the orphanage, but at the age of eight, you had to leave and you were supposed to go and join a lebanese armyto carry out chores there and so on, and you said "oh, no, this isn't for me." so you escaped, managed to get to beirut, and that's when you started living as a street child in the slums of beirut. and you said everyday life was a struggle. when i came off the train through which i ran away, the train landed, of course, in the heart of beirut�*s harbour, and next to the harbour, it's the famous colourful red light district of beirut. that's where i started. can you imagine a boy of eight or nine years old living in this urine—saturated alleyway in the red light district with belly dancing music going along with a cacophony going, people cussing, and doing whatever they did there with money changes and false jewellery salesman? that was my life. that's how it started. and it's so beautiful, not many people have that opportunity to see life in its full colours and grow up in that... you say it was beautiful living in the red light district and all the exploitation that goes on, and you m

going on in the country what german army and well basically we needed 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 and that it could have been on needs a medical now more than ever. hello zaina hello awesome and i mean we are going to dig deeper into this does lebanon need america what with that my record look like 1st of all saying i've got to have you on the stream introduce yourself to international audience well i'm a correspondent with al-jazeera i've been without as you know since the launch back in 2006 i have reported from many countries and lebanon is among them the awesome welcome to the stream good to have you introduce yourself to having this i am the general supervisor of lebanon crisis response plan and advisor to the ministry of social troopers for social protection under the law thank you for joining us on the stream and how let alone welcome your bloodstream tell everybody who you are what you do. and the communication manager plan an