egypt. basically, across the desert in the eastern half of lybia and another map now. we can show you one area the past 12 hours that has been filled with fighting, zawiya, 30 miles due west of tripoli. and opposition forces control the town, the government forces that back muammar qaddafi went in overnight trying to knock them out of the town and apparently they were unsuccessful. and that is where we find jonathan hunt at the post today in northwestern libya. hello, jonathan. reporter: here on the tunisian-lybian border the violence in lybia created a refugee problem that is rapidly threatening to become a refugee crisis. we are told by officials here, that some 60,000 refugees have crossed this border in the last five days alone and at any one point there are 20,000 more
weighting waiting to on the libyan side of the border to get to tunisia and the tunisia government, setting up camps to provide food, shelter and security and look at one of those camps. these are just some of the refugees who flocked across the tunisian-lybian border and no one knows exactly how many are here and it is impossible to keep count but it is clearly several thousand in the tent camp alone. the army is trying to keep order here. the red crescent is trying to provide shelter to provide food, to provide water. and they are doing the best job they can, but, clearly, there are not enough tents for everybody and not enough food and there is not enough water. and what they are trying to do here is gather everybody s passport and give them a visa, and they then bus them to one of the airports here in tunisia and send them back to egypt. these are largely egyptian men who were working in lybia and fled across this border, because
eric: a fox news alert, the middle east another one bites the dust. the protests and revolutions there, started in tunisia, and, now there is another turnover in that country, the prime minister is quitting in the face of continued street protests and, the pat was forced to flee in december they started in december and in january and protesters have been staging days of rage against the prime minister and the government and he was an ally of the former president. and, as you know, protests started when a vendor set himself on fire to protest the police taking away his war and the prime minist car and the prime minister, having left, it is not known whether the election will take place as planned, this summer. trying to find a way to balance their budget, chaos is created in wisconsin and one state governor has seen success in the
and intend at some point to take back control. what happens there will be critical to the wider fight. and, it has become a critical point. look at the cell phone video we obtained, shot there and we got the cell phone video yesterday from a man who crossed the border here, and tunisian-lybian border and what you are seeing are anti-muammar qaddafi protesters, walking through the town and that was shot in daylight and we were told at night there was fierce fighting between the anti-muammar qaddafi protesters and pro muammar qaddafi elements and very interesting how the man got the video, as well, famy, we are told by everybody crossing the border here, that the memory cards are being taken from cell phones, and video cameras, and, so they cannot bring that sort of video out. and the gentleman got the video out by hiding the memory card in
a small piece of bread, the only thing he was allowed to pass the checkpoint with and it is difficult getting that video out and important for to us see it. now the flood of refugees continues here, at the tunisian-lybian border and we are approaching 40,000 who have come across the border and is an increasingly desperate situation. i spent some time this morning at one of the ten camps of the tunisian authorities, set up here and we ll bring you that video, on fox news, later in the day, it s an extraordinary theme, there are thousands there and they are increasingly desperate and have shelter and food and water and there is clearly not enough of any of those things, for the thousands upon thousands of refugees, walking across the border behind me, tunisian government wants more help and is doing everything it can. the army is keeping order, in those tent camps and the red crescent is providing as much as they can but they need more and need it very quickly. jamie.