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Gary tuckman, cnn, japan. youre watching "world one live from london." >> thank you for joining us. on this "american morning" libyas air defenses are krepled, and a building in one of muammar qadhafis compounds severely damaged. following a weekend of sea and air attacks by coalition forces. everyone, though, wondering this morning what will the libyan dictator do now? in japan new signs of danger at a nuclear plant. snoek rising from a react o. workers pulled out, and new concerns about ...

That was perhaps 200 yards away, very clean, very new looking ambulance with a couple of ambulanceers next to it. but it was sitting idle just parked next to a building. it seemed to be there in case there was casualties rather than an ambulance that had been use pd in any kind of medical evacuation in the recent moments. certainly there was no indication that we could see of torn clothing, of lost shoes, or all the other sorts of things one might see when there have been casualties in a billing...

The gates of the compounds are open, were seeing people and families coming and going at will. were told these are volunteers, clearly theyre loyalists to the government, you have to talk to them and listen to the way they sink and chant about gadhafi. the way theyre able to walk about at will iks gives the impression that theyre not being kept in there, and not being told when they have to come and when they have to go. just before the strikes this evening, with those pictures again on state te...

Concern that gadhafi is bringing in civilians, libyan civilians, men and women, children, into some of these sensitive compounds to be used in effect as human shields hoping that the allies, the u.s., the french, the british, the others, wouldnt go ahead and attack these buildings even if they are sensitive military buildings knowing that in the process they would kill a lot of innocent civilians. have you seen evidence personally, nic, of human shields at some of these facilities? >> reporter: ...

We have seen two loud explosions of incoming fire whether from air power or whether a cruise missile we cannot tell. and the fire was a mile from me, the incoming fire which is in the direction of muammar qaddafis compounds, a command-and-control center a mile right in the heart of downtown tripoli a city of 1.5 million people where there are still people out on the streets, driving their cars around, fully functioning city that is clearly under the control of muammar qaddafis regime where we ha...

Because some of those plants contain plutonium. if it contaminated food supplies over here, that would concentrate in our food and children, pregnant women would be much more at risk because those compounds concentrate particularly in the thyroid. >> question here would be with the japanese government saying these things will have higher levels that they are still safe. theyre not to be concerned. would you drink a glass of milk from that area? would you eat spinach from that area? >> at this po...

Somebody around him might kill him or he might decide to step down? >> reporter: the one indication that he might be feeling physical pressure is that he has invited hundreds of supporters to live in presidential compounds effectively as human shields. that is something that the u.s. is clearly going to be concerned about and there have been people volunteering to go to sites that could be attacked by american or other western missiles or air power. so that could be an indication that he is nerv...

Took the united nations charter, held it up and ripped a page from it. well, today, you might say the u.s. and france and maybe others ripped through some of his installations and compounds with some more military might. though as you said before, you never know where these things will politically go. but gadhafi has turned into the perfect villain for world nations to rally around and go after, despite atrocities and government crackdowns in other countries. >> as youre talking, were looking at...

Done with whose responsibility must be sorted out. otherwise it can cause great confusion among the public, not just monitoring but other tasks must have a clear responsibility so that has been part of my work. as for the monitoring work on the compounds of the nuclear power plant and in the vicinity, the ministry of economy, trade and industry and the nuclear and industrial safety agency have the responsibility for reporting and as to the areas outside next is responsible and also relevant to m...

Using diamond dust to treat cancer. can you explain that to us? >> this is funded by the national institute of health and the american cancer institute. you know whats interesting about this, theyre thinking outside the box, thinking what kind of metals or strange compounds could impact cancer. theyre taking cancers that are very late stage and using nano diamonds, which are actually from mike meteors orioo. >> jenna: very, very small. >> very tiny. and very heavy metals and die moppeds have bee...