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Hear the conditions there. because it's an urban area, it's much more difficult for any plane, nato or otherwise, to put a stop to that slow strangulation of misurata. >> to ben's point in misurata, we've been watching for seven weeks as civilians have been killed in that city. they continue to shell into that city, they use snipers on buildings according to opposition forces who i've talked to on the ground, who ben has talked to, as well. isn't that the starkest example of the failure of -- if the u.n. mission is to protect civilians in misurata, it seems a complete failure. >> well, that's ...

The city has been surrounded for seven weeks now and units have called the situation for people there grave and deteriorating. late last month, president obama handed the mission over to nato saying america would shift to a supporting role. >> but for those who doubted our capacity to carry out this operation, i want to be clear, the united states of america has done what we said we would do. >> even then, there were questions whether that would be good enough to protect libyan civilians and whether the mission as conceived could work at all. libyan opposition members say nato is not doing eno...

Egypt's former president is now in custody. hossy mubarak is in custody. he's in a hospital now because an egyptian state television says he had a heart attack. other reports say he had a nervous breakdown. international conflicts in libya today. they're involved in the military campaign. topics range from humanitarian aid to funding the rebels to nato air strikes. the libyan opposition called on nato to be more aggressive. >> so we're not seeing really a great effort to protect the civilians since the nato took over the operation. so we'd like to put great emphasis on this. this is a great ...

Radiation risks from japan's fukushima nuclear facility are higher than first thought. officials are being forced to review their assessment of the crisis and they've raised the threat rating to the highest possible international level. it is now on par with the chernobyl nuclear disaster but some experts say this exaggerates the situation. >> the libyan opposition has rejected a road map proposal by the african union to end their war against government forces. cheers erupted from supporters when the announcement was made. the fighting is continuing in hot spots like misrata where five civil...

>> reporter: well, basically we were sort of really completely focused, anderson, on this -- the aftermath of the air strike. we were at the hospital. but as we were talking to the doctors, talking to eyewitnesss and the wounded, we noticed that truck after truck after truck of the opposition was just streaming out of town. word went out that the gadhafi forces were at the gates of ajdabiya, and would soon be in the city itself. so we had to run back to our hotel in record time, packed our bags and ran away in ten minutes. the hotel staff was already gone. when i gave in my key, i was answerin...