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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.
Hello, I'm just heading out on Wednesday evening after recording today's newscast,
which was all about Donald Trump's big speech, which he did at Davos at the World Economic Forum,
where a lot of it was about his designs on Greenland,
where he said that he wasn't going to use military force,
but he still really wanted to incorporate it as US territory and he wanted to start negotiations.
So we recorded the podcast on that basis.
And then as I was walking down the street,
I got a push notification from BBC News saying that Donald Trump had had a meeting with Mark Rutter,
the secretary general of So he's now taken off the table the tariffs he was going to impose on Denmark and its allies,
including the UK, on the 1st of February.