the the, this is dw news line from berlin, bangladesh as a winner, after he largely uncontested election, prime minister shake hasanti has won re election for a 4th consecutive terms in the contest boycotted by the main opposition, which called a vote unfair. also coming up on the program, us secretary of state anthony, blinking continues his diplomatic tour. was it in guitar, he ones, but the conflict and gauze of good points metastasized to the wind and region. the populace diplomat also urges the protection of civilians and preserving postings, right to live the territory the

and there until berlin. welcome to the program. finally, that's his ruling party has up to victory and sundays election. the country's election commissioner says prime minister, shake hassan, he's a want me leak has one more than half of the seats in the countries legislature that gives her a 4th consecutive term as the countries leader. looking to pull boy caught him by the main opposition that drew low turn out and was marked by violence. a prime minister shake has seen a custom her ballot in an election without the real competition. after 15 years in power, she faced few obstacles on her way to another 6 year term domain, a position bond with dish nationalist party. the b and b like caught to devote, accusing her of a brutal crack down to has seen a. it seems of little consequence. i have to go home to home and billions parties that there is no,

i have my, i called to be the 2 people to the people. was the people accepted it or not? for them they have accepted this electron, not that is important but has seen this be to rival say they are up against more than just words. they b and p claims more than 20000 of its members have been arrested in the lead up to the vote. the government blames the opposition for arson attacks. the coal, so boy code seems to have been heard by many voters. these protests are suit to the streets in the capital dock. uh, instead of go into polling stations as a citizen, voting is my most important, right. why am i here on the street instead of going to exercise my rights? because in reality, there is no election here. we all know who's going to

a window who's going to form the next government. even before the voting starts. the election officials put the turn out that around 40 percent of the non but from the previous bowl. 6 years ago, supporters of christine, i created her with a successful fight against poverty and then be shes infrastructure developments. while opponents say that today, she's acting like an autocrat, but isn't it still to the i can do it as also set and steve, so you'll get take. so consider to be able to enemy is the space for the holding cell or the basic guy. so the telephone is, has been, include the machines came despite the low turn out on the bike caught a why me league. and it supports his claim. as soon as victory is legitimate. now that the results are reading, it's not clear how the opposition will respond. alimentary, honestly, as

a political scientist at illinois state university, a normal illinois. earlier i asked him, what does this victory mean for, should he cosigning? what does it mean rather, for democracy in bangladesh, he doesn't add to the, to the constraint, any kind of dual credit practice. as a matter of fact, what we can as to the last 15 years, the cd as an ocean of democracy decides that has been situation for they've seen legal, an extra data major. somebody used to prosecute the opposition. we have seen the election previous to elections have been highly trained and fraudulent. and now we have seen any direction where people are practically why got it? because even the number that is provided to turn up 40 percent is a suspect. according to the fictional status state, so the me did, they were saying it is 18 percent. then up to about this i did some are 26 percent 70 in an hour late due to their st. 40 percent. so we'd expect to be sure. gimme

input is due to be, it is shrinking democraix phase lack of freedom of media. it is not exactly that's something we can call it has a democracy. so right scripts, the, when the west of all express concerns on the backsliding of democracy under his, on his rule, were there concerns heard or right. you know i, i, i hope it, it has been hired. the government has not been getting any attention to the so that as, as over the modern sense, particularly leading to disaffection since october 28th. we see how the housing so thousands of opposition activist of j g a. c no, no more than 1500 collectively have been going to be did all these things. she showed that touching base with very little attention to this criticism and she was going to need to do so. if there is not a need to go patients to this election, which, which she's breathing as a big thing. now you've talked them

a little bit about the crack down on the opposition, where they worried that taking part of these elections would actually legitimize them. is that why they chose to boycott that this is one of the reasons, but the most important be that demanding that at the election should be overseas by a neutral administration, which is the country jane history get that this be a, that we doubt and nukes, and that and the station the election would be 8, is proven once again, this time around the budget has been proven previously to. so their concerns and make it to meant that at an election under any political administration, particularly given daneen government government to a political party is not going to actually daily that the wish of the people they cannot to collect those. we shut the people. all right, i'm afraid we'd have to leave it there. that was professor ali, re us from illinois state university. thank you very much for your analysis. thank

it's, it's your secretary of state anthony blinking heads the israel on monday as he continues diplomatic push to stop the war and gaza from igniting into a wider regional conflict. speaking the guitar blinking ward is really and was imperative to put a premium of protecting civilians in gauze of israel is battling homos, which is classified as a terrorist organization by the us, germany and many other countries. on sunday, blinking on a tip of magic drive to prevent the spread of the israel, how much will have to meetings and come to the us secretary of state for and on sunday, the wall between israel and how much thing cause i could metastasize on threatened security in the why, the middle east in doha blinking laid out his goals and he had praise raise hosts in all of my meetings over the last few days, we discussed ongoing efforts to better protect civilians in gaza and to get more

humanitarian assistance to them. and to get the remaining hostages out and home with their loved ones. cutter was instrumental in negotiations that led to the simultaneous release of more than $100.00 hostages, including american citizens. and a pause and the fighting. that during that time enabled us to double the flow of humanitarian aid to civilians and guys. so these displays, palestinians caught in the crossfire of this conflict in gaza, help con, come soon enough. and the us secretary of state made his position on the status of the testing. civilians must be able to return home as soon as conditions allow. they cannot, they must not be pressed to leave gaz, to set the funeral to palestinian journalist scared of him a power on his radio striking the south of the gaza strip. the prospect of p seems far away. in concert the kings were unimaginable tragedy so that he

was deeply sorry for the family's loss. the us top diplomats middle east tool continues on monday with visits that include israel and the occupied westberg. jason camp of donia is the los angeles bureau chief for nbc news radio and joins us now. so blinking says it is essential for is a real to do more to projective civilians and culture more aid for civilians in gaza. is this assigned to the us or changing stance? i really believe that he's there as a show of force and what are you originally said about? he doesn't want the crisis in because of strep to get any bigger. he doesn't want any other groups. he doesn't want any other countries to join in the fight for either side. i think that really is message im going out there and meeting with all these other diplomats and leaders is just a way of saying hey, americans here. and if you, if we have to, we'll flex our muscle. critics are already saying that this is

a all show no go of in where it's not going to trigger a significant seas fire or allow a, a to get to the people of, of the gaza strip, or allow the 2 sides to somehow come together and, and call, you know, call it off or call pieces in that part of the world. right now. it's just being seen as america going out and showing them, hey, we're involved and we're keeping a close eye on the situation. all right, so america attempted to say face and the reason seems like and the state department has also said that it expects hard conversations when it reaches out to us. a release is really counter parts. do they actually have any tools that they can still use to put pressure on is real after 3 months of conflict? as you know, i'm not, i'm not exactly sure what those conversations are going to entail, but i'll tell you when, when, when a state leader, when the secretary of state goes to another country and says there's going to be

hard conversations. i'm sure there's going to be consequences for actions. what those consequences could be. i'm not exactly sure. blinking is also said that he wants the palestinian people to be able to return home and they shouldn't be forced out of the gaza strip. so that might be seeing, as you know, changing sides are changing the way america sets up their, their allies in that part of the world. i can answer that, but i can tell you that if america says that they're out there and there is going to be consequences that there, there will be, i will say this, the critics a blinking are saying that he's an american doing what americans do. he's going into another country to tell that country how to run the country. and that may be seen as an offense to the is really government. we haven't heard much from them yahoo! talking directly to the president of the united states as of late. but i'm sure

some of this will will shake that, i think, i think blankets out there to shake the trees to see what, what they can do in that part of the world and the state of the union. so present, and by then we'll address the nation in about 2 weeks or so. and i'm sure this is going to be high on the talking because it's a very volatile issue here in the state. all right, that was diesel. kevin donia with embassy news radio. thank you very much for your reporting. thank you. a german foreign minister on the bandwalk is also on a trip to the mid east. its a 4th visit to the region since the october, the 7th, the tax voc held talks with these really presidents and foreign minister. there was also pushing 4 moves towards a 2 state solution for his rallies and palestinians. once the current fighting is over, it's tom o scott, guys, i must never be a source of danger to the existence of the state of israel in the future. but it's also in the ears due to the fact that guys that belongs to the police, steven young people, they must not be driven out. they must not be reduced, right?

l e occupation, no. settlement of gaza fund guys. i keep let's take a brief look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. driven 40 minutes on the box as germany is prepared to resume deliveries of your own fighter jets the saudi arabia. she was speaking during a trip to israel, in which the highlighted the saudi roll in the middle east security crisis of the start of the gaza war euro fighter it is a joint british german, italian and spanish project. us lawmakers have announced a bi partisan deal on federal funding for the current fiscal year. well, the agreement on a $1600000000.00 spending limit comes after weeks of negotiation. the deal marks on the 1st step towards avoiding a government shut down. the 1st us lunar emission in more than 50 years is set to blast off soon. the volt and rocket is carrying a landing vehicle which is planned to land on the lunar surface. the mission is

a joint venture between now, so in a private company will also be taking ashes and dna from some star trek cast members to the moon or and finally, leave you with this. a briefing overall record can be a difficult task for, for a pastry chef and mexico city, that's a piece of cake. again, this will record for the longest linear bread in the world was broken in the next week and capital with a rust good, a reyes or king cake bread that's traditionally eaten during a tiffany celebrations. the cake was 4.5 kilometers long and placed on thousands of tables along several city blocks. mexico has broken many food records, including the world's largest tamale and the biggest cheesecake the if you look, if you asked me, it looks quite tasty. well, stick around, you're up to date, but up next is doc film with

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