organizations. to my former cia station chief dan hoffman is standing by but first lucas tomlinson. officials say it at the u.s. military counterattack has been paused but they are not ruling out strikes today were in the last night, strikes were called off and is not immediately clear why. today, iranian state tv show this video claiming what it shows to be the wreckage of the drone was flying in a space. if the second time they have fired on u.s. drones and this time, they were successful for shooting down a drone with over $100 million. if iran is not denying it took action. they were competing narratives about where the drone was flying when it was shot down. iran s foreign minister chose this hand drawn map with cornice that would ve put the drone about 8 miles off the coast of iran which is an iranian interspace. the pentagon responded with a map showing a flight path path of its own and denied the drone was flying over iranian territory claiming it was in
military counterattack on this part of the country to punish it for what to date has been a fairly successful movement to cut his control of this part of the country. you know, ben, i was speaking with a woman who we couldn t identify yesterday out of libya, out of tripoli. she was talking about how she was born and raised her, how she was, her words, brain washed into thinking freedom is not a right. is that the message you re hearing from people there in libya? reporter: yes. well, the message is that for 42 years they really could not speak their minds, that the quality of life has deteriorated dramatically in recent decades, and what we re seeing here is the exuberant, giddy expression of finally the ability to speak their minds. we were at a demonstration in
feeds the gas in the western and the eastern parts of the country, gas that s used to fuel power plants and whatnot. so it is extremely important. whoever controls this area controls a good part of libya s natural gas and oil and resources. zain. senior international correspondent ben wedeman reporting in ghazi in libya that there s been a military counterattack in two places that we hear on albrega and another place that we re hearing of an air strike on an army facility there. we ll bring you more information when we have it. world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london. and a good afternoon from