More than Sheikh could stick at: Bangladesh’s PM resigns
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The Economist
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🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 27 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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| 1:05.5 | The Economist. |
| 1:15.6 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:18.1 | And I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:22.4 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 1:31.6 | If you want to get across a city and don't mind a walk at either end, you take a bus. |
| 1:34.9 | If you want to go point to point, you hail a cab. |
| 1:42.8 | So our correspondent was disappointed that a driverless taxi ride across a giant Chinese city was more like a bus ride. |
| 1:49.3 | And many children in the 1950s did drills in case of nuclear attack. |
| 1:55.4 | That experience inspired one of them, Thomas Neff, to try and rid the world of at least some of those warheads. |
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