John Simpson takes a look at the world
With the end of US combat operations in Iraq, Simpson's World takes you to parts of the Iraqi capital which for seven years have been a no-go area for foreign journalists.
DetailsJohn Simpson talks to the US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, who has been presenting a report to Senate committees in Washington about US troop deployments in the country.
DetailsJohn Simpson speaks to residents of, and visitors to, China's wartime capital of Chongqing, now the biggest metropolis in the world.
DetailsSeven years on from the Iraq invasion, John Simpson visits Rasheed Street, in the heart of downtown Baghdad, to see how life has changed.
DetailsBBC world affairs editor John Simpson takes a personal look at world events.
DetailsThe BBC's world affairs editor, John Simpson, takes a personal look at global issues.
DetailsJohn Simpson meets the American commander of the international force in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, who is confident armed forces can start withdrawing in 2011.
DetailsAfter one of the most audacious attacks on Kabul by the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai tells John Simpson that he seeks peace at any cost.
DetailsJohn Simpson travels to Bucharest to talk to Ion Iliescu, the leader of the Romanian revolution and first president of post-communist Romania.
DetailsTwenty years after the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, which toppled the communist regime, John Simpson talks to one of its leaders, Vaclav Havel.
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