Burma

If you didn't see the report on last night's Newsnight by Dr Chris van Talluken; the first British aid worker given access to the Irrawaddy Delta, I'd strongly recommend it.

A small clip of the report can be viewed on the BBC website here. But you can watch the whole thing - which runs to about ten minutes, by watching the Newsnight programme: the report's about 31 minutes in, if you want to skip the other reports.

I should warn that some of the report is pretty unpleasant viewing as there remain bodies still not reclaimed two months after the hurricane. Among other extraordinary sights, Dr van Talluken meets someone who sustained extensive injuries to his back caused by nothing other than the sheer force of rain water driving into him.

This really is an extraordinary report that is not simply an attack on the Burmese junta, but is actually all the more damning for that.