2025-09-26
26 分钟This is the explanation from the BBC World Service, recorded on the 24th of September.
I'm John Simpson and you're listening to Unspun World,
the programme that goes behind the headlines to find out what's really going on.
This week, Britain and many of America's other close allies recognise Palestine as a state.
But will it actually have any effect?
They are recognising a Palestinian state at the very moment that the land which is meant to constitute that state is unrecognisable.
Syria's president speaks of the UN for the first time in half a century.
Does this mean Syria is safely back in the international fold?
It wants to be open to the world and investments.
It seems that international partners are willing to do that.
regardless perhaps of what type of democracy actually ends up happening there.
And the Taliban cut internet links to northern Afghanistan.
Why?
And what are the likely consequences?
Girls cannot go to school after grade six and the majority of girls now study online and it's going to affect them really badly.
The United Nations is based in New York
because when it was founded at the end of the Second World War,
America was the undisputed global leader.
President Truman, Roosevelt's friend and successor, opened the conference by radio from Washington.
Relegance to the United Nations Conference on International Organization.