rpg s. president assad has his air force and heavy artillery. we ve been learning last few days he has been using heavy art timberry targeting civilians showing up in bread lines in the fighting street-to-street. civilians are very unusually in the line of fire. activists are reporting a weekly death toll this week of some 1600 people and tins of thousands of civilians are now fleeing into neighboring turkey and jordan. turkey has asked the u.n. to set up safe zones for civilians can be safe from this kind of fighting but that seems highly unlikely because for the u.n. to do that would require both russia and china to switch their votes. they had been backing assad at the u.n., jenna. that would mean all of a sudden russia switches to the side of the u.s. which has been against president assad. russia and china says they will not do that no matter how many of his own civilians president assad kills. jenna, back to you. jenna: the pass is
they divided up u.n. security council resolution to two parts and they are not taking command from general carter. a u.s. general, still in charge of the operation. you have the french fighter jet and danish fighter jet willing to support the rest of the security council resolution. let me go back to steve. how much close contact is there between the rebel groups and government forces, between gaddafi s forces? is it mostly distant fighting at this point? or do you have people doing hand-to-hand confrontations? there is close fighting street to street. it certainly is when you have the gaddafi forces sometimes leading the tank and they know are targets to get in civilian
hoping the government follows. kandahar? kandahar is a city i walked around relatively comfortably. i spent time there on foot and as well as vehicles and choppers. conditioned har is a place where there are police and governance. it is more about nation building than fighting street to street. all right. rachel, we ll be watching for your reporting. thank you. and a reminder, everybody, the rachel maddow show live from kabul, afghanistan, 9:00 eastern here on msnbc. in the gulf, tar balls have begun washing up on the shores of texas. fifth state to see evidence of the oil spill. in all, about 84 million gallons of crude spilled so far. affecting 500 miles of coastline from galveston all the way to the florida panhandle. tang, good morning. reporter: hey there, savannah.
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