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By Akram Kharief

Correspondent who is following the story for us from beirut welcome to you what do these elections in lebanon reveal about the power struggles that are currently underway in the country and in the region as a whole. well first about lebanon lebanon is deeply divided society on sectarian lines and that's the legacy of the civil war in many ways and the result of the elections in a way reinforces these fault lines the sea has of water the certain way the sunni's of water to settle in still have the christians but the result of these elections which essentially is a majority for his will and its ...

Yemen's borders it's become a fierce struggle for regional dominance between saudi arabia which backs the government and iran which backs the who the rebels as the battle for regional control grows so does the enormous toll on civilian lives that the u.n. calls it the world's worst manmade humanitarian disaster. and to talk more about this we're joined now from beirut by adam baron he's from the european council on foreign relations and has extensive experience in yemen adam thanks for joining us this morning. yemen has become as we saw there a proxy battleground for saudi arabia on one hand a...

Been a proxy battleground. they're going to have to somehow align. they can defeat isis, but not alone. cnn, baghdad. >> and isis' agenda also includes the destruction of iraqi and syrian cultural heritage sites as well. they release add propaganda video of an ancient city. they can be seen attacking the archaeological site using sledgehammers before they finally blow it up. it was a city in 900 to 612 b.c. and the united nations says it's doing all it can to help civilians trapped by isis in syria. the u.n. agency responsible says it has supplied urgent aid on

There are concerns not only in iraq but the whole region, there are concerns in the meddling affairs of each other's country. there has been a spread in the region. i think we have our own sense. iraq is a neighboring country to iran. some countries have their own problem to iran. >> a tough sell as iraq has long been a proxy battleground for various nations and interests. that are going to have to somehow align. iraq and al abadi says can defeat isis but not alone. >> the united nations says it is doing it can to help civilians trapped inside the yarmouk refugee camp in syria. the u.n. agency...