. >> rose: also this evening a focus on lebanon and hariri assassination investigation with octavia nasr and robert worth. >> it is a dialogue going on as to what the prime minister, the son of the assassinated former prime minister, what is he going to do. he's now the richard. -- prime minister. and he heads the government. what is he going to do. how he is going to deal with hezbollah and this new evidence. how he is going to deal with the tribunal so the question of credibility is going it to be something to be addressed and addressed very soon. >> rose: the syrians now feel that they probably, probably they doesn't have enough evidence to go after them and their influence in lebanon in the meantime has been rebuilt considerably. in some ways they're in a better position than they were. they don't have to have military forces in lebanon but there are plenty of politicians who are willing to do their bidding. >> rose: richard holbrooke, october taria nasr, robert worth next. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: . >> rose: additional funding provided by these fund

connelly in mid-may, the committee met with prime minister side ari -- saad hariri. members engaged him on the full range of issues and expressed particular concern about the daily like the progress on the ambassador it -- on the implementation of un security council resolution 1701. on june 8, senator casey's subcommittees' held a hearing that highlighted the intransigence of hezbollah, which continues to act counter to lebanese interests and regional stability and poses a daily threat to peace. our ambassador to lebanon is a key figure in persuading the hard rock -- i read -- hariri government's to withstand the counter pressures and support the programs in which americans have invested more than $1 billion in 2006. terrorists have struck americans in yemen and we require a clearly articulated policy for curbing the terrorist threat there. let me conclude by just asking for your reaction initially to these figures which are so impressive about the new civilian presence in the far right? likewise all the security that must be provided for them. had you in any way be