Back out on the story or testers in london on targets government and financial buildings are angry at the failure of their leaders to deal with unprecedented hardships as the country slips further into crisis what can be done and what will fall out both at home and for the region this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im Richelle Carey struggling to make ends meet and begging for food lebanese people have defied restrictions to contain cobra 1000 and resume their protests rallies started in october but run erupted by the lockdown violence escalated on tuesday banks were set on fire and Security Forces pelted with stones one demonstrator was killed and dozens were wounded and riots are testers are angry at the political elite thats been in power for so long and accuse their leaders of corruption and mismanagement lebanon the suffering its worst economic crisis in decades food prices are soaring in the lebanese pound is in freefall the countrys appeal for assistance from the
Of work and a fly past and a promotion for a british war veteran as he turns 100. 00 captain moore who raised over 37000000. 00 for the National Health service. So the latest coronavirus developments from around the world now were starting with some good news from south korea which was one of the worst hit countries in asia for the 1st time in 2 Months Health officials have reported no new domestic infections thats the 1st time since the outbreak peaked in february meaning south koreas total now sits at a little over 10700. 00 cases and 247. 00 deaths according to Johns Hopkins university not such good news in britain though the number of deaths there is jumped to more than 26000 because the government is now starting to include fatalities from places like care homes for the elderly previously was just the hospitals so with that change the u. K. Now has the 2nd highest number of fatalities in europe after italy but some positive news about a possible treatment coming out of the u. S. O
Fight against the pandemic one of the worst hit countries in asia reports no new local cases. And the u. S. City of miami starts to lift its lockdown restrictions despite a high number of cases. Im going to go with sports is italy its football season looks set to be scrapped players are about to start training again but the country sports minister wants to follow france and the netherlands and focus on next season instead. Its 10 g. M. T. And we start in europe where the economy has suffered its biggest quarterly hit on record shrinking by 3. 8 percent so far this year thats the eurozone sharpest drop since records began in 1995 so yet another indicator of the widespread economic devastation caused by the coronavirus lockdowns around the world all that comes after germany which is europes strongest economy announced its g. D. P. Is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this year because straight to don. It came it joins us live from len so dominic we were expecting of course the ec
Back out on the story or testers in love and on target government and financial buildings are angry at the failure of their leaders to deal with unprecedented hardships as the country slips further into crisis what can be done and what will fall out both at home and for the region this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Richelle Carey struggling to make ends meet and begging for food lebanese people have defied restrictions to contain cobra 1000 and resume their protests rallies started in october but run erupted by the lock down violence escalated on tuesday banks were set on fire and Security Forces pelted with stones one demonstrator was killed and dozens were wounded and riots are testers are angry at the political elite thats been in power for so long and accuse their leaders of corruption and mismanagement lebanon the suffering its worst economic crisis in decades food prices are soaring in the lebanese pound is in freefall the countrys appeal for assistance fro
Members , robbie and selfless funder of middle east programs here at the Atlantic Council john diblasio. And finally we welcome us governmentofficials , private companies and nonprofits. I did a rich substantive question and answer session following the discussion on the state. Open to everyone read this richness of the discussion will be enhanced by the absolutely superlative interviewer who will draw the kernels of wisdom out of no real today. Tom friedman needs no introduction but simply for fun i will remind you you can read toms analysis of Foreign Affairs in the New York Times and analysis for which he has rice won the pulitzer prize. Tom is the author of several books , several focus on the middle east and one of which from beirut to jerusalem was a textbook in my middle east coursework as an undergraduate area calms full bio is available and is printed out here. Now let us turn to our man of the hour doctor Nabeel Khoury, a senior fellow at the center for the middle east in add