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thriving in sudan and around the world. communist china rediscovers an ancient age. and there's no stopping the running of the bulls in chicago. details in our sports update. we begin with libya and plans for a possible no-fly zone over the country are being considered carefully as the world looks for ways to stop the violence. british, french, and american officials at the united nations have drawn up a draft text that refers to an air exclusion zone. now, it's one of the options as they try to stop moammar gadhafi's forces from carrying out deadly air strikes. the idea's been backed by a number of gulf states, but russia, which has veto power on the u.n. security council says it is against foreign intervention. nato's also looking at how to respond to the growing humanitarian crisis. it's launching around the clock surveillance flights of libya. and there's tough talk being directed at moammar gadhafi himself. barack obama saying the libyan government's use of force against its people is unacceptable. he says it will be held accountable for any more violence. libya's foreign ministers hitting back at the international community. saying people don't understand what's happening inside the country. and he says he is certain that western nations are to blame for helping to divide it. his comments come as libya descends into civil war after three weeks of violent clashes, rebels are in control of a number of towns and cities. in many cases, regular military forces are fighting to take them back. the battle raged around the coastal town of bin jawad over the weekend and now appears to be in the hands of gadhafi's forces. the oil town of ras lanuf have come under repeated attacks from the air. on monday, war planes targeted the mane road into the town, currently held by rebels who worked their way west from benghazi. let's go to benghazi and get an update from arwa damon who is there. are you hearing anything about moammar gadhafi reaching out to opposition and kind of wanting an exit strategy? >> reporter: yes, bearing in mind, it does remain that fluid situation, the details are vague. but what we have heard is that colonel gadhafi is offering to convene the people's congress and wants guarantees of safe passage for himself and his family and guarantees he will not be prosecuted on any level according to our sources within the opposition, they have countered that to say that if, in fact, he wants to -- he has to publicly say he's not longer the leader of libya and acknowledge the legitimacy of the newly formed national council as being the sole authority and only then would they possibly consider any sort of negotiation. but we are repeatedly being reminded there is very little trust, if any, in any sort of offer that colonel gadhafi makes. a lot of skepticism regarding whether or not this is just another one of his tricks, zain. >> arwa, you're in benghazi, is life back to normal there? what are people telling you? what are you seeing there? >> reporter: well, normal here has been redefined. it's normal in the sense that the power is still on, people have water, food has gone up a little bit. be it's still available. but a lot of shops and stores remain closed. people still very wary. there's a sense of euphoria amongst the people still. the will to will is definitely still there, but there's also a lot of fear that colonel gadhafi's going to enact some sort of revenge, a bombing campaign, even some sort of chemical weapons against his own people even if he does begin to reach out in terms of trying to negotiate some sort of exit strategy for himself. there's a lot of concern that this no-fly zone is taking so long to establish. that's what people want to see here. there are fears that there will be -- as i said, some sort of bombing campaign and if that no-fly zone is established, it could be too late. a lot of euphoria with anxiety, skepticism, and a lot of concern for the future, zain. >> arwa damon reporting from benghazi. the united nations is urgently asking for help for libya. on monday, they called for $160 million to help the victims of the conflict, including people who have left the country and others still trapped in the violence. the u.n. refugee agency estimates about 200,000 people have gotten out so far crossing into tunisia and egypt. estimated as many as 1 million people will need help because of the conflict. many of the people fleeing libya are foreign workers and come from places so far away like bangladesh and china as well as tunisia and egypt. cnn's becky anderson met an egyptian migrant worker on his way home and asked him about what he thinks of gadhafi. >> reporter: just yards from check-in at the airport, and hopefully his flight to freedom. i first met him saturday camped out with his friends after what he describes as a hellish journey that began in libya more than a week ago. life in libya was normal. i used to work in a store in a commercial area he says. and then the situation changed and the uprising against moammar gadhafi happened. we were afraid because he said the egyptians and the tunisians were giving people hallucination pills. we were afraid. outside the terminal on sunday, just hours from his flight, yassar told me he was relieved. thank god i'm very happy, my message to the entire world is to help out our brothers in libya because gadhafi has lost it. and we are worried about our egyptian brothers who are still in libya. he's among more than 40,000 egyptians who have now been evacuated through tunisia. he says he'll go to the square and celebrate his own country's revolution and then -- hopefully look for a job to feed his family, he says. becky anderson, cnn, near the tunisian/libyan border. obama's libyan abdication. the paper says if mr. obama thinks george w. bush was unpopular in the arab world, he should contemplate the standing of america and the world reputation of barack obama if gadhafi and his sons slaughter their way back to power. take a look at what today zaman is saying in turkey. why is turkey hedging in libya? it says turkey should realize that sooner or later gadhafi will have to go. and check what they're saying over in canada. this is the national post and the headline reads, preventing a libyan blood bath. in the best-case scenario, nato will not have to fire a single shot or scramble a single aircraft because libyans will end gadhafi's cruel tyranny all by itself. but we cannot standby and permit libyan genocide to unfold. you can read all those articles in full. go to facebook.com/wonecnn. you're watching "world one" live from london. learning to live again after years of suffering. >> if you are a slave, you feel that you are not human. >> we ask former slaves how it feels to find freedom. this is all part of cnn's in-depth look at slavery in the modern world. and a turning of former public enemy into a national hero. china falls back in love with confucius and his principles. a fresh new bag. uis lean cuisine market creations steam meals. like new chicken poblano with tender white meat chicken, crisp veggies, in a savory cheddar sauce. new from lean cuisine. somewhere in america, there's a doctor who can peer into the future. there's a nurse who can access in an instant every patient's past. and because the whole hospital's working together, there's a family who can breathe easy, right now. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest healthcare questions. and the over 60,000 people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. but you can still refinance to a fixed rate as low as 4.75% at lendingtree.com, where customers save an average of $293 a month. call lending tree at... today. when you're a stunt woman, work can be pretty unpredictable. from knowing when my next job will be to what i'll actually be doing. so in the rest of my life i like control. especially in my finances. that's why i have slate with blueprint. i can make a plan to pay off everyday things and avoid interest, or pay down my balance faster on the big stuff. that saves money. with slate from chase, i have everything under control... ♪ ...financially. announcer: debit card control and credit card flexibility. get both with slate. by giving me huge discounts on rooms hotels can't always fill. with unpublished rates. which means i get an even more rockin' hotel, for less. where you book matters. expedia. 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>> if we try to define it, you know, to me slavery means one person who is completely under the control of another person, that they use violence to maintain that control, that they exploit them, make money out of them, and that the person just can't walk away. it's impossible for them to walk away. and those are the fundamental criteria really of what slavery's always been about through all of human history. >> even people who manage to escape slavery can really find it hard to move on. cnn's david mackenzie met people struggling to get back to normal after living as slaves in africa. >> reporter: she sings a song of war and loss, of land taken by the arabs. and of the people they stole during sudan's long civil war. during the war, arab tribes men on horses would sweep through these villages, kill the men, grab the women and children, and take them back to the north as slaves. peace came here in 2005. and with it, many thought slavery was dead. but traveling to remote areas, we found slavery in sudan very much alive. he introduces us to a group of former slaves. they say thousands, perhaps the tens of thousands are still held in bondage. >> they were -- >> reporter: forced to sleep with animals they tended, deprived of food, yet toiling for their owners. they all tell us of enduring cruelty. branded like cattle, a we are showed scars that will forever identify her as a slave. she was taken so young, she can't remember when the beatings and rapes began. he says he was ordered to convert to islam or face death. they gave him an arab name, mussa, and this christian shows us how he was forced to pray. >> what does being a slave do to someone's identity? >> well, it changes their identity. if you are a slave, you feel that you are not human. so you think that everything told to you, you get the command and you don't feel that you want to exist. >> i sat down for some tea, he says he had 25 years of his life stolen. if you look at me, i look like a human being, he tells me, but psychologically i'm not human. even young children there would kick my tea away. i wasn't a human being. each time he tried to escape, he was caught and beaten. on his fifth try, he made it. but in his freedom, he says, he's alone. the worst thing in my life is all the time i spent without having a wife, he says. the time i spent without my family and friends, the time i spent alone, without my culture. that was the worst thing. de-humanized and without an identity, he is like thousands of escaped slaves in sudan, trying to make sense of his stolen years. david mackenzie, cnn. campaigns to fight slavery often focus on punishing the perpetrators, but a new initiative by the united nations in london is all about help for the victims. atika shubert joins me now. >> reporter: as they point out, it's really about supporting victims and the conference today is doing exactly that. looking at, as well, the specifics of hoping victims really get back on their feet specifically through financing. and i've been looking at the documentation, and there's amazing numbers here. i was reading the annual flow of new victims of trafficking into europe alone is about 70,000 victims. that's in a two-year turnover. and amazingly, the market for these -- for human trafficking, if you will here in europe is about $3 billion a year. that's an amazing statistic. but again, this conference is about supporting the victims, helping them to get back on their feet. and that's a crucial part of trying to actually, in a way, sort of prevent trafficking from happening and help them to, if they choose to eventually go down the path of prosecution and testifying as witnesses against their trskers. >> atika, i'm wondering, what do they say to people who are around the victims that want to support them? what kind of things can people do to be helpful? >> well, you know, a lot of these victims of trafficking when they arrive at a shelter, for example, have really been through a horrific and traumatic experience. not only is it psychologically traumatic, but quite often many of the women, for example, have been threatened with violence, have actually had those threats carried out, quite often have suffered rape and other sexual assaults. so it takes a lot of time to really sort of rebuild their trust in other people because they have this -- suffered this psychological and physical abuse for so long. and a lot of social workers say that simply takes time for them to rebuild their confidence again. >> cnn's atika shubert from central london. go to cnn.com/ireport and you can click on the i-report freedom project challenge. get engaged with this project. it's "world one" live from london. roll over, ronald, you're not number one anymore, okay. mcdonald's loses its position as the world's biggest fast food chain. can you guess who stole its crown? 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can't you fix it and tell us? >> exactly. you've gotten spoiled in europe. but for the u.s. we are dealing with snow, flooding, and the threat for more fires today. let's start off talking about yesterday's storm system. it brought an incredible amount of snowfall. look at the totals here. in parts of vermont, we saw about 55 centimeters of snowfall, almost 2 feet of snow. let's go to video coming out of vermont. and again, picked up a record amount of snowfall for march. you're looking at burlington, vermont. and you can see people digging out there. we're talking about parts of new york, as well. but in addition to snow, that same storm system brought an incredible amount of rainfall. let's go to massachusetts. as you can see, the roadways flooded over, actually motorists had to be rescued in some locations. certainly very dangerous situation. but the problem is, we have another storm system. as i take you back over, that's going to be moving over from west over toward the east. right now it's producing some snow you can see through the rockies as well as some rain. doesn't look that impressive right now. but, in fact, we do have advisories in place for winter storm warning, as well as that winter weather advisory. anywhere you're seeing in pink and purple. but that storm system as i said moving over toward the east. as it does, triggering strong winds down towards the texas panhandle, producing strong storms and as that system moves over from west over toward the east, it's going to bring the threat of renewed flooding for parts of the northeast as we go into thursday as well as into friday. as i mentioned to you about the fires, let's go to some video coming out of new mexico. and the problem is, we've had about 15 structures burn across this region. and the problem is, we are still going to deal with that renewed threat today because that same front and disturbance as i take you over to our graphic is going to be kicking up winds. wind gusts up to about 80 kph and dealing with relative humidity values in the same digits. very active across the u.s., the fire threat starts to diminish as we go through later on on tuesday. zain, back over to you. >> now you know the weather's not too bad over there. >> it's still too cold for me. >> i know, me too. >> thank you. you are watching "world one" live from london. libya's shadow government is looking for an international stamp of approval. meet the february 17th coalition when we take you to benghazi next. and the new beginning, cairo swears in a fresh government with promises of a brighter future. why are egyptian women about to take to the streets? 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>> when you see this in the tv, you have some doubts, maybe something happened. >> reporter: amid the hallway, we find mohammed. here to draw attention to his case. >> he was a political prisoner. >> reporter: he was thrown behind bars numerous times since he was 12, jailed he says for anti-gadhafi graffiti, saying he was tortured repeatedly, half his body is now paralyzed. like many, he is euphoric at being able to freely speak his mind. but at the same time, he shares the general apprehension that gadhafi will launch a vicious bombing campaign. the will to win is as strong as ever. now the national council has to come up with a cohesive plan. to move from civil war to the creation of a new civil society. arwa damon, cnn, libya. six new government ministers have been sworn into office in egypt. and the nation's new prime minister has called on young activists to contribute to the new government. has also vowed to increase the representation of women in egypt's parliament and repeated the government's commitment to standby national agreements, including the 1979 camp david peace accord with israel. there could be a difficult day ahead for hosni mubarak, though. they expect to uphold a position to freeze his assets. and later on tuesday, the supreme court could lift the lid on mr. mubarak's finances by overturning the secret status of his accounts and holdings and potentially unleashing a flood of new information. meanwhile, mr. mubarak's possible successor gearing up for a speech. mousa is expected to announce his bid for the presidency at the next election. tuesday is also looking like a big day for women in egypt as the protests build as the million women march and set to kick off in a few hours from now. the message is one of change. demanding more rights. hi there. what's the mood like over there? what's happening? what are these women saying they want? >> reporter: well, the mood really is one of concern here, zain. you know, women were such a huge part of the uprising that brought down former president hosni mubarak. and yet the new government announced, there was only one female minister. the minister of international development, which here has always been seen as a slightly soft portfolio. one in keeping with women's talents. in all the committees that have been announced post the uprising, there are no female members. and women are really worried that having played such an intrinsic role in the uprising feel they're being told, well, now the work is done, now it's serious time, you have to step aside and let the big boys take over, zain. >> and a lot of people are saying too, though, that in retrospect, it was the very presence of so many women in the protests, you know, that really prevented them from turning violent, right? >> reporter: absolutely. and also it was the presence of women from across all walks of life that really caused this uprising to be taken seriously. you know here -- and across the arab world, there's really very stereotypical view of female activists, you know. western educated feminists as they perceive them dressed in a certain fashion. and the fact that you saw women in the full face veil, standing side-by-side with women wearing jeans and speaking english gave people the sense that these were issues that affected the entire egyptian society. and women believing they were fighting for a better future for their daughter and is families to now be told, well, it's time to step back into the home, the men will take over the serious business of rule again, women are really concerned about this. and i think that's why they're hoping that today their voices will be heard, zain. >> what kind of rights do women have in egypt today? >> reporter: well, there are two forms of legal jurisdictions here. there are, you know, the sharia based law, the family law, and then for non-muslims, there's a separate court system. but in addition to the legal system, there is also very much the kind of -- the traditionalist and societal pressures brought to bear on women. you know, being out after a certain time, working certain professions. but at the same time, i think in terms of a lot of the islamic world, egyptian women do have a huge presence that the older generation of egyptian women succeed in a lot of ways. there are very, very famous egyptian females personalities, and journalists. they feel they were very involved in the wave of politicalization that swept the arab world in the '50s and '60s, but post the uprising, post the revolution, they were not given a place at the table. and they're working now to try and make sure that doesn't happen again, zain. >> some good perspective from cairo today. thanks a lot. new footage of the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers have come out almost a decade after it happened. the new video was taken from the vantage point closest to the world trade center floors. take a look at those. now, we've not seen this kind of video before at this angle. it was actually captured from a new york police department helicopter. it was obtained from new york city authorities under the freedom of information act. this is "world one" live from london. china's regime is suddenly keen on confucius. why? what's in it for beijing? >> not many people believe anymore. and there's a need for alternative source of ideological legitimacy. >> why china is bringing confucius back. plus, mouth-watering match on the cards today as barcelona hosts the champions league. alex thomas will give us the preview. ight, gluttony-- a farewell long awaited. good night, stuffy. >> ( yawning ) >> good night, outdated. >> ( click ) >> good night, old luxury and all of your wares. good night, bygones everywhere. >> ( engine revs ) >> good morning, illumination. good morning, innovation. good morning, unequaled inspiration. >> ( heartbeats ) hey babe. oh, hi honey! so i went to the doctor today, then picked up a few extra things for the baby. oh boy... i used our slate card with blueprint. we can design our own plan to avoid interest by paying off diapers and things each month. and for the bigger stuff, we can pay down our balance faster to save money on interest. bigger? bigger. announcer: chase slate with blueprint helps you save money on life's little surprises. trip...lets... announcer: start your path to saving today. call 855-get-slate. it won't decide the tournament, but the champions league match is being billed as one of those must-see sporting events. >> absolutely. while in ukraine, look to protect a 3-2 lead in the second leg of their round of 16 match against the italian club romer. with the greatest respect to those sides, most football fans will be glued to the action at the camp now in spain. arguably the two prettiest footballing sides barcelona will go head-to-head. a late surprise including robin van percy. barcelona without carlos p priole. but the players are used to performing under the pressure of a big game. >> the pressure is always present and a reality in the minds of the players. but always we talk in the semifinal. the competitions, you have to play. the focus on the game. the key is focus on the game, the rest is not important. >> we're doing very well. we have a long consistent run of 11 unbeaten game in the premiere league. and it's very difficult. so it's our next game, we want to stay in the competition. if you ask any player, he would give his life to win tomorrow. >> chris paul had concussion and missed the hornets v. the bulls on monday night. trailing in the third quarter. and chicago up by six in the fourth quarter when derek rose hits the pull-up three in transition and moves the ball clear by ten. laker in the forth, the hornets close the gap. fakes and makes the inside lay-up to tie the game at 77 apiece. then with three minutes left, rose drives and gets blocked on his way to the hoop. grabs the rebound, puts it in and is fouled on the play. the bulls kept their noses in front notching up their sixth straight win over the hornets. chicago's ninth home win in a row. >> thank you. turning a public enemy into a national hero. so china is back in love with confucius and his principles. the story behind the big comeback. >> reporter: students are reciting the things of confucius at the school in beijing. until a few years ago, you would never have seen this in communist china. but now the government is reviving these ancient chinese traditions, encouraging 13-year-old to learn the confucius way. >> only after coming here did i really learn about how great confucius is, she says. confucius was one of the founders of chinese civilization. over 2,000 years after his death, his ideas became the governing principles of dynasty honored at temples like this one. this director told me confucius explains how to be an upright individual in a harmonious society with respect for others. when the communists took power in 1949, they saw confucius as a vestige as an old, feeble china, holding the country back and campaigned to stamp out his ideas. now the same regime is turning this former public enemy into a national hero. they're promoting it as a way to bring order to this society. the government sees it as so important that just this year they raised this statue of confucius just a few steps away from the chairman mao's final resting place. >> there's a need for an alternative source of ideological legitimacy. and they don't want to become completely westernized. what's the obvious solution? >> he's made a debut on the big screen and also returned as a guide for chinese who visit refurbished temples as pilgrims searching for answers to their modern day problems. >> there's a widespread view that there's a decline of social responsibility with the -- with the economic monetization that people are becoming more selfish and less concerned with others. >> yet, some critics say the government's main interest in the ancient philosophy is to sustain the regime's long-held authoritarian rule. they say democratic ideals could be threatening while confucia s confucianism promotes society. this 11-year-old is understanding more about the hierarchy. we learn how to be jum right people and how to be helpful to our parents. exactly what confucius and perhaps the government would want to hear. eunice yoon, cnn, beijing. >> confucius say let's take a look at social media right now. at number three, it is one big party in new orleans. mardi gras festivities officially kicked off last night. celebrations are continuing today on fat tuesday. there are going to be fireworks, parades, and floats and lots of bead throwing. lots of fun. at number two, woody allen has gotten people talking online after he's revealed he's going to be shooting his next movie, guess where? in rome this summer. but not giving any details about the script or the cost saying he's superstitious. and the number one topic people are talking about, football. it is barcelona versus arsenal. fans have taken to social media to show their support for their teams and it's do or die tonight in the champions league. one of them will be knocked out of that competition. you can also find us online. we've got great behind the scene videos, photos, great stories. go to facebook.com/w1cnn. you're watching "world one" live from london. up next, american's muslim community up in arms. we'll tell you why some of them say this week's congressional hearings are nothing but a witch hunt. homeowners -- rates have been going up, but you can still refinance to a fixed rate as low as 4.75% at lendingtree.com. plus, get the best deal or we'll pay you $1,000. call lending tree at... today. hi, welcome back. this is "world one" live from london. coming up on 6:00 a.m. in new york, noon in berlin, 8:00 p.m. in tokyo. breaking news this hour from libya where moammar gadhafi is trying to strike a deal that could see him step down as the country's ruler. and that's according to an official from the libyan opposition. but he first wants a guarantee of safe passage out of the country and a promise that neither he nor his family will face prosecution. but the rebels will only enter talks if he steps down as leader first and recognizes their authority. u.s. president barack obama has now changed his mind about how to deal with terror suspects at guantanamo bay. he's saying the u.s. will once again use military commissions to prosecute suspects there. the president also says he's committed to closing guantanamo, but can't do it just yet. an investigation by u.s. lawmakers has caused a lot of anxiety in american's muslim community. congressional hearings on the radicalization of american muslims get underway this week. cnn's mary snowe has more on that controversy. >> reporter: in a sign of the anxiety among muslim-americans, hundreds demonstrated in time square on sunday. people of all faiths protested congressman peter king's hearings on the radicalization of muslim-americans. they fear the hearings will stoke islamaphobia. the president's deputy national security adviser spoke at mosque. >> the bottom line is this, when it comes to preventing terrorism in the united states, muslim-americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution. >> reporter: it comes as king, a new york republican and chairman of the homeland security committee gets ready to begin hearings that have sparked controversy since the announcement. >> i've said time and time again the overwhelming majority of muslims are outstanding americans. >> reporter: in muslim-americans liken king's hearing to a witch hunt. they deny his claims that muslim-american community leaders are not cooperating enough with law enforcement. and that includes one of the only two muslims in congress that worked in the department of homeland security. >> from my own personal experience, i can say this is simply untrue. i think that peter king -- i don't think he's a bad human being, but i think he's grossly misinformed. >> reporter: a study done by the triangle center on terrorism and homeland security done at the university of north carolina found that of muslim/american terrorism plots were disrupted 48 of 120 cases involved tips from the muslim-american community. keith ellison of minnesota and others are calling on king to broaden the hearings to include all forms of extremism, not single out muslims. but when we met with king last month, he dismissed that. >> if you're investigating everyone, you're investigating no one. we -- as leaders, as chairman of the committee, it's my goal to find out what the real threats are and examine them, not to throw everybody in the bag to say everyone's guilty, everyone's responsible. >> congressman king says people can judge after these hearings whether or not they're fair and he believes they will be. but dozens of organizations aren't waiting until then. they believe these hearings will be divisive and have called on him to broaden their scope. mary snow, cnn, new york. you're watching "world one" live from london. thanks show much for watching. we want to leave you with video of wildfire in new mexico. it's really blazing. the last estimate put the size of the fire at 500 to 1,000 acres. and there is no rain in sight. you're watching "world one" here on cnn. hello there on this "american morning." we've got a breaking story out of libya. moammar gadhafi now said to be looking for a way out of libya. but what he's saying, possibly, doesn't necessarily match what his air force is doing. we've got the latest ahead. game on, 2012 officially underway, people in iowa saying what took so long this time around? 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