Locked out of save lives but keeping it in place could lead to economic collapse. And the u. S. City known for its rich musical history refuses to be silenced by the pandemic. Soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanons 2nd biggest city where theres been another day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis at least one man died in tripoli as thousands defied the coronavirus lockdown aljazeera zana holder has a top story. Hunger and hopelessness are driving lebanese to the streets the economy is close to collapsing protesters vent their anger at banks for preventing people from accessing their savings and a long serving political elite is being blamed for mismanagement and corruption in recent days the local currency has sharply devalued against the dollar there were casualties among protesters in soldiers during confrontations that began monday night. When to destry its because the children are asking their parents for food and they dont have money to buy them any the young man who is mounted it was a father he had nothing to lose if your daughter asks for food what will he give up he has nothing to lose. Calls for a change in leadership. A protest Movement Began in october but the ruling elite has clung on to power. Apart from a few we have 128. 00 criminals and palmer thanks to all public funds and transferred billions of dollars outside lebanon even the Army Soldiers oppressed like this salary is now worth 300. 00. Officials acknowledge inflation has increased by 50 percent and 45 percent of the nation of 6000000 people live below the poverty line but they havent presented any plan to restore trust in the economy and fight corruption. We are hungry the revolution is against corruption all official say there is corruption but what have they done we dont see any thief in prison instead they are shooting at the people. Rival politicians who have been in power for decades deny allegations of corruption and are blaming each other for the states near bankruptcy government leaders are accused of trying to topple by tampering with Financial Stability that fuel the anger of antigovernment protesters the leadership opponents say those in power are trying to hold them accountable for years of corruption. The states finances are under immense pressure lebanon has a huge debt to pay and not enough foreign currency the government also doesnt have many friends abroad these scenes could be a warning of whats to come. Well as mentioned lebanons economy has been in freefall for months now with jobs in short supply and the government struggling on the massive debt over the past week the currency has rapidly lost its value forcing the central bank to set Exchange Rates of one us dollar per 3200. 00 lebanese pounds the government is in talks with the International Monetary fund about a bailout of the 5 year proposal aims to boost growth to 2 percent by 2024 but requires 10. 00 to 15000000000. 00 the money is desperately needed with the i. M. F. Forecasting lebanons economy shrinking by 12 percent this year patrick daly is an economist and the president of the lebanese institute for Market Studies he explains why an economic reform bill has been so difficult. The lebanese government have been borrowing depositors money from the Banking System for years and years now the total amount of the posts in lebanon are in dollars dollars that posits are like 114000000000. 00 and the lebanese government borrowed most of it right around like 90000000000. 00 they spent it in the past on different projects on government expenditure Infrastructure Projects and today they dont have the money to pay the depositors back so the depositors are running to the bank they said ok i want my money i want my dollars now however this dollar is not available because the government have spent it in the past and the cut the direct consequence of that is that the central bank and the banks are telling those the procedures we can supply you are money in lebanese pound which has been actually increasing the money supply in lebanon is pound and the creating the inflation youve been talking about and the short devaluation of the lebanese pound on the black market most long holders are domestic lebanese banks including the central bank hold at around 80 percent of the libyan is that only 20 percent is held by International Investors so when the government decided to default on that they mostly defaulted on the lebanese Banking System right so those banks now they will lose around 62 percent of their holdings either directly because they bought government bonds or in directly because they subscribe to some c. D. s issued by the central bank and then the central bank use this money to buy government bonds so in both cases the bennys banks are the main loser from this haircut on bondholders and thats why their clients now are paying the bills leben on 1st of all needs a lot to free form and weve been trying to do reforms in the past years in the past 345 years and it was not working right it was not working because of internal dynamics because you would need. To do some very unpopular reforms like cutting the wage bill you know or. You would need to cut spending massively you would need to do some privatization some devaluation of the lebanese spawn and all those are the forms are very unpopular and you would need somebody you have to impose them on you thats the only way to do the right thing and thats where the i. M. F. Come in and the i. M. F. Does not only imposes those reforms that should be done actually they dont only impose them on you they would also give you some money with them which would be a great a great thing for lebanon because we really lack capital inflows thats actually the main problem here. Of the coronavirus pandemic the number of confirmed corona virus cases is nearing 1000000 in the u. S. President donald trump is promising to expand testing some states begin to ease lock down restrictions and hes met floridas governor who wants to ease restrictions in his state lets go live to our White House Correspondent kimberly how close in washington the president can be uncharacteristically quiet so far today on twitter apart from one tweet again bashing the media for its coverage of the gummed governments handling of the pandemic and retreating inaccurate claims again about testing there in the u. S. Yeah the u. S. President has been pushing back with regard to testing and some of the criticism that in fact the u. S. Might be lagging in contrast to other countries in fact this was the focus of an oval Office Exchange between the us president and one of the pool reporters when the president was pressed to for why he continues to claim that the United States exceeded south korea for example in testing the president pushed back and turned dr debra burkes one of the Public Health officials present there in the oval office looked up the numbers and according to her dad the United States in fact per capita per 100000. 00 actually does kentucky conduct more tests in south korea its a leaven test 4100000 in the United States 17 so the us president looking for an apology from that reporter it just gives you a sense of what was not forthcoming i should know but it gives you a sense of where the president is in terms of his combativeness with the media continuing to push back on the fact that 1st it was ventilators he says now its testing no matter what he does he says the media will criticize its also important to point out when it comes to testing this white house on monday released a blueprint for the states as they try to reopen their economies and push as much of the onus on testing on to the individual governors in each state in other words the blueprint that was released basically says there will be an onus on the states to come up with their own testing supplies the federal government will be the supplier of last resort floridas governor has met with the president there at the white house this morning he says his state has done better than states elsewhere like new york for example whats the meeting been about why is he there. Yeah well the meeting seems to be for this governor about reopening his state hes a republican governor should be noted the u. S. President has a residence in florida and a its almost as if he may be sort of seeking the president s blessing with this reopening and trying to avoid some of the public embarrassment rebuke that was experienced by another republican governor last week in the u. S. State of georgia when he ignored federal guidelines that insisted that in fact you should wait 14 days and have sort of a flat line of new cases of chrono virus in your state before reopening so there was a lot of criticism there the president publicly saying that he thought it was hasty of the georgia governor to reopen so now we have this meeting between the Florida Governor and the u. S. President where he is touting what he sees a success saying that many predicted because this is a popular destination for tourism a Large Population of elderly in florida that in fact many expected to be like new york or italy but in fact thats not been the case so he is touting those 36 ounces but we should point out theres also another headline coming out of this meeting and that is that we expect the u. S. President to have a executive order shortly with regard to the food supply that in this country right now is experiencing shortages of zeros White House Correspondent kimberly how could live there in washington can be many things in a for the blows of the Airline IndustryBritains National korea is set to slash up to 12000 jobs according to its Parent Company i agee thats nearly a 3rd of its workforce the airline is theres a fight its trade unions of plans to restructure the company says that it will likely take years before Passenger Capacity returns to pretend to make levels British Airways suspended 96 percent of its flights for the months of april and may. The latest coronavirus data has the u. K. On track to record one of the worst death tolls in europe the office for National Statistics released numbers which are much higher than those provided by the Health Ministry where figures include people whove died outside of hospital the British Government says the people who die from coronavirus outside hospital will now be included in its daily fatality numbers the decision comes after that. The publication of numbers by the office for National Statistics which included care home and Community Deaths that figure much higher than has been previously given by the government the proportion of coronavirus deaths in care homes is around a 6th of the total which is just below what we see in normal times i want to make sure that we bring as much transparency as possible to enforcement information like this and so from tomorrow well be publishing not just the number of deaths in hospital each day but the number of deaths in care homes and in the community to. This is something that wasnt previously possible. To how is in london with more on why theres such a difference in the data. But if anything they reinforce the governments position that it is too soon to Start Talking about easing the lock down but they also expose the fact now that the actual death toll from covert 19 in england and wales at least and by extrapolation the rest of the u. K. Is quite substantially higher than the official numbers suggest the numbers released from the n. H. S. And put out by the government that take into account only the deaths taking place in hospitals versus the owen s numbers that take into account the much wider picture of deaths from covered 900 taking place in the community at home also in care homes also in hospitals tuesday mornings figures up to april the 17th theres an 11 day lag here that 21284 people died of related causes up to april the 17th at the same time the official number was 13917 theres a difference there ages of 52 percent an enormous difference when you consider. That the numbers coming from the government it puts britain ahead of france and spain in their relative epidemics not quite yet ahead of italy but certainly feels shes gives the lie all the tests the contention of the government that britain is turning the tide on this thing in a very worrying picture emerging as well from the care home industry that augments that difference between she even further. Spains Prime Minister has outlined his plan for a return to normal life by the end of june the easing of restrictions will happen in 4 phases the 1st will see a restaurant terraces opened with reduced capacity and set times for people over the age of 62 children were allowed outside to play for the 1st time in 5 weeks several days ago. Well get a weather update next year on aljazeera ill be back with more of the race top stories but im sure that you havent. Had a few more shots like you know the sections of the middle east meanwhile of course across the south the temperatures have been on the high side but theyve also been a few shots and scott thunderstorms across as a soggy across into castle you can see some pretty strong winds straight interior of. Sand and dust on wednesday and the shadows scattered really throughout areas of the turkey and on again its a Western Areas of iran and all the thunderstorms that are in the day certainly more evident on the rain fairly heavy too as it sits across the Southwest Region but the temperatures up again 36. 00 across into riyadh doha the same on as a say the winds are pretty strong coming out from the south as we had tools and over the week and then down into Southern Africa the rain very heavy still across these coastal areas of tanzania pushing down into Northern Areas of mozambique up in uganda and also southern sections of ethiopia but for the next couple of days a conditions are going to be dry generally much of south africa and will start raining cloud play as we go to warm a day in johannesburg on thursday with a high of 21 degrees some scattered showers the particularly having lighter than we have seen let you close much of madagascar but really across the Central Regions will see the usual way of and of course turning to havea thunderstorms and it later on in the day. Terrorists treat and trace frank assessments why is italy struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus which failure to take really aggressive action will get them behind the curve informed opinions its going to be much more challenging in a place like egypt is one didnt play here very relieved indepth analysis of the days global headlines india done enough to nip the spread of coronavirus in the inside story on aljazeera. Hello again this is aljazeera lets take a moment to remind you the main news this hour soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanons 2nd biggest city tripoli but its been another day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis Security Forces used rubber bullets to 2 to clear demonstrators who said banks on phone. Number of confirmed corona virus cases almost hit 1000000 in the u. S. Far more than any other country in the world but only hospital admissions in new york have hit their lowest level in over a month. And spains Prime Minister has outlined his plan for a return to normal life by the end of june the easing of restrictions will have put in 4 phases the 1st will see restaurant terraces open with reduced capacity and set times for people over the age of 62. Campaigning is underway in burundi ahead of president ial elections there next month the opposition says that its been the target of violence and intimidation in the run up to the boat which is going ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic malcolm web reports. Its election time in burundi the country is still suffering from the crisis caused by the last 15 years ago campaigns have put gone ahead of next months vote for the president and members of Parliament Amid a corona Virus Outbreak theres no social distancing this rally of the ruling party. Definitely. Rights groups say theres not much room for other views because the ruling parties used fear and repression against political opposition. President and currencies are sitting on the right has ruled prune the for 15 years hes now backing one of his closest allies ever reste. Sitting next to him as his successor whose own currencies decision to run for a controversial 3rd 5 years ago plunged the country into turmoil. The opposition said it was against the constitution took to the street. Protests were violently broken up by police. Detentions disappearances and killings of activists and government critics have been reported regularly ever since some opposition parties boycotted the polls. And currency was declared the winner. This time 7 candidates are running for president at this rally supporters gathered to hear one of them. His party says more than 200 of its members have been imprisoned and supporters often beaten by the ruling partys militia where our people are tucked and there is no. Judiciary or Police Prosecution which. Can be conducted against the paper to tires that the opposition rallies again keeping distance. Coronavirus cases of on the rise in the hasnt in force the lock down like some of its Neighbors Health experts say could be a creeping disaster the Electoral Commission says its taking precautions effective. Actually the coronavirus is a