look at lebanon. it's important that lebanon not become the next site of conflict. my appeal to the international community, as a quantum leap my appeal to the international community is to massively support lebanon and engage strongly in preserving lebanon's situation. >> what happens if they don't take up your challenge? what will happen to the refugees and the countries hosting them? >> we're presenting soon together with the u.n. agencies and the ngo community and the lebanese government a plan to the international community support not only the humanitarian needs, but also the development of structural needs of the local communities, and we hope that the international community will understand that it is absolutely essential to support this plan, and to support the lebanese government in the present situation to make sure that the syrian refugees can preserve their protection in lebanon, and to make sure that this country is spared to th the conflict that has engulfed now both syria and iraq. >> thank you. >> the final campaigned push is underway in scotland. o

but even for the refugees who are in lebanon. there's a new threat, an anti-syrian refugee sentiment that is rising and spreading, and adding difficulty to the daily struggle. syrians cueing up for assistance at this agency. this father says he may have to sleep with his six children on the street, after his landlord and employer threw him out. >> i can't go back to syria. how can anyone expect me to take the children to a place meaning destruction and death. >> reporter: many have little sympathy, blaming the syrians for economic and security problems. this woman says state security raided her hem, arresting her husband and four sons. she wants the u.n. to find and release them. the search for the fighters intensified recently. people say hundreds of innocent syrians are being detained and questioned much. >> where do they want the syrians to go? to return to syria and return. will that make them happy. if you are not killed by bullets in syria, you'll die of hunger. desperate, they come to the u.n. as a last resort. there's lit

, because lebanon has window 2 million refugees, together with saudi arabia. france decided it can support the lebanese army, in supplying equipment in order to ensure the security and unity of lebanon. and i know that the secretary-general of the united nations, the lebanese support group is coordinating international aid to that country. i'm thinking of jordan, which also needs to enjoy the support of the international community. so this is the agenda for this conference. it reflects the solidarity which we must show to iraq, political support, the new authorities and government there, coming together and reconciliation. humanitarian aid to ensure protection and assistance to the civilian population and refugees, and the fight against d.a.s.h., the terrorist movement which spares no effort in its actions. and in holding this conference, the countries meeting here today give an indication of solidarity towards iraq, and i thank them for that. but they also express their common will to protect themselves against terrorism and act accordingly, and that is why i

and it exceeds boundaries in lebanon. it's in syria, it's in jordan, it's in iraq. >> reporter: this is syria. what you remember of syria. this is your neighborhood? she draws her old street. she remembers a restaurant. did she eat at this restaurant? yeah. she remembers it. the flowers, the cars, the boys and girls who once played outside. how many of you want to go home? it does not take them long to answer. instead, we return to the tents, where they all began their day, returning with a song. the farmers in the field, waiting for them again tomorrow. and we want you to know tonight, there are ways you can help. you can reach one of the classrooms. unicef saying $15 can bring supplies. pencils, paper. you can find the information at abcnews.com/nightline. >> it's striking to watch the faces of those children. so resilient and joyful in the face of advisety. >> this is their new normal. the new lives interrupted. >> on your second day as anchor of "world news," as your friend and your colleague, i want to say on behalf

>> there is a major problem of lebanon. there are some political factions who say let's negotiate as with the lebanese and shia, and many say no, we cannot negotiate with terrorist. maybe qatar will inter convenient as it has before in lebanon. i don't think this is the solution for this hostages. >> general hannah, thank you, indeed, for speaking to us live from beirut. appreciate your time. >>> it was only a matter of hours ago that houthi fighters were fighting for control of sanaa. now they're standing guard outside of major government buildings. there were concerns how the houthies are using their new found influence. >> reporter: hours after the truce was gree agreed upon, the area is tense. the new deal will allow minorities to dominate politics for some time to come. houthies would overtake almost every government building as well as military command. the president called it historic. >> witwe have secured this historical agreement which will help to bring a new down to yemen. so i urge all together to implement thi

--ame president, limit on lebanon has suffered. the latest of which is this morning's attack against its own forces after the kidnapping of a number of its soldiers. it is the war that requires you helping my country by supporting its armed forces, economy, and constitution. i thank you, madame president. >> i thank the representative of lebanon. toplease give our thanks secretary of state john kerry for organizing this meeting. thank you to the special representatives for their remarks. we are seriously concerned about the crisis and syria and iraq. extremists lead a brutal campaign of terror against ethnic and religious minorities, including christian minorities. in iraqas been involved since 2003. in those days we have helped iraqi authorities to restore peace. ofcondemn the islamic state terrorism that includes hijackings, kidnappings, and killings. call for free access of humanitarian assistance, especially for the most formidable groups, women, children, disabled persons. a call on the iraq government to protect civilians, in

it is well-known that the syrian crisis is over on lebanon. and since the lebanese do not support the regime, having today the syrian air force shellings these positions, i mean, breaching the lebanese sovereignty, there is no agreement inside the government. the syrian army has taken the initiative without the consent or coordination of the lebanese government. the lebanese government, the head--the prime minister is negotiating with turkey today in order to get the liberation--i mean, trying to get turkey to try to liberate these hostages. >> thank you very much for joining us there and filling in some of the details going on there in the lebanese border. plenty still yet to come on the program including technicians working in a combat zone to preserve ukraine's energy lifeline, and central africa republic peace keepers are accused of abusing the people they've been sent to protect. >>> and in sport the u.s. team arrives in scotland ahead of its ryder cup match against europe. >> the pact by the country's rifle government. this resolves thre

but even for the refugee who is are already in lebanon there is a new threat. an anti-syrian refugee sentiment that is spreadingout lebanon and making it difficult to survive conditions in a refugee's life. this father says he may have to sleep with his six children on this street after his landlord and employers threw him out. >> i can't go back to syria. how can anyone expect me to take my children to the bombings and death. >> reporter: they blame the 1.3 million syrians for their economic problems. this come said that security forces raided her home and arrested her four sons and husband. she wants the u.n. to help her find them and release them. the serge for suspected armed fighters hiding among the refugees are suspected and hundreds of syrian refugees are detained and questioned. >> where do they want the syrians to go. go to syria and be held there? we'll die of hunger. >> desperate they come to the u.n. as a last resort, but they say there is little anyone is doing to pull them out of this misery. al jazeera, beirut. >> final campaign pushes on in sco

speaking to us from beirut, lebanon. as we turn now to continue to talk about the us military operations in iraq and syria, we turn to president obama's eking on cbs "60 minutes" saying the us underestimated the rise of the islamic state. >> we may have underestimated what has been taking place in syria. essentially what happened with isil was you had al qaeda and iraq, which was a vicious group but our marines are able to quash with the help of the sunni tribes. they went back underground. over the past couple of years during the chaos of the syrian civil war, were essentially you have huge swaths of the country that are completely and governed, they were able to reconstitute themselves and take advantage of that chaos. >> that was president obama. joining us down washington, d.c., raed jarrar, iraqi-american lager and political analyst. your assessment of what is happening right now and president obama statement that they underestimated the strength of the islamic state? and think it is evident suggest the contrary. th

. >> my quick question really here is comments on lebanon and how it's impacting this current fight. nobody seems to talk about it much. nigel i know just did an article about drone usage by hezbollah, which i thought was interesting. >> oh, lebanon. okay. yeah. well, there is a small contingent of militants inside of lebanon who have made some noise for many years, but there are not a lot of them. the number of them particularly down south have been co-opted by the government. there were fears early on that a lot of this contingent was going to be activated by the war in syria. in fact, the whole society was going to go down the tubes. that is still a worry and the longer that the war goes on the more that worry increases. but i have been really surprised at lebanon's resiliency, actually, whether you attribute that to actors we don't like, like hezbollah keeping a lid on things, or whether you attribute it to the sunnis not wanting to ignite another civil war. it has been really impressive to me they've been able to step -- stay out even though they've tried to stir things up and d

all over lebanon there are similar scenes. what sparked the backlash against syrian refugees are the kidnappings of lebanese soldiers and police officers by syrian fighters. the kidnapping happened in the town after the syrian fighters took control of the lebanese border town for five days. the soldiers' families have started a campaign to get them released. here a sit-in in the capitol. what happened in highlights and intensifies dormant hostile ities against the growing number of refugee in lebanon. with so many lebanese blaming the syrian refugees for sectarian an and criminal problems. >> reporter: there are calls to close the borders. >> we can't tell who is who. if they're refugees or militants hiding amongst them. just like al nusra. they use them as human shields. i want them to leave. but you feel bad for the women and children. it's not their fault. >> reporter: like this family with seven children. >> i'm left with no choice but to go back to syria despite the violence there. it is probably safer throug there now th

few days after that, he turned up in lebanon. he was brought home to the u.s., he disappeared a second time. he's now being held in north carolina. there's progress tonight in efforts to destroy isil targets in eastern syria. but top leaders at the pentagon caution the fight could be a long one. abc's karen reports, another american ally has decided to join the battle. >> more than 40 air strikes this week against isis targets in syria. over the past month, more than 200 in iraq. the pentagon says so far, the be working.ks to >> our targeted actions are disrupting isil's command in their logistics capabilities and their infrastructure in syria, while iraq, we're empowering our powers to go back on the offensive. news's alex is there. 160,000.n. says around syrian kurds have now crossed into turkey. biggest single exodus of refugees since this war began than three and a half years ago. >> british prime minister david case forade a fiery his nation to join air strikes in iraq. >> this is about psychopathic that are trying to kill u

secretary-general the support group for lebanon coordinates international help for this country. i also think of jordan which must also benefit from the support of the international communi community. that is the agenda for our conference which is to take -- provide all the solidarity that we must provide for iraq, political support for the new authorities to ensure a gathering, humanitarian help to ensure protection and help to the civilian population and to the refugees, finally, the fight against dash or i.s. terrorist movement which does not exclude any means, it's everyone's concern, by having this conference, the countries that are gathered here today show their solidarity with regards to iraq and i thank them for doing so but they also express their joint desire to protect themselves against terrorism and to act accordingly and that is the reason why i thank you for your attendance which will ensure that this paris conference is an important step for the mobilization of the international community, for iraq and for the new authorities and that is the reason why i welcome o

this is the new normal for the children here just over the border from syrian in lebanon. many of them instead of going to school in the morning come here to the fields. you can see before the dust settles, the children gathering here with their bags to fill them with potatoes. in many cases they're now the sole bread winners. >> reporter: back breaking work, but they have not forgott what their life was once like. >> she wants to go to school? >> yes. >> reporter: they spend seven hours a day filling those sacks. >> is it full yet? >> she must put more inside. >> more inside he's saying? >> yes. >> reporter: this man, the farmer, is telling her she needs to put more in her bag. we're talking about 8, 9, ten years old. >> we're talking from seven. >> reporter: it's not just the fields but the factories. we talked to this boy who now fixes tires. the children selling flowers in traffic. we meet a syrian refugee trying to sell us tissues through the window. she tells us she lost her mother in syria. but we would also deliver a sliver of hope. some of those same children afte

next time and already now in lebanon by. hezboll hezbollah, they have a major chunk of precision weapon systems, which make a very, very major difference with regard to our capacities to defend. that's why i said before when i spoke about iron dome, it's one thing to protect yourself when you have let's say old kind of a system, it's self-made to a large extent. but next time in the future, we have to prepare ourselves for another one. heavier payload. the payloads were relatively low this time. different kinds of quantities. i don't know if you heard about that, but the numbers that you hear in israel about future confrontation quantities in terms of a day of fighting is 700 plus a day. just compare them to the 100 miners that we had in the last one. the range, even though they hit tel aviv, hezbollah can get to them from the north, which is a completely different story. and another thing is longer confrontations. i will speak. about that later on when i speak about the round paradigms, but we see that the confrontations be

consistency in fighting isil were ever it is present will be it in iraq, syria, lebanon, or elsewhere. further acceptances of flick fliers helping into the life of relevant activities to deal with this evidence be a strategy that undermines these authorities including the syrian government that resisted isil for a few years, the segments of population in terms of protection will be a recipe for defeat. it is regrettable that the city was left to the mercy of isil for more than two months under the recent -- ruthless seas, only belonging to distance segments of population. encouraging the political solution. rectifying the state made in the past fifth engaging in all regional states and international actors to deny extremist access to fund the groups and others. that should include actions to putting an end tomorrow and financial support for extremists coming from some quarters with in certain countries in the region. it is important, especially in light of the fact that groups such as a fourth left the of truth of the by air strikes in tenth tooth in the fifth 93v for war crimes again

we have nowhere to go. >> reporter: thousands of refugees are on the run again this time in lebanon. they escapes the violence in syria, looking for safety here. but now they are being ordered to leave by their lebanese hosts. what sparked the backlash is the kidnapping of 25 lebanese soldiers and police officers by syrian fighters. it happened after the syrian fighters took control of this lebanese border town for five days. the soldier's families have started a campaign to get them released. here a -- sit-in the capitol. there is growing hostilities towards the refugees with so many lebanese blames the refugees in their country for the increasing sectarian and security tension. there are calls to close the borders. >> translator: we can't tell who is who. if they are refugees or militants hiding amongst them. just like isil. they use them as human shields, but then you feel bad for the women and children. it's not their fault. >> reporter: like this man and his seven children. >> translator: i am left with no choice but to go back to syria despite the violence there. it is probably

the second lebanon war we had no batteries. we had 4000 rockets and seven damage claim -- low and the holding gaza five batteries, 1600 rockets 3200 damage claims and for some reason it dropped down. now in gaza the number is from september 3, last week. that was a week after the end of the firings of the numbers quite stable. 4000 rockets and 2400 claims so that means less than one claim for rocket. if there's no damage that means the rocket did not hit. so this information doesn't have to be discerned or calculated. this is public information. he has to explain that. he has to explain why it doesn't work. in my mind and i'm sure his two obviously those numbers are -- iron dome works. it saves lives and it saves property. and again the ratio is climbing down. we have a lot of bombs and no defense against them. the last claims that for some reason hamas is in favor of reducing the size of its warheads. [inaudible] let's watch that together. [videotape] look at this car here. i will show it again. this is not designed to kill. n

because you see, israel withdraws from lebanon and gaza, created two militant islamic enclaves on our borders for which tens of thousands of rockets have been fired at israel. and these sobering experiences heightens israel's security concerns regarded potential territorial concessions in the future. now, those security concerns are even greater today. just look around you. the middle east is in chaos. states are disintegrating. and militant islamists are filling the void. israel could not have territories from which it withdraws taken over by islamic militants yet again as happened in gaza and lebanon. that would place the likes of i.s.i.s. within mortar range a few miles of 80% of our population. now think about that. the distance between the 1967 lines and the suburbs of tel aviv is like the distance between the u.n. building here, and times square. israel is a tiny country. that's why in any peace agreement which will obviously necessity a territorial compromise, i will always insist that israel be able to defend itself by itself against any threat. [applause] >> and yet despite e

the lebanon agreement was achieved by the brokering in may of 83. it did not succeed -- it was a good agreement and it was involved and we took to the situations and it was called in agreement, not a peace treaty, but it gave hope for a country which is over its struggle and it didn't work but it had three good effects. it shows that we were committing to leave lebanon when the time comes. and it gave the security zone that we had in lebanon meaning for quite a long time and it improved relations which were the result of the wartime and so on. schwartz was instrumental in the period of the service here for three major achievements. one was the inflation that we had at the time was finished through american assistance at the time and we've had a reasonably good economy ever since. it started with a strategic operation with the u.s. and we institutionalized and 88 which again was still of importance and the free trade zone area. i didn't have time to go into the story of the inquiries and so on but this is something which as we look at those eight yea

the people of jordan and lebanon have shown immense hospitality. they're under incredible pressure from president assad and others in the region. what support of a giving to those countries? >> assistance with humanitarian aid programs for refugees inside the borders of lebanon and jordan. of the worksome firsthand. we should continue to see what else we should do, and political, diplomatic, and potentially military support, to >> fromse countries. the deteriorating situation in the ukraine, canada prime minister set out what he believes to be achievable, which he believes is taking place in belarus as we speak now, and also, some of the actions? we heard plenty of what he is not prepared. should there not be adequate road -- progress toward a cease-fire? >> in terms of what britain has prepared to do, the last few european councils, britain has been the leading voice for taking tough sanctions measures. it is something the polish prime minister and i have worked on very closely with our colleagues. intain has a lot to lose terms of financial servi

in lebanon a sense the united states has now chosen between defeating islamic state in getting rid of assad -- and getting rid of assad? >> no, not exactly. in lebanon, there are plenty of powerful forces who very much support president assad, including hezbollah, the shia muslim militia that is also backed by iran. though,e people here, who are absolutely against what president assad has hoped, that there might be some movement against him. but i think people are looking at the fact there is no immediate follow-up by ground troops of these american-led airstrikes. they are thinking, well, we might take advantage of this. perhaps the forces of president assad may try to capitalize on any grounds that might become vacant as a result of the strikes led by the u.s.. >> jeremy, thank you. we have heard a lot about the military moves to defeat islamic state on the ground -- but on the ground in syria there has been new fighting around a kurdish town leading to more refugees coming out of there. we have this report. across the border is the syrian kurdish town. we have been trying to unders

within 48 hours he left syria to lebanon, there he applied to the unhcr. leading to a new life in australia. he is grateful, but lonely, waiting for an english course to begin, hoping that when he's better able to communicate, he'll find employment. right now, his days are pretty empty. >> i'm a refugee. home is where my family is. i'm grateful for the reception and assistance i have had here. >> he knows hundreds of thousands of fellow syrians are stuck in lebanon. >> with much fanfare australia committed to take 4,000 refugees, refusing visas to those arriving illegally by boat has, the government said, freed up spaces for more deserving people who apply through the unhcr. australia is not doing enough. >> we set aside some places within the programme for syrian refugees, compared to what other countries are doing, it pales in comparison. >> reporter: this man hopes members of his family will be able to join him as settled refugees. australia government has been criticized for the way it streets asylum seekers who make their way to australia by boat. the

lebanon is home to more than a million syrian refugee who fled violence at home. the execution of these soldiers has exposed them to another risk. some lebanese have vowed to punish them in retaliation to the execution, threats the armed groups have spoken out against. >> those who come to lebanon, this is a humanitarian act. >> the incursion is also with the most serious conflict yet and has raised concerns that it could make things worse. >> africa union peacekeeping troops are being accused of preying on vulnerable women and girls. details of alleged offenses, the report ties ten different incidents of rape and sexual assault and 14 cases of sexual exploitation. troops are accused of using humanitarian aid to coerce women and girls into having sex with them. only two of the 21 interviewed filed a complaint. many said they didn't out of fear of retribution. while the human rights does not watch the scale of sexual abuse it said the report raises serious concerns. we spoke to human rights watch earlier. >> reporter: there appears to be a trend in how this is happ

or across lebanon sectarian divide, sunni against shiite. this could be the most serious threat to lebanon's peace since the civil war began in syria over the border. the islamic state is at the center of the crisis. >> this river forms part of turkey's 900 kilometer long border with syria. syria is beyond that clump of trees. islamic state militants have grown in strength and the turkish military has increased patrols on this border. turkey was criticized early on for failing to distinguish between the opposition groups allowing resources, fighters and weapons to cross the borders and end up in jihadi hands, something it disputes. with the growing threat of i.s. and after 49 diplomats were kidnapped by the group in june and still being held, they've clamped down with arrests, patrols. the question is, is it too little too late? >> on the border between turkey and syria there. >>> on september 11, 2013, the small community of james town, colorado was almost wiped out by a flood. one resident was killed and home buried by landslide. three day

the right-of-way went from lebanon into syria and then to jordan and saudi arabia. this comprised the western division, 214 miles. by september 1950, they were putting the finishing touches on the terminal. 16 180,000 storage tanks. stations wereer put up by the chicago bridge and iron company. liners were tiny and some of the last of the shorelines that would carry crude oil -- tying in some of the last of the shorelines that would carry crude oil. along the right-of-way from saudi arabia, installations had arisen on the empty desert and this was the magic of the arabian nights. planning and the hard toil of hundreds of americans and thousands of arabs under the severest conditions nearly halfway across the world. all four of the pump stations were now in the final stages of cleanup and testing. would behese stations dispatching its daily quota of oil. it would take 6 million barrels of oil, more than all of the oil pump in a day from all wells of the united states. one of the most extraordinary of all engineering and construction projects ever carried out a privat

number, more than half the population in lebanon are now refugees from syria. look at this tonight. our cameras were right there on the syrian border where i learned children don't board school buses, they board pick-up trucks, taken to work in the fields, supporting their families. they come from middle class families, their parents once teachers, lawyers, and now they are the ones supporting their parents. tomorrow night right here we're on those trucks for those grueling days in the field. tomorrow night right here on "world news." >>> president obama preparing to head to europe this week. what to do about russia and ukraine. we've learned n.a.t.o. is planning to launch a response team that can deploy 7,000 troops. >>> an ancient volcano roaring back to life, spewing lava. the alert level has been raised to the highest level banning all flights beneath 6,000 feet. that code red has been lifted. >>> the hunt is on for this man considered armed and dangerous nick named the ak 37 bandit. you can see why. authorities pointing to one thing tonight, the word writt

they saw iran's surrogates, hezbollah from lebanon there on the ground. what were they doing? to start with, they were buying influence, spreading money around, trying to figure out what was happening. later the next year when they saw weapons going to syria, the syrian rebels who were their enemies, remember, iranians working with bashar al-assad and rebels were against them. they saw the weapons leaving benghazi and going to syrian rebels and iran said we'll put an end to this this is coming out benghazi. we know how to stop it there. were approximately 50 or off u.s. national classified intelligence reports, something i learned about from people who had access to them, mentioned money and arms flowing from iran and hezbollah into benghazi in the weeks and months before the attacks. i've spent many years of my life working with defectors from iranian intelligence. a former senior cia officer once said of plea, i like to think it was in jest and it may have been serious, timmerman has spent more face time with iranian defectors than anybody in the u.s. intelligence community

all over lebanon there are similar scenes. what sparked the backlash is the kidnappings of more than 25 lebanese soldiers and police officers by syrian fighters. the kidnapping happened after the syrian fighters took control of the lebanese border town for five days. the soldiers' families have started a campaign to get them released. here a sit-in in the capitol. what happened highlights and intensifies dormant hostilities with growing numbers of syrian refugees in lebanon. with many refugees blaming th the 1.3 refugees in their country with sectarian issues. >> reporter: in some areas refugees were beaten. in others they were warned to leave in days. there are calls to close the borders. >> we can't tell who is who. if they're refugees or militants hiding amongst them like islamic state. they use them as human shields. we want them to leave. but then you feel bad for the women and children. it's not their fault. >> like this family with seven children. >> i'm left with no choice but to go back to syria despite the violence t

>> in lebanon, they've been entangled in the conflict for some time. it is a flashpoint town on the border with syria. the lebanese army long tried to prevent the area for being used by rebels. it's been used as a base. we have seen clashes obvious the past two years, the last in august. this morning the army raided an informal camp where syrian refugees lived and they were looking for suspects. three men tried to push a camp close by, opening fire at the three syrians, and unearthed dozens of suspects. activists are giving us a different story, saying that the army opened fire. rebels look at the lebanese army as a tool of the syrian government, as a tool of the lebanese movement which has been fighting alongside the syrian government and the lebanese army is under attack. you can see how the conflict spills over into lebanon, and that's why they need to find a political settlement. there's no military solution to the conflict. >> zeina khodr reporting from beirut. as zeina khodr mentioned not everyone supports the us-led air strikes. demonstrations h

inthursday, john kerry was 10 arababia where countries -- egypt, iraq, jordan, lebanon and six gulf states, including saudi arabia and qatar, agreed to help the united states fight the sunni militants that have seized swathes of iraq and syria. >> arab nations play a huge role in our roles. the foreign fighters, which isil requires to thrive, and certainly the effort to recruit it once and for all the dangerous, the offensive, the insulting distortion of islam tot isil propaganda attempts spread through the region and the world. >> retired marine general john allen has been kept to oversee the campaign. he previously served as a top u.s. commander in an. the pentagon has announced they will -- in afghanistan. the pentagon has announced they will start airstrike missiles -- airstrike missions. present dilemmas facing key questions about striking without ande house approval -- critics note that resolutions only apply to nations and groups that planned, authorized, committed, or aided the 9/11 attacks. we will have more with medea benjamin of codepink after headlines. the mother of slain u.s.

all over lebanon there are similar scenes. what sparked th the backlash is the kidnappings of more than 25 lebanese soldiers and police officers by syrian fighters. the kidnappings happened in the town after the syrian fighters took control of the lebanese border town for five days. the soldiers' families have started a campaign to get them released. here a sit-in in the capitol. what happened highlights and intensifies dormant hostilities towards the growing number of refugees in lebanon. with so many lebanese blaming the syrian refugees in their country with sectarian security tension. in some areas refugees were beaten. in others they were warned to leave in days. there are calls to close the borders. >> we can't tell who's who. if they're just refugees hiding amongst them. just like he will nusra, they use them like human shields. you want them to leave. but then you feel bad about the women and children. >> like this man and his seven children. >> i'm left with no choice but to go back to syria despite the violence. it is

saudi arabia, egypt, jordan, lebanon, the list goes on. turkey, iraq, bahrain, qatar, united arab emirates and oman. they will help cut off money and foreign fighters following isis. and help rebuild the cities and towns devastated by isis' bloody rampage to form an islamic state. the support for the strategy is culmination of secretary of state john kerry's trip to saudi arabia where he talked with our global affairs correspondent about the president's strategy to take on isis. we're joined on the phone by jetta, saudi arabia, fresh from that interview from the secretary of state. if you can, give me some highlights. >> reporter: it was a short discussion because he was meeting with king abdullah right after our interview. it was a ride ranging discussion. i asked if the u.s. was at war with isis and he said that was the wrong terminology. if you want to think about it as a war, i can't stop you but he said that there are a lot of things going on in this strategy, this counterterrorism strategy that people don't associate with war in term

they also control part of northern lebanon. they have made absolutely breathtaking strides in their shortenure of advancement. they have land. they have a name. they have a leader. they have a government. it's known as shari'a law. they have an administration. a council and a line of hirke arcy and organizational flow chart of how they are going to run the islamic state and they have an arm, 12,000 are presumably in the islamic army and brutal they are, beheading, women raped. innocent children shot in the head. it's absolutely devastating. we see christians have been chased out. the numbers are owe dramatic of christians who have had to flee iraq. christians in most you will who lived there. and the old town of nineveh. and that town is most you will. christians have been in that town since the time of christ. most you will no longer has christians. they were chased out of that city. christians have been chased repeatedly out of iraq and being chased out of baghdad and being chased out of northern iraq and western iraq as jews

the prime minister said lebanon should be ready to cop front the armed groups. so obviously the government feels the battle has not ended yet, and they have a job that has not been done. there are hundreds of militants hiding in the mountains between lebanon and syria, very close to our south. and they have been attacking lebanese army positions and areas inside of lebanon, 15 lebanese soldiers have been captured, and there was confrontation about a month ago. but obviously the army feels going after these groups is a very difficult mission, and armed groups are coming down from the mountains attacking the soldiers. so this is putting a lot of pressure on the government to act. now how they will act is a very tricky question. >> we'll leave it there. thank you. >>> somali's group always face discrimination. the groups are often poor, and often rejected by most clans. many have fled the country and become refugees. while others are displaced inside somali it's a. >> reporter: on a dusty piece of land, 11,000 families have set up base. they have come here for prot

more than half the population in lebanon are now refugees from syria. in fact, more than 3 million syrians have now fled, many of them children. look at this tonight. our cameras were right there on the syrian border where i learned children don't board school buses, they board pick-up trucks, taken to work in the fields, supporting their families at eight, nine, ten years old. they come from middle class families, their parents once teachers, lawyers, and now they are the ones supporting their parents. tomorrow night right here we're on those trucks for those grueling days in the field. is anyone looking out for the children? that's tomorrow night here on "world news." >>> president obama preparing to head to europe for a crucial meeting of world leaders this week. what to do about russia and ukraine. we've learned n.a.t.o. is planning to launch a rapid response team that can deploy a strike force, several thousand troops in as little as 48 hours. >>> to iceland tonight and to some remarkable images coming in. an ancient volcano roaring back to life, s

they want lebanon. they want al-sham which is this region of iraq, syria, lebanon, jordan, and parts of turkey, but they have also said, they have also said before the americans got involved, that eventually, they plan to go after western targets too, americans and europeans. let's not forget -- >> you don't doubt that, do you? >> no, not at all. in fact, we've seen evidence of this already. there -- -- i forget what the -- -- i think the latest estimate is 15,000 foreign fighters now are in syria and iraq, mostly fighting for the islamic state, over a hundred americans, over a thousand europeans. i forget exactly what the number, the brits are talking about, something like 400. they all have passports. there is evidence indeed that this group is, if not planning, at least encouraging its foreign supporters to stage attacks. now are these existential threats to the countries in which they're taking place? no, i think that has been so rblown. the idea that these islamic terrorists are an existential thre

they want lebanon. they want al-sham which is this region of iraq, syria, lebanon, jordan, and parts of turkey, but they have also said, they have also said before the americans got involved, that eventually, they plan to go after western targets too, americans and europeans. let's not forget -- >> you don't doubt that, do you? >> no, not at all. in fact, we've seen evidence of this already. there -- -- i forget what the -- -- i think the latest estimate is 15,000 foreign fighters now are in syria and iraq, mostly fighting for the islamic state, over a hundred americans, over a thousand europeans. i forget exactly what the number, the brits are talking about, something like 400. they all have passports. there is evidence indeed that this group is, if not planning, at least encouraging its foreign supporters to stage attacks. now are these existential threats to the countries in which they're taking place? no, i think that has been so overblown. the idea that these islamic terrorists are an existential t

the right-of-way went from lebanon into syria and then to jordan and saudi arabia. this comprised the western division, 214 miles. whose construction was assigned by cap lines to williams brothers overseas company. by september 1950, they were putting the finishing touches on the terminal. 16 180,000 storage tanks. all of the other stations were put up by the chicago bridge and iron company. the pipe liners were tying in some of the last of the shorelines that would carry crude oil. from the stores tanks for the loading of tankers. along the right-of-way from saudi arabia, installations had arisen on the empty desert and this was the magic of the arabian nights. the modern magic from which they sprang resulted in painstaking planning and the hard toil of hundreds of americans and thousands of arabs under the severest conditions nearly halfway across the world. all four of the pump stations were now in the final stages of cleanup and testing. soon each of these stations , would be dispatching its daily quota of oil. it would take 6 million barrels of oil, more than a

. >> my quick question really here is comments on lebanon and how it's impacting this current fight. nobody seems to talk about it much. nigel i know just did an article about drone usage by hezbollah, which i thought was interesting. > oh, lebanon. okay. yeah. well, there is a small contingent of militants inside of lebanon who have made some noise for many years, but there are not a lot of them. the number of them particularly down south have been co-opted by the government. ere were fears early on that a lot of this contingent was going to be activated by the war in syria. in fact, the whole society was going to go down the tubes. that is still a worry and the longer that the war goes on the more that worry increases. but i have been really surprised at lebanon's resiliency, actually, whether you attribute that to actors we don't like, like hezbollah keeping a lid on things, or whether you attribute it to the sunnis not wanting to ignite another civil war. it has been really impressive able to step been -- stay out even though they've tried to stir things up and drag lebanon into

this is the new normal for the children here just over the border from syrian in lebanon. many of them instead of going to school in the morning come here to the fields. you can see before the dust settles, the children gathering here with their bags to fill them with potatoes. in many cases they're now the sole bread winners. >> reporter: back breaking work, but they have not forgotten what their life was once like. >> she wants to go to school? >> yes. >> reporter: they spend seven hours a day filling those sacks. >> is it full yet? >> she must put more inside. >> more inside he's saying? >> yes. >> reporter: this man, the farmer, is telling her she needs to put more in her bag. we're talking about 8, 9, ten years old. >> we're talking from seven. >> reporter: it's not just the fields but the factories. we talked to this boy who now fixes tires. the children selling flowers in traffic. we meet a syrian refugee trying to sell us tissues through the window. she tells us she lost her mother in syria. but we would also deliver a sliver of hope. some of those same children af

is comments on lebanon. nobody seems to be talking about that. onel did an article hezbollah, which i thought was interesting. >> lebanon, yeah. there is a strong contingent of militants inside of lebanon that have made some noise for many years, but there are not a lot of them, and a number of them, particularly down south, has been co-opted by the government. there were fears early on that a lot of this contingent was going to be activated by the war in syria, and in fact, the whole society was going to go down the tubes. that is still a worry, and the longer the war goes on, the longer that were increases, but i have been really surprised that lebanon's resiliency, actually, whether you attribute that to actors we do not like lid onzbollah keeping a things, or the sunnis now wanting to ignite another civil impressive toen me that they have managed to stay out even though iran and --nusra and the united states have tried to kick the hornets nest and drag lebanon into the war, but so far so good. >> just to

i spent a couple of years in the -- in lebanon. is comments onon lebanon and how it is impacting this current fight, because nobody seems to talk about them much. just did ane article about drone used by has blocked. hezbollah.ed by is a small contingent of militants inside lebanon who have made some noise for many years, but there are not a lot of them. the number of them down south has been co-opted by the government. that aere fears early on lot of this contingent was going to be activated by the war in syria. in fact, the whole society was possibly going down the tubes. that is possibility. the longer the war goes on, the more that were increases. i have been more surprised at lebanon's reunion -- resiliency, -- aer you are a charset tribute to the sunnis not wanting to ignite another civil war. it has been really impressive to me that they have managed to stay out, even though the islamic state and our nusra have tried to kick the hornets nest and serve things up and drag lebanon into the war. so far, so good. comment on the h

and is the united nations on the ground. >> no formal counts in lebanon. they find shelter in whatever makeshift shanty they can find. they are dependent on the generosity of the population and the government's ability to protect them. but since the government can't protect its own borders, protecting, you know, 200,000 8-year-olds is a little more challenging. >> and i'm wondering if this case is being added to the case being made by the united states to try to get regional governments to help to fight isis. if the idea that the women and girls from the region, we're talking about americans, we're talking actually about women from the region. their sisters, mothers, daughters, is that case being made that part of the reason for the region to get involved in fighting isis is to protect their own women and girls. >> look, i think it makes a lot of sense to focus much more on the plight of the women and girl children in the towns that isis has conquered to get the approval of, i would say, the american population who really has a very kind heart when it come