hezbollah take care of them. here in dahieh everybody support hezbollah.support for hezbollah, typical for the dahieh neighborhood in south beirut, is staunch. >> mr. hafez: before hezbollah, lebanese people, they were always scared of israel. now when you say, "israel," you say, "ah, we don't care." >> anthony: in the early days hezbollah used tactics that just about anyone would call terrorism. when is it permissible, morally, to use tactics like a car bomb, or using civilian targets? >> mr. hafez: for me? >> anthony: for you. >> mr. hafez: i'm against killing. against killing anybody, even israel. this person who i'm going to kill, in car bomb, or whatever, doesn't he has family? >> anthony: what's the most important thing happening in the world today that needs to be resolved for things to be better? >> mr. hafez: isis. >> anthony: isis is number one. >> mr. hafez: number one. they killed hundreds and thousands of shia. they are devils. they are against everything, like everything on the earth, they are against. >> anthony: recently hezbollah has becom

based syrian observatory for human rights says that target was a hezbollah arms depo this is been a long term policy by israel to try to strike iranian or iranian links targets within syria trying to hamper iranian military activity inside the country if you go back to april there was a strike on the t four syrian military base it was reported that seven iranians were killed in may there was a volley of rocket fire israel said coming from syrian territory towards the occupied golan heights israel blamed that on the iranian revolutionary guard and responded with a huge blitz on targets within syria the biggest for several decades and then just last week there was a strike very close to the iraqi syrian border in which it was reported that twenty two iraqi fighters were killed so again no official comment no official confirmation from israel about responsibility for this latest attack but it would seem to fit in with what has become very much business as usual for israel's military chemical attacks in syria are being discussed at a special meeting at the world chemical weapons watchdog in

so we handed them money to spend more on short and mid range missiles to fund hezbollah.we abandoned many operations globally to get hezbollah at the altar of the nuclear deal. and allowed companies to come into tehran to open up shop like boeing and other european companies which never works to bring down a regime, actually helps to strengthen them and as the sanctions ended the khameneists were more insecure and now within months of us pulling out of the deal, the iranian people are starting to see economy weaken which is helping them destabilize the government and actually see a light at the end of the tunnel, they're extremely thankful. people of iran who we would share our values with are thankful of what president trump, john bolton and others have done now, and i think there is no -- i don't know what planet the left living on and thinking that was wise. i think we're proving that the best anti-nuclear program would be to destabilize that regime and hopefully have a revolution to bring forth more democracy. mark: this civil war, it's more than a civil war. these ba

hezbollah -- >> hezbollah is a fully funded quiet regime from a run. they have small arms and rocket capable, very capable intelligence force, active not only in the region, and the west around the errors really, lebanon border. but now also active in supporting iran and asad in syria as well. i should add, hezbollah has active efforts for external plotting including in places like the united states. >> do you have the appropriate amount of resources to defend israel? >> i believe we do, yes ma'am. >> what we need next to do with israel? >> my experiences eight weeks here, my previous role, we have no better partner along many dimensions than the israelis. not only in the work we do to help keep them secure but the work they do to help us push back against terror threats against united states as well. there may be other opportunities to do more and do better. but we have a really solid working relationship across, diplomatic military and intelligence agencies in each of our two governments. >> i know you have been very busy and we have both been in the

one enemy is hezbollah. enemy had forone enemy is hezbollah. how would you describe the relationship between iran and relationship between iran and hezbollah? and have sec. pompeo: hezbollah is a fully funded client told her glory and terrorist organization active along will wondering organization active along what her borders and multiple dimensions. the small arms and rockets capable -- a very capable intelligence force. not only active in the west around the israeli lebanon border but also now active in supporting iran and assad in syria. lebanon border will syria. you will you has below also has will enter the has below also has active efforts for extra budging including places like the united states. >> the have the appropriate theater at the appropriate amount of resources to carry out the policy on their stability? amount of the area hardly the policy on their stability? sec. pompeo: i believe we do. a blip we do you >> what are the areas of cooperation the united areas of cooperation the united and they were in the area and states needs

it has various fronts a movement such as hezbollah. there's also smaller groups that are not shiite. hamas for example. it is much more formidable. it's capability to manufacture nuclear weapons is very much reared in the west. not just because it will become another nuclear power, but because of its aggressive ideology. with confrontational stance, not just for the united states but for israel and other gulf states. it is very difficult. up until now, we have relied on sanctions. the current administration has implemented some very severe and far-reaching sanctions. these have caused major economic problems for the iranians. for example, the currency has depreciated roughly 80%. inflation this past year was 30%, and consider trees another 20%. nonetheless, it has found ways to get around the sanctions, by using shell companies and so forth. i am dbtful that sanctions will bring the iranians to heal. they protest that the nuclear program was entirely peaceful, unlike the north koreans who brag about nuclear capacity nuclear weapons, th

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. 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 sergey 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 advisers are not present in the area. received a strong message from israel with the stepped up air strikes that it's want

hezbollah forces. iranian gone sort of with them and it seems that the bottle of the dollar will soon out of than expected some forty five thousand people fled the violence what impact is this likely to have on they bring is it going to see another influx of people fleeing the fighting. yes. we have heard from jordan that they will deny any one to the jordanian soil and from the people who are running away i think that this is not about and such operations when thinking and rethinking. and. we see more and more when the syrian army approaches the city of that ah so some people will fled south of but i think that. if this if the jordanian insists on their decision not to receive any. refuses that will make bubbles what all these civilians who flee the the but the from here and then at economically how is this going to affect jordan. yes if this syrian army reaches the point of not see which is connected to the cut off point of jabot and the jordan jordanian side of the syrian jordanian border that means

based syrian observatory for human rights says that target was a hezbollah arms death this is being a long term policy by israel to try to strike. iranian or iranian linked targets within syria trying to hamper iranian military activity inside the country if you go back to april there was a strike on the t four syrian military base it was reported that seven iranians were killed in may there was a volley of rocket fire israel said coming from syrian territory towards the occupied golan heights israel blamed that on the iranian revolutionary guard and responded with a huge blitz on targets within syria the biggest for several decades and then just last week there was a strike very close to the iraqi syrian border in which it was reported that twenty two iraqi fighters were killed so again no official comment no official confirmation from israel about responsibility for this latest attack but it would seem to fit in with what has become very much business as usual for israel's military russia iran and syria are opposing giving the world's chemical weapons watchdog power to assign blame

total immunity for iran to finance hezbollah and continue the war into syria. total immunity for iran to set up bases in syria and lebanon. and start converting rockets into precision guided munitions to target our allies in israel. total immunity to continue to arm yemen with ballistic missiles that could target saudi arabia, or commercial merchant vessels that are transiting. this was the fatal flaw. we handcuffed ourselves. to do any of these nonnuclear sanctions, to touch annex to, the europeans would say would drive the iranians out of the deal. in some ways, i disagree with your statement. the jcpoa was making war more likely, not less. we eliminated our nonlethal option. we took a course of economic options off the table. all we were left with was military deterrence. that's why, leading up to the decision, there were so many reports about the need to use military force in syria, elsewhere, and beyond. i have a number of recommendations for the way ahead. i hope that we have time to discuss them today. they have to do with the strategy, which was threefo

kennedy: considering where that money could go. >> hezbollah, you mentioned it. kennedy: conside how much destablization and harm could come from that amount of money in a short period of time, i don't understand it either. we are going to move on because we found melania tmpoday making her first public appearance in a no. watch this. president trump: she went through a rough patch but she is doreat we are proud of her. she has done a great job as first lady. the people of america lov so thank you, honey. kennedy: that came hourstheresis about the speculation over the first lady's whereabouts. he tweeted the fake news media has beo fair and vicious about my wife and our great first lady. she is doing really well. will the media get message and knock off all the bogus reporting. i feel bad for her on a number of ls. it's difficult to be first lady in the best of times with a very boring husband. kat: at least people notice when she goes missing. i spent all last weekend in my apartment watching "young and pregnant" and nobody even called me. there are certain peop

hezbollah is one of those enemies. how would you describe the relationship between iran and hezbollah? sec. pompeo: as well as a fully funded terrorist organization of the iranian regime active along multiple dimensions. , a capableable intelligence force, active not only in the region of the west around the israeli-lebanon border, but active in supporting assad in.i hezbollah has external plotting, including places like the united states. >> do you have the appropriate resources to carry out a policy that supports israel's defense? sec. pompeo: i believe we do. >> what are the areas the united states needs next with israel? experience in my previous role, we have no better partner along many dimensions than the israelis. not only what we do to keep israel safe and secure but what they do to help us push back against terrorist threats of the united states. there may be opportunities to do more and better, but we have a solid working relationship across intelligence agencies and our two governments. sen. hyde-smith: i k

one enemy is hezbollah. how would you describe the relationship between iran and hezbollah? hezbollah is a fully funded client terrorist organization active along multiple dimensions. capablems and rockets -- a very capable intelligence force. not only active in the west around the israeli lebanon border but also now active in supporting iran and assad in syria. has below also has active efforts for extra budging including places like the united states. the have the appropriate amount of resources to carry out the policy on their stability? sec. pompeo: i believe we do. >> what are the areas of cooperation the united states needs next with israel? experience eight weeks here, and in my previous role, we have no better partner along many dimensions than the in re zunis -- then the israelis. not only in the work to help keep us safe, but us pushing back terror threats in the united states as well. there may be other opportunities to do more and better, but we have a solid working relationship across diplomatic military intelligence agencies in each of our governments. >> i kno

they are funding hezbollah. and directly funding terror. >> this is sounding more and more like a money laundering operation. they started with commemorative coins from the franklin mint. it shows you what a horrible deal this was. what proves that is they tried to hide this. they night was a bad deal. it's the kind of deal where you hope you get kissed beforehand. it wasn't even a good deal for the iranian people either. kennedy: that's a good point that you don't hear much about. a lot of americans are confused about the deal. what do we get out of it. but doitsd erode your trust in -- but does it erode your trust in government? cat. kat: i have no trust for people in power. of course, there was more to the story than what we heard. of course, we had to do extra more than what we heard. i'm not surprised, but disgusted as always. >> it's so weird that this much money and the harm that could come from flipping a switch like that wasn't even considered or disclosed. >> i'm not one these crazy conservatives who t

basically have another war with that war be between israel and city that will be between israel and hezbollah iranian proxy which is infinite or will it be between israel and iran these are the big questions whether that these activities that are taking place that assad is now frankly can bet on what's next. is a sensitive sort of reaction sensitive atmosphere in that region in that region and actually in all of middle east the israelis now waiting to see what the americans will do because russian media to see spy out of course this is a violation of the cease fire i russia is striking that all along with us are so if the americans don't do anything as they've said it said that they will not be back in that list then what israel does that's an open question that's a good talking to as ever and show for her in beirut thank you let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world mexico's presidential election campaigns in turmoil the murders of five members of the leftist party leading the polls the five including states assembly account. lopez of and bondo was shot

an assortment of foreign powers and now with the backing of russia iran and the lebanese militia hezbollah president assad is seeking to retake control of daraa one of the last remaining rebel held areas there are is in the far south west of syria and government forces of massed in the region they're shelling and they're dropping barrel bombs and some reports suggest that they're getting support from russia in the air campaign but this was supposed to be a deescalation zone agreed by russia the united states and jordan well that agreements clearly now null and void much to the consternation of neighboring countries the u.s. has reportedly told the syrian rebels not to expect to military support in southern syria so why is there are so sensitive apart from it symbolic significance as the birth race of the revolution the province is considered strategically important it's on the border with jordan and it stretches all the way to these radio golan heights and as we've mentioned the u.s. russia and jordan agreed last year to include darragh as part of full so-called deescalation zones designed

are they disassociated from hezbollah? are they not joining -- well, backing the hutis in yemen? not that wear aware of. the arms agreement now is practically on its death bed because of the united states. they can pull out if they want but threatening to sanction other biusinesses for doing business with iran. so you have a lot of problems ahead. >> more than a few things to discuss. christi christiane, appreciate it as always. >> we are just learning, special counsel robert mueller has just filed a new indictment on paul manafort. what do we know about this? >> these are new charges that have just been filed in federal court here in washington again paul manafort, the former chairman of the trump campaign. and we also have a new defendant, constantine kilimnik. he worked very closely with paul manafort. and the two new charges against both paul manafort and konstantine kilimnik are new charges in addition to the five that manafort already faces here in washington. years before paul manafort was hired to run the trump campaign, he was actually working for the ukrainian governmen

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. 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 under way his envoy later clarified this included iran days later the russian foreign minister sergey 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 advisers are not present in the area. received a strong message from israel with the stepped up air strikes that it won't

based syrian observatory for human rights says that target was a hezbollah arms depo this is been a long term policy by israel to try to strike iranian or iranian linked targets within syria trying to hamper iranian military activity inside the country if you go back to april there was a strike on the t four syrian military base it was reported that seven iranians were killed in may there was a volley of rocket fire israel said coming from syrian territory towards the occupied golan heights israel blamed that on the iranian revolutionary guard and responded with a huge blitz on targets within syria the biggest for several decades and then just last week there was a strike very close to the iraqi syrian border in which it was reported that twenty two iraqi fighters were killed so again no official comment no official confirmation from israel about responsibility for this latest attack but it would seem to fit in with what has become very much business as usual for israel's military. navy divers have reentered a flooded cave in northern thailand as part of a growing search for a missing fo

hezbollah is actually general says the group will help return some of the syrian refugees in lebanon to their country. says he'll work with both the syrian and lebanese governments to coordinate voluntary returns with one million syrians have fled to neighboring lebanon to escape the violence rights groups fair return of refugees could be premature. it's now been a week since twelve young footballers and their coach went missing in a cave in northern thailand heavy rain flooded the cave leaving them trapped inside when the thousand divers soldiers and border guards have joined the search for top british cave divers along with some u.s. military personnel and now involved a new opening to the underground cave complex was discovered on friday raising hopes the boys may still be found alive well here are some of the latest images from inside the cave as rescuers continue their search for the missing children and their coach flooding is still preventing access to many of the areas but emergency workers are looking for alternative routes to get deeper into the cave people and bring you up

but we saw the flags of hezbollah here, their militia. the ruins, defiled by graffiti, some apparently from forces loyal to president assad, anan some pro-iralogans in farsi. r ban on us-- we can't film the russians as we droach through the empty shattered streets. there are checkpoints all across this ghost city. palmyra, forever now the scene of russia's greatest military embarrassment during its alliance in this war with the syrian government. ♪ may 5, 2016-- the st. petersburg orchestra plays in t in the roman amphitheater. syrian and russian forces have pushed the islamic state fighters from the city. and yet, six months later, the islamic state retook the entire place. meting out revenge upon its monuments., previousey'd used this amphitheater for mass public executions. now they blew up the renowned central arch of the st ce. spent bullings, what appear to be a detonator and cord, still lie strewn about the stone seating. the city's arch of triumph destroyed, other monuments also blow. and revenge upon palmyra's people, too. we mee

qatar was expected to sever all alleged ties with the muslim brotherhood and other groups including hezbollah al qaida and i saw the thirteen demands that the courts had issued towards qatar were absolutely unrealistic one of their major demands was for qatar to stop interfering in other nations affairs and if you look at the list of thirteen demands well that's exactly what they do they interfere in the affairs of the country state. through the kuwaiti intermediary qatar gave its response to the demands. the deadline passed and qatar had fulfilled none of the thirteen points obviously definitely. not accepted no coakley that respects its sovereignty and independence well ever except. to be able. to accept and public took up which relate to thirteen public like this a forty eight hour extension was given by the blockading for and still qatar refused to bow down the saudis an m.r.i. artie's expressed outrage at qatar willingness to submit and said the failure to comply is a threat to regional security qatar stood firm and replied with offers of dialogue reaffirming their willingness to find a

they, too, understand the malign activity with hezbollah, yemen, syria, iraq, or its missile programhat is launching missiles into airports that westerners travel through. there is a unified understanding of iran's malevolent behavior and will be an incredibly united world if they head down that path. >> you mentioned soleimani. they are trying to move into syria where they have put the revolutionary guard again. but you're saying, i just want to understand, if necessary the united states is prepared to do whatever they have to do to stop them. >> president trump has been unambiguous in his statements that says iran will not be able to obtain a nuclear weapon. remember, too, it's important to remind your viewers that the previous agreement permitted them toen raeufp aourtoenrich u. i laid down a dozen items that we're asking iran to do. if your viewers go look at them, they are simple things. become a member of the community of nations, right? stop launching missiles into non-hostile nations. cease support of terrorism around the world. don't go down the path of a nuclear weapons sys

they tried to overwhelm the missile defenses just by sheer number of missiles which are in hezbollah or hamas hands. the preventive action which would be to continue to support the interdiction of any missiles. it was prepared to give iran more than three times the capacity of the aerating flights. why encouraging companies to scale back aid which could go to the resolution or a guard corps. with the regard to the naval aggression are present matters. i differentiate between our presence in general and are air crass carrier. what many people as a pivot away from us. the threat posed. where they can reach us but we can't reach them. they can't retaliate against us. between 2003 and 2011 we head on average. what i'm saying is we should continue with that. and the purge in golf. alright mr. goldberg. let me go to you and your written testimony. the maximum pressure and strategy. what further sanctions do we need in your opinion and how do we know that your sanctions are working. as can be very important for this subcommittee and other members. what we saw. we saw enormous pressure and s

hospitals we treat everyone who comes whether they are terrorists or not but when the iranians and hezbollah and their militias were targeting us when they were coming over towards our border and we saw an interview here because a i find these formulation by israeli officials or former officials very curious somebody coming over towards our border and you have to decide whether it is over your border or towards the oberoi because coming towards your border is not a crime people are entitled to be where they want to be if it's according to even the lawyer if it's according with the agreements bilateral agreements that exist there on the side but putting that aside you mentioned the sunni extremists and it is i think quite obvious to everybody that israel is increasingly cozying up with the most hardline sunni regimes like saudi arabia other regimes in the region and those regimes quite clearly finance have financed and perhaps will continue financing the most extremist groups in syria do you see any danger coming from those groups to israel. well again i do not make any distinction between th

syrian 0bservatory for human rights, the head saying that the israeli military hit arms depots for hezbollah us, a number of news agencies are reporting according to syrian state television, that two israeli missiles have fallen in the vicinity of damascus, near the international airport. more on that, as soon as we get it. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... prince william arrives in tel aviv for the first official royal visit to israel and the palestinian territories. also ahead on the programme: we'll have the latest on the world cup in moscow, after spain and portugal made it through to the knockout stages. members of the neo—nazi resistance movement stormed the world trade center, armed with pistols and shotguns. we believe that, according to international law, that we have a rightful claim on certain parts of this country as ourland. i take pride in the words "ich bin ein berliner". chapman, prison—pale and slightly chubby, said not a single word in open court. it was left to his lawyer to explain his decision to plead guilty to murdering john lennon.

region you know they are in yemen helping the hoodies against the government they are in lebanon with hezbollah against the government they are in libya they are anywhere they are in but her reign they were trying to actually topple all the sunni governments and now they're trying to do the same thing in syria and we have to stop them now ambassador you let perfectly to my next question is around israel has long maintained that it was committed to preventing iran or any of its offshoots from establishing themselves in syria and for that it counted extensively on the russian understanding. i think even collaboration to some extent is israel ready to return and that favor because we are now hearing about u.s. plans to establish a more permanent american presence in northeastern syria which definitely goes against russia's interests in that country should we expect israel to be an advocate of russia's interest with the americans especially now that you have such a perfect relationship with the white house yes i think i think this is a very good i think this is a very good thing both for moscow and

province on thursday syrian army also captured the town of according to the government's lebanese ally hezbollah. and at least fifteen people have died in a fire in the kenyan capital's largest open air market up to seventy others have been taken to hospital many with serious burns the fire broke out early thursday morning in nairobi's market which is famous for selling secondhand clothes. the top stories i'll have more news for you in about twenty five minutes time do join me then coming up next on al-jazeera the strain. and i really could be today with more l g b t representatives in the public eye we discuss what impact they have so tell us who you are proud of why the west the well should know about them too just so leave your comments in our live chat maybe you could also be in the street. names stories of a democratic candidate. for the kansas third congressional district and you are in this your. politicians are slowly gaining visibility and reaching their nation's highest offices something that was on soften mobile until very recently well why they're all for heads of government to also

qatar was expected to sever all alleged ties with the muslim brotherhood and other groups including hezbollah al qaida and i sold the thirteen demands that the courts had issued towards qatar were absolutely unrealistic one of their major demands was for qatar to stop interfering in other nations' affairs and if you look at the list of thirteen demands well that's exactly what they do they interfere in the affairs of the country state. through the kuwaiti intermediary qatar gave its response to the demands. the deadline passed and qatar had fulfilled none of the thirteen points obviously definitely. enough except no coakley that respects its sovereignty and independence well ever except. to be able. to accept in public took up ritual eight to thirteen public like this a forty eight hour extension was given by the blockading for and still qatar refused to bow down the saudis an m.r.i. artie's expressed outrage at qatar willingness to submit and said the failure to comply is a threat to regional security qatar stood firm and replied with offers of dialogue reaffirming their willingness to find

in twenty fourteen for helping hezbollah it also identified some twenty one million dollars in real estate held by individuals associated with the tough konami money laundering organization a pakistani ring that aided drug traffickers and groups like al qaeda through its currency exchange houses. ok let's bring in our guests here on inside story from berlin we're going to be joined by casey kelso advocacy director at transparency international who also pulled leads the global anti corruption consortium from london andrea's craig assistant professor at the defense studies department at king's college london and from copenhagen on skype a senior policy analyst for the social and economic survey research institute at castle university thank you and welcome to all of you for joining us casey coming to you first just paint is a fiscal picture legal or illegal of how they do what they do into by well it's very interesting to read the revelations that came out of the leak that see for a.d.'s had received. the organized crime and corruption reporting project this journalist network sent in a journ

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 advisers are not present in the area. how soon the iranians receive a strong message from isra

basically have another war with that war between israel and city out will it be between israel and hezbollah iranian proxy which is infinite or will it be between israel and iran these are the big questions but the back to these activities that are taking place that assad is now trying to reclaim that are just next. is a sensitive sort of reaction sensitive atmosphere in that region in that region and actually in all of middle east the israelis now are waiting to see what the americans will do because russian media to see spy out of course this is a violation of the seems like russia is striking that all along with us our so if the americans don't do anything as they've said they've said that they will not be back into that list then what israel does that's an open question it's a good talking to as i'm sure for in beirut thank you i'm old has granted permission to the german rescue ship the lifeline to dock more than two hundred thirty migrants from board the vessel which has been stranded at sea for six days of this agreement came only after a number of the european the union countries agr

lot is of course --a also going into hezbollah. this is of course a terrorist organization. why? my answer is because they support terrorism. pretty simple to me. we can expect to see a lot of proliferation. $2 billion toout $3 billion for the regime each year. interesting stuff. if something were to happen like in november of 2013, it is likely that something like that could actually bring down the regime. this really rocked north korea. not only did it rock north korea internally, it blocked their foreign affairs. and who is their most important ally? china. does anyone know with appointment for china -- the point man for china was? tech.ome ♪ .his was a was advised for all of this and he purged his uncle anyway. this could really rock north korea even harder than it did this time. i'm sure you're sitting in your chairs rocking back and forth saying, can he survive? in the answer is, maybe. in order to keep the country from exploding he must have control of his database,'s power base. kim jong-un does not have that. he does not yet have control of the party, the military, the s

in qatar have had serious disagreements over the wars in syria and yemen and iranian support for hezbollah in lebanon but they speak with one voice in support of the palestinian people and share the world's largest natural gas field and in the last year disputes with saudi arabia have brought them closer together. we felt qatar was being treated unfairly so we opened our doors we let qatar airways use our airspace and we used five important ports in the south of the country to send our help relations with qatar have a bright horizon because our qatari friends are well aware about the intentions of our officials ability be served as iran's ambassador to qatar he says both countries can cooperate on much more but he admits for qatar the appearance of siding too openly with iran is tricky. but there is home to the largest american air base in the middle east and u.s. central command headquarters cozying up to iran also further anger blockading countries escalate tensions even more. because those leaders the last year has been a delicate balancing act but whatever happens next people living in

based syrian observatory for human rights says that target was a hezbollah arms depo this is been a long term policy by israel to try to strike iranian or iranian links targets within syria trying to hamper iranian military activity inside the country if you go back to april there was a strike on the t four syrian military base it was reported that seven iranians were killed in may there was a volley of rocket fire israel said coming from syrian territory towards the occupied golan heights israel blamed that on the iranian revolutionary guard and responded with a huge blitz on targets within syria the biggest for several decades and then just last week there was a strike very close to the iraqi syrian border in which it was reported that twenty two iraqi fighters were killed so again no official comment no official confirmation from israel about responsibility for this latest attack but it would seem to fit in with what has become very much business as usual for israel's military. terrorises calling on the world not to abandon the united nations agency for palestinian refugees organizati

basically have another war will that war be between israel and syria will it be between israel and hezbollah are iranian proxy which is infinite or will it be between israel and iran these are the big questions but the back to these activities there are taking pleased that assad is now trying to reclaim that i'll just explain it is a sensitive sort of reaction sensitive atmosphere in that region in that region and actually in all of middle east that israel is now waiting to see what the americans will do because russian media to see is spy out of course this is a violation of the cease fire russia is striking that are along with us are so if the americans don't do anything as they've said they've said that they will not be backing that at least then what israel does that's an open question that's a good talking to as ever and show for her in beirut thank you. germany are just hours away from a crucial match against south korea in world cup group f a victory for your humor love side would guarantee qualification for the knockout rounds anything else would leave their fate in the hands of fell

on the ground even though that is waning largely as a result of being crushed by forces such as hezbollah the iranian militia sudden russian air force and so on that the presence of isis is then used by the united states and britain as a justification for having troops and a presence on the ground and that's there's probably some element of that in why the americans are still active in yemen but the main reason is to support the saudi onslaught the saudis have proved again and again that regardless of the massive amounts of military capability they have that in terms of actually putting that to use they are not actually that competent heatedly and therefore they're largely reliant on western logistical intelligence and other support but let's put something as well throw something into the mix here for example three within the last three years britain's arms exports to saudi arabia they quit equate to something like ten billion dollars. half of all britain's arms exports go to one country saudi arabia and that's on top of the massive saudi and incidentally also qatari influence that these