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Seem to have won the day for now. the west is still hoping that there is the opportunity and still a window of opportunity for him to steer the country away from brutal military suppression killing 500 people. now according to one human rights organization and towards democratic reform. and the key test will be tomorrow. will he and his commanders, his brothers and brother-in-law order his soldiers to open fire on protesters if, as expected, they come out from mosques across the country after friday prayers and continue their -- their protests demanding more freedom. >> yeah, exactly right. do...

Meanwhile, in libya, they witnessed scores of volunteers including teenage boys and women learning how to use weapons in training camp run by the government. now a report 70 miles southeast of trippoli. >> this was meant to be a show of strength. a chaotic foreign display laid on for a thousand exposing inep tau tude rather than the military prowess. as we watched a succession of weapons m gentlemaned and failed. those that did fire seemed to surprise everyone. we had been brought here to see that civilians are now being trained to fight. a volunteer army that is growing by the day. across wes...

Pick up weapons and fight for colonel qaddafi. they must see the enemy as other libyans that want to fight. autoee perhaps the people here really believed that this conflict is all about foreign aggression rather than an internal uprising. but the typical chance of us being permitted to talk to anyone who disagrees. emma hurd, sky news, libya. >> four anti-government protesters have been handed down death sentences in bahrain. they were accused of killing two police officers. three other men have been given life sentences. the funeral of a royal navy officer shot dead on a nuclear submarine wi...

>> you know, we certainly hope so because we certainly have enough issues confronting the united states. and questions about president obama's leadership. i mean, if we're going leadersh. if we're going to release the long form, it would be great to see the longer explanation about how the president wants to spend more in washington and reduce the deficit and how he'll stimulate the economy and taking tax money out of it and how he'll win a war in libya while trying to get out of the war in libya. there's a lot of other things we would talk about other than something the president has put to b...

Obviously a brilliant military tactician. but were his strategies a failure or a success? >> well, i think you'd have to say that the surge did turn things around in iraq, the long-term success or failure, as you say, is yet to be known. i think it's fair to say that he will leave afghanistan without having succeeded with his campaign plan. what fascinates me, wolf, if you think that the clean-up in afghanistan is going to require less uniformed military and more paramilitary, more counterterrorism plots, as people sometimes like to say, the key job may well be cia director. both in dealing wi...