a bomb talk in southern lebanon killed a senior fatah member.t's believed an explosive device was placed on his car. >>> an m28 russian helicopter came down in homs. the russian ministry said it was not shot down. >>> a suicide attack in yemen, five killed near a football stadium in aden. >>> the process of choosing the next secretary general of the united nations is due to start in the coming hours. candidates will be asked questions at public hearings for the first time by public officials, representing u.n. member states. a final decision isn't expected for several months. daniel lack has more from u.n. headquarters in new york. >> eight people have held the u.n.'s top job since the organization began in 1946. they've all been men, this time there's growing pressure for a woman to be ban ki-moon's successor. four female candidates have joined the race, among them, the bug garian, head of the u.n. cultural organization unesco and helen clark, former new zealand prime minister. >> this would be a tremendous advance, to have a woman who is able

we bring you this developing story, back to the story we're following here, coming out of southern lebanon. an explosion in the -- in a city has killed an official from the palestinian fatah movement. these are pictures coming in to us from the southern lebanese to one sourceg close to where the blast happened. the new head of the five tom movement in -- the fatah movement in a refugee camp. 50,000 palestinians are registered in lebanon, living in refugee camps. it has been the scene of a number of clashes and score settling between rival factions of palestinians. this is the latest bombing there sidon.na -- in it is 26 minutes past 1:00. a quick break, and i will be back with headlines. to latin america, about the unfolding scandal surrounding dilma rousseff, that now threatens impeachment. decides that is something that should have it the next few days, we will be hearing more about them in just a few minutes. stay with us. q?q?q?q?q?q?q?q? announcer: this is a production of china central television america. mike: overcoming life's challenges is part of the shared human experience, but s

person has been killed in a dispute between rival factions in a palestinian refugee camp in southern lebanon. it is the second time this week that the armed group had been fighting. witnesses report hearing gunfire. there has been tension since monday when two men were shot dead in violence between the two groups. the kurdistan workers party or the p.k.k. says it was behind a car bombing in the eastern city. seven police officers died and at least 27 others were injured. >> reporter: the explosion shalt erred the calm of this residential residential neighborhood. a car packed with explosives detonated here. the damage is clear. this family is shocked. they survived the attack. >> translation: my parents were cooking in the kitchen. i was in the bathroom. my children were studying in the living room. all of a sudden the powerful explosion we felt the storm. saw something very strong coming on to us. it was like an apocalypse. many onlookers stood in disbelief. many more scared. >> translation: we heard the explosion. we thought it was an earthquake. we were worried and scared. >> reporter: th

one person has been killed in a dispute between rival factions in a refugee camp in southern lebanon. it is the second time that the members of the armed group have been fighting in the camp. witnesses report hearing gunfire in the neighborhood. there has been tension since monday when two men were shot dead in violence between the two groups. the defense ministry says heavy fighting has broken out in forces. the small mountainous enclave is located between these areas here. it has been under the control of local forces since the fall of the soviet union. the fighting over the past 24 hours is said to be the worst since the ceasefire agreement ended the three-year liberation war. european mediators have not been able to find a peaceful resolution. we speak to a journalist and lecturer at the american university of armenia. thanks for joining us. these two cunts reporting that the conflict is turning violent. they are both accusing each other of conducting offensive warfare. what are you hearing about this situation? >> what we have heard from official sources is that in the early morn

. >>> a bomb blast in southern lebanon has killed a high-ranking palestinian official.hought to be linked to tensions between rival palestinian factions, the attack happen ed in the lebanese city close to two palestinian refugee camps, victoria gatenby reports. >> reporter: chaos on the streets of lebanon. this is the aftermath of a bomb attack that killed an official with the palestinian political group fatah. it's believed an explosive device was placed on his car. he was in charge of the fatah movement in the palestinian refugee camp. it's one of 12 camps in lebanon which are home to more than 450,000 palestinian refugees. there are tensions within the camps between rival factions. supporters of the palestinian authority are facing opposition from those aligned with more religiously conservative groups. each side has accused the other of targeted murders. a retired lebanese general says the escalating tension may have led to the death. >> if the assassination is a part of the conflict between the palestinian authority supporters the movement of fatah and other factio

if you climb on the machine, you will see why iran has these weird connections to places like southern lebanon when they became shia. you need to understand this a little bit better as we try to establish some patterns of cooperation and make no mistake about it. this nuclear deal is just about a nuclear deal in the way that moby dick is about a whale. going on under the surface i think we need to understand that this iranian thing is important and we need to stay on top of it. we need to understand the divided society a lot more than we do. and it has to be concerned that we are dancing with an old partner and that we somehow have had to go back to the future with the 1970s. so i think these issues require quite a bit of wisdom. i think that we need to be careful to show leadership because we do need to show leadership. as much as i like the idea of pivoting east asia, i think we did create unintended consequences, we left the middle east with the sense that we didn't want to be involved. now we are back dealg with the middle east. we left europe with a sense that maybe we didn't care as much

back machine and go to 1501 you will see why iran has these weird connections to places like southern lebanon when aran was sunni and became shia, we need to understand that a little better as we try to establish some patterns of cooperation with the iranians. this nuclear deal is just about a nuclear deal the way moby dick is just a story about a whale. there's a lot more going on under the surface there. and i think we need to understand that this iran thing is important and we need to stay on top of it. we need to understand that divided society a lot better than we do. and we also need to be very clear that when saudi arabia is worried about the nuclear deal, it's not because all the saudi nuclear scientists are saying, we're worried about the verification provisions of the heu possibilities there. it has to do with their concerns that we are now dancing with an old partner and that we've somehow gone back to the future with the 1970s. so i think these issues in the middle east require a lot of wisdom, and i think we need to be very careful, one, to show leadership, because we do need to

back machine and go to 1501 you will see why iran has these weird connections to places like southern lebanon when aran was sunni and became shia, we need to understand that a little better as we try to establish some patterns of cooperation with the iranians. this nuclear deal is just about a nuclear deal the way moby dick is just a story about a whale. there's a lot more going on under the surface there. and i think we need to understand that this iran thing is important and we need to stay on top of it. we need to understand that divided society a lot better than we do. and we also need to be very clear that when saudi arabia is worried about the nuclear deal, it's not because all the saudi nuclear scientists are saying, we're worried about the verification provisions of the heu possibilities there. it has to do with their concerns that we are now dancing with an old partner and that we've somehow gone back to the future with the 1970s. so i think these issues in the middle east require a lot of wisdom, and i think we need to be very careful, one, to show leadership, because we do need to

air , attacks on al qaeda in southern yemen, killing 14 people described by localal sources as sususpected militant. for more we're joined now by two , guests. in beirut, lebanon're joined by farea al-muslimi, a visiting scholar at the carnegie middle east center in beirut. he is also the co-founder and chair of the sana'a center for strategic studies. in 2013, he testified before the senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on the u.s. secret drone program. and we're also joined by sarah leah whitson, executive director of human rights watch's middle east and north africa division. her recent piece in the "los angeles times" is headlined, "the u.s. is quietly helping saudi arabia wage a devastating aerial campaign in yemen." we welcome you both to democracy now! sarah leah whitson, explain what the u.s. is doing in yemen. >> it goes well beyond providing military assistance. the weapons being used in this war, what is less known and less understood and what the u.s. government has been deliberately vague about is the u.s. is sitting in the riata command center providing targeting assistance -- this is what they have told us -- as well as providing refueling for

lebanon. i mean, these guys supply a lot of eggs and everything like that. plus people's jobs. >> luckily no one was injured in the blaze. >>> a whale that washed ashore in southernalifornia is attracting beach-goers. federal officials are still trying to determine what killed the whale. it washed ashore last week on san clemente beach. there was no sign it was hit by a vessel or got tangled in fishing nets. many wonder why it's still there. >> can't they tie it up to a boat and drag it out to get rid of it? it's bad. there's a lot of bacteria and stuff like that around, too. i mean, a lot of people swim, fish, surf. so that's the only part that i see that's not that great, just having it sit there. >> park rangers are trying to figure out how to move the carcass to a nearby landfill. >>> a woman wanted justice for her brother who died of a drug overdose so she called police and offered to help. the woman's brother died on april 13th shortly after buying street drugs. she later found cell phone messages between him and the apparent dealer. the woman helped police by luring the alleged drug dealer to a parking lot on north capitol avenue and that's where officers

lebanon, it would be different. and that is exactly what we have seen. so let me take you back to march 6, 2011. the graffiti incident in daraa. daraa is in the southern part of syria, which borders jordan on the southern side. it is called, it is referred to as the cradle of the revolution. there are a bunch of graffiti artists or revolutionaries who spray-painted that the people want to topple the regime. what happened in response to that was that those protesters were killed. on march 15, just a little bit over a week later there was a , facebook page titled syrian revolution calling for a day of rage protest. remember, the day of rage protests were happening across the middle east. next thing we know, syrian march 18, forces attacked protesters are killing people. the civil uprising was an early stage of protest, but the protests were met with violence. that violence and the protests combined only escalated. in april, what we saw was assad trying to calm the masses and calm people in syria, saying let's have a national dialogue process. i have heard you, let's recognize the kurds and give them citizenship in syria. let me begin to show signs of ho