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rushed to the emergency room, a possible victim of friendly fire. nato investigates claims that its forces killed the very people they have pledged to protect in libya. it is 11:00 a.m. in tripoli, 5:00 a.m. in washington. i m monita rajpal. i m zain vergee, you re watching world one live from london. also ahead, japan s nuclear problems grow. a second plant springs a leak after the latest strong aftershock. a deceptive air of calm on capitol hill. inside, u.s. lawmakers are locked in a bitter can they avoid a government shutdown. and 11 shot dead when a gunman went on a rampage. first, nato force may have accidentally attacked rebel fighters in libya on thursday as anti-gadhafi forces were forced into retreat. this is the road out of ajdabiya in the east of the country, hundreds of rebel troops were fleeing in the direction of benghazi. trucks are loaded with rocket launchers and ammunition as rebels fear another attack by moammar gadhafi s forces. morale is low right now, despite air cover from nato forces. the opposition hasn t been able to bring down colonel gadhafi. on thursday, they suffered a fresh blow. air strikes hit a group of rebel fighters on the road between al braga and ajdabiya, reportedly killing two medics, four soldiers and injuring 14 others. it is unclear who carried out at tacks. the opposition say missiles may have been mistakenly launched by a nato plane. in just the last hour, nato has been talking publicly about what happened on thursday, acknowledging it may have been responsible for the deaths of opposition fighters. listen. i m not aware what general eunice has said today or yesterday. but i m not apologizing. the situation on the ground, as i said, was extremely fluid and remains extremely fluid. up until yesterday, we had no information that the tnc or the opposition forces were using tanks. there was equipment moving up and down the road between braga and ajdabiya, going forward and coming back. rear admiral harding insisted that nato s jobs is to protect civilians. those words will come as little comfort to rebels who on thursday were counting their dead. ben wedeman reports. reporter: a wounded fighter asks after his comrades. they re fine, they re fine, everyone s fine, he s told. but they re not. they were wounded an others killed in what may be the second nato air strike in less than a week that hit men on the wrong side. killing not just fighters but a doctor as well. the death, a harsh blow to colleagues who for weeks have risked their lives up at the wildly fluctuating front line. and yet another blow in a war where little seems to be going right for the anti-gadhafi opposition. according to eyewitnesses, a plane they believe to be from nato, struck their column halfway between braga and ajdabiya. we heard a sound, like a plane says fighter atif. we heard them above, far away then it came close, then the tanks went up in a huge explosion. then they came back and hit again. nato officials say without observers on the ground they can neither confirm nor deny this strike. already demoralized by the superior firepower of the libyan army, fighters and medics alike are showing the strain. and they re lashing out at their should-be protectors. they shouldn t hit the revolutionaries, we re help let s says this fighter. a libyan doctor living in germany came to ajdabiya to volunteer in the hospital. he didn t come here to patch up the wounded from friendly fire. i am very, very, very unhappy with the action. they came here to help us, not to injure us. reporter: at tack has left the opposition forces reeling and sparked yet another mild retreat. first foe and now it would seem friend, has them on the run. ben wedeman, cnn outside ajdabiya in eastern libya. a libyan woman s dramatic claim that she was tortured and raped by security forces has attracted atension around the world. now she s speaking out again in an exclusive interview with cnn s nic robertson. on march 27th, she burst no a tripoli hotel housing journalists, saying she had been abducted and sexually assaulted. libyan authorities got in there and whisked her away. now she s out of custody but say authorities have take an way her passport and won t let her leave the country. al obeidy says she s pleased with the support she s gotten. she talked about that since she was hustled out of the hotel you saw more than a week ago. the exclusive interview with cnn s nic robertson was taped wednesday. as knick explains, the transmission of the interview was delayed almost 18 hours after the libyan government insisted on reviewing the interview. a review that never came. here s some of what she told nic. when you came to the hotel, you wanted to explain to the journalists what happened to you. can you explain and show to me what happened to you? translator: i was kidnapped by two cars belong together armed forces and the gadhafi brigades. they drove their normal patrol police cars. they dropped me off the patrol car because i am from the eastern province and asked me to ride in their car, then they took me. they were drunk in the car and they took me to the residence of one of them where i was tortured, raped, beaten and i was tied. when i was showing the journalists my hand bruises as a result of being tide, my hands were tied backwards for two days. there are a lot of bruises on my body as a result of the torture. people have blamed me for showing my body. they said how can she expose her body to people like that? because i was depressed and there s no way to show people how i was tortured and the way i was tortured. i was brutally tortured to the point of them entering weapons inside of me. after two days, they would also pour alcohol in my eyes. went libyan spokesperson came on and said i was drunk and mentally challenged, he spoke without any knowledge. they just know how to lie. your situation has touched the hearts of thousands of people around the world. why do you think that is? so the whole world can know what s happening in libya. libya has lived many, many years without media exposure, without exposing the facts. let the world know what s happening. the world has felt for me and especially women. because i was raped and kidnapped which moves people and at the same time, the truth is coming out. nothing remains hidden. do you have a message for your parents and for the thousands of people that have supported you? i would like to direct a message to my parents, that they keep pursuing my situation so that i can return home and be with them in the coming time period and to stay strong. i would like to thank everyone in the world who stood with me and monitored my case and felt sympathetic to my plight. ten second portion of that interview was cut out at the request of saudi gadhafi with the agreement of al obeidy. in that clip she spoke to the people, telling them continue to be strong. laurent gbagbo remains hunkered in his basement inned aby jan. caught in the middle are thousands of refugees who the red cross is trying to reach. mr. ouattara addressed the nation thursday, saying gbagbo s refusal to leave office has created this humanitarian crisis. we want to take a look now at what newspaper around the world are saying about this. the london-based independent says removal of the old leader will do nothing to heal a bleeding nation torn in half. it goes on to say both sides are implaquably opposed to each other s existence and have been fed a daily diet of propaganda that leaves little rom for trust between the two camps. from the australian says the ivory coast troubles far from over. it goes on to say, the standoff between ouattara and gbagbo forces in adbijan will brit lasting democratic change many expect. it says missed rule seem to be the only constant in the country that has traced the same sad riches-to-rags arc of most of post-colonial africa. read those in full at facebook.com/w1cnn. find out how the aftershock in japan affected the battle to end the nuclear plan the crisis in just a minute. and brazil suffered its first big school shooting. we ll have a report on the gunman and his victims. muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i ve got revigor. what s revigor? 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reporter: we actually have an update on the food situation. this is something that affects a lot of people ear who are looking to import or export some of the food from japan as well as the people who eat the food here. the government did decide to relax restrictions on a couple of areas of food. lettuce that s considered a leafy green and some spinach is going to be allowed to be sold on the market again as well as mill fredricka one section of fukushima. the government saying the reason they re allowing it back into the market is they ve done continuous testing over three weeks and they did find very low levels of radiation, safe enough to eat. the question, though, zain, is will people really eat it? what about the blackouts? do they continue in tokyo? reporter: in tokyo we aren t registering significant blackouts because of the aftershock. in the tohoku area, there are still black joutz. they have made significant process throughout the day. the power company saying in the beginning of the day they had almost 4 million households without power. that number has now dropped to a million. certainly if you imagine what these people have been through through that entire regionen to, again, have to deal with power outages, to have to deal with these aftershocks, to live through that, to feel this and then have to not have water or not have your trains is just this almost retraumatization of what they suffered a month ago. thank you. let s talk about the major aftershocks in japan. ivan cabrera, it was quite a large one, a 7.4. that s a major earthquake. you re absolutely right. the main quake was a 9.0. you expect up trds of ten 7.0s or higher during the weeks and months following that quake. we re not out of the woods as far as significant quakes that could cause significant damage. let s chk in here. the 7.1 yesterday was the same magnitude that haiti got. the reason it wasn t as bad here it s because it was offshore and deeper here. that s the aftershock. to the east is the main quake several weeks ago. if this had triggered a tsunami, we had been talking about the potential for that was there. we would have had seconds. that did not materialize. but unfortunately we had additional damage as a result of that quake. a lost numbers here. basically what you can take away from the graphic is, these are the aftershocks. this is what we registered the average column on the far right here, take a look at that, upwards of 10,000 aftershocks can be expected after a 9.0 quake and 1,000 of them in the 5.0 range. at that point or higher, that range or higher, you can certainly expect damage. we ll watch that closely. did you see her hair flipping around there? we have gusty winds in tokyo. there s a front coming through. this will turn unsettled. it won t move through and clear things out. it s going to stall out, an area of low pressure will ride it here. that means we are going to be looking for scattered showers. there are a lot of folks still without power. my concern would be for very cold temperatures at night. we re not going to see that. i think we ll be into the low single digits, which is typical for this time of year. we have the showers continuing in the low teens over the next couple days. thanks a lot, ivan. you re watching world one live from london. here s a riddle. okay? what do you get if you put red soles on black shoes? the answer is a lawsuit. we ll explain, just ahead. first men s golf major of the year started thursday with dazzling play by two young europeans. our sports update is up next. my vet thinks my insides are in mint condition. 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latest aftershock comes nearly a month after the huge quake and tsunami that devastated northeastern japan on march 11th. authorities say three people were killed and more than 130 injured on thursday. europe s debt crisis looms large for eu finance ministers as they head into a meeting in budapest. they are going to be talking about the last few day s events and portugal saddled with debt and are desperate for financial aid. economists say portugal could need as much as $114 billion in emergency funding. the u.n. is telling ivory coast self-declared president to seize his last chance for a graceful exit but laurent gbagbo is still hunkered down in his basement in abidjan refusing to concede power. hundreds of people have been killed in the violence that has engulfed the country since november s presidential elections. it s being called a massacre. iranian exiles in iraq say iraqi security forces went on a killing spree in their refugee camp, leaving at least 25 people dead and injuring hundreds more. iraqi army admits there was violence in the cample overnight but claims it did not use live ammunition. they also say the iranians provoked the conflict. the camp is home to exiled opponents of the iranian regime. rebel fighters in libya say they are resisting pro-gadhafi forces that are trying to force their way into the city of misrata. nato says it doesn t need to apologize for what happened. aid agencies are saying the humanitarian situation in laboria is getting worse. they are trying to bring in food, water and medical supplies for the tens of thousands of people caught up in the conflict. many, mainly workers, aren t trying to get out of the country but that s easier said than done as we have this report. reporter: a month and a half into the crisis in libyaant food lines at this refugee camp on the tunisian side of the border keep getting longer. most people are some sub-saharan africa. we ve been here for 25 days, this man from chad says, and we ve not been able to leave the country. international aid groups have managed to send more than 100,000 foreigners who fled libya home since the conflict began. mostly by chartering planes. it s becoming more difficult, the u.n. says, air travel has become more expensive since the coalition began enforcing a no-fly zone and airliners have to fly around libyan air space. donations are dropping according to the u.n. it s important for us to continue to encourage the international community to provide support at the same rate they have since the beginning of the crisis. it s important for us to maintain the momentum. we continue to sort of extend our gratitude to the tunisian government for their hospitality and generosity since the beginning of the crisis. reporter: the border between libya and tunisia remains busy. as people continue to pack up their belongings and go. we re right at the border between libya and tunisia right now. the u.n. estimates that there s still about 1,500 people a day who come across these borders. most of them are workers from africa and manufacture them, of course, want to return to the countries that they came from. but some can t return to their home countries. this man is from ivory coast, which is also in a crisis. he shows me the tent he s been staying in for three weeks. it s impossible to return to ivory coast, he says, the situation there is just as bad as in libya. it s impossible. while most of those we spoke to said the conditions in the shusha camp are good with enough food, water and medical supplies available, they also said after their nightmare in libya, they finally want to get away to any place they can call heim. fred likeens, cnn. the lights have been on late in washington. u.s. congressional leaders are racing the clock. they re trying to hammer out a new budget by midnight friday night. if they fail to agree, parts of the u.s. government will shut down. that means no pay for hundreds of thousands of government workers and no funding for some federal programs. president obama says he s hopeful about getting a solution. john boehner, the speaker of the house of representatives and the senate leader harry reid put out this statement. we have narrowed the issues, however, we have not yet reached an agreement. we will continue to work through the night to attempt to resolve our remaining differences. our dana bash has been looking at some of the details that have been keeping the two sides apart. the house will come to order. reporter: one of the biggest disagreements is not over government spending but policy. some 40 or 50 policy restrictions that were attached to our bill. reporter: so-called policy riders, republicans call essential and democrats call nonstarters. the most divisive is over abortion, a gop plan to cut all federal funding for planned parenthood which provides abortion procedures in addition to other women s health services. this is say budget. this is to keep our country running. this is not a woman s health bill. reporter: planned parenthood staged a rally outside the capital to protest. they don t want to allow planned parenthood to serve the 3 million people we see every single year. 90% of the services we provide are preventive care. i don t think taxpayers should subsidize abortions. if a woman chooses to have an abortion, it s legal to do that in this country. i don t think taxpayers should be put in a position to have to pay for those abortions. reporter: another major sticking point, how much spending to cut. a democratic source tells cnn they have come to a tentative agreement to slash $34.5 billion from the rest of this year s budget. but a republican source says there are no deal. there is not an disagreement on the numbers or policies contained with this. reporter: then there is the issue of what programs and agencies to cut. they are trying to find spending cuts with the least impact on those who need it most, they re pushing for temporary one-year cuts in programs, some examples cuts in wetlands protection and pell grants for summer school and graduate students. our goal is to make real spending cuts. reporter: some examples of what republicans want to cut, money for food inspectors, head start education programs and funding for housing. that looming shutdown has become a big talking point on twitter. the hash tag, if government shuts down is trending as people around the world talk about what might happen. we want to give you awe look at some of the tweets taking place online. we begin in the nation s capital, washington, d.c. we talk about how the official site, the official twitter page for the national park service saying the national parks will close across the country. tell congress to keep the parks open. that will have a major impact on what happens there. let me go over to new york. there is absolutely no logical reason for the federal government to be shut down. it s pure political theater. and in arkansas, douglas wilson says, we should not have to pay taxes if there is a government shutdown. interesting point. across the pond there to europe, we have spain saying the country will just be fine. if you don t believe me, ask belgium. they re running without a government. good point there, divya. just a sample of some of the opinions of what would happen if they don t seem to get it together on capitol hill. this is world one, live from london. call it speculation, wild rumor or guesswork. a lot of people are trying to figure it out. who will make kate middleton s wedding dress? and what will it look like? i think she will wear a veil, however, i think it will not be a big, poofy veil that will cover the face. i think it will be simple, elegant, not so long, flowing from behind her hair. kissed with real honey. and the 100% natural whole grain oats can help lower your cholesterol. you are so sweet to me. bee happy. bee healthy. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp. medicare supplement 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especially since it was reported that sara burton of alexander mcqueen will be designing the dress. burton became creative director of the brand when alexander died last year. she worked alongside the designer for 14 years. this commission, if true, is one that would catapult her name into the fashion stratosphere. this is a big, major wedding. it s quite ceremonial, religious. there s a lot of protocol. and the dress needs to suit the occasion. so it s got to be designed by somebody who has a total understanding of the whole bridal scene, who understands the abbie and what it s going to look like. and i have a feeling kate will surprise us all. reporter: mcqueen reps have denied the appointment and the royal family s clearance house has refused to comment saying, quote, it is katherine s wish to keep the designer a secret until the wedding day. while middleton has been frequently compared to william s mother, diana, many believe the wedding dress will be different. bridal designer ian stewart says while the opulence of diana s dress was a contrast to the tough economic times britain was facing in 1981, he believes the future queen of england will go a different route. i have a feeling that it won t be a big dress. i have a feeling it will be kind of like fish tail or mermaid style, quite figure hugging and flairing out from beneath the hips. she s fully aware of what she s marrying into and she know she has to come out there with a certain amount of strength in her wedding dress. i do think she will have some kind of sleeve or covering of lace around her shoulders and her arms. i think she will wear a veil, however, i think it will be not a big poofy veil that s going to cover the face. i think it will just be something quite simple, elegant, not so long, flowing from behind her hair. reporter: to ensure utmost secrecy, the dress is being made behind the secure walls of buckingham palace. all will be revealed when kate steps out of the her car at the steps of westminster abbey on april 19th. cnn is getting you ready for the big event with all kinds of special programming between now and the wedding date, just about three weeks away. join us on saturday for a richard quest special. 3:00 in london. back to the dress just for a sec. there s so much speculation but it doesn t seem like anybody has a clue. it s interesting. i ve called quite a few of the bridal designers, dress designers that had been short listed that the press had short listed. there were few that vehemently denied, it s not happening, because they didn t want the press to keep calling them. there are some that are neither confirming or denying. if it is burton of alexander mcqueen, it will be a stunning dress. she s a brilliant designer. let s take a look at what s trending on social media right now. at number three, the grand national. it s one of the best-known british horsing events. it is happening tomorrow, making this a popular talking point online. bookmakers expect it to take it nearly $500,000 in bets. it s been said it has a worldwide audience of 600 million people. i ll be placing my bet. at number two, she made a name for herself when she went on the run. you know who this is by now, the most famous snake in new york. she s been given a name by a popular vote, mia. it s a play on words for missing in action. and at number one, government shutdown. there s a lot of worry and so many comments out there about what s going to happen if the u.s. government shuts down. some people are saying that this is all just political theater. others say it is a serious worry. one person tweeted and said if they shut down, we shouldn t have to pay taxes. you re watching world one, live from london. coming up, tears in brazil. the families of those killed grieve in the aftermath of a deadly shooting rampage in a rio de janeiro school. we ll tell you more on that, just ahead. 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[ female announcer ] grab a box of multigrain cheerios. get a code to. .a 7 day plan to get going on your summer weight loss. get the box. get the code. get started! welcome back. you re watching world one live from london. coming up at :00 a.m. in new york, 7:00 p.m. in tokyo and noon in berlin. some u.s. government workers are wondering whether they ll be seeing their next paycheck. a government shutdown could be just hours away. congressional aides are working nonstop to come up with a new spending plan. president obama says he wants a solution today. now to rio de janeiro where the city is preparing to bury those killed in yesterday s deadly shooting at a school. raphael romo has the details. reporter: the shooting happened early in the morning at the tasso da silveira school in rio de janeiro. brazilian officials say a man armed with two handguns entered the school and began shooting children and killing at least 11 students. he had a weapon and he started shooting children. the students were about 12 or 13 years old. one was shot in the head, another one in the arm. at least 13 other children, all students at the school, were injured. the first police officers who arrived at the scene says the suspect was walking up the stairs towards the third floor of the school building when he shot him in the leg after he refused to drop his weapon. translator: he was pointing his weapon at me, i shot him and he fell on the stairs, then he committed suicide. reporter: the suspect was identified as 23-year-old avada. he was a former student at the school. some reports said he left a letter explaining his motives in which he mentioned he had hiv. hundreds of anguished parents and relatives rushed to the school but information was scarce at first. translator: running, i came running. my girl was in one of the classrooms, a girl i consider my granddaughter. i haven t gotten any information about anything. reporter: brazilian president cried as she asked the nation for a moment of silence in honor of the young shooting victims. translator: we all stand united repulsed at this act of violence, repulsed at this type of violence, especially with children. reporter: at a joint first conference, state and local officials asked for patience while police continue the investigation into the shooting. the mayor said the focus is now on helping the families of the children who died in the massacre. rafael romo, cnn, atlanta. throughout the year here on cnn we ll be showing you regular reports as part of cnn s freedom project. this is our special effort to shed a light on modern day slavery. the trafficking of human beings is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world. more than 1.8 million of the people bought and sold in this way are young people or children. their most likely fate is to be forced into the sex trade. the cosmetics retailer body shop has launched a global campaign to stop the trafficking of young people for sex. it aims to raise awareness and funds for victims and it has gained support in more than 40 countries. christopher davis is the director of international campaigns at the body shop. he spoke earlier with cnn s max foster. when we were launching the campaign in denmark, we had over 1,000 of the body shop customers marching through the streets of copenhagen in solidarity as you say, for the millions of children and young people who are trafficked every day. after that, we were contacted by three girls who had been trafficked and said it is great that somebody is speaking out for us, and customers of the body shop are uniting to create long-term change. let s talk about how you re doing it. these boxes in how many countries? 50 countries. and people sign a form specific to that country. absolutely. so the body shop has developed specific petitions in 50 countries backed up by a lot of research. the research has identified what national governments need to do in their specific countries, whether you re in spain or in sweden or in south africa, the change that our customers are calling for is specific. specific to that country. and we believe at the body shop, we believe in profit. we are a business. but we also believe business can make a difference and inspire social change. through these petitions, that s what we re focused on. let s look at two successful examples, malta, what happened there? malta, our campaign petition was presented to the government and the government responded by committing to signing and ratifying the council of europe convention to stop the sexual abuse of children. that was such a monumental event for us. these laws stay in place forever. they stay in place, protect children forever. it s such a great achievement for the body shop own our customers. malaysia, you are petitioning on a different subject. tell us what happened there n. malaysia, our customers were call are for the government to ratify the united nations protocol on trafficking which they hadn t done. in response to our petition, we met with the malaysian government two weeks ago and have committed to ratifying that convention, which no company has ever achieved. with the help of our customers, we re really making a difference. you can find out more about cnn s freedom project. we want you to tell us what you think, okay? go to cnn.com/freedom. you re going to find so many facts, personal stories and key information on how you can help. so go to cnn.com/freedom. check it out. you re watching world one live from london. i m zain vergee. i m monita rajpal. thank you for joining us. we want to leave you with a look at these pictures from the u.s. state of minnesota. pretty amazing. what you re looking at right now is this huge sheet-like chunk of ice. you can see it floating downstream and it crushes absolutely everything in its path. watch. hurry, hurry up! just wait. right now on this american morning the president wants an answer, do we have a budget deal or don t we in the federal government could be shutting down in 18 hours and for thousands of federal workers, tens of thousands of them and our troops overseas, paychecks are hanging in the balance. and just what they didn t need in northern japan, another quake, a big one. knocking out power, destroying roads, three people were killed and workers at the crippled daiichi nuclear plant were forced to head for shelter. would you consider letting someone use your home as a billboard to advertise their business? 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