to trump. you re just a one-name name. that s pretty impressive. i guess. donald trump, i mean he s not dabbling in this theory, he is fully committed. all right, well let s move on. now to the latest from libya where rebels claim some nato strikes mistakenly hit their forces on the front lines near bre brega. nbc s jim maceda is live for us once again in tripoli with more. what s the latest here? reporter: well, this is the second alleged firefight or i should say friendly fire incident in less than a week and it is creating a lot of bad blood within rebels ranks now. at least two rebels were killed and 16 wounded, some with severe burns when their convoy was hit by a nato air strike this morning about 15 miles east of brega. that s that key oil port in the east which has changed hands now over a half-a-dozen times over the past few weeks. last saturday, if you recall outside brega, 13 rebels were
fighters in the field but they have been in retreat several days running and lost the city of ras lanuf and state television says they lost the city of brega and territory to retreat is becoming scarce, and bre brega they were pounded from the air, jets, and on the ground and the navy is firing from the mediterranean as well and while muammar qaddafi s forces make gains on the battlefield, they are becoming increasingly isolated, in international diplomacy. tomorrow, u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton will meet with representatives of the rebels, and just yesterday, the arab league denounced muammar qaddafi s government as illegitimate and saying they need aid new leader in levy ef la libya. and, also, there is hesitation about getting involved in a
corps brig, ridiculous and stupid. more violence in libya as muammar khadafy forces push to the east. libyan rebels say the oil town of brega came under heavy shelling. they are driving back the rebels to the stronghold in benghazi. death toll continues to climb in japan. million people don t have food, clean water or electricity. et threat of a nuclear disaster is growing at several damaged power plants. heather: across the country, short of cash and trying to stretch their budget dollars. in georgia, the financial tug of war is between prisons and schools. taxpayers, they shell out more to educate their kids as the prison population grows. elizabeth? reporter: with this spending
video from brega shows how unfair this fight really is. you have the rebels who are largely untrained kids, some students, some young professionals who have taken up arms. then you have khadafy forces who are well-trained and quell equipped and well disciplined and tanks and air power to back them up. brega was key battleground, number one was high ground so the rebel00 the potential ability to hold their positions. number two, it is a key oil refinery, second oil refinery that khadafy forces have now recaptured. that means they control most of the gasoline production for the entire country, why very hard for the rebels to continue their revolution without gasoline to fuel their trucks to move weapons and also to move men around. it seems that the tide has shifted to use a cliche, all of a sudden the rebels are the ones