More than Sheikh could stick at: Bangladesh’s PM resigns
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🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Sheikh Hasina, who led the country for 20 of the past 28 years with an increasingly authoritarian grip, was ultimately undone by student protests that would not be quelled. China may be world-leading in autonomous taxis—but our ride in one is not without complications (9:00). And remembering Thomas Neff, who rid the world of a third of its nukes (16:38).
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| 0:55.0 | If you want to get across a city and don't mind a walk at either end, you take a bus. |
| 1:02.0 | If you want to go point to point, you hail a cab. |
| 1:05.5 | So our correspondent was disappointed |
| 1:07.9 | that a driverless taxi ride across a giant Chinese city |
| 1:11.1 | was more like a bus ride. |
| 1:15.0 | And many children in the 1950s did drills in case of nuclear attack. |
| 1:20.0 | That experience inspired one of them, Thomas Neff, to try and rid the world of at least |
| 1:24.2 | some of those warheads. Our obituaries editor celebrates his life. |
| 1:35.0 | But first, that is. |
| 1:37.0 | That is the sound of the nearly certain end of a political career, even a political dynasty in Bangladesh. |
| 1:51.0 | Over the skies of Dhaka, the capital, |
| 1:56.0 | Prime Minister Shekhasina beat a retreat from her official residence yesterday, |
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