I'm John Bachelors, my colleague Gregory Coppley of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

Dhaka, a surprising decision by the longtime Prime Minister Shekhasina to flee.

That's right, resigned and fled. At first stop is India. This follows violence in the capital. Many deaths, students protesting the

want to be middle class protesting a country that has been seen as one of the

possible substitutes of the factory floor supply chain to China and now Gregory

Dhaka ostensibly it looks like an economic pressure drove this riding in the streets.

The brutality of the army led to death.

I believe the army is now saying it is in charge in the capital is this have connection to the People's

Republic of China to India is this a surrogate war well the Bangladesh has relied

on the People's Republic of China for a lot of its military

supplies largely on the grounds of costs but also on the ground that Bangladesh

needs an ally which is not India because India is a neighbor and in many respects a

rival and a potential threat but there is a great family connection between

Bangladesh and India and so it's not surprising in a sense that Chekacina

took the helicopter from her prime ministerial residence

to the nearby military airfield and had a Bangladesh Air Force fixed-wing aircraft fly her to an Indian

Air Force base near New Delhi.

Where she goes from here is not unknown, is not known, but her son,

Sajib Wazad Joy said that his mother, the Prime Minister, had left the country for her own safety and

that she would not attempt a political comeback so that definitely spells an end of era and it's interesting

that the new army chief of staff

general wake up of Zaman his family has had connections into the former Prime Minister's household for many decades.

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