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BBC OS: 2024/05/23 16:06 GMT: Frontline special report: Myanmar's civil war

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Frontline special report: Myanmar's civil war

2024/05/23 16:06 GMT

2024/05/23 16:06 GMT: Frontline special report: Myanmar's civil war

BBC World Service - BBC OS, Frontline special report: Myanmar's civil war

Rebel forces are fighting a bloody campaign against the military regime

Rebel forces are fighting a bloody campaign against the military regime which seized control of the country in 2021.

Myanmar is in the grip of a civil war, largely forgotten by the outside world, which has left thousands of people dead and displaced more than two million from their homes. Our correspondent Quentin Sommerville spent some time with young revolutionaries in the jungle. 

Haiti's health care system is "on the verge of collapse", warns the UN's children's agency, Unicef. We speak to Unicef's representative in Haiti. 

President Macron says he will delay contentious voting reform plans for the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia that's led to several days of deadly unrest. We speak to our Asia Pacific editor Micky Bristow. 

With beauty pageants put in the spotlight after both Miss USA and Miss Teen USA abdicated their positions, we bring together a mother and her daughter who both took part in a beauty contest. 

Presenter: James Reynolds.

(Photo: Rebel fighter Nam Ree aims a sniper rifle towards the enemy position. Credit: BBC)

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