Syrian refugees in Lebanon

As the Syrian revolution and civil war has played out over the last decade, hundreds of thousands of Syrians fled across the border into tiny Lebanon. Up to 1 million Syrian refugees went to Lebanon and many of them have stayed. What are their prospects for the future? Why have so few gone back home to Syria? And what is life like in Syria now? From the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Rebecca Collard reports.

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