the region as well as lebanon. have assured her that the situation in lebanon is stable. >> on that, germany says it can help. it has promised to help boost security along lebanon's border with syria by offering training and technical assistance. >> there is renewed disagreement between germany and syria's ally russia over how to handle the syrian president. >> after talks with his german counterpart in moscow, the russian prime minister revealed his country had turned down a german proposal for russia to offer asylum to assad. he said officials at first considered the idea a joke. turning now to soccer, goals that are too close to call may soon be a thing of the past. fifa has agreed to use the goal line technology in an effort to reduce disputed goals, informing referees automatically when a ball crosses the goal line. first charles will be held during the word cup championship -- during the world cup championship -- first trials will be held during the world cup championship. we thank our sports correspondent fo

washington so is this good news for lebanon no it's not just briefly then what is the end goal for all of this regional destabilization what's the main aim here just briefly from your point of view. the main aim from from a western geo political perspective is to first bring syrian government down so that it is no longer an ally of hizbollah then the next step is to bring neutralize hizbollah and possibly to confront them militarily and to dissolve hizbollah this will be easier done by destabilizing lebanon through some kind of a conflict once isabel is eliminated the door is now open for israel and the u.s. to unilaterally strike iran which they've been talking about on and off for the last six or seven years so they can't do that yet because as we saw in two thousand and six hizbollah took the israeli army and sent it home basically limping home after the two thousand and six conflict between lebanon and israel so his ball is a major obstacle they are allied with iran and so once they're neutralized the door is open for an attack on iran and that is the precursor to world war three a

orat a clashes in lebanon start off the r.t. was up. for us now overnight sectarian violence between the gunman and allawi rivals in lebanon's northern city of tripoli have wounded eight police fired warning shots trying to disperse the combatants before troops were deployed in the area tensions in the country were sparked months ago by the uprising in neighboring syria with the alawite minority supporting president assad but the two countries cherry tangled web of sectarian connections which tend to be rather easily inflamed . a drive by shooting in southern thailand has killed at least four soldiers and injured two others the troops were cornered by suspected is limited militants and shot at close range this is they are returning to their base from military patrol the islamist insurgency in the country is a volatile south erupted in two thousand and four since then over five thousand have died. a major police operation on tajikistan's border with afghanistan has left at least seventeen soldiers dead and forty injured in the ongoing of

elizabeth palmer is with the refugees pouring into lebanon. mitt romney arrives in israel for a visit that could impact the campaign here at home. jan crawford has the latest on that. ballot battle in pennsylvania. elaine quijano lays out the stakes in the court fight over the state's new voter i.d. law. and meet the new bond girl. >> good evening, mr. bond. >> mark phillips recaps the opening olympic ceremony that put her majesty, the queen, in the middle of the action. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" >> good evening. i'm nancy cordes. the civil war in syria has moved into the country's largest city. government forces are staging a full-scale attack on rebel fighters in aleppo, the nation's commercial heart and a strategic prize for both sides. elizabeth palmer is on the syrian help lebanese border tonight with more. >> reporter: the opposition fighters in aleppo are, for the most part, lightly armed. and no match for the government's heavy artillery or helicopter gunships. an activist video shows once again, it's t

in northern lebanon, just a shallow valley away is syria, and syrian troops hiding among the trees. occasionally they take pot shots into the lebanese town. his boys dream of going back to join the syrian rebel fighters. how do you stop them from leaving? "we must do our best to stop them," he says, "because if they go, they are going to die." elizabeth palmer, cbs news, lebanon. >> the most recent estimate by the brookings institution is that one in 20 syrians have been forced from their homes by the fighting. we went to neighboring lebanon where hospitals are caring for the wounded, and even though they're now out of harm's way, most did not want us to use their names or show their faces. about 20 miles from the syrian border, 19 refugees at this small lebanese hospital say they have just one wish-- >> she wants to see the end of the criminal assad. >> shot while fleeing her village on a motorbike, this 24-year-old mother is now partially paralyzed. she told our producer, christina ruffini, that seeing assad dead would ease her pain. >> when do you think this will be over? >> very

>> when we were in lebanon in the northern part of lebanon just across hama, the border was very dangerous we had reports of syrian sharp shooters taking aim at refugees trying to flee. most of them have been crossing into the bekka valley and increasing numbers into jordan. in jordan they either move legally through the border but that is proving more and more difficult because the syrians are putting their own checks on when people can leave. therefore more people leave illegally in the eastern part of the border. they are then picked up by the jordanian army and brought into centers. >> suarez: it sounds like people have terrible individual choices to make. they live in places where there's artillery fire, gun battles, even now attacks by fixed wing aircraft. it's dangerous if they stay. but it's also dangerous if they move. >> it's dangerous to move. as i said the neighboring countries have received them well, have kept their borders open, have not tried to limit their entry. now that policy seems to be changing a little bit with the encampment policy that has been designed by jordan.

the conflict in syria is affecting its western neighbor lebanon, the u.n. refugee agency fears the current rush of people fleeing from syria into neighboring nation s could lead to chaos. the number of syrian refugees fleeing their country has surged since last wednesday when the violence intensified in damascus. the u.n. high commissioner for refugees says that up to 30,000 syrian refugees may have crossed into neighboring countries on wednesday and thursday alone. the refugees streamed to the border with lebanon which is about 30 kilometers from the capital. a spokesperson for the unhcr said that the agency is preparing for the worst. >> we have to be prepared for a bigger influx, so we plan for 40,000 people, 50,000 more, 100, so we have different contingency plans based on different numbers. >> the spokesperson added that communities accepting the refugees are already feeling the strain of housing all of them. most syrian refugees are staying at the homes of relatives and friends, as well as at schools and mosques in lebanon. >>> people in neighboring i

secure their own national interests you might see what you mentioned it's like this civil war in lebanon or or iraq or or afghanistan but i think. probably you also would see as the violence increases in syria as more people being can probably you see a friend saying when if i don't go home i can't get there if if i can go to you i mean the outline forces that are involved in the civil war in there are numerous here do they have or are they all on the same page or we just looking at maybe a spanish civil war we've already talked about lebanon how about spain in the one nine hundred thirty s. . oh peter let me say categorically what's going on in syria i've written volumes of what's going on here at times i rate every single day well what's going on this morning before i came to the studio i drafted a new article for tomorrow and my title is syria threatens no one syria is a nonbelligerent country what's going on is not an uprising it's not a revolution it's not a civil war the i.c.r.c. was paid eight million dollars by washington to lie to lie is if there lie change international law int

also this of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu extends his blameless to include lebanon saying both iran and hezbollah were behind the blast and ball garia that left eight people dead. and british intelligence mimics the very hackers it's fighting against with the country's security committee calling for the launch of covert operations aimed at attacking cyber criminals. from a new center here in moscow this is twenty four hours a day the u.s. and its allies a failed to push an anti a sad resolution through the u.n. security council for the third time russia and china have once again vetoed the motion for the latest from new york let's cross now to. why exactly have moscow and beijing stop this latest draft resolution dead in its tracks. well simply put russia and china used their double veto efforts within the security council on the draft resolution on syria because they have said over and over they will not support a draft resolution under chapter seven of the u.n. charter that chapter seven would allow the security council to impose sanctions on the syrian government if it

itself during the summer time know and be told lebanon i'm talking to you live from beirut thank you very much indeed maher salloum from the ngo universal peace federation good to hear thoughts this is r.t. if you live from moscow still to come on the program british bank scandals rage on with the added twist of drugs and terror the country's biggest bank h.s.b.c. is accused of laundering drug cartel money and helping saudi arabian organizations fun terrorism details are coming up in a couple of minutes. and gloves come off in georgia we reported how the government tightens its grip on power oppressing the opposition ahead of parliamentary elections. the boss of a british security firm has admitted the company's reputation is in tatters after failing to provide enough staff to guard the olympics however he still wants to claim the fifty seven million pound management fee saying it's part of the contract and as artie's laura smith reports lympics security concerns are now extending across the atlantic. as athletes and guest start to arrive here at heathrow airport for london's olympic

prime minister monti of italy saying that syria should look to lebanon as an example stating that their system has worked really well for them and basically what they put in place is a system that allows for all aspects of society to have a representative in government saying that that is a good example for syria to use now president putin has not dismissed nor endorsed this idea listen to what he had to say on the subject of the should first of all there must be a complete halt to all violence and this is under both sides must come to the negotiation table where they would decide on the country's future and that future must not be decided by a military defeat victory of one side or the other. and compromise. president putin going on to say also that an unconstitutional overthrow of the regime in syria will lead to a protracted civil war something that russia does not want and is trying to avoid and it would lead to a repeat of the bloody civil war that is happening in the bloody violence that is in afghanistan also that all sides need to come to the table and make an effort to engage i

the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu extends his blame to include lebanon saying both iran and hezbollah behind the bus blast in bold garia that left eight people dead. also the german parliament decides to hand over a massive bailout to spain's battered banking sector with angela merkel grasping enough support from to back the rescue. live from the new center here in the russian capital this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day so our breaking news story that the u.s. and its allies have failed to push a sad resolution through the u.n. security council for the third time russia and china have once again vetoed the motion for the latest from new york let's cross to. you know why exactly have moscow and beijing stop this latest draft resolution dead in its tracks. well the leader's double veto put forth by russia and china came because they said they would not support any resolution under chapter seven that paved the way for sanctions or possible military intervention into syria and that is exactly what this u.k. draft a resolution that was put before a vote paved the way fo

so, i know what you feel and i know what happened because i'm from lebanon. now, we are seeing mosques in this country growing like mushrooms. the biggest mosque by the way is coming to fort collins. the biggest mosque in middle america, into fort collins. now, what do you think we have to do to stop building these mosques other than resistance? >> well, like i said, and i fully, let me start with that, i have a lot of respect for act. for america, it is a very good and strong organization. with gabrielle heading it. the first thing people should do is educate people what a mosque stands for. a lot of people think that islam is a religion and not violent ideology, and people believe that the mosque is something like a church or a synagogue. well, we know that it is not. so, educate people what the mosques, what the islam stand for. this is a. b, what you should do and this perhaps is the most important or most difficult thing to achieve is elect politicians that are brave enough to say enough is enough, no more mosques in my constituency. it is the most impor

to the un, and 1 million have been displaced inside the country, and more than half a million in lebanonr jordan, turkey, and iraq. the assad regime, of course, the balls exploded in damascus with started in what is called a crisis management group. since the uprising started, the assad regime has found what is called the crisis management group under the lead of the national security office. this is under the of the baath party. mainly you is included, is the head of all the security branches along with the ministry of defense, ministry of interior the deputy minister of defense, which his brother-in-law. those, basically those ten or 12 people who are making decisions day-by-day, who are giving the orders to the military groups or the military groups. all of the security to go to attack on all the illustrations, all the areas and give orders to the same people. it was a big explosion within the security, of course, which left five of those leaders killed, especially the ministry of defense, ministry of interior the head of the crisis management group and the chief or the president of t

. >> our chief international correspondent is also close to syria at the border crossing in lebanon. we spoke to her just a brief time ago. the un is reporting a tide of refugees. from your sense, what is the scale? >> there certainly has been a tide of refugees coming across. earlier today, one of the lebanese border guards told us that 18,000 had crossed in the past 48 hours. he had seen hundreds since then. we were told that at first light yesterday, the queue of vehicles extended way into the distance. there is less traffic today. we have been hearing from syrians who have been coming here saying that the road is not regarded as safe so some people are not making the journey until they are sure it is absolutely safe. the amount of refugees coming across could increase tomorrow. >> when they say it is not safe, are they giving you any indication about what their concerns are, why they are feeling insecure? >> is not clear. there are reports of of fighting along the road. people are not clear, they just have a sense that it is not safe for them to travel down the road. when they se

relatives in lebanon, and wanted lebanon to be free of syrian rule. a brief time, that was realized, but now syria and unfortunately is backe, manipulated along with hezbollah. i think farouq is heartfelt and i agree with him. host: this is a tweet for you from joseph ramirez. "representative engel, what fills the vacuum if assad falls ?" guest: that is obviously a concern. this is not something that is all black and all white. that is why there has been caution on the part of the united states. some people believe you know what you have and you do not know what you're going to get. i would argue that what you have is about the worst possible thing, and any change in syria can only be better for the syrian people, which is the most important thing. but i think better for us, the united states, in the struggle with iran. we are, again, behind the scenes, as are the saudis and the turkish and other countries. it is a disparate elements. it is not one type of people, but we want to make sure that al qaeda does not rear its ugly head and other pitfalls do

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security authorities in neighboring lebanon estimate 18,000 people fled there from syria over the past couple of days. >>> diplomats at the security council are discussing the extent of the u.n. observers' mission beyond friday. the council is scheduled to vote on the issue today, but members remain deeply divided. russia and china vetoed a resolution that would have imposed nonmilitary sanctions on syria. earlier, shery ahn spoke with an expert on the middle east at the institute of energy economics japan. he analyzed the results of the security council vote and the impact it will have on the situation in syria and surrounding nations. >> the security council still divided. what lies at the core of the disagreement? >> certainly the russians and chinese are not ready to see a repetition of what happened to libya last year. after the security council adopted a resolution that would allow sort of a no-fly zone to be inplemented over the libyan air space. that is going to be as real issue from the months to come. while the western nations, especially the united states and u.k. government

but for the most part i lived in lebanon.things that i really loved when i was growing up is i would take things apart. some things i would steal from my parents, like radios and things like that, i would break them open. i feel like i grew up in a very special home where my parents didn't believe in gender difference. they didn't raise us like girls the way girls are raised a lot of times in the middle east. my mom wanted us to be scientists and engineers and really push ourselves and be career women and she was a career woman and still is. my mom has been a very big influence on me. >> aya is 1 of 4 daughters and she's always has been different. she has this character in her, she never liked to be the same as others. >> my dad when i was 12 years old got me programming lessons on a commodore 64, even though a lot of our friends used to get barbies and doll houses and all sorts of things. he used to buy my younger sister baseball bats. i viewed myself as a really equal member of society. i never had any thought in inn my min

trapped inside duma for more than a week and it's taken this long to get the footage smuggled to lebanon all that risk to give the world a glimpse of syria's narrative of horror and despair. >> arwa damon monitoring the developments out of beirut, lebanon. you mentioned this is just a glimpse of what is actually going on. >> it most certainly is, kyra. there's been fighting throughout damascus, very close to the heart of the capital. the seat of power. bashar al assad's seat of power in and of itself for the last few days. opposition activists have been describing it as the most intense fighting that has been taking place. the images coming out quite dramatic showing street-to-street guerrilla warfare. that story you saw, that is just a fraction of what it is that people are going through inside syria and the lengths that these opposition activists are going to try to put their plight into the international spotlight. of course, the aim of all of this, the reason why they're taking this risk, is that they're hoping that at the end of it, the international community is going to somehow un

the country with arms you have foreign nationals also that are on the ground they came across from lebanon in turkey and also americans that came brought the training in jordan that came from iraq on their way back to the united states so it's really an invasion and you know a military campaign against syria being conducted by the united states through proxies and until that stops either we risk widening the war if russia and china are going to stand up to the united states or you know syria being. conquered essentially in the same way that libya was. washington support for syrian rebels is confusing says the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in russia's lower house of parliament. but. i don't quite understand how the us can support the armed opposition because these are the same kind of people who blow up american soldiers in afghanistan and iraq the same kind of people who kill nato troops in afghanistan in the same country they're considered enemies of the united state while here they're treated as allies. i can catch the full interview with i say pushed off in about twenty minu

elizabeth palmer across the border in lebanon. and nasa's mission to mars. >> this mission is the coolest thing i think we've ever done. >> pelley: bill whitaker on why it's being called "seven minutes of terror." >> pelley: good evening, no one saw the movie it out days before thecoul ng suspect james it out days before thecoul ng suspect james d been sent to correspondent john miller detail cted. reporte u.s. p might sent out.they didn't fint know the pa butf's bomb it ives inside. sources say the a pent-up holmes to of his psors. in it he ta psors. in it he ta people andd crude s. days rooday's shooting butbee procesl former profiler mary ellen says we may see more letters from mary ellen says we may see more letters from >> particularly because of differe crime that put them in that mail room and apparently the lead came indirectly from holmes himself. apparently some time after his arrest he mentioned that a letter had gone to the school from him and that's what they were looking for. >> pelley: john, thanks very much. as you

countries that are being used to smuggle weapons for the free syrian army we are talking about turkey lebanon on iraq possibly even jordan just a few days ago the reuters news agency published a story quoting an f.s.a. officer who was boasting about new deliveries all rocket propelled grenades katyusha rockets and missiles on the top of that refugee camps on the border with these countries are being used as a recruitment grounds for the militarized syrian opposition my colleague mario financial trouble to one of them on the lebanese border just a few days ago and she says that people who run these camps make no secret that they provide humanitarian assistance only to the f.s.a. sympathizers so in this context it's hardly surprising that the syrian authorities reject the idea of humanitarian corridors they believe that all these humanitarian talk is here and not there africa to give a strategic military advantage to the other side also even such corridors were established the syrian government would automatically cede control over a certain parts of its turn tree and they believe that it would

bombing roadside bombing that we see going on in syria now this is not characteristic of syria or lebanon this is characteristic of al-qaeda in iraq. still many of the diplomatic advantage which seems to be on the side of the syrian opposition but the media are one as well and is always going to explain such overwhelming backing echoes another conflict. syrian rebels have rejected the peace plan that was put forward by the international community they made it clear that violence would continue so far the coverage of the conflict in syria has been so one sided that it seems the rebels could get away with anything the media in the us and in the west in general have focused only on what the government has been doing almost entirely leaving out the atrocities act of terror committed by the rebels presenting a completely black and white picture but a conflict like the one in syria is never black and white and never simple the slanting of the coverage reminded some of the former yugoslavia before nato went bombing former yugoslavia at the end of the one nine hundred ninety s. the media focused

our elizabeth palmer is following events from lebanon. >> reporter: the war has now come to aleppo.until a few days ago, syria's biggest city had stayed relatively calm. not anymore. a major opposition offensive under way to take this vital commercial hub. syrian free army colonel abdel al-akaidi made the call to arms online. "we ordered all our forces" he said "to move towards aleppo and liberate the city." but so-called liberation comes at a huge cost. just 30 miles north of aleppo in azaz, rebel fighters are celebrating the hard-won victory after 100 days of intense fighting they finally control this town. but many of the buildings are rubble and most of the residents had to run for their lives. syrians-- both pro and anti-regime-- know this now: wherever the free syrian army digs in it's time to leave, to escape the lethal clashs that follow with government troops. wael al-kaldy is an opposition activists who works with the 30,000 syrians seeking refuge in lebanon, including these arrivals now living in a school. they fled last week from heavy shelling in damascus when rebel fig

also this israel's prime minister extends his blame list in lebanon saying both iran and hezbollah were behind the deadly blast in belgariad. and british intelligence points far with far with the country's security committee calling for the use of cyber warfare to tackle on line criminals. live from the new center here in the russian capital this is r t with twenty four hours a day the u.s. and its allies have failed to push an anti assad resolution through the u.n. security council for the third time russia and china have once again vetoed the motion to point nine has the latest for us now from new york. many people would say it's about time the international community stood together and did something about syria so what is moscow's reasoning for blocking yet another draft resolution. well the reasoning is simple russia has said for from the get go that he would not support any resolutions on syria that would include the potential of sanctions being imposed or even military intervention this western backed resolution that was drafted by the u.k. called on damascus to immediately seize

an attempt to stop the violence the uprising in neighboring syria has sparked ethnic tensions in lebanon for months. now the two countries share a complex web of political and sectarian ties and rivalries while the syrian president himself is an overweight. british media is reporting the suspected suicide bomber who blew up a bus with israeli tourists in bulgaria last week could have been british u.k. security officials travel to the country to collect d.n.a. samples from the attackers body investigators are still struggling though to establish his identity as forensic evidence suggests he was of a heavy build our security camera footage you're seeing right there released showed the attacker allegedly showing a very skinny man one fake american id was found on his body israel for the meantime blames iran and its lebanese ally has baller for the attack that ultimately killed five israeli tourists and a local bus driver. a man calling himself a joker has been arrested in the u.s. state of maryland after he threatened to shoot up the business he was being fired from he reportedly made sever

syria into syria mainly from jordan and lebanon recently and these fighters have made their way. because we have a. group of small. attack teams very highly trained obviously and my best guess with a secret service background sponsored by the usa. so i have for you this hour war for some show time for others. really something that you want to see some oh i don't read story no replies will be present but there isn't a threat should concede defeat that that you could prize that movie and. we report why a vantage point on the israeli border with syria has become a tourist map for people armed with binoculars and cameras. are also criminals no more the u.s. could make a u. turn on its attitude to hackers and start involving them in matters of national security as we report in a few minutes right here on our t.v. . there's a glimmer of hope for whistleblower julian a song after news that a long time demand he's been making believes it will help refute allegations against him could now be met the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's currently taken refuge says swedish authorities ar

this will be easier done by destabilizing lebanon through some kind of a conflict once the ball is eliminated the door is now open for israel and the u.s. to unilaterally strike iran which they've been talking about on and off for the last six or seven years so i think this is a lot of this is rhetorical trying to create a narrative that the syrian regime is wrong and that the west or right. it's not only the diplomatic advantage that seems to be on the side of syria's opposition but the media one as well or he's got a shaky on says such overwhelming backing echoes another conflict. syrian rebels have rejected the peace plan that was put forward by the international community they made it clear that violence would continue so far the coverage of the conflict in syria has been so one sided that it seems the rebels could get away with anything the media in the us and in the west in general have focused only on what the us government has been doing almost entirely leaving out the atrocities act of terror committed by the rebels presenting a completely black and white picture but a conflict like