
Sri Lanka: temporary leader sworn in
MPs are expected to vote on a new president next Wednesday.
MPs are expected to vote on a new president next Wednesday. Rajitha Senaratne, Sri Lanka's former health minister and now opposition MP, explains to us what will happen next.
Also on the programme; a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia discusses President Biden's visit to that country. And as the 150th Open Championship golf tournament continues in St Andrews, we take a look at the Saudi sponsored MIV gold tournament which has split the game.
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.
(Picture: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (R) taking the oath as interim president of Sri Lanka before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya (L). Credit: Shutterstock)
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