Ex-defence chief Rajapaksa set to win vote in Sri Lanka

The man who oversaw the final assault on Tamil separatists has claimed victory in Sri Lanka's presidential election.

Also in the programme: We hear from Prague, thirty years after the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and ask, what has changed?

We also look at the legacy of the co-founder of the White Helmets in the Syrian war, James Le Mesurier.

Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Alev Scott, journalist and author previously based in Istanbul, now in London, and Paul Melly, consulting fellow with the Africa programme at Chatham House, and a freelance journalist.

(Image: Sri Lanka's former Defense Secretary and presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Credit: EPA)