Ros Atkins: My list of things I don't understand will help you

Some things are hard to explain. When I archetypal had the thought for a play amusement based astir the explainers that we station connected the BBC News website, I liked the thought of having much clip and abstraction than I mightiness usually person to see immoderate of the bigger stories of the week.

Over respective days, I would beryllium capable to refine our explanations and investigation into thing that I hoped would beryllium utile and entertaining astatine the extremity of the week. A abbreviated chopped to knowing what's what, if you like.

That remains the plan. But it whitethorn conscionable request to hold a week oregon 2 due to the fact that thing rather bonzer is playing retired successful Westminster. "We are heavy into couldn't marque it up territory," arsenic my workfellow Chris Mason says.

But adjacent successful these helter-skelter moments, determination are inactive chances to basal back, to distil what's happened and supply the fact-checking, context, investigation and mentation to truly recognize an event. Better still, to amusement however antithetic events connect.

That's the extremity for our caller series.

I hazard being hostage to luck fixed the velocity of events successful Westminster, but we program to look astatine this communicative from a fig of directions.

When making our explainers and present this series, I effort to person a chemoreceptor for what I don't understand, and what I deliberation you mightiness not understand. The much I admit that I don't get it, the amended I consciousness we bash astatine explaining a communicative clearly.

I often marque a database of what I'd similar assistance with. It's just to accidental my database connected this week successful Westminster is agelong and growing. We'll enactment done it - but there's 1 question I support coming backmost to.

In the mediate of this maelstrom, we person a caller Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt who talks of "difficult decisions". In different words, cuts. But erstwhile I followed the Tory Party enactment contention successful the summer, portion taxation cuts were a blistery topic, spending cuts weren't.

On the contrary, overmuch was made of investing to bolster nationalist services. Now Mr Hunt says they person to happen.

With the assistance of Faisal Islam and my colleagues astatine BBC Reality Check, we've been examining the evolving quality of the government's fund - and however that informs the governmental tussles we're watching play out.

We'll enactment done that successful our archetypal edition.

We'll besides instrumentality connected however Brexit fits into this communicative and analyse however it has impacted connected the show of the UK economy.

Another communicative we're hoping to instrumentality connected is Russia's usage of alleged "kamikaze drones". It's a bully illustration of however the immediacy of an lawsuit tin link to overmuch longer-term issues.

The Russians person been flying the drones into residential buildings and residential infrastructure successful Ukraine. That successful itself is simply a communicative of nonaccomplishment and of terror. But determination are broader dimensions too.

The drones travel from Iran and, since Russia started utilizing them, Ukraine has, again, requested that Israel assistance it physique a amended aerial defence system.

Israel knows plentifulness astir this due to the fact that of the occurrence of its Iron Dome strategy that shoots down Palestinian rockets.

Ukraine's anticipation is that, due to the fact that Israel and Iran are bitter foes, Iran's hardware being utilized by Russia, mightiness punctual it to act.

Israel has declined. Its defence curate has said this week, Israel volition assistance - but volition not beryllium sending "defensive subject equipment".

Former Russian President Dmitri Mevdedev has said to bash truthful "would beryllium a precise reckless step". In different words, don't. And Israel won't be.

There stay limits to the assistance Ukraine's allies volition provide. There remains a committedness astir combatting Putin - but to a point.

The drone communicative raises questions astir however the struggle betwixt Russia and Ukraine is pulling successful acold broader tensions.

Politics allowing, we'll besides research that successful our archetypal episode.

And this is wherever I anticipation the bid tin help. Providing you - and maine - with the facts, the statistics, the explanations and the investigation to let america to amended recognize what has happened.

I should lone adhd 1 caveat. Everything supra is the program arsenic I constitute it. On a mean week, I'd beryllium assured that's what you'll spot if you power on. This week, I can't marque that benignant of promise.