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Cultural center to the latin america and to the whole world. thank you very much. we thank the words of the rupp of chile. now we will hear from the president obama, his excellent see, mr. barack obama. >> thank you very much, mr. president pinada. i want to first of all extend my greetings to the people of sh*eu sh*eul lee. chile. i would like to thank you for the hospitality extended to me and also to my family. we have discussed urgent events unfolding around the world. together with our partners the united states is taking military action to enforce u.n. security resolution 1973 and protec...

Civilians, all necessary measures must be taken. he was specific to delineate the u.s. policy, is the fact that they want gadhafi to go. wolf? >> right, two different policies. there's a specific united nation's security council resolution that was passed as you say last thursday, resolution 1973 that had limited goals to protect civilians and create a no fly zone over libya. the president was very blunt. he said, that's the u.n. policy, the u.s. has a different policy, it supports the u.n. security council resolution, but the u.s. policy is also that gadhafi must go. in effect there must be r...

Consensuses around the isolation of mr. qaddhafi and we will continue to pursue those. when it comes to our military action we are doing so in support of u.n. security resolution 1973, that specifically talks about humanitarian efforts, and we are going to make sure that we stick to that mandate. i think it's also important, since we are on the topic, that i've consistently emphasized that because we are working with international partners, after the initial thrust that has disabled qaddhafi's air defenses, limits his ability to threaten large population centers like bengazi that there is goin...

Libya will fight back against what he calls naked aggression. it's called the u.n. resolution authorizing the mission against gadhafi historic. who's in charge. thank you for being with us. so who is in charge and what do you think -- what's your assessment of the early on of this assault on gadhafi's military? >> well, this operation has begun with united states' command, apparently african command. and they were launched by the americans as well as the british. that's going to evolve. everyone suggests there's a desperation to distance the united states from this and put the europeans and id...

Especially targeting along the coast in the early days and then when the no-fly zone kicks in, not only will united states, france, canada, italy, and great britain take part, we're told cutter and united emirates will also take part. >> john king there with the coalition assets. gadhafi's military claims 50 people, including women and children were killed in saturday night's attacks. there is no independent confirmation of that. earlier on saturday world powers gathered in paris to figure out how to enforce the no-fly zone. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says everything hinges on pro...