held within 2 months while we can oust nadeem hooray he is the executive director of the arab reform initiative and he joins us now on skype from paris and the game today is turn a conference raised around $300000000.00 but for short term relief obviously the big concern here is corruption and lebanon's track record doesn't exactly inspire confidence. no it doesn't it's corruption and using that money as well as oxygen for the sectarian political parties to strengthen again the plan to list the networks and this is what the lebanese protestors are i've been saying very clearly support us lebanon needs help of this during this crisis but make sure they don't support the corrupt political class that's possible for short term immediate humanitarian needs because lebanon has a sophisticated civil society that can that has the experience and the capacity to answer quickly it's going to be trickier for major infrastructure reconstruction i want to ask you more about that because in a game i was speaking to you and representative allen there and she was saying that they're helping with that rollout of

beginning said to be so mediocre ok let's bring in her again the executive director of the arab reform initiative he joins us live from paris nadim great to have you back again does this have not so much the short term impacts on lebanese politics but potentially a long term impact on lebanese politics. it's hard to predict the long term the 11 on but in many ways my answer would be no a few years ago clearly he tried to you know roll and the verdict was expected as the main dividing line in the country this is no longer the case and we have even seen hezbollah and how do you we go through of course more in the last few years and right now the real divisions are between the only garth's and there hasn't muswell and somehow you're on the same side and those who want to change the entire system so in a way the verdict gives the different parties alone on what they want how you can say they convicted a member of hezbollah hezbollah can say look the others were found not guilty and they say there is no evidence that has butler as leadership was involved and in any case we don't trust this tribunal so

said to be so mediocre ok let's talk now again tonight am hearing executive director of the arab reform initiative now team welcome back to the news of the value of this case was supposed to provide a vessel or a facility for accountability somebody being held to account or a group of people being held to account in that god has it been a success or a failure. unfortunately not you know immediately there was actually no accused in the dock today even the person that was found convicted silly my he's still an abstention he's in hiding we don't even know where he is but also more broadly it was supposed you know that the high hopes for this trial was that it would end political violence as a means of doing politics and getting rid of at groceries and love and on and unfortunately that was not the case we still don't know the full story i mean did not decide one day to kill prime minister former prime minister hariri so even the truth isn't fully laid out and we're already hearing about a potential deal and reconciliation between me and hezbollah as if this was a private matter between the 2 of them

the executive director of the arab reform initiative he joins us here on the news from paris not important what does this do to lebanese politics. it depends who you ask in many ways the judgment each side of the divide in lebanon will find some solace in it some will say look one of the main suspects was convicted and that shows that hezbollah is guilty those depending on whose boat that was say well the other 3 were not guilty of the other 4 and there was no responsibility. in a way lebannon had already absorbed the shark of these findings many years ago there is nothing new factually speaking in the judgment today and i have to say not with pain because the process has taken so long the special tribunal for 11 on is a bit of a relic of the past it was really put to my eyes the divisions between the march 8th and march 14th these divisions that really dominated the mid 2011 on flooding and even early 2000 really 2000 to one but today the real division in lebanese society is between those who really want to change the entire system and the existing oligarchs in power and it's very interes