Benghazi

MI6 had struck up such a budding relationship with Libyan Intelligence in the preceding years that when they wanted to kill our people earlier this year, we seem to have known about it. Which illustrates a point the spooks often like to make: that it is in Britain’s national interests to do business with people we don’t like.

Millions are expected to party through the night as Libya celebrates the official end of the war against Colonel Gaddafi’s regime.

Gaddafi’s body is reportedly set to be handed over to relatives as Libya looks forward to its first elections for more than 40 years.

As celebrations erupt across Libya at Gaddafi’s death, Libyans in Britain tell Channel 4 News of their mixed emotions that the former dictator will not face a trial.

As the death of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is confirmed, Channel 4 News looks at where this leaves Libya as well as the progress in the rest of the “Arab Spring” nations.

Government shells kill at least six in Yemen’s capital Sanaa amid escalating street battles, bringing the death toll to 58 after three days of the heaviest violence since the uprising began.

Libya’s deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi has vowed to defeat the rebels, warning that “Nato’s planes will not be able to continue their operations in Libya”.

The National Transitional Council in Tripoli claims it has located ousted leader Colonel Gaddafi, who says his forces will rally to defeat the rebels who now control much of the country.

The US says scores of Libyan army vehicles have crossed the desert into Niger, a claim denied by the country’s interior minister.

Libya’s rebel commanders may have to resort to an assault to take the Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid after forces loyal to the Colonel remained defiant.

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s wife and three children have fled to Algeria. In Libya, the rebel council says it is an “act of aggression” that Algeria let them in the country.

With forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi given until Saturday to surrender by Libya’s rebel council, an expert tells Channel 4 News Gaddafi must now realise that the conflict is over.

Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson burrows down into the tunnels beneath the Tripoli compound of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya – and finds “a world of total wackiness”.

Our Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson witnesses shocking scenes at a hospital in Abu Salim where doctors have fled – abandoning the injured and leaving the dead to decompose.

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