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In parts of the country health workers rely on armoured vehicles and a military escort in order to deliver much-needed vaccines. Olivia Acland reports from Beni where this kind of fieldwork was suspended briefly following a rebel attack in the city.

Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from around the world.

鈥淩ussia is a superpower鈥� was the message Moscow wanted to convey when it deployed around a third of the country鈥檚 entire armed forces to a training exercise in Siberia. But 鈥淩ussia is a country of contrasts鈥� was the message that Steve Rosenberg returned with.

Chris Bockman shares the story of the 鈥楽wiss Maternity鈥� in South West France 鈥� a once abandoned chateau where hundreds of Jewish and Roma women gave birth in secret in the 1940s.

Shahzeb Jilani asks how far Pakistan is prepared to go to defeat the monsters it once helped create, after a coordinated attack on schools in the north of the country.

And, fifty years after it was first unveiled, Mark Jordan reveals how the jumbo jet very nearly didn鈥檛 get off the ground.

Producer: Joe Kent