e_Paper, Sunday, August 20, 2017

News 5
SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017
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Ousted chief strategist Bannon
declares Trump’s presidency is over
• Tribune Desk
WORLD
Ousted White House strategist Steve
Bannon has declared the Donald
Trump presidency “over”, following
his departure from the billionaire’s
administration.
Bannon, a right-wing ideologue
who co-founded the Breitbart
News website, pronounced himself
“free” and said he now had “my
hands back on my weapons” at the
outlet.
He and Trump’s new chief of
staff, John Kelly, agreed he would
leave the White House. Bannon
said he had given his resignation
earlier in the month, though it was
also reported Trump had decided
to let him go.
He told the Weekly Standard, a
conservative opinion magazine:
“The Trump presidency that we
fought for, and won, is over.
“We still have a huge movement,
and we will make something
of this Trump presidency. But that
presidency is over. It’ll be something
else. And there’ll be all kinds
of fights, and there’ll be good days
and bad days, but that presidency
is over.”
During Trump’s “America
first” campaign and his early
days in the Oval Office, Bannon
was considered a key influencer
and was even awarded a place on
the National Security Council’s
principals committee, the top
inter-agency group overseeing
national security—though he was
later removed.
His nationalist stances on issues
like immigration, trade and society
were reflected in Trump’s speeches
and policies, and are widely
seen as having drawn together the
New Yorker’s support base after he
joined the struggling campaign as
chief executive last August.
But once in power he was forced
to compete for influence with other
advisers including members of
Trump’s family. Ivanka Trump and
her husband Jared Kushner, seen
as being able to soften the President’s
tone and actions, both occupy
official White House posts.
Bannon said he believed the Republican
Party would now begin
to impose a moderating influence
on the President, despite his public
clashes with senior figures like
Senate majority leader Mitch Mc-
Connell.
He added: “The path forward on
things like economic nationalism
and immigration, and his ability to
kind of move freely ... I just think
his ability to get anything done—
particularly the bigger things, like
the wall, the bigger, broader things
that we fought for, it’s just gonna
be that much harder.”
And he vowed to “crush the opposition”—liberals,
the Washington
and Republican “establishments”—
Tanneries move, waste doesn’t
• Rashid Al Ruhani
FEATURE
It has been five months since rawhide
processing was suspended in Hazaribagh,
but the area is yet to be rid of
tannery waste.
The bulk of the waste has remained
there for the last five months as no authority
has taken any initiative for their
disposal.
Besides, new waste is making ways
to the open spaces as some leather factories
have resumed producing finished
leather goods in the area, apparently
without any planned waste disposal.
Residents of Hazaribagh area have
complained that the older tannery
US President Donald Trump talks to chief strategist Steve Bannon during a
swearing in ceremony for senior staff at the White House in Washington, US
January 22, 2017
REUTERS
wastes have started decomposing in
the rain water and spread bad odour all
the time.
New waste is also showing up on the
roadside and ditches as the factories
that have resumed production are disposing
the waste everywhere in a haphazard
manner, they added.
Asked about the waste disposal
from Hazaribagh, Dhaka South City
Corporation (DSCC) Chief Executive
Officer Belal Hossain said: “The waste
in Hazaribagh is mainly industrial
waste. One is not allowed to dump
this waste anywhere. It is the factory
owners who were required to arrange
for the disposal of the waste. The city
corporation mainly cleans household
waste.”
During visits to the area on Wednesday
and Thursday, the Bangla Tribune
correspondent discovered stacks of
rawhide waste lying on the roadside at
several points on the way from Hazaribagh
Bazar to Beribadh.
Some factories were also in operation.
The employees and workers
claimed that after the wholesale snapping
of the power supply to the tanneries
on April 8, the authorities had
permitted some of the factories to get
the power supply back two months later
for resuming the production on some
conditions.
Contacted, Bangladesh Tanners
Association (BTA) President Shaheen
Ahmed said: “Although the connections
(gas, electricity line) were cut off on
by using the influence and reach of
Breitbart.
Breitbart colleague Joel Pollak
suggested the site would now go
to “war” with the Trump White
House following a perceived shift
by the President away from the values
the outlet espouses.
Bannon’s departure came after
a liberal magazine published an
interview in which he detailed his
behind-the-scenes battles with opponents
in the administration and
appeared to contradict Trump’s
public rhetoric on North Korea.
He told The American Prospect
he was “fighting” internal opposition
to his belief the US was locked
in “an economic war with China”.
He claimed officials at the Treasury
and the National Economic
Council were “wetting themselves”
over his plans to address the fact
that “they’re crushing us”. State
and Defence Department staff felt
similarly because they wanted China’s
help to reign in Pyongyang, he
said.
Trump has repeatedly and publicly
threatened military action
against North Korea if it continues
to menace the US or its allies.
But Bannon told the Prospect:
“Until somebody solves the part of
the equation that shows me that
10 million people in Seoul don’t
die in the first 30 minutes from
conventional weapons, I don’t
know what you’re talking about,
there’s no military solution here,
they got us.” •
April 8, we received a High Court order
the next day that said pollution-free factories
can go on with production. Later,
we got the power supply back through
the Department of Environment (DoE),
for pollution-free work.”
DoE Assistant Director Saiful Ashraf
said: “Power connection has been given
only to those factories that can operate
without creating pollution.”
In keeping with a Supreme Court
order, the Department of Environment
(DoE) cut off the power, water and gas
connections to Hazaribagh tanneries on
April 8. The tannery units are being relocated
to the Savar Tannery Estate. •
This article was first published on
banglatribune.com
Spain hunts
suspect over
Barcelona
carnage
• AFP, Barcelona
WORLD
Spanish police expanded a manhunt
Saturday for a Moroccan man
believed to be one of the perpetrators
of twin terror attacks in Barcelona
and another seaside resort
that killed 14 and wounded around
100.
With the country in shock after
two vehicles ploughed into crowds
of pedestrians, Interior Minister
Juan Ignacio Zoido said the cell
behind the carnage claimed by the
Islamic State group had been “dismantled”.
Police were still hunting for
22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub
without confirming reports he was
the driver who smashed a van into
people on Barcelona’s busy Las
Ramblas boulevard on Thursday.
Thirteen people died at the
scene and scores more were injured
in scenes of horror witnessed
by terrified friends and relatives,
with locals and tourists laying
flowers, candles and teddies in
their memory.
Investigators meanwhile were
busy unravelling the terror cell of at
least 12 young men – some of them
teenagers – behind the Barcelona
rampage and a second ramming attack
with a car in the seaside town
of Cambrils early Friday.
One woman was killed and six
other people wounded in that attack,
with police killing five “suspected
terrorists” who were in the
car and arresting four others.
Police also identified another
three suspects linked to the attacks,
two of whom are thought to
have died in a blast on Wednesday
night as they tried to make explosives
at a house in Alcanar, a town
some 200km south of Barcelona.
On Saturday, police searched
the home of an imam in Ripoll, a
small town further north at the
foot of the Pyrenees where some
of the suspects lived, his flatmate
Nourddem said, without wanting
to identify him.
The El Pais daily, quoting police
sources, said the imam could be
one of the dead in the explosion.
As the hunt for Abouyaaqoub
gathers pace, Spanish police
tipped off their French counterparts
about a white van linked to
the attacks that may have crossed
the border, a French police source
said. •
TEMPERATURE FORECAST FOR TODAY
HEAVY RAINFALL
LIKELY
SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017
Dhaka 34 27 Chittagong 33 27 Rajshahi 33 26 Rangpur 32 26 Khulna 32 26 Barisal 33 27 Sylhet 33 25
DHAKA
TODAY
TOMORROW
SUN SETS 6:28PM
SUN RISES 5:36AM
YESTERDAY’S HIGH AND LOW
35ºC 24ºC
Sylhet
Rangamati
Source: Accuweather/UNB
PRAYER
TIMES
Cox’s Bazar 31 26
Fajr: 5:00am | Zohr: 1:15pm
Asr: 5:00pm | Magrib: 6:41pm
Esha: 8:30pm
Source: Islamic Foundation