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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
And we're going to be talking about what appears to be another assassination of a senior member of the Russian military in Russia,
indeed, close to the capital.
We'll have the latest on that in 30 minutes with our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg in Moscow.
But we're going to begin with a rare report from inside Myanmar.
It's rare
because Myanmar's military government doesn't allow foreign journalists to report freely from the country.
And yet our reporter, Yogi Turlamaya, has managed to gain access to rebel-held areas of Chin state.
That's in the west of Myanmar, bordering north-eastern India.
And there she and a team have seen evidence that the junta has been bombing schools and churches.
All this in the run-up to elections, which those military rulers have scheduled for later this week,
and which the United Nations Human Rights Office has already warned,
far from promising a transition to democracy, seems, in its words,
nearly certain to further ingrain in security, fear and polarisation throughout the country.