will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid 19 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could well be a deliberately engineered effort by russia to derail ukraine s big counteroffensive. it s another extraordinary twist in this war, which almost every day seems to bring new complexities and new horrors. but how are people in moscow reacting to the way the war is going? the bbc s redoubtable russia editor steve rosenberg has lived and worked in the country for 30 years. things have not been going well for russia. you know, there were those explosions over the kremlin the beginning of may. there have been drone attacks on russian regions bordering
hello and welcome to the bbc s headquarters here in central london for another edition of unspun world. this week, what s it like for a journalist to be treated like an enemy in moscow? as relations deteriorate between russia and the uk and russia and the west, and just when you think they can t get any worse, they get worse. you know, that makes it difficult. the civil war in myanmar, something the outside world seems completely unaware of. it really is a david and goliath war here, when you re seeing drones versus russianjets. so if they do win, it will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid i9 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now- who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny- the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility- that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could
versus russian jets. so if they do win, it will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid 19 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could well be a deliberately engineered effort by russia to derail ukraine s big counteroffensive. it s another extraordinary twist in this war, which almost every day seems to bring new complexities and new horrors. but how are people in moscow reacting to the way the war is going? the bbc s redoubtable russia editor steve rosenberg has lived and worked in the country for 30 years. things have not been going well for russia. you know, there were those explosions over the kremlin the beginning of may. there have been
essentially waged a war againstjournalism and free speech in the country, since it seized power. so all independent media has been banned. journalists have gone on the run. but bbc burmese does have a team on the ground in yangon and there are very brave freelance journalists that we work with across the country, who are in areas, that can film for us, so often using mobile phones. other times we re able to get things like gopros, little cameras that people can use to send video diaries. the threat of jail time is very real. and then the stories that we re hearing from those jails are horrific. stories of torture, abuse, terrible conditions. and then the military has also
on russian television accusing britain of being behind the nazis in germany. and i would like to think that, if you take a long view of russian history, it will turn around again and that this period that we re experiencing now will will be replaced by another one. there are at least 27 wars going on in the world at the moment, though none of the others has the intensity of the war in ukraine. one particularly vicious conflict, which is going on without much awareness in the outside world, is the civil war in myanmar, formerly burma, where a loose association of ethnic and other forces opposed to the military government is claiming to control approximately half of the country. the bbc world service asia editor rebecca henschke has been compiling a detailed account of the war. since seizing power, the myanmar military has essentially waged a war