Heavy Security as Bangladeshis Vote

Bangladeshis are voting in a general election as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeking her third consecutive term in office. Security forces are on high alert, with some 600,000 security personnel deployed across the nation.

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Julian Worricker is joined in the studio by artist Aowen Jin and writer Michael Carlson.

(Image: An election official cross-checks the identity of a voter with a list at a polling station in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 30th December 2018. Credit: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)