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Urgent intervention overseen by the police’s top brass is necessary to deal with the spate of killings in Nelson Mandela Bay’s Walmer township. So brazen are those behind the suspected hit murders that people were shot in broad daylight in one of the Walmer’s busiest roads a week ago.

A string of suspected hit murders, bogus police and the closure of a police station in one of Gqeberha’s most violent and dangerous policing precincts has left residents of Walmer Township living in fear.

future. another element is that these clashes began yesterday when the police were trying to clear a fairly small number of people out of tahrir square. they used fairly excessive force yesterday. one man was killed in cairo. more than a thousand wounded. and this is really sparked more outrage because, of course, egyptians overthrew hosni mubaraks regime because they felt the police had too much power, was too brutal, arbitrarily tortured and detained people and so this is really a re...

lisa, what happens now? >> right. a couple of things happen. first of all well get the official announcement as youre talking about, saying that may come tomorrow, discussions under way. as the super committee fails that would trigger across the board cuts of 8 to 9% to most every government agency and those would not go into effect another year. a lot of speculation to whether congress will pull that back. but lets get back to sort of where we are right at this moment. behind the scen...

southern desert. fighters had been chasing the younger gadhafi for more than two weeks to the capital of libya right now, tripoli. what can you tell us about how this all unfolded? >> reporter: well, were hearing from senior military officials among the revolutionary fighters who are telling us that the capture took place after a stake out, an 18 day stake out deep in the southern deserts of libya. we understand that is where saif gadhafi was hiding and they tell us they believe he was...

hello, everyone youre in the cnn newsroom where the news unfolds live this saturday, november 19th. im fredricka whitfield. within the hour reno, nevada authorities will let some people go back home. they were evacuated because of a fast-moving wildfire. its 65% contained. it will be a while before officials know how much damage was done. they think they know how it started. >> we have been able to rule out two causes. weve been able to rule out the homeless encampment potential cause ...

stories including this, moammar gadhafis son, saif is in custody. he has been on the run since his father was driven out of power. libyas national transitional council says he was caught after a fire fight in the desert between the southwestern town of o bari and sabha. matthew chance joining us from london with more details on this. he had been on the run for a long time and was close to what he thought might be exile or safety. >> it seems so. ive spoken to the international criminal...