unspun world withjohn simpson. hello. it s good to see you. we re here in the bbc s central newsroom for another edition of unspun world. in today s programme how is it that russia s economy is doing so well in spite of the ukraine war and western sanctions? a quite extraordinary transformation of the russian economy into a war economy, with massive defence spending, with the reorientation of its industrial base towards its war machine. iran s client groups around the middle east get a hammering from us missiles. but what s the point of having the americans in the region? maintaining counterterrorism efforts against isis, and also, they check iranian influence in syria, in iraq, in lebanon. and, is ethiopia yet again going to be a byword for hunger and despair? this is the moment to try and fix this problem, - not six months down the line l when an awful lot more people have died and it s much harderl to turn the whole thing around. russia invades its neighbour after signin
we have freedom, give us wings to rotect it. , . , ., ., protect it. a smaller share of taxpayer s protect it. a smaller share of taxpayer s cash protect it. a smaller share of taxpayer s cash goes - protect it. a smaller share of taxpayer s cash goes to - protect it. a smaller share of taxpayer s cash goes to help| protect it. a smaller share of. taxpayer s cash goes to help the rest of the world than before. we have one big question this week. what our responsibilities beyond these shores? andrew mitchell the cabinet minister who looks after aid for other countries is here. i ve been to warsaw to speak to president zelenksy s closest ally the polish president, andrzej duda about the war. labour s lisa nandy who wants to level up the country joins us from nottingham. but it s sunday morning there is more to life than politics we ll talk to one of the nation s favourite cooks, prue leith, sorry, delia, on how to live happily, die well, and learn to disagree.
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Soon as possible. We need to help israel and get the appropriations process movements so the key elements are funded in the right way and get back to our Committee Work and frankly we need to continue the oversight work that i think is so darn important. Jim jordan failed to get through in two votes to become House Speaker. Taking a run at number three today. Struggling to win over two dozen republican holdouts. It could hold a third vote as early as this morning. Well follow that live as it happens. First. [explosions] rockets over gaza as israel prepares to pull the trigger on a full scale Ground Invasion. As we come on the air with tensions high in the region we see smoke rising on the israel lebanon border. Problems to the north as well. Im shannon bream. Bill and dana are off. Were here. Gillian im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. Israel telling troops to be ready for a Ground Assault on gaza. No timetable on the deployment. Israel continues to scorch hamas Terror Tar