BBCNEWS HARDtalk July 2, 2024
foreign minister abdallah bou habib in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr foreign minister, ijust wonder whether right now it feels to you like this conflict is spiralling out of control. you are watching it from beirut as the war rages in gaza between israel and hamas. but do you fear it is going to spread much wider? well, we are afraid that it may spread. but i can say that i am now less pessimistic than i was at the beginning. i think here there is a conviction, at least in lebanon, that we don't want war. we have a lot of problems economic, political and social problems,...