i m harris faulkner and this is the fox report. it is the bottom of the hour. time for the top of of the news. president obama putting the weight of the u.s. government behind calls for qadaffi to leave libya but the qadaffi regime not budging. qadaffi s son threatening it will lea more unrest will leado full-blown civil war. thousands of refugees escaping the out of control violence flooding their borders. 36,000 people have fled that tunisia. jonathan hunt streaming live from tunisia libyan border. harris, this is a refugee crisis in tunisia which is threatening to become very quickly much, much worse. the same local officials the regional transport minister who gave us that figure of 36,000 refugees in just the past four
officials scrambling to head off a humanitarian crisis. it was only a month ago that tunisias ousted their former president. we will go live where jonathan hunt is on the ground. meanwhile, president obama taking his strongest stance on libya yet. calling for qadaffi to do what is right for his country and step down. secretary of state hillary clinton echoing that. and we are less than an hour away from this late development. the u.n. security council set to reconvene, debating new sinces for the libyan regime. julie banderas live in the new york newsroom with the latest on this. julie? reporter: speaking with the german chancellor this afternoon president obama said that qadaffi has lost his legitimacy to rule. secretary of state hillary clinton issuing her own statement calling for qadaffi to stop the bloodhead and two and revoking u.s. visas for senior libyan officials. the president condemned the continued violence in libya and
since safely evacuating all u.s. embassy workers out of libya yesterday. secretary clinton will be traveling to geneva on monday where she plans to meet with the foreign diplomats and u.n. human rights council. now, let s take in a more complete picture of the middle east region. more are protesting across the middle east and north africa. new unrest in yemen an important u.s. partner in the fight against al-qaeda. two powerful chiefs there dejoining opposition forces demanding the resignation of yemen s long time president. crowds of antigovernment demonstrators demanding their president step down in algeria. they ended 19 years of emergency rule in an attempt to apiece protesters. and thousands of people marching on government buildings in bahrain. a prominent opposition leader there returning from exile is downing calls for the monitoring new yorkie to honor promises of reform.
an alleged merchandis mercenar. leland. good evening, harris. from libya, of course there is a lot of people trying to get out of country. we so far have had a harrowing rescue today by the british special forces about 150 british oil workers were flown out of the southern part of this country. they arrived in malta on royal air force c 130s, one of the more daring rescues we had of foreign ex-patriots here as people have been trying just about anything to get out of libya, of course. libya right now is descending into civil war. the battle lines drawn along a north south line. to the west we can qaddafi s stronghold. in the east where we are the rebels are in cro control and y
days also tells us that tunisia is not equipped to deal with this flood of refugees which even at this late hour, 1:30 in the morning keeps on coming across this border. the tunisia authorities have set up a couple of tent camps close to the border but there are not enough tents or enough food or water. the local officials say that the united nations and the international community has to act quickly, has to send aid to help these people or there will not just be a disaster in libya but there will be a disaster here in tee indonesia, too. tunisia, too. we got hold of cell phone video that the man told us was shot in his hometown 20 miles west of tripoli. the video shows antiqadaffi protesters on the streets during the day painting signs