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Limited fuel supplies resume to Sri Lanka

Petrol and gas begin to trickle to Sri Lanka’s population after days of political turmoil that ended with the house of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa being stormed by protesters.

Fuel supplies begin to trickle to Sri Lanka's population after days of political turmoil that ended with the residences of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa being stormed by protesters, and the house of his Prime Minister burnt. As the country's main opposition parties scramble to form a new government, we hear from University of St Andrews' Anthropologist Vindhya Buthpitiya.
Nord Stream 1, Russia's main gas pipeline to Germany, went offline for scheduled maintenance but there are fears supplies might not resume after the repairs are completed. We talk to Paula Rodriguez-Masiu, Head of Market Intelligence at Spanish oil and gas company CEPSA.
Shares in Twitter fell after the news that Elon Musk has pulled out of his US$44 bn deal to buy the platform. Twitter could now file a lawsuit to force the acquisition to go ahead. We ask John Coffee, professor of law at Columbia Law School in New York and former advisor to the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, about the legal intricacies.
We also discuss the stock markets with Peter Jankovskis, Vice President of Research and Analytics at Arbor Financial Services in Illinois.

(Picture: People queue for fuel in Sri Lanka. Picture credit: EPA)

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Mon 11 Jul 2022 21:32GMT

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