a wave of anger in lebanon protesters defy the pandemic law and take aim at the banks says the economy plunges further. but from doha everyone come out santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera . we are doing serious investigations donald trump blames china again for its handling of the corona virus pandemic while new zealand eases its lockdown off the 4 weeks of restrictions schools on some businesses a reopening. and fishermen in france castanets want to try to revive a multi-billion dollar industry battered by the shutdown.

lebanon 1st stop where petrol bombs have been thrown and banks vandalized in the country's 2nd largest city demonstrators defied the lockdown in tripoli to again vent their anger as the coronavirus emergency threatens to push their already failing economy to breaking point will start with this report from victoria gave me . defying a look down and a curfew protest his attack a bank in the capital beirut the value of their money is decreasing at an alarming rate. shock and awe 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. demonstrators in tripoli into the neben on blocked roads and fought with police on. this is responded by firing rubber coated

steel bullets which injured protesters. 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 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. the central bank is either incapable or directly instigating the dramatic drop. 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 what they're basically removing the issues. but it's not all known as. the. money transfer offices and banks no longer dispersed 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 risk. victoria gating be out you sara. some thoughts now from abraham a political activist in barrett who we spoke to he says the crisis in lebanon has only worsened during this coronavirus lockdown during this time there was

a huge buildup of anger at the people because of the tear it in economic situation and devaluation of the lira all combine the people are hoping to give a lot of chances for this particular subject and the slight chance was this new government the government and so far there has been no or no sign whatsoever of serious intervention to resolve the economic crisis now that the people cannot tolerate anymore any try 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 this possibility back as a government they have all the tools and the legal tools to really address these issues and with the particular with the central bank and nothing has been done so far for the past 3 months and the really the situation is that has

a snowball effect now and the situation is getting worse by the minute so they come up to really people not wait for any any further on to other news and u.s. president donald trump is taking to the podium again after calling off his pandemic press briefings over the weekend he's been criticized for suggesting among other things people could be injected with disinfectant to kill the virus now he's unveiled new plans to help ramp up testing as the states begin to ease their restrictions this report from washington with an official. 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 states 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 an ice 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 seen as after missing the 1st or more interaction. and then also making sure that we've got we've got the paper menus that are disposable versus or for a place that plastic ones that we've used to store some places like washington d.c. have renewed their own 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 and his decision to hold the briefings over the weekend asked about on monday he brushed off the question now that other states government we're hoping specifically said they seen a spike in people using disinfectant after your comments last week i know you said they were circle and i can't imagine why i can't imagine why 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 70000 deaths from the virus figure up by 10000 on his previous prediction alan fischer al-jazeera washington. the president also renewed 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 and we think that should have happened so we'll let you know at the appropriate time but we are doing serious investigations to the other side of the world new zealand which is relaxing some of its strict lockdown measures introduced 4 weeks ago people will be able to spend more time outside and some schools and businesses will be reopening these events reported 19 deaths and more than $1100.00 confirmed cases of covert 19 from swine hey reports. 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 now 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 may be 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 or clint. well bit of other news now and forces loyal to the libyan warlord coming for hafter of attacked residential neighborhoods in a town just east of tripoli overnight by fired dozens of rockets into the town of

misrata on monday half day and all the peace talks with the un recognized government his forces have been advancing on have to fighters for nearly 2 weeks one of the ones in tripoli and says how after the comments could be nothing more than grandstanding has been saying. big news but everybody here is familiar that this is not very significant especially has been repeating all the time the abolishment of the libyan political agreement this hold out agreement that brought about the current you and that ignited a government of national accord he has been always speaking and trying to announce the end of this libyan political agreement to but this has been interpreted in terms of his last defeat his forces lost many parts in the worst of libya especially along the coast the coastal way highway that links the capital

tripoli to the tunisian borders after they controlled it for the past 3 years also his forces in southern tripoli have been retreating and the city of the horn his main stronghold in the west of libya has been besieged by the government forces so on the ground have to have to his forces have been losing on the ground so his speech today as a kind of as you know that couple of days ago. minor demonstrations not very big demonstrations in the east of libya were calling on have to take over power in the country. the syrian military says at least 3 civilians have been killed during israeli missile attacks on damascus 4 other people were injured in the attack on 2 suburbs west of the capital the military says it intercepted some of the missiles that airstrike the 4th in less than a month thing comes as tensions between israel and the iranian backed hezbollah

increase. campaigning is underway in burundi ahead of presidential elections next month the opposition says it's been the target of violence and intimidation in the run up to the vote which is going ahead despite the coronavirus pandemics more from malcolm webb. it's election time in burundi the country still suffering from the crisis caused by the last 15 years ago campaigns have put gone ahead of next month's vote for the president and members of parliament amid a corona virus outbreak. there's no social distancing this rally of the ruling party. definitely. rights groups say there's not much room for other views because the ruling parties used fear and repression against political opposition. president. sitting on the right his group bruni for 15 years he's now backing one of his

closest allies ever reste. sitting next to him as his successor whose own currencies decision to run for a controversial 3rd term 5 years ago that plunged the country into turmoil. the opposition said it was against the constitution to the street. protests who violently broken up by police. detentions disappearances and killings of activists and government critics have been reported regularly ever since the opposition caught at the polls. in currencies or was declared the winner. but this time opposition parties are running but this rally supporters of presidential candidate i guess on the other to hear him speak his party says more than 200 of its members have been imprisoned and supporters often beaten by the ruling party's militia

where our people are attacked and there is no. judiciary or police prosecution which. can be conducted against the perpetrators that the opposition rallies again keeping distance coronavirus cases of on the rise the hasn't in force the lock down like some of its neighbors health experts say could be a creeping disaster the electoral commission says it's taking precautions effective . actually the coronavirus is a concern in burundi and we've been in touch with the health ministry who've responded positively to provide kits and other means to protect ourselves during and after the elections. ruling party spared no expense on t. shirts flags and caps. a few people believe this election is a process that could result in it leaving power many are concerned they'll be more

rights abuses and violence along the way. malcolm webb al-jazeera more coronavirus coverage to come and then missing out on vaccinations one millions of children getting the critical care they need. hello there the rain is on its way across central areas of europe of course is the building in from the west in the last few hours but ahead of all want to cloud and rain again very nice kiss on the skies here we are in hungary on the banks of the danube a beautiful sight there and not such a good side to cools in 2 hours of poland germany is the same still dealing with a very significant drought march and april have been very dry months indeed not so close across display and into southern regions this is the right there's been coming down for the last few days but that is where the rain is not caring away from because we have all this mass of blue work his way in the southern sections of

the u.k. across much of france the low countries and on its way into germany now as it does that the temperatures are going to come down which is a good thing quite a bit of cad and as i say plenty of rain eventually working its way across the department and really spreading through much of southern and eastern areas of europe so say bringing the temperatures down and also bring some much needed rain wednesday there's another line of systems working their way in from the west so again a very unsettled day but little bit better across the southwest a misty join throughout much of the central mediterranean still some cloud and some showers of course across northern sections of africa we've got cloudy skies that you choose and to morocco the chance of a few showers in the continue to work their way across coastal areas of algeria and on into tunisia a wednesday. as the world fights the corona pandemic more than learning more about this every day it's a new passion that you're now join our global community it's up to us on how we come

together to fight i'm sorry your questions can i just ask you time to see directly that coming on on you tube as you were saying i'm concerned about the front line phone that's a great question that keeping you up to date i'm using countries beating back and beating back successfully the stream on 00. the top stories this hour on al-jazeera protests have erupted again in lebanon as its economic crisis deepens to the pandemic demonstrators in several cities fought with security forces they vandalized shops and set fire to him in the it was

president donald trump says the number of coronavirus tests will be doubled as some states begin easing their restrictions the president again criticize china for its handling of the outbreak and said he'll be seeking damages and he's even started to ease some of its strict measures introduced 4 weeks ago to stop corona virus spreading the country's reported nearly 1500 confirmed cases of covert 19 and at least 19 deaths. price of us oil is sunk to below $11.00 a barrel on asian markets that's after prices fell further in the u.s. over growing concerns of a glut of oil storage space is running out as the demand collapses with factories and airlines at a standstill more from sarah clarke in hong kong. it's been a mixed response across the region of the stock markets in asia as the lockdown measures are being easy in some of these countries we're seeing stocks very succinctly the nikkei and the shanghai composite on tuesday the oil prices have also fallen now other economies as stocks and economies have been void as

a result of various countries curtailing or stemming the number of infections you mentioned hong kong but we've had a 3rd day in a row we've had no coronavirus infections reported but the crowded vice president has had a huge impact on one of the world's largest banks thing i just 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 would increase the number of bad loans being issued i just b.c. is also warned that credit losses could rise to between $7.00 and $11000000000.00 for the full financial year amidst fears of a global recession in coming days or coming years now the fear in february yet just b.c. didn't want of staff cuts it's talking about restructuring cost cutting program where they want to cut from 235000 staff 220-0000 staff now this week it said it will push ahead with this restructuring or 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 russia is reporting a huge daily rise in corona virus infection 6400 new cases raising the total to nearly 94000 with almost 100 deaths the number of confirmed cases has almost doubled in russia in 8 days. later on tuesday the french prime minister is expected to present the government's plan to lift its lockdown on may 11th include a strategy to reopen businesses many of which have been battered by the shutdown that includes the french fishing industry and the seaside town of. tells us how the multibillion dollar industry is fighting to get moving again. early morning in france's biggest fishing port billowing silk male fishermen returned to dock to unload their catch when they look down began 6 weeks ago the city's wholesale market closed prices plunged and fishing stopped to survive financially the fisherman had to come up with

a plan the prices of the auction hall were. really low. and the fisherman decided actually not to go out sheep station and now it is better. we're not in critical mode anymore we're not in survival mode anymore thanks to a new organization that was set up all to if issues and fishermen reduce the number of boats allowed to operate to control supplies and protect prices some fishermen though haven't returned to work because the health risks social distancing on board is impossible the fisherman says we don't want to go fishing because we are too close to try that when we go fishing so they decide to not believing they are more and stay at home but the part of the fisherman says ok we are going to a good must and also to a to try and find a solution for all this is small scale fishing is in financial turmoil too in the south west and poor many of the boats a family owned and operated the coronavirus crisis has also had an impact on

fisherman and women here in the port of why all they've had to adapt to the situation and come up with creative new ways to keep that business is afloat off to the lock down flawless but are now have to find a way to sell her fish with the market shut she decided to sell her catch directly to local customers and fishmongers now she fishes in the morning and in the often new delivers his sea bass and souls by fan he said. this crisis has shown us that if you rely on one system of distribution it's a catastrophe there's no doubt we need royal's wholesale market for its infrastructure fridges ice but we've learnt that we also need our own local fishmongers and customers workers in the countries fishing industry hope that the situation improves all through the french government loosens a smoke down from a levels and once restaurant school canteens and shops are permitted to reopen

financial recovery is likely to be slow in the short term but then least it's on the horizon. natasha al-jazeera why all fronts. on to spain one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic which is set to announce its next steps prime minister pedro sanchez is expected to present a plan for a gradual easing of restrictions the jobless rate those jumped to 14.4 percent a nationwide curfew was imposed in mid march to stop the virus spreading spain reported nearly 230000 confirmed cases and more than $23000.00 deaths nigeria also relaxing lockdowns in several cities including lagos on a budget from may 4th all non-essential travel between the states has been banned wearing masks outdoors has also been made compulsory in lagos the state's governor says it's because they are break is still in its early stages and anyone who doesn't comply will be punished nearly 1300 infections have been confirmed in nigeria and 40 people have died. of flu fears and give it to an

easy look down midges of c.t. leggers and ogun state if it took from wendy for 4. to enter however this will be followed strictly was reinforced testing and quantic trees measures mayors across colombia have moved to block a government decision allowing some people back to work the country remains under lockdown until the middle of next month but the construction and manufacturing sectors have been allowed to restart really to say it's too soon and have taken matters into their own hands as. the reports from bogota. building sites in the colombian capital remain the spite the announcement by president that construction and manufacturing were due to gradually restore a monday and. that's because late sunday nights the mayor of bogota managed to

postpone the return to work of almost a 1000000 people in this city alone now you see as a thought i had my nobody stops working tomorrow nobody no businesses no construction sites the only thing starting tomorrow is the ridge's tree of the businesses to approve their protocols i the political infighting shows just how difficult it is to safely restart work in populous cities like will be. the measure my delay reopening spring another 2 weeks as companies wait for their security mobility plans to be approved by the city. something no worries intrapreneur who are eager to restart. we had already informed our workers and it was a surprise to find out that we couldn't work and that we had to fill a lot of new paperwork we are bewildered it's clear the different levels of government are not working together and this damages everybody. has been in full

lockdown for over a month which has helped slow the rate of infections but has also badly hurt explorers citizens. for the government the biggest worry lies here in the public transportation system which they say can't operate past 35 percent capacity to avoid putting people at serious risk some workers say safety must remain paramount then what if you're not going to pick up some things that were expected to start today but instead will work and her mental longer is tough but it's worth it to avoid the worst health crisis economy scott history poses finding the right balance will be difficult they need to allow people to start working is very high and local governments and the national gallery need to balance is the act in of the trick try to avoid increase in the number of people contagion age it or. basically create social embrace coming from the lack of income this conundrum is

not colombia's alone ecuador chile and argentina are also trying to ease some restrictions to restart part of their economy while also extending the lockdowns it shows just how scared everybody is to botch what the restrictions have achieved so far alison that i'm just. you know we focus a lot on a vaccination potential vaccine for corona virus. but unicef is warning that south asia is on the cusp of a health crisis as children miss out on other vital vaccinations during the pandemic and unicef says almost a quarter of the world's children who haven't been immunized will have been only partially vaccinated live in that region i mean nearly 4 and a half 1000000 children mostly we're talking afghanistan india and pakistan that total is expected to rise even ization programs have been suspended in several countries including afghanistan and pakistan where polio is common unicef says it is concerned that vaccine stocks are running dangerously low since the pandemic

started because of disruptions to manufacturing and distribution here is my van's in it who is the chief of health for unicef in bangladesh she told us that vaccination programs are still being carried out despite the lockdowns. it's very challenging but we do need to to look into the possibility so one way is to really have very localized situations of lockdowns which of course requires a full knowledge of around the epitome of he or 50 year or take over $1000.00 disease which is in progress in bangladesh but there are still districts and parts of this look that are not on lockdown in there the stations can continue entry you also have encouraged the static sessions in the health facilities to continue so if mothers and children can come out they can be protected on the order hand also what we have advised is to limit the number of people in the same area

so there are some social distancing during the vaccination sessions as they are going on thanks how fast they are on al-jazeera these are the headlines protests in lebanon against its collapsing economy have turned violent demonstrators in several cities for security forces vandalized shops and set fire to a military vehicle whose president donald trump says the country will double the number of coronavirus tests as states begin to ease their restrictions but he also criticized china again for its handling of the outbreak trump says there will be an investigation and he'll seek 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 a could have been stepped 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 has done is to ease some of its strict lockdown measures introduced 4 weeks ago to stop the spread of coronavirus the country's reported on the 1500 confirmed cases of covert 19 and at least 19 deaths spain one of the hardest hit countries by the pandemic is looking at moving into its next phase of lockdown prime minister pedro sanchez is expected to present a plan for a gradual deescalation of restrictions it comes as the country's jobless rate has jumped to 14.4 percent russia reporting a big daily rise in corona virus infections with more than $6100.00 new cases it takes the total to nearly $94000.00 and almost $900.00 deaths in fact confirmed cases in russia have almost doubled in just 8 days some other news forces loyal to libyan warlord hafter of attacked residential neighborhoods in

a town just east of tripoli overnight they find dozens of rockets into. on monday have to ended peace talks with the un recognized government these forces have been advancing on have to fighters for nearly 2 weeks and the syrian military says at least 3 civilians have been killed during israeli missile attacks on damascus for the people were injured in the attack on 2 suburbs west of the capital the military says it intercepted some of the missiles and this airstrike go the full thing less than a month and comes as tensions increase between israel and the iranian backed group hezbollah there you go you are up to date with the world headlines on al-jazeera another full of news after the stream. talk to al jazeera we want your force work when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying your europeans goal build you know the stage of you we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on just

0. i'm femi oke a a welcome to the stream this ramadan muslims around the relative being asked to stay at home this ramadan of this planet and this ramadan this ramadan i'm staying at home to protect our doctors nurses to protect our n.h.s. to protect our stupidity rose it's not that i am praying for the road i'm praying for the well for the world but from what i'm told from home you can be a life saver protect our frontline staff protect our n.h.s. protect our doctors and nurses and saved lives.