this week, we go to beirut in 1982. it's mad men in the middle east, wherejohn hamm tries to negotiate the release of a hostage in the negotiator. and there's a big goldfish, an angry one coming up. there it is, jason statham getting his teeth into the meg, and a prehistoric shark is on the loose. can he save us from it? and we take a rare cinematic trip to paraguay for a film called the heiresses. it's about late flowering freedom found amongst older women. so let's start with the negotiator. this has been billed as sort of bond or bourne meets mad men, in beirut. that's right, bourne is a particularly good example, because it's written by tony gilroy, the scriptwriter who wrote the first four bourne films and directed one of them himself. so he's very good on the shady operations of the cia and the negotiations that happen, and mad men, because donald draper, one of the great tv characters of our time, was played byjohn hamm, who left the television after that series to go to the movies, and i don't think he's ever qu

i was sent to beirut actually in the ‘80s. john mccarthy had just been kidnapped.st a terrifying time. so hostage—taking was all the rage, in a way, terry waite and john mccarthy, and that's the era we are in here, especially with the americans trying to horse trade. they wanted the release of another terrorist. it becomes a moral maze as well as a kind of bond scenario. the tension is great. it's a real game of poker, which is what mason skiles is really good at, and that's whatjohn hamm excels at. he's got this sort of sweaty, intense desperation. one thing that's refreshing about the film is it's a lot of adults talking a lot. the action is not as much as it would be in a bourne, although that's there, but a lot of it is about the negotiations and the quick talking and shady characters. you never know who to trust or not. there is always going to be a switcheroo and a double—cross at the end. it's available in cinemas and on download as well today, and it's called beirut in some territories. if you are looking for the negotiator, sometimes it's called beirut. th

pike, with a succession of cold stares, which helps him through the rubble of beirut.own that beirut has become, because it's been seized from all sides, jewish militia on one side, muslims, christians, thejewish negotiations with the israelis. we don't know who's got the hostage — is it the plo, is it the various militias? it was an extraordinary time in the middle east. i don't know if you were out there as a news correspondent... i was, i was sent to beirut actually in the ‘80s. john mccarthy had just been kidnapped. it was just a terrifying time. so hostage—taking was all the rage, in a way, terry waite and john mccarthy, and that's the era we are in here, especially with the americans trying to horse trade. they wanted the release of another terrorist. it becomes a moral maze as well as a kind of bond scenario. the tension is great. it's a real game of poker, which is what mason skiles is really good at, and that's whatjohn hamm excels at. he's got this sort of sweaty, intense desperation. one thing that's refreshing about the film is it's a lot of adults talking

assad or led antiwar protests most prominent of which was his sit in at a mosque in beirut. with anarchy in lebanon israeli attacks on villages in the south of the country increased. campaigned on behalf of the local population and he announced the establishment of a lebanese resistance movement called. southern consistently expressed sympathy for palestinian aspirations but his relations with the palestinian liberation organization were tense and uneasy. he criticized the p.l.o. for shelling israel and thereby provoking israeli retaliation which fell mainly on the shia citizens of the south. assad the son recalls the political tightrope his father had to walk. the last of the. tornado. was there bob. i would look. at. it yet before. we have probably met. affair wouldn't last thing the last thing here. for the student you have to do for you for. the. last. steve. steve. son your coupe is a former lebanese m.p. his father was one of the two companions who disappeared with us on the trip to libya. he believes that muammar gadhafi helped fuel lebanon's civil war for his own pol

this week, we go to beirut in 1982. it's mad men in the middle east, wherejohn hamm tries to negotiate the release of a hostage in the negotiator. and there's a big goldfish, an angry one coming up. there it is, jason statham getting his teeth into the meg, and a prehistoric shark is on the loose. can he save us from it? and we take a rare cinematic trip to paraguay for a film called the heiresses. it's about late flowering freedom found amongst older women. so let's start with the negotiator. this has been billed as sort of bond or bourne meets mad men, in beirut. that's right, bourne is a particularly good example, because it's written by tony gilroy, the scriptwriter who wrote the first four bourne films and directed one of them himself. so he's very good on the shady operations of the cia and the negotiations that happen, and mad men, because donald draper, one of the great tv characters of our time, was played

this week, we go to beirut in 1982.ase of a hostage in the negotiator. and there's a big goldfish, an angry one coming up. there it is, jason statham getting his teeth into the meg, and a prehistoric shark is on the loose. can he save us from it? and we take a rare cinematic trip to paraguay for a film called the heiresses. it's about late flowering freedom found amongst older women. so let's start with the negotiator. this has been billed as sort of bond or bourne meets mad men, in beirut. that's right, bourne is a particularly good example, because it's written by tony gilroy, the scriptwriter who wrote the first four bourne films and directed one of them himself. so he's very good on the shady operations of the cia and the negotiations that happen, and mad men, because donald draper, one of the great tv characters of our time, was played byjohn hamm, who left the television after that series to go to the movies, and i don't think he's ever quite had a part that matches don draper — there are very few around — until n

visited beirut during the civil war so he never met. the first meeting between the him and gadhafi occurred in one thousand nine hundred seventy five. according to a such as son it was not amicable. some survey never we can't remember when. we had. shaved head of if you have. your dog. can i be you can nor. there. between nine hundred seventy six and nine hundred seventy seven a sort of intensified his efforts to end the lebanese. many lebanese admired his courage and charisma but the found it difficult to mediate in a country so divided. in march nine hundred seventy eight israel invaded south lebanon under the pretext of crushing the p.l.o. . the united nations issued resolution four to five calling on israel to withdraw immediately. israel flout to be un resolution and set up what it called a security zone in south lebanon. toward the arab world to plead the case for south lebanon. then all jury in president who are a booming d.n. recommended the amount of the libyan leader. agreed . contacted get. the libyan leader invited us to vis

takes place in beirut. you wrote it was obvious the only way i could share this world the fact was through fiction. what were you referring to? >> i had written for the wall street journal it was published in february of 1933. that front-page story said that the united states had recruited the leading terrace adversar asa asset. this person had been enormously helpful saving thousands of american lives. it was fascinated in 1979 by israel which regarded them, with good reason as a terrorist. as someone who had taken israeli lives. the talk about the gray zone, this case had it. >> two months after i publish the article, the cia officer's name is robert ames, great american hero it was published two years ago called the good spy. he came to beirut and came to visit station it happen that i had a meeting with the military that same day. i left the embassy about 1230. just after 1:00 o'clock on that day in april 1983, the biggest car bomb that anybody had seen in beirut exploded at the door of the embassy i ha

davidignatius, your books have moved from beirut to iran, iraq, washington . how do you keep up with all the threats the us sees and now we are in china? >> i wanted to write about china very deliberately in terms of national security, in terms of the world and also opportunity and trends. china needs to be at the top of people's list. china has announced the first set of its president xi jinping that it plans to dominate the heights of technology by 2030 . and through 2050 and they been very specific and they task their intelligence service to go out and gather information to be brought and deal in secret that will help reinforce that position. they're building new weapons systems . but the challenge is far less military power. so china has set a course that people worry is going to bring it to us to a collision, a military conflict and not something that's inevitable but i do think that the times for readers to get inside chinese ambitions in terms of being a world power, to get into our intelligence service. that was again part of the book but you're quite

visited beirut during the civil war though he never met . the first meeting between the a man and gadhafi occurred in one thousand nine hundred seventy five. according to our solders sun it was not amicable. shake your head. if you have. between nine hundred seventy six and one nine hundred seventy seven a sort of intensified his efforts to end the lebanese war. many lebanese admired his courage and charisma but the found it difficult to mediate in a country so divided. in march nine hundred seventy eight israel invaded south lebanon under the pretext of crushing the p.l.o. . the united nations issued resolution four to five calling on israel to withdraw immediately. israel flout to the un resolution and set up what it's called a security zone in south lebanon. toward the arab world to plead the case for south lebanon. then all jury in president who are a boom in dnd recommended the man meets the libyan leader. agreed. contacted gadhafi the libyan leader invited us to visit him in tripoli. lawyer his saini has followed the case of the disapp

the libyan embassy in beirut arranged three tickets on the middle east airlines flight from the. us. from beirut to tripoli via benghazi. on the eve of his departure spent the night at his sister's. for. a better look at our door. and now we are. more. and more came to my. cell phone. cell phone or a while and. on the twenty fifth of all this nine hundred seventy eight. and his two companions lead the route for libya. at eight pm n.e.a. flights landed at tripoli international airport. a southerner and his two companions that disembarked from the plane no one was there to meet them. at the terminal building they were eventually met by. head of the libyan foreign communication bureau. al jazeera interviewed who millard a protocol employee of the libyan foreign communication bureau who remembers the arrival of the man and he's two companions. will. work. better for the. candidate. if. we. do learn the new c. was libya's intelligence chief and would become one of these closest confidants over the years. when tripoli fell to rebel fighters in two thousand and eleven seduces office was

you could feel it shake across beirut. it was so massive.astating. >> a truck filled with explosives was driven into a compound, the midst of a marine battalion headquarters, and the explosives were detonated. the four-story building collapsed on about 150 or 200 sleeping marines. >> the guy was wearing green fatigues and driving a yellow truck. he says he'll always remember the guy was smiling. >> israel had gone into lebanon to try to create a buffer zone against the palestinians, the plo. >> a battalion of american marines came out to separate the israelis from the palestinians and oversee the withdrawal of the plo from lebanon, but it got sucked in to the lebanese civil war. >> the civil war is between christians and muslims, and to the muslims it looked like we were supporting the christians. >> a big debate broke out afterwards. should we have ever put our marines in that kind of vulnerable position when they didn't have a clear politician. they were just sort of sitting there. >> the united states in the middle east was faced with an

the libyan embassy in beirut arranged three tickets on the middle east airlines flight from. from beirut to tripoli via benghazi. on the eve of his departure spent the night at his sister's. for. a better look at our door. but the. more you would bring. me to my. cell phone. photo. on the twenty fifth of all this nine hundred seventy eight. these two companions let me root for libya. at eight pm any a few. landed at tripoli international airport. a southerner and his two companions that disembarked from the plane no one was there to meet them. at the terminal building they were eventually met by. head of the libyan foreign communication bureau. al jazeera interviewed who millard a protocol employee of the libyan foreign communication bureau who remembers the arrival of the man and he's two companions. will. soon see. the candidate. if. we. do learn susi was libya's intelligence chief and would become one of duffy's closest confidants over the years. when tripoli fell to rebel fighters in two thousand and eleven a sin to seize office was ransacked many classified documents wer

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it looks like beirut. there is something wrong and rahm emanuel knows, but the people don't have any faith in him because he will not tackle what is going on as far as that divide. host: what specifically has to be done? what needs to be tackled? the gangasically, violence. there is a latin king. not a racist, but there is a disparity between the hispanic

more of them are expected as we head through sunday away from there it's largely fine and dry with beirut up at thirty degrees and it's rather hot in baghdad put it around forty three it's hotter in kuwait the air here is a bit dry so forty seven degrees will be our maximum here in doha we've also got dry air at the moment it's not too sure of it so our temperatures will be comfortably above forty for the south more cloud over here over parts of a man and into yemen and that could be squeezing out one or two showers particularly along the south coast of oman a round. if we head down towards the southern parts of africa we're seeing more cloud now in the southeastern parts that's just taken off to give us a few outbreaks of rain particularly in the durban area eventually as we head through saturday and into sunday that begins to break up and for many of us it will be a dry air and warmer one so for jo'burg we'll get to around seventy nine for durban

of civilian population to temporarily like wait to i think the area well senator is live for us in beirut but first let's go over to moscow for the latest from our correspondent there really challenge we are expecting the russian foreign minister of course with to actually speak in a short while rory but we were getting news of the news wires that the russian foreign minister is saying that he's willing to listen to the u.n. special envoy to syria when it comes to humanitarian corridors. you know this is come from the foreign minister himself like a lover of one of the deputy foreign ministers macabre gone off who said that basically yes he would consider the russian foreign ministry would consider these proposals made by stuff under mistura and russia was ready to discuss them the humanitarian corridors for peace said the damage for civilians needs to be minimized in the terrorists as he put it in should be prevented from using civilians as human shields i mean if you're reading the tea leaves of the moments and trying to work out whether there is going to be an assault on libya i think

beirut huge crowds gathered in northern yemen for the funerals of people killed in a saudi coalition air strike last week more than fifty people died in the attack forty of them were children in the strike spot an international outcry led to calls for an independent probe one of the.

unacceptable price christine bakaly is the yemen researcher for human rights watch joins me now from beirut via skype very good to have you with us on the program your initial reaction to the incident. first of all having any reaction to you. well you know this is you know is that. where this. most other air in the not very human rights watch up see clearly children killed an attack that. but more than that it was i think there you hear it there are three things each desk and when i say. what. we're. which is that over and over. we're either that's not an order or the other model killer. then now nearly four years into this company i'm still waiting to see real spreadable investigations into the attack regarding earth with the people who are committing war crimes to help its million victims of these attacks we provide every draft and i'm very much hope in this day once again in our minds and encourages militant leverage over the war or at least that they must use every inch of that leverage to push the parties not only to better the last war but you really abide by the spirit of those laws

assad or led antiwar protests most prominent of which was his sit in at a mosque in beirut. with anarchy in lebanon israeli attacks on villages in the south of the country increased. campaigned on behalf of the local population and he announced the establishment of a lebanese resistance movement called. southern consistently expressed sympathy for palestinian aspirations but his relations with the palestinian liberation organization were tense and uneasy. he criticized the p.l.o. for shelling israel and thereby provoking israeli retaliation which fell mainly on the shia citizens of the south. side the son recalls the political tightrope his father had to walk. and their. yet tornado. was there bob. i would look. at. me yeah i can only imagine yet afford. to have probably met. her father and i love affair with her last thing me last thing here. for the steam you have to do for you for. the. last. steve. steve. is a former lebanese m.p. his father was one of the two companions who disappeared with us on the trip to libya. he believes that muammar gadhafi helped fuel lebanon's

urgent entrance visas and yacoob from the italian embassy in tripoli their french visas issued in beirut were canceled. there is evidence the passports of assad her and his companions were altered. on that evening of august the thirty first nine hundred seventy eight a southerner and his two companions were driven to the departure terminal of tripoli airport. exit stamps found later in the passports were dated on that day. but did they actually leave libya. what is known is that three men carrying their passports and bearing their names did board the flight to rome. shortly before midnight the alitalia plane landed in rome airport. men carrying the passports of our souther and shaikh mohammed yaku had entry visas stamped. he. a transit to use it was issued for the man carrying the passport of. his passport has to this day never been recovered. the three men left the airport after midnight. the libyan embassy in rome it is believed that the three men spent the night here. the next morning september the first nine hundred seventy eight two men checked in at the holiday inn hotel in rome. o

christened in the cool of ovide in memory of the occasion only the fourth had the pope to do phone beirut which now gave the palace an impressive entrance to the east. the last of this three grange a proxy. in fontainebleau as building history began with not for long drawn out pasts coronation as emperor the glories of fontainebleau had not been destroyed during the revolution but the furniture that being sold off or removed napoleon chose the palace as his residence and restored it to its full majesty. when the great calm grow was not on a campaign he would come to the glow that he had made for him in the gallery he did d'anna and plan his next conquests. throne was in the hall of the king and most splendid room at coolidge beneath the royal arms of france and nevada the decor almost all pasty to it splenda symbolized the new greatness of france under its corsican after. the third handsome entrance was built on the south side and the south wing of the cool. was demolished and replaced by a group. it was through those iron bars that polian went into exile the day in april eighteenth thirt

visited beirut during the civil war so he never met. the first meeting between the him and gadhafi occurred in one thousand nine hundred seventy five. according to a such as son it was not amicable. some survey no we can't remember what. we had. shade. of if you have. your nor. can ever you can nor. there. between one nine hundred seventy six and one nine hundred seventy seven a subtle intensified his efforts to end the lebanese war. many lebanese admired his courage and charisma but the found it difficult to mediate in a country so divided. in march nine hundred seventy eight israel invaded south lebanon under the pretext of crushing the the p.l.o. .

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was cross over to beirut. bora who filed that report joins us from there unsure how common it is the view among lebanese authorities that it's time for the syrian refugees to go home and how realistic is it to expect them to do so. well that's pretty widespread there is no disagreement when it comes to that. that the student refugees must leave and that it's time but it is realistic or is it not now from my experience and all of these years about being told to sit in refugees especially now they see these still don't think it's time for them to go back because they don't know what's happening in syria large parts of the country their homes their neighborhoods have all been bombed out and also because they fear the regime they don't know what action the regime will take against them merely because they left the country so they may be seen as cletus and also because some of them or their family members likely will dusty's participated in a peaceful protest of the regime a dog with them these people are very scar

threatening an offensive to retake the rebel held province near the turkish border reports from beirut's. the syrian government says it is going to take an army helicopters dropped leaflets telling rebels and civilians in the opposition controlled northwestern province that it is better to join reconciliation agreements and others in syria as. rebels have agreed. such deals when on the verge of military defeat so far those in it looks like they are not ready to surrender instead they arrested dozens of people they accuse of promoting a return to state rule know a lot of our security track down people who are promoting reconciliation with the regime they're trying to help the regime into some areas so we arrested them they're waging psychological warfare to weaken the morale of the fighters and people they collaborating with the regime. like in previous assaults the syrian government backs up calls for reconciliation with military action state media showed me a force might be brought to the conscripts of months of current temporarily and shattered in recent days dozens of civilians were k

beirut five e.u. countries have agreed to take in one hundred forty one migrants from a rescue ship says it will now allow the m.v. aquarius to dock it ends a four day standoff during which spain tunisia and malta all refuse permission for it to enter they want to the ship to head to libya tunisia or the nearby italian island of lampedusa the migrants will be taken to france germany luxembourg portugal and spain are caught in turkey has freed two greek soldiers who'd been detained on spying charges have been looked up since march accused of entering the country illegally and attempted military espionage greasers the soldiers crossed into turkey by mistake while following the trail of refugees and migrants cases feel tensions between the two neighboring nato allies. all right still ahead on al-jazeera when we come back in sports tennis player who is losing his grip on the situation at the cincinnati mosque. as protests in nicaragua against the president continue and the number of those killed rises in

it was known that he had led a playboy it life in beirut in his early adult years and so on beirut inbout when he went to afghanistan to fight against the soviets and the family we re against the soviets and the family were proud of him, without realising that he was going to change into what he became. the fact that this interview has been allowed by saudi arabia's leadership and crown prince muhamed ben salman, who has agreed, and really it is to dispel critics who allege that 0sama ben martin had had state support. —— 0sama bin laden. legal actions have have been a lodged against the kingdom, remember 15 of the hijackers came from saudi arabia and let's point out, because it gets forgotten, that the bin laden family is one of the richest families in saudi arabia. her son seems to want to add then she is father and that could spell not just disaster. she is father and that could spell notjust disaster. -- his son. extraordinary to hear the human side of the family at the heart of this. let's just take a look at, we have several other stories to try to fit in. the sun talks about mar

that report from bora and she joins us now from beirut for more on that story how many syrian refugees in lebanon are ready to go home and why. well only about three thousand as our report said have to leave and there are one and a half million syrian refugees in lebanon most of them have not yet they're just which goes on to see a lot one of them is of course the people who are going back a going back because they've had enough of the camp life here but those who are not going back see those who are going back as essentially regime or syrian government supporters did want to send this kids their children back to school again education insidious free and light here in lebanon has been pretty hard for them but those who are not going in labs for me is a bigger story because a lot of people as to not certain that's what is going to happen with them when they go back need fear that they might be treated as straight as by the syrian government merely because they left syria one of the people among the thousand plus who were john has already been killed people like with after they will be a

beirut at least twenty two schoolchildren have died in sudan after their boat sank while crossing the river nile happened the small town of around seven hundred fifty kilometers north of the capital khartoum the state news agency said the vessel was carrying more than forty people the engine apparently failed and strong currents. more than one hundred migrants rescued in the mediterranean sea have arrived in malta or they will be distributed between nations it ends a five day standoff after the rescue boat was banned from docking in several ports one hundred forty one migrants on board will be taken in by france germany luxembourg portugal and spain doctors without borders says some of them are escaping torture forced labor labor that is in sexual violence in libya. the worst flooding in south india's carolla state is nearly in nearly a century has killed sixty seven people or than fifty thousand people are seeking shelter and relief camps international airport in the city of coachy which serves as a major gateway to the state popular with tourists will be closed until saturday becaus

teen from her office near damascus whereabouts are still a mystery in a harder as that story from beirut my me is the more you are from the hostages. as the hostages. the area has from there. the video was released just a few days before any one of the most prominent opposition activists disappeared horse and she along with her husband. and two other colleagues to meet one hundred and now somehow maddy were taken at gunpoint from their office on december ninth two thousand and thirteen the town was surrounded by government forces but it was under the control of the opposition. the most powerful group at the time denies any involvement or knowledge of the kidnap. was not the only faction in the time there was in the entire region forces from the martyrs of the forces of the what are rising the stomach union of the levant and even then the store front where president. i. visited today was a very familiar face at the start of the uprising she was wanted by the syrian government for her role in peaceful protests calling for the downfall of the regime . her center kept track of atrocities but

forty celsius in kuwait forty five celsius that for baghdad a rather more pleasant twenty nine in beirut i will say in jerusalem they go with i shall is a little further north they continue to run across georgia armenia and azerbaijan but a cloud there in southern parts of pakistan you notice but again no real sign of any rainfall the dry weather that continues across central areas soran down into the arabian peninsula warm sunshine here in cots temperatures in done how to have forty three degrees thirty but a cloud you know it's just just around them on just about that eastern side of amounted to most scots much just catch one of two light showers as is the case too across the fos south of yemen as we go on into where the stakes see that cloud becoming a little more expansive but the dry weather will continue here in doha a lot of dry weather too into southern africa but a few showers just around the southern kite long line of play out here just making its way across cape town easing from west to east and a filter its way a little further race woods by wednesday. on the streets of greec

beirut. president bashar assad says it live is the syrian army's next target the opposition controlled northwestern province is home to almost three million people at least half displaced from other rebel areas after so-called surrender deals. but the syrian government's ally russia appears to be giving turkey a chance to what it called stabilize the province turkey is being asked to fulfill agreed commitments in the so-called fast enough process. has been accepting responsibility for the situation. expected to fights terrorists. russia says turkey was supposed to expel or dissolved the heat a sham the group formerly known as el nostra as well as what our city in the syrian branch of al qaida those fighters are designated as terrorists by the international community they are powerful and they have in the past we've checked that ultimatums to disband. them. all turkey wants to avoid military action so it's using the threat of military action to force will start to disband the announcement that

offensive to retake the rebel held province near the border with turkey zana huldah reports from beirut. the syrian government says it is going to take the lead army helicopters dropped leaflets telling rebels and civilians in the opposition controlled northwestern province that it is better to join reconciliation agreements as others in syria have done that rebels have agreed to such deals when on the verge of military defeat so far those in it looks like they are not ready to surrender instead they arrested dozens of people they accuse of promoting a return to state rule know a lot of our security track down people who are promoting reconciliation with the regime they're trying to help the regime into some areas so we arrested them they're waging psychological warfare to weaken the morale of the fighters and people they collaborating with the regime. like in previous assaults the syrian government backs up calls for reconciliation with military action state media showed reinforcements being brought to the conscripts of months of cars were temporarily shattered in recent days dozens of

three billion population to temporarily greet two or three for area is a holder's life for us in beirut but first let's cross over to our correspondent in moscow challenge rory sergey lavrov spoke a short time ago and despite backing up his syrian counterpart for an assault on he was also making an appeal to the international community about what comes afterwards. yeah i mean the russians know that this is a costly war they know that it has ruins much of syria's infrastructure and they know that as the preeminent military force inside syria at the moment some of the responsibility for rebuilding syria falls on them on russia but they of course don't want to shoulder all of the bill and so they're encouraging as many foreign powers as they can to chip in essentially and get the country back on its feet but before that happens of course there is the small matter of the ongoing civil war and i think the russians and the syrian regime in damascus both believe that if they can clear out the remaining rebels in libya the war will pretty much be over the question is of course how costly is tha

beirut russian investigators want to teenage girls awaiting trial on extremism charges to be released from detention and sent to house arrest families and lawyers say the girls were part of a group that used to meet to discuss politics but was then infiltrated by security agencies for each other the reports from moscow. studiousness is how her parents described maria to public the nineteen year old like japanese comics and wanted to be a veterinarian then her world changed dramatically in march. six in the morning and i heard a metallic sound i came down from the second floor looked out of the window and saw a man banging on the door they were thinkers and legs standing under each window they came into the hearts and said where is your daughter. she and her seventeen year old friend and you were among ten young russians now in pretrial detention on extremism charges they called themselves no way of new greatness and would meet up in cafes to discuss politics and criticize the government then say her parents a man called wrist landi in the court documents appeared and wanted to turn th

beirut. libya has condemned forty five officials a former leader daffy to death or accused of carrying out killings at protesting the two thousand and eleven revolution and what became known as the massacre of the abu salim highway mahmud up to wirehead has more from tripoli. the suspects are accused of murdering libyan rebels in two eleven during the uprising that ousted former libyan leader moammar gadhafi now the general prosecutor says that this verdict is based on clear evidence including footage and eye witnesses just moon is and also confessions from some of the suspects on the other hand the defendant's lawyers say they have been shocked and they are planning to be fair the whole case to the supreme court they're planning to send a memorandum to the supreme court in order to start over the whole defense process now in all cases this a verdict is not terminal and if the supreme court says that this whole case has to be started over then the defense in this case can be renewed once the

in beirut for more on this you know the thing which strikes me is that it was one of these so-called deescalation zones it's where people have been sent from all over the country when other areas have been taken over now they're in the phrase here but sitting ducks there is this assault could begin in any time. yes people are worried the syrian government the syrian president himself reiterating that they want to recapture the whole country and they're going to capture it live by their through military force or reconciliation deals deny to nations really has been expressing a lot of concern three million people are virtually trapped because the turkish government has made it quite clear that they do not plan to open their borders to allow the civilians to reach turkey and you heard the mystery of the u.n. special envoy offering to personally go to live to ensure what he called a credible humanitarian corridor because in the past when there have been government operations against rebel held areas the united nations was never on the ground a third party to give security guarantees to p

this is carlos its regular route picking up cocaine base from beirut to be turned into powder in bolivia laboratories. in the throat every cell more like him they made it i mean. they are not the. formal series of your song we often see in the movie. or a moment i'll yell or now i hear. they're not raining momento at that but as a border. remark being ok agree more joe somebody didn't play around with numbers. if you're going to. the authorities have almost no way of controlling a craft flying low over the dense rain forests. from bolivia the main distillation is brazil the second largest cocaine market in the world after the us. but i'm really into really was you know you're one of your. not going for an hour your memory a good. one for just a little more serious. most is. this the end. you mean. isn't it time mostly they gave us a call. but on last. president. i . think. across town of headquarters of l.a. better known for being highly critical of what our listeners government. didn't and c.b.s. has been its leading reporter on crime and drugs for over twenty years. the value chain goi

and the truth is it is against the law and beirut should be prosecuting and if the government wants toe the law about is what they should do. there are a couple of bigger things there across the western world, people are changing these things. most of america now, it is legal to have a small amount of cannabis and canada is in the middle of changing the law and so the uk is miles behind best in treating something that you will be arrested and sent to prison if you do this. another thing interesting is police and crime commissioners are introduced to theresa may to be people's representation. i think you pinpointed the seriousness in the next story, brussels tells firms... it isa next story, brussels tells firms... it is a massive clash until very recently the big two close allies, europe and america, once again it is fuelled by donald trump shredding the iran deal from fuelled by donald trump shredding the iran dealfrom america's perspective and wants to make sure that europe backs away from it as well in europe is having none of it and is encouraging businesses to keep trading with ir

in twenty fifteen lebanon's capshaw beirut the first of several demonstrations against huge mounds of uncollected garbage that were piling up in the city. soon the rallies were attracting over one hundred thousand people as fury grew over the state's fadia the authorities squashed the protests in doing so a movement that would later attempt to challenge the country's unique political system. as the most religiously diverse country in the middle east lebanon has tried to prevent any one group from dominating by setting up a parliamentary system known as confession ism in which each of the main sects holds a position in government a president must be maronite christian the prime minister's sunni muslim and the speaker of parliament shiite muslim. nouri hightail and was a candidate for civil society in the elections but being born armenian orthodox she could only stand against others of that section had district this is what we are trying to fight that this is the slots of the vision you are dividing people according to their religion or to their sect and this is the only identity you ar

to forty four degrees following conditions though generally round the eastern side of the med who beirut's looking at highs of thirty one into the arabian peninsula a low forty's really at the moment across the western side on the eastern side of the potential look at forty four here in doha with a fairly brisk breeze picking up during the course of thursday but easing through friday and saturday before it begins to pick up once again so where i'm saying really is that this is helping to keep the humidity levels down for cats are enormous to me it's very very humid but not actual fact all those forty three degrees it doesn't feel too bad at all down into southern portions of africa and we've got rusty fine condition little bit of cloud around the eastern cape but a largely fine picture otherwise sunshine expecting cape town highs of nineteen and a fine danger has both with a maximum of twenty one. the women sponsored by catalog use. where were you when this idea popped into it when they're online it's undoubtedly. cool or over to an inequality in our society today or if you join the sunset

this week, we go to beirut in 1982.e's a big goldfish, an angry one coming up. there it is, jason statham getting his teeth into the meg, a prehistoric shark is on the loose. can he save us from it? and we take a rare cinematic trip to paraguay for a film called the heiresses. it's about late—flowering freedom found amongst older women. so let's start with the negotiator. this has been billed as sort of bond or bourne meets mad men, in beirut.