its political wing is represented in lebanon's cabinet. and the current parliament, while its militias have helped to maintain assad regime across the border in syria, has below also has close ties to iran and is considered by many to be toronto proxy in the region. so now madi, jimmy, i'm up to you as well. i presented themselves as those who fought for the rights of the oppressed for the poor for the occupied, et cetera. but over time, as they entered politics, politics corrupts even resistance. movements, which is how they were described by many people, and seen by many people in, in, in lebanon. and they've become part of the corrupt establishment. the corruption is widely believed to have played a part in a massive chemical explosion that rocked a root in august 2020. more than 200 people were killed and 7 and a half 1000. others were injured. the area around the ports of a route where the blast took place was raised to the ground. almost 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate had been stored in a warehouse without proper safety measures and w

its political wing is represented in lebanon's cabinet. and the current parliament, while its militias have helped to maintain assad regime across the border in syria . has belie also has close ties to iran and is considered by many to be toronto proxy in the region. so no mati from jimmy. i'm up to you as well as presented themselves as those who fought for the rights of the oppressed for the poor, for the occupied cetera. but over time, as they entered politics, politics corrupts even resistance. movements, which is how they were described by many people, and seen by many people in, in, in lebanon. and they've become part of the corrupt establishment. the corruption is widely believed to have played a part in a massive chemical explosion that rocked a route in august 2020. more than 200 people were killed and 7 and a half 1000. others were injured. the area around the ports of a route where the blast took place was raised to the ground. almost 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate have been stored in a warehouse without proper safety measures an

that these groups have on lebanon's political system. she says people are tired of having their lives controlled by what she calls the lebanese mafia. i wish to have a country where my son can go to school and come by safety. i wish for a country where we can breeze clean air, have clean water, have an economy, have a future where everyone is free to think what ever they want everyone to speak to, to dress up the way they want. and i mean, we still fighting for our basic needs. the protests in lebanon continue, but most people have little hope that things will change. some have already emigrated here, as in many other countries, the arab spring failed to bring about the reforms that people demanded as in lebanon, demands for arab spring style reforms came late to iraq. life here, over the past 2 decades, has been chaotic. the international intervention to topple saddam hussein, the rise and fall of islamic state sector area and violence between she is in sunni's and an economy in ruins. but for all the our ruby, the problem is not primar

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 lebanon, for the foreign journalists working that 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 on demand intercepted his car grabbed him and took him away. joe mccarthy would be the last foreign journalists to stay at the commodore. so it's 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 negotiat

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 off it. 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 tides financial was still there. murderous. we're still, we're still in the camp with the 2nd one, and that's most of them don't do stuff. i can remember who at if you had them as th

but it is definitely a force to be reckoned with in lebanon. its political wing is represented in lebanon's cabinet and the current parliament, while its militias have helped to maintain asada regime across the border and syria has below also has close ties to iran and is considered by many to be toronto proxy in the region. so nobody from jimmy on as well as presented themselves as those who fought for the rights of the oppressed for the poor for the occupied, et cetera. but over time, as they entered politics, politics corrupts even resistance. movements, which is how they were described by many people, and seen by many people in, in, in lebanon. and they've become part of the corrupt establishment. the corruption is widely believed to have played a part in a massive chemical explosion that rocked a root in august 2020. more than 200 people were killed and 7 and a half 1000. others were injured. the area around the ports of a route where the blast took place was raised to the ground. almost 3000 tons of ammonium nitrate had been stored in a w

seat in parliament shortly after the explosion in protest against corruption and mismanagement and lebanon's government. the ticking bomb was dentist in be rude. under our nose, the government, the president, they all knew about it more than you mean the roots and they did nothing. and we trusted them for so long with just the christian leader that he was christian. and the thing to do with cindy in the, you know, they're not, they have nothing to do with god. there's a bunch of devils trying to rule a country of who people of divided people. i, while an investigation into the disaster was launched, there has been political interference and a lack of accountability on all sides for explosive material having been stored in the port. paula, yoko beyond hopes that the people of lebanon will demand reforms aimed at breaking the sectarian stranglehold that these groups have on lebanon's political system. she says people are tired of having their lives controlled by what she calls the lebanese mafia. i was to have a country where my son can go to school and come by safety. i wish for the country w

its political wing is represented in lebanon's cabinet. and the current parliament, while its militias have helped to maintain us regime across the border and syria has below also has close ties to iran and is considered by many to be toronto proxy in the region. so no mati jimmy as well as presented themselves as those who fought for the rights of the oppressed for the poor for the occupied, et cetera. but over time, as they entered politics, politics corrupts even resistance movements, which is how they were described by many people and seen by many people in, in, in lebanon. and they've become part of the corrupt establishment. the corruption is widely believed to have played a part in a massive chemical explosion that rocked a root in august 2020. more than 200 people were killed and 7 and a half 1000. others were injured. the area around the ports of bay roots where the blast took place was raised to the ground. almost 3 tons of ammonium nitrate have been stored in a warehouse without proper safety measures and was likely triggered by

also coming up lebanon's pounds tumble. so the countries economic crisis deepens the world bank, call us that one of the histories, worst depression. welcome to d, w. business, i'm going to get johnson berlin, but barcelona is back. the mobile world congress is opening its doors to day mobile operators, device manufacturers, and to technology providers from around the world. come together to present new technology, ideas and share industry knowledge. the theme of this year's event is connected impact. the program will explore how artificial intelligence, 5 g, big data, and internet of things will shape the future and continue to transform life. and certainly a main topic. the ongoing pandemic and the role mobile technology played, especially over the past year and a half. now king philip of spain was present at last night's opening dinner and had this to say. therefore, today i would like to acknowledge publicly and applaud and thank the role played by mobile connectivity not only in the professional sphere, but also in the

about situation and lebanon has just gotten worse. we bricked on that story and plenty more. few, after the shortest of breaks. this is our attention the ah, with me ah ah, i use after the food inviting some european leaders such as germany's merkel and frances macro called for renew dialogue with russia, the baltic states in poland said not so fast. thus, there is no consensus within the e u on how to move forward. the ball remains in brussels court the 18 minutes past the welcome back. fuel shortages are adding to the many problems in crisis hits lebanon. prices were suddenly high by more than a 3rd by the energy minister leading to long queues at the pumps. on the surge in the course of consumer goods, violent protests have been rocking the country for weeks, but really on rest has been building since 2019 fuel by the nation's currency, losing valued soaring prices and political instability, local journalist, and that to mean filed this massive car hughes have become a regular side across lebanon, as people line up for hours in fro

and one can only wonder how worse the situation in lebanon can get. the spanish government wants to allow people over the age of 16 to freely change their gender without any mega to medical diagnosis or even a hormone therapy. according to the dr. law children aged between 14 and 16 would need parental permission or a court ruling in case of a dispute. while from the age of 12, it would be the only possible to legally switch gender through the courts. my colleague, you know, neil debated the pros and cons of the law with power, diana, a women's rights activist, and stephanie hayden, lawyer and media commentator in spain. the idea is to involve the court below the age of 16. the court in conjunction with the parents, the child concerned, takes into account all the evidence of that particular individual case and reaches uninformed not prejudicial decision. i think that the system which has been proposed in spain is ideal, the focus of the, the beale in spain. but in any other country, it should be to protect these, you know, people and everyone from dis

i 1st went to lebanon in 1972, as a young reporter. my very 1st article from magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said, this place is waiting to blow. all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country, surrounded by competing nations, ah, from the 1950 to the early seventy's. they route was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking a lead they routes. hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making its favor, jet set destination. the one we speak about bay roots, golden age. as the switzerland of the middle east. we are actually talking about an area, the hotel district, that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project. my name is sort of free, nathan, i'm a political geographer voice based at the university of birmingham. i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. holiday inn came quite late in the day. 1974. it was opened. it came quite late in the day into this or tell district which was considered a playground for celebrities and po

first war now came lebanon. the armies of reporters and war, photographers moved from southeast asia to the middle east. and began to occupy bay route hotel rooms filled up with a news crews. and a new chapter of the cold war began i, most of the correspondence, tv crews and photographers checked into this hotel, the commodore a safe haven in the west of the city in every day. they would set off from here for downtown bay route for the main hotel district, where the holiday inn was the front line. the in the holiday inn was a war hotel in the sense that it was part of an urban battle. a battle between 2 factions of the strategic heights, but it was appraised her tail. so none of the journey was covering the warning. bitter stayed in the holiday and the holiday in became one of the 1st significant physical manifestations of the, of the conflict. my name is kenneth morrison. i'm a professor viewed a p and history. one of my key research interests in the history of war. hotel war hotels are buildings that function

the crisis in which lebanon has been stuck for a year and a half does not cease. i'm standing here in the dark with flashlights and candles, and sadly, this is the reality for many in lebanon, many who are growing, desperate by the day, with never ending crises, one can only wonder what's next, and one can only wonder how worse, the situation in lebanon can get the spanish government wants to allow people over the age of 16 to freely change the agenda without a medical diagnosis or hormone therapy. according to the drop law, children aged between $14.16 would need parental permission or a court ruling in case of a dispute. while from the age of 12 it would only be possible to legally switch agenda through the courts. my colleague, you know, neil put the issue up for debate in spain. the idea is to involve the court. below the age of 16, the court in conjunction with the parents, the child concerned, takes into account of all the evidence of that particular individual case and reaches and informed not prejudicial decision. i think that the system which has been pro

and rage erupt into violence in lebanon. and where a few tries heights have worse than the countries economic crisis. and lead to long pews up to the columns. ah . from moscow to the world, this is and use our nazi i'm you know, neil taking you through the days big story. longer put on you alive, q and a session this year clocked in. at almost 4 hours the president revealed he opted for russia's book. colbert vaccine said that foreign social media and must obey local laws if they want to operate in the country. contains a rush, cough takes us through what was said that allow me to finally reveal he was vaccinated was supposed to be so again, back in april, when he got the shot, he refrained from revealing what was the what was the shot. he said he would not want to advertise for any particular friend saying that all 3 russian vaccines are equally effective. but now when he was asked again, what was it he finally give it away. also touched upon the subject of mandatory vaccination in russia. and you know, probably that some o

the isis in which lebanon has been stuck for a year and a half does not cease. i'm standing here in the dark with flashlights and candles, and sadly, this is the reality for many in lebanon, many who are growing, desperate by the day, with never ending crises, one can only wonder what's next, and one can only wonder how worse, the situation in lebanon can get an overturned migrant ship off the coast of italy . lumper deuce island has left 7 dead, including a pregnant woman with least 8 still missing the vessel, carrying migrants trying to reach europe from africa to capsize. the italian coast guard arrived on the scene. the insolent is being investigated by italian authorities. europe remains in the grip of a crisis with almost $40000.00 migrants officially having made the journey from africa so far this year. in the middle east, violence is flirting. east jerusalem woods, fire workshops, and rock throw and others really saunders. it came as people tried to stop property being demolished. authorities say the dwellings were constructed without the necessary permi

and one can only wonder how worse the situation in lebanon can get. the spanish government wants to allow people over the age of 16 to freely change that agenda without any kind of medical diagnosis. according to the dropped law children aged between $14.16 would need parental permission or a court ruling in a case of dispute. while from the age of 12, it would only be legal to switch genders through the courts. my colleague, you didn't nailed debated the pros and cons of the law with power, diana, who is a women's rights activist and stephanie height and the lawyer and media commentator in spain. the idea is to involve the court below the age of 16. the court in conjunction with the parents, the child concerned, takes into account all the evidence of that particular individual case and reaches and formed not prejudicial decision. i think that the system which has been proposed in spain is the ideal, the focus of the deal in spain. but in any other country, it should be to protect these, you know, people and everyone from discrimination, abuse, homoph

an international tribunal for lebanon has cancelled a new trial against the man convicted of the 2005 assassination of prime minister, roughly caribbean. a 2nd case was to begin soon. prosecuting slim. i ash for a little tax on prominent lebanese politicians. the court says that it will have to shut down completely if it doesn't get funds by the end of next month. lebanon's can't take a prime minister, has asked the un secretary general to find other ways of funding. well, he's a look at why selling i ash is being prosecuted for a tax which happened before and after the holidays. murder in 2005 in october, 2004. while one hummadi, one of the leading critics of the syrian government, was injured in a car bomb attack. the following year, george holloway, who was the leader of the lebanese communist party, was killed when an explosion targeted his car. a months later asked more, the deputy prime minister, minister of the interior at the time narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in 2019 the special tribunal charged. i, ash, and abstention. for the attacks. last year, the court had se

the crisis in which lebanon has been stuck for a year and a half does not seize. i'm standing here in the dark with flashlights and candles, and sadly, this is the reality for many in lebanon, many who are growing, desperate by the day, with never ending crises, one can only wonder what's next, and one can only wonder how worse, the situation in lebanon can get germany's data protection watchdog deserves to government organizations to close the pages on facebook by the end of the year due to the tech, john's noncompliance with german and european privacy laws. the tolliver in berlin has details. facebook just doesn't cut that when it comes to privacy law when you and german privacy law that's according to the timber who's the data protection commissioner, germany, he's told the german government and all german government organizations, they've got until the end of the year to close down their facebook pages, but not just their facebook old associated facebook, social media. so that's clubhouse, that's instagram and tick tock as well. it is currently not possible t

i'm alex mile of it. crisis gripped lebanon is facing fresh woes. it's in the form of gasoline shortages, i'm power cuts. that's after the countries energy ministry increased fuel prices buy more than a 3rd. instead, long queues for petrol and triggered price times on all sorts of consumer goods. of course, that violent protests have been rock in the country now they've been doing so for weeks on rest. and lebanon has been gaining momentum since 2019 fueled by the currency, the valuing soaring crisis, and political instability and local correspondence. linda, come in for message per cues, have become a regular site across lebanon, as people line up for hours in front of gas pumps, causing heavy congestion. the country which had so far subsidized fuel medicine and has now begun rolling back a subsidy program starting with fuel to preserve its last remaining foreign currency reserves. petrol prices have increased by more than 35 percent as a consequence, and medicine could be next. some residents say they spend the entire night in their car, only to b

the crisis in which lebanon has been stuck for a year and a half does not cease. i'm standing here in the dark with flashlights and candles, and sadly, this is the reality for many in leather on. many who are growing. desperate by the day was never ending crises. one can only wonder what's next, and one can only wonder how worse the situation in lebanon can get. the spanish government wants to allow people over the age of 16 to freely change the agenda without a medical diagnosis or hormone therapy. according to a draft glue children age 1414 is 16, they would need parental permission or a court ruling in case of a dispute from the age of 12, it would only be possible to legally switch gender through the course. i colleague in, in a neil debated the pros and cons of this law with the powder deanna, women's rights activist and stephanie hayden, lawyer, immediate commentator in spain. the idea is to involve the court. below the age of 16, the court in conjunction with the parents, the child concerned, takes into account of all the evidence of that particular individ

we'll look at some locations from lebanon's crisis. ah, the former u. s. police officer, derek sylvan, has been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for murdering george floyds. the judge said shogun inflicted particular cruelty on floyd before his death in may last year. video show and kneeling on for the next want worldwide protests against racism and police brutality. john henderson reports now from minneapolis. derrick jovan, his drawn the longest sentence for a convicted police officer in minnesota history for the murder of george floyd. as for the one, the court committed to the cause of the commission of corrections for a period of 270 months of 270. that is that tenure addition to the presumptive sentence of $150.00. this is based on your abuse of a position of trust in authority and also the particular cruelty shown to george floyd. the $22.00 and a half years sentence was well under the 40 year maximum. but a decade over the state guideline of 12 and a half years. but floyd's family says it's still too short. we got justice, but not enou

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it will be a terrible message not only to the victims in lebanon, but to the victims around the world are hoping for international justice. the international community pledged that they would support the victims of these crimes when they established the special tribunal for lebanon. they then mandated lead on to pay 49 percent of the tribute budget with the 51 percent being supported by voluntary contributions. and they also pledge that they would cover any shortfall if there should be any. we all know that level on is in a dire situation. the us has so far pledged to assist by covering lebanon contribution to the tribunal under the circumstances. but the other day, the international community, the management committee states, really they need to support the institution that they have a fabulous which has promised the victims of these crimes justice. they have been waiting for over 16 years and 2 weeks before the start of trial, the trial was cancelled. so they're basically being re traumatized in this situation. for months after me and miles, military suck to civilian government and

so as then it points out in her report lebanon's got economic problems. we'll talk a little bit more about that later, but that essentially means that this court could just be shut down because it can't quite reach what it needs to pay. i mean, surely this should be some sort of mechanism in place which ensures that justice can still be done. that's really a big shame that we get to that really level economy situation, as you said, has so many different practices to be discussed. but that's a different issue, but my question to get is, is the national community committed enough to international criminal justice or not to do the leaders of the word really believes in this concept. and that we should all of them responsible for creating this and continuing to support that. hopefully that will be some just the, some of the assurance stopping they can see that has been happening in the past decades. and this was the only hope for these people, for people who would even just let them all together. and now we're seeing that by the way, we will fight for this. w

hi, money from abroad is the only thing keeping lebanon's economy afloat and the parties going ah hello nice this year we had some wild weather roll across central europe in for the 1st time in 3 years we saw a tornado tear across the southern area of the czech republic, here are those severe thunderstorms that produce it. so let me take you to the ground right now and show you early estimates are pigging. this potentially as extreme as an e. f for twister with wind speeds of more than 300 kilometers per hour. but of course, that will be part of the investigation in the days to come, the act of whether we can find it toward the border a, poland ukraine. we've got some what, whether pushing into bella roofs on saturday and also for the cotto tan peninsula batch of rain and just some scattered showers for the low country. you know, we've been talking about the heat for central areas of europe, but it also extends into the south. so let me show you some of these temperatures is near 37 degrees nicko c a. we could get up to 40 by saturday. ok for africa. the heaviest rain will be toward the

we'll look at how some are cushion from the crisis in lebanon. as the us cruise ship industry ready to make a come back, often more than a year of locked down. ah, that was a risk that there will be a lot of rain in japan this coming weekend. what was champ, a tropical storm, on its way up to was hung she but it's always stay to the east is never going to really engage the seasonal rain. so i think you'll get away with a bit of rain, certainly on sunday in tokyo, but most of homes just a few channels as you might expect. the font about line back the season rains in china are developing once again, the young long, the yanks are just the south. they will be flooding from the as there should be, but to the north of it looks fairly dry. there are shouts around it. fairly warm at $35.00 degrees, beijing and the same is true for north korea. the south is that it should be dry season at the moment for java and for bali. he doesn't, but like you to have to say the indian ocean this far east is quite warm. it's developing more south and you might expect t

he's in a dire situation that you wouldn't have so far pledged to assist by covering lebanon contribution to the tribunal under the circumstances. but the other state, the international community, the management committee states, they need to support the institution that they have a fabulous which has promised victims of these crimes justice. these victims that we heard there impassioned, cleave this morning at the press conference. they have been waiting for over 16 years and 2 weeks before the start of trial, the trial was cancelled. so they're basically being re traumatized in this situation. you hopeful that the, the un secretary general will be able to step in here and the money can be found. i'm still hopeful, and i really hope that the international community, the un, but not only the un individual states for european union and countries that have supported the tribunal and commission far and have supported the tribunal in its achievements. because the tribunal has issued a very important judgment. it found one person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but it established that the cr

about one in four people in lebanon currently are refugees. but the total number of refugees, according to the united nations, now has risen to over 79 million. what will be your initiatives before the u.n. to get the u.n. to deal rather than with counting actually finding ways to relocate and/or at least make livable situation for those refugees scattered around the world? ms. thomas-greenfield: thank you for that question. i met yesterday and participated in a program with the high commissioner for refugees, felipo grande, and we had three refugees participate in that discussion and we talked about how we can find long-term durable solutions for refugees. the u.s. has always been a major contributor to refugee resettlement. mr. grande told us yesterday they only resettled 35,000 people. that 35,000 number is 2/3 less than the u.s. would have resettled in previous years. so, one, we need to work to rejum our -- resume our resettlement program, as the biden administration has already settled. we need to push countries to move their resettlemen

there is a financial lifeline from lebanon. dex pants, that pulls from lebanon's economy may be in free fall, but not in some areas. here, beaches are crowded. so are cafes, restaurants, and pub, the 90 percent devaluation of the lebanese lira that's led to hyperinflation. isn't the problem for those who are able to get access to foreign currency, at least for now, getting paid. and that's the only amino survival that you're getting paid in the renew 0 from a lack of foreign currency has greater shortages of fuel, electricity, medicine, and other essential the crisis is step to worse. and as the states gradually lift subsidies, the world bank says the financial crisis is one of the worst the world has seen in 150 years. and the united nations says 1500000 lebanese and estimates a 3rd of the population need vital assistance. a large community, at least double the size of living on the population, is helping keep its economy afloat. remittances from the dyess poorer have been the country's main source of capital inflows for years, translating more than $7000000000.00 a year. and also they

long lines of cars, q across lebanon for sheriff in sufficient supply of gasoline. young people, meanwhile, are facing and increasingly bleak future. like this, 16 year old school dropout now works in an auto workshop the young and suddenly i woke up and found poverty. everything is expensive and the dollar exchange rate is high. you can't go to the amusement park or the beach. you stay at work from morning to evening. after you finish, you go home and sleep. the crisis is largely the result of 3 decades of financial mismanagement by successive governments following lebanon civil war. but it's been made even worse by a global pandemic, and a billions of dollars of damage caused by last year's deadly blast and bay report and outraged lebanese public went their government to solve the crisis and fast with the economy and forced to contract 20 percent. this year the problems are far from over the let's get more on that from the correspondence in beirut boss, the letter reading, he says, 11 need economy is deteriorating fast. we were talking before the previous month ab