Beirut looks back on 2020: a blast in a pandemic

One country perhaps more keen to see the back of 2020 than any other is Lebanon, which still reels from the blast that devastated its capital city. The explosion that rocked Beirut in August killed 200 people and injured thousands more, when nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate ignited in the downtown port area. But an investigation into the blast has failed to find a culprit. And the rebuild of the city, once widely known as one of the most beautiful and vibrant in the Middle East, has proceeded at a crawl. Liz Sly is the Beirut bureau chief for the Washington Post. She speaks to Perlina Lau.