that is -- the fight is against khaddafi. but against fellow libyans. >> we're hearing reports that was systematic rape carried out by his forces and they carried by am. -- viagra, six drugs. there were given some of the tablets and alcohol and hallucinogens, i never saw any rapes but some officers boasted of carrying them out. >> driving forward, we saw growing strength in the rebel force the defector has joined. over there is what happened for the last month by rebel troops have been consolidating their positions in the last few days ford of that front line. now controlling the strategic hilltop and as you see across the farmland there, that is the main road to tripoli. the hub to be on in the coming days. these moves forward are not without cost. on a foot patrol probing through the dense grove -- scrubland, we came upon a rebel vehicle destroyed by a tank shell in a major gaddafi counteroffensive on friday. omar was one of those injured. he said prisoners they took have been told they have to retake this hill and if they

libyan leader omar khaddafi. it is now reported that japan under estimated the effects of the tsunami. the experts were in japan for over one week. they're still looking for the main source of the equal i i'll break and east and europe. most of the victims were infected by eating raw cucumbers. >> now we are finding it up that cell phones may be causing cancer. cancer patients were roused to explain their mobile phone use. perhaps a blue tooth or speakerphone it will help. >> a lot of diesel fuel on the road at this accident on it any. and we will be telling you how to get around this accident when we come back in a minute. >> this is the level of of oakland on any accident how but just before 7 street it is now four and half hours since the accident happened. the problem is diesel fuel all over the roadway and they are trying clean up. we're falling of this among the different areas >> lanes are not expected to open until 7:00 a.m. this morning. we're seeing the backed up start our role 6 m they are detouring al

speaking in native tongue] [laughter] >> translator: i don't know wind, but maybe in the near future khaddafi will have a heart attack to. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: win quadhafi has his heart attack and leaves the country certainly due to the fact that the west has helped the people when libya is not calling to become a puppet of iran because they're not going to forget what the west has done for them. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: and now syria has a nondemocratic government. even presidency has become hereditary. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: and you may blinded interesting to know that the people of syria, the majority of syria rs in any. before -- for the last 50 years the minority. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: the people of syria are tired of the dictatorship and have of prison. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: unfortunately the government of iran on sent forces to the government of syria to repress these people. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: the people of syria are certainly going to win. [speaking in native

they owe their existence to people like khaddafi. again, i don't really know for certain.ut in fact northerner's saw it in those terms at the time. this is slaveholders pulling their people into a war. you know. there are the ones who are blamed for these leading slaveholders, politicians. so i think it's different. and in many ways, too, the american revolution was actually led by men who had a lot to lose it is an unusual revolution in that sense. as you point out, the people who have nothing to lose, they want to gain something. a revolution was led by men who had a lot to lose. in that sense it is different one. >> the battle of gettysburg, was it really all these fault? did the commanders under the really let him down? for instance, i guess the attack didn't take place when it was supposed to be read the unsalaried bombardment was of schedule. nothing seemed to be scheduled right. finally long streak finally agreed to the attack the calvary commander bill around and come back he was really being -- equipped men had men they're trained to take over the canyons and ever

finding great strides -- making great strides in finding non- combat solutions to deal with moammar khaddafi. mahmoud ahmadinejad and kim jong il or as we refer to them in the situation room -- 2 and half men. [laughter] isn't he cute? a little man. now, attorney general eric holder at my direction will be fighting the alabama controversial immigration bill that is even more extreme than arizona. it states that the police have probable cause to check anyone's immigration status if their complexion is greater than or equal to that of the john "the crybaby" behner. do you want to see my impression of john boehner? [crying] what do you think? i have been working on that for months. i don't know why that man cries so much. let me be clear -- i am against any state interfering with federal immigration law. shortly after arizona passed its bill, i received a letter that said mr. president -- i was born in this country. i get up early every day. i worked extremely hard supported my wife and kids and still the police stop me in question my intentions. i don't think senator mccain should be treated t

there is no doubt khaddafi needs to step down from power your from the international community's perspectiveeport that is the only way we can ensure the people will be protected. the international criminal court identified gaddafi as it violated international law and has committed a war crimes. where will we have seen his troops involved in more blacks. when you have somebody like that in charge of a large number of troops will we need to be sure that the libyan people will be protected if it means libyans some kind of decision. the international community is there for service and that is their goal. >> very of president obama hansen some questions about libya. the president has been at the podium asking and answering questions for the past 45 met. minutes. we're following the latest officer involved shooting we're expecting out an update from of the police chief >> the suspect pulled and gone from his waistband there is almost her attached to his pants we believe the shot fired one time officers returned fire smashed striking the suspect he crashed the vehicle into another vehicle he was tr

they're trying to drive khaddafi from power. >> cyrian activist clashes have left 120 people injured.al crackdown and crushing dissidents. 1300 people have been killed. new dealer tells coming not a human yemens a leader who was more badly injured and then first reported. three at u.s. officials say burns and leading in his golf. officials are pressing for him to leave our >> an update on the sunshine we are expecting. >> as you concede from a live shot of the golden gate bridge we are seeing some breaks in the sunshine. the big story is the dry weather coming into the bay and the sunshine we will be seen. i will break down the warming trend we are going to seeing. checking satellite and radar know what weather to >> of. it is well to the north of us. almost sitting 60 degrees in some areas. 56 degrees currently in san francisco and by 3:00 p.m. and '70s are on the board. 74 is the common number around the area. art you're in the south bay area 74 for morgan hill. we are showing how condition around the bay area. thursday will be the warmest day of the area and as we get closer to the

secretary-general, you just pointed out that nato doesn't want to play a major role in the post khaddafi area but can you give us an idea of when the final two when he is arrested or dead, and does that mean that nato is hunting after mafia gadhaffi because the net will be over? just give us an idea what you are hunting for and when the final curtain falls for nato. >> first let me stress we do not target individuals. we are targeting critical military capabilities that could be used to attack civilians including of course command and control centers that could be used to plan and organize such attacks, but we do not target individuals. having said that, nato allies and partners in doris gadhaffi to step down. you will recall that the international contact group called on gadhaffi to step down. you will recall that the g8 group repeated that it has been endorsed by nato allies and partners. it's the foreign minister meeting in berlin. you have the mother to retract, and we have defined three very clear military objectives for our operation. first, a complete end to attacks against civili

pointed out there was a report and admiral had made a comment about the real mission being to target khaddafi. -- to target gaddafi. that is not the rules of engagement they are falling. >> to follow that a little further, how would you differentiate between degrading the regime's ability to attack civilians and actively targeting muammar gaddafi himself? is there a line there you can draw or -- >> most of that -- most of it is focused in the operational terms, centered on the destruction of equipment. radar, and-aircraft, which can be mounted on fixed and mobile devices. the targeting has been directed at that command-and-control. i note in my own testimony that his own forces rules of engagement seem to authorize them to indiscriminately attack civilians and therefore, if they have the apparatus by which they can do that, large numbers of civilians would be killed and we would not be serving our mission, wch is to protect the civilians in the civian- populated areas. with regard to be targeting of leaders, i thi the important point to emphasize from the beginning has been this is a multi-to

pointed out there was a report and admiral had made a comment about the real mission being to target khaddafi. -- to target gaddafi. that is not the rules of engagement they are falling. >> to follow that a little further, how would you differentiate between degrading the regime's ability to attack civilians and actively targeting muammar gaddafi himself? is there a line there you can draw or -- >> most of that -- most of it is focused in the operational terms, centered on the destruction of equipment. radar, and-aircraft, which can be mounted on fixed and mobile devices. the targeting has been directed at that command-and-control. i note in my own testimony that his own forces rules of engagement seem to authorize them to indiscriminately attack civilians and therefore, if they have the apparatus by which they can do that, large numbers of civilians would be killed and we would not be serving our mission, which is to protect the civilians in the civilian- populated areas. with regard to be targeting of leaders, i think the important point to emphasize from the beginning has been this is a mu

pointed out there was a report and admiral had made a comment about the real mission being to target khaddafi. -- to target gaddafi. that is not the rules of engagement they are falling. >> to follow that a little further, how would you differentiate between degrading the regime's ability to attack civilians and actively targeting muammar gaddafi himself? is there a line there you can draw or -- >> most of that -- most of it is focused in the operational terms, centered on the destruction of equipment. radar, and-aircraft, which can be mounted on fixed and mobile devices. the targeting has been directed at that command-and-control. i note in my own testimony that his own forces rules of engagement seem to authorize them to indiscriminately attack civilians and therefore, if they have the apparatus by which they can do that, large numbers of civilians would be killed and we would not be serving our mission, which is to protect the civilians in the civilian- populated areas. with regard to be targeting of leaders, i think the important point to emphasize from the beginning has been this is a mu

he believes that is essential khaddafi be removed and a new government be put into place. host: is the part of the opposition? guest: he is not. host: let's go to stephanie, democratic call in riverside, california. caller:good morning, c-span. i wanted to say when congress was asking the american people to accept medicare and social security, we need to get out of these wars. we do not need to be over in iraq. we need to remove everyone from iraq and afghanistan. i also have a question. we have been in afghanistan over 10 years now. if they are not ready to ticker the government now, they will never be ready. we need to get out of these wars. we cannot afford them. the republicans have all kinds of suggestions for the commander in chief oand say he should listen to his military top official leaders when president bush did what he wanted to do, and it is like asking -- the tail wagging the dog. you have to listen to the leader pierre did the president is the commander in chief. >> the first thing i point out is we have to try to get the genie back in the bottle. by that i

make clear our military mission includes the president's stat policyfi to objectives of forcing khaddafi to leave power. i would have preferred that it urged the president to commit u.s. strike aircraft to the mission and matteo so as to help bring this conflict to a close as soon as possible and a bit on preferred a call on the president to recognize thenatiol transitional national council as the legitimate vallese of the fe libyan people said to free up ioeze frozen assets for the nat transition and the national lib council to use on behalf of thee libyan people. dhaka called on the of administration to do all of these things for some time, and i do so now again. that said, this authorizationipa has been a bipartisan effort. my republican colleagues and iae have had to make compromises frm just as the senator frommassachd massachusetts and his democratio colleagues have had to do.ult, i authorization that deserves thee support of my colleagues in theo senate on both sides of thefidet aisle and i am confident they will support it. i know the administration has made it clear that itd bel

he believes that is essential khaddafi be removed and a new government be put into place. host: is the part of the opposition? guest: he is not. host: let's go to stephanie, democratic call in riverside, california. caller:good morning, c-span. i wanted to say when congress was asking the american people to accept medicare and social security, we need to get out of these wars. we do not need to be over in iraq. we need to remove everyone from iraq and afghanistan. i also have a question. we have been in afghanistan over 10 years now. if they are not ready to ticker the government now, they will never be ready. we need to get out of these wars. we cannot afford them. the republicans have all kinds of suggestions for the commander in chief oand say he should listen to his military top official leaders when president bush did what he wanted to do, and it is like asking -- the tail wagging the dog. you have to listen to the leader pierre did the president is the commander in chief. >> the first thing i point out is we have to try to get the genie back in the bottle. by that i

none of us believe the best way forward now is for khaddafi to prevail, and resume his attack such as some people. were the united states dropped out of this mission, or starkly curtail contributions, it would not only compromise international relationships and destabilize the region, but it would under nato's process welcome al-qaida back. however we construe the war powers resolution, we can all agree would only serve gaddafi's interests for the u.s. to withdraw from this operation before it is finished. the urgent question before you is not one of law, but of policy. congress provided support for nato's mission in egypt, insuring that gaddafi does not regain the upper hand. so, in closing, i esthetes a quick and decisive action to approve resolution 20 to provide congressional authorization for continued operations in libya to enforce the purposes of security council resolution, 1973. only by so doing can this body of firm that the united states government is united in its support of the nato alliance and the aspirations of the libyan people. thank you, senator. i look forward to a

do you feel confident that we have a plan for what we would do post-khaddafi? >> just having come out of both egypt and europe last week, i am actually encouraged that there are countries and organizations, nato being one, that are specifically looking at what happens after the topic. i think we need to do that. i am more confidence that the more we learn -- i also see them now linking to the west more than they had in the past. there are civilian leaders and military leaders who recognize the challenge that you just described. what i have not seen yet is the kind of comprehensive, collective view of how they would run the country. i think they recognize that internally. their focus on this is improving, but i think we are sort of at the beginning of that, and there is a long way to go. i am more positive than i was a few weeks ago. there is an awful lot being brought to the table in terms of international focus on this from our government as well as many other governments. i still think we have a long way to go. >> one of the actions taken by the nato defense