SHOTLIST

Tripoli

1. Tanks and soldiers in the streets of residential area

2. Soldiers firing from armoured vehicles at building occupied by militants

3. Various of soldiers in gun battle

4. Wounded soldier being lifted onto stretcher

5. Ambulance driving past

6. Zoom in on journalist wounded with leg injury and medic dressing the wound

++AUDIO IS MUTE++

7. Wounded Lebanese soldier being carried away

Tripoli

8. Armed Islamic militants firing from roof of building

9. Militants on roof of building

10. Lebanese army troops running across street and firing at building

11. Soldier firing at building

Tripoli

12. Front of building damaged by fire and bullet holes

13. Bodies of dead militants on ground +++GRAPHIC+++

14. Fire still smouldering in building used by militants

15. Tilt down of badly damaged building

16. Militants' weapons on ground

17. Various of dead militants +++GRAPHIC+++

18. Burnt out cars

Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp

19. Paramedics gathered round back of ambulance, wounded soldier on stretcher

Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp

20. Convoy of tanks travelling on Tripoli to Beirut highway

21. Lebanese soldiers at highway roadblock

22. Tank firing missile on target inside refugee camp

Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp

23. Lebanese soldiers spreading out along concrete barrier on road leading to camp

24. Wide shot road leading to camp, military vehicles, AUDIO: gunfire

25. Zoom into smoke rising from camp, pull out to wide

26. Tank on the move, group of soldiers

27. Closer shot group of soldiers, including one carrying hand held rocket launcher

Beirut

28. Wide of news conference

29. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saad Hariri, parliament majority leader:

"Today what happened was an attempt to kill our soldiers and policemen. This is a blow to Lebanese security. The International Tribunal is coming. Nobody will stop it. There is a conspiracy that they are making right and left."

30. Reporters

31. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saad Hariri, parliament majority leader:

"I don't think that there is any support for Fatah Al-Islam from any Lebanese political party and whoever supports them, let him announce it."

32. Hariri leaving news conference

++NIGHT SHOTS ++

Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp

33. Convoy of military vehicles driving along road

34. Armoured cars driving past

STORYLINE:

A fierce gunbattle in Lebanon fought on the streets of the predominantly Sunni city of Tripoli and in a Palestinian refugee camp close by left at least 22 soldiers and 17 Islamic militants dead on Sunday.

Dozens more were wounded.

It was the worst violence Lebanon's second largest city had witnessed in two decades.

The clashes between troops surrounding the Nahr el-Bared camp and fighters from the militant Fatah Islam began early in the morning shortly after police raided a militant-occupied apartment and a gunbattle erupted, witnesses said.

Ten militants were killed in the building in Tripoli and seven in the refugee camp, security officials said.

Abu Salim, a spokesman for Fatah Islam, only confirmed two militants died and five were wounded inside the camp as a result of the shelling.

Several bodies could be seen lying among the debris of rubble, broken glass and burned out cars as Lebanese forces overpowered the occupants.

A senior security official later said a high-ranking member of Fatah Islam, known as Abu Yazan, was among those killed.

The group is considered by some Lebanese officials to be a radical Sunni Muslim group with ties to al-Qaida, or at least al-Qaida style militancy and doctrine.

Some anti-Syrian government officials claim the group is a front for Syrian military intelligence aimed at destabilising Lebanon although both Syria and the group deny any links to each other.

Several observers on Sunday were openly hostile, with many heard to applaud as the army began pounding shells at the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp where the militant group has headquarters.

The camp is also home to tens of thousands of Palestinians who took refuge there to escape the fighting in Israel.

Residents in the camp reported at least 12 civilians killed or wounded.

The figure could not be confirmed: Lebanese authorities have no presence there.

The fighting threatens to further destabilise a conflict-ridden Lebanon that is facing its worst political fall out between the Western-backed government and pro-Syrian opposition since the end of the 1975-90 civil war.

Tripoli has not seen violence on this scale since 1986, when Syrian troops, who were then in control, fought a rebellion in the city.

Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said the fighting was a dangerous attempt at hitting Lebanese security and called on the Lebanese to rally behind the government.

Saad Hariri, head of Lebanon's largest Sunni political faction and leader of the country's parliamentary majority, urged supporters to cooperate with authorities.

Hariri, who met for talks with Prime Minister Fouad Saniora in Beirut, told reporters afterwards that the violence may have been linked to efforts to set up an international tribunal that would try the killers of his father, former Premier Rafik Hariri.

Hariri was assassinated in February 2005.

"This is a blow to Lebanese security. The International Tribunal is coming. Nobody will stop it," Hariri said.

Military presence remained strong in and around Tripoli after nightfall on Sunday.

SHOTLIST

November 21, 2006

1. Tracking shot showing soldiers and crowd around Pierre Gemayel's car

2. Front shot of damaged car

3. Bullet holes in Gemayel's car window

4. Bullet holes in door on other side of car, zoom in to bloody interior of car

5. Soldiers making their way to scene

November 21, 2006

6. Wide of news conference room

7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Fuad Saniora, Lebanese Prime Minister:

"To your lovely parents, to your wife and children, to all who love you and to all free men, I pledge to you that your blood will not go in vain."

8. Wide of conference ending

9. Cutaway close-up of Lebanese flag

10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Emile Lahoud, Lebanese President:

"This speech was meant for the Lebanese, meant to congratulate them for independence day. But we were all Lebanese surprised by this criminal act that killed Pierre Gemayel at this time. Who ever committed this crime is following crimes that started with (the assassination of the) late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and because of this, I tell you, that at this particular time we have to be united."

++Night Shots++

11. Crowd gathered outside hospital

12. Walid Jumblatt, a prominent Druse politician in the anti-Syrian coalition, making his way through the crowd

13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Walid Jumblatt, Prominent Druse politician in the anti-Syrian coalition:

"We won't let them divide us in Lebanon and the international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for political assassinations in Lebanon will come soon.''

November 21, 2006

++Night Shots++

14. Wide exterior of St. Joseph's hospital

November 21, 2006

++Night Shots++

15. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Amin Gemayel, father of Pierre Gemayel and former Lebanese President:

"Today Pierre died as a martyr for his cause. All I ask from the people who loved Pierre is to protect the cause, Pierre killed for the cause of Lebanon, for the cause of freedom.''

16. Amin Gemayel being consoled by Walid Jumblatt

November 21, 2006

17. Wide of people gathered inside St. Jospeh's hospital

18. Man with poster of Pierre Gemayel, shouting

19. Men chanting

20. SOUNDBITE (English) Gemayel supporter, Vox Pop:

"We will not forget him after some months. We must work together in a very progressive way and in a peaceful way also."

November 21, 2006

++Night Shots++

21. Various of angry protesters gathering and scuffles with security personnel

22. Crowd of supporters chanting with raised fists

23. Tilt up of supporters demonstrating with poster of Pierre Gemayel

November 21, 2006

++Night Shots++

24. Fire burning on the street, with soldiers monitoring situation

25. Pan across protesters gathered near the fire

26. Crying women holding photographs of Pierre Gemayel

FILE - Recent

27. Pierre Gemayel arriving in car

28. Various of Pierre Gemayel with father Amin, a former president

FILE - 1982

29. Various of Bashir Gemayel (uncle of slain minister) in military uniform on left reviewing militia with his father (in suit), Pierre Gemayel (grandfather and namesake of slain minister)

30. Various of funeral of Bashir Gemayel

November 21, 2006

31. Pull out to wide of fires in street

STORYLINE

Pierre Gemayel, an anti-Syrian politician and scion of Lebanon's most prominent Christian family, was gunned down Tuesday in an assassination that heightened tensions amid a showdown between opponents and allies of Syria that threatens to topple the US-backed government.

Gemayel, the industry minister, was the fifth anti-Syrian figure to be killed in the past two years and the first member of the government of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora to be slain.

Saniora went on national television to call for unity and warned of "sedition" against Lebanon.

"I pledge to you that your blood will not go in vain," Saniora said, eulogising Gemayel.

Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud called for citizens to be united in this tragic time, a sentiment that was echoed by Walid Jumblatt, a prominent Druse politician in the anti-Syrian coalition.

"We won't let them divide us in Lebanon and the international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for political assassinations in Lebanon will come soon," Jumblatt said as he offered condolences to Amin Gemayel, father of the slain minister.

Amin Gemayel, a former Lebanese president, told reporters that his son had "died as a martyr".

"All I ask from the people who loved Pierre is to protect the cause, Pierre killed for the cause of Lebanon, for the cause of freedom,'' he told reporters.

The killing has sparked condemnation across the world and from crowds of supporters in Beirut.

Emotional crowds gathered in the streets, with some angry protesters scuffling with security personnel.

There were fires in the streets as many supporters pledged to keep Gemayel's memory alive.

"We will not forget him after some months. We must work together in a very progressive way and in a peaceful way also," said one supporter.

Gemayel's fatal shooting will certainly heighten the political tension in Lebanon, where the leading Muslim Shiite party Hezbollah has threatened to topple the government if it does not get a bigger say in Cabinet decision making.

Witnesses said Gemayel was shot in his car in Jdeideh, a Christian neighbourhood, his constituency on the northern edge of Beirut.

They said a car rammed Gemayel's car from behind and then an assailant stepped out and shot him at point blank range.

Gemayel was rushed to a nearby hospital seriously wounded, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) and Voice of Lebanon, the Phalange Party's radio station, reported.

The party radio later said he was dead, as did the National News Agency.

Gemayel was a member of the Phalange party and supporter of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, which is locked in a power struggle with pro-Syrian factions led by Hezbollah.

He was first elected to parliament in 2005 and was believed to be the youngest legislator in the legislature, where anti-Syrian groups dominate.

The Gemayels have been a political dynasty in Lebanon. The name is famous, and also infamous in some quarters for being a driving force behind the right wing Phalange Party - that fielded the largest Christian militia during the 1975-90 civil war between Christians and Muslims.

The slain minister of industry was the son of former President Amin Gemayel and nephew of Bashir Gemayel, a former president assassinated after the Israeli invasion in 1982 for his tacit collaboration with the Jewish state.

That assassination led to the Christian militia massacre of Palestinians in Sabra and Chatila in September 1982.

Pierre Gemayel's grandfather and namesake founded the Phalange Party in 1936 after a visit to Nazi Germany.

Gemayel is the fifth anti-Syrian figure to be assassinated in the past two years in Lebanon.

Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in a massive car bombing in February 2005.

The journalist and activist Samir Kassir and former Communist Party leader George Hawi were killed in separate car bombings in June last year.

And lawmaker and newspaper manager Gibran Tueni was killed in a car bombing in December.

LEBANON REVIEW 2014

SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/POOL/FUTURE TV

RESTRICTIONS: MIDDLE EAST EXTRA CLIENTS ONLY/NO ACCESS

LENGTH: 7.06

SHOTLIST:

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 2 January 2014

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1. Various of people crowding round the site of car bomb

2. Wide of the crowd being held back by police

3. Mid of soldiers arriving at the scene

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 16 January 2014

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4. Wide of people removing piece of cloth covering a billboard featuring image of former Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, words reading: (Arabic) "Time for Justice"

5. Close-up of digital clock showing number '1', counting the number of days the trial will take

6. Tilt-down from billboard to people gathered around sign

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 14 February 2005

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7. Various of Hariri assassination blast site with burnt out cars and emergency services attempting to control flames

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 8 March 2014

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8. Various of women marching

9. Mid of women holding posters outside the Lebanese parliament

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 6 April 2014

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10. Wide of Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam arriving at the Grand Serail

11. High shot of Salam and relatives sitting down and surrounded by the media

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tammam Salam, Lebanese Prime Minister:

"I am sure we will be able to put matters in the right perspective taking into consideration what our people, what the Lebanese, are looking forward to."

AP Television

Tripoli, Lebanon - 3 April 2014

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13. Pan across Syrian refugees at UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) registration centre

14. Tilt-up from Syrian refugee child Omar to his mother Bushra, who is the one millionth Syrian refugee to be registered in the region

15. Bushra and her children accompanied by UNHCR employee

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 12 November 2014

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++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Maha Yahya, Carnegie Centre for Middle Eastern Studies:

"The challenge today is waking up to the realisation that this is a very protracted conflict. It's not going to end tomorrow. It's going to take some time. We don't know how long, but there is a large number of people who are not going home soon."

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 23 April 2014

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17. Pan of lawmaker and former army commander, Michel Aoun, arriving at parliament

18. Pan of lawmaker and former Prime Minister, Fouad Saniora (right) arriving

19. Pan of presidential candidate Henry Helou (left) and lawmaker Akram Shohayeb arriving

Pool

Beirut, Lebanon - 23 April 2014

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20. Various of lawmakers counting votes

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 19 November 2014

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21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sami Nader, Middle East affairs analyst and Professor at Saint Joseph University, Beirut:

"The Lebanese missed the opportunity to elect a president 'Made In Lebanon' by May 25. After this, the problem now to get a solution you need kind of a regional consensus. You need a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, mainly. And this deal doesn't seem in (on) the horizon yet."

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 20 June 2014

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22. Wide of police standing outside the hotel in Hamra where suspects were arrested

23. Wide shot of the area where the suspects where arrested

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 25 June 2014

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24. Close-up of hotel room where a suicide bomber detonated his vest in the Savoy Hotel in Raouche, Beirut

25. Wide of first responders

26. Wide of tourists leaving the hotel on foot and answering questions from reporters

AP Television

Arsal, Lebanon - 6 August 2014

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27. Wide of smoke rising in mountain area above Arsal

28. Close-up shot of smoke rising

29. Various of army tanks pulling into Arsal

30. Various of ambulances driving into Arsal

31. Wide of soldiers riding in armoured vehicles

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 19 November 2014

++16:9++

32. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sami Nader, Middle East affairs analyst and Professor at Saint Joseph University, Beirut:

"This Arsal war showed how fragile is the situation in Lebanon. How the borders are not really controlled. And how much capabilities and support the Lebanese army need."

AP Television

Fnaydek, Lebanon - 3 September 2014

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33. Various of crowd carrying the coffin containing body of Lebanese soldier Sergeant Ali Sayid, moving towards mosque, AUDIO: gun fire

34. Poster showing Sayid

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 19 November 2014

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35. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sami Nader, Middle East affairs analyst and Professor at Saint Joseph University, Beirut:

"The Lebanese army in a way was victim. Yes, the Lebanese army was isolated. It's the only remaining Lebanese institution. One has to keep in mind that we don't have a president, there is a void at the level of the presidency, the parliament is practically freezed, all what they have achieved is to prolong their own mandate, to extend their own mandate and the Lebanese government is really in a very fragile situation."

Future TV - No Access Lebanon

Tripoli, Lebanon - September 2014

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36. Wide of people waving Islamic State flags

37. Mid of Sheikh Khaled Hoblos speaking to the crowd

AP Television

Tripoli, Lebanon - 26 October 2014

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38. Wide of soldiers running

39. Wide shot of soldiers firing weapons

40. Various of families being evacuated

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 20 November 2014

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41. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nadim Houry, Human Rights Watch:

"There is a lot of speculation today about ISIS' strength in Lebanon. But at this stage there is no indication that ISIS is going to seep through Tripoli tomorrow and control the city. Quite the contrary. I mean we saw that the army was actually able to beat back many of these groups and that actually many of these groups, while they may be Islamist, are not necessarily affiliated with ISIS."

AP Television

Brital, Lebanon - 10 September 2014

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42. Various of Syrian tents burnt to the ground

43. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Khaled Darwish, 11-year-old Syrian refugee:

"When we returned, we found that the tents were all burnt and black and I found all my toys burnt. Everything was burnt. Even my bicycle was burnt. All my toys and my ball."

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 15 December 2014

44. High shot of Wahda al-Sayyed, wife of kidnapped soldier Khaled Moqbel, pouring gasoline on tyres in street

45. Police trying to move al-Sayyed away, but she throws lighted paper to set tyres on fire

46. Wide of tyres burning

47. Soldier guarding the scene

48. Pan right of pictures of captured soldiers and police officers on a billboard

49. Wide of photos next to tents where relatives of the kidnapped are protesting

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 26 November 2014

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50. Wide of memorial to mark the death of Lebanese singer Sabah

51. Close-up of photograph of Sabah

52. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Lina Fghali Maalouf, Relative of Sabah:

"The people have lost a column from Baalbek's ancient ruins."

53. Mid of friends hugging in grief

54. Pull focus of decoration

LEADIN:

2014 has been a tumultuous year for Lebanon, as Syria's civil war continued to spill over into the country.

From managing one million refugees, to suicide bombings and clashes between government forces and Islamic militants, the past year has been a challenging one.

STORYLINE:

January 2nd, just two days into the new year and a deadly car bomb shakes the Beirut suburb Haret Hreik - known for being a Hezbollah stronghold.

The attack kills five people, wounds dozens more and raises fears that the country is being pulled in opposite directions by sectarian tension.

January also signals the start of the long-awaited trial over the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri - nine years after his death.

From The Hague, in the Netherlands, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) will try five suspects, all tied to Hezbollah, for Hariri's death.

There are still many questions to answer, not least the whereabouts of the five suspects - they've not been caught and are being tried in absentia.

In February, ten months after becoming prime minister, Tammam Salam finally forms a government.

Salam's 24-member national unity Cabinet includes members of the Western-backed coalition as well as those of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group and its allies.

"I am sure we will be able to put matters in the right perspective taking into consideration what our people, what the Lebanese, are looking forward to," he says at the time.

Many hundreds of women and activists march to Lebanon's parliament to show their support for victims of domestic violence to mark International Women's Day on 8 March.

Several high profile cases of domestic murders hit the headlines in 2014.

This year, the first Lebanese law against domestic violence was passed, offering Lebanese women some protection from abuse.

April 3rd is something of a milestone in the country.

Three years after the beginning of the Syrian conflict, Lebanon saw the one millionth Syrian to be registered as a refugee.

Almost one in four people in Lebanon are now refugees from neighbouring Syria.

"The challenge today is waking up to the realisation that this is a very protracted conflict. It's not going to end tomorrow. It's going to take some time. We don't know how long but there is a large number of people who are not going home soon. So their needs need to be addressed very quickly before it explodes in all of our faces," says Maha Yahya, from the Carnegie Centre for Middle Eastern Studies.

The country's infrastructure - from schools and hospitals to rubbish collection - remains over burdened, with some communities now imposing restrictions on refugee numbers.

In May, President Michel Suleiman left office, leaving behind an empty seat after parliament failed to elect his successor. The 25 May deadline passes, but no replacement is found.

"The Lebanese missed the opportunity to elect a president 'Made In Lebanon' by May 25," explains political analyst Sami Nader.

"After this, the problem now to get a solution you need kind of a regional consensus. You need a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, mainly. And this deal doesn't seem on the horizon yet."

A candidate must secure at least a two thirds majority in the 128-member parliament to become president.

Despite holding parliamentary meetings throughout the year to try and solve the issue - to this day the position remains unfilled.

In June and July the country is once again on high alert after a series of suicide bombings.

Suspects arrested in Hamra in June are believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State group and are said to have been planning an attack against the Speaker of Parliament, Nabi Berri.

Days later, flames engulf part of the four-star Duroy Hotel by Beirut's corniche after a suicide bomber blows himself up during a police raid on his room.

The suicide bomber was a Saudi national. His collaborator, also Saudi. This adds to the strain between Lebanon and the Gulf states.

The boldest incursion of jihadi fighters into Lebanese territory comes in August, when militants launch an offensive on the Syrian-Lebanese border town of Arsal.

The army regains control of the area, but locals and Syrian refugees, who have already fled the neighbouring civil war, are displaced once again.

In early August it's reported that 20 soldiers and policemen have been taken hostage by the militants.

"This Arsal war showed how fragile is the situation in Lebanon. How the borders are not really controlled. And how much capabilities and support the Lebanese army need," says Nader.

On 28 August, social media starts to report that one of the captives, soldier Ali Sayid, has been beheaded.

Massive crowds attend his funeral on 3rd September in Fnaydek.

A few days later the group says it has beheaded a second soldier, 20-year-old Abbas Medlej - sparking fears for the other hostages held by the group.

"The Lebanese army in the way was victim," says Nader.

"Yes, the Lebanese army was isolated. It's the only remaining Lebanese institution. One has to keep in mind that we don't have a president, there is a void at the level of the presidency, the parliament is practically freezed, all what they have achieved was to prolong their own mandate, to extend their own mandate and the Lebanese government is really in a very fragile situation."

The country's sectarian crisis comes to a head in October when fighting between government forces and gunmen erupts in Tripoli.

The city has become a hot bed for Islamic militants with firebrand clerics like Sheikh Khaled Hoblos openly preaching in the streets.

Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch, appeals for calm.

"There is a lot of speculation today about ISIS' strength in Lebanon. But at this stage there is no indication that ISIS is going to seep through Tripoli tomorrow and control the city. Quite the contrary."

"I mean we saw that the army was actually able to beat back many of these groups and that actually many of these groups, and that although many of these groups while they may be Islamist, are not necessarily affiliated with ISIS. But almost, that sort of the issue here is, I think the main challenge is ISIS is able to frame the terms of the debate in many countries.

"And what is needed in Lebanon are pre-emptive strategies to undercut the potential implementation, or growth of ISIS movements."

The four day gun battle claims 20 lives as the army slowly regains control of Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh neighbourhood - though the gang leaders they're hunting escape.

After three years of accepting Syrian refugees into the country, Lebanon has had enough.

On 18 October, it's reported that officials have closed the border between the two countries, despite pressure from the UN to keep it open.

According to official numbers, more than 1.2 million Syrian refugees now live in Lebanon - representing more than 20 percent of the population.

Refugees also appear to be targeted by disgruntled Lebanese citizens.

Eleven-year-old Khaled Darwish came back to his tent to find it burned to the ground.

"When we returned, we found that the tents were all burnt and black and I found all my toys burnt. Everything was burnt. Even my bicycle was burnt. All my toys and my ball," he says.

As the year draws to a close, the soldiers and police officers held hostage by Islamic militants, are no closer to being released.

The families of the hostages continue to protest, their anger now aimed at the government who they say haven't done enough.

Four soldiers have so far been executed by their captors.

The 26 November, saw the passing of one of the country's legendary singers.

Lebanese diva Sabah, died aged 87.

Mourners pay tribute to her incredible musical talent, provocative charm and huge heart.

As relative Lina Fghali Maalouf says, "The people have lost a column from Baalbek's ancient ruins."

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SHOTLIST:

1. Wide of aeroplane taxiing on runway

2. Wide of officials waiting on red carpet

3. Mid of Lebanese, Syrian and Saudi Arabian flags

4. Wide of Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman and Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri

5. Officials disembarking from aeroplane

6. Various of Saudi King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar Assad disembarking from plane

7. Abdullah and Assad greeting Berri, Suleiman and Hariri

8. Various of Abdullah and Assad greeting officials

9. Various of Abdullah and Assad walking into building

STORYLINE

The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia arrived in Beirut on Friday for an unprecedented effort to avert a simmering crisis in Lebanon.

Tensions are mounting over expected indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, the son of the slain statesman, and President Michel Suleiman were at the airport as Saudi King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar Assad landed.

It was a strong public show of cooperation between Saudi Arabia and Syria, which for years vied for influence over Lebanon.

Many fear that new clashes between Lebanon's Shiite and Sunni communities could break out if the international tribunal investigating Hariri's death implicates Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which is Syria's main ally in Lebanon.

Hezbollah militants swept through Sunni neighbourhoods of Beirut in 2008, after the government moved to curb the group's military communications network.

Hariri was a Sunni leader with strong links to Saudi Arabia.

The international tribunal investigating Hariri's death has not announced who will be charged, but the leader of Hezbollah said last week members of his group will be among those indicted.

No details were released about Friday's one-day summit, which marks the first time Syrian President Bashar Assad has visited Lebanon since Hariri's killing in a truck bombing on Valentine's Day 2005. Many in Lebanon blame Syria for the killing, charges that Damascus denies.

Security was tight throughout Beirut on Friday as helicopters buzzed overhead.

Hariri's death prompted the rise of a U.S.- and Saudi-backed coalition known as March 14, named after the day of massive anti-Syrian protests in 2005 dubbed the "Cedar Revolution."

The demonstrations eventually led to the withdrawal of Syrian troops, ending almost three decades of Syrian domination that was established during Lebanon's civil war.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's announcement that his militia members would be implicated in Hariri's slaying appeared to be an attempt to undercut the effects of any indictment, and he dismissed the international tribunal as an "Israeli plot."

Regional tensions also are high over recent reports that Syria sent Scud missiles to Hezbollah and suspicions that Hezbollah patron Iran wants to acquire nuclear weapons. Syria denies sending Scuds.

SHOTLIST:

Nahr el-Bared camp - Northern Lebanon

1. Various of explosion inside camp, smoke rising from buildings

Beddauui camp - Northern Lebanon

2. Wide of hospital building

3. Mid of Red crescent ambulance carrying two old men

4. Old man hugging his family

5. Man stepping down ambulance

6. Mid of ambulance, people nearby

7. Close of old Palestinian man

8. Mid of the hospital sign

9. Mid of injured Palestinian inside emergency room

Lebanese/Syrian border checkpoint - Arida, Northern Lebanon

10. Wide of lebanese customs building

11. Zoom out from Lebanese Syrian checkpoint

12. UN delegation and Lebanese security officials touring nearby checkpoint

13. Mid of delegation behind fence

14. Zoom out from un delegate touring

Beirut

15. Exterior of Prime ministers office's building

16. D'Alema arriving

17. Mid of D'Alema at delegations meeting

18. Mid of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora with minister Tareq Metri

19. Wide of news conference

20. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Massimo D'Alema, Italian foreign minister

"We expressed our support and solidarity to Lebanon, to the Lebanese and to the Lebanese forces after this attack by terrorist groups "Fatah Al-Islam" which are linked to Al-Qaida."

21. Cutaway of photographer

22. Cutaway of news conference

23. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fouad Saniora, Lebanese prime minister:

"As I said recently the ratification of the Tribunal opened new horizons to revive the cooperation between all the Lebanese. There will be no solution in Lebanon without the cooperation between the Lebanese."

24. Cutaway of media

STORYLINE:

Fatah Islam militants continued to fight and Lebanese troops pounded their hideouts in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon on the fifth day of an assault aimed at crushing them.

Clouds of smoke rose from the camp as artillery struck militant positions.

Amid a sustained army offensive on Tuesday, seven Islamic militants surrendered to a major Palestinian faction in a besieged refugee camp in northern Lebanon - marking the first tangible move by Palestinian factions against the militants.

The seven militants' surrender was the first sign that a major faction - in this case the Fatah group of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas - responded to calls by Lebanese authorities to actively campaign against the al-Qaida inspired Fatah Islam since fighting broke out May 20.

It coincided with by Abbas' renewed denunciation of the group and tacit backing of the Lebanese crackdown on militants in Nahr el-Bared.

The seven Fatah Islam members came over to Fatah positions in the southern parts of Nahr el-Bared, handed over their weapons and pledged to stay out of the fighting, said Fatah commander Major General Khaled Aref.

Major Palestinian factions have been trying to mediate an end to the confrontation.

The government wants the militants, estimated at several hundred, to surrender, but Fatah Islam has vowed to fight to death.

More than 100 people have been reported killed in the fighting, the worst internal violence since the end of Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war.

Of those were 45 soldiers, including 10 who were killed since the military launched its offensive on Friday on Nahr el-Bared.

Two other soldiers were killed in Ein el-Hilweh, another refugee camp in southern Lebanon, in separate clashes with militants there.

About 60 Fatah Islam militants were also reported killed.

At least 20 civilians have been reported dead at Nahr el-Bared, but recent civilian casualties were unknown.

The international Red Cross said Tuesday it managed to send in some medical supplies to the southern part of Nahr el-Bared - the first time since the offensive began.

The Red Cross evacuated 12 people, including one who was wounded and a pregnant woman, said spokeswoman Virginia de la Guardia, bringing the total number of evacuated people to 45 in the last two days.

Most of the camp's 31,000 residents have fled to a nearby camp, but about 5,000 civilians remained behind.

The bombardment of Nahr el-Bared has angered Palestinians in some of Lebanon's 11 other refugee camps and there were fears that fighting could spread.

Calm returned on Tuesday to Ein el-Hilweh, Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp where Islamic militants sympathising with Fatah Islam clashed with troops on Sunday and Monday.

On Tuesday, the Italian minister of Foreign Affairs Massimo D'Alema met in the Lebanese capital Beirut with the Lebanese Speaker of the House Nabih Berri and the Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora.

During his talks in Beirut, Massimo D'Alema discussed the recent UN Security Council resolution 1757 to establish an international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the latest development in the Palestinian camps, as well as other regional and international developments.

In a joint press conference at the Grand Serail (Prime ministers office building) D'Alema expressed his support to the Lebanese government, and security forces in the ongoing battle in North Lebanon

"We expressed our support and solidarity to Lebanon, to the Lebanese and to the Lebanese forces after this attack by terrorist groups Fatah Al-Islam which are linked to Al-Qaida."

The Lebanese Prime minister Fouad Saniora said in the press conference that there is no solution in Lebanon without the cooperation between the Lebanese

"As I said recently the ratification of the Tribunal opened new horizons to revive the cooperation between all the Lebanese. There will be no solution in Lebanon without the cooperation of all its people."

D'Alema will meet later the head of the Catholic church Patriarch Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir and the head of the parliamentarian majority Saad Hariri.

SHOTLIST:

1. Lebanese Minister of State Michel Faraoun entering room

2. Cutaway Faraoun

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michel Faraoun, Lebanese Minister of State:

"The Fatah al Islam organisation which has aggressed the Lebanese Army has been proven to be linked to terrorist acts, and namely the Ain Alak and Bekfaya bus explosions that has taken many civilian lives. It has no direct links to traditional Palestinian organisations, security organisations, inside camps, and is known to be linked to foreign, or outside Lebanon, intelligence units. Lately the Lebanese Army and security forces had surrounded them and tightened up in order to bring some of its members to justice."

4. Cutaway hands

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michel Faraoun, Lebanese Minister of State:

"The aggression that was perpetrated today is linked to tentative (attempts) to destabilise security and challenge the central government and international community at a time when justice is getting closer in many files - assassination files - that have been taking place in Lebanon the last two years since the assassination of President (Prime Minister) Hariri and also at a time when the Security Council is about to adopt the international tribunal. Of course the Lebanese Army and security forces are facing this situation with determination and resolve."

6. Cutaway Faraoun

STORYLINE:

The Lebanese government on Sunday condemned the gunbattles at the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp and Tripoli in North Lebanon, which erupted earlier on Sunday, killing at least 22 people.

Lebanon's Minister of State stressed that the army would continue its mission to put an end to violence by militants of the Fatah Islam group, which he claimed was also linked to the bus explosions on February 13 in Ain Alak and Bekfayya, east of Beirut.

Michael Faraoun said Fatah Islam did not have links to the traditional security organisations inside Palestinian refugee camps, but was instead "known to be linked to foreign, or outside Lebanon, intelligence units."

The sudden explosion of violence was linked by Faraoun, and by the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, to efforts to create an international tribunal to try the killers of former Premier Rafik Hariri, which Syria opposes.

Faraoun said the violence was an attempt "to destabilise security and challenge the central government and international community."

He said it came "at a time when justice is getting closer in many files - assassination files - that have been taking place in Lebanon the last two years since the assassination of President (Prime Minister) Hariri and also at a time when the Security Council is about to adopt the international tribunal."

The U.N. Security Council is considering a draft resolution to impose the court after Lebanon's government and the pro-Syrian opposition failed to agree on approving it in Beirut.

The anti-Syrian majority coalition says Syria was using its allies in Lebanon to undermine approval of the court.

A U.N. investigation has linked senior Syrian security officials and allies in the Lebanese security services to the murder while Syria controlled Lebanon.

Damascus, which was forced to withdraw its army two months after Hariri's February 2005 assassination in a suicide truck bombing in Beirut, has denied the accusations.

Residents in the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian camp said at least 12 civilians were killed or wounded, but that figure could not be confirmed by Lebanese authorities, who have no presence there.

At least seven Lebanese soldiers were killed outside the refugee camp, the military said, and TV reports indicated at least three militants died in the fighting, which involved tank and grenade fire.

The violence adds one more destabilising factor to conflict-ridden Lebanon, which is in the midst of its worst political crisis between the Western-backed government and pro-Syrian opposition since the end of the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war.

The clash between army troops surrounding the Palestinian refugee camp and fighters from the Fatah Islam militant group began after a gunbattle raged in a neighbourhood of close by Tripoli, witnesses said.

The militant group is an offshoot of the pro-Syrian Fatah Uprising, which broke from the mainstream Palestinian Fatah movement in the early 1980s and has headquarters in Syria.

As with many other small factions in Lebanon, Fatah Islam's allegiance is sometimes unclear in this deeply polarised country.

Some Lebanese security officials consider that Fatah Islam is now a radical Sunni Muslim group with ties to al-Qaida, or at least al-Qaida style militancy and doctrine.

But some anti-Syrian government officials say they are a front for Syrian military intelligence aimed at destabilising Lebanon.

SHOTLIST

1. Top shot of Beirut City

2. Wide of airport road

3. Workers hanging up flags

4. Various of Syrian flag and Lebanese flags

5. Large welcoming billboard with an image of Syrian president Bashar Assad, "Welcome amongst your people."

6. Wide of United Nations building

7. Mid of tent with images of missing Lebanese people

8. Various of poster with pictures of missing

9. Man looking at newspapers.

10. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Kaml al-Hajje, local resident:

"To be honest we were surprised about Bashar Al Assad's visit to Lebanon. The situation was bad between us and we did not believe that he would come."

11. Tilt down of newspapers

12. Close up of newspaper photo of Assad and Saudi Arabian King Abdullah

STORYLINE:

The leaders of Syria and Saudi Arabia were heading to Beirut on Friday to help defuse a simmering crisis over expected indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Many fear that new clashes between Lebanon's Shiite and Sunni communities could break out if the international tribunal investigating Hariri's death implicates Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which is Syria's main ally in Lebanon.

Hezbollah militants swept through Sunni neighbourhoods of Beirut in 2008, after the government moved to curb the group's military communications network.

Hariri was a Sunni leader with strong links to Saudi Arabia. The international tribunal investigating Hariri's death has not announced who will be charged, but the leader of Hezbollah said last week members of his group will be among those indicted.

No details were released about Friday's one-day summit, which marks the first time Syrian President Bashar Assad has visited Lebanon since Hariri's killing in a truck bombing on Valentine's Day 2005. Many in Lebanon blame Syria for the killing, charges that Damascus denies.

Security was tight throughout Beirut on Friday as helicopters buzzed overhead.

Hariri's death prompted the rise of a U.S.- and Saudi-backed coalition known as March 14, named after the day of massive anti-Syrian protests in 2005 dubbed the "Cedar Revolution."

The demonstrations eventually led to the withdrawal of Syrian troops, ending almost three decades of Syrian domination that was established during Lebanon's civil war.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's announcement that his militia members would be implicated in Hariri's slaying appeared to be an attempt to undercut the effects of any indictment, and he dismissed the international tribunal as an "Israeli plot."

Regional tensions also are high over recent reports that Syria sent Scud missiles to Hezbollah and suspicions that Hezbollah patron Iran wants to acquire nuclear weapons. Syria denies sending Scuds.