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BBC world affairs editor John Simpson speaks to: Famil Ismailov, news editor for the Russian service, about how Russians feel about the war; James Landale, diplomatic correspondent, about the future of NATO and the dilemmas that may lie ahead as the war drags on; Beverly Ochieng, Africa specialist for BBC Monitoring, about the Russian mercenaries in Mali; Anthony Zurcher, North America correspondent, about what the anti-abortion challenge to Roe v Wade means for US politics; and explore the economic crisis looming large over this week's parliamentary elections in Lebanon with BBC Arabic correspondent, Carine Torbey. Unspun World provides an unvarnished version of the week's major global news stories with the BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson and the BBC's unparalleled range of experts.
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