00:00Shifting focus to news from the neighbourhood, Bangladesh is burning again.
00:05Dhaka is witnessing another round of massive street protests.
00:09This time, ready-made government workers, they're on the streets, they're demanding higher wages,
00:15they're protesting their work conditions, their protests have now entered day three.
00:21What you see on the streets of Dhaka right now are riot police clashing with the protesters.
00:26They've set police vehicles on fire, police force have been torched, a factory security booth and a warehouse was set
00:33on fire and vandalised.
00:35Police vehicles have been targeted, roads and highways remain blocked, police fired tear gas and sound grenades to disperse the
00:43crowds.
00:43Tear gas and water cannons have been deployed, workers press for a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 takas.
00:52The government has formed a six-member panel, it is a wage board, they've appealed to workers to return to
00:59work because the shutdown is impacting their economy.
01:03Dozens of factories remain shut amidst this unrest.
01:06But despite assurances from the government and a wage board being formed, protests continue on the streets of Dhaka.
01:13And I want you to look at these images.
01:15This is now day three of these protests, mobs are attacking the police, visuals of mobs clashing with the police
01:22are eerily similar to the violent uprising that preceded the ouster of former Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina in 2024.
01:32It is this moment that's also drawn attention in India.
01:37The movement, just last month, AISA chief, Neha Bora, and she's been platformed very extensively by the Congress Party.
01:47Neha Bora praised Bangladesh's uprising or the Gen Z protesters saying they showed them the way.
01:55And she drew parallel between agitations in Bangladesh and India's fight over voters' rights.
02:03She has since pushed back against criticism, alleging that a fake video of hers was circulated and insisted that her
02:10remarks about protests were against oppression and fundamentalism.
02:15The question is, when street protests escalate and violence and political upheaval takes place, now, is that being celebrated?
02:24Is this democratic resistance?
02:27Or is that comparison with India's political battle being taken a bit too far?
02:33Because nobody in India would want this violence, this arson, this vandalism in India.
02:39Nobody would want radical Islamists on the streets of India.
02:44India is the world's fastest growing large economy right now.
02:50Look at the way Dhaka is going down.
02:54Do we want Bangladesh in India?
02:56But just listen in to what was being said then and now.
03:02We present you our Red Salute.
03:05And we know that the Gen Z movement that we are seeing everywhere in this country first started in Bangladesh.
03:11And congratulations to you for showing us the way, for showing us and extending solidarity to the young people of
03:16this country.
03:17We know that the movement that began in Bangladesh was for democratic and voter rights.
03:22Today, the movement that the young people are participating in and leading is also a movement for democratic and voting
03:30rights.
03:31We know that the fight that you fight against religious fundamentalism in your country is also a fight that the
03:38Gen Z and the young people of this country fight today.
03:40Let's be right back.
03:40Let's go.
