a british man freed after being held by russian backed forces in ukraine describes how he was stabbed by a russian officer and thought he was going to die in captivity. and from a dead rat to an exploding martini glass. the bbc gets rare access into the cia s secret museum where thousands of exhibits and artefacts mark the agency s 75 year history. hello and welcome to bbc news. voting is under way in italy s general election. polling stations opened two hours ago. opinion polls taken during the campain suggest the country will get its first ever female prime minister, and its first far right leader since mussolini, in giorgia meloni. a win for her party would be expected to see the return of silvio berlusconi and matteo salvini to government, two men who ve had ties to russia s president putin. our rome correspondent mark lowen reports. there are some things that italians agree on they ve got the best coffee and food and many they don t. politics is one of them, and it s
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to a post tropical cyclone, but as prime ministerjustin trudeau admits, infrastructure will need to be rebuilt to withstand ever more frequent extreme weather as we see these maybe once in a century storms start to hit every few years. leana hosea, bbc news. america s spy agency, the cia, has many secrets to keep, but to mark its 75th anniversary it has unusually opened up a little about its past, inviting a select few to visit its normally undercover museum. 0ur security correspondent gordon corera was the only international broadcaster to be let in. here s what he saw. one of the most secret organisations in the world offers a rare glimpse inside its operations. to mark its 75th anniversary, the cia opened the doors to its in house museum. closed to the public, we were among a select few given access. inside this most unusual of museums are exhibits and artifacts marking