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Today the world over, farmers watch the sky for rain and our correspondent heads for the wine country in Chile to find out how they're

coping with a 10-year mega drought. One of the scourges of modern life is online

abuse and in the Philippines it's so bad they've formed a troll patrol to beat the

abusers at their own game. What's it like to face a second lockdown? We hear from Australia, where the people of Melbourne have

been stuck in one since July, and it's taking its toll on mental health. And you would like to avoid two weeks quarantine? We find out how, by

traveling along the so-called Corona curtain on the West German border and not

stepping on the wrong place on the floor.

First to Lebanon, still without a government after the last one resigned in response to

public outrage following the massive explosion in the port of Beirut.

The French President this week said he was ashamed of the Lebanese political leaders.

And it's not just the blast, the economy's in crisis with the currency plunging,

added to the pandemic forcing nearly a third of businesses to close, leaving thousands jobless.

As Leila Molana Allen says, people are leaving in droves.

Almost a year ago, I met a young man called Rami. His story was like that of so many young Lebanese. After

university he left home in search of better work opportunities abroad. He'd been working

in finance in Dubai for more than a decade. What made

Rami different though was that he decided to come back. As we watched Lebanon

erupt in popular protests last October, He told me he believed the country

was finally on the road to a better future and was giving himself a year to make a

new life here work. Since then Lebanon has transformed but not in the way he hoped. Living

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