to discuss the political situation in lebanon i'm joined by alistair cooke in beirut he's director and founder of the conflicts forum in new york we go to tony battering he is a research fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies and in london we cross to patrick seale he is a british journalist and author of the new book the struggle for arab independence all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want there are differences of opinion on this panel and i want my viewers to see it alister year in beirut just an hour or two hours ago we word came out that indeed hezbollah hezbollah sponsored by minister will has been appointed by the president of lebanon and will be confirmed in a matter of hours probably to well within twenty four hours on wednesday they're calling it the day of rage but this is all been done constitutionally hasn't. it hires and you're wrong to call the prime minister designate hezbollah person and fact he stood. as one on the hariri list in tripoli and he's in march the port so he's an independent businessman you ca

our correspondent joins us from beirut. as far as his concerns a problem is you will be perceived as the loser. >> that is right. this latest political maneuvering and crisis -- he walked out in a disagreement over how lebanese handled the u.n. tribunal with the assassination of mr. herriri's father. they have a deep sense of anger for supporters, but somehow given the route cause of the crisis, he should emerge as the loser. protesters see that has a low will be seen as the winner. -- processors see that hezbollah will be seen as the winner. symbolically blocking the main highway that connects beirut to damascus in syria. it will cause -- because syria is one of the main power brokers. this has angered many supporters. they are talking about a day of rage when the new prime minister will become the prime minister, but also a sense of impotence. they are talking about staying on the streets until their demands are met. there is not a pathway for emerging. >> if hezbollah ends up with more influence in terms of the governmen

the government of beirut has collapsed. some fear that a civil war is brewing.nd the chief prosecutor of the special tribunal has defended the indictment. it is believed that members of the most powerful military force in lebanon [unintelligible] >> the leader of hezbollah. always somehow present. his latest enemy, the indictment of the assassination of the former prime minister. he says if you think you can use the indictment to target their resistance, you are making very bad calculations. riot training is one thing, but the accusation that he might have killed a sunni muslim prime minister might lead to something worse. no wonder international mediators are flying in. >> what happens here creates rebels beyond. does that complicate matters? it sure does. >> top of the news is america's ally. so far he is resisting huge pressure to cut links with the tribunal. this tv station obtains audiotapes of his testimony to investigators after his father was killed. >> if you ask me how it happened and why it happened -- >> alleges that the brother and brother-in-law we

the bomb was heard across beirut. hezbollah accuses israel and says anyone blaming its men or its syrian and iranian allies is and is released huge. -- is an israeli stooge. this is about much more than an investigation into the killings that happened on this street in 2005. it is even about much more than who controls lebanon. the fallout from the death of this man is now the latest round in the big confrontation in the middle east between america and its allies and iran, syria, and theirs. the lebanese are good in a crisis -- they are used to them -- but there is no easy way out of this one. nobody knows what is next, and that vacuum is being filled with some dire memories of the violent past. >> let's change the tone of it. when it comes to listening to music, do you change between artists or patiently listened to every track of an album? in this age of ballots, you may not even possess an entire album. some people feel so passionately about this that they form classic album clubs to listen to the most popular reco

dot com in beirut we have robert fisk he's the middle east correspondent for the independent and in washington we go to lisa curtis she is a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation and another member of our crosstalk team you know on the hunger crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in when you want robert i want to go to you first last week we had a popular liberal governor in pakistan assassinated his assassin is turned into a national hero for some people in pakistan and the lawyers that used to play such an important role in defending civil society many young lawyers are lining up to defend him is pakistan falling apart well you know i've come in pakistan for thirty four years and i've always been our same question and i don't think pakistan is falling apart i think pakistan is a country of people who read a lot they're very cultured people pakistan is they read a lot they learn a lot. much great to learn those on the arabs are they are muslims like them for the most part. i think pakistani people haven't terrible government a terrible regime. i think the government of

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. >> it to is heard across beirut. anyone blaming the men is in a really stupid. it was backed by the u.s. in saudia arabia. this is about much more than an investigation into the killings that happens. it is even about much more the new controls lebanon. the fallout from the death of this man is now the latest round in a big confrontation. the lebanese are good in the crisis. they are good. there is no way out of this one. nobody knows what is next. it is being billed as some dire memories. >> you are watching bbc news. police have found by mutilated bodies outside month delay in the latest drug-related violence in mexico. the five dead men were dumped by gunmen. 20 people have been killed in and around the city in just 24 hours. polish investigation into the plane crash that killed the polish president and 95 others have accused air traffic controllers of failing to warn the pilots the airplane was of course. the official russian inquiries says the pilots were under psychological pressure from those on board the aircraft to land despite the bad weather. west afr

i spoke to kevin connelly in beirut. >> this latest round of political maneuvering disintegrated whenezbollah walked out in a disagreement over the status of how they should handle the u.n. tribunal looking into the assassination of his father. they're blaming senior figures in hezbollah for the killing. there is a deep sense of anger at the moment. given the root cause of the crisis, some say he should emerge as the loser. his supporters have taken to the street. hezbollah could be seen as the winner. we've seen the her ariri supporters on the street and symbolically blocking the main highway to damascus and syria. syria is one of the main power brokers in the region that backed hezbollah. they are talking about the date of rage when he becomes prime minister. they are also talking about staying on the streets until the demands are met. there is not a clear path with anyone can see for hariri supporters. >> it has below winds up with more influence, what does that mean? -- if hezbollah winds up with more influence, what does that mean? >> it will give power over the lebanese leaders

and beirut. at the white house president obama met with his national security team. the president reiterated the need for egypt to use restraint against the uprising. at the united nations scott goldberg for cbc news. >>> the clouds rolling in. even some rain drops hitting the grounds. meteorologist lawrence karnow is saying more is on the way. >> yes. how about that? it has been some time since we have seen any rainfall around the bay area. today, it was some light showers. some heavy sprinkles showing up around the bay. still got some of the activity up there that is moving on by with a cold front but still more to come just making its way onshore. another band of moisture. taking a look at high-def doppler. heavier amounts of rainfall. more scattered showers in towards the santa rosa area. we are not done. this whole band just dragging down along the coastline starting out in the north bay first. see it still making its way in towards inverness. plenty more to come. will that be the end of the rain? we will talk about that coming up in just a bit. ann, back to you

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a truck bombing killed hariri on beirut's mediterranean sea front in february 2005. no one claimed responsibility, but the shiite militant group hezbollah is expected of being involved in the attack. the name of the accused and the charges against the person were not released, including whether or not they are a member of hezbollah. prosecutor daniel bellemare stressed on tuesday that the tribunal will bring to justice the mastermind of the assassination. >> this indictment is not only a first step on the road to ending impunity in lebanon, it's also the first step of our judicial process. >> lebanese prime minister saad al hariri, son of the leader, has shown a willingness to cooperate with the investigation. last week 11 pro hezbollah ministers resigned from the unity government to protest the expected indictments of hezbollah members. hezbollah has indicated that it will re-tal yet if its members are indicted. >>> a maritime watch dog says pirate attacks around the world hit a record high last year. nearly half of them were carried out by somali pirates. the inter

the move to install the prime minister triggered protests in beirut yesterday. the u.s.ders hezbollah a terrorist organization. >>> ted williams, the man with the golden voice, said he didn't want to go to rehab, so he reportedly checked himself out of rehab on monday against the advice of doctors. williams voluntarily spent 12 days in rehab after he became a media sensation. now, there's no word on where he went. >>> this morning on "the early show," a preview of president obama's state of the union address. and an interview with republican senator john mccain. i'm betty nguyen. this is the "cbs morning news." ] a quick weight-loss plan that lets you eat six times a day? yeah, baby! try the slim-fast 3-2-1 plan. 3 snacks, 2 shakes or meal bars, and 1 balanced meal. slim fast. who has time to slim slowly? because they have 20% more calcium per chew than viactiv or for the delicious flavors like chocolate truffle and vanilla creme? mmm. -mmm. -mmm. [ female announcer ] hard to say really. new caltrate soft chews, we put the yum in calcium. >>> in many places old fashioned

more protestors gathered in paris, london and beirut. at the white house president obama met with his national security team. the president reiterated the need for egypt to use restraint against the uprising. at the united nations, cbc news, scott goldberg. >> there were demonstrations in 10 american cities including san francisco. several people gathered at market and montgomery. demonstrators said the president's decision to name his intelligence chief as vice president was not enough and call for his resignation. >>> changing gears. the nice weather we enjoyed through the week led up to a soggy saturday. lawrence, where did that sun go? >> it has been quite some time. light sprinkles. light showers out there right now. high-def picking up on some of that activity. light showers outside. more impressive rainfall is still sitting off the coastline. showers still in napa. off the coastline, though, there is more on the way. you see this band that is just approaching the coastline. this one more substantial. going to be pushing onshore ov

was asked to form a government amid fears it could reignite the sectarian fighting in beirut of two thousand and eight many including those in the west see the appointment as a sign of the growing political power which the u.s. considers a terrorist organization. to stay with us for the latest business news that's coming your way next. right time for a business update a very warm welcome it's the time of year for the big cheeses of business and politics to mix in the swiss ski resort of dollars but while the bankers are cheering their return to profits the crisis has left a sour taste in the mouth for ordinary people all correspondent daniel bushell is there for business. president obama thinks the world economy was brought down by greed insatiable bankers blew a hole in business for things three years of belt tightening bread and water for the rest of us but now greed is back here in the head of coca-cola toasting the start of a decade of unprecedented global growth in the top restaurants tycoons once again in talks at the table hungry for a piece of the action from firms melted away and li

elizabeth palmer reports tonight from beirut. >> reporter: with the enemy nowhere in sight, demonstratorsity of tripoli took their anger out on a tv crew's satellite truck. this is a stronghold of lebanon's sunni muslims, angry that the iranian-backed shiite group hezbollah will, for the first time, lead their country's government. >> he's a devil! hezbollah is a devil. >> reporter: this rage has roots in the unsolved bombing and assassination of rafik hariri, lebanon's prime minister. an international investigation is soon expected to hand down murder indictments against senior hezbollah figures. but rather than take the blame, hezbollah toppled lebanon's government and today formed a new one. which means that for supporters of the dead prime minister, justice will never be done. these people are furious. the way they see it, hezbollah has taken over the government specifically so it can get away with murder. with support from iran and syria, hezbollah has grown into a popular movement with a well- armed military wing that's been fighting israel for two decades. now it's also lebanon's m

makati was asked to form a government and it fears it could read nights of terry and fighting in beirut of two thousand and eight many including those in the west see the appointment as a side of the growing political power of hezbollah which the u.s. considers a terrorist organization. as lebanon's lawmakers call for a nationwide day of rage people of ellen his guests discuss the effect of facing a government ruled by his bar on diplomacy inside and outside the country. this government is much more representative than its predecessor it is the months of hell of the christian community with hezbollah which represents forty percent of global moon's population. look there hasn't been a census since nine hundred thirty two but most people would say the figure is clues to forty percent. so with half the christians without drew's the way over the fifty five percent well tony you say not true or not true what you will see i think is total nonsense and you know it's not going to give you are going to be doing as well as your side their side the facts i think the numbers there are numbers that

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from india, to jerusalem, to yugoslavia, to london, to beirut. everywhere there was communication and support for the airport against the jews. eventually, after the arabs continually beckons the nazis for some form of alliance, it all came to a head with the commission in the late '30s recommended that there be to actual states. they said we have tried for many years to bring these two peoples together. now it's time to cut the country in half. they said we will never coexist with the jews in palestine. they actually said better it run as a colony for 100 years that we should live one day with jews as co-equals, allowing them to sit while they pray at the wall. i have to tell you, 99% of what you read in this book is quotation in context from the original arabic, from the original german, from the original english, from the original version documentation, et cetera, et cetera, as we try to document carefully the roots of the arab-nazi alliance. eventually the british began to see that their efforts to push the jews out of germany and out of euro

. >> this occurred in beirut. this occurred in syria. they ran -- they translated mein kompf and turned it into anti-jew hatred into antisemittic hatred. they wore arm bands and there's a place in the book where the arabs with a huge nazi flag -- the syrian national socialist party, national socialists, the german social nazi party with the swastika, you can still see this on the internet. their flag has not changed. it still has the swastika. [inaudible] >> pardon me? syrian national socialist party. and the nazis said, we don't want you. you're semite. on top of that, we're talking to the republic -- we're talking about the republic, we're talking about the nazi era, we will never put you in the nazi because you must be pure. okay, if you don't adopt us we'll make our own nazi party and that's exactly what they made. they made many nazi parties. and they made them all over the middle east. they ran nazi publication and they serialized in arabic henry ford's protocols of the elders of zion which was a fundamental turning point for adolp

this occurred in this baghdad, cairo, this occurred in beirut, this occurred in syria. they ran, they translated "mein kampf". they redacted and changed the translation to take away the word "semite "and turn it into just anti-jew hatred instead of anti-semitic hatred so it would not have an impact on the arabs. they wore armbands. there's a place in the book where the arabs are with a huge nazi flag. the syrian national socialist party, national socialists just like german national socialists with the nazi party with a swastika. you can still see this right now on the internet. their flag has not changed, it still has a swastika. pardon me? >> [inaudible] >> syrian. syrian national -- syrian national socialist party. and the nazis said, we don't want you. you're semites. on top of that -- we're talking the myanmar republic here, excuse me, we're talking about the post-myanmar republic, we're talking about the post-nazi era -- we will never let you into the nazi party because you must be a pure aryan to be in the nazi party. so they said, okay, if you won't adopt us, we

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the beirut bombing, over 241 servicemen, u.s. servicemen were killed. and many other incidents. so my hopes was that the west would finally realize that this regime is a dangerous regime, and it proves grave danger to our to iran is but to the region what your very own national security. the reason i wrote the book was out of frustration, but even to this day of your try to negotiate with such regime, i suppose helping the iranians with her aspirations of freedom and democracy. so i guess the point want to get

marine barracks in beirut. more recently hezbollah and israel waged a five-week conflict in 2006. and then as now the movement was led by nazalah who addressed a rally of supporters today. >> today the lebanese have a good chance to unite under the condition of no winner, no loser. let us cooperate. >> warner: today's events were triggered two weeks ago when hezbollah pulled out of the government bringing it down. hariri had refused the group's demand to stop cooperating with the united nations' backed tribunal investigating the 2005 assassination of his father, former prime minister. hezbollah denies any role in the killing but sealed draft indictments issued last week are reported to name some hezbollah members. in washington secretary of state hillary clinton expressed misgivings at the prospect of a hezbollah-led government. >> a hezbollah-controlled government would clearly have an impact on our bilateral relationship with lebanon. our bottom line remain as they always have been. first we believe that justice must be pursued and impunity for murder ended. we believe in lebano

suffice it to say that is the way we did things at that time whether it was in tehran, beirut, other places we were very dependent on the terms of the vienna convention and how come to our rescue as it did earlier than some of you may remember the embassy was overrun earlier that year. so basically, to not go into the gory details of it, but to say that what we were trying to do is buy time and the calgary would arrive as they did on tiberi 14th. we would get to leave to take the persian rugs with us and those things we have accumulated, but our assignments would be curtailed and off we would go to some other at the center unfortunately as we all know it didn't turn out that way. i would be remiss in not calling get attention as bruce did to the marines. their performance that day was unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. what they did, perhaps another way of saying it is with the didn't do went against every bit of trading that they had received -- >> how many marines were there? >> we only had lain, total to touch the 14. i should say we had a total detachment of 14, and as you sa

i know somebody who is living in beirut and studying arabic, and that is what she does. she travels and studies arabic in different places. there are a lot of people like that who are americans living in the middle east right now. i really don't think it is our part to get in the middle of anti-government protests right now in the middle east. even with the oil that we import so much of it. i don't think that's a play a factor in what our -- that should play a factor in what our country should be doing. host: some say there is an opportunity for the united states -- to support democracy movements. caller: you know, spending the last 25 years living in and around detroit, you need to muslim iraqis as well as chaldeans and when we invaded iraq, everybody that i knew who had family members living in iraq, whatever their ethnic heritage, said the same thing -- they didn't want democracy there then and they don't want it now. host: thank you so much. sam on twitter has the same ideas -- the next cal on the egyptian protests, tunisian protest and also in yemen -- kevin, indepe

. >> do you know turn left at egypt and stop in beirut -- [inaudible] >> can i just follow-up? >> you know, what's the position on the government? do you support it, recognize it? people are asking for the prime minister to step down. today there were clashes. >> we support the transition that is underway, and we hope that this transition will be peaceful. we understand that the, you know, the civil society, you know, has questions about the nature of the government. you know, clearly after, you know, decades of mistrust, there are questions that people continue to raise. the government is, you know, trying to be responsive. we know that this is hard, and we no that the government will at times, you know, have missteps along the way. obviously, we are conscious of the fact that one independent television station was briefly shut down i believe yesterday, and we have expressed our concerns to the government about that. the government reversed its action after a few hours, so, you know, this is a government that is trying hard to respond to the aspirations of its people. we're en