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today on the strain what kind of a crisis in lebanon let me show you what that looks like these are groceries that you could have bought in 2019 for 10000 naira and then 2021 using the same amount of money this is what you were telling this is what economic collapse looks like according to the bank are on about hoth the population in lebanon living in poverty so how are they coping what does this actually mean and also what are their leaders doing to help them that is our show today in a nutshell you can be part of the conversation by jumping on you tube i mean part of a comment section thank you for being part of today shared. honestly i believe that more than 50 percent of the lebanese citizens are not celebrating are gone and even if they did or they tried to celebrate ramadan i'm afraid of what's coming after.

this months based on the understand that events the economic situation and everything that has been going on in the country whatever no need well basically we need the international support to have a better country and we forums and we change but now lebanese citizens are looking for their basic human rights needs they're looking for medication for food and medical assistance i think that my country needs a medical lebannon needs a medical now more than ever hello zaina hello awesome and we are going to dig deeper into this as lebanon need america what would that look like 1st of all zain i've got to have you on the stream introduce yourself to our international audience . well i am a correspondent with al-jazeera i have been with since the launch back in 2006 i've reported from many countries and lebanon is among them awesome welcome to the stream good to have to introduce yourself to having this i am the general

supervisor of lebanon crisis response plan and advisor to the ministry of social affairs for social protection and development thank you for joining us on this team and how let alone welcome your program tell everybody who you are and what you did . and the communication manager and your console for development and we're good established in 2011 with our bible based 1st syrian support to see and i think you and we've expanded over on the call to thank you guests get to having on the stream when you were listening to joe maloof write that you reached out picked up a patent on you what points to police to tell us what go ahead well he said you know lebanon needs international help the international community has repeated time and time again that it is ready to help but what they want to see is that the political class which really has been responsible to running the economy into the ground mismanagement and corruption for so many years there needs to be

a new leadership a leadership that is ready to carry out who forms and fight corruption so the international community is ready to help america well no you're just going to need a political class to think more about the country and its people instead of their own personal interests awesome food the government's perspective how do you explain to the paper in lebanon what is going on right now with our economy how educate that. actually i was in a sad it's a community of over the years but nowadays in 2020 we had like all the difficulties of the years and all the problems of the years like happened today in 2020 we had the fiscal economic deterioration we have the pandemic of garbage we had also the explosion of the port of beirut so all these compounded crises left us with the situation we are and having poverty rates very high and more than 50 percent

actually our numbers say and indicate that we have more than 60 percent of the total of binny's population living in poverty and 25 percent of them are living below the extreme poverty rate which means that they are under the risk of starvation. this is a stepping to sharpen your walk in the engineer world what does this mean what are you seeing can you share a story with us. definitely i would start with the most shocking story because i think the impact of the economic crisis has left many people helpless and pushed some of the people to take even extreme measures such as a committing suicide here's a story for example. one of the reasons story that happened is that they raised this kid. who had been in the school activity of which the teacher asked him to

bring a 1000 to be nice to be up to by senator boxer at the school and when the kid approached the father to ask him for the money the father did not know what to respond he was able to afford this amount of money to the kids and eventually he committed suicide so people are living in the marks of stress they're not being able to afford anything but they can eat people are exchanging they they're sending their furniture and they're selling. the home just for in exchange for food that they can provide and by the end of the day when they do that there so really. this situation is really leading on the ground saying i'm just looking at this report of quite recently that you take lebanon faces tough from a dam and made in saying food prices there was one point in a point when a woman said how are the poor going to eat how are they not not even a sort of a pathetic a question but a real we cannot afford food so you know yes it's not it's not longer

just the poor it's the middle class the middle class has plunged into into poverty we've watched people wait for she would hand out there given kind of doxes with rice and and oil just to be able to survive through trances have increased 5 fold people are just dying their basic needs you just broke down you know commercial district shops are empty nobody is even buying clothes the other day i was at night and i asked how much a shoe. as for her toddler a $1000200.00 lebanese pounds at the official rate that's $800.00 and the black market rate that's $100.00 but we have to talk black market right now because that's dominating trading because there's there's a lack of dollars in the country and i just looked at the shopkeeper and she looked at me and she says you are shocked it's not even my salary i can't even afford it and that's when they pay me my salary there's a lot of desperation unemployment is on the rise as the economy it needs billions

of dollars and then that's why i go back to say you know politicians who have been governing this country for decades they have a responsibility for the sake of the people they need to move aside they cannot you know cling onto power because the international community is not going to help if they don't fight corruption and there's not going to be and i've heard this word time and time again from western diplomats they've been saying there's not going to be a blank check this time they need to take action so there are many stories like this shopkeeper who you know she just looks at others and say ok you're buying that shoe for your toddler it's not even my salary so it's really really difficult times not just for the poor it's now the middle class and there's great a brain drain doctors nurses and they're leaving the country as well and lebanon prided itself with its you know medical sector it there was medical tourism in this country and now hospitals are barely able to cope. love to play accommodate

this is from professor. and he is from an investor the american university of beirut who came up with the for 2 solid index it is a very simple idea it's a maze and chopped salad of all of these principles a. they've tried at american university a favorite how much it cost into buying gradients from one to another for this is what he told us and you have a listen and then respond at the end of us and thank you. at the beginning of the month of ramadan we wanted to see how inflation is going to affect the lives of people in lebanon so we look at the end. for tuition and books which traces the prices of the main ingredients basic interest in the salad and we discovered that actually it increased 210 percent from $220.00 to $21.00 when we looked into what could cause a basic standard or basic a star for

a family of 5 including for doing this soup and other basic items we actually allies that will cause their family something like wice or more than the minimum wage for the canadian the country is that he is challenging and we might actually see even more challenging times in the coming weeks and months. challenger has got a game on understatement yes go ahead mike my comment is that yes i understand and he's the author you're right the devaluation of the lebanese pound made the prices get very high and also let's not forget the merchants monopoly over the basic ingredients and basic food so like it's something catastrophic and i don't want to be get us catastrophic at least we are presenting the problem and at the end of the this see this like stream i want to

provide people with hope but at the ministry of social affairs we did 3 things 1st of all we have a national poverty targeting program that targets the people or the families that are below the extreme poverty line so we are providing now with the cards with vouchers for about. 2550000 tammy's ok and we are a negotiating with the world bank in loan for a program called the s s an emergency social safety net program so that i don't say so much every v.a. sions this new program will will allow us to scale up the. the benefits 216-0000 families additional to the $50000.00 in general we will reach 200000 families also we are preparing now to launch a compensation scheme program for removing of subsidies because this prize of the 5th who should also present that is because the goods or the ingredients of the of

a douche are. not provided in subsidy the price so it's in the market rate price so when we provide the people with a car that allows them to buy these basic food and services then we will help them if you. gate. rising and problems and provide and going to be there for security we are planning now to target 750000 detainees families by june so that's a very huge challenge it's the biggest logistical operation in the history of lebanon i know it's very difficult we will have so many problems challenges and grievances as well but we have to move forward in order to provide the poor with all the support and let's not forget the syrian displaced because also 9 out of 10 students placed in lebanon are under extreme poverty line imagine this number so

lebanon basically nowadays is a country resided by vulnerable communities from all nationalities unfortunately so in peace we in partnership with university are you and d.p.w. be unicef and other you and agencies we are providing also a social safety net us and let me just saying is that enough ok. no i don't think that this is enough what is happening now is just a temporary solution but it's not a permanent solution because. it's just more of a morphine shot if you provide people with subsidies you help them purchase. the items with them and this prospect but then what then what is the brits going to do happen so i think we should be addressing the problem that that as serious as you can. think sample. you could put it even with the subsidies actually

i don't know if you heard about it but. the prices are going up the price of the bread no going up but $3.00 times and the families they start a family and they start a move that. the hostess talked about and girls also likely did with the subsidies so. i don't think oh it's not the solution and it won't help solve the economic problem needs to talk of the quabbin more seems to allow me to say that you are right in the in the way or another. now we are made this storm so we have to provide the people with it was do mitigate and be resilient in order to build of the storm so that they rise again after the storm passes away so we have. to do this now and at the same time impact of all this work on

a battle programs in order to provide us with an exit plan out of the poverty it's not that we are providing cards and that it's wrong we have to have an exit plan. that provides us with the tools in order to get out of the so in our perspective we hear all respect we here at supply let me bring you something from the heart of the storm this is a set on that and he was talking about what he's been doing recently in lebanon have a listen i just traveled back from lebanon last week where we went to visit syrian refugee camps we were just between food packs fresh meat fresh bread to these refugees and we also asked them how they're coping with on this year and what a lot of them said was it's a struggle for them especially because they don't have an income one of the syrian refugees don't have an income so they struggle and the very last only on charity aid and as you can imagine due to the current economic crisis that's not helping

any of them either. so you know there are so many layers of challenges that 11 has right now including the lifting off food subsidies including. the list goes on and on and on for. yet remote multiple crises how do you even communicate that and how or even lebanese people living for that. well it's very difficult but yes and finite understand you know you want to help the poor but these are ad hoc decisions and i mean when you're taking a lot of time the world bank you used the word negotiations there is already a deal the world bank has set conditions the lebanese government has not met those conditions other asking is to generalize me to say is and i know you are you are not right because i was negotiating with the world bank and they know exactly what is going on we did and we signed the agreement by the parliament of lebanon did have like some. some insights or some justifications for the deal

and then now we are waiting to be sent to washington d.c. they had quarters of the world bank so that the board of trustees of the world bank like confirms the agreement you have to go into consideration be sorry that the have you vetted the families who are supposed to receive this i mean the world bank and everybody else for that matter is there a bit concerned that only supporters of the government are going to receive this aid they need this you know i'm not going to get into no not to make because we are we have did we have done a b m t testing questionnaire in collaboration with the world bank w f b and others as well so we have 50 questions we will do household visit and all this is monitored we did and we had a grievance for the 1st time in history of lebanon so we have to to give like credit when we work properly and we have to criticize when we don't so let's be

clear we did i meant eager events and for the 1st time in the history of lebanon technical audit so we have to do to say that we abided by all the the standards of the international scene and i'm sorry i meant i haven't had a lot of people on chip and want to talk to all 3 of you so i'm going to ask you briefly to respond to some of the comments that you have inspired right now i want to start looking at this is from the last my possible possible that how is lebanon coping after the blast the pain from last. this is falling. yeah it's not coping. i'm going to talk 1st of i'm an in-joke aspects of being here when the blast was a. changing point in the past that we're doing. we changed our interventions so so here's the thing. all the programs that we've done throughout

the last 9 years are just being shattered after the blast because after we've reached a point to it 80 percent of the break is only poking us on education protection and the likelihood now it will buck 2.0 where we have to focus our it think it is on providing the basic needs for the people but if the provided him with the catalyst and we need right in the shelter so basically we are now under survive and everyone is knocking everything people do not care about education anymore they do not care about the issues of gender based violence. it seems like all of the effort is gone and this is paving the way for really alarming problems so for example child labor is on the rise again many of the people are forcing the state to quit school because they need to work to provide their families with a piece of bread on the table by the end of the day and you have early marriage on the rise again we've done

a really good progress but now with the economic situation forced to do that again . that there are so many evil people in here should you mind if i just share some more of those questions with your copilot all right so this is your highness yanis says and i'm going to ask for a very quick response here international help is essential for lebanon to overcome this crisis you don't have to agree but i'm really interested in your instant reaction that. definitely international community the international partners and friends have contributed a lot in the past for lebanon especially in those 3 but definitely the needs are massively increasing and also we have scores if you have resources nowadays in lebanon and we cope and play and we really really need this help from the national community whether it's huge if you are on point with your questions this one is for you saying or this is from valar unemployment corrupt politicians who have been governing the nation for many years we need men i'm going to add and women of

integrity who have a true love for the people instead of themselves to editorialize that the politicians are like matthew saying i go ahead. well they run the economy into the ground there's mismanagement corruption and governance. i mean people have lost hope have lost faith in those who are in power who are lowered who turned into politician who it's been 8 months since the government resigned in august in the aftermath of the beirut explosion and yet these politicians are fighting over influence and in the next government and it's not only internal power struggles there's also reach to all dynamics at play because lebanon's politicians are tied to regional international players and lebanon is the battleground of proxy states where where basically lebanon is is a card so for these politicians lebannon and villepin nice people are not the

priority. people take to the streets yes they were not the majority a lot of people still you know follow their their leaders their sectarian leaders for for for for many different reasons some are afraid of the tentative or the alternative really has not presented itself people are still afraid you know because there's this lack of loyalty as as a nation as a nation state but that this protest movement fizzled out it was met by a militarized state people found it useless really to keep on taking to the street when you're up against power which is ready to use all forms of violence you know to keep people off the streets so a lot of lebanese have lost hope those who can have left the country and that's why i talk about you know brain drain and s. and i wasn't criticizing you for the sake of criticizing but it's been a year and a half what have you you know not you what have those in power done for the people

to 3 months ago people young men were in tripoli and demanding jobs saying that we cannot survive when there's a lockdown if we don't work today i can't put food on the table that any government official respond to them. no they shot at them they killed one young man so this is what i am studying i'm not saying you know and people are worried and the world bank is worried and they're rightly so who are the families who are going to get these these foods uganda are they going to be people who really need help or people who are going to vote for these politicians in the upcoming elections next year so lebanese have lost hope i've reported from many countries across the world conflict zones i've covered wars but watching a country slowly die slowly collapse watch people the depression the anxiety and watching the leadership only thinking about themselves and not the people that i have not seen you know in my career and i can say that i've i've seen i've seen

quite a lot also i personally agree with you is coming i think you are coming in and sitting in the hot seat basically on the strain and talking to not just a stream ot us out as our audience and also to officer paper 11 and as one more comment i want to share with you and let it come off the back of that and that will wrap up i shall have a listen. despite all of this the lebanese government is stubbornly refusing to take any meaningful steps progress in a crisis daily invited to people's right to an adequate standard of living. how do you want to grandmother's home automation i had my respond to zena and to the lady i'm not here to defend the government but also it's nice to like to be to be objective ok this government came in february 2020 ok and in less than 6 months they experienced the

deterioration of the economy and they give you a shot of the pound also the pandemic of coverage that affected the biggest and strongest countries in the word and then the explosion of the port of beirut and let's not forget that in lebanon 40 percent of the population are not only binny's from displaced syrians and the palestinian refugees so all these compounded crises led to this also thank you so much we appreciate it with thank you very much we appreciate you being on the show you man and also saying as well each of your questions were on point thank you for the part of today's discussion is why not be the last time you hear from zeno awesome really appreciate and thanks for watching us the next time on the story. it's a very bleak picture for

a lot of americans out there white supremacy in fact all of our patients you're putting more money into the hands of someone 1st taking money out of the hands of other workers their own goes to their camp it becomes us versus them this is the deal about constraining your nuclear program the bottom line of the big questions on out is they are. one 3rd of all the foot produced is wasted with tens of thousands of put out that power in south korea has been transformed from west of founder into a global leader in food recycling i have a reporting on how new technology is making this possible. in kenya i mean the farm must and scientists already have believed it in the soil the livelihoods depend on it was a new place a phrase. well if we cannot have palestinian my government was certainly not allow britain to control french palestine would be an outrage but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows 100 years ago britain and france made

a secret deal that would influence the shape of the middle east for centuries to come and so. now we can draw on the. psych speak out lines in the sand on al-jazeera. dozens of people are killed and many more have been injured in a stampede at a religious festival in northern israel. i'm obnoxious and this is all just here a live from doha also coming up protests against the decision to delay palestine's 1st parliamentary elections in 15 years poverty is partly to blame for more children and babies dying as brazil's coronavirus told process for high.