of the tripoli there. they did apparentlyy take at leastt one cruise missile strike and that's what they are firing at. >>reporter: now the libyan government made a number of statements to state controlled television that should come down to one bald lie after another. they said they shot down a french plane. that's not true . there have been tremendous civilian casulties from the cruise missile strikes . we haven't seen documentary evidence of that. no video from hospitals or wounded . not even the sound of sirens or ambulance here. it is tough to get an accurate read when the government is saying things that are without any, any evidence. they said there were strikes in downtown tripoli. we haven't verified that until now until the last 45 minutes. we heard the explosions and