the asian people behind them, african people, people from the middle east, even from europe. so what we make of what he s saying here, he is trying to build an image of himself and the country under justified attack. and let his country know they have support way beyond his borders. obviously, there will be many people here in libya who don t particularly trust that message, but there will also be a large number of people who will believe that and listen to them, and that s what he is counting on, building that base at this time. and the activity that s taking place this morning. there are reports we know of very heavy fighting, from the libyan forces in misrata. are you hearing or seeing evidence of coalition allied mean s overhead?
television. libyan government claping the strikes killed numerous civilians and they said the victims were mostly women, children, and religious leaders. they took the death toll at around 50. as i now bring back in my colleague from cnn international in london this morning, richard quest. as we know, it is pretty much impossible to confirm numbers and images we are seeing right now. yeah, and t.j., i m getting information now about the uk military forces that were deployed. cnn s jim baldwin is telling us four british tornadoes that participated in the activity. they left from the uk and it was an eight-hour round trip journey from the uk to libya and back. they were refueled and more than 60 tons of fuel were was discharged during that
not really projecting when they think this thing will be stabilized and really focused on the number three reactor. we did get good news, electi electricity hooked up successfully to the number two reactor and when it s hooked up successfully, might be able to pump in water using that. trying to get electricity hooked up toward the other reactors which would go a long way to stabilizing this thing. in tokyo, cnn s brian todd, thank you. france and britain taking a lead role in the air strikes against libya. we ll go to paris for european reaction on the efforts to cripple moammar gadhafi. it has 35% of your daily value of fiber. tasty fiber, that s a good one! ok, umm.read her mind. [ male announcer ] fiber one chewy bars. here s the truth.
dawn is the biggest military operation in the middle east for the u.s. in eight years. libya is backed by the arab lead. we are live from abu dhabi and cairo, egypt. reza, they saw their own uprising in egypt not too terribly long ago. how are they viewing thing there in egypt as they watch their neighbor have uprising of its own, but, still, here comes military and international intervention into that conflict? reporter: in the streets of egypt there, is broad support for this no-fly zone, as long as it s designed to end bloodshed and end the loss of innocent civilians. as far as egyptian military itself goes, they have taken an
league came out quite early and said they backed a no-fly zone, backed the creations of the. and all of the leaders are not friendly toward gadhafi. what you are seeing play out in the arab media is really support for this. that s not a surprise. arab leaders have said they are supporting a no-fly zone. what is being reported is this is strictly what s going on. have you monarchs supporting an action behind rebels in that country trying to take out a dictator. how it will play out in the long term, we re not sure. everybody right now firmly behind it. mohammed jamjoon and reporter reza thank you. just after midday in libya at the moment. and on a sunday, we need to hear from people in the various parts of the country. and an eyewitness joins me from