2026-01-22
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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.
Young men from Syria, Egypt and Yemen are fighting and dying on the front line in Ukraine.
Why are they risking their lives in a war that's not their own?
We investigate a Russian businesswoman accused of tricking men into fighting for her country's army.
Listen now by searching for the documentary wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way.
They should be grateful also, but they're not.
I watched your Prime Minister yesterday.
He wasn't so grateful.
They should be grateful to us.
Canada lives because of the United States.