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president obama says he's doing the right thing about libya, and tries to explain why. as he does, there's a crucial battle underway in the desert outside moammar gadhafi's

hometown for libya's future. it's happening right now outside sirte, where gadhafi was born and where opposition forces hope to inflict a major blow against his regime. the fighters, you see, had hoped to be inside the town right now. but they were driven back by armed civilians. at the moment, their westward momentum seems to have stopped. we'll talk to our correspondent with the opposition right now. fwrez president obama tried to justify his handling of the situation in libya tonight. and why the u.s. military intervened as gadhafi was closing in on benghazi a little more than a week ago. >> at this particular moment, we were faced with the prospect of violence on a horrific scale. we had a unique ability to stop that violence. an international mandate for action. a broad coalition prepared to join us. the support of arab countries, and a plea for help from the libyan people themselves.

we also had the ability to stop gadhafi's forces in their tracks without putting american troops on the ground. to brush aside america's responsibility as a leader and more profoundly our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances, would have been a betrayal of who we are. >> a lot more on what the president said in a moment. we'll also look tonight in an incredibly disturbing incident that looked at a tripoli hotel full of journalists. a woman tried to tell reporters of her alleged gang rape at the hands of gadhafi troops. this woman was dragged away by gadhafi officials, we have updates about what's happened since. we'll talk with nic robertson about it. the gadhafi regime has told multiple conflicting stories about that woman. not surprising, of course, they have a record of telling lies. they first denied that opposition even existed on gadhafi.

they blamed it on hallucinogenic drugs. >> we have trouble coming up with proof of any civilian casualties that we have been responsible for. but we do have a lot of intelligence reporting about gadhafi taking the bodies of people he's killed and putting them at the sites we've attacked. we've been extremely careful in this military effort. >> of course, it's not our job to just take the u.s. defense secretary at his word. we have found that whenever the libyans take correspondents out claiming to show civilian casualties, they never seem to find them. all our camera crew ever saw was bombed out military equipment. and at a staged funeral, nic robertson discovered he couldn't find any grieving family members, and the coffins were not necessarily what they

seemed. >> reporter: it was an occasion full of surprising moments. this is by far one of the biggest mass burials we've seen. but when one of the coffins here was opened that we saw, it was empty and quickly whisked away. >> an empty coffin and empty rhetoric from the gadhafi regime. you'd never know it by watching libyan state tv. this is what they were airing. pro-gadhafi crowds mobbing a vehicle said to be carrying colonel gadhafi, though he never made an appearance. it was another bizarre scene orchestrated by a regime who finds the opposition forces closer than ever before. opposition forces have grabbed the momentum. saturday they arrested control of ajdabiya from forces that maintained control for the last week. a stark reminder that without coalition air strikes, this

advance west would not be possible. in tripoli on saturday, a bizarre scene at a hotel filled with international journalists. this woman burst in screaming she had been beaten and gang raped by gadhafi's forces. look what they did to me, she cries, my honor was violated by them. libyan officials initially claimed she was a mentally ill prostitute her family maintains she's a lawyer. government minders snatched her away, throwing a bag over her head. she was dragged to a waiting car. she warned, if you don't see me tomorrow, then that's it. despite massive attention to her plight and the government claims of her release, her family says she mains locked in a government compound and no journalist has seen or heard from her since. by sunday, opposition forces continued their push west, taking ras lanuf.

and the oil-rich town of abregga without resistance. new video appeared of opposition forces capturing gadhafi forces. >> the fate of the prisoners is unknown. on monday, opposition forces took bin jawad and continued their march west toward gadhafi's hometown of sirte, but on the way encounters heavy resistance. their advance was halted at umm al gandeel.

opposition forces had to pull back to the town of bin jawad. in misrata, where the battle has raged for weeks, cnn was finally granted access and discovered a city destroyed. gadhafi's forces claim they control the town, our team was stopped a few miles from the center of the city, suggesting the battle for misrata continues, as does the battle for the future of libya. later on the program we'll have an update on that woman dragged off by security forces. we heard from her family, we'll talk to correspondents who were there. earlier tonight i spoke with a opposition spokesman in that town of misrata. how close is the fighting? i'm seeing video of what looks like opposition forces with ak-47s in their hands, light weapons running around on the streets. how close do you get to gadhafi forces?

i mean, is it house to house? street by street? >> sometimes you get so close, it's just a few meters away. other times, when there's a hostage situation involved, it becomes difficult to approach anyone. we are using multiple tactics at the moment. in terms of the way we tackle, respond to a situation, by storming buildings and just, you know, carrying out those sort of operations. or by just trying to target particular tanks, stationed in very narrow alleys and streets, and just try to push them to a place where it becomes very difficult for them to return. >> let's check in with nic robertson and arwa damon. nic's been working very hard. he just got back today. arwa is in ajdabiya today. >> nic, the opposition forces i

talked to in misrata today say they still are battling in parts of the city. the government claps they are in control of the city. what did you see when you went there today? >> you know, we got within a couple miles of the center of the city, and we were stopped at a pro-gadhafi rally that had been completely organized for us. there was a state television satellite truck set up for these protesters who demonstrated in front. whenever we tried to film down the road, videotape toward where the opposition was in the city. people would come in front of us, waive their green flags, soldiers would walk in front of us, intentionally try to stop us filming. when we drove out of town, all those pro-gadhafi supporters drove out behind us. they didn't live there.

they had been driven in for this event. we couldn't get to the area where the opposition was, the government wouldn't let us get there. sao we have no idea what the conditions are there. but what we did see, thanks under trees, hiding. we heard the opposition say they've been attacked by tanks. heavy artillery you may see on a battlefield maybe. indiscriminate type of weapon to use in an urban area. >> arwa damon, there's been a lot of excitement among opposition forces and those who support them over the weekend. we saw opposition forces retake the city of ajdabiya where you are tonight. also going through albregga. they got close to sirte, relatively close. but you say their momentum has virtually stopped. what happened? >> it most certainly seems to have, anderson. they got to the small town you mentioned earlier, it's about 60 miles to the east of sirte. when they were entering, according to one opposition

fighter, they began searching homes, they say they found a number of weapons that they believe gadhafi had handed out to residents in this neighborhood. they then say residents began shooting at them, and the opposition said they decided not to fire back because of concerns for civilian casualties. they said they were forced to retreat. as they were retreating, they came under a heavy barrage of gunfire. we saw them beating quite a hasty path away from this area. fire chaotically into the air, very concerned that gadhafi's military was trying to outflank them. we asked them what their next move was going to be. because they said they had to go back into this area and clear it. if the civilians have not evacuated, if there are still families there, this has an an entirely new dynamic. if we start seeing pro and anti-gadhafi forces, civilians

clashing in these neighborhoods, lots of bloodshed could be unimaginable. >> nic robertson in tripoli, what sort of reaction do you think the gadhafi regime will have to president obama's comments tonight? the president made very clear that the mission as he sees it, and the u.n. mandate that nato will be operating under, is not to remove gadhafi militarily, they want to try to get him out through non-military means. is gadhafi breathing a sigh of relief tonight? >> you can believe that he is to a degree. but he's also incredibly cautious and won't take anything at face value, and will very likely continue to believe that the objective is to have him removed from power. so i think while he may feel he's dodged a bullet and the mission hasn't been broadened to regime change, it gives him an opportunity to recalibrate. but what's he going to do in that recalibration?

decide he can push a little harder? take misrata? firm up his forces in sirte? or is he going to sort of allow people within the government to use this breathing space for some kind of diplomacy? certainly there are people in and around the government here who recognize a need for change in the country. it's probably not going to fall to them to make those key decisions. it's going to come back to moammar gadhafi. that's quite an unpredictable thing to say on this. >> arwa damon, stay safe. nic robertson, stay with us, because i want to talk to you about the woman who came into the hotel where you all were staying. cnn had a camera smashed, taken away away. the gadhafi government does not want you to see this video of what happened to this woman. they have told conflicting stories of what was done to her. we're going to try to figure out

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president obama laid out the defense of the libyan mission and the reasons why the united states may intervene in the future. at home he went into the evening with 47% approval according to late polling. far less than other presidents have enjoyed during other administrations. he's under fire from the right and left. and tonight tried to rebut some criticisms by citing results. >> for those who doubted our capacity to carry out this operation, i want to be clear, the united states of america has done what we said we would do. >> the president also pointed to what he sees as especially fast action, compared the month it took to get to this point, to the year it took for action to stop the atrocities in bosnia. many thought he should have acted faster, among them, john

mccain who spoke with wolf blitzer after the president's address. >> he laid out the reasons why it was important to intervene and what would have happened in benghazi. and many of us are convinced if we had taken that action three weeks earlier, just declaring a no-fly zone, it would have had a similar effect. >> it's clear we're acting on the side of the rebels, and that we can, by keeping up the sustained pressure and movement, that gadhafi can be removed. if we tell gadhafi, don't worry, you're not going to be removed by force, i think that that's very encouraging to gadhafi. and so i believe that the rebels, as i predicted are succeeding because we negated the air power and the armor capabilities of gadhafi, and we're rapidly on the road to success. the president's remarks that what he really doesn't emphasize is that the united states leads. there are times when we have to act alone. there are many other times where

we have the time and the luxury of assembling coalitions and acting together, and we always want to act in partnership. when president reagan attacked tripoli, he didn't ask anyone, he didn't assemble a coalition. when we went into panama to remove noriega, we didn't assemble a coalition. there are times when the united states has to have a coalition of people who are willing to join us. but america leads and america remains the leader of the world. and that means with the greatest force for good. >> john mccain and president obama. house speaker john boehner weighing in, saying the speech did not provide americans with much clarity. with us now, senior political analyst david gergen, and also, ann marie slaughter. also with us, professor fouad ajami. and former white house press secretary ari fleischer. fouad, what do you think? >> i think it's the right thing

at last. i think the president did a great job. i'm not a fan of president obama, i didn't vote for him. i think he should have done this much earlier. but the second guessing -- he finally did it, and i think he answered the great questions about this intervention. and he laid out, if you will, if you want to call it the obama doctrine of intervention, fine. if you want something less ambitious, fine? he did it, and he told us the truth, this was always about benghazi, a rescue operation he was forced to do. i think it's the right thing. >> ann marie slaughter, what did you make? some of the big questions out there about the mission in libya, what's the goal of the u.s.? what's the exit strategy? how will the u.s. military be involved? are these all questions he sufficiently answered? >> i think did he. if he's getting criticized that heavily from left and right, he's striking a balance. he made clear that we went in to avoid what he described as violence on a horrific scale in benghazi, that again the mandate of the u.n. coalition that nato is now leading is to protect libyan civilians, i think that

makes very clear what success looks like there, it means that libyan civilians are safe, safe in their houses, safe in their cities. at the same time, he made very clear that it is u.s. policy, and the policy of many of our allies. that libya needs to have a new government that responds to the demands of the libyan people. and we will pursue every diplomatic and economic means to that end and leveling the play playing nield field mill terrilly will certainly help. >> if he removes his forces from around misrata, pulls back troops to tripoli, and has all these armed civilians in sirte and other places, can the u.s., can the u.s., can nato continuesing air support to then try to route his forces from tripoli? it doesn't seem like it? >> the very fact that you nor a has the answer too that

question, i think underscores the weakness of the obama speech. i thought in general, he made a compelling case. a very strong case for intervention itself. on humanitarian grounds. he made a compelling case that the united states has helped to organize the international coalition, much more rapidly as has happened in the past, like bosnia. he made a compelling case that these early u.s. actions have done what the u.s. promised to do. that was to stop gadhafi from killing other people. that's where the success of the speech ended. because he left open all these questions about where we go from here. if there's a stalemate, and there were signs today that there may be a stalemate. what are we going to do? what is nato going to do? who knows? i don't think anybody knows that. what is going to happen if gadhafi hangs in there for six months?

we don't know. what happens if gadhafi gets forced out? and the regime cracks, they turn on him and assassinate him? what's the united states role going to be in building a new libya? i thought that was left cloudy, and is going to continue the debate. give president obama his due. on the most important issue that he had to face tonight, why he went in. i thought he made a very, very strong case. i agree with fouad and ann marie on that. >> ari, do you believe he left too many things unsaid? or would that be too broad a speech to make at this point? >> i think it's not necessarily the things unsaid, it's the problems on the ground are tremendous still. because i think the likelihood is, we are going to end up in a stalemate. the tricky thing here is, when you have a president that does the right thing, but does it four weeks too late, can you really say it is the right thing. this is something that should have been done four weeks ago, when it was really likely that the rebels by virtue of america's action could have tipped the scales, and made gadhafi think the time is up, he needs to get out of there. i have a hard time seeing that happen now.

i think it's a fight to the finish. and this finish ends up in a stalemate, where gadhafi knows he can make little progress. the rebels will make what limited progress they can make. i think the other reason we're going to end up in stalemate here. the tip of nato's sword is nowhere near as sharp as the tip of america's sword. it's good that nato is leading. it also makes it more likely we will have a stalemate. this is the difficulty we face now and why we should have reacted four weeks ago. i'm glad he went in. it was the right thing to do. it should have been done much earlier. >> thank you very much. we're going to go from the political to the very personal next. deeply personal, the gadhafi regime called this woman a prostitute, said she was mentally ill, after she stood up and said government troops raped her. what happened? we'll show you what happened as cameras rolled. we try to find the whereabouts of her now. a serious dictator cracks down, we'll talk to an ordinary

syrian taking an extraordinary risk to get the message out. he's speaking out under his own name even though it may target him for arrest or worse.

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an update on a story that's shocked the world. we know the gadhafi regime is brutal. we know they've killed many, tortured prisoners. it's rare you see the brutality captured up close. we're about to show you what happened to a woman this weekend who said she had been gang raped by gadhafi's militia. saturday morning, she risked her life by storming into a tripoli hotel to tell journalists her story of government brutality. they say we're all libyans, she screams, look what gadhafi brigades did to me. plain clothed government officials immediately intervene. this man tries to grab her and shut her up.

journalists jump in to try to help her. her face bruised. she said she's from benghazi and was abducted at a government checkpoint, bound, beaten and raped by 15 members of gadhafi's militia. she shows journalists blood on her inner thigh and rope burns on her hands and feet. my honor was violated she cries out. here officials, including some who previously appeared to be hotel staff, trying to separate the woman from the journalists, dragging her away. one hotel staffer yells traitor as he draws a knife. this man appears to be going for a weapon. gadhafi's men kick and punch journalists, wrestling some of them to the ground. breaking their cameras for their footage. the woman continues to cry out her story. watch as this woman throws a dark bag over her head to silence her. a little while later she surfaces as officials drag her out of the hotel. if you don't see me tomorrow, then that's it, she screams. >> where are you taking her to now. >> journalists tried to come to her aide one last time. but she's shoved in a car and taken away. incredibly upsetting. nic robertson, david kirkpatrick of the new york times have been on this story from the beginning. they join us now.

if her story is true, it's hard to say how much courage it took >> journalists tried to come to her aide one last time. but she's shoved in a car and taken away. incredibly upsetting. nic robertson, david kirkpatrick of the new york times have been on this story from the beginning. they join us now. if her story is true, it's hard to say how much courage it took for this woman to speak up like this. you consider the wounds she displayed, how she was treated, taken out of the hotel. it's a reminder the kind of brutality the gadhafi regime seems capable of. what do we know about what's happened to her? >> we don't know anything.

my understanding is that her family -- and this is my understanding from nic's reporting, my understanding is that her family is standing by her. we've had a series of contradictory characterizations in her case from the libyan government. the initial response from a spokesman was, she seems drunk, maybe inside. we're going to investigate her claims, fantasies. later that day, the spokesman said she seems sane, sober, she has a criminal case, not a political case. we're investigating it. hopefully she'll be able to talk to us soon. the next morning, the reason was character assassination, she was a prostitute, with a long record. again she said she and her family would be offered an opportunity to speak with us. we haven't heard from her, her family hasn't heard from her. and certainly the shift in tactics to character assassination is not promising.

>> nic, i want to play some video of you confronting one government spokesman about her. >> nic, please, could we just to respect her, her daughter, her family. this is a very conservative society. could we not expose her in public, please? if i said something, i said what i knew. i don't want to repeat anything i said. i'm not withdrawing what i said. i don't want to make it even more known, even more public. this is a criminal case. >> the guy who's calling her a prostitute is now saying, out of respect for her, we shouldn't see any more. we've seen demonstrations in two opposition held towns in support of her, people not shying away from what she said had happened to her, but in fact coming out and demonstrating in support her, what have you learned, what have you heard about her whereabouts or how her family's reacting? >> we really don't know of her whereabouts right now. and it's going to be very, very difficult to find out, because essentially the government's placed the onus on to us by

saying they released her. we don't know exactly where that would be, and we're not free to travel around. there's a good chance wherever she is, there will be security outside, so we won't get in. but what we are hearing from the east of the country, is that her family have rallied around her. there's video on youtube this evening that purports to be her father and her groom at an engagement party in her absence. what this means is that the family is saying, they support her, that her honor is still in tact, which is hugely important here in this part of the world. that her honor is in tact, and she can be respected. indeed in some cultures, people would say, after she had been through that, she should be killed. it goes beyond that. her future husband is from her tribe as well.

that's a statement from her tribe saying they still honor and respect her. which really throws it back in the face of the gadhafi regime. we're seeing her family and her tribe rally behind her, which will be hugely important for her, because we still don't know where she is, and what state she's in, anderson. >> david, she had said that she was being held captive with other women, there were other people who had also been held captive. do we know anything about them? >> reuters reached someone here in tripoli who appeared to be a cousin and listed the names of three female lawyers who they said had also been taken with her. she's said to have been stopped at a checkpoint by gadhafi militia here near tripoli. she's from benghazi originally. i don't know any more about those women. >> how frustrating is it, just as a reporter, and a human being to be in this situation where one wants to defend this person, and yet one is sort of power powerless to ultimately do anything about it? >> well, i think you hit the

nail on the head, i mean, we're powerless in many ways, yet we do collectively, as reporters have some power. and also some moral responsibility to do what we can for another human, and i think that's what we're trying to do. but look, in all of this, to follow up on her case, the other people, these other three lawyers who she reports being with her. we sort of almost lost sight of them, that's just the handful of people we know about, i mean, our taxi driver a couple weeks ago, taken into custody. is he really released as people have told us? the frustrating thing is, there's so many people you want to follow up on, and you don't get a straight answer, as we've seen. one half truth leads to another half truth that you can't really prove or disprove, people are discredited.

it adds up to frustration, but it adds up to determination. we will do what we can, i think, collectively we've witnessed something over the weekend that will be with us for many years, and it's a stark reminder for us, everything that people fear about from this regime, wanting to speak out, wanting to have a free voice, but being closed down. that will stay with us, i think. >> david, i think it may have been a story you wrote about this, and correct me if i'm wrong. suddenly it seemed like hotel staff, people who were waiters all of a sudden turned out to be government agents or be involved in this? >> yeah, you know, it's true, i sort of assumed libya being libya, that a good number of the hotel staff were paid government informants or worked for the government in some way, it was breathtaking to see a sweet young woman from a coffee bar throw a coat over her head. just like a bag, wraps it around her head and trying to pull her

away. that young woman has been redeployed, we haven't seen her since then. >> it's stunning, so disturbing. and we should all not forget what has happened to iman al bari. we'll continue to follow up. stay safe. coming up, new protests, new violence in syria. and a familiar refrain from the government, the deadly violence is the work of foreigners, gangs of thugs. eyewitnesss tell a much different story. government forces firing at peaceful protesters, we'll have the latest. we're going to talk to a human rights activist in syria. literally risking his life. he wants us to use his name. new images showing the force of the tsunami that hit japan as a wall of water rolls through the city of kesanuma, a wave of destruction. security forces in syria

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security forces in syria flooded the town of daraa today. this is new video from youtube, reportedly shot on friday in daraa. the syrian government is blaming deadly violence on everything from an unnamed foreign group to armed thugs. multiple witnesses say government forces are behind the attacks. a possible move to appease protesters, the syrian government announced they'll lift a state of emergency law that has been in effect for 48 years.

the law gives the government sweeping authority, they can make arrests whenever they want. prevents detainees from having a lawyer present during interrogations. there's no timetable for that emergency law being lifted. many see it as a trick saying other laws give power to the secret police. a u.n. spokesman says at least 37 people have died in clashes between protesters and security forces since last week. earlier today i spoke on the phone with wissam tarif who has agreed to speak with us, but also insists we use his name. we can't independently confirm what he's telling us, syria has repeatedly denied cnn entrance to the country. here's what he said today. the army has been deployed on the streets, how scared are people? are people still willing to come out and protest? >> well, what's happening is much worse. because two nights ago, the security forces in syrian homes invaded the city. they targeted specific neighborhood s neighborhoods,

trying to instill fear in neighborhoods. >> and you've seen videos of security forces changing clothes and attacking people, yes? >> oh, yes, of course. everywhere. the particulars that's happened in damascus and lapacha. there are videos of security forces changing clothes and just beating people to death. they send security forces -- they're beating people to death. in duba, four people were beaten to death in duma. they talk about change in the country. why don't they allow us -- why don't they allow syria human rights groups. they have a long history of doing the job. access to the cities and do some serious work, i think, if they are serious about this, they would allow us to work. instead, they detained five human rights workers in the last few hours. it's getting worse here, not better. >> i have to ask you again. you want us to use your name, you tell us five people you

know, five human rights activists have been arrested just in the last 48 hours. why are you so insistent on talking and getting the word out? >> human rights defenders, i owe them, at this time, they are not able to do their job, i have to do it for myself, and it's a lot of people are doing it. and it's normal. there is an element of risk. it's a calculated risk, but we have to do it. we're uprising, we're changing, we're witnessing history. history is happening in our region. history is happening in syria. we want to free them.

we want to express ourselves, we want dignity. we want to be able to say what we think. this is the minimum. this is the minimum. we are in the 21st century, and they're running the country as if we're in the 8th century or even the middle ages. this has to change, and it's my job and my colleague's job and people who had that opportunity to travel, to see the world, to do this. otherwise, who will do it? >> i'm stunned by your courage and i thank you for talking to us. please be careful. >> thank you, anderson. >> incredible bravery. one note about covering the story, we've been mentioning that cnn has been applying for visas to go to syria for more than a week now. those requests have been denied. and now the syrian government is not even responding to our requests. you have your story, show us the evidence that armed thugs are responsible for the violence. let us into the country, let us

see from ourselves. coming up, more ominous news from the damaged nuclear power plant in japan. words like possible leak, damaged containment structure, not what the people of japan necessarily want to hear. we'll tell you what it all means next. an incredibly new look at the tsunami washing away an entire city. video we have not seen until now. sovereign of the security line. you never take an upgrade for granted. and you rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above. and still pay the mid-size price. i deserve this. [ male announcer ] you do, business pro. you do. go national. go like a pro.

we planned to bring you up to date on the latest in yemen, we ran out of time. we'll do that tomorrow. some of the most arresting images we've seen of the tsunami that struck japan's northeast

coast back on march 11th. the city of kesennuma japan as it's basically washed off the map. [ sirens ] >> 73,000 people lived in the town, tonight the death toll from the quake and tsunami still climbing, nearly 11,000 confirmed dead, 17,000 still unaccounted for. isha sesay is here with a 360 news and business bulletin. isha? in japan, government officials said contaminated water overflow is a threat as workers try to cool reactors at the fukushima daiichi nuclear

power plant. traces of plutonium have turned up in the soil on the ground of the plant. the government has admitted the containment structure surrounding reactor number two is damaged and may be leaking radioactive material. in cube ma, former president jimmy carter meets with the archbishop havana. he's there with his wife on what's described as a private three-day visit. stocks fell reacting to ongoing global turmoil. from japan's nuclear crisis to unrest in the middle east. the dow lost 23 points. anderson, a lot going on. >> sure is >> we can make a difference. i believe this movement of change cannot be turned back. >> announcer: this past year alone there's been a 67% spike

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