LInks to Iran. LInks to Iran. He was one of the best known he was one of the best known and most InfluentIal fIgures In the MIddle East. Born In 1960, Hassan Nasrallah grew up In beIrut s Eastern Bourj Hammoud neIghbourhood. He became leader of hezbollah In 1992, at the age of 32, after hIs predecessor was assassInated. He played a Key Role In turnIng hezbollah Into a powerful polItIcal and mIlItary force. Under hIs leadershIp, he helped hezbollah TraIn Hundreds of fIghters from the palestInIan MIlItant Group hamas. And he also obtaIned mIssIles and rockets from Iran for use agaInst Israel. Lets speak to anna foster, our mIddle East Correspondent In beIrut. Talk us through exactly what we know about what happened there. ThIs Is a really crucIal moment now. Last nIght, about 6 20pm here In beIrut, we had thIs huge serIes of explosIons a few kIlometres from where I am now In dahIeh, In the Southern Suburbs, a hezbollah stronghold. We saw pIctures quIckly of absolute destructIon comIng ou
The Obama Administration. He spoke at the annual Aspen Institute security forum. Welcome back to the aspen security forum. Going to have a session with my friend tony blanken called foreignpolicy choices for 2021. Introduce both of our panelists. Tony doesnt need an introductionto most people for watching. We became friends and worked together long ago. President clinton at the National Security council had a very distinguished career in public service. As many of you know he was staff director for the Us Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Obama Administration and those eight years he was assistant to president obama and Principal Deputy National Security adviser. It was National Security advisor to Vice President biden and deputy secretary of state for president obama and Vice President biden. Is now senior Foreign Policy advisor to Vice President biden in the Biden Campaign and its great to have tony blanken with us and hes going to be interviewed by jerry side, executive edi
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A mass grave last month. Set back for peace colombia pulls out of talks with the countrys second largest rebel group. Is sandal a different a train coming down the. Survivors recall moments of horror as mudslides kill over a dozen people in california. And a political standoff over Immigration Reform threatens to shut down the u. S. Government. And military has admitted its soldiers killed ten by hand to muslims captured by that is filters their remains were found in a mass grave and Rakhine State last month the armys commander in chief has promised to take action against all soldiers this is thought to be the militarys first public admission of wrongdoing sense it launched a crackdown in august a Group Doctors without borders says at least six to seven hundred were henschel were killed in that operation that the army. Thats the number at around four hundred the end ascribes the campaign is a textbook case of ethnic cleansing b. M. R. Claims it was targeting bengali terrorist more than