{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/7144a390-7a86-440e-9b2e-db712c18368c/d8fa82fe-828a-4a13-b90a-1a0e1fd4b78c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Is Lebanon a failed state?","description":"<p>Gideon Rachman talks to Chloe Cornish, the FT’s Middle East correspondent, on how decades of misgovernance have led to Lebanon’s current political, economic and social&nbsp;crisis. Chloe recounts how the year since the explosion in Beirut, the country’s capital city, has been one of worsening struggle for the Lebanese people.</p><p><br></p><p>Chloe’s piece, <em>Lebanon’s year from hell: a diary</em>, can be read <a href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/dfb4c56d-3718-4804-98e7-c22eeaa7da96\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">here</a></p><p><br></p><p><em>Clips: AP Archive, Reagan Library</em></p>","author_name":"Financial Times"}