become another gaza. The lebanese health ministry raised the death toll to 45 in fridays strike by israel targeting hezbollah commanders in southern beirut. Most of those killed were civilians. Authorities say women and children are among the dead. On sunday, israel launched further strikes on towns in southern lebanon killing three people. An...

In the philippines working aboard a scallop boat for a fishing company in scotland. Joel would bejoined at the company by other filipino workers with similar ambitions. But you had no experience fishing or at sea at all? onlyjoel had fished before, yet here they all were, recruited through agencies, ready to go to sea. The men travelled months apart but it was the same journey to the same place annan, a small town in scotlands southern coast and the premises of tn trawlers. Its owners, the nic...

Across lebanon last week killing at least 20 people. Israel hasn*t said whether it was involved. As the fighting intensifies, un chief antonio guterres says he fears lebanon could become another gaza. The lebanese health ministry raised the death toll to 45 in friday*s strike by israel targeting hezbollah commanders in southern beirut. Most of those killed were civilians. Authorities say women and children are among the dead. On sunday, israel launched further strikes on towns in southern leban...

Martin griffiths, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Now, youve been in that seat on this programme before, but this is the first time that youre talking to us since you stepped down from your role as the uns humanitarian chief injune this year. You have greater liberty, essentially, now to tell us what you think about the situations that youve seen. May we begin in sudan, which is just one of the crises that youve dealt with in recent times? its a civil war that ...

Hezbollah*s attack comes after pagers and radio devices held by members of the group detonated across lebanon last week, killing at least 20 people. Israel hasnt said whether it was involved. As the fighting intensifies, un chief antonio guterres says he fears lebanon could become another gaza. The lebanese health ministry raised the death toll to 45 in fridays strike by israel targeting hezbollah commanders in southern beirut. Most of those killed were civilians. Authorities say women and child...

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As they were held to a 22 draw by arsenal, who were down to ten men after leandro trossard was sent off. Substitute stones scored in the eighth minute of time added on after goals from ricardo calafiori and gabriel had threatened citys 32game unbeaten run at home in the premier league. Earlier, erling haaland had scored his 100th goal for city to open the scoring injust his 105th game, equalling cristiano ronaldo*s record for the fastest man to score 100 goals for a european club. They put four ...

Cross border attacks. The strikes were aimed at the ramat david airbase, around 20 kilometres south of haifa. Israel had told its citizens to restricts gatherings in the city and across the northern border in anticipation of an fresh aerial assault. These pictures show part of an intercepted rocked that was launched from lebanon that fell nazareth in the early hours of sunday. Israel have been carrying out more Air Raids into Southern Lebanon. Here you can see explosions lighting up the nights s...