unless gadhafi is somehow removed. the administration has said repeatedly that the removal of gadhafi is not a military objective, it's a political objective. in response to senator graham, and it was a question i was going to ask you, is are we trying to kill him is this are we or our allies trying to kill him? if we're not trying to do that, are we trying to arrange for him to go into exile and have a soft landing with no further consequences? or are we going to try to get him out of libya and have him tried by the international criminal court, which has been mentioned? if he knows that that's the consequences, he's never going to leave voluntarily. so how are we -- if getting colonel gadhafi out of libya a an objective, had you are we going to accomplish that and how are we going to bring this to closure? i just don't see how this ends. >> there are several alternatives. one is that a member of his own family kills him, or one of his inner circle kills him, or the military fractures, or the opposition with the degra

understand that gadhafi has to do. there are other bad characters in the world we should be taking out but we are where we are and the issue i have is i am trying to figure this out. if i heard right, our allies, nato, the arab league, pony up some money to offset the cost but that is me. we cannot shoulder these costs with the downward turn on dollars available for everything. i just am trying to figure out the digital the senate does not -- we do not do very good oversight on budgetary processes until after the fact. we are in the middle of it and i am asking the question. i appreciate what you are saying. i want to make sure it is not so far down the line that you say we need half a billion dollars because i want to mentally prepared and know what we are trading off. it is frustrating to me. i am supportive of your needs. i have always been here sending 30,000 more troops and the first democrat to say you get them if you need them because we are underresource in that operation when i came in. i am frustrated by you

we've got to bring down gadhafi. that implies a continuing, probably united nations presence in libya for the next 15 years, five years, with peacekeeping forces, building a a new institution. none of that's happening. so it's, you know, with a 10-1 preponderance of combat power in the hands of gadhafi, why would we think this is going to work? >> would we tie our hands behind our own backs? >> no question. at the end of the day if you have a mismatch between military measures we're willing to take publicly and the political objectives that were articulated we said gadhafi ought to come out. that is an appropriate national goal, international goal, and yet we're not doing the things that are rightfully going to have that as an outcome. >> i heard that difference between when the president was saying he had this strategic objective of getting gadhafi out but a military objective of helping benghazi. what does that mean? is there -- it seems you either have one, you should have one purpose, one goal. or am i mistaken h

let me start by saying about the gadhafi regime. gadhafi's regime looks very weak from the outside. colonel gadhafi is the man who takes the important decisions in libya. not a single order can be issued without his approval. and he claims to be neither to be a president nor a prime minister. he is the leader of the revolution plus being king of a -- african countries. this is a very difficult matter as gadhafi has proved for the past 42 years of his rule. the 1969 military coup was for sure not a one-man show. the three officers behind the coup to topple the regime of the king came from all over the country and from all of its tribes. they were mainly influenced by the pan-arab popular movement at that time. gradually, colonel gadhafi started to change and he wanted power all to himself. this led some of his supporters breaking away and even going as far as trying to topple him. in the 1980s and 1990s, gadhafi's regime defeated three major groups by one group called the nfls the national alliance for the salvation of libya. in 1984 the national fighters attacked the residence of co

gadhafi threatened to turn the e.u.'s frontier black and he would unleash a seemingly unlimited number of sub-saharan economic migrants into the e.u. southern tier with demint the italy being the most vulnerable. when in fact happened was with the collapse of the libyan security state was something in fact very different. waves of hundreds of thousands of micro-workers were flooding not necessarily italy or the canary islands in spain, but the egyptian and tunisian borders, the very vulnerable destabilized the revolutionary states. a very weak egypt along with eventually chad and they now sudan, a very niche a virtually every other african states minus the republic of south africa had an unknown -- literally unknown number of nigra workers. at the egyptian border of saloon, the organization -- the international organization of migration had charged that the border for all the people living there and people from every single african state from guinea, gambia, equatorial guinea, every obscure west african microstate had fo

obtaining them from gadhafi's forces? >> this is a country like many who has a lot of weapons. >> right. >> in fact, they are uncovering magazines and caches of weapons that are principally existent in the east and they're certainly from a small arms standpoint, ak-47, the kind of things that they're using there is ample supply. >> i yield back. >> thank you. mr. west? >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary, and admiral, appreciate you being here. i want to go bk to mr. wittman's comment about the close air support. i spent 20 years active duty in the artillery. and i had the opportunity in combat to direct close air support missions as an air support officer. it is the engagement from an aeroplatform on opposition's ground maneuver forces. one of the critical tenants is to have people on the ground to direct the men. my question is, who is the person on the ground that is directing close air support missions against gadhafi's forces? >> there is no one on the ground doing that. we don't have any jtacs on the ground. we ha

moments later, gadhafi's troops fire back. there's chaos. some of the rebels retreat to safer ground, but not all of them. the rebels are firing mortars and rockets at gadhafi's forces, which are just behind them. gadhafi's troops are responding with what sounded like tanks and artillery shells. but for the first time here we're seeing that the rebels are staying their ground. near the front, an argument. one rebel is so angry that the others want to run away, he fires his gun at their feet. they stay and bring in reinforcements. on the road we see a convoy of weapons, including dozens of what look like new rocket launchers, heading out to confront gadhafi's troops. but there may be a quicker way to topple the libyan dictator, an internal coup. yesterday libya's foreign minister and former intelligence chief, moussa koussa, the most powerful man in the regime outside the gadhafi family, defected to the united kingdom, a choice welcomed today by the british foreign minister. >> gadhafi must be asking himself who will be the next to abandon hi

allies figure out how to make the opposition forces to gadhafi at least an equal to gadhafi's forces. >> well, i think that there is an alternative outcome, senator. and i go back to the point i made earlier. and that is we continue, and the alliance will continue, to degrade gadhafi's military capabilities. and it wasn't that long ago that there were uprisings all across libya, and gadhafi's forces were on the defensive. they either turned and joined the oppositionists or they retreated out of some of these cities. and it was only because his military capabilities were -- remained intact that he was able to put down those uprisings. so there's clearly a lot of people across libya that are ready to rise up against this guy. and if we can sufficiently degrade his military capability, it seems to me, that then gives them the opportunity to do that. >> i appreciate that answer. thank you very much. >> senator wicker. >> thank you. i want to agree with senator lieberman when he suggested in his questions that it is unacceptable in the end for gadhafi to remain in power. it is in nuance t

we know a lot about gadhafi. in 1983, after we received a number of clandestine reports indicating gadhafi wanted to kill president reagan. we had the disco attack that killed 12 american men that led to the bombing of libya. this guy has been a huge problem for the united states for a long time. the reason the arab league came together and the reason that the u.n. voted and the reason nato has supported this is not because they know a lot about the opposition, but because they know a lot about gadhafi. they know what gadhafi was not only going to do to his own people but his potential for disrupting everything going on in the middle east right now. i think in the eyes of many of the participants in this coalition, this was more a preventive action to keep gadhafi from pursuing his degradations as much as it was supporting the operation. >> thank you. ms. boldolo. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to welcome secretary gates and admiral mullen. at this time, mr. chairman, i wish to yield my time to the gent

>>> on the broadcast tonight, a way out possibly in the works for gadhafi. tonight the latest from tripoli on a possible deal to get him out of there, and the shifting u.s. role there fighting now on a third front. >>> by the numbers. some apparent good news tonight on the jobs front, and we'll explain where they're getting all these numbers. >>> making a difference in young lives. the people who step up to send young people on their way and on the right course. >>> also tonight, the u.s. army announcing a bold new look for its 1.1 million members. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. it is the third front americans are fighting tonight, and tonight the libya story is on the move. there have been some important developments during the day today. first, reports of some sort of a deal possibly in the works to get gadhafi out of there, but his army is still fighting hard, still not letting those rebels advance despite the u.s. having fired off 227 cruise missiles and flying all those countless air missions.

we know a lot about gadhafi. in 1983, after we received a number of clandestine reports indicating gadhafi wantedo kill president reagan. we had the disco attack that killed 12 american men that led to the bombing of libya. this guyhas been a huge problem for the united states for a long time. the reason the arab league came together and the reason that the u.n. voted and the reason nato has supported this is not because they know a lot about the opposition, but because they know a lot about gadhafi. they know what gadhafi was not only going to do to his own people but his potential for disrupting everything going on in the middle east right now. i think in the eyes of many of the participants in this coalition, this was more a preventive action to keep gadhafi from pursuing his degradations as much as it was supporting the operation. >> thank you. ms. boldolo. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would like to welcome secretary gates and admiral mullen. at this time, mr. chairman, i wish to yield my time to the gentle

without the air cover, can they topple gadhafi? >> i supported the no-fly zone early on as a matter of fact and support the continuation of the no-fly zone with the ability to strike targets on the ground, armored columns and other things. what we need to know is what they are. we know they are against the rebels and against moammar gadhafi remaining in power but we don't know what they are for. >> is there a terrorist element among them? >> in most middle east countries there are elements of al qaeda. it doesn't mean they are part of the government. doesn't mean they are the majority. doesn't mean they have major influences in the country in which they reside but, yes, it's a concern. we know they're there. they in the past the libyan al qaeda element provided fighters in iraq to target u.s. citizens. that didn't mean it was part of the libyan government. 140 tribes. 30 of which are politically active. we need to know a lot more before we give them advanced weapons. >> would you like to see arab special forces unit in a lead role

and getting gadhafi. here's an exchange between lindsey graham and secretary robert gates on that very issue. >> is gadhafi the legitimate leader of the libyan people in your eyes legally? and if he's not, would it be unlawful for some nation, including ours, to drop a bomb on him to end this thing? >> well, president reagan tried that. >> well, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try again. i believe he's an international terrorist, unlawful enemy aliti fight to him and his cadre of supporters. is that on the table or not? >> i don't think so because i think it would probably break the coalition. >> steve clemons, is gates right? that it would break the coalition if that were the purpose of the mission? >> absolutely break the coalition and would it morph into a narrative of very flamboyant western intervention yet again and concerns about what our real intentions would be in the region. you have to allow the libyan people to make that kind of decision. that can't be a bomb from us. >> all right, bob baer, we

i agree, no ground troops but, frankly why tell gadhafi? secondly, when first initiated military action, did we know who the rebels were and their plans for a post-gadhafi libya? especially as it relates to human rights, rule of law, and democracy? third, are the rebel fighters defined as civilians in the relevant u.n. security council resolutions authorization of force? how is bad weather affecting the ability to deploy our air power? and finally, given the fact that gadhafi has engaged in international terrorism, obviously, we all know how horrific the consequences of that has been, how is his current ability, what is his current ability to strike at our interests outside of libya? doesn't his ability to use asymmetric means to hit back at us increase the longer he remains in power? >> thank you mr. smith, for those very good questions. first on the no ground troops issue i understand your point. having grappled with this issue in the context of kosovo a decade ago i appreciate the point behind this that. i think this is a slightly differ

gadhafi if he decides to leave? >> this is going to be part of an ongoing process, the second part separate from the military one and obviously it's going to involved how would you talk about a cease-fire with with the elements be and certainly one of the elements of that process that we hope will lead to a new libya and libyan government will be with the state will be. we are just at the beginning stage of kind of putting together the various steps needed but we will have to address and certainly one of those will be what country potentially could accept that point. >> are there any countries that have accepted to hold? >> to my knowledge, no. to my knowledge the discussions have not gone to the glove of specificity. >> about two more questions. >> i'm still a little puzzled with the meaning is of your statement that the tnc is a body worthy of our support. is that judgment is a way for the administration to do anything else, does it open the way, does it make it more likely the administration might provide them ar

in public gadhafi remains defiant, though. and his message to the libyan people yesterday was that he should not resign but that western leaders should. joel brown is in washington with more on this. good morning, joel. >> betty, good morning to you. with suggestions from the white house that gadhafi's inner circle is crumbling around him, we saw libya's leader on state television last night in what appeared to be another bid to hold on to the loyalists he still has. these cheering supporters refused to leave moammar gadhafi's tripoli compound, so they can stay on as human shields. >> we are not surprised with the no-fly zone. we will always protect our leader. >> reporter: on state tv thursday the ruler released a statement saying he's not the one who should go. but that's exactly what rebel forces are demanding. they fired rockets to try and retake the oil town of brega. still their weapons proved no match for gadhafi's better-equipped troops. officials estimate about a quarter of gadhafi's forces have been knocked out of ac

against gadhafi in fact the u.s. is taking a back about see through this is a forty three countries internationally the u.n. to get their family in country it is the u.s. against. providing most because i don't think this is my point please can i finish my point please five out of countries two of them are engaged in the military action and turkey norway and planted. another land sort of denmark for two three countries france britain you know this is not the us against gadhafi and we have not invited to you as to come in. as the first country to the launch air strikes over libya france has taken one of the leading roles that you actually against the gadhafi regime many now see it as an attempt to overhaul its image in the international arena and claim influence in the region. reports france was plotting war on libya already last year a raising fresh fears over the country's global ambitions. of the french and the british first worked in or but the french are preparing british operations last november holding the smal

it's the old libyan flag, the pre-gadhafi flag. all this, in an effort to say, this is their country now. this part of libya, the east, was the first to rise up and free itself from the teeny of moammar gadhafi to the outside world, he's almost a comic figure, but his savagery and brutality, especially in this region, have been almost unimaginable. and they hate him here. our destination, the city of derna a city of 80,000. just a few weeks ago there was a fierce battle here. but derna has a deeper and, to americans, a more disturbing history. this city is a center of radical islam in libya. more young men from here went to fight and kill americans in iraq than from any other place in the country. but it is also a hot bed of opposition to gadhafi. and when they won their freedom, one of the first things they did was set up a museum, a living testament to gadhafi's crimes. many people lost loved ones into the dungeons and execution chambers of gadhafi's regime. and in those long years, many young men in this city turned to radical i

they worry gadhafi could come back in and reoccupy this town. so almost everyone has moved to benghazi. that feeling of enthusiasm and momentum that the rebels felt they had isow almost all gone. make a wish! oh. ooh. by 'souoh.

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against gadhafi in fact the u.s. has taken aback about super all this is a forty three countries internationally on the u.s. and yesterday i'm leaving the country it is the u.s. against. riding most of the times this is my point please can i finish my point please five other countries two of them are engaged in the military action in norway canada. netherland sort of denmark forty three countries france britain you know if this is not the us against gadhafi and we have not invited you as to come in. let's talk officials across the world continue to rally against his actions some for the very action is inconsistent form a conflict that venus can sometimes get away with crimes like that if they have the backing of the west that's his children of course from washington. welcome and firm handshakes for someone who just three years ago gave the order to the deaths of civilians in the republic of south korea and i'm dealing with one of the great leaders of the world the georgian president with his fluent english is a welco

gadhafi's forces on a key city held by the rebels. nbc's stephanie gosk is following that for us. she's back safely in benghazi tonight. stephanie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. south african president jacob zuma, who's part of that delegation you just mentioned in tripoli, has come out and said moammar gadhafi has agreed to the african union's road map to peace. that would begin with a cease-fire. he didn't go on and add any details to the negotiations. today what we saw, as we've seen many days before it, a perfect example of why a cease-fire is urgent. taking cover behind buildings and using every weapon they have. rebel fighters did what they could to defend the streets of ajdabiya from moammar gadhafi's militia. the battle lasted for hours. more than a dozen rebels were killed and many more wounded. government forces pounded the city with artillery, while ground troops entered on pickup trucks. on the outskirts of town, the rebels fire back with makeshift rockets. they claimed gadhafi was once again relying on

it seems incredibly unlikely that the libyan leader moammar gadhafi will stick down in face of these increasing defections and also the offer from the opposition of a cease fire deal they are insisting that gadhafi first to back his troops from the waste in the cities of this country and also stop his appearance of in the east of libya they say that if he does not do this they will fight on and liberate this country now there is no reason why gadhafi would actually agree to the cease fire deal because his troops outnumber the rebels by ten to one and off to chew weeks of nato airstrikes the rebel fighters have been pushing all the way back to the oil town of radio and at this stage that is where the fighting are centered around as far as the defections the tripoli government is making light of the fact that the foreign minister who is of course it is in britain that he has defected they say that he is an old man who is very sick and he asked for a leave of absence which they granted him now we are hearing rumors that as many as ten more libyan officials people who are from gadhafi is

they have been able to take it from gadhafi forces and using them against the gadhafi forces. >> and as far as this aid shipment that arrived, how easy is it to distribute the aid if gadhafi snipers are inside the city? can everybody who needs the aid get to? >> inside the city, the snipers only located in the downtown of the city. they are evacuated. it is easy to get fooled. but i don't think it will last for too long. >> is by sea the only way that they can get this type of assistance? because your city is practicically surrounded, is it not. the roads must be very difficult. >> yes. the only way to get food and help here is by sea. they told me that the seaport is secured. >> that is a spokesman for the libyan freedom group. saying he was no longer willing to work with colnel gadhafi. he has been criticized for releasing the only person ever convicted of the 1988 pan am bombing. reports from gaza say the islamic military group hamas announced a cease-fire in a bid to halt the outbreak of violence with israel. palestinian doctors said four were killed and 30 injured by subsequent

libyan citizens british lawmakers rage over why the country sold millions of dollars of weapons to kill gadhafi in the lead up to the unrest. and almost a year after the plane crash that killed poland's president kaczynski and ninety five others in western russia moscow hands over new files to warsaw. and russia has officially upgraded its forecast for the world price from seventy five to one hundred five dollars per barrel which will be a small of the episode of the budget find out more in our business with him with. international news live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. just past nine pm here in the russian capital and eight pm in finland where a priest face is being defrocked after describing one of the world's most wanted criminals as a terrorist police are questioning the pastor after his references to document of a man behind the moscow metro an airport bombings among other crimes. met with churchmen whose words a living been accused of inciting religious hatred. yes there is these may be the last days these man wears his pastor's color you hum waller faces been defr

after gadhafi, what then. he's not gone yet but people are talking about it. >>> after the revolution in egypt, protesters wonder what changed? >>> after the official end of the recession, the job market begins to catch up. that is where we begin, a banner month for hiring and not a second too soon. let me show you better than expected numbers for the labor department. 216,000 jobs created in march and just as important, a stair step trend in the right direction. you can see it there now. the economy has added 1.5 million jobs since early 2010. another good sign, the jobless rate is trending down, 9% of the start of 2011, 8.8% now, that is the lowest in two years. where are these new jobs coming from? >> in march business services hired $78,000 and it was another good month for health care and leisure and hospitality and manufacturing as well. joining me to put the figures into context is a financial planner who wants to make all of us a little smarter about money. ryan mac, nice you're with us today. are we s

against gadhafi in fact the u.s. has taken aback at backseat role this is forty three countries internationally are us against it i'm not even pondering it is the us against. writing most of this is not boring please can i finish my point please five out of countries two of them are engaged in the military action parakey norway canada. and the netherlands denmark one to three countries france britain you know why does not the us against gadhafi and we're we have not invited to you as to come in. but as top officials across the world continue to rally against gadhafi actions somebody their reaction is consistent former conflicts that the this can sometimes get away with the crimes they commit if they have the backing of the west that he's going to kind of course from washington. warm welcome and firm handshakes for someone who just three years ago gave the order that led to the deaths of civilians in the republic of south korea dealing with one of the great leaders of the world the georgian president with his fluent e

it's unclear where gadhafi was at the time of that airstrike. we do know it caused significant damage. this as the conflict is looking more and more like a military stalemate. joel brown is in washington with details. joel, good morning to you. >> terrell, good morning to you. it was an especially bloody weekend in libya, with gadhafi's forces pounding one rebel stronghold, and then at the dictator's compound, nato warplanes turned the table. the overnight air strike targeted the heart of moammar gadhafi's regime. his compound in tripoli. state tv showed the rebel from what it said was a library, and office. a libyan official reported four people hurt. it's unknown if gadhafi was present when the attack occurred. while his compound has been hit before, this strike was the most significant yet. and comes just hours after u.s. lawmakers hit the airwaves to demand more be done to drive the libyan dictator from power. >> the people around gadhafi need to wake up every day wondering, will this be my last? the way to get gadhafi to leave is have his i

the senior government officials have deserted gadhafi. libya's information minister and the speaker of the congress have left for tunisia. gadhafi is rapidly losing power. >>> the japanese sumo association has punished 22 wrestlers and one stable master for involvement in a bout-fixing scandal. >> translator: it's a great pity that we have to punish so many of our members. it's an extremely severe punishment. >> the association's executive board decided on a series of punishment from an outside investigative committee. 19 wrestlers were asked to refir reti retire. six are in the top tier. three people who admitted involvement in bout fixing were suspended for two years. >> translator: i want to apologize to the sumo association and my stable and mostly to the fans for the trouble i've caused. >> the bout-rigging scandal surfaced in february after police found text messages that show involvement of 14 wrestlers and stable masters. it forced the cancellation of the march tournament. >>> let's now take a look at the world weather forecast. >

but as top officials across the world continue to rally against moammar gadhafi faction some believe their reaction is and consistent former conflicts so that leaders can sometimes get away with the crimes they commit if they have the backing of the west are going to take out reports from washington. and for handshakes for someone who just three years ago gave the order that led to the deaths of civilians in the republic of south the city of bam dealing with one of the great leaders of the world the georgian president with his fluent english is a welcome guest on american t.v. shows where he's never asked the question why in the middle of the night on august the seventh of two thousand and eight a georgia begin the major artillery bombardment of the sleeping city of tskhinvali and other peaceful palace in. the region which georgia wanted to bring under its control was razed to the ground. hundreds were killed in the attack. nearly lost his daughter in second street is bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the counties south of setia i believe psychics really should be removed

moammar gadhafi may be scrambling out for a way out. advisers say he has a political solution where he steps aside. sources tell cnn there is an emerging consensus within the regime that the old guard must give way to younger leaders. sources say gadhafi's son would play an important role in any transition. >>> well, whether it's coincidence or unrelated, we don't know but a rebel leader in benghazi offered the gadhafi regime a cease-fire today. our cnn's nic robertson tells us any deal to stop fighting would carry conditions. >> reporter: one of the goals of this cease-fire and any agreement they're saying must ultimately be regime change. this is a conditions-based cease-fire coming from the rebels and this is the first time we have heard talk of a cease-fire. >> reza sayad joins us shortly. >>> gathered outside for the third day today, lobbying what little fire power they have at gadhafi's forces. analysts say libyan troops are intensifying the attacks driving the rebels east. u.s. officials say that the opposition is outnumbered 10

what do you do when gadhafi goes? because we don't know exactly who the opposition is. >> before that, how do you get gadhafi to go? >> that's the part being worked on. >> do you know? >> i don't know. i don't know the answer to that. i do know that that is the -- that is the wish and the goal of this entire -- of this entire effort. >> you mentioned who are these rebels? it's a question everybody wants to know. >> opposition. >> opposition, rebels. whoever they are. freedom fighters. the world has now taken their side. who are they? do you know? >> i personally do not know. i know that there is tremendous effort going on in many capitals around the world to make sure that we do understand what that is. >> when you see these rebels, as alex marquardt said, what has to be done to help them? should they be armed? should they be trained? >> well, think the first thing that has to be done is to find out who these -- who they are. if you start from the proposition that our reason for committing our forces in -- as american

part of the gadhafi inner circle is in the uk right now. moussa koussa was the foreign minister until he defected. he could give tips. the bombing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland. some people think koussa was the master mind. 270, 189 of them americans killed including j.p. flynn, a student studied overseas. his parents told us what they'd like to see happen to koussa. >> i just want justice to be done. i mean, i want the people who prepared the bombing and who exercised the bombing, i want everybody brought to justice. and i think it's the only fair thing that can happen and put this, you know, behind us. if you don't have justice and, you know, the united states government isn't willing to take that step it's ridiculous at this point in time. and i think it has to be done. justice must be served. >> and, you know, mr. and mrs. flynn fighting for justice for 22 years now. zainer ha verjee is in london au can the parent's pain but british officials are in a pretty tough spot here. >> you know, they really are. they have to hol

well it seems incredibly unlikely that the libyan leader woman gadhafi will step down in face of these increasing defections and also the offer from the opposition of a cease fire deal as far as the defections go the tripoli government is making light of the fact that the foreign minister also qusay is in britain that he has defected they say that he is an old man who is very sick and he asked for a leave of absence which they granted him now we are hearing rumors that is navy and stay in more libyan officials people who are from gadhafi is in a circle could also be thinking of defecting they are in talks reportedly with the british we are also being told that a senior aide to the duckies son has now returned to tripoli after holding secret talks in london apparently he has been discussing some kind of an exit deal for the gadhafi family and we understand that image on the table insists that gadhafi sticks down but so far the tripoli government type lipped about all of that and those officials that we can get to talk simply deny it now the opposition rebels are offering a cease fire de

resolution doesn't allow a direct regime change but surely the obvious next step is to remove gadhafi and the conflict ends and it's the end of civilian deaths. well it's very striking that you know it takes a month for effectively thoughts are cameron and obama to make this statement so you know we have this united front which was on the washington washington post the times and the moment today but i think this is actually very opportunistic especially on behalf of obama who has actually been very hands off and not wanting to commit and still isn't committing any troops he's not committing any airplanes i think it's really the way i would characterize this is more kind of p.r. imperialism these are kind of the western leaders grandstanding on the international stage for a very short term goals they don't really know what they want to achieve but they're doing it for their own personal reasons try to make themselves look like kind of great international leaders and actually i think really what they're doing is they're diverting attention away from the kind of the old. managerial polit

i think it was a way to fall for gadhafi secure still we demand a new u.n. resolution which would allow us. but experts say arming the rebels alone wouldn't helps when the war with the rebels need not so much arms training not only the force on our servicing of the us in egypt i call group we train and think that if you force is going beyond the mandate of people and there's aleutian that established the north winds up you've got this going off in libya. well i mean reports that the coalition could rebels in libya the u.k. government is already on the floor of the spread of weapons but it pays have criticised the ring government to colonel gadhafi and other the police stations last year parliamentary report said the risk of weapons being used for internal repression was underestimated. and it was the story. security forces put down and rest in the middle east with rubber bullets tear gas and other irritant ammunition and they've got plenty the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just four months before colonel gadhafi turned them on his own people the gover

today, gadhafi and his supporters are more isolated. the military capabilities have been degraded by coalition air strikes that will continue. until gadhafi ends the military attacks on his own people. as president obama has said that while the military mission is focused on saving lives we must also pursue the broader goal of a future of libya that belongs not the tyrant, be tow the

former backers of gadhafi they are the people who are going to benefit people who turn their back on gadhafi and say they want to run libya in a new way so i think at the end of this we could end up with a situation where libya ruled by pretty much the same people just without gadhafi himself and that is going to be really proud of the people of libya. journalist and author susan lindauer says the coalition's decision to back to rubbles wasn't properly for gadhafi will never step down he's a fighter to the end and it is seems extraordinary that the opposition forces while they are losing the war we try to dictate the terms of surrender to the party that's winning we just put our feet the united nations has jumped into this conflict before they were before and they understood who they were teaming up with they did not understand anything about this opposition force the opposition force is not highly emotive they may be passionate in their politics but they're not highly organized on the battlefield essentially you're going to have to have a ground war to remove gadhafi. over updates o

colonel gadhafi regime probes a diplomatic solution to the conflict in libya worth fighting continues around rebel city. casualties rise in the battle misrata the last rebel stronghold in the west of the country was not on the side able to break the deadlock on point to see in the capital city of tripoli joining in a few moments i'll bring you more. of the embattled insurgents plead for the coalition to arm them to compensate for the lack of discipline training and manpower. that a russian pilot has said to stand trial in new york or for alleged drug trafficking of moscow maintains the man was simply kidnapped by the u.s. . that's only a matter of hours before three spacemen blast off into orbit to mark the fiftieth anniversary since you were guardians first wife. of the business side the russian government is preparing to remove ministers and other senior officials from the board of state owned corporations the move is intended to stoking best interests of russia one that coming up you know this is. nine am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me rena joshie a more than tw

we shared the condemnation of gadhafi abroad international community has given rise to accusations of progress in recent conflicts suggest that somebody this can escape punishment for their crimes as long as they have the backing of the us. this is a warm welcome and firm handshakes for someone who just three years ago gave the order that led to the deaths of civilians in the republic of south dealing with one of the great leaders of the world the georgian president with his fluent english is a welcome guest on american t.v. shows where he's never asked the question why in the middle of the night on august the seventh of two thousand and eight the georgia begin the major artillery bombardment of the sleeping city of thought and of the peaceful palace in. the region which georgia wanted to bring under its control was razed to the ground . hundreds were killed in the attack joe maestas nearly lost his daughter in sacrifice really as bombings she was visiting relatives in one of the towns in the south of setia i believe saakashvili should be removed from office i think you should be trie

the direction gadhafi is taking them. and then least likely is the idea of the rebels carrying out a military victory over gadhafi's troops. >> what about that, alex? did the rebels think they could actually achieve a military victory, even from here, it looks impossible? >> reporter: well, they are hoping it won't come to that. but we've seen the last few days they are outmatched. they are outgunned. they will not be able to march on tripoli without arms and air strikes from the international community. >> alex, we are hearing that they do have new communications equipment, even some new weapons? do you see signs of that? do you have any idea where it is coming from? >> reporter: we saw some better weapons, but we were told that those were commandeered from gadhafi forces that left them while fleeingfleeing. so, no signs that the rebels have been armed. >> jake, we're hearing that the white house is very reluctant, if not ruling out arming the rebels themselves. but are they encouraging the other allies, the french, the

well they're way too full for gadhafi secure still we demand a new u.n. resolution which would allow us. i asked her say arming the rebels alone wouldn't help so when the war with the rebels need is not so much arms they can be arms without training we're not going to be means they're reinforcing our no servicing that the us and egypt are called retreat and even if your forces are going beyond the mandate of the un resolution that established the north winds are you going to spin off in libya unrest has also been flooding through syria yemen and egypt this week and with nato forces stuck deep in libya there's speculation that destabilizing the region is the real agenda of the west has granted you can comments how the us is involved in a strategy. as waves of public rage sweep through north africa and the middle east world powers jump on them as many analysts say in an attempt to direct the waves of unrest in a way that's most favorable for them in libya forging relationship with the opposition so that if gadhafi goes there are people there to do business

gunfire by gadhafi's troops forces the rebels into a rapid retreat. but later the rebels return, launching surface-to-surface rockets. here on the front lines, the rebels and gadhafi's forces, separated by a few miles, have reached a stalemate. for the last several days, neither has advanced or retreated more than a couple hundred yards. the stalemate is frustrating to the rebels. the nato air strikes aren't as frequent as before. >> why slow, slow be no help for me any? why? >> reporter: so the rebels are getting creative about boosting their own firepower, even attaching soviet-era aircraft rocket launchers to pickups. "if it doesn't fire, we'll club gadhafi over the head with the rockets," a rebel said. nato is allowing aid to reach the libyan people. two relief ships ferried hundreds of wounded to turkey and tunisia. nearly all are from misrata in western libya. misrata remains surrounded by gadhafi's troops who are allegedly brutalizing people. >> there is rape. there is beating. >> reporter: but in benghazi, the city saved by western interventio

for you what are they waiting for for gadhafi to secure still we demand a new u.n. resolution which would allow us. arming the rebels on wooden helps when war with the rebels need is not so much arms they can use arms training going to be reinforced are servicing the us in egypt are called retreat and force is going to. be new and most lucian that is down list. you've got this kind of. media. as the coalition is reportedly considering arming rebels in libya the u.k. government has been criticized by its own m.p.'s for selling ammunition to authoritarian regimes as i please or end it reports it appears britain was happy to put profit before principle in the way it was doing business. security forces put down our rest of the middle east with rubber bullets tear gas and other irritant ammunition and they've got plenty of the u.k. was still selling arms to libya just poor months before colonel gadhafi turned them on his own people with government ministers approving a deal for sniper rifles bullets and take out. there are very strict set of guidelines that say where it

las nuevas revelaciones de wikileaks que el supuesto sobrino de gadhafi tendría grandes negocios en nicaragua y algunos vinculados a la familia de ortega. ni ortega ni el canciller nicaragüense ni el propio... han reaccionado a estos señalamientos. para dirigentes opositores impacta con la comunidad democrática internacional que ha sancionado a gadhafi mientras ortega lo apoyan. y nos preocupa la influencia que puede estar teniendo gadhafi. >>> en managua nicaragua, univisión >>> grupos inmigrantes especialmente centroamericanos apoyados por activistas y líderes religiosos fueron a la sede del parlamento en méxico. dicen estar buscando estancia respeto y protección y res estricto de los derechos de los inmigrantes. algunos prometieron permanecer ahí hasta tener una victoria. la ciudad de rio de janeiro en brasil. se encuentra en estado de emergencia. las intensas lluvias provocando una muerte severas inundaciones apagones y derrumbes. varios barrios, quedaron incomunicados, luego que se desbordara un río. cerca del famoso estadio maracana. la caída de árboles dejó sin en

so the questions that people are asking a number one is gadhafi planning some kind of exit and say can be for just how much longer can his regime survive with the defection of such high profile members his troops are still advancing the current fighting is centered around the strategically important town of brega which is on the coastal road to tripoli now it is essentially fighting that's happening out in the desert. the rebels are fighting from behind sangean is the strategy they use in small trucks from where they fired rockets artillery they've been seen spotters with by law killers to go and see where those rockets landed and to report back we're hearing that they are a lot more organized the rebels themselves but they're still calling on the international community for assistance in the form of great friends fighting in the eastern part of the country in the city of misrata continues there in the last twenty four hours we've been told that at least twenty civilians were killed by government shelling in residential areas here in tripoli airstrikes and anti aircraft gunfire continu