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When there's an actual war going on in ukraine, you do not want a frozen conflict flaring up in the western balkans. that's a distraction that the united states and the european union simply don't 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 hadn't been there, there might be actual conflict now. so it's doing itsjob. it's making sure that, for example, serbia doesn't feel like it can send troops into north kosovo to defend ethnic serbs. you are stuck to a degree in the 1990s, li...

And of course, therein lies that second, far more controversial possibility, that the first person infected wasn't 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 question's been there, very quickly politcised, obviously, very quickly dismissed by some, and yet it hasn't 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 shouldn't they just say, yeah, maybe one of our scientists did make a mistake. perhaps it did start wit...

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 kind of safe house, which was for the injured young resistance fighters, that people would remember, th...

The last two decades of vladimir putin's 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 people believe that the kremlin has sanctioned mr prigozhin to behave the way he is, to say the kind of...

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. what's your feeling? i mean, was it somebody in a lab, perhaps in wuhan, didn't 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 this very large laboratory, one of china's leading national laboratories, which has, for very good r...