could see people lining the sea front road, just libyans from the capital here out having a look at the damage for themselves. and you have to ask yourself why are they coming out here to take a look at the damage? one of the reason is, they re not seeing it on state television. the government is not putting those pictures out. the other thing that was interesting is in so many places and on state television, we see people waving the green flag. wherever we go, the government seems to find some of them that are available to come in front of our cameras. when you see the average citizens lining up, they re not waving green flags or carrying posters of moammar gadhafi. we don t know what they are eye thinking, but it tends to give me the impression this isn t a city that s rabidly in support of moammar gadhafi. it s a city, though, where no one is willing to say anything against him, raise a hand against him. and the regime particularly
the government is not putting those pictures out. the other thing that was interesting is in so many places and on state television, we see people waving the green flag. wherever we go, the government seems to find some of them that are available to come in front of our cameras. when you see the average citizens lining up, they re not waving green flags or carrying posters of moammar gadhafi. we don t know what they are eye thinking, but it tends to give me the impression this isn t a city that s rabidly in support of moammar gadhafi. it s a city, though, where no one is willing to say anything against him, raise a hand against him. and the regime particularly seems intent on gadhafi s vision of fighting to the end, anderson. very briefly, arwa, are opposition forces militarily able to take any advantage over the last 24 hours because of these coalition strikes? reporter: well, anderson,
one of the most telling things that we could understand from what we saw, when we drove to the port facility today, we could see people lining the sea front road, just libyans from the capital here out having a look at the damage for themselves. and you have to ask yourself why are they coming out here to take a look at the damage? one of the reason is, they re not seeing it on state television. the government is not putting those pictures out. the other thing that was interesting about the people that were coming out to look, in so many places and on state television, we see people waving the green flag. wherever we go, the government seems to find some of them that are available to come in front of our cameras. when you see the average citizens lining up, they re not waving green flags or carrying posters of moammar gadhafi. we don t really know what they re thinking, but it tends to give me the impression this isn t a city that s rabidly in support of moammar gadhafi.
posters of moammar gadhafi. we don t really know what they re thinking, but it tends to give me the impression this isn t a city that s rabidly in support of moammar gadhafi. it s a city, though, where no one is willing to say anything against him, raise a hand against him. and the regime particularly seems intent on gadhafi s vision of fighting to the end, anderson. arwa, thank you. nic robertson as well, stay staff. chris lawrence, as well. let us know what you think on facebook or twitter. did france essentially go it alone when they dropped the first bombs on libya back on saturday? new details coming out about that emergency meeting in paris last weekend. plus, the wrangling going on between the coalition countries about who exactly is in charge of this mission and if the arab league is going to play any part at all. and the health ministry in japan finding radiation exceeding legal limits in 11 different types of vegetables. the fda here in the united states is banning certai