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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: libyan warplanes carried out repeated air strikes today, and fears of a rising humanitarian crisis grew. we have two reports from independent television news, starting with bill neely in misrata, a western town surrounded by forces loyal to libyan leader moammar qaddafi. >> reporter: colonel qaddafi's got a grip on western libya, but not here. and the town of misrata rebels fight street battles with his men. it's urban, intense and deadly. the rebels say dozens of have been killed. this one of qaddafi's tanks. his men fought their way in but were beaten back. the rebels celebrating, but they haven't won yet. qaddafi still sits confidently in power. here denouncing european interference in his country. "we should be partners," he says, "in the fight against al qaeda. they're behind the violence here. they're terrorists fighting my men." not far from his capital, his men are bombarding the town of zawiyah for a fourth straight day using artillery and tanks in the

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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you.nk you. >> woodruff: japan's nuclear crisis deepened today, as radiation levels jumped at a badly damaged nuclear plant. and for millions who survived last week's earthquake and tsunami, winter storms added misery to nuclear fears and the struggle for food, water and basic comforts. we have a series of reports from "independent television news," beginning with alex thomson, who traveled today to the town of kamaishi. >> reporter: army aid convoys heading east over the central mountains into the quake zone this morning. several japanese have asked me what have we done to deserve an historically powerful earthquake this vast tsunami damage and now the bliz archdiocese?" with officials here now saying more than 4,000 people are confirmed dead, we've come to the east coast so-to-see how far search-and-rescue for bodies has gone in this vast area of damage. our driver, shin, just can't believe what he's seeing. he was last here on holiday several years ago. >> ( translated ): the tsunami re

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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you.nk you. >> lehrer: this was another day of fierce fighting in libya. forces loyal to moammar qaddafi used tanks and sniper fire to press their assault on zawiyah, outside tripoli. doctors reported at least 40 people killed in the latest fighting. meanwhile, qaddafi again rejected any attempt at outside intervention. we have two reports from "independent television news," beginning with jonathan rugman, in tripoli. >> reporter: this was state television's sanitized version of zawiyah's outskirts today. peace and tranquility are returning after zawiyah was freed from al qaeda linked gangs, the channel said. a reporter interviewed qaddafi's fighters, all dressed in the green of his 1969 revolution. "i'm a volunteer" said one. "i came to liberate the city from gangs and al qaeda and the army is 90% in control. the presenter then told libyans that masses of people were flowing into zawiyah's streets in support of moammar qaddafi a message echoed by supposedly ordinary residents. >> ( transl

pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> tom: good evening. investors haven't seen a sell- off in stocks like today's since last summer. several worries were pressuring the markets today, violence in saudi arabia and renewed concerns about europe among them, susie. >> susie: tom, adding to the jitters-- worries about china's economic growth, and some disappointing news about the u.s. job market. the selling was broad-based-- the dow fell 228 points, closing below the 12,000 level; the nasdaq lost 50, and the s&p 500 was down almost 25 points. >> tom: this stock selling comes as the bull market celebrated its second anniversary this week. could the rally be over, or just taking a pause? peter cohen is co-author of "capital rising," and he is with us from newton, massachusetts. lincoln ellis is the chief investment officer at the strategic financial group. he joins us from the cme group in chicago. welcome to nightly business report. nice to see both of

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provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. another week has passed and the crisis in libya has begun to harden into civil war. u.s. officials have stepped up their criticism of the qaddafi regime with u.n. ambassador susan rice calling him delusional. and now a president obama obama himself is finally condemning qaddafi by name. but secretary of defense robert gates to explain why one suggested u.s. response imposing a no-fly zone in libyan air space might be difficult. >> a no-fly zone begins with an attack on libya, to destroy the air defenses. that's the way you do a no-fly zone. and then you can -- and then you can fly planes around the country and not worry about our guys being shot down. but that's the way it starts. gwen: but that's not the way it ends. james kitfield writes this week, this dynamic instability could jeopardize the united states' entire middle east strategy. how? >> that strategy's based

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but first, is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support. >> woodruff: trying to stop genocide by taking pictures from space. newshour correspondent tom bearden has the story. >> reporter: analysts say this picture documents the deliberate burning of some 300 residential buildings in the abyei region of sudan. it was taken by a privately- owned satellite for an organization called satellite sentinel, and then posted on the internet. satellite sentinel says it shows a fresh wave of violence in the hotly contested region between south sudan, which just voted for independence, and the government in the north. some of these areas are effectively off limits to journalists, and sometimes the public never sees ground level footage of what's happening in places like this. in this case, however, satellite sentinel managed to obtain this video confirming that parts of two villages over-flown by the satellite were indeed burned. the hope is that distributing these images might pr

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nightly business report" is made possible by: this program is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by wpbt >> susie: good evening, everyone. my colleague tom hudson is off. japan is on high alert tonight as the country responds to yet another explosion at the daichi nuclear power plant. japan's prime minister warned of substantial radiation leaks. the ongoing threat of radioactive fallout led to a global market sell-off today. we have complete coverage, beginning in tokyo with correspondent lucy craft. when i talked with her a short while ago, i began by asking what is the japanese government telling people. >> what we are hearing is there is the continuing troubles at the reactors. there are a total of six reactors at this power plant. and four of them have been having malfunctions at various times. there have been explosions, hydrogen explosions, and there was a fire at the number four reactor yesterday. and we're hearing now -- i'm just looking at the headlines now, and it is the middle of the night here -- reactors