gadhafi supporters and opposition, do their best to try to bring chaos, there are claims carried out targeted assassinations. what we saw yesterday were gadhafi s army was advancing and did enter into benghazi was a small portion of the population fleeing to safety because they feared this onslaught. people firmly believe that gadhafi fully intends to massacre anyone that against them. a lot of those people that fled the violence yesterday having since returned. believing that now the opposition as a fight has a fighting chance for holding on, going towards tripoli, this international support. many people when they hear the fighter jets overhead no longer fearful because they know that it is not gadhafi s forces who are flying above them. it is now international forces and they look up and one thing to say and that s thank you.
will, from other countries? reporter: well, wolf, the opposition maintains and insists that gadhafi has basically bussed in and flown in a number of mercenaries and that is how he is beefing up his ranks. we have yet to see concrete evidence of that. what gadhafi has around him is not what one would think in terms of a large conventional army. what he has maintained around him in terms of his troops force is a fairly loyal, small in size, the number of battalions of troops that he has kept around him and that is who people say they are fighting against. however, they do have this extra element, fighting against gadhafi supporters, dressed as civilians. many people telling us that every single neighborhood has its own gadhafi supporters and even in benghazi, the neighborhood people know who these individuals are.
hour conversion to back intervention. ten votes in favor, zero vote against. five abstentions. reporter: there was jubilation on the streets of benghazi, after the dramatic late-night vote, in a city where gadhafi pledged to show no mercy, relief that the world had not desserted them. the libyan government announced it would implement an immediate cease-fire. therefore, libya has decided an immediate cease-fire and the stoppage of all military operations. reporter: it was in marked contrast to the defiance shown by gadhafi supporters last night. our thanks to itn s libby vina for that. we re continuing to watch the situation in libya. we ll bring you developments as they happen. we re also following the latest developments in japan. officials have now raised the
coming out of there, what we have seen on state television is pictures of people, gadhafi supporters, celebrating, it said live and it said zawia now in english on the state tv screen. but we could see it wasn t in the center of zawia where the rebels are. the buildings are slightly taller. this was on the outskirts. so even the government s attempts to show they re in control aren t convincing at this stage. we just don t know what s happening. all weekend long, the government was saying they had retaken the city and alex was hearing that when she was still there with the opposition forces who were still in control of the center of the city. arwa, you spoke with an opposition leader today in benghazi. the regime has placed a $500,000 bounty on his head. i want to play some of what he told you earlier. translator: it has to be immediate action.
it is surrounded. there is the electricity we understand has been cut off. cell phone service has been cut off. so without getting somebody coming out of there, what we have seen on state television is pictures of people, gadhafi supporters, celebrating, it said live and it said zawia now in english on the state tv screen. but we could see it wasn t in the center of zawia where the rebels are. the buildings are slightly taller. this was on the outskirts. so even the government s attempts to show they re in control aren t convincing at this stage. we just don t know what s happening. all weekend long, the government was saying they had retaken the city and alex was hearing that when she was still there with the opposition forces who were still in control of the center of the city. arwa, you spoke with an opposition leader today in