Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC with me Max Pearson and the team behind the witness history strand on the World Service.

This week from the US in the 1960s the assassination of Bobby Kennedy presidential candidate and brother to the slain JFK,

we hear from a man who was there.

I didn't know what happened to Bob at that point.

I was in really bad shape. It was the next morning when my family came in told Bob had died. The worst moment in my life.

Also, it's been 75 years since Anne Frank's diary was first published, a testimony loved by her surviving relatives.

Oh, too cried, I remember that when he showed me the book.

He took it out of his bag and I saw her picture on the cover and it was wonderful.

And we'll hear about the origins of a women's rights group in India which became famous for fighting

misogynist crime wearing pink saris.

We are strong together and don't need much outside help.

Where one woman is not able to fight, a thousand turn up to help.

That's all coming up later in the podcast, but first we're focusing on Sri Lanka,

where right now severe shortages of food, fuel, electricity and medicine

have put a global spotlight on the leadership of President Gautabaya Rajapaxa.

After two and a half years in charge of the country,

he's facing calls to resign over his handling of the

economy, the security situation and the coronavirus pandemic. But it could have

been so very different. The country may have ended up in the same mess but but without Gotupair Rajapaksa as president.

In 2006, he narrowly avoided death after being targeted by a suicide bomber.

Matt Pintas has been speaking to another survivor from that attack and Matt is here now Matt

Yes Max and I think before we listen to the piece it's really important to understand the context of

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