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this is newsday. hello and welcome. there have been ongoing fierce battles in aaa. colonel -- in tripoli. the whereabouts of the libyan leader are still not known. they have offered a reward of over $1 million for anyone who captures our kills him. gunfire] these are the scenes in green square. it is renamed martyrs square for those who have lost their lives in the name of libya. the families are coming out, waving the replacement for the

gaddafi flag. do not be fooled by this celebration. just look at what lies on the ground, all of the bullet casings. this place exploded in celebration, literally. they have been firing off every possible weapon, including anti- aircraft fire. this is to show two libyans and the world that they have ended the colonel gaddafi 40-year rule could look at this scaffolding. they were already planning to march gaddafi's 42 years of power. this is the stage where they were going to celebrate. what lies on the ground is a huge portrait of the revolutionary leader. it now lies charred in ruins. they tore it apart. they want to say that libya is free. they have been chanting that colonel gaddafi is dead. the question is where is he?

the rebels have offered a reward if they can get him dead or alive. but that is not stopping them from celebrating. just look. just listen to the deafening sound. [gunfire] these are the ramparts where colonel gaddafi used to go to the square and tell people that they loved him. his iconic speeches of this later who totally dominated libya for the past 42 years and imposed his highly personalized rule, his ideas, which verged on the outbreak bazaar sometimes, and tried to have a revolution did not have the support of the people. >> the rebels have released hundreds of political prisoners from jails in tripoli. one was arrested in february. this is what he told the bbc

after he was released. >> i am -- i was arrested by the fascist regime in libya on the streets of tripoli in 2011. i was put in a military prison. they have tortured and treated us in a degrading and inhumane manner. thank you to the rebels, the gaddafi ideal has been blasted. we are all free. in this will be remembered in history as the worst tyrant dictator kim today, the libyan people of all classes has gained a victory. thank you to the libyans anin al

cities and towns. i had my birthday two days ago. that was the birthday of libya. this gave me the best birthday present i ever had, freedom. 1200 prisoners were set free on the 21st of august. today, 500 prisoners were also released. the rebels destroyed the prison gates and rushed in and set us all free. we are proud of our freedom then we are now safe among our brothers and freedom fighters. >> that was the voice of al habeeb al a meaamin.

rebels are moving to the gaddafi stronghold of sert. [explosion] >> it is not over yet. although the battlefield is shrinking. ♪ these rebels are pushing up reinforcements. they're facing a stubborn enemy. with 60 miles from sert, gaddafi's home town. they have not been falling back. far from it. >> we were engaged with the enemy with heavy artillery.

i think they're coming from sert. >> they're still attacking. >> that is what you can see now. they are attacking as . >> they believe they are facing more than a thousand of gaddafi troops further up the road. they are baffled by the continued resistance . >> gaddafi ran away. they got tripoli. game over. but this is personal. i do not know what they are fighting for. they must believe in the sky. i do not know. but we have him in a corner now. it is just a matter of time now appeared >> the rebels still hope that talks with tribal leaders will end this peacefully. if not, they are building up forces on either side of the town. command on this side had comfortably predicted that, once colonel gaddafi was removed from power, his followers would simply give up the fight. but some of the loyalists are

confounding those expectations. the continue to fight the last few slivers of territory that belongs to the old regime. the broaderk at picture of what is happening in libya with george grant, director of global security at the henry jackson society. we are seeing the rebels in aaa. we see them moving to -- in tripoli. we see them moving to sert. do you think that may nato -- you think that nato has fulfilled its mandate to? >> i do not think there would have been able to remove gadhafi from power without international trips on the ground. -- international troops on the ground. obviously, winning the war would be easier than securing peace after word.

but the former has to take place for the latter to begin in the case of libya. that could not have happened without nato. i think that is something of which they can be rightly be proud. >> when can it to step back? the national transitional council is requesting for them to stop their rates and prevent any more damage to infrastructure within libya. when disney tumbled aside? >> it is important -- when does nato moved aside? >> it is important to see, clearly, they went into libya on the back of the un resolution 1973 to protect libyan civilians. it quickly became a very real that the primary threat to libyan civilians emanated from the regime of colonel gaddafi. for the rebels, they have been -- it has been commendable that they have abided to the exhortations that there should not be rival killings.

if the killings stop and the conflict comes to an end, then nato's mission should be considered completed and they should withdraw. but that is the important caveat. once the killing stops. with gaddafi now gone, that will happen in time. >> whatever happens, there will not be a power vacuum and a security vacuum within libya. they have various amounts of police officers ready to take over. they have a blueprint. but there will be concerns within the international community that some vacuum will take place. >> certainly. particularly now, we are at the tail end of a conflict of a brutal civil war, which is getting rid of an oct. tyrian regime.

that is not -- getting rid of an of authoritarian regime. that is not an easy situation. i think security is possible. if the international community is required to assist in that regard down one, so be it. i think there will have to do that. for the time being, that is something that libyans aspire to do themselves and they should be afforded the opportunity to do so. >> thank you for your input. >> you are watching newsday on the bbc, live from singapore and london. still to come -- all change at apple and steve jobs is stepping down as the company's chief executive. >> clashes in chalechile as the general strike gets underway.

libyas rebel leaders are seeking around two million dollars to help put the country back on its feet. >> libya's new rulers, whoever they may be, urgently need cash to take stock -- to kickstart reconstruction. analysts say that the first party is getting hold of a few billion dollars to start libya descending into immediate first conflict chaos. >> the media party for the transitional national council is to get their hands on liquid assets, such as cash. they need to pay public sector salaries, but they need to pay for food and fuel imports. the way we're going right now, libya is on the road to beat a command tearing catastrophe. >> this early phase of money will come in the form of grants and loans from sympathetic governments. for the longer term, libya must

rebuild its oil industry. crude exports account for 80% of government revenues. it can also call 1 funds released by the unfreezing of the assets from the gadhafi's regime that was held abroad. it could be as high as $70 billion. it is believed that $40 billion of the frozen assets are in the united states, mostly in real estate. something equal to half of that amount is held in britain could further large sums are believed to be in germany and the netherlands. other stashes we do not know about yet and are likely to emerge in the middle east and elsewhere. while there are no shortage of funds, getting libya back on its feet will not be easy. the donors' meeting in catarrh is the start of a long road ahead.

>> this is newsday on the bbc. >> rebels in libya have offered a reward of nearly two million dollars for the capture or killing of colonel gaddafi. >> the rebels are now moving toward his home town of sert where they are facing stiff resistance. the co-founder of the computing giant apple, steve jobs, has resigned as the company chief executive with immediate effect. he has been on medical leave since january this year. having survived pancreatic cancer. [applause] >> good morning. >> wearing his trademark trial next order, he has been the public face of apple is well as the technological mastermind. >> we have been working on this product for a while and i did

not want to mess today appeared >> after his last public appearance back in march, there was probably as much attention paid to the state of his health as there was to the launch of the new ipad. from the imac computer to the iphone and the ipod and the ipad, steve jobs has turned apple into one of the most powerful companies in the world. after a cancer scare and liver transplant and an indefinite period of medical leave, it appears that he is no longer well enough to remain at the helm. the news that he is standing down has come in as a shock to many. >> he set the standard. hopefully, people will honor what he started and continue to make great products and only improve on them . >> i think he is the face of apple. i think the products are very innovative. people buy them for the styles.

>> steve jobs was credited for knowing what the consumers wanted even before they did. it will not be up to tim cook to prove that the company still has the dynamism and the innovation to remain a leading force in computer technology. >> there have been violent clashes between police and demonstrators in the capital of santana appeared the confrontation after -- of santiago. .he confrontation began 350 people have been arrested . >> the protests started early. some chileans will cut to the site of burning barricades in their streets. this was punta arena in patagonia.

these are to cities/over 3,000 kilometers, united in discontent. >> what they tried to do today is not just to protest. they tried to paralyze an entire country. >> pensions have been high in -- tensions have been high in chile four weeks. students want a complete overhaul of the education system. but bankers,-, transport workers, and civil servants have also joined the call. they want chile's wealth to be more spread out. they called for more protests on thursday. they're likely to be every bit as violent as today.

>> hurricane irene has strengthened to a category 3 storm as it approaches the united states. it brought torrential rain to the dominican republic and cut power supplies in puerto rico. it will be a category 4 hurricane by the end of the week. a meteorologist at the international hurricane center says there could be worse to come. >> you are right. it has continued to strengthen. right now, some of the southard- hit areas are the southern part of the bahamas. during the overnight hours, near the u.s., and into early portions of thursday, this system will turn northward and then possibly have significant impact to the outer banks of and up the line in the mid-atlantic parts of the united states and new zealanengd

over the weekend. >> this hurricane has already cost a lot of havoc in the last week of the ball tie-billion dollar summer season. how much damage has -- in the last week of the multibillion- dollar summer season. how much damage has it cost? >> we saw a lot of flooding in puerto rico. we have not gotten a lot of confirmation from the island of hispaniola. some of the worst wind damage is likely occurring in the bahamas. we will have to see what happens in the united states. irene is causing a lot of havoc along its track. >> russia's space program to combat it on wednesday. an unmanned space ship exploded five minutes after liftoff. >> the progress spacecraft lifted up smoothly enough.

but as the rocket disappeared from view, the propulsion system stalled and fell back to work. the cargo ship was carrying several tons of supplies to the international space station. but there will not be any immediate problems for the astronauts on board. >> we are in a good position logistically to withstand this loss of supplies that were going to come to iss. we can do several months without a resupply vehicle if that becomes necessary. >> the unmanned rocket used is similar to the one here, which flies astronauts into space. until investigators find out what went wrong, there will be no more launches. the crews can give back to work on capsules already docked. scrapping of the shuttle

program in july means that there is no backup plan. >> this draws attention to how vulnerable the international space station program is. should anything more serious goes wrong, then you need something as large as the space shuttle to do a space walk to repair the space station. you might end up losing the space station altogether without it. >> hurricane irene was monitored today by the crew of the international space station. if the problem with the nrussian rocket system has not been solved, then the laboratory project will have to be abandoned. >> libya is still grabbing all the headlines. what can you tell us? >> you are absolutely right. it has been another dramatic day in libya. foreign journalists who had been held in the center of tripoli

have now been freed. they were trapped inside the hotel with very little food and water. mathieu price and his team were among those held. he reports now. >> this was all we saw of the battle for tripoli. but it came close into the dining room of the hotel. we stayed away from the windows for four long days. we scavenged what food we could from the hotel's doors. sleeping and living for much of the day in our body armor, nervous if the pro-gaddafi guards. >> we are just getting ready. >> we prepared, fearing the duffy forces might come into the hotel, -- fearing the gaddafi forces might come into the

hotel, even to use us as human shields. early this morning, we scouted around the hotel. many of the khaddafi guards had vanished. colonel gaddafi is still seems to rule in this tiny patch. the guards truly believe that his forces could take back the city. so began the negotiations. the cnn jordanian producer was pivotal. the guard was confused. after four decades of gaddafi rule, he refused to believe that it was all over. we ventured out. not all of them had gone. finally, after five days of not knowing whether we would make it out, we did, into our armored vehicle as the red cross swept in to carry the others out. out through a city hidden from our view, transformed in the five days since we had last seen

it. then it was gaddafi ruled. now, it is not certain who does. >> as we heard in his report, the red cross helped organize the relief of those journalists held that the hotel. we just heard that the head of the international committee of the red cross told us how his team helped to get them out. >> we have been present in libya since the outbreak of hostilities some months ago. we worked on both sides. we work wherever there are people who need our support. one of the bridge we were looking at, in addition to the civilians -- one of the groups we were looking at, in addition to the civilians in prisons and so forth, as we were there, we were in a position to be able to support and facilitate the escort of many journalists out through a variety of checkpoints and into a safe area under red

cross protection. the fighters, the belligerence, they have truly been respectful of the red cross by virtue of the fact that we have spoken with their leaders these past months. it is a humanitarian exercise for us. we wish we could do more. we wish we could do more for the wounded. we wish we could do more for the civilian population as well. >> you have been watching newsday from the bbc. >> a quick reminder of our main story tonight. the source for colonel gaddafi continues. libyan rebels have offered safe passage out of the country if he renounces his leadership. there is much more on our website. you can follow was on twitter. for now, from both of us, bye-

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