Locked out of save lives but keeping it in place could lead to economic collapse. And the u. S. City known for its rich musical history refuses to be silenced by the pandemic. Soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanons 2nd biggest city where theres been another day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis at least one man died in tripoli as thousands defied the coronavirus lockdown aljazeera zana holder has a top story. Hunger and hopelessness are driving lebanese to the streets the economy is close to collapsing protesters vent their anger at banks for preventing people from accessing their savings and a long serving political elite is being blamed for mismanagement and corruption in recent days the local currency has sharply devalued against the dollar there were casualties among protesters in soldiers during confrontations that began monday night. When to destry its because the children are asking their parents for food and they dont have money to buy them any the young man who is mounted it was a father he had nothing to lose if your daughter asks for food what will he give up he has nothing to lose. Calls for a change in leadership. A protest Movement Began in october but the ruling elite has clung on to power. Apart from a few we have 128. 00 criminals and palmer thanks to all public funds and transferred billions of dollars outside lebanon even the Army Soldiers oppressed like this salary is now worth 300. 00. Officials acknowledge inflation has increased by 50 percent and 45 percent of the nation of 6000000 people live below the poverty line but they havent presented any plan to restore trust in the economy and fight corruption. We are hungry the revolution is against corruption all official say there is corruption but what have they done we dont see any thief in prison instead they are shooting at the people. Rival politicians who have been in power for decades deny allegations of corruption and are blaming each other for the states near bankruptcy government leaders are accused of trying to topple by tampering with Financial Stability that fuel the anger of antigovernment protesters the leadership opponents say those in power are trying to hold them accountable for years of corruption. The states finances are under immense pressure lebanon has a huge debt to pay and not enough foreign currency the government also doesnt have many friends abroad these scenes could be a warning of whats to come. Well as mentioned lebanons economy has been in freefall for months now with jobs in short supply and the government struggling on the massive debt over the past week the currency has rapidly lost its value forcing the central bank to set Exchange Rates of one us dollar per 3200. 00 lebanese pounds the government is in talks with the International Monetary fund about a bailout of the 5 year proposal aims to boost growth to 2 percent by 2024 but requires 10. 00 to 15000000000. 00 the money is desperately needed with the i. M. F. Forecasting lebanons economy shrinking by 12 percent this year patrick daly is an economist and the president of the lebanese institute for Market Studies he explains why an economic reform bill has been so difficult. The lebanese government have been borrowing depositors money from the Banking System for years and years now the total amount of the posts in lebanon are in dollars dollars that posits are like 114000000000. 00 and the lebanese government borrowed most of it right around like 90000000000. 00 they spent it in the past on different projects on government expenditure Infrastructure Projects and today they dont have the money to pay the depositors back so the depositors are running to the bank they said ok i want my money i want my dollars now however this dollar is not available because the government have spent it in the past and the cut the direct consequence of that is that the central bank and the banks are telling those the procedures we can supply you are money in lebanese pound which has been actually increasing the money supply in lebanon is pound and the creating the inflation youve been talking about and the short devaluation of the lebanese pound on the black market most long holders are domestic lebanese banks including the central bank hold at around 80 percent of the libyan is that only 20 percent is held by International Investors so when the government decided to default on that they mostly defaulted on the lebanese Banking System right so those banks now they will lose around 62 percent of their holdings either directly because they bought government bonds or in directly because they subscribe to some c. D. s issued by the central bank and then the central bank use this money to buy government bonds so in both cases the bennys banks are the main loser from this haircut on bondholders and thats why their clients now are paying the bills leben on 1st of all needs a lot to free form and weve been trying to do reforms in the past years in the past 345 years and it was not working right it was not working because of internal dynamics because you would need. To do some very unpopular reforms like cutting the wage bill you know or. You would need to cut spending massively you would need to do some privatization some devaluation of the lebanese spawn and all those are the forms are very unpopular and you would need somebody you have to impose them on you thats the only way to do the right thing and thats where the i. M. F. Come in and the i. M. F. Does not only imposes those reforms that should be done actually they dont only impose them on you they would also give you some money with them which would be a great a great thing for lebanon because we really lack capital inflows thats actually the main problem here. Of the coronavirus pandemic the number of confirmed corona virus cases is nearing 1000000 in the u. S. President donald trump is promising to expand testing some states begin to ease lock down restrictions and hes met floridas governor who wants to ease restrictions in his state lets go live to our White House Correspondent kimberly how close in washington the president can be uncharacteristically quiet so far today on twitter apart from one tweet again bashing the media for its coverage of the gummed governments handling of the pandemic and retreating inaccurate claims again about testing there in the u. S. Yeah the u. S. President has been pushing back with regard to testing and some of the criticism that in fact the u. S. Might be lagging in contrast to other countries in fact this was the focus of an oval Office Exchange between the us president and one of the pool reporters when the president was pressed to for why he continues to claim that the United States exceeded south korea for example in testing the president pushed back and turned dr debra burkes one of the Public Health officials present there in the oval office looked up the numbers and according to her dad the United States in fact per capita per 100000. 00 actually does kentucky conduct more tests in south korea its a leaven test 4100000 in the United States 17 so the us president looking for an apology from that reporter it just gives you a sense of what was not forthcoming i should know but it gives you a sense of where the president is in terms of his combativeness with the media continuing to push back on the fact that 1st it was ventilators he says now its testing no matter what he does he says the media will criticize its also important to point out when it comes to testing this white house on monday released a blueprint for the states as they try to reopen their economies and push as much of the onus on testing on to the individual governors in each state in other words the blueprint that was released basically says there will be an onus on the states to come up with their own testing supplies the federal government will be the supplier of last resort floridas governor has met with the president there at the white house this morning he says his state has done better than states elsewhere like new york for example whats the meeting been about why is he there. Yeah well the meeting seems to be for this governor about reopening his state hes a republican governor should be noted the u. S. President has a residence in florida and a its almost as if he may be sort of seeking the president s blessing with this reopening and trying to avoid some of the public embarrassment rebuke that was experienced by another republican governor last week in the u. S. State of georgia when he ignored federal guidelines that insisted that in fact you should wait 14 days and have sort of a flat line of new cases of chrono virus in your state before reopening so there was a lot of criticism there the president publicly saying that he thought it was hasty of the georgia governor to reopen so now we have this meeting between the Florida Governor and the u. S. President where he is touting what he sees a success saying that many predicted because this is a popular destination for tourism a Large Population of elderly in florida that in fact many expected to be like new york or italy but in fact thats not been the case so he is touting those 36 ounces but we should point out theres also another headline coming out of this meeting and that is that we expect the u. S. President to have a executive order shortly with regard to the food supply that in this country right now is experiencing shortages of zeros White House Correspondent kimberly how could live there in washington can be many things in a for the blows of the Airline IndustryBritains National korea is set to slash up to 12000 jobs according to its Parent Company i agee thats nearly a 3rd of its workforce the airline is theres a fight its trade unions of plans to restructure the company says that it will likely take years before Passenger Capacity returns to pretend to make levels British Airways suspended 96 percent of its flights for the months of april and may. The latest coronavirus data has the u. K. On track to record one of the worst death tolls in europe the office for National Statistics released numbers which are much higher than those provided by the Health Ministry where figures include people whove died outside of hospital the British Government says the people who die from coronavirus outside hospital will now be included in its daily fatality numbers the decision comes after that. The publication of numbers by the office for National Statistics which included care home and Community Deaths that figure much higher than has been previously given by the government the proportion of coronavirus deaths in care homes is around a 6th of the total which is just below what we see in normal times i want to make sure that we bring as much transparency as possible to enforcement information like this and so from tomorrow well be publishing not just the number of deaths in hospital each day but the number of deaths in care homes and in the community to. This is something that wasnt previously possible. To how is in london with more on why theres such a difference in the data. But if anything they reinforce the governments position that it is too soon to Start Talking about easing the lock down but they also expose the fact now that the actual death toll from covert 19 in england and wales at least and by extrapolation the rest of the u. K. Is quite substantially higher than the official numbers suggest the numbers released from the n. H. S. And put out by the government that take into account only the deaths taking place in hospitals versus the owen s numbers that take into account the much wider picture of deaths from covered 900 taking place in the community at home also in care homes also in hospitals tuesday mornings figures up to april the 17th theres an 11 day lag here that 21284 people died of related causes up to april the 17th at the same time the official number was 13917 theres a difference there ages of 52 percent an enormous difference when you consider. That the numbers coming from the government it puts britain ahead of france and spain in their relative epidemics not quite yet ahead of italy but certainly feels shes gives the lie all the tests the contention of the government that britain is turning the tide on this thing in a very worrying picture emerging as well from the care home industry that augments that difference between she even further. Spains Prime Minister has outlined his plan for a return to normal life by the end of june the easing of restrictions will happen in 4 phases the 1st will see a restaurant terraces opened with reduced capacity and set times for people over the age of 62 children were allowed outside to play for the 1st time in 5 weeks several days ago. Well get a weather update next year on aljazeera ill be back with more of the race top stories but im sure that you havent. Had a few more shots like you know the sections of the middle east meanwhile of course across the south the temperatures have been on the high side but theyve also been a few shots and scott thunderstorms across as a soggy across into castle you can see some pretty strong winds straight interior of. Sand and dust on wednesday and the shadows scattered really throughout areas of the turkey and on again its a Western Areas of iran and all the thunderstorms that are in the day certainly more evident on the rain fairly heavy too as it sits across the Southwest Region but the temperatures up again 36. 00 across into riyadh doha the same on as a say the winds are pretty strong coming out from the south as we had tools and over the week and then down into Southern Africa the rain very heavy still across these coastal areas of tanzania pushing down into Northern Areas of mozambique up in uganda and also southern sections of ethiopia but for the next couple of days a conditions are going to be dry generally much of south africa and will start raining cloud play as we go to warm a day in johannesburg on thursday with a high of 21 degrees some scattered showers the particularly having lighter than we have seen let you close much of madagascar but really across the Central Regions will see the usual way of and of course turning to havea thunderstorms and it later on in the day. Terrorists treat and trace frank assessments why is italy struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus which failure to take really aggressive action will get them behind the curve informed opinions its going to be much more challenging in a place like egypt is one didnt play here very relieved indepth analysis of the days global headlines india done enough to nip the spread of coronavirus in the inside story on aljazeera. Hello again this is aljazeera lets take a moment to remind you the main news this hour soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanons 2nd biggest city tripoli but its been another day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis Security Forces used rubber bullets to 2 to clear demonstrators who said banks on phone. Number of confirmed corona virus cases almost hit 1000000 in the u. S. Far more than any other country in the world but only hospital admissions in new york have hit their lowest level in over a month. And spains Prime Minister has outlined his plan for a return to normal life by the end of june the easing of restrictions will have put in 4 phases the 1st will see restaurant terraces open with reduced capacity and set times for people over the age of 62. Campaigning is underway in burundi ahead of president ial elections there next month the opposition says that its been the target of violence and intimidation in the run up to the boat which is going ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic malcolm web reports. Its election time in burundi the country is still suffering from the crisis caused by the last 15 years ago campaigns have put gone ahead of next months vote for the president and members of Parliament Amid a corona Virus Outbreak theres no social distancing this rally of the ruling party. Definitely. Rights groups say theres not much room for other views because the ruling parties used fear and repression against political opposition. President and currencies are sitting on the right has ruled prune the for 15 years hes now backing one of his closest allies ever reste. Sitting next to him as his successor whose own currencies decision to run for a controversial 3rd 5 years ago plunged the country into turmoil. The opposition said it was against the constitution took to the street. Protests were violently broken up by police. Detentions disappearances and killings of activists and government critics have been reported regularly ever since some opposition parties boycotted the polls. And currency was declared the winner. This time 7 candidates are running for president at this rally supporters gathered to hear one of them. His party says more than 200 of its members have been imprisoned and supporters often beaten by the ruling partys militia where our people are tucked and there is no. Judiciary or Police Prosecution which. Can be conducted against the paper to tires that the opposition rallies again keeping distance. Coronavirus cases of on the rise in the hasnt in force the lock down like some of its Neighbors Health experts say could be a creeping disaster the Electoral Commission says its taking precautions effective. Actually the coronavirus is a concern in burundi and weve been in touch with the Health Ministry whove responded positively to provide kits and other means to protect ourselves during and after the elections. Ruling party spared no expense on t. Shirts flags and caps. A few people believe this election is a process that could result in it leaving power many a concern theyll be more rights abuses and violence along the way malcolm webb aljazeera. Turkeys Defense Ministry says that at least 40 civilians have been killed in 2 bombings in syria its blaming the y p g group for the attacks in africa and in the northwest there are reports that one of the explosions targeted an oil tanker cities but under the control of Turkish Backed troops for 2 years. Millions of war refugees in syria facing whats being described as a potential catastrophe the u. S. Based humanitarian organization Refugees International says that theyre crammed into a small area making them more vulnerable to the spread of covert 19 nearly 3000000 civilians in a province a boxed into an area which was home to just half a 1000000 before the war began 9 years ago so far the virus is blamed for the deaths of 3 syrians and 42 infections mostly in the capital damascus but doctors fear a major outbreak could result in what they call a bloodbath because 83 percent of the population lives in poverty hospitals and it lip fewer than 100. 00 ventilators to treat around 3000000 people so hard trash is a Senior Advocate for the middle east at Refugees International she explains why so many syrians in italy a so vulnerable. At least for the past year and a half have been really going through a very brutal you know all the military offensive led by the Syrian Regime and backed by russia it started last year in 2001000 and brewery it escalated in april and last year 1 1000000 people were displaced because of the offensive then a ceasefire was reach and gave a kind of a rest bite for people but then violence escalated again and between december 2019 and february 2020 another 1000000 people have been displaced so. When you talk to people inside labor or you know all activist and humanitarian workers in turkey they all talk about really very deplorable condition Living Conditions so what we know is theres an estimated 1200000 people who live in refugee camps along the borders they are literally crammed. You talk to people they tell you we dont even have access to latvians you know all. 3040 of them things 50 people have to share the same toilet they have to walk for Long Distance to access all and they dont have access to water and shelter is one of the major issues they are facing you know because of the lack of space because the the territory controlled by opposition groups is shrinking at 21 from 7th out 1000 square meter to 30000 going meter just between last april and now people are literally crammed you know pete of families to 3 families share one tent even in apartments you know families are hosting other families. In france the Prime Minister. Has helped to save 62000. 00 lives this month but keeping it in place could lead to economic collapse plans to air. The 6 week blocked out in france are being discussed in the National Assembly politicians are trying to weigh growing frustration from the millions stuck at home against the risk of a 2nd wave of infections the number of new delhi cases fall and after 165000 infections the ascii is a paris based journalist and president of Reporters Without Borders he says that life in france would return to normal for quite some time. The good news is obviously that there is a prospect of ending or loosening the lockdown on may the 11th the bad news is as the Prime Minister said we will have to learn to live with the virus as long as there is no treatment or vaccine and that will be several months or if not years ahead so the prospect of having this new life where we have limited freedom where our cultural life sports life social life will be limited were working will be subjected to many adjustments and limitations this is a very grim prospect for many people maybe thought a bit too too quickly thats been 11 would be a return to the world before we have 2 hot spots in the country the east where it all started and the paris region which is the most populated area and more densely populated area the rest of the country has actually very limited or low rates of infection and they consider that being looked down in the same way as those who have very high rates was a bit unfair and so there will be these different situation where between the regions where things would be more loose and more possible and the regions where it wont be so fast the price to pay for that difference is that we will not be able to travel within the country the limitation is a 100 kilometers with other serious reason to go. Its been devastated by Hurricane Katrina and its now one of the u. S. Cities worst affected by the pandemic but new orleans is starting to one of its heart beats music to keep the citys soul alive i did jocasta reports. New orleans is famous for its jazz funerals. Sendoff for the dead with mourners dancing in the streets. So at a time when so many are being buried the citys silence only amplifies the pain until you listen closer. To god. Theres this this was this that you feel even know everybodys heart starts to. New orleans musicians margy perec is still making music for her online fans todays venue is her neighbors living room the only live clapping from the thunder outside. Its so soothing for the soul because we get. To make music with people and. So i gave it a great names she called it not touching yet touching. They live in a place called musicians village an enclave that emerged from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to give displaced musicians new homes. Were fairly were going to help each other happens and were going to fight through this together. Covered 19 came at a bad time its Music Festival season in south louisiana many local artists have been booked to perform at one of the largest the new orleans jazz festival now canceled gone too are the 300 1000000. 00 the festival normally generates for the economy. But. All of my income and of my revenue stream is gone. The last all were. You know all of our local. Earth are stable future. To the west of new orleans in the heart of cajun country festival internationality louisiana is also canceled. Miles meikle says after 10 years as an attendee he had finally been invited to perform its going to be ok i know its going to be ok it was just kind of like kind of what john was or. Even 80 year old al johnson a legendary musician and a mardi gras icon the. Has downsized to his porch ready. But in a city that normally loses with music these notes still find their appreciation. All we have noted is. These louisiana music. When the epidemic finally passes the 1st thing well do is play to Live Audience healing. Castro aljazeera. And fitting in with you here in doha the headlines and i was 0 soldiers patrolling the streets of lebanons 2nd biggest city tripoli but its been another day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis Security Forces used rubber bullets to clear demonstrators who said banks on fire so to hold reports. Here are. Just the Banking Sector and theyre also blaming the Political Class for. Years of corruption and now. Its close to bankruptcy. Ok. So for now were just going to come back and. This is. Our economic hardships. In the United States the number of confirmed coronavirus cases is almost hit a 1000000 far more than any other country in the world but daily hospital admissions in new york of hit the lowest level in over a month in france Prime Minister edwin phillipe says the lockdown has helped to save 60000. 00 lives this month but keeping it in place could lead to economic collapse plans to ease the 6 week locked out in france are being discussed in the National Assembly. Spains Prime Minister as outlined his plan for a return to normal life by the end of june the easing of restrictions will happen in 4 phases the 1st will see restaurant terraces open with a reduced capacity and set times for people over the age of 62 children were allowed outside to play for the 1st time in 5 weeks on monday. The u. K. s health but it says the government will start to include deaths outside of hospitals and its published figures it comes off to the independently run office for National Statistics so the number of people who died in england and wales is 52 percent higher than government figures show. Turkeys defense minister says that at least 40 civilians have been killed in 2 bombings in syria its blaming the kurdish y p g for the attacks in africa and in the northwest there are reports that one of the explosions targeted an oil tanker the citys but under the control of Turkish Backed troops for 2 years others the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after inside story next. How can you mean rights be respected in the time of prone to violence and countries are accused of using the fight against the pandemic as an excuse to crack down on peoples freedoms that al difficult is it to balance that fight and basic rights this is inside story. Come to the program carry the coronavirus restrictions are meant to save lives but for authoritarian leaders they can be an excuse to adopt repressive measures and the covert 1000 emergency is fast becoming a human rights crisis thats