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Amanpour

Making Sense of Bangladesh

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

After 15 years in power, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, has resigned from her post and fled the country. It's an incredible development and the culmination of deadly protests that have rocked the nation for weeks. New York Times' South Asia Bureau Chief Mujib Mashal has been following this story closely and joins the show from New Delhi. He's followed by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, perhaps the most well known Bangladeshi in the world.  Also on today's show: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; author Anne Applebaum ("Autocracy Inc.")  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Exchange fees and fair usage limits apply. Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

0:37.0

The Prime Minister of Bangladesh resigns and flees after deadly protest.

0:46.0

I get the latest with New York Times South Asia Bureau Chief Mukiv Michelle.

0:51.0

And I talk to Bangladeshi Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.

0:55.0

Also, Hamas continues to recruit, to regroup, to regenerate.

1:09.4

Is the Israeli goal of annihilating Hamas's military failing? We have a special report. Then countries urge their citizens to flee Lebanon as tensions escalate with Israel.

1:18.0

As fears of a wider war grow, I'm joined by former Israeli Prime Minister Eh Food Barak.

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Also ahead.

1:24.5

Any era of really rapid change tends to make people look

1:29.2

for a single leader or an autocrat.

1:32.2

Historian and journalist Anne Applebaum talks to Walter Isakson about her new book,

1:37.0

which uncovers the networks trying to destroy the Democratic world. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm

1:57.0

I'm Bianna Goldw Riga in New York sitting in for Christiana

2:02.4

Montpore. Well today after 15 I'm Bianna Galatriga in New York sitting in for Christiane Amantor.

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