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A |     LOS ANGELES -- Talks have broken off between Hollywood actors and studios, killing any hopes that the strike by performers was coming to an end after nearly three months, as the writers strike recently did. The studios announced that they had suspended contract negotiations late Wednesday night, saying the gap between the two sides was too great to make continuing worth it. On Oct. 2, for the first time since the strike began July 14, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists had resumed negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios, streaming services and production companies in strike talks. When negotiations resumed with writers last month, their strike ended five days later, but similar progress was not made with the actors union. The studios walked away from talks after seeing the actors' most recent proposal on Wednesday. “It is clear that the gap between the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA is too great, and conversations are no longer moving us in a productive direction,” the AMPTP said in a statement. The SAG-AFTRA proposal would cost companies an additional $800 million a year and create “an untenable economic burden,” the statement said. Representatives from the actors union did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Actors have been on strike over issues including increases in pay for streaming programming and control of the use of their images generated by artificial intelligence. The AMPTP insisted its offers had been as generous as the deals that brought an end to the writers strike and brought a new contract to the directors guild earlier this year. From the start, the actors talks had nothing like the momentum that spurred marathon night-and-weekend sessions in the writers strike and brought that work stoppage to an end. Actors and studios had taken several days off after resuming, and there were no reports of meaningful progress despite direct involvement from the heads of studios including Disney and Netflix as there had been in the writers strike. Members of the Writers Guild of America voted almost unanimously to ratify their new contract on Monday. Their leaders touted their deal as achieving most of what they had sought when they went on strike nearly five months earlier. They declared their strike over, and sent writers back to work, on Sept. 26. Late night talk shows returned to the air within a week, and other shows including “Saturday Night Live” will soon follow. But with no actors, production on scripted shows and movies will stay on pause indefinitely.。    Colombo, Oct 17 (UNI) Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has called on the country’s youths to rise against injustice and change the current system which, he says, has become the cause of misery.
The Island newspaper on Monday quoted the Cardinal as saying here: “The youth must rise up and fulfil their obligations; they must work hard to bring about true freedom to the country and the future generations. We must come together for the sake of the future and to save the country.
"We have descended to a situation where our freedom is now being limited. We know that the youth who stood up for democratic rights are either in jail or in the courts. This is not democracy.
"It is clear that we need a new vision so that we can put aside our differences and come together as brothers to create a new Sri Lanka. That is what the girls and boys who engaged in the protests asked for – a change to the current system. I think it is a reasonable request.
"We need to go for a new system with a new way of thinking,” he added.
The Cardinal said that for 74 years since independence from Britain, Sri Lankan political leaders thought only of themselves and their safety, without thinking about the people. "Having destroyed the political and economic freedom we received, we have become an impoverished nation.
“Freedom means the ability to live one’s life according to one’s beliefs. What is important for Sri Lankan society is having respect for others, recognizing our differences and coming together as one,” he said.
The Cardinal said that rulers cannot break people by incarcerating them.
"A tyrant by the name of Adolf Hitler incarcerated and then killed millions of people by gassing them because they belonged to another race. Then in Russia a ruler by the name of Joseph Stalin jailed millions of people and banished them to work camps in Siberia. They did not win.
"You cannot defeat humanity and win. You cannot imprison people and break them,” the Cardinal said.
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