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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The family of a 15 Year Old Girl missing in malaysia thank the search teams who are scouring the jungle for her. More than a Million People are evacuated from their homes as a powerful typhoon hits china. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are martin lipton, chief Sports Reporter at the sun, and jane merrick, whos the policy editor at the i. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. The sunday telegraph details a pledge to be made by Prime Minister borisjohnson to end the automatic release of serious criminals who are currently freed after serving half of their sentence. The sunday times claims that the queen has privately expressed her disappointment in the current Political Class and its inability to govern. The observer leads on a warning from gordon brown that growing nationalism is pulling the United Kingdom apart and driving it towards an unprecedented economic calamity. The mail on sunday leads on the us financier