Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Charlotte Gallagher and in the afternoon of the 13th of February, these are our main stories. The German Chancellor opens a global security conference by saying that the rules-based world order no longer exists.
Bangladesh's election commissioner says the nation has emerged victorious after a landslide win for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. A British court rules the government's ban on a pro-Palestinian campaign group under terrorism legislation is unlawful. Also in this podcast, we'll get the latest on the hunt for the missing mother of a US news anchor as the FBI increases the reward money.
They are absolutely convinced that within those leads, within leads from the public, they will be able to solve this case.
The Munich Security Conference in Germany, bringing together more than 50 international leaders, has got underway, with Europe's relationship with the US under the spotlight. It's the first such meeting since President Trump threatened to take control of Greenland, a move widely condemned by Washington's European allies. Last year, the US Vice President J.D.
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Chapter 2: What did the German Chancellor say about the world order at the Munich Security Conference?
Yes, there will. And I'm glad you mentioned that because that I think is the biggest shocker in the last 12 months. This is Donald Trump saying, we want Greenland, we need it, we have to have it for America's own security. And Europe has said, well, no, you don't. It's semi-autonomous, self-governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark, a fellow NATO ally.
Europe has had to kind of rush to shore up to show a bit more interest in defence of the high north. Frank Gardner in Munich. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by Tariq Rahman, has won a sweeping victory in the country's first election since a student uprising toppled the autocratic regime of Sheikh Hasina. 1,400 people are thought to have died in the protest back in 2024.
Rashna Marzabin was one of the protesters and has mixed feelings about the results.
I don't think the experience of July has yet left my body. It was a battleground.
You didn't know in the morning when you were going out whether you would be alive or arrested by the end of the day. And now when you're seeing an election where you can have a publicized political discourse of whom you want, whom you don't, at open places, within your rooms, and having discussions, supporting whomever you want, even if you like someone or don't like someone.
It came with such a bloodshed, such a bloodshed that has yet not left my body.
I still, I think those still haunt me, those images that I've seen or we have experienced or when we have been chased by the police or something.
I think would be in my body for a very long time. While Bangladesh's election committee has called the election a neutral and credible one, Sheikh Hasina's Awami League has been banned from participating. And the Jamaat-e-Islami party and former allies of the BNP have since raised questions about the integrity of the vote.
We asked our correspondent Yogita Lamai to tell us more about this dramatic turnaround for the BNP ahead of her special report. Two years ago, when Sheikh Hasina won an election which was widely condemned as being rigged in her favor, I don't think anyone would have imagined a day when her grip on power in this country was broken.
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