Care homes in england and wales and 3 weeks suggesting a much higher death toll than official figures show a new report warns of a coronavirus catastrophe in syrias last. We speak to the author of the study. At the sports including doubts over the tokyo lympics has been postponed for a year but japans top doctor says that it will still be difficult to hoist without a vaccine. Now lebanon is bracing for more anger on the streets as the economy sinks further due to the current virus outbreak. 3 variables are on patrol in tripoli after a night of demonstrations against the governments handling of the economy turned violent. A 26 year old man was killed in clashes with Security Forces in tripoli beirut people define the coronavirus long throwing petrol bombs and vandalizing banks so holder is in tripoli for us in northern lebanon joins us from there so i can see behind you looks like some smoke looks like some people on the streets of things he thing up again. Yes things are heating up again chaos in the streets of this northern a city antigovernment protesters trying to block roads they have been vandalizing banks thats what they did really last night as protesters of protests turned into riots the Lebanese Army out in force they are responding with tear gas and us is why we have to move away and at the same time some of these protesters are quite violent because they dont want us to film their faces as they vandalized public and private property so the situation is quite terrible people here are saying that nothing to lose economic hardships that theyre facing it has been worse said in recent days as you can hear rubber coated bullets are being used by the Lebanese Army in recent days the lebanese lira lost lost its value it deep reshaped to at least 60 percent so people here the majority of people here are in their salaries in the lebanese liras so theyve theyve lost the value of their money and many others here are unemployed tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs in recent months this economic crisis is not new it was made worse by the lock down the containment measures to battle the coronavirus but this problem this crisis has been going on for months now a protest Movement Began in october that protest movement now revived as the situation of the economic and financial situation worsens by the day. All right if you need to take cover im not sure. If you can still talk so you know feel free to tell me if you need to but i was going to say is you know a lot of the reporting talks about the long haul making things even worse economically for people that the pictures were looking at now doesnt look like a whole lot of long down theres a lot of people out on bikes in cars standing around burning things. Yet they see that the lockdown has been eased to a certain extent the government realizes that at the end of the day people have to return to work a lot of these people rely on the daily wages to survive and according to the authorities in many ways theyve been able to contain the fire risk some 700 cases 24 deaths on a daily basis approximately 10 new infections but at the end of the day theres not a lot of testing being done but you talk to anybody here and they say coronavirus well were dying from hunger our children are asking us for food our children are hungry and we cannot afford to buy food inflation more than 50 percent increase of more than 50 percent and that is according to the economy minister so officials are acknowledging this crisis but they havent come up with any plan to solve this crisis levanon it needs cash it needs hard currency theres a shortage of dollars and it doesnt have many friends in the International Community so the government really has little options to solve this problem and in the interim youre seeing people becoming more and more poor and finding it really difficult to survive. As were all talking the. The black smoke is really bellowing now what exactly is on i assume somethings on fire down there right can you tell us what exactly are we looking at down at the end of that story i mean the banks that time so thats a bank on file obviously the allies banks right then theyre not happy i guess with the fact that this is a common get the most money i. No capital h os informal capital controls have been in place since november so you have really no access to your savings this is 8 but many of these people here do not have Bank Accounts these are the impoverished people of lebanon cannot find work if they dont work today then they cant feed their children but yes banks have imposed control of the Banking Association says they have no other choice because they dont want capital flight and that there is a liquidity crisis in the country and that they lent the money to the states and the politicians wasted public funds and the states defaulted on its debt and couldnt pay some back so many people blame the bonds and even if you have a dollar account on just one of those where you can see the Army Deployed in force. They are deploying yeah so if you have a dollar account then the banks are dispersing your money and lebanese leader out which has lost value so there is an under clear haircut but its not just the Banking Sector people are upset that people are upset that the political elites which they blame really for years of mismanagement years of corrupt im for it and now the state is close to bankruptcy and micro said levanon needs pass the International Community will not provide money but make this very very clear on the politicians and the men much needed structural economic reform and politicians are reluctant to do that why because if they do that then they lose access to the states resources which many accused of using exploiting political gain so there is a real crisis the state is under pressure the new government says well were all technocrats we were we were you know we took office and salary were not responsible for this crisis but their opponents will say well those who appointed you are political. Parties who have been governing for decades and now what you have is political tensions worsening between the government and the opposition. Just to take in whats happening because this looks a little so real i guess to view as perhaps more around the world on the left side of the screen down there weve got a bank on file on the right side of the screen we can see soldiers just over your shoulder Milling Around and everyone just seems to be a little bit relaxed about all of this i mean what kind of. Measures are they trying all they trying to take back control of the situation or they just resigned to what seems to be a country and not just an economy almost in free fall at this point. Well lebanon is a country which is a new to violence years and years of conflicts political instability so for many lebanese what is going on here today is not unusual but there is no doubt this is a very dangerous situation the country is out across the road people are growing hungry the state trying to its oppose its authority on the ground the army will say we allow you to be a protest you can gather but we will not allow people to destroy public and private property we will take action and it seems this is what the Lebanese Army is trying to do now take control of the streets try to restore calm they are deploying on main roads as we noticed a lot of the protesters have now left on their motorcycles people are worried about you know being arrested last night there have there were a number of arrests at the same time there were injuries not just among the protesters you mentioned earlier one protester was killed but there were injuries among the Army Soldiers as well and the army releasing a statement not too long ago saying that they will investigate the shooting incident that resulted in the death of the protester because this is this wasnt the intent so there must. To launch an investigation will it call the st its hard to say because weve been talking to people here and what they tell you is that the army shouldnt be shooting at us the army should be taken action taking action against politicians who they call corrupt politicians they say that these politicians should be taken to prison instead of you know the states using their weapons against the lebanese people so it is. What were seeing now really is a warning or a sign of whats to come if there is no such. Force from a crisis this country is facing in decades the leader is still at the official rate of 1500. 00 and if you were draw money from the bank thats how much they give you against the dollar but but there are no dollars sometimes so you exchange it in the street thats now 4000. 00 be around so you can imagine what it means for people who earn in the lebanese pounds and with they said skyrocketing more than 50 percent zain so if they want to see what we can hear you on the show so i think that was gunshots just tell us whats going on no need to so you take cover if you need to. Know this it seems like the army is using rubber coated bullets in order to as well as tear gas to Disperse Protesters that are trying to clear this square this square is really symbolic because when the protest Movement Began in october this was where people were gathering this was the main protest site so the army is trying to clear the square close the roads that lead and the bank the streets you can see. The army we can ask them any presence the army will not speak to us but its clear what theyre trying to do theyre trying to take control if you can see the tear gas there lobbing tear gas so yeah we can see why the smoke are assuming theres gas. Right the but its not clear you know that looks like the pace of play at all snow at this point not sure who they shooting to guess. Whether they want to clear clear the square you can see some some young men still on their motorcycle the biggest question is what will happen in a few hours time the people who just returned to the streets is this going to stop them. Yes they they were really the very fact that they all this person ran away a lot of them are are afraid of being arrested so im a little bit is a that so just to clarify then the guys that were seeing on motorbikes all day the protesters has this protest movement transformed the disorder of mobile motorbike protest movement. You know but a lot of a lot of people from tripoli used motorbikes because it is a very impoverished city people cannot afford cars. And thats why so you know what we saw throughout the day and last night were people in the streets demonstrating gathering in the square as well as targeting and vandalizing that so this is you can clear the square now but the biggest question like i said what happens and then in the next few hours. If the economic crisis is not resolved the problem is the lebanese government was in session a short while ago they just finished their meeting we didnt hear any anything about an economic rescue plan this is what the government calls it a rescue plan on how to deal with the crisis nothing presented so far they did the tests touching. Peoples deposits and bonds to try to. So really the state but there was an uproar and people went against the odds so what is the government going to do it is close to bankruptcy. And people are only getting angrier and the 10s of thousands have lost their jobs in the process and the past few months hundreds of restaurants have closed Hotel Occupancy down to 10 percent and that was even before the coronavirus lockdown the Tourism Sector has been hit hard many sectors have been hit hard by this crisis so it is really levanon has been at the crossroads many many many times in the past it has reached a turning point many many times in the past since the end of the civil war in 1998 but never before has the situation been. The spot where like i said a states close to bankruptcy and very Little Friends in the International Community nobody seems interested in just bailing levanon out unless there are only 4 of us and those in power are clinging on to got power so sammy it is quite. A precarious situation. The same point that you mention about the cabinet was meeting today one of the things which was reported that they would be looking at is a potential whats called a haircut of up to 70 percent on bond holders do we have any idea if theyve gone for those kinds of missions. You know the Prime Minister realised how much opposition he face when that was leaked to the meat a few weeks back the Prime Minister even have to make a televised address and make clear that if theres any haircut on fact deposits it would only affect 2 percent of deposits. That means those who have millions of dollars and theyre believed to be the politicians the big businessmen who are friends with the politicians and thats why you saw every politician suddenly suddenly raise their voice and say no we are not going to accept this and the people of course say and some of the politicians even said that were not going to pay the price for the government. The way that theyve mismanaged the economy all these years so thats doesnt seem to be on the table any longer at least at least not 90 percent of the deposits in the banks but some a haircut has already happened because when youre not allowed to withdraw your dollar deposits in dollars and you would draw it in lebanese liras at the official rate of 1500. 00 then that is a 60 percent haircut on your deposits and a lot of lebanese work abroad so they send their money back home and the banks were really providing people with high Interest Rates trying to lure hard currency in the country and that is why the Central Bank Governor has been criticized for his monetary policies it is a very complicated situation the government says its going to fight corruption the government says its going to enact laws to take politicians to courts but the biggest question is can it do that yes maybe it. Is calls himself an independent and all his ministers are independent images that were jumping that it would look you know pictures with a camera angle to the right of. Some things on file. An a. T. M. Machine yes this is a cash machine. Yes this is a cash machine been vandalised cash machines the facade of. Last night in tripoli but a few days 2. Bank branches in other cities that 11 on have been vandalized. Weve seen this happen before at the beginning of the when the protest Movement Began in october a lot of the banks were vandalized because of those capital controls because of the fact that people couldnt access their savings so how serious is it is this is this is insane or to see images like this in a place like tripoli i mean lebanon is no stranger to violence but for so much of its recent history that violence has been so attached to factions ethnic religious divides we saw tripoli at the beginning of the Syrian Revolution wrapped up in some of that but this is different right now correct. To a certain extent yes it is about poverty people from all sects coming together. And demanding a change of leadership thats what we saw in october but at the same time there was at least half of the population still supporting the mainly sectarian Political Parties theres definitely the what people here call their uprising their revolution did not have the support of the majority of the lebanese people many lebanese still supported their parties for a number of reasons they were benefiting from them they gave them draw or for ideological reasons for that matter and that is one of the reasons why the protest movement was not really able to achieve much and then there was of course the fact that the states fought back they clung on to power those in power have been in power for decades they know how to hold on to power they control the army they control the internal Security Forces so the people who are up against the militarized state and there was a lot of arrests and violence weve seen scenes like this back in december and in january so a lot of people were really discouraged from returning to the streets they felt that even if we returned to the streets its not going to achieve much its not going to change the leadership there must be other ways to do to do that and a lot of people have been calling for early elections the politicians are are not heeding the call either but you say tripoli and you say 6 terry in politics thats where it is quite dangerous because this is a city a majority son a city which feels that they know they have no say in the government. According to lebanons power sharing sectarian system they should hold the post of Prime Minister and yes has is the son name but he was not appointed by the Sunni Community he doesnt have the. Support of the Sunni Community so they feel other sects have taken over their constitutional powers so thats another layer to the to the conflict in lebanon but as you can see the army is now out in force there blocking roads leading to the banks street. They are now in control of this of this area of tripoli but the biggest question we have to see is whether or not they will be able to maintain. Control in the next hours or days to come. Or i could suffer from. A thing also on a very dynamic and fluid situation in the northern lebanese city of tripoli and as weve been saying lebanons economy has been in free fall for months with jobs in short supply and the government struggling under massive debts over the past week the currency has fallen rapidly forcing the central bank to set the selling price of dollars at 3200. 00 pounds for Money Transfer firms the government is in talks with the International Monetary fund for a bailout a 5 year plan aims to boost growth to 2 percent by 2024 it requires 10. 00 to 15000000000. 00. On the money is much needed with the i. M. F. Forecasting that lebanons economy shrinking by 12 percent this year will lead for howard dean is a media scholar and activist in beirut he says people have nothing left to lose in lebanon. What the people are worried about now is not only the lock down its