building to see the impact for themselves. these are pictures captured by cnn s nick robertson. the attack is part of the u.n. mandated mission to impose a no fly zone over libya. french fighter jets made the first strikes on saturday. they were followed by more than 100 cruise missiles fired by u.s. and u.k. warships. the u.s. and britainan have fired 124 tom hack missiles at libyan air strikes. that was as of sunday night local team. a libyan army spokesman called for a immediate cease-fire, but the forces lining up against it don t seem inclined to respond to that. we want to get analysis on this with the professor of international relation tiz london school of economics. thank you very much for being with us. first of all, what is the situation let s talk a little bit about what the arab league has been doing right now. it s almost as if they re throwing a spanner in the works. are they? they re getting cold feet. you have seen in the last few
gary tuckman, cnn, japan. you re watching world one live from london. thank you for joining us. on this american morning libya s air defenses are krepled, and a building in one of muammar qadhafi s compounds severely damaged. following a weekend of sea and air attacks by coalition forces. everyone, though, wondering this morning what will the libyan dictator do now? in japan new signs of danger at a nuclear plant. snoek rising from a react o. workers pulled out, and new concerns about radiation and japan s food supply. and march madness living up to its name. two more big east powerhouses bite the dust while upstarts butler, marquette, and virginia commonwealth move on leaving millions of brackets busted. that s if you didn t go the safe route, right?
after the arab league actually called for the imposition of a no sfloe fly zone, called for the u.n. security council to help out with this against muammar qadhafi. he came out side-by-side with the u.n. secretary general saying that libya had been suspended from membership in the arab league and seemed to take another step closer towards endorsing the action that is taking place now, which is going to be very important for this military operation to maintain any credibility or legitimacy in the eyes of the arab world. all right. ivan watson there in cairo. thank you. we re following developments from japan where officials are saying smoke is pouring out of the number three reactor, the damaged fukushima nuclear power plant. workers have been pulled out of the site. engineers were starting to make some headway in their effort to cool the reactor down. more than 1,100 tons of water had been sprayed on it in just the past day. they re also working to relieve
more clashes, more deaths. the situation in syria really getting worse right now. this is a big surprise because syria, you don t see protests there. this is very rare. we re monitoring today to see if there will be even more, but syria now seems to be the latest country in the region where the protest movement really gaining momentum and we re wondering what s going to to be happening next. mohammed, thank you for that. focussing on libya now where pro-qadhafi forsdz and rebel forces are fighting one another in the strategic town that s in the western part of the country. we re joined now on the phone by a witness who is in the town who wants to come anonymous. what can you tell us about what is happening right now? the murderous defeating line dictator is fooling nobody with his claims of a cease-fire. misrata is being flattened as we speak. he is using his tanks and his
the first question is to the secretary general and the second i will answer. go ahead. you said that the arab league or the arab supposed all the measures of the united nations security council. no fly zone over libya, not intervention. what is dialogue for an intervention with direct strikes that could lead to more bloodshed in libya. this is one thing, and what do you think about the role of the united nations? why aren t we seeing a real role played by the united nations in other issues such as the palestinian-israeli one, for instance? thank you very much.