Of the president ial palace in the capital, port au prince. There are reports that armed gangs have once again invaded now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. Hello and welcome. In todays unspun world from the bbc s headquarters here in central london, ill be asking bbc correspondents around the world to give us their insights into whats really going on. Whats daily life like in gaza and the west bank at present . Going to the bread queues, to the soup queues where children are struggling to get to the front of the queue before the food runs out. Peace in gaza and in ukraine. What might it look like . How might it happen . It can be because they think that, actually, if they carry on fighting, they might get on the losing side, and they want to make the leap before the situation turns against them. And the closest china gets to a parliament is gathering in beijing. Will it actually decide anything . I think a lot of analysts in particular like to read kind of Smoke Signals and
Now on bbc news, unspun world withjohn simpson. Hello and welcome. In todays unspun world from the bbc s headquarters here in central london, ill be asking bbc correspondents around the world to give us their insights into whats really going on. Whats daily life like in gaza and the west bank at present . Going to the bread queues, to the soup queues where children are struggling to get to the front of the queue before the food runs out. Peace in gaza and in ukraine. What might it look like . How might it happen . It can be because they think that, actually, if they carry on fighting, they might get on the losing side, and they want to make the leap before the situation turns against them. And the closest china gets to a parliament is gathering in beijing. Will it actually decide anything . I think a lot of analysts in particular like to read kind of Smoke Signals and the kind of subtle clues in what people are wearing or where people are sitting. When hamas fighters attacked a Music F
To the front of the queue before the food runs out. Peace in gaza and in ukraine. What might it look like . How might it happen . It can be because they think that, actually, if they carry on fighting, they might get on the losing side, and they want to make the leap before the situation turns against them. And the closest china gets to a parliament is gathering in beijing. Will it actually decide anything . I think a lot of analysts in particular like to read kind of Smoke Signals and the kindl of subtle clues in what people are wearing or where people are sitting. When hamas fighters attacked a Music Festival and a number of israeli towns and settlements on 7th october, they committed unthinkable atrocities. Screaming the other day, a un investigation confirmed many, though not all, of the gruesome details. Israels attack on gaza, intended to root out hamas, has now brought 25 palestinian deaths for every one of the israeli deaths on 7th october. The deaths of palestinian women and c
unspun world withjohn simpson. hello. it s good to see you. we re here in the bbc s central newsroom for another edition of unspun world. in today s programme how is it that russia s economy is doing so well in spite of the ukraine war and western sanctions? a quite extraordinary transformation of the russian economy into a war economy, with massive defence spending, with the reorientation of its industrial base towards its war machine. iran s client groups around the middle east get a hammering from us missiles. but what s the point of having the americans in the region? maintaining counterterrorism efforts against isis, and also, they check iranian influence in syria, in iraq, in lebanon. and, is ethiopia yet again going to be a byword for hunger and despair? this is the moment to try and fix this problem, - not six months down the line l when an awful lot more people have died and it s much harderl to turn the whole thing around. russia invades its neighbour after signin
to take over the city of rostov on don, where the russian troops and the inhabitants welcomed them, and then, secondly, to head on for moscow. and then, president lukashenko of belarus rang prigozhin and offered him a deal, and that was it prigozhin ordered his men to turn back and he and they have gone to quarters in belarus, not far from the ukrainian border. so, what on earth does it all mean for the man who captured rostov? i asked famil ismailov, news editor of bbc russian. nobody expected that it s going to come to the point when he s going to take over one of the biggest cities in the south of russia with more than one million population and seize the headquarters of a southern army command which is in charge of operations in ukraine. so to that point, yes, unexpected. but other than that, prigozhin is such a character and his private army has come to such a level of influence on the front line and also in public opinion because he s able to deliver his views on th