and ben wedeman has details now from beirut. er all those extraordinary images. how was this resolved and what is the latest? >> reporter: at the moment we're on standby for a ceremony are the agreement will be signed between the insurers and the suez canal authority to finally settle this matter. in march, the ever ggiven cause quite a crisis, about you it was resolved relatively quickly. so all is well that ends with he will. now, there was a good deal of bickering between the egyptian authorities and insurers. initially egypt was demanding $916 from"evergiven's" company. that included $300 million for the salvage effort and $300 million for the reputational damage. eventually they lowered their demand to $550 million. the insurance company counteroffered with $150 million. but because of the terms of the agreement that was finally worked out, the actual sum of the settlement we still do not know. now in theory, at some point this afternoon this 400-meter long ship will continue its voyage up north to the mediterranean and even

cnn's ben wedeman joins us now with the very latest. to be covid measures. what's going on? >> reporter: it's a bit complicated. what you have -- this is tu nisa in tweechb was the first arab country to overthrow its dictator. that was the beginning of the arab spring. but what has happened since then is that the economy has stagnated and on top of that, really the final blow was the covid pandemic, which per capita in tunisia is the worst as far as africa goes. people were increasingly angry with the inability of the government to deal with the pandemic, to, yes, they had democracy but the economy was falling apart. last year it declined by somewhere between 7 and 9%. youth unemployment is running at 36%. so, the president, who under the rather complicated arrangement in the 2014 constitution, shares executive powers with parliament and the prime minister. he's only responsible for foreign policy and defense, but he basically took it upon himself. he fired the prime minister. he has suspended parliament for 30 days. lifted immunity on m