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�*s being fought? i don't think i've seen anyone at all who's said that "we're being killed, let's give up." on the contrary, "we're being killed. let's fight on to make this stop." and is the uprising against the islamic authorities in iran starting to run out of steam? these protests have changed everything. things will never go back to how they were before this.