With the parliamentary victory, the leftist president Anura Kumara Dissanayake is better placed to implement his agenda of economic and political reforms in the crisis-hit country

In today’s episode we take a look at the preliminary results of El Salvador’s elections, the sentencing of Palestinian politician Khalida Jarrar by an Israeli military court, protests in Bangladesh following the custodial death of Mushtaq Ahmed, and cuts to aid for Yemen by the UK government.