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getting pushed back. moammar gadhafi s forces continue pounding cities they once held. a shady business conducted under bright neon lights in copenhagen s red light district. prostitution s legal, but some of the sex workers are not. plus in these times which are quite dark and gloomy, it s a bit of romance i think. a famous girl, a famous dress. but is it really fit for a princess? we re going to begin with the ivory coast. a country at its turning point in its history. those are the words of the man recognized around the world as the rightful president. he s seen on the right. his forces are trying for a final push to oust laurnt gbagbo, refusing to give up the presidency. he lost last november s election but is clinging on in spite of the result. heavy fighting s been going on between rival camps in abidjan. mr. gbagbo s residence has come under attack from pro-ouattara forces. these are the latest pictures where more fighting is being reported. mr. gbagbo has been basing himself there. rebels also took control of the nearby state-run tv station. the violence we are seeing is alarming humanitarian agencies who say the country is on the brink of catastrophe. some people in the areas affected by the fighting were forced to run for their lives. human rights groups say more than 460 have been killed in this unrest. more than a million people have had to leave their homes, and some are heading east to ghana. we want to speak to journalist erica agnero, on the phone from the capital. what can you tell us about what s happening outside the residence of laurent gbagbo, and is he there? reporter: yes, people are in the forces tloloyal to ouattarae trying the coup de grace currently, and we haven t had confirmation of that, but currently gbagbo is in his residence and is waiting for these people to come catch him. the diehard of the guard, the most loyal soldiers are trying to retreat, but for how long? the people from mr. ouattara are saying that it s a matter of hours, and we re hearing, too, that some young patriots which have been armed also could also take part of the city. so far the focus is on the final battle in front of gbagbo s house. is it over for gbagbo? reporter: pardon me? is it over for laurent gbagbo? is this the beginning of the end? reporter: oh, i think it s the beginning of the end at least militarily. now how much gbagbo i mean, is he going to stay, not sure because definitely he has the world against him and all the military power from outtara right in front of him. now, what is the are supporters going to pollute gbagbo s presidency, he s accused his rival to do for his presidency, how are going to be the young patriot and other militia that are around the town, this is the question that remains. and we understand that there s a curfew so ouattara s government has enforced the curfew deal with the issues. and if the country has to go even on the economical security, to win he has to bring peace and stabltd f stability for the rest of the country to go back it a normal life. eric agnero on the phone from the capital, giving us an update on the situation right now in ivory coast next door. thank you very much. kenya s prime minister who is the mainnegot yartd for t theiator main negotiator for the crisis says gbagbo s days are numbered because he overstayed his welcome. he says the will of the people must finally prevail. let s turn to the political developments we are getting out of libya a day after the foreign minister, moussa koussa, quit and led to england. a british newspaper says a second senior libyan adviser is in london for secret talks with officials. the man is a close aide of colonel gadhafi s son. a u.k. spokesman refused to confirm or deny the reports. [ gunfire ] these are some of the latest pictures we are getting from inside libya. bullets and bombs rocking the desert outside the town of ajdabiya thursday. the rebels are armed but don t seem to have any central strategy for defeating government troops. let s take a closer look at the fighting. let s see where the rebels are exactly. they control the red and yellow shaded areas. you see that s in the east as far as the border with egypt. moammar gadhafi s regime holds the green area that you re seeing on the map just outside offal-brega. casualties reported in misurata. rebels had been hoping to advance west toward colonel gadhafi s hometown of sirte and go on to tripoli, but they have been outgunned by pro-gadhafi forces and have retreated. colonel gadhafi s military capability have been steadily weakening since the u.n.-sanctioned air strikes began. that s according to admiral mike mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs. but he says government forces outnumber the rebels about 10-1. admiral mullen says the libyan leader s got a lot to answer for. he still shows every desire of retaking lost ground and, in fact, did so yesterday. he still wants benghazi back and ajdabiya. he still denies his own people food, water, electricity, and shelter. he threatens them on the streets. and he s made no secret of the fact that he will kill as many of them as he must to crush the rebellion. rebels are also facing some of the deadly hazards of land mines. human rights watch says that they have found at least 60 mines in that area of ajdabiya. another obstacle for the disorganized rebel fighters. ben wedeman with more now from the front line. reporter: this is some of the heaviest firepower the anti-gadhafi forces have. multiple rocket launchers, mortars, heavy machine guns. [ gunfire ] reporter: all in action on what is at best a very shaky front line east of brega. a strategic refinery town that changed hands six times in the last six weeks. brega is once more under the control of libyan government forces, and the rebels say even with a no-fly zone and nato air and missile strikes they re still no match for gadhafi s men. this is useless, says this fighter, giving his antiquated soviet-made machine gun, adding that it s only good for pigeon hunting. the fighters fire their weapons all day long, but by the afternoon, they start to run out of ammunition which of course means they have to retreat. dramatic advances are followed by dramatic retreats. morale doesn t really make up for lack of progress and organization. the supply of ammunition isn t running out, at least not yet. it s replenished each day when the rebels move to the front. but logistics and supply, so critical to any military force, are a slap-dash affair. the provision of fuel, food, and other supplies is more a personal than a group responsibility. all of which underscores a basic fact the rebels don t have a strategy. this man says he was in libyan special forces ten years ago and admits that even with better weaponry the military opposition to gadhafi is leaderless at the front. group by group, you know, every group together go in. but all have come under to take these people and make plan reporter: there is no plan? no. reporter: is somebody thinking of a plan? maybe, maybe. sure. somebody. but i don t know why he not come up until now, waiting for what i don t know. reporter: the rebels need come up with a plan soon because they won t be able to win this battle by bravado alone. ben wedeman, cnn, eastern libya. you re watching world one live from london. fears of radiation are growing in japan even as survivors of the tsunami bury their loved ones. we re going to go live to tokyo and talk to kyung lah with the latest. s it take to fly? it takes knowing we have our work cut out for us. but if you run before the wind you can t take off. you ve got to turn into it. the thing you push against lifts you up. so, every challenge is a chance to show that even in this crazy world of no liquids and route cancellations someone still has the passenger s back. you re watching world one l r building a bigger airline we re building a better one. beer and wine, and cupcakes. i was doing the corporate grind, like everyone else. but to be successful, i knew i had to be different. ink, ink, ink, ink, ink. i mean i love that card. it does things differently too. great customer service, going above and beyond to help me out as a small business. it s accepted in twice as many places around the world as american express, and if i ever need to give my employees ink cards, they re free. announcer: make your mark with ink. chase what matters. go to chase.com/ink. introducing purina one beyond a new food for your cat or dog. 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tell us a little bit about how tokyo is also dealing with some of the austerity measures that have been implemented for the city. reporter: you know, what we re seeing is not just people in this community feeling an impact from the tsunami by sharing some emotional connection to the bodies that are arriving here, but you re also seeing people feeling that they don t want to celebrate. they don t want to take measures to make them happy. for example, this is cherry blossom season, and we typically start to see a lot of parties throughout the city. many of those parties have been canceled. and many people are also cutting back on power voluntarily. they don t want to use power because they want to be in solidarity with people up in the north. also it s somewhat involuntary, as well. if you walk around parts of the city, normally areas that you know that are typically lit up with neon are simply dark. cnn s kyung lah reporting. thank you. our meteorologist, ivan cabrera, is looking at the weather conditions in japan, as well as the latest that we re getting on the massive flooding in thailand. ivan, what are you seeing? good to see you. we got new video from the thailand flooding. i ll share that in a second. as far as the japan situation, real what he we want at all times is clear skies, we want the offshore wind. there is a frontal boundary that is going to bring us scattered showers just for a quick time. then it will quickly head east. off the sea of japan comes the front, that offshore wind will bring in some, well, sea-effect snow along the mountainside there. i think for sendai we ll be okay with the passage. not a lot of moisture, a quick passage and offshore wind which is going to be key. again, any radiation along the plant will be pushed south and east with the counterclockwise flow with the low that is moving to the north. it is going to cool down. by the time we get into sunday, temperatures about 9 degrees. and once again at night we re going to go close to freezing as temperatures have been rather comfortable into the low teens. we ll keep monitoring that. and thailand, my goodness, they cannot catch a break here. i think over the next several days, we re going to be in better shape. but areas of low pressure have continued to move through and dumped incredible amounts of rain. look at the totals 471 millimeters in just 48 hours. that is just impressive stuff in 48 hours. 18 feet there in the last several weeks, just incredible and of course that has led to significant flooding. let us take you to the pictures that have been coming out of thailand. take a look at folks i m seeing this with you for the first time. we just got this video in. obviously folks getting in and look at the water level there. just unbelievable when you get that amount of rain in a short amount of time, you ll get that kind of damage. we ll continue to monitor that situation. can t catch a break across thailand the last few days. i ll leave you with a severe weather explosion across central florida through the day on thursday. it has moved to the south and east into the weekend but left significant damage across central florida and across the kennedy space center. there s the vehicle assembly building there with the ominous shelf cloud in the background there. so far so good, no damage there to endeavour on launchpad a. kate giles will join us next. we ll look at sport. it is an all-asian final at the cricket world cup. and fans in india and sri lanka are cheering and celebrating, hoping their team will win. 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[ chanting ] jordan is bracing itself. last friday there were violent protests and anti-government demonstrators. they are saying they ll be out in full force again. we re live in oman after the break. hi, this is world one live from london. i m zain verjee. here are our top stories there s been heavy fighting in the ivory coast main city, abidjan. there s been a final push to oust the defiant incumbent, laurent gbagbo. take a look at these pictures. they re the latest that we have from outside the presidential palace. it s come under attack from rebel forces earle friday morning. mr. gbagbo was not there at the time. rebel fighters in libya are regrouping in the town of ajdabiya after they were pushed out of ras lanuf and al-brega. human rights watchers calling for government forces to stop using land mines. it says it found at least 60 near ajdabiya. apparently planted by gadhafi loyalists when they controlled the city. beef is the latest food product to be affected by radiation from japan s fukushima daiichi new york plant. officials say higher than normal levels of radiation have been found in beef from the area from around the badly damaged power station. meanwhile, the government s telling people wo have been evacuated from the area that it could be months before they re able to go home for good. syria s bracing for more nationwide protests today, despite concessions from the government. state media reports that the president has promised an investigation into civilian and military deaths during recent protest. the government has formed a committee to study lifting the decades old state of emergency. syria and israel are two nations that have grudgingly co-existed in relative peace for years. now the unrest in syria has many in israel worried that the tense but peaceful status quo could suddenly be replaced by something a lot more dangerous. here s cnn s kevin flower. reporter: the sun beats down on flower-covered hills and valleys. it s spring in the golan heights, and absent the sound of bees going about their work, all is quiet on this middle eastern front. but these scenes of rugged beauty and serenity mask that syrian political unrest could transform what has been 40 years of a largely cold and calm status quo between the two countries into a more open and heated conflict. israel and syria fought two wars here in 1967 and 1973, leading to israel s capture and annex ati ation. the syrian president s accusations of an israeli conspiracy against his country have stirred worry. analyst jonathan speier worked once in the israeli prime minister s office in years past. israel s most important concern is the possibility that the regime if things start to get desperate could turn matters south with some sort of provocation against israel. reporter: something israel says syria could easily do through its alignment with iran and ongoing support of groups like hezbollah in lebanon and the gaza strip. despite frequently voiced concerns about the potential dangers of the syrian regime under pressure, there is another fear in israel. that president barber al assad may lose power and a more hostile government could follow. there isn t any send here amongst those watching carefully that the opposition in the south, latakia province, are any more pro-israel than is the regime. reporter: for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu it s like choosing between the devil you know and the one you don t. a decision best left unmade. any answer i ll give you wouldn t be a good one. so i ll tell you again we d like to see everywhere including in syria genuine reforms for democracy, genuine emergence of democracy, that s no threat to any of us. reporter: until that time, israel will continue to watch its northern neighbor with extreme caution and hope for continued quiet along its northern front. kevin flower, cnn, in the golan heights. last friday we saw some of the most violent rallies in jordan for months with protesters demanding the removal of the government. the clash has left one person dead and 120 people injured. now despite moves toward reform from king abdullah, anti-government demonstrators have promised to hit the streets again today. stan grant is in oman and joins us on the line with more. what can we expect today, and what can king abdullah do? reporter: yeah, there s a lot of tension certainly here on the streets of amman. the people now gathering for friday prayers. after the prayers people will move to the square in the city. several thousand people. there seem to be reform groups, anti-government groups inside jordan who have been calling for more democracy, they want more freedom of ex-tropical depression. as expression. as you mentioned, we re seeing a lot more police on the streets. a half-hour ago we saw about 1,000 police here setting up barriers in the see it try to maintain some order. there s also a second protest happening, the pro-government, pro-regime protest. the concern is to keep the two apart to avoid violence. now this is also starting to there s a big population inside jordan, more than half are palestinian. what we re seeing emerging now is a split between the people who call themselves the pure jordanians and the palestinians. the government has been saying that a lot of the violence have been by outsiders moving protest groups toward violence. we ve seen people moving around the city carrying jordanian flags, making their presence known. they have very much been the pro-jordanian groups. and the concern is that if they come into contact with the protesters [ inaudible ] stan grant reporting from amman in jordan. you can hear the friday prayers in full swing behind him. we re going to continue to monitor the situation in jordan and see what happens there after the prayers are over. let s take a look at what newspapers around the world are saying about all the developments in the arab world. ta united arab emirates. its headline, syrian crisis will impact region. the paper says syria is a key player. its distraction by internal problems reshuffles the cards and adds to the general sense of insecurity and latent violence. look at the international herald tribune. its headline, the key is not in libya. the west has a commitment to the libyan opposition, but the challenge lies in sustaining the arab springs momentum in egypt and saudi arabia. and in the star newspaper in malaysia, its resign reads freedom is not a straight line. in an op-ed for the paper there s a foreign policy expert who writes, as messy as the arab revolt has become, it must be remembered what it s all fundamentally about the demand of a long-repressed and marginalized people for change. one issue, many views. you can read the articles in full at cnn.com/w1cnn. this is world one and are you watching us live from london. next, fashion fit for a princess. we are beginning the countdown to the royal wedding in style. this is a strawberry pop-tart. and this is the warm fresh baked taste. of a strawberry toaster strudel. see the difference? pillsbury toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat. there are just four weeks to go until britain s royal wedding, and every friday until the big day we are going to be taking a look at wedding fashion. there is still so much that s unknown like what the bride and groom are going to be wearing and who is designing the dress. one thing we think we know is what kate middleton was wearing when she first caught her future husband s eye. watch. reporter: sold for a whopping $126,000 to an anonymous bidder, the sheer number that kate middleton wore at her university fashion show. this dress was actually created through a brief called art of seduction. so it s quite apt really. it s based around gemstones, and that s why it s so iridescent and metallic. so it kind of represents seduction. so in a way if that s what she wanted, she she definitely bagged her prince. so it got her what she wanted. reporter: the dress which cost about $49 to make was initially estimated to sell between $13,000 and $16,000 to attract a wider interest. the auctioneer herself had predicted that estimate would be surpassed within minutes, and it was. you can see around the furor connected to do with anything to do with kate middleton. i sort of feel sympathy for her in a way because there is so much fuss about a little lace dress. i mean, i can t imagine what her life must be like now. one more look, please. reporter: the designer says for almost ten years the dress was tucked away in a box in the back of a closet, last worn at the charity fashion show by a young then-relatively unknown girl. i think kate was just having a bit of fun. she was a student. she was doing the show for charity. so it was all a bit fun. we never knew i m sure she didn t know what was coming. i certainly didn t know what was coming. reporter: after the royal engagement, the designer was inundated by offers from the press and collectors, an indication of just how much of an interest there is in anything to do with the young couple. i think the reason it s so important, it s not just something she wore to the event, it s something that if we are to believe the reports, it s the dress that caught the prince s eye and captured his heart. and that s why people want it. in these times that are quite dark and gloomy, it s a bit of world romance and we re all up for that sort of thing. reporter: it is estimated the value of the dress will increase even more when katherine becomes queen. cnn, london. you can go to cnn.com/royalwedding for complete coverage and the latest videos including a day in the life report of what it s actually like to be kate middleton. and over the next few weeks, you can travel in style with richard quest. follow our special series, okay, it s called a royal wedding. this weekend, we re going to be visiting prince william s estate and kate s hometown and trace the bride and groom s roots. that s saturday at 2100 in london, 22:00 in brussels and rome. in the u.s. you can catch it at 14:00 on saturday here on cnn. so let s take a look at what is trending on social media right now. what do you like watching? well, at number three, the clash of the giants. tomorrow s cricket world cup final is all the talk on line today. the hosts, india, will be facing sri lanka for the most coveted prize in cricket. fans of both teams are already offering their predictions and support. at number two, in case you don t know this year or you don t realize what s going on when someone does something to you, happy april fools day. you re not going to find a shortage of pranks on line today. the gmail motion prank has got the most people talking. google s released a video saying they have a new product that lets you operate your e-mail through motion sensors. but it s just a joke. the number-one story everyone s clicking on is about this guy, moussa koussa. the libyan foreign minister who defected earlier this week. a top trend on line. the british foreign secretary, william hague, is saying that koussa is speaking voluntarily with officials here in the u.k. people in new york are resting a lot easier this morning because a potentially deadly egyptian cobra that was thought to have escaped from the bronx zoo has been found. the snake might be surprised to learn that she became a big star during the unauthorized absence. almost 200,000 followers read her supposed tweets from around town. this is one of them. taking the sex and the city tour, and i m totally s-s-s-samantha. did i get that right? 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[ major nutrition ] ensure. nutrition in charge! welcome back. this is world one live from london. coming up on 6:00 a.m. in new york, noon in berlin, 7:00 p.m. in tokyo. here are our top stories right now take a look at these pictures. these are the latest ones we re getting from outside ivory coast s presidential palace. supporters of the country s internationally recognized president-elect have been attacking the palace. they ve taken over state tv in a final push to get rid of the defiant incumbent, laurent gbagbo. gbagbo wasn t in the palace at the time of the attack. libyan rebels are massing on the outskirts of al-brega. the oil town is currently being held by forces loyal to gadhafi. but it s changed hands six times in six weeks. opposition fighters are being outgunned by government troops and are pinning their hopes on further nato air strikes. rebels are also facing the dangers of land mines. human rights watch says at least 60 mines have been found near ajdabiya. now i want you to imagine for just a moment that you work for a business that doesn t pay you and won t let you leave. that s the realty for millions of people who are victims of human trafficking. we ve made it our goal here at cnn to expose this trade in a year-long initiative that we re calling the freedom project. today we want to focus on one aspect of that trade that is sex trafficking. sexual exploitation is the most common form of traffic. according to the u.n., 79% of victims are exploited for sex. several european countries have passed anti-prostitution laws designed to tackle sex trafficking, but denmark has actually decriminalized it, believing it would make prostitution easier to regulate. cnn reports it hasn t quite worked out that way. reporter: copenhagen s red light district is seedy and grim. neon signs and girls on street corners, many from nigeria. one aid worker regularly walks the red light district. she s seen the number of prostitutes from africa triple in the last two years. what we ve got on the streets is the tip of the iceberg basically. reporter: he takes me for a tour of the area. journalists filming here have been attacked so we shoot from a hotel room overlooking one of copenhagen s most notorious corners. she says even identifying victims of trafficking is difficult because of the country s tough attitude toward illegal immigration. women are still treated first as criminals and secondly as victims. reporter: decriminalizing prostitution is supposed to make it easier to police abuses in the sex trade. but the reality is most prostitutes are still managed by pumps even though it s illegal. police sweeps often catch more prostitutes than pimps. in this video, most of the women rounded up have come from africa. denmark s human trafficking unit is on hand. we ll have social workers ready to meet these women at the police station, and by discussion and dialogue interview will try to find out and figure out whether she s trafficked or not. reporter: denmark offers a reflection period for victims before facing deportation in the hopes that they will testify against their pimps and traffickers, but that rarely happens. critics say denmark s reflection period doesn t offer enough time or incentive to victims to cooperate with police. the normal situation is that when you come closer to this final day, they are allowed to stay, then they disappear from the women s center. we don t know what happens to them because they are not ready to go home. they are too scared maybe. reporter: denmark s head of police investigations insists victims are not treated as criminals. 95% of the prostitutes in denmark are already familiar with prostitution before it shows inhere. so shows up here. so they know the business, and they know they need to cooperate with pimps. and for them, it s not the most natural thing to do to work together with the law enforcement. we have a joint cooperation with the social welfare system here in denmark. that means that if they want to cooperate, we have social programs and they will not end up in jails. reporter: as denmark s tv 2 discovered, it doesn t always work that way. this woman was promised a cleaning job but was forced to work in a brothel instead. then arrested in a police raid. she ended up in prison for months before social workers identified her as a victim of trafficking. she has not been identified for her own safety. i felt like a criminal because only criminals who be in that place. if i go on the streets i will be recognized and then my life will be in danger. yeah. reporter: ultimately, social workers say victims need more time and protection. if we have a legal process that then criminalizes them for working illegally or carrying false papers, we ve basically locked them into a cage again. they ve been locked into a physical and a psychological cage by their traffickers, and then they are locked in by the political and the legal system here in denmark. reporter: without building that trust, social workers say victims are likely to remain silent while their traffickers go free. cnn, copenhagen. as part of cnn s freedom project, we ve been asking our ireporters to tell us how they re taking a stand against slavery. here are a few of the responses we ve had. this ireporter posed with her five kids says part of her family is from el salvador where lots of slavery still exists. you can join us and take a virtual stand against human trafficking. to find out how, head to cnn.com/freedom. you re watching world one live from london. i m zain verjee. thanks for joining us. we want to give you a look at these pictures from new orleans. nobody minds a little bit of rain, right? but take a look at this. what a downpour. there were widespread reports of street flooding and hail in the u.s. state of louisiana, even a tornado. you re watching world one here on cnn. on this american morning, we re taking you inside misurata for an exclusive look at the bloody battle 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