the development came a short time after the united nations security council adopted a resolution calling on the taliban to allow safe passage for anyone left in the country, who still wants to leave. in a moment we ll be speaking to barbara plett usher from washington but first live to our chief international correspondent lyse doucet who s live in kabul. a significant moment at the end of a scramble of the last fortnight. fix, scramble of the last fortnight. scramble of the last fortnight. scramble of the last fortnight. scramble of the last fortnight intensified security measures in the last few days and in the last hour, the kind of gone far but i m sure all of our viewers can hear. it is why i am wearing a helmet tonight. this guy were full of red tracer fire, machine gun fire, bullets
tripoli with the very latest? reporter: just a short time we heard the head of libyan forces. we announced a cease-fire. we have heard promises in the past like that and they have not been honored. right now the streets in the capitol of tripoli quiet. 45 minutes ago there was heavy anti-aircraft fire coming up in different places. as far as the fighting goes, now we are hearing some again. [ gun shots ] reporter: you can see tracer fire. half an hour announcement, to try to move your camera over here and see some of that red tracer fire. last night a heavy bombardment. last night, what we saw was incoming cruise missiles, incoming explosions. now, we re hearing it again.
see red tracer fire. we ll try to pan over on the video phone and you will see red tracer fire in the sky there. certainly you can hear that thunder and that is heavy antiaircraft fire . more tracer fire as well. and now it is a thunderstorm here. i am seeing from four different points. tracer fire. it is explosions of antiaircraft fire in the sky behind those white clouds . you can hear it, it is like a thunderstorm now . four different points of antiaircraft tracer fire . and more loud explosions. we don t know what is hitting or what is fired at. it is cruise missile antiaircraft fire is pointless.