i understand frederik pleitgen, who just met with opposition leaders is up live now.red, tell me exactly where you are and about this meeting that you were able to get some information on. >>. >> reporter: i'm in ben ghazi which is the stronghold of the libyan opposition, the capital of the libyan opposition if you will. i came back from a meeting with a senior official with the organization that says that it's representing the libyan rebels and the rebel fighters that rul across this country. one of the specifics things that i asked this person, i asked him what happened with saif al islam gadhafi where they put out a press release saying he had been captured by the rebel forces and a couple of hours later he shows up at the rixos hotel to meet with journalists there. they are investigating the matter and they themselves are not sure where that faulty information came from but they say there is going to be a major investigation into this and they are going to find u what went wrong. nevertheless it is clear that saif has not been captured by the rebels. they don't fe

cnn's frederik pleitgen was in tahrir square in the midst of it months ago and was in the courtroom today as the revolution took its latest turn. take us into the scene. hosni mubarak on trial. dismissing the charges against him. what was it like in there? >> reporter: well, it was pretty much utter disbelief on the part of anybody who was in that courtroom, john. i could see even the lawyers for the prosecution could not believe what they saw there in front of them. first of all, the former president inside that metal cage, and you said it, they never thought that they were ever going to see anything like this. one of the most important power brokers here in the middle east for so many years, someone who was also so important speaking with american presidents as you said as well, to many people here in egypt, this man was always larger than life, and now he was on that hospital bed. he had to remain on the bed the entire time that the proceedings went on. this was about five hours. he always had people attend to him. his voice was very weak. so, i spoke to some of the lawyers of the pros

frederik pleitgen, cnn, libya >>> president nicolas sarkozy announced he'll host an international conferenceo focus on rebuilding the country after meeting with executive chairman of the libyan national transitional council. they talked about what kind of trial may be in store for the long-time libyan leader if he's captured. >> translator: gadhafi has been captured then we can decide whether he'll be tried in libya or outside libya. if he gets captureded then he will have a fair trial. where this trial will take place, whether that is in libya or outside libya, this is obviously the libyan law which would take precedence where he should be tried. >> several countries at the united nations are supporting an effort to quickly provide money for the transitional council. as early as thursday the u.n. security council could vote to override the sanctions committee and release up to $1.5 billion in frozen libyan assets. and more money could be on the way. take a look at this with me. let's look at what libya has. it's estimated anywhere from 100 to $150 billion, even as much as $168 billion of li

cnn's frederik pleitgen joins us from near benghazi. fred, what's going on there? >> reporter: well, what's going on right here there is, as you mentioned, a bounty has been placed on moammar gadhafi's head by a rich merchant here from inside benghazi, it's about $1.5 million to $2 million, that's been placed on his head, and it's for capturing him dead or alive as this rich merchant has said. now, this, of course, is aimed not primarily at the rebels here, but it's primarily aimed at people who are protecting moammar gadhafi right now. he still does have some supporters, as we've seen. some of those supporters now under increasing fire as the rebels are making moves here in the east of the country to take the stronghold of cert which is moammar gadhafi's hometown, candy. >> fred, what can you tell us about what that is aimed at? it seems to me when i listen to a businessman offering $2.5 million for gadhafi, is that aimed at the prospect that there are still people willing to hide him, or is that aimed at kind of getting folks out looking for him? >> reporter: wel

sara sidner is in tripoli central square and we have arwa damon and frederik pleitgen and zain verjee. let's get to arwa damon right near the airport on the latest on the clashes. >> there were grad rockets fired at the airport complex earlier today. the fighting around here has been quite intense. and the rebel commander who led the assault on the airport believes that that fighting is directly linked to the whereabouts of colonel gadhafi himself. >> translator: the clashes are fierce because i think a route for gaffy to escape to other places. traffic all day and breaking people in the sunset and we spotted a convoy. possible he may be inside it. this is my analysis as a military man. there has been intense firing from all directions for the last three days. there has been a focus on this airport complex more than other locations even in tripoli. this is evidence that gadhafi is in the area but wants to escape from tripoli through here. >> the commanders at the airport were telling us themselves after the initial rush into tripoli they were forced to pull back from certain locations