and nine hundred eighty two israeli invasion of lebanon had been an open secret for some time the lebanon israel border had been a constant point of tension as palestinians and israelis dreda drugget and artillery fire and a fact had realized that it was only a matter of time before israel launched an all out attack go ahead. bet that they had a man who at our arafat's was the only one who believe that an israeli invasion which would reach beirut was inevitable how much you can deny the people always military council and it won't a committee headed by the p.l.o. his chief of staff start to plan the defense of beirut. many palestinians are expected to repeat of the one nine hundred seventy eight invasion and assault with limited objectives. said that many there yeah. their belief was that the israeli operation would not extend beyond forty kilometers from the international border this effected palestinian preparations for the invasion as well as syrian and lebanese preparations therefore resistance to the invasion in southern lebanon was ineffective. on june sixth ninety eight to two days

and nine hundred eighty two israeli invasion of lebanon had been an open secret for some time the lebanon israel border had been a constant point of tension as palestinians and israelis dreda drugget and artillery fire and a fact had realized that it was only a matter of time before israel launched an all out attack to go ahead. the man who at our i fought was the only one who believed that an israeli invasion which would reach beirut was inevitable he complied appeal always military counsel and a friend a committee headed by the p.l.o. his chief of staff started to plan the defense of beirut. many palestinians expected a repeat of the one nine hundred seventy eight invasion and assault with limited objects. said that many there yeah. the belief was that the israeli operation would not extend beyond forty kilometers from the international border this effected palestinian preparations for the invasion as well as syrian and lebanese preparations therefore resistance to the invasion in southern lebanon was ineffective. on june sixth month after two days of airstrikes israel its land invasion

in lebanon thank you very much for bringing us up to date from there. now migration is also a dominating public debate in the united states at the moment the us is preparing to house as many as twenty thousand migrant children on four military bases it's unclear if detained parents would also be held there this comes a day after president donald trump signed an executive order ending the policy of separating migrant families who enter illegally from mexico the reversal follows growing global and domestic outrage over the policy and hoping perhaps to mitigate some of that outrage the first lady feo to texas to get a firsthand look at a child detention center despite the visit much of the press coverage was on milan at trump's choice of wardrobe she was seen boarding the plane wearing a jacket printed with the wives i really don't care do you her spokesperson said there was no hidden message turning out of turkey which is voting in elections on sunday indications are that the opposition is mounting its strongest challenge yet to present. on the main oppos

and nine hundred eighty two israeli invasion of lebanon had been an open secret for some time the lebanon israel border had been a constant point of tension as palestinians and israelis dreda drop it and artillery fire on a fact had realized that it was only a matter of time before israel launched an all out attack go ahead. italy. better yet they had the man who at our arafat's was the only one who believe that an israeli invasion which would reach beirut was inevitable he complied appeal always military council and it won't a committee headed by the p.l.o. his chief of staff start to plan the defense of beirut. many palestinians expected a repeat of the one nine hundred seventy eight invasion and assault with limited object years. said that when there yeah. the belief was that the israeli operation would not extend beyond forty kilometers from the international border this effected palestinian preparations for the invasion as well as syrian and lebanese preparations therefore resistance to the invasion in southern lebanon was ineffective. on june sixth month after two days of airstrikes

and i want i would have not a situation now in lebanon has become really bad for us refugees lebanon is pushing us to go back to syria we had to fill this application out we were asked of the area where we come from is now safe and we said it's not stable there they asked us if we want to go back i said no but they wrote down yes this could change everything happen or says it was difficult enough to find somewhere to live now he's scared of being evicted because of what he says is a lie. well enough and i know that we cannot go back to syria we worry because some people went back and they were arrested so we cannot risk our lives by going back. approaches a similar fate if he goes back in two thousand and twelve he was detained and tortured under a drive by the assad regime to quell opposition minas apparently ranks him a single man as a family unit official say he can't live with his mother and brother's family approach says this is just a pretext to throw him out and many others say they were evicted from their houses with no reason at all how bush feels like he's running out of op

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for its staff in lebanon the foreign minister is acting in a caretaker capacity but it does belong to the ruling alliance so his decisions could be a sign of future state policy. some officials are using the refugee political capital they play on fears about the impact of the prolonged presence of refugees in the country those officials belong to the pro syrian government camp they want refugee returns to be coordinated with the authorities in damascus as a first step toward restoring relations with the assad government. refugees are caught in the middle and what could become a contentious political issue a large scale returns gives legitimacy to the syrian government which wants the international community to provide badly needed funds for reconstruction the u.n. insists it does not encourage or discourage returns but it is not organizing them while discussions with damascus continue on safeguards that still need to be put in place. well joining us from neda he's a director of the levant institute for strategic affairs and joins us now from beirut thanks so much for joining us on. fi

and nine hundred eighty two israeli invasion of lebanon had been an open secret for some time the lebanon israel border had been a constant point of tension as palestinians and israelis dreda drugget and artillery fire and a fact had realized that it was only a matter of time before israel launched an all out attack go ahead. we have a man who at our arafat's was the only one who believe that an israeli invasion which would reach beirut was inevitable he complied appeal always military council and it won't a committee headed by the p.l.o. his chief of staff start to plan the defense of beirut. many palestinians expected a repeat of the one nine hundred seventy eight invasion and assault with limited object years. said that when there yeah. the belief was that the israeli operation would not extend beyond forty kilometers from the international border this effected palestinian preparations for the invasion as well as syrian and lebanese preparations therefore resistance to the invasion in southern lebanon was ineffective. on june sixth nineteen through two days of airstrikes israel in its

out of deterrent forces made up principally of the same syrian forces that had entered lebanon with only token representation from several other arab states syria had prevailed that fellow at the it had. been president assad's view was that syria and its ability to achieve strategic parity with israel had to be supported by two strong wings a lebanese wing and a palestinian wing that is if syria was to have influence on the political scene it had to become the sole legitimate representative of syria lebanon and the palestinians while lebanon was in the throes of conflict on another front there were moves towards peace. in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven egyptian president anwar sadat a longstanding ally of out of fat made a groundbreaking visit to israel to sue for peace in exchange for land artifact was done but i'd have thought had been making his own peace moves his representative in london cited how many had been promoting the palestinian vision of

and i want to live not the situation now in lebanon has become really bad for us refugees lebanon is pushing us to go back to syria we had to fill this application that we were asked of the area where we come from is now safe and we said it's not stable there they asked us if we want to go back i said no but they wrote down yes this could change everything her says it was difficult enough to find somewhere to live now he's scared of being evicted because of what he says is a lie well enough and i know that we cannot go back to syria we worry because some people went back and they were arrested so we cannot risk our lives by going back. approaches a similar fate if he goes back in two thousand and twelve he was detained and tortured under a drive by the assad regime to quell opposition i mean is a palace he ranks him a single man as a family unit official say he can't live with his mother and brother's family approach says this is just a pretext to throw him out and many others say they were evicted from their houses with no reason at all how bush feels like he's running out of option

and nine hundred eighty two israeli invasion of lebanon had been an open secret for some time the lebanon israel border had been a constant point of tension as palestinians and israelis dreda drugget and artillery fire and a fact had realized that it was only a matter of time before israel launched an all out attack go ahead. but. they had the man who at our i thought was the only one who believed that an israeli invasion which would reach beirut was inevitable he complied appeal always military council and it won't a committee headed by the p.l.o. his chief of staff start to plan the defense of beirut. many palestinians are expected to repeat of the one nine hundred seventy eight invasion and assault with limited objects. said that many there yeah. the belief was that the israeli operation would not extend beyond forty kilometers from the international border this effected palestinian preparations for the invasion as well as syrian and lebanese preparations therefore resistance to the invasion in southern lebanon was ineffective. on june sixth month after two days of airstrikes israel it

journalist from lebanon and she says the crisis europe is facing now is partly a fusil of its acted to act early on what was happening in syria during the early days of the revolution. and also great to have with us he's co-founder and director of the public policy institute in berlin he says the migration issue has long stopped being mainly about refugees it's now a tool in the fight for political power and identity in europe a fight that has the potential to lead to an implosion of the european union. so welcome to all of you i'd like to start out by picking up on your opening statement. because in fact our rifles are very definitely lower according to the u.n. h.c.r. the high commission on refugees see arrivals in twenty seventeen we're at one hundred seventy thousand more or less that's down by half of what it was in two thousand and sixteen and by eighty three percent compared to twenty fifteen so given those numbers where is this sense of crisis coming from what's driving it thank you thank you for the question thank you for having a un in the show. i think that it comes from two

journalist from lebanon and she says the crisis europe is facing now is partly a fusil of it's apt to act early on what was happening in syria during the early days of the revolution. and also great to have with us trust him he's co-founder and director of the public policy institute and he says the migration issue has long stopped being mainly about refugees it's now a tool in the fight for political power and identity in europe a fight that has the potential to lead to an implosion of the european union. so welcome to all of you i'd like to start out by picking up on your opening statement. because in fact arrivals are very definitely lower according to the u.n. h.c.r. the high commission on refugees see arrivals in twenty seventeen we're at one hundred seventy thousand more or less that's down by half of what it was in two thousand and sixteen and by eighty three percent compared to twenty fifteen so given those numbers where is this sense of crisis coming from what's driving it thank you thank you for the question thank you for having our un in the show. i think that it comes from

lebanon has taken in someone and. a million syrian refugees over the past seven years with a population of only six million itself the country is finding it increasingly hard to cope a recent report by human rights watch suggests lebanese officials are harassing refugees in an attempt to drive them away. reedus and her bruce has been looking for safety since the beginning of the syrian war fleeing the bombs he arrived five years ago here in lebanon a tailor he found work at a clothing shop and rented a house he began to settle down but now he says local officials are bullion him trying to force him out. of not a situation now in lebanon has become really bad for us refugees lebanon is pushing us to go back to syria we had to fill this application that we were asked of the area where we come from is now safe and we said it's not stable there they asked us if we want to go back i said no but they wrote down yes this could change everything happen or says it was difficult enough to find somewhere to live now he's scared

of not a situation now in lebanon has become really bad for us refugees lebanon is pushing us to go back to syria we had to fill this application that we were asked of the area where we come from is now safe and we said it's not stable there they asked us if we want to go back i said no but they wrote down yes this could change everything happen or says it was difficult enough to find somewhere to live now he's scared of being evicted because of what he says is a lie. well enough and i know that we cannot go back to syria we worry because some people went back and they were arrested so we cannot risk our lives by going back. approaches a similar fate if he goes back in two thousand and twelve he was detained and tortured under a drive by the assad regime to quell opposition and eunice apparently ranks him a single man as a family unit official say he can't live with his mother and brother's family approach says this is just a pretext to throw him out and many others say they were evicted from their houses with no reason at all feels like he's running out of options although levanon opene

hatred feelings towards the syrian refugees in lebanon which is. not a good place and it's affecting the care that is provided to the refugees and just briefly lebanon is a very poor country of course is it getting the current of financial support and help that it needs to deal with this amazing. share of its population of course it is it is getting some support from the e.u. and from the. terms of education and health towards that effigies but as you said lebanon is a poor country and already suffers from a lot of problems corruption and a lot of other problems on the government level that are deflecting the now and getting bigger with you know the population getting bigger also and are getting harder to tackle with the same political politicians begin there and not have a plan a specific plan and to tackling that on problems so you adding burden to a burden that is over the difficult to deal with and you know problems are just piling up with no solution in sight trusting better where is public opinion to stand here we were talking about the buria

now who's in one of these makeshift refugee camps that is in the bekaa valley and of course lebanon. houses so many of those who've been displaced by the fighting in syria so this must be a particular problem for those people surrounding you now. well yes the lebanese government has expressed concern the foreign minister has sent a letter to the syrian foreign minister asking for an explanation they've also the lebanese government has also sent a letter to the united nations lebanon is concerned just over one million refugees are registered with the united nations but it is estimated that lebanon hosts one point five million refugees and this country the government really facing a lot of pressure from the host communities because many of these syrian refugees are working in lebanon and they are taking the jobs from the lebanese and they work for less so lebanon wants to see the refugees return to syria they do not want to see any laws that is going to encourage them to stay and not not head back home but really they face a lot of obstacles because a lot of them if you ask a lot of pe

so to come this half hour lebanon's growing rift with the un refugee agency which it accuses of spreading fear to discourage syrians from returning home and our doctors in thailand are providing eye care on the budgets for refugees from myanmar to read it. how low we've got some very heavy rain now making its way towards hong kong this is what remains of tropical storm status located to the the west of hong kong at the moment but even ahead of the system looking at seventy eight millimeters of rain in twenty four hours and that has caused some localized flooding some big and heavy downpours set to continue over the next couple of days actually gradually easing officer go on through sas day but the showers never really too far away thirty one celsius there for hong kong in a similar temperature as we go on into sunday hopefully by this stage should be a little drier and brighter wet weather will continue to northern parts of vietnam pushing a little further north into the southwest of china some more big downpours coming through here meanwhile we've got says some very heavy rain just affec

journalist from lebanon and she says the crisis europe is facing now is partly a fusil of its active to act early on what was happening in syria during the early days of the revolution. and also great to have with us trust him he's co-founder and director of the global public policy institute in berlin he says the migration issue has long stopped being mainly about refugees it's now a tool in the fight for political power and identity in europe a fight that has the potential to lead to an implosion of the european union. so welcome to all of you i'd like to start out by picking up on your opening statement. because in fact arrivals are very definitely lower according to the u.n. h.c.r. the high commission on refugees see arrivals in twenty seventeen we're at one hundred seventy thousand more or less that's down by half of what it was in two thousand and sixteen and by eighty three percent compared to twenty fifteen so given those numbers where is this sense of crisis coming from what's driving it thank you thank you for the question thank you for having our un in the show. i think th

hatred feelings towards the syrian refugees in lebanon which is. not a good place and it's affecting the care that is provided to the refugees and just briefly lebanon is a very poor country of course is it getting the current of financial support and help that it needs to deal with this amazing. share of its population of course it is it is getting some support from the e.u. and from the. terms of education and health was that effigies but as you said lebanon is a poor country and already suffers from a lot of problems corruption and a lot of other problems on the government level that odd reflecting the now and getting bigger with you know the population getting bigger also and getting harder to tackle and for the same political politicians being there and not have a plan a specific plan into tackling their own problems so you adding burden to a burden that is already difficult to deal with and you know problems are just fallen out with no solution in sight trust in better where is public opinion to stand here we were talking about the burial con

to the program she is a freelance journalist from lebanon and she says the crisis europe is facing now is partly a fusil of its acted to act early on what was happening in syria during the early days of the revolution. and also great to have with us trust him he's co-founder and director of the global public policy institute in berlin he says the migration issue has long stopped being mainly about refugees it's now a tool in the fight for political power and identity in europe a fight that has the potential to lead to an implosion of the european union. so welcome to all of you i'd like to start out by picking up on your opening statement. because in fact arrivals are very definitely lower according to the u.n. h.c.r. the high commission on refugees see arrivals twenty seventeen were at one hundred seventy thousand more or less that's down by half of what it was in two thousand and sixteen and by eighty three percent compared to twenty fifteen so given those numbers where is this sense of crisis coming from what's driving it thank you thank you for the question thank you for having a u

of not a situation now in lebanon has become really bad for us refugees lebanon is pushing us to go back to syria we had to fill this application that we were asked of the area where we come from is now safe and we said it's not stable there they asked us if we want to go back i said no but they wrote down yes this could change everything her purse as it was difficult enough to find someone to live now he's scared of being evicted because of what he says is a lie. well enough and i know that we cannot go back to syria we worry because some people went back and they were arrested so we cannot risk our lives by going dark. approaches a similar fate if he goes back in two thousand and twelve he was detained and tortured under a drive by the assad regime to quell opposition the municipality ranks him a single man as a family unit official say he can't live with his mother and brother's family approach says this is just a pretext to throw him out and many others say they were evicted from their houses with no reason at all feels like he's running out of options although levanon opened its doo

four years lebanon's muslims had clamored for a fairer distribution of political power. the palestinians felt a natural affinity for their calls desperate not to repeat the mistakes committed in jordan the p.l.o. leader sought to keep his forces out of the lebanese. i know that arafat tried to keep the palestinians out of the wall at the beginning but that was never going to be possible impossible especially with they. especially with the common nationalisms you know the german. version of nationalism on the palestinian version of nationalism. but by nine hundred seventy six the palestinians no longer felt able to stay on the sidelines in the. palestinian fighters linked up with the leftist forces and gradually advanced into the christine heart of. syria found the idea of a p.l.o. backed regime in lebanon a recipe for disaster it feared such areas would provoke israel into military action that would drag syria into war. for their part israel and the united states also took a dim view of the rise of the lebanese left and its palestinian arabs in one of the more bizarre al

can go in the face of an organization that is working against the policy of lebanon and its interests. many syrian refugees refugees in lebanon live in desperate conditions more than half of them are in extreme poverty making them hugely dependent on aid almost nine out of ten refugees say they're in some form of debt and according to human rights watch all the three thousand five hundred of them were forcibly evicted from their homes because of their nationality or their religion while another forty two thousand risk of being expelled from their shelters there are growing coals from evidence politicians for refugees to go home and they cite economic political and security challenges meanwhile inside syria medical sources say russian planes have launched as strikes against a rebel held village in the northwest of the country they say the bombs hit a residential neighborhood of donna that's in the province at least fifty people were killed and dozens of others were injured russia's defense ministry though denies carrying out any strikes in libya say many rebels and civilians have been

and i want out of not a situation now in lebanon has become really bad for us refugees lebanon is pushing us to go back to syria we had to fill this application that we were asked of the area where we come from is now safe and we said it's not stable there they asked us if we want to go back i said no but they wrote down yes this could change everything happen or says it was difficult enough to find somewhere to live now he's scared of being evicted because of what he says is a lie. well enough and i know that we cannot go back to syria we worry because some people went back and they were arrested so we cannot risk our lives by going back. approaches a similar fate if he goes back in two thousand and twelve he was detained and tortured under a drive by the assad regime to quell opposition the need is a pallet he ranks him a single man as a family unit official say he can't live with his mother and brother's family approach says this is just a pretext to throw him out and many others say they were evicted from their houses with no reason at all feels like he's running out of options althou

of not the situation now in lebanon has become really bad for us refugees lebanon is pushing us to go back to syria we had to fill this application out we were asked of the area where we come from is now safe and we said it's not stable there they asked us if we want to go back i said no but they wrote down yes this could change everything that her says it was difficult enough to find somewhere to live now he's scared of being evicted because of what he says is a lie well enough and i know that we cannot go back to syria we worry because some people went back and they were arrested so we cannot risk our lives by going back. have proof is a similar fate if he goes back in two thousand and twelve he was detained and tortured under a drive by the assad regime to quell opposition and eunice apparently ranks him a single man as a family unit official say he can't live with his mother and brother's family habit of says this is just a pretext to throw him out and many others say they were evicted from the houses with no reason at all feels like he's running out of options although levanon op

seven years in exile in lebanon. now getting ready to go back home he's from the syrian town of mara in the region can't go back because he's not considered a security risk by the syrian government it's a decision not every refugee can make. head up and have humiliated the united nations told us that there are no guarantees when we get back home but we want to go back. that advice has caused tension between the u.n. refugee agency and the lebanese foreign ministry which says the u.n. h.c.r. is discouraging refugee returns a claim the u.n. denies it says it is carrying out its global mandate which is to provide support to refugees and help them we establish their lives in line with international standards. is not deterring returns. are you know has expressed many times that it just takes the government of lebanon this is that integration is not an option. lebanese authorities say a few thousand refugees displaced by the seven year long war have already signed up for what they call voluntary returns and that thousands

to look into the issue saying no thank you very much for that as they live in lebanon's bekaa valley thank you. point fosse's has vowed to never again ignore the culture of clergy sex abuse in a letter addressed to catholics there this comes as the head of the roman catholic church announced plans to send his top to investigators back to the country to gather more information about the crisis the pope also praised the victims of sex abuse and bringing the truth to light despite attempts by church officials to discredit them. when. the pope calls on everyone that is why it is a letter to all the people of god to overcome the culture of abuse and concealment where the pope not only said it might have been some moments some things but that the catholic church has created a culture of abusing concealment certainly we did not act with speed to investigate to where in sanction those whom it concerns. at least sixteen people are confirmed to have been killed in the latest anti-government protests in nicaragua a gunman opened fire on a march paying tribute to the mothers of students killed i

lebanon has ordered a freeze on the of renewal of residency permits for un refugee agency staff it's accuse the u.n.h.c.r. are spreading fear among syrian refugees about returning home. seven years in exile in lebanon mahmoud is now getting ready to go back home he's from the syrian town of mara in the region. can't go back because he's not considered a security risk by the syrian government it's a decision not every refugee can make. fed up and have been humiliated the united nations told us that there are no guarantees when we get back home but we want to go back that advice has caused tension between the u.n. refugee agency and the lebanese foreign ministry which says the u.n. h.c.r. is discouraging refugee returns a claim the u.n. denies it says it is carrying out its global mandate which is to provide support to refugees and help them we establish their lives in line with international standards. is not deterring returns. are you know has expressed many times that it just backs the government of lebanon's decision that local integration is not an option lebanese authorities say

four years lebanon's muslims had clamored for a fairer distribution of political power. the palestinians felt a natural affinity for their calls desperate not to repeat the mistakes committed in jordan the p.l.o. leader sought to keep his forces out of the lebanese. i know that arafat tried to keep the palestinians out of the wall at the beginning but that was never going to be possible impossible especially with they. especially with the common nationalisms you know the jumble. of nationalism on the palestinian version of nationalism but by nine hundred seventy six the palestinians no longer felt able to stay on the sidelines in the. palestinian fighters linked up with the leftist forces and gradually advanced into the christine heart of. syria found the idea of a p.l.o. backed regime and never known a recipe for disaster its feared such a regime would provoke israel into military action that would drag syria into war. for their part israel and the united states also took a dim view of the rise of the lebanese left and its palestinian terrorists in one of the more bizar

seven years in exile in lebanon mahmud are you she is now getting ready to go back home he's from the syrian town of mar in the color region. can't go back because he's not considered a security risk by the syrian government it's a decision not every refugee can make. of it and we are fed up and have been humiliated the united nations told us that there are no guarantees when we get back home but we want to go back that advice has caused tension between the u.n. refugee agency and the lebanese foreign ministry which says the u.n. h.c.r. is discouraging refugee returns a claim the u.n. denies it says it is carrying out its global mandate which is to provide support to refugees and help them we establish their lives in line with international standards. is not deterring returns. are you know has expressed many times that it just backs the government of lebanon decision that local integration is not an option. lebanese authorities say a few thousand refugees displaced by the seven year long war have already signed up for what they call voluntary returns and that thousands of others are w

arab, not just lebanon? > yemen, morocco, palestine, the big groups in detroit are iraq, lebanon, toes are the big palestine and yemen. >> is it, in fact, largest native arab of people in the united states? -- o michigan does not have michigan as a state does not have the largest population. look at, a city like dearborn, which is roughly a hundred thousand "people" half americans or ab there is a smaller city, which s the majority muslim, it's yemen, bangladesh and bosnian, majority in some places and muslim majority in some places, there is g else in america where you see of intense type concentration like you see in detroit but numerically, other states, new york and california larger numbers. >> and detroit, of course, has been struggling economically for number of years now with the decline of the auto industry, and i read in some of your work phenomenon eresting that's happening is that the population overall is going down is the arab population increasing. >> yeah. this is what i'm looking at now. pro

for its staff in lebanon the foreign minister is acting in a caretaker capacity but it does belong to the ruling alliance so his decisions could be a sign of future state policy. some officials are using the refugee for political capital they play on fears about the impact of the prolonged presence of refugees in the country those officials belong to the pro syrian government camp they want refugee returns to be coordinated with the authorities in damascus as a first step toward restoring relations with the assad government. refugees are caught in the middle and what could become a contentious political issue large scale returns gives legitimacy to the syrian government which wants the international community to provide badly needed funds for reconstruction the u.n. insists it does not encourage or discourage returns but it is not organizing them while discussions with damascus continue on safeguards that still need to be put in place. a boot. the world health organization says breaking the democratic republic of congo is stabilizing director general draws. as he's cautiously optimist

can go in the face of an organization that is working against the policy of lebanon and its interests. for many syrian refugees in lebanon live in desperate conditions more than half of them are in extreme poverty making them largely dependent on aid almost nine out of ten refugees say they are in some form of debt according to human rights watch more than three thousand five hundred refugees were forcibly evicted from their homes due to their nationality and their religion also another forty two thousand say they were at risk of being expelled from the shelters there are growing calls from evidence politicians for refugees to return home citing economic political and security challenges meanwhile inside syria medical sources say russian planes have launched a wave of air strikes against a rebel held village in the northwest they say the bombs hit a neighborhood donna that's in the province at least fifty people were killed and dozens of others were injured russia's defense ministry denies carrying out any strikes in it live on thursday many rebels and civilians have been moved to the

well still ahead here on al-jazeera a dispute between lebanon and the u.s. refugee agency turns ugly. and austria's government orders the closure of seven months slow stories on the other side of the break. i told. me the weather sponsored by cattle always how low we have the remains of a tropical storm now pulling away from that southeastern corner of china still a rash of showers on sas day for hong kong little further north and west of weather in play here as well wolf and i'm still seeing some downpours into the southwest of china as we go on into saturday really has a similar picture but by saturday i'm hopeful that the southeastern corner will begin to dry up more in the way of sunshine notice the southwest the monsoon pushing lots of cloud and rain into the philippines manila will certainly see some very heavy downpours on sunday and much of luzon could expect to see some showers along spells of fright and hence some flooding concerns here there we go with that massive cloud streaming in across the region really heavy rain there coming into central an

pursuing a path of diplomacy but what was to turn their agreed look to draw from lebanon into one of the most realistic civilian massacres of modern times women children killed we couldn't believe our eyes chronicling the term story the struggle for a palestinian. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. being located outside that restaurants and tricks fair of influence were able to bring a different perspective to global that. when you pay the way and lists a co a minute tree in the financial dollar going to see the people in those words and those policies are affecting see the emotional face of the situation they're living in that's fine all the us can identify with the story. as you tell the. president strengthen the his grip on power with a decisive election victory. i'm fully back to watching al jazeera live from doha also ahead an emergency e.u. summit on europe's migration prices ends with a few signs of progress. the fight for a crucial year many puerto intensifies as who the rebels fired more rockets at the saudi capital. and devastation for poland football fans as they becom

because of that lebanon rights groups have condemned what they call a shoot to kill policy towards and ink.

north east lebanon. he has media company come costs which as the n.b.c. television network and the universal film brand has spent sixty five billion dollars for twenty first century fox and now except for a showdown with well disney which is already logs and its own multibillion dollar bid for the same assets the move from comcast comes just one day off to a judge cleared eighty enties takeover of time warner john hendren has more. comcast is offering sixty five billion dollars for the movie and television assets of twenty first century fox that outbids disney which had previously offered fifty two billion dollars at stake are the global television channels such as national geographic satellite television networks sky in europe star in india and the hulu streaming service which is number three after amazon and netflix why is this all happening now because a day earlier on tuesday u.s. judge ruled that eighteen t. could go ahead with its eighty five billion dollars bid for time warner the trump administration had objected on antitrust grounds saying it was

for palestinians in jordan, lebanon, west bank, gaza. i know the king feel strongly that the alternative our schools run by hamas. and closing down their schools probably see black or green flags. what we do here? we've seen and i've have over the years many many countries in the way children are educated. unfortunately it's done the wrong way. that's why when the leader society continue, we have refugees we have others there. what we do about education for these kids? >> when the king was here, was present when he spoke with the president on this very issue as well. there were a couple of ideas how we might do it. how the united states might, along with others, provide funding to those schools i think at the end of august. so this kids are doing something that we don't want them to do we don't have the wrong folks underwriting appeared in of the challenges with, that have been frankly mismanaged and poorly led and corruption for quite some time. we're trying to find a mechanism by which we can achieve the two objectives that you describ

and the american scene here in lebanon needs an international deal on migrants to quell a rebellion within her own conservative camp in germany her domestic opponents want germany to reject some refugees of its national borders merkel favors a european solution but is dampening expectations. on talk brussels is just a working meeting there won't be a final declaration. physically able given what we know as well that there won't be any solution among all twenty eight member states on the level of the council next week to the entire package of questions on migration are. a good illustration of merkel's problem is italy which says it is overwhelmed the country is rejecting migrants rescued by n.g.o.s from the mediterranean and says it won't take back any from germany either. for eastern european member states are boycotting the brussels meeting their leaders also don't think much of reimposed german borders within the e.u. . they were going to get around to. very thought of preventing illegal migrants from entering e.u. territory has to be done at the coast of europe or at the coast of libya

four years lebanon's muslims had clamored for a fairer distribution of political power. the palestinians felt a natural affinity for their calls desperate not to repeat the mistakes committed in jordan the p.l.o. leader sought to keep his forces out of the lebanese. i know that arafat tried to keep the palestinians out of the wall at the beginning but that was never going to be possible impossible especially with they. especially with the common nationalisms you know the german. push of nationalism on the palestinian version of nationalism but by nine hundred seventy six the palestinians no longer felt able to stay on the sidelines in the. palestinian fighters linked up with the leftist forces and gradually advanced into the christian heart of. syria found the idea of a p.l.o. backed regime and never known a recipe for disaster it feared such areas would provoke israel into military action that would drag syria into war. for their part israel and the united states also took a dim view of the rise of the lebanese left and its palestinian arabs in one of the more bizarre a

in a very funny tidal situation not the only politically like in lebanon but economically i mean would it we're talking about an economic collapse of two regions or two countries that are bordering syria and if this is to happen it will have really very damaging consequences on all that region we have seen that about two million refugees a threat and the whole europe of i would not say collapse but put europe in big trouble in jordan and lebanon we are talking about four million syrian refugees for a total population of sixty eight million so this is to put things in perspective our i think secretary of the united nations has had likewise were in saying that this has to stop at least to. to contain or to stop a possible new flood of refugees that will have a very damaging consequences on the region absolutely said joshua how can this be averted i'm particularly taken by a report by the international crisis group which suggests that given that the rebels cannot mount any kind of credible military defense they need to be party to some sort of agreement some sort of deal whereby the state

seven years in exile in lebanon is now getting ready to go back home he's from the syrian town. i. can't go back because he's not considered a security risk by the syrian government it's a decision not every refugee can make. up and have been humiliated the united nations told us that there are no guarantees when we get back home but we want to go back that advice has caused tension between the un refugee agency and the lebanese foreign ministry which says the u.n. h.c.r. is discouraging refugee returns a claim the u.n. denies it says it is carrying out its global mandate which is to provide support to refugees and help them establish their lives in line with international standards. is not. are you know has expressed many times that it just lacks a government. that is not an option lebanese authorities say a few thousand refugees displaced by the seven year long war have already signed up for what they call voluntary returns and that thousands of others are willing to go home lebanon which is hosting more than one million syrian refugees has long complained of the burden it carrie

because lebanon the red cross is sending two teams of surgeons as well as medical supplies to gaza to treat casualties. shot by israeli soldiers one hundred fifteen palestinians have been killed and thirteen thousand wounded since border protests began at the end of march the red cross health system is on the verge of collapse. part of phones former chief justice has been sworn in as the caretaker prime minister ahead of july's election. and an interim government on the country as part of three main political parties campaign to win over voters iran context and look at the content of. election time in pakistan and the country's big players are preparing for voting and. the last government led by the washer ethe is in disarray as he was forced out of office in july two thousand and seventeen by the anti corruption court who accused him of not disclosing foreign investments he said it was a coup against his government despite that his party is confident of a strong showing the pakistan muslim league n. wants to do well in the province of punjab traditionally its stronghold another big p

because of that lebanon five dangerous big cats have escaped their enclosures in a german zoo have now been recaptured residents on the gemini luxemburg border will want to stay inside after two tigers two lines and i jag you a broke free one storm flooding damaged their cages a cats were finally found inside the zoo compound thanks to drone footage a bed which also escaped from a different zoo was shot dead. a new survey shows central africa's critically endangered mountain gorillas have exceeded the one thousand mark for the first time in decades the world wildlife fund says conservation efforts have helped increase the numbers of the gorillas in the verandah massive an area encompassing parts of rwanda uganda and the democratic republic of congo mountain gorillas are popular with tourists and are a major source of revenue for the three countries but the region's population has dropped sharply in the past century because of the threat posed by poachers and groups. just a quick look at the top stories this hour spain's conservative government has been toppled by a no confidence vote i

is afraid that her stay in lebanon could become permanent she fled the war in syria in two thousand and thirteen her hometown a is now under government control she says the army hasn't allowed to billions to return yet and a new law passed by the syrian government is threatening to confiscate homes of those people who don't prove ownership. i don't even know if we still have a house or if it was destroyed and when we fled we left with nothing so i don't have any documents with me there are millions of syrians like him ahmed who escaped from the fighting with nothing long number ten as it is known means they may be stuck in exile international aid agencies say just nine percent of refugees and displaced have their property title deeds with them this is worrying host nations like lebanon where there are over one million refugees. it's very worrying because when you when you things would encourage the displaced or investment to come back to the country not measures to discourage them from the syrian government says the new law is needed to begin the reconstruction of areas damaged by war h

in a very funny tidal situation not the only politically like in lebanon but economically i mean would it we're talking about an economic collapse of two regions or two countries that are bordering casey via and if this is to happen it will have really very damaging consequences on all that region we have seen that about two million refugees a threat and the whole europe of i would not say collapse but put europe in big trouble in jordan and lebanon we are talking about four million syrian refugees for the total population of sixty eight million so this is to put things in perspective are i think secretary of the united nations has had likewise were in saying that this has to stop at least to. to contain or to stop a possible new flood of refugees that will have a very dramatic consequences on the region absolutely said joshua how can this be averted i'm particularly taken by a report by the international crisis group which suggests that given that the rebels cannot mount any kind of credible military defense they need to be party to some sort of agreement some sort of deal whereby the

under the macro scene here in lebanon needs an international deal on migrants to quell a rebellion within her own conservative camp in germany her domestic opponents want germany to reject some refugees at its national borders machall favors a european solution but is dampening expectations. on talk of brussels is just a working meeting there won't be a final declaration. given book we know as well that there won't be any solution among all twenty eight member states on the level of the council next week to the entire package of questions on migration that's. a good illustration of merkel's problem is italy which says it is overwhelms the country is rejecting migrants rescued by n.g.o.s from the mediterranean and says it won't take back any from germany either. four eastern european member states are boycotting the brussels meeting their leaders also don't think much of reimposed german borders within the e.u. . they were guarding the ground tonight of very thought preventing illegal migrants from entering e.u. territory it has to be done at the coast of europe or at the coast of libya an

chief political editor michelle and her traveled with the chancellor on her trip to jordan and to lebanon she joins us in our studio now how under pressure did the chancellor see on this trip she's very good at being business as you saw and she's very your routine at the helm here and only for more than twelve years now. so from the outside it was all for us business as usual we even saw. stick your tongue out at kids at a school where she was today but there is a sense also amongst advises people travelling there everybody is aware that this is indeed a very serious situation here in germany after or her own sister bharti those who should be in her own political camp are now threatening to basically blow up a union between these conservative parties and danger her as over that very issue of migration that has so become hallmarks policy we did hear her say on the strip that she's going to seek or aiming for rather by tri or multilateral meetings rather than a europe wide deal how complicated is that going to be while she admits himself that she doesn't really know what exactly she can ach

in lebanon to build up and build up and build up then it creates a major war and we cannot allow that they will threaten our major a population centers and what iran is trying to do in syria is create another base in iranian base in syria just like they do they did in lebanon this is why we cannot allow it and i think that the russian authorities understand and respect it on the other hand you are right there is a closeness of relationship now between the gulf countries and israel but this is mainly because of the threat from iran iran is the main state destabilizer in the region you know they are in yemen helping the hoodies against the government they are in lebanon with against the government they are in libya they are anywhere they are in but her reign they were trying to actually topple old the sunni governments and now they're trying to do the same thing in syria and we have to stop them now ambassador you left perfectly to my next question is around israel has long maintained that it was committed to preventing iran or any of its offshoots from establishing themselves in syria