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After six weeks of prodemocracy protests across the middle east in north africa, human rights officials say more than 450 people have been killed. today european leaders are telling syria's ambassadors to demand president bashar assad stop gunning down his own people. and in libya, state tv broadcast video showing the aftermath of nato strikes amid speculation that gadhafi may be losing control of his country. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is covering all of this from benghazi, libya. what indications are there that gadhafi might be losing power? >> reporter: some witness rep...

Those reports, however, are difficult to confirm. they may be the rebels' wishful thinking. they are making some gains militarily and there was just a press conference a short while ago and a spokesperson for the rebel movement here said that the introduction of american predator drones has helped significantly and made the -- made their advances -- given them a marked improvement was the word he used. there is a sense of momentum and progress. also, we have started to see tv we heard this from two sources that british military advisers are here on the grnd, in benghazi, and are in a control r...

Administration was days not weeks, or weeks not months. and admiral mike mullen on the sunday talk shows. he said one outcome could be that gadhafi stays. would it be a successful mission in your mind if gadhafi ends up staying in power? >> well, i think it depends on the circumstances. if gadhafi is boxed in inside tripoli, if the bulk of the country is in the hands of the rebels. if his air force is grounded, if his capabilities to operate are fully eliminated, i don't think it's the end of the world to have gadhafi in power. but that's a hard-nose realist view. i think the world will regard...

He's about to meet to wait to meet him in a nearby tent. government officials told us no one was injured in this strike. they did tell us that many families live in this large palace complex area. government officials also said what is happening here? because this is what they said -- they were quoting a spokesman saying his compound wouldn't be targeted. and here they're saying it clearly has been targeted. so what we were hearing from officials here is -- is surprise it had been targeted and assume this was meant to degrade their morale. >> nic robertson is in tripoli where a lot of those mi...

Evacuated. officials do not know what is causing the smoke this time. his air defenses are crippled and a four-story building in his compound is in ruins but where is moammar gadhafi? that's one of the big questions in libya this morning after the co coalition launched more than 100 cruise missiles. nic robertson is live for us in tripoli. any indication where gadhafi is right now? >> reporter: at this moment we don't. the compound that we were taken to last night where there was the damaged building hit by a missile, two missiles indeed, there was no indication then that he had been around ...