in a moment we'll have more from lebanon.as been an assassination attempt on the country's security chief. and iraqi forces are again under salt. but first let's listen to ban ki-moon at the united nations. >> i urge the security council to impose an arms embargo. if divisions in the council continues to prevent such a step, i urge country to his do so individually. whenever they can to impose th this. syria's neighbors shut enforce a firm prohibition on the use of their landlorders and air spaces for arms flow and smuggleing in to syria. >> ban ki-moon also called on the international community to address what he called extremist threats that are creating sectarian divisions across the middle east, including iraq. >> the syrian conflict has now spread visibly and devastatingly to iraq with the flow of arms and fighters across a border. sectarian warfare is a disaster for all. it generates a vicious circle of poll or ionization and air orism. it is crucial for the regions' leaders, political and religious, to call for restrai

under lebanon's sectarian system the president has to be a christian. kerry pledged $50 million of aid to support the refugees in an attempt to try to support it in this problem and of course that will be a drop in the ocean compared to the $7.5 billion that this crisis is estimated to have cost lebanon until last year. >> john kerry had something to say about the election next door in syria calling on iran, hezbollah and syria to end the conflict. >> that is right. he called on them to stop helping the regime. it is a conflict against its own people. there is a word that will likely fall on deaf ears. it is not likely they will heed those words. he called the presidential elections a great big zero. we are hearing the incumbent president has, as expected, won the election by 88% of the vote. kerry says that election was meaningless and millions were unable to vote. the millions who have been displaced outside syria or within syria and also the fact that a lot of people have not been able to contest the elections. there was no serious opposition in this

lebanon needs the help and it needs it quickly.all the billions pledged to help lebanon and all the refugees here, only 17% has been delivered. >> nick schifrin reporting live in beirut. >>> gun bat unless ukraine. pro-russian separatist took over two government believes in luhansk. following a two-day long siege. six pro-russian fighters were killed and two ukrainians injured. ukraine's military has launched its heaviest attack yet. residents say they are being caught in the cross fire and leading for it to stop. we want to warn you some of these images may be disturbing. >> reporter: this is the aftermath of a military attack on the outskirts of the town. the body of one pro-russian fighter is still slumped in the front seat. outside are the bodies of three more men. locals say the attack happened on monday. and as they showed us the van a day later. mortar round and heavy artillery fire too are could still be heard. locals say this vehicle was carrying a group of pro-russia separatists who had weapons. it tha looks like it's bee

lebanon is strained really. even just coming from syria. more from iraq is a real twb. >> yes, but we don't expect iraqis to read lebanon. they have to travel through tushulent syria. most go through kurdistan. these scenes vibrate in lebanon and people can identify. they were refugees, when they fled their own civil war. they see this as another sign that this region could go in flames at any moment. iraq was not dramatic. people here are gearing up for a good summer. they expect tourists from the gulf states to come back to lebanon, after they felt there was a reegeonnal decision and international push to stablilize lebanon, neutralize it from the crisis in syria and safe guard it from what is happening in syria. now this thing is happening in iraq. people are worried. lebanese businessmen have businesses in kurdistan and iraq. iraq is a rich country and a lot of oil businesses. people are benefitting. people are concerned, as you say. thank you rula, joining us from beirut. the u.s. says it's intensifying training of the iraqi ministry a

jordan, lebanon, and iraq. to a degree, turkek as well have all suffered some negative effects from what's going on next door in syria. is it more in some of those cases at least than merely inconvenience? something that's more dangerous than that? >> it puts a huge strain on their economy. turksey a country of over 80 million people and they are better able to provide the support, although even in turkey, it's a strain. but when you think that perhaps one in three people now physically today standing inside the borders of lebanon, one in three is a syrian refugee, can you is imagine the strain that's put on a small country. imagine if there were 110, 120 million refuges in the united states and so it's hard on lebanon and in jordan, they have 660, almost 700,000 refugees registered and hundreds of thousands more you know registered. so that the number is well over a million. and again, in a small country, and so puts pressure on housing prices. it puts pressure on wages and the job markets because syrians will

we will be reporting from iraq in a moment but first let's go to lebanon. we are joined now in the eastern becca valley, tell us what happened. >> reporter: steve, i'm standing right next to the check point where the explosion took place and a suicide bomber blew himself up and can confirm the head of the lebanese general security was the target of an assassination attempt. he passed by here just seconds before that explosion took place. now, you can see behind me all they are getting is clues from the site and we just passed through the check point less than half an hour before the explosion took place. we were on our way to the becca valley to do a story about syrian refugees here in lebanon. now security here has been on high alert for a few days now. and precisely since the crisis in iraq had started. >> was this a surprising attack? >> reporter: no, steve, it was not a surprising attack at all. in fact, this morning the street in the heart of the capitol beirut many streets were cordened off and security stormed into one of the hotels there and arreste

the issue of syrians is political in lebanon. the country which has its own sectarian divisions is divided into many pro-and anticamps. rami kouri is an editor at large with "the daily staff." this is what he has to say. >> there is a lot of pressure on the government politically inside lebanon to try to reduce the flow of refugees. the pressures on infrastructure in lebanon, water, housing, electricity, medical care, education, these pressures are getting intense. there are political resentments in lebanon by many people who feel some of the refugees are taking advantage of freehandouts from international aid organizations like unhcr. there is ref jopling ease who are here in some cases and then they go back to syria for personal thing they have to register a child or attend a wedding or something and then they come back. so there is many lebanese who are really getting fed up with the sense some refugees at least are maybe taking advantage of this situation and, also, the mass display of support for president asaad at the syris

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lebanon is home to 3 million syrian refugees. one of the biggest problems is getting legal documentation, especially for newborn babies. we have this report from the bekaa valley. >> reporter: this baby is half an hour old. three months before she was born her father was killed fighting in syria. the excitement that accompanies the birth of a baby is ab sent from her family. her mother, a syrian rev gee lies in her hospital bed. no family to support her. one more mouth to feed. she has six other children. getting a birth certificate is not on the priority list. another syrian refugee holds his new son for the first time. ali is his 11th child. his home a tent shared with his parents and siblings. he fled to lebanon and has been unemployed. when will he get a birth certificate. >> not now. when we have the money i may sell some of the food to be able to do it. every step requires money i don't have. the u.n. says that there are at least 24,000 newborn syrians in lebanon, and they are trying to encourage parents to register them wi

you mentioned lebanon. reb remember there are 1.5 syrian refugees in lebanon so if you believe the numbers of the government and i don't of course, it's still a tiny percentage. >> sir, also, it does look likely that the president will win this election so he will win another seven years in office and certainly he has remained in power for the past three years since the start of the civil war, do you worry perhaps at some point the western powers will start to think perhaps it's time to negotiate with president bashar assad again? >> yes, it does worry me and to be honest with you, the west really failed us tremendously because at the beginning of the revolution they knew that we did not this conflict to escalate and to go that far. the west in rhetoric they supported us, that assad's days are numbered and that he lost his legitimacy and so on and he must go blah, blah, blah, all that but they did not materialistically help us not even diplomatically every time they make an excuse of the russian veto or the

. >> the border in lebanon is open.absolutely taxing the system. when you talk to lebanese off of the record, they are not really welcoming off of though refugees. the infrastructure is not there. the medical support is not there. the schooling is not there. so they are safer, but they are deeply worried that their lives simply aren't hopeful, and there is really going to be no future, until they get back to syria. >> it's great to have you back, even if it is for a few days. thanks, nick schifrin. >>> now to ukraine, for months russia has tried to paint the struggle as a struggle with nationalists. al jazeera has found that ukraine's military is recruiting those separatists to help fight pro-russian separatists. >> reporter: training on the shore of the sea that laps the coasts of both russia and crimea, the latest recruits to ukraine's battle against the separatist uprising in the east. these volunteers have joined a special force raised by the interior ministry in kiev. just over the horizon is the crimea peninsula.

. >>> well, lebanon is home to 3 million syrian refugees. one channe channel is getting the documentation and parents say they cannot pay for it. >> only a half hour old. a few months before she was born her father was killed by the fighting in syria. the excitement that accompanies a birth of a new baby is aband absent from her family. her mother, a syrian refugee lies in her hospital bed alone. no family to support her. she is overwhelmed. one more mouth to feed. she already has six other children. getting a birth certificate for the child is not on her priority list. >>> this is his 11th child. he fled to lebanon a year ago and has been unemployed since then. when will he get his birth certificate? >> not now. when we have the money to do it. every step requires money that i don't have. >> the u.n. said there are at least 24,000 newborn syrians in lebanon and they're trying to register them officially with the syrian embassy. this new baby girl has not been named yet. her grandmother said they don't even know how to get her a birth certif

each day, 2500 refugees pour into lebanon from syria. number will be 1.5 million, more than a third of this country's population and all of these refugees, more than half are children. as the war ripped their country apart, one group was most vulnerable. syrian children, a part of a lost generation. seven-year-old abdalla can't count or read. he is traumatized and doesn't speak much. when we asked what he thinks about syria -- near he whispers. -- fear he whispers. they have seen things no one and no child should ever see. more than half of the refugees are children and most are out of school. >> they lost everything out of syria. their houses land property business. >> closest thing that abdalla has to a guardian angel. he runs home of hope with 75 children who used to live on the street. >> we try to rehabilitate them. give them education. >> today syrian refugee children have flooded an overwhelmed lebanon. they live in makeshift shelters in the country or in beirut, at least 75,000 ton street, instead of in school. -- on the street i

coming up, suicide bombers are targeting a top commander in lebanon. why a change in leadership in baghdad is the only way to end the bloodshed. plus, a popular senator surrenders to the police live on television. on the hunt for medical miracles in the open ocean. >> a suicide attack in lebanon and a car bombing in syria and a fight in iraq. in isolation they are incidents of human tragedy. but they are all linked and together tell the story of a middle eastern landscape that is quickly changing. we are reporting from iraq in a moment, first we are going to lebanon and the top security chief is the target of an assassination attempt and he was unharmed but killed at least two people. it happened at a security check on the main highway. we are joined now in the eastern valley, you are at the scene of the attack and tell us about what happened. >> okay, this is the main highway that links to beirut to damascus. it happened just within a few seconds when the head of the general security had passed from this same check point. hundreds of cars pass through

a suicide bomber has blown himself up at a checkpoint in lebanon. the assailant was stopped at the checkpoint to be searched when he set off his explosives leaving two dead. our reporter joins us from beirut. tell us more about the attack. itit wasn't a checkpoint -- was at a checkpoint. 37 people died in the explosion. about 15 to 20 kilograms of explosives used. most people are traveling on a bus to the valley, but also soldiers. one soldier died and six have been wounded. there was another checkpoint further down that belongs to the army. washead of general security at the checkpoint minutes ago fueling speculation perhaps it was a targeted assassination. that is not the only thing happening today. there was also a raid on a hotel in beirut in an attempt to blow up the speaker of the house. that has been linked to isis, the same group operating in iraq. a very tumultuous day for lebanon today from stream us from isis and things we do not know yet. it is clear the bomb came from beirut. the bombs used to come from syria, so a new group acting on t

you talk to a lot of people in lebanon and jordan.re i was a few weeks ago, and some returned to syria to vote in the election because they felt they had to vote. one day they wanted to return, and if they prove they couldn't go back, they feel there'll be a problem >>> you bring up a good point, is there an allegiance to bashar al-assad or is it out of fear. >> fear. the refugees fled. they were targeted. there's a huge amount of fear. they have to overcome the fear and go back to vote, or they had to go back to wrote to prove their allegiance is to bashar al-assad. inside of syria the story is ditch. bashar al-assad survived in part not only because of his natural allies, or because of russia, iran and hezbollah, but there are sunni allies. he is a she item leader, but there's a lot of sunnis benefitting economically and geographically. >> stand by for a moment. i wanted to bring in james, a professor from u.c.l.a. and wrote extensively on the crisis. i want to start with was bashar al-assad trying to gain international legitimacy a

these folks want to control jordan, they want to control lebanon and israel.ey're a large, nasty group of folks. >> ambassador, do you agree with that assessment? >> well, i think, of course, we have all the reason to worry. they are terrorists and they are extremely radical and trying to influence a large part of the territory. i would caution a little bit against, you know, over worry that they will spill over into jordan. remember they are going to be able to -- they're going to have to face a very strong army with planes, with tanks and a very army and they don't have the n - social supporting environment. >> because i've heard in these reports that there are already in some of these refugee camps and as we know, there are hundreds of thousands of refugees coming in from iraq and coming in from syria. there are already isis gently and they have supporters, even among john jordanians, but this number only in the 200 and that's what they do in iraq, and has allow said them to achieve military successes. we're talking about a group of people that might have 1

their presence is being felt here in the coastal city of tripoli in northern lebanon. we saw the black-and-white flags of the group flying almost everywhere in this district. the group aims to establish an islamic state based on its interpretation of islam. they have made claims to territories in iraq, syria, and the surrounding countries, including lebanon. the civil war in neighboring syria has ignited the conflicts between the shiite and the sunni communities. the group has its support from some in the sunni community. >> translator: the islamic state is good and better than maliki because they give people their right. yes, for sure, they do. >> translator: we support the idea of having an islamic state in this world, and i encourage this. we are all muslims fighting together. >> reporter: abu mustafa, muhammad, had a son who joined the group in syria. he died in the battle against forces of the assad regime. he was only 22 years old. mohammed is considered a martyr here. his picture is proudly displayed in public. abu feels his son's death would be worthwhile if th

not only is lebanon suffering but also the renewed violence in iraq as well.the report there from beirut. security forces in lebanon had an operation in the northern city of tripoli had resulted in the arrest of five members of a terrorist cell. those followed two other bombings on lebanese soil during the course of the last week. officials did not say which group the suspects belonged to. they've been searching for the members of isis. in the nigerian capital is reported to have claimed more than 20 lives. this struck a shopping strip in the rush-hour. more than a dozen people are reported to have been injured. we don't have too many more details. just 20 people, 21 people have been killed now. in line with orders from they councilin, resolution allowing the use of military force in ukraine. that is moved at showing the west that moscow is doing his part to do escalate tensions. >> Á and ask for it and as usual the russian parliament didn't deviate from the line. againsterson has voted this. russian ships were allowed to cross the border to protect russian sp

they evacuated clinics in lebanon. this is built on a mosque.veryone here lost a limb or is paralyzed below the waste. >> osama carries the jihadi video on the cell phone. showing him carrying rocket-propelled grenades. >> translation: the syrian army fired on us. i was hit in the vertebrae. >> reporter: he fought in the cradle of revolution. they battled furiously. homs suffered a campaign of strikes, shelling and seizures. the government's victory was written in ruin. this man was in a bloody battle. the rebels lost, he is defiant. >> translation: i don't feel regret or fear. this is my fate. i accept it. >>> today they take a step towards recovery. in lebanon 10,000 syrian refugees need prosthetics or a mechanical brace that holds him up. how do you feel? >> translation: thank god, i'm happy. this is better than laying down. >> reporter: it's a big smile. the damage is not only physical, it's psychological. new legs provide hope. >> translation: when you do this your heart gets stronger. >> and when you are strong again, what do you do? >> i

we have hezbollah in '82 in lebanon. we have the alawites in syria coming to the fore once america invaded iraq, a country ruled by sunnies over the shiite majority, and really reverse 180 degrees the social order, casting the sunnies down from the top to the bottom, and cat putting the shiites from the bottom to the top giving an entire lock on the government. america, of course, talked about power sharing, but they had no include of what they were doing. they created a shiite power in the mis midst of the sunni world. they were marginal group, they could ignore them and in a sense speak down to them because they were not powerful today they are powerful. in lebanon we have seen hezbollah come before syria, and there is this shiite crescent as has been talked to, stretching from lebanon all the way to iran today. that has made the sunnies feel very weak, and this isil is coming to champion. it's so violent. it's been crucifying people in syria. it's a form of islam which horrifies many sunnies. on the other hand someone

nick schifrin is in making lebanon.ls are staying open later because of high voter opportunity out. was this expected? how is the voting going? >> reporter: well, we have had 13 hours of voting, we have seen long lines all day, people very publicly and openly declaring their allegiance to president bashar al-assad and what the opposition says is all these images of flag waving and people showing off their fingers that they voted are all stage managed and that so many people herer fearful and feel that they have to vote, declare their allegiance publicly to assad otherwise their fate will be the same as the 160,000 people who have been killed in the last three years of this war. and you know, when you walk in to a voting polling booth in the u.s. you might see a jar of pencils here in damascus one polling station there is a jar of pins so people can pin prick their fingers and vote in blood. and the opposition calls these the blood elections. they say that you cannot hold this vote while there is so much violence and the

in the past few months there has been a lull in the violence in lebanon. since the attack in iraq, lebanon officials have been on high alert, concerned that the relative success of the sunni fighters there could encourage al-qaeda fighters here to start launching attacks. lebanese security say they were tipped off on specific plots. lebanese security had been looking for potential suspects involved in the alleged plots. security forces raided this hotel and arrested a number of suspects. they were arrested in suspicion they were planning to carry out a big terrorist attack in beirut, where a speaker was scheduled to attend a conference. the conference was canceled in the morning due to the intelligence the security received. elsewhere in the capitol, roads were blocked and cordoned off. just as most people here started to enjoy the recent peace, the crisis in iraq is threatening to destabilize their country. >>> coming up this news hour, former hostages gather in london to discuss the polite of three al jazeera journalists. >>> at least 12 people die in fl

>> guest: well, i fought in the lebanon war. i was quite involved in the lebanon war. i served in the israel paratroopers. at that point, i was in israeli special forces and... c-span: what year? >> guest: this was in 1982, in june, 1982. for some reason, wars in the middle east occur in june, almost to the day. it's probably good war-fighting weather. and i was among the first forces to -- of israeli forces to enter the city of beirut in june, 1982. and my actual unit was decimated in an ambush, and we ended up being attached to all sorts of other units for the duration of the war. later on, i became one of the few israelis to be a veteran of the gulf war. in a period just before the outbreak of the gulf war, i was assigned as a strategic liaison between the israeli army and the u.s. sixth fleet in the eastern mediterranean. that's one -- it's an interesting thing as an historian, as well, because in the book, i point out that israel had repeatedly requested in 1967 precisely such a liaison with the sixth fleet, and the u.s. denied the request. well, in subsequent yea

lebanon is home to a million syrian refugees, 47% of them are living in substandard housing. nick schifrin is in beirut. they will talk about the current political crisis, but what did he have to say about syria's presidential election? >> reporter: this is all about syria, this visit. the reason why he's talking about politics, he comes and says there is a leadership vacuum. he wants this country to fill it because only then can this country get all of the humanitarian help that it desperately needs. he looked out across the border at syria. he looked at these elections and he really dismissed them. he said that they were meaningless. let's take a listen to what he says. >> with respect to the elections that took place the so-called elections. the elections are non-elections. the elections are a great big zero. they're meaningless. and they're meaningless because you can't have an election where millions of people don't have an ability to vote, contest the election. >> reporter: so what kerry urged lebanon to do is come together olympicly. he said that can help the war. that

there is a large army of syrian workers in lebanon. they didn't necessarily consider themselves refugees. lebanon has said over the last week that people who go back into syria to vote could lose their refugee status. that could have stopped a few. syrian refugees are divided on this issue as are the syrian people. >> indeed divided. the opposition has criticized the regime harshly for holding the vote amid a raging civil war. do people think the vote will help or hinder the situation further? > in the event it progresses peacefully, some of the main rebel groups, including the islamic front said they would not attack polling stations to keep civilians out of the the conflict. that is one of the things that kept it quieter today, as well as a huge security presence on the part of the regime. but there is a general sense that because the poll could only take place in the government-held areas, because it was so disputed, with the opposition considering it a sham, calling it the election of blood, that this could have only increased the

they discussed lebanon and the boost to the baby niec lebanese lebanon. he pledged $51 million of u.s. money to be given to u.n. agencies here to help lebanon shoulder the burden of the refugees. lebanon said it cannot shoulder this responsibility alone. they have had special elections that took place on tuesday, and he said that it means nothing. that it didn't change anything. the crisis still persists. the refugees are still there. he believes political solution is the only way to resolve it, and when he was pressed that there were all these predictions that bashar al-assad would be overthrown, they said we cannot determine when he will be overthrown. it's for the syrian people. >> turkish authorities have added syria's most powerful opposition group. the nusra front that they add to the list of terrorist organizations. >> there are those who are inspired by al-qaeda. in december of 2012 united states list it as a terrorist organization. at the time turkey called the move premature. now the turkish government has added nusra on its list of al-qaeda-lin

it's the second terrorist attack in four days of lebanon. security forces believe it's a direct fall out of what is happening in iraq. increasing the violence, it has encouraged and emboldened al qaeda groups in lebanon, starting again. security forces believe they are trying to pre-empt more plans to attack shiite areas. >> to ukraine where pro-russian separatists in the east say they'll sort of a ceasefire. rebels made the announcement in the u.s. as paul brennan reports, many are worried that the fighting will resume. >> the train bound for moscow was crowded. all the crowds leaving lugansk are crowded these days. at the roadblocks and check pilots, as they enclose -- checkpoints, as they enclose the city, the rail is a form of escape. lugansk was a city of 400,000. now rebels are fleeing before the end of the ceasefire. >> translation: before huge numbers. people were in the streetsment many have now left the city. i don't see a reason to stay. >> friday, separate ceasefires declared will end. people here are terrified by what might foll

lebanon's losses will be $7.5 billion. it's a huge amount for a country teetering on the brink of sectarian warfare. >>> professor james gealedon, joining us from u.c.l.a. thank you for your time. >>> libya's newly elected prime minister held his first cabinet meeting the hard-line fighters and a rogue general are battling in the east, and the old prime minister refuses to step down. >> even though the new prime minister is installed in the office the reality is that there are technically two prime ministers. the caretaker prime minister hasn't issued any statement in reaction to this move. we know that he hasn't handle over the government and we know it is inflaming tensions. without a legal ruling, this is what they are waiting for. this is set to happen on thursday, the supreme court set to rule. certainly, a bold move to take office in the official office of the prime minister, and make a statement to the country saying that they'll fight terrorism and work to unite the country in a troubled time. >> stefanie dekker re

he announced $290 million for the entire region for the syrian refugees, and specifically to lebanon, $51 million will go not only for refugees inside lebanon, not only to encourage the world bank to prop up this economy, which is struggling, but also he talked about propping up the lebanese military. something along the borders with syria. and he definitely came here his first visit as secretary of state to prop up the lebanese and deliver that message. it's not clear if the u.s. connections will do anything to stop the violence. >> nick schifrin, thank you. before he goes to belgium president obama helped poland celebrating a defining moment. the president and other world leaders met in warsaw. celebrating the end of communist rule. president obama had a word for russia. >> bigger nations must not be allowed to bully the small or impose their will with the barrel of a gun or masked men taking over buildings. the stroke of a pen cannot legitimatize the theft of a neighbor's land. we will not accept russia's occupation of crimea. our nation also stand united so further russian provoca

there's a significant refugee population where you are in lebanon.o you see a lot of them voting and are they under some sort of intimidation. >> they are not voting at all. nor do they want to vote. there's a million, 1.1 million refugees officially here in lebanon, 1.5 by the middle of the year. 100,000 people are leaving syria every month, fleeing to neighboring countries out of fear for their lives, that is the entire population of green bay leaving syria every single month. you ask them why they are leaving, they are fearful for their lives. we met one family who climbed a mountain for nine hours to get here. they are not voting in this election. they are voting with their feet. >> 3 million people in total of refugees. a real cries there. nick schiffron in beirut, lebanon. nick, thank you. we'll have more on our next half hour. including a conversation with richard murphy, the former u.n. ambassador to sir. >> >> russia is calling for an emergency meeting. moscow wants to introduce a resolution to the fighting. until now, russia has blocked act

again, in lebanon, affiliated with isis. if you think this is not part of a larger region, you need to think again. officials say the bomber ignited explosives just as security forces closed in on him. two of those officials died. the blast happened in the capital city of beirut. remember lebanon borders syria. syria is a hot bed for sunni extremists sweeping across iraq. just over a week ago, authorities announced that they were looking for terror cells in lebanon. terror cells that were planning to carry out a series of attacks. investigators report they arrested 17 suspects last week, yet this has happened. lebanese investigators say they were raiding the hotel today in search of more of them. this is the latest in a string of attacks on security scares in lebanon. an al qaeda group or an al qaeda-linked group, i should say, that is not isis claimed responsibility for those attacks. >>> here at home, he says he accidentally left his child alone in a car. and we will get to that story and the rest of it from investigators

it is third bombing in lebanon in less than a week. da what do we know about the suspects so far? >> well, what is confirm sod far from the lebanese officials is that they held saudi nationality. and the saudis said they were checking indication, but for now they saudis. one was killed when he blew himself up when the police stormed his room. the other is being interrogated. it's the third suicide bombing in less than a week. and there were two more that were arrested. it's five people who were willing to die to carry out terror attacks here in lebanon. it's very alarming. the officials believe this is a spillover from the violence in iraq. for a while, lebanese started to believe that they had immuned themselves from what is happening in syria, and now the violence in iraq is encouraging sleeping cells here in lebanon to take action. it seems the security officials believe that most of these potential suicide bombers are not lebanese. two of them were saudis. yesterday there was one frenchman that was arrested suspected of being here,

let's go live to a refugee camp in the valley in neighboring lebanon. we have seen the president casting his vote, what about those people there with you, some of whom have been in that camp for almost three years i would guess, do they feel like they are having any kind of say at all. you can see people have been living in literally subhuman conditions. they feel they have no say whatsoever. on one hand, many of them had crossed the border into lebanon illegally, because her fleeing the war, and that was with the only way in. because of that they are not eligible to vote, on the other hand, the lebanese government has warned the refees that if they do cross the border today into syria, they will lose their status as displaced syrians. because that means they are safe. others are concerns if they don't show up. and some are afraid from the opposition and the rebel groups who support some of so fsc is growing very fast among these people, that they don't really have a say, they are being intimidated by both sides, and anyway, they feel even if they went

every day 2500 syrians come into lebanon. by the end of the year it will be 1.5 million syrian refugees that is more than a third of the country here. what lebanon needs is a lot of help physically. it's overwhelmed. financially it's overwhelmed. kerry said if you get your house in order then the help will materialize. >> nick schifrin, thank you. >>> north dakota's oil boom has created thousands of jobs and dangerous working conditions. why the state has seen an huge up tick in on-the-job deaths. >>> and you cannot write off the tea party just yet. >> president obama is in brussels, belgium, to attend a summit of a group of seven of industrialized countries or g-7 david shuster is sitting in for ali velshi on "real money." what are these g-7 nations, these leaders, what are they looking here? >> reporter: they're looking at i don't know going european economic problems. we got data on this side of the atlantic, america's trade deficit, imports exceeds export, much of it is due to the lopsided trade with europe, america's big

suicide bombers. >> rose: you also argue because of some mistakes that hezbollah got empowered in lebanon>> yes. this is the beginning of hezbollah. in 1983, hezbollah didn't really exist but there was a shadowy break off group that formed0rigf september 82. and this really precipitated the formation of hezbollah as a political force representing the shiites of southern lebanon and beirut. >> rose: why do we love the intrigue of the middle east so much. >> well as the israelis constantly tell us, it's a neighborhood filled with a complex mosaic of cultures and religion. aims fell in love with the middle east even though it was a difficult place to work. >> rose: he wanted to learn. >> he wanted to learn. >> rose: he studied. >> he studied arabic, he could joke in the language, he could read the literature, he could read the newspaper and carry on a political conversation. this is very rare i have to say for an intelligence officer. even today there are very few c.i.a. officers who can do what he did back in the 80's. >> rose: the book is called the good spy, the life and death of robert a

as of the latest in a series of attacks in lebanon. three days earlier, a suicide bomber killed one person and wounded 30 others close to the syrian border. following an appeal, one of france's top courts ruled today that life support being given to a 38-year-old victim of a car accident can be switched off. a vegetativen state ever since that accident in 2008, but the question whether to keep them alive has caused the divisions not just within his family, but also in terms of public opinion. she just learned that the government agreed to turn off the life-support machine of her paraplegic son, and outcome she has been fighting against for months. >> [indiscernible] he is not a vegetable. >> he has been on life support since a road accident in 20 oh eight. dr. sebi the 38-year-old has no brain activity -- a road accident in 2008. the 38-year-old has no brain activity. disagreed about this. in the first decision of its kind for the supreme council of law. >> it follows from the statement that he had made before his accident that he clea

officials believe the attack targeted lebanon's top security chief. the general escaped hundred harmed but two others died, at least 20 were injured. we are near the attack. what can you tell us exactly happened? >> well, we're standing right at that checkpoint where the explosion took place. we passed by the check point less than half an hour before the explosion took place. a suicide bomber blew himself up as security stopped him to check his papers. in the captain obviously beirut, there are very strict measures in place now approximately following this attack, we have many road blocks, roads have been blocked and cordoned off. this could be one of several attacks that are planned for the capitol near beirut. >> we have seen so many attacks. have attacks like that happened before there and is this one surprising? >> well, we have seen several attacks, but this time, there's been a lull in the attacks that took place here last summer. the fear from the security here is that what happened in iraq in the past week, the successes of the isil could enco

we pushed them out of lebanon. we had the iranians, the syrians, and many of the bad guys on the run. we really were pushing them. they went out of lebanon, and they were held to, basically, syria and iran. now what you have is lebanon has collapsed, syria has collapsed, and now all of the work that we had in iraq has collapsed. so, it's clear that when there is no united states leadership, that others will jump in to fill the vacuum. and i think you're seeing that with iran. >> and on another side note, you see russia being kbloeemboldene. nobody is worried about repercussions, no one thinks the united states is going to act in my meaningful way to put a stop thou to this. and it doesn't seem like our allies feel like we're going to do anything, we're not doing much to support them, we sit back and having meetings about equivocation and the inability to make strong decisions. >> our friends and allies, even our enemies, are looking at this world and thinking, you know what, it was a lot better when the united stat

today's explosion was the first in lebanon in several months. the i-r-s will be the one facing touch questions today at a congressional investigation over missing emails. the tax agency says they lost emails from seven workers relating to the tea party.blaming the missing data on computer crashes. the i-r-s is facing accusations that they improperly singled out tea party groups when they applied for tax-exempt statues last year. in detroit, the city is getting help from some philantropists with deep pockets. the governor is expected to sign a bill that authorizes 1- hundred and 95 million dollars in state help for the bankrupt city. the deal also included 3- hundred and 66 million dollars contributions from foundations including ford and kellogg. over the 2-decade plan, the contributions would help limit cuts to city retireee pensions. retirees have until july 11th to vote on the proposal. massachusetts is on track to have the highest state minimum wage in the nation. lawmakers in the bay state gave final approval thursday to legislation that wi

for lebanon. bah that has been excluded in all of this. lebanon is part of this as well. and syria. iraq. so if he, let's say he backs, the united states decide to back maliki, starts bombing somebody, where, i don't know. how, i don't know. but they start bombing at maliki's behest. okay. then you are fighting against sunnis. then on the other side. through turkey, you are -- giving money and arms to sunnis. if that confuses me covering the region 20 years. i think it would confuse a lot of people in the region who would say, really have no idea what the u.s. strategy would be right now. >> vis-a-vis iraq, syria, lebanon. we will be hearing more about lebanon in the coming days as hezbollah and iran and shiite militias get more and more involved in this. >> sobering and well put. thank you for your reporting, from iraq, richard engel the stay safe. joining me, nicholas christophe and an editor in large for the atlantic. good evening, gentlemen. you hear the reports there. steve, start with you. richard hit it on the head. we had a debate in this nation about not going into syria as

i'm also concerned about lebanon. where isis has been quite active over last several months just in the last couple of days conducted a bombing there. they are also focused on lebanon which is fragile. >> o'donnell: what steps now in the united states take? "wall street journal" had great piece yesterday that the u.s. government has been aware of the threat of isis for some time. going to do something about it but didn't really provide a large enough back in january in wintertime to do something. did we miss the ball on this? were we slow to act prevent this growth of isis? >> let me just jump in with the intelligence piece of this. i can deal with the policy piece. but i've read several times that this is intelligence. absolutely not. al qaeda and iraq was defeated when u.s. military left at the end of 2011. the intelligence community monitored the growth of al qaeda post 2011 in great detail with intelligence reporting with analysis, we made very clear that this group is becoming more and more dangerous. >> o'donnel

they fled to lebanon a year ago and he has been unemployed since then. when will he get a birth certificate? >> not now. when with every the money to do it, i may have to sell some of the food donated to us to be able to do it. every step requires money that i don't have. >> the u.n. says there are already at least 24,000 newborn syrians in lebanon and they are trying to encourage parents to register them officially with the lebanese authorities and the syrian embassy. this new baby girl has not been named yet. her grandmother says they don't even know how to get her a birth certificate. she understands it's problematic, but the future is bleak anyway, she says. >> it all depends on what will happen in syria. we can't even enroll our children at schools. >> every day, the number of syrian children with no birth certificate is increasing. her daughter is almost 1-year-old. she, too has no birth certificate. he knows it means he can't travel with her back to syria, but he has no money to pay the fees and transportation to do it. >> if i have the money, the