Libya war: strike against Gaddafi

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.

David Cameron promises to look at “significant accusations” made against Britain as a spokesman for Libya’s new leadership claims the UK helped with the “kidnapping” of Gaddafi’s opponents.

Amid reports that Colonel Gaddafi’s troops have started to pull out, Bani Walid and its approaches remain insecure. It’s noon, Sunday, and the former Libyan rebels – who now call themselves the Libyan National Army (LNA) – are still negotiating with the Warfallah tribal leaders in Bani Walid over the surrender of the town.

As the head of the rebel military council in Libya announces he knows the whereabouts of Colonel Gaddafi, Jonathan Miller reports from the road to Bani Walid, a remaining loyalist stronghold.

As Colonel Gaddafi appeals to his supporters to continue to fight, Jonathan Miller travels to Tahunah, where rebel commanders are preparing for an assault on the Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid.

Lindsey Hilsum blogs on the challenges of life in Tripoli’s war zone in the “most physically demanding trip” she has endured in a long time.

For now it is the Eid holiday. A pause. A time to try and drink in what has happened across this city, where another simple grafitti slogan captures the mood, the practicality, the possibility of the new reality: “I love this year – 2011”

As world leaders meet for a key summit on Libya, one analyst tells Channel 4 News there is a diplomatic scramble to establish Libya’s new government and avoid a “terrific embarrassment”.

As Saif Gaddafi pledges to fight to the end, his brother al-Saadi claims to want negotiations with the Libyan rebel council to end the conflict.

British firm General Dynamics signed one of the biggest deals of all with Colonel Gaddafi and as Alex Thomson blogs it is just one of several links between the UK and the ousted regime.

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum asks ‘where were the women’ during Libya’s revolution?

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.

EXCLUSIVE: Libya’s new reconstruction minister tells Channel 4 News Scotland Yard detectives would be welcomed to Libya to investigate the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher.

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”.