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Bangladesh Election Amidst Violence

Weekend elections in Bangladesh. Leader hopes Bangladesh will focus on financial progress

Elections in Bangladesh approach, where the current leader Sheikh Hasina is hoping Bangladesh’s 100 million voters will ignore the violence and instead focus on the country’s financial progress, which is growing at one of the fastest rates in emerging economies. Modern day slavery is an industry that generates billions of dollars for criminals - the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Russell Padmore looks at efforts by the aviation industry to help the global fight to stop criminals forcing people in to slavery. And apps preventing food wastage have blossomed. We look at the app Too Good To go, its market and how it works, drawing on local people to pick up food quickly that’s about to expire.

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