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4:08 p.m.

A summary of today's events:

Libya

forces loyal to the new government of Libya are street battles with supporters of Gaddafi in Sirte, then launched a major offensive against the city

Up 22 anti-Gaddafi soldiers were killed and 146 wounded in the fighting, according to reports.

Gaddafi loyalists A 2000 estimate put up fierce resistance in Sirte, after being surrounded on all sides

. Most residents have fled the city, but hundreds of civilians still trapped in the city, amid reports of decomposing bodies of those who left.

Yemen

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women, including Tawakol Karman, a prominent activist against the government of Yemen. Karman dedicated the award to women in Yemen.

Syria

Eight people died in the repression continues in Syria, protests are occurring throughout the country Friday.

demonstrators carried banners

Homs SOS in the center of the insurgency.

opposition leader Riad Saif was beaten in front of the mosque Hassan Al-Midan in central Damascus.

Video

found the bruised body of Saif and attended the French hospital in the city.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has delayed a visit to a refugee camp in Syria, since her mother died.

Erdogan said he will announce a series of sanctions against Syria for its violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests, after his visit to Hatay.

the UN estimated the number of people killed in the uprising in Syria increased to 2900 as a list of those completed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

previously estimated the death toll to about 2700. The Syrian government said that 1100 were killed by armed gangs by foreigners.

Syrian forces crossed into Lebanese territory, and shot a man who lives in Syria, a border region

according to the BBC. The man was apparently killed a peasant who lives in a remote region of eastern Lebanon, the Bekaa. It is unknown why he was attacked. Bahrain

weapons fire by the security forces used to break the funeral of Ahmed Jaber activist who was killed point blank at the beginning of the week. Shooting activists

continuously reported to the funeral.

3:53 p.m. The Government of Bahrain has confirmed the security forces broke up the funeral. He blamed "thugs" for intervention.

tweets

The Ministry of Information

group of vandals

RD Budaiya blocked after the funeral of Ahmed Jaber, this has led to the intervention of security forces to bring the situation back to normal

15:50:.

Bahrain

activist Zainab al-Khawaja reported an attack by security forces at the funeral of a protester killed earlier this week

Writing angryarabiya

Twitter account, he said:

Its dark, participants do not leave. The shooting continues, fireworks, and here # Bahrain

shots more wounded carried Bahrain #

lots and lots of shooting! Bahrain continued #

Being attacked right now! # Bahrain

women in the funeral procession Bahrain yfrog.com # / hsxmhjzj

The coffin of our young hero, killed while demand our rights yfrog.com/ocms8wj Bahrain #

The funeral was for 16 years, Ahmed Jaber al-Qattan was reported to have been shot in the chest by the security forces.

15:20:. The Guardian has new videos of fighting in Sirte

Hamdi Salem

rebel commander confirmed that the target of aggression is "finished the rest of the supporters of the tyrant."

3:06 p.m.

Video

Syria

MP Riad Seif is shown in 'French hospital after being beaten by security forces in Damascus Midan areas today.

Lebanese militant Al-Jabri said Chakib Seif was taken to the French hospital after being denied entry to the hospital Italiano.

14:50:.

The death toll in Sirte seems to be increasing rapidly

Al Arabiya tweets:

NTC Up to 22 fighters were killed, 146 injured in clashes with Gaddafi in Sirte, the correspondent for Al Arabiya

2:37 p.m.

The number of people killed in

Syria today increased eight years, according to another update a group of activists bleak, the Local Coordinating Committee of Syria.

In an e-mail alert, said:

number of martyrs was

8 To date, three in Douma, 3 in 1 each in Lattakia Homs and Hama suburbs

also claims that the opposition leader Riad Saif was beaten in front of the mosque Hassan Al-Midan in central Damascus.

This video aims to show protests against the edge of Assad and his regime outside the mosque today, but there is no sign of boredom.

14:27:

While we await news from Peter, in Sirte, it is interesting to note that this attack appears to have been done without with NATO.

The last time NATO was Sirte blow Sunday when a rocket-launchers and armored vehicles were hit.

NATO has had a quiet week of his campaign in Libya. There were eight attacks against the Bani Walid, on Wednesday, more than the rest of the week together. A tank was hit in most of the Bani Walid, yesterday, according to the latest update of NATO.

The Guardian was the mapping of the campaign every day since he started.

14:20:.

are now fighting from house to house in Sirte, reports Peter Beaumont of the city

Peter began to describe the scene before he was drowned by the sound of gunfire. The line was cut, sorry.

2:02 p.m.:.

civilians continue to flee as the Sirte NTC expects its forces in the city today, reports Reuters

Many were surprised by the attack on Friday and fled in panic as explosions boom in the city.

"There are blows in all directions. Today we are going to end. God willing we capture Sirte today," said Colonel Ahmed Al-Obeidi, a commander the CTN.

NTC

trucks of ammunition and artillery batteries were brought to the front line of the East, about 1.2 km (0.8 miles) from downtown.

doctors at a hospital in the eastern Sirte said they heard a huge explosion in the city after midnight. Colonel Obeidi, the explosion came after its forces hit a weapons storage facility belonging to supporters of Gaddafi.

Gaddafi loyalists who retired back in Sirte, when he lost control of other cities set up a fierce resistance.

In a hospital a few miles west of Sirte dozens of ambulances brought in at least 50 fighters and civilians wounded in the fighting. Most were wounded.

medical personnel tried to save a woman who does not respond. A child with an injured leg was sitting on the floor. A helicopter landed near the hospital to bring some of the wounded to hospitals in Misrata, located west of Sirte.

at a checkpoint near the hospital, the fighters NTC checked dozens of cars carrying whole families fleeing Sirte.

"I knew it would be an assault," said Saeed Ramadan, whose vehicle had holes and broken glass shards. "I could not sleep last night, it was heavy bombardment. I was afraid for my children and I had to leave. "

Sirte

A resident who identified himself as Abdel Nasser said: "Last night there was heavy shooting and shelling chance had a hundred leaks are tragic circumstances can smell the rotting corpses hospital ...."

concerns about the humanitarian crisis have focused on the Ibn Sina hospital in the city. Medical personnel said they fled the patients died of Sirte on the operating table because there was no oxygen and fuel for generators at the hospital.

Briek

Hassan, another resident to flee, said less than half the population of Sirte remained in the city and most had moved to three areas where there was less fighting.

"There are many families in the districts of the city," said Briek. "Nobody knew it would be a storm today. Nobody is sleeping. Food is not the problem. It is the attack. "

1:56 p.m.

Javier Espinosa of Spanish newspaper El Mundo said the death toll rose to 10 fighters Sirte.

Here are most of your Twitter updates in English:

half an hour trapped in a trench fighters NTC laugh and eat chocolate cake, but the bullets fly Sirte, Libya # #

crazy inside as he had always pushed inwards, but now home to fight for the house and resist Ouagadougou Sirte in Libya # #

now 10 dead and 140 injured in western Sirte # that big offensive, but the field commanders on the doubts that can take the city of today

1:47 p.m.

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's President, expressed his solidarity with the Arab autocrats ousted in the spring, blaming the fall in machinations "of the imperialists," writes David Smith.

Mugabe is quoted as saying:

We must be prepared to defend our country and its sovereignty. We have sympathy for them because they had not read the warnings that should have read. That things have changed because of the will of its people, and because of the machinations of the imperialists.

The trend was the same ... The protests against any policy or system, or if you want to change. It ends up being a demand for government-wide to go.

1:38 p.m.

A summary of today's events so far:

Libya

forces loyal to the new government in Libya launched a major assault on the bastion of Gaddafi in Sirte.

At least nine anti-Gaddafi soldiers killed in the fighting.

Gaddafi loyalists A 2000 estimate put up fierce resistance in Sirte, after being surrounded on all sides

. Most residents have fled the city, but hundreds of civilians are still trapped in the city.

fugitives Muammar Gaddafi, has published an audio recording of new complaints, the new government of Libya and asking his supporters to "hoist the green flag"

. In the new message, the first for over two weeks, said: "How did [the National Transitional Council] for legitimacy is the Libyan people choose is the meeting Libyan people"

Libyan dissident, is launching legal action against the British government after the secret documents discovered in Tripoli revealed the role of MI6 in their commitment to Gaddafi in prisons.

> In a case that threatens to cause acute discomfort to some former ministers last Labour government and intelligence officials, Sami al-Saadi is claiming damages in the UK during the years following sustained torture.

Yemen

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women, including Tawakol Karman, a prominent activist against the government of Yemen. Karman

dedicated the award to women in Yemen.

Syria

At least three people died in the repression continues in Syria, protests are occurring throughout the country Friday.

The demonstrators carried banners Homs SOS in the center of the insurgency.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has delayed a visit to a refugee camp in Syria, since her mother died.

Erdogan said he will announce a series of sanctions against Syria for its violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests, after his visit to Hatay.

the UN estimated the number of people killed in the uprising in Syria increased to 2900 as a list of those completed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

previously estimated the death toll to about 2700. The Syrian government said that 1100 were killed by armed gangs by foreigners.

Syrian forces crossed into Lebanese territory, and shot a man who lives in Syria, a border region

according to the BBC. The man was apparently killed a peasant who lives in a remote region of eastern Lebanon, the Bekaa. It is unknown why he was attacked

13:23:.

figures first victim begins to go through the fighting in Sirte

Al Jazeera Zeina Khodr tweets

Libya, the doctors say at least nine fighters against the dead # Gaddafi, 124 injured many in critical condition, # Sirte

13:10: At least three people died in demonstrations on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, AP cited the reports of Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.

Observatory said at least three people died and several others wounded, while five others were wounded in the northern city of al-Numan Maaret.

local coordinating committees, a group of activists reported heavy fire in the village of Jassem in the southern province of Dara, where the insurrection against the Assad regime began seven months ago.

square inside a mosque in Homs today recorded the sound of gunfire outside.

protests erupted Friday

through Syria, according to images of militants. Clips include Al Jezah demonstrations, Dera; Qouriyah Al Deir ez-Zor; Binnish, Idlib, and the city of Homs.

protesters showed emergency messages to the international community as a new demonstration of Homs.

24:16:

The general opinion is that nearly 2,000 fans in the reports are held in Sirte, Colonel Qaddafi, Peter Beaumont in the second part of the upgrade by satellite phone.

are well armed and motivated and are really not giving up without a fight.

Not sure. [Sound of the attack] ... which is one of the tanks firing into the conference center. Not sure, but I'm in a relatively good position right now. I do not know how long we stay here.

in the number of civilians caught in Sirte, Peter said:

The lowest estimates I've heard is 250 families. I do not know, I think, but I think, is that people simply do not stick to gas for their cars and can not leave the city.

Red Cross have not been able to achieve today is the large-scale battle in progress.

I drove completely around it. It is completely surrounded. There is no way out. No efforts have continued to negotiate. But I said all the fighters in the city to ask is "please give us more time." It seems that this time of the morning exhausted.