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 allies in the parliament would call to strengthen is in the parliament which would mean there s a legislations that come about that would be watched his would prefer this essentially would also deepen the divide between iran and saudi arabia levanon is a proxy battleground between showdown and sunni saudi arabia and of course it s
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 and iran on the other who s in the ascendancy right now who has the upper hand at the moment. i guess the short answer is is neither really i think when you look at saudi iranian or even interest in yemen it s important to remember that they re coming coming at it from a different set of sentences different set of needs the iranian the out there who
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 responsible for palestinian refugees said it supplied urgent aid monday to around 500 civilians who fled yarmouk. a human rights organization says isis and militant group control