in the cities that are filled with his loyalists fighting back against the troops. >> live for us in tripoli the live report. petitions with hundreds of thousands of names were delivered to the georgia pardons board in atlanta on behalf of a death row inmate. the naacp and other groups seeks clemency for troy davis scheduled to be executed next wednesday at 7:00 p.m. he was sentenced to die for the 1989 murder of an off duty police officer in savannah, georgia. he insisted he is innocent and there a lot of disturbing questions raised in regards to his case. joining me now via skype is columnist goldie taylor. thanks for the time here. you have an intriguing story here and quite honestly the family members of the officer who was murdered feel that the right man will die if troy davis is put to death, but his attorneys say evidence has changed the case. where are we now? >> i think today this case has been in georgia. they said troy davis is the man that killed the officer. they never moved away that from that, but troy davis always said he was innocent. it is worth note that nearly every pros

cnn's ben wedeman live for us in tripoli.en, the rebels have claimed to be on gadhafi's close trail before. do we view credibly these indications tonight from their spokesman that they have gadhafi surrounded? >> reporter: i'm approaching these claims with a certain amount of skepticism. we've heard them before. we've heard a variety of officials with the national transitional council making these claims and then it sort of comes to nothing. i think we really have to wait until they can really come forward with some solid evidence they actually know where he is. this is a vast, a huge, country. and there's a lot of territory in which to hide. moammar gadhafi is known for his like of road trips, being able to move around the country. he doesn't like to fly. he prefers to drive, and he may be doing a lot of driving. the rebels don't have a lot in the way of surveillance equipment to know where moammar gadhafi is. it's all rumors and hearsay really. so, i think we can hold off on concluding that they actually know where he is ju

game has claimed the battle colonel is in the country and has no plans to leave it and it's time soon. so use worry if you notions are right for us there in tripoli thanks for that report. meanwhile british prime minister david cameron has called for an inquiry into claims u.k. intelligence agents extradited terrorist suspects to libya where they were allegedly tortured allegations surfaced after human rights groups in tripoli found documents outlining m i six and cia rendition programs but former british intelligence officer any mashad expects the probe to be swept under the carpet. when david cameron calls for an inquiry into these allegations he's been credibly disingenuous under the u.k. law and inquiries act two thousand and five any inquiry this is established including this in this torture inquiry headed up by somebody gets them it's circumscribed by the very organizations that are being investigated in this case my five and i six so it's going to be toothless plus of course the other consideration with this is that subpoena keeps to himself he's heading up this inquiry was actually intelligence services commissioner for five years prior t

we are getting more and more reports he has been identified in a desert town, bani waled, about 120 miles southeast of us here in tripoli. a rebel commananr says they believe they have him cornered, but there is no suggestion that he's been captured yet. more signs of fracturing within the gadhafi family. two of his sons spoke on arac tv channels. sadi saying they wanted no more bloodshed and they wanted a cease-fire. but just as he got off the air, his brother if went on to say, to hell with nato, the gadhafis will never surrendesurrender. both perspectives appearing completely dismal. they have neither the power to negotiate a cease-fire or the power to mobilize the people against the new rebel government. george? >> thanks, jeffrey. >>> back home now, to the natural disasters causing so much trouble for so many of us. first, the wildfires in texas, a state bone dry from the worst drought its ever seen. they are tearing through dozens of homes and thousands of acres. and the most dangerous blaze right now has the people of palo pinto on the run. abc's ryan owens is there. good evening, ryan. >> reporter: good evening,

mustafa abdul jalil was delivering his first public speech since arriving in tripoli at the same spot previously used by colonel gaddafi. >> they came in their thousands to tripoli's marta square where colonel gaddafi used to give some of his speeches. now there's a new leader, mustafa abdul jalil, laying out his plans for the country. there was heavy security, a reminder that libya's present and future remain uncertain. >> we are a muslim nation with a moderate islam and we will maintain to our supporters, you are our weapons to whoever tries to hijack the revolution. >> he emphasized the need for a modern democratic state with an active role for women. but the interim government faces huge challenges -- rebuild and reunite a country after decades of of authoritarian rule and the isn't over. supporters of colonel gaddafi are still holding out in some areas. so much unfinished business for a country just beginning transition. >> amnesty international have said that anti-gaddafi forces committed unlawful killings and torture in what often amounted to a brutal settling of scores. in a report, amnesty s

in particular, his home town of sert, the and a town about 100 miles southeast of us here in tripoli. late word thursday from rebels is that they're giving people another week to negotiate. it seems gaddafi loyalists recognize he's history, and at least some want to avoid further blood shed. as for gaddafi he does not seem to recognize reality in his fourth public statement since toppled last tuesday, he made yet more outrageous claims. >> let bullets speak instead. let it be a long battle where we fight from place to place from city to city and mountain to mountain. let it be a long battle. >> libya is moving on without gaddafi. shopping is returning to the streets and streets are so far at least remarkably safe. and latest country to recognize the new rebel government as the only legitimate government in libya. the u.s. is preparing to reopen embassy, the embassy attacked by gaddafi loyalists and was damaged. there is exclusive video you can see the fires engulfing the embassy. it's going to have to be rebuilt. the u.s. is dempled to do that. there is a new government in this countr

>> all right, thanks, ben weed man live for us in tripoli. ere were clashes outside the trial of ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak in cairo. at least 22 people were arrested, 26 people injured, including 14 police officers. the trial resumed today after a recess of nearly three weeks. mubarak was wheeled into court on a gurney. >>> american college student amanda knox was in court. they're trying to get an italian court to overturn her 2007 murder conviction. they said the dna evidence used to reach that verdict was inconclusive. prosecutors today asked that the judge consider admitting new evidence that could strengthen the case against knox. >>> there's word that a senior al qaeda leader may have been arrested in pakistan. the leader is said to have been close to osama bin laden. he's suspected of directing attacks against the u.s.,europe and australia. pakistani authorities say they made the arrest with the help of the united states. or at least with the united states' cooperation. >>> gop hopefuls are gathering in south carolina righ

rivers waited in one along with some tripoli residents. >> reporter: well, the fuel situation in tripoli is still pretty bad. there are still incredibly long queues. it's better than it usedk it out. this is the back of the queue for gas. i want to show you just how long it is. this queue just goes on and on and on. it's ironic, because libya actually has the largest oil supply in the whole of africa, the ninth largest in the world. experts say it has some 23 years of oil reserves. and before the war it used to pump about 1.3 million barrels a day. but now all the people in this queue care about is when these petrol queues are going to subside. some of them say they've been waiting in the scorching heat for hours. and finally, this is the front of the queue. the coastal road is opened so it means some supplies are coming in. but you get the idea of just what an agonizing wait it is simply to fill up your car. >> pump prices are one of the biggest drags on the u.s. economy. next up, will things ever get better ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yu

russian embassy but more than a dozen ukrainians are still being held out his riffle nationalists in tripoli for us. as we know thirty two people including two owners of the russian passports and also by the russian and ukrainian citizens apparently working for the russian libyan oil company here in tripoli engineers and kooks men and women have been arrested here in tripoli shortly after the rebels took the libyan capital and have been put into one of the rebels' training center here in the capital after they've been accused of been snipers of coffee we have been able to speak to the detainees and they deny all allegations because it was for some reason the finger of slavic people are snipers we have nothing to do with that we came here to ramani peacefully this people say that they've been provided with food and water but some of them have been severely beaten and tortured by the rebels the russian embassy has actually managed to release the owners of the russian passports and ukrainian couple birds around twenty other ukrainians us to be held by the rebels here in tripoli. the ukrainian embassy

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they have entered syria to one of the last cities a loyal to the ousted leader or to use more information is in tripoli with the latest. french president also cause he and which prime minister david cameron to haley where first of all to show their support for the country's new authorities for the national transitional council both political and financial since this visit comes just days before all deliveries will be resumed and also a miniature he said paul it's not surprising that these two leaders have become the first to visit khadafi free libya these two countries france and britain have played a crucial role in the current maybe the revolution because of course he has said that nato will continue to fall mainly beer and ministry facilities. here in leave it till the rebels take control over the whole the country fighting so continues over at least for gadhafi stronghold including. the colonel's hometown city some six hundred kilometers east of the capital tripoli and bani walid today in the south told. me about russia's foreign ministry has announced today that they will call for a no fly zone to

us sprayed tens of millions of liters of toxins on crops in the sixty's and seventy's causing brain disorders miscarriages and birth defects to this day. so they're using missiles with depleted uranium which causes cancer in tripoli i saw people crippled by nato attacks office workers who have nothing to do with the fighting that's why we're seeing president sarkozy for crimes against humanity nato first denied bombing this residence where thirteen civilians including four children died then called the place a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed books videos spiderman toys and cultural and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack. wife or child and grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home nato is accused of deliberately waging a campaign of terror. bombings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly nato bombs and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting the regime because they simply cannot take it anymore. western leaders of poised for their first big legal challenge over libya if they stop the cases coming to court all together as chickadee it will prove once and for all that western justice really used b

. >>> gadhafi loyalists have lost tripoli but are still fighting hard in other cities. nbc's mike taibbi joins usalpi tripo tripoli. here we are, opening of the u.n. general assembly. yet we still have a war. >> reporter: we still have a war. in fact, chuck, if you wanted to characterize this, that's an accurate way. the libyan government, transitional national council, is recognized authority now, is having trouble starting the peace. at the same time militarily they're having trouble finishing the war. there's fierce fighting in sirte and bani walid. there have been repeated attempts in both of those towns, i should say outside both of those towns since friday for anti-gadhafi forces to go in and take control and plant the flag which they did with relative ease in many of the spots along the way to tripoli. of course, with the essential help of nato bombing. in those two towns the resistance has been fierce. they've been turned back again and again and again. the fighting yesterday in bani walid was said to be particularly fierce and violent. at least 20 anti-gadhafi forces killed. chaotic as w

at the moment 90 miles southeast of us here in tripoli they are expecting loyalists to finally put downew hours away before they finally do that. one of three remaining holdouts of qaddafi loyalists to hold. they are expecting his hometown to do the same in the next week or so and expecting the city in the south to possibly capitulate as well. both sides it seems have little appetite for more blood shed. 50,000 people killed since the start of the uprising. really people are losing their nerve or just tired of it. also issues at tribal level. tribe against tribe or even members in the same tribe do clash that is going to cause deepfy sures in society and libyans don't want that now. there is a sense that nationwide there has to be unity and that seems to be the impetus behind what is happening for the next steps for the remaining bastions of loyal supporters. ian martin has turned up in the country, arriving to meet the interior ministry. you can see pictures of that now. they wanted to offer as much support as they can to libya until they can start exporting oil and have an income and

the russian passports and ukrainian couple but around twenty other ukrainians us to been held by the rebels here in tripoli this group of the ukrainian embassy refused to take them they said they don't have running water they said that they don't have proper accommodation. they would be better to stink of c.b.c. . as well the latest what we're hearing from bani walid southeast of the capital tripoli where the fighting over it off is lost and main stronghold has been continuing in the last few days is that the rabble forces have reportedly reached a deal with the conductor's loyalists on the ground to and to the city without fighting this information is yet to be confirmed but if the research you do if the research agreement between the rebel forces and khadafi is forces. that actually would mean a breakthrough and we also receiving reports that scores of the libyan army as they call have reportedly crossed the frontier border into niger and many believe that gadhafi himself could also be in monday and good also. have fled the country and we have received in this report was just off to khadafi information b

rather than fight in a losing cause. >> senior international correspondent, ben wedeman, live in tripoli for us, great reporting as always, ben, thank you very much. >>> back to our top story, tropical storm lee which has much of the gulf coast on high alert now. it is coming one week after irene slammed the east coast. the tropical storm is closing in on the southeast. the rain already started along the coast. winds have knocked out power to thousands of people. cnn's ed lavandera was in new orleans this morning and moved a couple of miles east to bay st. louis, mississippi. give us a sense of what's going on where you are right now. >> we're monitoring situations like these. this is some of the low lying area here in bay st. louis, east of new orleans. a lot of people remember this town from hurricane katrina. this is much different from that. many poem who live here aren't quite impressed by a tropical storm of this magnitude. but people are monitoring the situations. low lying roadways that fill up quickly. the water here is dissipating a little bit. they said they had thigh high water down

used in the trials were basically flying in the face of international standards. >> thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> in libya today, u.s. senator john mccain was among the first group of american congressmen to visit tripolisince the fall of muammar gaddafi last month. speaking in the libyan capital, senator mccain had this to say about the major changes the country has undergone. >> the libyan people have inspired the world. they have turned cynics' into supporters. they have paid an enormous price for their freedom, but the sacrifice of the libyan people has delivered their great nation to the shores of a new world for new hope, a chance for all libyans to no lasting peace, dignity, and justice -- know lasting peace, dignity, and justice. >> while the country tries to chart a new future after more than 40 years of colonel gaddafi's rule, the education system is ripe for reform. for decades, it was a testing ground for the many radiological whims' of its leader. with students -- many ideological winhims of its leader. bbc reports. >> back to school and into a new era. with a different national anthem to sing. the words are still a little unfamiliar. ♪ mornings used to start with "praise to colonel gaddaf

in store. roof notion r t tripoli libya. and us was quick to support revolutions in libya any egypt as a democratic is expression of the people's free will and that it shouldn't stop there with calls for syria's regime to step down to reckon with iran out in the cold and its own neighborhood as are his greatest secure our ports. as nations in the middle east and north africa are torn between the struggle to bring about change and the struggle not to let change ruin their lives washington views the arab spring as an opportunity to finally see some of its longtime foes crumble even though. iran is not an arab country the arab spring. and i think in many ways it's a matter of trying before that kind of change. and revolution occurs in the runs under the umbrella loaf arab revolutions washington is also beating the drums of regime change in syria iran's closest ally in the region violence within the country has been widely can be errant countries like russia and china call for both sides in syria to talk in the bloodshed while america

in the libyan capital. mary thanks very much for bringing us the latest from tripoli there. has been a sort of the institute for policy and studies in washington says it's still not clear whether nato is ready to listen to the libyan people. we do know that the nato military actions have already gone beyond what was authorized by the u.n. resolution and now we don't know how they will decide a future role they have so far been very clear that they do not want u.n. our nato forces only ground whether nato is prepared to listen to what the libyan leadership itself says we don't know yet they don't have a good history the national transitional council should not by any means representative of the libyan people some of the rebels in misrata or in them said directly they do not believe that the national transitional council speaks for them the question of who makes up the transitional council of this force includes top level officials from the gadhafi regime it includes numerous islam is official and it includes officials who have very close ties to the united states and other par