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Daily Cuts – Protests in Bangladesh: An uprising amid an unemployment crisis

The Bangladeshi government has agreed to a Supreme Court ruling to increase the quota for state jobs, following days of deadly protests on the streets of major cities like Dhaka and Chittagong. Andrea Heng and Hairianto Diman examine the domestic unemployment crisis that brought about the fatal clashes and whether the ruling will be enough to keep protesters calm with Prof Greg Barton, Chair, Global Islamic Politics, Deakin University