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Weekend: Arson attacks in Bangladesh before general election

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07/01/2024 GMT

Arson attacks in Bangladesh before general election

BBC World Service - Weekend, Arson attacks in Bangladesh before general election

The main opposition party is boycotting the elections

The main opposition party is boycotting the elections.

At least 14 polling stations in Bangladesh have reportedly been set on fire a day before the general election. The main opposition, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, is urging people to boycott the polls and join a two-day strike.

Also in the programme: a reports shows thousands of Afghan women and young girls are joining online study programmes despite the Taliban's government ban on female education; and are advanced running shoes making life too easy for athletes?

Joining presenter Paul Henley are Yasmeen Serhan, a US-born foreign affairs writer for Time magazine, based in London and Olly Haynes, a British freelance journalist and writer who covers 'social movements'.  


(Picture: Firefighters and local people work together to extinguish fire after a passenger train caught fire, ahead of the general election, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 5, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain REFILE - QUALITY REPEAT )

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