RT News - July 09 2022 (20:00 MSK)

Thousands of furious protesters in Sri Lanka's capital storm the President's home and office, over the government's failure to solve the country's worst economic crisis in decades. We report from the scene. That's as Sri Lanka's police resort to tear-gassing the demonstrators, with dozens injured amid the ongoing chaos. Our correspondent explores a once-embattled oil refinery in the Lugansk city of Lisichansk, where he discovers scores of banned munitions allegedly planted by Ukrainian troops before they fled. China's yuan gains ground on the US dollar, as a new survey shows 85 percent of the world's central banks either hold or intend to hold the Chinese national currency.