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If journalism is the first draft of history, what happens if that draft is flawed?
In 1999, four Russian apartment buildings were bombed, hundreds killed,
but even now we still don't know for sure who did it.
It's a mystery that sparked chilling theories.
I'm Helena Merriman and in a new BBC series,
I'm talking to the reporters who first covered this story.
What did they miss the first time?
The History Bureau, Putin and the apartment bombs.
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For anyone who thought that America first means that the US is opting out of foreign wars,
regime change and democracy building, this has been a confusing couple of weeks.
First, There was the intervention in Venezuela, and then talk of acquiring Greenland.
It didn't seem much like isolationism.
And now Donald Trump has strongly backed pro-democracy demonstrators in Iran,
where hundreds of fear dead as we record on Sunday afternoon.
Donald Trump says the US stands ready to help and that Iran is, quote, looking at freedom.
Freedom is in caps.
None of this seems very isolationist either, and it maybe even sounds a bit ideological.
Not normally on this show, we tell individual stories from around the globe.