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. -- syrian refugees in lebanon. many of these people fled their homes, taking only what they could carry. the refugees take shelter in an abandoned industrial buildings, garages, and unused schools. the lebanese government officially supports damascus and has done little for serious displaced by the unrest. the u.n. provides a lifeline for people. >> we are doing well in comparison to our relatives who had to stay behind and syria. people are starving and cold. this is why we are demanding action from the international community. we are being pacified like sheep. >> what is just as important as looking after us is supporting the rebels and the free syrian army. >> with no help from abroad, the syrians are fighting . the eldest son in this family came with them to 11 non-. not long afterward, he was killed. -- the eldest son in this family came with them to lebanon. >> this violence in syria is leading to the displacement of people inside syria and here in lebanon, turkey, jordan. and of course, all these people are

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come from lebanon into syria design is regime change and now it's done one believes. overwhelming evidence supported that regime change so whose contact answer now is washington and certainly brussels with nato of the world what they know about about that ship i think. interrupt you here but what you're saying is very very important if i can just if i can just get to go to the so i understand five warehouses of libyan a weapons left in benghazi one ship with all these weapons especially as you say allowed to try and get through to syria with israel america and nato turning a blind eye is that what you're saying. and you and possibly unifil all of those all of those governments involved have some serious. questions facing them now and we'll see if it sends up to the united nations russia may play a role and demand with this you know lou friendship with china that they get to the bottom of this this is the latest development. on the it seems like a nato plan or indirect nato plan for regime change the end also designed i think to undermine the coffee anon six point plan

might remind the thought of the cease fire that took place in another country neighboring to say lebanon in the seventy's may not be the exact same situation but not too much different look i believe that the situation is no real political solution for one very simple reason that there can't be any meeting point between origi it wants to be in total complete and absolute control and opposition whether you call it so-called opposition rather there is opposition rebels whatever you would call them they do not accept the very legitimacy of these three jeem and the main reason for that these because of the sectarian divide between sunni muslims and all of whites and other minorities so just a question of time when all these will explode maybe tomorrow in the day of prayer maybe afterwards but i don't believe that we are in any time close to the end of all this because it's no all right josh if i can go to you the west has chosen a side in this conflict is that a good idea and you know and i did put in remind our viewers that we have iraq we have afghanistan we have libya eccentric cetera i g

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lebanon to keep the sunnis. ok jess of it before we move on to the international aspects of what's going on the cease fire in syria you said you wanted to during the break you want to talk about the intervention in one form or another we had joshua and diane really dismissing it would you could you have a different position go right ahead. you know i would like to clarify what i meant i mean there are all kinds of forms of intervention what i'm speaking about the distain cheese and i'm short of joshua and beyond will say and i will agree with me i mean the carnage in syria should stop because you're talking about well beyond that about think thousand people i mean the real numbers are higher than what we hear and tens of thousands are in jail disappear who knows what can accompany them if they da's to stop the violence something is to be done in order to stop it because the current situation is such that it will continue endlessly and i believe that and i agree with joshua about that is the genie is going to dis

the palestinians are still fighting for their share of palestine and the different communities in lebanon are in a very hostile sort of come to the end if you will but this for foreigners to step in and think that they can nation build in syria and create a strong sense of national unity is i think foolish we've discovered that in in in afghanistan in iraq america did not have the answers a leader of syria is going to have to emerge out of this struggle if we look at all the great nation building leaders of the middle east ataturk ben-gurion israel abdulaziz and so did in saudi arabia they spent decades fighting to unify their country its navy emerged as heroes on the battlefield they did not have the country given to them by foreign powers ok and then point um ok this morning just let me jump in let me tell you right man that lately in the last word before we go to the break go ahead diana. well yes if the you know democracy is something that has only existed in the west for a couple hundred years we act as if it was the eternal today at the energy of of the west which it hasn't been i m

madame gomez and i went to the syrian/lebanon border at the start of this month in order to meet part of the syrian opposition that has managed to get to beirut but to try to understand the risk of an implosion in lebanon as a result of tensions between shiites and sunnis. now what came out of this, i don't know whether -- but certainly what we heard was that the syrians fear a political interest in syria being played out between sunnis and shiites. they will have their revolution stolen from them. but the plan is the only other option from civil war. it's not a very satisfactory solution, but that's what they are saying there. it will have to be plus one that actually sees assad leaving in the near future and there are still efforts to be made. there are lots of talks to be had with the syrian opposition of the plan, but the fear of civil war is great. secondly, refugees. this is a huge priority. this is a priority which we think is humanitarian, but it's also a political one within lebanon because you have syrian opposition opposed to hezbollah and we must make sure we understand th

in the south of lebanon, there are lots of blue helmets there. many of them are european citizens. mahmoud dam high representative, could some of the european blue helmets for a limited period work on the syrian/lebanese border to do something there. secondly, is pressure being put on the syrian government and the syrian national council because the peace plan? >> thank you for sticking to your speaking time. >> president, there's no question that the european union and our european parliament can just look idly on at the slau slaughter that is being carried out of the citizens of a neighboring country. particularly when it's been ordered by those countries. but i think it's only right that we bear in mind two issues to put these into the balance with the other events. how many thousands of corpses should be put into the other part of the scale so that it has to be counterbalanced with democracy which will arrive subsequent wi subsequently. people have dayed in iraq. does that balance warpt bringing into iraq a democracy? and the idea now is to export the same model to syria. and i

lebanon is in a tougher situation.ro syrian government which has to play a very delicate balancing act. however it's been under tremendous pressure. the prime minister was flooded with twitter demands that he act and do something after this journalist was killed. what's interesting to consider is whether this was just a coincidence or whether it was somewhat planned perhaps by the syrian regime. the syrian regime has threatened in the past to bring the whole region down with it. if it were to suffer. and this could very well be a couple of warning signs to both turkey and lebanon which is near and dear to many western governments that if this situation continues, if it continues to feel the heat, it will lash out in ways that will destabilize other countries. >> brown: and is is there... is that being heard and taken seriously? is there a fear, more fear after today's events of this all spreading? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, this fear has been palpable. in the diplomatic community, in the region, for the whole past year

>> most from lebanon because there was famine, and the young people were looking for work. they were in lebanon engaged in raising silkworms for the silk industry, and there was a blight and the mulberry trees died, and so they couldn't raise any more silkworms. but the other thing that happened is that japanese silk begin to compete. and so the industry fell apart. so they started coming. >> what was the reaction in 1870s when arabs and muslims for started coming to the u.s.? >> well, they came as peddlers. they weren't really part of the sort of main trade and industry. but they began to sort of pedal little trinkets to farmers. you know, we have documents that showed the when, for example, into connecticut, in springfield, and there was this woman who ran away from lebanon to avoid being married to an 80 year-old man, so she opened a store and they would come. than you know arabic. they would have her name, enter address. and it would depend on the jacket and someone would put them on the train from new york and they would end up in springfield, and she would set them up

as a shipment of arms for the opposition is intercepted by lebanon. chasing the votes of the far right after losing the first round of the french presidential battle. with immigration and the euro among the main rally calls. for more than twenty people are still being treated in hospitals in the ukrainian city of the nipple patrols for a series of bombs exploded there on friday leaving thirty injured. plus not guilty british lie detector experts say the u.k.'s main suspect a russian m.p. wasn't involved in the murder of former security officer alexander litvinenko in london six years ago. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. as the violence in syria continues unabated neighboring lebanon has seized a shipment of smuggled weapons destined for syrian rebels the sea bound cash apparently came from libya which is backing the opponents of president assad this comes as the rebels step up their assault on government forces saturday for the first insurgent attack from the sea after a suicide bombi

the latest news in the week in review lebanon seizes and harm shipment apparently bound for opposition forces in syria as russia accuses the rebels of trying to destroy the un brokered peace plan. nicolas sarkozy looks to the fall right for support after losing the first round of the french presidential vote to socialist candidate francoise hollande less than a week of campaigning left until the final ballot. police in ukraine released photos images of the man they believe are responsible for multiple bombings in ny for petros friday that left thirty injured officers have reopened an investigation into a similar bombing in the city last year believing the attacks to be like a. lie detector experts from the u.k. say the country's police have the wrong suspect in the killing of former f.b.i. agent alexander litvinenko in london six years ago. three am in moscow i mattress are bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news as the violence in syria continues unabated neighboring lebanon seized a shipment of smuggled weapons believed to be destined for syrian rebels the ca

and from other entities and they're coming through lebanon one of their route is through lebanon and this is this one ship. actually but there are a lot of ben that have been used and smuggle into syria and that tell you the real story when the foreign minister was to the area say we have to arm the opposition that he's saying let's keep killing continue and terrorism taking place hold on syria even though america and the western eyes the western world know that there is a lot of terrorism taking place in syria al qaeda been moved into syria from out of country funded by some government in the arab countries this is going to be devastating not only for syria this is going to bring a regional war that nobody won now or in the future. will still have he this calls for dialogue with iran the struggling to be heard amidst the capitol hill the military strike still firmly on the agenda. and a new war of words is flared up between the e.u. and ukraine of the case if you need to show. the former ukrainian prime minister is serving a prison term for abusing brussels claims the case was polit

in beirut ten police were injured in clashes with egyptian migrant workers over lebanon's foreign labor laws police moved to disperse a demonstration after rocks were hurled at the egyptian embassy and its guards twelve workers were arrested lebanon's walked by foreign leaders to their local employers limiting the ability to improve working conditions or change jobs. accusations that nicolas sarkozy's two thousand and seven election campaign was funded in part by libya's now deposed leader moammar gadhafi have been strengthened by new evidence a french website obtained documents allegedly indicating the libyan government agreed to help sarkozy's presidential bid to the tune of fifty million euros the news comes as says jose he faces a tough runoff in this year's elections having lost the first round. and still to come here on our t.v. u.s. secret service opens up about its revised code of conduct now good beat new good behavior rules imposed by his agency find out the top what caused this sudden crackdown. and you'll meet a russian family where it's tough to keep track of the pitter pat

one of their route is through lebanon and this is this one ship. actually but there are a lot of ben that have been used and smuggle into syria and that tell you the real story when the foreign minister of studio arabia say we have to arm the opposition that he's saying let's keep killing continue and terrorism taking place hold on syria even though america and the western eyes the western world know that there is a lot of them taking place in syria al qaeda been moved into syria from out of country funded by some government in the arab countries this is going to be devastating not only for syria this is going to bring a regional war that nobody want now or in the future. damascus is prepared to hold nationwide parliamentary elections in just a week's time and some syrian groups of chosen to put their faith in reform instead the violence is on a book reports. a cause pursued for decades now accomplished in just a few months just a year ago even speaking kurdish and public could have got these people in trouble but now they can proudly was side what

if it breaks out, we will have more and syria and spill over into iraq, lebanon, and jordan. >> whathappens at the cease- fire does not go into effect? >> there have been some politicians demanding more sanctions against the syrian regime, but i do not think the russians will agree. even if they do, syria has more supporters than russia and china. it has the army support, and that is decisive in a civil war. >> thank you very much. >> in the u.s., fla.'s neighborhood watch it volunteer george zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the killing up and on arms black teenager -- for an unarmed black teenager. >> the case has sparked a fierce debate in the country, with demonstrations calling for george zimmerman's burress. >> george zimmerman and it himself into police on wednesday. he faces magistrates later on thursday. he told police after the shooting on february 26 that he acted in self-defense. after re-examining the evidence, prosecutors decided to charge him and emphasized that had nothing to do with public pressure. >> we do not prosecute according to public pr

madam gomez and i went to keep syria-lebanon border at the start of this month.went in order to meet part of the syrian position. we manage to get as far as beirut. we also wanted to try to understand the risk of an implosion in lebanon as the result of tensions between shiites and sunnis. i do not really know whether we got a clear picture of these parks. certainly, what we heard was the syrians fear a proxy war, and geopolitical interests being played out, with interference from qatar and saudi arabia. they think they will have their revolution stolen from them. the kofi annan plan is the only other option from civil war. it is not a very satisfactory solution. but that is what it for saying. the kofi annan plan would have to see us sought leaving in the near future. there are still efforts to be made. there are a lot of parks to be had with the syrian opposition about the implementation. but the fear of civil war is great. secondly, refugees. this is a huge priority. this is a per to which we think is a humanitarian one. it is also a political party, because y

additionally violence spilled into lebanon and iraq could begin to behave erratically as it considers a sunni controlled government succeeding the assad regime on its western border or alliances forming between sunni syria opposition and iraq's own sunni population. more over, the situation present as strategic opportunity to deal a blow to known supporters of terrorism in the region as iran continues to back the assad government as hezbollah have enjoyed support and residence in syria on the other hand there is much we do not know about the opposition. syria also maintains robust air defenses that limit military options. therefore, i'm not recommending u.s. military intervention, particularly in light of our grave budget situation unless a national security threat was clear and present. nevertheless, these reflections lead me to wonder what the united states can do to stem the violence and hasten president assad from power. we also need to understand what we are doing to secure the security -- ensure the security of one of the world's largest stockpiles of chemical and biological wea

yesterday the fighting spilled into lebanon and turkey. activists say more than 125 people have been killed in the past two days. we have the latest from washington. good morning. >> good morning, michelle. despite the deaths there's still hope for a cease-fire. according to the plan, syrian troops are supposed to pull out today in preparation for a full cease-fire on thursday. government forces are supposed to withdraw from syrian cities today but activists claim this city of burning buildings and homes show the syrian forces were still engaged battle on monday, hours before the deadline. >> not only has the violence not ray abated, it has been worse in recent days. >> reporter: yesterday the violence spilled over the border into lebanon and turkey. people were seen running from the border as a gun battle broke out near a refugee camp. at least two people died in the attack. this man lives in turkey and showed us bullet holes in the walls of his home. he says our house was also hit. we are not safe here. according to the peace plan, kofi

thousands of others have already fled to turkey, lebanon and jordan. if the annan plan fails, there may be many more to follow. >> and that report was jim muir. now let's take over some of the other stories making headlines today. there is shock and anger in greece after a pension publicly committed suicide on wednesday. the 77-year-old man shot himself in the head in despair at the measures imposed by the government. he left a note behind linking his actions to the countries deeping economic crisis and his own debts. so mark, clearly people are have been reacting with great shock, but also anger at the news of this man who kl i'd himself so publicly. >> those clashes that went on for several hours between riot police and protesters, they hurled pet roll bombs who responded with stunned grenades and tear gas. also a lot of solidarity. this case is taking on greater proportions. seen as representatives of the deep disspare that many are feeling here. this is a nation whose very essential fabric is tearing. 51% unemployment among young people. suicide ha

including israel, jordan, iraq, lebanon, turkey. that should be the main, major goal.void civil war. avoid sectarian conflict. the problem is that in all the proposals that have been initiated, there have been an element of political transition to get the regime to agree to a political transition that would be more bradley representative of the will of all the syrian people but we don't see assad regime willing to do that. >>shepard: time will tell. mr. ambassador, thank you very much. jury election is now underway in the criminal trial of the former presidential hopeful, john edwards, appears in court where the jury could soon decide whether he used campaign cash to hide his mistress. a live report from the courthouse, next. and word doctors found a premature baby alive. in a morgue, 12 hours after the same doctors declared the baby dead and told the parents the baby was doled. the parents said, can we see the body. opened the drawer, and the baby was breathing. let's start with car insurance x. this one does save people a lot of money and it's very affordable. it was

and so it was very short order and we were in a car going up over the lebanon mountains, past big stacks of -- men with big stacks of this wonderful flatbread on their heads going through the olive groves and the orchards into ballbeck. we just saw civilization upon civilization upon civilization. and so i'm so grateful to her for bringing me along for the great adventure. but also for taking me to ballbeck. >> now, you brought up the circumstances surrounding the beginning of the johnson presidency. i'll give you an opportunity to respond. recently i came across an oral history with a member of the marine band who is a violinist, russian violinist, a great artist, who complained that the first -- of the johnson presidency, i think he said it was upstairs, anyway they were performing, and you came up and said "what the hell are you playing?" >> i never would have said that! never! never, never! a curse upon you, richard! >> i'm giving you the opportunity. the violinist said mozart. and you allegedly said, well, knock it off. >> we want show tunes! >> no, "the yellow rose of texas. " >> o

we're going to see it spread more into lebanon. there was a killing in lebanon. there's been killings in turkey. a shooting across the border. once this thing starts to spread beyond syria's borders, i think it's inevitable we're going to have to use air assets to destroy his armor and take his air assets out of the air. >> anne marie, you agree with that? >> i do. we're in agreement tonight. but i think there was a shooting across the border into turkey today. the syrian army was chasing free syrian army rebels and shot into turkey. killed a turkish policeman. this is going to spread into turkey, lebanon, possibly into jordan. and i don't think we're going to have a choice. there's going to have to be a military move. i still think in conjunction with safe zones that will effectively stop this now or have this spread into a regional conflict. >> so what would that -- i mean, what would that look like, anne marie? in terms of air strikes to stop armor and movement of syrian forces. would there then also have to be arming of opposition forces? >> well, arming of o