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 on the
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 time ha
Breaking strike against major u. S. Automakers is now under way. For the first time in history all three companies are facing a union walkout. The strike is targeted for now but could expand dramatically in the coming days if workers demands arent met. And cnn is now on the ground in libya where thousands are dead and thousands more are mission after a catastrophic flood. This hour well bring you a live update from the disaster zone. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the the situation room. Lets get to the Breaking News and new development in the Special Counsel case against donald trump, a new court filing revealing witness harassment directly resulting from the president s public statements. Jessica schneider is digging into this new document. Prosecutors are saying they need to put a limit on what trump can say about this case. Whats the latest . The Special Counsels team in this long motion, they are laying out all of t
Gcioss the night. Temperatures in the teams across england and wales but a much cloudy day in store, Brightening Up The Cross and cloud and patchy rain. Scotla nd the cross and cloud and patchy rain. Scotland and Northern Ireland blustery with a few showers. Eastern areas will be dried, you can see that pushing into eastern england. Central part of england to the morning only a few showers, mainly east anglia and the south east, into next week, a bit of sunshine and wetter and breezy conditions around and not a huge amount of sunshine. Hello. This is bbc news. The government says 27 high rise blocks of flats in 15 local authorities have failed fire cladding safety tests. Four buildings on the Chalcot Estate near Swiss Cottage in london were evacuated last night by authorities for urgent fire safety works. They identified a number of issues in the blocks around gas pipes going into flats, around fire doors and the message to me was the combination of the flammable external cladding and
Gcioss the night. Temperatures in the teams across england and wales but a much cloudy day in store, Brightening Up The Cross and cloud and patchy rain. Scotla nd the cross and cloud and patchy rain. Scotland and Northern Ireland blustery with a few showers. Eastern areas will be dried, you can see that pushing into eastern england. Central part of england to the morning only a few showers, mainly east anglia and the south east, into next week, a bit of sunshine and wetter and breezy conditions around and not a huge amount of sunshine. Hello. This is bbc news. The government says 27 high rise blocks of flats in 15 local authorities have failed fire cladding safety tests. Four buildings on the Chalcot Estate near Swiss Cottage in london were evacuated last night by authorities for urgent fire safety works. They identified a number of issues in the blocks around gas pipes going into flats, around fire doors and the message to me was the combination of the flammable external cladding and