me for unspun world, the programme where we can find out what s really going on without spin and without bias from the bbc s worldwide team of unrivalled experts. is something strange going on at the top of chinese politics? there is drama going on. behind the scenes and in private, not many people are very happy with the policies of xijinping. round two in the ukraine war, and it seems to be going more russia s way. the ukrainians are losing in the donbas. you can dress it up any way you like. the russians are incrementally gaining ground. and discovering where a victim of the catastrophic destruction of pompeii in 79 ad came from, and even what illnesses he had. these remains were encased in these kind of cemented, l heat hardened and time hardened layers of ash to be picked up - in a test millennia later. autocracies don t, by definition, have politics, with different figures putting forward competing ideas and trying to get popular support for them. things are run on the
in london to honour queen elizabeth s 70 years on the throne. it was the main event on the second of four days of celebrations to mark the platinum jubilee. now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. hello, and thanks forjoining me for unspun world, the programme where we can find out what s really going on without spin and without bias from the bbc s worldwide team of unrivalled experts. is something strange going on at the top of chinese politics? there is drama going on. behind the scenes and in private, not many people are very happy with the policies of xi jinping. round two in the ukraine war, and it seems to be going more russia s way. the ukrainians are losing in the donbas. you can dress it up anywhere you like. the russians are incrementally gaining ground. and discovering where a victim of the catastrophic destruction of pompeii in 79 ad came from, and even what illnesses he had. these remains were encased in these kind of cemented, l heat hardened and time ha
these two people were found in the craftsman s house. this was a much more humble, working class home. with this combination of reading their genetic code and also just studying the positions of their bodies, they were actually slumped on this kind of chaise longue, the traditional dining place for people in rome at that time. they would lean back on this thing and their bodies were leant in that position, almost as though they were dining when the eruption happened, which historians think was about 1pm. so perhaps they were having lunch. we can start to just fill in the jigsaw puzzle of who these people were, what they were doing at this point in history. and i think the genetics just fills that in even more, because it gives us this biological clue about who these people were. victoria gill on the
they were actually slumped on this kind of chaise longue, the traditional dining place for people in rome at that time. they would lean back on this thing and their bodies were leant in that position, almost as though they were dining when the eruption happened, which historians think was about 1pm. so perhaps they were having lunch. we can start to just fill in the jigsaw puzzle of who these people were, what they were doing at this point in history. and i think the genetics just fills that in even more, because it gives us this biological clue about who these people were. victoria gill on the extraordinary details we re we re finding out about a 2000 year old inhabitant of the roman empire. it s perhaps a reminder of the lack of respect history has for empires. are america and russia, the 20th century superpowers, heading the same way as imperial rome? and what about china, whose economy is looking increasingly weak and whose foreign minister embarrassingly
not vaccinated, on december 6th here in rome, negative covid tests will no longer be enough to get into an indoor dining place, you having vaccinated or you recovered from covid, kim. certainly, alarm bells are ringing about the new variant. and we ve seen in the uk, ministers there warned that the government has to act now. or it could be too late. that s right, and the uk, there s quite a resistance or measures there or lockdown. the government there says tllt won t be a lockdown. of course, nobody wants a lockdown like last year. but the european union president was saying that she thinks there should be a vaccine mandate across all europe. that s something that all of the individual countries would have to vote in. that s a very strict measure. but that seems to be the only way everyone is looking at