even in sight o of the majojor cities in south lebanon, we had clashes between the isf forces and d protestersrsthrough molotov cocktail on one of the centntral bank branches in the city. i am in beirut. you 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.