Libya war: strike against Gaddafi

British filmmaker Tim Hetherington and US photographer Chris Hondros were killed and two other journalists injured by mortar fire in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Jonathan Miller pays tribute.

Libya’s foreign minister Abdul Ati al-Obeidi tells journalists that the country could hold elections if Western air strikes stop.

We look at the most prominent members of Libya’s rebel movement – an ad hoc coalition of former Gaddafi men, soldiers, democrats and radicals.

The Libyan Government’s shelling of rebel-held Misrata, including the targeting of hospitals and killing of civilians, could constitute crimes under international law, the UN human rights chief says.

Sending British military officers to advise rebels in Libya does not break UN rules, an international relations expert tells Channel 4 News. But a senior MP warns of parallels with the Vietnam war.

As Britain helps 5,000 refugees from Misrata, a flashpoint city in Libya’s war, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell tells Channel 4 News “very brave people” are leading the mission.

Street by street, the battle for Misrata goes on. Channel 4 News Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports from Libya as a UK minister travels to the United Nations for humanitarian crisis talks.

A Libyan army officer insists “we do not have” cluster bombs. But writing for Channel 4 News, reporter in Misrata Ruth Sherlock says they are in use, nicknamed “candy bombs” and harming civilians.

Human Rights Watch backs claims by rebel fighters that pro-Gaddafi forces are using cluster bombs in Misrata, as a freelance reporter in the city tells Channel 4 News the evidence is highly visible.

Aid organisations are warning of a humanitarian disaster in Misrata, the last major rebel enclave in western Libya, where hundreds of civilians are said to have died in a “medieval” six-week siege.

The leaders of Britain, France and the United States vow to continue the military campaign in Libya until Colonel Muammar Gaddafi “goes, and goes for good.”

With leaders of the UK, the US and France calling on Colonel Gaddafi to step down, a British Conservative MP wants a recall of parliament amid fears that Nato is set on regime change in Libya.

As Libyan rebels beg NATO for more air strikes against Colonel Gaddafi’s troops in besieged Misrata, a city resident tells Channel 4 News that the situation on the ground there is ‘critical’.

Foreign Secretary William Hague is attending international talks on the Libya conflict in Doha, amid fears that a bloody stalemate has taken hold of the country.

Britain and France hope to persuade members of an international ‘contact group’ meeting in Doha that Gaddafi must go if the Libyan crisis is to be resolved.