The End of the World

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The fighting in this area has intensified like it does in all the dry seasons. Recent air strikes carried out by these fighter jets had left very clear scars on the landscape. Tuzo fetched his guitar and he started to play kabama kyubu. It's a revolutionary song set on the tune of Dust in the Wind, which became the anthem of an uprising in 1988 that shook the country.

Deep in the mountains along the Thai border, a bloody civil war rages. Our correspondent gives us rare insight into one of the world’s oldest insurgencies. New, stringent election rules will soon be tested in Britain. We ask if voters are ready. And, the bubble tea franchise taking South-East Asia by storm.

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