. >>> it's friday morning in beruit shortly after 11:00 n fact. day of national mourning for the victims of thursday's street violence for several hours as bullets flew everywhere. it felt like lebanon could again be plunging head long into another civil war. now there is an easy calm over the city as soldiers patrol the streets. just 24 hours earlier, this was the scene that many fear is a preview of what's to come. armed militants battling in the streets. 30 killed and more than 30 wounded making it the deadliest violence there in more than a decade. to put it into perspective, ben wedeman joins us from the capital. give us a sense of what the mood is like today, what you're seeing. of course, this investigation into the port blast isn't over yet. >> reporter: the mood is one of in a sense resignation to yet another step on the way to the other collapse of lebanon as a state. the army was able to restore calm in that area. it's important to stress it's not as if there was fighting all over beruit. it was in a very specific limited area. so the a

if you have a route, for instance, of a middle eastern airline that flies, say, from beruit to gradano in belarus, that's not exactly a touristic center. they're saying, look, they know these people are going to try and get across the border. they know these are not students that are going to stay in belarus. eu is saying airlines are benefiting from this, and those airlines need to feel some teeth as you say, from the european union. >> poland, very quickly, has been blamed for being very heavy handed here. >> exactly. the poles, really they make no excuses for it. they say that's the line they're going to continue. >> fred pleitgen, thanks very much. >>> now syria has carried out the death penalty of those setting last year's wildfires which killed three people and scorched thousands of acres of land. the ministry of justice said three people were executed on wednesday after being convicted on terrorism charges. the government says they all had made full confessions. nearly a dozen others received life sentences with hard labor. >>> now, nicaragua is stepping up its crackdown on poli

already heavily sanctioned, but also airlines based in the middle east that fly out of places like beruit, air beal and bringing more and more folks to that border area because the eu is saying the situation there is getting more dire by the day for the folks who are trapped at the border and trying to get across, isa. >> follow the monday and i try to stem that. thanks very much, fred pleitgen for us there. thank you, fred. >>> you are watching "cnn newsroom." just ahead, what china is saying about a report about a hypersonic missile. we'll have that story for you after a short break. neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. get pumped fans, because basketball's back! and our league pass lineup is totally stacked. forty games a week, all season long, on all your devices, so you'll never go wrong. watch your favorite sport, and do it your way, with nba league pass. order today! experience all the nba action with xfinity x1 - track stats and scores while watching your team live. to upgrade, just say nba league p