and appreciate the normal cost of the freedom audience. that is it here . now to my friend in washington. we pick it up with the continuing live coverage of the breaking news out of libya. al-gaddafi s broke the seize fire. french percent nicholas sarkozy said they have begon the no fly zone . president obama is in brazil. here s the latest from peter. reporter: that s right. uma. the president coming out and with the comment the president of brazil did mention libya and the situation in libya for a few moments there, he said that the consense us is trong and resolve is clear to move ahead with the international coalition that enforced the new u.n. rez lusionn against libya to create a new flyy zone and protect civilians.
the coalition s actions, including the start of flights by the french, with a french death fighters over libya to set up that no-fly zone and separately, as you mentioned, secretary of state clinton, white house aides also say that president obama here in brazil, and briefed him on her meetings with coalition members in paris this morning. uma. all right, peter, so you know that the president is travelling right now in brazil and he s obviously keeping close tabs on what s happening and close touch with the secretary of state. i want to bring in the ambassador once again and your he hearing the news from the reports that we ve been getting so far about, as you mentioned, french government sending over 20 planes at this point and might have been some strikes on the ground. what are your thoughts. and as part of the french making great between today, this morning and afternoon.
and she will be speaking later withs and when she does, we ll bring comments to you live. rick is live in libya the latest. he joinns us now, rick? reporter: uma, the help can t come soon enough for the people of benghazi and lib yampt al-gaddafi s army began to move in on benghazi and shelling citizens there. we witnessed it for ourselves. shells landed within a couple yards of the hotel that housed journalist in benghazi. we saw al-gaddafi s tanks advancing on the bridge and firing away . opposition fighters had one tank of their own and returned the fire. our photographer was over the roof as a jet flow over and antiaircraft fire hit the jet. you can see the impact and the jet nose dived in a
all right. rick, that sounds great. obviously, people very, very happy about the news, feeling that international help it on the way there. we re getting reports now from the french government that 20 planes are being used to enforce the no-fly zone and hearing reports that fighter jets, a french fighter jet has actually fired on one unit on the ground in libya. let s go to peter barnes, right now, travelling with the president in brazil. peter, we just heard from the president talking about the details of the meeting taking place. in france, the other european leaders there along with the arab league and speaking out and saying that the united states, the national coalition, what can you tell us from your vantage point. that s right, uma, joining with the president of brazil, the president said the united states stands ready to help enforce the u.n. resolution that requires a cease-fire by libyan forces, by muammar
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