The pro-government Future TV station, forced off the air by opposition gunmen last week, resumed broadcasting on Tuesday with footage of violence from Beirut and a fiery speech by its owner Saad al-Hariri.After an initial technical glitch in which no sound was heard for a few minutes after 1330 GMT, the backdrop of a Lebanese flag was shown and a news broadcaster said: "They wanted us without a voice and now we come back loudly ... we said we would come back and we did."
Lebanon has a variety of TV stations allied to rival domestic political factions. Future TV is viewed as the mouthpiece of the fragile U.S.-backed government that has lost much of its credibility in its 18 months of conflict with Hezbollah.
A building housing some of the station's studios was set on fire by pro-Syrian gunmen during Hezbollah's rapid takeover of the Muslim half of Beirut last week before they later handed positions over to the army.