Lebanon as a currency crash pushes the economy to the brink. President taking. Place in the philippines are accused of abusing human rights as they enforce strict coronavirus measures. Full of stories to come but were going to start with lebanon where violence has escalated during a 2nd night of protests in the Northern City of tripoli demonstrators set fire to a bank and hold rocks at Security Forces who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets the protests are bernie growing as the crisis hit economy crumbles further because of the corona Virus Outbreak monday one protester was killed during the riots has more for us from tripoli. 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. Went to the streets because there are no jobs children are asking the parents for food and they dont have money to buy them any the young man who has mounted it was a father he had nothing to lose if you store to ask for food what will you give he had 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 years we have 128. 00 criminals in parliament they stole 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. Trying to topple that by tampering with Financial Stability that fuel the anger of antigovernment protesters the leadership say those in power are trying to hold them. 4 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. Tripoli well the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic are also being felt in many sectors of the Global Economy aviation and oil in particular and the hitting the biggest players after already announcing it would cut across production by a 3rd and that the company was quote bleeding cash at an unprecedented speed the playmaking giant air bus has posted a 1st quarter loss of half a 1000000000. 00 the c. E. O. Is warning this is the greatest crisis the industry has ever known its rival boeing already announced plans to cut as many as 7000. 00 jobs the companys chief executive predicts global revenues could drop by over 300000000000 dollars this year in the industry and it would take years to recover and on top of all that the u. K. s National CarrierBritish Airways is set to cut up to 12000. 00 jobs which is around a 3rd of its workforce the airline suspended 96 percent of its flights for april and may weve got Tom Ballantine with us now on skype he is the associate editor and chief correspondent of orient aviation from sydney thank you tom good to see you i mean no massive surprise that airbus has lost this much money but i guess its the knock on effect isnt it the next quarter in the next quarter after in fact as the boeing boss is saying for years afterwards. Yes youre absolutely right i mean in a situation it is hour so the. Grave. Things are going to get worse in the 2nd quarter are the fact is that you know crowds there are 90 percent of the world leadership on the ground and the last thing you know why you want to the moment it should take that literally who you know have to park i know all in ones around the world are currently right now in discussion with both their muslim buoying. Looking at not only calculations but many different arab World Literature because it simply dont want egypt to laugh right now i hate to oversimplify here but if the plane makers cant make planes and the carriers cant fly planes theres no industry and that could be a short term thing because the lock downs could be lifted we could see a change but even so the the industrys changed the way it will have to change. Yes absolutely i mean the fact is that we all know now look the share recovery when it comes is not going to be a sharp v. Shaped recovery is going to be a long you shaped recovery and its going to be all in the 20 most for the air transport network to be back where it was before the crisis were talking about the iraq to 2 years. Trying for iraq is to hold out for the plane makers to hold out they certainly need all the help they can get from governments from there are investors. Governments and investors are also facing economic problems of haitian recession shortages of cash will run on so much will be a long time before the industry has any chance of returning to what isnt going to be normal but some sort of who are loyal i think its not inconceivable that some airlines will go to the wall on this they may go on and or as in British Airways having to majorly reconstruct the science of the company but if the plane makers themselves get into that situation i mean what happens are these Companies Considered in the like the banks the too big to fail because theres only really 2 big play. Yeah very pretty much thats the case i mean the fact is there are only 2 big big players. If you look at every boss i mean theyre essentially owned by foreign governments that u. K. France and germany they do have quite a lot of cash reserves despite what is happening at the moment bolling is also a big company in the case of boeing it. Something like 74 percent of its revenue not from commercial jets but from the defense and the Aerospace Divisions of that Company Airbus on the other hand get to only about 20 percent of its revenues from defense so the animal rights. Commercial jet market and boring are no question that they will all collapse a little see this. But theyre not going to come out of the other end of that machine she has the honor of mom tom i could sit and talk a version with you all day but i do have to get to some other news thank you so much for your time there appreciate it. So planes arent flying there is less demand for oil and this is the 2nd part of our economic story saudi arabias oil revenues which are full and 24 percent since the start of this year the kingdom is the Worlds Largest oil exporter and has slipped into a 9000000000. 00 budget deficit in the 1st quarter Global Demand in all revenues collapsed as we said because of the pandemic leaving factories closed Storage Facilities at near capacity saudi arabia had started tapping into reserves to balance the economic damage opec and other Oil Producers including russia agreed to cut their production of almost 10 percent which is 10000000. 00 barrels a day for the next 2 months as they try to save the markets lets talk about this with harvey whos the founder and c. E. O. Of their insights the Company ProvidingGlobal Oil Market analysis shes on skype from singapore vonda nice to see you just as i read that out there i thought oh yes they did do the the production but really you have to question and when you see the numbers from saudi arabia have to question whether thats going to have a real impact on alt. Oh absolutely i mean you were talking earlier in the program about like Airline Industry and its like all or industrious governments so its not surprising to nearly 10000000000. 00 deficit because you know the government revenues the early seventys was saying and comes from and we saw oil if you talk but thanks mark brant prices they were down nearly 90 people sandy and you didnt demand mind more windy is the fact that huge oil is probably going to look well at us and you know the rest of the year is not looking too good either so the saudi government is going to be very talks a lot probably raise more money more into it its results but you know going through all of it its not a very good situation to be in because you are just becoming increasingly more indebted whether you are that the document and or the sauce out of your ample but that to just stay there for a 2nd because i want to put a little more context in here for of you is about the Saudi Arabia Oil story weve got some u. S. Politicians calling on President Donald Trump to stop imports of Saudi Crude Oil now this is we just got a map here showing the industry website tanker truck as 50000000 barrels of Saudi Crude Oil are on their way to the u. S. Marine traffic shows at least 24. 00 tankers on route around Southern Africa apparently heading for the gulf of mexico for delivery into texas and louisiana but some politicians in washington want them turned back as we say oil prices of sun to record lows these are threatening the u. S. Produces with the pandemic leading to a glut of oil after against a demand prices collapsed and Storage Space is running out so all that oil at say venda mean that could potentially compound the problem even more if there is pressure to turn those around and send about dissolving arabia. Yes best mean a lot of talk of this armada of oil tankers if you go to saudi arabia and of course all of this oil is what had been produced when saudi arabia stepped up was producing fuel to load up the march 6th grade down at the opec nano they collide and send all that incident well same course starting starting in may its probably too late to call bad those tankers now some people have suggested that perhaps saudi arabia could just use those tankers as as floating storage but the other point of view is that a lot of this oil is already sold to so its not the ownership any ordnance but youve got supply nesting that has to come ashore and you know that could be another factor that is its really been hammering w t i prices much more in recent weeks relative to brant because the us is just absolutely full of throwing their storage chartist situations especially at his servant and it just quickly if you are saudi arabia or indeed if youre any economy which is very much dependent on Oil Hydrocarbons what do you do now i think you said 70 percent was was what oil makes up of the saudi economy i mean. The thing saudi arabias been trying to diversify for a while but you cant diversify that quick. Know its going to be very tough because the fact of the matter is that these economies and certainly saudi arabia will rely on oil revenues to dad was supply of me in trouble is how do you do it now you know when you look at a budget and again im no economist but to my mind the only itll be a little seemed to be raising debt and saudi arabia is doing that in a people wave especially since 2016 so our sovereign debt even the u. S. Dollar bond debt at bonds in the domestic market overseas markets are your employer has reached out to banks for a 10000000. 00 loan so just to tide over the Current Situation to prevent it from becoming. You will have to raise more debt theres just no way you want to i dont see it and perhaps rein in expenditure are going to be you can find out who are great to talk to you thank you for all your expertise there thank you. Coronavirus coverage continues in a moment the u. S. Death toll now exceeds the number of american lives lost during the 19 years of the vietnam war and a giant asteroid from the depths of our solar system its getting zipping past us and if you will how its. A. Hell of a good news for a change that is and theres plenty of cloud around all wanting it from the west under storms in the western med and this complication here this is the good news it tends to suggest rain wherever it is and that rain is spreading from france into austria to germany to poland the Czech Republic all places which have been suffering with lack of rain technical drug for the last month so this is good news of course is as a good news if you were to be outside in the sunshine but you kind of it all that sun shines in spain and portugal the rain as this example suggests in vienna last until the end of the week so we are going some way to make the ground wetter after the dusty start and theres a picture for thursday that rains but its pretty widespread across through denmark into was something sweden its really training through north misty leaving the southern parts of italy and almost really really really fine and sunny which is now the case in north africa we see the last few showers going through the Atlas Mountains and through northern tunisia on wednesday that on thursday should be a dry and quite a warm picture nurses dry warm or hot throughout this hour of course and then you come down to meet the showers coming out with the sun theyre making Good Progress there got to sierra leone and i got to go for that. Eyes only test treats and trace frank assessments why is it so hes struggling to cope with the number of her own virus failure to take really aggressive action we put them behind her informed opinions its going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where theres one ventilator 3000000 people indepth analysis of the days global headlines as india doesnt up to nip the spread of corona virus in the inside story on aljazeera. Top stories this hour on aljazeera has reported a 1st quarter loss of half a 1000000000. 00 the chief executive of the European AerospaceCompany Warning coronavirus is the greatest crisis the industry has ever known saudi arabias oil revenues of also fall in the 24 percent since the start of the year the kingdom is the Worlds Largest oil exporter and slipped into a 9000000000. 00 budget deficit Global Demand for oil has collapsed during the pandemic. And protesters and Security Forces a 4th for a 2nd night in lebanon the city of tripoli frustrations growing over the crisis hit economy which is only worsened during the pandemic. So its less than 3 months now since the United States reported its 1st coronavirus death now the number of fatalities has surpassed the number of american soldiers lost in the vietnam war in a 2 decade war which killed some 58000 americans here is the tally as it stands right now the u. S. Death tally that number according to the Johns HopkinsUniversity Track of 58355 the number of white there and over on the left 1012000 infections just in the United States the epicenter is of course new york and that is where gabriel is on there is reporting from. The courtenay did fly over by us air force and navy planes over new york city a display of gratitude for Health Care Workers and 1st responders here in what is the epicenter of the u. S. Krone by risk crisis a crisis that has put more than 20000000. 00 americans out of work in only one month and at one point had more than 300000000. 00 americans under stay at home warders transforming even the busiest cities like new york into ghost towns the crisis has now hit a new milestone over 1000000 cases in the u. S. President trump is accused of being slow to take over 1000 seriously in late january when the 1st cases were in the u. S. He said it was under control and repeated similar sentiments for many weeks the risk to the American People remains very low fast forward 2 months and that forecast has proven to be spectacularly wrong as a country and economy shutdown trump and america as a whole were forced to face the stark reality there were numerous missed opportunities in the long term investing in public out the budgets for Public Health in significantly decreased over the years and this would only way american public. Has really needed in our ability to respond in the more short term while most of those 1000000 confirmed cases in the u. S. Have been relatively mild many thousands more have not more than 50000 lives have been lost to cope at 19 and many thousands more expected on tuesday trump was asked about his earlier predictions in the light of the new milestone will go down to 0 ultimately and you have to understand when it comes to cases we do much more testing than anybody else so we could go to some of these other countries you know as an example china if you test. Going to show many more cases the United States and particularly new york are a long way from being over this Health Crisis and with persistent worries about large gatherings the streets could remain mostly empty through the end of the year leaving time for people to ponder questions such as when will this be over what will america be like when it is and what went wrong. Gabriel is on doe aljazeera new york. President has ordered Meat Processing plants to stay open despite concerns of workers safety production was stopped in around 20 of the countrys factories after many workers fell ill responding to warnings of a global meat shortage trump signed an executive order to reopen the plants you want to give Companies Legal cover in case employees catch coronavirus unions have criticised the president s decision saying it puts employees at risk brazils president says he can work miracles to prevent coronavirus deaths in iraq dismissed questions about brazils covert 19 cases a passing chinas infections. The president had earlier described corona virus as a little flu hes called for businesses to open even if it allowed the contagion to spread countries reported more than 5000 deaths and over 73000 infections. Im sorry what do you want me to do i am a senior but i dont do americans. Chinese annual National Peoples congress which was delayed by 2 months because of the pandemic will now be held in 3 weeks we may 22nd around 3000 delegates from across china will gather in beijing to pass legislation and unveil key economic targets for the year its an event that last about 10 days and as one of the countrys most important political meetings human rights activists say the philippines governments strict enforcement of lockdowns has knowledge to serious violations by police the u. N. Describes the countrys response as highly militarized jamila underground reports now from manila. These were the last few moments of winston ragas his life before he was shot dead by police they say the former soldier refused to follow their orders and was threatening to shoot them so they fired detained. Twice. But witnesses deny this they say he posed no threat to anyone the moment the movie she spoke of is family says ragas was suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder and this this is a huge loss for them. He was very thoughtful especially to his nieces and nephews here remember there were birthdays and he was a very generous man. Other videos that critics say show excessive use of force by police have gone viral to. Prevent in this one a Police Officer forcefully tries to arrest a Foreign National jury a dispute over quarantine measures imposed by the government. And. Here another officer appears to break into a private condominium before threatening to arrest people using areas like a Swimming Pool the Philippine Government displeased around 50000000. 00 people under lockdown across the region designed to clamp down on the spread of the coronavirus thats nearly half of the countrys population just a few weeks ago president rodrigo to tear to or there de mille achieve and police to shoot anyone who creates trouble. Police have denied allegations of wrongdoing and say they have arrested more than 100000 people since the lockdown was implemented more than a month ago Human Rights Watch has issued a statement urging the government to investigate reports of abuses and hold officers have committed Rights Violations accountable. I mean its really been. Very hard regulations regard reality. And that is going in the. Anger and frustration and. The government says its policies are necessary to fight the spread of the coronavirus but people here tell us the use of what they say is a heavy handed and violent response by police is creating fear and anxiety. To dog and aljazeera manila. Aljazeera has learned the un and the International Committee of the red cross has brought forward plans for a mass Prisoner Exchange in yemen the swap could take place in days and as part of a ceasefire proposed by the Un Special Envoy but a 1000 prisoners are expected to be released in the 1st batch the magic editor genspace has this exclusive report. A mass Prisoner Exchange was 1st proposed in the Stockholm Agreement in december 28th all sides agreed to the idea but it never actually happened now its being revived as part of a peace plan proposed by the Un Special EnvoyMartin Griffiths he said he believed that plan was close to fruition when he spoke to the Un Security Council last week he didnt reveal that arrangements that now advanced for a Prisoner Exchange to be organized by the un and by the International Committee of the red cross we were asked to organize a release during this endemic of it and we had to balance the interest that you made there in trust of the people to tame the fact that they could go back home see their family after years of detention and the risk we were taking as you made town operate there is to be in fact to do so the risk of the dangers to be in fact so balancing those interests we decided that we would go for it you seem to have everything in place what needs to happen for this exchange to take place. I would see that almost everything is in place. To me oh its a final alignment of the tree parties involved in their release. The government of said it would be arabia and sarah and the government of yemen. We are there we still need a couple of days to be ready but we need this this this button to be pushed and for this we need an alignment and just to be clear on the timeline you mentioned a couple of days this could happen within days potentially but tends to yes u. N. Sources tell me the actual prisoners for the 1st stage of a transfer have been identified there are about 1000 of them. Now a candidate in this years ivory coast president ial election has been sentenced to 20 years for embezzlement and money laundering. Was convicted on tuesday after a trial held in his absence lasting just a few hours the rebel leader denies the charges he says are intended to stop him from challenging the president s preferred successor he has been living in exile in europe since december. Finally just what we need a large asteroid which will actually fly past earth i should say in the coming hours but astronauts as strong as say the space rock wont collide it will get close enough though for scientists to study and he ganna get this report from florida. When a small asteroid broke up over siberia in 2013 the ensuing shockwave injured over a 1000 people and caused extensive damage it was a reminder to space agencies across the world of the dangers asteroids can pose the asteroid now heading our way is being classified as a potentially hazardous object Scientists Say 99080. 00 or 2 is not a threat its traveling at 30000 kilometers an hour and is at least 2 kilometers wide will pass by at a distance of 6000000 kilometers dont have to deal with it with fear we have to deal with it with the science so people should not be afraid of. People who should be encouraged to assess the risk of these asteroids and to follow the. Research program and most importantly to maintain these Asteroid Research program in place programs like nasa has double asteroid redirection test or dont program aimed to tackle potential threats in the future its one of many programs around the world that not only track large asteroids but after tensional solutions to redirect them the area cboe observatory in puerto rico is one of the facilities that tracks asteroids using sophisticated radar scientists here are already tracking the apostasy asteroid due to skirt the earth in 2029 the head of planetary radar says their research is via. Itll weed out the client that really are summations or or very expensive. We would actually. Very. Good years. So now we know that we dont have to do that then were going to use those resources for Something Else this latest asteroid has been tracked for the past 2 decades and for amateur and professional astronomers alike its been greeted with excitement and not fear nasa Scientists Say theyve tracked more than 90 percent of new. Pose a global threat thankfully 998. 00 or 2 isnt one of them but it will be close enough to watch on a telescope like this in terms of the visual universe this is a close shave but a celestial event that will be seen as a slow moving star and gallacher aljazeera miami florida. And finally the indian actor who worked in several International Projects has died after a battle with cancer the 53 year old actor was diagnosed with a neuro enda creen human back in 2018 began his career with the Indian Television and Bollywood Movies acted in several hollywood movies as well life of pi addressing park and some dog millionaire. The headlines on aljazeera this hour air bus has reported a 1st quarter loss of half a 1000000000. 00 but the chief executive of the European AerospaceCompany Warning the coronavirus pandemic is the greatest crisis the industry has ever known also saudi arabias oil revenues to fall and 24 percent since the start of the year the kingdom is the Worlds Largest oil exporter its now slipped into a 9000000000. 00 budget deficit for the 1st quarter Global Demand and oil revenues have collapsed during the coronavirus pandemic. On to other news protesters and Security Forces have fought for a 2nd night in lebanons Northern City of tripoli frustrations growing over the crisis hit economy which has worsened during the pandemic in the United StatesPresident Trump has ordered Meat Processing plants to stay open despite concerns over worker safety production was stopped in around 20 of the countrys factories after many workers fell ill responding to warnings of a global meat shortage trump signed an executive order to reopen the plants but the unions have criticized the president s decision saying it puts employees at risk brazils president says he cant work miracles to prevent coronavirus deaths and are dismissed the questions about brazils covert 1000 cases which are not supposed to chinas infections the president had earlier described coronavirus as a little flu its called for businesses to open even if it allows the contagion to spread. Very im sorry what do you want me to do i am a senior but i dont do miracles chinas annual National Peoples congress which was delayed by 2 months because of the pandemic will be held in 3 weeks time on may 22nd around 3000. 00 delegates from across china will gather in beijing to pass legislation to unveil key economic targets for the year event is one of chinas most important political meetings and the indian act. Who has worked to several big International Projects has died after a battle with cancer the 53 year old actor was diagnosed with a neuro endocrine chairman in 28 team. Began his career with Indian Television and Bollywood Movies has also made a consistent mark in western cinema big films like life of pi the namesake and slumdog millionaire. There you go youre up to date with the world headlines on aljazeera the latest edition of inside story is next. With its 25 year long broadcast license coming to an end will president bush 3 go to to succeed in shutting down a. B. S. C b n t v by the fulfilled may join us for special coverage as we look at the possible demise of a media giant and the ramifications for press freedom in the philippines on aljazeera. How can you minorites be respected in the time of krona bias and countries are accused of using the fight against the pandemic as an excuse to crack down on peoples freedoms but how difficult is it to balance that fight and basic rights this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Richelle Carey the coronavirus restrictions are meant to save lives but for authoritarian leaders they can be an excuse to adopt repressive measures and the code in 1000 emergency is fast becoming a human rights crisis thats the