there was more sniper machine gun fire in beirut today. between 175 and 990 lebanon was caught up in a civil war way countless groups for one another in ever changing minds has. been the notorious house to house fighting the right forth against the left christians against muslims and in the background israel against syria on the piano. the lebanese know what pulling me back then nearly a 1000000 were driven from that home. even off to the wall the country never truly found peace. today one still sees the scars of war in beirut many buildings are still to came and society has still not fully recovered. lebanon still has no become it civil war and already carries the burden of another syrian refugees cossack. country $4500000000.00 a year. the welcome in lebanon can be vastly different for syria sama very positive. in the bekaa valley a local n.g.o.s who has opened up a youth as a school for the children. but also a place where they can meet and enjoy themselves. feel the urge. to go also play football up the soccer camp in the bekaa close t

in the center of beirut. nearly everyone is lebanese i lessons are in french as in all secondary schools in lebanon i am language from the former colonial power i have on the playground the spoken word is our i mean i am sure i am stuck was i am but i felt that i must have that i got that what i knew i. was that i. cruise family have always lived in beirut the city is their home the pharynx apartment is only a few meters north of the beirut part football pitch not far from madame like him she also lives overlooking the city but she only needs 30 seconds to reach the 8th floor. through his father is a driver he's not rich but can provide his daughter with a good life. i. use it a lot and know that i've been a live at the left you have no somebody should get that but another. one more open should know that he has a lot of other fellows. this is for him. i don't think it's for fees this is a bust you. see that a.t.m. i can show you the results. just say. oh just just. she thinks they can because i don't trust an

one of the reasons i wrote beirut 1958 is i was there. was five years old and that is me and the really cute cowboy outfit. that is my older brother trying desperately to say i have no idea who this person is and i have no relationship to this person and i never want to see this person again in my life. my father was with the united nations and has been posted to jerusalem and when i was two years old and then we moved to beirut in 9057. beirut in 1950s was all called the paris of the middle east. it literally was. it was the most open and fun place to live in the entire region and beirut is set to write on the mediterranean's with the mountains of lemon on right behind it and you literally could go swimming in the morning and skiing in the afternoon or the other way around. of course, when the civil war began it all went pretty sour quite in a hurry and in the end my father stayed and my mother and brother and i were evacuated to that really hard to spot, naples, italy where we stayed with the americansap six fleet until the civil war ha

then we move to beirut in 1957.eirut in the 1950s was called the paris of the middle east and it literally was. it was the most open and fun place to live in the entire region. they wrote his sated right on the mediterranean with the mountains of lebanon right behind it. you literally could go swimming in the morning and skiing in the afternoon, or the other way around. of course with the civil war began, it all went pretty sour quite in a hurry. in the end, my father stayed, my mother, brothers and i were evacuated to that really hard spot, naples, italy where we stayed with the american fleet until the civil war would wind down and then we went back in. that's my personal account of the story. with that i would happy to be take your questions or comments. [applause] >> this is obviously a question with a complicated answer that you may not get their entirety here. why do you think the civil war resolved when their negotiations were the leaders in the 70s and 80s was much longer and much more bloodier? >> guest: th

the situation on the ground in beirut was extremely dicey.the lebanese army which was mostly christian officers regarded the intervention as an invasion violation of sovereignty and was prepared to fight back. the american ambassador on the scene advised eisenhower not to sell that on - - send the troops over and over and came up with a brilliant solution. he went to the commander of the lebanese army and said why don't we pretend you have invited the americans to come here to stabilize the situation they are not here as an intervention but as a guest. he went along with it and for the remainder of the americans deployment in beirut, technically the marines were escorted from place to place by patrols of the lebanese army. it was fiction but avoided a showdown. met and talk also got the assistance of undersecretary of state, number three with instructions to tell mcclintock to get on the program and got on the bright ground and said i will support the ambassador's efforts to defuse the conflict in together the undersecretary of state mcclinto

very brave the siege of beirut had begun. the p.l.o. was encircled some palestinian leaders advised the p.l.o. should surrender but i found had other ideas the admission. and the jury had got out alive. at one early meeting the leader of the p.f. lp general command homage agreeable suggested excepting israeli towns of withdrawal under the banner of the red cross this hour i mean red cross provided overall i've had said he would say a prayer to help them arrive at the decision and he went away and returned and said i sense the winds of heaven blowing god has ordered me to fight. the winds of heaven as i describe them meant holding out for better conditions in a bid to raise more out out a fact and his office feels toward the streets of the besieged lebanese capital. massive israeli bombardment caused civilian casualties but also strengthened the palestinians resolve. finally in august after 2 months of siege and bombardment u.s. envoy philip heavy been announced that an agreement had been. there grim and gave safe passage for the p.l.o.

is chief of staff start to plan the defense of beirut. many palestinians expected a repeat of the 1978 invasion and assault with limited objects. said that many there yeah. their belief was that the israeli operation would not extend beyond 40 kilometers from the international border this effected palestinian preparations for the invasion as well as syrian and lebanese preparations therefore resistance to the invasion in southern lebanon was ineffective. on june 6th $98.00 to $2.00 days of airstrikes israel its land invasion of lebanon. with the exception of stiff resistance put up by the defenders of the palestinian refugee camps in southern lebanon palestinian forces in general quickly collapsed commanders abandoned their fighters in the field and fled for safety out a fact was living. in the edge out of it was incredulous kept on saying in all possible he couldn't believe the israelis were advancing so far so quickly he ordered a stiffer existence later on i learned that he was very angry that there was no real resistance such i want t

works on construction sites in beirut as a migrant worker as a syrian among the lebanese. in their early ok i'll overhear a scene on the show that. oh. yes. you know. here as soon as. i did they know. the lebanese are neither rich nor poor with a gross domestic product to quibble and to bug area all mexico. rula and her generation can grow up in relative peace and security yet with the legacy of so. a war and a refugee problem which would make any country found a. little bit you know sleep up to come out you know out of it but not do it on the us i think you want to live any more assistance while yet that's not that's why little but i guess what some of the also your mom had to really coming. out and play mcginnis did. that come up. i love. my room as father plays football twice a week with his friends 50 year old man in beirut. i think i like. how. i a game like any other anywhere in the world every tuesday. night and i was excited and i mentioned i knew out. myself that way i was fighting i thought i. would send. money out. tuesdays and thursdays. whatever one says about

they're doing great under trump go ahead in beirut as an opposition the d.n.c. has brought in tons of money and what danny was saying was 100 percent right by the way about the d.n.c. and the democratic establishment has more to lose from burr under bernie sanders than they do from letting trump win a 2nd term and you know let's not get this wrong i'm sure they have no illusions that joe biden is a terrible candidate to go up against trump and probably won't when they don't care at the end of the day. is more a. trump serves the class interests of the democratic establishment way more than bernie sanders ever could bernie sanders actually challenges that and that's why they're fine with another term presidency and like you said they've had a great 3 years being in the opposition it's so easy to be in the opposition you can reel in money you know support us every time trump does something that without actually doing anything to challenge any of the policies that trump is pushing or putting into place they don't actually do anything it's all just symbolic nancy pe

we're going to stay home what do you think go ahead in beirut. i mean i think it's a mixed bag i think some will and a lot won't there's no telling like what the breakdown will be but i don't think that joe biden will have the sort of enthusiasm that he needs even without the burning prose the burning supporters but even you know there might be like let's say there's going to be a significant number of people that after this this entire nominating process is finished and it's completely clear that it's been stacked against bernie sanders and they end up giving it to joe biden and there's going to be a lot of people who are irreparably alienated from the democratic party and will never want to do anything as a democrat ever again the democratic party is going to lose a big chunk of support and that's going to make it very very difficult for them to win an election against somebody who has a huge support base donald trump that's very committed that will come out and vote for him so i think this is definitely going to hurt them in the election in th

crude carnage i'm joined by my guest was me in beirut he's a professor of economics and international affairs in irvine we have pai and he is an independent economic and geo political analyst as well as a former commodities trader and in toronto we cross alexandre bruno he is an analyst at gulf state analytics sorry gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate pilot may go to you 1st in irvine because you got up early as for this program here all right it all happened quite quickly and a lot of analysts weren't too surprised by the deal that the russians and the saudis had collapsed. the russians didn't go along with what the saudis wanted to do and the saudis reacted and now we have carnage on the oil markets here what is saudi arabia's gambit here because you know in the if you look at its budgetary constraints it can afford to have low oil for a very long time and we throw in the coronavirus that is also hurting crude demand all across the world what's the what's the gambit go ahead. well thank you yeah the timing the gamb

and her friends from the center of beirut. and $900.00 children who would never have met without the pope will come. to the locals on the refugees know each other better than i. do syrians palestinians and lebanese really understand how the other takes. that significant if there was just a moment when nobody on the you promised in you are you syria or lebanese then it was worth it. or is it your country. on the pitch. doesn't matter. how much it will come out. of the company level so some never buy them on the bench. and i have a problem why. can't someone just say i don't have enough. it's. just i'm i'm i'm i'm good i'm. here and they want and we think that we are. strangers. we wish we wish to go back if we have a chance to go back to us that we. hadn't been stubborn pull out some. serious old some stuff off. 0.2 very few. i had missed most of the month almost made a. sudden by 0. actually seeing. me sad to. see me. even into the. sun i'm. just a. member of the number of the hottest of the mobile within the machine but you w

and her friends from the center of beirut. and 900 children who would never have met without the focal count. of the locals on the refugees know each other better now. do syrians palestinians and lebanese really understand how the other takes. that significant if there was just a moment when nobody on the you promised in you are you syria or lebanese then it was worth it. is it your country or monaco. on the pitch. doesn't matter. how much i have been out. of the company level so from there are a dime a mile but that's. it i have a problem why. can't someone else say i don't have. it's. just i'm i'm i'm i'm. i'm. here they want and we think that we are. strangers we wish we wish to go back if we have the chance to go back to us and we go. out on that had a new unstoppable laugh some. serious old psalms go on. sale once in a few. i don't miss my mum or must say hello. to them by all. acting singing. sad to. see me. you've been to them she's. the son of the duke of beasts and. many of them of the harvest of the mobile within the

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part one of the beirut park tell the story of 11 where every 5th person is a refugee syrian children trying to forget the war. i'll get into. that just with a little definition of. the country read coniston children grow up with no future. and yet did tutoring. to see them it was so hot that the locals extend the hand of friendship. at a factor of about one. in shot there is only one school set up by the united nations honest indians are not allowed to attend lebanese schools the children my god i'm this is the only chance to learn even if what they really want is to be leo now the message. says to me that jihad. why up there there was just one william way will fall in love. or will go oh yes oh me oh please tell. you who. will run a head when the only one of those people like the fool some of you would like to. school with a couple to. look up look at the. concept that you think yes. oprah seen him children have you just smarts are reading we have intellectual people and we can one cool them they can use something in the future if given the chance to take not settling their chances

part one of the beirut park tell the story of 11 and where every 5th person is a refugee where syrian children are trying to forget the love i'll get into. my husband and 11 definition of. a country where coniston in children grow up with new future yet i don't know how the ice high at the t.v. i was at and yet dare to dream i see the mystic cinema does so had a gut level locals extend a hand of friendship. and at a factor of about one. inch there is only one school set up by the united nations honest indians are not allowed to attend lebanese schools for children my god i'm this is the only chance to learn even if what they really want is to be leo now the message. of sale then when you get your head. while there i think there was one william frey a love call a love. poem will go oh yes oh oh. yes do. you want to wallow in the believe of those who like the fool some of you would like to thank you with a little. mock up a cut of. a run. down so that you. yes. i would presume children might be just smart are reading we have intellectual people and we can more contemporary they can use

in the afternoon lebanese time the second marine regiment landed on a beirut beach. the marines came ashore anticipating that this would be the day and that they were going to be facing a hostile audience. for they ran into was lebanese and other sunbathing on the beach. some of them and the new newly invented the tv. unfortunately i don't have a picture of anybody on the beach. but i do have a picture of the lebanese rushing to the shore, fascinated by the aberdeen having landed and politically as the marines charged up the beach weapons loaded ready to go to war defenders charged selling coca-cola, cigarettes and other -clebanese delights. it turned out in large numbers to see the sights, here you can see the taxis pulling up. it was all a bit of a comic opera but everything that he said was dangerous. the marines were landing in lebanon in 1958 in the midst of a very vicious civil war between christians and muslims and expected to go into combat. they regarded them as invaders violating the sovereignty and the sanctity of lebanon. the muslims saw them coming ashor

and her friends from the center of beirut. and 900 children who would never have met without the focal count. of the locals on the refugees know each other better now. do syrians palestinians and lebanese really understand how the other takes. that significant if there was just a moment when nobody on the new palestinians are you serious or lebanese then it was worth it. or is it your country all monica. on the pitch. doesn't matter. how much i move out. of the home but live. so from every time i'm on the bench. i don't have a problem why. can't pass on the same stuff i don't have. it's. just my. time i'm. here they want and we think that we are. strangers we wish we wish to go back if we have the chance to go back to go. out on them had a new unstoppable laugh some. sea of old songs go on. syria 45. i must miss my mom almost i had to. tell them my own. act it seems. sad to. see a. few but i've seen them she. sung. just. for them all the. love the love that we give them just leave me when the senate does. because nothing else

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let's get the thoughts now of our guest they are all in beirut patrick martini he's the president of the lebanese institute for market study abraham and i'm not as a civil society activists and jamil he's a lecturer in politics at the american university of beirut thank you all for joining me for this conversation before we talk policy let's just talk about what it feels like right now in lebanon and you all are in beirut some to start with you patrick what does it feel like right now. so people lost their jobs because of the bad economic situation companies have been closing down they also lost their income and the purchasing power of their money those who had some savings at the bank either those savings were in lebanese pounds and now they can buy them much less because of the short devaluation of the pound or it was in dollar and now they can not with throw it in the other they are forced to is draw them in lebanese pounds at it evaluate i mean at a rate that is not the real actual market rate making them lose for their money on them so people simultaneously lost their income the

the lebanese army has dispersed protesters who are blocking one of the main roads in the capital beirut demonstrators have been defying a lockdown and curfew to voice their anger over the worsening economic crisis last week lebanon's currency reached new lows against the dollar sparking calls for the central bank governor to resign so holder has more from beirut. lebanon as currency has been depreciating for weeks but in the past few days the lira 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 absent or directly instigating the dramatic drop 101 that. those in power say there is an attempt to topple the government by sabotaging financial stability opposition politicians who are backing the long serving governor riyadh selami believe the ruling alliance led by hezbollah is trying to take control of the central bank which implements u.s. sanctions aga

they have very different connotations these days and debating in beirut. they would surprise those in the west but assume it has always been as it is that is not what drove me. i wasn't idealizing the past but i wanted to understand. it unraveled very slowly at first without people noticing in the first decade or 15 years. there are many turning points in any country or any regions in history that explain. it's the end of the ottoman empire and fall of the calipha caliphate. the u.s. innovation is the moment when everything became worse that had already been like that. sunnis and shiites in iran at each other's throat. over the last two decades or so it's always been like that. it's for the inevitable and eternal it is completely correct and the eternal part of these explanations greatly if you a complete understanding of why we are where we are today. as i dug deeper and deeper to find the answer of what happened, i kept coming back to the one year, 1979. a lot of you will remember that year as the year of the hostage crisis. it was of course also the yea

if you listen to the chanting in the streets of beirut, you will hear them say. [speaking in foreign language] , from beran to beirut, they're not talking by 1979, they arere talking about the protest that are taking place today that are challenging the corrupt leadership, the mismanagement and the authoritarianism and so far in the conversation it is been very much around lebanon and iraq in iran's role but it is important to remember that there have been up raising in sunni countries, this is not a denominational thing. it is not only an ann taylor i wrong thing, a lot of people are also fed up with the influence that saudi arabia has had on religion and culture in the region and although today they have a crown prince who wants to appear as a reformer and does many things that feed into the agendao of reform, a lot of saudis live a in fear of what their crown prince's doing and it's falling upon their country, women activists who fought for the rights to drive, this is a fight that has been going on for decades, a lot of the young activist and older activist c

ok our correspondent bhosle already there joining us tonight from beirut where as you can see behind him there is a tense situation there in front of the country's national bank also thank you very much it's thank you we're now into zimbabwe where the pandemic is hitting farmers hard local markets and the european markets where they export much of their produce have been closed by the walk down this latest hardship comes as farmers were just starting to recover from the cycle last year the news correspondent from mission here reports. it has been a year since cycling a day strike allan and. from what. extensive damage was caused to infrastructure a freight recovery has slowly started but you know the global cooldown of a respond to me has knocked again. we had these 2 weeks where there were no cells a tool not a. phone and then yes i'm saying that the prices have been have been depressed depressed. and demand has been and he clears hard it has been off right out of the country. there's been a lot of flights that are being cancelled and frequencies and to some bad weather being cancel

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defying a look down and a curfew protesters attack a bank in the capital beirut the value of the money is decreasing at an alarming rate. and all monday the anger at the central banks policies and a political class they accuse of corruption and mismanagement erupted in a wave of violence across the country i demonstrators in tripoli knew the neben on blocked roads and food with police officers responded by firing rubber coated steel bullets which injured protesters. 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 boats 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 econom

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we're taking you to beirut where the prime minister of lebanon has speaking addressing a new economic plan let's listen in economic plan to avoid the state of the. graduate the lebanese as we now have a clear roadmap plan to words how to manage our finances today i can say we are on the right track to take lebanon it of the this financial crisis it is a financial correction plan that comes days after the state has. put its hands on this. telephone section sector. my fellow countrymen and countrywomen what we are living through is not. a circle way of circumstances it is a number of cumulative krises that have all culminated in a way you know we. this government was formed out of the ordinary and also this government is faced with an abnormal situation at all fronts and at all levels since. february 17th as all that have been is defaulted against corruption it has come clear that corruption is big has become a state within a state and the state. and corruption and corrupt institutes are deep within the state and institutions it has also come clear that the state was on the verge of tot

stability at risk then after their beirut. suffered airline manufacturer airbus have been told to brace themselves for more job cuts than initially expected as the company fights for survival a letter to employees from the chief executive once the company is bleeding cash airbus has reportedly lost a 3rd of its business in a matter of weeks with airlines among the hardest hit by the covert 19 outbreak. global oil prices are falling again with storage tanks needing capacity around the world the price of u.s. crude dropped below $16.00 a barrel as global lockdowns continue to cause a slump in fuel demand supply cuts by leading oil producing nations have so far been unable to offset the collapse in consumption and investors fear a repeat of last week's events when u.s. crude dropped below 0 for the 1st time. schools and universities in some parts of china that were closed because of the pandemic are beginning to reopen students have been welcomed back to class in the capital beijing but social distancing measures will continue ge

i am in beirut.can see they are taking extra meaeares in beirut surrounding the main branch of the central bank. brent: we understand the coronavirus restrictions are making things worse. how badly a athe pandememic affected t the c country? >> it affefeed the country big-time. first of allll, the economic, failing economy and the collapse of the lebanese currency added to the apparenent -- [indiscernible] outbreak in lebanese streets. this weeeek the governrnment stt to a slow -- maybe this reason was mainly behind the protest in the streets as in this case, let me mentition one thing, momost f the protesterers -- they d don't take the needed memeasures to protect ththemselves from coronavivirus. they tolold me straightfororrd theyey prefer to die from virus rather than from hunger. brent: our correspondent joining us froro b brut, wherere you can see it is a tense situation in front of the nationanabank. thank you very much. >> thank you. brent: now to zimbabwe where the pandemic is hitting farmers

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