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Iran are on the rise the power struggle between the two arch rivals has now spilled over into lebanon whose prime minister saad hariri unexpectedly resigned while on a visit to saudi arabia lebanon's powerful has bullets he is accusing said arabia of detaining hariri and now the u.n. and the u.s. or warning riyadh not to use the country as an arena for proxy conflicts. kuwaiti citizens heading out of lebanon that government is one of several gulf states that has ordered its people to leave the country this comes amid sharpening tensions in the region lebanon is being drawn deeper into a power ...

Import the fish they eat and if they want to sell scottish farms. langoustines etc to the confidence then they should be reasonable and it's that slipped out and it's a fair deal that we can keep fishing in their waters as we have done for five hundred years. the united nations and the us have both told saudi arabia not to use lebanon as an arena for proxy conflicts now the warning comes after a week of rising tensions the trans saudi arabia and iran riyadh earlier accused lebanon objects are in war because the iranian backed militant group hezbollah is part of the government there and amid th...

Conflicts in the ukraine and syria, which in effect, these are proxy conflicts like we saw in the cold war. they have got their troops, their aircraft, their weapons in the combat zone and we do as well. we support the other side of conflict, sometimes not one against the other, it's parallel, it's kind of messy. these are proxy conflicts. when you engage in a proxy conflicts, if you have a provocative action, even if it's routine, even if it's an accident on the interstate, that can really explode. >> jon: on monday, the u.s. sent out a couple fighter jets to intercept and escort the russians...

Criticism in syria, nor by the criticisms of putin and his antics around the world. >> how big a deal is it, though, accusing russia for being responsible for every civilia death in syria? >> it's an extraordinary accusation. it's basically saying that russia is complicit, deeply complicit with the syrian rescream and the murder, the torture, the terrorism against syrian citizens. as you and i have discussed many times, one of the complexities against syria is it's a set of competing civil wars with a set of proxy conflicts stacked on top of it, which is why syria has always been so complex, b...

And fraught with challenges but i think it's very important with what they've begun to achieve. >> let's talk about vladimir putin and russia and their air campaign and where that might be going and the relationship between both the united states and russia and the others in the coalition. where do you see that standing right now, steve? >> it's a very tight knot and i think we shouldn't have any illusions that tomorrow russia and the united states will automatically be on the same side. russia is allied with bashar al sad and the syrian forces and we are not. that's going to continue to be pr...