[applause] it is not always about lebanon. the lebanon numbers are out of sync. you are absolutely right. if you look closely at the polls and look closely at the other numbers, the other lebanon numbers were right on target with everything else we have done over the years. attitude toward america the same. attitude toward saudi arabia the same. attitudes toward turkey and russia the same. nothing moved by iran. why did the iran numbers move in november of 2012? the pupil is april of 2012. -- the pugh -- pew poll was in april of 2012. they were not seeing iran at that point through the prism of the united states. they were seeing it through the prism of israel. they were seeing it in a different way and they came up with different answers. 77% of pakistanis have a favorable view of iran. they had different numbers on each than we did. i do not think 50% of some arab countries support a military strike. our numbers were different than that. if you are planning a military attack on iran and you want to go with the pew numbers, you pay the price for it. i am not sur

started and lebanon and nine hundred seventy five and the army has engaged with a pretty. it started as an argument and it ended in a civil war so i think this doesn't happen actually just by accident it just happens by. very. clearly to. take the war for the head and that's why the civil war this state endeavored and for twenty years don't even think the war has ended and lebanon is just a continuous war but in a different phase and a different face how do you regard saudi society right now because i remember you say that it is more backward for lack of a better word than it was an eighty's every year that passes i see things going back more and more back was the time. i really. i'm really impressed by. two years ago his policies his governess of the of the society of so i did it took the woman straight ahead he put it on t.v. he has turned his death into those voices of extremists who would according to. to favor the woman you know really. imprisoned them behind closed doors. he did not listen he went along with his agenda i thought it was. the court. that people would n

lebanon and how beautiful. it was back in the seventy's and that's also under threat of extinction right now especially with syria. have you know lebanon has the feel for everybody since a long time for the palestinians for this is that it is for the sea it is the feeling for every single war everybody fires his own battles on the land of of lebanon the most beautiful country in the world was and you know i grew up in lebanon and i grew up in those beautiful mountains and those in a society that didn't even know what religious. sects. rather than actually being christian or being a good muslim world or being whatever they give peace of peace for. themselves and when the game. started in lebanon and nine hundred seventy five and the army has engaged with the palestinian refugees. it started as an argument and that in the civil war so i think this doesn't happen actually just by accident it just happens by very very. clearly to. take the war for the head and that's why the civil war to this state never been for t

they want lebanon to be involved, all lebanon, yes or no? i think most of the lebanese majority does not want this. in this case, i think the government must call the army to call for emergency case and let the army take charge of security forces. it's time, you know, necessary it's a must and they have to do it today before tomorrow. because lebanon is in very dangerous situation. if we apply an emergency case we can, i think, minimize, minimize i said, the damage we are expected. otherwise we have to expect many places in lebanon and even a conflict, sectarian conflict between shiite and other parts, other groups in lebanon. >> thank you, thank you very much indeed. that's a retired lebanese general talking to us from beirut. now to egypt, the muslim brother hood has rejected the interim's president's time table for elections early next year. the president announced the plan less than a day after more than 50 supporters of the deposed president mouhammad morsi died in a gun attack. a committee is going to draft a new constitution. they wil

lebanon and how beautiful. it was back in the seventy's and that's also under threat of extinction right now especially with syria. have you know lebanon has been the field for everybody since a long time for the palestinians for this is that eight is for the sea it is. for every single war everybody fires his own battles on the land of lebanon the most beautiful country in the world was and grew up in lebanon and grew up in those beautiful mountains and those in a society that didn't even know what it is just. sects. rather than actually being christian or being a good muslim lot of being whatever they give peace of peace for. themselves and when the game. started and lebanon and nine hundred seventy five and the army has engaged with the palestinian refugees. it started as an argument and it ended in the civil war so i think this doesn't happen actually just by accident it just happens by very very. clearly to. take the war for the head and that's why the civil war to this state and have it in for twenty year

>> this is the consensus inside lebanon. a number of people say this is an indication of the spillover of the conflict inside syria. several towns close to the border have fallen. there is talk about hezbollah being involved in the fighting right now. the political force in lebanon has alienated the syrian population. what you have now is a deepening sectarian polarization. it is not an exaggeration to talk about a sectarian cancer body politice from syria to lebanon. >> what has happened to the old centers of political power? >> if you talk about cairo, baghdad -- cairo was the center of enlightenment, literature, music and culture. now we have three major arab countries where their future is uncertain, they're going through a great deal of tumult. they may break up and go their own way. syria is witnessing one of the bloodiest civil wars in the region in a long time. nobody knows anything about the future of syria. how of -- nobody knows egypt will unfold. lebanon is tiny, small, politically brittle and divided and in the

>> this is the consensus inside lebanon. a number of people say this is an indication of the spillover of the conflict inside syria. several towns close to the border have fallen. there is talk about hezbollah being involved in the fighting right now. the political force in lebanon has alienated the syrian population. what you have now is a deepening sectarian polarization. it is not an exaggeration to talk about a sectarian cancer body politice from syria to lebanon. >> what has happened to the old centers of political power? >> if you talk about cairo, baghdad -- cairo was the center of enlightenment, literature, music and culture. now we have three major arab countries where their future is uncertain, they're going through a great deal of tumult. they may break up and go their own way. syria is witnessing one of the bloodiest civil wars in the region in a long time. nobody knows anything about the future of syria. how of -- nobody knows egypt will unfold. lebanon is tiny, small, politically brittle and divided and in the

when you talk it's a global thing what's going to happen in lebanon will always talk about lebanon and how beautiful multiethnic it was back in the seventy's and that's also under threat of extinction right now especially with syria. have you know lebanon has been the field for everybody since a long time for the palestinians for this is that i.e. it is for the sea it is the feeling for every single war everybody fires his own battles on the land of of lebanon the most beautiful country in the world was and you know i grew up in lebanon and i grew up in those beautiful mountains and those in a society that didn't even know what religious. sects ordered . rather than actually being christian or being a good muslim lot of being whatever they'd have peace of besides themselves and when the game. started and lebanon and nine hundred seventy five and the army has engaged with the pet. it started as an argument and it ended in a civil war so i think this doesn't happen actually just by accident it just happens by. very. clearly to. take the war for the head and that's why the civil war this

southern lebanon is an area where hezbollah is very strong. what are people saying that their reaction is to the european union decision? hand they think this is a two flip move. not have an impact on hezbollah and its capabilities. but for them it is part of them. you have to admit that this is a group that is part populist movement, the members of which come from these store owners and each store owner, they all have relatives, a son or a brother who is a member. for them they are the people that defend them against israel and are not terrorists. they think that this is only part of a campaign to weaken has a lot. as you can imagine, they can sense this move. >> can you explain why the lebanese government's fought against this decision? of then important member government, is it not? >> they have members of parliament, the government, representatives, and they represent and enjoy the support of most of the community in lebanon. another thing to consider is that the situation in lebanon is very sensitive and on many issues they need to rule o

he is no standard to lebanon. -- he is no stranger to lebanon. he has served there twice. we are confident he's up to the challenge. the nominee for -- secretary of ryan.is -- ms. as a consultant for the educational partnership for children of conflict and served as a deputy chair of the clinton global initiative. we believe she will make an secretary of state in this regard. i look forward to working with ir in the coming years. understand our other nominee is stuck in security. she will be here shortly. if you would sympathize your statement in about five minutes for each of you. your full statements will be included in the record. we will start with you. oh. i see have been liberated from security. ana me welcome ms. lili ayalde. she has been nominated to be the next ambassador of brazil. this is an important bilateral relationship. especially in the role that brazil plays in international untaxed. president -- context. president obama will host a visit this coming october she has a strong experience in them -- this coming october. she is a strong experience. welcome. >

for lebanon, the stakes are high. this country fought its own civil war for 15 years. now many fear that their small, deeply divided nation could be consumed again-- this time by syria's war next door. clarissa ward, cbs news, hermel, lebanon. >> pelley: major league baseball just suspended one of its biggest stars for drug use. and a new round is coming in the custody battle over baby veronica when the "cbs evening news" continues. hands, for holding. ♪ feet, kicking. better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. if you're trying to manage your ra, now may be the time to ask about xeljanz. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz is an ra medicine that can enter cells and disrupt jak pathways, thought to play a role in the inflammation that comes with ra. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers have happened in patients taking xeljanz. don't start taking xelj

what you're well highness you are a saudi princes who grew up in lebanon and is how syrian the syrian conflict must also be a very personal thing for you know what's your take on the whole thing definitely it's a you know i can never distance myself from my origins of my mother's actually background my family in syria i have a big event in syria that is suffering right now along with millions of other syrians i am here and i my heart goes to all the syrians including my family including that i feel i have seen on the borders of jordan and of lebanon and my heart goes out to the governments who are responsible about such horrendous. genocide and i really mean genocides i've been there i've seen what is happening over there children are being slaughtered on the street and they're crossing the borders what do you mean under government i mean all the governments of the word whoever it is has that it has at its sponsibility about this thing about either the

ambassadors to lebanon will be meeting the groups ahead of relations in the coming hours. and it's been said the e.u. decision is worthless. >> the aim of this decision is clear, the aim is to subject us to control to oblige us to retreat, to make us reluctant, to make us panic and terrify us. i can tell them that you will not achieve anything through this decision other than failure and disappointment. this decision will not achieve any of its goals and we're calling on the e.u. to retreat from this mistake. >> the ruler went to the hezbollah strong hold in southern lebanon to find out how its supporters are reacting to the e.u. decision. >> thousands of peacekeepers roamed the narrow allies of southern lebanon and villages and hundreds are european and groups from the same e.u. nations who have designated hezbollah's military wing as a terrorist organization and this is hezbollah's strong hold even if its fighters are not visible. we are all hezbollah, says this 37-year-old maria. hezbollah is not a terrorist group but a group that defends its people, defended me and my

syrians fled to lebanon to escape the violence. 51000 syrian refugees are being hosted in lebanon. that number could rise -- 500,000 syrian refugees are being hosted in lebanon. that number could rise. >> influence on the ground and with the government. they are doing all they can to help with the transition. they need help. >> it has come out of the shadows for the first time in a year. we take a close look at egypt's powerful army. pakistan is facing what some are calling an environmental catastrophe. the top stories on algerian -- on al jazeera. tensions are mounting as people try to resolve the political crisis. thousands take to the streets --voice their support for rage for mohamed morsi. the situation with syria refugees is getting worse. u.n. expects 1 million serious to be living in lebanon by the end of the year. more now on our top story, the crisis in egypt. the army has imposed a deadline for the two size to come to a solution. what role does the military command have in egyptian politics. caroline alone takes a closer look. alone takes -- malone takes a closer look. t

and these except for turkey maybe jordan and lebanon are poor country their resources depend mainly on the and so more refugees is definitely more trouble to their economy as well that's very unfortunate i just want to rattle off a couple more statistics here one in five schools and one in three hospitals are out of service of the total estimated one hundred thousand six hundred thousand more than a third have been civilians what are the collateral costs of this war and i mean can this be prevented is there anything we can do to prevent this in the future the war itself the words i think that's million dollars a lot of people are talking about how to end this there is only one solution to this which is a political solution and the pollution solution not because you can reach an agreement for the two parties but also because you can cut down the. you know the collapse of the tree is you know i mean who are record the real backers of these two parties that's what i want to know major players international players they all have to say this is not clear. this is a proxy war everyone kno

too soon i think and i wish people would just learn from history was so what the civil war and lebanon did to that country that not only you know when it comes to the economy but also to the death toll of that country and what happened later on with the constellation efforts that are still network and other the same in syria and we saw that in iraq as well we saw that in libya and even tunisia even tunisia let's get to our second topic which is related and it has to do with the house of representatives is expected to vote on in iran and iran sanctions bill tomorrow the bill is expected to put further pressure on iran's oil exports so in order to get around the current dollar in europe sanctions iran plans to accept its rupee payments for oil from india this is just one of those you know collateral things that's happening but what are the what are the effects of sanctions in the country a lot of people would say that the sanctions only affect the normal people the government is doing business as usual maybe not as efficient as they would like it to be but does the fact that people don't

the army has to play a balancing role, as it has in lebanon. the army in lebanon is much more fragile but in all of these states it plays a critical role of securing security or not of the states. >> you can find plenty more of the event logging on to our website, al jazeera.com, for much more analysis. look on the spotlight page. profiles of maine players, -- of the main players, all on aljazeera.com. south african worker started moving the remains of three of nelson mandela's children to their original gravesite. the re-burials marked the end of a legal battle between his grandson and other family members. a court in south africa has ordered the graves of three of nelson mandela's children to be exhumed. two years ago mandela's grandson at the dodd is dug up in a village women nelson mandela grew up. he then have them moved to mandela's birthplace. it is believed mandela wants to be buried next to his children. a court statement filed by more than a dozen of his family members says his health is parentless and he is assisted in breathing by l

severing its contacts with lebanon and effectively had you saying this is a financial motive for this. no the opposite they have their reason and i think they will to have good relations with lebanon and also syria syria is going to hand out some major contracts and if they as the e.u. is now condemn hezbollah as a terrorist organization least it's a military wing and it's almost impossible to distinguish one from the other. the europeans may not get some of those kind of contracts and then tries to get those contracts i think is to make sure that they don't do anything i'm very thankful internet he finds that they don't really. that will be the reaction from has been large as quickly my reaction is it was a feel go operation please israelis at the white house and that's about it i were not going to see much consequence coming out of their heart also that but they caved to you. merican not pressure like a thank you we have an active time thank you that it stuck to franklin lamb an international lawyer and political analyst thank you. up next will be following one of russia's oldest an

it is along the border between lebanon and israel. they working among hezbollah supporters. any move like the one adopted today will make the work harder. they are part of the united nations interim forces to maintain the peace between lebanon and israel. that is why they would probably like to keep some kind of contact with hezbollah. maybe that is where the designated the military wing and not all of hezbollah. oppositiond syrian is fragmenting further. different factions are now fighting each other. there were confrontations between brigades affiliated with the syrian free army and al qaeda groups in the rubble-held north. one has managed to stay out of the infighting. but that group says it will have to take sides if the interest of the syrian people are harmed. >> this is one of the strongest groups in the increasingly fragmented armed opposition. it boasts of course of least 23,000 fighters spread across the country. from the beginning, of the syrian opposition has seen an ideological clashes and now increasingly armed conflicts. islamicre a syrian groups fighting on s

we have seen signs of that spilling over into lebanon. is this going to push iraq over the edge?nto further sectarian violence, possibly civil war as well? >> i probably would be cautious on naming a civil war. when i have a chat with the iraqi foreign minister, who obviously has interest in putting a positive spin on his own country -- the actual conditions that would sort of make even one group beneficial of civil war doesn't really exist so much in a rack -- in iraq. people who engage in civil wars do so to make geographical gains on the ground, as we have seen in the balkans or in rwanda. that does not exist in iraq. the worst that could happen is some kind of agreement. let's go into some kind of federation, the way iraq started back in the 1920's, so you have a federation and local governments splitting the country into three. >> thank you very much for your analysis. in syria, rebel fighters are reported to have attacked the government munitions facility. footage which cannot be independently verified. smoke was seen billowing from the building in the capital of damascus.

the syrian crisis has deepened divisions in lebanon. the singer's seems to symbolize the resentment towards has below. he used his fame to encourage people to fight along with the syrian rebels and against hezbollah. is to beays his wish killed fighting for his cause. in this video, he appears to be threatening to kill his rivals and go after followers of hezbollah. his followers killed a dozen lebanese soldiers. the army responded by attacking their stronghold in south beirut. in the two days of fighting that on thed, they are now run. stillf his old cd's are on store shelves. the owner tells me not many people buy them anymore. shocked, he says. >> how can one make the shift from singing about love to being so violent? >> he still has sympathy among some lebanese like this college student. >> i like him as an artist and i like him more now. >> it is this kind of sympathy for a man accused of killing soldiers that worries the lebanese security agencies and politicians. al jazeera, beirut. >> u.s. president barack obama has spoken after

sunni and shia muslims in lebanon have experienced raised tension as sectarian strife spills over from syria. hezbollah members are fighting there in support of president bashar al assad. and the syrian rebels have threatened to target the shia group in lebanon. >>> investigators are piecing together the moments before a plane crash-landed in san francisco. two chinese high school girls died when the asiana airlines passenger jet went down at the city's international airport. the head of the national transportation safety board, deborah hersman, said the jet was traveling too slowly to land. she said it was moving at about 190 kilometers per hour, just before making contact with the ground. the target speed for landing is about 250 can kilometers per hour. hersman said the pilots were trying to pick up speed to make another attempt at a landing. a u.s. television network aired footage of passengers escaping from the wreckage of the airliner. the footage shows people using two escape chutes on the left side of the aircraft. black smoke is pouring from the fuselage as they flee. a cabin

from the reagan days of military involvement in lebanon to bush senior's first gulf war. and, of course, the invasion of iraq. the party's core identity all these years. it's the calling card has been internationalism and interventioni interventionism. but a new libertarian wing has exploded on to the scene in recent years does not rely on the wars of choice. they filibuster against the use of drones, fight the nsa. they want no part of the war in syria or revolution in egypt. not a loose international notion or interpretation of national security. that split in the party isn't sitting well with crust christie. he took aim at rand paul just yesterday. >> this strain of libertarianism going through both parties right now and making big headlines, i think, is a very dangerous thought. >> senator rand paul for example. >> you can name any number of people and he's one of them. these esoteric intellectual debates i want them to come to new jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation. >> now, in response, john, a paul saying on twitter, chr

to lebanon now where the interior minister there has described today's explosion in beirut as a criminal act aimed at destabilizing the country. more than 50 people were injured when a huge explosion rocked the lebanese capital. >> the car bomb attack he southern suburbs -- the car bomb attacked the southern suburbs, the biggest explosion in beirut in years that caused extensive damage. >> the bomb went off early in the morning. very near to a large shopping center. it set off a large blaze. scores were injured. but so far, it seems no one has been killed. this despite the fact that many lebanese were shopping in preparation for ramadan. >> we are not scared by this message and not by the bombers, but so close to ramadan, this is a disgrace. >> t neighborhood is a beirut suburb known as a has bullet stronghold -- known as a hezbollah stronghold. many here believe there is a link, even though few are prepared to say it openly. >> they are trying to create sectarian strife between sunnis and shiites. i can assure you that neither sunnis nor shiites will be dragged into it. >> lebanon's pol

to lebanon now where the interior minister there has described today's explosion in beirut as a criminal act aimed at destabilizing the country. more than 50 people were injured when a huge explosion rocked the lebanese capital. >> the car bomb attack he southern suburbs -- the car bomb attacked the southern suburbs, the biggest explosion in beirut in years that caused extensive damage. >> the bomb went off early in the morning. very near to a large shopping center. it set off a large blaze. scores were injured. but so far, it seems no one has been killed. this despite the fact that many lebanese were shopping in preparation for ramadan. >> we are not scared by this message and not by the bombers, but so close to ramadan, this is a disgrace. >> the neighborhood is a beirut suburb known as a has bullet stronghold -- known as a hezbollah stronghold. many here believe there is a link, even though few are prepared to say it openly. >> they are trying to create sectarian strife between sunnis and shiites. i can assure you that neither sunnis nor shiites will be dragged into it. >> lebanon's p

from lebanon at the end of the 1800s and began an amazing career as a poet, especially, a poet who wrotebout love. his name was kahlil gibran and, as lucky severson reports, his famous little book "the prophet" has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. some critics have panned gibran, but his books just keep on selling. >> when mark and jennifer drago decided to get married, they had both drifted away from their separate churches. he was a methodist, jennifer a lutheran. so they asked pastor april gismondi of the non-denominational church of ancient ways to officiate. >> on this area of long island, a lot of people of a lot of different religions come together and agree that spirituality is the core of the human belief, not the book you got it from. >> and then two and a half years later, when their daughter julia was welcomed into the world in another ceremony, pastor gismondi spoke the words and wisdom of one of the most popular poets of all time, and among the most controversial -- kahlil gibran. >> your children are not your children. they are the sons and daughters of life's

in order to get israel out of southern lebanon and israel got out of southern lebanon in one nine hundred eighty four and then entirely in two thousand and hezbollah's stated political objectives simply changed and so this is why the al-qaeda expert jessica stern referred and refers to al qaeda as having protean demands because of the mathematics is the thing in the west and it really makes me not think. there's nothing the west as the creates terrorism in the world is that yours position nothing. you know i do think that there are certain actions that the u.s. can take and does unfortunately sometimes doesn't fact take which are conducive to fanning terrorism one of those would be foreign occupation so i'm going further into the work of robert pape at the university of chicago i think having large numbers of boots on the ground in these muslim countries irritates the local population and is conducive to a growing the number of terrorist members and expanding the organization and so that can be quite counterproductive but again that's an alternative strategy to the drone campaign and that

a large explosion at a hezbollah stronghold in lebanon sending black smoke as you can see there intohe sky. this is happening right now. an unknown number of casualties. possibly, though, a car bomb that we understand went off near a gas station. some syrian rebel groups had been threatening to hit in lebanon after hezbollah joined syrian president bashar al assad's troops in their battle against the opposition fighters. again, the civil war, of course, has been going on for several years now. at the live desk, melissa malay, news 4. >> melissa, thank you. >>> let's get a check on the forecast. amelia siegle is in for tom this morning. still humid out there, amelia. good morning to you. >> good morning. for the morning hours, dry in the d.c. metro, but as far east as frederick county, loudon and faulkier counties in virginia, i think there will be scattered showers as this rain continues to advance eastward, but it will diminish as it does so. you see here on future weather working throughout the first half of your day, plenty of clouds throughout the morning. most of us a mainly dry

do did they declare lebanon a terrorist are weighing because of the connection has bhalo supports the military we've seen that you know. that mean that the lebanese army now is a terrorist organization and the americans and the others won't get on bar of machine races anymore it raises lots of questions i think what we're going to see is a european do nothing i don't think it's going to have any impact on his follower which is a fundamental resistance organization and relies on the support from the people and not the europeans. i just a moment we'll be a following thousands of orthodox christians on a pilgrim trail stretching back centuries a sacred road just about. i've talked with you and many times about the absurd things going on all around us like kids being thrown out of school because they had a gun that shoots bubbles or various people getting punished for their tweets and facebook posts it's all really abstract it's hard to truly get angry over until you see the results or played a stupid video game just carter sarcastically said to someone who called him crazy oh yeah i'm re

placements are kind of like free the government of lebanon but that raises very interesting questions for among others lawyers you've got the hizbollah now that they dominate what the cabinet and also the legislature and the executive branch it would take a bite talian of lawyers to figure out the language and how you draw the line what did the e.u. do did they declare lebanon a terrorist are weighing because of the connection has bhalo supports the military we've seen that in the last several months does that mean that the lebanese army now is a terrorist organization and the americans and the others won't get on bar of machine races anymore i mean it raises lots of questions i think what we're going to see is a european do nothing i don't think it's going to have any impact on on hezbollah which is a fundamental resistance organization and their real lives on the support from the people and not the europeans or it is time to upset the rothschilds and the big banks to save the world max keiser the kaiser for in just a second. i've talked with you on many times about the absurd things

and here's why i was only defending lebanon against repeated incursions invasions by so let's get that one right but second we should also recall who is it that the west are arming in syria they're arming al-qaeda and other supporters maybe israel is maybe a bit worried about some of those weapons going to our hands it's a rather strange topsy turvy world where we haven't defined what seems to be a fact alliance between saudi arabia on the one hand and israel in opposition to the assad regime and it shows just how far things have come down the road in their determination of various things to unseat the acid regime and how there's a goal in pursuit of that of that goal really interesting get your perspective on this chris thank you very much indeed for joining us live there in london chris bambery thank you marty thanks a lot. well meanwhile syrian state t.v. is announce the army has discovered a rebel operated chemical laboratory packed with toxic substances the military claims they were destined to be packed into mortars and used to attack government forces in damascus it comes a week

occasions that tox were justified operations to wipe out iranian missiles bound for hezbollah in lebanon and army or in senior correspondent of a zero haaretz newspaper told my colleague what we saw this month reported raid had the same intention. israel's defensive agenda of not clashing with syria but when a terrorist organization such as possible are tries to get its hands on such a sophisticated missiles we have no current confirmation of direct hezbollah involvement we also know that these russian weapons were actually sold to syria more than two years ago now if indeed israel is involved in these airstrikes what's turn of the motivation here israel does not go out and preempt syrian missiles and it does so only when syria seems to be on the verge of transporting transferring those missiles to hezbollah so rather than wait until these missiles reach the root or side of israel probably decided to. hit the suburbs. now more than three weeks after arriving the wildfire it got side of and i say whistleblower edward snowden this week when he surface to from his hideout in moscow airport

azzi london and on to some international news in brief now in lebanon a powerful explosion has hit a stronghold of the political and militant group has ball in south beirut injuring at least thirty seven people several people were killed according to unconfirmed reports officials say the attack was an effort by extremists to provoke secure in violence syrian rebel groups earlier threatened to launch attacks on lebanon in revenge for house was support of president. elite pakistani government report has accused the country's military of incompetence in its attempts to capture osama bin laden it also strongly criticizes the national intelligence service for a failing to track down bin laden over a period of almost a decade however it can damage the assassination of a terrorist leader by the united states two years ago as a criminal act of murder on foreign soil. a journalist has been shot dead by identify gunmen in the south russian republic of dagestan ahead libya had to be of who was the deputy editor of a local newspaper was reportedly had out of by militants for his reporting artist