the, the, this is dw news life from berlin, bangladesh has a winter after a large lea, uncontested election, prime minister shade casino has one re election for a 4th consecutive term in a contest boycotted by the main opposition, which called the vote on fair. also on the program, us secretary of state anthony blink and continues his diplomatic tor while visiting cat katara, he warns that the conflict in gaza could quote, metastasize to the wider region. the top us diplomatic also urges the protection of civilians and preserving palestinians right to live in the territory

the unpopular fully ass. welcome to the program. bangladesh has routing parties swept to victory in sundays election. the countries election commission says prime minister, shaken, seen as a why me lead as one more than half the seats in the countries legislature that gives her a 4th consecutive term as the countries leader. but in a poll, boycotted 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 binding about dish nationalist party, the b and b like caught to devote, accusing her of a brutal crack down to his siena. it seems of little consequence. i have to

go home to home after his party. there is no, i have my goal is to be the 2 people to the people. was the people except that these are not for them, they have accepted this electron or not. that is important. but has seen as be to rival say they are up against more than just words. 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 us and 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 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, the supporters of christina, crated her with a successful fight against poverty and some bushes. infrastructure developments. while opponents say that today, she's acting like an autocrat. but this isn't these beauty to the agenda as also said, and it takes to get takes i consider to be able to enemy is the space for promoting solid. the basic i so the, the apollo is, has been the because the machine came despite the low turn out on the bike caught a while me league ended supports his claim as soon as victories,

legitimate. now that the results are reading, it's not clear how the opposition will respond. says the expert michael kugal mind is the deputy director of the asian program at the wilson center in washington dc a little earlier. i asked them how much the opposition boycott affected the turn out on the election in general was so it was very critical. the fact that the b and t, the main opposition did not participate. because that essentially has meant that the ruling part of the allow me leak was running against itself in the sense that those opposition parties that did decide to participate in the election. they're quite small and they're quite weak. meaning they can mount a challenge to the ruling party and then you also have independence, a bunch of independence that ran. but most of these independents were actually align with the ruling party. so again, once to be in p, decided not to participate that made it very clear what the outcome of this election is going to be. and that was a case of in the d n p. pardon me,

the why me lead the ruling party running against itself and gliding to an easy and highly predictable victory. all right, so we're told me in an election, but essentially without a significant opposition. and yet the government has claimed that it's a free unfair election. what's your opinion on the as well i, i would argue that by definition you cannot have a stare election if you do not have the main opposition party in there. and you know, the reason why the main opposition decided not to participate goes back to a number of factors that are played out really over a period of many months. so not a year or so. and that includes a very significant crack down against the opposition to the point that the, the main opposition b and p is included that the playing field. the electoral playing field was not level and itself that um it had no no reason to participate in election that have to leave that with lose and also have to go back to the previous election in 2018

when the opposition didn't participate. and the ruling party won a result that was widely viewed as rick, the ruling party won with about 96 percent of the phones. so i think that for the opposition, they concluded that what's the point of doing this? they believe they made a mistake in the last election by running. they feel that the situation hasn't gotten any better. that the repression on the part of the ruling party is only increased in that sense. they felt there was no reason to participate. so i think it's important to look at not only the fact that the opposition decided not to participate, but also the reasons driving that decision. and i would argue that the key word here is credible. i think that the election cannot be described as a credible action because of the fact that the main opposition did not participate and for the reasons that it shows not to participate. right. what this has seen is victory then mean for a bangladesh going forward as well. i mean, this is a lot of challenges right now. and the immediate one for,

for shake of seeing it for the prime ministers is political in the sense that you have an opposition. that is extremely agree. you extremely angry. did not want the selection to happen. that did not want the election to happen with the, with the current government overseeing it. it must know that it is now to the point of being elect really irrelevant. so i think that for the government there's going to be a major challenge related to the issue of political tensions and the risks of political unrest and even the possibility of political violence down the road. the other day challenge for the government will be economic shaken, seen it has state or claim to being a successful leader to the fact that she's overseen significant levels of economic growth. and yet the economy is sputtered over the last year. seeing brand new levels of inflation and that will be a big challenge for her as well. thanks michael. michael cool. my deputy director of the asian program at the wilson center. thank you. you a secretary of state anthony, blinking is on a tour of them at least in an effort to contain the conflict in gaza as late as

talks of taking place in carter, where he met with the country is a mere and warrant that israel's war against thomas which carried out the worst terror attacking israel's history. on october 7th could spread to the wider region . us secretary of state, anthony, blinking on a mad scramble to prevent the spread of the israel moss war after positive meetings and could tar blinking warrant on sunday. the war between israel and mos in gaza could metastasize and threaten security in the wider middle east. and the secretary blinking laid out his diplomatic push while appraising his host. in all of my meetings, over the last 2 days, we discussed ongoing efforts to better protect civilians and gaza and to get more humanitarian assistance to them. and to get the remaining hostages out and home with their loved ones. the cutter was instrumental and then it goes to actions 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, the civilians and guys. for these displays, palestinians caught in the crossfire of this conflict in gaza. help can't come soon enough. us secretary of state made his position clear. testing civilians must be able to return home as soon as conditions allow. they cannot, they must not be pressed to leave gaza long. but at the funeral of 2 palestinian journalists killed in the parent is rarely air strikes in the south. and because the strip prospect of peace seems far away. blinking said the killings were an unimaginable tragedy. and that he was deeply sorry for the family's loss. us top diplomats middle east tour continues on monday with visits that include israel and

the occupied west bank. well german foreign minister and the bulk is also on a trip to the middle east to making her 4th visit to the region since the october 7th attacks that box, that tour included uh or trip included. talked with the is randy president on foreign minister. she then gave a press statement and continued to advocate for a 2 state solution to beat me at least conflict. let's take it. this is tom. o. scott guys. i must never be a source of danger to the existence of the state of is right in the future. but it's also in the refutable 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 what our chief political correspondent nina has a is in jerusalem and is travelling with the german foreign minister. she gave us

this update as no backbone spends a lot of time talking about all the terrible suffering that's going on in this region beat and gaza, or in the west bank. that is seen a shop rise in settlers violence, but also the suffering of these rarely families are still hoping and waiting for their relatives to be released from us to passivity in available, cooling all sides to try and help and prevent this conflict from spreading into the entire region, she said it takes for the spot to also draw 11 on full fledged into this will no, no, no babble stress that germany does. of course stand in solidarity with is ro against any attempts to what this country of the map. but she called on israel to carry out their operations and the less intense way 30 months, echoing what we've been hearing from the americans. it's a false trip to the region since october, since how most has brutal attacks against israel and to be traveling to the palestinian territories and to 11 on of to this was to be also holding political

talks, trying to achieve 2 goals. one get to mandatory in a message to the people and to help identify ways to watch a realistic but sustainable scenario for post full gaza. you know, has the interest of them there? well, the us national society of film critics has voted german performers, sons, who as best actress for her roles in anatomy of a full and zone of interest. she's earned price for her diverse roles and is now tipped for the upcoming golden globes. perhaps even an oscar, i'm sorry to interrupt. i'm sorry. strong comparative women such roles. so to you come santa, who do i place them with great intensity your opinion into telling me in some way it was and what we were going through in that time we have a full she plays a successful olsa who was suspected of murder. did she pushed her husband out of

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