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Cultural center to the latin america and to the whole world. thank you very much. we thank the words of the rupp of chile. now we will hear from the president obama, his excellent see, mr. barack obama. >> thank you very much, mr. president pinada. i want to first of all extend my greetings to the people of sh*eu sh*eul lee. chile. i would like to thank you for the hospitality extended to me and also to my family. we have discussed urgent events unfolding around the world. together with our part...

Civilians, all necessary measures must be taken. he was specific to delineate the u.s. policy, is the fact that they want gadhafi to go. wolf? >> right, two different policies. theres a specific united nations security council resolution that was passed as you say last thursday, resolution 1973 that had limited goals to protect civilians and create a no fly zone over libya. the president was very blunt. he said, thats the u.n. policy, the u.s. has a different policy, it supports the u.n. securit...

Consensuses around the isolation of mr. qaddhafi and we will continue to pursue those. when it comes to our military action we are doing so in support of u.n. security resolution 1973, that specifically talks about humanitarian efforts, and we are going to make sure that we stick to that mandate. i think its also important, since we are on the topic, that ive consistently emphasized that because we are working with international partners, after the initial thrust that has disabled qaddhafis air ...

Libya will fight back against what he calls naked aggression. its called the u.n. resolution authorizing the mission against gadhafi historic. whos in charge. thank you for being with us. so who is in charge and what do you think -- whats your assessment of the early on of this assault on gadhafis military? >> well, this operation has begun with united states command, apparently african command. and they were launched by the americans as well as the british. thats going to evolve. everyone sugge...

Especially targeting along the coast in the early days and then when the no-fly zone kicks in, not only will united states, france, canada, italy, and great britain take part, were told cutter and united emirates will also take part. >> john king there with the coalition assets. gadhafis military claims 50 people, including women and children were killed in saturday nights attacks. there is no independent confirmation of that. earlier on saturday world powers gathered in paris to figure out how ...

Maritime surveillance plane to help enforce the no-fly zone. for a better understanding of what the no-fly zone means, its tender to an associate fellow at rusi, royal united services institute. he joins from us cnns london bureau. thank you very much. from what we know of the military operations over the last 24 hours or so how would you assess how theyre going? >> well, this is the predictable stable phase of the operations in which a coalition of forces are simply paving the way for clearing ...

His countrys civil war. he calls the coalition strikes naked aggression. u.s. president barack obama says the use of force was necessary but not the allies first choice. so, as those coalition air strikes target libyan military forces, representatives of the coalition continue to explain the rationale behind the strikes. in paris saturday, u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said washington is resolute in its efforts to stop gadhafi. >> so let me just underscore the key point. this is a broa...

Of the eastern cities? that question wont be answered until much later today or tomorrow. >> you think even that soon? >> excuse me? >> you think that this question might be answered wind the next 12 hours or so? >> weve certainly already seen initial fringe attacks on ground forces. some of those attacks were symbolic. clearly the french were interested in leading this operation from the front. i think the coalition powers will be aware, the longer they leave it, the more colonel gadhafis armor...

Part of the effort the united states will contribute our unique capabilities at the front end of the mission to protect libyan civilians and enable the enforcement of a no-fly zone to be led by our international partners. and as i said yesterday, well not, i repeat will not deploy any u.s. troops on the ground. >> the goals of the initial operations are two fold to prevent first further attacks on libyan citizens and opposition groups in and around benghazi and second to degrade the regimes capa...

Part of the effort the united states will contribute our unique capabilities at the front end of the mission to protect libyan civilians and enable the enforcement of a no-fly zone to be led by our international partners. and as i said yesterday, well not, i repeat will not deploy any u.s. troops on the ground. >> the goals of the initial operations are two fold to prevent first further attacks on libyan citizens and opposition groups in and around benghazi and second to degrade the regimes capa...