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Amid damage and loss of life, Tuesday's explosion puts Lebanon's economy under more pressure. Nizar Ghanem, a resident of Beirut, explains what the government needs to do to get the country back on track. Also in the programme, the recent Black Lives Matter protests, sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May, have reinvigorated efforts to attract disillusioned African Americans to visit and build a new life in Ghana. Plus, the long-awaited new instalment of the Twilight book series is published, awakening fans' nostalgia for the billion-dollar vampire franchise. Boston Globe arts critic Meredith Goldstein takes us through the anticipation, and tells us if the wait was worth it.

All through the programme we鈥檒l joined by political journalist Erin Delmore in New York, and Bloomberg columnist Shuli Ren in Hong Kong.

(Picture: Beirut's destroyed port. Picture credit: Reuters.)