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Cnn journalists are employed in war zones around the globe and last night, the criticism came from fox news and our coverage of the ally strikes on libya. foxs jennifer griffin reported that allied jets had to call off a strike on gadhafis compound because international journalists were on-site. she said gadhafis government took the reporters there to use them as human shields. well, our nick robertson was one of those reporters on the site and he discussed the situation with wolf blitzer. >> i ...

Economy $235 billion. and the making of a major tie-up in the telecoms industry, can at&t and t-mobile convince regulators to give their proposed merger a go ahead. an international coalition has brought themselves to moammar gadhafi doorstep. coalition spokespeople say ed c ka cak moammar gadhafi was not the target. qatar is making a direct contribution to the air strike with four of its fighter planes. the no-fly zone is intended to

I dont think anyone would say that that is ideal. >> u.n. resolution does not authorize them to take qaddafi out. >> sending in war planes. >> four planes coming from guitar, you and the united arab emirates is sending planes. they will be limited to humanitarian mission some of the arab nations are coming with strict caveats about how their plans can be used. u.s. fighter planes plan to transition from dropping bombs to patrol the no-fly zone soon and control of the mission should be handed ove...

Target. and also just about 75 miles down the coast a port also the target. in the harbor here, there are libyan naevl vessels with radar equipment. are they part of the air defense system? were they the target? we dont know at this time, wolf. >> another unreed matter, maybe it is related. i want you to explain what you know about this suggestion fox news reporting that you, a reuters crew, some other journalists were evetively used by gadhafi as a human shield to prevent allied fighter planes ...

Coup. military defense are standing by saleh and saying the army will. theyve sent out their troops to the streets to protect the protesters, if they start clashing, it gets bloody, diplomats are afraid yemen could be on the brink a civil war. >> i know youre monitoring that for us, youre also monitoring arab participation in the no fly zone over libya. we know qatar is going to get involved, theyre sending a jet fighter or two or three. the united arab emirates were supposed to get involved. th...

Be fired from tornado planes, fighter planes, on to that compound, but the mission had to be cut short because of the presence of cnn television crews and reuters journalists on the ground who had been taken to the site by the libyan ministry of information. so the british generals in charge of the operation, and flying those tornado planes called off the operation to fire those seven missiles that were supposed to be fired at qaddafis compound at what is being described as a command and control...

Aircraft? theyre going to have to look at all of that and decide how much of it across this coastline of libya they got, how much of it is destroyed, and when it will be safe for pilots to begin to fly over libya in this no-fly zone configuration. its really interesting. the coalition side going for these very precise, unmanned cruise missiles to go after these targets. and look on the other side of your screen, the libyans with ground weapons in tripoli putting up anti-aircraft fire, tracer fir...

Doctor to make sure there is no problem in the bowel, and, the main thing is, to be worked up, to make sure that there is no underlying disease, of the complaint. it is a very, very common complaint. >> jamie: we hope that helps, check in your doctor as well, thank you. >> eric: and the situations in libya, u.s. fighter planes have struck qaddafi forces. for a second day in a row thats arab nation of qatar is putting its aircraft into position, to join the operation. 19 nation, a coalition, goin...

Im told that u.s. awacs jets are part of this coordinating with the french fighter planes. im told that u.s. naval assets in the mediterranean are part of this and there are refueling jets there to help. they do not want u.s. offensive military involved if they can keep it that way. thats a big if. were at a very interesting moment here. french jets over the skies over libya without, t.j. and at least not that we know of, any strikes against the surface to air missiles and the anti-aircraft batt...

>> how much do the people of libya know about what the coalition is doing? are they aware that theyre under attack, that theyve been struck by, for example, more than 100 u.s. cruise missiles or french fighter planes? >> reporter: you know, i asked a couple of people that. i spoke at this rally to a man who introduced himself to me as a doctor and a university professor and another gentleman i believe was a university professor. both apparently well educated. both spoke excellent english. and bo...