have been talking to the director general of the steelworks who is here in kyiv and he was telling us what a fortress it was built as by the soviets. it was originally built in 1930s and after the second world war and again in the second world war and again in the 1970s, the soviets turned it into a fortress, in the 1970s something like 30 bunker bomb shelters were built underground, five of them were nuclear bomb shelters. able to withstand a direct nuclear strike, said the soviets. it gives you an idea of what a fortress that steel plant is and has been and why those ukrainian fighters have taken refuge there with civilians, also a huge network of tunnels, eight metres underground, secret tunnels which means that the russians we don t know where those fighters have been. there are about 2000 fighters, several hundred wounded fighters and several hundred wounded fighters and several hundred wounded civilians still waiting to
mercenaries attacked with tanks and anti-aircraft guns but failed in attempts to retake those cities both less than 150 miles from the capital of tripoli. jim, good morning. reporter: well for the first time since we arrived in tripoli last saturday we re now hearing very intermittently gunfire on the streets during the day not far from where we are is probably eastern suburbs but those kinds of clashes had been happening at night when those groups of armed individuals pro-gadhafi go from neighborhood to neighborhood and sometimes house to house looking for anti-gadhafi protesters that often turns into a firefight. before this we hadn t heard it during the day. if you leave the town of tripoli, you get a sense of how much of a fortress it s become.