slit who's in the capital tripoli for us paula french planes as we're reporting of carrying out the first attack over libya what are you hearing there. well we've received confirmation of that army french ministry there confirming that one of their planes has struck they've turned a military vehicle now what we understand at this stage is that miracle was providing assistance to the military in terms of radar help we're just hearing reports now that i'm now the holes have been attacked difficult to confirm that and immediately or bet would bring the total number of vehicles attacked so far to for now the focus at the moment where these french planes are flying is over the rebel held town of benghazi which is the only north eastern part of the country that is where we've seen continued clashes throughout the day today saturday despite because for an immediate cease fire commitment by the government twenty four hours ago it is difficult at this stage no it's ascertain exactly what's been happening on the ground what we're hearing from the rebels is that they've been fired on for three

news becoming more isolated as there are refusing to rule out intervention in libya say paula better late than never good to see you it is it is in libyan border tonight can you wrap for us as you know it was going on today it's been called the day of rage doesn't it what are you hearing from the masses of refugees fleeing the violence to the. ok then as you say i am on the libyan border ventured throughout the course of the day around two thousand refugees made their way through here they come in with stories of intimidation on the other side of the border they've been telling us that gadhafi forces an opposition they're preventing people from traveling through on this side of the border there are mostly bangladeshis throughout the course of the day filming scenes of them walking with all their belongings in one suitcase on the haid from this point where i'm standing civil kilometers down the road to where buses are picking them up with a scrambling to get them to the buses and from there they've been driven to pull to cities and to airports throughout the course of the day in libya

are no doubt we'll be hearing more from paula throughout the day here on r.t. in the meantime world powers decided to enforce the no fly zone at a summit in paris where they were meeting to work out a course of action there in libya and our europe correspondent daniel bushell has been following what happened there. reports have confirmed that some twenty warplanes are already on libyan airspace from the french side which has been most active in this starting with the summit are now in military action they've sent rafal fighter jets neeraj fighter jets also surveillance aircraft they say that they key concern is to enforce a no fly zone over libya airspace in effect grounding colonel gadhafi is jets and helicopters and their number one concern is the civilian population in than around the area of brain goes the and to that effect the first military operation will be to enforce the no fly zone over the east of libya where the rebel strongholds are one hundred by one hundred fifty kilometer area it comes after a decision at the paris summit where it was decided th

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sleep paula evening to you so it seems doesn't it that the military strength of good draftees forces is beginning to overwhelm rebel opposition. well let's look it does seem to be the case we know now that government troops have been trying throughout the day to retake the town of the lara which is waste of the capital city tripoli be there they've been using tanks and artillery as part of a stepped up campaign to rid the western front of tripoli from rebel forces but at the same time fighting in the east of the country does continue there the government has been pounding the oil town although there have also been clashes in the town of which is the last of the label stronghold before the town of being ghazi which is essentially where the opposition forces have a headquarters now we have been hearing reports of divisions within the gadhafi forces according to opposition leaders some sixty thousand people had expected that is in the state of because of the army the soldiers that are out there on the ground now it's not clear whether or not they have joined the rebel forces in fact mos

paula you may not be hearing us very well we might have a bit of a technical problem but we will come back to you in the very near future bear in mind that artie's who is in tripoli is updating us every step of the way with the r.t. twitter account now more bombs fall on colonel gadhafi forces the libyan people who the coalition stepped in to protect are fleeing the country an estimated three hundred thousand have already become refugees with many more fear to join them our correspondent you go to risk an office observing the exodus across the border with egypt. so far the humanitarian situation hasn't really improved much tens of thousands of people are continuing to flee libya each day looking for safety and better living conditions the main flow of refugees is on the western border with tunisia but many people are going to egypt as well we met this family they were from going. they said that to be humanitarian situation in the city is critical at the moment they were saying how they're not actually fleeing because their home has been destroyed the zone feel safe there anymore and s

and leading the coalition's campaign where we can now cross tripoli paula snare is there for the libyan rebels have advance westward towards tripoli as we're reporting at the moment bring us up to date on their progress. well throughout most of sunday we saw these rebel fighters advancing with almost and lightning speed way swades through eastern libya then on the town of the bin jawad which is about a two hour dry. from the city of sets and the reason why set is important is that this is the hometown of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi is where it is where he has his major supporter base now we know that the rebels along the way encountered very initial resistance this is partly because they were driving through the desert and also because we're hearing that gadhafi forces were treated to set the head of this rebel advancement of the soldiers simply abandoned their military equipment along the sides of the road so the focal point now will be on sirte when those rebels reach said we are expecting that they will be a major showdown between the pro and anti gadhafi forces and this is whe

the force in the middle of tripoli paula we're getting reports that the shelling from international forces has restarted what can you tell us from where you are. all of us all seem to stay with we now explosions here in the capital city of tripoli i was actually indoors when it happened and i can tell you that we have windows of the building visibly so this is the tenth straight day that took me has been the target of current. and there's fights and as i'm speaking to you hearing a few gunshots just coming to my right now it's not only tripoli but also the city of misrata that has been hit increasingly so by these coalition planes this also is the last rebel held stronghold in the voice of libya but the latest report suggests that the rebels are fast losing ground it's very difficult as foreign journalists to ascertain exactly what's happening in this water because the fighting there has been going on for almost a month and we have simply been unable to insert the downtown area of the city the doctors they tell us that it is already days that the hospital ran out of medical supplies that t

and live from the libyan capital tripoli paula what's the latest from the program the stronghold where you are. well goal of the program athlete forces certainly have been securing their claim every country fighting has intensified there were fresh air raids launched by. the rich hundred plus the north also in the west in time as the year they have been making and bombs towards their town here in tripoli there it's very much in the hands of the libyan leader he again appeared on state television for the second time in two days reiterating that it was foreign involvement behind the chaos in the demonstrations there and see in various cities around the country he said because security forces had captured a number of foreigners in a raid on a mosque you see if it came from egypt algeria ghana stench that they had in alcohol and with things we've heard the same message coming out of the country's foreign minister in this new circumstance he firmly blamed foreign elements for what was happening he also said that the country would welcome some kind of international investigation that would d

from paula now she's in tripoli the capital paula good evening tonight there were more strikes and fighting overnight what is the situation in libya now bring us up to date if you will. well what we're hearing from the coalition forces is that they've hit one hundred and twenty four targets they're saying that the operation has been successful that they stopped the ground at vons many of the duffys troops and for two days now his if force has been and able to take to the skies we're also hearing that the no fly zone is now being extended with swedes and southwards over this country but at the same time there is intensified seen in misrata it's the last rebel held town in the west of this country it's about two hundred kilometers to the east of the capital city of tripoli we're hearing reports of big laugh these men have completely surrounded the chant there they've cut off all supplies of electricity fuel and water we hearing reports that at least seven people have so far been killed today monday at some of those gadhafi may not in the city center in civilian clothing and this is raising al

is in benghazi first to you paula well the rebels surely have their sights on the cap. where you all house the city reacting to the goings. well this city is a sense of panic here in the capital city there's almost a sense of fear that you can touch the reports of so conflicting and that is what is making people here so distressed why now we hear that the rebels are thirty kilometers away from gadhafi hometown of sirte the next hour we hear that they've been pushed back a hundred kilometers the frontline no doubt keeps shifting but in the early hours of this morning monday we actually heard that the rebels were inside so that itself they were never supposed to get this far and that is why talking to people here in the libyan capital there's a sense of almost amazement that the rebels have advanced this father no doubt to be threats and the claims by the rebels that the ultimate goal is to reach trippin he is why some in the capital city are starting to respond by saying they will be a bloodbath now we've been hearing from search itself that at one stage we could have a

who's in the capital tripoli paula we're learning that french planes have carried out the first attacks over the country what is the situation now. well the situation is certainly heating up the breaking news that the united states has launched its first cruise missile strike along the coast we understand that they are also going to be targeting libyan airfields now they're starting to fly in the face of what we were hearing just a few hours ago from the united states we understand that they do have three submarines that are in the mediterranean sea but the defense ministry saying that at this stage of your operations the french will be coordinating and commanding what was happening on the ground in the united states with only becoming involved at a later stage that seems to have done a turnaround i can tell you that at least there twenty french fighter jets have been hovering over libyan air space we know that they struck at least saw libyan tanks and on the person your vocals on the ground that operation so far has been limited mostly to the periphery areas being bossy the second larg

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and very soon will be crossing live to the libyan capital to get the latest from our correspondent paula slit we'll be checking with her little bit later this hour right here on r.t. . but with the u.s. being the military and economic backbone of nato experts say it will be hard for washington to play down its activity in libya author and journalist afshin a fancy says the alliance is expanded role in the operation does not mean that the us is no longer in charge. they say it's a nato operation turkey is expressing a lot of reservations and as to whether it's gone too far i think we can bet that there are already s.a.'s and other forces on the ground and as for a nato which is somehow european compared to u.s. led in terms of this mission i think it's absurd the united states of course is still behind it even though robert gates and so on had a lot of reservations about it there were five abstentions for un resolution one hundred seventy three and would have to the african union just not care about them because they unanimously didn't want what is going on now as for the arab league a ve

paula what are modern libyans themselves where you are saying about the international effort. people are very frightened here in the capital city tripoli it has not been pleasant for the last few hours when you hear the fine happening people are holed up in their homes people are probably limited to their televisions and most people here certainly the rebels were really seems a national gauge we're never going to see an exit out and evolve into some kind of long term. this is a country where for example they're telling an occupation in the past the last thing they want is a new kind of occupation. aware of what happened in iraq and afghanistan they do not want to see a no fly zone which is where you start in your operation. for years it's not going to stand in the possibility of creating a scenario where you can have. ok for an hour to. the latest from maybe a thank you. for the coalition decision to take military action in libya is being made under the premise of a humanitarian mission that's globalization amnesty show says the use of heavy artillery suggests a very different

reinforce the north winds on which was to help ordinary libyans there still has not been achieved our paula to you now in tripoli the libyan government is reporting civilian casualties as a result of this military mission the coalition is denying that it's any kind of evidence that airstrikes have in fact killed or injured civilians. but we don't have overwhelming evidence that civilians have been told anything strikes or no doubt there have been so stated a vision it's reported almost nonstop the number of innocent bystanders which is what it would have been killed in these coalition he strikes putting that figure at more than one hundred now one who started the mass funeral for some thirty sixty people were laid out it was a crowd of about five hundred people. each they were shouting some slogans outs a cozy end of the international community to stay out of libyan if it is of course we have no way of determining exactly who is inside and the government spokesperson here in tripoli even went so fast admitting that from other people. but we're being buried actually soldiers and not civilian

stay out of the cards like oh you know across lives on a policy or who's leaving the capital for well paula we're hearing that pro-government forces seem to be regaining control in some areas what more can you tell us about this. so be doing the same reports from the capital city tripoli we know that these government forces have made advances in the town of zawiya the latest we have out there is still fighting the reported in the east of the country oil rich. and if we. are in here at all our nation's biggest need hurts just that some. will have. no intention. we are ever hearing from the united nations they're saying that forty two hundred miles of people have so far. now they are where described as having its. on the maps we know that the fighting is getting closer and closer as for gadhafi himself he continues to cling to hardware just yesterday to sleep here from this hotel where i'm talking to you from you live you learn about two hundred journalists waiting for some eight hours and up you have been told would be a great one hundred solution would say something he said nothing and this

feed in our latest tweet paula so she's met the people who show that nothing is going to change in a good guthrie will stay you want to more about that follow us on twitter at our feet under school call and get the latest insights model calls. and there's many a true word spoken in jest of a say with the action in libya heating up many will already have forgotten how the pentagon chief had hinted that it could her back in early march. currently. what robert gates was meeting general petraeus in afghanistan when that little chart was recorded the two men i guess didn't realize they were like to the times where gates quit yeah exactly the sarcastic question of whether he was going to attack libya he could hardly have suspected this reply would come back to haunt the u.s. former british intelligence officer and a microphone says that the coalition forces are becoming more and more entrenched in the libyan crisis now with no way out. i think they're a tangle soon as the whole uprising began in libya because they really didn't know which side to back and which way to jump and of course th

next when it's becoming increasingly clear that these airstrikes are not that successful but of course paula the main criticism over the airstrikes was the civilian casualties and there's been some to beijing what extent that was happening are we any clearer now . well the government here in tripoli is insisting as it has done since these coalition air strikes began that we number of civilians continues to climb and that it hovers some way more than one hundred now we do know that it was taken three explosions course in the town of ms go which is about two hundred kilometers to the south of tripoli because at an ammunitions dump that was hit in those coalition air strikes we went there was a group of foreign journalists and we saw damage to the hospital as well as to several persons in residential areas we moved some of the wards of the hospital had been broken in we also saw some beds where there was blood stains and did we now the patients were evacuated in time but we heard from the hospital staff that some thirteen people were wounded we also met when we were very a number of listeners t

paula to you now in tripoli the libyan government is reporting civilian casualties as a result of this military mission but the coalition is denying that it's any kind of evidence that airstrikes have been sacked killed or injured civilians. well we don't have overwhelming evidence that civilians have been killed in strikes have been some state television is reporting almost nonstop the number of innocent bystanders which is what of course there would have been children its coalition is trying to figure at morgan one hundred now i'm going to start in and the mass funeral for some thirty six people the companies were laid out it was a crowd of about five hundred people very very angry they were shouting some slogans as our cosey and of barmer and international community to stay out of libyan if it was of course we have no way of determining exactly who was inside and the government spokesperson even went so fast admitting that some of the people who were being buried were actually soldiers and not civilians because of the shape it was addressing that funeral procession sood they're all

who's in tripoli force narrow paula there were reports of fresh explosions in the capital tripoli what did you hear where you are. well for the eleventh straight day the capital city of tripoli has been on the receiving end of these coalition airstrikes they were a number of blasts overnight loud blasts coming from the residential area of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi as well as from his compound a district that is in the. district now the mood here i think it is quite accurate to say has done almost eight hundred eighty degree flip since the weekend. when the rebel forces began their almost nightwing advancement over libya if it was accurate to say that then people here were feeling nervous i think that nervousness is now being transferred to the rebels and the excitement that the rebels were feeling just three four days ago has now been transferred here to tripoli certainly people here in the capital city are feeling renewed vigor and they do believe that they have a leader will hang on to power and they do believe that these rebel fighters will be pushed all the way back to bein

pulled a smear paula how realistic is a military invasion of libya by nato allies. well i'm standing here on the border crossing between here and libya. and there certainly is a growing sense here that as the situation in libya deteriorates so too does the possibility for foreign intervention grow now the u.s. president barack obama in his strongest words so far against the libyan leader moammar gadhafi said there could be had lost all legitimacy to rule and must sit down you also say that he had approved the use of american military equipment to assist in the evacuation of egyptian and other refugees from libya now there is concern here on the ground as there is in the international community that as the situation deteriorates under the guise of humanitarian assistance the united states the u.k. and other players who are motivating for some kind of intervention will go ahead with it the responsibility to protect is a very selective principle just a week ago twenty nine demonstrators there were peaceful demonstrators were killed in iraq by a government that has been

the libyan coast claiming it's keeping all options open and is ready to step in if the crisis deepens paula slayer for r.t. as the latest. planned spending here on the border crossing between two nazir and libya at. and it certainly is a growing sense here that as the situation in libya deteriorates so too does the possibility for foreign intervention grow now the u.s. president barack obama in his strongest words so far against the libyan leader moammar gadhafi said that gadhafi had lost all legitimacy to rule and must step down he also said that he had approved the use of american military equipment to assist in the evacuation of egyptian and other refugees from libya the latest word from washington is that they are not ruling out a no fly zone this is in contrast to what the pentagon chief said a short time ago he said they're doing this would be an act of war it would require the bombing of libya's air defenses the latest word from president obama also was that they were considering all options on the table washington of course has asked british special forces who are in libya to secure

paula so interesting developments here perhaps is kathy finally feeling the pressure of the u.n. on this resolution the only thing missing and also means with the u.k. and france getting ready to enforce this no fly zone. well except here's an interesting turnaround of events we've just heard from the foreign minister what is a concept saying that they will be an immediate cease fire and that the country is stopping all military operations he says that this is because libya is a fully fledged member of the united nations and as such it is obliged to accept all u.n. resolutions not he spoke just a few minutes ago here in the capital city to police he read from the statement he was used to take questions from any of us reporters he would say that he did state that the country was offering all of the managerial aid and he said it was obliged to protect foreigners and foreign assets of interests and also again what it was i thought dialogue he said it was important that all lines of communication were open and he again urged the international community to stay in fact finding mission

who are thank you very much for that update as we continue to cover events in the region thank you paula. well as the libyan crisis rages saunas some foreign powers are weighing up whether to get involved well phyllis bennis director of the washington based think tank the institute for policy studies he believes that nato is military intervention is unrealistic but its recent posturing is showing off. this is an old story in washington where humanitarian intervention is the excuse of the day i don't think we're going to see the possibility of troop deployments or even necessarily ship involvement i think this is partly a show of force to intimidate gadhafi and to make nice as it were to the new leadership that will be rising in libya to create a new government when gadhafi is overthrown there is no doubt that people in washington and london and elsewhere are scurrying around desperate to figure out ways of ensuring that they get in on the ground floor these new governments that are going to be in power that their oil companies get it and that it chevron and b.p. rather than russian or ch

paula has there been anything from colonel gadhafi himself in the past few hours. well we certainly understand that at this moment in time he is being holed up in his compound which is also not very far from where i'm talking to you from thousands of libyans have gone there to barricade him in almost present themselves as human shields to protect him and no doubt also to provide some protection to themselves there are also people who have taken to the airport and other major installations here to try and not often go beyond attacks from the international community locations where they think international fighter jets might be targeting now he did speak on libyan state television several hours ago he did not speak on camera but his message which was some three minutes was quite clear he stated that the regime was distributing weapons he wanted people to be able to defend themselves against what he is calling crusaders at the same time he's calling the mediterranean a battleground and he said that this country did nothing to justify the kind of attacks that are being

paula there have been reports that washington could see to become even more importantly what do we know about that. well the first reporters of course the whole question around weapons this is a concern a tripoli has had from the beginning and it is a legal question whether or not that united nations resolution nine hundred seventy three actually allows for the arming of the rebel fighters the rebels themselves have shown themselves to lack good leadership to be quite loosely organized and by and large not actually know how to use the weapons that they do have they do have surface to air missiles they've used them but if you remember it was just a few weeks back that they actually shot down one of their own aircraft so the questions that are being asked are that if the international community plans to arm the rebels are movies weapons actually just not be falling into the hands of people that essentially are inadequate and actually cannot use them nato has taken over the full command of all military operations here but increasingly the christians impose not only vote for people of it bu

and for more on this now we are joined live from tripoli by our teams paula so we are standing by so paula it seems that there is some kind of internal game going on in libya what else have we heard about the possible negotiations between khadafi and the opposition. it's not some kind of internal game with. all the one hand we hearing from opposition groups that one is in talks with him they say that he's asking for an opportunity to escape and that he's proposed a meeting of parliament transition period to pave the way for him to be also saying that he wants immunity from criminal prosecution and permission to take the country at large amounts of cash now all of these reports have been rejected by gadhafi who has denied these kind of on state television the opposition also saying that it leads now they would not consider seeking prosecution through the international court of justice but as i say we're not hearing any confirmation opposite the exact opposite from the gadhafi regime at the same time there's a lot of movement on the international stage there are still discussions for a

there are increasingly fears that the situation could deteriorate into civil war all right well there paula there are reports of fighting obviously continuing and in the east which was dominated by be a protesters there are reports that the program forces are gaining momentum is a bit too premature to say that the his regime will fall anytime soon what's the where is the balance tipping at this point. well it certainly does seem a bit premature in his latest televised address address moammar gadhafi warned against international intervention he said that thousands of libyans would die if there was any kind of international forces on his soil he also said that he was simply a symbol that the real power was in the hands of the people and as such he could not meet their cause to dissolve the government and to implement any kind of constitutional reforms he also vowed in quite a strong statement that he would fight until the last man and the last woman to remain in power now discussions are continuing at the united nations over a proposed no fly zone over libya now and this idea has been suggest

let me ask one more time you need the audience and technical trouble with paula. all right we're going to move on we're going to come back with our later in the program. as the uncertainty over their future remains libyans continue filling the streets to try and overthrow colonel moammar gadhafi but after weeks of fighting and bloodshed many are lost as to how to achieve this as artie's arcs on a boy who is in rebel controlled benghazi reports the lack of control of the country could have devastating long term effects. after the liberation chance the rattle of kalashnikovs is the most common sound in the ghazi ever since rebels seized weapons depots in eastern libya rifles became the ultimate symbol of masculinity that every young man in this city once one thing in common between more market are free and it forced the struggling town c.p.u. is a fascination with the arms believe in leader he developed a liking for kalashnikov rifle so much saw that he even had a k forty seven munition plumfield here in libya and it rounds these plans produced an hour telling all a

argues poll we're reporting there from the tripoli where you can keep up with the very latest from paula on our twitter we are to underscore home in our latest poll was says she feels she governed feel rather safe and that there is lots of anxiety hane heavy in the year of the libyan capital after a fortnight of airstrikes follow up again like i said on twitter for the latest from our war correspondent paula we're in pretty. well former british intelligence officer and you march on told our to the roots of the differences within the coalition why in the long standing inconsistency of western policy towards would be i think there are a tangle since the whole uprising began in libya because they really didn't know which side to back in which way to jump and of course there are those are if you've been a historic enemy of the west for many many decades and suddenly he's been brought back into the international fold and there were lots of nice juicy oil contracts and business contracts churning out and of libya tools places like the us the you came from. and italy so i think they're very tor

colonel gadhafi forces against rebels in benghazi but fighting is still being reported elsewhere tonight paula has the latest from the capital tripoli. we are hearing reports of new airstrikes that are being carried out on the ground we're also hearing reports of military planes all being loaded with weapons at american bases in is unique and that which planes are on their way to libya now the american army has come through that it dropped some salty conventional bombs from the two stealth bombers not yet clear what was the exact target of those bombs but certainly amongst them was libyan air fields we're also being told that based on the constant satellites off firmly keeping an eye on the southern part of the city of sets where there are ten tons of mustard gas now the american army has defied the first phase of this operation is complete it says it is well satisfied that a no fly zone is firmly in place that there hasn't been any lydian helicopters or aircraft in the skies indeed that it hasn't even been an attempt to take them out into the skies at this stage there are five countries that

in the capital tripoli with more for you so how well paula what's happening on the ground now and what do you think we're likely to see these events unfold. well in theory this no fly zone could go into action today friday we are hearing from the french government that it will act swiftly the british cabinet is meeting and from both these governments we're hearing that they ready to take action within our was but there are still many unknowns questions like you asked when exactly will this no fly zone begin who will be involved who will have the chain of command and what will be the involvement of other countries both europe and the united states have made it quite clear that they do not want this to be a so european american response to a muslim country they needs to be military assistance given from the arab world now we're just hearing reports that the libyan air space has been closed i can confirm these reports we will see hearing reports of clashes in the country's third largest city of misrata and we've been told it dozens of people have been injured several of them have already

fighting between gadhafi troops and the opposition is intensifying in the west of the country paula slee has the latest tonight from tripoli nobody noticing more and more is that the main sum for this operation in libya remains in the balance it's literally hanging in the balance because on the international front we are seeing that coalition forces are now so not a bit green in terms of how to move forward here on the ground the rebel groups themselves to divide. it in terms of how they wanted forward even now here in the capital city of tripoli which is traditionally the stronghold of moammar gadhafi we are hearing the women every reports of some of his former supporters starting to meet in secret now from the coalition is trying to some from the coalition community we know that for six days these airstrikes have been happening overnight and into the early hours of this morning we are being told that they hit military bases around the country but a different story emerging as it always does from the capital city fear we've been told that a number of civilians have been killed and injur

resolution which should receive widespread arab support artie's paula slayer joins us now live from the libyan capital with the latest developments poor evening to you so a second ceasefire now there has just been called the first one of course was breached within hours what is the latest situation in tripoli just now i heard. gunfire over your shoulder. well kevin that's right as i'm talking to you there is and he thought the gunfire happening just a short distance behind me this is the second time in as many hours that we're witnessing this over the capital city of tripoli it's not quite clear why the government is firing we have seen no incoming fire so the understanding here is that it's might be a show of strength a sign of support for gadhafi now the cease fire announcement was certainly a surprise it was made at nine o'clock this evening local time by a government spokesperson he said that there would be an immediate ceasefire there hasn't been any reaction from the international community we don't think that there will be a reaction because certainly the previous announcement of

among these allies are to polish leader is in tripoli and she joins us now from there with the latest paula good evening to you now what are you seeing what have what have you seen as the situation unfolded essentially before your eyes. but about half an hour ago there was a massive explosion here in the capital city of tripoli it sounded like it was coming from the south of the city i cannot be any throat from where i'm standing at the moment but we are hearing reports of smoke in the southern part we also hear reports of explosions around the compound of duffy now it's too soon to say exactly what has been hit but for the last thirty forty even fifty minutes they have been rounds of and crossed gunfire at the moment the situation is quiet but as you can well imagine it just about here i ring we are hearing that we did hear earlier today monday from coalition forces that they had hit one hundred and twenty four targets else saying that this operation is a sextape a status of the last two days since the coalition forces have conducted a strike could that be a force has not been in the sky a

as to when this border will be open and what indeed will happen here in the coming few hours of his paula slayer with the latest for the area just across the city from libya is turning into a launch site it seems may be for possible when a tree intervention obama show strength is growing with. small ships no position near crete where four hundred american marines have already been deployed all of the same time britain is considering sending typhoon fighters to cyprus if no fly zones give the green light out is an italian of a conference there with more but u.k. is increasing its military presence here on the island of cyprus there are two military bases here and we have seen a large number of planes landing at the bases supposedly bringing military force to the island now initially was the u.k.'s idea to stablish a no fly zone over libya but right now it looks like the u.s. officials are also speaking in favor of the idea of tensions grow high in the region as a cue year u.s. warships are already heading. towards the mediterranean sea they just passed by this so ask now we also know that

developments there in the country and that's not of course to fall asleep she's in the capital tripoli paula we're learning that french planes have carried out the first attacks over libya what do you hearing there in the capital. what we're hearing is that as many as twenty french sighted jets could possibly be over libya at this stage the reports are receiving suggested as many as thought the locals on the ground has been hit and destroyed we understand that they possibly tanks and armored personnel vehicles at the same time the operation at this stage is limited to the area of bin garcia the town in the northeastern part of the country it seems as if the operation is happening on the perimeter that might be to prevent any kind of civilian casualties if the operation had to move further inland we are also hearing though that british ships that start enforcing a mabel blockade and reese will certainly see more heavy international response coming together in the coming hours there are concerns going on the ground zero in terms of civilian casualties it's very difficult to discern from the sk

paula libyan military chiefs ordered to cease fire are on sunday leave what are you hearing on the ground from libyans themselves about this announcement. most people here did not really believe the libyan army when it calls for a cease fire there was a cease fire that was announced on saturday and as you saw almost simultaneously there were strikes and and air raids and attacks on the grounds taking place so the announcement on sunday night a spokesperson for the libyan army that there would be an immediate cease fire is certainly being greeted with a lot of skepticism on the ground the rebels themselves simply do not believe it the international community has yet to respond but it is important though to say that the gadhafi regime is still sticking by its earlier argument and that is that it is it here into a cease fire but that it is the rebels at all the ones that are provoking them it is the rebels that are on the offensive and they are the ones who are breaking it we are hearing from opposition fighters that as many as eight thousand of these men have been killed in more than a mont

paula slayer in tripoli though she's also reporting from the war zone online as well. knows from the pictures you saw was my shoes by reading her blog on our website r.t. dot com that was going on over her head as she was speaking to was also our you tube channels got from i think video footage of the bombardment of a lot more to its you tube dot com science r t. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operations to rule the day. the u.n. security council is to hold a closed door meeting in just an hour's time to discuss the situation in libya it was called the request of russia let's get more now of my cars what i'm going to have in your life you know what pushed russia in the call in this meeting. as you mentioned russia did call for this meeting for the un security council they will be meeting behind closed doors what pushed russia to do so is a letter that the security council received from the libyan foreign minister calling for this meeting according to the letter libyan

people were killed in the opening days of the coalition strikes which have now lost a week or two's paula slim now reports from the capital tripoli. the rebels have taken the town of which is a strategically oil important town in eastern libya it is some one hundred and sixty kilometers from benghazi benghazi of course being the heartbeat of the rebel revolution the word coming through now though is that they were advancing beyond edge ws and that they were around the perimeter of brit ago which is some forty kilometers further on that much closer to the capital city of tripoli inside edge deb yet there are massive celebrations as can well be expected this is an important town because it is the gateway to the oil reserves in the eastern half of this country now we're hearing though from the libyan government from the deputy foreign minister that the international community far from being neutral is taking sides in this conflict he went so far as to accuse them of siding with the rebels in the sense that there is strikes are actually causing this advancement and these claims have been back

what a stir on top of all the action in libya check out our twitter page artie's paula you've just seen there reporting from the country this talk to locals in the region she says they feel the crisis could continue for months you'll also find a link to paula's blog an instant updates on the situation in libya be on top of the story find this is under school call me on twitter. moscow is standing firm of the crisis in libya saying the no fly zone over the country should be used only to protect civilians and bring peace president medvedev stance has been backed by russia's defense minister who's met with the pentagon chief catarina zone over as more from moscow. the u.s. a good secretary of defense robert gates met with his russian counterpart in moscow today of the day is of course the second day of his visit to russia he spent yesterday and soon piers berg and during the discussion the two men talked about all things relevant to the relationship between moscow and washington and those of course including the start treaty and all the work being done there the collaboration between russi

resolution for more we go live to tripoli where our teams paula sleeper is standing by hello paula so what are you hearing about the situation in benghazi who's in control of the. well it's not immediately clear who is in control but we can tell you is that a fighter jets has been a shot down over benghazi that happened a short time ago it's not immediately clear whose plane this is but witnesses are reporting that they saw it firing on the benghazi military barracks we're also hearing from residents in the town that hours after the libyan government declared an immediate cease fire they were planes circling overhead and residents saying that this morning saturday they have been to a strike we're also hearing reports of explosions in the same two of the city we hearing gunfire is happening there we're hearing that artillery is being fired and we also know according to witnesses that on the road there are pickup trucks with machine guns now it does seem as if gadhafi forces have into the town from three areas we know that thousands of people have already been evacuated from the town an

correspondent paula slayer reporting from tripoli in libya. and from fighting to libya to the devastation that continues to rock japan reports coming out of that country indicate that radiation may still be leaking into the air and of course not surprisingly a lot of people are still worried about the safety of their food and water supplies and all of this as the country continues to be rocked by massive aftershocks now of course when we talk about japan we do have to remember the other nuclear disaster affected that nation for us i'm talking about the atomic bombs that fell over hiroshima and nagasaki there are two as i were bennett is in the other sarky and you follow the following report this man has been on the scars of nuclear disaster for most of his life as a resident of nagasaki you share your malarky has had liver and kidney problems since he was thirty five he's already beaten cancer twice every time. he feels it could be his last battle. you sure are watches events unfold at fukushima fearing the true nature of the disaster is yet t

among these allies artie's polis lior is in tripoli and she joins us now from there with the latest paula good evening to you now what are you seeing what have what have you seen as a solution the situation unfolded essentially before your eyes. well about half an hour ago it was a massive explosion here in the capital city of tripoli it sounded like it was coming from the south of the city i cannot see any smoke from where i'm standing at the moment but we are hearing reports of smoke in the southern parts we're also hearing reports of explosions around the compound of gadhafi now it's too soon to say exactly what has been hit but for the last thirty forty even fifty minutes there have been rounds of anti aircraft gunfire at the moment the situation is quiet but as you can well imagine it just erupts spontaneously in the skies are lit up with firing we are hearing and we did hear earlier today monday from coalition forces that they had hit one hundred and twenty four targets in all saying that this operation is a success they say that for the last two days since the coalition forces have

paula fass is a professor of history at the university of california berkeley. a distinguished scholar and resident at rutgers university, shea specializes in the history of children and childhood. in her seventh book, "inheriting the holocaust: a second generation memoir," she reconstructs the complex story of her family's history that helps us understand the influence of european jewish life in the nineteenth and twentyth century. in "a long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier" ishmael beah tel story of his life in the civil war in serbia and in the 1990s. he served as a powerful spokesperson for child soldiers almost from the moment of his rehabilitation. he worked with unicef on global use and poverty issues. chiquis barron was born in mexico and immigrated to arizona at the age of 5. a graduate of the you of a she has worked in behavioral and mental research since 1998. her novel focuses on the unique geographical political and cultural dynamics of growing up in the crux of two influential countries. her blonde stands at the top of the top 113 latino blood.

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. >> i'm paula and i'm a graduating senior at the university of california berkeley bi-a year ago paula discovered she a rare form of bone cancer. >> i am prove it can happen without warning to anyone at any time. >>reporter: so i asked her about the polls and the students reaction and what it might mean to the obama campaign in 2012. >> i think my immediate response that it is up to me. it's up to young people like me to get the word out. >>reporter: she and the health care act supporters have uphill ballots. poll show now that more americans disapprove of the:00 affordable health care act. you can bet the republicans will be talk ago lot about that individual mandate and its requirements in the presidential campaigns kick off this summer. in the news ramp, abc 7 news. >> when we continues tonight. inside the danger zone in gentleman pachbility the one farmer who refuses to call it quits. >> plus the common fear in a small midwestern town. >> before would engulf you. choke you before you couldn't breathe. >> cancer. asthma. toxic that's no one seems to want to clean up. >> pl and the d

paula fass is a professor of history at the university of california berkeley. a distinguished scholar and resident at rutgers university, shea specializes in the history of children and childhood. in her seventh book, "inheriting the holocaust: a second generation memoir," she reconstructs the complex story of her family's history that helps us understand the influence of european jewish life in the nineteenth and twentyth century. in "a long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier" ishmael beah tel story of his life in the civil war in serbia and in the 1990s. he served as a powerful spokesperson for child soldiers almost from the moment of his rehabilitation. he worked with unicef on global use and poverty issues. chiquis barron was born in mexico and immigrated to arizona at the age of 5. a graduate of the you of a she has worked in behavioral and mental research since 1998. her novel focuses on the unique geographical political and cultural dynamics of growing up in the crux of two influential countries. her blonde stands at the top of the top 113 latino blood.