-- Live: Former Nissan head Carlos Ghosn from Beirut: I am proud to be Lebanese because Lebanon stood by me during these difficulties.

-- Ghosn: Today is an important day for me; I have looked forward for more than 400 days because it is my first news conference since being arrested in November 2018.

-- Ghosn: "I'm not here to talk about how I managed to leave Japan, though i can understand you’re interested in that. I’m here to talk about why I left, for the first time since the nightmare began."

-- Ghosn: Charges against me baseless, prosecutors have leaked false information to press, concealed evidence.

-- BREAKING: Carlos Ghosn has been summoned by Lebanese judiciary over Interpol Red Alert notice and to explain his meetings with officials in Israel.

-- Hezbollah supporters put up this poster of Soleimani on Lebanon's border with Israel.

Arabic reads, "we will carry his banner in all squares, battlefields, and fronts." Hebrew and Arabic reads, "His Terror Remains/Continues."

-- The Lebanese Lira exchange rate increased in a drastic manner the last couple of days, reaching 2370= 1$.

The official exchange rate is 1$=1500.

-- Reuters citing Lebanese judicial source: Carlos Ghosn will hand his French passport to Lebanese authorities.

-- Earlier today, the Lebanese army, in force, opened the road in Tripoli after a group of protesters tried to block it.

-- Carla Bab, Voice of America journalist in the Pentagon: (I'm a little behind on this) But two defense officials have confirmed that less than 50 troops from the 173rd in Italy have deployed to the Middle East to help support the US embassy in Beirut following strike on Qassem Solaimani.

-- Hezbollah delegation of deputy leader Naim Qassem, head of Iraqi affairs Mohammed al-Kawthrani & MP Hussein al-Hajj Hassan return to Beirut from Iran, where they represented Hezbollah & Nasrallah at prayers for Soleimani & al-Muhandis & attended Soleimani funeral in Kerman.

-- Kassem can be seen in the front, 3rd white turban to the left.