Tunisian Border News Today

Her and escorted her away and pushed journalists out of the way and roughed her up and took her away and never addressed her issues, denigrated her in the public media. finally shes able to get out of libya. she was able to do it because two libyan army officers decided they were going to desert the army and with their families and her, they got in a car, a military car and using their military identification documents, they drove through the mountains to get to the libyan/tunisian border. when ...

As well as moammar gadhafis son saif al islam gadhafi who many believe is actually the one whos running this country. now the icc has investigated these claims in the eastern part of libya in egypt as well as on the egyptian/tunisian border. the libyan government last night reacted. the deputy foreign minister said he believes the evidence that was gathered is one sided, the evidence that was gathered in some cases is faulty, theyre relying on video that he believes are tampered with. it does ap...

About 30 miles to the west. government forces have apparently retreated from the city center after shooting it out with protesters. its a similar story in tripoli. a u.s. official tells cnn that the protesters are well armed and could carry on the fight for some time. and well armed means tanks and anti-aircraft guns. the heavy fighting has forced tens of thousands to flee for the relative safety of the border. many are huddled into tent cities at the tunisian border. ivan watson joins us on t...

A local airport in tunisia. ivan watson is there covering that aspect of the story. this is a huge u.s. military humanitarian effort to aid those who fled libya, and this starts with two e-150 military planes that are carrying, we are told, about 4,000 blankets, 40 rolls of sheeting, and 9,600 water cans. you can imagine what is taking place on the border is people flee the crisis in labia to tunisia, now u.s. aid arriving at that critical airport to try to help those people who are suffering. ...

Stories are some of the most painful that we have heard since we have been here. many of them say about eight days ago, having not been paid by the companies they work for in labia for about two months, they just started fearing for their lives, so they started walking for the tunisian border, and on the way they were robbed of their mobile phones and any money they still had by the libyan police. they got to the border three days ago and were literally left there. their governments have given t...

>> tell them now im alive. >> reporter: youre alive? >> yes. >> reporter: to save him time, we lent him our phone. >> okay. >> reporter: the phone link is vital because for these people it is by no means certain how long theyve still got to wait to get back home. alex thompson, channel 4 news on the libyan/tunisian border. there are so many tents in one border town it can be seen from satellite in space. there is a town in tunisia not far from libya. there is an urgent need for food, water and...

Government, of course. theyre not able to do much for them. the international community hoping they will be able to get these guys out as soon as possible. they are a bit more optimistic but a long way from home. carol, you allude to what is going on there on the other side of the border, and were hearing the same thing. there are real concerns that pro gadhafi forces are now pushing up towards the libyan border. lets consider what we have seen over the past few days. at one point, about 72 hour...

The cluster of white dots shows a sprawling tent city on the border with thousands of refugees stung there. beckry anderson is there. she is on the tunisian side, is that right >> reporter: thats right. we are three miles down from the border at exactly what you have been looking at on that satellite image. as far as the eye can see behind me, a sea of tents, an emergency tented camp, set up by the u.n. there are about 20,000 refugees on this side of the libyan border, and the majority of those ...

Council. this is the first time that either the human rights council or its predecessor, the human rights commission, have suspended any member state for gross violations of human rights. >> susan rice, the u.n. is issuing an urgent call for help to head off a looming humanitarian crisis at the libya libyan-tunisian border. theyre both overwhelmed as tens of thousands are fleeing the violence. if theres a liberation war in libya, muammar gadhafi is on that. he arranged a food shipment to benghaz...

Theyre not necessarily in great shape. but theyre holding onto brega and benghazi, the second largest city in libya. but the libyan forces loyal to gadhafi, theyre warning, theyre going ahead potentially with a full-scale military assault on some of these targets that the opposition to gadhafi have been holding. we have new information coming in. well share that with you. standby for that. fresh warnings that the refugee crisis in libya is exploding into a full blown humanitarian catastrophe. ...