town of mizrata east of tripoli remains under their control tonight. the streets, they say, are calm for now. but fighting in mizrata has been fierce in recent days. bloody clashes over the weekend left dozens dead, dozens wounded according to a doctor at central mizrata hospital. he said a 3-year-old child was among those killed. i want to warn you that this next video is disturbing. the voice narrating said these are the people who tried to attack mizrata on march 6th. that was on sunday. cnn cannot independently confirm where or when that video was shot nor who those people are. they are wearing uniforms. likewise, we can t confirm witness reports in mizrata because we don t have reporters there. earlier, i talked to a young woman in mizrata about what she has seen and what she s bracing for. she says she has a contact in zawia and talked about that. for her safety, we re not identifying her. i understand you know somebody who just got out of zawia. what did they say? they were ju
more from alex crawford in just a moment. for days she documented the battle. still believed to be raging right now in zawia. you ll also hear from a woman trapped inside another town, mizrata, another city under attack by libyan government forces. and we ll talk with arwa damon who spoke exclusively with the resistance leader who now has a huge bounty on his head from gadhafi. we ll talk with our team of correspondents spread out across libya. in the east, opposition forces are fighting back hard with captured weapons, including katyusha rocket launchers. and anti-aircraft artillery. but the libyan air force is pounding them harder, hammering them with air strikes around ras lanuf. yet it is in cities farther west where wholesale slaughter is taking place. several times the gadhafi regime claimed they recaptured zawia, but that was false, and we know that because of alex crawford from sky news who was there.
either win or something much worse. so i think that s what spurs them on and that s what may save them is this passion and determination to fight to the bitter end. nic, do you hear from what i m hearing from ben, is there is growing concern among the opposition, a growing confidence among the gadhafi side. is this that what you hear from members of the gadhafi regime? i think since the first week of this regime, gadhafi got caught by surprise. they saw themselves losing elements of the army, particularly in the east. but then they see what they have and they feel confident they can count on a lot of tribes. so they do feel confident about the military advance. i would say from perhaps, when it began in ernest late last week, which is pretty much when
opposition forces say the town of mizrata east of tripoli remains under their control tonight. the streets, they say, are calm for now. but fighting in mizrata has been fierce in recent days. bloody clashes over the weekend left dozens dead, dozens wounded according to a doctor at central mizrata hospital. he said a 3-year-old child was among those killed. i want to warn you that this next video is disturbing. the voice narrating said these are the people who tried to attack mizrata on march 6th. that was on sunday. cnn cannot independently confirm where or when that video was shot nor who those people are. they are wearing uniforms. likewise, we can t confirm witness reports in mizrata because we don t have reporters there. earlier, i talked to a young woman in mizrata about what she has seen and what she s bracing for. she says she has a contact in zawia and talked about that. for her safety, we re not identifying her. i understand you know somebody who just got out of zawia. what di
more from alex crawford in just a moment. for days she documented the battle. still believed to be raging right now in zawia. you ll also hear from a woman trapped inside another town, mizrata, another city under attack by libyan government forces. and we ll talk with arwa damon who spoke exclusively with the resistance leader who now has a huge bounty on his head from gadhafi. we ll talk with our team of correspondents spread out across libya. in the east, opposition forces are fighting back hard with captured weapons, including katyusha rocket launchers. and anti-aircraft artillery. but the libyan air force is pounding them harder, hammering them with air strikes around ras lanuf. yet it is in cities farther west where wholesale slaughter is taking place. several times the gadhafi regime claimed they recaptured zawia, but that was false, and we know that because of alex crawford from sky news who was there. the regime has also said again and again that reporters are