Now to the Middle East where opposition groups in Lebanon are calling on President Emile Lahoud to resign over the killing of a leading journalist in Beirut yesterday. The journalist Samir Kasir, was an opposition figure and a critic of Syrian influence in Beirut. He died yesterday after his car blew up when he turned the key in the ignition. President Lahoud has condemned the attack and Syria has rejected opposition charges that it engineered Qasir’s killing.