The circumstance on Libya's border with Tunisia has reached crisis position, as tens of thousands of foreigners flee unrest within the country, the UN says.
Aid employees seem unable to cope together with the influx, say correspondents. Some 140,000 have gone to Tunisia and Egypt.
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has advised Western journalists he is cherished by his individuals and denied protests in Tripoli.
His interview came amid studies that he is attempting to regain manage of rebel regions in western Libya.
Col Gaddafi is facing a enormous problem to his 41-year rule, with protesters in manage of towns within the east.
Witnesses said pro-Gaddafi forces attempted to retake the western cities of Zawiya, Misrata and Nalut on Monday but have been repulsed by rebels assisted by defecting army models.
The rebels said they had killed eight pro-Gaddafi militia, but there have been no opposition fatalities. There continues to be no phrase from the govt on casualties.
You'll find fears in Zawiya the metropolis could be attacked from the air, but the rebels remained defiant.
"We're not
right here for power, authority or cash," they said in a concept aimed at Col Gaddafi.
"We are right here for that result in of independence along with the value we are prepared to shell out is with our very own blood... It is victory or demise."
In other developments:
* The Red Cross is requesting access to western Libya, amid unconfirmed studies of attacks on doctors and summary killings of sufferers
* Austria freezes property of your Libyan leadership really worth 1.2bn euros ($1.65bn; £1.02bn) as Germany freezes the bank account of one particular of Col Gaddafi's sons
* Libyan air power planes reportedly attacked ammunition depots within the eastern towns of Ajdabiya and Rajma
* About 400 protesters gathered within the Tripoli suburb of Tajoura on Monday - Gaddafi supporters attempted to disperse them by firing within the air
* Studies say there happen to be lengthy queues in Tripoli banking institutions as individuals attempted to gather the 500 dinars (£250; $410) promised from the govt in an attempt to quell the unrest
'Forgotten'
A spokeswoman for that UN Substantial Commissioner for Refugees, Melissa Fleming, said 70,000-75,000 individuals have fled to Tunisia considering that violence started in Libya on twenty February. A similar number have gone to Egypt, where most happen to be able to go on their journeys onward.
"Our employees about the Libya-Tunisia border have advised us this early morning the circumstance there is reaching crisis position," she said, quoted by AFP news agency.
About two,000 individuals are crossing into Tunisia each and every hour but when in Tunisia several of them have nowhere to go. One more twenty,000 are said to become backed up about the Libyan facet.
Most are Egyptian, but you will find also considerable numbers of Chinese and Bangladeshis.
The Egyptians are angry, complaining that they've been forgotten by their govt, says the BBC's Jim Muir about the border.
Temperatures plummeted overnight and our correspondent found the physique of a young Egyptian man who had apparently died of chilly.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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