Since the start of s invasion ukrane has been pleading for more artillery. Few weapons have been as effective as american supplied hi mars rocket launchers. We look at the precision missiles that are changing how the war is fought. And here's a riddle, where can you find small pox, herpes, dysentery, dutch elm disease and a bit of influenza from alexander fleming's nose? No, it's not in the world's most disgusting busstatian le but in some of briton's most important collections.
Property developers are going belly-up, home-buyers are not paying mortgages, protests after a banking scandal have been quashed. We ask about the instability still to come. Ukraine’s new HIMARS rocket launchers are proving exceedingly effective against Russian forces. And a look at Britain’s world-leading collection of diseases-in-a-dish.
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