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the. this is the lebanese city of tripoli. it's in the north of lebanon only forty kilometers from the border with syria. quite different from the capital beirut it has

really old buildings and it's neighborhoods markets and old roofed alleys. it boasts more than one hundred sixty landmarks. mosques schools. which means an old guesthouse how moms which are baths markets and water springs as well as beautiful walled engravings. are for her very. crooner. or. her very. good. crooner. further search for. mirth.

never. found. not many people living in tripoli know that this han known as the hunka is there in the heart of their city. it dates back several centuries to the period of ottoman rule when it was donated to the community as a refuge for women who had lost their husbands. own fadi a mother of three is the youngest woman living in the hunka she couldn't find anywhere to live after she was divorced so she came to live in the hunker while she tried to find a job. on

let's start over in russia. and are on the. way harry then i thought well i don't remember what i. heard her. change. the word hunka comes from the persian word. meaning somewhere for long term guests like religious teachers needing somewhere to study. shouldn't be confused with a place for the mentally ill as it was once used in some arab countries like egypt . the word has changed over the years and is now pronounced as hunka or han. the place was actually built over seven hundred years ago when the mom looks ruled the region and was later designated for the exclusive

use of widows. as a charity it's run by a government ministry but has fallen into a very poor state of repair on a little sunk up. somebody. on come as a sauce on comment out about. me that i'm going to. want to come and that that doesn't mean it won't get up there and to have a new comment on the sea i want to see. how many other day if you were there and there's a lemon. but i did it and along with about something that i did everything by mathematical konkan is i don't know where that brigade.

is the oldest resident in the hunka aged eighty and has been living here for over twenty years. word has it when she was a young woman she was quite beautiful. she still has a great memory especially for old songs which is more than happy to sing for the other residents. but if you ask her about her own life story all she says is that i can go in. she flew in. for him and the other women living here a sense of isolation and loneliness have become a part of daily life. her

. birth. her. family. the women and the hunka have thrown themselves on charity but the place is barely fit for human habitation. a shot of her for the reversal here on the fear. most are that number. one is i want to lead do not some of the old model but. you know most of us a third of. a man did more of the. it's

a new day in the neighborhood of the hunk of shops stolz and cafes are opening up.

the greengrocer has plenty of gun deal yet to sell a favorite food for people in tripoli in the spring. other than what the government of the. history of tripoli it goes back three thousand five hundred years. it was established by the phoenicians but then occupied by

a series of invaders from the romans to the byzantines from arab muslims to the crusading franks followed by the man looks in the fourteenth century and the ultimate in the sixteen hundreds. after the first world war came the french occupation of greater syria before lebanon was founded as a separate country in one thousand twenty. has been out into the market and bought basic items for herself and the other hunka women. to qualify to live within these walls a woman must first be a widow and then crucially have absolutely no means of supporting herself

financially the previous occupant of this room had died so it became available to him ali there are three women of that name here but this is all miley gets to work cleaning the gun delia from the markets. this is. known especially for her kindness but her health is poor and she's had surgery in the past. we have the horn while we hear what we have and more of it up mother know the birth of

a movie born. oh the sun will be numbered and the whole all won't be in our theme that. we love it the underling more thought know nothing about the fellow about the mile island. when this mile is husband died she worked as a cleaner at this law make education center. fifteen years ago she moved into the hunka with her youngest daughter and three grandchildren.

in tripoli mameluke and autumn in architecture sit side by side. the hunt guys an ancient mummy look building by next door is the hanging mosque built during the ottoman period.

the mosque has two gates one leading to the hunt the other to a bridge on which the mosque was built which is why it's called the hanging mosque . mother moved to the hunk of when her husband died during the lebanese civil war. although three best. known in the uk are still out of it that. came on i'll give none of the pain and the fact that all kindness and good. that's

inventive in a new one in there. about a forbidden love. a walk and never ending can live. in the comic an. elegant private firm to continue with the. second demo well that. is the newest hunker resident and. very bad. and we should. be the better of a lot of normal. i don't you have that mentor. to me but i'm out of lot. a lot.

of student loans even that i have a big. hunk of became a charitable institution through a process called walk in islam this is when a property is donated by its original owner to the community in perpetuity. that's why its upkeep is the responsibility of the under the endowments ministry the building and the windows are his responsibility. for the magic of. the law were.

moved into the hunka when he was a child although he then left the place is special for him as he met his wife here. and there were. a beer. can i'm going to name i can pray to you. i mean what. for. me the conqueror everyone's last name honestly by them the woman. molly. that was.

really thin behold. we are on. there for about. an hour in the. sense that the story about the. candle lady the. sort of bait don't. you were under no lead to fight you know i had to have. any.

one out of. that field. in the or the feni world. or morn. but. i. so they got it was exactly what. i thought but. i don't want to know that it doesn't have it then just

did i did. a lot of that did it on the summit level with some about that a little bit early but it was a little odd but you know what i heard of this is just a lot of the city. was . was. some of the widows are in tiny amounts of money peeling and cleaning vegetables for other people. but the widows living and the hunka by definition have no real source of income and

so rely entirely on charity and just hope that individuals and organizations will give enough for them to live on. just. it for. the surrounding neighborhood also adds to their sense of insecurity. the boys hanging around the area make some of the women uncomfortable. not all made. well. you could. let me your head.

the widows get regular donations of the basics to live on meat spices bread and yogurt donated by charities. growing up fatherless son in law. managed to get involved in sport and this has given him both stability and ambition. semi it has played for two football clubs one in beirut in the lebanese premier

league and another in tripoli in the second division and then he did among. other panic do you see a few years for him to have. any. middle of the. suddenly. and then managed to miss. some things you'd like the money delisting here. is a matter and i said. i know what darby. did that is you all are a mystery and suddenly thing you've. honed. the rick theory deal.

a lot of. things have worked out relatively well for sammy it despite his early life and the refuge but there's a question mark over whether all the female residents of the hunka genuinely qualify for its charitable support. on al jazeera. in a new season al-jazeera correspondent returns with more personal stories from our journalists from around the world. brazilians are getting ready for elections but the main presidential contender is barred from the polls as he serves time in jail for corruption. from the u.s. and beyond faultlines investigates the story beyond the headlines after

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to vote on cavanagh's confirmation later this week. hundreds of thousands of indonesians are still in need of aid on the island of subtle ways see after an earthquake and tsunami hit a week ago more than fifteen hundred people have been killed looting has become such a big problem that the military has been ordered to shoot looters candidates in brazil's presidential race have gone head to head in the last televised debate before sunday's vote they say far right and that. is a threat to democracy but he was absent from the debate site in doctor's orders as he recovers from stabbing attack last month. former president alberto fujimori has warned of his forced to go back to prison or die for the royal record has flee from a lima hospital powers supreme court overturned a medical pardon on wednesday the decision could force him to return to jail to serve a long sentence for she when rights abuses. today i would like to tell your thora

teasin politicians please do not use me as a political weapon because i no longer have the strength to resist it i would like to ask the president of the republic and the members of the judiciary one thing only please don't kill me if i go back to prison my heart will not be able to endure it it is far too weak in order to go through it again do not sentence me to death. western governments have united in condemning russian cyber attacks the us is indicting seven russian intelligence agents the netherlands details of ford attempt to hack the un's chemical weapons watchdog the u.k. is accusing russia of conducting a global campaign of malicious attacks the kremlin denies the allegations well those are the headlines al-jazeera world continues next.

this century's old building in the heart of the historic order of the lebanese city of tripoli has been a sanctuary for widows unable to support themselves many times. and the other widows living here rely on charitable donations of the basics to live on. thirty son makes a deliveries and then she is responsible for the distribution of everyone's share. each widow gets an allocation according to the size of the family are living in one tiny room. yes. some families have grown up but the hunka. daughter. her

brother's wife layla. and then beyond the daughter of another widow. none of them have anywhere else to live. and work and it amidst the rabbit out of that being. the full time of. one of the new thing now most of the story little and own the fia subrace and on duty and young at this the bar not bad about them but the but they are a little bit of the one of. my view. i love the classes but the how there is a but i have the best the luck bus the bus already back in fianna to cap the two i left you and the safe a hell of a day on your telly if all. the see in the gutter of a bit and a half hour read what i've written i read with

a lady azure about malecki many asvab at the landline about it as are some women as out of breath with a little luck muffy me some and no man to see in or a color number i have it better not that i've lost my mind the image there is of a clearly and have it in the. long. i don't understand that hunk allison is a mustache assuming he was not even one of them harm up there up to them even some of them be ok any guy who did that in the honky. little

honky. had just given out a. long i live only in. my stand up bad guy theme and if that comes down to. what i love it is and i need one less shot him in heaven hard then when. i was delivered over not only here out there my luck would have died too i like that hope. and hijack. one hundred one legacy went in. with the ferengi dignified and kind he was the. yeah then i was smacked in the lead to. i'll tell my family i want to know if you're going to give. so i love hungrily i mean mr howard well am a family man let's have a dull bit of that

a lot. less than i'm going i am almost like that better better better than bethany . what. with her husband now in jail for drug dealing. no goes to the hunk of every day to share in her mother charity supplies memo and you know we're going to be out on our own and i want all kids not all the world. all too well your way d.m. me how people. will react to. and i was thinking that's the reality and i have now left. when you're there because you.

would. use it as mother miley is now too old to carry on working as a cleaner she relies entirely on charitable donations including money to buy medication. today meat and vegetables arrived and she went to visit her grandchildren. she cooked and invited her other daughter and her son in law sammy is the footballer to lunch. with. me.

then the opus. sure i just writing this right is right very very very day one way this way i'm not going to let my all. the night go and look to what i'm doing with the hey i'm glad you. did.

because the hunger was donated to the community under the islamic practice of walk it's administered by the ministry of us that means that she doesn't simply have to look after the widows and the crumbling old stone structure he's responsible to the ministry for deciding and monitoring exactly who has and doesn't have the right to live here. what are you in them because they can come to them because. rod was there for her in the. very. little arm and a lefty larry is the more you learn well there is exactly how done yesterday for all you know when they said they you know my left. eye model works. for you but obviously had that in my life from the one man he and i were are not global. and my family was in there and him who i found mean women who

were from a woman who were women and i was on our vanessa let use a nice little circle with them and this can feel. welcome aboard with the zulu i didn't know that. shit and as you have a tahoe to bend it isn't fear or knowledge or is a. seriously leaden with the fact that it. even if you can see the. corner. where the shadows but these are the. men and learn the finesse all within one second without a sort of hell let me set your i'm the sheriff there is you know if i did not mean what the will suffice. did that mean second we had. a lefty let somebody. what is a lower limb all on one number stuckey of the and only view them and he she

a lot of middle of. the mother stood a limited so what are the lot about to lead the learned alot on but are still to knowing human history is in progress the way to is can only wait and worry about the outcome. they fear eviction more than anything and hope to benefit from the charitable giving that's an integral part of ramadan. you need because people don't give you stuff you don't go. there was a pro he was telling me of you. can tell us. no no no no no no no no i'm a song. go on yeah you have to move good and i like being. born without alone. would be undernourished your. hair if you're covered up to learn about them or something. a bit alone i would be

cured but neither can i didn't there we turn to our allies are on a lot of the other are the enemy for the child at home and love them i love me a little bit but you. know how. i had. learned. you are like i never really been i obviously don't know man love you nor do you know the piano you're the man that is proctor all day long but still under very dull hold. regular colors. i mean. i'm not i'm big or. you be.

i'm. an inch and. the red cross is called to attend to him who needs urgent medical treatment. on the local. sheriff. the hospital tomorrow but none. of us. remember that that. was down. to the fact that everybody who got three of us going to the first match to watch again to ask. exactly. the sort of you should be so little. was. ok.

oh ok the the fact that i'm very happy that you know i will oh wow ok. back to the old . this. was on the roof of another building lives on molly's son. he lives in one room plus the roof terrace. this evening he's hosting a celebration to mark the birth of a daughter to his sister faisal and her husband sami it. lamb is on the menu. but how did you fuck with. the host

of the. i'm going. to be over but really that you know if. only. that everybody would but what about. the. by nightfall their guests have arrived the extended family and friends of say meet and faisal gather to celebrate the birth of their new baby.

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won my mind on. monday and. i waited again. where did. the town and. judy i'm not blaming but i don't mean i don't mean. well i don't mean i don't mean . in the home so i have a debate. but i live in the what the high school in the. last study and most of the

good that i said and no one on the side of my family is that going to vent to me about less of that than me. and i sort of address the bally. liberal more love. in the work how do. i know most of you. are doing i mean. how do i give me a bad memory with the brain i'm elaine abbott and she with one arm. thank. you very much. and you're going to. have. the women are neighbors and all care about each other but living in such a confined space day after day can lead to domestic tension.

but it's normally short lived and they make up quite quickly it's a tight knit community. and. how do. you know. about. them that would have. brought me like a mad woman. i'm the one with the story that i feel that i live on and i would have found them the first thing that i would think of the moment i mean easy. when i come out and i walk with a pile of and i have been having

a play about the weapon and i found that in the. community coffee that i would kill for that one had a friend that he was a couple of you know it's about you know someone i use a variable i wouldn't use of course might be me. me me man you're one of the young more than a. lot of the endowments ministry has identified women and children who don't qualify to live at the hunka. we've done. them with them at any time in his year didn't work but with a bit more sense that we were and that i'm a long shot. no one inside the home if that means. well you've done. a lot of work but on. why. we go we. we have. but jeff you're us decides to defer any of vixens

until after ramadan. the widows start to receive cash donations during the holy month so in fact the endelman brahim go shopping on behalf of all the hunter residents. but three months after the end of ramadan the hunt in strangely quiet. the rooms were a mile. and ahmed once lived are locked and empty. the ministry identified that there were in fact only two women genuinely qualified

under the rules of the hunger to live there. and on my list six getty have genuinely nowhere else to live and no family able to support. a lot of. laughter. and. so i want to call. them or hunger level but i mean in late twenty sixteen the down ministry decided to renovate the hunger to restore the building. and make it a fit place for homeless and dispossessed widows to live. more like all of them had the amish in the in their own way is one of the then i. heard a lot of but i. only inferred and on my list again remained at the hunka at that

time. and i had three jobs and now i only have one but i'm soo providing for my family. the first time i was admitted to hospital i didn't show any signs of m.s. . a lot but i tell about my opinion when i have become very positive and stop thinking about the negative sides of the mix. of al-jazeera while he is from living with m. and s. in egypt. the in. the in. hello there looks like parts of the middle east we'll see some pretty wet weather over the next couple of days look at the chart force on friday we can see

a few showers are developing in the northern parts of iran and some of these are likely to be fairly lively then as we head into saturday that area of rain gradually spreads a little bit out towards the west over parts of iraq and a bit further east as well so across this region really doesn't quite disturbed elsewhere though staying mostly fine and dry the temperatures now beginning to drop off in baghdad those who a maximum of thirty seven degrees here in doha we're also over the worst of the summer as well quite dry air though for friday thirty nine probably maximum but it drops off as the humidity rises for saturday so thirty seven will be our maximum towards the west we could be a little bit of cloud developing around the mecca area and as the outside chance that we could see a shower out of that a bit further towards the south and force here this largely following dry weather for many of us antananarivo but a warm thirty degrees for us in cape town will wait around twenty for most of the showers a currently just to the east of mozambique looks like they'll gradually begin to ease off there as they work their way northward so you'll see

a couple of showers perhaps around parts of southern madagascar on saturday but away from there it does look largely troy. with. lou.