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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Libya live report AFP - Wednesday, February 23 Send IM Story Print TRIPOLI (AFP) - – After another long and dramatic day in Libya, Kadhafi remains in power having vowed a fight to the death despite growing international outrage of a brutal crackdown against anti-government demonstrators. The veteran leader has urged his supporters to rally to his side on Wednesday. AFP is now closing this Live Report but will resume it if events in the country kick off again. 0045 GMT: Britain's Times newspaper says it has footage of severely wounded and dead protesters in a hospital in Benghazi which proved that heavy weapons were being used to crush the uprising. The shocking footage includes blasted corpses and patients with almost completely severed torsos, it says. 0040 GMT: The United States says it is dispatching the top-ranking US envoy for the Middle East, Jeffrey Feltman, to the Gulf to press for peaceful reforms. 0004 GMT: Britain's UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant praises the "strong united message" sent by the Security Council, and says it could hold a new meeting on the crisis. 2342 GMT: The unrest rocking Libya has left 300 people dead - 189 civilians and 111 soldiers, an interior ministry spokesman says. The largest number of victims was in the eastern city of Benghazi, where 104 civilians and 10 soldiers have died. 2338 GMT: Jebril el-Kadiki, deputy air force chief of staff, says arms and ammunitions depots have been bombed in Rajma, near the eastern city of Al-Baida; in Ajdabia and Al-Gueriet in the south and near Zenten and Mezda in the southwest. Kadiki says all of the facilities were located in desert areas, away from any inhabited areas. 2330 GMT: "They are attacking all the people in cities in western Libya," says Dabbashi, naming Gharyan, Zuwarah and other towns he said were under attack by army units loyal to Kadhafi. "Now I think genocide started now in Libya," he adds, before being escorted away by UN security guards. 2325 GMT: Ibrahim Dabbashi, the Libyan deputy ambassador to the United Nations (who defected to the side of the protesters on Monday), tells reporters the Security Council statement "was not strong enough," and says that since Kadhafi's speech earlier in the day attacks on civilians have started in western Libya. 2322 GMT: Peru's announcement makes it the first nation to snap ties with Libya since protests erupted one week ago aimed at ending Kadhafi's 41-year grip on power. 2318 GMT: It now appears that Kadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam, may not speak in Tripoli. He has left the stage and the premises where the president of the parliament and a military officer have been speaking. 2310 GMT: Peru suspends diplomatic ties with Libya over crackdown. 2306 GMT: A Dutch military transport plane left Tripoli on Tuesday night with 32 Dutch and 50 other foreign passengers, the foreign ministry says in The Hague. 2257 GMT: Those responsible for attacks on citizens in Libya should be "brought to account," the UN Security Council statement says. Diplomats suggested to AFP earlier that China, backed by Russia, held out against stronger action as it was fearful of setting a precedent. 2255 GMT: In Yemen, witnesses have described the killing of peaceful demonstrators by armed government partisans. "Two demonstrators were killed and eleven others wounded when supporters of the regime opened fire on a sit-in in front of the campus of Sanaa University," one witness said. 2251 GMT: The UN Security Council also voiced "grave concern" about the events unfolding in Libya. 2248 GMT: UN Security Council issues a joint statement calling for "an immediate end to the violence" in Libya. 2243 GMT: Calm "has been restored in most of the large cities" in Libya, the president of the country's parliament says, adding that "security forces and the army have re-established their positions." 2240 GMT: Diplomats at the UN tell AFP that veto-wielding China, backed by Russia, is holding up Security Council agreement on a Libya statement. Apparently the Chinese are worried about setting a precedent and insist this is a special case as the Libyan mission themselves requested the consultations. 2226 GMT: The woman speaking to CNN says she and others are terrified of being raped by Kadhafi thugs. "I want him out," she says."Everybody wants him out. There's no question about it. He's been lying. He's been saying people are taking hallucination pills, people are taking drugs. He must be the one taking drugs doing what he's doing, the number of people killed in Tripoli or Libya in general." 2222 GMT: A woman speaks to CNN anonymously from Tripoli: "Right at the moment there has been a shooting not far from where I am. There are bullets. Actually I collected a bullet from my balcony where I can smell a lot of fires, a lot of smoke everywhere there are major security trying to attempt to not let anyone protest. They are trying so hard to show that the country is fine, that the country is not falling, the regime is fine, but that's not happening." 2219 GMT: Beyond Libya, the biggest protests in a week raged Tuesday in Bahrain and witnesses have just reported two people killed in attacks on demonstrators in Yemen. 2216 GMT: One of the few voices of support for Kadhafi comes from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega who says his Libyan ally "is waging a great battle... looking for dialogue" as he tries to defend the integrity of his nation so it doesn't descend into anarchy. 2210 GMT: "Colonel Kadhafi's remarks today prove to be defiant and worrisome," Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says, announcing plans to begin evacuating nationals. 2205 GMT: The US-based Internet monitoring group SITE publishes a report on three Facebook pages being used by Libyan protesters to pool information. They contain updates from the protests; information on how to circumvent Internet blockages of Facebook and Twitter; numbers to call for medical support; details on aid convoys leaving from Tunisia and Egypt; and strategies for evading military airplanes. 2154 GMT: Two French passenger planes have been granted permission to land in Tripoli to pick up French nationals wanting to leave, according to French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie, speaking in Brasilia. 2143 GMT: Libyan Interior Minister Abdel Fatah Yunes resigns and calls on the armed forces to back the rebellion. "I announce my resignation from all my duties in response to the revolution of February 17," he tells Al-Jazeera. 2132 GMT: BBC Arabic reporting that Libyan State TV is broadcasting that protesters who hand over their weapons will be pardoned. 2125 GMT: On a day when oil prices soared, analyst John Kilduff says: "The market continues to be very focused on the instability in the Middle East, and Libya in particular." Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said OPEC was prepared to meet any shortage of supplies but Kilduff says: "The violence against the people, Kadhafi now losing control of some of the regions, the defection of some of the military and even the diplomatic corps -- it has escalated the situation to a point where we are likely to lose, at least for a time, Libya's 1.1 million barrels a day to the oil market." 2104 GMT: US stocks plummet after Kadhafi threatens to crush opponents with the Dow closing down 1.4 percent and the Nasdaq losing 2.7 percent. 2054 GMT: Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague says: "the UN Security Council must bring its influence to bear." He says Britain "will condemn the violence and call on all parties to respect human rights and act with restraint and in accordance with international law" and "raise the Libyan government's responsibility to offer full protection to foreign nationals in Libya." 2046 GMT: The UN Security Council begins formal consultations on Libya crisis. "There is even more concern after what was a very worrying speech by Moamer Kadhafi," says one diplomat. 2043 GMT: Kadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam, to hold press conference in Tripoli imminently. 2040 GMT: Al-Jazeera screens footage of a crowd in the eastern city of Benghazi (under the control of anti-government protesters) reacting angrily to Kadhafi's speech, throwing dozens of shoes at him speaking on a giant screen. 2034 GMT: Libya says 300 dead in violence, including 58 soldiers 2031 GMT: European nations are discussing sanctions against Kadhafi but have run up against objections from some EU states, notably Italy and Malta, diplomats say. 2023 GMT: Italy fears an influx of up to 300,000 migrants from its former colony, the ANSA news agency reports. 2017 GMT: Protests are also still raging in Bahrain. Tens of thousands of supporters of the Shiite-led opposition poured into a Manama square calling for the government's downfall in the largest rally in more than a week of protests. 2000 GMT: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi spoke by telephone with Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi on Tuesday, the Italian leader's office says in a statement. 1958 GMT: Clinton appeared to put the onus on the UN to confront Kadhafi: "The Security Council is meeting today to assess the situation and determine whether there are steps the international community can take. As we gain a greater understanding of what is happening, because communication has been very effectively shut down we will take appropriate steps in line with our policies, our values, our laws, but we are going to have to work in concert with the international community." 1951 GMT: New York crude oil soars 8.5 percent on Libya turmoil. 1945 GMT: The BBC's Jon Leyne, one of the few foreign correspondents to have made it into Libya, reports that as much as half the country is now under opposition control. "There's not a big fear that Colonel Kadhafi is going to retake this area, it seems to have gone too far for that," he says from somewhere in the east. "The fear is how much havoc he will wreak in a last stand in Tripoli. He is retreating to an ever smaller circle." 1941 GMT: Message from international community is clear, says Clinton: "The violence must stop." 1940 GMT: Clinton says US in contact with Libyan officials and others in the region to try to influence what is going on. 1935 GMT: "We urge restraint and for the governments in the region to respect the rights of their people," says Clinton. "There is no place for violence against peaceful protesters. Across the Middle East people are calling for their governments to be more open, accountable and responsive without genuine progress toward open and accountable political systems, the gap between people and their governments can only grow and instability can only deepen." 1931 GMT: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Libya's violence against its people is "completely unacceptable." 1930 GMT: Italy says all 400 Italians who wanted to leave the Libyan capital Tripoli have been flown out, while 160 are waiting to be evacuated from other parts of the country. 1911 GMT: Amnesty International calls on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to contact Kadhafi and urge him to end the bloody repression. 1908 GMT: AFP obtains a recording of a conversation between a protester in the flashpoint city of Benghazi and the Bulgarian weekly Capital. "We are very short in medical supplies...We have some seriously injured people but don't have emergency rooms to do the operations and (they) are left to die," the 45-year-old man says. "In Benzhagi we have more than 300 peole killed and more than 1,000 injuries." 1900 GMT: "It's time for you to pack up your tent and your funny clothes and depart like your fellow dictators in Egypt and Tunisia," says Hisham Benghalbon, one of about 500 demonstrators outside the British prime minister's office in London. 1855 GMT: US Senator John Kerry a bit earlier: "Use of deadly force against its own people should mean the end of the regime itself. It's beyond despicable, and I hope we are witnessing its last hours in power." 1852 GMT: "Moamer Kadhafi's speech today was very scary as he has declared war on his own people." The words of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. 1842 GMT: The Arab League says it has decided to "stop the government of Libya from participating in meetings of the Arab League and all bodies affiliated to it, until the Libyan authorities respond to demands, guaranteeing the security and stability of its people." 1833 GMT: Nic Robertson of CNN tweets that Tunisians have set up a soup kitchen at the border providing bread and meat for Libyans fleeing their country. 1826 GMT: Germany's Merkel threatens sanctions against Kadhafi unless he halts crackdown on protesters. 1822 GMT: Libya barred from Arab League meetings 1818 GMT: One of three planes sent by France to evacuate its nationals from Libya was unable to land in Tripoli and had to be rerouted to Malta, the diplomat from earlier explains. 1812 GMT: Merkel denounces 'scary' Kadhafi speech, demands halt to violence 1810 GMT: French evacuation plane unable to land in Tripoli: diplomat 1805 GMT: White House spokesman Jay Carney says US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will speak on Libya at 1930 GMT. 1758 GMT: The Algerian government announces it will lift a state of emergency imposed 19 years ago to fight Islamist insurgents. 1753 GMT: For those that missed it, Kadhafi said he would die as a martyr in the land of his ancestors and fight to the "last drop" of his blood. He threatened to purge Libya "house by house" and "inch by inch." He said Moamer Kadhafi has no official position to resign: "He is the leader of the revolution forever." 1750 GMT: EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, speaking in Cairo, adds her voice to the chorus of international condemnation on Libya: "I deplore the loss of life and I condemn all acts of violence and I call on everyone to exercise restraint." 1745 GMT: Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has just given his first major address to the nation since protests against his iron-fisted, 41-year rule erupted one week ago. In a rambling 74-minute speech, he refused to quit and threatened to execute armed protesters. Meanwhile, the UN Security Council held emergency talks on the crisis with Western nations pressing for "swift and clear" action. With media restrictions in Libya and few journalists in the country hard and fast facts are few but rights groups are reporting that between 300 and 400 people have been killed in a brutal crackdown. 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