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 engagement has sort of broken down and may in fact get worse. will president putin s new commander in the ukraine war, nicknamed general armageddon, change the way the war is being fought? i don t think i ve seen anyone at all who said that we re being killed. let s give up. on the contrary, we re being killed. let s fight
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
with ukraine s president zelensky and turkey s recep tayyip erdogan. leeds university has expressed dismay after one of its phd students was jailed for 3h years after tweets criticising the regime. hundreds of thousands of students across england, wales and northern ireland have been receiving their exam results today. a level, t level and btec students have all been marked based on exams for the first time since two years of covid disruption. compared with 2019, when exams were last sat in person, there s been a i9% increase in students gaining a place at their firm or insurance choice university. the proportion of students in england, wales and northern ireland getting top a level grades has fallen since the record high of last year, but is higher than 2019. around 36.4% of pupils have achieved a star and a grades. and for the new t level exams where students split time between classroom learning and industry placements the overall pass rate is 92%. our education corres
for a musical extravaganza. welcome to the programme. we start in the us, where a landmark bill which includes billions of dollars to fight climate change, has been approved by the us senate. we ll look more at that bill in a moment. first, let s go to kentucky, because presidentjoe biden is there. he s set to meet families hit by the flooding a week ago that killed at least 37 people. we re expecting to hear from him shortly. we will bring you more on that as and when we get it. now let s look at that landmark climate bill and what it means. it s the largest investment in climate action in america s history $369 billion. the aim is to cut carbon emissions by forty percent by the end of the decade. senate democrats celebrated the bill. the boldest climate package in us history. the senate has now passed the most significant bill to fight the climate crisis ever. and it s going to make a difference to my grandkids. republicans, though, have criticised it. mitch mcconnell i
election. supporters of his rival accuse him of bootlegging. as a because of living crisis continues in britain the opposition labour party promises to freeze energy bills this winter. it has been one year since the taliban seized control of the afghan capital kabul. the world watched as the country s government collapsed, the country s government collapsed, the president fleeing, afghans scrambling to get on the last planes out. fast forward to now and serious deep rooted issues persist including the status of women and girls and severe food shortages but for the group itself and its supporters todayis group itself and its supporters today is a national holiday. this is the scene in kabul with the taliban flags flying in the main square but we have seen similar scenes in kandahar, the stronghold in the south west of the country was our correspondence was there. supporters of gravity and a centre of kandahar. todayis of gravity and a centre of kandahar. today is the first ann