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After this programme. hello and welcome to the bbc�*s headquarters here in central london for another edition of unspun world. this week, whats it like for a journalist to be treated like an enemy in moscow? as relations deteriorate between russia and the uk and russia and the west, and just when you think they cant get any worse, they get worse. you know, that makes it difficult. the civil war in myanmar, something the outside world seems completely unaware of. it really is a david and goliat...

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...

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...

There are a lot of people now- who believe that chinas primary aim here isntjust to deny- the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility- that covid came from within chinas borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could well be a deliberately engineered effort by russia to derail ukraines big counter—offensive. its another extraordinary twist in this war, which almost every day seems to b...

After vladimir putins so—called special military operation in ukraine, though, russias armed forces seem pretty inadequate. if were looking for historical parallels, the best one is probably stalins invasion of finland — the so—called winter war of 1939 to �*40. finns turned out to be far better tacticians than the russians, and they fought much more effectively. stalin had made the critical mistake of believing the toadies who promised him that invading finland would be a doddle. vladim...

Replaced by another one. there are at least 27 wars going on in the world at the moment, though none of the others has the intensity of the war in ukraine. one particularly vicious conflict, which is going on without much awareness in the outside world, is the civil war in myanmar, formerly burma, where a loose association of ethnic and other forces opposed to the military government is claiming to control approximately half of the country. the bbc world service asia editor rebecca henschke has ...

Leaders, have tried to regain control of all these civilian militia groups. because there had been criticism that this is a loose militia network and they have also carried out acts of violence that have been criticised by the united kingdom, for example, such as assassinations of people who work for the military or the government. with how much external involvement? the russians are involved on the side of the military authorities, arent they? the united kingdom, the us, european countries have...

Hello and welcome to the bbc�*s headquarters here in central london for another edition of unspun world. this week, whats it like for a journalist to be treated like an enemy in moscow? as relations deteriorate between russia and the uk and russia and the west, and just when you think they cant get any worse, they get worse. you know, that makes it difficult. the civil war in myanmar, something the outside world seems completely unaware of. it really is a david and goliath war here, when youre...

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