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Citizens have been killed. in afghanistan in that same period of time, 21,000 civilians have been kill. that can give you an idea the dimensions of this conflict, which is spilled over, moved into places in mexico like monterey, acapulco and other places we never thought we would see this kind of violence. >> greta: if we in libya for humanitarian purposes. and you talk about mexico and 34,000, even our own u.s. ambassador resigned saturday. there wasn't much attention because it was in the mit of the bombing in libya. because he had been critical of president calderon. we have a war next door...

Thank you. >> next, if you think libya has problems, try yemen. home to a growing al-qaeda. now yemen's president is moving his grip which spells big trouble. >> you watched the boy being bullied and sticking up for himself. tonight he's speaking out. you will hear directly from him. introducing the thunderbolt by htc. immense power. scorching speed. the first phone strong enough to run on the fastest, most advanced 4g network in america.

Airstrikes in libya trying to stop qadhafi from massacring more of his own people. unrest in yemen and bahrain all grave concern to israel. there's news tonight that israel just suffered its worst rocket attack in two years hamas publicly claiming responsible. ehud barak joins us. as i look at what is going on in gaza with hamas sending rockets into israel. israel striking back and injuries. you got qadhafi who says the war there is in part because of oil and zionists. syrians siding with qadhafi. referendum saturday in egypt growing voting influence of muslim brotherhood. there's a lot going ...

The mission accomplished? which is, stop the slaughter. remove qadhafi from power. and give the people of libya a chance to -- for democracy and freedom. why not that be our highest priority? >> greta: i am unclear from what president obama said that zeroing in on qadhafi is what he has an idea is the mission. he would like to see that happen. i don't see that -- he didn't say that straight up, i don't think. >> i think what the president is trying to do here is walk a fine line. because the u.n. resolution only says that we ask for humanitarian purposes. the president has announced the policy...

Use of force. president george w. bush did that with iraq and afghanistan, which made for a lot of awkward primary debates among democrats running against george w. bush and his wars in the following two elections. but sometimes presidents order military interventions without declaration of war and without a declaration of an authorization for use of force, and that's what president obama has done in libya. after announcing friday that u.s. military force would be used in libya, the president sent a letter to congress today explaining the point of the operation and under what authority he orde...