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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.
Chris, this is the 2000th ever episode of Newscast.
That is extraordinary because it doesn't seem long ago since we were marking Now,
would it have been the 1500th or the 1000th?
Either it was a big landmark anyway.
We've done a lot of anniversaries.
We've done a lot of anniversaries.
We like to celebrate our birthdays or whatever they are.
2000.
That's a whole lot of verbiage, isn't it?
And in keeping with the 1999 preceding episodes,