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for people struggling to cope. the government has said it's providing a package of measures to help with rising costs. that's it from me. which will be here at the top of the hour. —— rich will be here. now on bbc news, it's time for unspun world withjohn simpson. hello, and thanks forjoining me here at the bbc�*s headquarters in central london for unspun world, the programme where bbc experts give straight answers to the big questions of the moment. are we actually making any progress whatever in combating climate change? or is itjust... well, hot air? there is also the possib...

hello, and thanks forjoining me here at the bbc�*s headquarters in central london for unspun world, the programme where bbc experts give straight answers to the big questions of the moment. are we actually making any progress whatever in combating climate change? well, hot air? there is also the possibility that we could use our ingenuity and our unique abilities as human beings, as homo sapiens, to get out of this. what's russia got up its sleeve for the parts of eastern ukraine that it's captured? there are further efforts taking place to amalgamate those parts into russia. and w...

And our unique abilities as human beings, as homo sapiens, to get us out of this. we are at the juncture where, for the first time ever, there are real alternatives that are economically viable to fossil fuels. however worried you are about climate change, there is an optimistic story about our ability, human beings ability to see a challenge and riddle our way through it, to find the beginnings, maybe, of some kind of solution. and i think that's exciting and optimistic. try and get your head round this. every second there are currently a5 births and 2.0 deaths in the world. a net population ...

In yourjob, isn't it? it would be hard to do thejob if you didn't allow the possibility that we could succeed doing this, because if you gave up hope, i mean, what would be the story you were telling? it would be a tragic story of decline. perhaps it is? perhaps it is. perhaps this is the tragedy of human beings. it may well be. ultimately, it may be. we may have sown the seeds of our own destruction. there is a kind of poetic resonance in that, isn't there? but there is also the possibility that we could use our ingenuity and our unique abilities as human beings, as homo sapiens, to get us ou...

But that he is understandably very upset. they are 92 and 93, but there's never enough time. and so i think that this is very difficult for the whole family, fred. >> very difficult for the entire family, aunderstandably. you mentioned her congestive heart failure, chronic obstruction pulmonary disease, copd. in her recent hospital visit, primarily doctors were addressing those things, and she's now at this juncture where, according to that statement from the former president, it is her choice to be at home with family and to no longer receive the same kind of medical attention? >> right. i th...