2025-11-14
26 分钟Hello, you're listening to The Explanation from the BBC World Service,
recorded on the 12th of November.
I'm John Simpson, and this is Unspun World,
where we go behind the headlines to find out what's really going on.
On this week's programme,
why exactly are the Russians so anxious to capture the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk?
And that is so that Putin can go to Donald Trump and say, look,
this idea that the West and the Ukrainians are giving you, that somehow it's a military stalemate.
Well, that's nonsense.
We're making progress.
With the great majority of Gaza now in rubble, how difficult will it be to rebuild?
Most people will think that it'll take years and years just to remove.
the rubble.
They don't have nearly enough of the kind of heavy equipment needed.
And how quantum computing, using the strange rules of physics,
could change the way we solve some of the world's biggest challenges.
They'll be able to solve problems that would take our even most powerful computers at the moment millions of years to churn through.
Who's winning the war in Ukraine?
And what does winning really mean, anyway?
For President Putin,