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Pursue with susan rice. jenna: we'll need about three hours. we will try to get it into a five-minute interview. thanks for the advice and the report. talk to you soon. gregg: libyan rebels are retreating from qaddhafi's hometown after forces loyal to the leader have unleashed heavy weapon fire. rebel forces trying to dig in and gain control of the see stronghold of sirte. a retired u.s. navy captain chuck nash joins us. he is a fox news military analyst. nice to see you. >> reporter: nice to be with y you. gregg: is sirte the hometown of qaddhafi maybe the line in the sand so far? >> reporter...

Jordan who the u.n. secretary general has appointed as a special envoy to libya. he heeds to tripoli shortly to establish contact with the qaddhafi regime and deliver that strong message that you just heard secretary clinton talking about. our ambassador to the u.n. spoke today about the other measures that the coalition will be taking after this conference. >> those steps include squeezing qaddhafi's resources and cutting off his money, phers nare reese, his arms, providing assistance to the rebels and the opposition, engaging in a political process as secretary clinton is doing today in lond...

>> reporter: i think that is possible, because here is the dilemma that qaddhafi could propose, which is he gets to a point where he's pushed east far enough where he has a negotiating position back to sirte, and then declares a cease-fire. at that point he is complying with 1973, the u.n. scr, so therefore if the rebels attack him they are the ones breaking the cease-fire. so will the nato forces then attack the rebels? so this gets very, very sticky, if he's smart enough to just stop. but with his personality the guy is so unpredictable, and some would say crazy that he'll probably want to f...

Established ourselves on the side of the libyan people. i think that is the first and most fundamental answer to your question. libya has not ever had the opportunity to be a democracy, to determine its own future, and so there are obviously different elements in libyan society but they've been repressed for four decades by qaddhafi. our aim beyond the civilian protection mission, not our military mission but our political interest, as the united states, is in a libya in which its people can peacefully and freely determine their own future. just as we're beginning to see happen next door in eg...

Soil samples around the plant but officials say it is not threatening to human health. gregg: the continuing leak to which you referred, i know they are trying to identify it. can they get close enough to it to locate it? >> reporter: yeah they've located where the water is, but they've got no idea where the leak is coming from. this is preventing them from actually operating their efforts to cool down the plant, so they really don't know what to do because they've got no idea where the leaks are coming from. gregg: with the latest in japan, global radio reporter. thanks very much. jenna: secr...