Inside Sri Lankas economic crisis BBC Newsnight

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Sri Lanka is in the grip of severe fuel and food shortages that have brought people out onto the streets to call for the removal of the country's president. • Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog • The developing nation has been hit hard by global supply chain issues but many blame economic mismanagement and corruption within government. • For the first time in history the country was forced to default on it's foreign debt last month and has received emergency diesel shipments from India. • Now they are asking for an economic bailout worth billions of dollars from the International monetary fund. • Speculation is growing that other developing nations will soon be facing the same problems. • Newsnight's Economics editor Ben Chu went to Sri Lanka to examine the crisis engulfing the country. • Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews. • Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight • Twitter: / bbcnewsnight • Facebook: / bbcnewsnight .

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