Adjdabia News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> he is right about one thing. the world is, in fact, watching misratah. i regard we're seeing human casualties in hospitals that would suggest there is rather extensive, significant casualties on the civilian side and belie what they are claiming. what is from your sense, you're in tripoli, you've been to misratah. you've traveled all over. what is your sense of the state of the military confrontation? are we come into a stalemate at this point? >> reporter: absolutely. it certainly looks like there's a stalemate looming at this point in time. if you look to the eastern front, adjdabia, you ...

Front, adjdabia, you saw the rubble saying they were trying to advance on brega. they said they took brega. we don't have confirmation of that. the going is slow there. of course, without nato air strikes, they wouldn't be making advances at all. even with the nato air strikes, gadhafi's forces for a long time were advancing on the rebel position. in misratah, the situation is different because the rebels can't pull back because it's a city under siege right on the sea. that is one of the reasons why it's so tragic. this city is being shelled by heavy weapons. the port area which is the lifeli...

I don't think that boots on the ground likely to happen, ben. from your perspective, are the nato air strikes useless? >> reporter: they are certainly not stopping moammar gadhafi's forces from advancing. we were at the western gate of adjdabia when it came end an intense artillery barrage by opposition forces. adjdabia is a ghost town. there is nothing to stop libyan forces from coming in here. it is a long open road from adjdabia, about 100 kilometers or miles to benghazi, the capital of opposition libya and how boots on the ground are going to help at this point as the front seems to be mov...

Visited a border on the edge of tunisia urging the world to continue humanitarian efforts to the people. now, to the fight against moammar gadhafi. it is centered in eastern libya. that's where we find cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman. >> reporter: yesterday, the rebels suffered a setback being pushed from the outskirts of brega 25 miles towards adjdabia. that's where we are now. what they have done is set up defensive positions around this city of about 100,000 people. they continue to try to hold back the gadhafi forces but what they complain about time and time again is ...