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Lebanon in crisis: Beirut blast adds to country's economic challenges

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A month after the devastating explosion at Beirut's port, we speak to the World Bank about the financial help Lebanon needs. Also in this programme: who wants to head up the World Trade Organization? The global body needs a new chief to steer it out of its current crisis. And a different kind of Brexit: meet the British farmers moving to northern France in search of a better income from agriculture.

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