with. a wave of anger in lebanon protesters defy a pandemic lockdown to take aim at the banks the economy plunges further. from doha everyone i'm come all santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera. we're doing serious adverse to gay chanson donald trump again blames china for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic the new zealand eases its lockdown after 4

weeks of restrictions schools and some businesses a reopening and migrants in india's out some state walk free from detention centers after the top court orders to reduce overcrowding. starting in lebanon actually where protests have erupted again as the pandemic threatens to push its economy to breaking point demonstrators defied the lockdown throwing petrol bombs and vandalizing banks in tripoli near beirut people are angry about the failing currency and the soaring prices the support from victoria kate. defying a look down and a curfew protesters attack a bank in the capital beirut the value of their money is decreasing at an alarming rate. chart and all monday the anger at the central bank's policies and

a political class they accuse of corruption and mismanagement erupted in a wave of violence across the country i demonstrators in tripoli knew the neben on blocked roads and food with police officers responded by firing rubber coated steel bullets which injured protesters. 2 soldier i swear please stand with us it's too much we stand by you but they are killing us we can't afford anything anymore we are starving i sold my fishing boat for pennies 6 enough is enough for 15 days the dollar keeps going up and down i have a daughter in hospital she needs an operation and it's ramadan lebanon's currency has been depreciating for weeks bought in the past few days the near is lost at least 60 percent of its value on the black market the government is hinting that the central bank could be intentionally engineering the collapse as the country struggles with the lack of hard currency and its worst economic crisis in decades.

most of the central bank is either incapable absent or directly instigating the dramatic drop 100 on the. those in power say this is an attempt to topple the government by sabotaging financial stability opposition politicians who are backing the long serving governor riyadh cell amy believe the ruling alliance led by hezbollah is trying to take control of the central bank which implements u.s. sanctions against the iranian backed group over the. coming going to see maybe in. the movie the issues. but it's not all and what somebody. the. money transfer offices and banks no longer discuss dollars and people are deprived of much of the savings due to informal capital controls. the crisis is seen as a struggle between those who hold financial power and those who have political power and it's putting lebanon stability at grace. victoria gate and be out there.

now from beirut abraham and then political activists good to have you with us. it bears repeating i think that this has been going on for a long time hasn't it i'm sure the pandemic in the lockdown has made it even worse but lebanon's troubles go back quite a while now. yes absolutely not some 17 of the world have been an uprising and people were very much angry with the conduct of the performance of the of the political establishment unfortunately it was it was going down and the coronavirus came and because of the lockdown people were not able to progress any more during this time there was a huge build up and of anger at the people because of the deteriorating economy situation and devaluation of the lira all combine the people are going to give a lot of chances for this particular step which meant and this last chance was this new government the government and so far there has been no no sign of whatsoever of

serious intervention to resolve the economic crisis. well on that point i thought it was interesting in that report we heard house and the arab the prime minister basically blaming the central bank and saying it was that we used the word incapable absent or directly instigating this dramatic drop does that sound like a government looking to blame or is there some real concern there about the central bank not doing enough. absolutely what you said exactly spot on they are throwing the claim of responsibility between each other as a parties of the of this political establishment the something people has been used to force for quite a long time but now the people cannot tolerate any more any any attempt to. to run away from the responsibility to send the last press conference blaming the governor of the central bank was really i think. attempted to try and throw the

sponsibility back as a government they have all the tools and the legal tools to d.d. address these issues with that particular with the central bank and nothing has been done so far for the past 3 months and the really the situation is has us not what effect now and the situation is getting worse by the minute so 2nd up to really people not wait for any any further know and judging by the pictures are we saying they're not waiting it's petrol bombs on the streets it's rioting it's the police responding with rubber coated steel bullets this is a familiar picture for lebanon i mean the whole country could be heading towards some sort of economic and social collapse. absolutely and that's our fear because once things get out of hand we believe that there is what can be done then because so far we know that the whole world there's a really busy with the coronavirus we are not able to do that proper. what

you call it the fixing of the government the issues that have been coordinating with the i.m.f. there is no serious issue to really fight corruption there is no attempt to do anything and to salvage whatever we have of institutions so this is where we are where we have really serious concerns about the future of our country from now on into him and then the joining us from beirut today thank you for your time today appreciate it i think on the us president donald trump has. taken to the podium again after calling off they have democrats briefings over the weekend he has been criticized for suggesting people could be injected with disinfectants to kill the virus now he's unveiled new plans to help ramp up testing as states begin to ease their restrictions this report from alan fischer in washington. after questioning the point of his daily coronavirus briefings because of critical media coverage

after not holding a briefing over the weekend after initially canceling the one on monday the president appeared in the rose garden to update the country he revealed plans to help states to ramp up testing to reopen the country where releasing additional guidance on testing to inform the states as they develop their plans for a phased and very safe reopening a blueprint describes how the state should unlock their full capacity expand the number of testing platforms establish monitoring systems to detect local outbreaks and conduct contact tracing a number of states have announced plans to reopen although no one is expecting a return to what was once normal we're taking steps to understand is going to be a new world but we have to be realistic that we can't wait 18 months to have a vaccine and just tread water people want to see forward progress in georgia and other states some restaurants are reopening some movie theaters are also back in business but all under serious restrictions we're in our table so everything is the

same as after her missing person to her interaction. and then also making sure that we. we've got the paper menus that are disposable versus or are placed out plastic ones that we've used to store for some places like washington d.c. have renewed wachter in orders at least until the middle of next month and people seem to be complying across the country that are also reports of people ingesting disinfectant after the president asked last week if it was possible that could kill the virus is comments led to widespread condemnation. is decision to hold the briefings over the weekend asked about 2 on monday he brushed off the question now are there other states that we're hoping specifically said they seen a spike in people using disinfectant after your comments last week i know you said they were sort i can't imagine why i can't imagine. any responsibility you know i don't know i can't imagine i can imagine that the president now believes the u.s.

is on course to see your own 703-0000 deaths from the virus figure up by 10000 on his previous prediction alan fischer al-jazeera washington another note from that news conference stone renewing his attacks on china for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic he says his administration is conducting quote serious investigations into what happened we are not happy with china we are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source it could have been stopped quickly and it would have spread all over the world that we think that should have happened so we'll let you know what the appropriate time but we are doing serious investigations are oil prices a fall and during trading in a share after an overnight plunge in the united states fears are growing that global storage capacity will soon be filled because of weak demand caused by the pandemic shares of slipped in japan south korea and australia as well interestingly the rows in hong kong h.s.b.c.

bank by warning of more folds in its earnings after its 1st quarter profit nearly hogged sarah clarke in hong kong to wrap all this together for us there without getting too bogged down in the in the numbers just take us through some of these economic trends. what about specifics response across the region of the stock markets in asia as a lockdown measures are being easy in some of these countries we're seeing stocks very succinctly the nikkei and the shanghai composite they've fallen you mentioned on choose that the oil prices have also for now other economies of stocks and economies have been void as a result of various countries katanning all stemming the number of infections you mentioned hong kong and we've had a 3rd in a row we've had no corona virus infections reported but the crowd of us pandemic has had a huge impact on what the world's largest banks being i just we see the 1st quarter profits almost from a year ago the pretax profit is $3200000000.00 now the bank is warning of the negative effects on the global economy as

a result that sign would increase the number of bad loans being issued now i just b.c. is also warned that credit losses could rise to between $7.00 and $11000000000.00 for the full financial year missed fears of a global recession in coming days or coming years at the foot in february yet just b.c. a did warn of staff cuts it's talking about a restructuring cost cutting program where they want to cut from 235000 staff 220-0000 stuff now this week it said it will push ahead with this restructuring cost cutting program but it's going to put a halt on any unemployment or job losses as a result it doesn't want its employees to be stuck without a job in the middle of this pandemic now on a separate night i can also confirm that the bank's chief executive in the last couple of weeks has confirmed that he will donate a quarter of his base salary to charity of the next 6 months and is also saying he will not will not take this is cash bonus and clearly this is i just bases efforts to try and reassure shareholders that it's taking the pandemic seriously and putting in place various cost cutting measures to do so sir clinical billows from

hong kong thank you. the zealand is relaxing some of its strict lockdown measures introduced 4 weeks ago people will now be able to spend more time outside some schools and businesses will even reopen the seaman's reported 19 deaths and more than 1100 confirmed cases of coded 19 when hit with this report from oakland. after 5 weeks at the highest corona virus alert level new zealand has worked to a partial easing of lockdown rules until now all non-essential businesses were ordered to close now some regulations have been relaxed allowing other businesses to open like restraints and cafes for pick up or delivery only i've been hanging out for this it was welcome relief for those wanting their caffeine fix from a professional communities come out and supported us which is fantastic a few hook ups with the website this morning but everyone's been very relaxed. so it's good to be open again there were also plenty of people wanting

a break from the kitchen as long lines formed outside fast food outlets only a handful of new coronavirus cases are being reported in new zealand each day so the government believes the time is right to begin relaxing the rules but the message remains for most people stay at home there is no widespread undertake to community transmission in new zealand we have won that battle but we must remain vigilant if we're to keep it that way that includes safely returning more new zealanders to a neighboring more businesses to reopen not allowing some of the recreate to police we've missed and the past 4 weeks now it's a balancing act for new zealand and countries in a similar position trying to avoid a resurgence of the virus while getting the economy moving again key to that is restarting stalled infrastructure projects and as the alert level was lowered construction workers were able to pick up the tools again under alert level 3 the government expects around 400000 people to return to work which will of course provide a big boost to the economy after 5 weeks of inactivity but there is

a sense that even though new zealand has managed to control the virus so far economically the worst may be still to come thousands of jobs are linked to tourism and right now the border is closed the government's own modeling says the worst case scenario could see up to 26 percent unemployment restrictions. maybe easing but this country like so much of the world is a long way from being close to returning to normal wayne hay al-jazeera auckland's in the news a head missing out on vaccinations why millions of children aren't getting the critical care they names and 900 syrians are being threatened if they don't wear a mask and they're on about. the. hello spirit very dry april so far for central europe and it's still

fairly dry as you see from the satellite picture all the cloud around the outside but this down here is about to invade so taking rain across france and cross the border into germany low countries and this will be welcome right now the blue is obvious the rain is spread all over it's a nice catch to spain in portugal you go to drying scene here for the rain invoke is heading in that direction and example then the forecasts for vienna for tuesday wednesday and thursday increasingly like to get rain obviously when see the hit day it's still quite warm on tuesday above average that's been the case spread austria germany denmark for example so this is a big change tempered down to around about the average and rainfall is what you might expect to spring and just haven't seen it and that's the case for wednesday is also the case for thursday which means that the few showers you see druggy across the as mountains and now geria are on their way out this is been a fairly wet period recently and i think that also will change was more sunshine

and slightly rising temperatures the breeze is coming down through egypt is larger than it was the temps and somehow still in the middle forty's and the showers a study coming up in west africa reaches far as free time now in sierra leone. i easily test. and trace frank assessments why is it it's only struggling to cope with the number coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action really get them behind the herd informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging in a place like even there's one ventilator 3000000 people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines india dumb enough to nip the spread of coronavirus in the inside story on al-jazeera.

the top stories on al-jazeera this hour protests again erupting in lebanon as its economic crisis deepens duda coronavirus and demonstrators in several cities clashed with security forces vandalizing shops and set fire to them on the vehicle donald trump says the number of u.s. coronavirus tests will be doubled some say it's begin easing there were strict sions us president criticize china again for its handling of the outbreak and says there will be an investigation it will also seek damages and he's even started to ease some of that strict knocked on measures introduced 4 weeks ago to stop the spread of coronavirus the country's reported 25100 confirmed cases of 119 and at least 19 deaths unicef is warning that south asia is on the cusp of

a health crisis as children actually miss out on vaccinations jurong the pandemic unicef says almost a quarter of the world's children who haven't been immunized or have been only partially vaccinated live in that region we're talking at least 4 and a half 1000000 children mostly in afghanistan india and pakistan and that total is expected to rise immunization programs have been suspended in several countries including afghanistan and pakistan where polio is common unicef says it is concerned the vaccine stocks are running dangerously low since the pandemic started because of disruptions to manufacturing and distribution and my band and with us now chief of health for unicef in bangladesh on skype from dhaka maya thank you for your time this is a good reminder isn't it that while we all focus on when there may be a vaccination full coronavirus that there are plenty of diseases that already have vaccinations and can't be forgotten. that's what i don't think you for having us today unicef is very concerned about the children and the

potential that due to the covert 19 crisis the children will be more at risk for. vaccine preventable diseases like measles and in bangladesh the vaccine and the support the government to actually make every year about 3800000 children against all the child who actually nations and last year ve successfully section 864 in 2000000. and that is 80. percent of all. the section 8 and we have most children at least coming in into the system once. but not. seconds missions are developing and. people are fearing the cofee 1000 disease so we ever king the government to to again direct the health workers to all the no harm

basically to the one that hen put back the health workers but also to will continue to protect children against these that think of it will be just so how do you find just how do you find a balance area my how do you find the balance because on the one hand it seems shortsighted to stop vaccination programs existing vaccination programs but then we are in a situation where i mean people just can't even leave their houses so they couldn't get it anyway is it is there a way to workarounds some of the lockdowns so that these children can get what they need. yeah that's right it's very challenging but we do need to to look into the possibility so a long way to really have very localized situations of locked out which of

course requires a full knowledge of around the epitome of he. or she called $900.00 is east which is in progress in bangladesh but there are still district and parts of this think that are not on lockdown in there the stations can continue and we also have encouraged the stick sessions in the health facilities to continue so if mothers and children can come out they can be protected on the order and also what we have advised is to limit the number of people in the same area so there are some social distancing during the actually nation sessions as they are going on ok my abandonment from unicef bangladesh we appreciate the time good to talk about another very important issue at the sun thank you. the world health organization is also raising concerns the pandemic will throw its vaccination programs into disarray w.h.o.

is again caution countries against easing restrictions in haste we continue to urge countries to find i easily test and treat all cases and try as every contact to each will these declining trends continue but the pandemic is far from over and it beats the pundit meek is far from over. that's a combined area now which is relaxing lockdowns in several cities including they've also and a budget of from may the 4th but all non-essential travel between states has been banned wearing masks outdoors has also been made compulsory in lagos the state's governor says that is because the operate is still in its early stages and those who don't comply will be punished only 1300 factions have been confirmed across nigeria and 40 people have died. for over fiercest and

a good easy overlook down midges in f.c.t. legace and ogun state if it took from one to force or 2 in to intervene. however this will be followed strictly was reinforcement of testing and quantic trees measures the nigerian president mohammed bihari they're now our managers our correspondent with more developments from a brooch. the phrase out of the restrictions will happen in only 3 of nigeria's $36.00 or $37.00 states including the administrative capital of remember these 3 states lagos and ogun state where the 1st to be hit by a complete lockdown of the cities because of the key economic and administrative importance in that region scheme of things so gradually after the phase out of the

looked out on the 4th of may the nigerian government will also put in place a curfew that runs from 8 pm in the evening local time to 6 o'clock in the morning and then like the president said wearing a face mask will be very mandatory on everybody in the public space so one interesting aspect of this speech will address by president one of the laddie is the issue of panel which has been on the burner for a very long time for all for the last one week this is a state where we've seen how hundreds of deaths in this piece of one week unexplained dance call the local authorities are saying that these desk mostly are not connected to compete 19 but there are some misgivings about that so the nigerian government is sending it team of experts to reinforce local health workers there to help them deal with the situation in kind of state this is a state with a population of more than 15000000 people that comes probably

a proud legal 2nd after lagos so the nigerian government is warning that if kano is down that washed case scenario then you at the center of the. nigeria then the whole of northern i get it will be impacted. health experts in the u.k. are investigating possible links between a rare but dangerous condition affecting children and coronavirus over the past 3 weeks hospitals in london have reported a rising number of children with stomach pains vomiting or diarrhea leading some into what doctors call a multisystem inflammatory state requiring intensive care symptoms including information of the heart the country's health minister says he is very worried by possible links to the virus off to some of the children tested positive. in north east india detention centers are releasing people which the government describes as illegal migrants human rights groups say many of them were wrongfully held because they are indian citizens supreme court judges ordered their freedom in the world

instead of on some to reduce overcrowding during the coronavirus lock down more from our india correspondent elizabeth in new delhi. police offices in the northeastern state of i found ensure everyone abides by the lockdown but has restrictions continue to be enforced for most people to limit the spread of the coronavirus after being locked up with some prisoners are enjoying their release. of the. 10 year old son otto was just 15 days old when her mother minot a bacon was declared an illegal far enough from neighboring bangladesh and sent to a detention center sanada went with her. i'm happy no once i go home all my brothers sisters and father i only saw them once in an interview. sanada and her mother a to have at least 60 people who've been released from detention centers for undocumented migrants in after a supreme court order to reduce overcrowding in prisons during the corona virus

outbreak hundreds of others like them remain imprisoned lawyers say many of them were wrongfully detained and couldn't prove their citizenship because of issues such as discrepancies in the spelling of their name and different documents. all of these are small spelling mistakes small errors that the tribunal doesn't believe anymore the members don't take them as mistakes many are declared foreigners are actually not foreigners but all indian citizens but because of these minor errors they're now suffering. in algol district the hoc family happy to have these all back after he spent 3 years in detention center for. it was 60 to 65 people living in a room in the detention camp when i 1st got there there were around 150 to 350 people living in a room there was about 100 square metres 42 year old like many others that didn't have all the papers to prove his citizenship even though he was born in india and

many people have. not had sure that appearance or even. last year nearly $2000000.00 of the state's $35000000.00 population were left off a national register of citizens a government campaign to check illegal immigration from neighboring bangladesh while their legal status is in limbo the government started building detention centers. ok plans for a nationwide register of citizens provoked protests as did the citizenship amendment act which fast track citizenship to minorities from neighboring countries but excludes muslims. india's lockdown ended months of protests and also began the release of some prisoners but rights groups say only 5 people declared illegal migrants in the past 7 years have been deported activists are asking the government to uphold international law which says detention must end when there's little or no

prospect of deportation and that's a problem al jazeera new delhi sunny some pictures from sydney where bondi beach is reopened with hundreds of surface in the ways the 1st time in 5 weeks it's a little confusing australians will only be able to surf or swim for quite the sole purpose of exercise the beach itself will remain closed and easing restrictions there follows a fewer infections being reported. at half past the hour we'll take you through the headlines now protests in lebanon the dense the country's collapsing economy have turned violent demonstrators in several cities clashed with security forces vandalized shops and set fire to an army vehicle u.s. president donald trump says the country will double the number of coronavirus tests states begin easing restrictions also criticize china again for its handling of the outbreak from says there will be an investigation and he'll be seeking damages. we

are not happy with china we are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source it could have bridged up quickly and it would have spread all over the world and we think that should have happened so we'll let you know the appropriate time but we are doing serious adverse to geisha new zealand started to ease some of its strict lockdown measures introduced 4 weeks ago to stop the spread of coronavirus the countries reported on the $1500.00 confirmed cases of covert 19 and at least 19 deaths nigeria also relaxing lockdowns in several cities including lagos on a budget from may the 4th however all non-essential travel between states has been banned wearing masks outdoors has also been made compulsory in lagos the state's governor says that's because the outbreak is still in its early stages and those who don't comply will be punished and the 1300 factions have been confirmed in nigeria with 40 deaths. for over fears and to get rid. of

look down measures of c.t. legace and ogun state if it too from $1.00 to $44.00. to 80 however this will be followed strictly was reinforced tasty and quantic trees measures unisys warning of a potential health crisis among children in south asia pandemics blocked supplies of vaccines to millions of many health care centers that usually administer the medication a closed while health experts in the u.k. are investigating possible links between a rare but dangerous condition affecting children and corona virus over the past few weeks hospitals in london have reported a rising number of children with stomach pains vomiting and diarrhea yet today but the headlines on al-jazeera the latest edition of inside story is next. join me steve clemons on the bottom line for your weekly take on u.s. politics and society i'm changing but the institutions frequently don't the system

itself is set up to benefit those who understand people who actually believe things that are not true that is a crisis for democracy is a crisis of concentration the bottom line. worldwide military spending is that it's highest for 10 years where is all that money going on my government changed the priorities with the coronavirus. this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm boun it's.