This is the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 15th of November.

These are our main stories.

A left-wing landslide in Sri Lanka?

Can the new government deliver prosperity?

South Africa's police minister has visited a shaft where officers are trying to force thousands of illegal

minors to return to the surface. President-elect Donald Trump nominates another contentious

figure to his cabinet. Also in this podcast, we look ahead to one of the most controversial

boxing bouts in modern history.

If I win, I'll be getting more.

If I do it bad, I don't want to die in a hospital bed, but I want to die in the ring.

You started me off, but I'm going to teach you how to box, Mike.

And we find out why 40 years of work by French academics is already way out of date.

You have chosen a renaissance, the words of Sri Lanka's president, Anara Kumar de Sanaika,

after voters gave his leftist coalition a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections.

Sri Lanka certainly wants a change,

a change from the last few years of economic turmoil and rampant inflation.

These voters are looking forward to a new administration.

I'm very happy about this victory.

All this time, the country was governed by thieves, robbers and corrupt people. I'm very happy about this victory. All this time, the country was governed by thieves, robbers and corrupt people.

I'm very happy that the crooks are out and a clean government has been established. One of the main things that we expect from the government is that to punish the corrupted politicians

because that we have suffered a lot because of their wrongdoings.

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