{"id":46463,"date":"2022-07-15T23:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/15\/sri-lanka-unrest-how-the-week-unfolded-video-report"},"modified":"2022-07-15T23:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:02:43","slug":"sri-lanka-unrest-how-the-week-unfolded-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46463","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka unrest: how the week unfolded \u2013 video report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has officially resigned, the parliamentary speaker confirmed, following a dramatic week in which the beleaguered leader fled the country after his presidential palace and offices were stormed by protesters. Here is a look back at the week that toppled the president<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/15\/sri-lanka-mps-to-elect-new-president-after-gotabaya-rajapaksa-officially-resigns\">Sri Lanka MPs to elect new president after Gotabaya Rajapaksa officially resigns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/10\/sri-lanka-crisis-timeline-from-galloping-inflation-to-a-presidents-resignation\">Sri Lanka crisis timeline: from galloping inflation to a president\u2019s resignation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jul\/15\/sri-lanka-unrest-how-the-week-unfolded-video-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has officially resigned, the parliamentary speaker confirmed, following a dramatic week in which the beleaguered leader fled the country after his presidential palace and offices were stormed by protesters. He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3182,"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":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/46463","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\/3182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46464,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46463\/revisions\/46464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}