london. i m richard quest in the uk where we also like to welcome viewers not just in the united states but around the world. our special coverage is continuing here on cnn, t.j. we do for our viewers want to get you caught up on the new information we have right now in libya before we head back over to richard in just a moment. we re hearing about new air strikes today by coalition aircraft, specifically 19 american warplanes, including stealth bombers involved. our people at the pentagon telling us that american jets launched from the medter arian are firing on government ground troops. what you re seeing here is new video of the harriers being loaded onboard one of the american ships. strikes today tore through a military convoy near benghazi, that is the city at the heart of this opposition movement. our arwa damon is there and reporting from there. she said the coalition attack on gadhafi s army left a mass of
do this better than anybody else. let me go back to one thing. the french are heroheros, when e french decide to fight they re ruthless, going after tanks, and logistics on the ground and we ve got marine harriers to go in and those guys are tough, too, but frankly, until you now, let me just switch gears completely. worry about this, gaddafi is not only using human shields, he is going to execute prisoners from among the freedom fighters and their families and litter the bodies around the positions that we ve struck and claim that we re killing civilians. he s now fighting a propaganda war because that s the only war he can fight. the other thing he has mustard gas and he has stock piles and he has shown he ll do everything. steve: ralph, before you i believed for a long time that gaddafi had gas.
we are told the pilots were low on fuel and had to make the drops. the navy says they would not have been able to land without dropping their load. one lawmakers called the emergency drop outrageous. by letting the u.s. military drop bombs on the great barrier reef. i mean, have we gone completely mad? is this how we look at our world heritage areas now? lead world power drop bombs on us. the explosive pose minimal risk to the public. the marine environment or ships in the area. this map shows you where it happened. u.s. navy and marines working with authorities to investigate. two jets involved were 88-b harriers, taking a part in a joint training that lasted three weeks. drills bring together 21,000 u.s. and 7,000 australia defense force personnels.