Sri Lanka swears in new president
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🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
From the BBC World Service: Anura Kumara Dissanayake has been sworn into office in Sri Lanka, promising “clean” politics as the country recovers from one of its worst-ever economic crises. We hear more. Then, as cross-border clashes continue in the Hezbollah-Israel conflict, we ask how businesses in the affected regions of Lebanon are grappling. Also on the program: a Tamagotchi store in the U.K. and a WTO challenge to China’s EU dairy product investigation.
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| 0:56.0 | What does a new president in Sri Lanka mean for its economy? |
| 1:00.0 | Hello, this is the Marketplace Morning Report and we are live from the BBC World Service. |
| 1:04.3 | I'm Leanna Byrne. So Sri Lanka has a new president, A Nora Kimura DeSinaica, a left-leaning leader who's |
| 1:11.4 | promised to shake up the system. He's stepping into power |
| 1:14.4 | at a time when the country is still recovering from its worst economic crisis in |
| 1:19.0 | decades. Inflation, debt protests. It's been a tough few years. The BBC's |
| 1:24.5 | Archener Shukla has been following developments. Hello Leanna. |
| 1:28.3 | Archenet, tell us what you know about this new president. |
| 1:31.7 | Well, I know what this is a left-leaning lawmaker. |
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