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World Service,04 Jun 2022,26 mins

What's going on at the top of Chinese politics?

Unspun World with John Simpson

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This week John explores what's going on at the top of Chinese politics with the BBC’s China editor, Howard Zhang; the progress and the cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine with the BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardener; the threat of famine and the impact of climate change in East Africa with BBC Africa's Mercy Juma; if Colombia might be poised for its first left wing president with BBC Monitoring’s Luis Fajardo and the extraordinary DNA evidence retrieved from the ruins of Pompeii with the BBC’s science correspondent, Victoria Gill. 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: Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) arrived with Premier Li Keqiang (right) Credit: Reuters

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