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Operation. its believed by the british military that this is the furthest they have flown since the falkans war in the 1980s. the decisions to strike libya came after high-level meetings on saturday. they laid out the plan to enforce the u.n. resolution 1973, which authorized the use of force and called for a cease-fire. the eu are now playing a major role. jim bittermann is in paris for us today. and joins me now. jim, they were very quick, particularly the frenc who no soon eer had the meeting...

He was behind that. his justice minister he has evidence of that. how does one justify not going after him? im confused. >> i think there is some confusion as to what the resolution, 1973 actually calls for. if you read that very carefully, i have, i know you have. if i were admiral mullens what our military is supposed to be doing, everybody comes up short. the question that admiral gordon im not prepared about where we go from here. where we ought to be going here having made the commitment is...

Right on the head there, its a major discussion point today as we watch the air rat league and their response and discuss their continued support for u.n. resolution 1973 or not. thank you for hitting all the points there . and we were looking at a picture of president obama getting an update right before he went to that speech in brazil that we were broadcasting here for you on msnbc about an hour ago watch getting his upupdates on what was happening in libya and qatar now has aircraft involved...

Undertaken vis-a-vis the pictures perhaps, the information that theyre getting of casualties below this picture you see here has concerned them that it has been more than what they had agreed upon during the discussions for u.n. resolution 1973. so, again, live pictures of the sky above tripoli and the action that we have seen just within the last three or four minutes. chuck todd who is with the president who is watching the speech of president obama just months ago and that wrapped up, and the...

Tougher language regarding necessary means. as susan rice said, if were going to do something, lets make it a credible resolution. they didnt want to do something that would probably result in just a standoff or a very expensive costly no-fly operation that might not be hable to change the situation on the ground. and theyre used to dealing with gadhafi. but they dont often get the results they want. this is a regime in tripoli which has survived years of u.n. sanctions, after the bombing of pan...

Visiting rio tomorrow and the opportunity to speak directly to the brazilian people about what our countries can do together as global partners in the 21st century. thank you so much. [ applause ] [speaking in a foreign language] >> well, that was the u.s. president barack obama speaking in the brazilian capital of brasilia, very brief on libya, he says the consensus is strong, our resolve is clear, the people of libya must be proep detectte. french flighter jets in the air right now enforcing a...

Radar sites. i should note its very interesting that you have general clark on. the most comparable military campaign, what we should see unfolding in libya in the next few days, was very similar to what general clark ran in 1999 in the kosovo campaign. he is the brilliant architect of that successful prosecution of the kosovo air campaign against milosevic and i think there are a lot of lessons to be learned from what happened in kosovo in 1999 to what we should see unfold in the next two weeks...

Yes. >> any indication, has bahrain or the uae given you any indication theyd fly fighter jets over libya at all? >> again, im going to let individual countries make their own announcements. >> the presidents comments yesterday seemed to stop short of repeating his and your calls for gadhafi to step down. im wondering if youd go back to that question. is there any way that the u.s. could see the libya situation resolving itself with gadhafi somehow still in play? and what does this action with t...

About what next and what will we be doing. so let me just underscore the key point. this is a broad international effort. the world will not sit idly by while more innocent civilians are killed. the united states will support our allies and partners as they move to enforce resolution 1973. we are standing with the people of libya and we will not waiver in our efforts to protect them. thank you. >> madam secretary, will u.s. military assets be engaged in actually flying these live fire sorties, y...

Hole, if you will, richard. >> nic robertson, who is in tripoli. and as i said a moment ago, at the moment you have more from where you are, please come back and we will speak to you immediately. now world leaders meeting in paris, where they are trying to work through the difficult task of coordinating efforts to enforce a no-fly zone over libya. and also, to try and put, if you like, flesh on the bones of u.n. resolution 1973, which authorized the use of force in the protection of civilian peo...