Discover the. Subscribe to documentary too. Much of beirut lies in ruins rebuilding the city is a race against time i mean its not just us i think everybody in beirut feels like there has been severely injured on august 4th 2020. Rocked the city months on beiruts Historic Buildings remain unprotected in the rainy season and they could be damaged beyond repair. Soso palace is a beirut landmark perched on a hill overlooking the port its being home to mary cochrans family for 5 generations 3 story structure which dates from the 19th century the full brunt of the blast. So we are were 4 men can shift meters in trying to directly in front of the blast the silo is right in front of us no buildings in front of us theres nothing that took the blast or we did so thats why we got a direct hit and thats why its all banks and was out 23. 00 centimeters. So the palace had stood 460 years surviving one and a half decades of civil war and 2 world wars 1st surely unscathed now its fate lies in the han
State department has approved plans to sell 8000000000. 00 worth of f. 16 fighter jets to Taiwan Congress is expected to give the green light that beijing strongly opposes any arms deal with taiwan which it considers a breakaway province Gabriel Elizondo has more now from washington. Weve been hearing rumblings for several days now about this possible arms sale to taiwan but it was on tuesday that the white house gave formal notification to congress on their intention to pursue this arms sale to taiwan and it is a big one worth about 8000000000. 00 it calls for the sale of 66. 00 f. 16 fighter jets to the taiwanese if this goes through it would be the biggest arms purchases by taiwan in nearly 20 years now this also is part of the trumpet ministrations bigger plan since trump has been in office last 3 years or so to get closer relations to taiwan the Trump Administration has sent high level visitations everybody visitors to taiwan its opened a diplomatic offices in taipei and the Trump
a cbe for a saudi tycoon, who gave £1.5 million to a palace charity. the prince s foundation says it takes the claims very seriously and the matter is under investigation. the story also features on the front of the mail on sunday. the independent reports that number 10 has been plotting how to cut scotland s nicola sturgeon out of cop26, for fear she ll hijack the climate event to promote independence. and the mirror s front page says 16 and 17 year olds are facing five hour trips to get a jab as many towns don t have walk in centres. so let s begin, jessica, can you talk is through the story in the sunday times and the mail about prince charles s aid, michael fawcett, he fixed a cbe for a saudi tycoon, according to both the sunday