now following that interview with al jazeera scheidel arm was arrested by bangladeshi police at his home in the capital dhaka. now who are the top story this hour in indonesia where the national disaster management board is saying that at least eighty two people have died after a magnitude seven quake hit a popular tourist island of long walk video from the island shows people running from damaged buildings government says hundreds more injured and thousands have been evacuated a strong quake in the same area killed more than a dozen people last week and has more from the capital jakarta. only one week after a powerful earthquake struck the island of lombok another earthquake happened on loan but an all too was strongly felt on the neighboring island of bali both the tourist destinations also both in the peak season lot of tourist on both islands damage has been reported both on bali and lombok but the exact extent of the damage will only be known in the morning at the moment of thought these were very busy trying to evacuate people from the beaches and sure because there was a tsunami w

usually works with images not work and when it comes to bangladeshi politics these days journalists must choose their words very carefully in terms of why this was seen as a threat he was critical of the government. to mediate big to be killings the disappearing bribery or all levels in education it's the number indignities he was critical of the political system to get beyond simply the government this happens live on an international television catalogue which means that the government's narratives. that they sound every time the process takes care. suddenly could be challenged i can't imagine any other person really who would have been quite so articulate and quite so straightforward in his analysis of the monitor's political situation it's not an elected government so they did not really mandate rules but they be thinking on my it was a perfectly courage and legitimate critique of the bangladesh political situation and i think that the bangladesh authorities really just could not stand the idea of an articulate bangladeshi speaking from bangladesh to the international community about

and following this interview with al jazeera and was arrested by a bangladeshi police at his home in dhaka. well now to our other top story this hour local officials say at least thirty nine people have died after a magnitude seven earthquake hit the popular tourist indonesian island of long video from the island shows people running from damaged buildings a tsunami warning was put in place but has since been lifted strong quake in the same area killed more than a dozen people last week step bassam has more from jakarta. only one week after a powerful earthquake struck the island of lombok another earthquake happened on long but an all too well strongly felt on the neighboring island of bali both the tourist destinations also both in the peak season lot of tourist on both islands damage has been reported both on bali and lombok but the exact extent of the damage will only be known in the morning at the moment of thought these were very busy trying to evacuate people from the beaches and shores because there was a tsunami warning in place that warning has now been lifted and only a ve

the new prime minister and the media so far so good but how real will the reforms prove to be a bangladeshi photojournalist appears on al-jazeera speaks his mind and ends up behind bars yes i mean i really do this is not and the saudi twitter account that crashed and burned after evoking memories of nine eleven we began with a question on the rise of far right and the immigration movements in countries like great britain do such movements and the support that they attract drive media coverage or is it the other way around do the news media through excessive coverage help manufacture that support take tommy robinson who calls himself a warrior for freedom of speech on issues such as migration when he rails against the supposedly creeping influence of political islam in u.k. society that resonates with audiences but what came first his newfound popularity or the coverage of him. a recent academic study suggests that right wing anti immigration political parties such as the u.k. independence party ukip oh more of their success to the news media than they would care to admit that news outlets d

the bangladeshi information minister has told al jazeera that any police officer who assaults journalists in custody will be prosecuted collets allegations of torture and kill along with torture after being arrested and happened just hours after he did an interview with al-jazeera on sunday human rights watch wants the government to investigate reports that he was beaten in jail he was covering demonstrations by students were demanding tougher traffic laws and the minister says the government respects the press and that i had all along was not detained for his journalism he has been a student of thought in the columns which we are looking to eat but as first today he would have produced to the court the court ruled he said what will happen to him but he has not read that is to dumb down others to go has been that is to be soothing the informative companies and to clothe didn't act so he does it is a general lack probably don't citizens not for the young ladies so for dummies to get he has not been ordered ordered you put in. he has not been out of there are the reasons we will give a repo

demanding government action to improve road safety traffic accidents kill at least seven thousand bangladeshis every year two young students were knocked down and killed by a bus last week and even though the net i'm going to we have been protesting on the roads for a few days with some of that demands with demanding justice for those students of the college to buy a bus and we want safe roads i saw. over the weekend the peaceful protests became violent when police tried to break up the crowds demonstrators were further incensed by a government minister who questioned why there was uproar about two deaths in bangladesh and a lack of anger about thirty three dead in a bus crash in india the previous day i'm not sitting on a subway i'm the government that's out there we all are feeling threatened and we wanted a peaceful protest we don't want any trouble occurring around here yet rubber bullets were shot on our brothers at mirpur neighborhood they were dispersed one told us the government ordered schools and bus services to shut down the government's trying to quell the violence by cutting inter

but the bangladeshi government says it is struggling to handle the flow of refugees it's preparing to relocate one hundred thousand of them to an uninhabited island which only formed twenty years ago fortification and housing being built on a bus and char in the bay of bengal but human rights watch says the island regularly floods and would become a defacto detention center instead it is calling for the government to register people as refugees and move them to areas near the current camps or other such as highlight six areas in cox's bazar which it says are less vulnerable to landslides flooding and storms there people can get better access to shelter and education they say well how much junk jhoom as reported extensively from cox is bizarre he joins me now so how much you were there just a few weeks ago just just give us a sense of the of the conditions that people are dealing with there right now you know how the bill frolic who wrote this report for human rights watch this is based on his observations in may i was there a month ago i was there in early july for a week and that was

once inside the country the crew had to pass through further bangladeshi checkpoints where they posed as tourists and used hidden cameras. to look. for. if. any of the them there was the so many don't seem to be even there was the military intelligence maybe they should assume most of them. would use the dainty little girl and the news was a horrible so there. it is the barely different of the week. when trying to force a pin that you can see the bismarck. soul ma'am. there were hints. by the side of the road. married. in order to continue filming the crew took a side road to avoid attracting the attention of the bangladeshi police. they came upon one of the many unofficial or hinge refugee camps in bangladesh. these refugees were living in the most primitive conditions in locations rarely seen by the international media. even by the standards of makeshift refugee camps this was a miserable existence. the crew spoke to a group of women who had recently arrived from man don't. do much of that of interest money wise now. question i wonder why some of them are my cousins in the to. the h

the bangladeshi foreign minister has traveled to me and miles rakhine state where muslim minority ranger fled a brutal military crackdown almost a year ago obl haasan mahmud ali inspected preparations there for the ranger to return to me and off around a million of them are living in camps on the bangladeshi border he also met with me and my minister and the two sides agreed on the early repatriation of bringing them back to rakhine state. one of the most ambitious space missions as blasted off three two one zero lift off the park a solar probe will fly closer to the sun than any previous satellite has designed to brave extremes temperatures of more than a thousand degrees at speeds of seven hundred thousand kilometers an hour those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after al-jazeera world such a vessel with five. mian mar over fifty one million people. and since two cheese party won elections here in twenty fifteen but the army still wields great power on trance of she unfortunately has no practical ability to write in the security force since independence from the

now bangladeshi police arrested shockey due for that and for allegedly making productive comments on dizzier during an interview about protests that have flared up across the country over how dangerous the roads are i sort of believe going. on students that a lawyer was charged under is the information and communications technology acts or i.c.t. and this is a statute that media right groups say is often used to target journalists now along criticise the excessive use of force by police and protesters and set the demonstrations are motivated by factors larger than road safety alone among those factors he says the government's gagging of the media and corruption and alarm isn't the only bangladeshi journalist who's paid a price after covering these protests far from it and supporters of the government and the prime minister shaikh hasina have reportedly attacked more than a dozen reporters covering the protests beating them and their equipment and asked for the i.c.t. at least twenty five journalists and several hundred bloggers and facebook users were prosecuted on the last year alon

demanding government action to improve road safety traffic accidents kill at least seven thousand bangladeshis every year to young students were knocked down and killed by a bus last week and even though the net i'm going to we have been protesting on the roads for a few days with some of that demands we are demanding justice for those students of the college killed by a bus and we want safe roads. over the weekend the peaceful protests became violent when police tried to break up the crowds demonstrators were further incensed by a government minister who questioned why there was uproar about two deaths in bangladesh and a lack of anger about thirty three dead in a bus crash in india the previous day i'm actually going to stop by the government that's actually we all are feeling threatened we wanted a peaceful protest we don't want any trouble occurring around here yet rubber bullets were shot on our brothers at mirco neighborhood they were dispersed we don't want all of us the government ordered schools and bus services to shut down the government's trying to quell the violence by cutting int

demanding government action to improve road safety traffic accidents kill at least seven thousand bangladeshis every year two young students were knocked down and killed by a bus last week. i'm going to we have been protesting on the roads for a few days with some of that demands with demanding justice for those students of the college killed by a bus and we won't say for it's. over the weekend the peaceful protests became violent when police tried to break up the crowds demonstrators were further incensed by a government minister who questioned why there was uproar about two deaths in bangladesh and a lack of anger about thirty three dead in a bus crash in india the previous day i'm not really going to stop by the government that's out there we all are feeling threatened we wanted a peaceful protest we don't want any trouble occurring around here yet rubber bullets were shot at murtha neighborhood they were dispersed. the government ordered schools and bus services to shut down the government's trying to quell the violence by cutting internet services to cripple social media and censoring bot

and he's talking about immigrants and immigrants in our sam and how he has thrown out that one bangladeshi if it included traders then the prime minister and when he was about as you two thousand and fourteen he stalked the sentiment again when he was about to go for the election saying that we are going to try out every bangladeshi immigrant out of a sense then he also gave a bizarre argument saying that assamese and also us are being killed to make way for a bunch of the i mean these are the kind of sentiments you are stalking in assam to create a kind of conflict at the end of the day had both gone to a communal game which you are going to use this is nobody is really concerned about the n.c.r. of migrants here i'm a go ahead what we saying. yes plate agreed to a lot of point but on and as well as buy one as good on the process that you know that has been a lot of issue was with the process in fact to be very honest my name wasn't included in the post of my parents' names were there my sister's names with it and i had to go to atlanta and i had to tell them you know what my sister was b

agencies and the generous help of the bangladeshi government like this one. however the rains have already arrived in bangladesh and even this site and its occupants will be at serious risk if the rainfall is heavy and deeds to flooding. since and i'm handout is reports in february twenty seventh hundreds of thousands more were hanging have sought refuge in bangladesh in fact it's now estimated that there are as many of range in bangladesh as there are remaining in me and mari. meanwhile human rights organizations the un and the media have struggled to gain access to rock kind state to gather first hand evidence of the alleged human rights violations. in september twenty seventh team the u.n. high commissioner for human rights. a san spoke out because myanmar has refused access to human rights investigators the current situation cannot be cannot yet sorry cannot yet be fully asserts but the situation remains or seem use a text textbook example of ethnic cleansing. then in june twenty eighth amnesty international published the results of interviewing over four

usually works with images not works and when it comes to bangladeshi politics these days journalists must choose their words very carefully in terms of why this was seen as a threat he was critical of the government. to mediate big to be killings the disappearing riot griot all the. number indignities he was critical of the political system to beyond simply the government this happens live on the international television channel which means that the government's narrative that they sound every time. suddenly could be challenged i can't imagine any other person really who would have been quite. so articulate and quite so straightforward in his analysis of the boundaries political situation it's not an elected government so they did not really mandate the rule but the big thing on my group was there was a perfectly clear didn't legitimate critique of the bangladesh political situation and i think that the bangladesh authorities really just cannot stand the idea of an articulate bung that actually speaking from bangladesh to the international community about the political situation amon

as simple as their roads to be safe today we are all with bangladesh and then the world famous bangladeshi nobel laureate muhammad yunus the founder of the microlenses gram mean bank wrote an op ed on the student movement addressing them directly with the title you all the dash and he says in the article that everyone is inspired by the teenagers with a cause on the streets this nation will never forget this example that they have said they did not go to the streets to mourn rather went to the streets with a solution and office like constantini drew this picture is using the pick colors of the bangladeshi flag depicting events over the past few days from journalists attacks students protesting the engine also the main hash tag that started all of this which is we want justice this is what he had to say so. i was contacted by a young bangali activist who asked me to help them with my drawings during the protests in the squares of dhaka the way the protests grew a stranger touched me very much so i created drawings about what was going on in real time also showed us the photographer arrested

this government is behaving in a way that bangladeshi governments are very used to behaving in terms of this and they just see people shelling dissent even though they're young and what they're protesting in way beyond any kind of party political issue they haven't been able to show that anything of it in the usual way or responding to this which has been a lot before. it all began ten days ago after a speeding bus killed two teenagers in late july student demonstrators took to the streets calling for tougher law enforcement of bangladeshi road traffic the government says it's going to introduce the death penalty for some road traffic accidents. human rights groups have weighed in as the government crackdown has spread to arresting journalists show hill islam a photographer who was arrested sunday after appearing on al-jazeera and criticizing the government human rights watch wants an investigation into allegations he was beaten in jail after these pictures emerged of him in court and also saying ruling party workers attacked protesters. the government's deny the allegations that its

thank you now the bangladeshi foreign minister has traveled to me and miles rakhine state where muslim minority fled a brutal military crackdown almost a year ago mahmud ali inspected preparations there for the ranger to return to me and not around a million of them living in camps on the bangladeshi border he also met with a myanmar minister and both sides agreed on the early repatriation of ranger back to rakhine state. at least thirty seven people have died in one of the worst floods in the southern indian state of carolus thousands have been forced to leave their homes more than half the state is now on high alert here morgan reports three days of torrential rains in kerala in southern india have caused flash floods and dams to overflow dozens of people have been killed some have drowned swept away by fast running watches others buried in landslides and wooden thirty thousand people have been displaced. we're got to go there are around three hundred houses here which floodwater has entered we came out of the houses in a hurry and our clothes our records our property papers identity

this government is behaving in a way that bangladeshi government are very used to behaving in terms of this and they just see people selling this and even though they're young and what they're protesting is way beyond any kind of party political issue they haven't been able to show anything are within the usual way or responding to this which has been a lot before. it all began ten days ago after a speeding bus trip to teenagers in late july student demonstrators took to the streets calling for tougher law enforcement of bangladeshi road traffic the government says it's going to introduce the death penalty to some road traffic accidents. human rights groups have weighed in as the government crackdown has spread to arresting journalists. a photographer that was arrested sunday after appearing on al-jazeera and criticizing the government even rights watch runs an investigation into allegations he was beaten in jail after these pictures emerged of him in court and also saying ruling party workers attacked protesters the government denied the allegations that its activists were involved ba

and showed that you know the division within bug bangladeshi politics became deeper and deeper and in that mix was is has been this constant changing between want really is the identity of bangladesh as a nation whether it rests on its being holy tradition or all on it's rather all on islam as as being. an important component part of the way politics has evolved and in moving listen to. the litigation and the prosecutions of those who played a role in the liberation war. has. sort of created a messy mix of of political cultures so i see. it's a nation which is which is sort of. like many other countries are that constantly at war with itself and it's never had a stable. show. look. internally which is more secular and inboard you know so i think it's it's a mixture of things which have to be view. rather than you know to one particular character one individual we've seen over the years that neither of the political parties which have remained in power have have managed to steer the country in a secular democratic manner which is respectful of rights and. has enabled the creation of of

in order to continue filming the crew took a side road to avoid attracting the attention of the bangladeshi police. they came upon one of the many unofficial hinge refugee camps in bangladesh to. these refugees were living in the most primitive conditions in locations rarely seen by the international media. even by the standards of makeshift refugee camps this was a miserable existence. the crew spoke to a group of ranger women who had recently arrived from mandal. but i sure do most of that event was a very wise and now. question i wonder why some of them are moslems and it is very . odd i know those are the harness of the quote i thought a hollow permissive look at the heart of god in mind you were done once about an idiot on the side you were to. get out of the bigot i want to be done is i better mindset i know i did i need you to. sadler's it in now or in a zen master and then you're no good you can get the lot i need to put the hunted in the back. room. be outlawed again in about a month but the man i know i did my job. for might manage to have more. of a. businessman and. i actually d

amy: then we go to connecticut where a bangladeshi woman facing deportation has been granted a last minute stay following public outcry. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in yemen, houthi rebels and local journalists say u.s.-backed saudi-led coalition airstrikes targeted a camp for civilians displaced by war thursday, killing 31 people, including 22 children. the reported bombings struck a camp about 12 mimiles outside te red sea poport city of hodeidah, which cameme under assauault bye saudi-led d coalition ovover the summmmer. state medidia for the united ara emirates disisputed news o of te attack, claiaiming a mislele fid by houthi rebels killed one child and injured dozens more. the latest deaths came exactly two weeks after a bomb produced by the u.s. weapons maker lockheed martin and sold by the united states to saudi arabia killed 51 people, 40 of them schoolchildren. this week the senate rejected in a minute by kinetic democrarat chris murphy that would have restrictcted u.s. financncial ad and ot

demanding government action to improve road safety traffic accidents kill at least seven thousand bangladeshis every year to young students were knocked down and killed by a bus last week and even though the net i'm going to we have been protesting on the roads for a few days with some about demands with demanding justice for those students of the college killed by a bus and we want safe roads i saw. over the weekend the peaceful protests became violent when police tried to break up the crowds demonstrators were further incensed by a government minister who questioned why there was uproar about two deaths in bangladesh and a lack of anger about thirty three dead in a bus crash in india the previous day i'm sitting on a subway i'm wondering what that's out there we all are feeling threatened we wanted a peaceful protest we don't want any trouble occurring around here yet rubber bullets were shot on our brothers at mirco neighborhood they were dispersed one told us the government ordered schools and bus services to shut down the government's trying to quell the violence by cutting internet servi

now bangladeshi police arrested shockey due for that and for allegedly making productive comments on our desire during an interview about protests that have flared up across the country over how dangerous the roads are i still believe going. to be the monster that a lawyer was charged under is the information and communications technology acts or i.c.t. and this is a statute that media right groups say is often used to target journalists now along criticise the excessive use of force by police and protesters and set the demonstrations are motivated by factors larger than road safety alone among those factors he says the government's gagging of the media and corruption and alarm isn't the only bangladeshi journalist who's paid a price after covering these protests far from it and supporters of the government and the prime minister cheikh hasina have reportedly attacked more than a dozen reporters covering the protests beating them and their equipment and asked for the i.c.t. at least twenty five journalists and several hundred bloggers and facebook users were prosecuted on the last ye

that reflect the will of the bangladeshi people. to do so all parties must be able to fully engage in the political process. freedom of expression and the press is also vital. peaceful protesters must be able to express their views. and advocate for change without fear of retribution. the ambassador has done a superb job of being champion. if confirmed, i plan -- i pledge to follow her admirable example. the u.s. remains concerned about recent trends in democracy and human rights in bangladesh and we remain troubled about attacks on vulnerable populations. killings,violence, allegedly committed by security forces. if confirmed, i will work to support efforts to promote accountability and strengthen human rights and democracy in bangladesh. mr. chairman, if confirmed, i would assume the responsibilities of my position with humility, dedication, and joy. i often tell my colleagues in the embassy in botswana, that an ambassador's greatest superpower is the power to do good. throughout my career including 24 years as special agent with

these initiatives were set up by the bangladeshi government and an international charity that helps communitiesainable solutions through technology. and now, an app being piloted is taking things even further. the sesame app uses machine learning to combine historical knowledge of crop patterns with weather forecasts so that farmers can make advanced decisions on when to plough the land, plant and apply fertilisers. this farmer is being advised to spray a fungicide to protect the crops. although these measures can be a big help, poor communities are often unaware of how vulnerable they actually are to extreme weather, or what they can do to lower the risks. another platform being used by the charity is setting out to assess just this, measuring the strengths and weaknesses of committees like those in this district. using the frmt, or flood resilient management toolkit, representatives from the charity visit the community to look at factors such as what crops are grown, weather patters, what large buildings exist, and the flood prevention measures that were already in place. in all, the technolo

until today well staying in asia the bangladeshi government has closed all educational institutions for security as anger grows over the deaths of two students on the road thousands of young people have blocked streets across the counter dhaka for a fifth day witnesses say a speeding bus hit and killed the two students on sunday the protesters are calling for the arrest of the driver and better road safety measures time to cherry has more from dhaka. the fifth day of protests by the students all across the country especially in the capital city dhaka intersection like this right i'm standing it's totally shut off there's a great loss all across the city and in other parts of the country as well now we have never seen this unprecedented number of students even their guardians industry supporting them they want some sort of major reform in the road accidents and implementation of road transport laws by the government their demand is also the resignation of the shipping minister mr khan who is really ticked off the students there's also a general degree of frustration and anger student bec

the bangladeshi information minister has told al-jazeera that any police officer who assaults journalist in custody will be prosecuted as well as allegations that photo journalist was tortured after being arrested that happened just hours after he did an interview with ounces here on sunday he was covering demonstrations by students who are demanding tougher traffic laws the minister says the government respects the press and the shuttle was not detained for his journalism and he have been out of. columns. we are looking into it but as. a who through the court the court ruled he said. what happened to him but he has not read that instead of down others to go has been added to. the from within the company it's an act. so it is it is a general act for the earth citizens not for the young ladies so for doneness thinking never he has not been ordered on a different. opinion he has not been out of there are the reasons we feel we will give a report to the court we believe. and help us with and we think that the donnelly's should have the security to water. on the spot and this would not be ha

but the bangladeshi government says it is struggling to handle the influx influx of refugees it's preparingto relocate one hundred thousand of them to an uninhabited island which only formed twenty years ago fortification and housing is being built on a bus and charter in the bay of bengal but human rights watch says the island regularly floods and would also become a de facto detention center instead it is calling for the government to register people as refugees and move them to areas near the current camps the researchers highlight six areas in cox's bazar which is says a less vulnerable to landslides flooding and storms there people could get better access to shelter and education they say or will frolic is director of the refugee rights division of human rights watch he says pressure needs to continue to force me and ma to carry out reforms and give rights to the ranger. here and now i mean there is a real risk of people dying in landslides there's a real risk of cyclonic and certain simply the monsoon rains and selves on this the topography that we're talking about these these steep i

these initiatives were set up by the bangladeshi government and its national charity, that helps findions to technology, and now and that app being piloted is taking things even further. it combines historical knowledge of crop patterns with weather forecast so that then farmers can make advanced to advance decisions about how to manage the land and when to apply fertilisers. this pharma is being advised to spray fungicide to protect his crops. —— farmer. although these measures can bea —— farmer. although these measures can be a big help, poor communities are can be a big help, poor communities a re often can be a big help, poor communities are often unaware of how vulnerable they actually are the extreme weather, or what they can do to lower the risks. another platform being used by the charity is setting out to assess just this, measuring the strengths and weaknesses of communities like those in this district. using the flood resilience management toolkit, representatives from the charity visit different communities to look at factors such as what crops are being grown, weather pat

really calling for the release of an arrested photo journalist and activist has been held in the bangladeshi city of chittagong alarm was sent back to police custody after a medical examination he'd accuse police of torturing him in jail where he's been held since sunday he rested after an interview with al jazeera about anti government protests let's talk to omar waraich he's a deputy director of south asia at amnesty international he joins us from colombo ok so the protests have been going on now for a while in bangladesh and by all accounts there's more to come so how would you assess the government's handling of these protests will these be unfortunately very heavy handed the government has to do with measures the use of existing walls from the police. including tear gas and rubber bullets and we've also seen. student unions being unleashed on student groups as we lead to the attacks on students who who were overwhelmingly peaceful and photographers and journalists including cycle of. so what do in terms of the bigger picture assess the bangladesh government's record on human rights and

were knocked down and killed by a bus last week traffic accidents kill at least seven thousand bangladeshis every year and even the internet i'm going to put we've been protesting on the roads for a few days with some of that amounts we're demanding justice for those students of the college killed by a bus and we want safe roads. over the weekend the peaceful protest became violent when police tried to break up the crowds rubber bullets and tear gas or fired at demonstrators the government ordered schools and bus services to shut down bus driver say they were attacked. we stopped running our buses the students attacked and damaged our vehicles we cannot go on the roads students who drive was sort of vehicles could move. the government's trying to quell the violence by cutting internet services to cripple social media and censoring both bangladeshi and international media pro-government student groups are being accused of attacking protesters i'm not sitting on a subway on the move that's out there i mean all are feeling threatened we wanted a peaceful protest we don't want any trouble occur

result correspondent is following events for us from the bangladeshi capital mean this is protest by the students just about the deaths time via all the general sort of lowered older environment overall. i think it's an overall frustration i mean we have seen protests by the students over quota reform that has not been accepted by the government and many of the students right beaten up by the government the students and this is a very unprecedented because you can see students as young as nine years ten years old in the streets every age probably would be around thirteen to eighteen years old or twenty one years old college students from high school junior high even their parents are on the field some of the areas in dhaka that fund a human chain and the guardians are putting support from the students they wonder if i'm in the road safety bangladesh notorious road safety record pedestrian and just last year four thousand pedestrians red kaile you can see old cars trucks and buses without proper license even had lights in some cases still on the road in the evening they want some majo

were knocked down and killed by a bus last week traffic accidents kill at least seven thousand bangladeshis every year and even though the net i'm going on what we've been protesting on the roads for a few days with some of that amounts with demanding justice for those students of the college killed by a bus and we want safe roads. over the weekend the peaceful protests became violent when police tried to break up the crowds rubber bullets and tear gas or fired at demonstrators the government ordered schools and bus services to shut down bus driver say they were attacked. we stopped running our buses the students attacked and damaged our vehicles we cannot go on the roads as students who don't drive was sort of a good move by the government trying to quell the violence by cutting internet services to cripple social media and censoring both bangladeshi and international media pro-government student groups are being accused of attacking protesters i'm not sitting on a subway i'm wondering what that's actually i mean all are feeling threatened yeah we wanted a peaceful protest we don't want an

it's used before i do this and my impression is that this government is behaving in a way that bangladeshi governments are very used to behaving in terms of this and they just see people shouting dissent even though they're young and what they're protesting in way beyond any kind of party political issue they haven't been able to show that anything other than the usual way you are responding in the not before. it all began ten days ago after a speeding bus killed two teenagers in late july student demonstrators took to the streets calling for tougher law enforcement of bangladeshi road traffic the government says it's going to introduce the death penalty for some road traffic accidents. human rights groups have weighed in as the government crackdown has spread to arresting journalists show hill islam a photographer who was arrested sunday after appearing on al-jazeera and criticizing the government human rights watch runs an investigation into allegations he was beaten in jail after these pictures emerged of him in court and also saying ruling party workers attacked protesters the governme

bangladeshi information minister has told al jazeera that any policeman who assaults journalists will be prosecuted but follows allegations that the photo journalist shuttle was tortured after being arrested he was taken in hours after an interview with al-jazeera on sunday human rights watch wants the government to investigate reports that he was beaten in jail alan was covering demonstrations by students demanding tougher traffic laws talking to this channel the information minister has confirmed shuttle was detained but he says he has no information about him being beaten whilst in custody. he has been picked up by the police is a fact and that story here but. the other parties that he has been taken to the hospital about i don't think so he has been beaten up in the custody but our law says that if he is beaten in the custody the sponsor will police officer will be prosecuted we don't support any such actions in custody do you believe in a free press because looking at the tapes this man was doing nothing wrong he was standing at a distance he was photographing the teenage protest

those persons the sponsor will probably give the journalist to court and the justice given the bangladeshi social media even the final edition social media is as of now flooded with images of how your security or storage fees have been mishandling this because that's the central allegation has there been a point in the past week or ten days when you feel the government could have handled this better. well there you could look at the moment of fear for roads or that has been clearly is. a very amicable about our prime minister thick i think to get a lead instructed the lawyer for thing it is too big. and if you look. at the past five days there is no thirteen see the end of the lord the little but there the police were protecting them helping them to to give a kills but did they pag and when the agreement was done. out of bed and the government had started the demands then of the pair get fucked and visited by two or die hard the moment. but for a living but i didn't minister minister being slightly disingenuous there you not just answered your you are being slightly disingenuous there beca

these initiatives were set up by the bangladeshi government and an international charity that helps communitiesd sustainable solutions through technology. and now, an app being piloted is taking things even further. the sesame app uses machine learning to combine historical knowledge of crop patterns with weather forecasts so that farmers can make advanced decisions on when to plough the land, plant and apply fertilisers. this farmer is being advised to spray a fungicide to protect the crops. although these measures can be a big help, poor communities are often unaware of how vulnerable they actually are to extreme weather, or what they can do to lower the risks. another platform being used by the charity is setting out to assess just this — measuring the strengths and weaknesses of communities like those in this district. using the frmt, or flood resilient management toolkit, representatives from the charity visit different communities to look at factors such as what crops are grown, weather patterns, what large buildings exist, and the flood prevention measures that were already in place. in

getting hundreds of messages sent directly to us dominating that conversation though is about the bangladeshi photojournalist and social activist alum and he was arrested at his home in dhaka by more than twenty police officers and we have been recently informed that he will be held in detention for the next seven days he was initially arrested a few hours after he gave a live interview to al jazeera and posted some of those videos on facebook about the protests of people using the hash tag free alarm and we want justice on facebook twitter and telegram as they demand his release and at least five journalists have been attacked which is another indication of how hard it can be to be a journalist in bangladesh which is ranked one hundred forty six out of one hundred eighty countries in the world press freedom index that said the country's media sector is growing and a quick look at the most recent global digital report will tell you that bangladesh has almost eighty two million internet users most logging on with mobile devices and almost twenty percent are active on social media and that's in

now bangladeshi police arrested shockey due for that and for allegedly making productive comments on dizzier during an interview about protests that have flared up across the country over how dangerous the roads are i still believe going . to be the monster that a lawyer was charged under is the information and communications technology x. or i.c.t. and this is a statute that media right groups say is often used to target journalists now along criticise the excessive use of force by police and protesters and set the demonstrations are motivated by factors larger than road safety alone among those factors he says the government's gagging of the media and corruption and alarm isn't the only bangladeshi journalist who's paid a price after covering these protests far from it and supporters of the government and the prime minister cheikh hasina have reportedly attacked more than a dozen reporters covering the protests beating them and damaging their equipment and as for the i.c.t. at least twenty five journalists and several hundred bloggers and facebook users were prosecuted on the last