2025-06-26
26 分钟Hello, welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
My name's Ed Butler.
Now on today's edition we'll be hearing from a former finance minister of Lebanon about the fledgling efforts to restore that country's war-torn economy.
Also in the show a special BBC investigation into how so-called ticket pullers are making millions of dollars scalping tickets from top UK concerts.
And after years of liberalising its rules on cannabis sales,
how Thailand may be thinking of cracking down again on legal weed.
When there is a weed shop on every corner,
when tourists were coming and getting high on our beaches,
other countries being affected by our laws, these are negatives.
All of that to come later in the show.
We're starting today, though, with the Middle East.
While fighting continues in Gaza and, of course,
the war of words continues between Israel,
the US and Iran,
other parts of the region are starting to pick up the pieces after years of turmoil.
None more so than Syria,
where the overthrow of the country's Assad regime back in December was broadly welcomed by a population that had suffered huge economic hardship over recent years.
Yeah, there's cheers and celebratory gunfire there on the streets of Damascus.
That was the day that President Assad's regime fell back in December.
Since then, though, progress has been challenging.