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| | | Hello. Oil prices rose more than 6% following the Houthi attacks on Saudi tankers - we analyse rising tensions in the region. In India, anti-government protesters respond to police crackdown with humour. And finally, footage captures two orcas' aggressive - and unexplained - behaviour. | | | | | | |
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| | | How 'cockroach' protesters deploy humour in face of police crackdown |  | | The CJP has organised one of Delhi's largest anti-government protests in recent years. Credit: EPA/Shutterstock | | Indian authorities have deployed tear gas, batons and a mobile internet blackout at the protest site of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) – a youth-led movement that grew from protests over exam irregularities into a broader campaign for government accountability. When protesters were finally able to post online, their use of sardonic humour stood out. | | | | | | | | Ishaan (name changed), 21, came to Delhi for his first protest. When tear gas shells landed nearby, he briefly considered leaving. Instead, he reached for his phone. The reel he posted later showed white smoke drifting across the street beneath a simple caption: "Delhi Police doesn't realise I'm from Jamuna Paar [...] The smell there is worse than the tear gas," Ishan said, laughing.
He told the BBC the joke was never about pretending nothing had happened. "It was about refusing to let fear dictate the memory of the day," he said. Like many CJP protesters, Ishan spoke in the idiom of a generation raised online. To dismiss that language as frivolous, one communications expert argues, is to misunderstand what it is doing. | | | | | | |
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