jihadist? that s an interesting factor. phil your thoughts on the latest isis video? slickly, highly produced what 30 minutes, or so in which they go through and show the beheading and the killing of these christians? the significance of this video is what it tells us about the evolution of isis. we thought we had an isis in iraq and syria and other groups in places like libya or nigeria not afitted with isis say weg agree with their ideologist. the coordination and production of this release of this coalescing and coordinating a step ahead of what we saw even a few months ago. your thought, david. you ve studied this a long time. a question i asked john mccain. what responsibility does the united states have because of the chaos that s developed in libya given the fact of the launch of cruise missiles, led the fight against gadhafi. what responsibility does the united states have to deal with the humanitarian crisis a ill if aed state now? hundreds if not thousands of
council claims 50,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in february. so far cnn is unable to confirm that figure. rebels are giving gadhafi loyalists until saturday to surrender the town of sirte and others they control. sirte is colonel gadhafi s hometown and one of the places he may be hiding. the ntc says it s trying to avoid bloodshed but threatens an all-out attack if the loyalists fail to disarm. syrian opposition forces say security forces cracked down on anti-government groups around the country. six people reportedly were killed in the city of dara. those are the top stories from cnn the world s news leader. i m zain verjee and world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m nina dos santos. good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the libyan rebels oil and finance minister tells us the country s oil production could be back to full strength within a year. you have b
in just a moment. libyan government concedes that parts of the city are no longer under its control. it says 1,300 people have been killed over the past 12 hours. a government spokesman has called for immediate negotiation and a halt to the rebel assault. the libyan rebels say some gadhafi loyalists are still holding out in the capital of tripoli. but let s go to my colleague matthew chance. he and other universities have been watching these fast-moving developments unfold at a hotel where they were. matthew, tell us what it s like where you are right now. we re worried but but set the scene. reporter: well, it s a very strange vantage point we have on this tripoli crisis. as the gun battles rage outside as crowds celebrate in some parts of tripoli, we re still confined to this hotel in the center of the city. at one point earlier this evening many of the government minders who have been assigned to us, first of all they started carrying weapons and as the evening progresse
measures will be taken to protect the rebels in other ways from nato strikes. it will make them look more like a force, an organized force on the ground. it will help nato forces tell them apart from gadhafi s people. they are enforcing a no-fly zone and protecting civilians. if you are protecting civilians, how do you know who they are? you know because they are not wearing uniforms. you need to know which uniforms are on the rebels side and which are on the government side, as you say. some people say the very fact the united states and nato allies are doing this, they are stretching the nato mandate into something it was never meant to be. are they? you can certainly make that argument. you can see a case where this is being stretched. what nato is doing is enforcing the u.n. resolution. protect civilians and enforce the no-fly zone. they are not being able to do an effective job from the air. putting advisers on the ground
yet but certain, something more that gadhafi has to worry about. frederick plight can reporting from libya, thank you. two western journalists are being remembered, chris hondros on the right and oscar nominee, tim heatherington were armed only with their cameras killed in misrata. battled-hardened colleagues are praising the men for their courage and determination to provide the public that war is cruel and discripple nat. back from covering the month-long fight from libya. he will join us to look ahead. what is the end game. that will happen later this hour. the faa has fired two air traffic controllers for sleeping on the job. they work in knoxville, tennessee and miami, florida. those were just two control tower sleep stories. they have been popping up all over the place recent are i from reagan national in washington to lubbock, seattle and reno.