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We are going to hear from a reporter in tokyo about the mood of the country just a bit later in this hour. more fighting on the ground in libya. the international community is poised to intervene with force. gadhafi's army reportedly shelled mbenbenghazi, the home for rebels in libya. rebels claim they shot down a fighter plane bombing the city. government officials deny it was their plane. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel covering things for us. let's get the latest on what's happening on the ground today. >> reporter: international military action against libya is looking...

Get out of the air force business. this is not a powerful air force. remember this -- no american fighter plane has been shot down since bosnia and n all of the operations that we've undertaken. i don't want to deny the importance of air defenses, but senior air force generals and experts are pointing out that this is doable. we can't wait for russian approval, chinese approval, turkish approval. this is a doable thing, it's not an answer. but having boxed ourselves in with this rhetoric where the president says gadhafi has to go. we've got to do more than sanctions. >> i heard you say earlier...

Security forces and groups of armed men are beating people, preventing them from coming out into the streets of the libyan capitol. we've had many, many reports of groups of armed men shooting in the streets, opening fire on demonstrators as well. another piece of video i cannot show you now, it is very graphic, shows more than a dozen bodies of men with their arms tied behind their back on the side of a highway, wolf. some of them with their shoes off. all evidently killed execution style, and the story that is running with that which is very difficult for us to confirm is these were soldiers...

And el-baradei saying it must be followed by a, quote, national unity government and is also calling for free and fair elections. and el-baradei, reports say, had been put under house arrest by the government and doused by the water canons during the protest early on and left his home in vienna and arrived in his native egypt, cairo and has been talked about as a potential president of egypt and now is speaking out, saying hosni mubarak must step aside from his office today. no word yet on what mubarak's response to that demand is. and, this is an egyptian fighter plane, one of several that ha...

Those massive joint u.s.-south korean exercises took a live fire turn today, ships and guns aiming their sights in a mock attack on an abandoned submarine off the coast of south korea. it is a suspected sinking of a south korean ship by a north korean submarine, way back in march, that started the latest round of -- of tension and in fact triggered the exercises. earlier today, we spent some time on another u.s. ship, here's a bit of what we saw and heard. the destroyer, the uss mccampbell is this front line of defense between north korea and the rest of the ships in the huge naval exercise. t...