>> lebanese... well, yes. i was actually born in the uae... >> hinojosa: in the united arab emirates. >> yes, and then i moved to lebanon when i as ten, and i grew up there until i was 21. then i moved to michigan, michigan to new york, new york to la. >> hinojosa: okay, and why did you decide to leave your country and say, "i'm going to move to michigan"? what was the dream for you? i mean, was it... because you hadn't spent time in the united states, right? >> no, well, actually, i was in the states when i was two years old. my mom... you know, my folks traveled a lot. we were like, really well off, initially, and then my father lost everything. so it's a very interesting story. i hadn't seen my dad like, 20 years, and then eight years ago, i finally got to see him. so it was like, a really profound sort of experience. but on that note, it was... for me, it was that time when we were like, really young and my folks had the money we would travel a lot, and one of the countries was america. my mom spent like,

lebanese government didn't compensate anyone with a sheaf of income to the very little. play the lottery but i don't know. may god help you we. know winning the lottery would mean an apartment house lottery house and that's it. this is a part of love and all of that was created many times starting by the israelis and i did seventy two then it was under occupation until two thousand and many people after two thousand had just rebuild their homes or life six war began again. i've spoken to many people that say you know i've put all my life savings to rebuild my home in my ancestral village and i'm not sure i'll do it in. the farmers many of them have lost one or even two seasons of their crops because of this question munitions and most farmers eleven on really don't have the kind of financial cushion that was stand losing two seasons of their crops and actually they plant the third time around. i mean clearly many lebanese are sort of found jobs sort of the mining but i also think that the entire southern economy has been distorted in the past by you know by occupation by

i'm going to a lot of stories about young lebanese males who are injured in different companies . for myself i don't know anyone. thank you. but more. i am. working i say. you see. in the morning. i told you. because. you're no. longer untold millions of people are shocked. when the clearance teams go in and you basically roped off area and they create zones so that they can then figure out where the weapons are that need to be cleared and prioritize what's going to be taken out break the school disco interfaces and so on yeah we start playing songs about it and then we come back to. the name literally move inch by inch very slowly and very laborious leap in the heat and in an area that is filled with high explosive weapons and you know if you can see the bombers over there oh it's marked. this is a world war i'm forty two and there are environmental things that are over time for these weapons. everybody. knew it. got rain and the rain comes they start to sink into the earth. a lot of times you know they'll get kind of mixed in with with garbage and trash and stuff moving about th

who has more weapons than the lebanese. we're not disagreeing about this is what's frightening the war between a country and itself. there's no such thing as civilian and non-civilian anymore because you know i've started to hate myself because we're only increasing our stupidity. do you see how there's a disease here. we use medicine for we spread it. takes a bit of time with. going to. tell me the smaller trees fall to the ground and won't grow any more. and we're three brothers. we were four before nine hundred eighty five and i'm nailed to snow. my elder brother died in one thousand eight hundred by so let me show israel invaded the country in one thousand nine hundred to. thank him into the villages and we couldn't work the land anymore nor operate our business and. my brother had a passion for change in the people of greece on both of you know if he were. the only yes the village near here called sybian but the horse has. a one day some guys called him asking for help because they are too injured guys. they needed to

in response to that, the lebanese government is planning should this drag out, on trying to set up a more long-term solution, for example, setting up locations like schools, other large areas where all of the refugees can be consolidated, where their needs can be met. most certainly, the lebanese are watching what happens in syria very closely, given not only the proximity of the two nations but their tumultuous and controversial history that's spanned deck car ened decades, >> you're watching "world one" live from london. the president's grand tour, both style and substance. next stop, a stylish french resort but this is no holiday. barack obama is on his way to the g8 summit. >>> seven states in the u.s. are put on tornado watch as storms take more lives. [ man ] i've seen beautiful things. ♪ i've seen the sunrise paint the desert. witnessed snowfall on the first day of spring. ♪ but the most beautiful thing i've ever seen was the image on a screen that helped our doctor see my wife's cancer was treatable. [ male announcer ] ge technologies help doctors detect cancer early so they

the unrest is already spreading beyond syria with casualties reported at the lebanese and israeli borders as people are trying to escape the violence the director of the institute of islamic political thought. says that sanctions and military intervention are able to resolve the conflict and only end up hurting people i think we've seen the model in libya foreign intervention has only complicated things. intervention has not held settle the problem in libya and i don't think it will help settle the problem in syria and we've seen sanctions there's a history of adopting sanctions in various places including iraq for many many years and only the ordinary people suffered throughout the time when sanctions were imposed in syria it is different from not believe ian scenario it is also course possible that we'll get there sometime but so long as the zero points of the region are not polluted into using force into use into carrying arms then hopefully we will not end up with another leader because in libya it started becoming catastrophic when the revolution turned into an armed conflict. this w

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arrest is already spreading beyond syria with casualties reported at the lebanese and israeli borders as people try to escape the violence james denzil a london based writer on middle east politics believes the believes only the syrian people can stop the bloodshed the pins the americans are offering president assad one last chance to see if the dictator can dictate so i believe that the syrian regime really has to have a silent group from within from whether you call them before moves or what else to try and prevent essentially greater crowd was happening in cities that are arrested because it seems that the deaths the cells are creating the momentum is that momentum that the regime is found impossible to stall it's offered a variety of carrots and putin most famously getting rid of the emergency law but it appears now it's simply only have sticks left in its cupboard so that is a deeply worrying trend as far as the syrian people are concerned. this week us for the hopes of libyan rebels for official recognition the white house gave a message to a libyan opposition leader during a vi

to protect its territorial integrity sixteen people were killed when troops opened fire near the lebanese syrian and gaza borders the clashes broke out on nothing but day that marks the anniversary of the founding of the jewish state when many palestinians lost their homes security officials said they sustained injuries as well tear gas and rubber bullets were used in an attempt to stop the protesters crossing into israel analyst and writer stephen leatherman says such actions will not serve the israeli image abroad. piers never sells spirits where israel and terrorists peaceful protesters these were peaceful protesters but this is special this is bill and i'm krista tippett player to play the commemoration. nearly nearly tens of thousands every joy if we can memory this theory has special we syrian and the lebanese borders lebanon was as specially dramatic anywhere from fifty to one hundred thousand people maybe more key into the all experience hundreds of buses groping near this is near it happened before same thing at noon syria he came to the golan heights quarter syrian territory has

we're talking about an exchange of gunfire between two opposing sides in this case the lebanese i'm sorry the syrian police on the one hand and the demonstrators on the on the other that is what happens on day one. which suggests that that we're not dealing strictly with with peaceful protests were heard by dealing with with with. gangs which which are corroborated by these. killings of police though the show i want to get the thoughts of was out in libya as well while you still go by the time the airstrike by nato allegedly targeting the country's leader moammar gadhafi just hours after he called for their mutual cease fire now nato saying it's not at all targeting people it was never part of the u.n. resolution but it can looks like it it doesn't. well first of all when you took ploy b. two bombers and these advanced two thousand fighters from from the french air force never to be you're going to get civilian casualties these are these are sophisticated weapons systems they drop bombs and missiles and the evidence suggests that that apartment buildings in tripoli have been targeted hosp

well the unrest is already spreading beyond syria with casualties reported lebanese and it is already borders as people there are simply trying to escape the violence activist filmmaker kind of chandan says that the sanctions imposed on syria are more about a struggle for world domination rather than the protection of civilians in the west would like the syrian regime like the libyan regime like with hizbollah and the palestinian resistance to disappear yesterday and now it's even that is a whole different kettle of fish i think where the west is at now in this historical moment everyone knows that the world has finished entering into a multi-polar world and the west is panicking about that they can't sit back and allow the break nations of the global south just to rise up or for them to just go without go without a fight so now is really the historic opportunity for western germany to try to pull back a little bit off the world domination that they've lost in the last decade but frankly even if they did go into syria which i don't think they will i think the syrian regime or what wil

government but now that hezbollah is the lebanese government it would be foolhardy -- you are seeing catching up to the political changes that have happened on the ground. >> host: back to the middle east because the associated press is reporting and man with an explosive belt arrested when trying to enter the office of the largest opposition group. what is happening in jordan and how does that factor into the situation? >> guest: jordan to be personal just like all the countries surrounding is real, is a tinderbox. we have seen protests which are extremely unusual in the jordanian capital. normally you have the king of jordan and the marquee. from monarchies is doing better than other families that have held onto power. the king of jordan has been able to hold things together and there have been protests but they have been relatively mild compared to some. what you are seeing, the problem with the jordan is there is a town in jordan which is very radical and in iraq you remember zarqawi who was one of the leaders of al qaeda and iraq that the military killed. zarqa is a town that is

military were helping the israelis to stop the lebanese people from entering what is quote unquote israel is because of you military aid u.s. aid is never unattached it always has strings attached to it this is what we're seeing i don't think the egyptians need any more u.s. aid they don't need any more trade liberalization as obama said i mean this is ridiculous how liberal how much more liberal can they trade we than it was under hosni mubarak i look i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight and giving us your take on this speech and it's one that's definitely going to be criticized and analyzed across the board thanks so much. thank you. well still to come on tonight's show we say goodbye to the fourth amendment stick around for a special remembrance of what worth our rights discuss the case out west where police could soon be allowed to search companies that press copies of c.d.'s and d.v.d.'s without a warrant then has the white house started another of war not talking about military action but war on fun here in the u.s. a look at why the obama administration is trying to

a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure.

a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure. mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it said with irish american it's not genealogy it's archaeology. i found out about that later.

. >> my father was a lebanese immigrant. he would say that range today is very good luck. we are seeing good luck on our ceremony today. and an upsurge in interest with the sustainability program. in july of 2009, the executive director -- executive directive talking about healthy and sustainable food for san francisco, i asked all departments to carry out posturing food production in the city. today, we have are before us, literally, groundbreaking legislation. what he will sign into law today, what the mayor will sign into law today represent a big of a to the city's regulation of local food production. our community gardens and backyard kitchen gardens will be permitted everywhere under this legislation. surprisingly enough, prior to this legislation, the sale of that food was not. the products are primarily derived from locally grown foods. it establishes operational standards to ensure compatibility of urban agriculture within our existing neighborhoods. there are [unintelligible] from the agricultural commission as well. it is my great pleasure to introduce the champ

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so the first question, at least some people are asking, is why a half-white, half-lebanese guy from ohiong up this organization? and i'll tell you, it was pretty easy, it just took 20 years of participation and commitment to the mission district and to the carnaval community. i've been involved, my first -- i took part in 1991 and i performed as a dancer, a d.j., a drummer. i became king and i also performed with over a dozen groups including aqra rela who are going to perform today. i guess could you say i'm culturally curious. and fortunately for me san francisco is, in my opinion, and i've traveled quite a bit, this is the best place to be culturally conservative. i'm sorry, curious. did i say conservative? yikes. now, there's one little tidbit i'll offer you that you won't find on -- i don't know if supervisor avalos has arrived, but you won'tfight find it on his web-page or wikipedia but i danced in a dance group with his wife and i d.j. their wedding reception. i'm going to ask him about putting that on the wikipedia page, though. but seriously, in terms of living your fantasy, fro

troops have been deployed along the lebanese border in a show of force. refugees still manage to get through. those that fled said security forces are terrorizing them. aid organizations are providing emergency medical treatment for those that needed. the un estimates 4000 assyrians have fled over the last few weeks. >> they have sunk a libyan vessels in the overnight air raids. the alliance says the ships have been taking part in mining operations over the past few weeks. these are current images. these are the first pictures targeting the family compound two weeks ago. tens of thousands of people have been demonstrating against massive unemployment and the government measures. they are reviewing an earlier decision that would advance the protest the day ahead of local elections on sunday. demonstrators in madrid and other cities all week. >> they approved these demonstrators. they fill up in the very heart of madrid. the protests are nearly a week- old. amato, real democracy now. >> i hope the politicians listened. i want a job with a future. i know wha

>> reporter: well, zain, we've just arrived to the small lebanese northern border town of spadia. syria is less than a few kilometers away from where we are right now. we could see through the lens of the camera what appeared to be a syrian military position and armored personnel carrier. people in this area telling us that they regularly hear the sounds of gunfire, of explosions that are taking place in syria. we have seen and we have heard about a number of refugees coming across from syria, seeking safety, sanctuary in lebanon. they're being taken in by local residents here. the area that we're in is right across the river that serves as a natural border between both countries from the city of sensela. that's the city that's been in the headlines for the last few weeks, ever since the syrian military began its crackdown there. as far as today's protests go, we have not yet heard of anything taking place. but that also could be because communication with syria is increasingly difficult. people here have been trying to handle the influx thus far. there is according to the lebanes