to disqualify him from holding public office on charges of unlawfully selling state gifts. at ten o clock we will be here with a full round up of the days news. first unspun world withjohn simpson. hello and welcome to unspun world, the programme where the bbc s experts give us clear answers about the big questions of the moment. this week, britain s political and economic crisis entered a new and even more difficult phase, and so did the war in ukraine. all of this has rather overshadowed the already slightly muted celebration of the bbc s 100th anniversary, which falls this week. in october 1922, the bbc started up and quite soon became the world s most famous and respected public service broadcaster operating from its headquarters here in central london. and london is where our programme starts this week with the extraordinary political and economic goings on. pretty much unprecedented in my experience. that the whole sort of faith in the system, the trust, the engagemen
when mobilisation was being discussed i agreed with my family that if such a situation arose i would refuse even if they sent me to prison. and the japanese cartoon characters being recreated for the stage by the royal shakespeare company breaking box office records in the process. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. in a few days time, the uk will have a new prime minister and penny mourdant, leader of the house of commons has become the first conservative mp to say she is running to replace liz truss. no other mp has declared yet but both borisjohnson and former chancellor rishi sunak have nominations from other mps. sources have told bbc news, rishi sunak has now received the public backing of 100 mps in the contest to become conservative leader. mrjohnson left office just over six weeks ago, forced out after a series of crises, including infringing the law. whoever wins becomes conservative leader and the next prime minister but opposit
received $90 billion from the eu as part of the resilience plan and ms meloni has always said she is in favour of supporting ukraine against russia so it is not likely we will see a change in that direction but it is likely we will see a change more likely in the internal policy side. some senators, some from forza italia, have proposed a law to change for instance the foetus legal status and making it more complicated for women to get an abortion if the law is approved and giorgia meloni herself has said in a couple of occasions of being against the lgbt lobby, whatever that means, and being against gender theory so thatis being against gender theory so that is where we are at the moment. that is where we are at the moment- that is where we are at the moment. ,, ., ., . ~ , ., the us house committee investigating last year s attack on the capitol building in washington, dc has ordered former president donald trump to testify under oath. the committee says its evidence shows mr trump
donald trump could decide to go along with the request, appeal it in court or refusing to comply, just like his former strategist, steve bannon found guilty of contempt of congress and now sentenced to four months injail for his refusal to do as the committee asked. he is going to appeal. i have got a great legal team, there will be multiple areas of appeal but, as that sign says right there, can we have the vote sign? on november eight. ..on november eight. man yells. regime and, quite frankly, quite frankly that nancy pelosi and the entire committee, and we know which way that is going. if the mid term elections on november eight do go against the democrats with the republicans taking control of the house of
this is bbc news. the headlines: italy s far right leader georgia meloni has accepted an offer from the country s president to form a new government after winning last month s election. she s due to be formally sworn in, as leader of the country s most right wing administration since world war ii. the former us president donald trump has been summoned to testify before the congressional committee investigating the january 6th riot at the us capitol. the committee says it has evidence that mr trump played a central role in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. borisjohnson is heading back to london from a caribbean holiday as speculation grows that he willjoin the race to succeed liz truss as british prime minister. an increasing number of conservatives say they want to see mrjohnson secure a second period at number 10 downing street.