control of the capital tripoli as government troops gather near the home of the country's leader, moammar al gadhafi. the nato-backed opposition forces are gaining strength after advancing to tripoli and gaining ground in gadhafi's stronghold on monday. the government troops near gadhafi's residence in the southern part of the city are preparing for an all-out battle with opposition forces. qatar-based tv broadcaster al jazeera on monday reported continued shelling by tanks coming from near gadhafi's home. the opposition forces said about 20% of the city is still government controlled. the forces said they detained gadhafi's second son and heir apparent saif al islam for whom the international criminal court in the hague issued an arrest warrant this year on charges of crimes against humanity. the court is asking libya's opposition to hand him over. british prime minister david cameron said on monday that at least two of gadhafi's sons were detained, but did not name them. gadhafi has kept silent since calling on his supporters to engage in an all-out fight in a statement released on sunday and his

. >>> at the same meeting panetta talked about libya saying the government under moammar al gadhafi wasliving on borrowed time. >> i think the sense is that gadhafi's days are numbered. >> panetta said anti-government forces are moving on the capital tripoli, suggesting the rebels have gained the upper hand in the fighting. he added that libyan interior minister nasr al mabrouk abdullah appears to have defected when he traveled to egypt on monday. he said this is further evidence that gadhafi's government has weakened. >>> and now, let's bring you weather forecasts around the world. >>> that's going to do it for now on "newsline." we'll be back at the top of the hour. see you then. good-bye for now. >>> at the center of the city of mongolia is the capital, ulan bator. classic ballet is very popular in this country. the principals, the leading dancers lead so gracefully, a young man dreams of becoming one. batbayar purev-ochiro is 18 years old. but the reality is harsh. ochiro is practicing hard for his graduation performance. today we focus on a young dancer's quest to become a principa

groups loyal to libyan leader moammar al gadhafi continue to carry out attacks against the national transitional council forces on friday. this comes despite an early announcement by the council that it had moved its headquarters from the northeastern city of benghazi. pro-gadhafi forces have deployed snipers around the city and infiltrated opposition forces in an attempt to launch surprise attacks. resistance also continues in the besieged leader's birthplace of sirte in central libya and the southern military of serbha. on thursday night opposition groups captured a building in southern tripoli after a fierce gun battle. gadhafi and his family members were thought to have been in the building. their whereabouts remain unknown. the national council's number two official, mahmoud jibril, told reporters on friday that the top priorities are to collect the weapons used by both sides and bring the situation in tripoli under control. >>> now this week's "the road ahead" will visit the front lines of japanese robot technology. the fukushima daiichi disaster highlighted robots that could work in ridei

at the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan, people of libya celebrated the downfall of moammar al gadhafi and mourned victims of the uprising of his government. thousands gathered in green square in the capital of tripoli. gadhafi often gave speeches in the square and it was a symbol of his regime. people said they were celebrating their freedom from autocratic rule and commemorating the victim ts of the uprising. in benghazi, people also gathered in the square for early morning prayers on wednesday. >> translator: this year, we lost many of our friends and colleagues. i feel sorry about that. we cannot feel complete happiness. >> meanwhile, libya's national transition council leader told reuters on tuesday that about 50,000 people have been killed since the start of the conflict six months ago. >> i think misratah and zlitan took the most toll. i would say maybe around 15,000 to 17,000, in that area. >> hsham said many others were killed in the western mountains and the northeastern city of brega. he said many protesters arrested by gadhafi's government are now missing and presumed dead

groups loyal to libyan leader moammar al gadhafi continue to carry out attacks against the national transitional council forces on friday. this comes despite an early announcement by the council that it had moved its headquarters from the northeastern city of benghazi. pro-gadhafi forces have deployed snipers around the city and infiltrated opposition forces in an attempt to launch surprise attacks. resistance also continues in the besiege leader's birthplace and in a southern military city. on thursday night opposition groups captured a building in southern tripoli after a fierce gun battle. gadhafi and his family members were thought to have been in the building. their whereabouts remain unknown. the national council's number told reporters on friday that the top priorities are to collect the weapons used by both sides and bring the situation in tripoli under control. >>> north korean leader kim jong-il hasrrived in china. he inspected state-run factories in thecotry's ntheast on friday. following a six-day visit, kim crossed into china on thursday night aboard his special train. after a stop

libya rebels are pushing for complete control of the capital tripoli and the capture of leader moammar al gadhafi. many citizens had already gathered in the square in the city center celebrating their freedom from gadhafi's rule. the rebel-led kaunl chief mustafa al jalil spoke on monday and declared that gadhafi's era has ended. >> translator: we will capture gadhafi alive and give him a fair trial. >> jalil said his forces plan to quickly win control of tripoli and set up a provisional government there. however, gadhafi's troops are continuing to resist. troops have gathered at a military facility that also serves as the leader's residence. gadhafi has not been seen since issuing a statement calling on supporters to fight back. his whereabouts are unknown. the rebel forces announced that they had detained gadhafi's son, the second son and heir apparent seif al islam is wanted by the international criminal court in the hague on charges of crimes against humanity. the court has asked libya's opposition national council to hand him over. >>> united nations se secretary-general ban ki-moon has urge

stories this hour -- libya's opposition forces have stormed the compound of the country's leader moammar al gadhafi in the capital tripoli. the rebel fighters are claiming most of the facility is now under their control. the assault on tuesday was carried out with support from nato air strikes. the complex was gadhafi's stronghold and residence. the opposition forces reportedly entered the compound at around 5:00 p.m. local time following a battle against forces loyal to the longtime leader. footage from the site shows the rebels cheering for libya's day of liberation. they are stomping on a gadhafi statue and destroying his pictures. >> translator: we have taken control of 90% of the facility. we won a victory. >> fighting continues against loyalist snipers within parts of the compound. the anti-government forces say they are searching for the libyan leader and will put him on trial for war crimes. the whereabouts of gadhafi and his family remains unknown. >>> a nato spokesperson says the end of the gadhafi government is near, but the organization will continue air raids on libya in an attempt to

the main square when the icc, the international criminal court, issued its warrant for moammar gadhafi and saif al islam gadhafi, his son. now the transitional national council organized a rally where they had essentially written up boards or posters for people to hold up saying thank you to the icc. but when you actually spoke to people in the crowd, they were quite clear, they want to see these people not even necessarily put on trial. they want to see them executed. one man saying he'd like to stab him to death 100 times. on the one hand they want to show the world that they can act responsibly and follow the requirements of international justice. whether that means a trial in libya itself or in the hague, the headquarters of the icc. but in fact i think revolutions can get messy and that applies to revolutionary justice. >> yeah, i suspect you're right on that front, ben, given the hatred involved, given the tensions, the emotions and how many people have died in libya over these past six months. my own instinct tells me that this new leadership of libya, they're not going to hand over gadhafi

rebel officials say moammar gadhafi's son saif al islam has been captured by rebel forces. is is sky news video from tripoli from our colleagues there and people on the street chanting libya is free, gadhafi needs to go. this all happening just moments ago. this all appears as though it is the end game for the rebels. a spokesman for the libyan government called for immediate negotiations and a halt to the rebel assault. the big prize, tripoli. finally could be theirs. rebel forces surround the libyan capital. the government is conceding that parts of the city are no longer under its control. it says 1,300 people have been killed in fighting over the past 12 hours. now, what about moammar gadhafi? where is he this hour? that's the question everyone is asking. an audio message from gadhafi earlier today on state-run tv vowed to fight until the last drop of blood. but now there are numerous news reports out of libya that some of gadhafi's security forces have surrendered. some of the most intense fighting in tripoli has been near the hotel where international reporters are sta

moammar gadhafi's son turned up free and defiant last night at a tripoli hotel. yesterday rebel leaders said they had captured saif almeanwhile moammar gadhafi's whereabouts remain unknown this morning. but his son said he is safe. >>> and gaining strength. hurricane irene intensifying as it makes its way through the caribbean and now threatens to strike the u.s. mainland by later this week. >>> we've been hearing for months about the expected big drop in gas prices. now, by the way, at a national average of $3.58 a gallon they've come down some from their peak. but the price of crude has dropped a lot more. so why is gas still so high? mark strassmann takes a look. >> love you. all right. >> reporter: odetta mohammed is a single mom, a registered nurse and a frustrated commuter. she drives 70 miles a day and spends $80 a week on gas. >> look at this! my god! >> reporter: you think between the oil companies, and the convenience stores, that you're always getting the best possible price? >> no, of course not. don't quite understand the phenomenon when the gas prices in barrels, the price of gas is going down yet the g

the international criminal court at the hague says moammar gadhafi, his son saif al islam gadhafi, andligence officers systematically murdered and persecuted civilians. they have been charged with crimes against humanity. moammar gadhafi's whereabouts are unknown but saif gadhafi is now in cut difficult libyan rebel forces. talks are under way between the transitional national council of libya and the international criminal court to hand saif gadhafi over. do you believe that he will ultimately be transferred, that it's just a matter of time to transfer saif al gadhafi? >> as i indicated, there are legal obligations that they have to cooperate with the icc, and previously they had indicated their intention to fully cooperate. >> reporter: according to the arrest warrant, saif gadhafi exercised control over crucial parts of the state apparatus, including finance and logistics and that he conceived and orchestrated a plan to deter and quell by all means the civilian demonstrations against gadhafi's regime. moammar gadhafi and abdullah al sanusi are accused of international criminal games

the rebels say they captured the son of moammar gadhafi but saif al islam shook hands and greeted reporters and spoke with our own, matthew chance. he said they had broken the back of opposition fighters that moved into tripoli over the weekend. >> still no sign of his father, libyan leader moammar gadhafi , but his son says the libyan leader is in tripoli. meanwhile, rebel forces continue their push to rid tripoli of pro-gadhafi supporters. several fierce battles raged all day monday. >> let's get an update on the fighting now. arwa is traveling with the fighters and earlier she described the scene to our own anderson cooper. >> we're about 30 miles out they encountered their first resistance from gadhafi's forces and they said that lasted about two hours. they pushed up to another location where another battle took place for around half an hour. this second location also was very close to a military compound. they said they were finally able to secure the compound and get their hands on the weapons inside, it was fairly extensive they described, before going to the airport where they say

rebel officials say two more of moammar gadhafi's sons have been captured. this is one of them. saif al islam gadhafi a short time ago, a spokesman called for immediate negotiations and a halt to the rebel assault. [ chanting ] >> this is video from our colleagues at sky news in trip l. people on the streets chanting "libya is free. gadhafi needs to go." rebel forces say they're now in control of most parts of the capital and the government itself is conceding that parts of the city are no longer under its control. it says also that 1,300 people have been killed over the past 12 hours. what about moammar gadhafi and all of this? there is so much uncertainty surrounding this situation on the ground. where are rebels now? how much of the city have they captured and where is the man who was in charge of libya for 42 years? moammar gadhafi. there was an audiomessawed audi he vowed to fight to the drop of blood. now numerous news reports out of libya security forces are surrendering. perhaps they think it's not worth the fight. the rebel fighters pushed towards tripoli after seizing the oil-

the arabic news network al arabiya reporting explosions near the compound where moammar gadhafi is believed to be hiding, this coming as the regime is teetering on the bring of collapse. nobody has seen gadhafi since the opposition rolled into tripoli over the weekend. >> his son, saif al islam, made a surprise appearance after the libyan opposition claimed they captured him. he showed up at a western hotel with journalists and spoke to matthew chance and said his father is alive and well in tripoli. the international criminal court apparently was negotiating his transfer to the hague when that happened. >> in this really strange encounter, saif even invited cnn out on the town, which is currently under siege. listen to this. >> >> let's go. >> no. >> go. >> wait, i have to -- >> no. we have to -- i have to move right away. >> may i get a picture, sir? >> victory. >> that is remarkable. unclear what he meant when he said i'll take you to the hottest places in tripoli. we don't know what that means -- >> night clubs. >> hottest battle places or night clubs. another one of sis hiss siblings,

. >>> updating you on the libya situation, rebels claim they captured moammar gadhafi's sons saif al islam. but he greeted reporters and spoke with our matthew chance. cnn cannot verify his claim but still no sign that colonel gadhafi as such, but his son says the libyan leader remains in tripoli. meanwhile, rebel forces continue their push to rid tripoli of pro-gadhafi forces. opposition fighters tell cnn several fierce battles continue. nato confirms it's dropping leaf lets in zawiya urging them to give up. >> one of the seven biggest in africa. how it developed will be strongly influenced by what happens in the coming weeks and months. of course, a smooth transition of power and money is one of the big ifs of the libyan up rising. one man who knows approximate this is ian rudolph at global insight. it's one of the few companies to rate libya's creditworthiness. maggie lake asked him about libya's economic potential. >> heavily dependent on oil and gas, in particular gas is the real potential here that's untapped. but it is a closed economy until recently. very much under the age is

that compound and showing you some of those files, including a medical file for one of moammar gadhafi's sons, saif al, who is apparently still on the loose right now. talk a little bit about that. >> reporter: yes, that was really another one of those moments, where you're not sure that they really have something, and then they come to you, and i was reading through it. some of it was in english, and it was a medical file, clearly, there were even receipts, stamped the file, it said his name, saif al islam on the front and another one that said his wife's name, and we were opening and looking through them, and trying to decipher what exactly we had, but it was clear that someone had put together a file that was pretty comprehensive of the medical state of saif al islam and they were able to go into some building inside of the compound and pull these items out and start looking and leafing through them. it is not something that people in these neighborhoods ever thought that they would be able to do. the celebrations in the neighborhood directly people to bab al aziziya, families coming out to celebra

moammar gadhafi's whereabouts are unknown now. earlier there were explosions near the leader's bab al aziziya compound in southern tripoli. european union is calling on gadhafi to step down from power. the rebels say they captured three of colonel gadhafi's seven surviving sons. prosecutors for the international criminal court say they hope to put saif gadhafi on trial, but a libyan rebel spokesman said the libyan people should be the ones to decide whether to handover gadhafi's sons to the icc. >>> it's been startling for all of us watching from afar to see the libyan rebels move so quickly to tripoli over the weekend. how could it have happened so fast? jonathan mann spoke with nic robertson in washington. >> reporter: tripoli had, while we were there, while the nato bombing began and gadhafi's forces still controlled the capital, a ring of steel around it. the brigade there was controlling the capital and was able to draw on munitions from multiple bases from inside the city which have become nato's principle targets inside the city, and sarah seidner came right past one of the most feared bases of gadhafi's brigades c

and we see earlier moammar gadhafi's son, saif al islam appearing at the hotel. he claims that tripoli is still under his family's control. he says that his father is safe and well. matthew chance, who's our guy inside the hotel, actually talked to gadhafi's son, saif, and took a photograph of him, so it would appear that the story that was being put out by the rebels yesterday, that at least two of the sons were in custody, was probably untrue. is that right? >> reporter: well, what we are hearing from the rebels is that, yes, they had hold of all three of the sons and now they're saying hold on, muhammed gadhafi has escaped. how did that happen? we have no idea. we don't have the details on that, but we do have reporting that he has escaped rebel clutches and now you're seeing saif, who is able to make it to the hotel to talk with the international correspondents there, including our matthew chance who is holed up in the hotel. it was very, very disconcerting. >> sara, i'm sorry to interrupt you, but we've actually got matthew now live at the hotel. matthew cha

. >> sara, we know two of gadhafi's sons have been arrested, saif al-islam and saadi. do you know where moammaradhafi might be now? >> reporter: no, but one of the main rumors going around now -- and we heard people celebrating in zawiyah because they believed moammar gadhafi himself was arrested. there was quite a bit of firing in the air, cheering. we heard children and women cheering and chanting "free libya, free libya," but that died down because everyone said, oh, that might be a rumor. his son was arrested. so far nobody has heard from moammar gadhafi in the last hour or so. we are wondering where he is and so are the rebels. >> rumors are flying around about gadhafi that he's escaped to algeria, africa, that he's hiding out in tripoli. we are standing by to get accurate information. sara, hold on for a moment. general wesley clark is joining us now. general clark, nato obviously very much involved in this operation. the nato air power. but ground forces as well training the rebels. what can you tell us about what nato troops have done on the ground as opposed to in the air to help the r

it is rejecting completely and not because of moammar gadhafi or seif al islam. jected by the people of libya. >> it's difficult to give an exact kind of a scale of how much territory is still in the hands of colonel gadhafi but clearly his forces are on the back foot at the moment and it all seems to be crumbling rather quickly. >> reporter: we are in green square here in the middle of tripoli. rebels are all over the square, there are really no civilians, mostly men with guns in the square but we're also seeing people running, there's a lot of gunfire, they say there are snipers, we all had to pull back. the situation is very tense. >> translator: we are now liberated. [ horns honking ] >> today we couldn't talk on the phone before, most of us had our phones closed because we were scared. there's no more being scares anymore. game over! >> sara sidner covering that battle in tripoli, sara, thank you. >>> president obama weighing in this afternoon on the ongoing situation in tripoli, giving a statement on the situation there. we will take you live to martha's vin

moammar gadhafi's family may be overstated. this video coming into our newsroom now of what appears to be one of gadhafi's sons. rebels claim they arrested saif al islam but he appears tonight quite free. he greeted cheering supporters late tonight at a tripoli hotel and gave a defiant interview. how, there is still no sign of his infamous father. it was a dave embraces and cheers and in this case, celebrated gun fair. libyans today pouring into tripoli to see their new and liberated capital city. >> the city is under the siege and control of the rebels. >> reporter: rebels were greeted like heros. some kissing the ground in gratitude. it wasn't only in tripoli will it was also in benghazi. the rebel capital, and misrata. a city the forces pounded with artillery and rockets and nearly destroyed. >> my life starts now. >> libya is reformed. she is back. >> reporter: nationwide, they tore moammar gadhafi's old green flag and paraded the rebels' tri-color banner. nearly all signs of state control are gone. libyan government tv is off the air. away from the celebration, tripoli is still at war. >> there's many snipers from gadhafi. >> reporter: the

libyan leader moammar gadhafi is personal security forces reported to have disarmed is unit and has surrendered the international criminal court says it can confirm that gadhafi son saif al islam has been arrested the rebel council announced it will stop the fighting that's raging around tripoli if colonel gadhafi leaves the country but in a second audio address the turmoil urged to the nation to fight to the end i witness is our tweeting that an independence flag has now been raised on tripoli's central mosque in the rebel stronghold of benghazi a victory celebrations are already underway. independent journalist lizzy feel and says we shouldn't write off the off season forces just yet. well i mean the say the hotel right now because if we see this situation. outside knots yesterday and i'm able so i will so that there's been intense nato bombing of the city. so clearly you know there's been a lot of bloodshed some nights the last that the last time we had which is a few hours ago i think death toll for the day it was one thousand three hundred so surety has risen above that and nato has or hasn't gotten his hands today so all i can say is i definitely would not underest

well, you know, what is -- could -- is this going to be the type of situation where moammar gadhafi, where bashar al you pointed out, doesn't care about this call for resignation and sanctions and will fight until the bitter end? >> it's really unpredictable. throughout the arab spring and the situation in the arab world, we just don't know how things will shake out. and that's actually what makes it so dangerous and has an impact on global politics and geo politics and the markets as well. we should keep in context, too. why does syria matter to the u.s.? syria is literally in the middle of the middle east. so if syria goes down it really is going to reverberate throughout the region. syria is also a very important player in any future peace between israel and the arab world. syria backs hamas and hezbollah which the u.s. designates as terrorist groups. the u.s. has been trying for a long time to cut off the relationship between syria and iran. iran is syria's only buddy. lastly, if assad goes and syria goes down, there's a danger that there could be a great level of destabilization in the region,

moammar gadhafi's sons. he spoke exclusively to al jazeera. his guards was injured and a rebel fighter was killed. >> translator: standing outside my house. i'm being attacked right now. there's gunfire outside my house. they're inside my house. good-bye. good-bye. good-bye. >> three of moammar gadhafi's sons have been kptured by rebels and could be turned over to the international criminal court. let's take a look at the role that they've played in libyan politics. mohammed gadhafi is the eldest son, first wife to whom he was married only about six months. he ran and controlled libya's phone operators and satellite communications. he was not considered gadhafi's heir apparent. that was the second oldest son, saif alice llama, the face to the west, widely viewed as a force of change in libya. he was the heir apparent and has a phd from the london school of economics before the uprising, before he vowed that rivers of blood would flow if the rebels didn't stop. he is in custody and, like his father, is facing charges of crimes against humanity

moammar gadhafi's sons are in custody. but the real moment of victory will be that with the capture of gadhafi himself. joining me now to discuss this further is alhington bureau chief abdurahim fulkara. and hisham melhem is the washington bureau chief for al arabiya. thank you for being with me. hisham, i want to start with you because where do we think gadhafi could be and also what kind of options would we think are available to him in terms of exile? >> i think he's still in tripoli. i think he was surprised by the speed with which the revolutionaries controlled tripoli. the best option, of course, would be that he would be captured alive, to stand a fair trial. i don't think the libyan system can try him or give him that fair trial anytime in the near future. so therefore, the icc, the international court of justice should deal with him and his sons. because i think the libyans now should focus on making sure that the beginning of a bumpy, precarious transitional period should not be marred by acts of vengeance or violence. and i think the beginning so far has been good. we did not see any lootings, any mass violence, as we've seen in baghda

they said they had mohammed gadhafi, one of the sons of moammar gadhafi, in custody but then he escaped, then saif al islam gadhafi, they had him, then he showed up at the hotel with all the international journalists last night. do you believe what these representatives of this transitional national council are saying? because their credibility is right now sort of weak. >> well, wolf, we have definitely found them to be credible and responsible. we have been in close contact with the leadership in benghazi but clearly in the situation as fluid as this that's evolving rapidly, there's going to be confusion, there is going to be misinformation, and those that are on the ground in tripoli may or may not be in full and timely communication with leadership outside of tripoli. so i don't find this particularly surprising, but generally speaking, we have found in all of our engagements with the tnc that their leadership is reliable, is principled and is working to do the right thing. >> how worried are you, when i say you, i again mean the united states government, about the stockpile of chemical weapons t

leader moammar gadhafi is personal security guard has disarmed and surrendered the rebel council says it will stop the fighting that's raging around the capital tripoli if gadhafi leaves the country al-jazeera is reporting that three of gadhafi is sons are being held by rebels other reports coming from the associated press agency say that the rebels are coming under sniper fire as they near the capital's main square rebels have reportedly entered tripoli from the west as fighting in libya intensifies i would missiles are really good in independence flag has been raised on. mask in the city get out the spokes person. he has called for a cease fire but says the rebels are not ready to listen. just ahead in a few minutes time out why new media laws in hungary are clamping down on freedom of speech we'll bring you the story as our programs continue here on r.g.p. from moscow i'm john thomas thanks for drugs. twenty years ago in the largest country in the system to a sense of. what had been trying. to get a job. where did it take a. mission to free cretaceous free zones for charges free. range humans free risk free student free. old free broadcast quality video for your media projects an

turning overseas to libya where fallen dictator moammar gadhafi isn't the only notorious name in the headlines. al megrahi is apparently in a coma this morning. his son tells nbc news his father's medicine has been looted. nbc's stephanie gosk is in libya's capital. this is somebody, a lot of people particularly in the new york/new jersey area. is his son saying he would not be in a coma if he could still get access to his medicine? >> reporter: that's a little unclear. in fact, his son's story is a little unclear and maybe doesn't stand up to what we've seen on today. we were outside the house today, there were no signs of looters. generally looters don't open up doorknobs and sort of walk in cleanly and walk out. there were no signs of looters in this neighborhood at all, which this is an upscale, gated community. we didn't even see any graffiti on the walls there. so it had at least the perception of being well protected when we were there. you know, they released megrahi, scottish officials, from his life sentence for humanitarian reasons two years ago. and they said he was at death's door, dy

moammar gadhafi is personal security guard is disarmed and surrendered the reuters news agency is reporting that normally pretty reliable. also we're hearing that the rebel council claim colonel gadhafi son saif al islam has been captured. eyewitnesses tracing that independence flag has been raised on our blog on the mosque the associated press news agency again another well respected news agency saying rebel forces have with that advance to within a few kilometers of tripoli city center as the fighting has intensified tonight. i'll bring you more in just a few minutes time here on r.t. international from moscow thanks for choosing this for your audience. wealthy british style. that's not the right kind of. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cars or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our keek. if.

keep them safe from the ravages and ill will of the people of libya, particularly moammar gadhafi, but no doubt when saif alr on the television in february, he turned most of the people against him. there's a lot of animosity and anger, so the rebels will have to keep them safe from the people. they certainly have said they want to try gadhafi themselves, but a lot of international pressure for to move in a democratic way, to sort of build a political dialogue across the whole country and pressure to live up to international expectations and norms, and the international criminal court has an arrest warrant for moammar gadhafi, saif gadhafi, and the intelligence minister, so it's an important test. >> thank you so much, knick. excellent reporting as's. >>> president obama is away from the white house, but certainly not out of touch. we'll take you to live remarks at martha's vineyards, where he will make his views known. it was not until the university of phoenix that i was able to work full-time, be a mom, and go to school. the opportunits that i had at the university of phoenix, dealing wh profesonals teac

moammar gadhafi is personal security guard has disarmed and surrendered the reuters news agency is reporting that the normally pretty reliable. also we're hearing that the rebel council claim colonel gadhafi son saif al islam has been captured. eyewitnesses tweeting that an independent flag has been raised on abdul ghani mosque the associated press news agency again another well respected news agency saying rebel forces have with advanced to within a few kilometers of tripoli city center as the fighting has intensified tonight. i'll bring you more in just a few minutes time here on r.t. international from moscow thanks for choosing us for your needs. wealthy british style. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy. stronger on no holds barred the global financial headlines kaiser report. from feinstein. starts on t.v. dot com. welcome if you joined us it's cover though in here an international let me bring you up to date on the breaking news. reports just coming in to us in the last thirty minutes suggest that colonel gadhafi security brigade has. the rebels advance towards the central square the capital the main news the associated press news agency saying the rebel forces have

you get the impression that they don't want moammar gadhafi and anyone else going there. it's a message to ali too. >> we have seen a number of sons like saif, khamis who was allegedly killed with an active role in the militia, the government. are these the playpoissoboplayb. i know a bunch gave money to entertainers in st. bart's and clubs. are these people living off the state getting money from businesses and traveling the world. were they playboys? >> it would appear to be the case. hannibal had instances of allegations that during various visits to europe he was beating up police officers. on a number of occasions he was accused of breaking his wife's nose. mohamed is gadhafi's oldest son, if i'm not mistaken, from a different mother from hannibal. neither of the sons have charges brought against them in the international criminal court. algeria saying it is allowing these specific family members access to the country on humanitarian grounds, but this is something that the national transitional council doesn't want to be an option for moammar gadhafi or saim or khamis. they do not want t

according to al-qaeda website, 600 people are among those set free after rebels stormed the main tripoli prison. one thing working for moammar gadhafihis propaganda machine. a satellite tv channel. today the aired what it claimed is a live report of aboring masses celebrating moammar gadhafi's greatness. in truth, rebels took the square in the city. people come here to celebrate, celebrate the end of moammar gadhafi. the end seems near, if not for moammar gadhafi himself, for his forces who are on the run everywhere. barry peterson, cbs news. >>> all right. city, state and federal efforts to try to reduce crime in oakland. the police chief is saying that the u.s. attorney general is going to send special attorneys to the city. they will file heavier charges for gun offenses in oakland. that will be with help from more officers coming from the state. then decreasing crime has to come from the community. >> the biggest part, we have to get this community involved. here in oakland, we have a lot of programs. as a city, not just as a police department, a council or a city, we're going to have to retool what we do and look at what is wor

national transitional council head mustafa abdul jalil says one of moammar gadhafi's sons has been captured. he was speaking in an interview with aleera. when there's more information on that reported capture, we'll bring that along to you as well. we're going to take a short break right now from the "newsroom." more after this. it's not like i really had a choice. snack on this. progressive's "name your price" tool showed me a range of coverages and i picked the one that worked for me. i saved hundreds. wow, that's dinner and a movie. [ dramatic soundtrack plays ] this picture stars you and savings. but mostly savings. out there with a better way. now, that's progressive. my son and i never missed opening day. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. with symbicort, today i'm breathing better, and that means... game on! symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twic

moammar gadhafi has now been taken over by the rebels. sarah sidner, cnn, tripoli. >>> ahead of an exclusive phone interview on al jazeera, reportedly with gadhafi's son, mohammed, they say rebels had surrounded his home and planned to take him to benghazi. here is part of that dramatic interview. >> translator: i'm standing outside my house. i'm being attacked right now. gunfire outside my house. they're inside my house. good-bye. good-bye. good-b good-bye. >> that al jazeera anchor then reported that mohammed gadhafi and his family have not been harmed, but that their movements are under control of rebel forces. now, at least two of mohammed's brothers in rebel custody right now. moammar gadhafi, his whereabouts still unknown. nic robertson has more on the gadhafi's, actually interviewed the family over the years. what do you know at this point? >> we know that saif alice llama gadhafi, arrest warrants for him for war crimes now in custody of the rebels. he was, according to his brother, saadi gadhafi, who i met and interviewed both of them while i was in tripoli a couple of months ago. saif was actually running the country, according t

. >> to libya where some of moammar gadhafi's family members have surfaced. actually officials in al they've taken in gadhafi's wife and three children on humanitarian grounds. a senior rebel commander also tells cnn one of gadhafi's sons, khamis gadhafi, he says he died in a battle in northwest libya. >>> they say the devil is in the details and while hurricane irene was devastating for many people, in other ways the storm didn't measure up to some of the hype. was it a swing and miss for the hurricane center experts? john zarrella has that part of the story for us. he's live in miami. john, you are a veteran of hurricane coverage and, you know, sometimes it's right on and sometimes it isn't. we've been talking about this criticism, as you know, i'm -- i think people have to be careful, particularly in big centers like new york to say we dodged a bullet because lots of people are dead and a lot didn't dodge a bullet but it does speak to how accurate our forecasting is. i know you've been looking into this. >> there's no question about it. this is a long standing issue. when it comes

head of libyan leader moammar gadhafi is personal security force is reported to have disarmed his unit and surrendered the international criminal court says it can confirm the son saif al islam as been arrested the rebel council announced it will stop the fighting that rages around tripoli if colonel gadhafi leaves the country but in a second audio address the colonel urged the nation to fight to the death for the country i witness is our tweeting the independence flag has been raised on tripoli's central mosque. there are also reports on social media that state t.v. in libya has gone off air independent journalist alyse feel and gave us this report from tripoli. situation now is very grave and crucial and it's. only obstacle to this brutal bloodbath in tripoli how can you say is is nato and the minute that nato leaves this country i mean it is bloodshed will and the rebels admitted at the beginning of the crisis that without the support of nato they would have collapse within two days and this morning we had. a press conference with the heads of the indian intelligence abdullah senussi who choose to the west. which to be in government of course has been saying all alo

point, we do know that they were saying they had surrounded bab al aziziya which is the gadhafi compound. i think they believe that moammaradhafi is in tripoli. i think a general belief he is somewhere in the city and i think also why you're seeing the intense checking now where they weren't doing this before along this road and driving in and out and they were not doing that before. i think they do believe he's in the city and after hearing from his son saif al islam yesterday talking to our matthew chance and other reporters in the international -- in the hotel where all of these international correspondents are located, he is saying that the entire family is there. again, it's very hard to get to the truth, though. until someone sees moammar gadhafi and until someone can take pictures of him and speak with him, we don't know where he is, but the rebels believe he is here in the capital somewhere. kyra? >> sara sidner is live in tripoli. we don't know exactly where moammar gadhafi is. everybody is speculating now, as you can see, on all sides of this battle. we really don't know how much the rebels are in control, as ha

there has been some al qaeda attempt to inject itself into the conflict, too, in libya. one of the big concerns is that moammar gadhafi had a stockpile of some 20,000 shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles and there's been no accounting for any of that. there was serious concern and intelligence they had left the country at the outset of the conflict in libya. >> all right, jim at the pentagon, great reporting, we appreciate it. take care. we haven't mentioned, 12 minutes into the show the dow was down 420 points yesterday. fears about the euro zone, the bad economic news and the warning from morgan stanley that the u.s. could flip back into recession. jeff, break it down for us, if you could. what's going into the massive plunges in the markets we are seeing. >> i think the foreign policy and the market story are related. our policies don't add upright now. we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on this expanding military effort in the middle east, which we can't afford. we have a completely unsolved budget deficit. obviously, we don't have agreements in this country, what to do. worse than that, we don't hav

moammar gadhafi's forces. the libyan leader still has not been found but there is another man that many americans have been waiting to find. abdel baset aling. he will not be extradited. the decision was justified -- we will not give any libyan citizen to the west. megrahi may be one of the last men alive knowing who precisely in the libyan government authorized that bombing. cnn's nic robertson managed to track him down. >> reporter: we found abdul bassett al megrahi's villa in town. flood lights outside. this is his house, where he's been living for the last couple of years. we're going to knock on the door, see if we can get any answer. hello! for 15 minutes or so, nothing. i'm not sure if they've heard me so let's try the last-ditch means which is just shout over the wall. hello! hello! hello! then all of a sudden, someone comes. nothing prepares me for what i see. megrahi apparently in a coma. his aging mother at his side. he had been expected to die almost two years ago but convicted pan am 103 bomber abdul bassett al megrahi lives. this wasn't the way he look when he was released from a scottish jail two years ago. he came home to

. >>> turning to libya, moammar gadhafi is still on the run, but there's another man that people are waiting to find, and his name is abdelbaset ali mohmed aleleased two years ago, and he may be one of the last men alive who knows precisely who in the libyan government authorized that bombing. cnn's nic robertson managed to track that man down. >> reporter: we found abdelbaset ali mohmed al megrahi's villa in town, at least six security cameras and flood lights outside. this is where he has been living a couple last years. we'll knock on the door and see if we can get any answer. hello? for 15 minutes or so nothing. i am not sure they have heard me so let's try the last ditch means, which is shout over the wall. hello? hello, hello? all of a sudden, something comes. nothing prepares me for what i see. megrahi apparently in a coma, and his aging mother at his side. >> reporter: he had been expected to die almost two years ago, but convicted pan am 103 bomber, ali al megrahi lives. only this was not the way he looked when he was released from a scottish jail two years ago, and he came home to a hero's welcome, freed because the doctor said he

moammar gadhafi in libya. neither has worked out the way the u.s. wants so this is very different. there have been sanctions against the alfor years, when his father was in power. now more sanctions, sanctions against the state-owned bank and the largest mobile phone network in the country. once more upping the ante a little more pressure but really gentle pressure, more of a signal that the united states is really serious about what's going on there. >> and has been stopping short of saying he needs to go. there was some criticism about that for the u.s. as well. >> really p stopping short. in part because the united states doesn't really know what it wants in syria but also in part, if the united states calls for assad to step down, what then? what if he doesn't go? washington looks weak and people will say, what are you going to do now? not wanting to face that question, the u.s. is proceeding very slowly, asking other nations that matter more, trading partners like russia, india, china, to come up with sanctions. so far not much love from them. >> jonathan, thank you so much. >>> we're 11 minutes past the hour now. st

al islam turned up at the rix or hotel and drove away completely free. >> you also, abigail, cite the source, a gadhafi family contact who claims to have seen moammar gadhafiground bunker back in tripoli back on august 10th. what exactly did he share? >> caller: that's right. i spoke to a preacher named k.a. paul. who has a history of dealing with different dictators. he's a controversial figure and he said that he had spoken with colonel gadhafi in recent weeks including on august 10th. which is fairly close to when the capital was overrun by the rebels. he said that colonel gadhafi was still pretty defiant about what seemed to be happening in the country. he said that gadhafi had asked him whether what was happening, whether the nato air strikes were just and paul told him no, they were not just. >> nick, one more question to you. you just got out of this interview you mentioned with the member of the rebels. tell me a little bit more about this deadline. is it set by the ntc? they obviously want the gadhafi troops to surrender by sunday or else what? >> reporter: or else they're going to start moving in and engage in battle. there's a number of reasons

strong man moammar gadhafi gave what was said to be a live speech on tv though only his voice was heard. he urged libyans to fight the rebels who have in recent weeks been making some advances. >>> als calling for fresh attacks against america. it comes as u.s. officials have lost track of young men who may have been called to the fight and as the tenth anniversary of 9/11 gets closer. abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross has the details. >> reporter: ayman al zawahiri is america's new most wanted man. and with the 9/11 anniversary approaching he had the full attention of u.s. officials with calls for attacks on the united states to avenge the death of osama bin laden. my brothers, the mujahadin, hunt her down wherever you may encounter, he said, referring to the u.s., calling it a murderous country. the new calls for attacks add weight to the concerns about the unknown whereabouts of dozens of young men from somali and yemeni neighborhoods in minneapolis and detroit. u.s. officials say many ended up in terror training camps overseas and the u.s. has lost track of them. a 2008 recruitment tape for an al qaeda-connected group in somalia features an anonymous young man

moammar gadhafi's regime was no more. a lot of excitement, but one thing i want to point out here. there is still a battle going on. when we were still outside bab almpound. that means still gadhafi forces in this city that the rebels have not been able to control the entire city and one thing we want to mention is that the organization is such that in some areas of the city you're having celebratory gunfire and people going around and doing doughnuts and the other part of the city there is a firefight. and you -- >> sounds like we lost her. >> the funny thing is we know that nato planes, reports of nato planes flying over the airport and whenever that happens they sort of block transmission to like jam things for those who are loyal to moammar gadhafi so maybe that is what is happening. you heard sara say that there are still parts of the city under gadhafi force control which is to be expected. it's a big city. >> absolutely, absolutely. you have to think of the nato planes as the air force of this rebellion. this is the air force of this rebellion. it leveled the killing field and gave these people a chance against the forces of a man who had fo