now on bbc news.unspun world withjohn simpson hello and welcome to unspun world. this is kyiv, the centre of the city, just a fairly short time after a series of missiles have hit it. one landed here but it doesn t look to me, completely untutored, as though it s a full scale missile. this looks to me like it s a drone attack. we are in an area of the city which is mostly kind of ministries and official buildings and museums and so on, and it looks as though there was an attack on a specific car, which has just been taken away. details, we don t know any more of, but we can assume, i think, that this is part at least of russia s revenge for the attack on the kerch bridge between russia and crimea last saturday. there is a feeling that now we are at a crossroads, that there is a chance of further escalation in this war. what does president putin s good friend xijinping of china think about russia s feeble performance in this war? the government is now toning down its once very
but gives up the prime minister s post to a rival faction, a rival faction, that may suggest some type of internal compromise reached. in the meantime, russia carries on and perhaps intensifies its war here. what will china do then? will it assist in any way diplomatically, militarily? we can really see the dilemma the chinese government is facing. last month, actually, two officials gave two quite different stands, or at least you can see the nuanced difference. one was china s number three in the communist party committee, went over to vladivostok and met a bunch of russian legislators, in which on russian tv he was seen as saying, we absolutely support you, we will try to even help you, but then the chinese tv did not
money out of american taxpayers. shannon: she says the move is designed to collect information on income that can be hidden citing an enormous gaps in the u.s. chicago mayor lori lightfoot morning and have severe if the city does not hold gang members accountable for their crime. it comes after a prominent prosecutor is refusing to bring charges against several men over a shoot-out in broad daylight which by the way was caught on video. garrett reports from the windy city. five gang members are back in the streets after the state s attorney chose not to file any charges in a friday shoot-out that was captured on a city surveillance camera. you can see that gun battle arrived after two cars pulled up outside a home on the city s west side. for people with modified, fully automatic handguns open fire on gang members of a rival faction. more than 70 shots were fired between the groups and roughly ten seconds it took for two squawk cards to show up. one person died, to her injured,
shootout that was captured on a city surveillance camera. you can see the gun battle erupt after two cars pulled up outside the home on the city s west side. four people with modified fully automatic handguns opened fire on fang members of a rival faction. more than 70 shots were fired between the groups in the roughly 10 seconds it took for two squad cars to show up. one person died, two were injured. five were arrested. and zero were charged. chicago mayor lori lightfoot is demanding answers from cook county state s attorney fox. we cannot send a message that it s okay and you get a pass but you shoot up a residence in broad daylight captured on film and no consequence will happen for you. that can t be a world that we live in. kim foxx argues her office couldn t bring charges because none of the witnesses would cooperate. and this her video evidence alone wasn t enough. our number one concern should be about getting those people prosecuted. not a headline diverting
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