here's david beasley again. quite funky, what has happened in syria is unprecedented.lation of 20 million people here have been exploited and disturbed by extremes of what now for almost ten years. just five years ago, you had millions of people migrating. now five and a half million people have left syria, we now have six and a half million people displaced and just when you think it could not get any worse at all, it has gotten worse because you had economic collapse, lebanese economy has collapsed, the value of the currency has absolutely just collapsed completely. in fact, a food basket is now 20 times the cost that it was just ten years ago. david beasley was speaking to the bbc ahead of a donor conference in brussels on tuesday. here's the bbc‘s chief international correspondent lyse doucet on what we can expect. this will be the fourth conference hosted both by the united nations and the european union. this time of course any moment of date pandemic it will be held at virtually. the issues on the agenda are ever the same. growing humanitarian crisis. but a poli

ro david beasley was speaking b to t ahead of a donor conference in brussels which begi on tuesday.e is the c chi national dutch international correspondent on what we can expect. >> this will be the fourth conference hosted both by the united aations european union, this time involving the pandemic, held virtually. but the issues on the agenda are ever the same. growing, as we justrd h humanitarian crisis. but a political crisis which never seems any closer to being solved. the current status obef what wil escribed tomorrow is a search f comprehensive political solution, focusing on the constitution. the yuan and envoy s made some steps, at least before this humanitarian crisis erupted, of getting the two sides to talk about changes to the constitution. so farrom damascus, we have seen no sign that they are willing to make the nd of litical concessions, the kin of transition, which will be acceptable to the opposition and ton the europ powers who would become one of the main donors to syria if they felt solution was insights. ros:t n france were the former prime minister and his we