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Which people will act including those around colonel qaddafi. i think we should take stock of where we are and how we got here and how many times the international community called on qaddafi to end the violence against his own people and to take demonstrable steps to end the aggression and pull back and time and time again, starting with the first resolution 1970, through the succeeding time period, there was no evidence that he intended to do so despite various claimms that were made . if the international community is to have credibility in this show of unity that 1973 represents, then acti...

So let me just underscore the key point. this is a-international effort. the world will not sit idly by while more innocent civilians are killed. the united states will support our allies and partners as they move to enforce resolution 1973. we are standing with the people of libya and we will not waver in our efforts to protect them. thank you. >> okay, hillary clinton there speaking to reporters and the rest of the world right now alongg side other leaders that are meeting in france to talk more about the big mess over libya and we will listenn to hear her questions that are raised by the pr...

On the ground tells a very different story. colonel gadhafi continues to defy the world. his attacks on civilians go on. today we have been monitoring the troubling reports of fighting around and within benghazi, itself. as president obama also said, we have every reason to fear that left unchecked gadhafi will commit unspeakable atrocities. it is against that backdrop that nations from across the region and the world met today here in paris to discuss the ways we can working together implement resolution 1973. we all recognize that further delay will only put more civilians at risk. so let me...

It was action that was spearheaded by the ferrrench. they were the hawks from the get-go and recognized libyan rebels as being able to talk for the libyan people and then we saw the united nations go forward with the resolution. i've just received in, from the news wires now, russia saying it regrets the decision by western powers to take military action in libya. is that surprising to you? >> no. what surprised me is that the french and i mean the russians and the chinese abstained and the u.n. security council, about resolution 1973, which then permitted it to pass. they've been against west...

Was talking to a very senior british contact who was suggesting to me that in libya what was happening with gadhafi would just play out. that nothing could be done. then there was that u.n. resolution and things have changed dramatically. one of the things i'm being told is although the u.s. are taking if you like a back seat to some extent here, that the change of view by the united states government in support of this was absolutely crucial as you expect, frankly. >> okay. live in london for us with the very latest, the reaction there in france as well as in the uk as those two countries tak...