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A country which has, of course, dominated lebanon from time to time, and there's been a lot of bad blood between them? the syrian army was in lebanon up until 2005, when they withdrew, and some of the lebanese consider that lebanon was under syrian occupation, while others think that syria is a friend and was here to help lebanon. but also, to be fair to the situation, a lot of lebanese have very strong bonds to syrians as well. the people who feel, you know, the most cold in this situation are the refugees themselves, because from their perspective, they don't want to go to syria, they don't ...

And, of course, the population of cyprus has swelled quite considerably, hasn't it, as a result of refugees going there? in the last year, uh, and according to the ministry of interior in cyprus, the number of, you know, illegal immigrants who left from lebanon to cyprus has increased 27 fold. cyprus said, "i can't take any more." and what they did, they came to lebanon to tell lebanon that, "you have to help us crack down on this movement of illegal immigrants," and they might, you know, discover that the only way to do this is probably to work together, rather than each one blaming the other...

Parts or majority stakes in things like the shard, sainsbury�*s, the london stock exchange, barclays, and they've invested billions in this country. but they are controversial at the moment, because they provide a home to hamas, to the political wing, the external political wing of hamas. a lot of israelis will say, "what do you mean, the external wing, the political wing ? there's no such difference, they're all terrorists, all of them." but qatar doesn't view things quite that way. qatar is very much on the side of political islam, and that's why it was up on the naughty step recently for ...

And israel have done it immense damage. this is the famous corniche... when i was in beirut recently, i was shocked by the number of beggars on the streets — people who've been forced out of their homes in syria by the civil war there. now, perhaps unsurprisingly, a backlash against the refugees is growing in lebanon. i spoke to carine torbey, the bbc�*s beirut correspondent. there is absolutely no end in sight for this crisis. lebanon is already overwhelmed with its own problems, which are massive. this is a country with a very delicate demographic balance. so this is all coming together ...

As an issue in recent years. will that change? will that continue? all of that depends entirely on the numbers, on what happens afterwards. you know, if the conservative party wins, then obviously rishi sunak will, for the first time, have a mandate, which he hadn't had before. and i think it would be fascinating to see what change he brings to the conservative party then, if that's what happens. as it happens, more than 60 countries are holding elections during the course of this year. 0ne country which wasn't expecting to is the islamic republic of iran, whose president raisi was killed in a...