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Is a test for democracy throughout africa. more than 20 legislations are scheduled throughout the continent as israel, the leaders must listen to their people. they must respect --. >>shepard: the response of the elections coming in that part of the world and realizing that all the work of so many human rights activists could be going right down the drain in libya with violence and a crackdown like nothing we have seen since the uprising began across the middle east and africa. we are waiting fo...

With vast differences of wealth and the inequality that exists. but the changes have to come from within and not something that can be imposed from outside. >>shepard: you wonder what change will be enough. john hamilton, live, and news is breaking now on "studio b" and we are watching americans rescued from libya come off of a ferry on the island of malta and we will go back to jonathan hunt on the period teen tunisia and libya in a moment. and for the update open the headlines the united state...

New video rather from libya shows a very defiant moammar gadhafi addressing a huge crowd of what we believe are supporters in tripolis green square. the libyan tv broadcast showed gadhafi fist pumping and blowing kisses to the crowd. he called on young people to be happy and live with dignity and high morals and he again announced he would fight to the death rather than give up his power. it was said to be a live address. we have no way of confirming that. the loyal forces used gunfire today on ...

That could turn the qaddafi regime from the white house so that is why you saw the sanctions were announced after the ferry had landed in malta and after the plane had taken off from the tripoli airport on the way to turkey with another 200 americans on board. they were being careful and did not want to involve the u.s. military because he did not want qaddafi to have anyone say they were planning an invasion. >>shepard: we let the viewers watch the head of the u.n. secretary general and we have...

Do two things: first, to tell the supporters he is in control in the capital, whether that is a reality or not, does not matter. he wants to portray that image to his supporters who he wants to do the second thing: continue the fight against the anti-government protesters. we have seen violence today in many towns from the east to the west of libya and that violence again, being perpetrated by the militias and mercenaries and the army, members who remain loyal to qaddafi. in the west of libya th...

Country, the department of state has temporarily withdrawn embassy personnel from tripoli and suspended all embassy operations effective today. the safety of the american community remains paramount to the department and we will continue to provide assistance to the greatest extent possible through our missions. and, today, we are gratified the ferry was able to depart libya and has arrived if -- in malta and the departure from tripoli of a last charter that carried remaining diplomatic personne...

>>shepard: are the people there aware of the statements of muammar qaddafi today? and is there a sense for whether anyone thinks he might be in any way, stable? >>guest: what way, stable? >>guest: we have not seen any stability from the government for 42 years and we will not see it today. >>shepard: ali has been fighting for his own survival in tripoli. all the best to you. we appreciate you being in touch. and jonathan on the border of too -- tunisia and libya. people monitoring this are tryin...

No fly zone set up? we are told no requests to do that and secretary gates said in an interview two days ago that it happened so suddenly and it would take time to set up a no-fly zone and africa command, the military command, like that in charge of libya, doesnt have any assets or naval assets attached to it so setting up a for fly zone is one option but we have not seen any movement afoot. >>shepard: you wonder if there is not somebody in this from some government would you are not supposed to...

>>jonathan: well, it appears this regime has in intention of ending this without genocide. if qaddafi is as divorced from reality as he appears in the speeches on television and in appearances on the streets of tripoli, he believes that he can fight his way, intimidate his way, murder his way, to staying in power. that is what we are hearing from every single one of the refugees we speak to. flocking across this border. they all believe he is absolutely committed to clinging to power at any cost...

Deputy assistant secretary janet sanderson and we thought we would bring them down to review what it means, now, to have our operations if libya suspended. we still have diplomatic relations with libya and we will continue to discuss ongoing events with the libyan leadership but to go through a few mechanics of how we got to this point, pat has been central in terms of the logistics moving american citizens out of harms way. janet has been involved in all of the interagency meetings and conversi...