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Colby, as these rebels attempt to push qaddafi forces back we are also hearing, getting much needed help, from veterans of the libyan army, who are now joining the fight. connor powell is streaming life from ajdabiya. hi, connor. >> reporter: after several days, the rebels have been able to move forward and have pushed some of qaddafis forces back yar wards and there is a bit of a stalemate developing around the key oil city of brega and the fox news crew returned from there, about an hour or so...

Nato now takes the lead in flying over libya and sending in missiles from the sea as well. the u.s. will still have a support operation here in libya but they are handing off the responsibility for the primary combat operations to countries like england and france and other countries of nato to make up the broad coalition in libya. there has been heavy fighting in the key oil town of braga. an area that both the rebels and qaddafi forces want to control. it is an important city for the oil produ...

>>reporter: regardless if they are targeting civilians are caught in the cross fire in libya, particularly in misrata and abraga . we are here in ajdabiya. it is a ghost town most of the civilians have fled east headed to places like benghazi as intense fighting is taking place between here and in cert which is qaddafis home town. they are caught in intense heavy firing and nato is pounding away at qaddafi forces and they are hitting hard in the rebel areas as rebels try to advance with the cove...

Huge. here is the map. qaddafi controlled areas are in the red. rebel controlled in the green. towns in yellow are where the battles are raging tonight. the rebels made it as far as qaddafis hometown of sirte tonight but have since retreated to the town of brega. [gunfire] >> shepard: insurgents firing rockets but as you can see they are not exactly pros with this thing. shortly after the crews shot the video you see here. the rebels pulled back even farther after heavy shelling. there are a few...

And secretary gates just said, that he really thought it should be left to other allied force, especially the french and the british. martha? martha: great update and great reminding us that you mentioned that early on and wed expect, i think, that there would be cia on the ground and the question that remains, whether or not they will actually train these rebel fighters. jennifer, thank you so much. jennifer griffin, reporting from the pentagon. rick: one of the side stories in all of this is a...

Hitting in the capitol city of tripoli, many others moving down the coast in the town of misurata, we talked about sirte, thats qaddafis home town, the naval assets in the mediterranean are substantial, not just from the united states but many olid partners patrolling off the coast of libya. theyve taken an active role in the fighting off the ground there, advance the map one time, well show you where we are today. remember yesterday and the day before the battle seemed to be over sirte, qaddafi...

There, smile! >> martha: something to be happy about. right? bill: for now! >> martha: we need that today because there is no end in sight in the libya situation as qaddafi forces once again are gaining ground in the battle against the rebels today, a lot of breaking news on this front that you need to know about. what about bahrain and syria, though, which are also percolating in a dangerous way? were going to take a closer look, well give you the very latest on the ground from those countries ...

The midway point between the east and west in northern libya and says qaddafi forces are digging in with heavily armed check points, watch that battle. martha: among those reacting to the speech last night, former vice presidential candidate, sarah palin critical of what he said about libya last night. watch this: >> i think that was a profoundly disappointing speech because it proved the obama doctrine is full of chaos and questions and is dodgy, dubious and a good question, that you ask, greta...

[gunfire]. bill: were told qaddafi forces tried to raid misrata this morning. met by fierce resistance from young opposition fighters, as nato delays the plan to take over a military command. martha: raising the question whether or not we need to help arm the rebels, a big story this morning, coming out of susan rice and now from secretary of state hillary clinton, who is in london, speaking moments ago, on the mission in libya, james rosen covering that for us, live at the state department, big...

Cut almost completely off before he was shot in the head. the doctor told us hes seen this repeatedly. not every rebel is tortured, but many, many victims of this treatment from qaddafi forces and what he called mercinaries working for qaddafi. megyn: are they speaking to the number of victims now compared to when the conflict started? >> he said that the numbers have gone down. they set up this hospital in ras lanuf, but said that the numbers are going down because theyre meeting less resistanc...