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Movement, who feel completely orphaned by this turn of events. but even if the united states gave them a lot of weapons and certainly a lot of non-lethal aid, i don't think it would turn the tide for them. >> and fred, paint a picture for us, because you've been on the ground. talk to us about the infrastructure. how are people actually dealing and coping with all of the chaos? >>h. it's very interesting, because the infrastructure is very different depending where you go. completely destroyed in places. especially the front line areas hiding around damascus. to the north, places like aleppo, ...

The government wants a cease-fire, and then he claims libyans can decide whether gadhafi stays or goes. those are his words. decide for yourself whether his government's actions say otherwise. joining us now, fred planken, and ann marie slaughter. she recently served as the director of policy planning. fred, earlier this evening, you heard loud explosions in tripoli. what is the latest at this hour? >> well, we have since then heard several loud explosions around the outskirts area of tripoli. those were by far more powerful than the ones we heard earlier tonight. we don't have word from nato ...

Mission. inevitably, there's going to be friction when you have 27 nations, some of whom are contributing in some ways and others in other ways, but all things considered, they're learning as they go, they're improving their abilities, and having u.s. drones will help. >> fred, just to switch gears for a second, today, you also spoke with the woman who barged into the aaa hotel a couple weeks ago and told a roomful of western journalists she had been raped by gadhafi's forces. i want to play a bit of your interview with her. >> i usually get harassed when i have to show my identification card ...

On the scene for us. i can tell you misrata is very important in this fight right now and the fighting is very, very intense, as you just heard from fred. here in the united states there is increasing talk about the possibility of arming libyan rebels with a new line of defense, billions of gadhafi's frozen asset necessaried united states. lisa sylvester is working this part of the story for us. what is the latest? >> some $30 billion is what we are talking about the treasury department in early march froze the personal accounts of moammar gadhafi and his four children. funds from the centra...

Fred. it's not unusual for there to be demonstrations at the g20 summit. how does this compare to year's past? does it have anything to do with the fact that president trump is there, just try to help us understand what's going on. >> reporter: that's actually a really interesting question because i think it does, you know -- the fact that president trump is here, i think had in many ways energized the movements that were going to protest anyway. you're right. the g20 has always seen protest. some of them bad, especially in the late, especially a couple of years ago. but i think now that you h...