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
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 say so of the leader. in china, for instance, 1.4 billion people are governed by the decisions of the country s president, xijinping, who s also general secretary of the communist party. second to him is li keqiang, china s premier. china watchers think they ve recently been seeing small signs of division at the very top. i turned to howard zhang, head of the bbc s china service, for help. we do sense something is going on. but we don t quite know exactly what s going on. there is drama going on.
researchers have been able to extract dna from the skeleton ofa man in pompeii. and they ve worked out his entire genetic code. victoria gill, the bbc s science correspondent, who s based in salford, told me more. it was a combination of these skeletons being so well preserved, but also the advances in the technology that allowed these scientists to extract dna from just a tiny amount of bone. scientists had previously thought that dna might have been destroyed by the extreme heat when vesuvius erupted, but it turns out that where it had been preserved, it was then because these remains were encased in these cemented, heat hardened and time hardened layers of ash, that actually preserved the dna as well to be able to be picked up in a test millennia later.
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 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 say so of the leader. in china, for instance,