Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment,

and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments.

That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly,

a new weekend program which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring,

and thought-provoking stories you might have missed

from the BBC's business team.

Hello and welcome to this edition of Business Weekly with Lucy Burton.

In the programme today, we'll have in-depth reports from two countries which, in different ways, are suffering

the effects of years of corruption. They are Belarus and Lebanon. In the former, President

Lukashenko is defiant in the face of protesters, angry at his disputed re-election. We'll ask

whether the economy can ever function without relying on neighbouring Russia. In the latter,

Lebanon, nearly three weeks after the devastating blast at the port in Beirut, we'll hear from

businesses trying to rebuild and attempt to understand just why the explosive cargo was allowed to

fester there so long. We'll also be examining the effect the COVID-19 pandemic has had on women. The fight for

gender equality has been put back 50 years, say some experts, who report that women are more

likely either to lose their jobs or prioritise their partner's job over their own in order to look

after children without the usual backup of schools, nursery and family help.

It's not all doom and gloom, though, concerts and gigs here in the UK are restarting,

and we'll find out how it works when the audience has to be two metres apart from each other.

Spoiler, mosh pits and crowd surfing, a band.

Let's begin the programme, though, in Belarus.

Since 1994, Alexander Lukashenko has run the former

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