Evening Edition: Lebanon Continues To Teeter Towards Failure

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🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Lebanon has battled a serious of tragedies in recent years that has sent the country into an economic and social collapse. Disasters including the blast in Beirut that has crippled manufacturing and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, the COVID-19 pandemic and political corruption coupled with overall failure of government leadership all have the Lebanese people wondering who will help them. There are also fears that militant groups, like Hezbollah, could be growing their influence there amidst the troubles. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks with Bujar Hoxha, Country Director for CARE International in Lebanon, about the seriousness of Lebanon's decline and a new short film that tries to draw attention to the people most in need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.6	Tuesday, June 8th, 2021. I'm Trey Yings. A new short documentary provides a look at Lebanon
0:29.5	that is suffering in the wake of a deadly explosion last year coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic.
0:35.0	There is absence of everything. There is a kingdom of absence.
0:40.0	So there's no mechanisms or institutions to
0:44.4	support these people.
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0:48.6	The humanitarian organization Care
0:55.3	released a short documentary about Lebanon a country suffering from a variety
0:59.7	of socioeconomic problems government corruption disization, and a series of events has raised
1:05.4	prices, sending large groups of people under the poverty line.
1:09.4	Since the end of 2019, the Lebanese Lira has depreciated around 90%.
1:14.1	The people most affected are civilians who have very little support from the government to survive.
1:19.2	So basically this is the war'shoja, the care Lebanon over the basically lost since the end of civil war.
1:32.0	This is Buzarhosha, the Care Lebanon country director.
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