Saif Gaddafi

Libya becomes the first member state to be suspended by the UN Human Rights Council after a day of tension and the prospect of military action and civil war, as our Correspondents in Libya report.

New amateur video has emerged showing Colonel Gaddafi’s son Saif passionately rallying the Libyan regime’s supporters to take on protesters, brandishing a gun and promising to send weapons.

Libya’s former justice minister says Colonel Gaddafi has chemical weapons and could use them against protesters – but an international relations expert tells Channel 4 News his sons may stop him.

Libyan rebels have seized the town of Zawiyah where Channel 4 News has witnessed captured soldiers and freshly dug graves, as RAF planes rescue a further 150 people from the desert.

It seems to me that this does not add up to a regime in its last hours. It does not appear to be a regime in its very last days even, blogs Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.

Despite more Libya violence, Colonel Gaddafi’s son Saif has told Channel 4 News his father is in high spirits and that civil war has been averted – meanwhile the UN is considering “concrete action”.

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