he eventually got a weapon and deported, sent back to lebanon. he really missed the strip clubs and on land. he talked about them with great affection. his american wife came with him briefly and said i cannot live here, i cannot live in hesla's controlled, i can't wear a head scarf, she returned to atlanta and he stayed. he was anything but hezbollah -- he was nothing like these other characters i've described. if he were sitting in table they would have nothing to say to each other. but he and his brothers who stayed behind in lebanon and he'd become very religious, now he atheist didn't pray and is making fun of the guys and hezbollah. they take themselves so seriously, you know, they are so uptight come into this religious thing and it's ridiculous to him. but no surprise, he loves and at my years of the militant struggle against israel. that to him was fantastic because hezbollah was successfully resisting israel standing up to the regional dynamo and winning and he liked that. that's no surprise, you know, the guy who likes guns and guns an

, has been criticized at that point by opponents inside lebanon, outside lebanon, all over the world. within two short years, hezbollah has bounced back to be the dominant player in lebanese politics. some thought they would be finished by the 2006 war and at times it was unclear how it would turn out. in the book i've written, i chart how they have pulled off the examples and the strategic choices they had made. by 2006, they showed they were able to use maneuver and if that failed, brute force to crush their rivals and make sure that nobody could challenge their ability to run a militia, make decisions on war and peace, and function as a state in it's own right. they were content with that status quo for a few years. until last month and they came under threat again from -- not from israel, not from the united states, but an international tribunal supported by the lebanese government to find the people that murdered a nebraska 2005. they are about to diet member of hezbollah from something that took place five and a half years ago. they view this as a threat. that was what caused th

the issue on lebanon -- if i understood you, in a different context, you had suggested that lebanon is the bellwether for syria and that signs were promising for syria. is this because hezbollah is frightened? well-known scout leaders -- calculators oflat interest are withdrawing their support from syria. that is a promising sign. as far as lebanon itself is concerned, should there be a regime change in syria, assad falls, let's say there is a regime which is broadly representative of the divisions within the country, whciich ammar described, important communities of various religions, what blessings or curses might that bring to lebanon, in your opinion? >> let me start with the bad news, then i will get to the good news. in my opinion, many people in lebanon are concerned about the reaction if this regime reaches the threshold or is about to fall, when it becomes a matter of existence for the regime and for hezbollah. there are many concerns that something might happen in lebanon in order to divert attention or to link lebanon to syria, and some people also are afraid that the front

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in lebanon, if the regime falls or does not fall, syrians in lebanon will be weakened. they cannot influence the government and parliamentary decisions alone. so they are feeling this concern and they definitely want the syrian regime to stay, obviously. they organized this big conference where every single politician in syria and iran who supported the egyptian, a tunisian, and a rainy uprising -- in syria, it is a different case. they make statements about protecting the regime because the regime protests their existence. many people who are not hard core hezbollah supporters or members, they tend to be more liberal, leftist, communist people. these standards do not make sense anymore. to them, the syrian uprising is genuine. but hezbollah is telling the syrian people that their existence is more important than people'sreedoms, demands, reforms, or lives. the killings that the regime is exercising -- 500 syrians were killed in the streets and much more people were arrested and tortured -- and has allies telling everyone in the region -- and hezbollah is telling everyo

thank you. >> unfortunately, lebanon and syria are linked to and cannot talk about lebanon without talking about syria. the link is obvious. watching has flaws reaction will .ell you and syria's allies >> i want to make sure you are heard. >> watching has below reacting by not pushing for the formation of the government by also creating incidents that would show you their marking their territory inside lebanon. i will talk about to devote incidents that happened after this area uprising happened. hezbollah two weeks ago started a campaign in south lebanon where they forced some shops to stop selling alcohol. this is not a big deal. it is not like they are closing liquor stores or anything. inside their community, they're telling their people they are the authority, marking the territory inside the community. at the same time, they created a few incidents where news was leaked to a newspaper, that published the first news about on stayed onuilding property. this has been going on since 2006 when construction started. people started building on state-owned land. >> naturally. >> naturally? i

in lebanon, if the regime falls or does not fall, syrians in lebanon will be weakened. they cannot influence the government and parliamentary decisions alone. so they are feeling this concern and they definitely want the syrian regime to stay, obviously. they organized this big conference where every single politician in syria and iran who supported the egyptian, a tunisian, and a rainy uprising -- in syria, it is a different case. they make statements about protecting the regime because the regime protests their existence. many people who are not hard core hezbollah supporters or members, they tend to be more liberal, leftist, communist people. these standards do not make sense anymore. to them, the syrian uprising is genuine. but hezbollah is telling the syrian people that their existence is more important than people's freedoms, demands, reforms, or lives. the killings that the regime is exercising -- 500 syrians were killed in the streets and much more people were arrested and tortured -- and has allies telling everyone in the region -- and hezbollah is telling ever

yeah, unfortunately, lebanon and syria are linked to some extent, you cannot talk about lebanon without talking about syria. the link is serious, watching hezbollah's -- >> move the mic a little bit closer. >> you have a lovely soft voice. >> thank you very much. is this better? >> watching what happened today by hezbollah but not pushing for the formation of the government by also that would show you that they are marking their territory inside lebanon. for example -- i talk about two incidents that happened after the syrian uprising happened. hezbollah -- speak up? is this better? hezbollah, two weeks ago started a campaign in a city in south lebanon where they forced the -- some shops to stop selling alcohol. this is not a big deal. it's not like they are closing liquor stores in the city, but inside their community but they are telling the people we are the authority, marking the territory inside the community. but at the same time, they created a few incidents where news was leaked to a few newspapers, which is hezbollah, march 8 newspaper, that published the first news of the news

soal media is pyingn the syrian uprisi, anjoined by the state correspondent you was in lebanon for aumber of days, ying to g to ria. one of the reasons sial media is s important is beuse is ou eyes d ers on the ground in the country? absolutely. stf them inyriare workg ry hard to make su the outsid worldnows what is going on inside the coury. , th are the one standing up all those videos they are treating. there are posting line -- they are tweeting. was towards the e of last year that people srted thinki aut it. th egypt and tunisia, gain in dento -- if it gainsomenm. >> w is the opposition rall in on the grnd tn? mosques? counitrganizations?

that was what caused the events of january when hezbollah essentially went to the prime minister of lebanon and said you got to do everything in your power to derail this judicial process. you got to stop it in your tracks. it was your fault he was murdered, we don't care. make it stop. the guy, he didn't exactly said no. he said, i will, but not right away. and he took too long for hezbollah's taste. they toppled his government. they were able to do this, because they had more votes in parliament than the prime minister did. they didn't do it by a cue, they did it by having the mps vote

the issue on lebanon -- if i understood you, in a different context, you had suggested that lebanon is the bellwether for syria and that signs were promising for syria. is this because hezbollah is frightened? well-known scout leaders -- calculators oflat interest are withdrawing their support from syria. that is a promising sign. as far as lebanon itself is concerned, should there be a regime change in syria, assad falls, let's say there is a regime which is broadly representative of the divisions within the country, whciich ammar described, important communities of various religions, what blessings or curses might that bring to lebanon, in your opinion? >> let me start with the bad news, then i will get to the good news. in my opinion, many people in lebanon are concerned about the reaction if this regime reaches the threshold or is about to fall, when it becomes a matter of existence for the regime and for hezbollah. there are many concerns that something might happen in lebanon in order to divert attention or to link lebanon to syria, and some people also are afraid that the front

united stand ainst what is happening in syria, and failed because of opposition between china and lebanon ad russia. and they held an open meeting t restate their natnal missi dhe conmnatn othe olence against the denstrators. d they urged tse respoible be hd accountab and dended there uld genuineolital reform, t just words but actions. an the was a strong message sent tsyri >> myoverent calls on presiden assad tohange course w an heed tha ofis people. andeall the international counitto respond tohis brutal crack down, d toold accounble ose whoommi these human oss violatis. >> is it your impreion that theemonrators are ttin more attraction aer the violence ctinues? >> i belvehat we s today is a split inhe security counl an after ty offered in libya and not ready close to that to syr, can't ise a statemen and we heard from china and lebanon, a opposed and lanon a close neighboto ria. andruss was the most outspokennd that ts cck down is t a threat but t real threat would b outde tervention that couldead to more vlence and civil ca and toive them a chance f reform. d i ink it's unlikely at is

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project crit this could happen now in the lebanon on and the consequences of that are unpredictable at the moment it might work but the more likely trances are that it will end up. step down if i go back to you in knoxville. i think brings up a very good point is that there are other actors in the about obama administration and it's very duplicitous a lot of people see a lot of double standards where the united states will stand a virtuous stand protect civilians what civilians are still very unclear actually and but it won't do it for other people in the region and i think that you know a lot of people outside of the united states would say the gazans really could have used a no fly zone when the israelis were committing atrocities against the gazan population there double standards it still smells of double standards doesn't it. make a good point and so does and i would only say that just because obama hasn't acted previously to prevent the slaughter of innocent folks doesn't necessarily mean he's not acting in good faith in this instance i wonder what my friend would say if. we had

the west suggested imposing a no fly zone over gaza no one suggested imposing a no fly zone when lebanon was invaded in fact a few years ago as sensually what we are witnessing is a western intervention in libya to try and take the initiative in the entire region back from the people on the ground and to build up the credibility of the west i mean only yesterday bill gates said that the despot in yemen who by the way is killing quite a few people every single day in that country should stay in power the saudis have been permitted to invade bahrain and are carrying out a wave of repression in their concrete this war in libya intervention in libya is part of the country offensive to wrest the initiative back and gadhafi who is not an intelligent leader to put it mildly played into the hands of the west by bombing is own people and sending his troops in instead of either negotiating or doing the decent thing and quitting so he's played into the hands of the west they've taken advantage of that trying to get the initiative back and the results we don't know i think what is quite likely is th

lebanon."forget if you have an alternative site, syria or -- >> it's part of the same site. and it was created before the first friday in demonstrations of syria. it's a live blog feed. >> as interesting enough, it is often the case that you can kind out what's going on in syria from what's going on in lebanon. >> definitely. [laughter] >> and we'll be telling us both what's going on in syria and what's on in lebanon. thank you. >> thank you very much. unfortunately, it's definitely lebanon and syria are linked to some extent that we cannot today talk about lebanon than syria. the link is very obvious, watching hezbollah's reaction today will tell you and also syria's allies. >> can you pull the mike closer? you are a lovely soft voice. i wanted to make sure -- >> thank you very much. is this better? >> yeah. >> watching hezbollah today and how hezbollah is reacting by not pushing for the formation of the government by also creating certain incidents that would actually show you that they are m

we did to rein in countries are in need who is not at the other two by the way in syria lebanon there's a look at i guess lebanon and syria as we all know it's in a different process as we speak so this could go on agenda there's also the french i tend to though forget this whole scene was created by nuri smart protocol kathy who defected to france in two over two thousand and ten so this is the pre-stage it's very elaborate that in paris between us mary and french intelligence and then we have the action of the house of south which has a bad blood with. you know purposely part of the i'm afraid you know i know you've got a lot of say over this show is how but the technology is letting us down the sound isn't very good i'm afraid we're not here yet so we're going to leave it for now thanks pete on the program we do pretty shocking story no worries thank you. of the year wonders of modern technology yeah ok let's move on i still ahead few of this out of business behind bars we look at how foreign investors are owed one hundred million dollars by the georgian government said jail. and the

the south lebanon and palestine or you're in iraq you know the these are very very very big questions and the idea what gadhafi has is that he'll be able to pull more and more the idea that he represents the resistance against imperialism and this of course of a very powerful impact on that would have a very powerful impact so yes if the involvement of the west becomes more and more ground troops go in if they start talking about politician then you can see under these conditions gadhafi making an appeal to the arab street so it's a bit of players are really talking about not just immediate fire possibly absolutely a pretty much broader picture because the thing is is that the libyan revolution is not isolated but next to it is the tunisian revolution and the egyptian revolution and you know in the previous news item i talked about the arrival of the americans inside of egypt so people will begin to question we made this revolution what were the demands of these revolutions self-determination dignity and to poverty and corruption and so on and simply what seems to be happening is the

most important state that is still in confrontation with israel it has tremendous influence still in lebanon of course as we've seen it's a conduit between iran and hezbollah it enables iran to play in the arab israeli conflict in a major way it's a very important country i believe the old phrase was that there was no peace no war without egypt and no peace without syria in terms of arab israeli peace so it's a tremendously important country course it has an influence as well on iraq we're watching all developments very closely expert on the u.s. foreign policy joins us from washington good to have your inside of a program. sure my pleasure. rosie refuses to go cause new killings have led to the run for president of media resignation despite a deal with the opposition to step down within a month that interview he gave to see the leader says the dangers of rushing into greater than his opponents imagine as he sees it. you know. that our opponents reject the idea of holding presidential and parliamentary elections because nearly where they won't be able to gain a majority as a matter of fights

the issue on lebanon, he suggested that lebanon is a bellwether and that signs are promising. -- that signs were promising for syria. searching calculators of interest are also withdrawing their bets from syria. he mentioned yesterday a they have declined to show up for the conference. since he is done to usually be there, that is a promising site. should there be a change in the raceme -- in the regime? it is important for the communities. what blessings or courses might that bring? many people are concerned about the reaction. this is the threshold. it becomes a matter of existence. there are many concerns that some things might happen or link lebanon to syria. i think it is too early for this to happen. so far, it is thought necessary. has the law does not want to initiate a war with israel now for the simple reason if they can maintain their support base, as long as there are doing it. they do not want another war. has belote initiates that. only 20% will stay with their. they are very aware of that. this is very true. many people do not want another one. inside lebanon, and to no

this is the part of the show that features lebanon, jordan.wearing traditional garb from damascus. i do not know if you can tell but there is a lot of handstitched detail at the top. lena is wearing a traditional jordanian start out with handstitched work. these stars represent different countries. this dress is more of a jordanian style. this is a palestinian dress with hand importers from the top to bottom. -- embroidery from the top to bottom. this is all handstitched. could the other models join the girls on the floor?

mujahedin bleed through from iraq is already visible in jordan, syria, turkey, lebanon and gaza.in addition, the islamist insurgency in somalia and algeria have been rekindled but the symbolic mother jean nearing victory. similar insurgencies of a fairing that building by tally are underway in yemen, southern thailand, in the north caucasus. the major cities of hindu india have been attacked by islamist fighters, and the islamist movement in western europe is going. and in britain has driven the traditionally stoic security services to the point of public despair. as for the united states, and loud and long ago delineated al qaeda's war and for defeating in three concise phrases. first, to take offense of economic situations internationally to help lead america to bankruptcy. second, to spread out u.s. military and intelligence forces to exhaust the reserves. third, to strip away america's allies and to disrupt domestic political unity in america as much as possible. i will leave it to the audience to decide using these three worries as the metric whether there is any reason for

. >> and next door in lebanon as well? >> yes.not so religious. they became missiles against israel, they are extreme. lebanon, it was a peaceful country. they want to control the government. but again, what for? what is their message they are getting $1 billion a year from iran. iran finances them. they are serving the iranians more than they are serving the lebanese. and the basic facts are basic facts. we shouldn't over look them. we would like to see lebanon free, united, democratic, this is the best solution. >> how close was israel to a peace deal on the goal line heights with syria? >> if syria will divorce the iranians and hezbollah, we are close. if they won't have it both ways, nothing will happen. >> because you were in deep negotiation through turkey and others with the syrias? >> yes. >> and you almost had a deal? >> yes. the problem is if they had really ready to make the choice. >> is israel ready to give up the goal line heights? >> all prime ministers in the past said so. and prime minister hamid left deposit with

you say elections, they say lebanon. right? you talk about an elected parliament with real power, they say kuwait; right? they don't like it. they don't see that the well-being of the body politic of the state benefits from relacing the is -- replacing the islamic system and the monarchy that's particularly good to them with a system that causes disorder and state paralysis. why would you want to do that? you add all these things up plus, of course, the complete disenfranchisement of women who are troublemakers in some other countries, and you don't have anything approaching critical mass for the kind of upheaval in saudi arabia that you saw elsewhere, and if you read the petitions that -- there were petitions that circulated, and there's petition spasms every few years in saudi arabia in which petitions are sent around. the latest rounds of petitions were uniform in their collective call for modifications and improvements of the existing system, not for replacing it with a different system, and so perhaps elect the asshura, an

t will the soal media is pyingn the syrian uprisi, anjoined by the state correspondent you was in lebanon for aumber of days, ying to g to ria. one of the reasons sial media is s important is beuse is ou eyes d ers on the ground in the country? absolutely. stf them inyriare workg ry hard to make su the outsid worldnows what is going on inside the coury. , th are the one standing up all those videos they are treating. there are posting line -- they are tweeting. was towards the e of last year that people srted thinki aut it. th egypt and tunisia, gain in dento -- if it gainsomenm. >> w is the opposition rall in on the grnd tn? mosques? counitrganizations? >> it i the informa there are no pminenteaders at he so farppead. itasakenomentumn the streets,y a sire to com together in a untr where for yes people havebeenept apt by fear. theyave found a ne sense of national identity, comforts. the reason y these activists are so important i because commicatn with and syria is not eas eitr, so pple in the soutknowhat is happening in ather tow thanks to -- >> briefly, the.s. is nsiding sanctions, whic

syria and lebanon, gaza, and i don't understand that we still have this standoff between the iran and the u.s. i don't see any reason for it right now. in fact, i've been advising all my american colleagues and friends that-- and europeans-- now is the time to engage iran. we need to find finally a solution to the standoff between iran and the west. it's a win-win situation, and if was needed a few years ago, it is needed today more than any time before. >> rose: also this evening, actor will ferrell, and director dan rush and the new film requested everything must go ." >> when i was on "saturday night live" every host who was a dramatic actor would come through that process and say, "whew. how do you guys do this? this is awful?" and yet thrilling and rewarding in the end, usually, but, so we heard that a lot. but i think drama is just as hard. >> rose: elbaradei, feril, and rush when we continue. ♪ ♪ if you've had a coke in the last 20 years, ( screams ) you've had a hand in giving college scholarships... and support to thousands of our nation's... most promising students. ♪ ( coca

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we know that other council members were hesitant including china and lebanon. the security council has shown that they are not willing or able to act on syria as it did on libya. >> let's talk about libya. how much do you think the disagreement in the council today was due to what has happened in libya and what has happened in libya? >> i think that's that colored it, especially for the russian. they said several times that they felt that nato was overstepping the u.n. mandate to protect civilians and they were going beyond that in terms of attacking targets associated with colonel gaddafi. the feelings of the russian and chinese are that the ultimate outcome will be some kind of regime change. i think it made them more reluctant to support any kind of council intervention or even statement on the other arab revolts. >> in libya, the u.n. investigators say they have uncovered evidence of human rights violations. they have no conclusions about who was responsible. they're looking into allegations against government troops. they visited the east of the country, t

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. >> and next door in lebanon as well? >> yes.ebanon was taken over by a various group of people, the hezbollah, but they are not so religious. there's missiles against israels, they are extreme. this lebanon was a peaceful country. they want to control the government, but, again, what for? what is their message? they are getting a billion dollars a year from iran. iran finances them. they are serving the iranians more than they are serving the lebanese. i know basic facts. we would like to see lebanon free, united, democratic. this is the best solution. we have to make any other calculations. >> how close was israel on a peace deal with syria? >> if syria is with hezbollah, we are close. if they want it both ways, nothing will happen. >> you were in deep negotiations through turkey and others and syria. you almost had a deal. >> yes. the problem is if they're really ready to make a choice between the iranian way or the peaceful way. >> is israel ready to give up the heights? >> all prime ministers in the past said so, and prime m

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yes syria continued to destabilize lebanon, open hostility to israel and support for terrorism and it has been rewarded by this president. after years of withholding diplomatic recognition, this administration restored it. as our secretary of state was publicly broadcasting that the assault regime was committed to reform, it was at the same time cracking down even harder and killing its own people. in egypt this year, we chose not to stand by another authoritarian leader. this letter was not a longtime enemy but an ally. it seems almost by definition that our allies are seen by this administration as composite with our past sins, there for our policies have been to consistently turn our backs on them. in this case in favor of what looks like a power vacuum being filled by the moslem brotherhood. as for libya, is a morass. if we were going to support the rebel forces, we should have acted swiftly and decisively in the early days of the band does the uprising by recognizing and arming the rebels and immediately enforcing a no-fly zone, the size of action against gaddafi would have been

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we also hear the syrian regime accusing groups in lebanon of aiding the protesters and certainly the syrian regime's propaganda machine for weeks have been saying that all of these protests are instigated by israel, the u.s., and also by former members of the muslim brotherhood. >> many thanks. you're watching bbc news. still to come, a year on from the gulf of mexico oil spill, we're in alabama for a firsthand account of a tripling -- troubling year. first, taliban fighters have attacked a checkpoint in northwest pakistan killing at least 14 soldiers. officials say hundreds of militants stormed the post in the region close to the tribal areas where taliban and al qaeda fighters shelter. our correspondent is in islamabad. >> american tanks in pakistan actually started under the watch of george w bush but have increased markedly in the frequency since president obama took over. the latest attack was friday morning when missiles hit a compound in the tribal area. officials say on the ground that around two dozen people were killed. among them were militants and four women and five chil