. ♪ beirut.good to be back. ♪ i took a walk through this beautiful world ♪ ♪ felt the cool rain on my shoulder ♪ ♪ found something good in this beautiful world ♪ ♪ i felt the rain getting colder ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la ♪ ♪ sha la la la la sha la la la la la la ♪ ♪ ♪ [ motorcycles revving ] >> anthony: the mediterranean sea itself trembles. the ground shakes beneath the wheels of our heavy metal thunder. back in beirut after all these years. the first time i was here did not end well, but it made no difference to me. i love it here. in spite of everything, i love it here. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: nice ride. woo! it's a good way to see beirut. >> ramsay: this is very similar to that place we went to years ago, barbar. this is rizk. this is your, you know, traditional chicken sandwich, shawarma. >> marwah: deep-fried, broasted. >> anthony: the broasted chicken was this guy's idea, my british-lebanese friend. born, "born to be wild" ramsay short, who i met back in those bad old days of 2006. ap

very brave the siege of beirut had begun. the p.l.o. was encircled some palestinian leaders advised the p.l.o. should surrender but i found had other ideas the audition. and the jury had gotten off. at one early meeting the leader of the p.f. lp general command homage agreeable suggested excepting israeli towns of withdrawal under the banner of the red cross this hour i mean red cross provided overall i've had said he would say a prayer to help them arrive at the decision and he went away and returned and said i sense the winds of heaven blowing god has ordered me to fight. the winds of heaven as i have had described them meant holding out for better conditions in a bid to raise more out out a fact and his office feels toward the streets of the besieged lebanese capital. massive israeli bombardment caused civilian casualties but also strengthened the palestinians resolve. finally in august after two months of siege and bombardment u.s. envoy philip had he been announced that an agreement had been. their grievance gave safe passage for t

very brave and the siege of beirut had begun. the p.l.o. was encircled some palestinian leaders advised the p.l.o. should surrender but i found had other ideas the audition. and the jury had got out alive. at one early meeting the leader of the p.f. lp general command homage agreeable suggested excepting israeli towns of withdrawal under the banner of the red cross this hour i mean red cross provided over all i've had said he would say a prayer to help them arrive at the decision and he went away and returned and said i sense the winds of heaven blowing god has ordered me to fight. the winds of heaven as i described them meant holding out for better conditions in a bid to raise more out out a fact and his office feels toward the streets of the besieged lebanese capital. massive israeli bombardment caused civilian casualties but also strengthened the palestinians resolve. finally in august after two months of siege and bombardment u.s. envoy philip petty been announced that an agreement had been. their dream and gave safe passage for the p.l

his chief of staff start to plan the defense of beirut. many palestinians expected a repeat of the one nine hundred seventy eight invasion and assault with limited object years. said that when there yeah. the belief was that the israeli operation would not extend beyond forty kilometers from the international border this effected palestinian preparations for the invasion as well as syrian and lebanese preparations therefore resistance to the invasion in southern lebanon was ineffective. on june sixth month after two days of airstrikes israel its land invasion of lebanon. with the exception of stiff resistance put up by the defenders of the palestinian refugee camps in southern lebanon palestinian forces in general quickly collapsed commanders abandoned their fighters in the field and fled for safety and a fact was living. in the edge out of it was incredulous kept on saying in all possible he couldn't believe the israelis were advancing so far so quickly he orders to for assistance later on i learned that he was very angry that there was n

his chief of staff start to plan the defense of beirut. many palestinians expected a repeat of the one nine hundred seventy eight invasion and assault with limited object years. said that when there yeah. the belief was that the israeli operation would not extend beyond forty kilometers from the international border this effected palestinian preparations for the invasion as well as syrian and lebanese preparations therefore resistance to the invasion in southern lebanon was ineffective. on june sixth nineteen through two days of airstrikes israel in its land invasion of lebanon. with the exception of stiff resistance put up by the defenders of the palestinian refugee camps in southern lebanon palestinian forces in general quickly collapse commanders abandoned their fighters in the field and fled for safety out a fact was living. in the edge out of it was incredulous kept on saying in all possible he couldn't believe the israelis were advancing so far so quickly he ordered a stiff resistance later on i learned that he was very angry that th

a fellow and professor at the american university of beirut and here in doha ibrahim for a hot associate professor in conflicts resolution at the doha institute for graduate studies thank you all welcome to inside story let me see if i can start with you in amman the protests over austerity measures in jordan have been going on for some time now until now they've been fairly small in scale and hadn't spread so why has the discontent in your opinion finally boiled over. well it's an accumulated feeling of anger and frustration among all centers of and all classes in jordan that. they can constitutive governments have been dealing with the jordanian citizens with total disregard no accountability no sense of good governance or no sense of the concept of social justice so the income tax deferred income tax was just a trigger that just brought everything to the surface and united many people including people who are have been staunch loyalists and have been critical of the opposition in the past they've brought them out on the seas especially among young people if you can i go i see new i se

his chief of staff start to plan the defense of beirut. many palestinians are expected to repeat of the one nine hundred seventy eight invasion and assault with limited objects. said that many there yeah. the belief was that the israeli operation would not extend beyond forty kilometers from the international border this effected palestinian preparations for the invasion as well as syrian and lebanese preparations therefore resistance to the invasion in southern lebanon was ineffective. on june sixth month after two days of airstrikes israel its land invasion of lebanon. with the exception of stiff resistance put up by the defenders of the palestinian refugee camps in southern lebanon palestinian forces in general quickly collapsed commanders abandoned their fighters in the field and fled for safety artifact was living. in the edge out of it was incredulous kept on saying in all possible he couldn't believe the israelis were advancing so far so quickly he orders to for assistance later on i learned that he was very angry that there was no

we have rami koori senior fellow and professor at the american university of beirut and here in doha ibrahim for a hot associate professor in conflicts resolution at the doha institute for graduate studies thank you all welcome to inside story let me see if i can start with you in amman the protests over austerity measures in jordan have been going on for some time now until now they've been fairly small in scale and hadn't spread so why has the discontent in your opinion finally boiled over. well it's an accumulated feeling of anger and frustration among all centers of and all classes in jordan that. they can be considerate of governments have been dealing with the jordanian citizens with total disregard no accountability no sense of good governance or no sense of the concept of social justice so the income tax the float income tax was just a trigger that just brought everything to the surface and united many people including people who are have been staunch loyalists and have been critical of the opposition in the past they've brought them out on the seas especially among young peo

and in beirut thank you. job if you go off air world cup game against south korea about an hour we'll learn look ahead with emily russia. and jonathan the hard ink that was outside the stadium in cars on our welcome both let's start with with you jonathan the heart of your love has got quite a selection headache because you've gone from. but he has he's made some changes there's no doubt about that the team came out about ten minutes ago some acadia and measures a have returned to the starting eleven which is perhaps a bit of a surprise thomas muller is the other big news he's dropped the rest stops for him and in defense is nicholas sooner not i'm sorry it really goes prophetic about so some changes some expected some unexpected but nervous certainly go enough quality in the starting eleven to win the game so talk us through the tough task and they have to reach the knockout stages. but it is a tough task and it's so complicated that i think i'm probably best placed to read it out to you rather than try to m

an internal politics that's playing out in jordan the want to get on the economic pressure as well beirut is very expensive eleven months very expensive but if you go to jordan and you find out i mean just the prices are escalating the point that i'm trying to make is that our extreme intolerant pressure on the government in jordan in the sea the leaders cannot accept any more refugees so where are these fifty thousand people likely to go. at the moment they are actually going deeper into that ever have standard to be in that route which means that they often closer to jordan they were to smugglers try to get into jordan will most likely adopt illegal means to get in there but some would also be something of an understanding between the gene and. rebels to develop it is not that is existing at the moment but the whole something develops so then they can perhaps brutal regime held areas or be bussed again to italy which we've seen already happen in aleppo and. when you look at a map of the region the very one of the obvious questions that that strikes you is that well israel how about isra

a soldier's life it's not a normal life the show seven days in beirut but. on al-jazeera. ca and the fan has grass. in the street. the weather sponsored by qatar airways. i work a little bit of rain making its way south east and parts of brazil will get a shower clash showing up here temperature wise is not cheap at the south of that getting it's round eighteen celsius with a normal the wind coming through so some warmth in that. also full sensi i love a strong weather as you can see the clearest skies a stand of fat white north into white across central possible still some showers across the fog off of the country yes and this has been the same in place as we go on into the day by thursday night is that a bit wet weather just making its way back towards northern parts of europe why southeastern brazil staying a little bit that we're picking up a southerly for want to say or so it will be a little cooler highs of around sixty degrees. sunshine across the caribbean the loss of showers as well some rather beefy ones to. cloud him we will see some of that wet weather just abo

she's kind of a big deal in beirut. ella abdullah abdiz. she is referred to as the kim kardashian of beirut. they reach the top. they start kissing for the photos. >> it's been designed around them. i think it's kind of cool. why not? if you can do it. not only will they remember it. we're talking about looking at the video. it's kind of craze. it's cool because it's crazy. >> i would walk into this thing, okay the pictures are really good, from the middle. >> it's funny you say that, watch this, living out the pictures, he reaches and starts picking at the wall of there cake. >> nick to would marry that dude to get to the cake. >> well, they left it in the hands of a wedding planning company. so they're the once. >> a building planning company. >> sunrise on the harbor and a big race is about to start. >> they blow the mist whistle. everybody runs down the dock towards her to beat. >> it's into the race like you might think. see it next. fergie is listening to other performers cover her song. >> my first purpose. >> wow, i love that. what

beirut. the region straddling lebanon's eastern border is an important supply line for hezbollah syria is the land link to iran for the lebanese armed group russian troops briefly took up positions here the russian military didn't comment but its troops were soon replaced by syrian army soldiers. trying. to iran in syria the. russian troops the military police are ready to deploy whatever they want in syria it wasn't the first message russian president vladimir putin told syrian president bashar assad that foreign military forces will leave syria once a robust political process gets under way his envoy later clarified this included iran. days later the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov echoed the same thing and said the syrian army should be the only force deployed along the border with israel iran's initial reaction was that no one can force it to do anything it later said it supported russian efforts to bring the south of the country under syrian army control and that iranian military

us from neda he's a director of the levant institute for strategic affairs and joins us now from beirut thanks so much for joining us on. first of all why is that lebanon has done this now is is it says it with the economic strain that all these refugees are still putting on the economy always also a political reason. i mean this is. this issue was the people who despise. the. price is a huge burden on the economy on the demographics. i mean. on. oh this should be down with i mean some of the government want to be coordinate with this union their team which might which might be perceived as a lot of mana zation a defect in the normalization. that it seems out of the decision today i think it's a bit of defeating because they have been on does not have any interest to. date himself from international institution on the contrary what he needs to do is to engage more. international community with these international constituent. institution in order to facilitate the return of this union that if you g.'s to their homeland and instead of normalizing with this union asia eem he should actual

>> she's kind of a big deal in beirut.eing referred to as the kim kardashian of beirut. >> they are lifted to the very top. and they start kissing for the photos. >> i don't want to the key cake somebody stepped on, though, there's that. >> it's been designed around them, right? i think it's kind of cool, why not? if you can do it, not only will they remember it, but we're talking about it, we're looking at the video. it's cool because it's crazy. >> i would willie wonka this thing, okay, pictures are good, and then nom, nom. >> eat your way out from the middle. >> as soon as they got their picture, he reaches for a fork and starts picking at the wall of this cake. >> nick would marry that dude just to get to the cake. >> they left it in the hands of a wedding planning company. so they're the ones that -- >> how about a building planning company? >>> let's take an already risky sport and make it riskier. >> that's what chase and will are up to. they're looking for a point to base jump. >> they're always doing that, jumping

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his mom, knar, was born in beirut.ur children speak? and where will they live? >> mariam: here. >> nazareth: yeah, here, if -- >> anthony: no hesitation. >> mariam: that's the easy question to answer. >> nazareth: but, i mean, i think the two of us would like them to grow up being equally comfortable with armenian, russian, and english. all three languages are very, very important for anyone growing up in armenia. >> serj: yeah, i mean, they are the two largest armenian diasporas: russia and america, so. >> anthony: how many years was it part of the soviet union? >> nazareth: uh, 70 years more -- since 1921, more or less, until 1991. so, 70 years. >> anthony: but what remains of those times? >> nazareth: [ speaking foreign language ] >> lia: [ speaking foreign language ] >> anthony: you sound wistful about the old days. are things better now or worse? >> lia: [ speaking foreign language ] >> anthony: when armenia was swallowed up by the soviet union in 1920, it became the armenian soviet socialist republic. with that c

his mom, knar, was born in beirut.your children speak? and where will they live? >> mariam: here. >> nazareth: yeah, here, if -- >> anthony: no hesitation. >> mariam: that's the easy question to answer. >> nazareth: but, i mean, i think the two of us would like them to grow up being equally comfortable with armenian, russian, and english. all three languages are very, very important for anyone growing up in armenia. >> serj: yeah, i mean, they are the two largest armenian diasporas: russia and america, so. >> anthony: how many years was it part of the soviet union? >> nazareth: uh, 70 years more -- since 1921, more or less, until 1991. so, 70 years. >> anthony: but what remains of those times? >> nazareth: [ speaking foreign language ] >> lia: [ speaking foreign language ] >> anthony: you sound wistful about the old days. are things better now or worse? >> lia: [ speaking foreign language ] >> anthony: when armenia was swallowed up by the soviet union in 1922, it became the armenian soviet socialist republic. with that

the story of a british italian man experiencing life close up in a palestinian refugee camp in beirut it's. coming face to face with the daily lives of its residents some of moon have lived there for seventy years but there has been horrific jomo soldier's life it's not the normal life the show seven days in beirut let. on al-jazeera. back it for us when you hear him whether on line horrendous things humans hold us through. about that or if you join us on the sack of the major countries in the commonwealth how far bigger fish to fry. this is a diana talk to us about some of this success if perhaps everyone has a voice what happens when the robots themselves are making the decisions join the colobus conversation the amount is iraq. hello again well look at the americas this time on across north america we've got some heavy rain across parts of the south yes some flooding here along the gulf of mexico coastline showers pushing up the front direction across parts of the midwest still looking pretty wet and elsewhere across southeast and i was looking shower a little bit cooler for washin

on the story for us tonight in beirut we go with thank you very much. over migration in europe to migration in the united states president says that he has directed immigration and border agents to reunite migrant children with their parents now this comes a day after he signed an executive order ending the policy of separating migrant families at the border with mexico the reversal follows global growing global and domestic outrage over the policy. perhaps to help mitigate some of that outrage the first lady flew to texas today to get a firsthand look at the child detention centers despite the visit much of the press coverage was on maloney and trump's choice of word drug you know she was seen boarding there you go the plane wearing a jacket with the words i really don't care do you printed on the back her spokesperson said there was no hidden message she said it was just a. jacket the folk possum's to fit the picture that we are seeing on the cover of the new cover of time magazine the cover features a crying migrant child you might recognize it as pa

it's only syrians who should decide the future of the country arliss introduce our guest now from beirut we have sami nada who is director of the levant institute for strategic affairs from london we have mahmoud no our retired jordanian air force general i'm from in italy via skype joshua landis director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma thank you all very much indeed for joining us can i start with you mark moon in london because the words there we've just heard of that f.s.a. commander suggest that any kind of political deal is not at all acceptable they're not prepared to accept the authority of the government of president assad so a battle is inevitable my question therefore is what sort of support do the rebels have and are they likely to be completely wiped out from this. i think they lost the whole support from the region and from the american and their friends. as the american suggested that they should put any assumption that the american will interfere on that region of southern part of joe the southern part of syria so i think they are in dee

the story of a british italian man experiencing life both up in a palestinian refugee camp in beirut. am coming face to face with the daily lives of its residents some of whom have lived there for seventy years but there has been all refugio most thought his life is not going on the show seven days in beirut that. on al-jazeera. when the news is restricted and send said the press is not free and is external interference and influence and then is used to exploit not explain. when journalists access to information is prevented. them but i want us press. bring them out of the costs. and just as never sees the light of day no i knew that i bought into. the team of course it out it what the show will have. and the stories that matter go on told and the press is not seen. and neither are we. getting to the heart of the matter if the turkish cypriot leader calls you today and says let's have talks would you accept facing realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people think the peaceful unification is the only option for prosperity you. hear their story on talk

nine when he talked about your second war in lebanon he said what happened in the day here quote beirut in two thousand and six will happen in every village from which shots are fired on israel we will use disproportionate force against it and we will cause immense damage and destruction gives the game away doesn't look number one. indeed in order to the terror terrorists killers made from continuing the. endless attacks against innocent civilians sometimes we have to use disproportionate force in order to stop them we did it successfully in lebanon the number of casualties was minimal relative to the force that we used in the dock in the beirut there were not too many casualties but the whole neighborhood was destructed destroyed at the time and it would have been destroyed again had they started to shoot against innocent civilians no spot of israel i know you live with this huge loss of life very bad that is that is cool hang by by your order you know if you live with it is it was caused by the fact that my people my citizens children in israel children in israel innocent children in

beirut trade unions in jordan have led a nationwide strike against a controversial plan to raise income tax and propose tax hikes on reforms driven by the international monetary fund a spot in the country's largest protests in the is king abdullah has ordered a review and has even replaced his prime minister to try to diffuse public anger but unions have press ahead with the strike. the japanese prime minister is headed to washington to make sure tokyo's concerns are not forgotten the historic u.s. north korea summit next week shinzo our way we'll have two hours to posses points to president trump before they both leave for a g. seven summit in canada japan a u.s. ally has been absent from recent dealings with north korea and its concerns trump could make concessions like agreeing to reduce the american military presence in the region well security measures are being ramped up in singapore ahead of the summit scott highclere has the latest on the massive preparations. with the date set the starting time confirmed we now know the location for donald trump and kim jong un's first meeting

we were hoping to talk to our correspondent in beirut about the story we're having some technical difficulties there we have to bring her in later on in the program now to some of the other stories making news around the world today south sudan's president salva kiir and the country's rebel leader rick much char have held peace talks in neighboring ethiopia it's the first meeting between the two warring leaders since a peace deal collapsed in two thousand and sixteen tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced in the country's five years of war. brazilian authorities have destroyed thousands of weapons in the capital rio de janeiro part of a security campaign to get guns off the city's streets some of the weapons were seized from criminals others were handed over voluntarily. and a nine hundred sixty two ferrari is set to become the most valuable car ever to be offered for public sale the two hundred fifty g.t.o. racer is expected to fetch more than forty five million u.s. dollars at auction in august it was one of only thirty six examples of the model built by the famed italian

in beirut is following this story for us as we just saw efforts are being made to apprehend alleged syrian war criminals and bring them to trial what are the chances that these efforts will be successful well the chances are actually not very high the message is dominantly symbolic the idea is that the impunity the syrian high ranking officials allegedly that we've been getting are crimes they would not be getting them or with such a beauty but there is really nothing that proves that that would be the case because the syrian official in this case german housel will only be arrested if you flies to germany not even your european countries should i do we extradite him if he does go. to any other european country according to laws but it's not necessary that they would do it in the past we've seen some of the men were close to bashar al assad have actually traveled to italy in the past and the e.u. did criticize it but that has happened so essentially the message is broadly symbolic if john larson decides not to go to germany then really nothing much can be done about him at that stage but y

russian troop deployment has created tension between the two countries so the harder explains from beirut the region straddling lebanon's eastern border is an important supply line for hezbollah syria is the land link to iran for the lebanese armed group russian troops briefly took up positions here the russian military didn't comment but its troops were soon replaced by syrian army soldiers in russia trying. to iran in syria the. russian troops military police are ready to deploy wherever they want. it wasn't the first message russian president vladimir putin told syrian president bashar assad that foreign military forces will leave syria once a robust political process gets underway has envoy later clarified this included iran days later the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov echoed the same thing and said the syrian army should be the only force deployed along the border with israel iran's initial reaction was that no one can force it to do anything it later said it supported russian efforts to bring the south of the country under syrian army control and that iranian military advis

speak to adam baron he's a visiting fellow european council on foreign relations and joins me from beirut thanks very much for taking the time to speak to us these talks that are now being led by the u.n. yemen and voice martin griffiths is it likely that they will prevent or of the destruction in the data i'd say if anyone's going to get this done it would be martin group the guy has a great group experience he's already despite being quite new in the job built a degree of trust report the hutus and their allies and the opposing side. but let's be honest you've got to be clear this is an uphill battle the trust between. the opposing side the yemeni government and its allies has never been. been lower. that being said there is a possibility of particularly considering the potential international support that that some sort of deal with death there is still a possibility that this this may end up be operating although obviously it's going to be quite a difficult task what is the best outcome we can hope for i mean the best outcome would be a deal in which the who it is withdrawal from or d

the story of a british italian man experiencing life close up in a palestinian refugee camp in beirut it's. coming face to face with the daily lives of its residents some of whom have lived there for seventy years but it's been for a few jomo soldier's life it's not fun no more life the short seven days in beirut let. on al-jazeera. they are watching out is there a mind of our top stories this hour the united nations envoy to me and mine has called for the dismantling of what she says is a system of discrimination against training of muslims yang healy told the un human rights council the rangar should have their rights to citizenship and property was stored in muslim basket called for her to be replaced. the rain in northern thailand has hampered the search for a football team missing for four days in the flooded cave but briscoe has remained optimistic the teenagers are alive because of the cave explorers have been found in the past when floodwaters receded. cats are taking in the united arab emirates to the un's international court of justice accusing it of violating human rights t

but available to the military joining us from beirut. that was world refugee day highlighting the sixty eight and a half million people forcibly displaced by conflict worldwide that's the highest in the corded history and in four days' time several european leaders will hold crisis talks on immigration in brussels the emergency meeting comes ahead of a major summit next week the immigration issue is causing divisions across europe it's one of the major factors putting german chancellor angela merkel's coalition government under threat and in hungary a controversial bill criminalizing some forms of assistance to immigrants has passed in defiance of the european union. for more on this let's cross now to john mccain his embarrassing beds only so what's the purpose then of this mini summit for the main east summit later. would you be the point being made by the leaders of the member states who've been invited by the president of the european commission. to this informal mini summit in brussels on sunday is it's about trying to find some sor

showers across turkey so a fine weather everywhere twenty seven and sunshine one current and fine in beirut that twenty seven degrees so moving down into the arabian peninsula as i mentioned when we're to save his ability here in cateye to during the course of friday as we head on in society in the windies is down and visibility will improve a little bit on the other side of the potential laurie fine picture certain very hot one for the dean of the my some of forty six degrees celsius so we head into africa southern areas are i should expect to dry and find at this time of the year not particularly warm fourteen degrees in capetown rising to sixteen as we head through into saturday but for central parts of africa it's looking pretty wet across the western areas highs of twenty eight expected in accra. july on al-jazeera in a new series of head to head maddie hasson tackle the big issues with hard hitting questions mexico is getting ready for a general election what direction will the country take as that.

organization that runs gaza and is labeled a terrorist group by western countries my guest this week here in beirut is a summer home down a senior member of hamas is ruling politburo did the movement.

organization runs gaza and is labeled a terrorist group by western countries my guess this week here in beirut is a summer home down a senior member of hamas is ruling politburo did the movement deliberately provoke israel with no thought at all for the safety of its citizens.