the shiites in iraq syria to be shiite hizbullah in southern lebanon this exes will be destroyed it. which means also that this would be a tremendous blow for the political influence of iran in the gulf region now you mention quite a few countries there is there a risk of the crisis in syria spilling over into other countries and the conflict is spelled already in lebanon that there are. quite a number of flights between. living in malta in women in particular in tripoli and. sunni supporters of. sirte it. is also developing into a proxy war because saudi arabia is massively supporting the sunni hariri clan in order to weaken the dominating shiite hizbullah in lebanon so the situation in lebanon is very tense and. the chances that even another civil war will take place here chances. are relatively higher now kofi annan might have stepped down from his role as a peace mediator but is his six point plan still the best option for peace in syria well i think it's the only option however right from the beginning especially the united states but also saudi arabia qatar they were against it

saudi arabia massively supporting the sunny hariri clan in order to weaken the dominating shiite hizbullah in lebanon so the situation in lebanon is very tense and. the chances that even another civil war will take place here chances. relatively high now kofi annan might have stepped down from his role as a peace mediator but is his six point plan still the best option for peace in syria . well i think it's the only option however right from the beginning especially the united states but also saudi arabia qatar they were against it and they really made it a nonstarter it's quite clear that brahim in the follow on often on is taking over this same plan and it's also obvious that russia is still supporting the plan so if you really look for a peaceful settlement it would be the only chance but as long as saudi arabia is turkey a united states u.k. france as long as they demand first the toppling of a sound there's no chance that this plan can actually put be put into reality in your opinion how accurate is the news coverage of what's been going on in syria being. well. like in every war ther

is iran's only ally in the arab world it's their route to the sea it's the route for them to arm hizbullah in lebanon which threatens of course our ally israel and so seeing syria remove assad is a very high priority for us the candidates did mention russia on a few occasions although there was no specific question about russia of course that hot mike moment came on you know the one between president obama and russia's image of if this spring when the u.s. president suggested that he would be more flexible to discuss america's missile defense plans in europe after the election and for that remark the president has come under an avalanche of criticism in washington russia does continue to battle us in the u.n. time and time again i have clear eyes on this i'm not going to wear rose colored glasses when it comes to russia or mr putin and i'm certainly not going to say to him i'll give you more flexibility you have to election after the election you'll get more back on the missile defense shield in europe is a longstanding sore point in the relations between the two countries moscow suggested

for both their allegiances and tensions you have essentially the march eighth bloc that is led by hizbullah that supports the syrian president bashar assad backing it out with the march the fourteenth movement that is seen as western backed it's also a movement that supports the syrian opposition ever since the assassination in two thousand and five of the former prime minister rafik hariri these two forces have been coming to the fore and we see that happening again now over the assassination back on friday obvious high ranking lebanese intelligence officer but what people tend to forget is that it is not in syria's interest to have been involved in this attack on friday you also need to remember that on sunday there was a suicide bombing in damascus itself that lift some thirteen people killed so what we're hearing is more voices saying that this attempted blaming syria is merely a detraction from who the real culprits are and it is an attempted essentially just provoking the situation people saying that not since refrigerator was assassinated more than seven years ago has there been such

were some political actors ations accusing syria of being responsible and also some voices accusing hizbullah of being responsible for this this assassination although the criminal investigation has not. verily started you know and this has been a trend eleven on it's the same trend when the prime minister how late it was in two thousand and five and others were assassinated afterwards there was also this kind of a rush to use the outcome for political purposes and accusations that are based on political interests not based on the findings or for an independent judicial body there's a lot of tension on the streets today of course the crisis in syria is having a huge impact on these a good situation lebannon let's see where this is all going the coming days will be decisive. in syria itself a similar car explosion has hit damascus killing at least thirteen people and wounding dozens of others a taxi rigged with explosives blew up outside a police station in a busy district no one has admitted the blast which is the latest in a series of deadly bombings in syria's biggest cities in the past few