a break in the bloodshed after several days of violence and almost 80 people killed and 500 injured a. deal is in place in the hopes of restoring peace to the nation. i m betty nguyen. and after a deal was brokered, it is reported that the accord was signed by the president and the opposition and force both sides to immediately stop using violence. within 48 hours a new law will restore the 2004 constitution and create a coalition government. the accord will have elections no earlier than december 14th. take to a look at this. the deal came hours after a brawl broke out in ukraine s parliament when the speaker delayed a debate on the resolution to reduce yanukovych s powers. we want to bring in jim ma say
jim, is this a clear sign the coalition really is stepping up the intensity of their campaign? hi, martin. yes, it is a clear sign, and they re stepping up their campaign because they can step up their campaign now. they spent the first four, four and a half days of this operation taking out everything that would prevent them, prevent the airplanes, the nato planes from doing this very thing. they believe that the libyan air defenses as you suggested in your lead now are just about out of commission, which allows the intensity now to pick up and really at an accelerated pace. the first three days 160 sortees. in the past 24 hours, there have been 175. that gives you an idea how quick we re moving now. you mentioned misrata and this
good afternoon. u.s. military officials will tell you not the exact timeline in which they expect this handover to occur. they say it will be incremental. we know what that means. but also they acknowledge that this is going to be very complicated. it was pretty as a matter of fact, you can say the easy part is over. taking out those air defense systems took about four days. and now comes the complicated part where the u.s. is going to turn over that command to a british, a french admiral or general, who knows. and what part will nate toe play because there are some nato members who are not necessarily in favor of this operation. and it s not clear yet whether the handover as president obama has ñidirected, will be complet within days, martin. jim, the u.s. is clearly looking to step back. but presumably there are complexities in any kind you have military handover when you ve got such a coalition of
suicide bomber trained by an al qaeda affiliate in algeria was in paris at some point or maybe heading to paris targeting the paris metro. the third strand coming from german intelligence officials also suggests an attack by western jihadist, financed by al qaeda central which makes this special. it then gets very murky. you get the one german afghan prisoner ahmed sadiki who is singing like a canary, not credible at all for german agents. back to you. as always, jim, there s always disagreement among intelligence experts as they analyze this data. absolutely. thanks for that report. the state department has issued the travel alert. that is a step below a full travel warning. in other words, the travel department is not telling americans to avoid going to london, but to be careful in public places like aports and train stations. what are americans supposed to
qaeda terror plots. nbc s jim ma say da is following the developments in london. can you help us sort it out? what do we know? let s see what we know and don t know. you know better than anyone, andrea, that everything in this kind of business, the intelligence business remains unclear by definition. trying to connect the dots, i think there are probably three main ones or dots or strands coming out now either from intelligence sources directly or leaked to the media. the first one is getting a lot of play in the u.k. based on pakistani intelligence. this seems to be the origin of the mumbai-style attack scenario, a number of gunmen who would hit soft targets in london, possibly france and germany. there are some british counterterrorism experts believe this plot was spoiled as a result of the drone attacks. the other one is based on intelligence that a female