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>> and no "bbworld news." fresh airtrikn tripi, and colonel qadhafi's mpou has been targeted. thousas are forced from tir homes has recordater leve threaten the.s. ty of memphis. welcome b news. ming up cubans wille able to lee the country asourists for e first time. and we have a liftoff. prateusinses taking the lead in space.

>> within the lt f hours, nato fces have criedut a nuer of a strikes ithe lian cit of tripoli. someelie is rgeted to get out the compod. -- gaddafi's compound. yocan ar those no jets ying over the catal. there are a numr of her governmeuildgs. ere are no deils as ye of sualties there. earlieribyan officials took foreign journalis tosee what they said was theesultf a

condnatoirstrike in just over a week. the old colonl ildi as you can e hereas situated in tripoli. it was completelyestroyed. there we no reports of caalti immedtelyt this cide. tw telecomnicaons towers or damage near th buiing. neitr of t tows have take big damage during t send no air strike. one resident of libya describes what hsaw. >> five large explosis in t centradistct of tripoli. beforehand, we heard quite incriblequite loud whooshing noises beforehe actu expsion.

i caonly psume that this was e snd of the missile. thesere snds that we do not usually hr. weust hear exosio after the jets led use. t the wereery loud and venusu. >> where were you when you heard these blasts? >> i was at ho. i immediately wenup to t rooop as most peopl didn the neighborhooand around the city whenato stres. i w qui central. >> didou see any gn o damage from where you work? >>ot fmhere i was comg up. bu weere able to ascertain what was said in theveng. it was the riden a also

the thd lin in the racine, hi comund d offices we hit. and in the offesf th intellence >> there a a l of people o have spoketo sd that conel qadhafi's, deedad been combat -- had bee targete >> yes,t i a he compound. people and a number of distris and say wther one part is being targeted and no but we had me informatio tt they did hit iand aund e compx. >> some of the speed and then- some of thpeop that yo spoke d do, do they know any sualties in the area? >> noto fa i catell you in the last couple of months of nato air stkes i have not heardf a singleasualty fr nato air stkes. so confident areeak the na airtrikes, so

appreciativere wthat we do nofearhem. when they har the bomng, people go ono the roof,. out rough the window. raises morale inthe city whene know thatatos boingey strategicargets. >> he was speaking to earlier. inew york, the u.n has lled for a halt to get aid to citizens in lia. itas paralyzing the couny. we can givmoreetails. >>he w talking about the cflict in on the other hand th sittionenerally in the country. with regar to the general situion, she painted aictu of a country vtually at a andstill. th cnfli h dispted

suly les, and o t of that, if sanctions were a series lead to line the arrival of commercial gds. the combination wer having a al impact becse they ha a centralized dtribion neork. it impacts food. inhe et of the country, they had to stop fo othetwo mohs. in the west, anoer three mont. the next couple of mohs wld be crucial. she al tald about the confli and escial the city ofisra. sh saidhat indiscriminat bombg anreports of ming of e seand land had to stop, whoever was doing it. she said the one report had evend humanitarn accs which was a lifeline to the city. ut s was quite instent th at thisstag the un humanitarianorkers and oth ngos didot need military help.

th hadeenffer military asstance but th hado be caful t to b seen as oosi sides. at thisointthey wereot goinfor at option. >> the europn union is imposing an arms embar on syria following weeks ofnrest ere. united nations says thait is creangly worried aut t situation. government forceseported to ha killed dozens of peop. troops are also spot be deployed in other tos. the southern u.s. city of memphis is coping wh near- reco fodin thus forced the evacuation of thousands of people from w-lyg areas. the u.s. cou engineers says that it is unlely that th levee stemould ge way but ve admitted that the wateras been rising faster tn expected. >> the officials i that city saidhat is quite expected

toxceethe recd de which s reached in 1937,he great floodi ofhat year. norid they expected to exceed the height of theevee put in that city, a vy detailedand inicat systeof flood levees in note wake o those floods in the 1920'and 1930's. but it a sca time for many peopther so 130households have been the occupants h bee to to leave by the authoties weave hundredof peopln emerncies shelter their home pentilyecomg a death trap. ere were not able to get into them. and there gre concern further down rivera grt swelof water making i way south. it is going tard new orlns entually. ve concerned abouthe further magef it will do. we have seen ptureof the

spillwaynorth of new orleans being oned. that allows some of e water from the misssip flow into the lake to ease the presre further dwnstam in new orleans to ave disaster ere. >> we see some resents describi thato us. the is ao some assistance in place along the annels you are descbing. is there a sse at that e working wellven though the threat has not actuay goto that place at th moment? >> the ficis say so far, so good. they are working. th leviesare higher than the level of the water. there doesot seem toe erosion or leagues, smething thatould alarm people. t greatnightmare in eryone's memory is hurrice katrina wi a lev did break and a water did not exceed the level of the le is that tuatn. because the lvee eak with catarophic consequences.

people are watching them very carefully. but the messageromhe city and all other things bein equal, then this suld rvive tact in the downtown area, it has been protected by the lees. it is so far unaffect by . >> the governme of cuba has allowed i plato let its cizens leavthe country as urists for the first te. ey arove theeasu two wes ag behind closed doo. sevel expected reforms. >> cuba's communist par congress metehin closeoors twweekago. is pushing t the firstajor orhaul of this state-month and restrictedoviestyle stem. lot the detls had been scussed in vance but there is one major surise -- the governnt ss it is consideringetti cuns

trel abroad as a tourist for the first time it is a very bureaucrat syem. you haveo apply for permission to leave. d it is often to nine. ere are who other ran of reform going through ivate property is back ople will be allowed tbuy an sellheiromes and cars. alread cubs are setting up small bsinees and now under the w guidelines, some wilbe alled to becomeorke coerativesetting wages. itas noteenasseby the ban pliament which meets i two mohs before the becom laws. >> european stock market has fallen bause wries that greece may rquira new financial bailoubill downgradednd poor's it.

>> pssur on the geek gornme. medical workers in grce he beco the latest sta a walkt. theyre unhappy about unpaid wages d heth care cuts. ever sce pries received a ilou fromhe eu and t imf a year ago, it has been fced into very unpopular reforms. but it has not cut its budget deficit as quickly as hoped. on friday a german magazine sa th gree cod opt to leave the bure. gernyouldpt to leave the europe. it was met with fierce dials were not for the ridiculou claimn the german magazine regardg greece acting to exit the euro come thi meeting we not attracted any

atteion. >> on monday, standard and poor's cut itrati for greece. many analysts beeve theyay now heo restructurehe cotry bt. theu isonsideringheth greeceeeds more he to get on top of its debt pblem to get angreent for more los to make it would be unpopularn countries like germany. and decreasetsoncessions, ireland may nt bter ter to watchinbbc ws. still ahe, an identy crisis th a football coach, commons at he made. >> police in the west afrin state of togo so tt mourners ming from a funeral have cast size to in the storm. rrential rain they sailed

ross lake togo. >> dozens of mourners returning from a funal cssing lake togo whethe agedy struck. rong winds and hea rai caus ateast one boat to psize and6 pele, manof them children, we killed in the deep waters. some o the passenge d manageo swim t safety. cludg this man bute was onof the fortunate few. >> we we on the water on the way backwhen strong wind struck us a blow. it was al raining. though water engulfethe bo whichade us go overboa. a w of us manad toave ouelve >>ummoa small villa have lo almost everne ty hold ar. thillager is still trying to

comprehend thishat all 12f her children diedn th accide. they wentto play drumand danced ding e ceremony, she says. now theyre a dead. acceance of thisind are commonplace on lake tog where rikki boats are the ma means ofransrt across the ter. the ime ministeisited t village in theouthst of the imverished country and bught prises ofoverent asstan to the relatives and survivors. however the peoe copingo come to terms wi the aident d no mustrepa for many morfunels around lake togo. the headlines f youhis after merng -- is hr.

rejecting cims s country's help hide osama n lan. we will stay with that story cause yuf raza to gila has rejected. his untr w guilty of incompetents in the archor osambin len, or complicity in helping him hiden pakist soil. >> a pri minter under pressure,efending an army,nd inteigen agency under suspicion. yousaf raza gillani id tt theyave done mor against the kind of an army's anhere else. >> accations ofincoetence e abrd. we emphatically rect sh accution we're determineto get to the bott of how, wn, a why

osama bin laden ihead in abbottabad. an investitionas been ordered. >> you understood thepeec becaus it was in engli. but soone who re the subtitles was not impressed wit the military >> wre was the intelligence agencies? >> inact is not far ay. thiss a glimpse of e local bran of thesi which we found coverley. it is a short dri from the te op and obama -- oma's coound. local officialsust ve knn who re otheir doorstep, some said. >> it is uikely that the would have msed . therhas to be collusion r whatevereas, either it

was ideological or was financial or bh. >>uthis forme top man in pastan intelgencsayhat they madto oma bin ladens killing sohat ty couldave clure d leave afghanistan. >> theywanted an excus to win the war and go fro pakisn. w' under pressure because of our nuclear proams -- and the are pley of conspiracy theories. e we on, pnty of answed questions. osambin len's we ca certainly shed more light on h time herin ts valley and elsewhere in the country. three are in pista custody. e saidhat he had been the untrfor at least seven years. th amecans want t question the men dirtly but so far they have been died cess.

pakistan y nobe inveigatg bin lan's exteed stay here but some wonder if it rely wts to fi the truth. >> leaving this, they must evengrowingfghan hum- ghts abuses. reports by theociety says that afghan national police and troops were responble r at leas 10% of some 270 deaths in afghanistan last yea ey heeen able toay government workersbecae isra is withholding tax funds isel haltedhe transfer taxes afterhe paleinia authority signed a long-aite reconciati bl with mosquehich israel considers terrorist ornizaon. coloia hs eradited seone

wanted by the unitestat. he facedrug sugglg and rder chaes in his native venezuela. washington has dandehis extradion f alleged affiing. hes accused officials cose to go chávez f assisting in his activities. french ftbalat authorities are outlining what actn, if any, will ten against the tional team coa following comments he made abo limiting the number of bla andrab players t national training academy. joe lsoneports. >> he boarded a plane to determine his future. the very repetiti of french footll is that state once again. he talked abo limiting the mberf young players with

al nationalityappantly coernethat many wouldhoos not toeprent france. it left french football open cusaons of racism. thdireor has aeadyeen suendein take of iniries. the sports minister is expecd to me her judgment. it is far cry from998 when he when self w par o frce's world cup wnning team celebrated for itsacia diversy, rying heavi on plays from africaherige. that's what andefusto train them instead, and new divisions have been opened and y no be healed even if he kee hisob. >>aftea series of delays, a target date has beeet f the final teoff o the space shuttle endeavorext mony.

they're building e next geration of rockets. david ipman has bee finding out mor about them in t new private space race. >> 32, 1 liftff! >> o promotial veos selling flight into spac >> faln nine has clead the tower . >> iis not fm nasa, bufrom a ivatcompany. onef a new breed of the enterprises coetinto reach orbi this o is the first. >> we eow iorbit around e earth. a rare glimpse insiden los gele a new generation workg othe roet. ever stage and the atsphere, it ilaid back. t noin an" washot here

it's iencfiction ho to a- wealthfrom thenternet firm paypal, he believes that space is good business. >> thinke ar enterg a new era of space travel that ivery exciting, onehat is likely to evolve ridly. >> theres a reason for this. amica retiringts own space shuttles this summer and needs to keep its astronauts flying. i is payinprive companies do the job. ts anation show h space plans to do it. the hardwa is taking spe. this is a prototy of t dragon caple, the spacecraft designed to take astronauts u into orbit. it is quite a bit bger than the apollo spacecraf at tk men theoon. it is meant to carry more people. leme sw you wh iis like

insi. it feels cramped. is meant to take ree asonau down below and othefour above. there will be taken up into bit t by government, buty a private mpan it is a new kind of ace ce. e caule is beg built here d iseanto make spac flight cheaper, ontent the cost of the space shuttle hich raises an obous question --re you confentou can deliver tm up in the w but was marr >> solutely. moreover, i'm condent that the systems tt wedesign will be much safer than anyystem in the st. anit nds to be. we need to be at least 100 times safer than thepacehuttle. >> this comes as space travel is affecting a lot of n plars. riard bransons planning toist flights.

but as aeveling versionsf the sttle, but nasa urging them . in humanpace flight is very diicult. it ione of themore difficult things we have de. buwe have de it fo40 years and we feel now wh the retirement othe shuttle, it is time fell look to t prite sect to come in behind nasa. in thi capsule haseen orbit, maj achievement, b spactravel is notoriously risky. the animionsake this look easy. is a new e, b it ivery early da. >> w' going to be new breaki new from a numberf new agenci. microst is nr a deal to buy skype. that deal could be nounced latern tueay. we wouldeep -to-date on that. you'reatchg bbc news.

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