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hello and welcome to new broadcasting house, the bbc�*s headquarters in central london. welcome too to unspun world, where we put the key questions of the moment to the bbc�*s experts right around the globe. has something gone permanently and disturbingly wrong with politics in the united states, or can it be mended? we live in a time when serious political commentators are talking about the possibility of a second american civil war. the bbc ukrainian reporter who saw pictures of her own home destroyed live on television. what does she think about russia's targeting of civilians...

Stuff, or is there something to it? i asked sarah smith, the bbc north america editor, what she thought. social media does play a part because it makes everybody�*s voice more extreme and louder. it also allows people with extreme views to find each other, communicate and reinforce them. i mean, one of the other things that's happening in american society is that these two tribes of left and right, conservative and liberal, they're living in different places now as well. they are geographically sorting so that you have liberal with a small l people in the cities, in urban areas and living al...

Those civilian people. and the world famous combat cameraman who's just been released after six months in prison by the taliban in afghanistan. how was he treated? i think you'll be surprised. they looked after us very well. as soon as we arrived, i they took the heater out of the guard room and put it. into our cell so it was heated. in the eyes of the outside world, the united states can seem very weird and foreign. the whole business of the right to bear arms, for instance, or the hostility towards abortion. and yet it's always hugely influential. think of the spread of the metoo movement a...