those are the rebels. and what you see right there is actually the road we spoke about just yesterday. this is that coastal road meandering along the med ter and ian sea where most of the fighting is taking place. here s the maps. today the rebels have regrouped near brega. but i want to turn the corner because all eyes today are on tripoli and the quell of whether gadhafi s inner circle perhaps has been collapsing. moussa koussa turned up yesterday in london defected, here s what we know. there was a filmed conversation last friday between musa kusa and william hog. details undisclosed. monday he arrived by car in neighboring tunisia. government business. wednesday, a british charter plane arrived there in tunisia
suspicious and they took them into custody. the negotiations are under way. british warships are in the area. so, it does seem likely that they can negotiate some sort of release. the gadhafi s forces are also holding some european special forces also that were brought in to evacuate their nationals, and we re told negotiations are under way on those fronts. so, it is a somewhat confused battlefield, and as foreign armies have been coming in to extract their personnel, they have been caught up in it. okay. richard engel there in tripoli. richard, thank you so much. as those deadly battles break out across libya, tens of thousands of people are fleeing into neighboring tunisia. in fact, right now, there are about 25,000 refugees at one camp in tunisia, just three miles from the libyan border. a representative from tunisia s equivalent to the red cross says the organization s providing them with food, tents to sleep in and a place to wash. new this morning, americans are being warned
to gadhafi. we get this every day, back and forth. rebels claim to have shot down an air force plane that crashed into the desert. officials from all over the world are weighing options aimed at ending the violence and removing moammar gadhafi from power, of course. many countries such as india and china put in place well organized evacuations for the citizens in libya and others have been left to fend for themselves. u.s. military cargo planes have landed to help evacuate some egyptians and two italian military planes arrived in neighboring tunisia loaded with u.s. aid packages. the u.n. warns of a looming crisis in tunisia where many libyans have fled. back here at home, you go to costco and toilet paper and gallons of ketchup and now wedding dresses. there you go. brides can snap up one of six exclusive wedding gowns by
estimated as many as 300,000 libyans could try to leave libya ending up in his country. this is on top of the refugees flooding in from tunisia and egypt, adding to europe s migration pressure. crossing what s known as the sicilian channel, would be migrants from north africa are arriving by the boatloads escaping the violence that has swept across tunisia, egypt and now libya, hoping for a new home in europe. translator: all of us, we are not asking for anything. we only ask for a possibility to find work in europe. reporter: thousands of north africans have arrived at the tiny italian island of lampeduca in the last two weeks only 180 miles from tripoli.
international efforts to dislodge gadhafi. because there s no doubt the egyptians and tunisians are doing terrific work helping refugees, hundreds of thousands of refugees already. they re doing a great job. i m talking about militarily arming for example the opposition, engaging in a no-fly zone. they have air forces. they have capabilities. i think we should be a little bit careful about arming the rebels just because it s an area that is already awash with weapons. if you have supplied shoulder-launched anti-aircraft weapons, for example, you have to worry that they might ends up in the wrong hands. but i think that a no-fly zone, for example, instituted in conjunction with egypt, with tunisia and maybe with morocco would be just would be a huge step forward and it s something that is really hard for the united states and for europe to do because of the whole legacy of imperialism and colonialism. it is something egypt can do and provide real leadership on it. do you sense t