Janet Jalil

So if your esteemed colleagues want to get some comments or an interview face-to-face, welcome to Russia.

The BBC contacted the Russian Ministry of Defense, but they didn't respond to an interview request.

As long as there's an appetite for foreign fighters fighting in Russia's rank, there'll be no stopping those middlemen exploiting those who are in the most desperate circumstances.

Two US states, both governed by Democrats.

Minnesota and Illinois are suing the Trump administration to try to block the surge of thousands of immigration officers into their states following the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an ICE agent last week.

Hours before the legal action was announced, agents in Minneapolis fired tear gas to break up a crowd of people confronting them a few blocks away from where Rene Good was shot dead.

Minnesota's Attorney General Keith Ellison said people were being racially profiled, harassed, terrorized and assaulted, and that the police were spending countless hours dealing with the chaos caused by ICE.

Our North America correspondent, Peter Bowes, told me more about the two lawsuits.

The Trump administration is standing by its controversial policy.

Peter Bowes.

Still to come in this podcast... He had the problem which most people with this illness have, his unexplained intoxication.

The curious case of a man whose body began brewing its own alcohol.

If journalism is the first draft of history, what happens if that draft is flawed?

In 1999, four Russian apartment buildings were bombed, hundreds killed.

But even now, we still don't know for sure who did it.

It's a mystery that sparked chilling theories.

I'm Helena Merriman, and in a new BBC series, I'm talking to the reporters who first covered this story.

What did they miss the first time?

The History Bureau, Putin and the apartment bombs.

Listen on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.