opera mi -- of misratah. >> in the besieged city, growing signs of order and confidence. and a daily routine for men like this one, sending his forces of to the front lines. he has emerged as a key rebel commander in the defense of misratah. fitting perhaps for a former center back on libya's national football squad and, until the revolution, coach of the local football team. today, he is taking his children to see the ruins of their home here for weeks, colonel gaddafi's forces shelled the area, but they had been pushed back. the city is safer, at least for now. football requires courage, he says, but fighting has taught him so much more about himself and how to command men. maybe it will help him as a coach in the future. but hours later, some of his colleagues are carried back from the front lines from 50 kilometers outside misratah. they were ambushed. gaddafi's forces remain a real threat. >> it may seem chaotic, and to some extent, it is, but over the last few weeks, the city has adapted and put together structures that are starting to make a real difference. >> for

official recognition and rebels are said to be in desperate need of food and medical supplies in the besieged city of benghazi. while back in washington and nato and the u.s. call time on gadhafi smaller as they push forward with the stalled. but could offer himself remains defiant this comes as more airstrikes hit the capital tripoli although the libyan leader says he is beyond the reach of coalition bombers. under starters orders of russia starts the official countdown to the next winter olympics which will give gaza just under one thousand days and it is the biggest sporting event to be hosted by the country since the summer moscow olympics in one thousand made. up next to the beautiful and of the bizarre one martin andrews is certainly

they were not born our enemies. >> in a besieged city, forgiveness and restrained. libya will need plenty of both when the fighting is done. >> in more news, italian police have rescued 500 migrants packed onto a fishing boat. the migrants came from sub- saharan africa and their fishing boats departed from the libyan coast. the migrants were mostly men, but there were some women and nine children on board the boat. there was more worrying news from greece today. the rating agency fitch downgraded its bonds to junk status. inspectors from the eu and the imf says greece must do more to speed up the sale of its assets before getting more aid. in the case of dominique strauss-kahn, each case brings more twists. he was ordered to be released from jail and sent to a temporary detention center. our reporter is outside the building in question. she joins us now. i understand that dominique strauss-kahn has been freed from prison. >> he has been released from the rikers island jail complex. he is not headed here. this is where he was initially going to be headed. but u.s. me

. >> scanning the new front lines south of the besieged city of misurata.ebel forces have only just seized the area. this is all gaddafi weaponry. >> this is ammunition. >> it is not just westerners left behind. today we have been given rare access to a school turned detention center where captured gaddafi troops are being held. inside refined the guards relaxing. -- inside, we find the guards relaxing. inside the school library, more than 100 prisoners. their identities are hidden to protect their families from possible retaliations. zero local muslim cleric is in charge. the prison is already interrogated by rebel military officials. they now spend their days on mattresses in the classrooms. -- a local muslim cleric is in charge. this soldier says he was wounded during the battle for misurata. >> how have you been treated as a prisoner? >> very well. it is as though i am with my family. we were told we were coming here to fight against foreigners and al qaeda. but we realized our commanders were fig region were line and we were fighting the people. that d

it's the only way into the besieged city. nato warships, a reassuring presence.e approach the harbor cautiously. colonel gaddafi's forces mined the area repeatedly and shelled the docks. but today it's eerily quiet. the suffering here has been spectacular. on every street, the evidence of two brutal months under siege. but now a amid the ruins, a moment of celebration. civilians finally emerging from their homes to mark an unlikely victory. gaddafi's forces have been driven back from the area, at least for now. the remains of his aerial bombardment on display as a monument to one man's cruelty. >> we decided the best way to make it is by long distance shelling. my father's house was destroyed, a cousin tried to get him out, but another went off and took the lives of both of them. >> today, like everyone else here, mustafa is digesting the news that counselor gaddafi may be indicted for war crimes. he has particular reason to care. on friday, a missile landed in his children's bedroom he lost his 3-year-old daughter and by by son. -- and baby son. >> i want gaddaf

official recognition the rebels are said to be in desperate need of food medical supplies and the besieged city of benghazi. while back in washington for us and called on his rule as they push forward with the stalled campaign he himself remains defiant. tripoli although the libyan leader himself says he is beyond the reach of coalition box. under starters orders russia begins the official countdown to the next winter olympics which will kick off in just under one thousand days the biggest sporting event to be hosted by the country since the summer olympics. is something that. a lot. he's up with the moscow team that's coming up next. hello and welcome to the program on this week's arts and culture show will be taking a look at russian contemporary art galleries constantly opening up in the capital such modern day creativity has exploded onto the country's art scene and we started one of the most famous innovative art spaces in the capitol garage house in a wonderful example of twentieth century russian architecture it's set in a former general founded by thirty joker signally god's plan that p

. >> scabbing -- scanning the new front lines, south of the besieged city of miscellaneous rata. rebel forces have just seized this area. this is all gaddafi weaponry? >> yes. this is for gaddafi. this is ammunition. >> but it's not just weapons left behind here. today we've been given rare access to a school turned detention center by captured gaddafi troops -- where captured gaddafi troops are being held. inside we find the guards relaxing. and in the school library some of more than 100 prisoners, their identities hidden to protect their families from possible retaliation. a local muslim cleric is in charge, the prisoners already interrogated by rebel military officials now spend their days on mattresses in the classrooms . or in a make shift clinic. this soldier says he was wounded during the battle for mizrhata. how have you been treated as a prisoner? >> very well. it's as though i'm with my family. we were told we were coming here to fight against foreigners and al qaeda. but we realized our commanders were lying, that we were fighting the people. that destroyed our morale

. >> a besieged city adapts and waits for the next breakthrough. >> they are charged with trying to rape a hotel maid once the unreleased on the cash bail and electronically tagged. the bail hearing is due to take place on tuesday. she gave us an update on the police investigation. >> there will be a grand jury hearing. this is to determine whether or not there is sufficient evidence for him to continue to be detained. the grand jury will hear the evidence thus far and they will take a vote. and on the basis of that, the case continues or it doesn't. by friday, that grand jury hearing should have happened. more immediately, tomorrow, there is the bail hearing. remember, he was denied bail on monday. the hope it will be granted. >> of the authorities have also spoken about the credibility of the witness. dodge the lawyer has been talking to the press and they has said that she is a devout muslim and. she came to the u.s. about seven years ago, and the situation is similar to seeking asylum. she was coming from troubled circumstances. it is someone that is trying to build a new life for he

it is the only way into the besieged city. nato warships, a reassuring presence. we approach the harbor cautiously. colonel gaddafi's forces have mined the area and shelled the docks. today, it is quiet. this city's suffering has been spectacular. on every street, the evidence of two will tell months under siege. but now, amid the ruins, a moment of celebration. civilians finally emerging from their homes to mark an unlikely victory. gaddafi's forces have been driven back. at least for now. the remains of his aerial bombardment on display. >> we decided the best way to make -- was by long-distance shelling. >> today, like everyone else here, this man is digesting the news that colonel gaddafi might be indicted for international war crimes. he has particular reason to care. on friday, a missile landed in his children's bedroom. he lost his 3-year-old daughter and baby son. >> i want gaddafi to be killed, he says. then changes his mind. no, he must be put on trial. over the last couple of days, colonel gaddafi's forces have been pushed well back. the city is no longe

mined the port of misratah, making it very difficult for humanitarian ships to bring aid to that besieged cityo encouraged his own supporters in tripoli to carry out those vigilante attacks against the embassies of the uk and italy. also the compound of the united nations. the u.n. said today it is evacuating its foreign staff, and people here believe that as gadhafi gets more and more desperate, he will become more dangerous. and they hope that gadhafi will be targeted directly. >> and if he is being targeted directly and this is, in effect, regime change, a tentative regime change we're talking, is there a part two to this from nato's perspective as to what happens, who governs libya afterwards? >> reporter: there is increasingly a movement to recognize the government here in benghazi. the u.s. has said it is an entity worthy of recognition. but not recognizing it as the official government, although several european nations have started to send diplomatic missions here. where we are right now there are already state department officials on the ground. so some effort is under way to create a

. >> in a besieged city, growing signs of order and confidence. polite lines for bread. a day the retained for men like this man. -- a day the retained for a man like this man. he has emerged as a key rebel commander in the defense of misrata. sitting -- fitting perhaps for a former center back on the national football squad. until revolution, coach of the local fame. -- the local team. today, he's taking his children to see the ruins of their home. for weeks, colonel gaddafi's forces shelled the area. they have been pushed back. the city is safe for now. >> football requires courage, but fighting has taught me so much courage about myself. maybe this will help me as a coach in the future. >> hours later, some of his colleagues are carried back from the new front lines some 50 kilometers outside of misrata. they were ambushed. gaddafi's forces remain a real threat here. it might seem that it here and to some extent it still is but over the past few weeks the city has adapted and put into place structures to make a real difference. for instance, meals on wheels delivered

the ship was forced to leave the besieged city with 200 fewer people than planned after heavy shelling from forces of colonel gaddafi. >> wounded, some of them seriously, have been taken off first, followed by the tyrant. hundreds of refugees, mainly migrant workers. this ship is now pretty much the only lifeline to that city and the outside world. it was held off for a number of days because of concerns that forces loyal to colonel gaddafi had been minding the porch. it was met by a barrage of rocks and fire -- of rocket fire. some believe it was a deliberate attempt by colonel gaddafi's forces to target their aid mission. in the chaos and confusion, we understand that a number of people are reported to have been killed in and around the port area. ck twice had to redo because of the confusion and a number families got separated. it was initially understood that it left with slightly fewer people on board than planned. the shipping company says it took out 1300 people and has now brought them to safety in benghazi. leading thery's military action against colonel gaddafi forces in liby

official recognition rebels are said to be in desperate need of food and medical supplies in the besieged city of benghazi. while back in washington nato and the u.s. call time on copies will as they push forward with a stalled air campaign could offer himself remained defiant this comes as more airstrikes hit the capital tripoli although the libyan leader says he is beyond the reach of coalition bombs. under starters orders for russia begins the official countdown to the next winter olympics before kick off in just under one thousand days it is the biggest sporting event to be hosted by the country since the summer moscow olympics in one thousand eight. on spotlight next to dimitri president of the socially organizing committee with only around one thousand days to the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics what's left to be done and will everything be ready on time. hello again or welcome to the spotlight the interview show part to find housing in our hands very my guest on the show is me three children the. only a thousand days left for the moment when the winter olympics start and such

he will be returning to the besieged city in three days' time.dream is to go back to benghazi's central square one day to join in on the big three's celebrations and gaddafi has been defeated. >> i am now joined by someone who just returned from benghazi. he produced the report you just saw. the country has been going on in libya for the past three months with no end in sight. what is your assessment of where it is going? >> i have been in libya, benghazi and as dobby at, and i think it will not be fought on the battlefield. when we talk tohe people in ngha, th said they need nato to bomb and killed gaddafi. that is the way they see it ending. or gaddafi will just go out of the country. but i do not think it will be decided on the battlefield. it will last long, according to this. >> tell us a little bit more about these rebels. who are they, and how united are they? >> the rebels are part of the population. you can imagine a family living in benghazi. the father and son are part of it. they get weapons and are ready to defend their street. they'

the ship, chartered by the international organization for immigration, was forced to leave the besieged city with 200 fewer people than planned. that's after heavy shelling from forces loyal to muammar gaddafi. john sudworth saw the ship as it docked in benghazi. >> this was followed by the tired and bedraggles. mainly migrant workers were fleeing the chaos in the port city of misrata. this ship is now pretty much the only lifeline to that city and the outside world, and it was held offshore for a number of days because of concerns that forces loyal to colonel gaddafi had been mining the fort. when it was deemed safe to move in shortly after it docked, it was met by a barrage of rocket fire, which some of those i've spoken to, from the shipping company, say they believe was a deliberate attempt by colonel gaddafi's forces to target their aid mission. in the chaos and confusion, we happened a number of people are reported to have been killed in and around the fort area. the ship had to redock twice because of the confusion and the fact that a number of families had got separated trying to get

official recognition the rebels are said to be in desperate need of food and medical supplies in the besieged city of benghazi. back in washington nato and the u.s. called time off his rule as they push forward with the stall their campaign for gadhafi himself remains defiant this comes as more airstrikes at the capital tripoli although the libyan leader says he is beyond of the legion of coalition bombs. under starters orders against the official countdown to the next winter olympics which will kick off in just under one thousand days it is the biggest sporting event he hosted by the country since the summer olympics in one thousand nader. and staying with sports if you are a sports fan you're in luck because union is here and update you with all the latest. thanks for joining us this is sports today i'm eating on the line these are some of the stories we're covering over the next ten minutes or so. nothing between them and gee i don't feel takes sole control of the russian premier league meaning it's a lock on the t.v. to leapfrog to the summit for twenty four hours a week. thinking green only g

the libyan rebels are bracing themselves for ground assaults by colonel gadhafi forces in the besieged city of misurata morely two months of nato bombing failed to break the stalemate of civil war but some analysts believe the coalition's interest is in making the conflict. their objective is not to save civilians it's to break up the country and to turn it into another somalia another afghanistan a failed state that they can take advantage of and manipulate and take all the resources the biggest companies corporations or africa all happened to be in libya libya ways to push in for the african union to unite under its wing and it was the financial backer board of africa until these but this bombing started libyan banks were amongst the biggest investors across the world in fact the first step of this war was to take libya's money by freezing its billions of dollars of assets in north america and europe they've already set up. an oil corporation in eastern libya based in benghazi a national bank based in benghazi they want this conflict to last they're no rush to end this war they are keepin

recognition the rebels are said to be in desperate need of the food and medical supplies and the besieged city of benghazi. while back in washington nato and the u.s. paul time on cut off his rule as they push forward with the stalled air campaign but coffee himself remains defiant this comes as more airstrikes hit the capital tripoli although the libyan leader says he himself is beyond the reach of polish involved. under starters orders of russia begins of the official countdown to the next winter olympics which will kick off in just under one thousand. and a magic figure of our time julian assange has managed to do what few people ever dared reveal top u.s. government secrets but just who is the man behind wiki leaks we investigate next right here on our show. the web site wiki leaks once again tapping. the last year. it's saying it's chilly and such i think that that counts for the type and what's not in the bag which exist utterance and. he says he has a dream a world without secrets the first step in the for the state is to get information out of the real world today anyone can find out w

talks until colonel gadhafi stops the bloodshed because the earlier one dribbles into the besieged city of misrata to lay down their arms or face a full scale offensive the unrest which started in mid february has already claimed at least two thousand lives according to the u.n. health watched. in syria six people have been killed as the pro-government forces stormed a mosque in the southern city of herat meanwhile the country continues to bury its dead following a day of rage on friday when tens of thousands took to the streets demanding change according to the opposition more than five hundred sixty people have been killed in fighting with government forces since the west could gather in march for the u.n. human rights council then to the bloodshed in a u.s. led resolution calling for an international investigation and as the violence continues washington has imposed a new set of sanctions targeting a high level officials in the syrian government the e.u. has also set an arms embargo on president bashar al assad's government washington claims that iran's revolutionary guard is aiding

will be no talks until colonel gadhafi stops the bloodshed khadafi earlier warned rebels in the besieged city of misrata to lay down their arms or face a full scale offensive and the unrest which started in mid february has already claimed thousands of lives according to the rebel forces of course we're keeping you up to date on the latest from the middle east to rival palestinian groups fatah and hamas agreed earlier in the week to unite their governments in the west bank and gaza the move comes ahead of a u.n. vote on palestinian statehood in september the palestinian foreign affairs minister told r.t. that he'd prefer to negotiate independents directly with israel but is finding that that move is difficult. since less of them but. this release had been avoiding. committing themselves into serious negotiations they have refused the request of the international community to seize and to stop settlement activities as international. political ambition for the resumption of negotiation and since then you know we did not have any kind of negotiations with the israelis so i want to position is. b

when libya rebels are said to have regained control of the besieged city of ras with help from nato ships in their strikes a top libyan opposition official is in washington for talks with the u.s. all the more support of all recognition british antiwar activists kate hudson thinks the coalition's policy is making a mockery of international law. when the u.n. security council voted to take action against libya it was designed as they said to protect civilians and now it seems that with the escalation of the air attacks they are hitting as it seems more and more civilian targets we've heard from a u.n. agency expressing concern to the security council that civilians are suffering in a number of ways shortages of food and so on as a result of the airstrikes this again raises the question of international law it's not legal to intervene within civil wars and i think inviting. those leaders to washington for talks shows that obama is disregarding that aspect of international law is trampling upon the very legal structure that our states have built up over decades it is a regime change war that

representative mahmoud jibril says that they are in desperate need of food and medical supplies in the besieged city of benghazi but they are having trouble getting washington to release colonel gadhafi is frozen assets the u.s. had promised to hand over some of the multibillion dollar funds anti-war activist john reese says that any revolution is on shaky ground when the opposition turns to western countries for help. the us are interested in stopping the revolution but not helping the revolution i think the intervention was meant to corrupt and control the revolution for us stands and not to give it any real life of its own or any capacity to actually alter the situation in libya in the way that the community and if you can revolutions did the object of the u.s. is to keep the libyan rebels on a very short lead not to allow them any real independence autonomy and to use them for u.s. foreign policy ends the rebels were naive if they hope of the the west was going to have an open hand towards them there was going to help them freely assist them in completing their revolution as soon as you start ap

enforce a 16-mile buffer zone around misrata to prevent libyan artillery hitting the recently besieged cityying to find a way to finish what it started. >> ifill: late today libyan state television reported the death toll from the nato air strikes has risen to 19. now the view from the veteran correspondent who has spent the last several weeks on the ground. ray swaurers has that. >> suarez: now reporters look at libya comes from lourdes garcia navarro who has been covering the conflict for npr. lourdes, you were on the ground in libya as people from all kinds of everyday walks of lives chose themselves, became the resistance. tell us about the rebels you met and how they keep going. >> it's an extraordinary story. when i first went into libya i was one of the first reporters to cross the border. all of a sudden you find yourself facing civilians with guns. my experience in iraq told me that was not a very good thing. they were extremely welcoming. they were so excited to have foreign reporters there that would be able to tell their story. as the days went by what became so compelling was t

first though an international aid ship evacuating people from the besieged libyan city of misrata has come under rocket attack from government forces with reports several people were killed this comes as the international criminal court announced it's investigating the khadafi regime for possible crimes against humanity as fuels talk of a coalition ground offensive may only be a matter of time or he's got his reports. the u.s. welcomed the international criminal court prosecutors plans to request three arrest warrants for alleged crimes against humanity committed in libya since february fifteenth they hate prosecutor did not specify who these people are but it's known that the international criminal court has been investigating colonel gadhafi some of his sons and aides over what the prosecutor called predetermined plan to attack protesters he said now is the time to start planning on how to implement those possible arrest warrants and that's the interesting part carrying out those arrests will require foreign forces on the ground to actually do that the issue of enforcing any future

first though a ship evacuating people from the besieged libyan city of misrata has come under rocket attack from coffee forces with reports of several deaths there says they hate it court announced it's investigating possible crimes against humanity by the libyan leader but with the opposition asking for more financial support there is growing speculation about the real motives of the coalition's so-called humanitarian intervention as our correspondents report. the u.s. welcomed the international criminal court prosecutor's plans to request summary i arrest warrants for alleged crimes against humanity committed in the years since february fifteenth prosecuted on specified who these people are but it's known that the international criminal court has been investigating colonel gadhafi some of his sons and aides over what the prosecutor called predetermined plan to attack protesters he said now is the time to start planning on how to implement those possible arrest warrants and that's the interesting part carrying out those arrests will require foreign forces on the ground to actually d

the strike, coming after gadhafi's forces unleashed a massive attack on the besieged rebel city of misurata killed at least 32 and wounded dozens. a nato spokesman says the alliance is increasingly targeting facilities linked to gadhafi's regime with government advances stalled on the battle field. in st. louis, missouri residents are surveying the damage after the area's most powerful tornado in 44 years swept through the city. the tornado, packing winds up to 200 miles an hour, tore through lambert st. louis international airport shattering glass at the main terminal and even blowing off part of a concourse roof. the twister also destroying homes in nearby towns. miraculously, no one was killed or seriously hurt. but flooding continued to threaten the region. the president and first lady host the white house's 133rd easter egg roll. >> i hope all of you had a wonderful easter. i hope everybody is having a great time. welcome to the white house. opening the south lawn to children and their families in a tradition that dates back to 1878. it's the largest annual public event at the white ho

different demands and expectations of our people, either in the eastern part of the country or in the besieged cities which are surrounded by gadhafi or those people, libyan people in the exodus, the tunisian borders. i think their number exceeded now 40,000 people. so we have a human tragedy right now in the making, but it's overshadowed unfortunately by those military activities. but the real tragedy is underneath, there is a real human tragedy. we tried several proposals here. 1973 resolution imposed restrictions on those assets by being frozen for the libyan government. we are not recognized by the united states so they cannot release the money because we are not reacement officially yet for the old regime. ironically enough, the united states is declaring that the regime lost its legitimacy. so it's not recognizing the other regime by the very fact of this official statement. there is the tnc, what we are trying to say we need a political recognition. by just recognizing this council as the sole legitimate representative as the libyan people, i'm not talking about a new state and presenc it need

a city besieged by bosnian-serb forces for nearly four years.never forget the day when the war came to his neighborhood. >> suddenly one day my mom was in the kitchen, and there was a shot. and someone shot through our window. the bullet went through the window in the kitchen and struck the wall through my brother's head or something. >> reporter: in the following days vlad found some of his neighbors dead in the street. he knew he'd be drafted soon, and he didn't want to join the infantry. so while still teenagers, he and his brother signed up for an anti-aircraft unit. >> this unit we were in was woefully ill equipped. i mean, we were called anti-aircraft unit, but for probably the first six months, we had no anti-aircraft weapons and possibly a couple of guns, right lal literally, and ten bombs. then we didn't know if it would function if it came to that anti-aircraft rocket or something. i would definitely say sometimes it was more safe for me to be with the army out in some trench than it would be to be in the center of sarajevo. >> reporte

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go she said last week with striking truckers who have besieged the country's largest port it bid to prevent the unrest from spreading to other cities so there is striking over the fact that fuel costs are rising fuel costs are rising of course because well five trillion dollars have been handed just by the central banks to the bankers. so the consumer the citizen the average joe gets slammed two ways they're paying more for stuff like food and energy and they're having to see their net worth crash due to the depreciation engineered by these financial terrorists but max speaking of those fuel protests we're seeing commodities across the board rising i want to turn to this headline from jeremy grantham who is a well known analyst financial analyst jeremy grantham goes malthus it's time to wake up or the great paradigm shift from declining prices to rising prices so jeremy grantham is looking at the fact that all these commodity prices are rising and he he looks at it and you see that compound growth in a world of finite resources is not possible we have to give up on that we have to start learning how to basically make ourselves more