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Thank you for joining me. president obama spoke to president sarkozy to review the situation in libya today. how that was conversation? >> the conversation was great. and i must say that based on the values that our two countries share, the -- france and the united states has been from the beginning of the crisis and all along the crisis i would say in very close coordination on the same page. and that's exactly the case tonight as the -- the phone conversation between president sarkozy and president obama wem well demonstrated. >> at no stage did the president obama express any concern that t...

Presence there? >> embassy send probably the next domino -- embassien is probably the next domino to fall. and there are two insurgencies, one in the north, one in the south. that's where al qaeda on the arabian peninsula is located which we have identified as the most dangerous terrorist group potentially in the world today. the real issue here is even in egypt and tunisia we've seen regime change, but really haven't seen revolution. we haven't seen fundamental reforms or changes in those societies. i think that we're going to have a period of chronic instability going forward until some of t...

Admiral mullen i'm sure understands that well as do the other military leaders. if you go to the tactical level, i think when you have a civil war and we don't have the apparatus and the process in place to deconflict targets, you worry about friendly fire or hurting a lot of civilians. at the strategic level i think it's mission creep empat the tactical level, i believe it's making sure you're on the right target. >> it's a little bit of a mess, isn't it, general myers? >> well, certainly there's a lot of ambiguity, uncertainty that surrounds this situation on what is the end game. again, the...

>> the short answer is no. and we've been very clear here from day one, we think gadhafi must go. >> but if he's going to go and you're blowing up his compound, isn't that sending a rather big signal that you think he is a legitimate target? >> you know, piers, if i may, we have to stick to the mission. we have taken the best military means we have with the support of nato, the command support of nato in particular. we have to stick to the mission. we have a clear mandate from the security council. a clear mandate to use all necessary means, that's the exact wording, to protect the civilian po...

The region around the reactor because of very high levels of radiation. we'll have all the details on that, the latest from japan and libya. back to you. >> thanks. a strong earthquake was felt in fukushima, japan, at 7:12 this morning. more tremors for an already shell-shocked population. we have the latest. gary, what's been going on today? it sounds like it's been a series of tremors through the country. >> reporter: that's right, piers, we had three aftershocks within like 30 minutes a couple of hours ago. it increases the anxiety in this country where you have 9,000-plus people confirme...