Muhammad Yunus returns to Bangladesh to lead interim government
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🗓️ 8 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus - a longtime political foe of Bangladesh's ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina - has been named the country's interim leader. The 84-year-old was appointed a day after Ms Hasina fled the country following weeks of deadly protests that brought her resignation. Also on the programme: The former president of Catalonia, in Spain, pops up briefly in Barcelona but is at risk of arrest; and the two astronauts struggling to find a way back to earth. (Picture: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus attends a press briefing along with student leaders in Dhaka. Credit: Reuters/Mohammad Ponir Hossain)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newshour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from |
| 0:08.1 | London I'm Nula McGovern. The Nobel Laureate Mohammed Eunice has arrived in Bangladesh to take over as the interim leader of the country. |
| 0:16.2 | It comes just days after the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India. |
| 0:21.6 | Her departure followed weeks of student-led protests where |
| 0:24.8 | hundreds died and that led to increasing pressure on her to stand down and |
| 0:28.9 | she did. After Professor Yunus touched down in Dhaka, he addressed how he would begin. |
| 0:35.0 | Our first order of business should be to restore law and order. |
| 0:43.0 | Until that is taken care of, we will not be able to proceed to further improve the situation. |
| 0:49.0 | You have shown faith in me and the students here have reassured me to carry out that duty. |
| 0:56.0 | I request the residents of Bangladesh to believe in me. |
| 0:59.5 | If you do that, there will not be any attacks at any locations in the country. |
| 1:04.0 | Akhmer Hossain is the BBC's correspondent in Dhaka. |
| 1:09.0 | Welcome to News Hour. |
| 1:10.0 | How would you describe the mood right now? |
| 1:12.0 | So there were a number of hours in he's there he said a little about what he plans to do? |
| 1:17.4 | It looks that you know things are being settled down in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country because you know Professor Mohammedi You News was |
| 1:25.9 | chosen by the student leaders as the head of the interim government and he was |
| 1:32.0 | speaking at a press conference when her aircraft landed in Dhaka. |
| 1:39.4 | He said that the main task would be to restore law and order and bring back normalcy in the |
| 1:45.2 | country and he urged people not to indulge in violence and not to attack on minority people |
| 1:50.5 | especially Hindu, Hindu properties. |
| 1:53.0 | So Professor, if he is going to be shown in the next one hour. |
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