anywhere in the world without some of the old regime there. one who fake the lead sometimes but help the changes happen. assume that gadhafi leaves one way or the other are you confident that libya will remain united, that it can come up with some kind of government? or do you become concerned about a civil war among the travel factions that are within libya? you know, maybe it is problem sometimes to find all the people that are one thing, maybe more than 95% or 99%, the libyan people there agreeing more than 99%. this man should go. they ve been suffering for the last 42 years. their children, they re being killed in front of their eyes. now that is libyan people, they deserve to have a better life. and even in sirte, where his own family, they left to the south. they don t want to fight. they don t want to support it. do you think his days are numbered? very numbered.
reporter: they are trying to push through sirte, but they are meeting resistance. for the first time, really, in the desert on the outskirts of sirte. we saw rebels today in footage taken from the area retreating from the gadhafi s forces that were firing artilleries and what appears to be tank shells on the rebels. they advanced from ajdabiya, from here in benghazi, and were able to go about 350 miles completely unchecked. they were able to make this rapid advance because of the western air strikes that have destroyed so much of gadhafi s heavy armor, heavy artillery, but gadhafi remains dug in in sirte, it is his hometown, and he has a tribal base there, and it s very important that gadhafi hold sirte because if he were to lose it, and the rebels were able to take sirte, they would quickly move on from sirte, go to misrata, about 130 miles away, and be right on the doorstep of tripoli. richard, i have to ask you about some disturbing reports that have come out that some of