This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.
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.
Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
Available now on the documentary from the BBC World Service.
China is developing its ambitious polar silk road through the cold and volatile waters of the Bering Sea that borders both Russia and the United States.
Join me and Aholigan
as I travel to Alaska to explore why China is increasing its presence around America's last frontier.
Listen now by searching for the documentary wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Hello and welcome to News Hour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
Coming up on the programme...
The drums of battle or of diplomacy,
we assess the musical talents of the Japanese and South Korean leaders and the Russian schoolteacher who stood up against Kremlin propaganda after the invasion of Ukraine.
I remember filming the first class that was done and unfortunately I will never be able to forget this experience in this hour.
It's edged in my memory forever.
A remarkable insight from one teacher in a small town in Russia coming up in about 45 minutes.
We're beginning though in Washington where a top-level meeting between the Danish,