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>> a brief but extraordinary statement. and i want to begin immediately with ben wedeman tonight in eastern libya. ben is the first western television reporter to enter and report from inside libya during this crisis. ben, whats going on? what can you see? what do you know? >> reporter: well, what i can see, piers, is that the eastern part of the country seems to be under the control of anti-gadhafi forces. as we were driving in from the egyptian border, we did not see any soldiers, any army, an...

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Tobruk. we wanted to go out in a normal demonstration against 42 years of pain. as soon as we got anywhere near if the square we were shot at by bullets, by the police, and they were attacking us from every age. we pulled back and gathered all the young people and we kept forcing them back and back with stone so they would go back tint police station. they were shooting at us with bullets. four people died in front of me. five people died in the hospital there. >> reporter: now the city is secur...

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Qadhafi offered a carrot promising changes in government and investment. but he warned that without peace, libyas international oil wealth would be lost. >> translator: tomorrow all foreign companies, all foreigners will leave tomorrow, all companies will leaving. there wont be any money. we wont find a piece of bread. >> reporter: qadhafi spoke like a strong man saying again and again that libya was at a cross roads. the country, he went on, was not like the neighbors that had overthrown their ...