what is happening in bangladesh, student protests turned into a revolution. the prime minister, who ruled the country for many years, fled. dozens of people died in the skyscraper riots in the capital. we talk about it in detail on the bbc, live from london. i am yevgenia shedlovska. so, after weeks of protests, the government changed in bangladesh. in a country with a population of 170 million, prime minister sheikh hasina, who ruled for the past 15 years, resigned. and here is a video of her helicopter taking off from dhaka, the capital of bangladesh. letting go that sheikhasina went to

india, it is friendly to it, a big neighboring country, although, observers say, now india had to consider how to treat the events in bangladesh, how to react, and so, protesters stormed the residence of sheikhasine when the news spread that she had left the country , local television showed a crowd breaking into what was considered the most secure building in the country, carrying things out, she ran, she ran, chanting inside. protesters and they stormed the parliament when it spread to the streets celebration and looting. it is reported that police stations were set on fire in the capital and other cities. the international airport was not working, there are no border guards on site, and you ask, yes, who is running bangladesh now, who owns the power? it is unknown. the army commander spoke on television and announced that there would be a transitional non-party government. respected!

the prime minister resigned, now we will form a temporary government and continue our work, to manage the country. i give you my word that we will prosecute anyone who guilty of the murders and the injustice that occurred. have faith in the army, the armed forces. i take responsibility for your life and property, and i give you my word. i will not disappoint you. but such a transitional government still needs to be assembled and for now, as reported. negotiations between political parties are ongoing. protests in bangladesh began last month, and more than 300 people are believed to have died in the clashes. sunday became the bloodiest day. at least 90 people died, including 13 policemen, but tens of thousands later people took to the streets despite the curfew, despite such violence. in general, everything started as a demonstration of students dissatisfied with the system of quotas in the civil service, and it turned into... protests against

the authorities and calls for the immediate resignation of the government. bbc correspondent akbar hussain works in a dacha and will explain why. prime minister sheikha sina and her party failed to understand the public mood, they failed to respond properly to the protests. the authorities could not understand what was happening, and neither did she tried to understand what young people want. the youth in bangladesh have never been more politically aware than they are now. young people wanted justice in society. one of the problems was the employment quotas, another problem was the lack of credible elections. in 2014, 2018 and 2024. western countries did not recognize these elections. the authorities completely destroyed the opposition, they were not allowed to participate in the elections. the human rights situation was very bad. international human rights organizations have constantly criticized the sheykhasina government, the authorities, but they were not... listened to, besides

the unemployment rate was too high, freedom of speech was limited, many other things. what is happening now is accumulated anger, fear and frustration. all this forced young people to take to the streets of the country. and when it comes to disaffected young bangladeshis, look at these numbers. more than 40% neither work nor study. and inflation is added to all this. therefore, as observers say, the change of power in bangladesh was economically inevitable and the question was not whether it would happen, but when it would will happen protests in bangladesh began a month ago when the country decided to restore quotas for the civil service. the fact is that in bangladesh there was a rule: relatives of veterans who fought for the country's independence from pakistan in 1971 could hold a third of government positions. these quotas were canceled six years ago, but now the court decided to restore them. and because of this decision, the protests, which

quickly turned into wider demonstrations against the authorities, which the authorities tried to suppress, to understand how the protesters ended up overthrowing the authorities, but to take a step back and to see what happened before that, how the protests unfolded. a bbc correspondent was in bangladesh at the height of the protests two weeks ago, and this is her report. the army is on the streets, a strict curfew and disconnection of communication. bangladesh is using all its power to contain the anger of the citizens. in mid-july , students staged a protest in the streets. protest against quotas for public positions, quotas for families of veterans of the bangladesh war of independence, which created advantages for those close to power. the police and military are accused of brutal repression protests in this video verified by the bbc

, an injured but still alive young man is abandoned in the street by security forces. he later died, one of the hundreds who died. shahida beegum is sobbing outside one of dhaka's hospitals. aunt of 16-year-old imam hussein, who died of gunshot wounds. my nephew was an innocent child, why did they kill him so brutally, she cries. hundreds were injured in the riots, which many described as the worst violence they had ever seen. three of my friends are dead. you see, on blood stains on my hand. why are my hands in the blood of my brothers? the government of bangladesh denied the use of violence against unarmed students, claiming that the protests were politically motivated. prime minister sheikhasina, in one of her last appearances on television, promised

to take measures against those who committed the murders. in nearly 15 years of uninterrupted power, it has become one of the most serious challenges she has faced. let's take a closer look at who sheikh hasina wadjet is: the longest-reigning woman in the history of bangladesh country, she is 76 years old, she was the prime minister four times. sheikh hasina first came to power in 1996 and again in 2009. she began her fourth term after controversial elections earlier this year. the main opposition parties boycotted these elections, saying that as long as sheikh hasina is in power in the country... there can be no fair and just elections, she is the daughter of the founder of bangladesh, the longest- serving woman in the world. at first, she was considered a model of a democratic leader. under her rule, the economy of bangladesh grew rapidly and even surpassed india in terms of growth rate. however, the prime minister was accused of repressive,

autocratic steps. these are mass arrests of political opponents and activists, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial losses. in recent months there have been protests in... the country, but it is interesting how sheikh hasina herself evaluated her rule, here is a fragment of an interview that the bbc recorded with her earlier. i have been fighting for democracy all my life, our party is awamilik, we have established democracy in this country. before that, the military ruled here for 21 years, and before that, that is, a total of 29 years 50 years of independence, so only now these... 14 years we had a real democratic system, stability, and therefore we could move forward. why then did the un human rights chief express concern about extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture, and repression of the press? i don't know, but

they made these accusations, but they can't prove them. we have never supported extrajudicial killings. there is a law in our country, i don't know any country that has such a rule, but in our... country there is such a law: if law enforcement officers do something illegal, then are immediately punished. why then did the us impose sanctions against one of your paramilitary organizations? what is the reason? i don't know, maybe they don't want us to continue all the progress we made in bangladesh. maybe they don't accept him, that's my feeling. and actually, look at what is happening in daca. protesters. are trying to topple or damage the statue of the first president of bangladesh, mujibur rahman, this, as you remember, is the father of the former prime minister and the founding father of the country, a fighter for independence, but as he says bbc south east asia editor, ambarasan ithirajan, these protests are a historic

moment for bangladesh, and here's why? it was simply the rule of the people, that is what became the end of the regime of prime minister sheykhasina. we saw similar incidents on... two years ago, when people stormed the residence of the then president gotobaer japaksa. this is a historical moment, before our eyes, history is being made, as colleagues from bangladesh emphasize, because it all started with a student protest at dhaka university, and then it turned into a mass movement, an uprising against the government. the students were joined by people from all walks of life, from rickshaw drivers to civil society activists, activists, cultural and even farmers, and it swept across the country, and even hasina could not fathom the depth of this anger, the killing of so many people two weeks ago had crossed all red lines, but where did this anger come from, despite what sheikhasina provided. stability and economic growth over the past 15 years. in recent years

, the economic crisis has hit people, the economy did not increase, but unemployment increased, especially among young people. well, the last thing is repression, full of suppression of dissent and criticism, they imprisoned journalists and activists. many people simply disappeared. there were hundreds of cases of extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances. the opposition was completely eliminated, thousands of opposition supporters, young people... those who studied in the universities did not know much about the history of the country's independence, about how the 1971 war was won, they were worried about the more practical aspects, they said, don't teach us history, we are worried about what will happen next, them i was worried about what the authorities would do next, and also hasina always emphasized that she is the daughter of the father of the nation, and therefore she believed that she was called to lead the country, and when i interviewed her several times, she behaved as if she was waiting. .. will always be a country, and that bangladesh is rightfully so, and they underestimated

the youth, politically aware and familiar with the trends of many other parts of the world. for example, when i was in sri lanka two years ago, many people tweeted asking if something like this could happen in bangladesh, and now when i spoke with students, with their leaders who were still hiding from the arrest two days ago, but they said then that they were serious this time, they were convinced that the people were with him. and when tens of thousands of people started moving towards dhaka, then shay hasina knew it was the end. but still, what's next for bangladesh, what will this interim transitional government be like? at the very end of our broadcast, these are the conclusions of naomi hossein, a professor at the school of oriental studies at the university of london. to be honest, my first thoughts were relief that it wasn't the bloody carnage that we all feared today happened when... protesters announced their march on the capital and plans to besiege the government palace. after yesterday's

bloodshed, it was indeed a relief, as everything indicated that things could take a turn for the worse. and my second feeling is concern. i am afraid of acts of revenge and the kind of attacks that we are already seeing in bangladesh, lest they overshadow the transition period in the country. in the last few days , proposals to form a transitional government, which would be included, have already spread. not political representatives parties, and civil society, business, labor movements. this was not the case in the past. there are already precedents for such a government. from 2006 to 2008, ukraine had a military-backed interim government that came to power following another period of political violence that erupted after another highly corrupt and violent regime. then it was the bangladesh nationalist party, and then the military intervened to... clean up politics. at the end of that transitional period, surprisingly

free and fair elections were held in the country, as a result of which power in early 2009 and sheikhasina came. since then, she has been in power, so it is obvious that the task of cleaning up politics during that two-year transition period was not completed. and now we should hope that the new transitional government will not repeat the mistakes of the previous one. and the main conclusion from the board. hasina that capitalism is built on nepotism - a process of economic development that favors business elites and those close to power with deep pockets, that all this does not contribute to peace and harmony, justice, equality and sustainable development and read more about the revolution in bangladesh on our website bbc.ua and subscribe to our pages in social networks so as not to miss other news, and if you suddenly did not have time to see it. our broadcast is live, you can watch it on youtube bbc news ukraine in the recording. i say goodbye to you until

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program, we see that the literal majority of those who called us believe that... all russians are as guilty as putin is of aggression against ukraine and generally not only. well, i am happy to congratulate my colleague andrii smoliya. he is in touch with the studio. we will be in this format in the coming weeks see you in the second part of the new week. andriy, congratulations and glory to ukraine. congratulations to the heroes of glory. greetings to all viewers. well, we have a slightly different format, but still. today we will talk, and traditionally the second hour, the first hour, khrystyna had a great time, and i am very glad that, as they say, our experts were also on our program new week, and now we have the second hour, where we will analyze where we we will speak, where we will express our opinion and our

vision regarding the events that are taking place in our country, which are happening in the world. and which will take place in the new week, so let's start, we will probably start with what was expected, but what did not happen: the personnel of the rotational part of the ukrainian leadership during the war, i will remind you that in general the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi spoke about them, well, practically putting his signature under the resignation from the post of chairman. valery zaluzhny is in a coma, and someone believes that it is really time, now we have a government that has been running our country for a record long time, managing all processes in our country, it is extremely important, but how qualitatively, i think there can be discussions here, volodymyr zelenskyi, the ukrainian president,

at the end of the week announced personnel changes in the cabinet of ministers, probably alluding to the minister of education. children, let's listen, personnel decisions are being prepared at the government level, as well as additional decisions, so that already this fall , more ukrainian children will be able to study in schools not online, but normally, so that there will be a normal school life, to the extent that it is possible now during the war, that well, andrew what do you see... do we really have problems exclusively in the field of education now and can we place the responsibility for this on a minister who heads his own ministry less than many of the other ministries, and will it be possible to exclude, let's say, a few figures from the composition of ministers? we

traditionally always have the president and the majority. always, relatively speaking, to change some individual figures, but not to change the government in general, to which, unfortunately, many ukrainians have a lot of questions, and i think that the rumors that have been circulating for the past few weeks, which were about the resignation of the government in general, and let's talk about the fact that there were indeed talks about the fact that ... allegedly , not only an individual minister or several individual ministers will be dismissed, including may be dismissed and the prime minister, denys shmehal, and accordingly, this means that if the prime minister resigns, it means, in principle, always traditionally, and according to the current legislation, that the entire government resigns, some even talked about

what was there, relatively speaking, shvygal... snarky zelensky, there were some different wordings, so to speak, but we have what we have, shvyhal is in his place, he was dismissed many times, i remember another 2000 by the way in the 20th year, when they said the same thing, well listen, this government was elected there in the first days of march, but somewhere in september it will be sent to resign, that is, it did not happen, it did not happen now, but we have to understand , that all the same... we cannot avoid individual resignations, resignations of individual ministers, i i think that it can be again, a kind of letting off steam for... society, and why? in our country, as of now, in general, trust in the government is one of the lowest levels of public trust in public institutions.

all sociological surveys, in particular the latest ones, which were conducted in may and june, speak of this. they are talking about the fact that the government, for the most part, even more, the absolute majority of 2/3 of our population does not trust, and accordingly, probably, they would like, if people do not trust, a change of government. so, of course, just rearranging the figures on this axis the government chessboard, this will not change the situation, and it will not actually improve anything, various businesses, accordingly, donated, helped ohmadit, and we see this kind of approach, well, it means that the government really has a crisis and that the government really is most likely losing that the support he should have had during the war. but i think that by september, since the verkhovna rada has once again gone on vacation, the verkhovna rada is not

working in our country, so accordingly, i think that by september there will be some major resignations or some there will be no major changes in the government. and tell me, please, andrii, there was such a guess among our fellow journalists, in particular, it seems, on ukrainian pravda, i saw a discussion on this issue. and what about going on vacation in the middle of summer, in the middle of a war, in the middle of budgetary problems, including those that we currently have in the country, all this was very appropriate, precisely in the context of possible questions about the composition of the ukrainian government, and what would the issue of voting for its... liquidation of the fsb in our country was not important at all branches, churches of the moscow patriarchate and so on, but it is very likely that this issue, well,

unfortunately, played a role in delaying the review process of our managers in the country, our government in the country, what do you think about it? well, in fact, we must understand one thing: in our government, and we see that, including in the majority, there are very often no candidates to fill even de facto vacant positions, let's imagine this, we can really present, that the majority in the verkhovna rada, or simply the majority of verkhovna rada deputies, will send the resignation of a certain minister or two ministers or three or even five, but the question is who will replace him, and this question, you know, is so painful in our country, because very often... it lasted for months, and sometimes it happened that there was no time for a year, there were no ministers in their positions, there were acting

responsibilities, there were temporary acting responsibilities, there were people who, i apologize, we still have a minister of information policy and culture, if i don't i'm wrong, there isn't, well , correct me christina, i think there isn't, maybe i, maybe i forgot something, maybe i did something i made a mistake somewhere, but i'm sorry. well, there can't be temporary acting responsibilities in such key positions, and i think that really this is the decision and on the prohibition of the russian orthodox church, a shameful decision, the fact that the deputies did not actually vote, although there were votes, and by the way, this today, the head of the committee on information policy nikita poturaev, a representative of the pro-government majority, by the way, admitted that... we have 240 votes, if i'm not mistaken, he said, there were none, yes, and yes, rather than everything, including this situation, could be used in order to delay

the possibility of some personnel changes, because on the one hand they promised that these personnel changes would happen, that is, people were waiting, and in the end some ministers are already there sooner than everyone is preparing their things for the exit, and... and there are not so many candidates, people who are ready to lead, who are professionals, and who, especially in such a crisis period, in such a difficult period for our country, are ready for themselves take first of all responsibility, them not so much, and by the way, these people should understand that they are simply burning themselves, relatively speaking, politically right away, because anyone who now takes the position of minister or or vice-premier or prime minister, this person immediately receives a huge minus to his rating, to his certain political, political portfolio, that is... unpopular

decisions, they must be made, so most likely yes, the verkhovna rada of ukraine, including the so-called vacations, which i emphasize once again, are unlikely you can call this decision adequate in the conditions of a great war, but they went on vacation, they did not vote for the ban of the russian orthodox church, which, which is also no less shameful, they did not really vote for the resignation of certain ministers, and maybe... and more once i say, maybe for the resignation of the prime minister, maybe everything is possible, there was also talk about the fact that one of the representatives of the current government can head the government, again, but i say again, in my opinion, to there will hardly be any in september big changes, the only thing that the verkhovna rada of ukraine can still meet in the coming days or weeks and i

hope to pass. the draft law that was passed, by the way, in the first reading, to pass in the second reading the draft law on banning branches of the russian orthodox church on the territory of ukraine in the form recommended by the committee. this is really what the council should do, and what the majority of society expects, and this, by the way, it would, by the way, unite society, because for according to all polls, according to all possible now... studies, expert, adequate expert evaluations, the absolute majority of our country, i.e. 70% plus, clearly say that they are either in favor of a ban or state intervention in the branch of the russian orthodox church in ukraine , regarding the government, i think we need to really watch here, look, but government officials need to be held accountable for their actions. you need

to report, by the way, i want to remind you that our government officials very, very often do not report to the verkhovna rada of ukraine, do not come to of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, and even after their resignation, or conditionally before their resignation, they do not report on their activities, this really needs to be corrected, and this is what i consider unacceptable, even during martial law, there is no need to cover up with martial law , it is necessary to understand that there must be accountability and... responsibility. well, andriy, let 's have a few words with you, let's talk about everything related to the reconstruction of this hospital. i will remind you that the damage to the largest children's hospital in to our country, and in principle, one of the largest, as i understand it, in eastern europe, occurred as a result of a russian directed, all-directed missile attack, and indeed,

okhmadit is now largely on its own. functions is paralyzed, it means that it means that this attack, you know, it has a certain and prolonged effect, it is difficult to imagine how many small patients will not receive qualified care, just because a russian missile destroyed the equipment with which this care can be provide, premises where this assistance can be provided, and we understand that now other medical institutions and specialists of our country have taken over this burden, but less so... however, okhmadit is a phenomenon. unfortunately, in recent days we have been talking about this phenomenon in not the best context. and from a fresh start , the ministry of health cancels all tenders for technical supervision of construction works announced by the ohmadit clinic. let me remind you that these services actually could cost

crazy, crazy money from... the money that was collected by those who cared.