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in a desperate attempt to get their money out, amid rampant inflation and a currency crisis. my guest is lebanons minister of economy and trade, amin salam. politicians have failed lebanon for decades. will that change before the meltdown is complete? minister amin salam, currently in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you, stephen, glad to be with you. well, were delighted to have you in our washington studio. let me ask you, minister, do you think you and your gove...

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Teams, search and rescue teams and their vehicles to the earthquake zone. our correspondent is in beirut. it was really felt hard here in lebanon. we have not had something of this scale and magnitude in the past, of course, with the exception of the port explosion that happened in 2020, august 2020, killing more than 200 people. but that was almost a similar experience. i also felt by building a shaking, and i thought it was an earthquake. however, today was an earthquake. however, today was ev...

And this picture was taken from the same location this morning. you can see the castle has pretty much entirely been destroyed by the impact of the quake. lina sinjab is our correspondent in beirut. she has been telling me that she felt the earthquake as far away as beirut. certainly the first one in the early hours of the morning, around 3am, my whole building was shaking, and some items fell on the floor. it felt as if it was going to collapse and it was like a strong reminder of the port expl...

To calm growing tensions. yolande knell, bbc news, jenin. lets take a look at some other stories in the headlines. clashes have broken out in beirut during protests over an investigation into the deadly port explosion that killed more than 200 people in 2020. families of the victims are demanding that the top judge be allowed to continue his probe after prosecutors challenged his authority. a us military raid in somalia ordered by presidentjoe biden has killed a key regional leader of the islami...