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He will settle his accounts with them. >> you're saying he's not going to do it because he knows that would prompt intervention. >> he'll kill them. these people are going to vanish. remember when we started doing this story, i said this man is a warden. this to him was a prison riot. he will do what them what he needs to do with them much later. the arguments of nato, they wreak of such cowardess. they say we can't do it because there has to be need. is this not need in zawiya and elsewhere? there is demonstratable need. again, we must bear in mind says nato the sensitivities of the region. w...

Reporter into the city after the battle. opposition forces absorb blow after blow in city after city, there are those in a position it to see help. nato suggesting there isn't jet a good reason to act, saying there must be a "demonstrable need." the opposition battling streets by street, block by block to hold on to mizurata would argue this is demonstrable need. [ gunfire ] this video just in to cnn. more at the top of the hour. we'll show how militarily a no-fly zone could be implemented. talk to reporters on the ground and hear from a doctor on the eastern front who says his clinic was th...

Last night we began with a reporter who escaped from the surrounded city of zawiya. they said a massacre was taking place. tonight, the deed is done. the city has fallen and gadhafi's forces are trying to hide evidence of what went on there, and trying to hunt down those who fought them. the libyan dictatorship is gaining ground, not just in zawiya but the east, as well. and the dictator's son, confident and cool, now threatens to crush the opposition without mercy. the world continues to watch. nato ministers who met today suggested there isn't yet a good reason to act, saying there must be a...

Doctors, we're not armed. we are totally unarmed doctors. all of us came to brega and ras lanuf just to help people. we even help the -- i mean, myself two days back, i've been hit trying to help one of the forces of gadhafi. i mean, i was trying to help a soldier, and my own ambulance has been hit. we had to go to another vehicle to go with that injured man. >> when you hear that nato met today and they say they're still waiting for events on the ground, they're still watching what's happening, they're waiting for what they say is demonstrable need, what do you think? >> it is disappointing. ...

But if the need were great enough, they could be embarrassed and do it. in 1999 -- or 1998, we had a u.n. security council resolution authorizing humanitarian action in kosovo, which later was the legal basis for nato action in 1999 in kosovo. it's not impossible. it could be done. it hasn't been done. and the problem is that gadhafi's moving this show forward. he's got the momentum on the ground, as retired general jim clapper, our director of national intelligence said today. if you look at the balance of forces and the momentum, of course it's going to go back and forth. but there are no si...