BNP set to win election in Bangladesh
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is claiming a "sweeping victory" after indications that it's heading for a landslide election win. It's the first poll since an uprising in 2024 that toppled the authoritarian leader, Sheikh Hasina. Also: President Trump has revoked an Obama-era law that underpinned US regulations on greenhouse gas emissions. Mr Trump said the move was the biggest act of deregulation in the country's history. The CIA has released a video designed to recruit disaffected Chinese military personnel, scientists, and other professionals as spies for the US. Jim Ratcliffe, who co-owns Manchester United Football Club, has apologised if his "choice of language" caused offence. He suggested the UK had been "colonised" by immigrants. And at the Berlin Film Festival, the world premiere of No Good Men, a romantic comedy set in a newsroom in Afghanistan.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Friday the 13th of February, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.5 | The centre-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP, |
| 0:23.0 | looks to be on course for a landslide election win. Donald Trump repeals a landmark climate |
| 0:29.1 | ruling in what critics say is a gift to billionaire polluters. America's CIA spy agency |
| 0:35.3 | targets potential sources in China's military with a new recruitment video. |
| 0:42.3 | Also in this podcast. |
| 0:44.8 | Everything is going down slowly in the country and the daily life is complicated. |
| 0:51.1 | I see no future. The only future is a change. |
| 0:53.5 | The U.S. blockade on Cuba bites hard |
| 0:56.7 | for residents of Havana. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, or BNP, is projected to be |
| 1:06.4 | heading for a landslide victory in the first election since a student-led uprising deposed the authoritarian leader, Sheikh Hasina. |
| 1:14.5 | The Prime Minister in Waiting, Tariq Raman, |
| 1:17.2 | has been congratulated by the US Embassy in Dhaka |
| 1:20.3 | and by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. |
| 1:23.7 | Sheikasina Zawami League was banned from taking part |
| 1:26.6 | and an Islamist party says it has serious questions about the integrity of the election. |
| 1:32.8 | Our correspondent, Azaday Mishiri, is in Dhaka for us, so can we say the BNP has definitely won? |
| 1:39.9 | So far that hasn't been officially announced by the Election Commission, but the BNP has told the BBC that they're confident of forming a new government. |
| 1:47.6 | The papers are certainly running with it, even if they are unofficial results. |
| 1:51.6 | One newspaper, the DACA Tribune, has a major headline on the front page. |
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