This is the city of Tripoli in the north of the country, a country where people have been ordered to stay indoors amid the strictest locked down since the co vid 19 pandemic began, Hundreds of protesters ran street battles with soldiers and tanks, demonstrators demanding help to stay at home.

I'm standing with the people here, the poor and hungry people, people who can't find something to eat, Many say locked down is increasing their poverty.

Lebanon, like most countries, is juggling the need to save lives alongside the need to save lively hoods.

But the crisis is particularly acute here.

The pandemic comes on top of a financial collapse on a huge port blast in August that had already brought the health system to its knees.

Lebanon registered 3.5 1000 new covert 19 infections on Tuesday, with almost 2.5 1000 deaths recorded in a country of around six million people.