backed talks those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's war hotels lebannon. china could be facing a debt iceberg that's according to western global the trumpet ministration have been insisting towards the saudis and other oil producers that they want to have more production to cool down the prices we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. control the holiday inn and you control the the region around and that's why it was such a bloody battle. the important thing if you were walking around in beirut was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday inn. the bottle of adi even completed to division all the beadle into two sectors east and west beirut. but also for stuff but let's not go on our stuff a while how can the club move from. the most powerful building in the system from it is the holidays. warmer tells our buildings that function as normal hotels but often in the context of real instability. beirut once a jewel in the mediterranean but then torn apart by war. this is the sea front of the

today around three decades on from the end of the civil war the complexity of lebannon sectarianism and the geopolitics of the region mean that the country and its people are still struggling to recover from its effects. the majority of the hotel district has been rebuilt. the enormous shell of the holiday inn still towers over downtown awaiting its fate. no more green line for it to look down on today. but the monument to fifteen years of struggle continues to attract visitors historians artists and filmmakers all seeking to understand the events of the seventy's and eighty's. more than any of the ravaged building surviving the conflict it surely deserves the title war hotel. because we're not at the liver as sure that. rights are being violated. and food are stripped away. in the sand here anniversary of the wishes of the whites that stand up. like this. data for human rights. in nepal poverty leaves children vulnerable and at risk but sometimes those who say they can help cause the most harm one of many shines a light on predators in the aid industry. on al-jazeera. this is al jazeer

today around three decades on from the end of the civil war the complexity of lebannon sectarianism and the geopolitics of the region mean that the country and its people are still struggling to recover from its effects. the majority of the hotel district has been rebuilt. the enormous shell of the holiday inn still towers over downtown awaiting its fate. no more green line for it to look down on today. but the monument to fifteen years of struggle continues to attract visitors historians artists and filmmakers all seeking to understand the events of the seventy's and eighty's. more than any other ravaged building surviving the conflict it surely deserves the title war hotel. a reporter's retreat in a brutal civil war if the commodore hadn't been the israeli invasion would not have been so well. the commodore had become a journalistic center you could be in a safe enclave and then you went out into civil war i started off leaving this of a suite at the commodore hutto the next room i was in was underground in a tiny prison so as a hostage beirut the commodore war hotels on al-jazeera fr

lebannon would become a republic six years later and. he didn't know that the. well at the crossing knew what i know that they are them physically for going out of friends and us and they would be different and you have. well there's that. the british colonial office organized the cairo conference one thousand nine hundred twenty one hosted by the new colonial secretary winston churchill it drew another important line within the british area of influence separating the land east of the river jordan from palestine. churchill came to this brief without any preexisting ideas on the future of the middle east he was in a sense moving as quickly as events were to try and put in place and then administer to structures that could prove effective in securing britain's interests at least cost to the exchequer i mean there have been some. proposals which simply from the zionist organization which were pushing for a palestine being defined in much more extensive to include the east bank of the jordan as well but in the end jordan and palestine and it up being under the same

today around three decades on from the end of the civil war the complexity of lebannon sectarianism and the geopolitics of the region mean that the country and its people are still struggling to recover from its effects. the majority of the hotel district has been rebuilt. the enormous shell of the holiday inn still towers over downtown awaiting its fate. no more green line for it to look down on today. but the monument to fifteen years of struggle continues to attract visitors historians artists and filmmakers all seeking to understand the events of the seventy's and eighty's. more than any other ravaged building surviving the conflict it surely deserves the title war hotel. a reporter's retreat in a brutal civil war if a commodore hadn't been there the israeli invasion would not have been so well for the commodore had become a journalistic center you could be in a safe enclave and then you went out into the civil war started off leaving this of a ground suite at the commodore hutto the next room i was in was underground in a tiny prison so as a hostage beirut the commodore war hotels

today around three decades on from the end of the civil war the complexity of lebannon sectarianism and the geopolitics of the region mean that the country and its people are still struggling to recover from its effects. the majority of the hotel district has been rebuilt. the enormous shell of the holiday inn still towers over downtown awaiting its fate. no more green line for it to look down on today. but the monument to fifteen years of struggle continues to attract visitors historians artists and filmmakers all seeking to understand the events of the seventy's and eighty's. more than any other ravaged building surviving the conflict it surely deserves the title war hotel. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia and literally vanished it's a big business will go into syria when they will take the say on their own thought the sand is are fair game to say with beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so proud of the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investig

hundred five which the special envoy to the british archbishop of canterbury terry waite arrived in lebannon to negotiate hostage releases he stayed at the riviera hotel but often went to the commodore to meet journalists. on the twenty first of november fighting known as the battle of the flag between different leftwing allied lebanese militias controlling west beirut reach the commodore hotel. terry waite was trapped inside with dozens of local and foreign journalists including ramsey haidar. but. there. runs the hide of photographs of 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 waite 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 sixteenth of march nine hundred eighty six the british journalist john mccarthy arrived in beirut as w t n bureau chief it was his first assignment to a war zone. he

hundred five which the special envoy to the british archbishop of canterbury terry waite arrived in lebannon to negotiate hostage releases he stayed at the riviera hotel but often went to the commodore to meet journalists. on the twenty first of november fighting known as the battle of the flag between different leftwing allied lebanese militias controlling west beirut reach the commodore hotel . terry waite was trapped inside with dozens of local and foreign journalists including ransey haidar. well. that's why. there. runs a hide of photographs 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 waite 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 sixteenth of march nine hundred eighty six the british journalist john mccarthy arrived in beirut as w t n bureau chief it was his first assignment to a war

hundred five that the special envoy to the british archbishop of canterbury terry waite arrived in lebannon to negotiate hostage releases he stayed at the riviera hotel but often went to the commodore to meet journalists. on the twenty first of november fighting known as the battle of the flag between different leftwing allied lebanese militias controlling west beirut reach the commodore hotel. terry waite was trapped inside with dozens of local and foreign journalists including ramsey haidar. but. there. runs a hide of photographs of 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 waite 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 sixteenth of march nine hundred eighty six the british journalist john mccarthy arrived in beirut as w t n bureau chief it was his first assignment to a war zone. he ch

here gets one hundred percent recycled organic waste which makes up a high percentage of garbage in lebannon this turned into compost. the problem was before the crisis is that all the stories would go to a landfill and when the crisis happened this was the instigation to build a facility like this one where you have sorting and kobolds thing and where nothing goes through the end of the incinerator. but that's not all on the roof of this refugee center in beirut he's putting some of the recycled waste to good use. of the chalk his company makes what he calls eco boards out of plastic waste they used to create raised beds for vertical gardening the beds a filled with compost generated from the organic waste. the rooftop offers over one hundred square metres of space on which to grow vegetables there are three thousand plants here in all. a group of women at the refugee home have set up a catering service using the vegetables it's their own company. i'm working yeah i'm back here and. i have a big flower. bed my home have. good bread and income. for my my family. meanwhile eddie batar from th

took hostage the prime minister of another country in this case but i missed that how did he of lebannon and of course you know we have these things about under the guise of reform it took a whole bunch of business people walk them into the ritz hotel and give them some beatings so there's a whole mindset that the choirs change a few appointments nots sufficient to change that mindset but we have certain people within the region and you either in egypt and other places certainly in washington we have a president that is more than happy to play with whatever cards he's dealt with from saudi arabia or a kid to get your perspective model on the show thanks very much. protests of flared in the democratic republic of congo off to several opposition areas were excluded from sunday's presidential election police fired tear gas in beni tembo and goma earlier the electoral commission suspended the vote in eastern areas until march and said it was concerned about violence and the ebola outbreak sunday's election is already two years overdue our correspondent catherine sawyer joins us on the line a

lebanese right wing parties backed by the united states aiming to expel armed palestinian groups from lebannon. on the other left wing parties are allied with the p.l.o. and backed by the soviet union who saw the right wing christians as an extension of israeli and american influence in lebanon. only two weeks off to beirut erupted the south vietnamese capital saigon fell to the communists ending over nineteen years of conflict in vietnam television's first war. now came levanon. armies of reporters and war photographers moved from southeast asia to the middle east and began to occupy beirut hotel rooms filled up with news crews and a new chapter of the cold war began. most of the correspondents t.v. crews and photographers checked into this hotel the commodore a safe haven in the west of the city. every day they would set off from here for downtown beirut for the main hotel district where the holiday inn was and the front line. was a war were tell in the sense that it was part of an urban battle a battle between two factions of the strategic heights but it wasn't a press or a tail so none of

the old boy lebannon who ends up suing his parents for bringing him into this world when they can afford to take care of him. this emotional and powerful film has received rave reviews across the world and all highlights the as yellow. but beyond that it speaks to more universal issues of poverty human rights and the global refugee crisis. the film's writer and director says it is critical for people to see these issues in films it's important that we acknowledge that of course we know that this exists but it's important that we change or so i point to prove that we humanize the program and that's way symon cinema is important because it does humanize the program. a growing festival in a culturally diverse arena encouraging local and regional filmmakers to pursue their passion and tell their stories to the world's door such a pari al-jazeera doha. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the forty first us president excuse me george h.w. bush has died at the age of ninety four he was president of the time of the first gulf war in one thousand nine hundred one and also oversaw the fall of

lebannon would become a republic six years later. freedom ash. fell he did know that that corner dollars were. well at the casino. forget about it friends and us. and you have. the british colonial office organized the cairo conference in one nine hundred twenty one hosted by the new colonial secretary winston churchill drew another important line within the british area of influence separating the land east of the river jordan from palestine. churchill came to this brief without any preexisting ideas on the future of the middle east he was in a sense moving as quickly as events were to try and put in place a benefit administered to structures that could prove effective in securing britain's interests at least cost to the exchequer i mean there had been some. proposals which simply from the zionist organization which were pushing for palestine being defined in much more extensive include the east bank of the jordan as well but in the end jordan and palestine and it up being under the same british mandate as you know the end of the first world war

lebannon would become a republic six years later. he did know that the dollars may well at the cost to move ok i know that they are them physically for going out of friends and us and they would be different and you have. very well and there's the. british colonial office organize the cairo conference in one nine hundred twenty one hosted by the new colonial secretary winston churchill it drew one other important line within the british area of influence separating the land east of the river jordan from palestine. churchill came to this brief without any preexisting ideas on the future of the middle east he was in a sense moving as quickly as events were to try and put in place and then administer to structures that could prove effective in securing britain's interests at least cost to the exchequer i mean there had been some. proposals which simply from the zionist organization which were pushing for a palestine being defined in much more extensive terms to include the east bank of the jordan as well but in the end jordan and palest

festival and will be submitted for the academy awards it tells the story of a twelve year old boy lebannon who ends up suing his parents for bringing him into this world when they can't afford to take care of him. this emotional and powerful film has received rave reviews across the world and also highlights the as ya. but beyond that it's makes them more universal issues of poverty human rights and the global refugee crisis. the film's writer and director says it is critical for people to see these issues in films it's important that we acknowledge that of course we all know that this exists and that it's important that we change our point of view that we humanize the problem and that's why a symon cinema is important because it does humanize a program. a growing festival in a culturally diverse arena encouraging local and regional filmmakers to pursue their passion and tell their stories to the world's door such a bar al jazeera doha. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera former u.s. president george herbert walker bush has died aged ninety four he launched the first gulf war on iraq i

hundred five which the special envoy to the british archbishop of canterbury terry waite arrived in lebannon to negotiate hostage releases he stayed at the riviera hotel but often went to the commodore to meet journalists. on the twenty first of november fighting known as the battle of the flag between different leftwing allied lebanese militias controlling west beirut reached the commodore hotel. terry waite was trapped inside with dozens of local and foreign journalists including ransey haidar. but for. me. ramsey hyde of photographs 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 waite 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 sixteenth of march nine hundred eighty six the british journalist john mccarthy arrived in beirut as w t n bureau chief it was his first assignment to a war zone. he ch

old boy lebannon who ends up suing his parents for bringing him into this world when they can afford to take care of him. this emotional and powerful film has received rave reviews across the world and all highlights the as ya'll. but beyond that it speaks to more universal issues of poverty human rights and the global refugee crisis. the film's writer and director says it is critical for people to see these issues in films it's important that we acknowledge that of course we all know that this exists and that it's important that we change or so i point to that we humanize the program and that's the way simonis cinema is important because it does humanize the program a growing festival in a culturally diverse arena encouraging local and regional filmmakers to pursue their passion and tell their stories to the world's door such a pari al jazeera doha. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera former u.s. president george herbert walker bush has died aged ninety four he launched the first gulf war on iraq in one thousand nine hundred one and ushered america to the end of the cold war as