reporter: this is beirut, the capital of lebanon, which borders syria.round 2.5 million refugees live here. the family paid $200 a month for a crumbling room with no windows or bathroom in the city's palestinian quarter, where as syrians, they didn't feel safe. they described their plight in an interview at the time. mr. al jedi: rents are really high here. everyone knows the palestinians are making money off us, even though they're refugees here, too. reporter: atieh was able to work as a baker, but the children couldn't go to school. they dreamt of a future in europe, but didn't want to risk their lives on the mediterranean. a lebanese initiative put the muslim family in touch with the catholic "sant'egidio" movement and italy's protestant church. the church decided the family were especially in need of protection, and helped them to travel to europe legally. >> i want to go to italy and go to school and learn there. reporter: they had fled syria and couldn't face staying in lebanon. returning was not an option, although they wished it were. going to i

my mind want to understand what happened in beirut. i am a beirut veteran.ust the comprehension of 243 guys being blown up and crushed. i was at the national security agency at that time, and i met a guy at a bookstore called kramer books, and i met an old vietnam that who was a combat medic in one of the major battles, and he was pinned down for a week. he had no medicine. and he, you know, i used to joke, old vets, you guys have ptsd, sit around and tell war stories all day. he said "sounds like you." and i realized "am i doing that?" he said "when you come and talk to me, this is your therapy. so, tell me what stretched you the most. what stressed you the most? what traumatized you the most?" vfw and the american legions were that after world war i and world war ii, places for veterans to go and decompress and manage the stress of what they saw. those retellings of stories -- you always see these stories are hard veterans not telling stories. they do, to each other. they tell them all the time. you do not want to try to drink. you don't want to manage it

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. >> flashback: beirut, the capital of lebanon -- syria's neighbor in the middle east.ut two and a half million people live here. the 6-person family is paying 200 dollars a month to live in this windowless hole without any bath. it's in a palestinian neighborhood where they don't feel safe. >> rents are very high here. everyone knows that the palestinians take advantage of us even though they're refugees themselves. >> atieh has found work as a baker, but the childldren can'to to school. they want to build a future in europe, but not risk their lives crossing the mediterranean. a lebanese initiative connects the muslim family -- they declare e the family to be especially in need of asylum which opens the way for legal immigration. >> i want to go to school there and learn something. >> they have left their syrian homeland behind. they don't even think they would be allowed to return there. to ensure a future for their children, they feel like they have to go to italy. >> i don't know anything about italy but i know europeans live in dignity. our children would be safe.

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today is wednesday. >> are you going today. >> it's in beirut. >> when can you go. >> i've seen the filmomorrow 7 p.m. d.c. area. >> d.c. area tomorrow. >> if you live in the united states you're totally fine. >> totally fine no problem. >> you can go to all women's showings or co-ed showings tomorrow night, 7:00. >> that's past my bedtime i heard what it cost. >> 18. >> you said 20.12. >> i'll give you a two dollar discount. >> wind north, northwest and we've got problems with fog across the area. fog is first thing you do this morning. and then cloud cover. i think we'll get partly sunny for a time here late morning early afternoon and then be on the lookout for scattered thunderstorms. mid to late afternoon. they'll get here yesterday probably 3, 4, 5:00 moving in north and west and much like yesterday they'll be hit and miss. not everybody will get them. but potential is there that there could be a strong storm or two. be on the lookout for those later today. 83 daytime high. sunny and gorgeous. drying it out. 80. weekend looks word we use unsettled that's code for we got rain. best

for more i am joined by our correspondent joining us live from beirut. how significant is the fall of this city, which has been under isis control for sometime. this is not so far from the isis capital kapka. >> it is strategic because it is about 40 kilometers away from raca. you are seeing a shrinking of area of control that isis controls. secondly, that town is very important because it was mouth of the euphrates river. it controlled sources of water for sir in general. for isis it was strategic. it is being attacked inside mosul and being pushed towards the west and towards sir, and attacked on the east. but at the same time we can't forget the fact that what this battle is not going to be anywhere near over because you have to deal with them. what we have seen is the withdrawl of fighters from mosul and to those two main cities. that is where the biggest battles will be. >> we have seen turkey's reaction to washington's decision to arm the kurdish fighters. the fight is far from open. what happens now? >> the u.s. has said they are going to be incre

i've been in military for 21 years served in vietnam and beirut. my question is, the clinics they are not upe veterans to par. a number one is, every time you to get an x-ray, they got to send you 20 or 30 miles to get an x-ray. number two is, when you put in the doctors to fill them out and you send them to the main regional office to days,led, 90 days to 100 forever. guest: these are common problems the show today. you happen to go 20 or 30 miles when there'sare probably private care much cloys closer. need to choice and you have the ability to choose. not easy conflicts to be part of. particularly -- you served your country in very tough circumstances. right to useve the your benefits that you earned. longe not having to drive distances to access the care. if you like your v.a. provider, you ultimately think it's worth driving that far to access care, you should have the ability to do that. access case, you prefer to private provider that's closer. i'm sure there are many that are closer than 20 or 30 miles. timeslast july military wrote about a

, they feel iran has influence or control of several —— several middle east capitals, baghdad and beirutand they are trying to push back against that. they very much want us support in combating that with maritime security, missile defence, anti—high altitude air defence, anti—high altitude air defence and so on. all this is part ofa defence and so on. all this is part of a huge $100 billion plus arms deal or deals that will probably be signed on the back of this trip. two members of the labour shadow cabinet have had a public disagreement over the party's policy on renewing the trident nuclear weapons system. the shadow foreign secretary, emily thornberry, suggested the outcome of a defence review — promised in the party's manifesto — could result in support for trident being dropped. but labour's shadow defence secretary, nia griffith, told the bbc‘s newsnight programme that her colleague was wrong. meanwhile, the chief secretary to the treasury, david gauke, has insisted the conservatives are right not to set a timetable for achieving their ambition of reducing annual net migration to

now, they feel iran has influence or control of several middle east capitals, baghdad and beirut andd they are trying to push back against that. they very much want us support in combating that with maritime security, missile defence, anti—high altitude air defence and so on. all this is part of a huge $100 billion plus arms deal or deals that will probably be signed on the back of this trip. some live pictures now from riyadh. president trump is touring around the royal palace before sitting down to meetings. real red carpet treatment. we can probably hear the pipes in the background. a real saudi welcome for a man who, as frank was saying, is rather more respected in riyadh than his predecessor was. mr trump and his wife are being treated very much as revered visitors. remember that he frequently upset the saudis, partly because of his tilt towards iran and to bring iran back from the cold, along with his attitudes to some of the changes he believed were necessary in the middle east. his push on human rights, for example. there will be a lot less talk about human rights on this vis

in beirut and lebanon festivities are underway.st from dusk to dawn each day and it ends on june 24. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. david: continuing with west today's top stories, the g-7 meeting underway. covering a wide range of hot button topics. let me start with you. going into the summit, there was a lot of speculation that intelligence sharing would be a big issue in light of what happened in the oval office, the president sharing sensitive and bi information. life as taken another the tr iunfolded. where do things stand after these nine days? >> trump when he was in his -- in israel mentioned at the end of a press meeting that i never said anything about israel providing some intelligence and may have provided to the russians. there is a lot of questions leaks coming out of the u.s. and whether other nations can comfortably share all of their intelligence with the u.s. at this point. when trump left there was a firestorm about th

or iran or el salvador, beirut or persian gulf as we thought about what we will say when we're given the chance to speak. if our words will be worth each one second of their life. i wish we could think about the delta operators or army rangers or black hawk pilots who gave it all in the dusty sands of somolaia. they were devoted to their duty and their duty was to their brother and their country. or those who fought and died in bosnia and kosovo and fought in places we may never know because of threats to us that we never knew existed. we need to ask if they would give the last beat of their heart for the way in which we legislate our country. most personally for me, i would think deeply on the thousands of soldiers, sailors, marines airmen, coast guards men who defended this country with the last beat of their heart in a place like iraq or afghanistan or syria. would they be proud. these were the men and women i served alongside. men and women who served selflessly and repeatedly year after year knowing full well the hazards of their profession. i couldn't be more proud than to have

and speaking of the country that our ancestors came from, you know in downtown beirut, in solidare, without glasses, you can see a jewish temple, a shia mosque, a sunni mosque, an orthodox church and a roman catholic church, you can see them all, and you can walk to them in the square, and they're all ancient because our people have lived together, and it's that welcoming they think president trump showed so well in saudi arabia that we can do it again. judge jeanine: and you know what? i think that the middle east is now a believer. the president was very clear, iran is the enemy, and iran, of course, the historic enemy of saudi arabia. have we taken sides, congressman? >> you know, in 1979, sides were taken, we're only now owning up to it. the reality is that the extremist direction of wahhabiism and the growth of al qaeda and isis had much to do with the shia and sunni responding. the reality is unchecked since 1979 is part of the reason we're here, and that's what we've got to realize is, that islam will heal itself when islamic leaders part of the process. that's what the president wen

darpa openoffice is then panama, beirut, they were going to open up in north africa. north africa. at one point a proposal to counterinsurgency experiment inn the united states. certainly global in its ambition. looking at the legacy of, you also have to take count of failures. we have a microphone. >> yes, what is the current budget of darpa? how many employees does it have and where our headquarters? i'll start with that. >> darpa today has budgeted about 3 billion. it goes up and down. usually tied to the overall defense budget. the overall defense budget over the past 15 years has been going up and up. it's about $3 billion a year. you could say that's only 10% of the nasa budget. but it's all discretionary. so now it has to sell and move darpa around an agile manner. it has about 140 program managers. one of the other man's but i don't fully talk about so much with the bureaucratic nitty-gritty that i love but i don't know how much other people care. these employees are all temporary. the technical personnel come in for of two to five years, but the dirty secret of darpa is th

you're based in beirut, but you spent a lot of time in turkey, syria, iraq and elsewhere. how is the world viewing what's going on in washington right now? >> i think if you view foreign policy it's prerhaps the one ara in which donald trump has a series of clever experts to advise him, in mcmaster, jim mattis as well, he hasn't made claring mistakes, but he seems to dip into foreign policy. when something is going well -- here you've seen him with one of the most important characters he has to deal with in the closing chapter. he said nobody tougher against isis than he would be. president erdogan has said quite clearly that he has a problem with the current u.s. strategy to defeat sis because they're trying to encircle raqqa, but also some syrian rebels. those syrian kurds turkey considers to be allied with a group inside turkey and they have a problem with that from the beginning. the clear agenda in the background we didn't hear much about, willing president erdogan trying to persuade donald trump to undo over a year of military planning. one gift he gave to president

beirut, syria and elsewhere. i have still to hear convincing evidence to suggest that u.k.ombing isis targets in syria is likely to increase our security here in britain or help bring about lasting these. >> this is the toughest call i think i have ever had to make, maybe ever and certainly in this house. what pushes me in the direction of voting for action is, above all things, the united nations resolution 2249, which calls for us to eradicate this safe havens that isis has, that daesh has in syria. keith: the closing words in favor of military action, in open defiance of jeremy corbyn, came to be seen as a vintage comments performance. >> we have always been defined by our internationalism. we believe we have a responsibility, one to another. we never have and we never should walk by on the other side of the road. and we are here faced by fascists, not just their calculated brutality, but there belief that they are superior to every single one of us in this chamber tonight, and all of the people we represent. they hold us in contempt. they hold our values in contempt. th

speaker, is a road from beirut to tehran in iran. a permanent iranian foothold right in the middle east. a permanent iranian foothold right on israel's border. a permanent iranian foothold to do mischief and the usual nefarious things the iranian government does. this crisis has been burning out of control for six long years. i was an early vocal supporter, as i mentioned before, involving the moderate syrian opposition. i think we should have done much more to push assad out of power and help the syrian people chart the course for their country's future. when we didn't, i spoke out. and since then, assad has plowed ahead with his campaign of carnage. the few times he appeared to be taking on water, he was given a life line by his devoted enablers, russia and iran. through his terrorist proxy, hezbollah. every time assad seemed to be losing, he was given a life line. as we just mentioned, as i just mentioned, by hezbollah, also given a life line by the russians who came in. so while it was suspected in the highest anals of washington

corridors that they offer to selected migrants that are camping out in place like leban lebanon, beirut, mainly syrian refugees. what they do primarily is they select families who are in particular need to get out of that camp and find a new life. it's not just christians. they also select muslim families. and what they do, they offer them safe passage into europe, into italy. they put them on a plane, take them here, and offer them a hou house, italian lessons and perhaps they help them find a job and integrate into society. and that's very much appreciated by francis because he's been a very outspoken supporter of the need of helping migrants and refugees to the point that pope francis a couple of years ago he traveled to the island of -- the greek island of lesbos. and he set the example. it wasn't expected. het took several families and he flew them back on his plane back to rome and he offered them assistance by the vatican. and one family, one syrian family, still lives within vatican walls. these are all the things that could have been discussed in those 28 minutes with president

we don't know whether someone in isis got whacked the next day in beirut because of what trump said.>> so, some of mcmaster's defenders have said to me, actually a former president said to me, he's exceptional, he's a good guy. and i said, is he the right person for this job? and he said, he respects the chain of command and in the moment i thought that was another explanation for why he was good for the job, but i wonder if in hindsight that makes it impossible for him to defy the person who sits at the top of the chain of command. >> the job of an officer is not to salute smartly and move out. you don't blindly follow orders. yes, you respect the chain of command, but you also have an oath of office that you have sworn. h.r. mcmaster's duty is not to this president. we are not a government of men. we are a government of laws. mcmaster's job is to protect the country, not to protect the president. i think he's confused those two things just as the generals in the vietnam war confused them and he wrote about that. >> you've also written a stunning book, and i would like to give you a

and the senior public fellow for international affairs at american university in beirut.ffairs correspondent at politico. do you feel you have a good sense of how this may turn out, and what is at stake for the united states here? >> how this turns out is going to entirely depend on voter turnout. four years ago, president rouhani had 76.2% voter turnout. if the trends continue, it is going to require an achievement on the part of iran's hard liners that they've never accomplished before in the history of the islamic republican. they've never gotten that many votes. i think voter turnout and number of votes is going to be the most important thing to pay attention to. as it pertains to the united states, president rouhani has demonstrated his willingness to reach out to the world in an effort to solve problems through diplomacy. a second term will be some form of ctinuation of that. should the hard liner win, we can harken back to the former presidency. >> as we've been talking about all day, president trump takes off later for his first foreign trip starting in saudi arab

then, thanks very much, benjones reporting from beirut this morning., it was a good debate because it had a lot of substance around some of the big issues but the fact that theresa may and jeremy corbyn weren‘t there at being changed the dynamic of the debate. for both theresa and jeremy it says two things, that they are not confident in the case they are putting forward, not enough to have it scrutinised, also it shows some contemptible voters because i believe all leaders in a campaign should be prepared to put their case to the public and take their case to the public and take the hard questions. one of the comments you made about theresa may last night was that she wants to crush the opposition, she wants a free hand. is it the pot calling the kettle black? that is exactly what you want in scotland, isn‘t it? kettle black? that is exactly what you want in scotland, isn't it? no, it is not, the snp does not have a majority, it is a proportional government, the tories last year ran a campaign based on needing a strong opposition. theresa may called t