1.  Students or Hope of Bangladesh?

Following a young girl and a young boy run over by a bus and killed in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Sunday 29^th June 2018, ” We have seen that death of thousands of people did not bring justice. Thousands were killed on roads; sadly there was no change, no development, but my views changed, I felt hopeful,  little kids to young college goers were seen, bringing an overpopulated city and traffic to a complete halt,” said Shazia Chowdhury Founder of an NGO, which helps the poor to live life healthier and happier, and author to a Ramadan booklet.

The students consequentially have been beaten, raped, and prevented from protesting. The demands set by students:

1. Drivers should receive capital punishment and provision for accidents and this rule should be incorporated in the existing law
2. Shipping Minister- Shajahan Khan must withdraw his statement and apologise to the students (He allegedly was seen giggling when the death news of the students reached him in a press conference) and later students demanded his resignation
3. Construction of foot over bridge to ensure safety
4. Setting up speed breakers in every accident-prone road
5. The government must take responsibility for the students who were injured in road accidents
6. All intra-city buses must stop and pick up students
7. Students should be allowed to pay discounted fares, all over Bangladesh
8. Vehicles must not be allowed on the streets without fitness certificates and drivers must have a licence and updated paperwork
9. Buses cannot take additional passengers

Shazia says, “the students continue with their protest, and said ‘blockades’ will continue until their demands are met. After a long time, people are hoping for a change in the country.”

A THREAD of the ONGOING STUDENT PROTEST in BANGLADESH

School/college students, all over the nation mainly in the capital Dhaka, have been protesting and demanding safer roads and Justice for over 7 days now. Several hundred are injured and some even hospitalised in the movement. pic.twitter.com/RyNTfWg1zr

— Kay ???????? (@iLive_Real) August 5, 2018

2. Turkey US Row Worsens

Turkish President, Recap Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that “the US wanted to stab them in the back.”  This is following a sanctioned imposed on Turkey from the US, just last week, due to Turkeys refusal to extradite a US preacher imprisoned in the country. This sanction resulted in a turmoil occurring in the markets, the central bank worked to remedy this through ‘market-boosting measures,’ however, this proved to be ineffective.

The BBC reported that Erdogan said at a news conference in Ankara: “You act on one side as a strategic partner, but on the other, you fire bullets into the foot of your strategic partner. We are together in Nato and then you seek to stab your strategic partner in the back.”

#Erdogan vows #Turkey does not need the the US friendship, says @realDonaldTrump administration is waging an economic war against entire world and tries to shakedown others with sanction threats."We do not give a damn about sanction, penalties, interests and currency rates". pic.twitter.com/ASG7Bkyiys

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) August 12, 2018

3. Jakarta, the fastest-sinking city in the world

Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, 10 million people inhabiting there, and now deemed the”fastest-sinking cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely submerged by 2050, say researchers.” It has 13 rivers running through it, Java Sea against it, sitting on a swampy land. This city is being defined as, disappearing into the ground.

The BBC reported, “The potential for Jakarta to be submerged isn’t a laughing matter,” says Heri Andreas, who has studied Jakarta’s land subsidence for the past 20 years at the Bandung Institute of Technology. If we look at our models, by 2050 about 95% of North Jakarta will be submerged.”

It’s already happening – North Jakarta has sunk 2.5m in 10 years and is continuing to sink by as much as 25cm a year in some parts, which is more than double the global average for coastal megacities.

Indonesia: Jakarta, population 10m, is fastest sinking major city in the world with parts already losing 2.5 meters in 10 years. Why?

-> Reckless development
-> Excessive groundwater extraction
-> Plus rapid sea level rise, a threat multiplierhttps://t.co/OlIOdBDkxo #climate pic.twitter.com/IRjD1YaQW4

— Assaad Razzouk (@AssaadRazzouk) August 13, 2018

4. Boris Johnson settles Burqa Comments with Tea

A group of journalists parked outside of Boris Johnson’s home in the UK, were met with the ex-foreign secretary bizarrely carrying out a tray of tea and milk to give to them. Johnson was recorded saying, “I feel sorry for you being parked outside all day”, after being grilled about his Burqa comments. Johnson shrugged off the comments laughing and offering tea. This has all emerged after the former foreign secretary made inflammatory comments about the Niqab comparing women wearing the ‘burqa’ to,  “letterboxes” and “bank robbers”.

Both Theresa May and Tory chairman Brandon Lewis have called for Johnson to apologise for the comments.

Boris Johnson is not funny.
Boris Johnson is not a joke.
Boris Johnson is not a 'lovable. buffoon'.
Boris Johnson is not 'harmless'.
Boris Johnson is not 'harmless'.
Boris Johnson is not 'harmless'.
Boris Johnson is not 'harmless'.
Boris Johnson is not 'harmless'.

— Media Diversified (@WritersofColour) August 13, 2018

A friend of a friend worked with Boris Johnson for a bit, apparently in meetings he is v composed/serious, then once he leaves he ruffles his hair, loosens his tie a little,pushes it to the side, untucks his shirt & walks out of the meeting to the media like a lost sheep. Beware.

— Ayo Kalil (@AyoOlatunji96) August 12, 2018

Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of the Burka, it says a lot about what’s wrong with British society that Boris Johnson’s father and sister have both (with ease) been able to write columns defending him in the Sunday newspapers this morning. And we just think that’s normal.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) August 12, 2018

We need to take Boris Johnson seriously. He wants to be Prime Minister, and he’s using racism to invite discipline to position himself as an outsider in the Tory Party (despite, obviously, being the ultimate insider).

What’s our strategy for dealing with that?

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) August 13, 2018

“It’s obviously blatant racism and blatant insecurity on his part that he feels threatened by a woman on how she dresses.”

Rashida Tlaib, who is expected to become the first Muslim woman in the US Congress, says Boris Johnson’s comments about the burqa are “bullying”. pic.twitter.com/HIgBAjthgy

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) August 13, 2018

5. Hundreds injured in Spain festival

300 people have been injured, and 5 in critical condition after a wooden platform caved at a sports and Music festival in Spain. The O Marisquiño event which was held in the north-west city of Vigo, in Galicia, was largely interrupted when the platform broke, causing chaos, witnesses on site said most were teenagers scrambling to safety. Some people fell into the sea, handbags, mobile phones were scattered across the ground as people ran to safety.

Hundreds of people have been injured in an incident at a festival in Spain, say local media reports. https://t.co/GeYLCfxI8F

— Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) August 13, 2018