we saw the opposition firing trying to shoot back with artillery, rocket-propelled grenades, multibarreled rocket launchers. they were intent on standing their ground, but it seems as if they re beginning to lose that area, as well. what has changed is that they have not come across just gadhafi s military at this point, but it appears as if it is regrouping and standing up against the opposition. but also up against residents in bin jawad and other areas, people telling us that gadhafi loyalists armed by gadhafi himself, they say are also beginning to stand up and push back against the opposition. this is most certainly a change in the dynamic to the battlefield, anderson. arwa, i said you were in benghazi, you re not. you re further west. you re in ajdabiya. this is the town the opposition was able to take over because of close air support. if you can, how much land did they lose today between bin jawad retreating to ras lanuf? and it sounds like ras lanuf now is under fire and the
partly about what gadhafi s forces are going to be doing. let s go to nic robertson for more about the fighting in ras lanuf. trying to find out just how fluid this front line is, nic is in tripoli watching these developments and also watching the gadhafi reaction from the initial offensive and now gadhafi s latest pushback. we will check in with nic robertson in a moment. nic robertson in tripoli, and we re watching a very fluid front line situation in ras lanuf. some of the territory that the rebels have managed to get control of, now they re being pushed back. nic, let me ask, what is the situation in ras lanuf? what is the situation with the front-line rebels being pounded back by serious ammunition from the gadhafi forces? reporter: well, from what we can hear at the moment, the situation is very fluid, that the government forces have been pushing from bin jawad through
to address the nation today. we ll bring that to you live. sea water near the fukushima nuclear plant is highly contaminated. radioactivity iodine was measured at more than 3,000 times the normal level. the ceo of tepco which owns the damaged power plant apologized for the crisis. the u.s. president is not ruling out the option of arming rebel forces in libya, but barack obama says he hasn t made a firm decision on this just yet. his comments come as opposition forces face increasingly strong resistance from gadhafi loyalists. rebels have been forced to retreat from the oil town of bin jawad and now in ras lanuf. cricket pitting india and neighboring pakistan. it is a fever pitch across both
this depends on what is happening in the arab world. so take a look at this video here. it really illustrates the frustration many are feeling. you see security officers swarming around a woman after she lungs at president assad s car. he was leaving parliament. it really is unclear what the motivation was for all of this. libyan rebels are pulling back today giving ground now to moammar gadhafi s forces. opposition fighters advanced to the outskirt of sirte. libyan troops pushed them back to bin jawad. today, the rebels appear to have lost ras lanuf. although they call the situation
things to say. so it s little wonder that people don t dare come up and speak to us. there were officials around us and people were trying to tell them what to say, anderson. arwa damon, you re in benghazi tonight. you were with opposition fighters in bin jawad today. last night when we spoke, you talked about the opposition momentum having stopped. it now just hasn t stopped, it seems like there s been a big reversal. what happened today? reporter: that s right, anderson. we caught up with opposition fighters just outside of bin jawad as they were coming under a heavy artillery barrage. they told us the barrage had begun in the morning and there were snipers in bin jawad shooting at them. some of them describing a street-to-street battle. they say they stood their ground for as long as they could, but after seven hours we saw them forced to turn around and retreat all the way to the outskirts of that critical joil oil town of ras lanuf and then