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The city with opposition forces trying to move forward and regain ground they once had that they lost to gadhafi's forces saying this they are going to continue in their mission to liberate libya and install a democratic government. >> so just i know you talked about military vehicles that have been destroyed. where have gadhafi's troops gone? have they completely retreated? are they in hiding and poised to attack again? >> reporter: as far as we can tell they retreated to a city they had control of a few days ago. they took over a military base there and it does seem as if they are going to t...

Building has been hit inside a compound. the pentagon earlier said it wasn't a target. hearing that from the government spokesperson there people very frustrated about why this is happening and hitting targets that they understood were off-limits. frustration because not long after this missile hit an hour and a half before, they had reannounced their cease-fire. nic robertson, cnn, tripoli, libya. >> nic joins us now live from the libyan capital. since that attack on the gadhafi compound, what's been happening there? >> reporter: it's been relatively quiet in the capital at least to the best ...

Going to go off unilaterally again. it slowed our reaction down. it may have lost some lives certainly in the libyan opposition, but i think their view is this is much more sustainable, and the french seem very ready to act. a lot of the arab states, if not all of them, support this. and so it has a better shot of working, but it is not like iraq. >> what is our history on no fly zones and their enforcement. i know we had a no fly zone in iraq for many years, which we oddly at a certain point decided to self criticize and say because our no fly zone doesn't work, we have to now go to war there...

International action with arab leadership and participation, we think, is the way to go. >> reporter: your husband, the former president, last week said we've got the planes. we should do it. >> well, we do think that among the actions that have to be considered by the united nations, the no-fly zone is one of them, but it's not the only one. there are other actions that need to be also evaluated. and we are putting everything on the table. our u.n. team is working very closely with other members of the security council. and we hope to be able to, you know, move forward in a way that does resp...

That when we sat down today. >> well, as you know, i've consulted with our european and arab partners in the last two days. i've also met with the leader of the libyan opposition. we are working very hard in new york with members of the security council and others because we believe that we have to take steps to try to protect innocent civilians and we cannot do it without international authority. the arab countries, with their statement through the arab league last saturday made it very clear that they wanted to see action. so we need arab leadership and arab participation in whatever the u.n...