麻豆社

Pascale Harter introduces dispatches from reporters in Ukraine, Iraqi Kurdistan, Burkina Faso and Thailand.
In Kyiv and in Zaporizhzhia, despite Russian bombing, Ukrainian morale started last week on a high following the attack on the Kerch bridge to Crimea. But soon these cities 鈥� and others 鈥� suffered Russian retaliatory strikes. Paul Adams describes the mood he鈥檚 felt and the damage he鈥檚 seen during his most recent time in Ukraine.

As protests against Iran鈥檚 government and its mandatory hijab rules continue, the demonstrators鈥� chants of 鈥淲oman, Life, Freedom鈥� echo strongly across the border in Iraqi Kurdistan. But so do the threats from Iranian government and security agencies against those speaking out. Mahsa Amini, the young woman whose death in custody sparked the mass protests, was of Kurdish origin. Anna Foster spoke to some of Mahsa鈥檚 family in Sulaymaniyeh 鈥� and heard eyewitness accounts of the scenes unfolding inside Iran.

When is a coup not a coup? Henry Wilkins recently witnessed the swift installation of another military man as leader of Burkina Faso. But the soldiers who brought Captain Ibrahim Traore to power didn鈥檛 follow the usual coup playbook 鈥� and the army still has many grievances as it tries to fight back the insurgency threatening the country.

The shocking attack on a nursery in Thailand鈥檚 north-east by a former police officer, in which twenty-three young children and thirteen adults were killed, has raised troubling questions over why it happened, and whether it might have been stopped. 麻豆社 South East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head reports from the village of Uthai Sawan, where the victims were given a state-funded mass funeral, and reflects on the wider hardship of life in one of Thailand鈥檚 poorest regions.

Producer: Polly Hope
Editor: Bridget Harney
Production Co-Ordinator: Iona Hammond