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i'm at the home and studio of one of sri lanka's 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. i'm happy to be here. sitting here in your home, which is also your studio, i wonder how far you've been influenced as both an artist and an archaeologist by sri lanka's past? i'm totally influenced by that. i'm totally, yes. everything i do has something to do with the past of sri lanka and the idea of the past, that we keep performing in the present. ...

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, it's time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, with me, zainab badawi. i'm 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 and forced the resignation of the president last year. and all this after a long—running civil war...

case. people who had their campaigns funded by david macintosh and club for growth are not listening to him. they're not listening to former president trump so do they really have the influence that they think they have? >> yeah, chaos feeds on chaos, happy birthday, congressman. we'll go up to the capitol to manu raju and, manu, tell us about the key meeting of these rebels, of these conservative holeouts happening right now. tell us more. >> reporter: this can be a pivotal meeting. several members we are looking closely to see how they will vote are holed up in emmer's office, a me...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com looking right now at buckingham palace. people, though fewer in number, are still showing up at this hour. the embodiment, as cnn's max foster put it earlier in the program, of a nation slightly loss after the passing of queen elizabeth ii earlier today in scotland. she was, as many have said, the only monarch most britons have known. and she may have been the first british monarch most britons have known in a familiar, more regal sense, the first to usher in the modern united kingdom. christian am pour said tonight from the grand britain of h...

moment? >> reporter: they described it as concerned. doctors concerned about the queen's health. they very rarely put any statements out about her health and they never speak in such stark language. so that is very concerning. we also know that the queen is at the castle, she is overseeing by medical attention. she is not being taken to the hospital. read into that as bull. the biggest concern is that all the family have dropped everything that they were doing and they headed immediately to balmoral. prince charles is already there as is princess ann. i understand other members of th...