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
beginning of the recorded music era for $5. it was an i irresistible proposition. the new original series the 2010s premiers tomorrow might here on cnn. good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, may 13th. i m amara walker. and i m victor black well. so pasta, the 6:00 hour we have been debating pasta. you love it. can can you believe that? i could take it or leave it really. the reason is because it s just a vehicle for the stuff that i think taste best. could eat the sauce with a spoon. it s the texture for me. and i love certain textures of pastas. it has to be perfect. if it s home made, i can eat it with no sauce. so your theory about being a vehicle for sauce is so wrong. we could split a dish. i ll take the sauce. you take the pasta. here s what we re watch ing for you this morning. i have to admit it s nice to be able to breathe one more time, but wit can t let our guard down. we still know it s coming. cities among the
town hall where they were supposed to get the chance to confront the people responsible company let a train full of chemicals fly off the rails and lit it on fire ceo of norfolk southern alec shaw shown right there just decided to back out of the meeting. allen shaw and rail company won t even show their faces. primetime has a producer out there, so we will be giving you updates throughout the hour. can you imagine how angry these people are? the company responsible for potentially cancer clustering the town is hiding from them. after they were riding the rails with bad parts. surveillance cameras caught the train sparking unjust 20 minutes before derailing. but now alan shaw and his rail company seem pretty comfortable turning their backs on ohio. is it because they line the pocket of every politician in ohio? probably. maybe norfolk southern didn t have the spine to face their victims. i wake up every day. i have been sick with my upper congestion. this morning i wok
pennsylvania held a press conference about it. shapiro announced that authorities decided to set the chemicals on fire. that was a good thing. no one should be unduly alarmed. the burning of the chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote, as planned. officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn, quote, perfect. mike dewinn, the governor of ohio agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroad s jer engineers, and se officials overseeing them, had everything under control. two days later, evacuation orders were listed. in the subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud was it a wise decision to light vinyl chloride on fire over a populated area. if it was safe, how do we know that? is anyone in charge actually monitoring with any accuracy the level of did deadly chemicals ie air, ground and water in and around east palestine? apparently nobody is. that s highly upsetting when you think about it. talk about a failure at all levels. the first duty of
a year of hope. a year of endurance. a year of unity. the year of invincibility. the furious year of invincibility. following a devastating year of russia s war of aggression, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy vows to do everything to win this year. if putin s goal was to devour ukraine, he s clearly failed. from the beginning he s underestimated ukraine and the west with severe consequences within russia. and you have been following the alex murdaugh murder trial, we re not going to get into that testimony. instead, i m going to tell you about what this case tells us about generational power and privilege and the oligarchs living among us in america. we begin tonight with the somber one-year anniversary of russia s illegal and unprovoked invasion of ukraine. the war remains the biggest threat to peace and security in europe since the end of the cold war. the scale of human suffering is unimaginable for so many. according to the united nations, nearly 18 million p