the only legitimate defender of the lebanese state is the lebanese armed forces as well as not just a concern for the united states the people of lebanon should also be concerned about how his will his actions and its growing arsenal bring unwanted and unhelpful scrutiny on levanon hezbollah's entanglement in regional conflicts threatens the security of levanon and has destabilizing affects in the region their presence in syria has perpetuated the bloodshed increase the displacement of innocent people and propped up the barbaric assad regime their presence in iraq in yemen has also fueled violence and the consequences of their involvement in these far off conflicts which have nothing to do with levanon or felt back here at home that's why we're doing all lebanese leaders during my visit to uphold the government of lebanon's commitment to disassociating itself from foreign conflicts the international community expects all parties in lebanon to fulfill this commitment including hezbollah which should cease its activities abroad in order to help reduce tensions in the region the united

the only legitimate defender of the lebanese state is the lebanese forces. with more from beirut. the united states has been trying to mediate between israel and lebanon over a maritime border dispute tillerson the us secretary of state came here to have further discussions with lebanese officials but it is clear that no agreement has been reached the u.s. proposal has been rejected by lebanon because it involves lebanon giving up approximately three hundred square kilometers of its what it believes is its territorial waters so we heard the u.s. secretary of state we heard the lebanese prime minister say there will be further discussions and lebanon is committed to calm on the border and no escalation but undoubtedly the issue of the maritime border has heightened tensions but the u.s. secretary of state also making it clear that the united states is policy has not changed concerning hezbollah that the u.s. does not distinguish between its military and political wing he was quoted earlier as saying that there is a reality in lebanon and that hezbollah is a p

hezbollah his party which is the represented in the lebanese political system is represented in the lebanese. the man is a presenter and the lebanese government and is not the problem of anybody else outside lebanon or u.s. secretary of state television does agree he actually described hezbollah as an issue that needs to be tackled for the long term security of lebanon so what will be your response to this very clear cold air from the united states my response is very clear the urgent matter is to protect the sovereignty of lebanon and against anybody outside the second priority is effectively to lay down a strong state that will be able to cater to mitigate or aggressions against lebanon from within or outside so the issue is effectively to handle priorities our priority is to establish. a rule of law. within that relationships with all our neighbors seventeen zero one was clear we should go from suspension of hostilities with the israelis to the permanent cease fire while the way of doing that would be actually to control hezbollah if you're unable to control has been i would you quite cle

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and really to what extent would this expand then affect the lebanese economy and when it comes to two recent issues that lebanon is facing and those are maritime border disputes with israel the land and water territorial disputes that are currently going on the lebanon get what it wanted from there that it get any reinsurance reassurances from the secretary of state that it was probably looking for. simply no i mean listen said i can't you know i can't resolve this issue personally i don't know if there was some basically under the table in negotiations on that issue but it was clear in the press conference that he doesn't have anything new on this issue and at the same time it seems to be a delayed issue with the eight hundred kilometers and block nine which has been recently signed as you know this part of an agreement with a. consortium of companies so this is delayed for year or two so lebanon has time to negotiate any any deal on these disputed territories but you know much much backward lebanese officials are giving here and so this secretary of state himself seeing as there's b

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government the only legitimate defender of the lebanese state is the lebanese armed forces. the u.s. has been supporting lebanon's military and security forces hoping to strengthen the central government and its institutions but hezbollah is part of the government. tell us it is the most senior official in the trumpet ministration to lebanon it coincides with efforts by washington to contain iran does have influence in lebanon through hezbollah but the question is how much influence does the united states have in lebanon and the region. the last time a us secretary of state visited lebanon was four years ago a lot has changed since not only here but in the region many say washington has lost its clout. beirut members of zimbabwe's opposition movement for democratic change have been mourning the death of their leader morgan tsvangirai. the. party members gathered outside the m.d.c. headquarters in harare. died on wednesday at the age of sixty five after a battle with cancer he founded the m.d.c. in one thousand nine hundred nine and became a powerful symbol of resistance agai

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on lebanese territory because there are some areas along the so-called blue line the border which is disputed between lebanon and israel so lebanon saying that they won't allow israel to encroach on this territory they're vowing to respond but they're not saying how now there has been call along this border for for more than ten years i mean the last time there was a war was in two thousand and six a war between israel and the lebanese armed group hezbollah many but the tensions are high and there's tough rhetoric because it's not just the dispute over land borders both countries are claiming an area of eight hundred square kilometers of sea which there is believed to be oil and gas so there are resources that both countries want and they're disputing that the area israel warning the international consortium not to explore not to carry out expletive ory drilling so high tensions tough rhetoric but many are downplaying the possibility of an all out war at least for the time being still ahead on the bonus and. many of you ask what will happen so i want to reassure you there will be not

government the only legitimate defender of the lebanese state is the leverage of armed forces as well as not just a concern for the united states the people of lebanon should also be concerned about how his will is actually used it is growing or she will bring on lorded and unhelpful scrutiny on on level. well tell us and is now in turkey for the fifth and final leg of his high speed toward the middle east is meeting with the takesh president is expected to be one of the most challenging of his trip with u.s. turkey relations at a low at events in syria jordan explains. there's a saying you dance with the ones who brought you in mandate syria the u.s. military is supporting the syrian defense forces local fighters who helped liberate the city for meusel. just one problem the s.d.f. is led by curved whom turkey considers a mortal enemy. once again is demanding washington abandon the s.d.f. and pull its own forces out of syria he can you. are that you can why are you standing around go ahead and leave who did you bring there b g b g u k k you take them there and you are still telling us

workers taking place and the a few meters from a disputed area that both countries claim as theirs lebanese leaders say building the wall is stressing the stability of the border region arguments over the wall as well as lebanon's plans to explore for oil and gas in disputed mediterranean waters of increase for action between the two enemies states. is in that core in southern lebanon and she joins us now from the side of us will just show us if you can where this wall is being built. well ok let me show you this barbed wire is the so-called blue line the international border the internationally recognized border then you have this technical fence which was set up by the israelis to protect its border and then you can see behind them construction work is under way they have started to build the wall along its northern border and now this wall is causing tensions the lebanese believe that the israelis have made encroach on lebanese territory we mentioned that the border is internationally recognized and it is our connived by lebanon but there are certain points along this border which are st

government and you've got the lebanese people it's not perceived where you are is someone. will finessed attitude a well financed approach that we haven't really seen on the part of mr to listen to date. very true many people will call it the pragmatic approach but many will say is this the trump administration's policy or is tillerson speaking on his own behalf because we've seen this happen in the past dollars and says something the president says something else and we do know that the foreign policy of the u.s. is to contain iran and one way to contain iran is here in lebanon it has a lot of influence through hezbollah and now we're hearing the u.s. secretary of state say we need to acknowledge that hezbollah is part of the. political process it has members in government it has members in parliament yes it is an armed organization so tillerson saying we need to acknowledge this but really times have changed i can tell you that the u.s. secretary of state is arriving in lebanon at the time it has really no allies it was very different a few years ago it had a lot of allie

secretary of state says in lebanon for part of his middle east oil rex tillerson is meeting lebanese president michel aoun and prime minister assad. aid is starting to trickle in to some of syria's rebel held areas the heavy bombardment on wednesday the first aid convoy in the three months reached the the sea suburb of east and good to me a damascus and aid from the un's world food program is on its way to government control there in eastern syria it's the first trip to the city since it fell on the ice and control in two thousand and fourteen. at least seventeen people have been killed in the u.s. after a gunman opened fire at a high school in florida that happened in parkland north of miami the suspects being arrested is believed to be a former student who was expelled. we were. talking to each other that's what's so shocking each other. this everyone was willing. to work. with we're going to hurt each other saying. they're going to hear doctors without borders has dismissed nineteen staff members for sexual harassment or abuse the international aid group says it received one hundr

the only legitimate defender of the lebanese state is the lebanese armed forces the u.s. has been supporting lebanon's military and security forces hoping to strengthen the central government and its institutions that hezbollah is part of the government tell us it is the most senior official in the trumpet ministration to visit lebanon it coincides with efforts by washington to contain iran does have influence in lebanon so hezbollah but the question is how much influence does the united states have in lebanon and the region. the last time a u.s. secretary of state visited lebanon was four years ago a lot has changed since not only here but in the region many say washington has lost its clout. beirut. well to listen is now in turkey and his meeting with president a recipe is expected to be one of the most challenging all of his trip roles and in jordan explains. there's a saying you dance with the ones who brought you in mandate syria the u.s. military is supporting the syrian defense forces local fighters who helped liberate the city from. just one problem the s.d.f. is

russia is calling on all sides to exercise restraint and respect syria's sovereignty meanwhile the lebanese group hezbollah is warning against any aggression towards the syrian government saying it will be met with force then a holder has more from beirut. it wasn't the first israeli air strike of its kind there have been numerous strikes over the past few years but this is the first time the syrian air defenses have shot down the plane a very serious incident a very serious confrontation between syria israel and iran and after the plane was shot down there were further strikes israeli warplanes targeting syrian army positions what they said were iranian targets and they were targeting an area southwest of damascus an area known as close by where we understand an iranian military base is being built it's not the first time they've targeted this area the base is not operational yet but clearly it is a message to iran we will not allow you to set up permanent bases we will not allow you to entrench yourself militarily and we want you away from the border so serious escalation hezbollah's medi

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. >> the target was this man, a lebanese terrorist. he hijacked the flight 402 in june 1985. over 53 hours, they beat and tortured eight sky marshalls using cigarettes in front of horrified passengers. it would end after he was allowed to read a statement and released the passengers. and blew up the plane. ♪ ♪ >> two days later, he showed up at another hijacking. >> twa flight 847 becomes a center piece for a lot of terrorism. it's like hijacked flying out of athens airport. it was notorious for years as the place where anybody can get through without any security. i witnessed it myself. nothing. >> over the next 17 days, the plane and its passengers hopscotched around the eastern mediterranean. this time the ordeal ended in murder, 23-year-old navy diver robert steven was tortured and shot in the head. >> this was an attack at president regan. >> please be seated. one hour ago, the body of a young american hero navy diver robert dean stevens was returned to his native soil in a coffin after being beaten and shot at point blank range. let me make it clear to the assassins

network run by the lebanese armed group. the fighters were going in to help kurdish y.p. g. forces defend themselves against the turkish offensive that some of been driven joins us now from things are changing fast. from afraid in that area. well as you heard earlier from the turkish president who's been saying that these fighters of belonging and close to the assad government have turned back from the city of a free and it's been a fast moving through i was very we saw these fighters going in state t.v. and these private networks who are close to the president bashar assad and his government played these videos off these vehicles who were heading towards the city of our freend from the villages close by in the province of free and so these fighters were heading and there was artillery strikes by the turkish government to warn them of going to words the city of are free and according to turkish sources they were about ten kilometers away from the city of often before these artillery shells forced them to turn back now this is a fast moving story in the last two days actually

he has put this considering what you've just put out there we've heard from the lebanese i mean donald trump is certainly in his team. he has many allies on board particularly general mcmaster yesterday remember the shop rebuke of iran saying that we should not allow iran to acquire military capability is saying that its nuclear program is also destabilizing the region but at the same time this is not the sentiment which is heard by the european union many key players who have been involved in the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal say this is the best thing that could have happened to the region if you would if the if the iranians continue to comply with that deal it would give the world more peace and more stability of they have been asking the americans in particular the trump illustration to uphold the deal because they're concerned that if it collapses the west is just going to be more instability or more violence we are expecting to hear from the iranian foreign minister mohammad your words any time now and the iranians have been saying all that in the past few months that the

syria they say that iran is the power behind the throne particular when it comes to the support of the lebanese group hezbollah so there is that side of this the happening right now this is very easy for the israelis to do that very well equipped to blame iran for anything that happens in syria what's of more concern to the israelis right now is how this f. sixteen was shot down by israeli story by syrian air defenses hasn't been a f. sixteen or a fighter jet that's been full and as a result of any census terms for a very long times as likely to be a big inquiry the syrians were likely to be celebrating this as a chink in the israeli air force all of these worries present pride themselves on the fact that they can patrol the air space over the arab world without much competition from anybody else so this is going to be a big inquiry as to how this was all shot down but it's now about the politics and the optics of all of this these raids are now going to go off to iran blame them squarely for this but they'll be looking to see how an incident like this could take place and not just to remind ou

of the lebanese armed group hezbollah said it stands behind the government and the army tensions are high the rhetoric has been tough but many don't expect an all out war as you said things are possible as the main threat to its security is theoretically speaking but. there is this balance of sustains this. is to engage in any sort of war. a cease fire has largely held since israel and hezbollah fought a war in two thousand and six but the potential for more conflict is always there and of. southern lebanon. so don's foreign minister is in cairo for joints talks to him to ease tensions over a small port island cairo is concerned over turkey's presence on the island of king in northeastern sued on the case on the west in case of the red sea has been a point of interest for talk of turkey setting up a military base there which it considers a security threat sudan confirm the property is purely for sudanese purposes. u.s. senate leaders have agreed a budget deal that could prevent another government shutdown in the next twenty four hours but is facing strong opposition in the house of r

lebanese hezbollah has got a state sponsor. iran. isis has no state-sponsored. there is no nationstate saying "we are for isis. there." countries across the world, the middle east, europe, have all contributed money or forces, whatever is needed, and this campaign we are on is couched that policy of defeating isis. where we haveiraq a government we can work with after what thought did to his own people when they rose up against him. luxury int had that syria. however, we are there for one reason only. we will not be deflected. we have the right of self defense. we saw that with the pro-regime force for some reason without apparently telling the russians, withut coordinating anybody, came across the river and attack us. we will rebuff anyone who attacks us. that's natural. we are not going to broaden the war. that is not in our interest. choose to enlarge that mission. >> how are you going to defend of the territory? sec. mattis: what we are going to do is hold that territory, get it back in local leaders tods, use the geneva process come up with a post-conflict

as discussed with this with jamal wakim professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut welcome to the program jamal. let's start with the meeting do you think this meeting will bring any significant easing of the dangerous tensions do you think between washington and ankara in syria that we've been witnessing. i believe so specially at a time when the goods in syria. have mended fences with the syrian government and have let the syrian troops to enter to offer in the same time . the turkish troops are stumbling and they didn't achieve much success in their onslaught on our friend so i believe the u.s. secretary of state has given that. a gate out. of the crisis or of the problems they found themselves in especially that the americans want to keep the goods at bay they don't want them to. feel free to deal with whichever a side they want specially that it was a lot of me for them what they did with the syrian government regarding three and so they want to go on to their control and they want also to win the turks over and that's why they. expressed h

construction workers taking place only a few meters from a disputed area that both countries claim as there is lebanese leaders say building the borders threatening the stability of the border region arguments over the wall and lebanon's plans to explore for oil and gas and disputed mediterranean waters have increased fiction between the two states. rescue crews in taiwan are hoping to find quake survivors there brave and powerful aftershocks to enter buildings on the brink of collapse in the port city of quality and dozens remain missing after the magnitude six point four tremor on tuesday at least nine people were killed and many injured. but those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us inside story is coming up next thank you very much for watching. more than one hundred people killed in just one day in syria's rebel held areas of eastern ghouta and they were supposed to be part of the so-called deescalation zones but the bombing has intensified so what triggered this and who can stop it this is inside story. going to be a going. the in and welcome to the program for the truce was supposed

we are very proud of what lebanese armed forces are doing. they very effectively last fall on their own orchestrated a pretty effective operation against isis. they view us as a most important partner at a do think it is an investment worth continuing. >> but doesn't the relationship between the cozying up to hezbollah within lebanon to the conventional forces that are give you pause? >> well, i kelly, i frequently interact with the chief of defense there. i considered to be be a very professional military officer. this is a multi-confessional arrangement here in pakistan that trips over into the political environment. but what i observe in lebanon is aon military that is answerableo the leadership, is doing a good job at staying apolitical and his focus on security of the country. >> okay.ng shifting gears to saudi arabia. are we doing enough to help them and the united arab emirates defend themselves as we discussed a little earlier from iranian supplied missiles to the houthi rebels? are we doing enough? >> in the setting i would say yes,

very last week very calculated exchange of threats and accusation between israel and lebanon regarding lebanese see it as a violation of their border and serenity because israel is building up a wall and a fence along the line the blue line which marks the border in the border between israel and lebanon we see a heated exchange of threats there that's nobody's yet making the step but it's quite clear that it serves both sides in that aspect that lebanese are now approaching. a pain there's a this election coming up in may so that serves the he's very well in israel as always netanyahu and self-involved with many. well i'd say he has problems with you know we've heard this week about the police. recommending to indict him and. he is you know he can only also gain from having some sort of security crisis right now i don't see anybody pushing beyond so fast but what we know in this region is that it doesn't need much of intention any kind of small mistake a little mishap can become a very big can turn out in a consult in a very big incident or a very big clash and it's going to very quickly that a

in what it all means knowledge jamal wakim professor of history and international relations of the lebanese university in beirut you're very welcome do you think that this cease fire is it possible to implement a and b. is it going to hold for thirty days. well i believe that the ceasefire is conditional and this is noted in the un resolution because the syrian government and its russian ally will. continue its operations against. isis which are on the terrorist list. this is on one hand and on the other hand i believe that we need to see what would be the reaction of the united states because the united states was the one to call for the un resolution for the ceasefire in the beginning however the russian intervention amended this ceasefire to fit. the needs for fighting terrorism. in syria. while the united states thinks that the ceasefire was meant not for the syrian government to take control of which should remain. like a region to direct threat to the capital to damascus and there were plans to link. them to a plan for region controlled by the united states to. open a quality door tha

it was the palestinian refugees that set off the lebanese civil war in 1975. the worry is that lebanon's delicate sectarian balance could be thrown out of whack by so many syrians in the country. wolf? >> awful situation indeed. ben, thank you for that report. that's it for me. i will be back at 5:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room for our international viewers aymanpour is next. newsroom with anderson cooper starts right now. >>> i'm anderson cooper. we begin with a test of transparency the president is expected to face in a few hours when the house intelligence committee will meet and democrats on it likely will push for a vote to release the rebuttal to the memo that went public on friday. it alleges the fbi abused surveillance authority to

problem and not the idea of the israeli fighters just own syrian air space and let fire on any of the lebanese and do whatever they want there to whether this is come to an end as of yesterday. is that victory is this an escalation or is it sending a very strong signal and what is russia's role in this because there is some kind of debate here. and one of them is that damascus has had enough considering what mark just said there that they are going to start reacting here or is it the russians and the iranians whispering in your i tend to think the the the the syrians are saying enough is enough they will strike back when the syrian civil war started two thousand and eleven there are. then spread to other regions of syria with the support of the west with the support of the united states israel and these are really the ship was sure that the opposition would win and that assad would lose he would he would go and then pro-american he would. come in in the mosque us and some conflict would be just right here to go to iraq and so for years is an. arrangement islamic for me sions in syria this is n

in regional wars will have a negative impact on lebanon itself. —— lebanese militant group hezbollah. mr tillerson was speaking in beirut, where he held talks with the president, speaker of parliament and the prime minister. germany's chancellor has been holding talks with the turkish prime minister. angela merkel told binali yildirim that berlin wants to see a fastjudicial process for a german—turkish journalist held in turkey. the jailing of deniz yucel has put a strain on relations between the countries, and mr yildirim said he hoped we began this programme with news of gun violence in florida. a few weeks ago, i went to the city of compton in california to look at how they've reduced the number of killings. compton became famous in the 1980s for gang wars. it was one of the most dangerous places in the country and the birthplace of gangsta rap. but, with better policing, a proactive mayor and a community that wants peace, compton is turning round. here's my report, and a warning — there are flashing images at the start. crime situation is high, it's very busy for law enforcem

network run by the lebanese hezbollah fighters were going in to help kurdish y.p. g. forces defend themselves against attack ish offensive salinger vade has more from gaza on turkey's border with syria. a group of fighters loyal to president bashar assad's government has retreated from the city of our freedom these fighters were trying to get close to the city of kurdish fighters had asked for help from the syrian government and it said that it will not send its regular forces but will provide them with irregular militias which it calls a popular forces this happened after turkish artillery hit these areas when it saw that these forces were going in it happened only a couple of hours after the turkish president they have a gun and knows that he and his forces are in another phase of the operation because we know ongoing since last month and he promised his cabinet members that the city of are free and is going to be captured by turkish forces and their allies these arab f.s.a. fighters in a matter of days this operation has been ongoing since january the twentieth and

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bashar assad took a hard line against lebanon syria's neighbor to the south former lebanese prime minister rafik hariri had long sought to free his country from de facto syrian occupation hariri was killed in a car bomb blast in february two thousand and five some have alleged that the syrian government was behind the attack but this has never been proven afterward a number of other lebanese politicians and intellectuals were also assassinated. wished him up one day at a past party meeting we were discussing economic matters. and suddenly assad walked in and shouted. hari is an enemy of syria and. he's a puppet of the us and france for the sea. three days later that was that. explosives equivalent to nearly two tons of t.n.t. were used in the attack twenty two other people were killed in the blast hariri says as a nation sparked international outrage the un security council approved a resolution sponsored by britain france and the us that imposed some new sanctions on syria. are very smart are also led to a popular uprising in lebanon this domestic resistance movement combined with interna

secretary of state he said that lebanon has been under incredible pressure lebanese forces fighting and hosting one million refugees who found themselves on lebanese soil as a result of the conflict in syria against the takeaway headline would be that the us is settled official policy is we will strengthen the existing security force set up we will not set up a new unique security force some sort of you know un mandated perhaps force on the ground that is not going to happen he did very definitely however want to get his central message out there over hezbollah he said we see no acceptable difference between hezbollah having political representation within the the matrix of lebanese politics and hezbollah fighters and what they do on the ground when it comes to so many ongoing conflicts across the region across the broader middle east and to to listen very clearly naming countries like yemen countries like iran countries like syria let's put that all in context for you for you our correspondents in a harder following that news conference out of beirut zina for you what was that the take

don't want us here we are not welcome here and the lebanese government doesn't want them to stay and that's why they don't allow them for example to build any concrete structures and if you look behind me it's just tense plastic sheeting in the winter so people are afraid that one day they are going to be forced to return and they're going to return to absolutely nothing it's not just safety that people are worried about yes there are fighting in some areas and yes there are some people from the province of idlib who live here and they're telling us where do we go back there airstrikes daily airstrikes targeting. but there's also the question of infrastructure what infrastructure is less the cities have been destroyed hospitals have been targeted so there is no civilian infrastructure there are no schools so people are worried now the official government policy in lebanon is that there will be no forced returns and that if there will be returns we will coordinate with the united nations but the syrian government is refusing to deal with the united nations so humanitarian organization

the lebanese armed group has said it stands behind the government and the army tensions are high the rhetoric has been tough but many don't expect an all out war as it's still thinks of as follows the race their main threat to its security is the theoretically speaking but the rule is one of the there's this balance of power of the thirty's this will on both sides of both sides to engage in any sort of war. a cease fire has largely held since israel and hezbollah fought a war in two thousand and six but the potential for more conflict is always there so in a. southern lebanon. at least eight people have been killed after a road collapsed at a subway construction site in southeastern china rescue crews in foshan city say three people are still missing they managed to pull out nine construction workers who had been trapped under the rubble the collapse was caused by water entering the site from leaking pipes. well the german company dime laze issued a second apology to china after its subsidiary sadie's benz quoted the dalai lama in an instagram post the manufacture advertised one of i

well let's talk to him he's an associate professor at the lebanese american university in beirut and joins us on skype is this an indication that things have improved between i really on the saudi leadership. i think so no i think anybody has been. serious after just two or moved relations with saudi arabia being it's his. war of hezbollah and that is not so you know alliance with hezbollah and. that's what wise or political wise also i really succeeded in convincing. me. not to be aligned with any. power so now and defeat us policy which was a condition also. to. come back to us i think. that the saudis know the saudis are to be examining he asked us in that position finding no other alternative to solve how do you see a strong sunni. country people of willing ok by united front or is by i mean many people say that saudi arabia miscalculated this resignation issue has really had lost any influence in lebanon as a result of the crisis. of course i mean you have. these big you. show this all washed out on the. ship and under my arm you know many warnings how to use allies. into leader

this fighting in in eastern there are the iranians who are also there dealing with the israelis at the lebanese border and in northern syria we've got the kurds and the turks. can any cease fire early order from putin for that matter speak to all these parties and get them to at least stop for a day or so you know really right is just i mean if you will it will get used to the term civil war but actually what we have it's an internationalized internal conflict so you mentioned some of the internet like this are in turkey the united states russia saudi arabia not to forget and every bit every idea of a peace settlement has to satisfy every need and interest and all these actors not to mention the domestic ones the assad regime and all the head to routine is rebel groups and that explains it leads to a certain degree why it has been so complicated by the efforts of the united nations to come through to it to any fruitful conclusion markers come as always we appreciate your insights thank you you thank. aren't moving now to germany the chancellor angela merkel her conservatives have voted overwhel

government has warned israel against encroaching on lebanese territory because there are some areas along the so-called blue line the border which is disputed between lebanon and israel so lebanon saying that they won't allow israel to encroach on this territory they're vowing to respond but they're not saying how now there has been call along this border for for more than ten years i mean the last time there was a war was in two thousand and six a war between israel and the lebanese armed group hezbollah many but the tensions are high and there's tough rhetoric because it's not just the dispute over land borders both countries are claiming an area of eight hundred square kilometers of sea which there is believed to be oil and gas so there are resources that both countries want and they're disputing that the area israel warning the international consortium not to explore not to carry out expletive ory drilling so high tensions tough rhetoric but many are downplaying the possibility of an all out war at least for the time being. aid workers in iraq say security forces are forcing tho

rights to lebanese ports which we do have back up to the syrian ports this is very significant because lebanon was until a few years ago. sort of the the the one of the main ports of the u.s. six lete that's based in april in naples italy and now the russians are moving in russians are moving very very smartly and i don't know if they are yes crowed you say the usa i want to pick up on something that you just said you say the u.s. has gone into eclipse. in syria meaning that the they don't have as big a role as they did in the past but at the same time the u.s. seems intent on sticking by the kurds in the northwest of syria and this puts them in direct confrontation with turkey another nato member like the u.s. how do you think turkey and the u.s. will overcome these differences in northern syria what we know how will they resolve the kurdish issue. i think i think that unfortunately the kurds will be left out to dry as they have always been since world war one when they were promised by the us government of the time and they would back them to have their state and in the end of the wa