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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 o ....
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 t ....
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. ....
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, ....
Is acting, if he seems that disconnected from the people around him, that distant from his advisers, what s to stop him if you are in the baltics tonight, you re very scared. you don t know whether putin is going to stop because anything seems to be on the table for him. what is the sense of the refugee crisis and what more can be done by ukraine s neighbors? obviously at this point, they seem to be coming out of western ukraine into poland, but they will, many of them, need new, permanent homes. their kids will need to go to new schools. they will need new jobs. tell me what that looks like for the whole of europe. well i guess initially they all hope they ll be able to go back right, again? they ll hope this is not a long running refugee crisis where these people have to be resettled permanently, but they ll have a free ukraine to return to. ....