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Twitter. now, top of the hour, developing right now, as we mentioned, civil war raging in libya. east of the capital is fully in opposition control, but the closer one gets to tripoli a question of who is in charge, a little trickier to answer. senior international correspondent nic robertson has been waiting in the lobby of a tripoli hotel as we reported for hours, six hours, to see if moammar gadhafi indeed shows up. nic, let me guess, no sign. >> reporter: you got it, brooke. six hours and counting, and the journalists here are lined up where you saw them, still waiting for him to arrive ...

Hospital says all of this fighting has forced close to 200,000 workers to flee the country going to hoer places like tunisia and egypt trueing to g trying to get away. >> nic, hello to you once again. can you help us all get a better handle on just what parts of the country are under government control, what parts are under opposition control. because the two sides are putting out conflicting reports. >> reporter: they are. and it's not clear why the gadhafi government here is being so ambitious in what it's telling its people. i'll give you a couple of for instances here to break them down. t...

"discovery" is on its way home. astronauts undocked from the international space station. the shuttle program is scheduled to end later this year. the u.n. says expect more carnage in libya in the coming days. parts of the country are under opposition control while in tripoli a progovernment rally rocked green square. some demonstrators holding weapons and posters of moammar gadhafi. intense fighting is less than 200 miles from libya's capital. in misrata both sides are claiming victory. opposition forces are holding ground with machine guns, sticks, whatever they can gather, while pro-gadha...

Who came out to celebrate, apparently, after they were told by state tv that government force has taken control of several cities, thought to be under opposition control. one of those cities is zawiya. the opposition is still in control, but the government is saying otherwise. we're hearing new reports of heavy fighting in the city. then there is this out of benghazi in eastern libya. opposition forces say they are negotiating with the brit tissue government over the release of eight british special forces troops apparently detained by rebel fighters. there is a small diplomatic team meeting w...

Brega, i gather there's a situation as we speak? >> reporter: yes, there have been several air raids in the front tier of the area controlleded by anti-gadhafi forces. we're told by witnesses that early this morning, a libyan jet bombed the main gate of that oil refinery that's in brega. also, we're hearing from other sources that in ago dabia, they're providing a lot of equipment and ammunition for the forces fighting moammar gadhafi. this came after a day-long battle for control of al brega which ended yesterday afternoon with the re-establishment of opposition control over that town. max? >...