the international community is iran. all of us are saying to iran to keep its hands off this thing. reporter: they are tightening the noose around assad but won t predict when they will push him from power. it s failed to top the libyan leader thus far. bret: live at the state department. thank you. speaks of libya, forces loyal to libya launched counter attack against strategic city of zawiha after they captured the main square this afternoon. rebels are trying to take full control of the city and tighten the noose around tripoli. alex crawford of the sister network sky news is with the rebels. [ gunfire ] reporter: this is a stronger, better armed zawiya.
you re hearing and they say they will clear the town of the gaddafi systems in days. how are you doing? doing good. but there is some rockets coming. they are hit. are you near victory? yes. we are near victory. with little evidence of backup support from the regime troop so far, the rebels are becoming increasingly confident. they re already have tripoli in their sights. but that could be a very different battle altogether. alex crawford, sky news. bret: more on this with the panel later. still ahead, we ll have reports from afghanistan. and israel op new violence there. straight ahead, the increasingly high price of higher education. what some families have to do to pay for it. service was very moving, wasn t it? yes, it was. i m so glad we could be here for larry. at a time like this, friends and family matter most.
since the uprising began. opposition leaders say they received an offer to negotiate terms of gaddafi s departure, but rejected it. gaddafi loyalists recaptured one key city and are fighting to regain another. correspondent james rosen has today s developments. reporter: these scenes inside a hospital, 30 miles west of tripoli reflect the exceptionally fierce fighting that gripped the city over the weekend. cameraman martin smith, editor tim miller and alex crawford of the sister network sky news were the only journalists in the city to witness an air assault which the libyan regime denies ever happened. next morning before dawn, gaddafi s soldiers begin their attack. all the people can do is wait. and fire whatever they can toward the mosque. we killed four people. reporter: sky news captured footage of this captured member of the brigade
afternoon, a lot of investors baking that decision in their investments. fda recommending against a blockbuster cancer drug, it says avastin is not as effective as promised. 9:30 in new york. martha: all right. we have breaking news this morning on wickileaks founder julian assange who has just said he has more to worry about now than he did with the ongoing sexual assault investigation that was going on of course in sweden. a british court freed assange yesterday, we all watched him walk out of there look very victorious, pending an extradition hearing next year. now in an interview with our sister network sky news, assange just said this about his organization s decision to post online stolen u.s. documents. listen to this: the big risk, the risk we have always been concerned about, is onwards extradition to the united states, and that seems to be increasingly serious and increasingly likely. the question then becomes
news today. he is believing that the u.s. is ready to take action against him. for dumping hundreds of thousands of stolen secret documents with no intention to stop. greg palkot is live in london, interesting, his tone today, when he talked about the united states, greg. pretty, pretty defiant, martha, the bail carries with it quite a few conditions including checking with the police every day who understand he has just done that but it doesn t appear to have much of a gag order, at least on his political views, he has been speaking outside of the stately manor, that you talked about, to a bunch of media organization including sky news. what he seems to be sake is the u.s. has it out for him and is obsessed with the idea the u.s. is gunning for him and he claims, there is a secret grand jury which has been con veevene deal with them and that has not been confirmed by washington officials and says, the u.s. is looking for any way it can to get him on some kind of