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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.
All right, so tell us what we're seeing here.
So this is Persian newsroom.
and we're doing rolling news at the moment.
We have got our reporters, our editors,
everyone is in and we've been working almost non-stop during these days.
Over the past few weeks,
Iran has experienced a massive nationwide protest movement and a brutal crackdown.
It's been difficult to know exactly what's going on there
because the Iranian government cut off the internet and phone communications.
That's been a big challenge for the BBC Persian team.