and the same is going on with the areas in and around zowiya. strikes quite helpful to the rebels. we know that was the case in mizrata and ben ghazi and quite a few other cities. without that help there's a lot of questions as to whether or not these rebels can become strong enough to actually hold these cities and push forward towards tripoli where gadhafi has the most fire power and has the most support. >> matthew, in tripoli, if the opposition forces were able to take full control of zowiya, how big a setback would that be for the gadhafi regime? what would it mean? >> i think it would be a devastating setback for a number of reasons. it's the main supply route to the west. that means tripoli would have to go without food stuffs, fuel splice and things like that. there's also an oil refinery in zowiya, one of the two that is controlled by the gadhafi regime at the moment. it would have a big impact if that's lost to the rebels. they'd be short of gasoline for their military efforts. but more than anything else it would be the enormous psych

and the same is going on with the areas in and around zowiya.y have had air strikes quite helpful to the rebels. we know that was the case in mizrata and ben ghazi and quite a few other cities. without that help there's a lot of questions as to whether or not these rebels can become strong enough to actually hold these cities and push forward towards tripoli where gadhafi has the most fire power and has the most support. >> matthew, in tripoli, if the opposition forces were able to take full control of zowiya, how big a setback would that be for the gadhafi regime? what would it mean? >> i think it would be a devastating setback for a number of reasons. it's the main supply route to the west. that means tripoli would have to go without food stuffs, fuel splice and things like that. there's also an oil refinery in zowiya, one of the two that is controlled by the gadhafi regime at the moment. it would have a big impact if that's lost to the rebels. they'd be short of gasoline for their military efforts. but more than anything else it would be the

they have an opportunity in zowiya if they can take the town to essentially cut off supplies from thento the regime. nato has intensified its bombing campaign. there are reports that united states is adding predators. so you're beginning to see an opportunity here both for the rebel alliance but also for nato to put some pressure on the gadhafi regime to relieve this stalemate that has been in place for the last six months. >> i brought up the pipelines here, if the rebels can keep this here they can cut off pipelines to tripoli. i want to move the conversation over to syria if we can. if you look at this august 7 and 8 the saudi king says stop the killing machine. we know what happened. the killing continued. august 9 the turk irk foreign minister meets with assad. he says stop. assad says i won't stop in my pursuit of the terrorists. august 10th the united states announces new sanctions. again i can go to just about anywhere in this map. highly pick the town of harasta here. international pressure on the regime and this what is you get. people in the street protesting for their righ