{"id":43277,"date":"2022-04-05T19:58:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T10:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/apr\/05\/sri-lanka-police-use-teargas-at-protests-over-economic-crisis-video"},"modified":"2022-04-05T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T10:58:51","slug":"sri-lanka-police-use-teargas-at-protests-over-economic-crisis-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43277","title":{"rendered":"Sri\u00a0Lanka police use teargas at\u00a0protests over economic crisis \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri&nbsp;Lankan police fired teargas and water cannon at protesters as they called for the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to resign. The country is in the throes of its worst economic crisis in decades. It is struggling to pay for imports of fuel and other goods because it doesn&#8217;t have enough&nbsp; foreign exchange, leading to power cuts and shortages of essentials<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/04\/sri-lankas-cabinet-resigns-as-protesters-anger-grows-over-economic-crisis\">Sri Lanka\u2019s cabinet resigns as protesters\u2019 anger grows over economic crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/apr\/05\/sri-lanka-police-use-teargas-at-protests-over-economic-crisis-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri&nbsp;Lankan police fired teargas and water cannon at protesters as they called for the president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, to resign. The country is in the throes of its worst economic crisis in decades. It is struggling to pay for imports of fuel and o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43293,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277\/revisions\/43293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}