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up first tonight two dictators turn to brutal violence against their own people determined to stop the spread of the -- let me show you some disturbing images tonight. these are out of syria. look at the pictures here. look closely at the ground here. armed security forces using kicks, sticks, other weapons against demonstrators on the ground. these are the pictures from syria here. well stop there actually to take a look over here because in libya it is even worse tonight. this is the...

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For sure? >> reporter: yeah. its a little more than 100 miles east of tripoli. its about 225 miles east of tripoli, if they get sirte. if rebel fighters get sirte, the next stop would be misrata which is just about 100 miles east of tripoli. that would be the logical staging ground for what would be the final attempt to go into tripoli which is the ultimate destination for these rebel forces so its too early to talk about tripoli. i think its a long way off, but two more stops in this progressio...

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casualties, but heres one big question today -- were these war planes operating on orders from the coalition, from an american general, or, as we look at this map here, was this one of the first missions of the brand new nato-controlled enforcement of the u.n.s no-fly zone? the answer to that means a lot, both operationally and historically. plenty to get to right now here top of the hour. well take you live to paris where the french military is talking about those specific air strikes...

Are grabbing key oil towns. opposition forces are on the defense and struggling to keep their movement together. i want to go to ben wedeman in eastern libya. ben, when you and i talked specifically about the town of el brega, you were showing me video that you and your crew ba the bomb and now today we talk about al brega and rebels lost this time. is it a tactical retreat or an out and out loss? >> the leadership says its a tactical retreat but on the ground they say its just a retreat. we wer...

>> well, certainly with all the focus on japan they are feeling they are not quite the top story at the moment, but more importantly they are feeling that after all this talk about a no-fly zone that it seems to be only talk. increasingly the tone, the atmosphere is changing from one of optimism to a certain amount of bitterness, the feeling being that after their revolt which began on the 17th of february in which they called for democracy and human rights and freedom in libya, that the rest of...

Town. im just curious as youve been talking about some of the rebels, do they see it as a tactical retreat, or is this total loss here? >> reporter: well, their leaders are describing it as a tactical retreat, but what weve seen of being on the ground, being in brega, that it was just a plain retreat, that they were pummeled by aircraft, by artillery, even by warships out in the mediterranean, and they simply could not hold out any longer. they are now regrouping outside the town of ajdabiya whi...