Lebanon: Turkish firm cuts off electricity supply - a podcast by BBC World Service

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Turkey's Karpowership provided a quarter of Lebanon's electricity, but has cut the supply. The company says it made the decision after 18 months of unpaid bills, and Beirut-based journalist Luna Safwan explains the implications.
Also in the programme, as Greece prepares to reopen to international visitors, we speak to hotelier George Filippidis about how his business has coped with a lack of trade.
Plus, we examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on church finances around the world. Father Aquinas Duffy is parish priest at St Brigid's Catholic Church in Cabinteely, Ireland, and tells us funds for his diocese are down around 70%. We hear from Father Augusto Zampini, who is on the Pope's Covid Task Force about how the Catholic church is preparing for the future. And Reverend Dr Prince Raney Rivers, senior minister at Union Baptist Church in North Carolina discusses alternative ways of fundraising that have ensured donations to his church rebounded to normal levels.

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