For this episode, which first aired in 2023, Dateline travelled to Lebanon, where ordinary people were going to extraordinary lengths to get their savings out of banks amid an economic crisis.

00:00 A matter of life and death
06:43 Lebanon's economic collapse, explained
10:51 Trying to get cash out of an ATM in Beirut
13:34 How to rob a bank
17:41 What do bankers say
19:24 A daring escape

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