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
Wave of anger in lebanon protesters defy a pandemic lockdown to take aim at banks and the economy weakens further. Find out next why this country with a small Health Budget the biggest you weight of recovery in infected patients in africa. With sports including more downside of the Tokyo Olympics its been suspended japans top doctor says that it will still be difficult to host without a vaccine. Lets begin in the u. K. Thats where were starting to get a clearer picture of the scale of coronavirus related deaths in england and wales now the office for National Statistics or s has released the latest numbers which include those whove died outside of hospitals it says the actual death toll in the week leading up to april the 17th with much higher than government figures indicated its go live to joe and holly joins us from london so how wiring a picture do these numbers try of the situation there. Well i think its very worrying its very revealing and potentially quite shocking to the Briti
Think its a seal the rest of the country is the government takes a president and steps to hold the virus to spread. Program form and dont try the behavior of the shooting down the leisure and so flight m. H. 7298 people were killed when the time scrolled down and crashed in 2040. Doses of these women in mexico gold killed by now they take the streets to protest against femicide in the hopes. Of slops. Im phil girl welcome to the program i will take a look at the stock markets around the world in just a moment 1st though its a government system forcing major restrictions on movement on 16000000 people in the north of been sealed off from the rest of the country no ones allowed. To leave or enter certain areas where out to a good reason the quarantine affects the region of lombardy and other northern provinces including the cities of milan and venice italy has the most infections outside china recent figures show 7375 confirmed cases and 6366 deaths tourists have been told to leave affec
Killed by that and i take them to the streets to protest against family size in the hope they can say of the instructors. Im sure welcome to the program. Global markets have dropped sharply on fears of a coronavirus epidemic is driving world economies towards recession leading european indexes fell immediately open with an eye on the rising number of cases on the continent and italy severe quarantine measures germanys dax index that job nearly 8 percent at the start of trading followed by the footsie 100. 00 in london which saw a similar plunge out of the gate both indexes have now recovered somewhat guts remain down those losses follow a difficult day of trading in asia tokyos nikkei index was down more than 5 percent at the end of trading its biggest one day loss for 2 years and crushing oil prices on monday has also contributed to the sell off the price of a barrel fell by an enormous 31 percent during early monday trading after saudi arabia increased production in a bid to pressure
Voices from the road. So to keep our moderator busy so in the interest of time and because we aree on air with cspan we should get moving. I will give some opening remarks and then we will start the discussion. Welcome to the middle east institute. For someone who works on syria over the last nine years i can safely say to combat a more important time any other offense like this one and i was extremely glad it was taking place. The humanitarian crisis that developed recently is unprecedented. Not just of the whole world of modern history. But the world has yet to do then issue more than public statements of concern. And then to say everything that i can but to say from the outset how grateful i am to have such an esteemed panel of experts and practitioners to see this very shortly with this valuable perspective to have the extraordinarily important issue. First on the far left the founder and president of a medical company trying to reduce healthcare disparity by providing healthcare f