coming from lebanon it's not easy. i will try to be as genuine and as -- with my jetlag it's not going to be very easy, let's see. so noble guests, dear friends, i want to start by thanking all the team of idc. they have done a remarkable job in bringing forth a cause that has long been buried under the sand of passing interests. i would like to extend on behalf of the christians of the middle east our sincere and everlasting gratitude to the u.s. congressman and senators who embrace our cause with no other interests but to stand for what's right, to stand for the set of values that this great nation has entrusted to nurture and spread to all nations. dear friends, i'm coming straight from lebanon. i need to tell you i have no good news for you tonight. lebanon is dying as we speak. this is why. lebanon is collapsing under the weight of a million and a half syrian displaced. lebanon is disintegrating under the pressure of a gigantic social and economic crisis. this is why. the lebanese infrastructure isseriis founderin

because we cannot see a secure lebanon, we cannot see religious freedom in lebanon unless we prevent the enormous inflow of weapons and missiles and iranian cash across the syrian border into lebanon. [ applause ] >> i've supported sanctions on the iranian regime since i first arrived in congress in 1997 and every year since then. and we must make sure that hezbollah does not dominate lebanon. [ applause ] >> the largest christian community in the middle east are the cop de christians. that is why i was the sponsor of the cop de lebanese act to restore the churches that had been so desecrated under the rule of the muslim brotherhood. but just last month, a bus carrying cop de christians was ambushed south of cairo, leaving seven dead and 19 injured. i have had a chance not only to co-sponsor h-res-673 along with several of my colleagues introducing that to focus attention on the persecution of cop de christians and to demand the arrest and prosecution of the individuals who have carried out terrorist acts against them. it's one thing to communicate something by passing a resolution i

pulled out of lebanon. there were immediate presidential elections and the leader of the right wing christian phalangist but sheer gemayel who had supported the israeli incursion became the president elect of lebanon. but gemayel never took office he was assassinated twenty three days later. for the following three days the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth of september one nine hundred eighty two christian militias supported by israel took part in a massacre at the palestinian refugee camps of sub or and shatila. when news of the massacre reached the commodore hotel on the eighteenth dozens of local and foreign journalists headed straight to the southern beirut suburb robert fisk was one of the first to enter the palestinian camps. i've never before had to walk on carpets of dead bodies in my life and the smell pause was a. and we went on the saturday morning when the could time the financials were still there the motors were still still in the camp. was back in the air and one of the nestle our own was

pulled out of lebanon. there were immediate presidential elections and the leader of the right wing christian phalangist split share gemayel who had supported the israeli incursion became the president elect of lebanon. but gemayel never took office he was assassinated twenty three days later. for the following three days the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth of september one thousand nine hundred two christian militias supported by israel took part in a massacre at the palestinian refugee camps of sub or a and shatila. when news of the massacre reached the commodore hotel on the eighteenth dozens of local and foreign journalists headed straight to the southern beirut suburb. robert fisk was one of the first to enter the palestinian camps. i've never before had to walk on carpets of dead bodies in my life and the smell was appalling and we went on the saturday morning when the kotite the financials were still there the motors were still still in the camp. was back in the air and one of the nestle our hom

and the world will be hard pressed to reinvent a lebanon, but it will be too late. from our side, the menonite foundation is working closely with the idc, the lebanon church in washington to help members of lebanese ancestry regain their right to lebanese citizenship. [ applause ] >>> fostering strong ties between the lebanese and those living at home, compliments and contributes to the success and policy of the support of the christians in the middle east. ladies and gentlemen, honored guests, our next speaker needs no introduction to this gathering. a man of principle and of high intellect with whom i have had the privilege of meeting in the past. the honorable mick mulvaney is the current director of the office of management and budget, omb, a key position in the trump administration. prior to his time as the director of omb, he served the people of the fifth district of south carolina as the congressman where he was first elected in 2010. director mulvaney has been a friend and advocate for middle eastern christians for years. meeting with the mennonite patriarc

and the world will be hard pressed to reinvent a lebanon, but it will be too late. from our side, the menonite foundation is working closely with the idc, the lebanon church in washington to help members of lebanese ancestry regain their right to lebanese citizenship. [applause] >> fostering strong ties between the lebanese and those living at home, compliments and contributes to the success and policy of the support of the christians in the middle east. ladies and gentlemen, honored guests, our next speaker needs no introduction to this gathering. a man of principle and of high intellect with whom i have had the privilege of meeting in the past. the honorable mick mulvaney is the current director of the office of management and budget, omb, a key position in the trump administration. prior to his time as the director of omb, he served the people of the fifth district of south carolina as the congressman where he was first elected in 2010. director mulvaney has been a friend and advocate for middle eastern christians for years. meeting with the mennonite patriarch i

-lebanon relations. although the united states has had dozens of children abducted to lebanon, i do not know of any cases before mine where the court order for return from a lebanese court. in fact, there have not been any court-order returns ever reported to the state department. zero. with the current court orders in place in my case, lebanon could for the first time return an abducted child to the united states. it would be a timely and welcome gesture of cooperation between lebanon and the united states as we seek justice for children abducted, wrongfully retained in either country. it goes both ways. the state department and law enforcement have been so helpful in my case, and i'm thankful that they have even more tools at their disposal and the goldman act, if lebanon fails to enforce the return orders they have issued. almost $200 million and so much more is provided in aid to keep lebanon safe and strong. so much is at stake. isn't it time for lebanon to enforce the return orders that they have a

and i appeal to lebanon to please quickly and forcibly return orders lebanon has justly upheld. set the example so that any parent now considering the child abuse that is child abduction will no that lebanon does not aid kidnappers. i have one message for my children. i love you. and, i'm fighting for you. and i cannot wait for you to come home. thank you. >> ms. littleton, thank you so very much for that strong testimony to the appeal to our government to use every power at its disposal, every tool to bring these american children home immediately. i think that's part of the message that we are trying to send to the white house and to the department of state, that you have tools in that toolbox that remain unused. and because of that, the people on the other side of this issue and let's say the kidnappers are able to game the system in such a way that they stall, they play out, by years and at the end of the day your children and the children never come home while their children. maybe as adults, but certainly not as children. so i do have a few question i would like to ask bot

lebanon relations. although the united states has dozens of children abduct did i don't know of any cases with similar's to mine.. with the current court order in place, lebanon could, for the first time return an abducted child to the united states, it would be a timely and welcome gesture of operation between lebanon and the united states as we seek justice for children up to the wrongfully retained in either country, it goes both ways. the state department and law enforcement have been so helpful in my case and i think will they have more tools at my disposal. so much is at stake. almost $200 million and more n' i did and 80 deep lebanon safe and strong so much is at stake isn't it time for lebanon to enforce the return orders they've acknowledged to send my children home? click on the state department use every tool to bring american children home immediately and i appeal to lebanon to please quickly enforce the return orders lebanon has upheld, set the example also any parent now considering child

pulled out of lebanon. there were immediate presidential elections and the leader of the right wing christian phalangist split share gemayel who had supported the israeli incursion became the president elect of lebanon. but gemayel never took office he was assassinated twenty three days later. for the following three days the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth of september one thousand nine hundred two christian militias supported by israel took part in a massacre at the palestinian refugee camps of sobre and shatila. when news of the massacre reached the commodore hotel on the eighteenth dozens of local and foreign journalists headed straight to the southern beirut suburb robert fisk was one of the first to enter the palestinian camps. i've never before had to walk on carpets of dead bodies in my life and the smell was appalling and we went on the sunday morning. at times the financials were still there the motors were still still in the camp. was second in the air and one of a messenger who was the subj

/lebanon relations. although the united states has had dozens of children abducted to lebanon, i do not know of any cases before mine where the court order for return from a lebanese court, in fact, there have not been any court-order returns ever reported to the state department. zero. with the current court orders in place in my case, lebanon could for the first time return an abducted child to the united states. it would be a timely and welcome gesture of cooperation between lebanon and the united states as we seek justice for children abducted, wrongfully retained in either country. it goes both ways. the state department and law enforcement have been so helpful in my case, and i'm thankful that they have even more tools at their disposal ain the goldmn act, if lebanon fails to enforce the return orders they have issued. almost $200 million and so much more is provided in aid to keep lebanon safe and strong. so much is at stake. isn't it time for lebanon to enforce the return orders that they have al

it is six in the morning and lebanon's bekaa valley. year old some i just woke up a splash of cold water in the face and she is ready for work. her family fled syria to escape i asked her now they're in lebanon where they can't always afford breakfast so my issue is this tiny makeshift bed with three of her six siblings. and mother she doesn't go to school there are no schools in the camp where would she go to school so may as mother is sick and cannot go to work her older siblings also work but so my is still needs to pitch in to help the family make ends meet so instead of getting on a school bus so my eye gets on the strike every morning where she is the only child among many adults. for two dollars a day so maya collects whatever crop is ready for harvest in the bekaa valley. today it is onions and her hands are too little for the gloves the adults around her where. i came here from home today can collect the onions but i would rather have toys to play with three quarters of syrian refugees in lebanon live under the poverty line acc

that this really is a preemptive move to swore to any plan by hezbollah to shift the battlefield from lebanon to israel in any future conflict in previous wars israel would go on the offensive its troops would invade lebanon. as well as secretary general back in two thousand and eleven made it very clear that the next plan would be moving into israeli territory in any future conflict. the fact of these tunnels is really read this particular time. many people are asking this question some are relating it to domestic concerns by the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who say they're facing challenges within his own coalition but there is no doubt that israel is concerned about iran's growing presence in iran of course backs hezbollah funds hezbollah arms hezbollah and israel has been trying to prevent iran from entrenching itself militarily in neighboring syria over the past few years they've been targeting iran and iranian assets for years now the focus really is now shifting to lebanon and many believe that is because russia in one way or another is not allowing giving iran a free hand

they would go everywhere in lebanon. go to the most dangerous and unfortunate places, interview kids, parents. zane was found in the streets playing in his neighborhood. the casting director saw him and interviewed him. as soon as i saw the interview it was obvious two minutes into the interview i had found him. >> you're telling me basically the real life experiences started informing your script. >> yes. >> what they have already lived through added a layer of authenticity. >> all the time. >> to what you were trying to document. >> absolutely, all the time. of course we had a very solid script to start with. it's impossible to improvise if you don't know your material very well. so that's -- our script was our solid base. it was our starting point and our landing point every time, in every scene. but in the meantime we are open to whatever life is going to give us also and to whatever the actors have to say, give, add. i felt that i don't have the right to impose anything on them or any reality or anything i had imagi

pulled out of lebanon. there were immediate presidential elections and the leader of the right wing christian phalangist split share gemayel who had supported the israeli incursion became the president elect of lebanon and then. gemayel never took office he was assassinated twenty three days later. for the following three days the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth of september one thousand nine hundred two christian militias supported by israel took part in a massacre at the palestinian refugee camps of sub or a and shatila. when news of the massacre reached the commodore hotel on the eighteenth dozens of local and foreign journalists headed straight to the southern beirut suburb robert fisk was one of the first to enter the palestinian camps. i've never before had to walk on carpets of dead bodies in my life and the smell was appalling and we went on the sunday morning when the car type the financials were still there the motors were still still in the camp. was back in the air and one of the nestle our

pulled out of lebanon. there were immediate presidential elections and the leader of the right wing christian phalangist but sheer gemayel who had supported the israeli incursion became the president elect of lebanon. but gemayel never took office he was assassinated twenty three days later. for the following three days the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth of september one thousand nine hundred two christian militias supported by israel took part in a massacre at the palestinian refugee camps of sub or and shatila. when news of the massacre reached the commodore hotel on the eighteenth dozens of local and foreign journalists headed straight to the southern beirut suburb. robert fisk was one of the first to enter the palestinian camps. i've never before had to walk on carpets of dead bodies in my life and the smell was appalling and we went on the saturday morning when the could time the financials were still there the motors were still still in the camp. was back in the air and one of the necessary are

and israel has been boosting its defenses along an eleven kilometer stretch of its border with lebanon since twenty fifteen. the speaker of britain's lower house of parliament says the government may be in contempt for not publishing the full legal advice on its breaks that deal m.p.'s from six parties want proceedings to be launched after the attorney general only released a summary parliament will vote next week on the green mint with the european union sri lanka's supremes court as we've been hearing a challenge to the president's decision to dissolve parliament and call snap elections in a mostly part of syria seen his move has been blocked until the case is heard leaders of the yellow vests protests in france will meet president emmanuel mccraw on tuesday they're angry at rising fuel prices of protests of why didn't it did demonstrations against other policies those are the headlines now back to al-jazeera world. and have. had to be active all the have been to been to a carbon bin tomorrow this fad or until it's a problem when to see how large fish yami here isha what a limited is

and let me talk about lebanon. and i'll do it from the standpoint of my focus in syria and much of which is iran and the two major problems you cited of all three, the sunni-shia conflict, hasezbollah, and refugees. i see iran flashing before my eyes when you mention all three of them. lebanon is a victim of iran's encroachment throughout the arab world as much as syria is, although not to the same horrific degree. just as lebanon previously was a previous victim of syria's aggression as syria was tied up in its civil conflict and tomorrow it could be back doing the same sort of thing. when i look at lebanon, i see a problem.n that's simplifying things but i have to keep it at my syria focus level. if we can fix the iranian expansionism, we are in a much better place in lebanon. in terms of the refugee, the opposition is clear. we do want refugees to go home, but refugee return has to be voluntary. it has to be safe. it has to be dignified and they have to go back to areas where we believe in getting information fr

lebanon can threaten and attack israel. they will now be able to step up those efforts. there is no u.s. presence in syria. there is no u.s. seat at the table. and you can fully expect that iran is going to step up their engagement in syria with hezbollah. let me tell you why that's a problem. i'll get to that in a moment. it has to do with israel. but here's the bottom line. you can fully expect now that iran is going to step up its own presence through the irgc and through hezbollah and through the militias they have empowered in the region right on the border with israel. iran now has the ability to put weaponry and killers right across the golan heights, right on the border with israel. the other big winner in all of this of course is hezbollah. as i said, they now have expanded their area and their supply realm. i'd be remiss if i didn't mention that with all this talk of isis there is still an al qaeda presence in syria. they can change their name all they want. it's al qaeda. they have operatives in syria, and al qae

whoever let's say a kid spends forty five years on the streets if he stays in lebanon or goes back to syria the pressures he faced on the streets will remain with him he won't be able to do his work properly you know that we are talking about children instead of being at school they are being lost. out of them and this is affecting an entire generation and by that messed up he was yet nadine was as part of a team that runs the fund bus an initiative aimed at believe using the children suffering on the streets. for a couple of hours each week they can come inside the bus a safe space away from the gaze of the passers by to do arts and crafts. but the bus is by no means a sustainable solution for syrian street children in beirut it can fit a maximum of fifteen children at a time. syrian children to come first three out of four children living and working on the streets of lebanon. resources to help them are overstretched leaving children like you said an almighty with no resort but to wish for a better future. as. if an organisation would come and get me to study i would go with them ma

syrian children to come first three out of four children living and working on the streets of lebanon. the resources to help them are overstretched leaving children like yousif an almighty with no resort but to wish for a better future. as an ally is an organization would come and get me to study i would go with them maybe they would give me a better life styles i would learn english french arabica i'll be i'll be able to travel and go places. where is home. when your family is scattered across the globe. with the kids if you put it away simply because the journey back to the roots should get a minute let me. push on traveling from somalia live around. what i did urgent assistance to. the family starts january twenty third w. n e coaxing germany to learn german. emerged in the cold why not learn with him online on the mobile and free to suffer from the w.c. learning course because vick. of technology. with. the markets. of the morning world. made in germany. your business magazine d w. c.

wanted a better life for his family but their attempt to reach failed palestinian refugees in lebanon are ready to sell everything and borrow money when a smuggler offers a way out even if the route to europe is south america. we flew to ethiopia on october twenty ninth brazil where we stayed in a hotel for a night before travelling to bolivia we tried to travel to spain but we were detained for about forty eight hours before being sent back to lebanon we trusted this broker because many people including my wife's cousins managed to reach europe . spanish police believe at least one thousand two hundred palestinians from. madrid. since the beginning of this year the criminals being suspected of smuggling them through fraudulent asylum claims has since been caught but the network in lebanon is still very much operational. the so-called middleman is very well known in this refugee camp his name is. and he has reportedly helped a few thousand palestinians to europe and elsewhere and it seems lebanese authorities turn a blind eye to his activities because. courage palestinians. in recent

this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east i first went to lebanon in nine hundred seventy two as a young reporter my very first article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said this place is waiting to blow all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country surrounded by competing nations. from the one nine hundred fifty s. to the early seventy's beirut was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking elite. they roots hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making it a favorite jetsetter destination. one we speak about beirut's golden age as a suicide under the middle east we are actually talking about an area the old town district that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project my name is that of reaganism i'm a political geographer who is based at the university of birmingham i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. all a day in came quite late in the day. before it was opened it came quite late in the day in two days or tell district which was con

on the sixth of june one thousand nine hundred eighty two israel invaded lebanon. israel claimed it wanted to take out the p.l.o. the rocket launcher positions but there was more than that to the israeli action. these. really siege of beirut was one of the bloodiest episodes of the whole sorry conflict. the destruction was enormous and twenty thousand lebanese and palestinians were killed and nearly fifty thousand wounded. amid the mayhem the commodore hotel became the de facto ministry of information. lebanese photo journalist ramzi hyder was at the commodore during the israeli invasion. but. in the early days of the israeli invasion of lebanon use of stockpiled large amounts of fuel food and cash millions of dollars he said enough for the hotel residents and stand for the months to come. also lent journalists money. money. flows better. life for the commodore base journalists joining the invasion was tough. west beirut was under siege with constant israeli air raids and reportedly indiscriminate shelling. but they told the real story. i think the siege of us it w

it is six in the morning and lebanon's bekaa valley. year old some i just woke up a splash of cold water in the face and she is ready for work is tiny makeshift bed with three of her six siblings. she doesn't go to school there are no schools in the camp where would she go to school so may as mother is sick and cannot go to work her older siblings also work but so my is still needs to pitch in to help the family make ends meet so instead of getting on a school bus so my eye gets under strike every morning where she is the only child among many adults. for two dollars a day collects whatever crop is ready for harvest in the bekaa valley. today it is onions and her hands are too little for the gloves the adults around her where. i came here from home today can collect the onions but i would rather have toys to play with. three quarters of syrian refugees in lebanon live under the poverty line according to unicef an estimated one hundred eighty thousand syrian refugee children. have been forced into child labor in the country so a lot more

who and what that are let's say a kid spends four to five years on the streets if he stays in lebanon or goes back to syria the pressures he faced on the streets will remain with him he won't be able to do his work properly you. know we are talking about children instead of being at school they are being asked. about that and this is affecting an entire generation and i would never have that as soon as he was yet nadine was as part of a team that runs the fund bus an initiative aimed at believe using the children suffering on the streets. for a couple of hours each week they can come inside the bus a safe space away from the gaze of the passers by to do arts and crafts. but the bus is by no means a sustainable solution for syrian street children in beirut it can fit a maximum of fifteen children at a time. syrian children account for three out of four children living and working on the streets of lebanon. resources to help them are overstretched leaving children like yousif an almighty with no resort but to wish for a better future. life is an organization would come and get me to stu

on the sixth of june one thousand nine hundred eighty two israel invaded lebanon. israel claimed it wanted to take out the p.l.o. the rocket launcher positions but there was more than that to the israeli action. these. really siege of beirut was one of the bloodiest episodes of the whole sorry conflict. the destruction was enormous and twenty thousand lebanese and palestinians were killed and nearly fifty thousand wounded. amid the mayhem the commodore hotel became the de facto ministry of information. lebanese photo journalist ramzi hyder was at the commodore jury in the israeli invasion. but. given this it is a. question of people. in the early days of the israeli invasion of lebanon use of stockpiled large amounts of fuel food and cash millions of dollars he said enough for the hotel residents and stand for the months to come. also lent journalists money. money. flows better. life for the commodore base journalists joining the invasion was tough. west beirut was under siege with constant israeli air raids and reportedly indiscriminate shelling. but they told the

joins us live from in southern lebanon welcome back to the news what's going on with you today. peter called prevails along this volatile border u.n. peacekeepers the lebanese army they've stepped up patrols they've stepped up their presence along this border and that this if we just zoom in you could actually see the israeli army with diggers trying to search for those tunnels that the israeli army believes were dug by hezbollah original originating from villages in south lebanon and crossing into israeli territory what we understand from the israeli army is that they have discovered one tunnels are not saying how many tunnels they believe have been dug there has been no comment or reaction from the lebanese armed group hezbollah on these allegations neither has there been any comment from the u.n. peacekeeping force which should be monitoring the cease fire. along this border because if indeed these tunnels were built by hezbollah and if indeed these tunnels were built since the two thousand and six war then they would be in clear violation of un resolution seventeen zero one

pulled out of lebanon. there were immediate presidential elections and the leader of the right wing christian phalangist but sheer gemayel who had supported the israeli incursion became the president elect of lebanon. but gemayel never took office he was assassinated twenty three days later. for the following three days the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth of september one thousand nine hundred two christian militias supported by israel took part in a massacre at the palestinian refugee camps of sub or and shatila. when news of the massacre reached the commodore hotel on the eighteenth dozens of local and foreign journalists headed straight to the southern beirut suburb. robert fisk was one of the first to enter the palestinian camps. i've never before had to walk on carpets of dead bodies in my life and the smell was appalling and we went on the saturday morning when the could type the financials were still there murders were still still in the camp. was a good idea and one of the necessary are who was

i've served in lebanon three times so it's been a big part of my life and paul, you may not know this, we had discussed it this way but in each of those three silent, the salem family played an important part in my life. when i first arrived there as a wet behind the ears political officer, paul's mother phyllis was a tiller of the american lebanese community and was a leader in organizations such as amity east beirut which by the end of the civil war was one of the few institutions still survivinglinking america and lebanon together at that time. i came back in dcm and paul was my primary interaction and the relationship was getting stronger . we had more interactions more visitors from congress, ngos, from around town and they were hungry for information so we often took them to paul was willing to spend his time in order to help educate american visitors on the reality of lebanon and what was the best way to promote american lebanese interests and relationships and when i went back as ambassador i had the opportunity to interact with his father, foreign minister of lebanon in the 8

this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east i first went to lebanon in nine hundred seventy two as a young reporter my very first article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said this place is waiting to blow or it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country surrounded by competing nations. from the one nine hundred fifty s. to the early seventy's beirut was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking elite. they roots hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making it a favorite jetsetter destination. when we speak about beirut's golden age as to switzerland the communities we are actually talking about an area the old town district that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project. my name is sarah freeganism i'm a political geographer based at the university of birmingham i am interested in hotels and urban conflict all day in came quite late in the day. before it was opened it came quite late in the day in two days. district which was considered a playgrou

israel unleashed another massive air attack on palestinian guerrilla targets in lebanon today from a sky. full of israeli jets bombing bombing. in the summer of one thousand nine hundred two israel invaded neighboring lebanon in an attempt to drive the palestinian liberation organization out of its incumbents on the southern border with israel what's an israeli army doing here in beirut the answer is that we are now dealing with an imperial israel which is solving its problems in someone else's country world opinion be damned the israeli invasion of lebanon in one thousand nine hundred two was a watershed it was israel breaking out beyond its immediate region to aggressively attack another country and it was a bit of a shock to many people in the interests of self-defense that gallant little underdog israel as suddenly started behaving like a neighborhood bully by the time the war was over the israeli military would kill seventeen thousand lebanese and palestinians and the other thirty thousand almost all of them civilians and when they were over twenty injured you become a wide ever

this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east i first went to lebanon in nine hundred seventy two as a young reporter my very first article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said this place is waiting to blow or it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country surrounded by competing nations. from the one nine hundred fifty s. to the early seventy's beirut was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking elite. they roots hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making it a favorite jetsetter destination. one we speak about beirut's golden age as the switzerland of the middle east we are actually talking about an area the old town district that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project my name is sarah freeganism i'm a political geographer based at the university of birmingham i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. all day in came quite late in the day. united seventy four it was open and it came quite late in the day in two days . district which was co

years it has been targeting iran and its assets in syria but it seems as of late the focus now is on lebanon because russia in one way or another is clipping iran's wings in syria it knows to stabilize syria and to get the international community on board it's going to need to weaken iran's presence in syria so the focus now in lebanon on israel's aim is to try to contain hezbollah is growing strength that will not be easy because the group is not only heavily armed it is a controlling parliament and it has the say in the next government the u.s. special counsel has recommended no jail time for president donald trump's former national secure. city advisor michael flynn saying he's cooperated substantially with the russia investigation says mr flynt provided information about interactions between trump's team and russian government officials as the president was transitioning into office clinton pleaded guilty in december twenty seventh teen to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia he's the only member of trump's administration to admit guilt to a crime uncovered during his inves

wanted to end the armed palestinian presence in lebanon and. on the other one muslim left wing parties allied with the p.l.o. and backed by the soviet union they saw the right wing christians a simply an extension of israeli and american influence in the country. when the war broke out an army of foreign journalists headed to beirut including the former b.b.c. middle east correspondent tim llewellyn all of whom wanted a safe place to stay. in november one thousand nine hundred seventy five i was taking what turned out to be one of the last n.e.a. flights into beirut from london which was virtually empty except for a few journalists and use of massaro who i didn't know but of course was that it was to turn out that he was the manager of the commodore. so he drew me he took out a piece of paper and a pen and he drew from me the various sections of beirut who controlled what where you could go safely i said the use of what we needed was a base the next time i went to beirut. use of it created this fantastic hotel in the space of a few weeks the co

the israeli army launches an operation to tackle what it calls cross border attacks from lebanon of by hezbollah. as i'm speaking this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up u.s. senators will finally hear from the cia boss we've heard recordings of journalists killing. a legal battle in sri lanka as the country struggles with a growing political crisis. we have arrived. and a nasa mission gets close to an asteroid which could tell us more about the origins of the universe. hello israel's military has launched an operation an operation saying it will expose and fought cross border attacks from lebanon by the armed group hezbollah israeli army says the iranian backed group is using a number of tunnels to cross beneath its northern border israel's been boosting defenses along an eleven kilometer stretch of the border since twenty eight fifteen . other director of the cia will brief u.s. senate leaders on the killing of saudi journalists on tuesday genius pulls absence from a trumpet ministration briefing on u.s. relations with saudi arabia last week sparked controversy ashaji was mu

peacekeeping force in lebanon says it will send a fact finding team to the border with israel on thursday. comes after lebanon's parliamentary speaker said israel has provided no evidence to back up its assertion that tunnels have been dug beneath the shared border israel launched an operation in the border area on choose day with its military saying it was destroying tunnels to counter a threat from hezbollah in any future conflict is that on the lebanon israel border . com prevails along this volatile border u.n. peacekeeping troops the lebanese army they've stepped up their presence they've stepped up patrols a day after israel announced an operation to find and destroy tunnels it alleges have been dug by the lebanese armed group hezbollah in the distance you can see of a should work under way israel saying that these tunnels are part of hezbollah's offensive plan they believe in any future conflict hezbollah's going to move the battlefield into israeli territory as well as secretary general has on the stroller has indicated a few years ago that that would be the cause they would no lo

this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east i first went to lebanon in nine hundred seventy two as a young reporter my very first article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said this place is waiting to blow all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country surrounded by competing nations. from the one nine hundred fifty s. to the early seventy's beirut was a magnet for the international pleasure seeking elite. they would say hotel district was at the heart of its luxury tourism economy making it a favorite jetsetter destination. one we speak about beirut's golden age as to switzerland of the middle east we are actually talking about an area the old town district that is the very specific product of a precise geopolitical project my name is sarah freeganism i'm a political geographer based at the university of birmingham i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. all a day in came quite late in the day. before it was opened it came quite late in the day in two days or tell district which was consi

syrian children account for three out of four children living and working on the streets of lebanon. resources to help them are overstretched leaving children like you said an almighty with no resort but to wish for a better future. as it. is an organization that come and get me to study i would go with them maybe they would give me a better life i would learn english french arabica. i would be able to travel and go places. and the arts twenty one special. day till then each moment i wus campus punch a. younger musicians from germany and india to explore each other's musical it's the result of. a breath taking concert at the beethoven fest in bond. street. european stars deliver rousing performance of. three siblings from britain's. kitty. daisy's i am lewis. they're making waves with their cool retro sound. comes from. your link to news from africa and the world join us on facebook at d. w. africa. everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. the right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference. and to seek receive and impart information and ideas to medi

whoever let's say a kid spends four to five years on the streets if he stays in lebanon or goes back to syria the pressures he faced on the streets will remain with him he won't be able to do his work properly that's not what we are talking about children instead of being at school they are being lost. out of them and this is affecting an entire generation of our that was that he was here nadine was as part of a team that runs the fund bus an initiative aimed at believe using the children suffering on the streets. for a couple of hours each week they can come inside the bus a safe space away from the gaze of the passers by to do arts and crafts. but the bus is by no means a sustainable solution for syrian street children but you don't it can fit a maximum of fifteen children at a time. syrian children to come first three out of four children living and working on the streets of lebanon. resources to help them are overstretched leaving children like you said an almighty with no resort but to wish for a better future. as an enemy. is an organization would come and get me to study i wou

israel unleashed another massive air attack on palestinian guerrilla targets in lebanon today from a sky. full of israeli jets bombing bombing. and the summer of one thousand nine hundred two israel invaded neighboring lebanon in an attempt to drive the palestinian liberation organization out of its income and some southern border with israel what's an israeli army doing here in beirut the answer is that we are now dealing with an imperial israel which is solving its problems in someone else's country world opinion be damned the israeli invasion of lebanon in one thousand nine hundred two was a watershed it was israel breaking out beyond its immediate region to aggressively attack another country and it was a bit of a shock to many people in the interests of self-defense that gallant little underdog israel as suddenly started behaving like a neighborhood bully by the time the war was over the israeli military would kill seventeen thousand lebanese and palestinians and the other thirty thousand of them civilians and when they were over one hundred you become. ever think only. three. h

lebanon location. i want to brighten up the place by putting in subway-tile walls and new light fixtures. a new counter and serving area will be built to improve and streamline the ordering process. new tables, new equipment, and new floors. in all, i'm spending $85,000 of the $350,000 i invested. it's a big renovation for a pretty small space. hey, guys. -mike: hey, how are you? -kathleen: hi! lemonis: i'm really excited to gather up the franchisees at market square. i want to show them the new look and the new name -- the simple greek. lemonis: so, this name came from a branding expert. kathleen: um, "simple greek"? i'm offended. mike: the feeling that i get is that when you say, "the simple greek," it's almost, like, condescending. like you're calling them somebody not too smart, like a very simple person, like a simple arse. it's a matter of semantics, if you will. lemonis: now, with all due respect, you're not greek. i'm greek. i'm not offended by it. i don't feel like you're calling me stupid. ka

the israeli army begins dismantling tunnels along its border with lebanon . brags it can still be shut down that's the opinion of the advocate general of the european court of justice. or the french government is planning to suspend the proposed fuel tax hike that sparked weeks of increasingly violent protests that's according to reports in the french media it follows the worst riots in paris for decades on saturday yellow vests protests brought streets to a standstill nationwide for the past three weekends so let's get more on this from a david chase in paris so david if this happens there will be something of a climb down for the french government wouldn't it. it is without a doubt a climb down but how far are they going to climb back from that policies with getting more details. of the fuel tax rise was during january the first it's going to be delayed until july the first libya a six month moratorium on that and we're also getting. an idea of other gestures he's going to make this will be an announcement from the the prime minister for leave from his offi

high percentage of garbage in lebanon this turned into compost. the problem was before the crisis is that all the stories would go to a land for when the crisis happened this was the instigation to build a facility like this one where you have sorting and composting and where nothing goes to the end for in order the intimidating. but that's not all on the roof of this refugee center in beirut he's putting some of the recycled waste to good use. of the chalk his company makes what he calls eco boards out of plastic waste they used to create raised beds for the chicle gardening the bedsit filled with compost generated from the organic waste. the rooftop offers over one hundred square meters of space on which to grow vegetables there are three thousand plants here in all. a group of women at the refugee home have set up a catering service using the vegetables it's their own company. yeah i'm back here and. i have been. out there might all have that good. income. for my wife and. me while eddie batar from the beach cleanup campaign is pursuing new sol

states looking for a way out palestinian refugees seeking new routes to meet desperate conditions in lebanon. so the government who killed at least three people in the french city of strasbourg is on the run from stepped up border controls as police try to track him down these twelve people were also injured when the attack opened finding a christmas market in the city center and talked about that as a report. police cordoned off the area around stress books christmas markets after the shooting. while medical workers evacuated victims. what should have been a night of pleasure for shoppers and tourists had turned into a nightmare is all pondered over i heard several shots and thought maybe it's firecrackers also a lot of people running skied crying kids and all and then when i saw people crying in the crowd leaving i said it was a shooting right next door my. city officials said the gunman went on a shooting spree just before eight o'clock in the evening local time before fleeing they urged people to stay indoors as police search for the suspect. france's president emanuel might call held a

lebanon so we could do anything just. so we can. help the local authorities are absent when it comes to waste management and i think we should put it on record that while we were running to clean this part of the beach because we saw the mayor walking in the opposite direction and we asked him to come help and lead by example and he said he was too busy. three years ago local residents forced the closure of what was then the main local dump garbage was left to mount up in the streets of beirut as garbage collection services was simply suspended. heads up the nature conservation center at the american university of beirut she says the government lets the crisis happen despite repeated warnings it will happen again because we don't seen from the government any plan to implement a sound waste management solution so it will happen in some cities but in some other cities where positive change has been implementing it will not happen. these days garbage collection is once again working normally in beirut but the trash is simply taken to a

granted bail in a case that ties in trade tensions with the united states and looking for a way out of lebanon palestinian refugees seeking new routes to escape desperate conditions. to the big news out of the u.k. where the bags of drama has triggered a challenge to to reason may's leadership of her party conservative m.p.'s will vote in the coming hours to decide her fate prime minister may responded to finally saying she will face the vote of confidence with everything she has got she insists the challenge for more than forty eight of her own m.p.'s risks derailing the entire brigs of process. a change of leadership in the conservative party now will put our country's future at risk and create uncertainty when we can least afford it . a new leader wouldn't be in place by the twenty first of january legal deadline so a leadership election risks handing control of the bricks in negotiations to opposition m.p.'s in parliament the new leader wouldn't have time to renegotiate a withdrawal agreement and get the legislation through parliament by the twenty ninth of march so one of their first acts