people of lebanon and of course we cannot live in lebanon if we don't get into them the freedom and the security. was the defender of the question during the civil war when we were doing our election campaign in the spa region people would say that as shafi a without the. white male has popularity here and they see him as the continuation of that political ideology. they speed between all the communities between the sunnis and the street between the christian and the muslim street between. all of this is based on the fact that no one trusts the community the system guarantees government posts to all the main policies but it can also mean politicians are placed on accountable and free to dispense patronage as they like. over citizens were mistaken by voting to some people just because they offer services or money i believe that the confessional system in lebanon has. destroyed. by were. under confessional ism if the government call into a way to provide state welfare citizens are forced to turn to the sectarian leaders for help it's how lebanon has run for generations. today these people

toward the arab world to plead the case for south lebanon. then all jury in president who are a boomy dn recommended the amount of the libyan leader. agreed. contacted. the libyan leader invited us to visit him in tripoli. lawyer his saini has followed the case of the disappearance of a man and his two companions. more than. me in. remembers her brother's determination to visit libya despite warnings about unpredictability. to. through. their lives and they had. the second of our solders to. companions he went missing with him was a journalist bus but dean. his oldest son recalls the last moments before his father's departure. and she. painted us. that with us me and called to him without us me. the libyan embassy in beirut arranged three tickets on the middle east airlines flight from. from beirut to tripoli via benghazi. on the eve of his departure spent the night at his sister's. for. a look. at this by the. by the. more. cell phone. photo. on the twenty fifth of august nine hundred seventy eight. and his two companions lead the route for

toward the arab world to plead the case for south lebanon. then all jury in president who are a booming d.n. recommended the amount of the libyan leader. agreed . contacted get. the libyan leader invited us to visit him in tripoli. lawyer his saini has followed the case of the disappearance of a man and his two companions. more than. a remembers her brother's determination to visit libya despite warnings about good unpredictability. to. yeah i mean i'm young so horny and work through. them and they had their foot i don't know. the second of outsiders two companions who went missing with him was a journalist bus but dean. is eldest son recalls the last moments before his father's departure get under. the car with him and she. and. her lover. that would us me. to him without us me. the libyan embassy in beirut arranged three tickets on the middle east airlines flight from the. us. from beirut to tripoli via benghazi. on the eve of his departure spent the night at his sister's. for. a look at our door. and now we're. at this by the. by the. more

in nine hundred seventy five civil war erupted in lebanon. assad or led antiwar protests most prominent of which was his sit in at a mosque in beirut. with anarchy in lebanon israeli attacks on villages in the south of the country increased. campaigned on behalf of the local population and he announced the establishment of a lebanese resistance movement called. southern consistently expressed sympathy for palestinian aspirations but his relations with the palestinian liberation organization were tense and uneasy. he criticized the p.l.o. for shelling israel and thereby provoking israeli retaliation which fell mainly on the shia citizens of the south. side the son recalls the political tightrope his father had to walk. and their. yet tornado. was there bob. i would look. at. me yeah i can only imagine yet afford. to have probably met. her father and i love affair with her last thing me last thing here. for the steam you have to do for you for. the. last. steve. steve. is a former lebanese m.p. his father was one of the two companions who disap

people of lebanon and of course we cannot live in lebanon if we don't get into them the freedom and the security. was the defender of the question during the civil war when we were doing our election campaign in the spa region people would say that as shafi a without the. white male has popularity here and they see him as the continuation of that political ideology. they see between all the communities between the sunnis and the street between the christian and the muslim that is feeling between. all of this is based on the fact that no one trusts the other community the system guarantees government posts to all the main parties but it can also mean politicians are placed on accountable and free to dispense patronage as they like. our citizens were mistaken by voting for some people just because they offer services or money i believe that the confessional system in lebanon has. destroyed. but we're. under confessional ism if the government call into a way to provide state welfare citizens are forced to turn to their sectarian leaders for help it's how lebanon has run for generations. to

people of lebanon and of course we cannot live in lebanon if we don't get into them the freedom and the security. was the defender of the question during the civil war and when we were doing our election campaign in this region people would say that as shafi a without the. white male has popularity here and they see him as the continuation of that political ideology. they see between all the communities between the sunnis and the street between the christian and the muslim that the street between the christian days all of this is based on the fact that no one trusts the community the system guarantees government posts to all the main parties but it can also mean politicians of based on accountable and free to dispense patronage as they like. our citizens were mistaken by voting to some people just because they offer services or money i believe that the confessional system in lebanon has. destroyed or. were. under confessional ism if the government call into a way to provide state welfare citizens are forced to turn to their sectarian leaders for help it's how lebanon has run for generat

shi'ites from iran to iraq to syria to lebanon is obvious. to the democratic system in the economy of this country this country cannot sustain if hezbollah maintains what they're doing they've had their impact. on the economy of lebanon and the proper governance of the system. i don't feel personally threatened by possible that's for sure but i know that my country is threatened by their presence and surprisingly hezbollah refutes such claims. well i mean. i don't know how him can live tisha and the doctors will love iran. a lot of the want. in the absence of effective states well for hezbollah like most other political parties office services to its supporters including providing food for the poor. of the land. was. nothing much harder. the problem is that it was like. over if. not i'm on the ballot now i'm lucky if one fifty i now from our side of the f.b.i. got brought in for a lot. of banks to defer i don't think. anybody with all due respect the lebanese experts that work in the middle east in general in the gulf in particular bring into

shi'ite from iran to iraq to syria to lebanon is obvious. to the democratic system in the economy of this country this country cannot sustain if hezbollah maintains what they're doing they've had their impact directly and indirectly on the economy of lebanon and the proper governance of the system. i don't feel personally threatened by possible that's for sure but i know that my country is threatened by their presence and surprisingly hezbollah refutes such claims. well i mean. i don't know how him can lift asia and the doctors will love iran. on one. in the us. sense of affective states well for hezbollah like most other political parties office services to its supporters including providing food for the poor. man. was the kind of guy that would. peddle i'm an omniscient and feel nothing must be a big problem because a lot. over. not. one fifty. seven the f.b.i. got brought in for. banks to defer i don't think. anybody. in the middle east in general but the. economy the local economy. on this i don't know what contribution economy iran has

in one nine hundred seventy five civil war erupted in lebanon. assad or led antiwar protests most prominent of which was his sit in at a mosque in beirut. with anarchy in lebanon israeli attacks on villages in the south of the country increased. campaigned on behalf of the local population and he announced the establishment of a lebanese resistance movement called. southern consistently expressed sympathy for palestinian aspirations but his relations with the palestinian liberation organization were tense and uneasy. he criticized the p.l.o. for shelling israel and thereby provoking israeli retaliation which fell mainly on the shia citizens of the south. assad the son recalls the political tightrope his father had to walk. and. yet. was there bob. i would look. at the. can only man yet afford. to have probably met. a fair would at a loss to me what could the last thing here. for the student you have to do for you for. the. last. steve. steve. sun your coupe is a former lebanese m.p. his father was one of the two companions who disappeared with us

in nine hundred seventy five civil war erupted in lebanon. assad or led antiwar protests most prominent of which was his sit in at a mosque in beirut. with anarchy in lebanon israeli attacks on villages in the south of the country increased. campaigned on behalf of the local population and he announced the establishment of a lebanese resistance movement called. a southern consistently expressed sympathy for palestinian aspirations but his relations with the palestinian liberation organization were tense and uneasy. he criticized the p.l.o. for shelling israel and thereby provoking israeli retaliation which fell mainly on the shia citizens of the south. suburbs son recalls the political tightrope his father had to walk. and. yet tornado. there was that. i would look. at. from a steamy year i can only imagine yet afford. to have probably met. her father and i love affair with her last thing me last thing here. for the steam you have to do for your four. year see what. we have for steve. is a former lebanese m.p. his father was one of the two co

lebanon is pressuring syrian refugees to return to their country but what about those who oppose the assad regime we hear from one syrian woman fearing for her future plus. there are children here and there but they just started attacking us even mean viciously my husband was lying dead in front of me after that i lost consciousness we have an exclusive report of a series of attacks by far right gangs from the roma community in ukraine what is fueling the final. hello i'm terry march and good to have you with us symbiote ways president. has called for dialogue with the opposition amid high tensions following monday's elections his comments come a day after the military shot dead three unarmed demonstrators at a protest in the capital harare. deployed the troops to disperse the protesters who allege the country's elections were rigged international observers have condemned what they call the use of excessive force by the army. soldiers firing live rounds and zimbabwe's capital. the army into district to harare midafternoon reportedly at the request of the police. the country's justice

protesters some say the government bring to the election look at the latest from the run also coming up lebanon is trying to encourage syrian refugees to return to their country but what about those who oppose the office of regime we hear from one woman fearing for her future. face off in copenhagen danish protesters take to the streets to show their opposition to a new law banning muslim the face veil this. time see me so much got it good to have you with us international leaders are calling for calm and zimbabwe after the military shot dead three demonstrators in the capital harare the government deployed the army to disperse opposition protesters angry at what they say was electoral fraud by the ruling party. soldiers firing live rounds and zimbabwe's capital. the army into the streets in harare mid-afternoon reportedly at the request of the police. the country's justice minister said the military had been deployed to maintain peace and tranquility and accused opposition supporters of going on a rampage i want the protesters claim they didn't stop the violence. was going on the problem. i ju

last generation of syrians millions of children in the refugee camps in all in jordan and lebanon are going to create a lot of instability in the future and the middle east so if we care about syria we have to prepare the circumstances in syria that will let these refugees go back home and these circumstances means political change political settlement and also having safety and dignity for the refugees right there will there is a law that in acted by the government in syria that confiscate the lands and the properties of the refugees who are left syria if they do not show up within thirty days this is low number ten so in order to make it easy for there if you go back to syria we need to make sure that with pressure the government that can influence this equation sites. tim i want to take our audience back to december twenty eighth when your brother man attend up at me at port with his skates and rock that i have in the. and this is we watch in the news when the first plane arrives when our prime minister will come dystrophy she we were crying and we felt the mob indoors comedian peo

toward the arab world to plead the case for south lebanon. then all jury in president who are a booming dnd recommended the amount of the libyan leader. agreed. contacted gadhafi the libyan leader invited us to visit him in tripoli. lawyer his saini has followed the case of the disappearance of a man and his two companions. more than. me in the. remembers her brother's determination to visit libya despite warnings about gadhafi is unpredictability. but. yeah i mean i'm young so horny and work through. it or. lose them and they had their food i don't know. the second of outsiders two companions who went missing with him was a journalist bus but dean. is eldest son recalls the last moments before his father's departure. and she. painted us. that would us me. to him without it was us me. the libyan embassy in beirut arranged three tickets on the middle east airlines flight from the. us. from beirut to tripoli via benghazi. on the eve of his departure spent the night at his sister's. for. a better look at our door. and now we are. more. and more

lebanon is one of the world's top five producers of cannabis resin otherwise known as hashish. alley his arm to myself the cannabis trade has been too since the syrian war broke out in two thousand and eleven as lebanese authorities have shifted their attention to other security concerns and he's worried the military might suddenly show up again and destroy the crops something they did for decades. i personally about take up arms how if they want to fight my life i heard if they come here with takes to destroy the crops the people will rise up with their weapons that's how they would react if i had to travel. the lebanese government is now looking to legalize cannabis growth for medical purposes in an effort to boost its cash strapped economy but not everyone here supports those plans. and i'm against legalization if it means the state will be supervising the process and i don't want farmers to give a crops to the state and then the state to sell it on to manufacturing companies we are probably legalization only if the farmers have a direct relationship with the manufacturing c

target of lebanon's shadowy men with guns. they kidnapped american diplomat william buckley. buckley is the embassy's contact man for the rival christian and muslim factions. he is the third american to be kidnapped in beirut in six weeks. >> and it kept happening. it was not all at one go. they were taken many months apart but it kept adding up and adding up and adding up. it consumed the reagan presidency. >> every day, almost every day he'd ask his national security teams, intelligence briefers, any news on the hostages. is anything happening? is there something we can do? >> there's a chink in reagan's armor. he was softhearted and he did feel a sense of obligation that he had to do something to get them out. sfx: [cell phone dialing] no. no, no, no, no, no. cancel. cancel. please. aaagh! being in the know is a good thing. that's why discover will alert you if your social security number is found on any one of thousands of risky sites. the new school year is almost here. and a new iphone from t-mobile is the best way to ke

to take refuge in the town of ourselves just across the border in lebanon. although it happened five years ago the memories are still fresh this is my son or husband and eldest son who were killed in the syrian war. beginning of the uprising protests were not violent they were peaceful but my husband was killed because he took part in the my son was with the regime army doing his compulsory service in the syrian intelligence service killed him because he deserted. who fears the assad regime but the pressure from lebanon to leave is building some three thousand syrians have already registered to return i can never go back to syria. she is especially worried about this man. is a member of the syrian committee tasked with collecting the names of billing return ease and sending the list to damascus for approval who is suspicious of the government. with those who protested against the regime. upon arrival fuz them approval to return. but golson denies the charge. it's not a condition not an issue of approval it's just about informing the government of the names o

but we begin in lebanon where the civil war in syria has led to over a million refugees seeking safety now lebanese authorities are requiring they register their names part of plans for their return many are. it was not a voyage of cut the ever imagined undertaking but the mother of eight and grandmother of three children was forced to flee her syrian home and to take refuge in the town of ourselves just across the border in lebanon. although it happened five years ago the memories are still fresh this is my son her husband and eldest son were killed in the syrian war. and the beginning of the uprising protests were not violent and they were peaceful but my husband was killed because he took part in the my son was with the regime army doing his compulsory service and the syrian intelligence service killed him because he does or. who fears the assad regime but the pressure from lebanon to leave is building some three thousand syrians have already registered to return and that i can never go back to syria. she is especially worried about this man goes in by is a member of the syrian comm

toward the arab world to plead the case for south lebanon. then all jury in president who are a booming dnd recommended the amount of the libyan leader. agreed. contacted gadhafi the libyan leader invited us to visit him in tripoli. lawyer his saini has followed the case of the disappearance of a man and his two companions. more than. me in the. remembers her brother's determination to visit libya despite warnings about unpredictability. to. yeah i mean i'm young so horny and work through. them and they had their foot i don't know. the second of outsiders two companions who went missing with him was a journalist bus but dean. his oldest son recalls the last moments before his father's departure. when she. painted us. that would us me. to him without us me. the libyan embassy in beirut arranged three tickets on the middle east airlines flight from. from beirut to tripoli via benghazi. on the eve of his departure spent the night at his sister's. for. a better look at our door. but the. more you would bring. me to my. cell phone. photo. on the t

lebanon is stepping up pressure for on on syrian refugees to return home some one point five million syrian refugees are currently in lebanon and officials there have repeatedly said that's putting the country under strain hundreds of refugees have returned to syria in the past few weeks many more are afraid of what would happen to them if they went back to that your correspondent traveled to the town of our soul where she met a woman who fled syria the assad government killed her husband and son she and her children fear for their lives if they return. it was not a voyage. ever imagined undertaking but the mother of eight and grandmother of three children was forced to flee has syrian home. to take refuge in the town of ourselves just across the border. although it happened five years ago the memories are still fresh this is my son or husband and his son who were killed in the syrian war. the beginning of the uprising protests were not violent they were peaceful but my husband was killed because he took part in the my son was with the regime army doing his compulsory service in the

toward the arab world to plead the case for south lebanon. then all jury in president who are a boom in dnd recommended the man meets the libyan leader. agreed. contacted gadhafi the libyan leader invited us to visit him in tripoli. lawyer his saini has followed the case of the disappearance of a man and his two can. thought to be. more than cool. to me in the. then also. remembers her brother's determination to visit libya despite warnings about gadhafi is unpredictability. but only. yeah i mean i'm young so horny and work through. it or. lose them and they had their foot i. the second of outsiders two companions who went missing with him was a journalist bus but dean. is eldest son recalls the last moments before his father's departure. from and she. painted us. that with us me and called to him without us me. the libyan embassy in beirut arranged three tickets on the middle east airlines flight from. from beirut to tripoli via benghazi. on the eve of his departure spent the night at his sister's. for. a better look at our door. and there w

in march nine hundred seventy eight lebanon was invaded by israel. southern charismatic leader of lebanon's shia muslim sect sought regional assistance. on august the twenty fifth nine hundred seventy eight southern traveled to libya to meet muammar gaddafi. six days later on august thirty first an official motorcade left tripoli's shouty hotel carrying a sadat and two colleagues shaikh mohammad yacoob and journalist. dean. the three men were never seen again. question soon began to be asked about what had happened to them and whether they had actually made the libyan leader or not. several days after their disappearance libyan government official who some milat who had been assigned to be ma'am and his companions was visited by an agent from libyan intelligence agent was keen to assure milat that a meeting between the a ma'am and get dappy had never occurred. of humans in. how the shots. were being in the. middle of a saucy. hour. or so that. they knew from any other misstep cuts. no let me look i've been lucky the moment. when you have a shock and

but lebanon's government is eager to stop one off million syrian refugees so many say they may be forced to look at europe again. and her friends are among those thinking about making the journey to europe they know that it won't be easy but the risk of reprisal by assad security forces is high the thirty. one of the ladies has just heard of the arrest of her sister by the syrian regime. i want to migrate to europe for the future of my children and i applied to the u.s. that they didn't help me other than going to have mobile smugglers want that eight thousand euros for the trip and i when i said that if you're going isn't it meant that i feel who that doesn't know what she would do yet and many here are facing a similar dilemma. it may be too soon to say if there will be a second wave of refugees to europe but the conditions are right. for now despite all the hardship the last best bet seems to be levanon if the lebanese testy. now it's a nightmare scenario you're on a plane going in for an emergency landing people are praying all around you would you keep filming with your mobile phone

in one thousand nine hundred seventy five civil war erupted in lebanon. assad or led antiwar protests most prominent of which was his sit in at a mosque in beirut. with anarchy in lebanon israeli attacks on villages in the south of the country increased. campaigned on behalf of the local population and he announced the establishment of a lebanese resistance movement called. southern consistently expressed sympathy for palestinian aspirations but his relations with the palestinian liberation organization were tense and uneasy. he criticized the p.l.o. for shelling israel and thereby provoking israeli retaliation which fell mainly on the shia citizens of the south. suburbs son recalls the political tightrope his father had to walk. and. yet. there was there. i would look. at. kelly a man yet afford. to have probably met. her father no affair would at a loss to me what could the last thing you. looked for the steam you have to do for you for. the. last. what we have for steve. is a former lebanese m.p. his father was one of the two companions who disappeared

first of all, efforts to establish factories in syria and lebanon, for specifically specifically in lebanon by hezbollah, and syria, by the syrian government and various iranian proxies. keep in mind, the idea of this is that in the past, israel and the united states have been able to interdict iranian arms shipments to hezbollah and some of its other proxies, and israel has conducted over 130 strikes against arms shipments in syria. destined for hezbollah. by creating factories in lebanon and syria, it makes it easier for iran or for iran's proxies to arm themselves and for the -- harder for the united states and israel to interdict these shipments because the weapons are being made locally. we have also seen iran greeting -- creating syrian and iraqi missions. -- militias to serve as proxies against israel. a lot of these were primarily created to fight -- proxies to keep the war against the opposition in syria. in iraq, they were created to fight isis, but of course, you know, they can be easily repurposed, and we have seen in iraqi group, they announced the creation of a golan liberatio

in one thousand nine hundred seventy five civil war erupted in lebanon. assad or led antiwar protests most prominent of which was his sit in at a mosque in beirut. with anarchy in lebanon israeli attacks on villages in the south of the country increased. campaigned on behalf of the local population and he announced the establishment of a lebanese resistance movement called. a southern consistently expressed sympathy for palestinian aspirations but his relations with the palestinian liberation organization were tense and uneasy. he criticized the p.l.o. for shelling israel and thereby provoking israeli retaliation which fell mainly on the shia citizens of the south. assad the son recalls the political tightrope his father had to walk. and. yet tornado. there was that. i would look. at. i can only imagine yet afford. to have probably met. her father and i love affair with her last thing me the last thing he. looked for the student you have to do for your for. the. year see what. the student what we have for steve. is a former lebanese m.p. his father was on

but we begin in lebanon where the civil war in syria has led to over a million refugees seeking safety now lebanese authorities are requiring they register their names part of plans for their return many are alarmed. it was not a voyage could they have ever imagined undertaking but the mother of eight and grandmother of three children was forced to flee her syrian home and flee talks to take refuge in the town of ourselves just across the border in lebanon. although it happened five years ago when memories austin fresh this is my son so that her husband and his song were killed in the syrian war. at the beginning of the uprising protests were not violent they were peaceful but my husband was killed because he took part in the my son was with the regime army doing his compulsory service the syrian intelligence service killed him because he deserved. huda fears the assad regime but the pressure from lebanon to leave is building some three thousand syrians have already registered to return that i can never go back to syria. she is especially worried about this man goes in by is a member o

syria jordan lebanon and others. the administration also reportedly plans to issue a report saying that the five million refugees with the right to return claim by the palestinian side do not really are not real refugees the only refugees are the ones who are actually alive in one nine hundred forty eight and that's only about five hundred thousand people is what the u.s. is really doing here is unilaterally abolishing can it do that. no it cannot do that is a u.n. agency and in fact. the president mahmoud abbas of the palestinian authority in addition to that statement that you you read earlier about a flagrant assault on the palestinian people he also said it is a defiance of u.n. resolutions that the u.s. cannot unilaterally abolish the institution it is its mandate is renewed every time it comes up for renewal by the united nations by a wide majority however if for example the united for example israel refused to allow an ra to operate in areas under its military control that could effectively neuter the organiza

particularly lebanon. lebanon has a week state to -- weak states begin with. they are dependent upon the u.n. agencies, able to respond to this. the level of funding, those agencies are not sufficient to the need, and that pushes people into desperate situations, which is not to be desired. i worry about the long-term affect of extremists in these camps. young people are not earning incomes. jordan has a little more resilience to it. it is a stronger state. it important because the problem will not go away on its own. ultimately, the political solution in syria is the answer. >> what does it say about our seriousness about solving the problems inside syria and around syria when the united states now effectively refuses to take syrian refugees into our country? we have a that long-standing commitment to bring a certain number of refugees into the country, including syrians. , andson that will continue we need to focus on the domestic political problem inside syria. resolving that will bring back the flows of these millions of refugees who will not find a home i

last generation of syrians the millions of children in the refugee camps in all in jordan and lebanon they're going to create a lot of instability in the future and the middle east so if we care about syria we have to prepare the circumstances in syria that will let these refugees go back home and these circumstances means political change political settlement and also having safety and dignity for the refugees right now there is a law that in acted by the government in syria that confiscate the lands and the properties of the refugees who are left syria if they do not show up within thirty days this is low number ten so in order to make it easy for there if you go back to syria we need to make sure that with pressure the governments that can influence the situation inside syria k. . tim i want to take our audience back to december twenty eighth when your brother man attend up at me at port with his skates and rock that i have in the. and this is we watch in the news when the first plane arrives when our prime minister welcomed us refugees we were crying and we felt the mob and those

the green economy lebanon considers legalizing the exports of cannabis for medical use. out of the still much rain falling in the southwest of china particularly around high now it's mostly over water it is creeping over land you can see and you get the white disk there so that's a bit of a concern because the potential out of that which is a tropical depression toward intents and purposes is several hundred millimeters of rain because in extreme south china otherwise you've got something just trying to catch shanghai which is equally a tropical depression in between there's not much left really to fall out of the skies a few showers or bit of rain but still hit sichuan the higher ground to the west of should do which has potential for flash flooding as well that's part of the monsoon system which at the moment is. pretty widespread across india not so much in pakistan and also bangladesh the heavy rain again just catching the foothills of nepal and south was but also a lot further south mackerras had some flooding recently and the certainly rain coming science in the fo

particularly lebanon. lebanon has a weak state to begin with, so its capacity to deal with these kinds of crises is very, very limited. they're dependent on the u.n. agencies that are able to respond to this, but the level of funding that they're able -- those agencies are able to devote are not sufficient to the need. and that, of course, pushes people into desperate situations which is not to be desired. i worry particularly about the long-term effect of recruitment of extremists in these camps for obvious reasons. young people who are not in school, not earning incomes. jordan has a little more resilience, it's a stronger state, and it's terribly important that international donors and partners step up to the plate and be generous in dealing with this because the problem will not go away on its own. ultimately, a political solution in syria is the answer. >> what does it say about our seriousness about solving the problems inside syria and around syria when the united states now effectively refuses to t

bbc newsbeat‘s james waterhouse reports from lebanon, close to the syrian border. atan impromptu at an impromptu setting. ten miles away from their homeland. this camp has been set up for syrian refugees in lebanon. there is little water or electricity. the un says three quarters of the refugees are living in poverty, on less than $4 a day. many have been here for years, and have no idea when they will be able to return home. translation: i might be here for another month, three months, or a year. be here for another month, three months, ora year. it be here for another month, three months, or a year. it depends on the safety. i don't want to go back when there is still a war going on. for some time now, more than a million syrians have been living in lebanon in conditions like these. the president he says he wants them to go home. the assad regime wants them to come back. at the united nations says it is not safe to do so. almost 90% of refugees said they do want to return to syria. however, you know, certain refugees expressed concerns with regards to property, w

well lebanon is the world's third largest producer of illicit marijuana and now it's preparing to legalize cultivation export the drug for medical use it may take months before there's a vote in parliament but they're hoping this will help revive the flag on a me say no other has more from beirut it's illegal but cannabis is planted almost everywhere in lebanon's northern because region in recent years the government stop destroying the crops because it couldn't provide the impoverished population with alternatives now it is considering legalizing cultivation for medical use but some farmers are concerned it could cut profits. the high supply means it's not very cheap so if they don't go lies the cultivation its will have no value we have to go as the trade for twenty years and they were against it and now they want to do this to gain political support from the people who are fed up with the politicians. it's a multimillion dollar industry which an international consulting firm says could help levanon struggling economy it would first have to introduce new seedlings that have medical prope

one pharmacy in lebanon thanking legal marijuana may end up costing them money. and us for a while number one some want to alex find form continues this season as she progresses to the final and montreal. head of the gulf is the p.g.a. in missouri should be happy no on this still showers around quite obviously but they are tend to drift slowly south and sugar sells more in texas in the last twelve eighteen hours or so and this texas may be able to oklahoma where the showers of which could cause sundry rain exists for the answer but look what's happening at this east coast once again the rain has come back and it's persistent and i've just had a look at this i think you could see between one and two hundred millimeters again falling around the new york area for example that's going to bring back the flooding that's not far away to be honest so louis looks fine that the southwest the southwest monsoon is just edging a bit more rain for thunderstorms arizona new mexico florida still looks western the big showers we saw coming out of well haiti jamaica and cuba are s