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World Service,22 May 2022,26 mins
How do Ukrainians feel about the future?
Unspun World with John SimpsonAvailable for over a year
This week John speaks to: Marta Shokalo, head of the Ukrainian service, on how Ukrainians are now seeing the war; Oksana Antonenko, from the Russian service, who is in Helsinki on Finland, NATO and Russia; Chris Page, Northern Ireland correspondent, on the future of Northern Ireland; Su-min Hwang from the Korean service on North Korea’s sudden surge in Covid and missile tests; and science editor Pallab Ghosh on what black holes can tell us about where we came from and where we are going. 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. Photo: A civilian in Bahkmut, Ukraine, that has been heavily shelled Credit: Getty Images
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