france, italy, and spain had recognized the national transitional council, now germany followed suit. for us, the national transitional council is the legitimate representative of the libyan people. >> in early august, the rebels entered tripoli and the battle for the capital began. hundreds were killed. two days later, they establish control over the capital but there was no sign of gaddafi himself. troopers -- rumors were many. some say he had fled abroad but there was no confirmation. some fighters remained loyal to gaddafi and they kept the resistance in the strong walls of bonnie bought lead and his hometown. they lost a major offensive and it developed into a bloody battle street by street. there were rumors that two of gaddafi's sons were holed up in sirte. the rebels denied reports that they had caught gaddafi. october 17th, after weeks of fighting, bonnie while wheat fell to the rebels. supporters of the former leader continue to hold out. it was the final battleground. the struggle would not go on for much longer. on october 20th, the rebels secured sirte and killed muammar

nine hundred seventy three it chose to side in a civil war a national transitional council do you think that if the national transitional council in its current form gets in trouble that nato will continue to support it against the three factions who could rise up in the next weeks or months in libya because like we've all agreed this country is awash with weapons and there's a lot to fight for and one of them is oil. well you know i don't think so i don't actually think there's a need a roller and i think you'd be a mistake of nato thought there was one but i do think there's a role for libya's neighbors and for nations in the area i live is going to need lots of help there's no question that this country is rich and it has the resources to provide an. excellent living in a fine economy for its people but that's not going to happen overnight and it's going to be fundamentally important for other arab nations and european nations and america frankly to be there and be able to provide the kind of everything from technical support as you get oil fields running again to. to perha

the national transitional council is saying that they have captured and killed killed him.an early picture from cbs news that showed what looked like what and to be a qaddafi either wounded or killed. these are unconfirmed reports. celebration are ongoing at this hour in his hometown of sirte. we don't know what happened. we are not hearing any confirmation out of washington on anything. not out of the state department or the white house. >> they are being cautious. the civil war has been going on for eight months and grace mentioned there is celebration in sirte where moammar qaddafi was allegedly found, wounded or killed but also in the capital city of tripoli, people are very excited celebrating the death. >>> at home, we want to check the weather on a lighter note. lawrence karnow, what's cooking? >> we have more fog around the bay area to start out the day but i think we are going to be looking at better days ahead as high pressure builds in. we have plenty of clouds to begin with early on this morning but we are going to see mostly sunny skies into the afternoon. thos

you're talking about the council on one hand, the national transitional council on another.he battles be only political or will we see civil conflict in this country? is that a right concern, a real fear? >> you know the middle east as well as i do. i'm not being patronizing at all. we have been presented a romantic view of the libyan uprising. for a variety of reasons gadhafi did a great deal of harm. we have hoped that the rebels will rise up to the occasion. but at the end of the day we're talking about politics, the politicians of libya does not differ very much from the politics of yemen. you have regional differences we're just talking about benghazi, about tripoli, about cert. the fighting have exposed some major tribal and regional cleavages they do not bode well for libya. so far i'm not convinced with my hopes for libya, i'm not convinced not only there's not a unity government, i fear that the political cleavages and the reej federal cleavages would easily escalate given the extent and the intensity in libya. we hope that libya will transition more peacefully, we

the first thing they're going to do is have a national reconciliation council to try to bring the major tribes of libya, particularly in sirte and benny walid who felt so isolated and bring them under a national organization. >> we have not confirmed the death of moammar gadhafi. the state department is not confirming it although john mccain has put out a statement about it. we do have this photo. it's a cell phone photo from the rebels. they say it's moammar gadhafi. there is other video, very gruesome video that is out there about this. that's something that obviously is playing throughout the arab world on television there. ayman brought up a good point, jamie, which is what happens next for libya and the possibility there will be a national reconciliation council, how quickly they could, for example, hold elections. what are the biggest challenges now there? >> you have the question that ayman also raised whether asif is going to have a few hundred fighters, whether paid or fear for their lives choose to fight with him. i would call it 1%. i think getting moammar gadhafi himself is

official to bring support to the national transitional council. she received assurances from libya poses new leaders of their desire to move towards democracy quickly. that process begins now. there are several challenges to its move towards democracy. the first is from radical islamists who may not want western-style political parties. they gained strength of the longer the fighting went on. another challenge is from the armed militias now and control path of the major cities, providing jobs and a return to normal life for them should not be hard in a country with enormous oil wells. but the gunmen have seen their friends die and now they are potential threat to return to civility. the new administration faces a particular challenge from gunman who did the hardest fighting for tripoli coming from their homes in the mountains southwest of the capital. political leadership from benghazi in the east does not command support right across the country. there are other tribal divisions as well. that was intensified during the long months of warfare and

and load him into a ambulance, which according to libyan officials, part of the transitional national councilto transport him from sirte to misrata. and that it was the misrata brigades that actually first took control of gadhafi and he was wounded at this time and it's not clear whether he died of his wounds enroute or as some of the transitional national council officials have said or whether he could have been killed by those holding him. nevertheless. he was taken into custody alive. the video is quite clear, loaded into an ambulance and sometime between sirte and misrata expired. >> jim mick la skew xi at the pentagon. when we come back, ayman will join us and tell us what he is hearing from the sources on the ground in libya. we'll also discuss what the significance of is islamic jihad and whether the concerns of that faction may or may not have there in the region. [ male announcer ] these are volunteers... our neighbors putting their lives on the line. and when they rely on a battery, there are firefighters everywhere who trust duracell. so, look for these special packs to see how you

i don't know whether the transitional national council is going to allow that to happen or not but i think that's a test to their bona fide myself. bill: thank you, this is still unfolding out of tripoli, trying to confirm this out of sirte as well. as we move forward, your opinion is greatly appreciated mr. ambassador. >> many thanks. bill: john bolton on the line by way of washington. more on that momentarily. martha: we've got a fox news alert, this just coming in, nato has just released a statement on the strike in libya this morning, saying around # 30:00 local name, two nato aircraft struck two proqaddafi vehicles as part of a larger group, saying these vehicles were conducting military operations and they were a clear threat to civilians. more on this breaking news and how all of these pieces fit together today that have led to the death of moammar qaddafi. we'll be right back. bill: all right. there is breaking news out of libya, the transitional government in tripoli reports that moammar qaddafi is dead. and this is what they say is a photo of a dead dictator. qaddafi took p

but people overall in libya are respectful of the transitional national council.believe that it's going to work? is. >> i hope it will work, and we can be of assistance in that area. by the way, they're willing to reimburse us. it's not a matter of money. but we have -- right now there's a lot of goodwill in libya towards the united states, and i think we should take advantage of that by helping them with their wounded first of all, that's their number one priority, and then helping them on a step to democracy. we know from previous experience that democracy is tough. but the people of libya, i think, deserve the chance, and we can assist as well as our european allies. jon: senator john mccain, republican of arizona, it is good to have you on "happening now." thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. jenna: we'll continue to follow the developing news out of libya. back here at home, we have some new information on dozens of escaped animals hunted down in ohio. sheriff's deputies shot 48 of them including 18 rare men call the tiger -- bengal tigers, and

gaddafi's home town is controlled by 80% id national council. -- by the national council. now it looks like europe is seen painful austerity measures and taxpayers have no patience for their aid euros going to tin pot dictators. they are vowing to cut their aid if things don't shape up. >> the eu wants to increase support for projects like this. it was to send the money only where it is needed most. 1/3 of countries currently receiving aid could be taken off of the list. that could result in people in emerging countries being punished for the rich teams they have to live under. -- regimes they have to live under. >> the most important thing is to look at people and where they live. >> eu member states would debate the proposed reforms at the start of next year. many are expected to face little opposition. >> in thailand, flood waters are facing south. they have spilled onto roads. some people who live in outlying areas have already left their homes. volunteers and soldiers have been shoring up the walls with 2 million sandbags. rising water is expected to put the city's fl

so, we're waiting to hear confirmation from the national transitional council erica, but the people of tripoli believe that colonel gadhafi is caught and this is the moment they have all been waiting for. >> we want to bring in cbs news national security analyst juan who joins us from washington. there are these images that have come out, not just the still images that we have been showing at cbs new news, but arab chann showing. walk us through the symbolism here. if gadhafi has been killed, what does this do, not only for libya, but for the rest of the world? >> it's a great question, erica. i think the images are psychologically symbolically quite powerful. not just within libya where the rebels have been fighting for the toppling of the regime or killing or capturing of gadhafi, but also in the region where he has been a symbol for four decades. in arab world, in africa, he has been seen as a pillar of power and now with him apparently lying in the street either wounded or killed, that's a powerful message that the people have taken over in libya. >> and a lot of importance, too, w

the national transitional council is claiming victory in sirte. we have seen fighters celebrating in the city. it's often the case throughout the conflict that there's no guarantee the city is clear entirely of pro-gaddafi loyalists. our correspondent is in sirte at the moment. what is your impression? >> there's huge amounts of a celebratory gunfire going on. to my right, there's a pickup truck with a man who has clearly been captured. the rebels believe he is a gaddafi fighters. these people believe they have made huge headway. earlier today, we were told there had been a mass breakout by pro-gaddafi fighters in this small center of the town, where they have been holding out for a number of days. as the morning progressed, we saw the numbers of pickup trucks bearing what looked like captured pro-gaddafi loyalists towards the hospital a little way down the road. i have to say that the largest celebration so far this morning has come from a report that i must emphasize is utterly unconfirmed -- going around on fighters radios that they have captur

. >> suarez: the new syrian national council urged international action against the government of president bashir al assad to stop the killing of civilians. reports of the council's formation brought clapping and cheering from crowds in several cities across syria. still assad continues to hold on to power. he does have supporters. on thursday a group of them pelted the convoy of u.s. ambassador robert ford with eggs and tomatoes as he headed to a meeting with an opposition leader. and there's no end in sight. reports from a town say a new military operation is underway there. faced with such prospects, the protestors are starting to take up arms and the casualties are growing. the united nations estimates at least 2700 syrians have died since the uprising began. for more we're joined by deborah amos who is covering these developments from beirut. deborah, what's the latest word coming out of this town? >> well, the latest word is that the army has completely retaken that town. there was a five-day battle in rastan and the army has made it very clear, this is a town that had a certain numb

well at least it puts the pressure on the so-called traditional transitional national council i think this is a case of cold blooded murder of a man who was wounded and certainly wasn't going to go anywhere and the way it was not understood was just gives an idea of what the moral values are of this new regime in libya and it's certainly not a step forward a step backwards probably of following that line of thinking that what do you want to man do you think an investigation into the civilian deaths caused by nato bombing as well as the conflict inside well i think the u.n. should demand that if they if they're at all are they concerned with the human values they should demand that exactly because the civilian deaths that have taken place from the nato bombing and not not so much from qaddafi's activities or cut off his troops. that according to eyewitness accounts from journalist friends of mine it's just been horrific ok that this certainly has taken one path the result right now gadhafi being killed is this what people had been gunning for to begin with or would have rather seen him

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so ethnic solidarity and national unity is safeguarded. >> jiang did not comment on the killing of gadhafi. >>> china was the last among the u.n. security council permanent members to approve libya's national transitional council. negotiations between china and the ntc were stalled over the issue of china's rights to development projects in libya. the chinese government had made the deals with the gadhafi regime. >>> u.s. secretary of state, hillary clinton, is winding up a two-day visit to pakistan. her goal was to personally deliver a message that pakistan needs to eradicate locally-based militants blamed for attacks in afghanistan. clinton spoke with reportsers following talks with pakistani foreign minister karr on friday. she said the u.s. is planning to step up military operations against taliban forces along the afghan afghan-pakistani border. and urged the government to crack down on the afghan-based militants, including the haqqani network. >> we asked very specifically for greater cooperation from the pakistani side to squeeze the haqqani network and other terrorists, because we know that trying to eliminate terrorists and safe havens

there's a reconstruction requirement and secondly shall the transitional national council has to decide best to avoid the type of rekrim nation and vengeance that may occur against remnants of the gadhafi regime. >> how do they do that? what kind of safeguards can they put in place? >> the most important thing is for the council to add a scr judicial process, as secretary clinton said, rather than law taken into their own hands. the other thing is that people who supported this transitional national council have to continue to support it. ee electrics will not be held for eight months. this is in a country that has never had a pta to a union or any civil institution to guide it through elections. >> okay. what kind of constitution will they have? what will it be modeled after? >> i think they're going to basically replicate what is next door in egypt. they're going to have a national assembly and there will be an election that will form a national assembly to write a constitution that will subsequently be subjected to a referendum and then, i believe, that they intend to elect a preside

libya officially opens a new political chapter on sunday, scott, when the national council declares the country fully liberated. then the countdown begins to elections in eight month's time. >> pelley: liz, thank you very much. wal-mart is cutting employee health benefits. will other employers follow? ohio takes action to prevent another wild animal tragedy. and steve hartman with a doctor who makes house calls-- no house required when the "cbs evening news" continues. copd makes it hard to breathe, so i wasn't playing much of a role in my own life, but with advair, i'm breathing better so now i can take the lead on a science adventure. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator, working together to help improve your lung function all day. advair won't replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than twice a day. people with copd taking advair may have a higher chance of pneumonia. advair may increase your risk of osteopo

i raised with the highest leadership of the national council and will raise again, the united states very strong feelings that this man should be returned to prison. that is the only appropriate outcome in my view a miscarriage of justice he was released. >> chris: secretary clinton. i would like to do a lightning round questions ands. you were in pakistan and confirmed that the u.s. officials met with the hakani terror network in august. do we want to dill or talk with them? >> guest: we are pursuing. sight, talk and build is our policy. and we had a meeting in the question of the pakistanies to gauge if there was basis for further talking and certainly the attack on our embassy and truck bomb attack on a border outpost gave a strong worry to the contrary. but you don't make peace with friends. what we are trying to gauge who among the groups would be sincere and serious about pursuing a afghan peace process. it is very absolutely understood for in order for a chance of peace to proceed united states has to work with pakistan. we responded to the pakistan request and testing out app

a senior military official with the national transition council says that gaddafi has died of woundsred during a reported capture. the white house is monitoring reports that muammar gaddafi has been captured in libya but is unable to confirm the status of the former libyan leader. the u.s. state department has not confirmed these reports just yet, but they are coming right after secretary of state hillary clinton visited libya on tuesday. it was then that she said she hoped adachi would be captured or killed. the latest information into the newsroom is that muammar gaddafi is now dead. >>mark: a developing story out of zanes' bill ohio were dozens of exotic animals were freed and wondering around, there is one of missing a monkey. that search is still active. police are beginning to think that the monkey could have been eaten by one of the big police believe that the owner opened to all of the animals' cages and then killed himself. animal rights activists say that there was little police could have done to save those animals. >>mark: this is the man that owned it and set free all of