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The entire Lebanese government has stood down following last Tuesday's catastrophic explosion in Beirut.
The prime minister said it was the result of endemic corruption which is "bigger than the state" itself.
Angry protests have continued at the government's handling of the crisis, as the country faces economic collapse and food shortages.
Fiona Bruce presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Quentin Sommerville in Lebanon’s capital.
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Struggling with a failing economy and underperforming or inadequate public services and divided over the not always welcome interference of two rival regional powers, many Lebanese hoped that elections in May 2018 (the first in almost a decade) might jolt the state's political establishment into addressing their many problems.
Others were more pessimistic, seemingly unconvinced that anything would change in a country where power is generally apportioned along sectarian or dynastic lines and corruption is widespread.
In the event, apathy won the day. Turnout was low and although some parliamentary seats changed hands, to nobody's great surprise little beyond that seems to have changed.
So what is it about politics in this nation of six million people [? population of Libya, nation] that makes it so resistant to change? We sent filmmaker Nada Issa to find out.
- published: 06 Aug 2018
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In the days after the Beirut explosion, the Guardian followed yoga teacher Jana Saleh as she volunteered to help clear up. She finds chaos, disorder and a lack of support from Lebanese authorities: ?there is no government, no army … nothing’. In the immediate aftermath, she searches through wreckage, helps out older people and clears a hospital smashed beyond repair. More than 150 people died in the blast, around 5,000 were injured and at least 60 are still missing, according to the health ministry
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Cities - The Real Beirut 1 of 2 - BBC Travel Documentary, recorded 02.10.2009
Digital Content Agency and content partners provided multi-media content and services for the BBC World News series The Real, including, titles and incidental music, images and photographs, website design, build and hosting, domain name management and renewal, article and image editing and formatting, cloud services...
Chances are you have watched BBC World News on your travels while staying in a hotel, or sitting on a plane. If so, there is a good chance you have seen an episode from the BBC World News TV series, 'The Real'. Presenters on The Real take the viewer on an exploration of major cities finding unusual locations that tourists rarely see.
"Beirut" -- Mario Bassil, Nadine Touma and Djette reveal their favourite hidden gems in the city of Beirut. Nadine goes horce racing and shares the delights of Lebanese cuisine, Mario shows some tasty tips by going to his favourite sandwich shop and relaxing in the garden of Al-Falamanki. Recorded from BBC on 03.10.2009.
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- published: 28 Jan 2011
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The French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that Lebanon must not be allowed to slide into chaos, following the devastating explosion in the capital Beirut.
He was speaking at a virtual donor conference hosted with the United States. Officials say 220 people are now known to have died, with more than 7,000 injured in the explosion at Beirut's main port.
There have been more clashes with police in the city during anti-government protests.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville in Beirut.
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- published: 09 Aug 2020
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The defeat of the so-called Islamic State has left Sunni Muslim populations crushed and Shia Muslim military forces victorious, although only after terrible sacrifices. BBC Correspondent Feras Kilani returns to the battlegrounds to assess the human cost and ask whether this is really the end for extreme jihadism in Iraq and Syria.
This film is made up of footage shot throughout Kilani's coverage since the Battle of Mosul in 2014. This rare view exposes the harsh and unforgiving reality of war and occupation, and the lengths that special correspondents will go to tell their story.
This Documentary was filmed in the course of 2 years, While covering the battle for Mosul, correspondent Feras Kilani narrowly cheated death, after the convoy he was advancing with was targeted by a VBIED.
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- published: 26 Oct 2018
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Dubai – perhaps the best known city of the United Arab Emirates, with a reputation for attracting the glamorous and the wealthy.
But what's going on beneath the surface? The BBC's Frank Gardner explains how not everything is as it seems.
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- published: 30 Jul 2019
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'This Week' travels to The Lebanon to witness first-hand the destruction and chaos the civil war has caused to the country. And the wide spread destruction caused to the city that was once called the Monte Carlo of the East -- Beirut.
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Video circulating on social media shows a massive explosion rocking central Beirut - shattering windows, knocking down doors and shaking buildings several hundred feet away. Lebanon’s health minister told journalists a ship carrying fireworks had blown up in the port, though the size of the blast heard across the country raised suspicions it might have resulted from a rocket strike or detonation of explosives - deliberate or otherwise. The source of the blast has not been confirmed
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- published: 04 Aug 2020
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CCTV footage from inside St George's University Medical Centre shows the impact of the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
The Governor of Beirut has said that 300,000 people have been left homeless after the enormous explosion, which killed at least 135 people and wounded thousands.
Marwan Abboud added that around half of the city had been damaged by the explosion, amid warnings that the death toll was likely to raise far beyond 100, with many victims still trapped under rubble.
To read more about the explosion, and to get the latest headlines: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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- published: 12 Aug 2020
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Israa Seblani, 29, was smiling and posing for her wedding video when the Beirut explosion hit. Dramatic footage captured the moment the blast rocked the Lebanese capital, killing more than 135 people and injuring thousands more.
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Speaking a day later at the same site, Seblani, a doctor who works in the US and was in the city for her wedding, said: 'There is no word to explain ... I was shocked, I was wondering: what happened, am I going to die?' Her husband, Ahmad Subeih, 34, a businessman from Beirut, said: 'We are still in shock ... I have never heard anything similar to the sound of this explosion'
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- published: 06 Aug 2020
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For over 40 years, the skeletal remains of the Holiday Inn have stood in central Beirut, a constant reminder of the devastating Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990. The 26-storey hotel opened in 1974, at the height of Beirut's economic boom, when the city was still a glamorous, Middle East tourist destination. Its hotel district was "the playground for celebrities, politicians, diplomats and spies," according to political geographer Sara Fregonese.
However, all of that changed in 1975 when the war erupted. On one side, Lebanese right-wing parties backed by the United States, aimed to expel armed Palestinian groups from Lebanon. On the other were left-wing parties allied with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and backed by the Soviet Union - who saw the right-wing Christians as an extension of Israeli and American influence in Lebanon.
In 1975 and '76, rival groups fought one another for control of the city – including the Holiday Inn. The hotel became a notorious sniper position during a two year sub-conflict known as the Battle of the Hotels.
The violence was triggered by what's called the 'Bus Incident' on 13th April 1975 when fighters from the Christian Phalange Party opened fire on a bus carrying Palestinians as it drove through the Phalangist stronghold of Ain al-Rummaneh. It ignited street fighting and shelling, kidnappings and sectarian massacres across the religious divide. The race to occupy and control strategic positions throughout Beirut had begun.
These groups fought "over the strategic heights" of the hotel, explains Kenneth Morrison, a Professor of Modern European History at De Montfort University in the UK. "He who controls the strategic heights could essentially dictate terms." Although local and foreign journalists covering the war didn't stay at the hotel, it's proximity to the front line made it "a part of an urban battle … [It]became one the first significant physical manifestations of the conflict."
The hotel's strategic location also cemented the sectarian divide of the city between the Christian East and the Muslim West, according to Professor Fregonese. "The battle of The Holiday Inn completed the division of Beirut through the green line … and this partition remained for the two following decades."
The former BBC and ITV journalist Jonathan Dimbleby says, "Control the Holiday Inn and you control the region around, so you took the Holiday Inn if you possibly could and that's why it was such a bloody battle." He was one of the first foreign journalists to enter the Holiday Inn and document the aftermath of the fighting there.
"Light bulbs hanging down off the wall, wires, chairs smashed up, a piano that more or less survived, the chandelier is all like this broken, as if it's looking bizarrely like Gargoyles staring down of what humanity have done to itself below. The vision it will not be a surprising vision, but it was surprising that that could happen in Beirut."
British artist Tom Young, who has done research into the history of abandoned buildings, describes the Holiday Inn as "the most powerful building". "It's so famous and so iconic. It's like a giant tomb which remains in the center of the city like an unresolved scar," says Young, whose paintings revive memories of Lebanon's historic past.
Designed by Andre Wogenscky, a student of French modernist architect Le Corbusier, along with the Lebanese Maurice Hindie, the Holiday Inn was built between 1971 and 1974 and opened to the public just months before the war began.
A film by: Abdallah El Binni
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Beirut
Coordinates: 33°53′13″N 35°30′47″E / 33.88694°N 35.51306°E / 33.88694; 35.51306
Beirut (Arabic: بير?ت Bayrūt; Biblical Hebrew: בְּ?ֵרוֹת Be'erot; Hebrew: ביירות Beirut; Latin: Berytus; French: Beyrouth; Turkish: Beyrut; Armenian: Պէյրութ Beyrut) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. No recent population census has been done but in 2007 estimates ranged from slightly more than 1 million to slightly less than 2 million as part of Greater Beirut. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coast, Beirut is the country's largest and main seaport.
The first mention of this metropolis is found in the ancient Egyptian Tell el Amarna letters dating from the 15th century BC. The city has been inhabited continuously since then. The Beirut River runs south to north on the eastern edge of the city.
Beirut is Lebanon's seat of government and plays a central role in the Lebanese economy, with many banks and corporations based in its Central District, Hamra Street, Rue Verdun and Ashrafieh. Following the destructive Lebanese Civil War, Beirut's cultural landscape underwent major reconstruction. Identified and graded for accountancy, advertising, banking/finance and law, Beirut is ranked as a Beta World City by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
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Beer pong
Beer pong, also known as Beirut, is a drinking game in which players throw a ping pong ball across a table with the intent of landing the ball in a cup of beer on the other end. The game typically consists of opposing teams of two or more players per side with 6 or 10 cups set up in a triangle formation on each side. Each team then takes turns attempting to shoot ping pong balls into the opponent's cups. If a ball lands in a cup (known as a 'make'), the contents of that cup are consumed by the other team and the cup is removed from the table. The first team to eliminate all of the opponent's cups is the winner.
Venues
Beer pong is played at parties, bars, colleges/universities and other venues such as tailgating at sporting events.
Origin and name
The game was originally believed to have evolved from the original beer pong played with paddles which is generally regarded to have had its origins within the fraternities of Dartmouth College in the 1950s and 1960s, where it has since become part of the social culture of the campus. The original version resembled an actual ping pong game with a net and one or more cups of beer on each side of the table. Eventually, a version without paddles was created and the names Beer Pong and Beirut were adopted in some areas of the United States sometime in the 1980s.
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Beirut (band)
Beirut is an American band which was originally the solo musical project of Santa Fe native Zach Condon, and later expanded into a band. Beirut's music combines elements of indie-rock and world music. The band's first performances were in New York, in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar. Despite their name, Beirut had never performed in Lebanon until they appeared at the Byblos International Festival in August 2014.
Here is an explanation of band's name by Condon: “One of the reasons I named the band after that city was the fact that it’s seen a lot of conflict. It’s not a political position. I worried about that from the beginning. But it was such a catchy name. I mean, if things go down that are truly horrible, I’ll change it. But not now. It’s still a good analogy for my music. I haven’t been to Beirut, but I imagine it as this chic urban city surrounded by the ancient Muslim world. The place where things collide”.
History
Early years
Zach Condon was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 13, 1986. He grew up partly in Newport News, Virginia and partly in Santa Fe. Condon played trumpet in a jazz band as a teenager and cites jazz as a major influence.
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Lebanon’s government collapses following Beirut explosion, blaming "endemic corruption" - BBC News
The entire Lebanese government has stood down following last Tuesday's catastrophic explosion in Beirut. The prime minister said it was the result of endemic corruption which is "bigger than the state" itself. Angry protests have continued at the government's handling of the crisis, as the country faces economic collapse and food shortages. Fiona Bruce presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Quentin Sommerville in Lebanon’s capital. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
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Struggling with a failing economy and underperforming or inadequate public services and divided over the not always welcome interference of two rival regional powers, many Lebanese hoped that elections in May 2018 (the first in almost a decade) might jolt the state's political establishment into addressing their many problems. Others were more pessimistic, seemingly unconvinced that anything would change in a country where power is generally apportioned along sectarian or dynastic lines and corruption is widespread. In the event, apathy won the day. Turnout was low and although some parliamentary seats changed hands, to nobody's great surprise little beyond that seems to have changed. So what is it about politics in this nation of six million people [? population of Libya, nation] that ...
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In the days after the Beirut explosion, the Guardian followed yoga teacher Jana Saleh as she volunteered to help clear up. She finds chaos, disorder and a lack of support from Lebanese authorities: ?there is no government, no army … nothing’. In the immediate aftermath, she searches through wreckage, helps out older people and clears a hospital smashed beyond repair. More than 150 people died in the blast, around 5,000 were injured and at least 60 are still missing, according to the health ministry Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://is.gd/subscribeguardian What we know about the Beirut explosion – video explainer ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/aug/07/what-we-know-about-the-beirut-explosion-video-explainer 'Martyrs for corruption': the family mourning three fi...
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French President warns Lebanon must not “slide into chaos” - BBC News
The French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that Lebanon must not be allowed to slide into chaos, following the devastating explosion in the capital Beirut. He was speaking at a virtual donor conference hosted with the United States. Officials say 220 people are now known to have died, with more than 7,000 injured in the explosion at Beirut's main port. There have been more clashes with police in the city during anti-government protests. Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville in Beirut. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
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Dubai: Expectation vs reality - BBC News
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Lebanon Civil War 1976 | The Agony of Lebanon | This Week | 1976
'This Week' travels to The Lebanon to witness first-hand the destruction and chaos the civil war has caused to the country. And the wide spread destruction caused to the city that was once called the Monte Carlo of the East -- Beirut. Transmitted in 22/04/1976 If you would like to license a clip from this production please e mail archive@fremantle.com Quote: VT13617 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FMarchives
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Beirut explosion: footage shows massive blast shaking Lebanon's capital
Video circulating on social media shows a massive explosion rocking central Beirut - shattering windows, knocking down doors and shaking buildings several hundred feet away. Lebanon’s health minister told journalists a ship carrying fireworks had blown up in the port, though the size of the blast heard across the country raised suspicions it might have resulted from a rocket strike or detonation of explosives - deliberate or otherwise. The source of the blast has not been confirmed Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub Huge explosion in Beirut shatters windows and rocks buildings ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/04/huge-explosion-beirut-lebanon-shatters-windows-rocks-buildings Support the Guardian ► https://support.theguardian.com/contribute ...
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Beirut explosion: CCTV emerges from hospital during the blast
CCTV footage from inside St George's University Medical Centre shows the impact of the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. The Governor of Beirut has said that 300,000 people have been left homeless after the enormous explosion, which killed at least 135 people and wounded thousands. Marwan Abboud added that around half of the city had been damaged by the explosion, amid warnings that the death toll was likely to raise far beyond 100, with many victims still trapped under rubble. To read more about the explosion, and to get the latest headlines: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.
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Israa Seblani, 29, was smiling and posing for her wedding video when the Beirut explosion hit. Dramatic footage captured the moment the blast rocked the Lebanese capital, killing more than 135 people and injuring thousands more. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/guardianwiressub Speaking a day later at the same site, Seblani, a doctor who works in the US and was in the city for her wedding, said: 'There is no word to explain ... I was shocked, I was wondering: what happened, am I going to die?' Her husband, Ahmad Subeih, 34, a businessman from Beirut, said: 'We are still in shock ... I have never heard anything similar to the sound of this explosion' 'We are still in shock': Beirut bride's wedding video captures explosion ► https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/0...
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🇱🇧 How the Holiday Inn became a symbol of the Lebanese Civil War | War Hotels
For over 40 years, the skeletal remains of the Holiday Inn have stood in central Beirut, a constant reminder of the devastating Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990. The 26-storey hotel opened in 1974, at the height of Beirut's economic boom, when the city was still a glamorous, Middle East tourist destination. Its hotel district was "the playground for celebrities, politicians, diplomats and spies," according to political geographer Sara Fregonese. However, all of that changed in 1975 when the war erupted. On one side, Lebanese right-wing parties backed by the United States, aimed to expel armed Palestinian groups from Lebanon. On the other were left-wing parties allied with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and backed by the Soviet Union - who saw the right-wing C...
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Lebanon’s government collapses following Beirut explosion, blaming "endemic corruption" - BBC News
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The entire Lebanese government has stood down following last Tuesday's catastrophic explosion in Beirut.
The prime minister said it was the result of endemic ...
The entire Lebanese government has stood down following last Tuesday's catastrophic explosion in Beirut.
The prime minister said it was the result of endemic corruption which is "bigger than the state" itself.
Angry protests have continued at the government's handling of the crisis, as the country faces economic collapse and food shortages.
Fiona Bruce presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Quentin Sommerville in Lebanon’s capital.
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The entire Lebanese government has stood down following last Tuesday's catastrophic explosion in Beirut.
The prime minister said it was the result of endemic corruption which is "bigger than the state" itself.
Angry protests have continued at the government's handling of the crisis, as the country faces economic collapse and food shortages.
Fiona Bruce presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Quentin Sommerville in Lebanon’s capital.
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🇱🇧 The State of Lebanon | People and Power
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Struggling with a failing economy and underperforming or inadequate public services and divided over the not always welcome interference of two rival regional p...
Struggling with a failing economy and underperforming or inadequate public services and divided over the not always welcome interference of two rival regional powers, many Lebanese hoped that elections in May 2018 (the first in almost a decade) might jolt the state's political establishment into addressing their many problems.
Others were more pessimistic, seemingly unconvinced that anything would change in a country where power is generally apportioned along sectarian or dynastic lines and corruption is widespread.
In the event, apathy won the day. Turnout was low and although some parliamentary seats changed hands, to nobody's great surprise little beyond that seems to have changed.
So what is it about politics in this nation of six million people [? population of Libya, nation] that makes it so resistant to change? We sent filmmaker Nada Issa to find out.
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Struggling with a failing economy and underperforming or inadequate public services and divided over the not always welcome interference of two rival regional powers, many Lebanese hoped that elections in May 2018 (the first in almost a decade) might jolt the state's political establishment into addressing their many problems.
Others were more pessimistic, seemingly unconvinced that anything would change in a country where power is generally apportioned along sectarian or dynastic lines and corruption is widespread.
In the event, apathy won the day. Turnout was low and although some parliamentary seats changed hands, to nobody's great surprise little beyond that seems to have changed.
So what is it about politics in this nation of six million people [? population of Libya, nation] that makes it so resistant to change? We sent filmmaker Nada Issa to find out.
- published: 06 Aug 2018
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Beirut explosion: the volunteer clearing up the wreckage of her home city
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- Uploaded Date: 08 Aug 2020
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In the days after the Beirut explosion, the Guardian followed yoga teacher Jana Saleh as she volunteered to help clear up. She finds chaos, disorder and a lack ...
In the days after the Beirut explosion, the Guardian followed yoga teacher Jana Saleh as she volunteered to help clear up. She finds chaos, disorder and a lack of support from Lebanese authorities: ?there is no government, no army … nothing’. In the immediate aftermath, she searches through wreckage, helps out older people and clears a hospital smashed beyond repair. More than 150 people died in the blast, around 5,000 were injured and at least 60 are still missing, according to the health ministry
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In the days after the Beirut explosion, the Guardian followed yoga teacher Jana Saleh as she volunteered to help clear up. She finds chaos, disorder and a lack of support from Lebanese authorities: ?there is no government, no army … nothing’. In the immediate aftermath, she searches through wreckage, helps out older people and clears a hospital smashed beyond repair. More than 150 people died in the blast, around 5,000 were injured and at least 60 are still missing, according to the health ministry
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- published: 08 Aug 2020
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10:46
Cities - The Real Beirut 1 of 2 - BBC Travel Documentary
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- Duration: 10:46
- Uploaded Date: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 114020
Cities - The Real Beirut 1 of 2 - BBC Travel Documentary, recorded 02.10.2009
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Chances are you have watched BBC World News on your travels while staying in a hotel, or sitting on a plane. If so, there is a good chance you have seen an episode from the BBC World News TV series, 'The Real'. Presenters on The Real take the viewer on an exploration of major cities finding unusual locations that tourists rarely see.
"Beirut" -- Mario Bassil, Nadine Touma and Djette reveal their favourite hidden gems in the city of Beirut. Nadine goes horce racing and shares the delights of Lebanese cuisine, Mario shows some tasty tips by going to his favourite sandwich shop and relaxing in the garden of Al-Falamanki. Recorded from BBC on 03.10.2009.
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Cities - The Real Beirut 1 of 2 - BBC Travel Documentary, recorded 02.10.2009
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Chances are you have watched BBC World News on your travels while staying in a hotel, or sitting on a plane. If so, there is a good chance you have seen an episode from the BBC World News TV series, 'The Real'. Presenters on The Real take the viewer on an exploration of major cities finding unusual locations that tourists rarely see.
"Beirut" -- Mario Bassil, Nadine Touma and Djette reveal their favourite hidden gems in the city of Beirut. Nadine goes horce racing and shares the delights of Lebanese cuisine, Mario shows some tasty tips by going to his favourite sandwich shop and relaxing in the garden of Al-Falamanki. Recorded from BBC on 03.10.2009.
For more information, see http://www.digitalcontentagency.com/2010/01/04/bbc-world-news-the-real/ .
- published: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 114020
3:53
French President warns Lebanon must not “slide into chaos” - BBC News
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- Duration: 3:53
- Uploaded Date: 09 Aug 2020
- views: 184120
The French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that Lebanon must not be allowed to slide into chaos, following the devastating explosion in the capital Beirut....
The French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that Lebanon must not be allowed to slide into chaos, following the devastating explosion in the capital Beirut.
He was speaking at a virtual donor conference hosted with the United States. Officials say 220 people are now known to have died, with more than 7,000 injured in the explosion at Beirut's main port.
There have been more clashes with police in the city during anti-government protests.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville in Beirut.
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The French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that Lebanon must not be allowed to slide into chaos, following the devastating explosion in the capital Beirut.
He was speaking at a virtual donor conference hosted with the United States. Officials say 220 people are now known to have died, with more than 7,000 injured in the explosion at Beirut's main port.
There have been more clashes with police in the city during anti-government protests.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville in Beirut.
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- published: 09 Aug 2020
- views: 184120
47:07
Iraq and Syria: After Islamic State? [Full Documentary] - BBC News
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- Duration: 47:07
- Uploaded Date: 26 Oct 2018
- views: 895150
The defeat of the so-called Islamic State has left Sunni Muslim populations crushed and Shia Muslim military forces victorious, although only after terrible sac...
The defeat of the so-called Islamic State has left Sunni Muslim populations crushed and Shia Muslim military forces victorious, although only after terrible sacrifices. BBC Correspondent Feras Kilani returns to the battlegrounds to assess the human cost and ask whether this is really the end for extreme jihadism in Iraq and Syria.
This film is made up of footage shot throughout Kilani's coverage since the Battle of Mosul in 2014. This rare view exposes the harsh and unforgiving reality of war and occupation, and the lengths that special correspondents will go to tell their story.
This Documentary was filmed in the course of 2 years, While covering the battle for Mosul, correspondent Feras Kilani narrowly cheated death, after the convoy he was advancing with was targeted by a VBIED.
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The defeat of the so-called Islamic State has left Sunni Muslim populations crushed and Shia Muslim military forces victorious, although only after terrible sacrifices. BBC Correspondent Feras Kilani returns to the battlegrounds to assess the human cost and ask whether this is really the end for extreme jihadism in Iraq and Syria.
This film is made up of footage shot throughout Kilani's coverage since the Battle of Mosul in 2014. This rare view exposes the harsh and unforgiving reality of war and occupation, and the lengths that special correspondents will go to tell their story.
This Documentary was filmed in the course of 2 years, While covering the battle for Mosul, correspondent Feras Kilani narrowly cheated death, after the convoy he was advancing with was targeted by a VBIED.
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- published: 26 Oct 2018
- views: 895150
3:36
Dubai: Expectation vs reality - BBC News
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- Duration: 3:36
- Uploaded Date: 30 Jul 2019
- views: 2907890
Dubai – perhaps the best known city of the United Arab Emirates, with a reputation for attracting the glamorous and the wealthy.
But what's going on beneath th...
Dubai – perhaps the best known city of the United Arab Emirates, with a reputation for attracting the glamorous and the wealthy.
But what's going on beneath the surface? The BBC's Frank Gardner explains how not everything is as it seems.
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Dubai – perhaps the best known city of the United Arab Emirates, with a reputation for attracting the glamorous and the wealthy.
But what's going on beneath the surface? The BBC's Frank Gardner explains how not everything is as it seems.
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- published: 30 Jul 2019
- views: 2907890
26:24
Lebanon Civil War 1976 | The Agony of Lebanon | This Week | 1976
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- Duration: 26:24
- Uploaded Date: 31 Jul 2013
- views: 840417
'This Week' travels to The Lebanon to witness first-hand the destruction and chaos the civil war has caused to the country. And the wide spread destruction caus...
'This Week' travels to The Lebanon to witness first-hand the destruction and chaos the civil war has caused to the country. And the wide spread destruction caused to the city that was once called the Monte Carlo of the East -- Beirut.
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'This Week' travels to The Lebanon to witness first-hand the destruction and chaos the civil war has caused to the country. And the wide spread destruction caused to the city that was once called the Monte Carlo of the East -- Beirut.
Transmitted in 22/04/1976
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- published: 31 Jul 2013
- views: 840417
0:41
Beirut explosion: footage shows massive blast shaking Lebanon's capital
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- Duration: 0:41
- Uploaded Date: 04 Aug 2020
- views: 12875538
Video circulating on social media shows a massive explosion rocking central Beirut - shattering windows, knocking down doors and shaking buildings several hundr...
Video circulating on social media shows a massive explosion rocking central Beirut - shattering windows, knocking down doors and shaking buildings several hundred feet away. Lebanon’s health minister told journalists a ship carrying fireworks had blown up in the port, though the size of the blast heard across the country raised suspicions it might have resulted from a rocket strike or detonation of explosives - deliberate or otherwise. The source of the blast has not been confirmed
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Video circulating on social media shows a massive explosion rocking central Beirut - shattering windows, knocking down doors and shaking buildings several hundred feet away. Lebanon’s health minister told journalists a ship carrying fireworks had blown up in the port, though the size of the blast heard across the country raised suspicions it might have resulted from a rocket strike or detonation of explosives - deliberate or otherwise. The source of the blast has not been confirmed
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- published: 04 Aug 2020
- views: 12875538
0:55
Beirut explosion: CCTV emerges from hospital during the blast
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- Duration: 0:55
- Uploaded Date: 12 Aug 2020
- views: 579086
CCTV footage from inside St George's University Medical Centre shows the impact of the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
The Governor of Beirut has said that 300,0...
CCTV footage from inside St George's University Medical Centre shows the impact of the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
The Governor of Beirut has said that 300,000 people have been left homeless after the enormous explosion, which killed at least 135 people and wounded thousands.
Marwan Abboud added that around half of the city had been damaged by the explosion, amid warnings that the death toll was likely to raise far beyond 100, with many victims still trapped under rubble.
To read more about the explosion, and to get the latest headlines: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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CCTV footage from inside St George's University Medical Centre shows the impact of the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
The Governor of Beirut has said that 300,000 people have been left homeless after the enormous explosion, which killed at least 135 people and wounded thousands.
Marwan Abboud added that around half of the city had been damaged by the explosion, amid warnings that the death toll was likely to raise far beyond 100, with many victims still trapped under rubble.
To read more about the explosion, and to get the latest headlines: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.
- published: 12 Aug 2020
- views: 579086
1:57
Beirut bride describes moment explosion hit during photoshoot: 'We are still in shock'
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- Uploaded Date: 06 Aug 2020
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Israa Seblani, 29, was smiling and posing for her wedding video when the Beirut explosion hit. Dramatic footage captured the moment the blast rocked the Lebanes...
Israa Seblani, 29, was smiling and posing for her wedding video when the Beirut explosion hit. Dramatic footage captured the moment the blast rocked the Lebanese capital, killing more than 135 people and injuring thousands more.
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Speaking a day later at the same site, Seblani, a doctor who works in the US and was in the city for her wedding, said: 'There is no word to explain ... I was shocked, I was wondering: what happened, am I going to die?' Her husband, Ahmad Subeih, 34, a businessman from Beirut, said: 'We are still in shock ... I have never heard anything similar to the sound of this explosion'
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Israa Seblani, 29, was smiling and posing for her wedding video when the Beirut explosion hit. Dramatic footage captured the moment the blast rocked the Lebanese capital, killing more than 135 people and injuring thousands more.
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Speaking a day later at the same site, Seblani, a doctor who works in the US and was in the city for her wedding, said: 'There is no word to explain ... I was shocked, I was wondering: what happened, am I going to die?' Her husband, Ahmad Subeih, 34, a businessman from Beirut, said: 'We are still in shock ... I have never heard anything similar to the sound of this explosion'
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- published: 06 Aug 2020
- views: 457518
25:27
🇱🇧 How the Holiday Inn became a symbol of the Lebanese Civil War | War Hotels
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- Duration: 25:27
- Uploaded Date: 04 Dec 2018
- views: 104227
For over 40 years, the skeletal remains of the Holiday Inn have stood in central Beirut, a constant reminder of the devastating Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to ...
For over 40 years, the skeletal remains of the Holiday Inn have stood in central Beirut, a constant reminder of the devastating Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990. The 26-storey hotel opened in 1974, at the height of Beirut's economic boom, when the city was still a glamorous, Middle East tourist destination. Its hotel district was "the playground for celebrities, politicians, diplomats and spies," according to political geographer Sara Fregonese.
However, all of that changed in 1975 when the war erupted. On one side, Lebanese right-wing parties backed by the United States, aimed to expel armed Palestinian groups from Lebanon. On the other were left-wing parties allied with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and backed by the Soviet Union - who saw the right-wing Christians as an extension of Israeli and American influence in Lebanon.
In 1975 and '76, rival groups fought one another for control of the city – including the Holiday Inn. The hotel became a notorious sniper position during a two year sub-conflict known as the Battle of the Hotels.
The violence was triggered by what's called the 'Bus Incident' on 13th April 1975 when fighters from the Christian Phalange Party opened fire on a bus carrying Palestinians as it drove through the Phalangist stronghold of Ain al-Rummaneh. It ignited street fighting and shelling, kidnappings and sectarian massacres across the religious divide. The race to occupy and control strategic positions throughout Beirut had begun.
These groups fought "over the strategic heights" of the hotel, explains Kenneth Morrison, a Professor of Modern European History at De Montfort University in the UK. "He who controls the strategic heights could essentially dictate terms." Although local and foreign journalists covering the war didn't stay at the hotel, it's proximity to the front line made it "a part of an urban battle … [It]became one the first significant physical manifestations of the conflict."
The hotel's strategic location also cemented the sectarian divide of the city between the Christian East and the Muslim West, according to Professor Fregonese. "The battle of The Holiday Inn completed the division of Beirut through the green line … and this partition remained for the two following decades."
The former BBC and ITV journalist Jonathan Dimbleby says, "Control the Holiday Inn and you control the region around, so you took the Holiday Inn if you possibly could and that's why it was such a bloody battle." He was one of the first foreign journalists to enter the Holiday Inn and document the aftermath of the fighting there.
"Light bulbs hanging down off the wall, wires, chairs smashed up, a piano that more or less survived, the chandelier is all like this broken, as if it's looking bizarrely like Gargoyles staring down of what humanity have done to itself below. The vision it will not be a surprising vision, but it was surprising that that could happen in Beirut."
British artist Tom Young, who has done research into the history of abandoned buildings, describes the Holiday Inn as "the most powerful building". "It's so famous and so iconic. It's like a giant tomb which remains in the center of the city like an unresolved scar," says Young, whose paintings revive memories of Lebanon's historic past.
Designed by Andre Wogenscky, a student of French modernist architect Le Corbusier, along with the Lebanese Maurice Hindie, the Holiday Inn was built between 1971 and 1974 and opened to the public just months before the war began.
A film by: Abdallah El Binni
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For over 40 years, the skeletal remains of the Holiday Inn have stood in central Beirut, a constant reminder of the devastating Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990. The 26-storey hotel opened in 1974, at the height of Beirut's economic boom, when the city was still a glamorous, Middle East tourist destination. Its hotel district was "the playground for celebrities, politicians, diplomats and spies," according to political geographer Sara Fregonese.
However, all of that changed in 1975 when the war erupted. On one side, Lebanese right-wing parties backed by the United States, aimed to expel armed Palestinian groups from Lebanon. On the other were left-wing parties allied with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and backed by the Soviet Union - who saw the right-wing Christians as an extension of Israeli and American influence in Lebanon.
In 1975 and '76, rival groups fought one another for control of the city – including the Holiday Inn. The hotel became a notorious sniper position during a two year sub-conflict known as the Battle of the Hotels.
The violence was triggered by what's called the 'Bus Incident' on 13th April 1975 when fighters from the Christian Phalange Party opened fire on a bus carrying Palestinians as it drove through the Phalangist stronghold of Ain al-Rummaneh. It ignited street fighting and shelling, kidnappings and sectarian massacres across the religious divide. The race to occupy and control strategic positions throughout Beirut had begun.
These groups fought "over the strategic heights" of the hotel, explains Kenneth Morrison, a Professor of Modern European History at De Montfort University in the UK. "He who controls the strategic heights could essentially dictate terms." Although local and foreign journalists covering the war didn't stay at the hotel, it's proximity to the front line made it "a part of an urban battle … [It]became one the first significant physical manifestations of the conflict."
The hotel's strategic location also cemented the sectarian divide of the city between the Christian East and the Muslim West, according to Professor Fregonese. "The battle of The Holiday Inn completed the division of Beirut through the green line … and this partition remained for the two following decades."
The former BBC and ITV journalist Jonathan Dimbleby says, "Control the Holiday Inn and you control the region around, so you took the Holiday Inn if you possibly could and that's why it was such a bloody battle." He was one of the first foreign journalists to enter the Holiday Inn and document the aftermath of the fighting there.
"Light bulbs hanging down off the wall, wires, chairs smashed up, a piano that more or less survived, the chandelier is all like this broken, as if it's looking bizarrely like Gargoyles staring down of what humanity have done to itself below. The vision it will not be a surprising vision, but it was surprising that that could happen in Beirut."
British artist Tom Young, who has done research into the history of abandoned buildings, describes the Holiday Inn as "the most powerful building". "It's so famous and so iconic. It's like a giant tomb which remains in the center of the city like an unresolved scar," says Young, whose paintings revive memories of Lebanon's historic past.
Designed by Andre Wogenscky, a student of French modernist architect Le Corbusier, along with the Lebanese Maurice Hindie, the Holiday Inn was built between 1971 and 1974 and opened to the public just months before the war began.
A film by: Abdallah El Binni
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- published: 04 Dec 2018
- views: 104227
10:56
Cities - The Real Beirut 2 of 2 - BBC Travel Documentary
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- Duration: 10:56
- Uploaded Date: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 32387
Cities - The Real Beirut 2 of 2 - BBC Travel Documentary, recorded 02.10.2009
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Cities - The Real Beirut 2 of 2 - BBC Travel Documentary, recorded 02.10.2009
Digital Content Agency and content partners provided multi-media content and services for the BBC World News series The Real, including, titles and incidental music, images and photographs, website design, build and hosting, domain name management and renewal, article and image editing and formatting, cloud services...
Chances are you have watched BBC World News on your travels while staying in a hotel, or sitting on a plane. If so, there is a good chance you have seen an episode from the BBC World News TV series, 'The Real'. Presenters on The Real take the viewer on an exploration of major cities finding unusual locations that tourists rarely see.
"Beirut" -- Mario Bassil, Nadine Touma and Djette reveal their favourite hidden gems in the city of Beirut. Nadine goes horce racing and shares the delights of Lebanese cuisine, Mario shows some tasty tips by going to his favourite sandwich shop and relaxing in the garden of Al-Falamanki. Recorded from BBC on 03.10.2009.
For more information, see http://www.digitalcontentagency.com/2010/01/04/bbc-world-news-the-real/ .
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Cities - The Real Beirut 2 of 2 - BBC Travel Documentary, recorded 02.10.2009
Digital Content Agency and content partners provided multi-media content and services for the BBC World News series The Real, including, titles and incidental music, images and photographs, website design, build and hosting, domain name management and renewal, article and image editing and formatting, cloud services...
Chances are you have watched BBC World News on your travels while staying in a hotel, or sitting on a plane. If so, there is a good chance you have seen an episode from the BBC World News TV series, 'The Real'. Presenters on The Real take the viewer on an exploration of major cities finding unusual locations that tourists rarely see.
"Beirut" -- Mario Bassil, Nadine Touma and Djette reveal their favourite hidden gems in the city of Beirut. Nadine goes horce racing and shares the delights of Lebanese cuisine, Mario shows some tasty tips by going to his favourite sandwich shop and relaxing in the garden of Al-Falamanki. Recorded from BBC on 03.10.2009.
For more information, see http://www.digitalcontentagency.com/2010/01/04/bbc-world-news-the-real/ .
- published: 28 Jan 2011
- views: 32387
2:57
BBC Pop Up is going to Lebanon - BBC News
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- Duration: 2:57
- Uploaded Date: 25 Jan 2017
- views: 14267
The BBC’s mobile bureau is heading to Beirut, Lebanon for a month in February. The team makes documentaries entirely from your suggestions and would like you to...
The BBC’s mobile bureau is heading to Beirut, Lebanon for a month in February. The team makes documentaries entirely from your suggestions and would like you to help them make the films. What stories are important to you in Lebanon? Benjamin Zand explains how you can get involved. Visit bbc.co.uk/popup to contribute ideas.
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The BBC’s mobile bureau is heading to Beirut, Lebanon for a month in February. The team makes documentaries entirely from your suggestions and would like you to help them make the films. What stories are important to you in Lebanon? Benjamin Zand explains how you can get involved. Visit bbc.co.uk/popup to contribute ideas.
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Lebanon’s government collapses following Beirut explosion, blaming "endemic corruption" - BBC News
The entire Lebanese government has stood down following last Tuesday's catastrophic explos...
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The entire Lebanese government has stood down following last Tuesday's catastrophic explosion in Beirut.
The prime minister said it was the result of endemic corruption which is "bigger than the state" itself.
Angry protests have continued at the government's handling of the crisis, as the country faces economic collapse and food shortages.
Fiona Bruce presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Quentin Sommerville in Lebanon’s capital.
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🇱🇧 The State of Lebanon | People and Power
Struggling with a failing economy and underperforming or inadequate public services and di...
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Struggling with a failing economy and underperforming or inadequate public services and divided over the not always welcome interference of two rival regional powers, many Lebanese hoped that elections in May 2018 (the first in almost a decade) might jolt the state's political establishment into addressing their many problems.
Others were more pessimistic, seemingly unconvinced that anything would change in a country where power is generally apportioned along sectarian or dynastic lines and corruption is widespread.
In the event, apathy won the day. Turnout was low and although some parliamentary seats changed hands, to nobody's great surprise little beyond that seems to have changed.
So what is it about politics in this nation of six million people [? population of Libya, nation] that makes it so resistant to change? We sent filmmaker Nada Issa to find out.
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Beirut explosion: the volunteer clearing up the wreckage of her home city
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Beirut explosion: the volunteer clearing up the wreckage of her home city
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In the days after the Beirut explosion, the Guardian followed yoga teacher Jana Saleh as she volunteered to help clear up. She finds chaos, disorder and a lack of support from Lebanese authorities: ?there is no government, no army … nothing’. In the immediate aftermath, she searches through wreckage, helps out older people and clears a hospital smashed beyond repair. More than 150 people died in the blast, around 5,000 were injured and at least 60 are still missing, according to the health ministry
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Cities - The Real Beirut 1 of 2 - BBC Travel Documentary
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"Beirut" -- Mario Bassil, Nadine Touma and Djette reveal their favourite hidden gems in the city of Beirut. Nadine goes horce racing and shares the delights of Lebanese cuisine, Mario shows some tasty tips by going to his favourite sandwich shop and relaxing in the garden of Al-Falamanki. Recorded from BBC on 03.10.2009.
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French President warns Lebanon must not “slide into chaos” - BBC News
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French President warns Lebanon must not “slide into chaos” - BBC News
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The French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that Lebanon must not be allowed to slide into chaos, following the devastating explosion in the capital Beirut.
He was speaking at a virtual donor conference hosted with the United States. Officials say 220 people are now known to have died, with more than 7,000 injured in the explosion at Beirut's main port.
There have been more clashes with police in the city during anti-government protests.
Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by middle east correspondent Quentin Sommerville in Beirut.
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Iraq and Syria: After Islamic State? [Full Documentary] - BBC News
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The defeat of the so-called Islamic State has left Sunni Muslim populations crushed and Shia Muslim military forces victorious, although only after terrible sacrifices. BBC Correspondent Feras Kilani returns to the battlegrounds to assess the human cost and ask whether this is really the end for extreme jihadism in Iraq and Syria.
This film is made up of footage shot throughout Kilani's coverage since the Battle of Mosul in 2014. This rare view exposes the harsh and unforgiving reality of war and occupation, and the lengths that special correspondents will go to tell their story.
This Documentary was filmed in the course of 2 years, While covering the battle for Mosul, correspondent Feras Kilani narrowly cheated death, after the convoy he was advancing with was targeted by a VBIED.
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Dubai: Expectation vs reality - BBC News
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Dubai – perhaps the best known city of the United Arab Emirates, with a reputation for attracting the glamorous and the wealthy.
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Lebanon Civil War 1976 | The Agony of Lebanon | This Week | 1976
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'This Week' travels to The Lebanon to witness first-hand the destruction and chaos the civil war has caused to the country. And the wide spread destruction caused to the city that was once called the Monte Carlo of the East -- Beirut.
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Beirut explosion: footage shows massive blast shaking Lebanon's capital
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Beirut explosion: footage shows massive blast shaking Lebanon's capital
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Video circulating on social media shows a massive explosion rocking central Beirut - shattering windows, knocking down doors and shaking buildings several hundred feet away. Lebanon’s health minister told journalists a ship carrying fireworks had blown up in the port, though the size of the blast heard across the country raised suspicions it might have resulted from a rocket strike or detonation of explosives - deliberate or otherwise. The source of the blast has not been confirmed
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Beirut explosion: CCTV emerges from hospital during the blast
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CCTV footage from inside St George's University Medical Centre shows the impact of the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon.
The Governor of Beirut has said that 300,000 people have been left homeless after the enormous explosion, which killed at least 135 people and wounded thousands.
Marwan Abboud added that around half of the city had been damaged by the explosion, amid warnings that the death toll was likely to raise far beyond 100, with many victims still trapped under rubble.
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Beirut bride describes moment explosion hit during photoshoot: 'We are still in shock'
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Israa Seblani, 29, was smiling and posing for her wedding video when the Beirut explosion hit. Dramatic footage captured the moment the blast rocked the Lebanese capital, killing more than 135 people and injuring thousands more.
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Speaking a day later at the same site, Seblani, a doctor who works in the US and was in the city for her wedding, said: 'There is no word to explain ... I was shocked, I was wondering: what happened, am I going to die?' Her husband, Ahmad Subeih, 34, a businessman from Beirut, said: 'We are still in shock ... I have never heard anything similar to the sound of this explosion'
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🇱🇧 How the Holiday Inn became a symbol of the Lebanese Civil War | War Hotels
For over 40 years, the skeletal remains of the Holiday Inn have stood in central Beirut, a...
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For over 40 years, the skeletal remains of the Holiday Inn have stood in central Beirut, a constant reminder of the devastating Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990. The 26-storey hotel opened in 1974, at the height of Beirut's economic boom, when the city was still a glamorous, Middle East tourist destination. Its hotel district was "the playground for celebrities, politicians, diplomats and spies," according to political geographer Sara Fregonese.
However, all of that changed in 1975 when the war erupted. On one side, Lebanese right-wing parties backed by the United States, aimed to expel armed Palestinian groups from Lebanon. On the other were left-wing parties allied with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and backed by the Soviet Union - who saw the right-wing Christians as an extension of Israeli and American influence in Lebanon.
In 1975 and '76, rival groups fought one another for control of the city – including the Holiday Inn. The hotel became a notorious sniper position during a two year sub-conflict known as the Battle of the Hotels.
The violence was triggered by what's called the 'Bus Incident' on 13th April 1975 when fighters from the Christian Phalange Party opened fire on a bus carrying Palestinians as it drove through the Phalangist stronghold of Ain al-Rummaneh. It ignited street fighting and shelling, kidnappings and sectarian massacres across the religious divide. The race to occupy and control strategic positions throughout Beirut had begun.
These groups fought "over the strategic heights" of the hotel, explains Kenneth Morrison, a Professor of Modern European History at De Montfort University in the UK. "He who controls the strategic heights could essentially dictate terms." Although local and foreign journalists covering the war didn't stay at the hotel, it's proximity to the front line made it "a part of an urban battle … [It]became one the first significant physical manifestations of the conflict."
The hotel's strategic location also cemented the sectarian divide of the city between the Christian East and the Muslim West, according to Professor Fregonese. "The battle of The Holiday Inn completed the division of Beirut through the green line … and this partition remained for the two following decades."
The former BBC and ITV journalist Jonathan Dimbleby says, "Control the Holiday Inn and you control the region around, so you took the Holiday Inn if you possibly could and that's why it was such a bloody battle." He was one of the first foreign journalists to enter the Holiday Inn and document the aftermath of the fighting there.
"Light bulbs hanging down off the wall, wires, chairs smashed up, a piano that more or less survived, the chandelier is all like this broken, as if it's looking bizarrely like Gargoyles staring down of what humanity have done to itself below. The vision it will not be a surprising vision, but it was surprising that that could happen in Beirut."
British artist Tom Young, who has done research into the history of abandoned buildings, describes the Holiday Inn as "the most powerful building". "It's so famous and so iconic. It's like a giant tomb which remains in the center of the city like an unresolved scar," says Young, whose paintings revive memories of Lebanon's historic past.
Designed by Andre Wogenscky, a student of French modernist architect Le Corbusier, along with the Lebanese Maurice Hindie, the Holiday Inn was built between 1971 and 1974 and opened to the public just months before the war began.
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BBC Pop Up is going to Lebanon - BBC News
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Coordinates: 33°53′13″N 35°30′47″E / 33.88694°N 35.51306°E / 33.88694; 35.51306
Beirut (Arabic: بير?ت Bayrūt; Biblical Hebrew: בְּ?ֵרוֹת Be'erot; Hebrew: ביירות Beirut; Latin: Berytus; French: Beyrouth; Turkish: Beyrut; Armenian: Պէյրութ Beyrut) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. No recent population census has been done but in 2007 estimates ranged from slightly more than 1 million to slightly less than 2 million as part of Greater Beirut. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coast, Beirut is the country's largest and main seaport.
The first mention of this metropolis is found in the ancient Egyptian Tell el Amarna letters dating from the 15th century BC. The city has been inhabited continuously since then. The Beirut River runs south to north on the eastern edge of the city.
Beirut is Lebanon's seat of government and plays a central role in the Lebanese economy, with many banks and corporations based in its Central District, Hamra Street, Rue Verdun and Ashrafieh. Following the destructive Lebanese Civil War, Beirut's cultural landscape underwent major reconstruction. Identified and graded for accountancy, advertising, banking/finance and law, Beirut is ranked as a Beta World City by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.
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