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>> i interviewed around 140 women. >> and what did these women tell you about their experiences during this conflict. >> they said they had been raped by gadhafi's militia. >> she said she heard the first report of rape from the mother of a patient who called her from ajdabia, a city caught in a deadly tug of war between rebels and government forces. >> she was crying and said somebody kidnapped me and raped me. more than three or four men. they raped me and left me outside. >> more phone calls followed and sergaywa decided she had to do something. she travelled to refugee camps and with the h...
dublin, the inhabitants of manegal have a special reason to celebrate. deadly tornado leaves behind a trail of destruction, you're looking at what's left of the town of joplin, missouri, and oh no, not again. iceland's active volcanos are worrying european airlines. does this new eruption mean fresh travel chaos? we want to begin in southern pakistan, where government forces are continuing to battle it out with taliban militants at a naval base in karachi. at least ten militants stormed the site late last night, armed with guns and grenades, witnesses say that they've heard numer...
Closer in their march towards bengha benghazi. >> on the outskirts of a city where there was a running battle for much of saturday between gadhafi's forces and the opposition fighters. the battle began earlier in the day with bombardment by gadhafi's artillery of positions to the west of the city. already we had seen most of the fighters and the soldiers of the oppositi opposition had pulled out of the city, as gradually, the forces turned further and further toward the city of benghazi. we were told that there were intense gun battles in the city which saw a helicopter belonging in the opposi...
Instead of weapons. nbc's jim maceda is live in tripoli. are they making any headway against the guede.ca fi forces, jim? >> reporter: they've moved 80 miles in one day but they've been stuck right where they've been for about six days. contessa, it boils down to there. there's a showdown between coalition planes in the air and gadhafi's ground forces with both sides waiting to see who will blink first. this is the battlefield where the future of libya could be playing out. in ajdabia. here the rebels are still no match for his tanks, and whoever holds ajdabia holds the gateway to the east. >>...