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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.

It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in central London.

I'm Tim Franks.

And we're going to be talking about what appears to be another assassination of a senior member of the

Russian military in Russia, indeed. Close to the capital. We'll have the latest on that in 30 minutes

with our Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg in Moscow. But we're going to begin with a rare

report from inside Myanmar. It's rare because Myanmar's military government doesn't allow foreign

journalists to report freely from the country. And yet, our reporter, Yohita Le Maier, has managed

to gain access to rebel-held areas of Chin state. That's in the west of Myanmar, bordering

northeastern India. And there, she and a team have seen evidence that the junta has been bombing schools and churches.

All this in the run-up to elections which those military rules have scheduled for later this week

and which the United Nations Human Rights Office has already warned,

far from promising a transition to democracy,

seems, in its words, nearly certain to further ingrain in security, fear and polarisation throughout

the country. You'll hear Yorgit has reported a moment, but first with her, safely the other

side of the border. I asked her who these rebels in

Chin State are. So in the Chin state, there are a number of different rebel groups, and this

is a pattern you'd see across states in Myanmar. But one of the most prominent rebel groups in

the Chin National Front is called the Chin National Front, and they're armed, sort of

contingent among them, they're called the Chin National Army, and it's their base that we went to.

Now, up until two, three months ago, actually the situation in Chin State was that there was

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