Now on bbc news the travel show. This week on the travel show, im in lebanon, finding out why beirut is hoping to regain its reputation as the entertainment capital of the middle east. We have amazing people who are doing work that is internationally recognised. Also coming up, ill be discovering how an ordinary man became the king of his own castle. Did he build it himself . Himself, stone by stone. It took him 73 years. Plus, lucy hits the british countryside to check out the latest hiking gadgets. Gopro, take a photo. With its mix of minarets and church spires, lebanons capital beirut is a clash of culture and religion between the mediterranean and the middle east. For four centuries, it was the ottomans who ruled here, right up until the end of world war i, when control was handed to the french. It wasnt until 1943 that the struggle for self rule finally paid off. Now this statue here in Martyrs Square was put here to commemorate all of those who died resisting ottoman rule in the
A 28 year old churchwarden has been found guilty of murder, a 28 year old churchwarden has been after tricking his victim, into changing his will for his benefit. Ben field manipulated Peter Farquhar who was 69, duping him into a relationship and then lacing his food with drugs and neat alcohol. However field was found not guilty, of the attempted murder of a retired headmistress who was 83, and whom field also admitted, hed tricked into a relationship. Tom symonds has the story. A respected former teacher and novelist, Peter Farquhar rendered helpless. He had suffered falls, injuries, he had no idea what was going on. I actually. Used to be sort of. Competent. Of course. That second voice is the man who talked his way into peters life. Despite the age difference, his student, ben field, promised to marry him while secretly lacing peters food with drugs and neat alcohol, killing him slowly for his money. Here is a cold, calculating, devious man, who took pleasure from inflicting both p
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A win for the mexican war enough stay with us. However the monsoon rains have made another search northward so pakistan seeing a fair bit of wet weather at the moment are sent in the case into the south of the country white cloud tops showing up here from the heads pushing up into central parts easing a little further north its as well a must see further showers as we go through the next day or so the heaviest of which will be down towards the south and i think we could well see some flooding here as we go through saturday and on into sunday the cloud just not seeing a little further west but also where across the region its generally dry as per usual 45 celsius in baghdad a rather more pleasant 30 celsius there for beirut come down into the Arabian Peninsula the winds tending to drift them from north westerly direction not too bad but i think well just see something of an easterly fade in the winds and that will just be the humidity up as we go on into saturday and maybe also into sun