you re hearing and they say they will clear the town of the gaddafi systems in days. how are you doing? doing good. but there is some rockets coming. they are hit. are you near victory? yes. we are near victory. with little evidence of backup support from the regime troop so far, the rebels are becoming increasingly confident. they re already have tripoli in their sights. but that could be a very different battle altogether. alex crawford, sky news. bret: more on this with the panel later. still ahead, we ll have reports from afghanistan. and israel op new violence there. straight ahead, the increasingly high price of higher education. what some families have to do to pay for it. service was very moving, wasn t it? yes, it was. i m so glad we could be here for larry. at a time like this, friends and family matter most.
they d manufactured by themselves just a couple of streets on, you have the gadhafi forces with things like tanks and rpgs and still the opposition is able to maintain large parts of that territory. they get shelled a lot and you have a lot of indirect fire coming in, but they feel at this point in time they re able to control that territory and some say they believe they re going to win this battle altogether, john. you also had a glimpse at something, we haven t been able to see much of in this war, because of the difficulty gaining access, and that is the human toll. and you see these pictures of the horrible injuries to children, as well as adults. you were at the hospital in misratah, where you know it had faced shell and fire several times. describe that scene for us and what you saw. reporter: well, it s an awful scene. and very few medical supplies actually get in there. so the very few hospitals that are still functioning are absolutely overwhelmed and simply don t have th