2026-01-17
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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.
I'm Julia McFarlane and at 16 hours GMT on Friday the 16th of January.
These are our main stories.
China and Canada announced a major strategic partnership.
Could this be the beginning of the end of Pax Americana?
We get the view from inside China.
In a separate development,
the United States and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement that reduces import taxes on goods from the island
while increasing Taiwan's technology investment in the US.
And Myanmar has begun its defense at the UN's highest court against charges of carrying out genocide against its Rohingya minority.
Also in this podcast,
people fleeing the deadly crackdown inside Iran offer a rare glimpse of the horrors suffered by those taking to the streets.
And...
There were two scientists who were noticing that type two diabetics were often people living with obesity.
And so when they saw this weight loss, they thought, oh my gosh,