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Lebanon is crippled by economic and humanitarian disasters

Lebanon's economic and humanitarian disasters leave citizens to fend for themselves

Aired 06/07/2022

PBS News Hour

Lebanon is crippled by economic and humanitarian disasters

Clip: 6/7/2022 | 8m 7sVideo has Closed Captions

Lebanon's economic and humanitarian disasters leave citizens to fend for themselves

For the past several years, Lebanon has been in economic freefall. Its currency is close to worthless; its government is fractured and ineffective; there is almost no electric power, and there is less security. Lebanon's people are suffering. Special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen reports from Tripoli on a country in collapse.

Aired 06/07/2022

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