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Protesters on the march in syria accusing president bashar assad to be part of a conspiracy. he failed to lift a state of emergency in his widely anticipated address to the nation, and after the speech at least one person was killed in clashes between demonstrators and security forces. cnns mohammed jamjoom is reporting on the middle east unrest. its been several hours since president assads address. whats the reaction coming in from syria to the opposition? >> wolf, to put it simply, its a reac...

She was asked about that tuesday at a news conference in london and she clarified. >> backtracked, yeah. >> i referenced opinions of others. i was not speaking either for myself or for the administration. >> all right. she got a lot of grief. >> she did. >> for saying that and she was clearly referring to some members of congress who have been to damascus, including senator john kerry, the chairman of the foreign relations committee who has come back and given these private briefings to the whit...

>> well, i think what were seeing is that the circle around gadhafi understands that the noose is tightening, that their days are probably numbered, and theyre going to have to think through what their next steps are. >> reporter: but the president told abcs diane sawyer some things are not negotiable. >> he has to pull his troops out of places like misrata. and hopefully, hell get the message soon. >> reporter: the president says hes not yet ready to send weapons to the opposition. >> well, you...

And general wesley clark are going to be here, we want to look very specifically at where the battle now stands and what the opposition forces need to do with the next town they hope to hit in order to be able to move forward eventually, westward to tripoli. more details ahead. as a manager, my team counts on me to stay focused. so i take one a day mens 50+ advantage. its the only complete multivitamin with ginkgo to support memory and concentration. plus it supports heart health. [ bat cracks ]...

After the tanks that gadhafi is using. with respect to something like serta, theyre going to have to talk to the people in serte want. it doesnt have to be resolved by guns. if think cannot reach that dialogue, what does the coalition then do? its mandate is to stop the violence. does it shoot on the opposition? if the opposition has picked up tanks and rifles and they are using them against civilians which are pro gadhafi, does the coalition have a resolution to stop them? >> i dont think theyr...

Anderson, it has and we basically saw the opposition moving forward fairly easily thanks to those air strikes in the area. but then today he began to hit the tribal pro gadhafi areas and that is where theyre running into an entirely different dynamic. one small town they went into which is around 60 miles to the east of gadhafis hometown, opposition fighters were driven out of there by armed residents. they say that these residents were armed by gadhafi himself, but they went in to search these ...

To be very careful about this. what the opposition would like to see is, they would like to see the coalition tighten the noose on gadhafi. theyll find a way to bypass and get to misrata. theyll try to put their coalition where they dont have to act against the bulk of gadhafi forces. >> i want to bring something else down, you were the nato supreme allied commander, when you look at a map like this, you have the operation centers that are set up in it taaly and set here and there. the united st...

No bombings are to take place in civilian areas which is why and when this battle does move to this type of street to street fight that we could potentially be seeing, theres not going to be much room for those air strikes to take place. thats where the opposition is going to have to figure out some sort of a military strategy, so they can in fact if they intend to defeat gadhafis military, defeat those other civilians that rise up to fight. it has to realize that it lacks the weapons, it lacks ...

Pilots and syrian tank commanders. i cant verify this, but this is what youre hearing there. so the purpose of the opposition supported by the coalition is to create an inevitability, that causes people to talk rather than fight. >> well continue this conversation a little bit later in the program. back to wolf. >> thanks very much guys, when we come back, our own eliot spitzer is going to be speaking with fareed zack kkaria, hes g his views on the presidents speech. more of our coverage on the ...

Commands structure and the nato command structure and as the president said well continue to provide command and control and intelligence and other things. all of the backbone of this, and its really about putting an allied chain of command through nato so that you bring other political leadership in and others have to take responsibility for the actions. yes, well still be engaged here and im not concerned about the technicalities of command and control, i am concerned about the issues youre ra...