will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid 19 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could well be a deliberately engineered effort by russia to derail ukraine s big counteroffensive. it s another extraordinary twist in this war, which almost every day seems to bring new complexities and new horrors. but how are people in moscow reacting to the way the war is going? the bbc s redoubtable russia editor steve rosenberg has lived and worked in the country for 30 years. things have not been going well for russia. you know, there were those explosions over the kremlin the beginning of may. there have been drone attacks on russian regions bordering
hello and welcome to the bbc s headquarters here in central london for another edition of unspun world. this week, what s it like for a journalist to be treated like an enemy in moscow? as relations deteriorate between russia and the uk and russia and the west, and just when you think they can t get any worse, they get worse. you know, that makes it difficult. the civil war in myanmar, something the outside world seems completely unaware of. it really is a david and goliath war here, when you re seeing drones versus russianjets. so if they do win, it will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid i9 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now- who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny- the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility- that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could
versus russian jets. so if they do win, it will be extraordinary. and after all this time, did covid 19 really escape from a laboratory in wuhan? there are a lot of people now who believe that china s primary aim here isn tjust to deny the possibility of a lab leak, but it is to deny the possibility that covid came from within china s borders at all. the disaster at the nova kakhovka dam on the dnieper river, flooding parts of the front line in southern ukraine, could well be a deliberately engineered effort by russia to derail ukraine s big counteroffensive. it s another extraordinary twist in this war, which almost every day seems to bring new complexities and new horrors. but how are people in moscow reacting to the way the war is going? the bbc s redoubtable russia editor steve rosenberg has lived and worked in the country for 30 years. things have not been going well for russia. you know, there were those explosions over the kremlin the beginning of may. there have been
the prime minister, albin kurti, of kosovo and president aleksandar vucic of serbia, the two main players in all of this, really, really do not like each other. the prime minister, albin kurti, of kosovo so we re going back to the 1990s, john. this is the language that mr kurti is using. he was involved in the kosovo liberation army. he has neverforgiven mr vucic for being a minister in the milosevic government in the 1990s. he was then very young, he was information minister in the 1990s, and he s never forgiven him for that. he does not accept mr vucic s protestations that he s changed, that he switched parties from the radicals to the progressive party, that he s pro european these days, that serbia is in eu accession negotiations. mr kurti doesn t see any of that. mr vucic views mr kurti as part of a formerly, what was formerly viewed by many countries as a terrorist organisation, the kosovo liberation army. and he makes his contempt
got quite nasty. a lot of it is a kind of personality clash, isn t it? the prime minister, albin kurti, of kosovo and president aleksandar vucic of serbia, the two main players in all of this, really, really do not like each other. so we re going back to the 1990s, john. this is the language that mr kurti is using. he was involved in the kosovo liberation army. he has neverforgiven mr vucic for being a minister in the milosevic government in the 1990s. he was very young, he was information minister in the 1990s, and he s never forgiven him for that. he does not accept mr vucic s protestations that he s changed, that he switched parties from the radicals to the progressive party, that he s pro european these days, that serbia is in eu accession negotiations. mr kurti doesn t see any of that. mr vucic views mr kurti as part of a formerly, what was formerly viewed by