. >> heading north through lebanon and the long frontier with syria.he narrow street marks the , where they patrol just kilometers from the front line. here the pro-government fighters are increasingly reliant on support from hezbollah, their allies in lebanon. politically, they will help us, but they are not militarily involved in our fight. we are defending our land from the rebels. stand up to them and they will get what is coming to them. >> in this area both sides of this completely open border between syria and lebanon are now controlled by hezbollah and their syrian allies, who claimed to be gaining the upper hand. there are concerns that the conflict in syria is increasingly spilling over into lebanon itself. >> it is already happening. been deliberately targeted because it supports the assad regime across the border. anti-regime rebs in syria have repeatedly shelled the town, testing the resolve of lebanese factions, including hezbollah, to stay out of the conflict. lebanon, a between suny and shia muslims, have been dangerously exposed. fight

fault lines between lebanon and sunni and shia muslims are being dangerously exposed.oth sides are being drawn into the syrian more on a new, alarming level. mosques in lebanon, young men are being radicalized, calls from the sunni clerics 4g todd, holy war. a necessary response to the .ezbollah role fatwa. is a legitimate there are oppressed people in syria. women and children are being raped, killed, and expelled, so we should help them and be rewarded by god. >> the own future of the lebanese is threatened by the turmoil in syria. the longer it continues, the more nervous the army and the increasingly divided factions on this side of the border will get. bbc news, northern lebanon. >> president obama also said today that he wants to renew its efforts to close the guantanamo bay detention center near cuba. prisoners there are staging a massive hunger strike. he called on others to help find a long-term solution to the problem. 21 prisoners are being forced fed by medical staff. a report. >> it is where the u.s. military acts as a dealer, judge, injury to those captur

fault lines between lebanon and sunni and shia muslims are being dangerously exposed.oth sides are being drawn into the syrian more on a new, alarming level. mosques in lebanon, young men are being radicalized, calls from the sunni clerics 4g todd, holy war. a necessary response to the .ezbollah role fatwa. is a legitimate there are oppressed people in syria. women and children are being raped, killed, and expelled, so we should help them and be rewarded by god. >> the own future of the lebanese is threatened by the turmoil in syria. the longer it continues, the more nervous the army and the increasingly divided factions on this side of the border will get. bbc news, northern lebanon. >> president obama also said today that he wants to renew its efforts to close the guantanamo bay detention center near cuba. prisoners there are staging a massive hunger strike. he called on others to help find a long-term solution to the problem. 21 prisoners are being forced fed by medical staff. a report. >> it is where the u.s. military acts as a dealer, judge, injury to those captur

lebanon has been polarized and divided by a waging war in syria.his has brought a lot of political tensions to lebanon, many times in the past few months, violence has erupted in different areas. there will be a lot of pressure on how to steer the government and how to deal with the syrian crisis. good news for lebanese, this country could go into -- with this consensus that they are seeing, at least the message they're getting is the different political parties and their backers and allies in the region, including saudi arabia and iran, are interested to keep this quiet and calm. the syrianlk about angle, so that you mentioned just a few ago. you mentioned the previous prime minister, he adopted a policy of this association with the syrian war. knowing what we know of tammam salam, how do you think he will go with the syrian issue? , he think theoretically will try again to disassociate the government from getting involved in what is happening in syria. if he wants to form a national unified government. he was endorsed today is the prime minister.

just like south lebanon. that became led ginormous or the truth whi reason why hamas won the election. if they coordinated the palestinians they would do a lot better. i don't know about that. the corruption and incompetence of many pieces of the palestinian authority is such that i am not sure they would have been able to cover in gaza effectively. one other thing which is important. at this point, 2005 sharon is almost getting out of gaza, we were being assured by the egyptian this, we will take care of gaza. the late intelligence chief, nothing to worry about. i need more men in gaza i will put more men in gaza. egypt guarantees security, safety and security and gaza. i think historically you could see we placed a lot more weight on that, hosni mubarak is in a prison hospital. his government is gone ending june of 2007 that took over gaza. that wasn't supposed to happen. >> at the risk of being incredibly naive i would like to pose two facts. i think they are facts. and ask you a question based on them. bi

you feel in crisis into lebanon on and that is precisely what's happening as today as we speak. ok thanks author and political historian thanks for taking the time to be with us this. now coming up it's a puzzle what's the point of a defense system that can't defend well online red faces in israel as commanders admit the fabled can't fully protect civilians about more that. cause such a lot of money it's not very effective apparently also what's next for wiki leaks going to be quite lately isn't it. is all going to discover the whistle blowing sites next moves we consider what they may be on our web site r.t. dot com. as a treat if you border the bahamas lucky you are maybe tired of the tropics and new holiday destination could be on the horizon soon if you fancy it the mood and how much there is to see there. takes is that on a virtual trip. almost half a century since neil armstrong's giant step ended the race between the u.s. and u.s.s.r. to put a man on the moon earth's only natural satellite is once again in the spotlight while america has directed its attention to mars rus

just like south lebanon. so that became the legend or the proof which is why a few months later, lost one the election there is a second question if they coordinated wooden everything have gone better? i don't know about that. the corruption and incompetence of many pieces are such i am not

already has a mission in nearby lebanon, as well as peacekeepers in the bill and heights. peacekeepers inside syria left their equipment in storage in beirut. extra supplies and resources have been positioned in advance, and they could be used for new operations inside syria. >> the u.n. has troops in lebanon, which could provide part of a peacekeeping force, but if you needed to rush thousands of soldiers into syria, frankly, the only way to do that would be to get turkey to deploy military units south across the border. turkey would want a u.n. mandate for that, and it would want assistance from its nato allies. >> the u.n. now has contingency plans, but they all require endorsement by the security council. the violence inside syria has dragged on for more than two years, but everyone here knows there could be a decisive event that changes things on the grad and changes them very fast. ssad eventually falls, there is no security that the council, which has been deadlocked through the uprising, would agree to a new mission inside syria. even if it did, the discussions and

do with the transfer of chemical weapons, to the wrong hands, in this case, hezbollah's hands in lebanon we are very serious about holding up that red line. we will not remain passive if bashar al assad tries to transfer chemical weapons to hezbollah and other groups. this is a decision that the united states has to make for its itself. we share intelligence at the highest and most inmat levels. >> israel's intelligence has concluded that sarin gas or chemical weapons probably were used, most likely last month at the very least. >> israel's military intelligence made an assessment of the probability about it. and intelligence agencies are entitled to their assessments, but again we are discussing this at the highest levels, at the most intimate levels and the issue of the usage of chemical weapons in syria is still being discussed. >> i'm inferring from what you're saying and from the white house is saying to me directly and other officials is we don't have the chain of command, we don't have the hard evidence that someone close to assad, if not assad himself ordered this on such-and-suc

will include the scrapping of death sentences according to the state news agency a sad also urged lebanon to put in place strict up border controls to protect civilians from clashes between hezbollah and syrian rebels. iraq has been hit by a string of attacks which have become known as black monday at least fifty five lives were lost there many more were hurt these blasts come ahead of the first election since the u.s. withdrawal from iraq aided in certain is an antiwar activist and he joins us now from brussels. well we've seen widespread coverage of these bomb blasts in boston and tragic events there but why do you think a larger scale attack in iraq with far more deaths hasn't actually drawn the same media interest. first i want to see you know victims of the bomb or. doing. something. or occupant of. the media to be reduced or. misrepresent the situation or they don't report it at all. it's got it's very. these three little bombs being. a sectarian. civil war. which again. the. real. to the into that in six to twelve. it's a bit strange i mean. even if you look at three or if you do u

keep in mind that washington and israel see hezbollah lawit this political military force in lebanon as allied with neighboring iraq and they're more hysterical about obama than they are about hezbollah therefore from their point of view we could make concessions for the syrian crisis into levanon and that is precisely what's happening as today as we speak. on world news tonight a powerful blast sits a government compound in the iraqi city of to create it's killed at least nine people and wounded many more most of the casualties are among the police insurgent stopped a fuel tank of their just outside a police administration building and it blew up causing heavy damage in the area terror attacks are frequent in iraq where sunni militants have been fighting to undermine the shear led government. u.s. prosecutors are to seek the death penalty for james holmes who is charged with shooting dead twelve people at a movie premiere in denver last july the government opened fire in a suburban cinema at the opening of a batman film the disclosure comes days after the prosecution publicly reject

you have 1 million refugees in lebanon. that number was 12,000 a year ago. 7,000 in jordan a year ago. now estimates to be 500,000. people are fleeing this country. it's become a regional concern. in so far as the president wants to have some kind of a coalition of living agency he did in libya, he wants to get the arab leaders involved. i would imagine he will be engaging them in there's a new peg in terms of our strategy on syria. >> you're hearing how complicated it is. we're having this conversation, think about what they're doing behind the scenes. the latest word is they're going to begin the press conference at 10:15 -- i'm hearing another voice. we'll be right back after this. [ female announcer ] now there's new neutrogena® naturals acne cleanser. acne medicine from the wintergreen leaf treats breakouts. no parabens or harsh sulfates. for naturally clear skin. [ female announcer ] neutrogena® naturals. that owns that aquarium store. he's not gonna sell you some labradoodle, he's gonna sell you tropical fish! he's g

producing a number nobody mentions, 50,000 palestines and lebanon casualties, most civilians, the lebanon war in 1982. washington viewed this dramatic change in cold war terms as a great victory for the united states and as the appropriate occasion for the release of a peace plan that president reagan announced on september 1st, 1982. this was the so-called reagan plan. particularly revealing in this context, i found, was a recently declassified cia memo, often redacted, i can tell you later on who wrote it, which predicted in advance of the reagan plan that they would reagent to any u.s. attempts to reframe the autonomy accords in a way more favorable to the palestinians absolutely refusing to budge from his own narrow reductive interpretation of the accords. the cia memos stated that in the views r, quoting the unnamed analyst, "the accords guarantee under no position can a palestinian state be created. in practice, effectively rules out any exercise of palestinian self-determination except one that continued israel preimminent position in the west bank." obviously, a palestinian self-d

lebanon is not a stable country.'ve looked through all of them, which gives you an interesting take on the world and america's position on the global stage in the first sentence of my book as i grew up in beirut on the front lines and if america wanted the conflict and come it would be over tomorrow. it frames the whole discussion about what is america, what can i do? how much power does it really have? to find the balance between the illusion of how much power in america has and what is happening on the ground. so that frames the discussion. i lived in beirut my whole life. living through war is what drove me to become a journalist. i was keen to understand the chaos, why have to live through what i was living alongside the other 4 million lebanese who were there. i covered the middle east extensively. syria's unfortunate going through its own terrible conflict. and then i applied for a bbc job to cover the state department. i was writing for others as well. it is doing more and more and eventually applied for the s

i go to lebanon and get to know the lending institution.me and i get to go out and meet clients. >> john: that's amazing. what surprised you the most about the people that you helped when you finally met them face-to-face? >> if there is any one thing there, are a lot of presumptions that we have about the rest of the world as being different from us. that's what gets exploded really fast. the american dream is that we all want to put food on the table, take care of our kids and give them a better life. that's the human dream. i found that in every single country i went to. i kept meeting my mom and dad in slightly different clothing. >> john: should we all do micro loans. >> yes, go to and click the giant lend button. there is a whole menagerie of people of people and their businesses of what you can invest $25 or more. >> john: what are some crazy experiences you had. >> there was often a social obligation to eat the food that was put in front of me. this was often--things were not posturized so often i would have the intestinal equivalen

potential, i'm told, they could create a chemical cloud that could migrate over jordan, israel, or lebanon. it's not easy control these acts. they could mine the area so no one in the regime could get into those facilities but it is difficult. in libya the u.s. has been involved in trying to dismantle chemical weapons for some years, and i'm told by pentagon sources that in fact it would take 20 years to disassemble all of assad's chemical weapons if the just -- a big if -- if the u.s. and u.n. were invited in. >> shepard: hearing from top military officials, some of them sound skeptical. >> listen to the exchange on april 17. here's what martin demps ski said. >> you have confidence we could secure it? >> not is a sit here today. simply because they have been moving it and a number of sites is numerous. >> all of the military experts are talking how serious antiaircraft defense systems are more sophisticated than libya housed in. civilian areas and provided by russian, so likely manned by russian troops. so make no mistake you will be killing russians and civilians if you strike those are

mobilizing hezbollah out of lebanon to send fighters into syria raising the prospect at the end of all this assad could win this thing and impose his will on that country. >> chris: are you saying that is another reason why we he should intervene? >> another reason that i think pushes in that direction because what we have here is a situation where iran could see itself if assad succeeds in surviving at least as having intimidated or frightened the united states into staying out of the area. >> chris: let me just pick up with one last thing. we will run out of time, bill and i want to ask you as the person who is urging action, there are are no good choices as i discussed with the ambassador. if you bomb as he said you could be complicit in a war crime of disbursing the chemical weapons. if you try to secure them you are putting boots on the ground in the middle of a kill war. icivil war. if you arm the rebels there are growing stories that a growing percentage of the rebels are tied to al-qaeda. what do you do? >> would have been easier two years ago but do what you think is best base

they have armed missiles nested among borders sinai, gaza, southern lebanon and now syria. the only normal is with jordan. so there is a case, you don't have to be a crazy paranoid to say right now i just don't want to anything. i need a challenge for israeli leadership. this is precisely the same when you should test. i don't know whether es possible charlie, i really don't, if you have a palestinian partner for secured peace at least in the west bank. they need an alternative model to the hamas model the muslim brotherhood model that is secularizing ready to work with other religions that shows a different futures that palestinians could say hey in gaza why are we living like that. they seem to be doing okay. is it possible, i don't know, but i don't want to under estimate the threat israel faces but here's the danger. the biggest victim of the arab spring becomes the zionist idea. you have the west bank 2.35 million palestinians with a very high population growth rate and ultimately it leads to a jewish minority in the land of israel. and th would be a tragedy. and that'

he elevated the security awareness lebanon and the city, which means you will notice more men and women -- awareness level in the city, which means you will notice more men and women in uniform. >> you will see our swat officers in full gear. automatic weapons. they will be working closely with the mta police. the responsibility is to check suspicious activities cut check trash cans, check the parameters. he will also see our bomb dogs. we are checking all of our infrastructure, all the buildings, all the railways. giving us a call, letting us know, anything. >> we have learned that local police departments and state police are cooperating to evaluate special events taking place and and just -- adjust accordingly. police chief expects some security measures will be obvious, but not all. >> i anticipate any large crowds will have an increased police presence. both in terms of visual officers and the activities that law-enforcement does that you do not see. >> the founder of the university of maryland's center for health and homeland security calls the situation a sobering wake-up call fo

gary bond, professor of psychiatry, dartmouth psychiatric research center, lebanon, new hampshire; peggy burns, eap counselor, employee assistance program, university of maryland medical system, baltimore city, maryland; neli vasquez-rowland, president, a safe haven, chicago, illinois. of those individuals that are unemployed, there was about a 15.7 percent rate of drug dependency among them. of the ones that are employed with a drug dependency, there were 23.3 million people overall, and about 49.8 percent of them were employed. and from the mental health community, there were 6 million people who were served by mental health authorities across the nation, and roughly 21 percent, or about, of the 6 million, were employed. what does that tell us? what types of challenges, david, do these individuals present as they approach the employment marketplace? well, that's telling me that, actually, most people that are, that are served by my agency, which provides welfare or tanf services or homeless services, do not have mental health or substance abuse problems. there- but the percentage is a

in lebanon, you don't have camps. in lebanon, the refugees are spread throughout the country but as with art they may be as much as 10-20% add-on in terms of population. and then in turkey, in a very significant number of refugees in addition you also displaced persons within syria itself. so this is reaching a major humanitarian crisis level, and it's one of the reasons why we're going to meet in istanbul this weekend, as some of the donor countries will be there. but none of us want to sit around and simply see this refugee crisis grow and grow and grow, and ultimately wind up with an implosion of the country itself. that may happen. i'm not going to sit here and tell you that we can prevent that. it the best shot at preventing it is to try to get to the negotiating table to get the geneva communicate implemented so that you can save institutions of the state, not wind up with an enclave state with huge instability and problems with extremist groups that have grown stronger as a result of this conflict. so time is o

the author from beirut to jerusalem first published in 1989, documented his time as a reporter in lebanon israel. recently been updated to reflect the changes in the region caused by the arab awake things. he writes i invite you to read this book to understand the identities, aspirations and passions that endure in the middle east and explore the old forces interacting with the new forces. i'm pleased to have tom friedman back at this table. >> pleasessed to be here charlie, thank you. >> rose: way back when i did an interview with you. also today when i know a friend of mine from wherever they come say i'm going to beirut i say start with this. this is one of the things you ought to go and now it's been updated. you updated it because you wanted to reflect from a foundation the ideas that has been expressed there and how they are interacting with new ideas. >> you know charlie for probably almost 20 years my publisher jonathan used to say to me you should update the book. we did it once after oslo and i said i will update but it will be new forward beirut to uses level, one page one line

you have a lebanon situation where you have different ethnic and religious groups that are constantly fighting with each other for power and any kind of political solution is an unstable one. this needn't have come to this place. i will say two years ago there were lots of groups in the fight that were secular is not the right word, but that were liberal, should we say, and that were not linked to al qaeda. but those groups were essentially pushed out of the night. al qaeda-connected groups were the only ones getting active outside help at the time and they took to -- they also, of course, many of them are experienced fighters from other conflicts so they were taking the sort of forward position. they led the fight. >> i understand. >> and eventually they came to dominate it. right now there are relatively few groups available there for whom we can say these guys are reliable and we can own them. >> let me ask you about this problem we have. military logistics and military strategy. if we start flying over the country, they apparently have a tremendously state of the art soviet system

and bombing chemical weapon sites might create a cloud that could my grate over jordan, israel and lebanon there are approximately 13 chemical weapons facilities with 40 additional mobile chemical weapon sites scattered across syria. even if invited into syria, as the u.s. was in libya, it would take, we're told, about 20 years to disassemble and destroy all of the chemical agents assad has. >> we have confidence that we could secure it? >> not as i sit here today simply because they have been moving it and the number of sites is quite numerous. >> and those are the ones we know, about shernd. >> shepard: jennifer, the united nations estimates at least 70,000 people have died in that country's two year civil war. the syrian president bashar assad has long denied that he attacks his own citizens. two years ago in an interview with abc he insisted no government in the world kills its people unless it's led by a crazy person. draw from that what you will. wall street broke a record today and we'll tell you about that next. a veteran pro-basketball player tells the world he is gay and receives

an australian cleric out of lebanon. >> paul: knees people are very heart hard to detect. because they are operating by themselves. what do you do at nypd to make sure that you defect these people before they become violent? >> the signals are very faint to detect radicalization. essentially nypd tried to be creative and create trip wires in a variety of places, travel overseas, absolutely, zone of conflict that required further scrutiny, maybe check out and find what the trip was about. we want to better understand the neighborhood to try and figure out, are there certain incubators where radicalization is likely to happen. in madrid, they were radicalized in a barer shop. in london, they radicalized in a bookstore. some public places at the nypd could go to and most importantly online. >> paul: had you a couple trip wires. an overseas trip. you had an alert by the russians and once you return from overseas, we know postings that sympathize with jihad. why would those trip wires not have been discovered here in this ks? >> you know, the question i'm asking myself. it's a

syria's military fired missiles near the northern border with lebanon. residents say two rockets hit the area. many living there are refugees from syria. the refugee camps inside syria are struggling to cope with a number of people fleeing the violence. new arrivals forced to sleep in the open. he and his family will sleep under the tree to night, the first night as refugees from serious civil war. they have just arrived at the sprawling, overcrowded camp on the border with turkey. the camp opened in september. 26,000 people live here under the control of anti-government forces. 10,000 refugees appeared in the past two months. >> there has been a lot of death. the government hits the village once per week. in the end, it was consistent. take a 10 days would go by and we could not get food or water. >> they would look out for rockets. when they sell the light, they would tell us, and we would hide. >> the long, hot summer is coming. 40 degrees celsius here. doctors are dreading the months ahead. allah said the heat and open sewers create an environment fo

i mean, we have spillage and refugees in jordan, in lebanon, in displaced people in syria, the suffering is intense. and i don't think the world's greatest superpower, the united states, can stand by and not do anything. now we have done some things and the president deserves a lot of credit for that, but i think there's perhaps a little bit more we could do on the humanitarian front. >> we're talking about a red line being crossed, congressman, and whether the united states has military options to back up what the president said, you don't cross it or there will be severe consequences. >> the situation here is complex. my concern is al qaeda has more influence than it should among the rebels and if we assist the rebels, al qaeda could take advantage of that. having said that the president did say that there's a red line and once the united states ray lays down a red line, some action has to be taken. now what that's going to be, i was at the briefing with senator kerry the other day. he really didn't lay that out. the administration is right now trying to figure out what to do. i'm not

may mean in syria he simply, that the alawites become an al claif and destabilizing large chunks of lebanon. >> in iraq they don't have endings, so missouri battleship surrender, they linger. >> rose: what about iran. >> this is the linker for 2014. >> rose: and do you think the israelis they have denied it in terms of one of their strategic advisors to the prime minister, that this was in any way connected to iran and wants to see whether or not the united states would respond to sir i can't because they didn't respond to syria they clearly wouldn't respond to iran. >> i don't think, so but there is some truth when the united states says to the syrian when you certain a, when you cross a certain line there are simultaneous and says to iran our goal is and we don't want to continue with a nuclear weapon we want to prevent you from getting one, the united states has to understand that is putting its credibility on the line and we can't narrow cast the messages we send. >> rose: what is it the role that you would like to see the united states play in the world while we get our economic house,

there are tens of thousands of people that are flocking from syria into jordan and into lebanon.t humanitarian crisis is really putting an incredible strain on these allies. and especially jordan. there was just a riot this week. now again, to solve the problem. i'm not again advocating for, to get involved in a limits, in a civil war in the middle of syria. but we should be getting involved with the humanitarian crisis and address that. and that is very expensive. >> i'm sorry. you make me sound like i'm picking on israel in particular. i'm not picking on israel in particular but that's typically the reason why we do everything we do in the middle east. i care about jordan. i care very much about lebanon but i'm still left with the fact, what does this have to do with us? being the world policemen hasn't gotten us that far. >> i agree with you. i think that's why we should be the reluctant warrior as a country. but we have to understand that the war drums are beating in america. just today, just this morning in the "washington post," joe lieberman said america cannot be an isola

and 12,000 in lebanon a year ago. this year, those figures are now estimated to be 400,000 refugees in turkey, 470,000 in jordan, and a million in lebanon. to that crisis, in terms of regional stability, in terms of the sort of -- >> american official said this is the worst humanitarian crisis since world war ii. >> the human cost of this war weighs on this white house every single day. chemical weapons aside. i can tell you i've been in these meetings, and it's horrific. the issue is what bashar al assad is doing to his people and the fact that the russians and chinese won't let anything meaningful happen at the u.n. and the military options are bad and worse. the president has a set of horribly difficult decisions before him and we all care deeply about the costs to these people but he's got to make decisions based on u.s. national interests and he's trying to do so. >> two things we know, secretary of state kerry is going to meet with the russians. and i'm sure no small part of that discussion will be precisely thi

they are looking at trouble in lebanon related to the war. the increasing involvement of western powers. britain and france are also trying to get the eu arms the embargo lifted so they can have bigger and better supplies going to the rebels. taking all that together, i get the impression this stalemate is beginning to break down and i think this coming summer will be crucial. the way it comes to the end of the year, i do not think stalemate will be used to describe syria. >> america does not seem to be there yet, but they are moving, as you suggested, in that direction. thank you, jeremy. rescue workers in bangladesh today have managed to pull more survivors out of the building that collapsed in dhaka yesterday. at least 230 are believed to have been killed. more than 1000 are injured when the building came crashing down. our south asia correspondent has this report. >> a day after the disaster, they are still finding survivors. heavy lifting gear being brought in to help. and then they pull a woman from the rubble. alive, they shout. many m

opposition have been exchanging accusations over that horrific massacre near the country's border with lebanon in which of these fifteen civilians were killed correspondent martin arabic channel has been reporting on this from the syrian capital you may find some of the images coming up so i think. is that i let me show you that the massacre that took place in the border town of tal collage in the homes government shows just how bloody the syrian conflict has become a group of armed men forced their way into the all boards neighborhood in tahlequah and killed other fifteen civilians some of the civilians were shot in the head and the torso from a short distance while others were killed with sharp instruments women and children were among those massacred including a three year old girl that the authorities in opposition have accused each other official sources say that the victims of the massacre were pro-government and had previously demanded that the syrian army come to their district and had urged armed rebel groups to leave because they did not want to be caught in the crossfire between the

as more from lebanon. >> these bishops are the most senior and the christian community who have been kidnapped threat the past two years. many other christians been kidnapped in the past, sometimes for ransom. their kidnapping, however, since a lot of concern and alarm to the christian community and aleppo and throughout syria. most of the christian community is very concerned about the developments in the country in the past few years. they are afraid of the rising power of the groups and most support assad. many have left the country, especially aleppo, as the battles rage there in the past six months. for many people in syria, this is just another sign of how the situation is deteriorating, especially for them, they say. >> french and african forces have driven rebels out of their stronghold in northern mali. often times, fighters leave their equipment and clues to the operations behind. here is the report from a former rebel stronghold. >> the town in northern mali here is now under the control of tuareg rebels. but during most of last year, this was the place where al qaeda set

you can feel it in lebanon already, the prime minister just resigned there. so there's-- it's kind of what they call the shiite axis that kind of moves across the middle east. and i think that's a fault line. it's just cracking open. >> do you see that? >> no, it makes me think of sort of, i was talk together furks the other day, of course they're really worried about this but they were talking about afghanistan and kind of the possibility of the wider conflict there. and they are very involved. they are involved currently and they're very worried about the kind of broader escalation of afghanistan. i'm not sure what potential there is for broader problems from afghanistan or whether it's actually kind of contained turmoil, if there is a civil war inside afghanistan. >> rose: the taliban are so unpopular but is it likely that they will come back to power and is it likely they'll all, all the horrific actions against women will take place that we saw before 2003. >> i think these really are things to worry about. the taliban will make you more and more of a co