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Sri Lanka Elections: Rajapaksa Concedes Defeat

Sri Lanka; Thai Bomb; Tracking Ivory.

Official count awaited but former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, says he's failed in his attempt to return to power as prime minister.

We get the latest from Bangkok after Monday's deadly bomb attack.

And we hear how a journalist is stalking ivory smugglers using GPS trackers.

(Picture: Mahinda Rajapaksa outside a polling station after casting his vote in Medamulana village, southern Sri Lanka. Credit: AP/Eranga Jayawardena)

50 minutes

Last on

Tue 18 Aug 201504:06GMT

Broadcast

  • Tue 18 Aug 201504:06GMT