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police are still searching for bodies. a rare window on life in the arctic but what does an insurance company have in common with this group of scientists? and getting the perfect look for that special day. what to wear at the wedding of the decade. stay with us for a few ideas. but first, gadhafi must go, three world leaders come together to send a message to the libyan leader. u.s. president barack obama, uk prime minister david cameron and french president nicolas sarkozy are jointly urging moammar gadhafi to step down now. they're vowing to keep up the fight until he's gone. nato continues to strike government targets but colonel gadhafi is showing no signs of backing down. these state tv pictures are said to show him in tripoli on thursday, looking defiant and rallying support from a cheering crowd. but in misrata, just along libya's mediterranean coast, the scene is very different. on thursday, government forces stepped up their offensive on the city's port, a witness says 23 people were killed and many more were hurt. in the last few minutes we've been hearing that pro-gadhafi forces are firing mortar rounds into the city. the secretary general of the united nations, ban ki-moon warn that the situation for people in libya is grave. he says the humanitarian crisis is getting worse and conditions are particularly bad in misrata in al braga. we get the details on the situation on the ground. >> reporter: that's why the attacks on the port of misrata are devastating for the people there. because the humanitarian situation is such a situation in misrata and the port is the only way to get goods, be they medical or food into that city. today the attacks are ongoing in downtown misrata with mortar and artillery fire going on there. yesterday, the port was the folkal point of these attacks. from what we're hearing on the ground was the cement factory and the steel port that was hit as well as containers in the actual port. one of the things that's devastating about that is there was an aid ship that was supposed to enter the port during the early morning hours of thursday. that did not make it. we are hearing jets over the air, circling over the town. that is one of the days with some of the most air strikes we have seen in the past week at least we saw several larger explosions here in town, anti-aircraft fire going off as well here in tripoli. we were taken to one site where the government actually told us that university had been hit in one of these bombings but then when we looked through trees it was actually a military radar installation that seems to have been bombed there. as you said, moammar gadhafi seems to remain defiant as those pictures seem to indicate. monita? >> are you able to determine, decipher, see, perhaps, if the coalition air strikes have significantly degraded gadhafi's military capability? >> reporter: that's what the coalition says. we are seeing they are hitting very large targets. there were a couple air strikes two days ago that hit ammunition dump which is are just massive explosions. all of that sort of chips away at gadhafi's military machine. nato is saying they've taken out a large chunk of gadhafi's military, however, as we can see from the way the fighting is going both in eastern libya and misrata, he has capabilities left pft libyan government behind closed doors and when they talk to us on background, they tell us they have much more in the way of military capability than the west thinks. they feel they're still quite secure in their position, that they have substantial reserves. they say one of the interesting points so far gadhafi has not called in any reservists. afterwards, you do go into the reserves. those reserves have not been called up yet. whether or not any of that is true really remains up in the air, however, at this point in time, we're not seeing libyan officials seem to be be very nervous. gadhafi parading himself through the town yesterday as those nato air strikes were going on seems to indicate that he still feels quite secure in his position as well. moni monita. >> fred, thanks for that. opposition fighters in eastern libya are preparing for another offensive, though, they are hoping to try to retake the small but strategically important town of al braga. as ben wedeman reports, they have new equipment, new boots but they are still a long way from being an effective fighting source "you are now one group. we work as one division" a rebel commander explains to his men. this is the last word before they move out. they're preparing to push from ajdabiya to the outskirts of brega, hoping to regain the strategic oil town they've lost three times already. this time things look different. they have new equipment, including brand new military radios, they say they don't know where they come from. there's communications between our special forces, our army and the revolutionary says mohammed. and there's communications with the nato airplanes. some have new boots, courtesy, they say of qatar, the arab state most furmly behind the revolution libyan leader moammar gadhafi. rather than rush ahead willy-nilly, the pickups are lined up, their weaponry ready for within they set order to advance. this is something we haven't seen much of recently, a certain level of discipline, organization and preparation that has been sorely lacking among opposition fighters. their lack of discipline has left them on the defensive. the front line seems to surround ajdabiya on three sides. around the town they scan the horizon for signs of gadhafi's forces. the worry here is that the enemy will attack from the flanks, not the front. the effort to overthrow gadhafi is taking far longer than any of these men imagined. tamime has been fighting at the front for a month. i asked him how long he expects the fighting to continue? "god knows" he responds "but we'll carry on because we are right. we're doing this for the civilians, for the children, to end this 42 years of tyranny." a 50-year-old businessman turned soldier is resigned to a long struggle. "we're prepared to fight for the rest of our lives" he says, "congresswoman has to go. we don't have a spec of down about it, he must go." 72-year-old ahmed sent his family away from ajdabiya but he's stoic about the cost of this war. "we feel that victory is near" he tells me. "we know when there is change we must make sack fisz." the sacrifice is too high for some. a group of egyptians is here looking for a lost relative who joined the anti-gadhafi forces. he's been missing for more than a month. he phoned several times says his uncle. the last time he was in ras lanuf and then in brega. back at the gates of ajdabiya, the push forward is starting to show signs of falling apart, the discipline displayed earlier starts to collapse. and then without any apparent reason, pandemonium breaks out. wild fire in all directions, the offensive postponed until further notice. ben wedeman, cnn, outside ajdabiya, eastern libya. you're watching "world one," live from london. the search widens. japanese police venture closer to fukushima as the death toll rises. we go live to tokyo for the very latest. plus his colleague said he spent years working for the palestinian people only to be kidnapped and murdered. we'll have the latest on that. 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fight in libya until he's gone. their call doms as libyan government forces launch another attack on misrata. an eyewitness living in misrata said rounds of mortar fire hit the city's center. the radiation at the number four reactor probably doesn't indicate that spent fuel rods have been damaged but could have been caused by material from another part of the site. tepco, the company that owns the fukushima plant says more analysis is needed. emergency workers have been pouring hundreds of tons of water a day into the three reactors that were damaged in last month's earthquake and tsunami. at last count japanese authorities said more than 13,500 people were known to have been killed but even more are still missing. now they're searching for victims in the no-man's land around the nuclear plant. paula hancocks joins us live from tokyo with the details on that. paula? >> reporter: monita, we've just spoken to the fukushima police force. they say there's around 300 police involved in this search at this point. it started on thursday. they expect it to last for about ten days as well as those 300 policemen, there's ten firefighters. obviously they are all taking the precautions they need to as they are just about ten kilometers away from the fukushima nuclear plan it theself. they are wearing white protective gear and wearing face masks. obviously it's a grim task to be searching for bodies but there is an added element of fears of radiation when you are searching quite so close to the nuclear plan the. they still have not stable ides the situation there. we understand from the fukushima police station that they have found ten bodies on thursday. they are still searching today. we will not say exactly how many people are missing in the area but there have been local media reports that there could be up to 1,000 bodies in that particular area. the number of missing is still very high, higher than the number of dead, over 14,000 at this point. obviously a very grim task for those that are having to do it. monita? >> can one assume they're telling people who did have homes and families to continue to stay away, they shouldn't go back, even perhaps to see if they have any belongings left in the area? >> reporter: that's exactly what they're saying. they are saying it is a mandatory evacuation zone. we have seen cases of people being able to get back, either talk their way through a checkpoint where police are guarding the main roads or by taking back roads or backfield to get back to houses. we have seen cases of people going back to collect belongings or to check on animals, because this is obviously a farming community as well. we heard from the japanese chief cabinet minister secretary today also say that he wanted to make sure that tepco, the group in charge of the power plant was going to be giving immediate compensation to those who have to move away. about a million yen, which is approximately $12,000. they want to make sure that by the end of april, the end of this month, those who have had to move away will have this initial compensation. >> paula hancocks in tokyo. thank you. serious flooding has driven thousands of people in namibia out of their homes. let's go to our meteorologist jennifer delgado with details on that. >> 62 people have died in namibia. the rain has been coming down for the last several months. we're dealing with widespread flooding across the region. let's go to the video. you're looking at aerial footage, 62 people have died and the problem is, the rain water is going to take potentially months before we start to see it recede. because of the rising water table and that means basically the water has nowhere to go. as i take you back over to our satellite right now, notice overall for namibia, it looks fairly quiet. they're getting a break from the heavy rainfall. even still with the rain water like it is across the region you get a little bit more precipitation in there, that is going to make the situation worse and we're worried about the threat for disease. like cholera. i want to point out to you, the heaviest rainfall moving through africa and moving along the intertropical convergence zone very close to nigeria and cameroon. that's where the heaviest precipitation will be. now for the west indies, we're talking about the area including grenada, st. vincent's and the green dean drenadine. you're looking at this out of georgetown, sane vincent and the grenadines island. they picked up six inches in a 24-hour period. homes were lost in this fishing area, it was hard hit as well. we are going to continue to see better weather as we go through the next several days ahead. the heaviest rainfall will be up towards the north affecting areas, including the dominican republic as well as over towards puerto rico. finally, we'll leave you with positive news. we have two areas of low pressure were they're weakening on top of italy over towards the ukraine. weather is looking pretty nice. a ridge of high pressure building in. warm air cooling towards the north. that includes the uk, france as well as germany. mow fe monita, we're talking high temperatures right near 16 to 17 degrees. you're dry all weekend. >> i love that temperature. that is perfect for me. >> i aim to please. happy weekend. >> that's a nice weekend present. thank you. this is "world one," live from london. lond london insurers and arctic explorers may not seem like teammates but there's a group of scientists that say you can't have one without the other. justin bieber threatens to stop tweeting. i'm sorry, i'll have to bring you that news in just a bit. med, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you're already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp... medicare supplement insurance plan, insured 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>> reporter: yes, a tragic and it would seem sudden end to this hostage taking. officials in gaza say they received a tip-off as to just where he was being held. by the time they got to the house they found he was already dead. they believe he had been dead for some hours at that point. it would seem he was killed many hours or well before the deadline given by this extremist group in that ub video you mentioned. hamas had 30 hours from 11:00 a.m. wednesday -- thursday, sorry, to comply. so that deadline is still some hours away. but as i say, it appears they carried out their threat early and have killed a man who spent around ten years working for the palestinian cause, most recently with the international solidarity movement, a pro palestinian group. they say he campaigned for the cause. he documented which he believed were human rights violations carried out in gaza. someone who today is being mourned very much as a hero of the palestinian people. we're told that this killing is very unpopular in gaza. it has been condemned by hamas, by various other factions there as well. and there are protests being planned for later today to show just how angry people are that he was killed in this way, monita. >> what does it say about the kind of control and influence hamas has over gaza if groups like this can run freely as they have done so with this killing if it is indeed him. >> hamas prides itself on taking a pretty strict approach to law and order. in that sense it's not going to be happy about this. in one sense, hamas is considered by many countries to be a terrorist organization. it is also constantly dealing with other groups, other factions like this one, who are more extreme, trying to undermine it, because they believe hamas takes two soft a line, especially in its dealings with israel. so in this sense, well, hamas had already outlawed these sorts of hostage takings. this action was very much an open defiance of hamas and its control of gaza. but hamas is already responding. we're told it's taken two people into custody in relation to this abduction and it's still searching for two more. monita? >> phil black in jerusalem. thank you for that. let's give you a snapshot and reminder of what gaza is really all about. it lies on the mid terrainian coast where egypt and israel meet. also to give you an idea of the population, it is twice the size of washington, d.c. it covers about 378 square kilometers. it's home to more than 1.5 million palestinians. it took back in 1967 israel took control of gaza after the six-day arab/israeli war. its troops occupied gaza for 38 years. they then pulled out in 2005. that's a snapshot of gaza. we'll bring you more on the situation there and the news there as we get it. for now, this is "world one" live from london. coming up, a beauty contest turns ugly. why this contestant is the subject of numerous threats. plus, it was not a good day for kevin na in texas. witnesses of one of the worst holes in golf history, next in this sports update. it flows with clean water. it makes its skyline greener and its population healthier. all to become the kind of city people want to live and work in. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest questions. and the over sixty thousand people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. i don't know, something. 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hospital where hosni mubarak, the former president, has been staying since tuesday afternoon. during his stay he's been questioned by officials from the egyptian prosecutor general's office in connection with an investigation into the deaths of hundreds of activists during the revolution that brought him down on february 11th. also in connection with allegations of corruption and misuse of state funds. now, the police say visitors cannot come in to meet with the former president, because he's being treated as if he's under detention for 15 days in connection with this investigation, despite the fact that he has already been treated, we're told, for a precarious health condition, one doctor who is involved in checking up on him during the questioning saying that mubarak did suffer heart palpitations, blood pressure problems but otherwise he was in a stable condition. his two sons have been transferred to a prison in cairo and this is the stuff of front pages in the egyptian newspapers. egyptians transfixed by the fate of the man who ruled their country for nearly 30 years. monita? >> ivan, what about in the capital of cairo and tahrir square, there had been protests pretty much every day up until this point. we understand protesters are not being allowed into tahrir square on this friday. what do we know about that? >> reporter: tahrir square has been a battleground over the course of the past week, periodically clashes between demonstrators and the military, which is basically ruling the country right now. it forced demonstrators out using force last saturday after last friday's protests. and what we saw before dawn this morning in cairo was police equipped with metal batons, clubs if you will, preventing any cars from driving anywhere in the adjacent streets around tahrir square, apparently determined not to allow demonstrators to organize any sit-in there. it would be the first friday in weeks that demonstrators were prevented from gathering there. residents here outside the hospital, they tell us that in past days, yesterday, small groups gathered chanting towards hosni mubarak, that there were scuffles here, people repeating the chants heard in tahrir square in january and february in those historic street protests that helped bring down the president, the former president, who's now incarcerated in this hospital right now during his 15-day detention in connection with the criminal investigation, the arab world has never, monita, seen a former head of state detained in connection with a criminal investigation by his own zpenz monita. >> ivan watson in sharm el sheikh in egypt. thank you for that. >> it's never easy finding that perfect dress to wear to a wedding but when it's a royal wedding, you also have to contend with a whole list of rules. so how can you avoid making a fashion faux pas on prince william and kate's big day? to find out i want to seek some professional help. >> it will have all the pomp and circumstance a wedding at 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hemlines, keeping it elegant, formal, chic, and above all, effortless. formality and the length of that is just perfect. >> you don't want to be too exposed. we need to keep it chic, elegant, sophisticated and super. >> wow. >> it's perfect for the etiquette. you have all this lovely detailing. it is just so sophisticated. >> it's those small details that come into play as we put the final look together in style at the dorchester hotel in london. >> this we might hang over the arm, actually, just for a moment. >> i think it's amazing, actually. ♪ >> i don't think i'd be this calmfy was actually going. >> that's for over the arm on arrival, along with your bag and you are good to go. >> where's my horse-drawn carriage? >> remember you can go to cnn.com/royalwedding for all our coverage and the very latest videos including a day in the life report on what it's like to be kate middleton. the question is what's it like to be rafael nadal? we have news of another win for the spanish -- >> sensation? >> sensation. that's a good one. >> star? >> you like the illiteration? >> i do. i'll tell you what it's like hanging out with rafael nadal. if your raphaefael nadal you're athletic, attractive and you win a lot. that's what i'm going to tell you about. he has won again. he's won the last six titles in monte carlo. rafa extended his wins to 35 matches. he was taking on richard gasquet. he cruised to a 6-2, 6-4 win. gasquet didn't completely roll over. he tried to be positive, tried to come up with good shots but when you're plague the world number one it's not easy. he needed every point to be just like this one. check it out off going a break down in the first set. he managed that terrific cross-court winner to break back. nadal just had too much in his bag of tricks. he closed it out pretty easily and is on course for his seventh consecutive tight until monte carlo. we have a football update. three portuguese teams advanced to the europa league. porto takes on real. porto with the most impressive performance in the quarterfinals. they thrashed startak moscow 10-3 in the aggregate. the drivers went through the first practice sessions for the chinese grand prix on friday. if you follow f-1, the defending world champion who won the first two races of the season showed his superiority once again. weber was fastest in the morning. i did say that was beijing. i lied. it's in shanghai. we're making a final stop in the united states, san antonio, texas, to be exact. check out kevin na on the par 4 9th hole. he goes back in there. he just had his game all tangled up. literally. fourth shot hits a root. check out the replay. the ball initially hit his pants as well. all kinds of trouble for na on this hole. after several failed attempts, he finally gets out of the woods on his 12th shot. this is a par 4. he finally finished with a tour worst 16 on this hole. he signed for an 8 over par round of 80. if you ever picked up a golf club and see this, if the pros have a bad day, you can have a bad day as well. >> i feel a bit of a clutz, though. >> i'm not a great golfer. i don't know if i've ever had a 16 on a hole either. >> i don't know what that means t. took eight more shots to finish the hole than it was supposed to. >> yes. >> you get to hang out with nadal and federer. >> sometimes. >> they seem like they're fun guys. >> i'm not going to sit here and pretend i'm their friend. >> you love them and they love you. >> i know that. >> thanks, petro. you are watching "world one" live from london. coming up, a beauty contestant under fire. >> it doesn't make any less of a muslim being in a pageant like this. >> when we return, we'll tell you who's been threatening this beauty queen hopeful's dream. and her life. of sugar a day wi® you'll save 100 calories a day. that could help you lose up to 10 pounds in a year. that's how splenda® is sweet...and more. welcome back. this is "world one" live from london. we are coming up on 6:00 a.m. in new york, noon in berlin, 7:00 p.m. in tokyo. many young women dream of being crowned a beauty queen. one miss universe hopeful has come under ugly attack for wanting to represent britain in the glamorous pageant. richard green has her story. >> reporter: this woman is a fashion mod from manchester england. she was born in england, studied english literature in college and hopes to be the first muslim to represent her country at the miss universe contest. >> lean in a little bit more. >> reporter: unfortunately for myrrh, not everyone likes that idea. >> i received lots of hate mail. i've had racism, i've had a minority from a muslim community, i've had it from all religions and communities that dislike what i'm doing. >> reporter: she says she's gotten messages through facebook calling her a dirty muslim, telling her that britain is a white country and on the other hand, that she's defiling her religi religion, that she should be murdered but she says she gets more support than criticism from all communities. on the streets of man chest he, no one seems to have a problem with a muslim representing britain at the miss universe contest. >> no problem at all. >> reporter: but some muslim community leaders have a different view. >> islam is very clear that women should dress in a modest way. and guard their modesty. certainly as a liberal muslim myself i believe she should do just that. >> reporter: she says she could do a lot of good charity work as miss universe but mohammed shafique isn't convinced. >> women have to be paraded in bikinis and idolized as sexual objects. then spend a year promoting peace, you can promote peace without having the title miss universe or mrs. uk for that matter. >> reporter: she insists she can be both a beauty queen and a good muslim. >> my religion is for myself. do i not believe i should be judged on how i am because this competition doesn't define me as a person. it doesn't make me less of a muslim being in a pageant like this. >> reporter: she's getting support from another trailblazer, the first muslim miss usa, rehema fakih. >> don't let that affect you. >> people don't focus much on rima fakih as being the first muslim miss usa, they focus on her just being miss usa. richard green, cnn, manchester, england. before we leave you, we want to give you a recap of our top stories this hour. in libya, demonstrations are being call in order friday. they want to show solidarity with their comrades in tripoli which is still under colonel gadhafi's control. the leaders of france, britain and the united states are joining forces to demand moammar gadhafi step down now. an italian activist and journalist who was kidnapped in gaza has been found dead. the militant group hamas which controls the gaza strip says an autopsy shows he was killed several hours before its security forces arrived. you're watching "world one" live from london. i'm monita rajpal. thank you for joining us. we want to give you pictures of oklahoma, this tornado was seen bringing strong winds and hail. thank you for watching cnn. good morning to you. right now on "american morning," dangerous storms that could spawn tornadoes threatening more than a half dozen states. the damage is already done in oklahoma where one person is dead, another is missing and at least 20 homes damaged or destroyed. a family tragedy in upstate new york, a distraught mom drives the family van into the hudson river with her four children inside, only one child survived. we're going to talk to the woman who found him shivering on the side of the road. with three world leaders calling on him to go, libya's moammar gadhafi found time to take a joyride through tripoli, look at him, pumping his fists as his troops were stepping up their bloody assault on misrata. if you suffer from spring allergies, there are cities that are worse than others. we'll tell you what to do about it, coming up ahead on "american morning." white chocolate strawberries. 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