leader sought to keep his forces out of the lebanese. i know that arafat tried to keep the palestinians out of the wall at the beginning but that was never going to be possible impossible especially with they. especially with the common nationalisms you know the german. version of nationalism on the palestinian version of nationalism but by nine hundred seventy six the palestinians no longer felt able to stay on the sidelines in the. palestinian fighters linked up with the leftist forces and gradually advanced into the christine heart of. syria found the idea of a p.l.o. backed regime and never known a recipe for disaster it feared such areas would provoke israel into military action that would drag syria into war. for their part israel and the united states also took a dim view of the rise of the lebanese left and its palestinian arabs in one of the more bizarre alignments of interest in the oven on syria decided to throw its weight behind the christians with a green light from washington and tacit israeli consent syria sent its army in

for the lebanese. and for the palestinian refugees left behind. most p.l.o. leaders left to damascus. but out of fact signaling his displeasure with syria charles de gaulle tickets. within days of the departure of the last palestinian fighters lebanese president elect bashir gemayel was assassinated. breaking the american brokered agreement israeli forces moved into west beirut under the pretext of keeping the peace. is really is accused the p.l.o. of leaving two thousand of its fighters in beirut's refugee camps the charge was a fabrication. the israelis quickly encircled the refugee camps and brought in their allies from the christine lebanese forces militia. on september sixteenth one thousand nine hundred two dozens of lebanese forces militia men entered the some branch of the refugee camps. we knew of course that the israeli had surrounded the camp and we also knew that in the night that flares was there that the campus was lighted up we saw it from from distance and after i remembered that night it was very strange it was so quiet it was like a ghost to

for the lebanese. and for the palestinian refugees left behind. most p.l.o. leaders nuff to damascus. but out of fact signaling his displeasure with syria chose to build to its. within days of the departure of the last palestinian fighters lebanese president elect bashir gemayel was assassinated. breaking the american brokered agreement israeli forces moved into west beirut under the pretext of keeping the peace. the israelis accuse the p.l.o. of leaving two thousand of its fighters in beirut's refugee camps the charge was a fabrication. the israelis quickly encircled the refugee camps and brought in their allies from the christian lebanese forces militia. on september sixteenth one thousand nine hundred two dozens of lebanese forces militia men entered the subbranch at the refugee camps. we knew of course that israeli had surrounded the camp and we also knew that in the night that flares was there that the cab horse was lighted up we saw it from distance and after i remembered that night it was very strange it was so quiet it was like a ghost town. and we di

for the lebanese. and for the palestinian refugees left behind. most p.l.o. leaders left to damascus. but out of fact signaling his displeasure with syria charles to build degrees. within days of the departure of the last palestinian fighters lebanese president elect bashir gemayel was assassinated. breaking the american brokered agreement israeli forces moved into west beirut under the pretext of keeping the peace. is really is accused the p.l.o. of leaving two thousand of its fighters in beirut refugee camps the charge was a fabrication. the israelis quickly encircled the refugee camps and brought in their allies from the christine lebanese forces militia. on september sixteenth one thousand eighty two dozens of lebanese forces militia men entered the some branch of the refugee camps. we knew of course that the israeli had surrounded the camp and we also knew that in the night the flares was there that the campus was lighted up we saw it from distance and after i remembered that night it was very strange it was so quiet it was like a ghost town and we didn'

. >> anthony: the broasted chicken was this guy's idea, my british-lebanese friend. who i met back in those bad old days of 2006. apparently he's in with the lebanese chapter of the harley davidson group, or hog for short. so, when you roll into some religiously conservative village on these monster bikes in leather jackets. what's the reaction? >> suzan: two types: once, we were greeted with rice from the balconies. like, they thought we were, like, a wedding or something really nice and the other extreme was stones, like, at the wheels, like, "just get out of here." >> anthony: really? >> suzan: yeah. >> anthony: i wouldn't throw stones at people on harleys. [ laughter ] whoa, look at this. >> ramsay: let's dig in. >> anthony: man, that'll work. >> ramsay: this is a famous neighborhood of the city. >> marwah: this area, it was central during the civil war, this place. >> ramsay: yeah. >> anthony: the sheer volume of fire that was poured into some of these buildings is absolutely unbelievable. >> marwah: yeah so much fire and so many battles happened in the same pla

leader sought to keep his forces out of the lebanese. i know that arafat tried to keep the palestinians out of the wall at the beginning but that was never going to be possible impossible especially with they. especially with the common nationalisms you know the german black. nationalism on the palestinian version of nationalism but by nine hundred seventy six the palestinians no longer felt able to stay on the sidelines in the. palestinian fighters linked up with the leftist forces and gradually advanced into the christine heart of. syria found the idea of a p.l.o. backed regime and never known a recipe for disaster it feared such areas would provoke israel into military action that would drag syria into war. for their part israel and the united states also took a dim view of the rise of the lebanese left and its palestinian arabs in one of the more bizarre alignments of interest eleven on syria decided to throw its weight behind the christians with a green light from washington and tacit israeli consent syria sent its army into lebanon

leader sought to keep his forces out of the lebanese. i know that arafat tried to keep the palestinians out of the wall at the beginning but that was never going to be possible impossible especially with they. especially with the common nationalisms you know the german. version of nationalism on the palestinian version of nationalism. but by nine hundred seventy six the palestinians no longer felt able to stay on the sidelines in the. palestinian fighters linked up with the leftist forces and gradually advanced into the christine heart of. syria found the idea of a p.l.o. backed regime in lebanon a recipe for disaster it feared such areas would provoke israel into military action that would drag syria into war. for their part israel and the united states also took a dim view of the rise of the lebanese left and its palestinian arabs in one of the more bizarre alignments of interest in the oven on syria decided to throw its weight behind the christians with a green light from washington and tacit israeli consent syria sent its army into l

second of all, don't be scared to interact with lebanese people, because lebanese people are really friendlyc, first, i like to use my camera like a third hand, almost. when i'm shooting. i move a lot. i look for people, faces, architecture. and don't forget, if you have a favourite travel moment you want to share with us and the rest of the world, tag us with hashtag bbc travel show. well, to finish this week's programme, here in cairo a new music genre has risen from the streets to inspire a freshfaced generation of stars. i've been to meet some of them. since 2002, tourists wanting to hear traditional egyptian folk music have gone to the makan cultural centre. tonight the band mazaher is playing zar, which has roots in east african ritual. in egypt today there is supposedly only a handful of people who still perform it. i have been told that zar is mainly performed by women and that hypnotic, rhythmic thumping of drums is a traditional and ritualistic form of community healing. it's really spiritual. but on the streets, there's a new kind of music that mixes folk traditions with an aggres

population again being being shouldered by the lebanese people the lebanese people of course have got a huge refugee population that dates back decades yes i mean if you look behind me this is not an official count this is an informal settlements and the reason why the government has never allowed people to build any crime for holmes is because it doesn't want these refugees to stay here permanently lebanon has had a similar experience in the past when palestinian refugees crossed into lebanon in one nine hundred forty eight they're still here seventy years later and naturalizing refugee is is a very delicate issue because of the sectarian balance in this country so lebanon does not want them to permanently stay and lebanon is actively trying to find a way for thousands of them to return because according to some lebanese politicians the issue really divides lebanese politicians there are many safe areas in syria these people can return half of them are here for economic reasons because they have no jobs back home or their homes are destroyed all rise in the heart of their lives at an

gas tation ownership so they went to cleveland and copied what the lebanese had done in detroit and young people are leaving for in chicago and other parts of the country, but you're absolutely right. if you look at the city of has been, elf, which you know, continually losing population, really since the s, but, you know, in the dramatically so, between 1990 and 2000, and then 2000 and 2010, the neighborhoods where you saw actual population growth happening in the city, the only saw population growth, were in the spaces that immigrants, mostly arab, muslim immigrants are moving into. > detroit has also long been a majority african-american population. what's been the intersection of two wo populations, the cultures over time? go back to the teens and 1920s, the new migrants to city, whether they were from india, pakistan, lebanon, or they he american south, had a lot in common in the sense that they were generally not well-educated. skilled workers, moving to the city's four rural areas. the shock of being in a city that was a new cosmopolitan city was something they all had in com

and its ability to achieve strategic parity with israel had to be supported by two strong wings a lebanese wing and a palestinian wing that is if syria was to have influence on the political scene it had to become the sole legitimate representative of syria lebanon and the palestinians while lebanon was in the throes of conflict on another front there were moves towards peace. in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven egyptian president anwar sadat a longstanding ally of out of fat made a groundbreaking visit to israel to sue for peace in exchange for land artifact was done but i'd have thought had been making his own peace moves his representative in london cited how many had been promoting the palestinian vision of

the arab armies of course enjoyed mainstream supplies from a states the french supplied the lebanese and the syrians the british supplied the egyptians the jordanians and the iraqis with a constant stream of arms. in one nine hundred forty to the united nations imposed an embargo on arms shipments to the middle east and the british and the french abided by this in bargain. when the truce ran out the israelis now better armed set out to expel the arab armies from palestine. up to me all three made us carry have called brooklyn to the fore so the lebanese government's leah kind of shifting on pot farm community and mostly a kind of. em been is getting a lot of the. talk. by the end of october as israeli troops advanced. and egyptian brigade was inside. killed at a palestinian village called in fallujah. among the officers trapped in this pocket was a young major demand. with their armies locked in a stalemate egyptian and israeli delegations met on the island of rhodes. under the sponsorship of the un. after a month of bug and they reached an armistice agreement. well first of all they

an emergency summit on migration angle america is in lebanon the german chancellor meets with the lebanese prime minister whose country bans the heaviest refugee burden in the wild full handling of the refugee and migrant issue could cost her her job and also coming up in the program. which took his election just days away the opposition appears to be mounting its strongest challenge yet to the president. grip on power. plus coming up we head to the world cup in russia where argentina suffered a crushing defeat and could be on the brink of elimination from the tournament. hello and welcome i'm retired she. as a euro grapples with this refugee policy ahead of you talks on migration german chancellor angela merkel is on a two day trip to the middle east after visiting jordan she went to eleven on where she held talks with prime to six hundred eighty lebanon currently hosts one million refugees the greatest number in the was relative to its population make it also visited a school which educates lebanese children in the morning and sidran of refugees in the often on. now the german chancellor

army helicopter during clashes with the lebanese state. and egyptian brokered agreement known as the cairo accord put an end to the clashes. but the accord effectively legitimized the presence of on palestinian factions on lebanese soil something which was to have serious consequences for stability eleven on in the years to come. besides creating waves in arab regimes the palestinian factions also revolutionized their own society in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine for the leader yasser arafat was elected chairman of the p.l.o. the election marked a new era the guerrillas were in the ascendant overthrowing the traditional hold of more established palestinian families such was the impact of the p.l.o. on the fedayeen that out of its image had made the cover of time magazine. but it was in jordan the base for most of the palestinian factions were there for the eons growing assertiveness because most probably yes they had set up a state within a state in jordan and the actions they planned and carried out soon began to rock the region. a

army helicopter during clashes with the lebanese state and egyptian brokered agreement known as the cairo accord put an end to the clashes. but the accord effectively legitimized the presence of on palestinian factions on lebanese soil something which was to have serious consequences for stability eleven on in the years to come. besides creating waves in arab regimes the palestinian factions also revolutionized their own society in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine for the leader yasser arafat was elected chairman of the p.l.o. the election marked a new era the guerrillas were in the ascendant overthrowing the traditional hold of more established palestinian families such was the impact of the p.l.o. and the fedayeen that out of its image had made the cover of time magazine. but it was in jordan the base for most of the palestinian factions where the fedayeen is growing assertiveness caused most problems they had set up a state within a state in jordan and the actions they planned and carried out soon began to rock the region. armed gunmen roamed the streets of the capital amman

foreign sabera the syrian army is not captured the town of a hierarchy according to the government's lebanese ally hizbollah forces loyal to president assad began ramping up air raids rocket fire and the use of barrel bombs on rebel territory in daraa a neighboring province about ten days ago local sources have told al-jazeera the number of internally displaced people reaching jordan's borders is more than one hundred fifty thousand i'm sure there are but correspondent has more from jordan's border with syria. and i am of the nearest borderline area to the south of syria behind outrage to my right is there on which since there really morning hours has been reeling under intense shelling by the russian air force as reported by our fellow correspondents on the ground to my left there is the freeze on the syrian jordanian borders residents fleeing shelling and explosions have taken shelter in the trees on which has been sealed off for a period of time thousands of syrian citizens have fled to that free zone more than ninety thousand yesterday alone according to eyewitness accounts those displace

staff in a growing rift over syrian refugees the lebanese foreign minister. is accusing the un refugee agency of spreading fear to discourage syrians from going back home. now this is a scene live in girls as you can see the crowds a building for another round of friday protests this is very close to the barrier fence it separates gaza from israel israeli forces have killed at least one hundred eighteen palestinians during weeks of demonstrations. donald trump is valid to straighten out controversies over trade at the g. seven summit starting in canada the us president is expected to face an angry reaction from the other six countries to his imposition of steel and aluminum tyrus are now to call in robertson his vice president and fellow at the canadian global affairs institute a think tank he's joining us now from the canadian capital thank you very much indeed for talking to us how close do you think we are to trade war. oh i think we've still got a ways to go most of world trade still takes place without tariffs and protectionism in fact the trend has been

clashes with the lebanese state and egyptian brokered agreement known as the cairo accord put an end to the clashes. but the accord effectively legitimized the presence of on palestinian factions on lebanese soil something which was to have serious consequences for stability eleven on in the years to come. besides creating waves in arab regimes the palestinian factions also revolutionized their own society in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine for the leader yasser arafat was elected chairman of the p.l.o. the election marked a new era the guerrillas were in the ascendant overthrowing the traditional hold of more established palestinian families such was the impact of the p.l.o. on the fedayeen that out of its image had made the cover of time magazine. but it was in jordan the base for most of the palestinian factions where there for the eons growing assertiveness caused most problems they had set up a state within a state in jordan and the actions they planned and carried out soon began to rock the region. armed gunmen roam the streets of the capital amman and jordan's other main

province on thursday syrian army was also also captured the town of according to the government's lebanese ally has fallen. meanwhile hundreds of syrian refugees in lebanon have begun crossing the border to return home to an uncertain future the refugees cram their families in belongings into pickup trucks cars and tractors the lebanese government has told them to return saying many areas in syria are now stable enough but the united nations is more cautious saying the country is not yet safe a trumpet ministration plan to sell high tech arms to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. could beat the rails by a top u.s. lawmaker who's holding back support the u.s. agreed to sell one hundred twenty thousand precision guided munitions to its gulf allies but senator bob menendez says he has concerns about the war in yemen and whether u.s. policies are contributing to the country's humanitarian crisis he's asked for more information on whether the arms could be used to kill civilians well in other developments the u.s. deputy attorney general has been accused of withholding documents related to the f.b.i.'

refugee agency and the lebanese foreign ministry which says the u.n. h.c.r. is discouraging refugee returns a claim the u.n. denies it says it is carrying out its global mandate which is to provide support to refugees and help them we establish their lives in line with international standards. is not deterring returns. are you know has expressed many times that it just lacks a government of lebanon that integration is not an option lebanese authorities say a few thousand refugees displaced by the seven year long war have already signed up for what they call voluntary returns and that thousands of others are willing to go home lebanon which is hosting more than one million syrian refugees has long complained of the burden it carries official say it cost the country about eight billion dollars a year many refugees now have economical and not political or security reasons for staying foreign ministry officials say much of syria is now safe. specifically. which is not there when they get the mandate of the u.n. at least what they say is that. people. but what wha

the arab armies of course enjoyed mainstream supplies from estates the french supplied the lebanese andthe syrians the british supplied the egyptians the jordanians and the iraqis with a constant stream of arms. in one nine hundred forty two the united nations imposed an embargo on arms shipments to the middle east and the british and the french abided by this in bargo. when the truce ran out the israelis now better armed set out to expel the arab armies from palestine. up to me offering a medal ask any of cobra kind of the four. letter new governments lia penetrate for known pot farm community. mostly a kind of. bin is very i'm going to have a lot of beer. by the end of october as israeli troops advanced. and egyptian brigade was inside. a palestinian village called in fallujah. among the officers trapped in this pocket was a young major demand. with their armies locked in a stalemate egyptian and israeli delegations met on the island of rhodes. under the sponsorship of the un. after a month of bug and they reached an armistice agreement. well first of all they had to put an end to the

to lebanese armed group hezbollah was there is how a force that is following the story from west to roost. well as is usually the case of to events like this there's been no official comment from the israeli military on this strike but it is being blamed on israel by syria state media it says that two israeli missiles struck a target close to the damascus international airport the u.k. 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 sy

says he'll work with both the syrian and lebanese government to coordinate voluntary returns more than one million syrians have fled to neighboring lebanon to escape the violence rights groups fear a return of refugees could be premature so. we will communicate directly with the syrian refugees in establish a mechanism to welcome their applications we will formalise and offer them to the syrian government authorities and in cooperation with the lebanese general security that is taking responsibility we will also work to return the biggest number of displaced syrians who want to go back safely. 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 more than one thousand divers soldiers and border guards have joined the search for top british cave divers along with some u.s. military personnel who are also involved a new opening to the on the ground cave complex was discovered on friday raising hopes the boys may still be found alive it's called high blood has more from chang

refugee agency and the lebanese foreign ministry which says the u.n. h.c.r. is discouraging refugee returns a claim the u.n. denies it says it is carrying out its global mandate which is to provide support to refugees and help them we establish their lives in line with international standards. do you any is not deterring returns you any are you know has expressed many times that it just backs the government of lebanon's decision that local integration is not an option. lebanese authorities say a few thousand refugees displaced by the seven year long war have already signed up for what they call voluntary returns and that thousands of others are willing to go home lebanon which is hosting more than one million syrian refugees has long complained of the burden it carries official say it cost the country about eight billion dollars a year many refugees now have economical political or security reasons for. foreign ministry officials say much of syria is now safe. specifically. which is not. what they say. but what what is actually happy happening is much more th

that may not happen soon and that is concerning refugees because some lebanese politicians are making life more difficult for them they want to cancel the refugee status of those who travel to and from syria classifying them as economic migrants. i am not wanted by the syrian government for any wrongdoing but if i go back now i have no way of feeding my children i may have little choice lebanese security is refusing to renew my residency papers they say i should go back to human rights groups say there have been cases of refugees being pressured levanon denies forcing anyone to leave that may be true for the ramadan family who like others want to return and to escape the life of misery in these camps but they still worry about a life of misery in syria where there are fears about safety and economic security . northeast lebanon. qatar has reportedly extended a five hundred million dollars aid package to jordan to help its struggling economy nap and off the cuff as foreign minister how talks with the jordanian king in amman anger at austerity measures triggered waves of protests in rec

that is not an option lebanese authorities say a few thousand refugees displaced by the seven year long war have already signed up for what they call voluntary returns and that thousands of others are willing to go home lebanon which is hosting more than one million syrian refugees has long complained of the burden it carries official say it cost the country about eight billion dollars a year many refugees now have economical and not political or security reasons for . foreign ministry officials say much of syria is now safe. specifically. which is not them and. what they say is that. people. but what what is actually happy happening is much more than that the ministry has now decided to suspend residency application submitted by u.n.h.c.r. for its staff in lebanon the foreign minister is acting in a caretaker capacity but it does belong to the ruling alliance so his decisions could be a sign of future state policy. some officials are using the refugee political capital they play on fears about the impact of the prolonged presence of refugees in the country those officials belong to the

lebanese officials have been repeatedly calling for refugees to return to areas in syria they deemed safe and they blame the un full from for preventing that from happening and they've gone as far as to accuse the international organization of deliberately discouraging refugees to return and now the cat take a foreign minister that's a good run by sea and has decided to suspend residency applications submitted to the ministry by the un he said the action is the first step against the organization united nations is rejecting the accusations the has more now from lebanon. seven years in exile in lebanon mahmoud is now getting ready to go back home he's from the syrian town of morrow in the region. can't go back because he's not considered a security risk by the syrian government it's a decision not every refugee can make. fed up and have been humiliated the united nations told us that there are no guarantees when we get back home but we want to go back. that advice has caused tension between the un refugee agency and the lebanese foreign ministry which says the u.n. h.c.r. is discourag

the syrian refugees in lebanon to their country house and says he'll work with both the syrian and lebanese governments to coordinate voluntary returns more than one million syrians have fled to neighboring lebanon to escape the violence it's now been a week since twelve young footballers and their coach went missing in a cave in the wars in thailand more than a thousand divers soldiers and border guards have joined the search for a new opening to the underground cave complex was discovered on friday raising hopes the boys may still be found alive a ceasefire deal that hopes to end south sudan's civil war has come into force president salva kiir and rebel leader react machar signed the agreement in sudan's capital khartoum on wednesday the united nations envoy to yemen says both the warring parties in a day there have agreed to allow the u.n. to have a role in managing the city's red seaport follows more than two weeks of fighting since the saudi coalition launched a military operation to take the city from hoofy rebels. those are your headlines the news continues after inside story. on cou

province of daraa the syrian army is now captured the town of al hierarchical in the government's lebanese ally hizbollah forces loyal to president assad began ramping up air raids rocket fire and the use of barrel bombs on rebel territory in daraa a neighboring connector province about ten days ago local sources have told on jazeera the number of internally displaced people reaching jordan's borders is more than one hundred fifty thousand meanwhile hundreds of syrian refugees in lebanon again crossing the border to return home to an uncertain future the refugees crammed their families and belongings into pickup trucks cars and tractors anemones government has told them to return saying many areas in syria now stable enough but the united nations is more cautious same country is not yet safe and he's fifteen people have died in a fire in kenya is not just open air market in the capital nairobi up to seventy others have been taken to hospital with serious burns and suffocation including many children the father account early on thursday morning at the gate come by market which is famous for

durum saudi and qatar in ryall and the lebanese pound will also be expected to see . slightly positive wave in the in the days to come i'm tracking that joining us live from singapore thank you very much robert. after decades of lying around in a in an attic in france a porcelain vai's from china has made its owners wealthy very wealthy in fact they were looking forward to a tidy sum when it was first valued at several hundred thousand euros but wait what happened next. it's detailed imagery features cranes and dia it's in perfect condition the vase was discovered by chance among bric a brac in a french family's attic said. the owner carried it on the train in the subway and then came by foot pushing through the doors or so the bee is coming all the way to my office with the phones in a shoe box grabbed a newspaper we put it down on my desk and opened it and we were amazed by its beauty because the vase is extremely rare it dates back to the eighteenth century to the ching dynasty in china before the auction experts estimated it could be worth up to seven hundred thou

have been living in camps in temperate accommodation in lebanon since then and is he aware that the lebanese government didn't continues to restrict palestinians right to what prohibits them from ending property and refuses access to health care and education leaving them dependent on an roic who have diminishing funds can he really be content to let this continue for another seventy years or will the palestinians be allowed the right of return to their homeland as prescribed in international law. this story of a friendship between a filmmaker and a seven year old girl but this is me. giving a home to my refugee family being this syria. in the face of deep rooted tension between the libyan means and the refugees. around my syrian friends. but i say here on al-jazeera. hello and welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia we've all but lost the showers across eastern areas find an almighty there and cusses down thirty degrees the mice will. come around the caspian sea is looking to draw a fine thirty six in terror on but the main feature for iraq

on the day the syrian army has also captured the town of al hurra according to the government's lebanese ally hezbollah meanwhile the un says around sixty six thousand people displaced by the fighting of reached jordan's border but today mean government has been insisting that it can't take in more refugees though. is near syria's border with jordan we are a few hundred meters away from the border with jordan thousands of civilians have been seeking refuge in this area escaping the shelling that targeted this cities and towns in darrow's eastern countryside today there have been two massacres in the town of elm aside for and. the russian airstrikes targeted residential areas some civilians were sheltering in their basements when they were hit dozens were killed by the air strikes and they scared many people leading them to flee tens of thousands of also fled toward the border with the occupied golan heights or in lebanon hundreds of syrian refugees that have started crossing the border to return to an uncertain future refugees cram their families and belongings into pick up trucks cars a

the country is finding it increasingly hard to cope a recent report by human rights watch suggests lebanese officials are harassing refugees in an attempt to drive them away. reedus and her bruce has been looking for safety since the beginning of the syrian war fleeing the bombs he arrived five years ago here in lebanon a tailor he found work at a clothing shop and rented a house he began to settle down but now he says local officials are bullion him trying to force him out. of not a situation now in lebanon has become really bad for us refugees lebanon is pushing us to go back to syria we had to fill this application that we were asked of the area where we come from is now safe and we said it's not stable there they asked us if we want to go back i said no but they wrote down yes this could change everything happen or says it was difficult enough to find somewhere to live now he's scared of being evicted because of what he says is a lie. what i've often i know is that we cannot go back to syria we worry because some people went back and they were arrested so we cannot risk our lives by goi