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Then you heard secretary clinton do a roll call of arab leaders that participated in the paris conference today in order to make sure that they saw not only an international face on this but a nonwestern face on this. and we knew no, militarily the assets of some arab countries include the uae in qatar with a little military support from jordan. not from egypt right now. they have their own issues to deal with including the fact that they are voting on a new constitution today and nothing from the saudis as of now. they did not send a participant apparently to the paris conference either. >> r...

How serious are the injuries that you're seeing? >> yeah, everyone has been talking about these rebel ons in the middle east as if they are a domino, that every country is totally, you know, equivalent and that what happened in egypt was exactly what was happening in libya. completely different situations. in egypt, in tahrir square just down the street there were students coming out and there were calls by the international community and by president obama for the army not to attack legitimate civilians. people who weren't armed with anything except when they tore off the paving stones to pro...

Military action that the situation becomes more dire for refugees trying to get out of libya. many of them are trying to get into egypt. where do things stand? >> reporter: thousands of people have been coming into egypt not just today or over the last 48 hours but since this conflict began. egypt has been remarkably open, allowing people to come in. tunisia on the opposite side of libya has been incredibly welcoming to the refugees. so there was a potential for a major refugee crisis. so far it has been somewhat averted. the people who have been having the most trouble are what are often call...

Ability and egypt is going through a revolution. they just voted on an amendment to the constitution just today. and it's hard to imagine they'll make that kind of decision. so frankly, the politics that are important, and i think that's really what the international community needed. >> the french foreign minister said that military action in libya is going to continue until moammar gadhafi complies with u.n. security council's resolutions. we have now seen the french take action. america as we've just reported has launched missile strikes against libya. we're waiting to hear what the targets...

Aren't allowing those same kind of movements to take place in their own countries. >> and what do the rebels want out of all of this? what is their ultimate goal? >> the rebels in libya clearly want to topple gadhafi's regime and they felt that they were losing, that they had lost momentum. this has been going on for five weeks now. in the first few weeks i was talking to the rebels they thought it was just a matter of days before they would be crossing the open desert and rolling triumphantly in their 4 x 4 trucks and in taxi cabs into tripoli as conquering heroes. what happened, however, was...