rami khouri was saying just a few minutes ago it's hard to know where this is going to go you said to me what 45 minutes an hour ago that it's complicated this is lebanon but these protests have been going on for 4 months now as you say. something's got to give at some point how does this end where do we go from here. levanon system our political system the sectarian based where cultism the government is divided and the difference that the president has to be american christian the prime minister has to be a phony the parliament speaker has to be a shia parliament has to be split. christians and muslims but people here are saying enough is enough. we don't want the sectarian system of governance any longer because our leaders what they have been doing was exploiting the states resources by providing that they support to their own constituency in order to stay in power they want the stand they want people who are qualified technocrats to run ministries instead of politicians instead of political parties so this was the amount from the street they want change 3 decades levanon is the 3r

iran's the main military and political supporter of his ball or lebanon's most powerful group well rami khouri is a journalism professor at the american university of beirut see chance and snow from the lebanese capital kids have you with us on the program sir we're hearing a lot of concern being aired especially from the region what's this action could lead to do you think we're heading for an armed conflict in the middle east. i think we're going to see more of what we've seen for the last 510 years or so which is continued for tat actions between the united states iran israel the various armed groups has been. popular mobilization forces and others who is in yemen and or and this number the number of these protagonists who are hitting each other back and forth has increased and the level of the targets has risen and what we've seen only in the last couple of months as us is a severe escalation of the level of the targets that have been hit by both the united states and iran and iran's allies across the region shipping tanker the oil tankers pipelines ship facilities and then the american em