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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.
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I'm Celia Hatton and in the early hours of Friday the 23rd of January these are our main stories.
TikTok finalizes a deal to spin off its U.S.
business operations to avoid an American ban.
US envoys meet with Vladimir Putin in Moscow for late night talks aimed at ending the conflict in Ukraine.
And the BBC gains rare access to detention facilities in Yemen,
inside former military bases run by the United Arab Emirates.
Also in this podcast,
US immigration agents' treatment of a five-year-old boy in Minneapolis sparks outrage.
And...
We take crude oil from Russia.
We still don't know what the destination is exactly.
It was, you know.
A BBC exclusive interview with a sailor aboard Russia's sanction-busting shadow fleet.
A deal's been struck on the popular social media platform TikTok and how it operates inside the US.