On the Syrian Government aimed at protecting civilians from further war crimes and preventing any Foreign Investment with president assads regime. Syrian writers and scholars look at the economic and political impact of the sanctions. The sanctions announced last week came into force and came into force and its an unprecedented economic crisis in syria bring the syrian pound to roughly 3000 to a single u. S. Dollar. Small businesses are closing and ports are plummeting of those living under the poverty line already at 85 are increasing in number. An average monthly salary in syria reportedly by a large bag of limits. Corruption has triggered a crisis and humanitarian the potential famine this winter. While lebanon remains my the economic crisis and kelly continues to spread in syria, the decision 600 the rollout of the turkish lira to nearly a third of their income population. The northwest to be the nail in the coffin to what remains. In the podcast released last week are nonresident
Studies. Welcome to our viewers online. My name is jacob kurtzer, im the acting director of the humanitarian agenda here, a project that we seek to leverage the expertise of our scholars and programs to offer policy solutions to humanitarian problems in the world today. I would like to direct everyones attention to our emergency exits, its part of our safety and security plan, and encourage you also to take this opportunity to turn your phones to mute. I want to acknowledge before we begin the partnership that our program has with the agency for International Development office of foreign Disaster Assistance, whose support allows us to put on event, such as todays discussion. We have a short time today so ill be brief. All of us here today are keenly aware of the immense human suffering taking place in idlib and across syria right now. Families and individuals have been forced into multiple displacements, with targeted attacks ongoing on innocent civilians and on hospitals and clinics
Good afternoon. Welcome to the center for strategic and international studies. Welcome as well to our viewers online. My name is jacob kurtzer, im the acting director of the humanitarian agenda here, a project that we seek to leverage the expertise of our scholars and programs to offer policy solutions to humanitarian problems in the world today. I would like to direct everyones attention too our emergency exits, its part of our safety and security plan, and encourage you also to take this opportunity to turn your phones to mute. I want to acknowledge before we begin the partnership that our program has with the agency for International Development whose support allows us to put on events such as todays discussion. We have a short time today so ill be brief. All of us here today are keenly aware of the immense human suffering taking place in idlib and across syria right now. Families and individuals have been forced into multiple displacements, with targeted attacks ongoing on innocent
Strategic and international studies. Welcome as well to our viewers online. Kertser. Jacob its a project that we seek to leverage the expertise of our scholar and programs to shine a light in the humanitarian issues and offer policy solutions. Boyfriend we begin id like to direct everyone to our emergency exits and encourage you to turn your phones to mute. I want to acknowledge before we begin the partnership that our program has with the u. S. Agency for International Development of fornl Disaster Assistance whose support alouis to put events such as todays discussion. We have a short time today. All of us have aware of the immense suffering taking place right now. Familiar apply and individuals have been forced in multiple displacements. Targeted attacks on innocent civilians and on hospital and clinics all of which challenges are notions of shared humanity. The violence this past weekend only increase the urgency of finding solution first the humanitarian challenges faced by civili
following allegations of inappropriate behaviour made by four women. clashes break out following last night s match between west ham and az alkmaar when fans of the dutch side tried to attack people in the guest area for west ham. welcome to bbc news. it is a day of two important summits with the war in ukraine being the common theme. at the g7 gathering injapan, world leaders met to discuss a new round of sanctions against russia. while at the arab league meeting in saudi arabia president zelensky made a surprise visit, urging those attending, to support ukraine. he told the gathering injeddah that on this, the asoth day of the war the world needed to fight the virus of aggression from moscow stressing kyiv would not give up any sovereign territory to achieve peace. also making the headlines at that summit president assad of syria the first time he s been invited to the arab league since the devastating civil war, that s blighted the country. here he is