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Many countries as a terrorist organisation, the kosovo liberation army. and he makes his contempt for mr kurti equally clear. does it really matter beyond the two mens hostility towards each other? how disturbing is that for the balkans generally? when theres an actual war going on in ukraine, you do not want a frozen conflict flaring up in the western balkans. thats a distraction that the united states and the european union simply dont need at this time. now, the presence of the nato peacekeep...

They took to the streets protesting peacefully, took to social media and twitter and expected the world would act, would help them. and then theyve been telling us over the years since the coup that they feel left alone by the international community. so they decided to take up arms and havejoined civilian militia groups. there have been long standing wars, havent there, between ethnic groups and the burmese government? but now it sounds, from what youre saying, as though thats widened out quite...

Civilian militia groups. there have been long standing wars, havent there, between ethnic groups and the burmese government? but now it sounds, from what youre saying, as though thats widened out quite a lot to include burmese people fighting their own government. young people saw that they needed to take up arms, in their words, and they travelled to the jungle camps of these ethnic armed groups near the thai border, near the china border, and they were trained. they were young, street wise, ur...

But membership of the european union is a kind of solution if it can only be reached, isnt it? if everybody is a member of the european union, everybody�*s friends within that organisation, thats the ideal, john. but the reality is the european union has set up very high barriers to entry. it made a commitment in 2003. thats 20 years ago. it was called the thessaloniki declaration, and the member states of the european union at that time committed to having all the former members of yugoslavia...

And i hope not more than anything, john, because, afterall, this is one of the most important questions facing humankind. we need to know where this virus came from. it is important notjust for those whove suffered through it, but at a country level as well, for national governments, not least chinas, of course. it needs open discussion, open debate. thats exactly what our podcast has set out to do. you know, and there are a whole host of interesting questions attached to that more narrow one of...

When theres an actual war going on in ukraine, you do not want a frozen conflict flaring up in the western balkans. thats a distraction that the united states and the european union simply dont need at this time. now, the presence of the nato peacekeepers in kosovo to a great extent keeps everyone honest. in fact, the commander of kfor said that if kfor hadnt been there, there might be actual conflict now. so its doing itsjob. its making sure that, for example, serbia doesnt feel like it can sen...

And of course, therein lies that second, far more controversial possibility, that the first person infected wasnt a trader or a customer in a market, but it was a scientist in a laboratory. and what i felt, john, is that from the start, that questions been there, very quickly politcised, obviously, very quickly dismissed by some, and yet it hasnt gone away. now, because of your background, you know how the chinese communist party operates. you know how the leading figures in it think. why should...

Which is on the thai border, a town called mae sot, and that area, which has long been a very burmese town. so a lot of the opposition media is there, and we went to visit safe houses there. so one of the safe houses was a place where young soldiers in the myanmar military who are refusing to fight their own people, so defecting soldiers, and theirfamilies, and some of them were now saying that they wanted to go back and fight with the resistance. in those border areas there was also another kin...

The last two decades of vladimir putins rule, you know, he does not really approve of people in his team, in the system, in the elite, arguing in public. you know, that is frowned upon by putin. and yet here we have quite remarkable arguments going on between prigozhin and the russian army, the russian military. extraordinary moment this week when wagner, the mercenary group, actually captured a russian soldier, who had apparently shot at a wagner vehicle, and sort of took him captive. some peop...

Covid came from a lab, farfrom it, but at least saying that he does not yet believe there is evidence convincing enough to entirely rule it out. whats your feeling? i mean, was it somebody in a lab, perhaps in wuhan, didnt quite wash his or her hands sufficiently, took the disease home and it spread? or is it something more complex than that? the early cases were connected to a wildlife market. that was obviously, if you like, you know, the prime suspect. but alongside it, you know, wuhan has th...