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hour, extensive live coverage of the fight for libya. and the hunt for the man who held an iron grip on the country for decades, will gadhafi and his inner circle be brought to justice? president obama is warning the fight for libya is not over yet. cnn is using its global resources to cover the latest gasps of a brutal regime and deadly civil war. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. libyan rebels say their real moment of victory won t come until moammar gadhafi is captured. we re following breaking news out of libya. the state department in washington says opposition fighters are believed to control about 90% of the capital, tripoli, and they say they have three of gadhafi s sons in custody, but moammar gadhafi remains at large. the u.s. government says it believes he s still in libya. libya s national transitional council says he may have fled to neighboring chad or algeria. president obama ....
they re advancing toward moammar gadhafi s compound. ro ro nato said today fwa daffy s regime is, quote, crumbling. the libyan government denies any rebel gains and in an audio address on state-run tv, gadhafi vowed to fight to the end. reporter: you remember the million marches. i am with you. alongside with you. in this fight. we will not we re not going to give way or give up. a fierce gun battle broke out today near a hotel where many international reporters are staying. cnn s senior international correspondent matthew chance joins us now from tripoli. you have been staying at that hotel. give me an idea what you and other journalists are feeling about your safety with the gunfire surrounding the hotel. reporter: we re holed up on to one of the upper floors at the hotel. the gunfire, fredricka, isn t just outside the perimeter of the hotel. it s all over the city. the whole city is in a kind of mayhem as armed groups, rebels, gadhafi loyalists battle it out ....
Correspondent richard engel is in libya and joins us now live. richard. good morning, veronica. we are now on a main road leading into the center of the city of zawiyah. it s a city of about 200,000 people. just about 30 miles from the center of tripoli. rebels control about 75% of zawiyah, and all along this road has been seeing the back and forth at high speeds. it s because qadhafi s troops who still hold pockets of zawiyah and are positioned around the city, and they re all firing in what sounds like rockets and mortars into the center. veronica. richard engel live in libya. thank you. a massive protest in yemen now has tens of thousands show support for their national council to replace the country s president. protests against the president have been going on for months in ....
There was a significant amount of gunfire, not far from where many of the journal lists are now staying. there have been repeated reports of the rebels trying to attack targets in the capital. there was one recent report saying rebels had effectively attacked a convoy of military vehicles and even burned one. we cannot confirm this report. there s also a report in an opposition newspaper that the rebels have gained control of at least parts of the city of zawiyah. this is significant because it is 30 miles west of the capital. it is en route to the border with thee shah. so it is a strategic with tunisia. so it is a strategic location. rebels saying they ve pushed gadhafi forces to the outskirts of the city. we cannot independently verify that. furthermore, this is worth ....
Happening with increasing frequency and intensity. that is what is taking place this evening. we have someone trying to get pictures what is taking place. we will provide those details as soon as we can get them. additionally, opposition newspaper reporting that the rebels have gained control of at least part of the city of zawiyah located 30 miles out of tripoli. strategically located city because it is between tripoli and the border with tunisia. a few days ago the government took foreign journalists to see for themselves that the that s what we saw at the time we visited the city. we cannot confirm these new reports. again rebels claying they are in control of at least part of the city of zawiyah. they did control that city two months ago. since that time it has been in the hands of gadhafi today in the capital, a day for funerals. ....