but what wise to turn their greed withdraw from lebanon into one of the most horrific civilian massacres of modern times women children we couldn't believe. chronicling the turbulent story and the struggle for a palestinian whole. history of the revolution and al jazeera. more protests and violence in lebanon 2nd largest city as people show that outrage over a direct nomic situation. and sam is a band this is al jazeera live from coming up spain's unemployment rate jumps to 14 percent is the government poses a plan for easing restrictions. a moment of silence in the u.k.

health workers lost to cope with 19 but new figures show the overall death toll is much higher than originally reported. in one nicholas park indycar senegal find out next why this country with a small health budget has the biggest rate of recovery in infected patients in africa. let's kick off with lebanon where renewed protests have broken out in the 2nd largest city tripoli they come against a deepening financial crisis soldiers are on the streets they've been using rubber bullets to clear demonstrators who are bank. right now design a whole lot of shoes for us live bear we can see now it looks like more of an army presence the moon we spoke an hour ago zinah take us through what's happening on the streets. the army sent reinforcements

to the lebanon 2nd largest city to take control of the situation because a few hours ago anti-government protesters were vandalizing by. throwing stones at the army the army responded by using tear gas as well as rubber coated bullets so there were skirmishes confrontations that lasted for a few hours last night actually began when protests so turned into riots this is a very tense city yes the army may have managed to disperse the crowd but if you talk to people here they say it's just a matter of hours we'll be back on the streets if not tonight tomorrow if not tomorrow the day after tomorrow because we are suffering from economic hardships that we are no longer able to feed our children in recent days the lebanese the local currency sharply devalued it lost 60 percent of its value on the black market

which means prices are on the rise inflation up by more than 50 percent even if officials are acknowledging that inflation is now up by 50 percent so people are not giving up they believe that they will they will be able to change their leadership if they continue to take to the streets but as you can see behind me this state is clinging on to power and making sure that those protesters are not they are not able to achieve their goals so we can see we can see behind us and of there are soldiers out there but there's also plenty of people so just to clarify this isn't a curfew this is the lord least not at this point right. no there is a nighttime curfew it was imposed a few weeks ago it was part of the measures the government announced to contain the spread of coronavirus by the government also imposed a lockdown for a few weeks closing educational institutions the private sector the public sector

the airports but yes the day the government started to ease the lockdown allow some enterprises to open because it was really taking a toll on the economy but even during the lockdown you would see people you know in the streets there were noncompliance really in some areas and mainly impoverished areas like this city because if people do not work and they do not get their daily wages then they just cannot feed their children at the end of the day and this is a very very poor city a lot of people are unemployed the highest rate of unemployment in lebannon isn't tripoli and so is the poverty line many many people live below the poverty line so as you can imagine people have little to lose the protester who was killed what we understand is he was a father and people who you said he had really nothing to lose because he was not able to feed his daughter any longer tens of thousands of people lost their jobs in recent months this economic crisis has been in the making for much this is not

because of the corona crackdown there was a protest corona virus locked down and not talk about the protest movement against the ruling class really began last october all right good stuff in a hold on a very fluid situation there in tripoli. lebanon's economy has been freefall for months i was explaining jobs are in short supply and the government is struggling with massive debt over the past week the currency has fallen rapidly forcing the central bank to set the selling price of dollars at $3200.00 pounds for money transfer firms the government is in talks with the international monetary fund for a bailout the 5 year plan aims to boost growth to 2 percent by 2024 it requires $10.00 to $15000000000.00 though the money is much needed with the i.m.f. forecasting lebanon's economy shrinking by 12 percent this year patrick

martini is an economist and president of the lebanese institute for market studies he joins us by skype from beirut so it's quite a complex situation as it seems almost anything to do with lebanon always is but to try and perhaps simplify just a little bit one of them a journalist say them but one of the major economic issues here is that the debt ratio to g.d.p. is simply out of control is 175 percent now how how did it get this bad. absolutely actually the lebanese government have been borrowing depositors money from the banking system 40 years and years now the total amount of the posts in lebanon are in dollars dollars that was it's are like 114000000000 dollars and the libyan government borrowed most of it right around

like $90000000000.00 they spent it in the past on different projects on government expenditure infrastructure projects and today they don't have the money to pay the deposit is back so that the positives are running to the bank they said ok i want my money i want my dollars now however this dollar is not available because the government have spent it in the past and the cut the direct consequence of that is that the central bank and the banks are telling those that pose it we can supply you with money in lebanon spawned which has been actually increasing the money supply eliminates pounds and creating the inflation you've been talking about and the short devaluation of the lebanese pound on the black market brillion that's explained that dynamic very nicely and easily i think for people to follow explained this part of the picture when they talk about a haircut of 70 percent for bondholders we're talking mostly domestic bond holders

. well most long holders are domestic lebanese banks including the central bank hold at around 80 percent of the liberties that only 20 percent is held by international investors so when the government decided to default on debt they mostly defaulted on the lebanese banking system right so those banks now they will lose around 62 percent of their holdings either directly because they bought government bonds or in directly because they subscribe to some c d's issued by the central bank and then the central bank used this money to buy government bonds so in both cases banks are the main loser from this haircut on bondholders and that's why their clients now are paying the bills so basically levon is 6 friendly at the mercy of organizations like the i.m.f. they're right they really need some foreign money because they've used up

everything they can pretty much it sounds like in the domestic banking system. absolutely well levanon 1st of all needs a lot to free form and we've been trying to do the forms in the past years in the past 345 years and it was not working right it was not working because of internal dynamics because you would need to do some very unpopular reforms like cutting the wage bill you know or. you would need to cut spending massively you would need to do some privatization some devaluation of the lebanese pound and all those if you forms are very unpopular and you would need somebody you have to impose them on you that's the only way you actually do the right thing and that's where the i.m.f. come in and the i.m.f. does not only imposes the those reforms that should be done actually they don't only impose them on you they would also give you some money with them which would be a great a great thing for lebanon because we really lack capital inflows that's actually

the main problem here. we all know usually how it goes when the i.m.f. and. remember the package it usually gets more painful before it gets easier thanks so much for coming and analyzing explaining all of those dynamics going on thanks so much of the u.k. office for national statistics has released the latest numbers which include those who died outside of hospitals it says the actual number of deaths in england and wales for the week leading up to april 17th was much higher than government figures indicated it recorded just over 21000 deaths in that week where the government's toll for those who died in hospital was around 13000 journalists in london he says these weekly updated numbers are a shocking wake up call for many britons. these are figures released by the office for national statistics covering overall death numbers related to 9000 in england and wales they were released on tuesday last tuesday they began to set bells

warning bells jangling because they appeared to present a picture that was very much worse than the official numbers that are released every day that running total updated daily it only represents deaths in hospital settings not in the wider community in particular not in places like care homes the oh and s. numbers do and this week they confirm that the picture is very much worse than people up to now have thought 21284 deaths recorded across all of those settings up to april the 17th as an 11 day lag time in these figures at that point on april the 17th the official number was just 13917 i say just but it's a lot lower 52 percent lower in fact so 52 percent worse the overall picture now that has been done the one that has been presented to the public then the one that the government has been using as its base its base number for policy and within all of that one percent to particularly badly hit as i said the care home sector also

putting up some pretty disturbing accelerating rates of fatalities there tripling in the 2 week period from april the 10th to a running total of nearly $5500.00 the care home sector bosses say is now the frontline in the battle against code $900.00 in this country. french prime minister felipe says the long down has helped save $62000.00 lives this month but keeping it in place could lead to economic collapse plans to ease the 6 week long down in france are being unveiled in the national assembly politicians are trying to weigh a growing frustration from the millions stuck at home against the risk of a 2nd wave of infections the number of new daily cases fall and after 165000 infections spain's prime minister is expected to present a plan for restrictions to be further eased children were allowed outside to play for the 1st time in 5 weeks

a couple of days ago despite the nationwide lockdown spaniards have been hit hard with 23000 deaths and close to a quarter of a 1000000 infections arrow in madrid says restrictions will be eased gradually. spain has lost half a 1000000 jobs during this period of time and so the the necessity of restarting spain's economy is really urgent this is what. it is doing today he's presenting the. deescalation plan we're entering the 2nd phase of this of spain's lockdown and what we know so far about this the escalation plan is that the prime minister has requested the 17 out of the most regions here in spain to be readily ready to double their intensive care units capacity and be able to isolate or coronavirus patients if needed these these deescalation phase case is going to be slow it's going to be gradual it's going to be a sea matches what do we mean by

a symmetric it means that you won't be the same depending on what region you are in and it will be coordinated from central government in words of prime minister. who will have same rules but different speeds all of these will be related to the number of people in fact all these down measures will be reflected in these figures as we know so they will be tracking monitoring the number of infections if they go up or decrease for today up to 4 today in the last 24 hours both numbers will figures a death toll on a number of people infected have gone down germany is seeing a rise in infections after some restrictions it's currently reporting about $1000.00 new cases each day the virus has killed about $6000.00 people there dominick cohen reports from berlin. the magic number as it were for the german scientific minds and for the government has been what would happen with the what's

called the on nor the reproduction rate of the coronavirus government and scientific advisors said the main mission was to keep it below one in other words when one infected person would infect one other person as it were if it was ever above that as it was when the pandemic started in germany well that was the point at which to have lockdowns and to reduce freedom of movement last week before that it was below $10.00 at one point then nor point 9 for several days from now robert cock institute which is the representative and authority of body on this topic says it's back at one that means that the government could angle americal in the chancery building behind me as a real problem to wrestle with because she knows that many leaders in this country of different states say our economies are really hurting we need to loosen restrictions and yet the scientific data that relevant ministers plus single

america have said will inform their decision well that data is now going back up again and so it puts her and her government in a real quandary they realize the economic difficulties which would be eased by easing restrictions but they also know that the relevant bodies are saying that with the rate of reproduction of the virus going up it means that a 2nd wave of coronavirus is very possible. still ahead of al jazeera wearing masks now mandatory in lagos nigeria those are not the only changes in the region that story coming up plus rowing your own how lockdowns are inspiring people to become more self-sufficient.

hello there plenty of warm sunshine across central and southern areas of china the rain is gone for the time being so if you shop is educated away from northern sections of japan particular. heavy downpours on a wednesday but not a cold day 13 celsius is the high and sunny warming up all the while across much of holland show elsewhere the time it is already on the high side 32 in beijing or wednesday and up to 30 celsius in shanghai on thursday also warming up across into a socket and tokyo as well the high of 23 but the rays developing again through the central areas and it will gradually work its way east was as we push on to the next day plenty of rain still in the 4 calls across much of indonesia dry conditions are generally throughout much of thailand cambodia on into vietnam but over the next 2 or 3 days the men i put in still are seeing some very heavy downpours also northern and western as a some arches so we could be picking up as much as $130.00 millimeters of rain of rain in the 4 calls into northern and eastern areas of india this is in the fall in the west you can see these docks guys these thunderstorms leaving a fun as you can see there

a rainbow actually in the sky but we'll see more of this is a go through wednesday and thursday the rain is fairly heavy across much of the northeast and we'll see scattered thunderstorms really on the next couple of days slightly developing later in the day and a woman get in new delhi 38. as the world fights the corona pandemic more than learning more about this every day it's a new adventure and 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 type person directly that's coming on on you tube as you're saying i'm concerned about the front like oh nothing very quiet and not keeping you up to date i'm using countries beating back and beating back successfully the stream on 00.

ok welcome back time to have a look at those headlines now new protests have broken out in tripoli in northern lebanon against the deepening financial crisis soldiers fired rubber bullets to clear protesters who set fire to a bank the ukase independently run office for national statistics says the number of people killed by covert 19 in england and wales is 52 percent higher than government figures indicate unlike the government b o n s counts those outside hospitals. french prime minister felipe says the long downers helped save 62000 lives this month keeping it in place risks economic collapse plans to roll back the 6 week lockdown in france being discussed in the

national assembly. nigeria is set to ease lockdown restrictions in several cities including lagos and the boozer from may the 4th but all non-essential travel between states has been banned also wearing masks outdoors has been made compulsory in lagos the state's governor says those who don't comply will be punished i'm curious president says easing restrictions won't apply to state where there's been a rise in cases with regards to. force and went over to her to look for a field of 230 in the media. the federal government. or the human material technical resources to support the state controlled and contained in the pandemic and event and there is school further separate to labor in the states. nigeria's president was explaining there the

restrictions easing of restrictions will not be applied applicable to kind of state because of the rising cases and nevertheless some people are defying the measures and edris reports from abuja this state has knocked down its borders with neighboring states for the past 4 weeks however residents are saying that there are a problem with social distancing large crowds still gather a lot of people go to mourn people and not to result in the last 1014 days we've seen a spike in the number of infections can or used to have single digit infections in 2 weeks ago right now it's competing for space with the nigeria's administrative capital abuja the number of infections are rising there are no testing currently going on there because we were told that the laboratory conducting the tests there

has broken down has shut off due to lack of a testing kits and all that and then there are sudden unexplained deaths this. prompted the president to address the issue in his address last night saying although there are no final reports or there is no final report as to what killed those people yet the government is deploying human and material resources in karnal to help look at the health officials deal with the problems and then we've seen people are talking about hundreds of deaths by the way in cairo which is quite unusual the government initially the local government there initially rejected the idea that they were covered related that however some indications are that some of these states at least some of them related death. senegal has the highest rates of recovery for infected patients anywhere in africa trials have begun on a coronavirus testing kit now it costs

a dollar and gives results in 10 minutes they cost hoc reports from the capital dhaka. senegal is doing what most countries count testing everyone symptoms are not entering a health center for the novel coronavirus it has no shortage of testing kit thanks to this lab at the best researchers are developing a one dollar quick diagnose ticket originally made to test for dengue fever patients drop blood or saliva on to the devices and wait for a blood line to appear like a pregnancy test explains researcher i do sell tests there is no need for a highly equipped it's a simple test that can be done anywhere the idea is to rip at least produce $2.00 to $4000000.00 kits not just for us but for african countries so that we can detect and isolate patients quickly the sick are administered a cheap anti malarial drug called chloroquine commonly found in sub-saharan africa where malaria is endemic while the world health organization cautions the use of it

to cardboard scientists says it's an affordable treatment for poor african countries dealing with the outbreak it. is clearing. the virus from the respiratory system probably in making people on the more contenders. know more sick. with only 50 ventilator machines for $16000000.00 people senegalese engineer using a 3 d. printing machine to produce more well imported ventilators cost $16000.00 this one is just $60.00. sinegal is counting the cost and it's paying off more than a month into the outbreak the small west african nation suffered only $2.00 death with most patients treated healed senegal has the largest rate of recovery in patients infected with the current virus in africa the 3rd in the world ahead of countries like the united states and france and while it has a tiny health budget compared to those countries it has

a wealth of experience in dealing with infectious diseases and outbreaks over $3000.00 children died of pneumonia last year in senegal thousands more from malaria coronavirus is one of many deadly infections the country is dealing with lessons learned from the aids epidemic the recent a bull outbreak were key strategy in dealing with the pandemic and. already. important case coming in the country and beautician of movement in confinement of people from. these measures were taken when there were less than $100.00 cases scientific modeling predicted tens of thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths but this has not happened early detection and african led research means senegal is so far beating the odds nicholas hawk al-jazeera the car u.s.

president has renewed his attacks on china for its handling of the krona virus pandemic he says his administration is conducting serious investigations into what happened. not happy with china we're 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 wouldn't 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. meanwhile the price of us oil is sunk to below $11.00 a barrel on markets in asia that follows prices falling further in the u.s. over growing concerns of a glut of oil storage space is running out as demand collapses with factories and airlines as a standstill living under lockdown is inspiring many people to try growing fruit and vegetables in their back gardens in the u.k. the demand for seeds is soaring charly on to reports from southeast england the

latest in our series of reports on how the pandemic is impacting farming in food security. watering her crops hilary pav it has repurposed her garden to grow vegetables to help eventually feed herself and her family during the coronavirus crisis she's one of millions of britons now sowing seeds to try and become more self-sufficient after realizing that food supply chains a fragile we've started planting potatoes with vegetables because again the solids suffer the winds so hopefully in about 6 weeks we'll start to be self self-sufficient i think and obviously there's going to be a problem with how projects is going to end up in the supermarkets because you know they can't get the migrant workers to come in those lockdowns so you know in the end there's going to end up being shortages i think you know in weeks to come so hopefully we'll be alright others without gardens are using what space they have to germinate tomatoes q cumbers and herbes with very little knowledge you can get

a bumper crop of vegetable garden all of britain's wartime generation were told to dig for victory and responded with enthusiasm hardening britain's reliance on food imports by the early 1940 s. now households with time on their hands are returning to the garden the royal horticultural society has seen a surge in visits to its website seeking advice on how to grow your own vegetables fruit and edible plants well seed money factor is a reporting a massive rise in sales in recent weeks in supermarkets most panic buying has eased but egg shelves are often still there considered a staple of the pandemic pantry live poultry breeders across the u.k. have seen their farms stripped of birds as families unable to find eggs in the shops turn to chicken keeping sussex poultry farmer liz and rio at sea has now decided to stop selling chickens anxious that some might regret their impulse buys

when the lock down is lifted. love never had so many people call texan email like i said it takes me a good month to sell the stock that i get and within a week i had sold all my some of my left over am i marched so it was a huge panic i think for people to suddenly go oh my god i can't get my eggs the u.k. currently imports 85 percent of its vegetables from the european union but there are concerns lengthy quarantines could disrupt food supply chains selling to the soil rather than the supermarket for fresh produce could ease that burden charlie and al jazeera hampshire. in the next report in our series predictions of a tough road ahead for british dairy farmers demand from restaurants and cafes evaporates that's on wednesday here in al-jazeera residents of

a care home in the belgian capital brussels have been given a lift in more ways than one they're able to see their relatives face to face for the 1st time in more than a month the owner of the crane hire company offered his services so people wouldn't have to shout out to their loved ones from the ground relatives are given 15 minutes to visit with elderly residents. and let's take you through some of our headlines now new protests have broken out in tripoli in northern lebanon against the deepening financial crisis soldiers of fired rubber bullets to clear people who set fire to a bank so in a hole that has the latest. the army sent me of course men in lebanon 2nd largest city to take control of the situation because a few hours ago anti-government protesters were vandalizing bangs and throwing

stones at the army the army responded by using tear gas as well as rubber coated bullets so there were skirmishes confrontations that lasted for a few hours last night actually began when protests so turned into riots at least 10 civilians have been killed in a bomb attack targeting an oil tanker in the northern city of a free syrian city of afrin i should say turkish state media says the blast was a terror attack but did not provide more details the u.k. office for national statistics has released its latest numbers for england and wales which include those who've died outside hospitals it recorded just over 21000 deaths in the week leading up to april the 17th that's where the government's toll for those who died in hospital was around 13000 french prime minister philip says the long hours helped save 62000 lives

a month for keeping it in place risks economic collapse plans to roll back the 6 week lockdown in france are being debated in the national assembly spain's prime minister is expected to present a plan for restrictions to be further eased despite the nationwide lockdown people have been hit hard with 23000 deaths. nigeria is locked down restrictions in several cities including lagos and the boot you're from the 4th wearing masks outdoors is compulsory and the state's governor says those who don't comply will be punished. china is accusing the u.s. of telling what it calls bare faced lies about the krona virus and that's after the us president renewed his attacks on the country down trump says the administration is conducting serious investigations into what happened those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the story stay with us.

when a prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own parliament that call means a lot of the country's fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in given breaks it was a slogan that whatever the problem is of course jobs and counting the cost on al-jazeera. i'm femi oke a a welcome to the stream of ramadan seems around the relative being asked to stay at home. this ramadan this ramadan i'm staying at home to protect our doctors know this is to protect our own interests to british troops i am praying for the world i'm praying for you for the world from all the way from home you can be a lifesaver protect our frontline star take any chances protect our brothers our

nurses and saved lives.