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Accountability for the blast that destroyed Beirut’s port proves elusive in Lebanon and journalists are not helping.

Contributors:
Lara Bitar - Editor-in-Chief, The Public Source
Alia Ibrahim - Co-founder and CEO, Daraj
Jad Shahrour - Journalist and writer; Communications Officer, Samir Kassir Foundation

On our radar:
Obituaries of former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell have been too kind.

'Foreign agents' and 'undesirables': Kremlin's media labels
Authorities in Russia have been systematically clamping down on journalism with the help of so-called “patriotic” activists.

Contributors:
Vitaly Borodin  - Federal Security & Anti-Corruption Project
Roman Badanin - Founder & Former Editor-in-Chief, Proekt; John S. Knight Senior International Fellow, Stanford University
Lilia Yapparova - Special Correspondent, Meduza

00:00 Intro
02:11 The Beirut blast probe turns violent
11:09 The death of Colin Powell
13:58 Russia's media labels
24:30 End note
Category
World
Tags
Al Jazeera, Colin Powell, Lebanon
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