The Explanation Episodes Available now

What does the World Bank do?
Michelle Fleury on the origins and purpose of the global financial institution

What is sportswashing?
Dan Roan on why oil-rich nations are investing huge amounts of money in global sport

What is BRICS?
Can a group of emerging economies change the existing global economic hierarchy?

How does the World Health Organization work?
Tulip Mazumdar looks at the successes and failures of the WHO

What is Five Eyes?
Gordon Corera on the origins of the international spy network

Unspun World: Can anything break the stalemate in the Ukraine war?
Stories from the frontline as tensions rise from Ukraine correspondent, James Waterhouse

Unspun World: How migration is changing European politics
Migration is topping Europe's political agenda. Europe editor, Katya Adler, explains why

Unspun World: A pause in fighting in Gaza
A pause in fighting in Gaza but what鈥檚 it like for those living there?

The Global Jigsaw: Global perspectives on the Israel Gaza war
How the big players spin the conflict into narratives of their own

Unspun World: Can the US and China get along?
Biden and Xi's meeting builds bridges with deals on the military and fentanyl trafficking