±«Óãtv

The Battle for Tripoli

| Friday, 2 Feb. 2011 | 18:00 - 19:00 GMT

Colonel Gaddafi has lost his grip on much of the country but he still seems to be in control in Tripoli. Opposition leaders are calling for major protests in the capital today, and residents say mercenaries are moving in for the final battle.
The ±«Óãtv's Middle East live page has all the latest updates and the Libya Feb 17 blog is collecting eyewitness accounts and videos by Libyans on the ground.

Your comments

  1. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:55
    • 108871460

    What goes around bones around, Gadhafi has been instrumental in the down fall of other African leaders, is now time for him to go.chris sackie. Mon. Liberia

  2. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:51
    • 116728026

    Ghadafi is Africa’s greatest he has been championing infrastructural and social development in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali etc. dont let the west confuse u,we knw they want to librate Africa but their fear is u. We West Africans love u. Edward Kargbo fr Liberia.

  3. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:54
    • 116728257

    Qadafi is a great african leader who put libya top over africa, but just matter of time, the flood taken him away!

  4. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:53
    • 116728146

    Qaddafi telling lies about the massaccar he’s doing, should tell world’s governing bodies that he knows he’ll lose when they step in.Derek,Ghana.

  5. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:53
    • 116728251

    THE SHOULD BE INTRESTED IN LIBYAN’S OIL ALONE, THEY SHOULD BE INTRESTED IN THE WELL BEING OF ITS PEOPLE ALSO, THEY SHOULD HELP STOP GHADAFI BEFORE ITS TOO LATE. IBRAHIM, ACCRA GHANA.

  6. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:50
    • 110500499

    Wheres gadaffi gonna get the money for these concessions? Regeims can only give what they steal from the land and people. Or they can borrow and steal later with interest. Jo-uk

  7. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:52
    • 116728243

    See d double standards in the western media. They refer to Gadafi’s fight to save his regime as genocide while Lauren Baabo in Ivory coast kills opposition supporters without much publicity. The west clearly want to pay Gadafi back for his earlier disobedience .

  8. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:51
    • 115318034

    Why do UN wait until lives are lost in a country before it act. Ndukwe , Nigeria

  9. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:50
    • 116728224

    Salam from sierra leone. We need a leader lyk Ghadafi in our country.

  10. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:50
    • 116728232

    Gadafi was responsible for the initial training of members of the RUF who cause untold suffering in S.Leone. He must go. McWiliams SL

  11. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:46
    • 116700107

    I’m Wowed! By Mohamed’s comment. How could u support Colonel in his crazy & senseless killings.I guess u will support Foday Sankoh,Charles Taylor & others for the atrocities they committed in Sierra Leone. Shame on all those who r in Sa Lone that r supportn him.I don’t care how much he spend in F/twn.Yal

  12. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:47
    • 115318034

    Why do UN wait until lives are lost in a country before it act

  13. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:47
    • 116728211

    Should UN wait for 4 catatrophe before taken a realistic action?Dr EZRA JOWOH

  14. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:47
    • 116728208

    Those people are Zimbabweans

  15. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:47
    • 116700107

    Mohamed in Sierra Leone will support the uprising in Libya,looking@Gadaffi killing his own ppl because they r all his puppet.The govt of Sierra Leone depends on Momoar for it’s living.I wonder why one should support his plight to kill his own people. He must be gettn his $ from Libya.Lady SaLone Titi

  16. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:49
    • 116538412

    How many tank divisions does tyrant Gadafi has,that deter the world from executing a lightening military attack on his army 2 end genocide?kigozi sam-uganda

  17. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:44
    • 116728174

    instead of the black to show symphaty for their fellow black when their life is under threat in libya that is why we have poverty in our land mostly the black

  18. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:42
    • 108514859

    Libya will have more blood-bath as the mad Ghaddafi is bent on taking down the country with him.The people should lower their pride and allow military intervention to prevent more deaths. Folaj in lagos

  19. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:42
    • 116728146

    Qaddafi telling lies about the massaccar he’s doing , should tell world’s governing bodies that he knows he’ll lose when they step in .

  20. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:41
    • 116623099

    @±«Óãtv_WHYS Barbara why is it UN takn long to help wth medication to Libya coz pple need help there...MALAWI

  21. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:37
    • 116728092

    Pls Libyans continue your good work, Africa should be democratic not royaltic. Samuel Adedugbe, freetown, Sierra Leone.

  22. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:37
    • 116728090

    I have lived in Libya during the xenophobic uprising of 2000.The experience of that time make me understand the fear of Africans living in Tripoli.

  23. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:38
    • 108514859

    Libya will have more blood-bath as the mad Ghaddafi is bent on taking down the country with him.The people show lower their pride and allow military intervention to prevent more deaths. Folaj in lagos

  24. Comment sent via SMS

    • 18:36
    • 108520101

    As the world passively watches the killing of Libyans by Ghadafi, I recall the world’s indifference during the Rwanda genocide. (Anyii George, Kampala).

  25. Comment sent via Twitter

    • 18:33
    • 116069844

    @±«Óãtv_WHYS Libyans will take care of him it would be fast if they got arms reinforcements across borders, many cant die for one greedy leader