a car bomb in northern lebanon killed three people. the area is a hezbollah stronghold, coming on the first day of the trial. of four men accused of being involved in the murder of lebanon's harirari. >> a vat gan delegation is appearing on a u.n. committee. the holy seer providing details of information on all cases brought to its attention. 34 u.s. air force officers responsible for launching nuclear missiles have been suspended for cheating on their tests. some that knew about the cheating failed to report it. >> let's get more on the trial of four men accused of murdering raf eke harirari. lena is director of the kahn iingy endowment for international peace. good to have you on the program. what is your assessment of the trial. do you think it could fuel tensions and violence in lebanon. >> unfortunately the hearing today comes nine years after the assist nation of havic harirari, which is a long time and during this time the opponents of the trial have spoken very strongly against it, and regard it as not being credible, whereas i

. >>> the syrian rebel group says it was behind a car bombing in northern lebanon that left three peopleead. the attack was in the town that is a hezbollah strong hold. >>> the word from the united nations human rights office is the number of extra judicial killings by groups in rebel-eld areas is soaring. rupert you are in geneva. apologies if we have to interrupt this to take john kerry. i hope you will have the patience to stay with us, and perhaps comment on what he has to say. but for those who don't understand the legal terminology here, because we are talking about something that is a juicishal phrase, what is an extra judicial killing? >> it's a killing that takes place in a [ inaudible ] the united nations is not in favor of the death penalty, period, but it is necessary in certain situations, but only as the result of a proper legal procedure, and obviously that's not happening at all in syria, least of all with extremist armed opposition groups. >> so you are simply talking about people who are taken away and shot or hanged or whatever? >> that's correct. people who basically

actually dwindle over time. >> reporter: thanks very much for that and we are in tripoli in northern lebanonw former government minister hacked to death in central african republic and killed by a crowd with machetes getting out of a taxi in bangui and african peace keepers have not been able to stop the killings. other parts of bangui and christians and muslims exchanged fire and they intervened as they moved to the mostly muslim neighborhood. central african republic suffered political instability since the independence from france in 1960 but mr. phillips say people look back to a late national hero and wonder what would happen if he had lived longer. >> reporter: a memorial to the father of the nation, in the small village where he was born, and boganda killed in a plane crash in 1959 on the eve of independence and mourned by his people ever since. he was the catholic priest who campaigned from freedom from the french. and could have been a giant of liberation and equal to congo or cruna if not for his premature death. in the village the deputy mayor remembers him and wonders where thing

now the city of tripoli in northern lebanon has become synonymous with bloody sectarian violence the conflict in neighboring syria has anchored by its attentions baffling and meet the pot inside as the country's first woman priest. pasta role assignment is running an evangelical church in the city as we could watch with its plans the lebanese army is in place in tripoli in a bid to calm tensions between the majority sunni minority on the white communities. they are the dominant religious group thinks that there is also a small christian presence in the season. wouldn't it be to syrian presbyterian filed under lebanese law the road its name in the christian upbringing and studied theology in beirut. she became evidence first email reads like an emu the distance. as i was lying in the circumstances of rays which meant the priests had to travel to america the summary reasons the judge had been abt. they didn't ask for a pasta. and then things just happened. as i study till achieve they asked me if i could preach for a month and lamont college in the back nine to charge the several month

reporter: well, the syrian group linked to al-qaeda is claiming responsibility for a bomb blast in northern lebanont attacks the stronghold of hezbollah. and they say an explosive device was thrown into a truck driven by demonstrators and the movement's leader was in the procession but wasn't injured. about the same time prime minister was taking questions from international journalists and has to continue working as the caretaker leader of the government to keep the country intact. well, let's speak to scott who is live from bangkok and, scott, these protests have been largely peaceful until now. is this a sign that things are becoming more volitile? >> just behind me are two rows of these here and this is where the explosive device was thrown at the pickup truck and the leader was a fairways back and not injured in this. about 30 people were injured. the reason we are here is because there was indications at least from the protesters themselves that one of these buildings housed where these people supposedly staged this attack from. there was some evidence inside and nothing really compelling qui

lebanon? >> it was a dismal situation along our northern border. in lebanon those days it was the plo, independent kingdom of terror headed by yasser arafat and others, one of whom is responsible for this tragedy. civilians of our northern towns became hostages in their hands. they took advantage of the cease-fire which was not kept completely. that is one of the mistakes of the book. during this year of the cease- fire, there were 290 terrorist activities that took place. most at the northern border, but they took place inside israel or along other borders or in europe against jews and israeli citizens. in lebanon they had their more than 500 guns, rockets, 15,000 terrorist information. thousands of people moved southward. we could not take any activity against the terrorists because they would start to immediately shell our civilian population. if we accept this situation, jews will be murdered elsewhere in the world. even the u.s. representative was busy trying to say that the cease-fire did not include jews in europe or any other places, and we

the following year, after the shelling of northern israel by the palestine liberation organization in lebanon, sharon unleashed an invasion of israel's northern neighbor. the plo was driven from lebanon but thousands of israelis and palestinians died. many hundreds of palestinians slaughtered during a massacre at the refugee camps by lebanese christian militiamen. a commission found that the israeli army indirectly responsible and faulted sharon personally for not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed. he was dismissed from the defense ministry. but sharon went on to other cabinet posts. overseeing a rapid expansion of jewish settlements in the occupied territories. he opposed the 1993 oslo peace act korlds and in 1998 he declared -- >> israelis against having a palestinian state. and the government is against having the palestinian state here. because of the vengeance. >> in 1999, he was elected leader of the rightist likud party. a year later during his campaign for prime minister, he made a provocative visit to the temple mount, the third most revered by muslims. shortly afterwa

lebanon? >> it was a dismal situation along our northern border. in lebanon those days it was the plo, independent kingdom of terror headed by yasser arafat and others, one of whom is responsible for this tragedy. civilians of our northern towns became hostages in their hands. they took advantage of the cease-fire which was not kept completely. that is one of the mistakes of the book. during this year of the cease- fire, there were 290 terrorist activities that took place. most at the northern border, but they took place inside israel or along other borders or in europe against jews and israeli citizens. in lebanon they had their more than 500 guns, rockets, 15,000 terrorist information. thousands of people moved southward. we could not take any activity against the terrorists because they would start to immediately shell our civilian population. if we accept this situation, jews will be murdered elsewhere in the world. even the u.s. representative was busy trying to say that the cease-fire did not include jews in europe or any other places, and we

our middle east correspondent reports on lebanon's northern -- northern border with syria.oadside, this family, all nine of them, have nowhere to go. they are refugees from syria. , and theseir home are all their belongings. becausee been evicted they have no money to pay rent. when their landlord spots are camera, he reconsiders. the family have got another week. within minutes, everything and everyone is back safe. the joy is short-lived. the children haven't been to school. there is no money, even for food. >> i can't buy my family bread. buy them a kilo of potatoes. all of it is so expensive. i cannot provide any of it. >> the villages here are poor, and like the rest of lebanon, they can't feed and house the refugees. every scrap of space is being taken. a swiss charity was paying rent, but stopped when it found irregularities. while it in that -- it investigates, 100 families are facing eviction. some families say they have no choice. money, i have get to let them go. i cannot pay their bills. there are now more syrian refugees in this village than anyone else. the le

lebanon? >> guest: we first, a very dangerous situation along our northern border. in lebanon, those days it was the plo, an independent kingdom of terror headed i yasser arafat and if course all the other murderers like paul bosch -- responsible for tragedy. our northern civilian population, civilians of our northern towns and villages became hostages in their hands. they took advantage of the cease-fire which was not kept completely. that was one of the mistakes in the book because it has been mentioned in tom friedman's luck during the year of the cease-fire there were altogether 290 terrorist that goodies that took place. though most of them not along the northern border but to license side of israel or along other orders or incur up against the and israeli citizens all instructed from lebanon. and they had their labor, tremendous infrastructure. they had their more than 500 guns and rockets. tremendous depos of ammunition, about 100 tanks and 15,000 terrorists information. thousands of our people left the northern border and moved southward. we could not take an

i mean the region is is a total total total total obviously from from iraq right across northern syria into lebanon. there was a carrying war being played out and the united states its allies. choices three years ago the free syrian army the syrian national coalition rather that's worked out and what has happened is that the the situation is metastasized and now they're facing groups taking more courage to take more power that they actually don't like so they have to try to stop them and they're going to try to create a fighting force and a political force that they can they can credibly present to the world as somehow represents syrian opinion the u.k. trying to push a resolution condemning assad in. this week what about the reported atrocities carried out by the rebel groups that should we expect any reaction now well the fact is that many of these crosses the border between media and they're taking no comment at all from the western governments and we can refer just a few of them recently crossed these characters around damascus to the drive through many many people were killed really do feel ho

lebanon? it was a dismal situation along our northern border. in lebanon those days it was the plo, independent kingdom of terror headed by yasser arafat at others, one of whom is responsible for this tragedy. civilians of our northern towns hands.hostages in their they took advantage of the cease-fire which was not kept completely. that is one of the mistakes of the book. during this year of the cease- 290 terroristre activities that took place. most at the northern border, but they took place inside israel or long other borders or in europe along -- against jews and israeli citizens. lebanon they had their more , rockets, 15,000 terrorist information. people moved southward. we could not take any activity against the terrorists because they would start to immediately shell our civilian population. if we accept this situation, jews will be murdered elsewhere in the world. the man was busy trying to say that the cease-fire did not include jews or any other places -- in europe or any other places, and we could not accept it. harder andon became ha

to give away more land when every time they have given away land, whether it was northern israel that's now southern lebanon or whether it's the gaza strip, anything they've given away ends up being used as a staging area from which to attack it and those to whom the we is given use our money provide for books to teach their children to hate jews, to hate israelis and to hate the united states. as i've said for years, you don't have to pay people to hate you, they'll do it for free. we could make our word good to our veterans if we just quit paying the people that hate us. let them hate us for free. maybe they'd learn to like us and come ask to work with us and find out we're actually pretty decent people, if we quit paying them to hate us. the palestinians, it was reported, january 1, in this "jerusalem post" article, said, palestinians reiterate plans to reject any framework presented by the u.s. and yet we send over secretary of state, well meaning, and others to demand israel give up more land to people that say they will reject it, but give us more land from which we can attack you. and i think about t

lebanon rather than as it used to happen in the past in syria itself. so though it is believed that [ inaudible ] they are mostly concentrated in the northern part of syriawe are seeing small numbers infiltrating lebanon and executing attacks inside beirut and actually inside the strong hold of hezbollah. >> how would you assess the seriousness of sectarian tensions in lebanon? there are obviously tensions there. they could rise and the spiral of violence could continue. i talked to hezbollah earlier as you may have seen four bombings in as many months? >> yes, this has absolutely been the highest level that we have seen these attacks happening in beirut, and in particular in the strong hold of hezbollah. and here, actually the involvement -- the direct involvement of a group in these attacks, [ inaudible ] to a large extent the sectarian dimension of attacking on a sectarian basis of conducting these attacks. so they are a front targeting hezbollah in particular in that area, where they have assumed a strong hold, so this is a strong indicator that we're seeing sectarianism is increasing and getting more serious, and i think unless we have some sort of

novelist, journalist, and war correspondent, and places he corresponded from, lebanon, israel, egypt, chechnya, sudan and northern ireland. i went on a line to see a list of places that the state department says you shouldn't go. those are all the place that is he go to. the movie, triage, with colin farrell, is based upon his novel. and hunting party, starring richard gere was based on his work in bosnia. what you don't know about him and you wouldn't read is he a part owner of the half-king bar. his partner in the bar is sebastian, young, the author, of the perfect storm. it is in chelsea on 23rd and 10th, which is the hottest area of new york and i asked him how long ago he opened it and he said, 14 years. so like, my grandfather used to say, it is much better to be lucky than smart. i'd like to introduce as our first speaker, ari shavit. [applause] >> thank you very much. it is really a pleasure and honor to be here. it was worthwhile writing a book just to come to miami for my first time in my life. i've been several times in florida but sometimes never got to the very end. and from the moment i landed, actu

last august over 40,000 refugees cross add temporary pontoon bridge in northern iraq in just one week. recently outside lebanon, 6,000 new arrivals in a matter of days. in jordan, refugees flooded in in an overnight crossing. borders are overflowing. support is critical and critically needed for communities hosting so many refugees. neighboring conindustries have shown great generosity, but the strain on economies, on infrastructures is acute. food, education, health care, housing this crisis requires more than lifesaving humanitarian aid. they urgently need robust economic development to help host countries cope. across the region, the sense of he future has been broken. life now is reduced to survival and waiting for peace and a path home. >> i'd like to thank the u.n. high commission on refugees for allowing us to use this video and for many of the posters that you see around the hearing room. i appreciate their outstanding work helping syrian refugees and this video gives us some context of the importance and gravity of the issue we are thinking of today. today's hearing will focus on the plight of syrian

northern part of the nation, iraq. and then al-qaeda goes into syria and causes trouble in lebanon, right?to be? >> al-qaeda is already in syria, and the border between iraq and syria has been effectively erased. what we have to do now, and this is tragic, instead of using our bases and the forces we had in iraq, we'll have to reconstruct something like that in jordan, which will be the rest to go. jordan, right now is looking at a frontier with iraq and syria dominated by al-qaeda. and it will be the target. so we're going to have to re-do, reinvent the wheel and establish a presence in jordan as in iraq. but three years later, we're going to have to start supporting the rebels in syria who are not islamists, we are already late on that. but that is our only hope. jordan on the one hand, and the non-islam is rebels in syria on the other. it is a mess, and the reason, the evacuation that obama ordered. >> all right, charles krauthammerer today, protecting your health, which is the most anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic c

"rebels and al qaeda forces from beirut, lebanon, battling al qaeda affiliate fighters across the northernsyria zone in an attempt to stem the sudden rise and influence of extremists, who have staged attacks from baghdad to beirut, putting down an tribes, revolt by sunni some of whom have linked up with militants to force significant , battles onent days both sides of the border signaling the increasing ,roblems in iraq and syria emerging as one of the regions .ost powerful players yesterday iraqi government troops fired shells into falluja , overrunning fighters. massachusetts, independent line, good morning. on the issue of immigration, what does congress need to do? i wish that the people in the united states would open their eyes to the problem in front of us. corporate america is taking all of our good jobs overseas for cheaper labor and they are bringing cheaper labor into the thatry to do all the jobs apparently americans won't want to do. they keep the wages depressed. people are not realizing that they are taking over every aspect of business. it has to do with corporate america,

northern israel. habib since 1981 had stopped the cross-border. the text of his meeting with secretary of state haig in may. he lays out his objectives. he says, we're going to turn lebanonto a satellite state. we are going to illuminate certain influence and destroy [indiscernible] those are his objectives. -- as theessor professor said. he intended to reach beirut and do all of these quite ambitious things to change the entire map. >> are going to take a break and come back to this discussion. you're talking about the debt that ariel sharon, his life and legacy. -- we are talking about the death of ariel sharon, his life and legacy. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the former israeli prime minister ariel sharon has died. he died on saturday after eight and years and years in the, at the age of 85. our guests are professor avi shlaim from oxford university where he is a professor emeritus there of international relations. noam chomsky, world-renowned linguist, political dissident and author. and rashid khalidi, arab studies professor at columbia university. you're just talking about "th

lebanon because hezbollah sends fighters that fight against rebel groups and groups here threatened to strike hezbollah strongholds and this is the result of these threats. >> reporter: now, you mentioned that explosions in that northernlast thursday, the group claimed responsibility for that attack, has there been claims of responsibility for this latest attack? >> not yet. usually in the past the explosions that have happened in south beirut and hezbollah strongholds have been carried out when we hear of claims of responsibility by groups like a syrian opposition islamic group fighting inside syria against the government and other al-qaeda-affiliated islamic groups and usually groups claim responsibility for such attacks on south beirut and hezbollah stronghold. no claim of responsibility yet but what we do know is what i mentioned so far, at least four killed, 27 injured according to the national news agency and as well that the cause of the explosion was a suicide bomber parked inside a car on a street which i just showed you here. >> reporter: and what is the lebanese government doing to try and stop these attacks, a very divided lebanese government? >> i'm sorry, i can't hear your question because i heard someon

attacks in lebanon in recent months, as the violence of syria's civil war continues to spill over the border. the u-n human rights office says that a "soaring" number of executions in northern syria could amount to war crimes. u-n's high commissioner for human rights warned armed opposition groups that such executions violate international humanitarian law. over the past two weeks, there has been reports of an increase in the executions of those no longer siding the exact number of executions are unknown, but their has been a definite increase since the beginning of the year. an elderly man was killed in a house fire in newark. the first happened last night at darvon street. when firefighters arrived they had to make a force entry into the home. they were able to put out the fire in 10 minutes. the elderly man was found in the home and transported to a hospital where he later died of his injuries. firefighters say the fire started in the kitchen appeas to be accidential. there's a renewed effort underway to combat crime in san francisco. san francisco police are passing out thousands of information packets and red envelopes stuffed with crime prevention tips to businesses i

in lebanon also you have the same phenomenon, but also if you go south to the arabian peninsula in bahrain, you have a sunni/shia tension and also in northern so on the face of it, regionally, yes, there is that clash. but my question to those raising this argument, is it really all of the shia versus all of the sunni or the radicals who are fighting? jenna: it's interesting that you point that out, because it's something when we look at iraq we should mention it's not as simple as we try to explain it, that there are sunni that don't like the shia government, there's also sunni that are working with the shia government because they don't like al-qaeda. with these complexities though, often folks want to throw up their hands and say it's very complicated, it goes back centuries, and we shouldn't be involved. what do you think? >> look, the sunni/shia factor is driven by the radical forces. if you go and run an analysis or a referendum among the sunni and the shia, what you're going to find is that the majority of people within the communities are moderates. we've seen in egypt, for example, for years we have seen, oh, a majority of egyptian

lebanon they live where they can. clust nerd tents or abandoned buildings. in turkey, city camps in ten provinces, 200 syrian refugees and thousand more living outside the camps. in northernraq they find refuge in a park. egypt where more and more syrians seek safety for a route to europe. more than two million refugees syria is hemorrhaging women, children, and men. ♪ inside syria over 6 million displaced. more than half the human flood leaving syria are children. one million children. 70% under the age of 12. ♪ children like this only three dais old when her family fled to iraq. or 4-year-old her face scared but her life saved. or this girl whose hope so to go school. or this little boy who works to feed his family. the tide does not subside. last august over 20,000 refugees cost a bridge in iraq. more recently 6,000 new ariefms in a matter of days. in jordan, they flooded in an overnight crossing. borders are overflowing. support is critical and critically needed for communities hosting so many refugees. neighboring countries have shown great generosity but they are strained. water, food, education, health care, housing. this crisis requires more than life saving human