manufacturing and that sector, i would like to see more strong in the next month. we ll live it there. ryan mack, thank you. in a deadly attack on u.n. staff in afghanistan, at least 12 people were killed at the u.n. assistance mission after a protest over the reported burning of a koran in florida. you may remember pastor teri jones who stirred up disgust when he planned to torch the holy book on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. he followed through last month with little notice outside of con agree gas station. we don t know all of the details but the special envoy is headed up there as we speak and we ll bring you more as this new information comes out to us. now to libya, where both sides appear to be muling a common strategy, an exit strategy. gadhafi still has rebels on the round but his own top officials
protest reportedly overt burning of a koran in florida. you may remember pastor terry jones and the outrage he caused by saying he was going to burn the couka ran. details from afghanistan are still being sorted out. we ll bring you more of the detail as we learn them ourselves. to libya now where both sides appear be mulling a common strategy, an exit strategy. moammar gadhafi has the rebels on the run, but his own top officials are fleeing as well. foreign minister moussa koussa defected this week to britain. former foreign minister treki is in egypt. in tripoli, sources closest to gadhafi say he may be open to dialogue to the opposition, even to giving up p.o.ower. but only to someone close in his
thanks very much for that. top stories now. concrete pumping trucks have been sent to the fukushima daiichi plant in japan. they re going to be used to douse water on the overheating reactors, and officials are considering the possibility of using trucks to entomb the entire plant in cement. the chernobyl plant was encased in cement after its meltdown. a new report says the libyan dictator sent an envoy to london for secret talks. british officials are said to be meeting with a senior adviser to one of gadhafi s sons. some sources believe gadhafi may be looking for an exit strategy. violence breaks out between political rivals in the ivory coast, forces loyal to the president attack the home of the disputed incumbent who won t step down. a spokesman for the incumbent president appeared on state-run television yesterday to say he will not leave the presidential palace.
mess in his country and straightened everything out, he can see a future here to fade into the background. when i said this is probably not a whole lot different to regime change, the sources said, that s correct. this is essentially the same thing. the reality is, there s a huge gap and a lot of diplomatic legwork to be done to bring the two sides together over there. there s still a huge gap between where they are and how do you manage this? how do you get the language that both sides will agree on or even the people to agree to the language? that s where we seem to be at right now, suzanne. nic, does it look like to you the beginnings of an exit strategy for gadhafi? reporter: i think that this is something that in the language of the regime has always existed but never been fully explored and i m not clear on how fully it s even being