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Town and try to fight their way in as individuals or as small groups. obviously this clears the way for another offensive in the direction of the town of sirte, one of his strong commands and areas of moammar gadhafi, his hometown, and, of course, if the rebels are able to take that, its not too far before they actually get to the capital tripoli. wolf. >> did you see evidence, ben, that the libyans of gadhafis libya, that they were using their air power, whether fighter planes or helicopters go...

Through malta. but as you mentioned, there was the two ferries still waiting in tripoli harbor because of bad weather. theyre not able to move. but the real story from here has been the move last night by the british. they upped the stakes. they launched a military operation to hercul two hercule the british military landed in southern libya to collect workers who wanted to leave from there and left the country. that was a big deal because they entered libyan air space protected by fighter plane...

>> scary tonight. some gun fighting in the city. im not seeing it directly because i stay home all the time after sunset. >> it is not just foreigners desperate to escape. over here are two libyan air force fighter planes. their pilots landed here unexpectedly several days ago. they defected to escape colonel gadhafis regime. cnn, malta. >> my apologies. that was of course, ivan watson. a late breaking package. we are going to ben who is in the heart of libya. tell me what youre seeing now. a lo...

Rubbish dump and doesnt matter, people are abandoning every last piece of luggage they got. theres so many stampedes, the police get fed up with the overcrowding, they charge with batons and cattle prods and occasionally, yes, small arms fire just to basically frighten people off. >> its very scary. >> scary in the night. theres some gunfighting in the city. but im not seeing directly because i stay home all the time after -- after -- >> reporter: but its not just foreigners desperate to escape....

Time. >> its not just foreigners desperate to escape. over here are two libyan air force fighter planes that landed here unexpectedly several days ago. they defected to escape gadhafis regime. ivan watson, cnn, malta. >> were staying in libya. when we come back, well check in with nic robertson. hes on the scene. refugees are fleeing libya in huge numbers. and im probably going to veer into your lane. so watch out. [ male announcer ] accidents dont announce themselves. thats why the rx helps pro...

As they did authentic demonstrators. >> youve covered this region for a long time, these are fairly unprecedented scenes. and it seems to me that the news agenda will be dictated by the fer r response. if we can believe these reports, the fighter planes being ordered to bomb their own people. thats a major escalation, isnt it? >> oh, its huge. but there is something that is important here. at the end of the day, youve had these brutal governments kill their own people for years and years and yea...

And the demonstrations there seemed to attract as many security people and journalists as they did authentic demonstrators. >> youve covered this region for a long time, these are fairly unprecedented scenes. and it seems to me that the news agenda will be dictated by the response. if we can believe these reports, the fighter planes being ordered to bomb their own people. thats a major escalation, isnt it? >> oh, its huge. but there is something that is important here. at the end of the day, you...

And the demonstrations there seemed to attract as many security people and journalists as they did authentic demonstrators. >> youve covered this region for a long time, these are fairly unprecedented scenes. and it seems to me that the news agenda will be dictated by the response. if we can believe these reports, the fighter planes being ordered to bomb their own people. thats a major escalation, isnt it? >> oh, its huge. but there is something that is important here. at the end of the day, you...

According to maltese government source. they said that they had been ordered to open fire with their fighter planes on demonstrators and had refused. the government source telling cnn, wolf, that the planes were armed with bombs. their machine guns were loaded and prepared to fire as well. wolf? >> dramatic developments. stand by, ivan, because i want to continue on libya right now. over at the united nations a powerful accusation that moammar gadhafi is committing genocide, genocide against his...

Said to television cameras just a few hours ago. >> there are more than 60 people killed according to the information we get, but i am sure that the number is much higher than this. we are expecting real genocide in tripoli. the airplanes are still bringing the -- to the airports. >> reporter: martin, another strange development. a few hours ago two libyan air force fighter jets landed on the island nation of malta, less than 250 miles from the libyan coast. weve heard from a source inside libya...