Euphoria in Bangladesh after PM Sheikh Hasina flees country
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Weeks of increasingly violent unrest forced the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down. She's fled to India, ending a run of 15 years in power. Also: the UN says nine of its staff members in Gaza may have been involved in the October 7th attack on Israel last year, and a 15 year old teenager has become Britain's youngest ever Chess Grandmaster.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 6th of August, these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.0 | There have been celebrations in Bangladesh following the resignation of the Prime Minister |
| 0:14.4 | Sheikh Hasina after weeks of violent unrest. |
| 0:17.8 | The United Nations says nine of its staff in Gaza may have taken part in the Hamas attacks against Israel on October the 7th last year. |
| 0:26.0 | US stock markets have closed sharply lower as fears about the state of the world's biggest economy |
| 0:31.2 | calls jitters around the globe. |
| 0:34.0 | Also in this podcast... |
| 0:37.0 | I think it's even more fitting that actually I played the record holder in this tournament. |
| 0:42.0 | I actually managed to beat him. |
| 0:43.4 | A 15 year old British teenager has become the country's youngest chess grandmaster. |
| 0:48.5 | We start in Bangladesh which remains in a state of chaos after the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina |
| 0:57.0 | resigned and fled the country. As she escaped to India via helicopter, the violence and protests on the streets continued. |
| 1:10.0 | Dr say more than 50 people were killed on Monday alone and many had bullet wounds. |
| 1:15.0 | More than 300 may have died since the unrest began. |
| 1:18.5 | The country's president has ordered the release of the jailed former Prime Minister and the opposition leader Kale di Zia. |
| 1:24.4 | The Bangladeshi Army Chief General Waka or Zaman has said he's forming an interim government |
| 1:29.1 | and is talking to political leaders. |
| 1:31.4 | Regarding Sheikh has seen his departure, these people in Dukha described it as a moment of celebration. |
| 1:36.4 | This is not just the end of the Tynd Sheikh Hasina. |
| 1:40.1 | With this, we put an end to the mafia state that she has created. |
| 1:44.0 | We put an end to the corporate kleptor-casses that she has put started. |
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