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Myanmar's Jungle Revolutionaries

Deep in the jungle in Karenni state in Myanmar, a fierce battle is being fought between young opposition fighters and the military junta. Plus stories from Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

Pascale Harter introduces stories from Myanmar, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.

In Myanmar, tens of thousands of people have been killed since the military seized power in a coup in 2021, halting the country鈥檚 tentative transition to democracy - a further 2.5m people have been displaced. Quentin Sommerville has spent a month in the east of the country, living alongside resistance groups fighting the junta the jungles of Karenni state on the border with Thailand.

In a visit to Kyiv this week, Germany鈥檚 foreign minister urged Western governments to supply more air defence weapons to protect Ukrainians from what she described as 'the rain of Russian missiles.' Jonathan Beale met with a Ukrainian military unit known as the Peaky Blinders, which is defending territory near Kharkiv with armed drones.

The world鈥檚 largest inland body of water, the Caspian Sea, is shrinking at an unprecedented rate. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent travelled to Mangystau, in western Kazakhstan, to find out why this is happening, and how it鈥檚 affecting the people and the wildlife along its coast.

Producer: Polly Hope
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Production Coordinator: Sophie Hill

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Mon 27 May 2024 19:06GMT

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