Sri Lankan president Rajapaksa arrives in Maldives

STORY: Sri Lankan president Rajapaksa arrives in Maldives DATELINE: July 13, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:08 LOCATION: Colombo CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. STANDUP (English): JAMILA HUSAIN, Xinhua correspondent 2. various footages of street near prime minister's office on Wednesday 3. various footages of street in Colombo on Wednesday STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): JAMILA HUSAIN, Xinhua correspondent "I am standing several hundred meters away from Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's office, who announced early in the day that Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had left the country. The Sri Lanka air force, in a statement to journalists, said that the president and his wife, Ioma Rajapaksa, had been transported on board a military jet to the Maldives's capital of Male. The Sri Lanka air force said the president had been transported out of the country as he had still not handed in his resignation, and he was still the head of state. And according to the Sri Lanka constitution, he was given all dipl