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>> reporter: more than ever at christmas she remains a symbol of longevity and tradition as the windsors look forward to kate's first child and heir to the throne at next year's christmas reunion. jim meceda, nbc news, london. if you plan to head to the movie, you better make sure you have a little extra time because many of this season's blockbusters are clocking in at almost three hours. a report from hollywood. >> reporter: they are epic productions, earning oscar buzz. >> shall we stop this bleeding? >> reporter: this year's blockbusters have something else in common. you better block ou...

Basis. >> look at yesterday's briefing with dennis mcdonough. we had the news in syria. this is going to get tested immediately. >> as for libya, there's a potentially critical battle under way less than a hundred miles for gadhafi's hometown of sirte. jim meceda is live for us in tripoli. what's the latest on the fighting there? >> reporter: well, what a difference a day makes. thest a cliche. but in this case it really applies. yesterday at this time we were reporting rebels were on the outskirts of sirte. sirte being gadhafi's hometown, his birthplace. only 250 miles for us here in tripoli....

That gadhafi actually could survive, which would appear to be totally contrary to the wishes of president obama and this entire operation as a matter of fact. and to follow up a bit on what jim meceda said, there appeared to be no fighting in benghazi, there's a good explanation for that. overnight we are told that us f-15s and f-16s out of sigon sigonella. so it appears because of those air travels which appear to go beyond what would appeared to be a no-fly zone have brought the end to violence there. but referring to richard engel, during this break in the

Coordinate the actions of others. hopefully there will be arab participants that come into this that are also part of the action. i think it's potentially nasty if it's only western nato forces that are coming onto libya. >> be sure to watch "the rachel maddow show" week needs at 9:00 p.m. eastern. it's likely the president will talk about the situation in libya later today. libyan foreign minister made the announcement libya is halting operations after that u.s. resolution was passed. let's go to tripoli with jim meceda. >> reporter: we are monitoring the front line, the difficulty from her...

His operation into something more like a policing operation or a counterterror operation. going in with small groups of police or commandos at night. going house-to-house, targeted raids on specific individuals that they picked up because they've been scanning all of their photos and videos they take of any demonstrations. that's the kind of thing we might be seeing. what we are not going to see is any stepping down or stepping aside of either moammar gadhafi or his regime. that's not in the cards. >> that would be the most shocking thing of all. thank you, jim meceda. take good care over ther...