Скачать или смотреть Morning scenes after State of Emergency declared as president steps down

(12 Jan 2007) SHOTLIST
++VIDEO AS INCOMING++
++Night Shots++
1. Police vehicles driving by
++Day Shots++
2. Wide of soldiers patrolling
3. Military vehicles parked
4. Soldiers walking down road
5. People cleaning dishes in street
6. Various of soldiers patrolling
7. Various of soldiers walking down street
8. Barricade on road
STORYLINE
Soldiers were seen patrolling the streets in Dhaka on Friday, as stores opened and cars filled the streets one day after Bangladesh's president stepped down and declared a state of emergency.
By late morning on Friday, hours after an overnight curfew was lifted in Dhaka and 60 other cities and town, life appeared largely normal across the
grindingly poor and densely populated South Asian country.
Many Bangladeshis - from shop owners to powerful business leaders - were relieved by the news of the state of emergency, which they hoped would end the often-violent political standoff.
On Thursday President Iajuddin Ahmed announced that he was stepping down as the country's interim leader and postponed this month's elections following violent protests by a key political alliance that has said it would boycott the vote.
He was to remain as the country's figurehead president.
Politics in the nation of 144 9m) million people are so bitter that the constitution stipulates a caretaker government take over 90 days before elections to oversee the voting - an unusual setup that led to successful, if violent, votes in the past.
But since the caretaker government took power, a 19-party alliance dominated by the Awami League has charged it with favouring its rivals and
organised repeated protests and nationwide strikes.
Ahmed said one of his advisers, Fazlul Haque, would serve as the head of the caretaker government.

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