Parliament in Sri Lanka begins selecting a new president

The prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has been sworn in as temporary leader. But Mr Wickremesinghe has close ties to the Rajapaksa family, which many blame for the country's deep economic crisis, and protesters have demanded that he also step down.

Also on the programme, A UK government Defence Minister has said that allegations that troops belonging to the SAS unit of the British Army killed detainees in Afghanistan will not be "buried" and will be "investigated fully" if the new evidence is given to the Government. And the former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd pays tribute to his friend Shinzo Abe.

And we are joined throughout the programme by Patience Akumu, a lawyer, journalist and programme policy officer for the World Food Programme in Uganda and Sune Engel Rasmussen, a London-based correspondent for the Wall Street Journal newspaper.