hassan nasrallah spoke to thousands of his supporters in the southern suburbs of beirut. the head of the shiite militant group usually addresses supporters via video link for fear of assassination. hezbollah forces are currently fighting in syria alongside the troops of president bashar al-assad. meanwhile france's foreign minister is calling for more help to be given to syrian rebels and that country's city of aleppo. the battle for kobane is absorbed much of the focus in syria in recent weeks, but in a column published in three international newspapers today he said the islamic state fighters turning back from kobane would instead turned to aleppo, already torn apart by syria's civil war. >> are unesco world heritage site in an ancient city. aleppo is now a battlefield in ruins. syria's second largest city happened the largest remaining stronghold in the opposition against bashar al-assad, but according to the french foreign minister, it also risks falling to the islamic state organization. in an article published in three papers including "the washington post," the gro

the last peach of hassan nasrallah two or three days ago even going very far openly and mainly let's say targeting sunnis, and as being the most important danger today for the region. so this phenomenon, in fact, is something that has to do, of course, with the syrian let's say focus of violence or the syrian volcano, or conundrum, but it also has to do with some deep issues that are left unsolved in the lebanese scene. and what i would conclude by saying here is the fact that in fact what is happening on the lebanese syrian border, and mostly inside the lebanese territory or inside the lebanese political space, is something which is more resembling to iraq, than to syria. in the sense that these are old feuds, or old, let's say accounts, unsettled, that are today fuelled again by the syrian war and the syrian revolution. meaning that, in fact, the feeling of sunni disenfranchisement in lebanon is something that traces back probably, if not to or three in the fall of baghdad but very openly and very visibly to 2005, the killing of prime minister rafik hariri. then in 2008, the hezbol