well the hezbollah has a pretty loyal be in the sea as in the country feel that under the hizbullah they have done better relatively not all of them of course but the general feeling is that under his beloved she has and the country are not as poor as they used to be the other reason is a broadly hizbullah is seen as a strong military force that doesn't help levanon in fighting israel this country has been invaded by israel a couple of times another reason is that his beloved management cracking clever alliances the power in this country is divided on the basis of sects of muslims and christians and indecl actions you had his. in alliance with the christians and some these didn't have a tory didn't have some of his blood that mort as well because our allies have performed better and the other reason is the sunni water split because they didn't have competition several members of the sunni elites stood up and were competing with her eating. now you mentioned the prime minister saad hariri said he will work with anyone and hezbollah have said the vow willing to work with him why would shou

is not going to get out of there and with the iranians and hizbullah and the city and says look we have allies we're going to be whatever we want to be and israel has no business telling us off so you've got a tense situation in any anything really can overnight on into or into a war in the region right now or the one hopes that better sense would prevail and one of the reasons for u.s. decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal has an emboldened iva side or perhaps both. well that's just adding fuel to the fire and this essentially is a huge victory for benjamin netanyahu he wanted this for a very very long time and on the truck he's basically docked what he wanted now iran's foreign minister is going to be traveling the world he's also going to be going to brussels and meeting the e.u. ministers that he's hoping if you can somewhat souders the deal but what we hear is that this creates a huge problem for honey inside because kamini the spiritual leader has already said that look we don't even have a chance the e.u. countries what should tell us and the will help us in getting all

they have a loyalist base and shias in this country feel that the hizbullah kid us to their needs and they were much poorer than they are now that's one part of it the other part of it is that they have cracked clever line says they are allies with the christians now broadly if you look at eleven on this the problem is divided between sunni muslims and christians and she ours which essentially are the hizbullah and i'm on our allies with the russians so because of this alliance they also managed in securing more number of wards as we're hearing now than the sunni parties but you know to counter that however the power sharing system stipulates that a sunni holds the office of prime minister that still means that we could see the incumbent side hariri return to power how is that likely to be received in the region would you say how does having him in power jive with other players in the region for example like saudi arabia. well in lebanon by one has to be managed politically and if it isn't then there is some concern and business world are leading having a majority in the parliament th

absolutely i mean that's a that's a no brainer absolutely yes hizbullah's essentially going to use this to tell america and other western countries look we now have political legitimacy as well we're not terrorists secondly our parties in our allies have done well so we are a legitimate political power broadly in the region if you look at middle east lebanon is a tiny country but it's very important when you look at broader conflicts playing out it is a problem for israel and it is a problem for saudi arabia because the saudis see his alliance with trio his billows gains as essentially iran doing the weather which is what it is input is really his below was half assing them off on their border in lebanon but also now has a presence in syria and south city and york by golan heights so israel is quite troubled not as well as always been strong but essentially political gains would mean that israel and saudi arabia cannot handle this problem in lebanon which is events expansion through its build up literally and they can handle it politically other going to take an aggressive approach that

as it's nemesis in two thousand and six hizbullah give the israelis the duff right there is means don't want is reluctant strong now they're going to be even stronger politically saudis don't want as well to be strong because there's been lazy dance proxy and they don't want to iran's expansion so you know when now we will see. even worse rhetoric from these countries in the region and a lot of people here that i'm talking to are a little bit worried as to what this now means what actually on the ground elliptical rise would mean for the region ok from the perspective of israel and saudi arabia then. the worrying projections show that has blood on his allies or so to win over half the seats in parliament why have they done so well. well they've done well for a several reasons there's a new electoral law and has allies their allies with the christians need to look at the demographics of levanon who have shia muslims sunni muslims and christians several different sects but need to speak activities now share his will laugh they have the of very loyal support and their allies with the chris

gains in those areas which are widely seen as a hezbollah stronghold now we were waiting to see what hizbullah survival which is the future movement led by sad how dearly has made particularly here in the capital beirut and also in the northern city of tripoli and these two districts are crucial for saddle heady if he makes major gains there would consolidate his chances to be reelected as prime minister of lebanon but he faces some tough resistance from news certainly candidates particularly here in the capital and also in tripoli it remains to be seen whether president michel our own and his party which is the free patrick movement is going also to be the biggest. when are among the christian political blocs in eleven or so these are the latest developments just a while ago we've seen a crowd of hezbollah supporters riding their motorcades here in the downtown of beirut celebrating what they consider to be a major win ok so we're still going to have to wait to get any clear indication of results but there have also been some clashes a little earlier what's the latest on that there have been

community it is crucial for hizbullah which wants to consider date its gaze in the it is strongholds particularly a valley southern lebanon to tell the international community and the liberties that he has the trust of its own people it is also crucial for prime minister saddle her duty as you know historically speaking of the sunnis have been divided the key players the players divided over who has to have the biggest set said that how do you want to project himself as the voice of the sin in the community a bomb blast in afghanistan has killed at least thirteen people the explosion happened at a mosque in the eastern province of cost police suspected the mosque may have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center for october's parliamentary election pakistani police say the suspect behind the attempted assassination of the interior minister is affiliated to the ultra religious to recalibrate party the twenty one year old man was arrested shortly after allegedly shooting in wounding arsenic following a random province iran's president has warned the u.s. i

don't want neverland being in a conflict that israel would like peace but this having said that is hizbullah is a very strong force on the ground and by making political gains essentially they're saying that that cause which is business is to israel is an illegitimate cause now how the numbering gauge is quite a different question the fighters in the south and the golan heights on the city inside of all his beloved fighters these are the fighters who trained shia militias of iraq. which is sitting inside a gulag and i met several of them myself and said so so if there is a war than those fighters are likely to join in his will that is present in city of their fighters in numbers and as well as here in lebanon as well so whatever conflict happens whether in syria or another on his less likely to participate in his level is going to be engaged ok and. not not very good prospects that in beirut many thanks. kenya's top prosecutor has ordered an investigation into the collapse of a dam on a large scale commercial farming the country's rift valley that's amid allegations that that dam was illegal

hizbullah and essentially one of them would be that his beloved does not disarm does not give up its arms and also remains to be seen how the sunni community will respond because they do have a certain resentment because the sunnis haven't before this violence charts and there are lights and this strong has bar showing is likely to have an impact across the wider region. well absolutely and i think that's a more important question because that's what the entire region is watered about saudis are what about it because they don't have the mansons in lebanon anymore and ican control the politics if you cannot control or have a see through the through politicians then usually such countries adopt aggressive measures we don't know what they're going to do but it could be an aggressive on of course israel as well because israel has based his the line two thousand and six and is allowed to perform very well as well as also present and city has announced and israel is looking at a strong as the law in never naam and is facing up with as well our own is really levanon border but also in city

going to be engaging in a conflict with israel you would like peace but this having said that is hizbullah is a very strong force on the ground and by making political gains essentially they're saying that that cause which is business is to israel isn't it didn't cause now how the willing gauge is quite a different question the fire does in the south the golan heights on the city inside of all his bluff why does these are the fighters who trained shia militias of iraq. which is sitting inside a gulag and i'm back several of the myself said so so if there is a war than those fighters i like to do join in is what is present in city of their lives as in numbers and as well that is here in lebanon as well so whatever conflict happens whether in syria or another on his less likely to participate in his level is going to be engaged ok and. not not very good prospects that until vora in beirut many thanks of some of the other stories making news around the world your sexual state might compare said that america could help rebuild north korea's economy if the country gives up its nuclear weapons m

parties to make sure that at the end they can make up the numbers in some cases like in the case of hizbullah in many areas they have kept their waters back so they could actually assess how different districts and how the waters there are working so they could then send and push an entire bulk of their supporters to go in their districts and watch the exit polls are not out yet but we have heard from hamas which is an ally of the hezbollah that amal and hizbollah have done very well and have pretty much won the two important seats in south though that's not surprising because south is dominated by milan is there were expected to win that anyway what's going to be important here is to see the really what the final turnout is going to be in the last elections in two thousand and nine the final turnout was fifty four percent but thus far as i said it's only forty six percent but only as of six pm this evening as you mentioned the last elections being in two thousand and nine eleven has changed in the last nine years what are some of the issues that have been on voters' minds today. well you kno

today will mean that it's a virgin the mistake they made in two thousand and six when it allowed hizbullah to build up an arsenal it also means that it will be more difficult for iran to replenish them they will be more expensive because the iranian economy is about to hit a very important crisis brought about which is going to be brought about by the u.s. congress i'd like to end by saying that this is not that there are elements in iran who would like to reduce tensions that includes the iranian government but the iranian regime is not listening to them and the announce u.s. withdrawal to the iran t.l. as that also change the calculus on the of iranian side would you say. yes well not not seemingly but he will have to carry you know it's iran is already played by mismanagement by deep corruption and now the americans are basically going for the throat of the iranian banking system they're going to make it extremely difficult for you and your banking system to function sooner or later and this is why that and one of the reasons why he said the old support of the financials to be posed ira

are spiritual leaders are to say as a honey has clearly backed as well ah it's not a secret that hizbullah and is. funded by iran saudis are believed to be funding a certain sunni candidates in the past but there is no clear proof whether they have done this or not but essentially in a nutshell it's important lebanon is specifically a tiny country but specifically important in the broader politics in the middle east because of iran and saudi arabia as these new war over dominance in the stomach won't have her for us in beirut thank you very much now to some other stories making news around the world at a bombing at a mosque in eastern afghanistan at least fourteen people have been killed and more wounded police and ha said the mosque was also being used as a voter registration center for elections later this year no group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. iran's president hassan rouhani has issued a warning to u.s. president donald trump against pulling out of the iran nuclear deal rouhani said abandoning the deal would be a historic mistake but also said plans are in place sh

majority coalition on the cabinet favoring hizbullah and therefore maybe iran but that includes christians who are allied on that side in syria the. secular socialist kind of semi style and us baath party is in power doesn't sound very much like ayatollah is and she has them and in yemen there are rural eighty's who are only distantly connected to the shias a movie iran and they have mounted an indigenous. fighting force which by the way is well armed but mainly with the american weapons that were given to it by the faction of the yemeni army from its depots that supported it so the idea of iran as dominating these places is bizarre is iran has a lion says of convenience and it's supporting as i said a secular regime in syria in the same way that saudi arabia supports a secular regime in egypt despite both of these countries being devoted to political islam but the washington. and tel aviv of course and now riyadh are going to be doing a lot of this kind of propaganda it doesn't stand up to analysis ok so first let's move on then who could teach and if we just take it as propaganda that do

lebanon politically they cannot deal with hizbullah politically only runs expansion politically levanonnymore what will they do will they bring up support any of the sunni factions or could it be something bigger they're already operating with israel at a much bigger level and out there in the open now and it is of course also a big worry for israel because israel has faced his bill and it's quite threatened by it as well as the only force that in two thousand and six have dared israel and have come out stronger so the broader picture is a white one input israel and saudi arabian attributes be seen as the deacon rather aggressive approach in taking them on on trial for her in beirut thank you. as for the technical problems that they had that let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world city officials in the jerusalem of installed road signs pointing to the new u.s. embassy which is set to move there which is set to move there from tel aviv next week as follows u.s. president donald trump's controversial decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of

party losing a third if it seats preliminary results from sunday's elections show the shah party hizbullah and its allies winning more than half the seats in parliament. new york's attorney general eric schneiderman has resigned following i can say since he physically abused four women schneiderman recently became an outspoken figure in the me too movement for victims of sexual harassment he had used his authority is new york's chief law enforcement officer to sue film producer harvey weinstein who faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. so he led coalition airstrikes have killed at least six people in the am in the raids targeted the presidential office and which is controlled by the. emergency authours in hawaii are battling lava flows and gas to rupturing from the killer way of all kaino thousands have been asked to evacuate and dozens of homes have been destroyed a killer whale has also been emitting talk gas into the air since its eruption on thursday those are the headlines this stream is coming up next right here on al-jazeera stay with us. once the strategy for now the con

to be engaging in a conflict with israel he would like peace for this or that having said that is hizbullah is a very strong force on the ground and by making political gains essentially they're saying that that cause which is business is to israel or is illegitimate cause now how does an underling gaiters quite a different question the fighters in the south and the golan heights on the city inside of all hizbollah fighters these are the fighters who trained militias of iraq in. which is said inside of all our land backed several of them myself have said so so if there is a war than those fighters are likely to join in his will that is present in syria their fighters in huge numbers and as well as here in lebanon as well so whatever conflict happens whether in syria or levanon his less likely to participate and hence lebanon is going to be engaged ok and. not not very good prospects that on trial for. many things. ok time now to catch up some of the other stories making news around the wild officials in gaza say israeli soldiers have shot dead one palestinian and wounded dozens more during

party losing a third if it seats preliminary results from sunday's elections show the shah party hizbullah and its allies winning more than half the seats in parliament. new york's attorney general eric schneiderman has resigned following i can say since he physically abused four women snyderman recently became an outspoken figure in the me too movement for victims of sexual harassment he did use this off already as new york's chief law enforcement officer to sue film producer harvey weinstein who faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. so he led coalition airstrikes have killed at least six people in the am in the raids targeted the presidential office and which is controlled by the whole thing's emergency authours in hawaii are battling lava flows and gas to rupture in from the killer way of all kaino thousands have been asked to evacuate and dozens of homes have been destroyed a killer whale has also been emitting talk gas into the air since its eruption on thursday those are the headlines this stream is coming up next right here on al-jazeera stay with us. once a strategy of w

while the other aims to change its identity well beirut the house really accuses his main rival and hizbullah leader has some of controlling lebanon's decision making process see it in the arm and the lebanese should listen to anyone who wants to drag the country into civil war. then a salad to arabia and iran remain locked in a battle for regional influence people here are worried about their future. saudi arabia has its men in lebanon and iran has its men in lebanon want the country will continue to be the battlefield for the struggle for now it's political unless it turns into a military confrontation. how do you has stepped up his campaign beirut is his stronghold while not is eager to make more gains in the big. and the south. in addition the regional influence paralyzes the government paralyzed political life lebanon had no president for two years and this was a result of regional disagreements. in two thousand and sixteen saudi arabia and iran set aside their differences paving the way for the election of a new president and a new government led by how to but it's not clear if that dea

that is what has no interest whatsoever in the military escalation neither nor with lebanon but hizbullah must know that if they do attack us there will be a price to pay and this i think was the message we are trying to convey commented how is all of this being reported in iran right now is this being framed more as news of a conflict between syria and israel how is it playing out in the media there. i think there is concern any iran of escalation but mostly the nuclear issue has been the number one news so far in iran not the issue of syria especially because of the fact that the uranium is are saying that the israelis are exaggerating the impact of these attacks for example no cache no uranium casualty has been reported so far for the attacks that took place recently so you want is downplaying those and made the concern among the public is mostly about the nuclear deal and regarding that there is a lot of both frustration and anger perhaps disappointment but i wouldn't necessarily say there's a lot of surprise because donald trump has been against this deal from the very beginning as w

three past few chick movement to consolidate gains of the christian community it is crucial for hizbullah which wants to consider date its gaze in the in its strongholds particularly in the valley of southern lebanon to tell the international community and the libyan is that he has the trust of its own people it is also crucial for prime minister saddle hariri as you know historically speaking of the sunnis have been divided the key players the sunni players divided over who has to have the biggest set said that how do you want to project himself as the voice of the sin the community. and all the headlines a bomb blast in afghanistan has killed at least thirteen people the explosion happened to a mosque in the eastern province of cost but the suspect the mosque may have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center for october's parliamentary election elsewhere pakistan's interior minister has survived a suspected assassination attempt a sonic quality was shot and wounded while sitting in his vehicle shortly after addressing crowned crowds at a rally in punjab pro

pass for your check movement to consolidate gains above the christian community it is crucial for hizbullah which wants to consider date its gaze in the in its strongholds particularly in the valley of southern lebanon to tell the international community and the libyan is that he has the trust of its own people it is also crucial for prime minister saddle hariri as you know historically speaking of the sunni's have been divided there are key players the players divided over who has to have the biggest set said that how do you want to project himself as the voice of the sin the community. a bomb blast in afghanistan has killed at least thirteen people the explosion happened at a mall skin the eastern province of cost police a suspected the mosque may have been targeted because it was being used as a voter registration center for october's parliamentary election pakistani police say the suspect behind the attempted assassination of the interior minister is affiliated to the ultra religious to recalibrate party the twenty one year old man who was arrested shortly after allegedly shooting and w

iranians or hizbullah cetera so i think this all those countries i should say well deny this in any way supporting israel the matter what secret video appears on social media i just hope i really hope that this doesn't bring to a full scale scale war in the middle east because the way things are developing if the european countries like germany france britain if the sort of are not seen as real power brokers in keeping the agreement iran agreement a deal on table because even the u.n. of course there's a u.n. security council resolution on that and if you end imposes greater sanctions and the u.n. then manages to pull all the banks and companies out of the deal then iran is saying well then why should we go ahead with germany france or the united cause it couldn't go through the u.n. security council because china and russia and britain and france are so far they will be in steadfast more greeny of the u. beijing moscow everyone is on iran's side except saudi arabia or israel in the united states so do you notice though any slight difference at the moment in the way it's being reported

three past few chick movement to consolidate gains above the christian community it is crucial for hizbullah which wants to consider date its gaze in the in its stronghold particularly in the valley of southern lebanon to tell the international community and the libyan is that he has the trust of its own people it is also crucial for prime minister saddle hariri as you know historically speaking of the sunni's have been divided there are key players the sunni players divided over who has to have the biggest said said that how do you want to project himself as the voice of the sin the community. at least thirteen people have died in a bomb attack in afghanistan the explosion happened at a mosque in the eastern province of cost more than thirty people have been injured . iran's president has warned the u.s. will regret quitting the nuclear deal as the deadline looms for president trump to make a decision as some rouhani says iran has plans to respond if trump holds out of the pact trump has repeatedly said he wants to leave the two thousand and fifteen agreement unless european allies can fix

while the other aims to change its identity well beirut the house really accuses his main rival and hizbullah leader has some muscle or law of controlling lebanon's decision making process see it in the arm and the lebanese should listen to anyone who wants to drag the country into civil war. a saudi arabia and iran remain locked in a battle for regional influence people here are worried about their future. saudi arabia has its men in lebanon and iran has its men in lebanon want the country will continue to be the battlefield for the struggle for now it's political unless it turns into a military confrontation. how do you has stepped up his campaign beirut is his stronghold why it is eager to make more gains in the valley and the south. in addition to the regional influence paralyzes the government paralyzes political life lebanon had no president for two years and this was a result of regional disagreements. in two thousand and sixteen saudi arabia and iran set aside their differences paving the way for the election of a new president and a new government led by how do you but it's not clear

well as well sorry in india is against in our regional war for dominance of the world with iran and hizbullahinean means that iran is also expanding in strengthening its grip in lebanon which means that the region could actually see more aggressive stance by board israel and saudi arabia both of which are allies of the united states and shall vote in the beirut thank you. watching the dublin you're still to come despite harsh punishments iran is losing its war on drugs maybe three million people are believed to be addicts it will say what is fueling the problem. and detail here goes on patrol with a task force hunting human traffickers a crackdown on sex slavery in the nigerian says your name to stop the trade with europe we'll see how they're doing it. will have all os i doubt more all the days are world news and business in just a moment joy. in . yemen ravaged by three years of civil war thousands have died millions have fled diseases are spreading. nobody is helping and we need help we need help from yemen please it's been called the world's biggest humanitarian crisis and the world looks

has a pretty free hand to do what it wants in syria in order to destroy the buildup of iranian or hizbullah or syrian missile emplacements or any attempt to build up technology that could hurt israel i don't think israel has to worry much about that particularly now that president trump has taken a very clear stand against iran just for landis talking to us live from that initially thanking pleasure. we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including the military lines up early for voting in the iraq election with a major issue. questions over a violent scene of an indian these imprisoned that's being called an act of terror . and the celtics reached the penultimate round of the n.b.a. playoffs they'll need to know that this has coming up the final install. now in a show of diplomatic progress three americans freed from prison in north korea have touched down in maryland u.s. president donald trump met them at an air force base near washington d.c. kimberly how could report. back in the united states it's been more than a year since kim haq song and tony kim have seen their

whatever happens the same people be in power nothing matters the ls lebanese forces did better overall hizbullah is a big winner here and my concern is it's going to be emboldened we've seen what can happen when some boldin home look at march two thousand and one is politic over downtown beirut by force of arms we see hizbollah deeply involved militarily in syria most recently morocco broke off relations with iran charging iran and hezbollah is doing things in morocco and of course is ball of is engaged in activities in iraq and in yemen as well when those types of regional activities do not cost as ball of political support at home to the country now it is done better than it ever has before i think the message for his bolo whether its message it should take or not is the one that it will take is that it's to be emboldened in its overall aggressive posture and how do you think you know the u.s. . is still designate hezbollah a terrorist organization will be looking on at this the time for that. well there's two issues here how this affects his ball and how this affects lebanon there's already b

the shias in the country fee they were much worse off before the whole supply and they feel that hizbullah looking after their needs to a certain extent essentially that is the sort of politics of plays out in lebanon politics. the other reason is that as well as cracked clever alliances they want an alliance with the leading parties levanon is broadly divided between shia and sunni muslims and christians different sects of course but the major christian parties as below has had formed an alliance with some as the last board well and the sunnis on the other hand was led so there were certain leading sunni candidates and the sort of agent to islam as he saw into what. i want to thank you so much for us following the story for us from beirut we appreciate it. you're watching news still to come on the program outrage grows in india over a series of murders of girls and young women india has introduced tougher penalties for rapists but critics say it has had little effect we will have the latest from delhi and despite harsh punishment iran is losing its war on drugs three million people are be