A full weekend on both the internal and external scenes. Internally, sources reported that 17 Lebanese Islamists were killed in Syria's Talkalakh, an incident that will raise various repercussions regarding Lebanon's intervention in the Syrian crisis. The file of the Parliamentary elections is still on the table with a well informed source saying that the Minister of Interior will be asking electoral bodies for a meeting before the end of the year whereby the Minister will announce the 1st week of June 2013 as the electoral week. These developments are taking place at a time when controversy dominates the spheres of the electoral law. Meanwhile in Egypt, protests are still taking place despite the fact that an Islamist-led assembly finalized the new constitution. As for Syria, numbers reflect a frightening reality; more than 41 million persons dead, and 700 thousand displaced. All these developments and more in our detailed news bulletin. For the full LBCI introduction, please click on the VIDEO above.