Evening Edition: Why The World Should Be Concerned About A Collapsing Lebanon

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🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Earlier this week, Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab told a room full of ambassadors and diplomats that his country is just days away 'from a social explosion' appealing for help from the United Nations and other countries in the region. The Lebanese currency has lost ninety percent of its value and almost eighty percent of households don't have enough food to eat. And while the situation is already a tragedy, there are real political concerns over outside influences getting control. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks with Dr. Ibrahim Hazboun, a Senior FOX News Producer, who says the international community is right to be concerned about a power vacuum in Lebanon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.2	Thursday, July 8th, 2021. I'm Trey Yinkst. Lebanon is on the brink of collapse as the economy continues
0:30.0	to suffer. When it becomes sort of a social explosion like this or collapsing and the international community
0:36.9	is very worried that external agendas will be implemented including Iran, others like Saudi Arabia and other countries as well.
0:46.5	This is the Fox News rundown, evening addition.
0:51.2	This week Israel offered to send aid to neighboring Lebanon.
0:57.0	The gesture illustrates just how dire the humanitarian situation is.
1:01.0	There are now concerns in the international community that other regional players could fill any power vacuum left behind by the collapsing country.
1:10.0	The acting Prime Minister of Lebanon, Hassan-Dyab, has said that his country is reaching a stage of
1:16.2	what he thinks is a social explosion which will see people in the street protesting
1:21.7	for the economic deterioration of the country.
1:25.0	For more on this story, this is Dr. Ibrahim Hasbonne, a Fox News senior field producer.
1:30.6	I see it more than this.
1:32.0	I see that Lebanon is going to what I call a state
1:36.1	collapsing it's on the edge of that collapsing because the state is not providing
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