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>> chances are, you haven't been to this place. chances are, this is a place you've never seen. other than maybe blurry cellphone videos, old black-and-white newsreels from world war ii. chances are, bad things were happening in the footage you saw. myanmar. after 50 years of nightmare, something unexpected is happening here, and it's pretty incredible. ♪ ♪ in yangon, capital city of myanmar, it's dark. blackouts are frequent with the ancient power grid. what sources of light there are in the street cast an eerie, yellow-orange hue. for almost 100 years under british rule, this w...

quite a number of protesters were wearing poppies. it's an important day to remember those who died, but amongst them, the 10,000 palestinians whojoined the british army. the atmosphere as the rally began was relaxed and good—natured, but from early in the day, police had been concerned about what they categorised as a right wing counterprotest. there were scuffles a short distance from the cenotaph. the met commissioner, sir mark rowley, paid a visit to his command team as riot squads in the field work to keep the two protest groups apart. here in the met police�*s operations ce...

Common, however, is a tonika, a face paint and sunblock made from tree bark that masks many of their faces. it's ubiquitous here. at first jarring to see, it quickly becomes something you get used to and take for granted. ♪ yangon's gravitational pull broken, and with darkness falling, the train picks up he

Yangon's gravitational pull broken, and with darkness falling, the train picks up speed. at times, terrifyingly so. >> philippe: i mean, this thing is going to derail at some point. they have lost how many wheels yesterday on this one train? so, truly, it's about being in the right car, the one that keeps its wheel. >> anthony: derailments, or "rail slips," as they are referred to here, a somewhat more benign-sounding occurrence than, say, "rolling off the tracks into a rice paddy," are not uncommon. and one can't help wondering what the engineer and conductor are thinking as the train speeds ...

Looking around at my fellow passengers, it could be hard to distinguish between the 135-plus ethnic groups that make up the burmese population. the very name "burma" refers actually to only one of these groups. what they all seem to have in common, however, is thanaka, a face paint and sunblock made from tree bark that masks many of their faces. it's ubiquitous here. at first jarring to see, it quickly becomes something you get used to and take for granted. yangon's gravitational pull broken, and with darkness falling, the train picks up speed.