2026-01-16
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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.
Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
Available now on the documentary from the BBC World Service.
When a person dies in an uppermost stand in Nepal,
if they've led a good life and the stars are correctly aligned,
the body is offered as food to vultures in a sacred ritual.
called Sky Burial.
My name is Tashi Bista and I've come to meet the monks and morticians keeping the ceremony alive.
Listen now by searching for the documentary wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
The world order as we've known it is being upended.
Great powers and strong men are trying to use their muscle and might to expand territory.
And there's no better man to help us make sense of these tectonic shifts than the BBC's international editor Jeremy Bowen.