{"id":65708,"date":"2024-07-19T01:05:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/18\/protesters-attack-bangladeshi-state-broadcaster-after-pms-call-for-calm"},"modified":"2024-07-19T18:39:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T09:39:57","slug":"protesters-attack-bangladeshi-state-broadcaster-after-pms-call-for-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65708","title":{"rendered":"Protesters attack Bangladeshi state broadcaster after PM\u2019s call for calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incensed crowd facing riot police set BTV building on fire as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas <\/p>\n<p>Bangladeshi students have set fire to the state broadcaster\u2019s building a day after the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, appeared on the network seeking to calm escalating clashes that had killed at least 39 people.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/16\/two-dead-and-thousands-injured-as-bangladesh-police-crack-down-on-anti-quota-protests\">protesters demanding reform of civil service hiring rules<\/a> clashed with riot police who had shot at them with rubber bullets on Thursday, chasing the retreating officers to BTV\u2019s headquarters in the capital, Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/18\/protesters-attack-bangladeshi-state-broadcaster-after-pms-call-for-calm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incensed crowd facing riot police set BTV building on fire as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas Bangladeshi students have set fire to the state broadcaster\u2019s building a day after the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, appeared on the network&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,80,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-protest","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65724,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65708\/revisions\/65724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}