Libya’s High National Electoral Commission (HNEC) must ensure that alleged perpetrators of serious human rights violations be barred from running in the 24 December 2021 elections, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) said today.
seeing. what do you make of the pictures? with the low level flying that is taking place, bombing gadhafi s compound? suzanne, what you see is obviously a representation of chaos and confusion on the ground. the fact that civilians are fleeing, coming out of tripoli should not be surprising. the rebels are about to force gadhafi s complete departure in some way. that may take hours, that may take days. we still could be a week or so away. but that type of confusion, of what happens next gets folks very, very nervous. they ve got the opportunity now to get out of town, and you re going to see them get out of town and let this thing settle out. i think you ll see a reverse after there s been some conclusion. it s not necessarily going to be gadhafi s head on a pike. could be, but i don t expect that. what you don t hear is updates on a routine basis, at least we re not hearing those, from nato. what that tells you is they are hunkered down, focused in on the final tasks, very
tripoli. four decades of gadhafi s rule are now close to coming to an end. the result of a rapid advance by rebel forces over the weekend and the culmination of months of fighting in cities and towns across the libyan coast. nbc news can confirm that two of gadhafi s sons are in custody, saif and mohammed. and al jazeera reporting a third has been captured. we re working on that confirmation. but sources close to gadhafi s inner circle say that saif did try to flee dressed as a woman. meanwhile, the search for gadhafi continues after south african officials denied that they were trying to help the colonel flee to that country. nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel is inside tripoli with the very latest for us. richard, good morning. reporter: the celebrations are ongoing here in tripoli. this city is still in the process of falling to the hands of the rebels. they now control about 80% of tripoli. but there are still some pockets of this city where fighting is
all right. good morning, carol. good morning, everyone. it is monday, august 22nd. this is american morning. i m christine romans. i m carol costello. thank you for joining us. ali has the morning off. a lot going on. let s get to it. that s right. up first, breaking news, new explosions overnight coming from moammar gadhafi s tripoli compound. three of his sons are in custody but gadhafi s whereabouts are still unknown as history continues to unfold in libya this morning. quite a sight. rebel forces say they control most of the capital and gadhafi s forces in one tripoli neighborhood are negotiating their surrender. listen. talk about happy. after months of fighting the rebels fighting and easily rolled into tripoli, gadhafi s army almost didn t put up any fight. wild celebrations as the rebels took green square, the symbolic center of tripoli. thousands of libyans tearing down pictures of the dictator and firing guns into the air, this time firing in celebration
wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. libyan rebels say their real moment of victory won t come until moammar gadhafi is captured. we re following breaking news out of libya. the state department in washington says opposition fighters are believed to control about 90% of the capital, tripoli, and they say they have three of gadhafi s sons in custody, but moammar gadhafi remains at large. the u.s. government says it believes he s still in libya. libya s national transitional council says he may have fled to neighboring chad or algeria. president obama is calling on gra gaffie to surrender and prevent more bloodshed by telling supporters to lay down weapons. the u.s. military confirming a little while ago that gadhafi forces fired a scud missile near thesky of sirte, that happened today. sara sidner is one of our correspondents bravely covering the final push in zawiyah. what is the latest? reporter: we can tell you that in the city square in and around that area an