Hello, I'm Celia Hat and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to

you live from London.

We start with a fast developing story in Bangladesh where armed soldiers are enforcing a nationwide

curfew. More than a hundred people have been killed in clashes that began in the capital,

Dhaka, with disgruntled students who were angry

with rules in place preventing them from landing lucrative government jobs.

Now those protests appear to be broadening and wider anti-government demonstrations across the country of 170 million.

There is still fear of further violence.

Some people in one part of Dhaka said riot police fired live rounds on

thousands of protesters. Here's a bit of how it's sounding there. All this is happening is

is happening as Bangladesh is largely cut off from the rest of the world.

Days ago, the state shut down mobile internet networks in a

bid, it's said, to calm the protests. In Dhaka, many of the injured were taken to the city's biggest

government hospital.

Papi Sheikh, a student, was collecting donations to help others wounded during clashes with security

forces.

This illegal government is trying to exterminate the students.

Wherever they find students, they shoot them like burns.

That's what's happening now.

Every few months, five or six students arrive here with bullet wounds.

However, none of the Bangladeshi media are covering this properly.

Outside the hospital, one woman, Shahida Begum mourned the death of her nephew.

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