And france have intervened in lebanons political crisis calling for stability in the country and declaring support for the Prime Minister saad hariri harry announced he was stepping down while in riyadh earlier this month blaming interference from iran and its lebanese ally has meanwhile has balas leader has accused saudi arabia of detaining how every and not allowing him to return home so what are reports. Citizens of saudi arabia and its gulf allies visiting or living in lebanon are leaving its not the first time gulf countries tell their citizens it is not safe to stay lebanon has long been entangled in the saudi iranian power struggle across the region but the latest warning heightened tensions after the resignation of lebanons Prime Minister saad hetty but alongside the tensions there are growing signs of lebanese unity and what many see as saudi interference in their country saturday his resignation was sudden raising concerns about the circumstances behind the decision there is
Against using the country for proxy conflicts promise to solve had resigned while in riyadh last saturday blaming interference from the iran and its lebanese ally hezbollah saying a holder has the latest from beirut. Saddam how do you use the faith is still open to question lebanon has been Holding Contacts with western as well as arab diplomats to find out and seek information about you know the whereabouts of the well being of their Prime Minister yes they believe he is in the saudi capital but lebanese leaders from across the political spectrum including saddam had even his own Political Party believe that he is being held against his will that he is somehow under house arrest and his freedom of movement as per tailed and all of the different lebanese factions of course theres a deeply divided country with a deep political divide right now theyre there theyre putting this aside and they are uniting all of them calling on the need for heidi to return to the country for more than one
State television showing him meeting king solomon to riyadh airport how did these white abide so being shrouded in mystery in recent days have been suggestions hes under house arrest xina holder has more from beirut. Posters are springing up across the lebanese capital beirut expressing support to. The resigned Prime Minister whose fate really is unknown Uncertain Times in lebanon the country finding itself crossroads for the past year this country and toward relative stability in a very turbulent region but things have changed and lebanon finds itself in the middle of the saudi iranian rivalry playing out across the region its been like him and i think for quite some time since two thousand and five i guess its when he really thinks things are really assassination. And we have two polls like saudi arabia and iran and those two polls have people on the ground iran has done this others economics and in the middle of all this i think and live on a lot of special editions what they do bes
Least two hundred seven people have been killed in an estimated eighteen hundred more injured and the rescue teams and aid are on route to the areas near the epicenter thirty kilometers southwest of the iraqi town of her charlotte ballasts reports. Hospital homes with the wounded in western iran a seven point three magnitude earthquake shaking it into life i fell from a balcony it was so fast i just usually has more pieces of glass fell on my hand and it got injured and new arrivals from remote towns swell the hospital to capacity but i thought of those that are theres a lot during the earthquake my hand hit the glass on the glass broke going into my face and hand. The flow is stating as more people are found in the rubble the death toll rises to. The earthquake was centered on the iraq iran border near the iraqi town of her larger striking at nine eighteen local time. It was very strange sunday the glasses dropped off the table the fan was shaking we were so afraid we had to run out o