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Pascale Harter introduces dispatches from inside Myanmar, the US rust belt, Afghanistan and Greece.

In Myanmar the military junta has restricted foreign rescue teams’ access to areas damaged by the recent earthquake - not to mention international media. After entering the country undercover, Yogita Limaye reports from the city of Mandalay, close to the earthquake’s epicentre.

President Trump’s decision to impose huge tariffs across the world threw global financial markets into a frenzy this week. But what do his supporters in small-town America think? Mike Wendling travelled to Delta, Ohio, in America's postindustrial midwest, where local people have other concerns.

Since returning to power in Afghanistan in 2021, the Taliban have steadily increased restrictions on the country’s citizens. Now the introduction of a huge CCTV network overseeing the capital, Kabul, has alarmed human rights groups. The Taliban argue it's meant to fight crime and prevent terror attacks - but Mahjooba Nowrouzi detected unease over what else might be under surveillance.

Across the world companies are battling for dominance in the electric car market. But the EV revolution has been a long time in the making, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she stumbled across one of the world’s first mass-produced models on the Greek island of Syros. The Enfield-Neorion 8000, a tangerine-orange two-seater, first rolled out onto its roads back in 1973.

Producer: Polly Hope
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison

Image: A destroyed Buddhist monastery in Inn Wa on the outskirts of Mandalay following the devastating March 28th earthquake that flattened buildings across Myanmar. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)