this will give the sheikh hasina her fourth consecutive term as prime minister, and herfifth overall. the election was boycotted by bangladesh s main opposition party, the bnp, which said the process wasa sham. our south asia correspondent samira hussain has been monitoring events for us in dhaka. the results of these elections come as no real surprise. prime minister sheikh hasina was all but guaranteed a win. but now there going to be some questions about whether the results actually reflect the will of the people. the country s main opposition party were boycotting the elections, saying that they didn t believe that the government could hold free and fair elections. they also encouraged their supporters not to go out and vote. then there was this general sense of apathy amongst voters because the main opposition party wasn t on the ballot. in terms of choices of who to vote for. you could either vote for the ruling party, or you could vote for an independent candidate, mos
england, with some trust warning patients not to go to a&e, except for life threatening emergencies. the cop royal college of nursing says this is the biggest walk out so far. the union did agree to provide cover in some places, but in places like newcastle the system is hanging by a thread. the head of the rcn said unless the government a chance to talks, there will be more of this to talks, there will be more of this to come. ., , , ., ., to come. for the nurses that are losin: a to come. for the nurses that are losing a day s to come. for the nurses that are losing a day s pay to come. for the nurses that are losing a day s pay and to come. for the nurses that are losing a day s pay and standing l to come. for the nurses that are l losing a day s pay and standing on picket lines, should there be a further and standing on picket lines, should there be a further emergency that they are required to return to, i won t even have to ask them to do that. they will from pick
for bangladesh. you can also see these as protests that peter out and being these as protests that peter out and being fostering economic growth. my own sense being fostering economic growth. my own sense is that hasina is here to stay in own sense is that hasina is here to stay in the own sense is that hasina is here to stay in the region and of the world are going stay in the region and of the world are going to find some way to work with her are going to find some way to work with her to are going to find some way to work with her to make peace with bangladesh because it is an important country in a populous nation important country in a populous nation and important country in a populous nation and she is not going away and the question is, how do we come to terms the question is, how do we come to terms with the question is, how do we come to terms with her. looking regionally in south asia and wider where does bangladesh stand with key neighbours like india
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policy. you know, tankers a couple of weeks ago, drones this week. it s going to be something else. poppy, we are on a path where some small thing is going to happen. then it s going to escalate and then we re going to have if we have a war, it will be worse in its consequences than the war in iraq. i think it would lead iran to seek nuclear weapons and so that s what we re playing with here. i think we need to stop the maximum pressure policy and need to get back to diplomacy. choking them, if we keep choking them, they re eventually going to hit back. jim walsh, thank you for your expertise, for being with us this morning. i appreciate it. thank you, poppy. all right. you got it. let s talk about the crisis at the border. time is running out for house speaker nancy pelosi to try to get her kak us on board to agree to a little over $4.5 billion in emergency funding for the border. a lot of it for these detention centers. she s calling for a vote today and she s telling her d