at the university of tehran also in beirut we have martin j. he is a freelance broadcast journalist an honorable we cross to he will he's an analyst and commentator on iraq and kurdistan region across the uk rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate mohamed let me go to you first in beirut i said in my introduction the the issue of kurdish independence is very vexing and even dangerous we have a lot of countries in the neighborhood that are a staunch ally against the idea but then again the kurds by any definition of self-determination probably should get their own state here this is being stuck between a rock and a hard place go ahead mohammed in me in beirut. i think a key point that has to be remembered is that the current iraqi constitution was written. with the cooperation of the different groups in iraq including the current presidential leadership in a real and constitution accept a federal iraq and the leadership that these people right now have in be in is based on that constitution they support

reports from beirut . these are the mothers wives and daughters of the twenty one men sentenced by the military tribunals they're protesting against what they say were corrupt court proceedings saying their loved ones didn't receive a fair trial one would we say that all our demands in court have been legal and we're sorry that the court has rejected them after two your trial and hours of deliberations the judges presiding over the case sentence ahead of this year and seven others to death the other thirteen were given lengthy prison sentences some in absentia alice here is described by the government as a sunni militant cleric formally trained to lead two days of confrontations which forty fighters loyal to him eight hundred soldiers and two civilians were killed known as the battle of side on after the southern lebanese town where it happened it was one of the earliest and bloodiest spillovers of the civil war in syria into lebanon. not not if we know that group were involved in the hall and i never said

. >> educated in beirut, he moves to the united states in 1990. he's a senior fellow for democracy and author of future jihad. >> in old centuries, when there was an islamic state, someone like osama bin laden declaring jihad on their own would be in jail. you can't do that. now that there is no islamic state and no empire, osama bin laden and his allies are projecting themselves as a new interest and new killer. >> militant jihadis want to drive infidels, anyone out of the lands where islam reigns for centuries. >>. >> the real objective of the jihadist is to take back of planet earth and reestablish it. >> they are being invaded and occupied by nonmilitants. when they talk about islam, they mean all the lands that have been a part of islam. >> the professor of near eastern studies at the university and one of the world's foremost little east scholars. >> it is the duty of every able-bodies male to participate. it is collective. it is an obligation. >> today's leaders, osama bin laden, hezbollah shakes and an iranian president called themselves j

well apologies for that we seem to have lost our line to the lebanese capital beirut we might try to go back to india as a little bit later in the program turkey has threatened to impose crippling restrictions on oil trading with iraqi kurds after they backed secession from baghdad the iraqi parliament is also urging the government to send troops to take control of oil fields held by kurdish forces kurdish officials though say they're not worried that they can withstand an economic blockade because they are self-sufficient holder abdul hamid reports from just outside erbil. coming from iran and turkey. they consider this referendum a threat to their own national security you have to bear in mind that they have a sizeable kurdish nation and those two countries while the referendum was happening here they were sort of celebration even messages of support from those kurdish populations whether from iran or from. this referendum actually on the square of the celebrations and night of the referendum itself. kurds who had crossed the border where to come here not to vote but to be part of

beirut a u.k. based human rights organization is calling on egypt to provide necessary medical treatment for detained al jazeera journalist mark went to say he's been in prison for almost nine months accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos something he and al jazeera strongly deny he needs to be transferred for specialized treatment on his broken arm. now schoolchildren in south africa using their mobile phones to court attacks in class by some teachers the video shared on social media are increasing pressure on government leaders to improve student safety as tanya page reports from johannesburg. a teacher has found lashing out at a student at face secondary school and cousin in a town. named teacher has been suspended and a space in criminal charges pending an investigation for allegedly turning or not one but two teenage girls the girls who can't be named to protect their identity of both being offered counseling by the department of education mobile phone video first shown on social m

s al-jazeera beirut south korea is marking it's sixty ninth day with a show of military might some of the strategic weapons are put on display including ballistic missiles tensions have been high on the korean peninsula for months as north korea ramps up tests of missiles and nuclear weapons are going to. be i would you know our military possesses defense capabilities capable of overwhelming north korea based on the strong so career u.s. combined defense posture to government has been tightening military readiness and also making efforts to manage the situation in a stable manner so that escalating tensions would not lead to military confrontations kathy novak has more from salt. this is a commemoration all of south korean troops it happens every year it marks the day that south koreans broke through the border with north korea in one hundred fifty during the korean war but of course the timing this year is significant and it's an opportunity for the south korean military to send messages to the north it's taking place for the first time in a very important strategic naval base that i

s al-jazeera beirut. the u.n. security council has been told syrian civilians were killed last week when russian led airstrikes attack hospitals russian leaders say only eisel fighters are being targeted at the massacre to james bays. after more than six years of bloodshed the un security council has heard about so many atrocities in syria the latest attacks bombardment of civilians including the targeting of hospitals acts of escalation by the syrian government and its russian allies in what's supposed to be a deescalation zone british and french diplomats have described it as an acceptable and the palling yet the words of the un's own special envoy were markedly less harsh critic first time things april some errors today some allegedly hitting civilians and theory than infrastructure including health facilities human rights groups say there's nothing a legit about it i think there should always be talk about what happens after the conflict ends but it's not ending right now what we saw last week as i said was di

jamal wakim he's a professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut welcome back. these attacks are being investigated what response from washington do you expect if any to this. well i believe that. complete denial it will deny any responsibility for the action. but i believe that we will see more. civilians killed by u.s. troops. in syria or iraq especially at the time when the americans had to intervene directly because they could no longer lie on their proxies in the region to be successes achieved by the city an army and their allies so that's why i believe that we will see more and more victims by the us. in syria civilian casualties are a sad fact of any conflict like this is it ever possible to avoid the metol that pretty. well of course in such conflicts it's. hard to avoid civilian casualties but at the same time when the whole american involvement in syria is illegitimate it's illegal because it was not sanctioned by the syrian government the way it was for the russian involvement in syria to counter terrorism so in this case the whole of a

professor at the university of tehran also in beirut we have martin j. he is a freelance broadcast journalist and in erbil we crossed he's an analyst.

one of those spokes was in beirut, lebanon. long history of arms trafficking in poland with monzer al-kassar. samir needed to penetrate his inner circle by establishing a relationship with tarek al ghazi and eventually set up a meeting with monzer al-kassar. >> at this point i'd been working with samir for a lot of years. i said do you understand if you decide to do this your life will be changed forever? you'll never be the same. he said i'll do it. no. i made him sleep on it. go, come back tomorrow. let's talk tomorrow. kassar wouldn't take it lightly, and we're not in the business of getting anybody hurt. >> so in beirut, lebanon our confidential source samir was able to meet tarek al ghazi, develop a relationship over the course of approximately one year, he was able to gain al ghazi's trust and eventually samir asked that million-dollar question, which is, can you get a weapons deal with monzer monzer al kassar for me? criminals are always cautious was the d.e.a. has built a large human intelligence network. so it was extr

now to jamal wakim professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut and it's always a pleasure to have you on the show could these be retaliatory attacks from myself for losses we've seen losses in mosul and far for instance recently. well i believe now that i've heard from most editors that it's controlled in the past few years whether in iraq and syria is using a new tactic which is attacking civilians and habits of cities. by the lone wolves where dormant until recently and were activated just to keep violence. whether in iraq or in syria and we might even have attacks and lebanon and other countries so the whole region is still under threat of what starts by isis but this time using the new method which is to attack civilians bombs will be. cars etc another disturbing staff here if you want to put it like sad for iraqi authorities is that it happened today the attacks in this size of iraq previously i feel were present in the north is this perhaps a signal that their forces are spreading as you say lone wolfs are pitting allied. well i believe tha

syria thirty eight next to baghdad but harder than that in kuwait the still the high twenty's in beirut the chance a few showers now developing in the east and that is a greater chance that it was so has been the horror of the last week so you might get something interesting in the sky if you're looking out of the net from beirut further south humidity study dropping temperatures slowly dropping from the gulf states still hovering around the high thirty's or right about the forty mark much the same in the dry heat in mecca and you see this comes of cloud here in the mountains of western saudi or in yemen still suggesting a shower or two is possible not very likely but just about possible course the sun stay here all day showers south through africa and i was tends to induce a change in the weather type in south africa as well got a lot of rain in the eastern cape race recently but it's now dissolved into vague showers somewhere. plus there was a sort of you know the way to get to the over your wall and then your father. was the government's which was. true. you can't really photos of th

and us discuss this with that beirut based journalist and middle east experts martin jay mr jay thank you for joining us on the program this morning now what would the liberation of d.n.a. results mean for the syria conflict as a whole. or think it's an exciting poignant moment a real turning point in what we've we've known until this point in the last six years ago as the syrian war think come once the city is taken and the surrounding region is flushed out of almost as far as we can start to really talk about the end of the war and a new chapter for possibly restoring peace in the country do you think that we might expect some kind of retaliation from my study if it loses more ground. what is to. be relisted possible in syria but i think goal certainly be. like an emotional ghastly. campaign of revenge possibly happening around the world i mean we're going to sort of the soft spots where they can operate where they have sleeper cells in europe or america and so. i think we've lost the connection oh no go ahead i can still hear you. mr gerry. ok we seem to have lost the connection wi

but let's discuss the discuss this now with beirut based journalist martin j. martin welcome back to the program and we've been here before haven't we the the reasons are often and i'm dumping ahead here maybe i still uses civilians as human shields that it's a sad fact of conflict that there are civilian casualties how robust of those reasons and or excuses now given how long this has gone on for. well they're incredibly convenient although for this new trump administration how is this extraordinary a malevolent attitude towards human rights and international rules i don't think they stand up for it i just think they serve the purposes of the short of these of this bombing campaign in syria which is you know you've got a question as the report does. the quality the quantity i should say the to give me the quality of the intelligence which has come through which is sketchy at best and i think completely missing that worse i mean a school which apparently was being used as a weapons facility which is very hard to prove disprove isn't it. turns out it was actuall

let me tell you first where we are we're at a community center and what is how mood in beirut is here in lebanon behind me you're seeing children these are syrian refugee children who even during their summer are actually continuing to learn in these programs that are run by n.g.o.s and supported by you in h.c.r. now in lebanon there are over one million syrian refugees at least five hundred thousand of that number are children in the past couple of years the enrollment rates have gone up so this past year the enrollment rate for syrian refugee children is right around one hundred ninety five thousand the year before that it was right around one hundred fifty five thousand still it's not nearly where it should be so joining us to talk about the dire consequences when it comes to education refugee children here in lebanon this is scott craig he's the spokesperson for you in h.c.r. here in lebanon scott i want to ask you first about the report that was released today about how dire the situation remains for refugee children throughout the world. who have been first of all for having mad

youth attend college or university compared to thirty six percent youth globally mohammed jump from beirut. these syrian refugee children you see here at this volunteer community center in borders i'm not in beirut lebanon they're some of the lucky syrian refugee children because not only are they enrolled in schools but they have programs like this during their summer holidays in which they can continue to learn in lebanon of course there are over one million syrian refugees at least five hundred thousand of that number comprise of syrian refugee children now in the past couple of years the numbers of the kids that have enrolled in schools it actually has gone up two years ago it was around one hundred fifty five thousand in the last year it's increased one hundred ninety five thousand but that's still nowhere near where groups like u.n.h.c.r. and other aid agencies would like it to be in order to talk more about this i want to bring in our guest scott craig he's a spokesperson for you and h.c.r. here in lebanon that this is actually a good place to be to actually talk about this so there

to retake the city of raka and the surrounding areas a fight which is still ongoing in al-jazeera beirut wilbur's bosses apologized for past mistakes as the firm's for fights a decision by london not to renew the taxi service license chief executive. promised changes after persons capital transport regulated deemed unfit to run writing in an open letter he said while obama has revolutionized the way people move in cities around the world it's equally true that we've got things wrong along the way on behalf of everyone that globally i apologize for the mistakes we've made as german politicians analyze the results of sunday's election many are wondering how a far right groups surged into third place german chancellor angela merkel won her fourth term but the anti immigrant a.f.d. party seized one million votes from her conservatives and then barbara visited the eastern city of dresden to find out. from the beginning he's just twenty five but he's already risen up the party structure julian visa and joined the f.t. or alternative to germany when it started four years ago now it's grown to b

beirut the children's charity says the british weapons industry has sold eight billion dollars worth of arms to saudi arabia during two and a half years of war in yemen that is much higher than previous estimates but then watch our organization says the british government minimal tax from the arms sales and in fact spends more than it earns in tax on humanitarian aid in yemen so the whole look the devastating impact the war is having especially on children. since saudi arabia first began bombing yemen in two thousand and fifteen one point one million children have been displaced by the fighting their homes and schools destroyed more than thirteen hundred have been killed mostly by weapons sold to saudi arabia by the united kingdom that's despite the u.k. arms sales rules which say that if there is clear risk that weapons might be used in violation of international humanitarian law well then they should not be supplied warchild says the sales are not only unethical but also a false economy the argument for in favor of a trade with the arabia that it's very important to the u.k. econom

our correspondent in beirut, having been reporting for us in raqqa.t labour is planning for a possible collapse in the value of the pound and a flight of investors' capital, if it wins the next election. he was responding to remarks made last night by his shadow chancellorjohn mcdonnell, who said that labour was engaging in 'war games—type scenario planning', if the financial markets reacted badly to policies such as renationalisation and tax changes. mr corbyn was speaking to our political editor laura kuenssberg. this is the government in waiting, 0k? he loves them, and they love him. chanting: "0h, jeremy corbyn!" they want radical, and will follow him to get there. sometimes this week it feels like they go to the end of the earth. but what would it take for the whole country to choose jeremy corbyn as our prime minister? would he be more radical, or less? what do you think it is that will lead you to victory? is it to be more radical, or to dig into the manifesto you put forward in june? i think essentially our manifesto sets out the parameters of

to a certain extent into about after going into hiding a less year was arrested two years later at beirut airport while trying to board a flight to cairo then there was little doubt he faced serious charges but his trial in a military court along with thirty others has been repeated be delayed and human rights groups have questioned how some of the evidence was obtained despite the doubts a list here is expected to be sentenced to death for his role in the battle but whether he's hanged is unclear. as you know lebanon has been carried out how little punishment two thousand and four and it that is he see what these judges in this military courts to rule as their sentencing for all of us here he will need to go to the president in order to get his signature to sign up what essentially will be that execution order but many believe that seven forty seven a err on the side of caution and may offer her a life sentence as it were we are hearing that many of the photos you see again many of these women family members of his co excuse for hearing that those people who have been tried alongside of

at from beirut. humidity study dropping temperatures slowly dropping from the gulf states still hovering around the high thirty's or right about the forty mark much the same in the dry heat in mecca and. in the mountains of western saudi or in yemen still suggesting. is possible not very likely but just about possible. showers through africa and i was ten change in the weather type in south africa as well got a lot of rain in the eastern cape race recently but it's now dissolved into showers somewhere. for the nomadic tribe. never be able to. follow the mongolian herdsmen on a treacherous migration. as they strive to preserve their traditional way of life. because of. mongolia at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back to other top stories here now u.n. secretary general. says the ranger crisis is the world's fastest developing refugee emergency more than half a million ranger have fled to bangladesh since fighting began in may and stayed last month. russia and turkey say they'll work more closely to e

s al-jazeera beirut. two teenagers have been charged with murder over a fire at an islamic boarding school in malaysia the two boys are minors will not face the death penalty twenty one students and two teachers died in the blaze the fire blocked the only exit to the dormitory and the windows were barred police say this suspect sort revenge after being teased by some of the students a few days before the fire. here's government to send navy ships to puerto rico to help with the growing humanitarian crisis caused by hurricane maria more than a week on the u.s. territory is still without power food and water supplies are also running low reservoir reports from san juan. even then cool is still trying to recover her belongings from the damages caused by hurricane my dear she lives in san juan puerto rico's capital because having only see her i didn't want to leave my house when the hurricane came i stayed inside with my two sons and tried to protect the little we had just like in the rest of the capital in t

lebanese soldiers died along with forty of his supporters and two civilians well from his time in beirut. from the outset of all its years rusty prosecution has been pushing for the death penalty however the death penalty has not been carried out here in lebanon in two thousand and four and perhaps more importantly for such a sentence to be handed down and to be carried out it would require the signature of the president michel on to endorse this sentence seems so many believe that there is some suggestion that the courts could err on the side of caution and come down with a verdict or a sentencing if you will of life in prison whatever the case as we've been saying these people here who have come here in support of those who are being tried are saying that they have no faith in this force and that they don't believe that the trial has been fair. it was one of the earliest bloodiest spillovers into lebanon from the civil war in syria named after the town in southern lebanon where it happened the battle of signed on between the lebanese army and supporters of ahmed a seer lasted for two d

of people during the violence in the city of sidon in two thousand and thirteen and more now from beirut. these are the mothers wives and daughters of the twenty one men sentenced by the military tribunals they're protesting against what they say were corrupt court proceedings saying their loved ones didn't receive a fair trial one would we say that all our demands in court have been legal and we're sorry that the court has rejected them after two your trial and hours of deliberations the judge is presiding over the case sentence as. this year and seven others to death the other thirteen were given lengthy prison sentences some in absentia al a series described by the government as a sunni militant cleric formally trained to lead to days of confrontations in which forty fighters loyal to him eight hundred soldiers and two civilians were killed known as the battle of signed on after the southern lebanese town where it happened it was one of the earliest and bloodiest spillovers of the civil war in syria into lebanon. not not if we know that group were involved in the hall and they never s

embassy in beirut in 1983. 63 americans killed. then came the bombing of the marine barracks, 241 americans killed. then the kidnapping and murder williamtation chief buckley. in 1985, a twa airplane was hijacked. the body of a u.s. navy diver was dumped on the runway at the beirut airport. in 1988, u.s. marine colonel higgins, a u.n. peacekeeper in south lebanon, was kidnapped and executed. under the irgc's direction, hezbollah expanded its legal reach to europe, africa, asia and the americas. in search of victims to kill. jewish community center in windows i raise was wased -- and buenos aires bombed. in1996, towers were bombed saudi arabia, 19 u.s. airmen killed. the number one killer of u.s. troops was iud's . , theeadly -- ied's deadliest of which are surprised the irgc.ere from in 2005, lebanese prime minister was assassinated. in 2011, the u.s. disrupted a plot to bomb an american restaurant less than two miles from here. the target was a saudi ambassador. today, hezbollah is doing the iranian regime's dirty work, supporting

from beirut. when acclaimed film directors do it again. was ordered to appear before a military tribunal in lebanon it was for him a severe shock said i could see him out of his latest film the insult a courtroom drama filmed in lebanon that explores simmering tensions throughout lebanese society hasn't just garnered raves it has also been selected by lebanon's ministry of culture as its official entry for this year's best foreign language film oscar race was so hard that only i was so upset i was so humiliated not by the authorities that have been his authority whether yesterday at the checkpoint or whether today in court there were fantastic they behaved in a very calm way very suspect for way i felt humiliated by those who are trying to stop the from makers from doing his work i want to do it a dual lebanese french citizen it says he was detained due to a complaint being launched against him for filming part of his previous film two thousand and twelve the attack in israel lebanon bars its citizens from travel to israel so when news eme

run for over two years in fact he was only taken into custody when he was at the airport here in beirut in disguise trying to travel on a forged documents when he was taken into custody since then the trial has faced many delays and many had feared certainly many of the family members of those soldiers and indeed civilians who'd been killed in that fighting had feared that we may never get to a point where we see a sentencing but here we are the sentencing has come down but earlier today very quickly come on i was at the courthouse and there were dozens and dozens of supporters here and perhaps more specifically his kohak use their family members wives daughters and the like they are saying that this trial in their words is a sham that it is something that has been orchestrated again in their words by iran and they don't by this verdict a verdict which we must point out or rather sentencing which we must point out that can be appealed there is still the appeal process so this case still ongoing thank you for that update. let's get to a few of your comments contact details are going to c

embassy in beirut in 1983. 63 americans killed. then came the bombing of the marine barracks, 241 americans killed. then the kidnapping and murder of c.i.a. station chief william buckley. in 1985, a t.w.a. airplane was high jacked. the body of a u.s. navy diver was dumped on the runway at the beirut airport. in 1988 u.s. marine colonel, robert higgins, a u.n. peacekeeper in south lebanon, was kidnapped and executed. under the irgc's direction, hezbollah then expanded its lethal reach to europe, africa, asia, and the americas in search of victims to kill. in 1994, a jewish community center was bombed, 85 killed. in 1996, a bomb blue up khobar towers in saudi arabia. 19 u.s. airmen killed. throughout the iraq war, the number one killer of u.s. troops was improvised explosive devices or i.e.d.'s, the deadliest of which were supplied by the irgc. thousands of american men and women were wounded or killed. in 2005, lebanese prime minister was assassinated. in 2011, the u.s. disrupted an irgc plot to bomb an american restaurant less than

. >> so samir met with monzer and tarek in beirut, lebanon.e needed samir to develop sufficient trust with monzer in order to convince him to meet our sources. >> going into a situation with any source it's a very dangerous activity for them. >> al kassar believed the sources were legitimate bad guys that were looking to do a legitimate transaction for weapons. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> in any first meeting that takes place between bad guy and bad guy there's always a testing. it's to know how knowledgeable the person is about what they're doing, whether it's to find out are they working for the government or two, do they really know what they're doing and how can i get one over on them? [ speaking foreign language ]. >> once samir had established his credentials with monzer in beirut, monzer invited luis and carlos to his residence in marbella, spain. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> the dicey part came is when he actually took copies of the passports. they had to use their real identity. couldn't afford for them to come into spain w

era of what i did like leaving amman and going to work and went to be rude and everyone was off to beirut because that's where the revolution from around the world and i want to cairo because nasir was there and the anti- vietnam war and all of these events affected me so i look at my life and every days of the life politically or socially and i talk about the stories together and give a picture about what life looks like for a young woman growing up between damascus and amman, and cairo and what does life look like? it's something very different from what you see. i hope that those come to understand that part of comes from a different perspective. there is a question here. >> as you look back and reflect on growing up with your mom and dad, it was not traditional compared to what i grew up with. how do you see? were you thankful for and what did you get out of as you look back on your youth? do you wish it would've done things differently? >> if i died to be born again i would do everything i have the same parents, to be honest with you. i know you said it's different and it was rough a

on this are linked to al qaeda after going into hiding this year was arrested two years later at beirut airport while trying to board a flight to cairo and for documents then there was little doubt he'd faced serious charges but his trial in a military court had been repeatedly delayed and human rights groups have questioned how some of the evidence was obtained despite this the prosecution had been demanding death sentence since the start of the trial. oh this year's execution is far from certain as well as having the right to appeal within fifteen days under lebanese law it requires the signature of the president in order for an execution order to be carried out given capital punishment hasn't taken place in lebanon since two thousand and four president michel aoun may struggle to find the political support he needs in order to carry out such a punishment. al-jazeera favors will pull salim is a senior vice president for policy and research at the middle east institute he joins us live now from washington d.c. sir thank you for joining us here on al-jazeera at the best of times lebanes

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we need to find a resolution based on the arab peace initiative adopted in two thousand and two in beirut. we need to find a way to out of these dead and so dear abby and russia. there will be attempts to find ways. to reinvigorate this process it is the oldest conflict in the region. and i'm also talking about the problem of the status of jerusalem. so we need to find a solution and we hope that the efforts undertaken by the new american administration and the international community to have some progress will be fruitful think you. should call us a newspaper my question is for the russian foreign minister. was the objective for of creating deescalation zones and who is working there exactly and the question of to the saudi arabian for a lister. failed to implement the agreement of twenty thirty twenty forty even the decisions made at the conference. are there commitment. qatar has to fulfill all. get out of this crisis. the purpose of setting up just collations. to end violence we don't have any intention to perpetuate. we don't want to create any and clive's a long period of time in sy

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eastern side of the mediterranean also looking dry and sunny with twenty seven years of my swim in beirut the arabian peninsula or freddie started we've got fine conditions from mecca medina temperatures in the low forty's on the other side of the plane chilly temperatures in the upper thirty's but the humidity values here of course a lot higher no change in temperature as we head through into the start of the working week into southern portions of africa we've got fine weather for the most part may just be the odd shower working is what a way along the east coast of south africa and into mozambique cool for durban there in one thousand johannesburg stand up at twenty eight degrees celsius we're heading on through into sunday it's fine across all the region thirty four the high wind took in namibia central parts of africa a lot of showers all the way from south sudan through towards cameroon some showers further south in japan and the circulation of low pressure in parts of west africa will give some heavy showers for guinea guinea-bissau also some big downpours emerge over here in liberi

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airport and was now appear at a military tribunal on monday june reports from beirut. when acclaimed film directors iyad do it he was ordered to appear before a military tribunal in lebanon it was for him a severe shock said i could see him out of his latest film the insult a courtroom drama filmed in lebanon that explores simmering tensions throughout lebanese society hasn't just garnered raves it has also been selected by lebanon's ministry of culture as its official entry for this year's best foreign language film oscar race. i was so upset i was so humiliated not by the authorities that have been his authority whether yesterday at the checkpoint or whether today in court there were fantastic they behaved in a very calm way very suspect for way i felt humiliated by those who are trying to stop the from make his from doing his work. doing a dual lebanese french citizen he says he was detained due to a complaint being lodged against him for filming part of his previous film two thousand and twelve the attack in israel. lebanon bars its citizens from travel to israel s

beirut. syrians witnessed some of the most intensive airstrikes by governments and russian warplanes for several weeks from tuesday morning three hospitals and truth schools were plumbed north of aleppo city as regime forces inflicted more death and destruction and their bid to defeat opponents of president bashar assad. and i'm sure we thought there's nothing we were working and heard of the strike but we didn't think that it was targeting us. earlier rebel fighters made a push from the leap towards the northern countryside of aleppo province in a bid to take back from government forces who had recaptured it in the past few months this escalation in fighting comes just days after the latest round of talks in stan's capital istana where russian iranian and turkish negotiators continue to push for what they've described as the escalation zones across syria while the northern end up probably isn't included in your standard deal travel on apartments or civilian areas suggests this seven year lon

solitary confinement for the past two years he's likely to get the death penalty and reports from beirut. it was one of the earliest bloodiest spillovers into lebanon from the civil war in syria named after the town in southern lebanon where it happened the battle of signed on between the lebanese army and supporters of a seer lasted for two days described by the government as a sunni militant cleric a list here led the confrontations in which forty fighters loyal to him eighteen soldiers and two civilians were killed. it was relatively unknown before the syrian war started six years ago he rose to prominence quickly for his fiery speeches on t.v. criticizing hezbollah ports support of syrian president bashar al assad and praising the opposition including what was then the group known as judgment on this or a link to al qaida i think. connection to the syrian it's an extremist. or militant groups it's kind of is is a kind of banking on this on this side or the two and investing on that in order to create his own his own supporting or support base in and he was successful to a certain ext

around the eastern side of the black sea extending in across the caucasus following conditions from beirut in lebanon for the my sort of twenty seven here in the arabian peninsula dry and hot and sunny across mecca medina that into the low forty's here in the gulf states not quite as humid and maybe not quite as hot but still temperatures coming in that thirty nine degrees in dropping very slightly as we head on through into saturday now heading across into southern parts of africa weather conditions here looking largely fine made you see the old show in the eastern cape otherwise want to showers for the coast of mozambique but for most part it's sunshine all the way to sokoban and zambia coming in with highs of twenty eight but across central parts of africa are some really heavy showers across parts of central africa public in cameroon in particular. water scarcity is a serious problem when you use more then probably you need to why it is you. if they're. demanding as much water. as much. more to talk water just came out of there and we'll compare that to some tap water which could provi

and more each day martin thanks as always martin jay lebannon based journalist speaking to us from beirut. the u.n. security council has held an emergency meeting after north korea's latest ballistic missile launch will bring up to speed in about ninety seconds. first. what politicians do. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want the president. to go to the press this is what the three of them all. interested in the war. to national community continues lee emphasize about one theoretical united iraq this is a slogan maybe an approach to the politicians but in reality on the ground iraqis are. united and he has courage to be blamed school what is happening in the rest of iraq under the direct wrong directions that iraq has gone through. twenty minutes past three pm this afternoon here in moscow welcome back the un security council house condemned the latest north korean missile test that an emergency closed door session its called old members to fully implement previously agreed sanctions the meeting was called after pyongyang fired a ballistic missile ove