but this is the news live from berlin and go on living on the streets as the country's already daya financial situation gets worse protestors breakbeat to run a virus lock down to demonstrate against the currency in freefall and looming hyper inflation also coming up. to run a virus testing in the us is often unavailable to at risk communities we look at grassroots initiative that's trying to fill the gap.

i'm anthony howard welcome we begin in lebanon where the coronavirus is compounding a longstanding economic problems that lebanon's currency has lost hof its value in recent weeks sending prices soaring and bringing new hardship to a country that has been grappling with months of financial turmoil protest as a now ignoring lockdown restrictions to take to the streets and vent their anger. scenes of popular anger have returned to the streets of beirut despite an ongoing lockdown and a curfew protesters have gathered outside the lebanese central bank to demonstrate against the worsening economic conditions. we think that quote all of this is not the only pandemic with suffering from heat in lebanon for 11 years that meant they either had a choice to die from hunger or to die from what i know with the increased half of

the crisis that the bank and the face of the value of america and the. people here tell us they have nothing to lose levanon one of the most indebted countries in the world is not only battling the penn demick but also its worst economic and financial crisis in decades. the protests erupted last october initially targeting decades of economic mismanagement and corruption now with a lockdown further weighing on the economy many are simply trying to survive so people 00. 00. 0000 basic level of us are all. products to suckle but we. were good luck to operate well. as a resort to. banking sector. so well in an attempt to dampen the financial followed of the crisis the government has

restricted cash withdrawals and banned money transfers abroad. the. prime minister has on the op has blamed the governor of the central bank for the currencies sharp decline and announced that a neutral international company has been tasked with auditing the bank's books. well yes more when you say that we will not allow or tolerate interference with financial stability. because these people want the country to collapse and to shake its stability to protect themselves and their interests at the expense of the interest of lebanon and the lebanese. well look many. but for these protesters promises like that aren't enough the aid organizations human rights watch has warned that without government assistance millions in lebanon could go hungry due to the lockdown. one of the biggest criticisms of the

u.s. government early on in the corona virus outbreak was that there was a distinct lack of testing especially in marginalized and minority groups the u.s. in the hardest hit segments of the u.s. society with that in mind one group of doctors in california have taken testing into their own hands and a free coronavirus testing center. many people lining up here for marginalized communities had almost given up on trying to find out if they had coated 19 because they didn't have access to testing that was until dr none of them i mean and 2 of her fellow female colleagues set up a free drive through clinic to test care for a hot commodity right but there's everyone everyone the doctor off women in says she's particularly concerned about african-americans who are more likely to die from the disease. you know the old saying you know what america catches

a cold black america catches the flu. this is an issue about social determinants of how it's an issue about health care inequality and we talk about write about a nation that's the 1st time in our history my generation that is dealing with a public health crisis they require all of us the week to be in effect. the latest evidence coming out of the us suggests people who are asymptomatic. contagious but not physically sick it may be driving the spread of the virus. we're. practicing social distancing washing our hands and we're in our 1st marriage but worded what is that tell me what does that tell me about my condition if we've gone through. many days already weeks without going out of business is being close i think they need to continue to have everything close until they find a solution until they've tested everyone before they reopen that we have

a worse. doctor and her colleagues hope that their work will help minority groups know and contribute to minimizing the risk of the latest surge for everyone. all the tests shown in that report look for antibodies in blood samples earlier i spoke to paula can and i profess a molecular biology and immunology at the school of medicine at the university of southern california i asked to how exactly antibody tests work so antibody is a sort of molecules that are body makes when we've been infected with a virus and they're very specific for the virus they literally stick to the virus and stop it working so an antibody test is looking for the presence of those antibodies in our blood because that is a real indicator that we may have been infected already with us and that speaks to the reliability reliability question rather how reliable are antibody tests in actually showing that

a person has been infected. shows so not only that pretty but i will say currently for all the tests that are being to ballot now sort of on the market to test coronavirus antibodies there are some questions it's a little bit of the wild west out there the over 200 kits that have been made and rushed to market and while i fully expect that some of them are going to be grey i also think a significant number likely to not be accurate enough to really give us useful information right even if an antibody test comes back as positive can people be sure that they are the enemy. show so that kind of touches on a couple of things so apart from the fact that as i said some of these antibody tests may turn out just not to be sense to the know there's also the fact that you don't make antibodies straight away so there's a bit of a tank delay so for example if you are infected with the coronavirus on monday it

may not be until the following weekend or even later that you actually start to make antibodies and that the antibody levels are high enough that a test can detect it so what we worry about is you know somebody who's starting to get symptoms if they go and have an antibody test and that test comes back negative even though they're infected because they just haven't had enough time to build up the antibodies then that person would be given these sort of false information and think that they are you know negative and not infected when in actual fact they are so the there's a real question around this issue of timing whereby an antibody test can be negative in somebody's who's you know still at the early stages of the infection. that was paula cannon a professor of molecular biology and microbiology at the cake school of medicine at the university of southern california well africans in china have been the targets of racist attacks accused of spreading the coronavirus there some of even being

beaten and forcibly evicted from their homes in our next report we made a kenyan who was working as a teacher in china income has dried up because of the virus leaving her struggling to survive but unable to return home. evicted beaten and forgotten these are social media videos of scenes in china sent to us i feel to many africans are facing beatrice newtok i kenyan teacher moved to china 4 years ago seeking a better future instead she's broke and looked up in an apartment in shandong province and received a call in march we have not been working so my jury. teaches here. facing each other the right to know is no money to pay for rangers no money for. a reason tries uncovered 1000 factions have led to the 4 because attacks against foreigners in china where african seem to have been hit the hardest are the chinese

government or is about a 2nd wave of the deadly virus. there are many undocumented african immigrants living in china who are blamed for the rise in factions mostly with very little evidence these violent incidents of now sparked a diplomatic row between africa and china. i completely drained my mind my poor case to an extent that what i was doing i was calling my mom back home to send me some. so that i may be able to buy myself food and right now it has gone to an extent that i commit to be able to ask her any more back in kenya beatrice family worries about. the net result i ask myself on these people human enough we have the chinese people here and they're treated well why are they doing this to our children and when she told me when she

slept out on the floor. i just asked the government to help them. honestly i just heard they're going to send a plane but how are they going to pay for it doesn't it you leave out the d.d.p. and i mean. but it's a cry for help that may go unnoticed the chinese ambassador to kenya dismisses cases like beatriz's with the devices but 200 african migrants in china the tensions between them and the locals is still a reality they are facing my mom is very worried about me and all why she wants me is back safe in our kenyan so like we all we got nothing so long as i learned they are safe. a plea echoed by many africans in china lives have

been tired upside down and are desperate to be reunited with their families well for more on the story let's bring in journalist fabien clutch in beijing fabien you've spoken to african migrants a lot they have common is this kind of treatment. well as you can see we've got some technical problems there and we show move on. and of get just before we go or model that you can always get the w. news on the go by going to the app store or by going to google play from there you can get all the latest news around the clock and you can also send us news of what's going on your part of the world by sending photos from where you are in the world for now though all that's all we have for you this hour from.

just bear with me we're changing plan. and asic. ok and bear with us our technical problems persist. the sport news before we go germany's maximillian guta won the 1st round of the formula rice at home challenge on a virtual hong kong circuit on saturday driving for the b.m.w. i and ready to end the 22 year old not stop his 2nd straight virtual victory after he won a test race around the monica street layout a week earlier all of that trip formula a is following formula one and others using virtual racing technology hopefully better than else to fill the void left by the corona virus pandemic

ok and just one other story that we are following for you. as soon as the bobs up i can go on and still no update on how we're going on that story for you i do apologize. no and it's not going to be that. there are new questions over the health of north korean leader kim jong un brought his say news agency said doctors have been sent from china to advise on kim's health earlier this week media in south korea reported that he was recovering after a heart operation but the later hasn't been seen in public north korea is denying that he is gravely ill at this point you're up to date

a lot more news for you in 45 minutes time until then you can stop to date on the website and social channels for another one anthony how it is berlin thanks watch. it's a deadly sin. and the whim of nature. motivates us. and threatens to ruin us. greed. desire. that drives our.