the shiites in iraq syria to be shiite hizbullah in southern lebanon this exes will be destroyed it. which means also that this would be a tremendous blow for the political influence of iran in the gulf region now you mention quite a few countries there is there a risk of the crisis in syria spilling over into other countries and the conflict is spelled already in lebanon that there are. quite a number of flights between. living in malta in women in particular in tripoli and. sunni supporters of. sirte it. is also developing into a proxy war because saudi arabia is massively supporting the sunni hariri clan in order to weaken the dominating shiite hizbullah in lebanon so the situation in lebanon is very tense and. the chances that even another civil war will take place here chances. are relatively higher now kofi annan might have stepped down from his role as a peace mediator but is his six point plan still the best option for peace in syria well i think it's the only option however right from the beginning especially the united states but also saudi arabia qatar they were against it

country you have shiite pockets in by. rain iraq significantly in iraq lebanon on syria even parts of saudi arabia so these will flare up if there's any sort of preemptive strike in the in the next year or two going to iran and they will not be able to contain it if there is a sort of all out war in the region what you'll see is these minority petro monarchies imposing kind of rounding up she sure protesting they might even put them into concentration camps for all i know i mean that's the sort of situation you look at because they can handle that on a multi regional scale is to be popping up all over the place they need iraq in bahrain and these countries to be absolutely stable for them to isolate iran the shiite population wanting democratic reform or human rights reform or anything like that is a massive problem for people like hillary clinton and william hague and washington d.c. barack obama they can't tolerate any sort of arab spring in a country like bahrain all right live from london with his thoughts on breaking

. >> i would like to ask you the shiites versus the sunnis figure into this relationship?>> that is a complex question, and it has become regionalized. this is where someone asked me if i could talk about iran. someone asked me to talk about iran and one of the complicating factors in the conflict, the crisis have become regionalized and internationalized between diametrically opposed groups. at the regional level iran and its allies hezbollah and syria and assad empower. they are afraid of losing this conduit into the middle east and the conduit of arms and the important funds of hezbollah but they bring to lebanon. saudi arabia, qatar, sunni countries, as well as united states and some others of course have been supporting the opposition to varying degrees. saudi arabia in many ways take the lead because they are afraid of what they view as the shiite presence developing in the middle east from iran through syria, which is 75% sunni but the alawite's are an offshoot of the shiites and then in lebanon where the most powerful group in lebanon is hezbollah, the shiite organ

they are 12%, sheer shiite, the sunni war? >> a sectarian civil war. >> if it is a civil war we are going to stay out. >> no we didn't stay out of libya. >> i think we are being pulled in. >> you think there is any sentiment in the united states to go into syria? >> not in the united states and i'm against it but we could get pulled in. the whole thing is spreading. the turks are going to be involved. >> the turks are not going to be involved. the president has spoken emfatly about that over there. >> they are involved right now. >> because of the penetration of a body border here and there. >> they have kurds in turkey rising up. this whole thing is in real danger of spreading into the across that entire region. >>> when we come back, china syndrome. there's a natural resource that exists everywhere on the planet that could improve conditions and help end poverty. yet it's been largely ignored. that resource is women. in many of the world's poorest communities, women are denied a significant role, so often, their talent and p

all the people, what was done in bahrain by saying you know what, shiites against sunnis so we have toaccept what is happening. i'm sorry, that's not right. it's not because the people -- it's right for sunni to oppress them. so we have to stick to principles and come to shift principles that we have, but not play with intra- religious divisions that is now happening in the middle east. it's going to have a very important role between lebanon, syria, iran, and all the other countries in the petrol monarchies. some are playing a very, very nasty role i in the whole thing. in saudi arabia, qatar, are playing with this now, and we have -- and some scholars are going with this. and i'm sorry, i think we have to be courageous to say that's not acceptable. that's not acceptable. we have to stick to principles against dictators, whoever they are and for freedom, for whoever are the people. [applause] >> mr. ramadan, the essence of democracy is popular sovereignty and protection of minority rights. given those principles, why should we have any optimism whatsoever about the creation of democra

more of this hour's world news in brief for you now a series of deadly attacks have hit shiite areas of the iraqi capital for parked cars exploded northwest of baghdad killing seven people and leaving sixteen injured another attack struck a northern district where two mortar rounds are reported to have landed killing two and wounding several others it's not known who is behind the attacks but the iraqi capital shiite areas have previously been targeted by al qaida linked sunni militants. it plays out a hospital in southern taiwan has left twelve people dead and seventy others injured patients died of smoke inhalation as the fire swept through a nursing home located all the second floor of the building most of the victims were bedridden and couldn't escape the fire emergency services quickly brought the blaze under control though the cause of the fire still unknown. the american tara has become the first head to visit the gaza strip since the islamist group hamas came to power there five years ago she come on to been coffee all tiny plans to launch a building project worth two hundred

the continuation of the cold war in the middle east between iran and saudi arabia between sunni and shiite forces absolutely but i disagree with the point of view that this is just the foreign power struggle no it's not assad regime for many years as oppresses own people has been distinct corruption in that country where many people around in the countryside have been marginalized they have been massive abuses of human rights. over the years and the syrian people have basically been ruled by the barrel by the gun in that country and what we see is a backlash of many years of oppressive policies by the assad regime so yes there are foreign players in this conflict but let's not forget the syrian people their life was not paradise in the form. of their conflagration up a very good point what about the people because it looks like the proxies are not thinking about the people they're thinking about the other proxies helping the other proxies. yeah you know i think that i think i'm probably somewhere between between myer and i am on this i think that there is a genuine popular base for the opp

lebanon stand in that respect do you think well liberal is torn because of course it has a large shiite component of the population and has long links with syria but equally there of course are many sunnis in lebanon who resent both the shiite circle a little tiny circle territory. and also resent syrian domination for many years facts are information did of course only regional lebanese civil war and now we see for that there are tensions within lebanon which also will be interested in money from outside and it's coming in. from the fighters going into syria but perhaps also to fund. inside lebanon itself. writer mark almond a visiting professor of international relations of bilking university in turkey live from the u.k. thanks so much for coming and coming on the program here at our. thank you. but there was a change of pace in the battle of words between u.s. presidential candidates barack obama and mitt romney who laid down their arms and traded jokes at a charity fund raiser but their debates are still causing a buzz and massive t.v. ratings are down there is criticism that challe

has been so much about a war of words propaganda storylines and narratives the story about iraqi shiites i believe that sort of hit the media in the last day or two has come from a piece in the new york times with without the kind of sourcing back from the new york times and this follows you know weeks if not longer than of major mainstream western media suggesting that there were between fifteen high. five thousand hizbollah troops in syria hizbollah was arming the syrian government which is laughable for middle east watchers because it's always been the opposite and that even the runyon revolutionary guards are involved in syria what we're seeing on our t.v. screens are increasingly islamist militants. fighting and on the opposition side and this is becoming very nerve racking to people who want regime change in syria so they need to keep they need to keep the syrian regime looking bad. and to suggest that you know these abilify middle eastern elements hizbollah iran iraq east sectarian shiites are coming in to help the syrian government is one way to keep the narrative or the story li

sunni and so but he's the prime minister the head of a coalition government which is dominated by shiite supporters of hezbollah or by christians who don't want to get dragged into the war in syria so to some extent he's hated as a traitor if you like concerned community and that's sectarian bitterness and i think we should say on the other hand of course he does need a parliamentary majority maybe in the elections to come and the results will change that but for the moment you're getting the impression some are of the government is not democratic or not representative but so far it does actually represent something of the order of well over sixty percent of the where she wrote in the last election that may change but. what about those opposition politicians blaming the wreck leave syria on the assassination of the top security official how exactly would a son actually benefit doing that. well i have to so if we think about the legacy of the murder of her career in two thousand and five that played very heavily against syria whoever did it to. be moved. to me it seems unlikely that assad

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. >> he knew he had to gai support of the other minorities-- the druze, the christians, the shiites.so he said, "i'm a minority entity. you want to be with me because my interests are your interests." >> narrator: hafez al-assad secured his power by putting trusted family members in high government posts. >> the brother is in charge of security, the cousins of the banking system, in-laws in security as well, and military. so the reality is, this is a family business. >> narrator: like saddam hussein in iraq, assad's ba'ath party repressed any ethnic or religious challenges. >> the ba'ath party promised to get rid of sectarianism. he demanded, and for the most part the syrian population was receptive to, this faustian bargain that the syrian people would accept less freedom and liberty in return for stability. >> narrator: he took in millions in soviet military aid and formed an alliance with iran, which still endures. >> the relationship with iran is very unusual. syria is a secular state ruled by a secular arab nationalist party, the ba'ath party. iran is an islamic republic. so the

however, though, they are sunni, iran, shiite and hezbollah shiite, so sometimes terrorism and politicsbedfellows. as stalin said sometimes you need useful idiots. they're getting someone else to deflect attention. iran can go we have plausible denyeability. we have no involvement in this. senator lieberman even said no doubt iran has a hand in it if not directly behind it because at this level it requires state sponsorship. and how dangerous is it? every day we seem to hear about a new cyberattack whether attacking oil installations, oil plat rms foss, whoever. seems like this is the new way to attack another country. how dangerous is it and is this future? >> it is dangerous enough that the air force create ad separate domain of cyberspace, air, land, sea, water and now cyberspace. absolutely no doubt people take this the question at what point does it elevate itself to require a strooik? you launch a missile, somebody launches a missile and respond as they did today? what type of event before you say we'll take physical force. we'll bomb something, blow up something, kill somebody ba

and in lebanon, the most powerful group is hezbollah shiite islamist organization.so you know, they want to break that up. the u.s. wants to make that outcome is the one survey data. so the fall of assad is desirable in that sense, although they don't want syria to implode altogether and breakup and cause a free for all the surrounding powers that would cause the regional and even international conflict, the danger in all of this. and inside syria, and has become very, very sick. the longer the conflict was on, the more sick. it is. because the other minorities come out 12%, 13%, christians 10% for the most part support the assad regime because of assad regime is very secularized and therefore will be a buffer on any conservative sunnis stayed from developing the sunni arab regime, that as you said earlier in the not, the fall of assad could be retribution and revenge against these minorities who have supported the assad regime. .. >> it is the very group that they want to see rise to power in some of these countries. in syria, it was a big dilemma. i have met with

and iraq, it's now broken into clearly kurdish shiite sunni.s far as iraq is concerned, i think the shiites being the plurality and maybe even the majority, are surely entitled to their role in government, which was suppressed by centuries of sunni predominance. i am not in any way upset by the fact that the shiite are, for the first time in iraq, exercising power in proportion to their numbers. but at the same time, the country has clearly broken into three major issue that you had. the kurds are to all intents and purposes independent. in syria, the country breaks down totally unlike that of the cities on the way to breaking down totally. i personally don't see the isle of wight -- alawite military and political giving up easily. i can see that establishing an enclave in the northwest and possibly in damascus, too. i can see that. iris in syria and actually not a shower just before the third spring. and i had a long meeting with him, about an hour and a half. december 2010. what is interesting is is that i said to have, mr. president, i think

and says he is battling shiite militants fighting for the regime, mostly from outside syria. iranian and hezbollah fighters are here in large numbers, he says. when we kill them, we find their i.d. cards. the u.s. has accused iran of meddling in syria. the commander goes farther. he says of the regime, all of the planes they're using, the new ones, are from iran. and, he says, government planes are dropping a new kind of weapon. bombs in barrels, with chemicals, he says, that take out city blocks. a whole family was in here, he says, and an old man. the commander says 500 new rebel recruits volunteer every month. some look to be barely in their teens. but what do we hear? suddenly the rebels hear a jet overhead. one of the syrian regime's feared warplanes, a russian-made mig. after the new recruits took cover their commander made a bold statement. he says, if the united states would enforce a no-fly zone, or give us anti-aircraft weapons, the war would be over in two or three days. and so would assad's regime. you have a message for president assad? "my message is clear," he

the israeli military did not directly blame hezbollah, a shiite group in lebanon, but a major newspaper in israel d lebanon's tv channel affiliated with hezbollah reports that the unmanned aircraft was in fact launched in lebanon. israel shot it down and nobody was hurt. >>> a warning for people who take a generic version of a popular antidepressant. what you need to know. >> a heavy issue to consider in half moon bay. the king of the crop when it comes to pumpkins at this year's weigh-off. >> hi, i'm meteorologist lawrence karnow in the cbs 5 weather center. a lot of sunshine in many spots, some clouds moving in along the coast. could we see some rain? we'll talk about that coming up. hi, i'm amy for downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters, here with my favorite new intern, jimmy. mmm! fresh! and it's been in the closet for 12 weeks! unbelievable! unstopables! i'll show you how! ♪ just shake them into the washer i can't believe this lasts 12 weeks! neither can they. so you're going on tour to prove it. downy unstopables. follow jimmy's unstopables tour for free samples on downy.com. e

six people have been hurt in overnight clashes in beirut between sunni and shiite gunman. lebanon has been boiling since friday after a syrian top intelligence official was assassinated in a car bombing. they've blamed syria for the killing. i'm melissa mollet at the live desk. news 4. >>> police say the man accused of opening fire at a wisconsin day spa slashed his wife's tires two weeks ago. >> investigators say 45-year-old radcliffe hauton's wife had a restraining order against him. yesterday he walked into the spa where she worked and started shooting. three women in killed. >> and four others were hurt. at this point, it's not clear if haughton's wife was among the victims, but witnesses say they saw gunfire and saw smoke after he walked in. >> the milwaukee area has seen mass shootings before. just two months ago a former army veteran and white supremacist killed four people and wounded more. and a gunman shot 11 people, killing seven at a church service inside a hotel. >>> an al qaeda plot to kill people in yemen. the men planned on using weapons they smuggled in fr

the blasts are the latest in a string of attacks against predominantly shiite neighborhoods, coming ahead of friday's holiday. turkish media says artillery shells fired from syria had a health center some 200 meters from the border. no one was hurt. the situation remains tense, though, along turki's border with syria after a deadly incident earlier this month followed by turkish retaliation -- along turkey's border with syria. >> catherine ashton says she is concerned about the stability of lebanon following the assassination of the country's intelligence chief last week. >> she condemns the killings after talks in beirut with the lebanese prime minister. she also said she thought unnamed people were causing problems in lebanon to try to divert attention from the situation in syria. syrian refugees on lebanon's border were also discussed. lebanon has asked the eu to help with shelter to displace -- asked the eu for help to sell to those displaced by the violence. we spoke with the commissioner for international cooperation and humanitarian aid and asked her first to describe the situation

but a power sharing agreement between shiites and even kurds has led to political pa rale cis, and sectarianism still lives below the surface here. -- paralysis and sectarianism still lives below the surface here. this is still a traumatized society, and there are now the war in syria could reignite sectarian tensions here. more than 200 civilians have already been killed in violence this month, and many here mourn the future they hoped for. >> the regional impact of the war in syria still not fully known. in just days, china is due to make an announcement which has huge implications for its future and for the rest of the world. the lineup of new leaders is due to be unveiled it he communist party congress that starts next week. it's a leadership change which only comes once every 10 years so every day this week our china correspondents will be reporting from different locations a look at t huge economic and social changes of recent years. martin starts us off with a village near the great wall. >> for centuries this village has lane in the shadow of the great wall. they've known hard times but

iraq is on the verge of a breakdown bween the snnisnd the shiites into civil war. and syria also is on the brink, on the edge of the kurds, and their role in the region could be very, very destabilizing if the war started spreading. there is of course iran next door which could come in some fashion involved. in brief, i have the feeling that it is not exactly within the realm of our means or our resources or comtible with our recent perenceo enter the fray without thinking very seriously about the likelihood that if we enter into it, particularly we enter into it, because we are not exactly very popular in the middle east these days, the result would be a much wider war, with really serious consequences that for turkey and perhaps for jordan and saudi arabia and because of economic consequences for europe, so i am afraid that the word i tend to emphasize in ts context the prudence, rather than engagement. >> rose:. >> but i think i heard both candidates say they would not put -- it was ditches in terms of what kind of arms they might supply on the one hand communic

but one official called it a rallying cry by sunni extremists trying to undermine confidence in the shiite led government. nearly 200 iraqis have died in sectarian violence there this month. in syria a new wave of attacks erupted today as rebels battled government forces once again. aleppo, syria's largest city, has been the site of fierce fighting this weekend. holy williams has more. >> reporter: the syrian rebels are targeting the government's air-bases. this video was posted on-line and claims to show opposition fighters firing at a military airport just outside of aleppo. their goal is to weaken the regime's air force. government warplanes have bombarded rebel positions, and their lightly armed opposition is normally powerless to stop them. but much of the fighting is still at street level. this internet video appears to come from darra where the rebels and regime are fighting for control of city blocks. and this is aleppo's med evil market, part of the world heritage set a blaze during fighting and now reduced to a charred skeleton. opposition groups say that syria's bloody civil war

were arrested in the latest rally after risings began in several of twenty eleven when the country's shiite majority demanded that longstanding shooty leaders step down bridgend though has signed a military treaty with the kingdom seen as a sign of support for the under-fire domany to cover campbell from the bus train that justice and development may have and believes western nations have too much to give. us the obviously doesn't send a particularly fantastic message when you're sending weapons to a country that is using weapons against its people on a daily basis to kill to injure to crush protests to crush essentially democracy but i think. the reason why the why the u.s. and other countries do that is because they want to keep the rain as an ally seen as an ally of western countries and therefore they want to try and keep that relationship but what these governments don't realize or they right refuse to realize they have a huge amount of leverage they have a lot of ability to convince about right or to pressure them into reform and perhaps they misunderstand the strength they have or pe