and fought alongside them in the 2006 war in lebanon. fighting along assad and when he fought against other groups he disapproved. >> translator: it was an out cry against infighting between muslims and shia and colleague and friend says. >> translator: he wanted to tell people if they wish to fight it's israel they should fight and the compass always points to palestine. >> reporter: rockets were a symbolic act to tell the people in gaza they are not alone. and i'm with al jazeera, southern lebanon. >> still ahead on al jazeera. >> it's a hell of a pinpoint operation, it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. >> reporter: what the u.s. top diplomate has been saying about israel when he thought the microphones were off, plus we will hear more about a man accused of firing rockets from israel to lebanon. ♪ >> israel's invasion of gaza continues tonight. >> we have been hearing a lot of tank shelling coming from where we are, here. >> every single one of these buildings shook violently. >> for continuing coverage of the israeli / palestinian co

critical for lebanon to engage in any confrontation at this point or anything but. actually expected to see these missiles come from here and there and in the past the lebanese army arrested a couple of palestinians who were behind the launching of some assault against israel or against. lovenox how things are still the situation get with yet another country seemingly joining the conflict. well i think the situation is very critical but i think it's still under control because i think when you have to think about is what the party of god will do and i think the party of god will abide by the lebanese government and its mission to be a deterrent and defense and defense mode for the lebanese country as long that israeli does not ask a lady on the lebanese border i don't not expect that hezbollah will be involved in this confrontation but we have to see and we how far and how dangerous this battle will continue in gaza this cannot be very long operation from the israelis but i have to assume that the valve mount of of hezbollah in syria and the political situation and

he was on good terms, and fought with them in the 2006 israel war on lebanon. when hezbollah fought along side syria's president bashar al-assad, he was disappointed. when sunni islamist militants fought with each other and against other shiite groups, hussain disapproved. >> translation: it was an outcry against infighting against muslims, sunnis and shia. >> translation: i wanted to tell people if they wished to fight, it's israel they should fight. the compass should point towards palestine. >> reporter: the rockets was a symbolic act, telling people in gaza that they are not alone. >> for 300 years, the most powerful nations on earth grew richer and stronger on the profits of the slave trade. over twelve million men, women and children were forcibly transported from africa on slave ships like this, to the colonies and plantations in north and south america. today slavery is illegal on every country on the planet.

it could happen on the border with lebanon.reparedness and the ability to operate swiftly. when the rockets came across or a rocket landed in the north this morning, we had an immediate response on the ground to strike back at the those potentially morsi's rockets. >> i've spoken with some israelis what their fear could be if israel moves in with tanks, armored personnel into gaza. there's even greater civilian casualties. not only an angry reaction but from the west bank itself. they could start another end fa data you have to worry about that kind of scenario unfolding. >> i think there's a lot about conflict management in the renal. the idea is part of the tools to with so. issues. in deed today was friday. ramad ramadan we didn't have major threats. the situation is manageable to a level it doesn't pose a substantial threat. >> we've seen disturbing video. ben showed us earlier. little kids severely injured. some killed in the israeli air strikes. i know, you try to avoid civilian casualties. that's a heavily populated dens

the situation in syria, and inally lebanon and iraq. mr. president, the cease-fire can no longer wait and should allow for relaunching of efforts in order to find an effective solution. the toll is staggering on the palestinian side more than 580 dead. and innocent children dying. ep tire families wiped out. and more than 3,500 in overwhelmed hospitals. mr. president, this is the third offensive carried out by israel. as in the past in the current situation, no one can win. hamas cannot win because by choosing to continue the escalation, it has already obtained one thing, unleashing israeli fire on gaza. it did so knowingly, deliberately because hamas knew what israel's response would be to the hundreds of rockets launched on its territory. israel, because the ground offensivive launched will only weaken but not dismantle hamas' capacity. nor discredit t it might even come out strengthened from this test of strength. in the eyes after population that know that israel, missiles, soldiers. finally, it's especially and once again civilian popu

demilitarization in lebanon did not happen.o from the israeli perspective, and i know this idea is being floated around, but why would they sign up for something similar? >> exactly. didn't work in 2006, why would it work now? >> but what would work at this stage? we heard from the hamas leader, we're going to consider a truce, but you have to look to a more permanent agreement, we have to discuss fundamental matters. >> i think there are three main options at this stage. the most likely one is that israel significantly degrades hamas military capabilities and withdraws and declares unilaterally a ceasefire, that's the first and most likely option at this stage. the second possibility, israel-hamas manage to find a third party, a broker that they both trust -- >> not egypt. egypt sounded good when the muslim brotherhood was in charge. but now you have a military leader and they don't trust him. >> that doesn't work for hamas, absolutely. >> so who could be the third party? >> hamas would like qatar to play that role. israel doe

it was launched from lebanon. lebanese soldiers later found two rocket launchers and dismantled them. no one in the region was hurt, even after israeli military countered with artillery fire across the border. it is not clear to launch the rockets, but similar attacks in the past have been linked to al qaeda. the conflict is set to continue. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed to press on with military operations in gaza, despite calls for a cease-fire. >> no international pressure will prevent us from striking the terrorists. >> in gaza, the death toll continues to rise. three people were killed when israeli forces bombed this apartment and -- apartment building. >> the situation is miserable. people are cautious because women, elderly, and children are being targeted. people are afraid to go out or gathering groups. >> as you can see, all of the shops are closed and everyone is staying home. >> meanwhile, palestinian militants continued rocket attacks on israel. and tuesday, six -- some 600 r

it fell near the border with lebanon. let's speak to our correspondent in beirut. there has been conflicting reports about how many rockets could have come from lebanon. it seems to be one rocket. what more can you tell us. >> the lebanese army issued an official statement saying three rockets were launched to israel between 1am and 6am in the morning. the lebanese army searched the area. they fired rocket launchers, they found two that were not fired, they dismantled them. they don't know what's behind the firing of the rockets. in retaliation they fired 25 shells. they hit the land and casualties on both sides of the border. >> that update from beirut. >>> u.s. secretary of state john kerry has made a snap visit to afghanistan. he is in the capital kabul to help resolve the crisis over the disputed residential election. it's been called a critical moment. early results show ashraf ghani in the lead, but the vote was rigged says abdullah abdullah, and he is the winner. jennifer glasse is in kabul. clearly this is a crisis. what is kerry hoping to do to sort it out

>> lebanon not will always be. but i think they may have crossed the rubicon. >> that brings us to the end of this edition of inside story. . thanks for being with us. learn more about this. look up the sykes picot agreement. learn more about the first world war. i'm ray suarez. [♪ music ] >> coming up on al jazeera america. israel promises revenge for the deaths of three teens in the west bank. palestinian officials deny any responsibility and say israel is exploiting the deaths to crush resistence. >>> hackers have broken into the computer systems that run energy providers, and the dow jones industrial average closes in, we look at what it means for americans still struggling to get by. that and more tonight at 6:00. the notion that conflict began with the united states, i think, is plainly false. ultimately, it is the people of iraq who will decide the future of iraq. >> he is a man known for his mediation skills. george mitchell helped broker peace in northern ireland. he also tried his hand in the middle east,

perhaps somehow related to this, the lebanon-based group hezbollah is declaring its support for hamas and the palestinian resistance. that's after he called the president of hamas on sunday and praised the steadfast palestinian fighters in gaza and says hezbollah standses by them. since the war in gaza started, there have been a few incidents where small rockets were fire towards israel from lebanon. a man has been arrested for the attacks. he was injured setting off a rocket. he went to the lebanon's border with israel and met his family. >> as he walks the streets, a border village with syria and southern lebanon, people rush to him to check on his brother who was in the prison hospital. we are all very proud of him this woman told the shia. he did his duty and should be released. this is where he launched his rockets from. there was one rocket launcher here under this tree, and another one over there and a third one under that tree. there were sixty rockets in total. three reached israel, one of them exploded prematuring and injured him. two were dismantled by the lob lebanese army

>> lebanon not will always be . but i think they may have crossed the rubicon. >> that brings us to the end of this edition of inside story. . thanks for being with us. learn more about this. look up the sykes picot agreement. learn more about the first world war. i'm ray suarez . [♪ music ] >> two hours in, we came up on a body... >> this country is crazy man..you have problems with somebody...they him them. >> knowing this is the kind of violence that is so prevalent in the culture...are you telling me that's ok to just open up the borders and let em' all run into the united states? >> the good news is , is that you'll be coming home soon...

this time between israel and lebanon. late this evening, the israeli military opened fire on southern lebanon in response to rocket fire from the north. no groups have claimed responsibility for the attack, but israel fears that as its conflict with gaza escalates militant groups in lebanon may be trying to open up a second front. the u.n. security council has called for an immediate cease fire. >>> back here at home, ten people have been forced to find somewhere to sleep after a massive fire and five of them are children. it broke out in bowie. investigators say it started on the deck of a townhouse and spread to two other homes. flames were so strong at one point firefighters had to pull out. they were afraid the roof may collapse on top of them. >>> tonight storm team 4 is tracking big changes on the way. you will feel a difference when you step outside tomorrow. >>> our high temperature today 90 degrees. our high tomorrow 94. it was a little humid today. you are going to notice the humidity tomorrow. down right muggy.

>> lebanon not will always be . but i think they may have crossed the rubicon. >> that brings us to the end of this edition of inside story. . thanks for being with us. learn more about this. look up the sykes picot agreement. learn more about the first world war. i'm ray suarez . [♪ music ] >>> in east jerusalem a palestinian teenager is killed. israel's prime minister called for a swift investigation. >>> hello there. you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. also on the program, after 15 hours of questioning, france's former president was placed under formal investigation. >>> more than 500 people are arrested at a pro-democracy rally in hong kong. >>> and how

rockets being launched from southern lebanon.el calls up tens of thousands of reservests, is a ground invasion of gaza next? >> tangled web. internet post painting a picture of a fatter who left his son to die in a hot car. what he said and see if it could hurt him in court. this, as his wife lawyers up. >> your "new day" starts no >>> statue looking beautiful this morning. good morning. welcome to "new day." friday, the 11th of july. 6:00 in the east. chris and kate are off. mr. john berman joins me. >> i like to call it the "a" team. >> christine romans will join us with the headlines and will get in on the "a" team business a little later. >>> house speaker john boehner doubling down on president obama ready to slap the commander in chief with a lawsuit saying the president violated the constitution when he changed his signature health care law, boehner also blasting the president on the border crisis accusing obama of lack of leadership. the president, meanwhile, is firing back claiming gop leaders would rather point fingers

one is a man in that he rose later to spend much of the '80s in lebanon and then went back to iran tor then had a falling out to spend time in jail bin in 2007 defected and for a time heç was here. i am not sure where he is now but this is another irony of the story that he felt composite with the embassy bombing with the marine barracks. i did not turn off my phone. [laughter] >> i have the last question. as a historian i am fascinated by the sources and then say biographer you have seem to have worked your way with the mother lode with family giving it documents talking to people from our side and inside the middle east. how you able to pull all that together? sometimes is that too much information? how is that not to 900 page book because you have so many wonderful sources? >> everyone has a different strategy. 30 years ago writing refersqjm book( was of aç powerful months writing meticulous outlines chapter by chapter. and i quickly realized it was very time consuming and no waste. [laughter] these days i get up every morning and try to right every day but i write whatever prove

we have seen rocket fire from lebanon. it's believed to be palestinian rocket fire, that is palestinian groups inside lebanon and not the lebanese group hezbollah. and that actually does make a difference to the way it's considered from israel. but still it zp mean that today, for example, all of israel was within rocket range and that is a very different experience for the state of israel when it's fighting with the palestinians in gaza certainly. >> and diplomatic pressure on all sides to end that bloodshed. where in particular is the pressure coming from? >> i would say at the beginning and most strongly from europe. we have seen varying foreign ministers speaking out, calling, making the point that a cease-fire really is time for a cease-fire. there is also a pressure and involvement of the united states with u.s. secretary of state john kerry about to go to cairo. although there now seems to be a bit of doubt about that trip. but there's the intervention of the united states as well. now, the problem is usually the tr

israel fired 25 tank shells into northern lebanon. there haven't been reports of injuries or damage yet. the lebanese army is patrolling the area in search of a group or party who would be doing this. as for the moment, no group has claimed responsibility. >> in term temperatures of the israeli air strikes on gaza overnight, what's the latest there? >> even in just the past few minutes we heard the rumble of israeli air strikes to gaza in the south and east. israel says it's hit more than 1,000 targets in gaza in the past four days. we hear palestinian groups have fired 500 rockets into i israel. many are loare longer range roc. no one is killed yet on the israeli side. in gaza those dead around the 100 mark. many are children and women. it's going after militants' homes. that's what led overnight to death of five people in southern gaza. there was an islamic leader who wasn't home at the time. five were killed including a child. we're hearing from local people sometimes the homes being destroyed have no militant talks at all. people

. >> five years of lebanon's bitter civil war, what do you think this is for iraq? >> the tragedy for iraq is we have seen this happen once before. the issue at the end of the day really is about power sharing. that has never been defined in the aftermath of saddam hussein's ouster. it was the key question, how do the kurds and the schweitz and the sunnis and other minorities actually divvy up power so everyone feels invested in a new system, in a new order. prime minister maliki particularly has made resolution of that issue very difficult. that's what happened in lebanon where you saw between 18 recognized sects, a clash over power sharing and the tragedy was that that war went on for 15 years and at the end of the day, the solution was not only simple, it was changing the balance of power from six christians to five muslims to parity, 5-5. the tragedy of iraq is just the same that there isn't a huge problem in figuring how out to balance power, it's a numbers game and prime minister maliki has failed to address that issue. >> do you see the whole map of the middl

ambitious goal and if you true try to get that by military force you in a nightmare, like invading lebanon, i don't think the israeli wants to do that, i had my eyes on a process going forward, secretary kerry will start with the egyptians that will try to create a political foundation for the palestinian authority to begin to get a new government in place in gaza that

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then are they going to launch an invasion into southern lebanon as well?ffort. this is classic strategy. who's pulling the strings in this? the iranians? the syrians? i don't know. >> all right, lieutenant colonel, thank you. could be a long weekend in that region. our man wolf blitzer reports live from jerusalem at 1:00 eastern on "wolf" and he'll be there for "the situation room" as well. >> pope versus pope? how's that work? pope francis from argentina, pope benedict from germany, so who will catholics root for? the pope or the former pope. will either team get some divine intervention from the big referee upstairs? >> he hasn't even won yet and already he is a fashion icon. he's on the cover of "vanity fair." we'll talk about all the accomplishments of prince george. >> we should get you a onesie like that. >> i like good in a onesie. ♪ tracks! they connect the factories built along the lines. and that means jobs, lots of people, making lots and lots of things. let's get your business rolling now, everybody sing. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function

hours ago rockets from lebanon were fired into the country. the israeli military responded by firing artillery into lebanon. since israel launch the its military campaign in gaza 890 rockets have been fired into israel. 172 were intercepted by israel's iron dome. israel launched 1400 air strikes in the gaza. the casualties there are staggering. at least 172 people have been killed, 32 of the dead are children. in more than 1,200 others - they have been injured. on sunday alone 17 palestinians died as a result of air strikes on the israeli side no deaths from palestinian rockets. six soldiers and 13 civilians have been injured. helped is in gaza with the latest. >> the military campaign showed no signs of wipnding down and shows every signs of accelerating. there has been strikes in the north, south, central and east portions of the gaza strip. there was a strike in nassr, injuring two in gaza city. 17 people were killed in the past 24 hours, not counting a strike killing 18 people, one night earlier, in the largest and deadliest single strike

when you look at what's going on in gaza, iraq, syria, libya, tunisia, lebanon, it's all pretty serious. it's not all directly connected. it's not all directly related. but these are faultlines that go back centuries, as you know. this is the time for steady leadership and partnering with other countries especially in the region and we've been doing that. gulf countries, turkey, jordan. as the president has said, there is no military solution to any of this. this will have to be worked through with a political solution bringing people together. it's going to take a while. any part of the complicated dimension will not get solved in a matter of a few months or in a year or two. this has to play out. in the meantime, we have interests there. we can help, and we are, to help facilitate a higher landing on this. >> mr. secretary, we're going to take a short break. we'll be right back. ♪ >> welcome back. we're here at the pentagon with defense secretary chuck hagel. your five-year plan calls for $115 billion more than under the budget control act. are you assuming congress will repeal teh se

they've been saying this since they were attacking the plo in lebanon and the invasion in lebanon in 1982. they are hiding behind human shields. you cannot because the area is full of people. and so and the israelis have been reckless when it comes to civilian casualties whether the lebanese and palestinians and others. now sometimes they are warning people. it's as if the palestinians should be grateful they have been warned to leave their homes so their homes and property will be destroyed and there will be a massive collective punishment they have been subjected to. the problem with this particular crisis now is it's taking place at a time when the whole region from beirut in the west to alexandria in the south is sliding towards hell. and that's one of the reasons by the way, you don't see tlests outcry because the arabs are trying to put out fires in their own countries and everybody is watching the world cup and the israelis found this moment very opportunistic to do so. but there will be a time when as michele said, with the mounting palestinian casualties, the israelis will f

they do it in lebanon, they do it with hezbollah and lebanon during the war. they do it with hamas and gaza. if the civilians do not leave, we need to ask why. why are the civilians are not leaving fully knowing that within 48 hours their homes are going to be bombed? let's also not forget, megyn, that of all the rockets hamas launched at israel, over 100 rockets fell short into gaza fired by hamas. so all the casualties that hamas is talking about are not exactly israeli casualties or because of israel. it's because the palestinians do not value the lives of their children. and they are willing to sacrifice their children in the cause of jihad. >> i should point out that israel does question some of these numbers in terms of the deaths thus far on the palestinian side. good to see you. thanks so much for being here. >> thank you. >>> well, "the kelly file" talked to a reporter from israel who is standing by a report that he has the transcript from an ugly call between president obama and prime minister netanyahu. but if this thing is in fact a fake, as washin

just to be clear, this was one rocket fired from lebanon this morning? >> well be the lebanese army say three rockets were fired and when they searched the place, they found another two that were not fired. they found the rocket launchers, dismantled them and have already arrested one suspect in relation to the firing of these rockets. no injuries on both sides of the border when israel retaliated with 25 shells into lebanese lands. for now, the border area is quiet. >> do they know who fired the rockets and is there a chance this could explode into a similar conflict like in gaza? not for now. there is concern here that there might be ramifications for what's happening in gaza, but for now it seems contained. these rockets were very basic and it seems it's a very small group behind the firing, not hezbollah. the lebanese army, along with the united nations interim forces in the area, for now, that border area is quiet. >> thank you. in our next half hour, we will see the situation in gaza. nick schiffron is there and he'll join us live at 8:00. >> eight

it cut rebel supply lines into lebanon, et cetera. but at the same time and i say this for two reasons. first, there is direct iranian intervention. terminology matters. it's not proxied. there is direct intervention with uniformed iranian personnel fighting on the ground. the second one is there is no denying there is strong regional aspects to the struggle in syria that exacerbates the violence. but to only limit one's analysis to that is in a way satisfying and convenient because it allows us to do what we like to do, which is engage in geopolitical analysis. if only the americans and russians could get along. if only the saudis and iranians could get along and somehow things will be much better. in reality, the local -- the local and transnational dynamics of the syrian conflict shape events on the dprouground a lot than the regional competition. now, to accept this, once you accept this, you accept the limits of our understanding of a lot of those dynamics. it's very secure, it's much more difficult to understand, research on the

and tried to move such system to the hezbollah in lebanon.ccording to international sources we blocked this transforming of this systems. >> the international reports suggest that israel went in and blew up these facilities? >> yeah. this is not a system that we'll allow. >> general, stand by. we want to take a quick break. there's a lot of news happening right now. much more on the downing of this malaysian airliner when we come back. really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line anytime for 15 bucks a month. low dues... great terms... let's close. introducing at&t mobile share value plans... ...with our best-ever pricing for business. narrator: these are the skater kid: whoa narrator: that got torture tested by teenagers and cried out for help. from the surprised designers. who came to the rescue with

and southern lebanon hesbollah controlled territory two rockets were fired in israel. there were no injuries and israel returned fire with 25 artillery shells and said don't repeat the action. it is not clear if what happened in the north is a escalation, or perhaps an act of solidarity by few independent operator in the north. hesbollah, not taking responsibility for that. and beforewe go, eric. there was a rocket strike in gaza city. you can soine though the sun is setting, a large plume of black smoke and we have sewn half dozen air strikes taking place and also seen twice that many rocket launchers fired by the militants. it is dusk and now the fighting continues in to the evening, back to you. >> david lee, the night does not bring an end to this. >> we have to sort out the escalating. michael singh, managing director of the washington snout. michael, you just heard david lee miller report the statement of netanyahu an hour ago, saying that international pressure will not stop israel from acting against militants and you saw behind david lee, the air strike and pl

lebanon is experiencing problems. the arab spring is dead. egypt has returned to a dictatorship temporarily. any number of problems across the region. it is a deeply troubled region. not to mention, the point that was made about having yet another is really-palestinian more. lestinian war. why don't think that everything the obama administration has argued is wrong, i think that the united states has made mistakes. the george w. bush administration has more than its fair share of those mistakes. madeunited states has it mistakes. the weight of the evidence is that the united states has helped the problems in the region more than we have h urt them. especially when you consider the handling of iraq and other issues. the obama administration recognizes this and how they have been handling the middle east. we have seen a significant change in the obama administration approach to the middle east with the selection of john kerry as the secretary of state, our foreign minister. his decision to pursue a new peace process between arabs and israelis.

. >> syrians that plead fighting at home - we are joined from a camp in the bekaa valley in lebanon. rula, describe the conditions and the mood at the camp where you are? >> yes, for many of these families it's the third year they spent the holiday as refugees in lebanon. we are in an area in the bekaa valley. in this camp there are about 57 tents, and you can see many of these tents probably house from 7 to 10 people, sometimes more. they are celebrating in a humble manner, whatever is available there to put on the table or to buy for the kid toys or clothes are limited. many of the kids, they are wearing new clothes. for them it's second hand clothes, new for them. many of the families expressed frustration, that even without hands of hope, that next year would be different or they'll be back in syria by the next day. >>> thank you very much indeed for that. live for us from the becca val yi there. >> well, three al jazeera journalists intent 212 days in an egyptian prison, last month mohamed fadel fahmy and peter greste from given seven years sentences. baher mohamed received seve

rocket fire hits lebanon as well as gaza. >>> the u.s. secretary of state flies to warn the dispute over the election has left the country's stability hanging in the balance. >> i'm here because president obama of the united states of america is deeply interested in a unified democratic and stable afghanistan. >>> and from football tickets, the fugitive wanted in allegations of a world cup ticket scam has given the slip. >>> we have the business including a difficult day for the fashion house. >> absolutely. the british luxury brand is facing revolt over the boss's p. we'll look at whether it can be justified in the massive pay deal. >>> a very warm welcome to "gmt." it's midday here in london, 7:00 a.m. washington d.c., 2:00 in the gaza strip which now has been hit by more than 1,000 air strikes. this latest upsurge in violence has assumed a familiar patent. israeli are targeting militants and weapons. the death toll inside the densely populated strip has reached 100. many of them civilians. for their part, militant as continue to fire r

with our help, syria is burning, charring lepp lebanon and scorching jordan as it does. the kurds are making their escape from the existing state structures. the syrian government loathes it. we fear, or hope if it is defeated, it could be replaced by more frightful people. bombing can't prevent this. we propose to arm the force of mythical syrian moderates. we expect this latest coalition of the billing to fight the syrian government and its pponents by of while note play refraining from making common cause with the latter. sounds like a plan for passifying capitol hill if not syria. if our object sieve to keep syria in flames, it is a plausible plan. perhaps that is what we really want. it is a grain on iran which we have identified as our main enemy in the region. destabilizing syria arguably teased the pressure on iran. iran's sleersd said they don't want because it would be sinful. our frequent threats to bomb iran seem to be a clever test of its leaders moral integrity. if we give them every reason we can think of for them to build a nuclear deterrent, will they st

lebanon has experienced all kinds of problems. the arab spring is dead. egypt has returned to dictatorship, at least temporarily. and a number of other problems are spreading all across the region. it is a deeply troubled region, not to mention the point that tom just made about having yet another israeli/palestinian war in gaza. this is not a good situation, this is not a good region. think that don't everything the obama administration argued was wrong, i do think that united states has certainly made its share of mistakes in the middle east, and not only under the george w. bush administration. although they certainly had more than their fair share of those mistakes. a case that is united states has made mistakes and that we have often contributed to the problems of the region. nevertheless, i think the weight of evidence on the whole is that fixed states has helped problems in the region more than we have hurt them, especially if you accept the obvious examples among the obvious contrary examples of the bush administration's handling of iraq and certa

in lebanon, the threat is even greater. hezbollah maintains a massive stockpile of iranian arms with greater range and far greater lethality than those launched from gaza. tens of thousands of rockets are aimed at israel and could be unleashed at any moment. that is why today it is such a critical first step toward thwarting the unrelenting force. the sanctions included in this legislation will stem the ability of hezbollah to purchase arms and ememployee -- employ operatives throughout the mideast and around the globe. we can and must do more to stem these activeties. today we have that opportunity and i hope you'll join us in combating this pressing threat to u.s. national security. the hezbollah international financing prevention act provides the administration with vital tools to go after financial institutions and satellite providers that deliver material support and propaganda tools to hezbollah. this important effort will result in fewer resources falling into the hands of terrorist who was shown great resilience in

it's gone into lebanon, turkey, jordan and other areas. >> we also see troops amassing along the borders of neighboring countries. is there concern iraq cannot stay together as a single country anymore? >> i think everyone is concerned iraq may not stay together as a single country, but the more serious problem is that having a single country where you have sectarian and ethnic groups that hate each other, that drive people who are in the might be out of their homes or kill -- minority out of their homes or kill them is not a form of unity. it doesn't really provide any basis for stability and development. there also is the fact this is not one war. it's directly connected to the syrian civil war and at least in terms for the islamist extremist movement, you have volunteers coming in as extremists from places as far away as britain and china and the united states. that's really why the jordanian and saudi forces and to a lesser extent the lebanese forces and the north of lebanon and turkish forces have built up on the border. it isn't to try to unify the country. it's to stop the flow of

israel responded by firing artillery into lebanon. since launching a military campaign in gaza, 890 rocket have been fired into israel. 172 were intercepted by the iron dome. israel launched 1400 air strikes into gaza. the casualties there are staggering. 172 have been killed. 32 are children. 1,200 others have been injured. on sunday, 17 palestinians died vault of israel's air strikes. on the israeli side there has been no depths. al jazeera's helped is in gaza with the latest. >> reporter: funeral processions are as common here as the pops and booms on the sky line. what is less common is the number of the dead - 18 men, women and children, all members of one family, killed in a single deadliest strike yet in this military campaign. the israeli attack that struck their home, was aimed at the police chief - in critical condition. the survivors were not military operatives. the police chief was not either. he just kept the piece. >> translation: what happened here was an earthquake. it's a war crime. it didn't use to happen like this.

they withdrew under the military pressure from south lebanon. an sharon withdrew from gaza under pressure after the second intefada, second uprising. and then after the 1973 war they withdrew from sinai, israel believes in the language of power, when they are compelled it to do so, they do withdrew. i have two models here. israel actually withdrew. they followed in 1956 after american administration compelled it and in lebanon they did so because of the military pres sewer as well. >> so the killing will continue in gaza. >> we hope that it will not continue one single moment. they kill every day 120 civilians. if we kill them we kill militants. who enter gaza we do not wish for the killings to continue. we wish for our people to live without occupation and for the siege to be lifted this is a humanitarian right for the people of the world ought to believe in this. >> rose: dow hope israel survives as a state? i don't want to have my own con jeckure. i reessential the resistance but the cia and kissinger, for example an other pundits say they ar

we're discussing syria, iraq, jordan and lebanon.the days we can say this is only an internal affair are long past. >> with whom do we side against whom? there international issues. it is not that beggars cannot be cheesy. -- choosy. where do you draw the line in getting involved in other issues? havethe last 10 years, we bent backwards to accommodate all our neighbors in relation to issues. we know all of them are fragile. we knew if we wanted to get involved in internal affairs of our neighbors, that would really have an impact. we have the funds and the ideology, but we kept away from it. we hope this is a key lesson for others. we haveq [indiscernible] democracy and transparency and they should respect that. >> a comment briefly on the iraq -syria dynamic. the united states has had a difficult request of the iraqi government, of whatever government emerges in iraq and that is for iraq to deny iran's space airspace and ground to transfer weaponry to the assad regime in syria, and for ability toy iran the raise militias in iraq and

four people or we friday's more than ninety palestinians die in air bombardments over all this is lebanon and joins gaza in a rocket attacks on israel for the first time since the offensive started. relations between the u.s. and germany reached a new low as berlin takes out a top cia official in retaliation to the latest spy scandal plus. says it's ready for a cease fire in ukraine's east or a team needs families who've been devastated by the army air raids. one pm in moscow thank you for joining us here on r.t. international our top story this hour medics in gaza say four more people have been killed in pre-dawn attacks by israel so far more than ninety palestinians mostly civilians have died and hundreds have been injured in the offensive at least twenty of those who lost their lives are reportedly children. it was. on thursday israel says it had more than one hundred targets in gaza and many of the missiles landed in residential areas causing panic to ripple through the population journalist harry fear met those caught up in the violence as they brace themselves for more air raids. on