didn't note the report calls for more intelligence sharing and more training exercises and improved oversight. but it can't address the bigger issue. why did people who call themselves patriots try to overthrow the government on january 6th, rosalyn jordan else's era washington? ah, no, again, i'm fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera, the united nations is warning of a major loss of life in eastern myanmar if no immediate action is taken. if accusing security forces of indiscriminate ass ranks against civilians, armed whoops have been resisting the military gender that's cracked down on defense and seizing power in february. a court in russia is carrying a petition to outlaw political organizations links to jailed opposition leader next, se, nevaeh me, if approved, it will ban. navarro nissan lies from running in parliamentary elections later this

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on 11617 voice the station radio power line of the english coast has a bigger audience. old baby c network combined. and within earshot of israel, the voice of peace speeches. there's no propaganda for change or transient movement rebel radio ships on algebra. the commodore hotel was safe and then you went out into a very grave civil war. i cannot go to the if

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welcome to 960 bay route for several decades. this cosmopolitan city attracted international jet set who could get from the ski slopes to the beach in no time the hotel district, so that the hard to bit to luxury tourism economy. i mean it's hey de hotel, like just in george, the phoenician on the holiday inn will for less wealthy tourists, business men, generally diplomat. and be occasional spies travellers on a tight budget state. hotels like the commodore and in the mid 19 seventy's, it became host to the world's media. when the lebanese civil war erupted. ah, in 1970, a young arab millionaire yusef and his owl took the commodore hotel on

a 20 year lease from the co 80 royal family. nathaniel was a leading investor in the hotel industry in the region and responsible for attracting thousands of tourists, lebanon mohammed chabarise, worked with his island ticketing, and still runs a travel agency near the commodore with the same name. but that by the phases of missouri, refundable, commodore lamb. what are those of aim? bella? can my baker let the mother of joseph and the lady thunder. mel, capital from atlantic radical. organize for the child. a phonetic offer happened to me, but the luxury bay ru lifestyle. of skill the gap between rich and poor, that was white and all the time. the international press used by rude to the barometer of what was happening in the middle east. and one of the foreign

correspondents who predicted the violence in lebanon was tv jonathan nimble b. i 1st went to lebanon in 1972, as a young reporter. and i wanted to see whether something was happening there or not. i stayed in what was then relatively modest hotel called the commodore hotel. the overall impression was of some, some, some as a society which was held together by a rather loose series of ropes. i didn't take much for that to shatter the, the 13th of april, 1975 mo, to the official start of the civil war. it was a proxy conflict thought during the cold war. on one side, lebanese christiy and right wing parties, backed by the us,

wanted to end the armed palestinian presence in lebanon. on the other one muslim left wing parties allied with the pillow and backed by the soviet union. they sold the right wing christians, a simply an extension of israeli and american influence in the country. when the war broke out, an army of foreign journalists headed to be route, including the former bbc middle east correspondent, tim llewellyn. all of whom wanted a safe place to stay. in november, 1975, i was taking what turned out to be one of the last m. e. a flights into base route from london, which was virtually empty except for a few journalists and use it now. who i didn't know, but of course wisdom, it was to turn out that he was the manager of the commodore hotel. so he drew me,

he took out a piece of paper and a pen. and he drew for me various sections of beirut who controlled what, where you could go safely. i said the use of what we needed was a bass. the next time i went to be rude. is if had created this fantastic hotel in the space of a few weeks. the commodore had become that journalist eccentric, the 975 and 76, with the fiercest, 2 years of the civil war, with thick harry and killings. massive destruction and the division of bay route into the christian east and muslim west the full time correspondent, robert fisk decided to base himself permanently in beirut in 1976. so when i came to bed, i already knew the city, but i knew it before. when i went downtown here, i could not believe the, the extraordinary destruction. i mean it takes, you can destroy

a city very quickly, so it's an awful long time to rebuild it. me occasionally went to the commodore with a piece stuff just to have lunch, sometimes meet other journalists. but i didn't stay there. i didn't like it very much when i, i thought it was another cd hotel with extraordinary high prices. the commodore hotel was safe. and so you could be there and it was quite bizarre, really. you could be in the civil safe enclave. and then you went out into a very grave civil war. the under use system dissolves management. the beirut commodore became a global center for news and information. i use it and as i was a young man and he seemed to have an extraordinary uncanny ability

to know what journalist wanted. and he realized quickly and brilliantly, that the journalist would need 1st of all, above all, good communications, what the commodore had and what nowhere else had was communications. and you know, if a journalist has a story and he can't send it, he might as well go home. and you had 3 working topics machines, and they could get your cold lumber. use his bizarre, started by using lines and telex machines from his private business in bay routes london, a man in cyprus, but his reported demands grew. he had to get hold of extra line at any cost of the solid. kenneth, my do me will willard said joseph, i'm out of local law. more that buddied or mental baba about myself was the value for you in you a full the 1st half the matter or shut it

spread. the militias took control of different neighborhoods. the challenge for the commodore was to keep the hotel safe for its media guests. i was there on one occasion when we were down in the bar. and suddenly there was a caustic noise of gunfire from inside the hotel. everyone, duck dot, my mother, you know, everyone was on the floor and the or like that stopped silence. the only sound was of the parrot, which had a peculiar position on the edge of the bar. and the parrot talked quite freely while everyone else's son which made you half, you know, when you're, when you're frightened, you wanted to knock it away. it was funny squawking, parrot was going on talking the african parent's name was cocos,

and his project tricks became legendary. this parrot used to do various things. it could do the opening notes of beethoven's 5th symphony and various other things. but it's, it's p s 2, as the sauce was to imitate an incoming show. on the 6th of june, 1982, israel invaded lebanon. israel claimed it was to take out the pillows, rocket launcher position. but there was more than that to the israeli action. the railey siege of bay root was one of the bloodiest episodes of the whole, sorry conflict. the destruction was enormous, and 20000 lebanese and palestinians were killed and nearly 50000 doing did. amid the may him,

the commodore hotel became the de facto ministry of information. lebanese photo journalist ramsey, hyder, was that the commodore during the israeli invasion, going forward on the lead to man, but not. busy going, but this pass on about on the, on the spot to do getting this city iowa bus, my work about sailor. lemme get there. but we should even have the days of the israeli invasion of lebanon uselessness. our stock power, large amounts of fuel food and cash. millions of dollars, he said enough for the hotel residence and stuff for the month to come. the know so also lent journalists money can feel as usual around me. and i live

in a casual my of the you know, what are you from the, in the muscle for shakopee you thought of said joseph, that your humble pill, my thought is one, we are feel in cash money. no, no, i have full of clothes, better than life for the commodore base journalists joining the invasion with tough west bay root was under siege with constant israeli air raids and reportedly indiscriminate. shelly, but they told the real story i think the barret cj, as i said, was a big eye opener for many correspondence to only eat in the israeli story. but until then. and they were able, at 1st time when they went out to see the suffering of lebanese and palestinians. and they really went off to the story very, very hard,

very hard and harshly. and well, i think at that stage, so if a commenter hadn't been there, the israeli invasion would not have been so well reported. and you can thank the commodore and away to this and the people in it under use. and i think the, the israelis had at that stage in the early eighty's, the worst press they've ever had before. or since the 70 day israeli siege of a root was lifted on the 21st of august, 1982 and the p l. o pulled out of lebanon. there were immediate presidential elections, and the leader of the right wing christian for lungess, but she had jeremiah, who had supported the israeli incursion. became the president elect of lebanese. but jer, mile never took office. he was assassinated 23 days later for

the following 3 days, the 16th 17th and 18th of september, 1982 christian militia supported by israel, took part in a massacre that the palestinian refugee comes of sabra and shatila. when news of the massacre reached the commodore hotel on the 18th, dozens of local and foreign journalists headed straight to the southern bay route sub robert fisk was one of the 1st to enter the palestinian camp. i've never before had to walk and carpets of dead bodies in my life and the smell was appalling. and we went on the saturday morning when the type of finance was still there. the murderous will still will still in the count that can see in the amount of next month, and some of them don't use that. i can be never dorian, who, i don't know what that one,

i kind of solar us on the line and someone should be mad. and we will notice the gym on the feed. again, you said that the national hub, the, the sub ron should to the messages thorough the 2000 palestinian and lebanese civilians killed. i study writing and writing, writing. unfortunately the times didn't come out on sunday, so i had to wait for the next day's paper. but i goal of the story, i got it on the news of the 18th of september, massacres shocked the world and the international coverage angered the israel and all that. those organizations the same day they arrested use of the zone and took him to their base at the st. george hotel. the journalist became extremely angry.

the french, typically a french, organized a petition and sign petition and took it down to the israeli commander, demanding that use of miss. i'll be released. yes, i was surprised. he was arrested because they realized this was a communication center and they didn't want to operate. i think the purpose of arresting uses was to close down the comment of age, years into the fighting. on the night of the chief of august 1983. the commodore took a direct hit, shattering its eastern side of the month to shut it out. they don't know what's going on on my door that i want to feel with 15. it's about me to have the huffy and shut off or that way. and then you wrote of 2 new and inexperienced reporters were sometimes unable to handle a route. a new system,

as our office sometimes doubled as a psychiatric unit. as the israeli withdrawal continued into 1983, the lebanese militia immediately filled that vacuum invite for control region by region. the, the commodore had continued as an international news hub, fairly below work to the camera, men for c, b, c. and took these photos of life inside the hotel at that time. but in 1980 for a new development in the conflict upset that life even more kidnapping to come at a hotel, i think was beginning to lose its attraction as a journalist again to prize around the time of the mid 19 eighties around the time . and the kid mapping,

i think the fear of kids not being started around $84.00. i was maternity kidnapping on me in madam curious street. very close to accommodate. i still remember that was the 1st time i started getting really frightened. and then of course, not them afterwards, terry anderson was kidnapped, longest held hostage with 7 years. and then we all realize we were in trouble. me. terry edison was the senior associated press correspondent on the 16th of january, 1985. he was kidnapped on his way to the commodore hotel 3 years into his detention. his kidnappers released the photo of him wearing a commodore hotel t shirt designed by yusef and his owl for his journalist guests. anderson was the 1st journalist to be kidnapped in beirut. would be the last to be released in 1991

several different groups carried out the hostage taking but the most prominent was islamic jihad. so i wouldn't advise any foreign us to stay here the moment while the situation is so dangerous. in november 1985, such the special envoy to the british archbishop of canterbury, terry wade arrived in lebanon, and it goes ca hostage releases. he stayed at the riviera hotel, but often went to the commodore to meet journalists. on the 21st of november, fighting known as the battle of the flag between different left wing allied lebanese militia controlling west a route reach. the commodore hotel cherry weight was trapped inside with dozens of local and foreign journalists, including ramsey hyde, can. will you wait for half an hour caught off the milan

shed? who with a lot of last we'll yes the i lemme the back to you. but regarding the b. c, cause, once you need general names when you saw that just follow the runs the height of photograph these images of journalists pulling the man's body out of sniper range, then moving it into the back of a car. that image encapsulates the horror of events outside the commodore hotel that night. terry wait, stayed at the commodore and these rare pictures show him making phone calls in the

hotel lobby. negotiations for the release of hostages had so far failed and the kidnapping continued on the 16th of march 1986 like the british journalist john mccarthy arrived in beirut as w t. n bureau chief, a very it was his 1st assignment to a was he checked in to the commodore opposite w t ends officers excited to be staying at the now legendary hotel. i think that had a rather romantic view of what the commodore would be like. i had heard of from other colleagues had been there and stayed there was very aware that it was a famous hotel or the great journalist stayed. so when i got there, i was surprised because it was nearly empty. the,

the street fighting and fear of kidnap drove many foreigners out of west bay route to the christian east side, or out of lebanon to neighboring cypress. so i was told, you must be careful. you know, you'll be a target possibly for one of these kidnapped groups. so stay close to the office in the hammer district and stay close to the hotel. the commodore by april, 19 18630 foreign nationals had been kidnapped in lebanon. it didn't occur to joe mccarthy that he might be next. it seemed like an error for this hotel for level on, for the foreign journalists working there. it was coming to an end, it was closing in around, around me. but also it felt as if the hotel was sort of closing down to mccarthy was then ordered by his w t. n. bosses in london to leave a route immediately. on the 17th of april, 1986,

he checked out of the commodore and headed for the airport. but within minutes armed men intercepted his car, grabbed him and took him away. joe mccarthy would be the last foreign journalists to stay at the commodore. so extraordinary, i started off that morning in april 1986 leaving this rather grand if dilapidated street at the commodore hotel. and then the next room i was in was underground in a tiny, filthy, dirty prison cell, basically as a hostage. and i was to remain a hostage for the next 5 and a quarter years. 9 months after mccarthy's abduction, on the 17th of january, 1987 hostage negotiator terri weight was also kidnapped. he was last seen on the bay root cornish, surrounded by gum and from the druid progressive socialist party,

who are acting as his body guards in my last year captivity, i was held with the 2 americans, terry anson, and tom sutherland, and also with the englishman, terri weight, who gone out to lebanon to try and negotiate our release a few years earlier, but himself been kidnapped. so it's very strange that there we were in a cell with the guy who tried to rescue us and he ended up being a hostage to within hours of terry waits. abduction of fierce battle ensued in west bay routes. 200 people died in the 5 days fighting and the commodore was almost completely destroyed by fire. and there was another kid in the victim this time, cocoa, the pirate hotel manager argument, she borrow, check on the stuff and damage the next day. he contacted the own use of natal who

was abroad to reassure him, the star for okay. but that the hotel was so damaged, it was now uninhabitable. i lit up on any on the bill that i am literally the one day of. and while it was either beveled in mobile up with bob, how funny in 2002, a new investor bought the commodore it was completely refurbished and revived the 5 star luxury hotel in the heart of a root. ah, american journalists, nicholas tetra, perhaps best some details when he wrote during the israeli siege of bay root in a city of survivors, the commodore hotel has proven itself to be a survivor. with

a touch of class, there is no contract which is simple goodies versus badges. it's always more complicated than that. and add one more thing. find a good safe hotel. ah . when the shots came from the holiday and we heard cracks, we heard some noise. this was known as my finale in the most dangerous intersections and sought able he didn't come in through the front entrance. that was what happens to people who were shot. they came into the wrong entrance. the nightly pyrotechnics of the furniture turned to the camera. man said it's good they'll out of here, sorry, a vo holiday and we'll hold on our jazz era. there is no channel that covers world

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