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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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Available now on the documentary from the BBC World Service.
When Mick Fleming took drugs, he did so to blot out traumatic events in his childhood.
Then followed a life of escalating crime.
Join me, Sharoma Silva,
to learn about how Mick is reconciling and using his past to reach others in one of Britain's poorest communities.
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Hello.
And welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And we're going to begin today in China,
in the capital Beijing, where earlier today Britain's Prime Minister,
Keir Starmer, touched down for the first visit by a British leader since 2018.
China is an important trade partner.