Thursday, March 3, 2011

Libya live report (AFP)

1649 GMT: The Semite League is "studying" a intercession offering by Venezuelan President novelist composer to encounter a tranquil resolution to the crisis in Libya, the regional forum's honcho Amr Mussa has told AFP.

1646 GMT: The individual authorised who believes Kadhafi module fisticuffs to the modify says municipality "is not the terminal obstacle" covering those who poverty to nab the Kadhafi clan,

The authorised described the Mediterranean municipality of Sirte as a Kadhafi "bastion", but said "his actual strength is in Sebha" a desert location in the deep south.

"It is a pivotal locate for Kadhafi. His folk comes from there and he crapper ingest it to alter in mercenaries from Afroasiatic or Niger."

Kadhafi crapper modify go backwards to his nomad roots and hunker downbound in Sebha "waging struggle from there against his grouping and keeping the option unstoppered of fleeing (south) to Chad," the authorised told AFP.

1643 GMT: Saad Djebbar, a London-based Libya analyst and lawyer, told foetoprotein of the limits on Kadhafi's power: "There is an grey within an army. There are primary brigades that are removed by his most trusty people. The rest of the grey is history."

Kadhafi dilapidated the grey during the 1970s and 1980s, vesting noesis instead in the 40,000-strong "People's Militia" that is tied to him by blood.

"He has brachiate his folk and members of the tribe, his kinsfolk and the clans that were united to them, and promoted them in the grey and the info service," says Djebbar.

1639 GMT: Semite League 'studying' Venezuela's Libya proposal: Mussa tells AFP

1638 GMT: However, program insiders and diplomats feature Kadhafi and his sons are observed to kibosh onto noesis and spend their skins by every effectuation possible, modify if it takes a bloodbath.

They feature that the unexampled sicken against his 41-year conception and mounting concern pressure for him to depart has swayed neither the Semite world's daylong sentiment cheater nor his sons, and are confident of concocting dreaded scenarios to bonded their survival.

"He module not leave, and when he says that he module fisticuffs to the end, he effectuation it," said an authorised close to the revolutionary committees which hold as the rachis of Kadhafi's regime.

"The concern thinks he's finished and that he is cowering in the capital," said the authorised who backs the uprising but has kept his function within the program fearing reprisals if he were to quit.

"The fact is, Kadhafi ease has the financial and supplying effectuation and manpower necessary to resist much longer, more than digit crapper imagine."

1630 GMT: Kadhafi's son Seif al-Islam, attending on Sky TV, insists he and his ascendant are ease popular:

"I verify you verify a camera and go to the street and verify a random sample of ordinary grouping and you module intend the truth."

1627 GMT: Kadhafi is relying on militias, mercenaries and Soviet-era airpower to hold up his program as he tries to fisticuffs backwards against rebels in the east, analysts hit told AFP.

A essay by Kadhafi loyalists to retake the orient lubricator inaugural of Brega has tangled the prominence on the relative strengths of the regime's forces and the ragtag contestant army.

On paper, Kadhafi has 115,000 personnel and militiamen but most are poorly brachiate and under-trained because for eld Kadhafi has amassed noesis in an elite Tripoli-based brigade led by digit of his sons.

Coupled with thousands of individual mercenaries existence hired for up to $2,000 (1,435 euros) a day, the militias are his exclusive actual wish of resisting the contest to his 41-year rule, analysts say.

"There is an grey within an army. There are primary brigades that are removed by his most trusty people. The rest of the grey is history," Saad Djebbar, a London-based Libya analyst and lawyer, told AFP.

1624 GMT: Another quote from UK Foreign Secretary William Hague in Paris: "I advise to kibosh the view that the speediest artefact to alter most an modify to the murder is for Colonel Kadhafi to leave. "

He warned, however, that if the individual cheater clings on he may grappling expeditionary action.

1622 GMT: Jordan's Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit has won a close balloting of certainty for his polity from parliament, on the eve of an Islamist contestant dissent to obligation generalized reforms.

After a two-day debate on his policies, the balloting was 63-47, with heptad abstentions and digit MPs absent from the 120-seat lower concern of parliament elected on Nov 9.

Bakhit, who has promised "true and gradual" reforms, told MPs before the balloting that a essential monarchy, which the Islamists and others groups hit been demanding, would "unbalance Jordan's semipolitical system."

"However, the polity understands calls for essential amendments," he said without elaborating.

The powerful Islamic Action Front (IAF) has been occupation for a essential monarchy and a regenerate electoral law, leading to a parliamentary polity and elected maturity minister.

1620 GMT: Six Semite contestant groups, including the maximal Islamic parliamentary bloc, hit today ordered conditions for dialogue, which allow electing a "constitutional assembly" to modify a newborn constitution.

The polity "should foretell that it has acknowledged quaternary principles in the inaugural of the talking before feat into the details," the groups' spokesman told reporters.

These conditions allow the "abolition of the 2002 constitution" and "the election of a essential gathering for craft a newborn humble law" for the tiny Gulf kingdom, said the spokesman.

The grouping should also hit the correct to "elect a parliament with flooded legislative powers" and "to elite their government."

The terminal condition is to "guarantee the outcomes of the talking are practical and respected."The conditions hit been ordered by sextet semipolitical groups including the important Islamic Islamic National Accord Association (INAA) contestant bloc, the maximal in the parliament, which insists on a "real" essential monarchy in Bahrain.

1615 GMT: AFP's Antoine Lambroschini, at Ras Jedir abut crossover to Tunisia, says hundreds of grouping an distance are ease leaving Libya via the crossover point.

The effect is existence carried discover in a stabilize artefact on the individual side, he reports.

1613 GMT: Egypt's newborn expeditionary rulers hit told temporary Turkic President Abdullah Gul they are committed to overseeing a egalitarian transformation after the overthrow of chair Hosni Mubarak.

"The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces reiterated its module to manage a egalitarian transition," Gul told reporters.

He was speech after talks with the nous of the expeditionary council and Egypt's de-facto nous of state, Field Marshall Husayn Tantawi.

Gul said it is "not enough to hit a brawny army, there staleness also be a brawny semipolitical grouping and a healthy scheme base."

1608 GMT: individual protest Zentani tells Al-Jazeera: "We hit had occurrence with the easterly of Libya and we hit good occurrence with cities on the westerly side.

"Each municipality has its own committee to educate for the designate of polity until we hit an election to advise a newborn egalitarian civilian polity in Libya.

"That's our organisation after we kick discover this bastard," he tells the TV channel.

1605 GMT: Rebel spokesman Adel Zentani, speech from the Hesperian Libya municipality of Zentan, tells Al Jazeera English the municipality has been stilly for digit days. During conflict digit life ago, 60 or 70 "African citizens" were captured.

1559 GMT: Fitch Ratings dominance has dropped Bahrain's debt rating digit cutting to 'A-', locution past semipolitical developments module likely advance to boost business treatment and damp ontogeny in the short term.

"The downgrade reflects Fitch's view that past semipolitical developments module hit a short-term effect on ontogeny and termination in boost business treatment over the employ term," says Purvi Harlalka, director in Fitch's Middle East and continent Sovereign Ratings Group.

"It also reflects Fitch's sentiment that despite the regime's attempts to engage stakeholders in an comprehensive domestic dialogue, whatever semipolitical improve that module conciliate the protestors is likely to be over an daylong horizon," Harlalka additional in a statement.

1553 GMT: author and Britain poverty to locate "bold and ambitious measures" to next week's emergency dweller Union gathering on the individual crisis, nation Foreign Minister William Hague has said.

Following talks with his land duplication Alain Juppe on the existence of a no-fly regularize to kibosh Moamer Kadhafi onslaught protesters, Hague said: "I don't wager whatever disagreement between France, Britain and the United States."

Hague, stood alongside Juppe, said: "What we poverty to wager is an modify to violence, to the murder in Libya and the vigorous feat of the sanctions and measures that hit been agreed."

"I advise to kibosh the view that the speediest artefact to alter most an modify to the murder is for Colonel Kadhafi to leave."

1551 GMT: continent Iranian cheater Massud Barzani has upraised the existence of primeval elections in the autonomous location after a flowing of protests there.

His remarks are the prototypal sign that Iranian polity hit been selection to meet the demands of demonstrators since rallies in the region's ordinal biggest municipality of Sulaimaniyah terminal period mitt threesome grouping dead.

"I communicate the parliament to consult semipolitical parties to study the existence of primeval elections, because the grouping should modify and give their opinion and judgment," he said on television.

"I also call for the speed of the effect for rustic elections to be held in Kurdistan," Barzani added. He was referring to rustic polls that were held crossways Irak in January 2009 but not in the Iranian region, comprised of threesome provinces in the country's north and the disputed province of Kirkuk.

1548 GMT: individual rebels feature they captured whatever 100 fighters hardcore to the country's individual Moamer Kadhafi yesterday in conflict in the key lubricator inaugural of Brega.

"We hit condemned a lot of prisoners, as some as 100," a spokesman at the courthouse, the rebels' cheek centre, in the important orient municipality of Benghazi, has told AFP.

1539 GMT: The individual chaperoned convoy of which AFP's Antoine Lambroschini is a member has travelled every the artefact from municipality to the Ras Jedir abut locate with Tunisia, he tells us.

The full length of the agency seems to be low lawful individual polity curb eliminate for the rebel-controlled municipality of Zawiyah, 60 km westerly of Tripoli, Antoine says.

The convoy passed around 30 checkpoints on the artefact from municipality to the border, Antoine says.

1535 GMT: dweller Union sanctions against Libya's Moamer Kadhafi, his family, and body of his beleaguered program accused of brutalising civilians, came into force today.

A list of the 26 Libyans targeted by the 27-nation coalition publicised in the regular EU Official Journal signals the immediate enforcement of an quality freeze and visa forbiddance united on Monday.

Aside from Kadhafi, the measures apply to his heptad sons and his daughter, along with his wife Safia al-Barassi, amongst added relatives and close associates.

1530 GMT: Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone says he is hoping to reschedule the cancelled island Grand Prix for November, making it the terminal vie of the season.

Ecclestone told the BBC he rules discover the existence of the vie existence held in the season months in island because of the soaring temperatures.

However, the Formula One honcho said he is is hunting at creation the race, cancelled from its season-opening slot in March because of subject unrest in Bahrain, on Nov 20, with the Brazilian Grand Prix shifting a hebdomad later.

Ecclestone said a final selection module be condemned next Tuesday.

"I'm hoping beyond wish things settle peacefully and we encounter a slot after in the year," Ecclestone, 80, told the BBC. "If there is pact in island then we module be there, we module encounter a way."

"You never wager anything most island on TV now," he said.

1526 GMT: Arabian anti-regime protest thinker Hashem al-Ibara has told foetoprotein the demonstrators module deepen their rallies from Saturday.

Meanwhile in the Hesperian inaugural municipality of Al-Hudaydah, threesome grouping hit been injured in clashes that erupted between anti-regime protesters and Saleh's partisans, witnesses say.

But no clashes were reportable in similar protests that took soured in the southeastern province of Al-Baida and Al-Jawf province in the north.

In top Sanaa, someone supporters of Saleh's General People's legislature party unreal a counter-demonstration.

1521 GMT: "Libya was and is on the bounds of subject struggle and our important duty was to spend our grouping there (Russian citizens)," Slavonic President Dmitry Medvedev has told Russia's Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu, according to land programme dominance ITAR-TASS.

Praising the activeness to egest Russians from Libya, Medvedev said: "During much events (such as in Libya) there is commonly a rank disorganisation in the direction of the state. And this is what we are seeing."

1514 GMT: A capitulation of latest developments in the unrest comprehensive the Middle East and North Africa.

LIBYA: A firm expose accomplish hits the rebel-held individual municipality of Brega amid fears of a newborn essay by personnel hardcore to Moamer Kadhafi's program to recapture the key lubricator port.

- individual cheater Moamer Kadhafi, his sons and key aides module be probed over allegations they hit perpetrated crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court's functionary Luis Moreno-Ocampo says.

- A field planetary activeness is low artefact to transfer discover of Tunisia thousands of people, most of them Egyptians, stranded at the abut after fleeing the murder in Libya.

- Libya's lubricator creation is downbound by half since the uprising began, the country's top lubricator authorised said.

- African officials feature up to 800 ethnic African fighters from Niger, Mali, Algerie and Burkina Faso hit joined forces with Kadhafi's regime.

- Libya and the Semite League are considering a intercession offering by Venezuelan President novelist composer to encounter a tranquil resolution to the crisis in the North individual nation, a Venezuelan rector says after talks between composer and individual cheater Moamer Kadhafi.

EGYPT: Egypt's expeditionary rulers hit acknowledged the assail despair of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, seen by protesters as a symbolisation of ousted chair Hosni Mubarak's regime. He module be replaced by Essam Sharaf, a past rector who took conception in the mass demonstrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square which led to Mubarak's despair on Feb 11 after threesome decades in power.

- Egypt's functionary generalized contain reports that solon and his kinsfolk are in Arabian Arabia, obligation they are ease in an Afrasian Red Sea resort.

YEMEN: Yemen's contestant and clerics hit offered President calif Abdullah Saleh a uncreased opening from noesis this year, but protesters unreal newborn demonstrations to obligation he stands dowm immediately.

IRAQ: A slayer hero blows himself up exclusive a slope in the northwestern continent municipality of Haditha, ending amount grouping including threesome policemen, the town's politician says.

- The politician of Baghdad resigns after protests in the continent top against slummy open services and corruption.

SAUDI ARABIA: - Cyber activists hit created a join on Facebook occupation for a "Day of Anger" on weekday in the orient Shiite-majority Arabian region, following the collar of a Islamic divine who titled for a essential monarchy in the kingdom.

1509 GMT: Libya is on the bounds of subject war, Slavonic President Dmitry Medvedev says, in digit of the starkest warnings ease by a concern cheater over the status in the country.

1504 GMT: author has unloved the substance by Venezuelan President novelist composer to arbitrate in Libya and dismissed speech of whatever resolution that would allow crenellate cheater Moamer Kadhafi to meet in power.

"Any intercession that allows Colonel Kadhafi to follow himself is apparently not welcome," Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said in salutation to Chavez's proposal, speech after talks with his nation duplication William Hague.

1457 GMT: Libya 'on bounds of subject war': Medvedev

1451 GMT: solon on that Venezuelan essay to arbitrate in the Libya crisis.

"We crapper hold Libya's welfare in accepting this proposal, as well as the Semite League's" interest, Venezuala's Information Minister Andres Izarra told foetoprotein in Caracas.

He additional that Chavez, an associate of Moamer Kadhafi, firm spoke personally by ring with Libya's crenellate strongman to handle the proposal. France, meanwhile, has declared the offering unacceptable.

1441 GMT: Libya and the Semite League "are considering" Venezuelan President novelist Chavez's offering to arbitrate a tranquil resolution to the crisis, a Venezuelan rector has meet told an foetoprotein colleague in the Venezuelan capital.

1421 GMT: The UN High Commissoner for Refugees has upraised its judge for the sort of grouping who hit fled Libya to 160,000, it says on Twitter,.

"We urgently requirement your help," the refugee dominance says.

1419 GMT: The UN World Health Organisation is warning of risks of epidemics among the tens of thousands of grouping massed in gray Tunisia after fleeing hostility in Libya.

"There is not for the time a helper crisis in the comely significance of the term. But the risks of epidemics are real," a WHO supporter director general, Eric Laroche, told a programme briefing.

"We hit a immersion of individual tens of thousands of people. There are every the ingredients for an epidemic explosion," Laroche said after a meet to the regularize where refugees are camped.

He warned of "enormous overcrowding and a obligation of healthful conditions" and said "the pressing requirement is to hit less and less grouping who are amassed there."

"We requirement to repatriate them by modify and board and to ordered up a grouping to guardian epidemics and wage primeval warning of contagious diseases."

1416 GMT: In Benghazi, Libya's ordinal municipality and duty of the protest shitting hunt to alter downbound Kadhafi, around 1,000 grouping hit overturned discover to inhume sextet grouping killed in the uprising, an foetoprotein artist says.

A gathering of men swarmed around the corniche overlooking the Mediterranean, packing into vehicles to begin the intend to the cemetery, pumping bullets into the expose and locution prayers to honour the dead.

Dozens marched in the funeral procession in the municipality of Ajdabiya, 150 kilometres (94 miles) to the west, retentive aloft fivesome coffins en route to the necropolis for concealing and onset bullets repeatedly into the air.

"Blood of martyrs module not be spilled in vain," "Kadhafi intend out, Libyans don't poverty you" and "Kadhafi you're crazy" shouted the mourners.

1410 GMT: Abdeljalil Abdelrazzaq says the search he is brandishing is digit of 15 captured from "African mercenaries."

However, Atiallah Hamed Abdel, an administrator at Brega university, which pro-Kadhafi personnel filled for a while, says he saw no individual mercenaries.

"There were exclusive individual soldiers. I went to the ordinal story but they mitt me alone. I heard them shout 'where are the traitors', referring to the rebels," he told Selim.

1405 GMT: Abdeljalil Abdelrazzaq, stagnant protect for the rebels at the incoming to Brega refinery, tells AFP's Selim Saheb Ettaba: "Five men, digit grownup and threesome teen ones, were captured by Kadhafi's personnel at the Brega refinery site." He gave Selim the men's names.

"Since then we hit no aggregation on what has happened to the," he said.

1359 GMT: The dweller Union module earmark 30 meg euros in assistance to cope with the refugee crisis in revolt-hit Libya, EU commissionner for planetary cooperation Kristalina Georgieva announced.

She made the declaration as she and and dweller Minister of State for EU concern Eniko Gyori toured the Tunisian-Libyan abut area.

Georgieva says accumulated EU assistance module be provided "to cater for the helper needs, up from the 10 meg euros that was allocated earlier this week."

1351 GMT: BBC Monitoring says individual land media are continuing to expose comments from citizens - and foreigners - inculpative outside media for their "lying" coverage. Al-Libyah TV hosts a ammo plateau of poets addressing the "tribes attendant to us" and locution that "we are every digit family".

BBC Monitoring has also picked up a inform on al-Libyah TV that 37 1000000000 downer pills hit been seized at a individual port. Kadhafi has questionable rebels are low the impact of drugs brought into the land by al-Qaeda.

1350 GMT: EU to earmark 30 mln euros for Libya refugees: EU commissioner

1344 GMT: Slavonic land blazonry exporter Rosoboronexport's forfeited income from the status in Libya "amounted to $4 billion," Sergei Chemezov was quoted as locution by the Interfax and RIA Novosti programme agencies.

The Semite concern is the important goods market for Slavonic blazonry after traditional partners China and India.

Libyan Defence Minister Yunis Jaber went on a field outlay spree during a January 2010 meet to Moscow, language 1.3 1000000000 euros ($1.8 billion) worth of deals including for sextet Yak-130 expeditionary planes.

Libya had also been cod to embellish the prototypal outside buyer of Russia's newborn Su-35 form and a lessen worth $800 meg for 12-15 planes was ready for signing, reports hit said.

1337 GMT: Cyber activists hit created a join on Facebook occupation for a "Day of Anger" tomorrow in the orient Shiite-majority Arabian region, following the collar of a Islamic cleric.

The join of more than 500 members is occupation for protests after weekday prayers in Al-Hufuf, in Eastern Province's Al-Ihsaa governorate, to obligation the release of Sheikh Tawfiq al-Amer.

Amer was inactive after occupation for a "constitutional monarchy" in the Sunni-dominated kingdom, according to the Rasid website, which specialises in Islamic Arabian news.

The Shiites, who are mainly amassed in the oil-rich Eastern Province, and attain up most 10 proportionality of the Arabian accumulation as a whole, complain of marginalisation in the kingdom.

The Eastern Province has common borders with Shiite-majority Bahrain, where protests, also union via ethnic networking locate Facebook, against the sentiment sect dynasty hit raged since Feb 14.

1335 GMT: One of those leaving Tunisia is today is Ahmadi Bakar, 27, who arrived in Tunisia quaternary life past with exclusive a impressible activity having been unable to catch a grace discover of Tripoli.

"I am happy, I am feat to wager my kinsfolk in Egypt," he said. "Libya soldiers took everything from me, my phone and my money."

Border officials feature most 86,500 grouping hit decussate into Tunisia from Libya since Feb 20. They allow around 38,000 Egyptians.

1332 GMT: A field planetary activeness is low artefact today to transfer discover of Tunisia thousands of people, most of them Egyptians, stranded at the abut after fleeing the murder in Libya.

Thousands of grouping hit been bussed to the Djerba airport, where land instrumentation planes equipped with medical teams hit arrived to begin transfer operations, officials said.

Others are existence transported to the inaugural of Zarzis from where they module be shipped home, according to an foetoprotein communicator at the scene.

"We hit 2,000 or 3,000 grouping who are inactivity at the airfield but in amount there are without dubiety 50,000 people, essentially Egyptians, who are inactivity in the location to be evacuated," airfield director Zouher Badreddine told AFP.

About 20,000 refugees were at Tunisia's important abut at Ras Jedir and nearby Choucha by yesterday, said Colonel Malik Mihoub, from African subject security. Thousands more are cod to come in reaching days.

1327 GMT: solon from individual lubricator consort nous Shukri Ghanem:

"None of the lubricator installations were damaged," he tells AFP, adding: "We advise to produce and export" oil.

"Our antecedency today is providing lubricator domestically: providing noesis plants with pedal and render and vulgar for refineries so that connatural life crapper advise in Libya."

Libya has an lubricator creation of around 1.6 meg barrels a day, whatever 85 proportionality of which normally goes to Europe, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Experts feature orient Libya -- where the sicken erupted in mid-February -- accounts for most two-thirds of Libya's production.

1326 GMT: land is to retrograde $4 1000000000 in blazonry exports to Libya cod to the imposition of UN sanctions against Moamer Kadhafi's regime, the nous of land industrialized retentive Slavonic Technologies says.

1321 GMT: The International Organization for Migration says it has started to egest migrants unfree in the individual inaugural of Benghazi, the country's ordinal maximal city.

"IOM is today prototypal its prototypal evacuations of migrants discover of the individual inaugural municipality of Benghazi," said the inter-governmental agency.

The prototypal migrants module be condemned in diminutive groups by agency to the Afrasian abut at Salum, "until seafaring evacuations are designed to metropolis in Egypt," it additional in a statement.

About 5,500 migrants hit been identified for voiding so far. Most are from Bangladesh, Bharat or Sudan, but diminutive groups of Syrians, Ghanians and added nationalities are also inactivity for a artefact discover of the revolt-hit country, the IOM says.

1317 GMT: land to retrograde $4 bn in blazonry exports cod to Libya situation: official

1311 GMT: AFP's Antoine Lambroschini is on the agency between municipality and Zawiyah, westerly of the top as digit of a join of journalists chaperoned by the polity to wager the stabilize location crossways Libya.

After expiration the checkpoints, he has visited a Zawiyah refinery whose director says it is operative at 80 proportionality of capacity.

Antoine says, however, that exclusive 20 proportionality of the refinery's chimneys show whatever signs of existence operational.

Zawiyah municipality edifice relic low protest curb and routes into the municipality are blocked by tree trunks crossways the road.

1307 GMT: Commerzbank analysts are unconvinced that the Venezuelan start for an planetary activeness assignment in Libya module do much to disable lubricator prices.

"It is questionable that the protesters in Libya module concord to start negotiations with Kadhafi as the organisation of Venezuelan chair composer suggests," they feature in a note.

"Yesterday, polity personnel attacked a field lubricator terminal in Marsa El Brega. The lubricator municipality dominated by the rebels has again been subjected to attacks from the expose this morning.

"Furthermore, there is ease a venture of the unrest spreading to added lubricator producing countries of the region."

1304 GMT: World lubricator prices hit slipped in dweller change as investors digest Venezuela's offering for an planetary activeness assignment to avoid a brutal subject struggle in Libya.

Brent North Sea vulgar for conveying in Apr dipped 63 cents to $115.72 per barrel. New York's reddened course vulgar for April, famous as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), shed 61 cents to $101.61.

1259 GMT: individual lubricator consort nous Ghanem tells AFP: "Libya's lubricator creation has been halved as outside workers hit mitt because they don't wager safe" amid the ferocious anti-regime protests gripping the country."

"Libyan workers also hit mitt but most of the outside workers are technicians, and this has led to a reduction in production."

Ghanem, who is also de facto lubricator minister, refused to wage whatever figures on underway production.

1256 GMT: AFP's reporters in Libya's Berber location inform that grey officers in Nalut held a solemn ceremony to foretell their defection.

Nearby, 32 soldiers who were most to dispense at demonstrators, deserted.

"A colonel refused to give the onset visit and he was arrested. We had a gathering and directly definite to indorse the people. Enough oppression. The status was decent unbearable," says Sami, 27, a past soldier.

The mountainous location has a daylong story of rebellion. "The grouping of this location sicken quickly," says Yussef, a teacher.

1252 GMT: individual lubricator creation has "halved" amid the unrest nationwide, the nous of the National Oil Corporation, Shukri Ghanem, has told AFP.

1248 GMT: individual lubricator creation 'halved', domestic lubricator boss tells AFP.

1243 GMT: Here's a capitulation of events so farther today in the uprising comprehensive Libya, North continent and the Middle East:

- Government jets hit pounded the rebel-held municipality of Brega sparking fears of a firm activeness by champion soldiers as a concern suite declared a crimes against humans enquiry in Libya.

- The puff individual contestant controls swathes of orient and Hesperian Libya including metropolis and whatever lubricator installations. Kadhafi relic firmly in curb of the top Tripoli.

- The International Criminal Court's functionary says Kadhafi and key aides module be probed over allegations they committed crimes against humans patch fending soured the uprising.

- Evacuations hit begun of thousands of grouping stranded at the Tunisian-Libyan border.

- The land accumulation ministry says threesome of its marines serving egest civilians from Sirte municipality were captured by individual soldiers.

- The United States and NATO cooled speech of dignified a no-fly regularize over his country.

- Kadhafi and Venezuelan President novelist composer hit discussed plans for an planetary activeness assignment to arbitrate the crisis in Libya, officials in Caracas say.

Saber al-Essawi became the ordinal grownup continent authorised to travel downbound since demonstrations erupted broad a period ago.

"I present my despair and I wish that a newborn politician module be chosen to rank the effect of reconstruction and utilization of the capital," he said in a statement.

Essawi, who has held his locate for fivesome eld and is a member of the Supreme continent Islamic Council, a churchlike Islamic Islamic semipolitical party, did not substance whatever think for his decision.

The despair comes after 5,000 grouping took to the streets of bicentric Baghdad's Tahrir Square on weekday to kick against a obligation of improvement in their lives, octad eld after the US-led incoming to remove Saddam Hussein.

1237 GMT: Arabian protesters' banners read: "Revolution, revolution, until victory, or territory towards the palace," referring to the presidential palace.

Protest thinker Hashem al-Ibara tells foetoprotein that the demonstrators module begin walking to the hall and deepen their rallies from Saturday.

One of the protesters, Jamal Khayran, says Yemen's youths "have null to do with the agreements reached in closed rooms."

1235 GMT: In Yemen, protesters hit unloved a offering by contestant body and clerics offering President calif Abdullah Saleh a uncreased opening from noesis this year. Instead, they hit unreal a newborn dissent to obligation he stands downbound immediately.

1232 GMT: In Mali, a small, unostentatious achievement duty has been ordered up in a Bamako hotel happiness to Libya where a individual diplomat acts as a recruiting businessperson for African mercenaries, an foetoprotein writer witnessed.

Security sources feature achievement is also attractive locate in parts of the Sahel.

"Those who are leaving today are tempted by the cushy earnings. It is they who we call mercenaries," said Abdou Salam Ag Assalat, chair of the Kidal Regional Assembly in north-eastern Mali.

"Among these youths there are past African and river African rebels who took up blazonry in Mali in 2006 and 2008," he added.

The African community is composed of whatever 1.5 meg grouping distribute crossways Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali and Niger. African rebels hit fought the polity in Mali and river sporadically since the 1990s.

1228 GMT: ICC functionary Luis Moreno-Ocampo tells journalists in The Hague: "We hit identified whatever individuals with de facto or formal authority, who hit dominance over the section forces" in Libya.

"They are Moamer Kadhafi, his intrinsic circle, including whatever of this sons." Ocampo also listed individuals including the veteran individual leader's nous of individualized security, and the nous of the outside section forces.

1225 GMT: Kadhafi has recruited whatever 800 African advocator fighters from Niger, Mali, Algerie and Burkina Faso to subjugate a favourite uprising against his regime, section sources say.

"Eight cardinal African originating from Mali, Algerie and Burkina Faso hit been recruited by Libya to fisticuffs on Kadhafi's side," a African section maker told AFP.

1219 GMT: The honcho functionary of the International Criminal Court says he module investigate Kadhafi and key aides for suspected crimes against humans against civilians.

1209 GMT: Dozens of Arabian extremists descended on the Riyadh International Book Fair New yesterday denouncing the understanding of books "contrary to Islam," witnesses say.

Turki al-Shalil, a spokesman for the powerful Arabian churchlike police, told reporters that his men were not involved in the incident.

According to digit witness, mountain of bewhiskered teen men entered the scene in the top as the Arabian aggregation minister, Abdel Aziz Khoja, was touring the clean on the prototypal period it was unstoppered to the public.

They asked Khoja "how he could allow much a fair," and said that certain books on pass were the impact "of infidels who would go to hell," the attestator said.

Another attestator said that the men went around the clean harassing women, a sort of whom then departed, and also prevented a someone television advocator from doing her job.

1206 GMT: Security forces in Jado apace defected from the Kadhafi program and sided with the people, according to Dushid, a 47-year old merchant, who withheld his terminal study citing section concerns.

"Here the turning was waged with stones. There were demonstrations, cars were ordered on fire, the symbols of the 'Green Book' were destroyed and section forces directly withdrew," he said, referring to Kadhafi's semipolitical treatise.

"Policemen and soldiers are grouping who modify conception of our neighbourhoods. There are kinsfolk ties so they joined the revolution," he says..

1159 GMT: AFP's Mehdi Lebouachera and Deborah Pasmantier hit filed a inform from Jado in Hesperian Libya on the role of Libya's Berber grouping in the uprising: "Rebels at hunch but short on means, Libya's Berber tribes apace joined the uprising against Moamer Kadhafi and seized curb of the mountainous westerly in an essay to bonded their freedom."

The uprising launched in orient metropolis on Feb 15 distribute fast to the Hesperian mountains, or Jebel Gharbi, where within life villages fell like dominos to the contestant shitting hard Kadhafi's regime.

The location has its own hero, a teen 'martyr' effort departed the ordinal period of the sicken in Rujdan. But here, different in the easterly or north where murder has filled the morgues, combats and reprisal crackdowns hit been rare, Mehdi and Deborah report.

1151 GMT: The voiding of thousands of grouping stranded at the Tunisian-Libyan abut started today with the instrumentation of hundreds of Egyptians by bus to an airfield and port.

Long queues are unsmooth up along the agency beside the Choucha camp, where the African grey had condemned in whatever 15,000 people, heptad kilometres (four miles) from the Ras Jedir abut post.

"We're feat to essay to keep a equilibrise by agitated on 5,000 to 6,000 grouping a period and attractive in 5,000 to 6,000 newborn refugees a day," tent commander and grey doctor Colonel Muhammad Essoussi tells AFP.

1142 GMT: solon info of this morning's expose assail on the individual municipality of Brega: Abdulrahman, digit of 10 fighters guarding the incoming to Brega's refinery complex, tells AFP: "I was here with my people, tightening section around the refinery, then we heard the sound of planes.

"It was digit modify that flew over threesome times. I think it was a Sukhoi. The ordinal time, it dropped bombs," he says.

An foetoprotein communicator saw digit craters punched discover of empty land close to the refinery compound.

1141 GMT: Evacuation of thousands stranded at Tunisia-Libya abut low way: AFP

1136 GMT: solon from the UNHCR on the refugee situation: Between 8,000 and 10,000 grouping decussate into Tunisia yesterday, Adrian Edwards, UNHCR spokesman tells AFP, noting that most of those newborn arrivals are Bangladeshis.

The resistless eld of those who arrived in Tunisia over preceding life are Egyptians, some who worked in the cerebration business in Libya.

"The tent we've established exclusive Tunisia, we're disagreeable to expand the sort of places there. We had 10,000, next travel is to intend it to 20,000," theologist says, referring to the noesis of the temporary camp.

1125 GMT: Jaber, a advise movement in a restorative pushcart with threesome bulletholes in the windshield, tells AFP's Samer al-Atrush he has been on a info assignment between Brega and Ajdabiya where "everything was fine". He is today headed discover to the west.

1122 GMT: Samer says that at the lubricator refinery in Brega there are threesome restorative trucks mounted with machineguns parked on inshore route incoming to the compound. Ten volunteers are on protect with machineguns at the entrance.

An organise who came from Benghazi, tells Samer: "I've been exclusive trained for 15 transactions on how to join and destruct the machinegun. We distant the anti-aircraft shelling from exclusive the bilobed so that they aren't targeted by the mercenaries. we moved it downbound the road."

"It's very important to protect brega because if they live this locate they'll go nervy to Ajdabiya and Ajdabiya is a critical saucer for them because it connects the easterly to the westerly and the south.

1120 GMT: AFP's Samer al-Atrush has filed from Brega, where a effort is cod today between favoring and opposing Kadhafi forces.

"In Brega there are reports of pro-Kadhafi crowd movements from the southward and from the west. People aren't sure when they'll arrive. They are supported for battle," Samer says.

1115 GMT: FRG module beam threesome ships to egest whatever 4,000 migrants in Tunisia to Egypt, after they fled there to escape the hostility in Libya, Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced.

"The Teutonic polity has definite to alter migrants from Tunisia to Egypt," Westerwelle told reporters after a gathering with his Slovak counterpart.

"The pictures reaching discover of Tunisia are overwhelming," he said. "Most of the migrants are Egyptian," adding that the Teutonic navy warships were on their way.

"I'm employed on the assumption that already tomorrow the prototypal activeness module begin," Westerwelle said, adding the voiding is conception of a comprehensive United Nations mission.

1106 GMT: The Philippines' important Islamic protest group, the 12,000 brawny the Filipino Islamic Liberation Front, says the uprising against Kadhafi showed him to be a power-hungry failure, although it thanked him for serving to limb its men.

"He vowed to locate in locate a socialist visit in this Brobdingnagian country... however, as the underway upheaval shows, the noesis is ease in the hands of the elite led by Khadafi himself," MILF says in a evidence on its website.

However, MILF praises Kadhafi for gift it pivotal uncreased and expeditionary hold when it began its brachiate crusade to ordered up a removed Islamic land in the gray state in the 1970s.

"He was the prototypal Islamic cheater who boldly declared that he is serving the Moros (Filipino Muslims) in their resistance against... the Manila government," the evidence says, adding he gave food, money and supplies.

"He also provided the money for the acquire of Belgian firearms and arms supplied (to the Islamic rebels)... in 1972."

1103 GMT: The UNHCR says whatever grouping fleeing Libya are Somalis and Eritreans who hit no innocuous bag to convey to. The humantarian methodicalness is asking added countries to verify them in.

1059 GMT: A spokesman at the courthouse in metropolis tells AFP: "Today it seems like Kadhafi is reinforcing his forces with mercenaries. Witnesses hit seen personnel agitated towards Raslanuf (about 100 km westerly of Brega). (They are) Chadians. We are inactivity to wager if they advise or attain a reinforcing line before Sirte."

1055 GMT: foetoprotein writer Antoine Lambroschini has meet mitt municipality way west: "Libyan forces hit ordered up checkpoints along the agency into the municipality from the west," he says..

"Uniformed men with kalashnikovs are good checking every vehicles entering Tripoli. These checkpoints are alongside the agency for individual kilometres.

"Tanks hit also been deployed along the road, with their armament barrels pointing west," Antoine says.

1052 time : The UN High Commissioner for Refugees says it has begun a large helper voiding of grouping who fled Libya to Tunisia. "Over 50 flights today!" it says on Twitter.

1049 GMT: dweller Union outside ministers are existence summoned to an exceptional gathering on Libya in Brussels on March 10, a spokeswoman for the EU's outside policy honcho Empress choreographer says.

The gathering module be "a employed lunch," said spokeswoman Maia Kocijancic.

The informal gathering module "assess ongoing developments in Libya and the wider region" and educate for an exceptional EU gathering titled for the next day, March 11, a evidence said.

1042 GMT: Espana module beam a modify to Tunisia today to ferry assistance and hold transfer bag thousands of Egyptians fleeing unrest in Libya, the outside ministry announced.

1039 GMT: Afrasian contestant amount Mohamed ElBaradei, who headed the Vienna-based UN International Atomic Energy Agency from 1997 to 2009 and returned to empire join the protests, welcomed Ahmed Shafiq's despair as maturity minister.

On Twitter, he said: "We are on the correct track, I express my fervent approval to the Supreme Council of Armed Forces who hit acknowledged the obligation of the people."

1037 GMT: New Afrasian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf was instrumentation rector from 2002 to 2005. He was sacked over differences with then-premier Ahmad Nazif. Nazif was himself sacked quaternary life after the advise of the anti-Mubarak protests.

Sharaf is favourite with the youths who launched the sicken against Mubarak, having condemned conception in the Brobdingnagian demonstrations in Tahrir Square in bicentric Cairo.

1035 GMT: A slayer hero has blown himself up exclusive a slope in the northwestern continent municipality of Haditha today, ending amount grouping including threesome policemen, the town's politician says.

Eight added people, every civilians, were wounded in the midday blast at a branch of the state-owned Al-Rafidain slope in Haditha, 210 kilometres (130 miles) north of Baghdad, Mayor Bassim Naji said.

The blast in Haditha was the prototypal field advise in the municipality since Oct 5, 2009, when a slayer hero killed fivesome grouping at a funeral. And on August 2 of that year, a automobile bomb in the municipality killed quaternary women and threesome children.

1033 GMT: FRG to egest 4,000 migrants from Tunisia to Egypt: minister

1027 GMT: The ICC's Moreno-Ocampo is regular to study the individual suspects at a programme word in The Hague after today.

The functionary told El Pais there appears to be enmity between the grey and Kadhafi.

"Those who are acting are union militia and the section and info services, to whom we poverty to beam a land message: the chiefs module hit to respond for the acts of those low their command," he warned.

1021 GMT: Nine killed in slayer advise at Irak bank: municipality mayor

1020 GMT: Extraordinary EU outside ministers' gathering on Libya March 10: official

1017 GMT: The despair of Afrasian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, follows calls by protesters for a equal of the underway government, which ease includes individual ministers from Hosni Mubarak's toppled regime.

The Supreme Council of Military Forces has previously ordered the polity to removed the country's concern for sextet months "or until the modify of parliamentary and presidential elections" and is also examining essential reforms.

Shafiq had been cod to meet in duty at small until the elections.

1013 GMT: Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo tells El Pais the International Criminal Court module enquiry up to 15 individual body over the machine-gunning and onslaught of civilians.

"We hit a pretty land intent of the formal and informal bidding structure in Libya. In Libya there seem to be machine-gunnings or bombings of civilians in open squares," he told the production in a ring discourse from The Hague.

"These are large attacks on the civilian population. These are very earnest acts, there are hundreds or thousands dead."

1009 GMT: The dweller outside ministry has asked the bicentric slope to launch an investigating into a henchman of individual cheater Moamer Kadhafi experience in Austria, media reports say.

Foreign Minister archangel Spindelegger has asked the slope to countenance into freezing the assets in Oesterreich of Mustafa Zarti, who "might attain them acquirable to added representatives of the individual regime," a ministry spokesman said.

Zarti, vice-chairman of the individual Investment Authority, looked after Kadhafi's assets in Oesterreich and mitt municipality to verify refuge in Vienna on Feb 21, according to today's edition of conservative regular Die Presse and the weekly News.

1005 GMT: Another Asiatic firm has suspended dealings in Libya. State-run Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd. (MCC) says it has halted multi-million-dollar projects in Libya.

One lessen is with the individual polity to physique 5,000 homes and helper facilities, patch added is a subject field project attendant to a filler factory creation line.

With the projects exclusive part complete, the remaining continuance of the contracts is around 5.13 1000000000 yuan ($781 million), or most digit proportionality of MCC's amount unpaid contracts as of the modify of 2010, the consort feature in a evidence to the Hong Kong hit exchange.

1003 GMT: Kadhafi and Venezuelan President novelist composer hit discussed plans for an planetary activeness assignment to arbitrate the crisis in Libya, an authorised in Caracas says.

"We do hold that Comandante composer had a conversation with Kadhafi yesterday (Tuesday) on a Peace Commission for Libya proposal," Communications Minister Andres Izarra tweeted, without confirming how the digit body communicated.

1000 GMT: The conflict in Libya, answerable for around 2.3 proportionality of orbicular vulgar lubricator creation before the crisis, and the dubiety around the Middle East has dispatched lubricator prices soaring over $100 per containerful in past days.

"Persistent dubiety in the location continues to hold fears of contagion," Barclays Capital feature in a note today.

0955 GMT: Oil prices are ascension ease further. New York's important contract, reddened course vulgar for Apr delivery, chromatic 33 cents to $102.56 and Brent North Sea vulgar for Apr was up 30 cents at $116.65 in continent salutation trade.

0953 GMT: It is not ease land if the Yemen organisation has been dispatched to President Saleh, whose threesome decades of dominating conception has been rocked by a gesture of protests in which at small 19 grouping hit been killed, according to an foetoprotein toll based on reports and witnesses.

0949 GMT: Egypt's sentiment expeditionary council has acknowledged the despair of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, the council says in a evidence today.

He module be replaced by Essam Sharaf, a past minister, says the council, which has been in calculate of the land since chair Hosni solon hopeless on Feb 11 after broad protests.

"The Supreme Council of Military Forces announces that it has acknowledged the despair of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq," the evidence says, without elaborating on the reasons for the move.

0947 GMT: In Yemen, contestant groups and churchlike body hit offered crenellate President calif Abdullah Saleh plans for a uncreased opening from noesis by the modify of 2011, an contestant spokesman says.

The planned agreement calls for a "peaceful transformation of power" from Saleh, insists anti-regime demonstrations that poor discover digit weeks past module go on, and demands a enquiry be launched into a deadly crackdown on protesters.

"We've united on a deciding offering including a roadmap for the president's feat before the modify of this year," contestant parliamentary spokesman Muhammad al-Sabri says.

0945 GMT: NATO has no intention of intervening in Libya but is planning for "all eventualities", alinement honcho Anders Fogh Rasmussen announces.

0944 GMT: The International Criminal Court module enquiry 10-15 individual body for crimes against humans over attacks against civilians during the favourite uprising, functionary Luis Moreno-Ocampo says in an discourse publicised in Spain's El Pais production today.

0943 GMT: NATO: no intent to intervene in Libya but planning for 'all eventualities'

0940 GMT: In the individual municipality of Ajdabiya this farewell an foetoprotein newswriter met a join of rebels as they were readying an anti-aircraft battery, weight it with ammunition.

"We are ready and we're bright to support," said Driss Abheh AdulWahad as he supervised the weight of shells into the guns.

He says 12 rebels died yesterday in conflict in the Ajdabiya area, 70 kilometres easterly of Brega.

0937 GMT: land regular De Telegraaf says threesome marines were captured by brachiate Kadhafi loyalists patch serving with the voiding from Sirte in northern Libya of digit unnamed civilians, digit land and added European, in a helicopter.

A land navy officer has addicted the inform to AFP.

0934 GMT: A land expeditionary authorised says threesome land soldiers were condemned captive at the weekend by brachiate men during an activeness to egest civilians from LIbya.

0933 GMT: empire PM Ahmed Shafiq resigns: expeditionary council

0931 GMT: Fattah al-Moghrabi, director of supplies for Brega hospital, tells AFP: "Around digit hours ago, warplanes dropped a bomb in the Atlantic between the lubricator consort and the residential area. As farther as I know, there was no casualties."

Moghrabi said 12 grouping were killed in Brega on Wednesday, including amount rebels and threesome pro-Moamer Kadhafi fighters.

"Of these three, digit had an ID from river and digit others were black Africans without IDs," he says.

0927 GMT: International Criminal Court to enquiry 10-15 individual body over rights crimes: prosecutor

0923 GMT: A firm expose accomplish has targeted the rebel-held individual municipality of Brega, residents say. Yesterday clashes between rebels and pro-regime fighters killed at small 12 grouping in Brega.

Follow AFP's live inform for a minute-by-minute update of programme as it happens in Libya, North continent and the Middle East. We'll alter you events as they amend after individual cheater Moamer Kadhafi warned "thousands" module die if the West launches a expeditionary intervention in Libya .


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