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♪ welcome to our viewers on public television in your -- in america and elsewhere around the world. there is a staggering refugee crisis and today, lebanon has taken unprecedented moves. the nation, which has taken in more than one million syrians, as imposed new visa restrictions. from lebanon, we report. >> the lebanese fear for their future. this is one side effect of the reemergence of malicious. these are christians protecting their town from jihadists who arrive with muslim refugees from syria. there are divisions in this fragile country.

somewhere it could lead to new civil war. the refugees are crises. this town, population 6.5 thousand, it grew by more than 50% and 3.5 thousand refugees came. everyone here, lebanese and syrian are muslims from the same sunni sect. that helps little. there is a campaign for by an international charity, but a few weeks ago some angry people came and burned the canvas down. they are extremely nervous about establishing permanent refugee populations. it is spread out throughout the country. the tensions are growing and becoming ever more visible. in a local could say, they tell me of an economic catastrophe. wages down, rents up, jobs disappearing.

>> the wet seal geez get a, but our people are starving. most of our men are unemployed -- the refugees get everything, but our people are starting. >> at least we will get food then. >> there are no sectarian issues here. this is about jobs. i used to wait and work. >> so refugees are under curfew, told they cannot go out after 6:00 p.m. he is not resentful. >> the lebanese also need to work, he says, and he can help them. still, i have to think of myself. what they want above all is to go back to serious.

both the refugees and the government know there is little chance of that. bbc news, northern lebanon. >> and for more on the fallout of these. civil war, i spoke with a fellow at the u.s. institute of peace. written that serious is the strategic center of the middle east. how damaging has the follow of the civil war been. >> it is extraordinary. there is no event that has so changed the demographics more than this theory in crisis. since the palestinian crisis more than half a century ago. the numbers for lebanon, it is the equivalent of the united states taking in 80 million people, the equivalent of britain taking in the 16 million people. it is really changing the economic situation. it has created tremendous political instability, and that is happening more in neighboring turkey and jordan, where the

second largest city is a theory in refugee camp, iraq, and even egypt, which does not share a border. >> what about international policy to deal with this. they were talking about training syrian rebels. what difference does that make? >> the tragedy is there is no military solution. the administration is really trying to create a new militia that can put enough pressure on the assad government to try to bring them to the negotiating table. the problem, as you point out is that the regime has 70,000 to 100,000 fighters. isis has at least 20,000 fighters inside syria and when you talk about the number of forces that the syrian rebels have, you are talking maybe -- a very small force only going to be 5000. the idea that this is going to change the military battlefield

is an illusion. >> how would you assess president assad's position right now? is it a stalemate? >> the lebanon war went on for 15 years and we are only at year four of this war, and there is no end in sight. he is down a lot. there are many of his forces who are considered ghosts. a are not visible anywhere. they had either gone home or are in prison because they were a suspect, so he has real limits on him, but he cannot win this war, but it does not appear at this moment that anyone can. >> what about the fight with isis? >> there are two wars in syria and the u.s. is only engaged in one of them, and that is against the islamic state. it wants to involve -- not get involved in the civil war

against president assad. that is a whole different set of problems that is harder to sell at home and harder to wage with war in the region. in the meantime, the world food program is running out of money to feed the 1.7 million syrian refugees. there are just not the resources to take care of this tragedy anywhere in any country in the region. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. the militant islamic group boko haram has seized a military base in a northern nigerian town after troops abandoned the base. witnesses say hundreds attacked the garrison, going a large number of civilians. it is the latest in a series of attacks by the group in the last few weeks. and there was quite a ride on the markets today. oil slipped below $50 a barrel for the first time in years which has been good news for

consumers enjoying low prices at the pump, but the dow jones was not eased, dropping 340 points. we go to new york. the markets were not impressed. what about me and you and consumers across the country? we get to pay less at the pump and maybe less for heating. >> exactly. if you are paying less at the pomp and less to heat your home especially during the winter, it means you have a little more money in your pocket, and that means you have more potential cash to be up to spend on other things within the u.s. economy and the u.s. economy depends heavily on consumer spending, so the more money that consumers have to spend, the better it is for the overall u.s. economy. >> if the markets continue to freak out about local oil prices, does that in peril the whole u.s. economic recovery, which is finally underway? >> many are confident about the

strength at the moment of the u.s. economy. these low oil prices are reflecting more just the amount of oil that there is on the market and also the global economy and the sense that, perhaps, there is a slowing in terms of global economic growth and that is really what is having an effect on some of these oil prices. >> do you think that oil producers might actually reduce production to prop up their prices? >> that is a big question, and at a recent meeting of the oil-producing nations, they voted not used their production, so you have the traditional oil-producing countries that are still producing as much oil as they used to, and then you have these shale producers here in the united states that are producing quite a lot of oil. hence, this enormous glut we have on the market. the two sides, these two major producers are not reducing their

production at all. >> thank you, from new york. today, jury selection began in the boston marathon bombing trial. under tight security, dzhokhar tsarnaev appeared with his attorney. he is accused of carrying out the bombings in 2013 along with his brother, tamerlan. 1200 people will be called as potential jurors in the case which could carry the death penalty. >> april 15, 2013. this was the first of two homemade bombs packed with nails and ball bearings that exploded near the finish line of the boston marathon. a deadly attacks traumatized the city and enraged the nation. the suspect was a 19-year-old student at the time, dzhokhar tsarnaev an american with chechen origin. his trial is expected to be long and emotional.

prosecutors have images of him and his brother at the scene, part of a large body of evidence they believe gives them a strong case. tamerlan is said to be motivated towards islam due to anger. he was killed in a shootout with police during an extended manhunt. the dzhokhar tsarnaev was found in a boat and captured after police moved in with full force. his arrest was a huge relief to locals. his lawyers argue that he could not get a fair trial here and try to get the venue moved. the stakes are high because it is a capital punishment case. >> i do not believe in the death penalty personally, but i do not think you should see the light of day again. >> i hope for a severe outcome, and i think the people of this city really need that. >> defense lawyers are expected to argue that the client was manipulated by his older brother.

on both sides, they will be carefully selecting the jury from an unusually large pool of 1200 candidates for a trial that could last five months. the jurors will have to decide not only in the dzhokhar tsarnaev is guilty but if so, if he should live or die. bbc news, washington. >> now for more on this trial i spoke with a globe reporter. david, you have been speaking to survivors of the boston marathon bombing. what does the beginning of the trial process signify for them? >> it is a very heavy moment that people have been waiting for and that, frankly, a lot of people are not looking forward to. i had the opportunity to interview a number of survivors over the past few weeks, and there are lots of mixed feelings about this trial. some would preferred that the prosecutors reach a plea bargain agreement with the defense so that they are spared all of the

wounds and being reopened or anything that would approach giving undue publicity to dzhokhar tsarnaev. there are some that feel that the death penalty would be too easy for the alleged terrorist here. >> david, how many of the survivors are actually going to have to give evidence at the trial? >> that is not clear right now and that, of course, is going to be a very difficult thing for any of them to do. the folks that i have spoken to have said they are willing to if they need to. they will. a number have been contacted by prosecutors, and they are on hold, and we will see if it gets that far, but it could be quite a few and many of them might be spared having to go to the process of being cross examined, because that does not seem like

a very winning strategy for the defense. >> is there any chance at all that the trial might not take place in boston if another unbiased jurors cannot be found? is that a possibility? >> well, it is an unlikely possibility, something the defense attorneys have been trying to do for a while, which is to move the trial outside of boston with the idea that they cannot get an impartial jury here. it remains a possibility if the court feels like they cannot find a sufficient number of jurors who are impartial. the judge still has the discretion to decide to move the trial elsewhere, but that does not seem quite likely. there are about 1200 people who will be in court this week, and they will be all answering long forms there. there will be lots of haggling between executors and defense and there have been lots of big trials in the past that have been sensitive, and they have managed to find jurors, and i

think they will in this case, as well. >> how would you describe the move of the city today? >> i think a lot of people have been on edge. there is now a large international media presence. this city suffered a traumatic experience when it was shut down. there is not a person in the immediate vicinity who did not know someone who was near the finish line that day or who did not feel the trauma of what happened when two bombs exploded and killed three people, including an eight-year-old boy an injured or wounded more than 260 people. >> david, thank you for joining us from boston. >> my pleasure. >> you are watching "bbc world news america." tilde come on this program

crews are still looking for the black boxes of the airasia flight that crashed last week, but so far, the weather has complicated the effort. australian firefighters are still battling to bring bushfires near the city of adelaide under control. the fire has been burning since friday. the bbc reporter talks about trying to contain the flames. >> for a fourth day, the adelaide hills continued to burn. thousands have been forced to flee. some have returned to find they have lost all that they own. >> they would not let us come. >> what have you lost, everything? >> everything. >> documents and paperwork. collectibles, all gone. >> today, the weather conditions eased slightly, allowing a brief window to try to bring the fire under control.

>> it can change before the weather changes. they are expecting more hot weather, which will create conditions for the fire to escape and we would like to do this within the general perimeter. >> flames known as caretakers capable of dumping over 10,000 liters of water and fire retardant at the time of the news, and more than 500 firefighters, many of them volunteers, working around the clock. the adelaide hills are not densely populated, but there are fears that huge numbers of cattle and sheep have also perished, and other wildlife has suffered also. this was a shelter. >> when they turned up here, i could see the house, and i just said to them, let it go. >> people here are well used to the threat from bushfires.

many think this is just part of australian life. others say climate change is making the fire scene increasingly treacherous. bbc news, sydney. ♪ >> today, recovery teams continued looking for bodies and wreckage from the airasia flight that crashed last week. there is still no sight of the black boxes. the team has recovered 37 bodies, and i were spoke -- had spoken to a man who previously commanded the oceanography operations. you have been involved in searches like this. can you give us some kind of insight into the massive effort that goes into them? >> well, there is a number of things that have to happen. the beauty of the situation, things helping the search teams is they have logistic spaces, so they can move the people and

equipment in and out and get aircraft from the airfield out on station very quickly. those things are in their favor. the other thing that has been in their favor is that the water is so shallow in the java sea in the search area, only at about 100 feet, so that opened up the types of gear, and divers can go down and work on this. the last couple of days has been very stormy through that area, and that has hampered them greatly. that is really what has been slowing them down. what i read from the indonesian rescue agency was there forecast was for better conditions today so hopefully they will get a chance to really apply all of the technology and all evil to the problem that they have. >> and then what happens? is it divers once the weather is good? >> you have to remember there is two different searches happening in parallel. there is the search of the surface, the aircraft, trying to find things that may still be on the ocean service that they can

recover, and that recovers -- requires very good eyeballs and a lot of perseverance, and that is continuing to move east as things get moved by the current but the other piece is the search on the ocean bottom, so so far what they have been doing is using sonar systems to find things that could be aircraft. they found a number of very promising targets, that they have to get down there with robotic cameras or divers to confirm what they think they have found. >> how does this search compared to the air france crash or the malaysian airlines? >> there are some similarities but a vague he difference. the biggest difference is that this is in very shallow water. normally, that would really help speed up the operation. unfortunately because it has been so stormy, that has also slowed down the operation. equipment that you would be able to operate in deeper water with rougher conditions you really cannot operate in shallow water.

it is shallow, and they have positively identified debris on the surface. that is similar in some cases to the air france 447, and i think it really will provide the opposite result that we see with the ongoing search for that malaysian flight 370. >> you must find those black boxes before they stopped emitting that noise, 30 days. >> that is not a dealbreaker but that is certainly the way things are done. there are two things. one is being able to recover all of the floating debris before it re-syncs, and the second is the 30-day time for the batteries in the black talk -- black boxes. you can still recover wreckage, it would just take longer. >> and a story about diversity. a writer was born in singapore

to an irish father, and she relocated to wyoming, of all places. the state known for its outstanding natural beauty is the background for her stories cowboys and east indians. a personal glimpse at her journey. ♪ >> if i am having a bad day, i can be out here in minutes. it is nice to be so far out. this is the place where the landscape shapes you. mountains and the sagebrush and the sun. i wrote the book "cowboys and east indians." i think it is really hard to walk out of the door every single day and you never see a reflection of yourself. i think that was the hardest part for me living in wyoming.

i was born in singapore to an indian born mother, and my father was from ireland. and they transferred from singapore to wyoming, which was quite a shock. i think because we have been one of the indian families that has lived here the longest, my mother is a translator at the hospital. we have met people have been arrested, or we just ran into them at the grocery store. i think i internalize that a lot. and i wanted to write about it. some of the more odd circumstances, whether it be a car accident or whether it be an exchange student or whether it be someone else. it is hard to talk about a race of people, especially because i live here. with my story and putting it into context, i think people can understand it is interesting to have people read it. people i've known my whole life in wyoming is sort of have said

i did not know that was hard for you here. i woke up really early in india and i went out of the gates of my auntie's house, and i was 23 years old, and i realized -- to look around that street, i could not have felt more distant from every person around me, and then also in wyoming, i am freaked out by the cars and all of the people. i love antlers. a covered wagon. i love that stuff. every story is about me trying to figure out something about identity and how i fit in here. you are not native american. what are you? i think i am always thinking about what am i.

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