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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.

important in the battle, Peter said:

This is a great concentration of the faithful of the faithful are now. He has great political significance. The government has made it clear that despite the Bani Walid also under the seat, is the fall of Sirte which will result in the total liberation of [Libya]. Then begin the political process leading to elections in eight months.

Add Gaddafi forces are surrounded on all sides.

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.

24:03:.

Peter Beaumont has reached 800 in the conference center Ougadogou in Sirte, Colonel Qaddafi when 2000 supporters surrounded

In the first part in a phone call interrupts Sat, says:

There are a couple of T55 tanks shooting move the conference center to the left of me. And then there is a convoy of trucks of weapons. Some of the buildings behind [the center of the conference] have reinforced the walls with snipers fell into it. If you ignore this truck, I'm hiding behind a pink house, I heard there are many snipers there too.

Peter continues: "On my left is a huge cloud of black smoke, then at the end of the conference center there is another fire burning and not two explosions in that direction."

Shortly after the connection has been lost, sorry.

11:24

Syria

Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told the Council

human rights nation is under attack by criminals who killed 1,100 citizens with weapons provided by neighboring countries.

AP reports:

Mekdad believes that the regime of President Bashar al-Assad is "subject to threats of terrorism" and undermined by the reports of Western journalists Friday opened a registration examination polarized by the Syrian UN top human rights body, as part of its mandatory review of all member countries.

"There is nothing that we are trying to hide or shame," said Mekdad.

"The culture of human rights is a disease," he added. "We must keep in mind that the behavior of some developed countries is not honorable in the field of human rights. "

Report Syria

Council begins with the assertion that the nation "was subjected to a series of criminal attacks" that have "accompanied by an unprecedented media campaign of lies and accusations."

However, the UN office of Human Rights considered repression President Bashar al-Assad against demonstrators who were demanding a change made more than 2900 lives.

Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch, which documented the brutality of the repression in Syria since it began in March, sent Mekdad comments in disbelief.

Mekdad: ".. Syria is a model of democracy for the region and the world gives us time to do it"

Mekdad: ".. Syria is already beyond this crisis many aspects of the crisis behind him ... will remain a pioneer in the international obligations"

Mekdad Human Rights Council: "The reforms can not be done during the Syrians killed by extremist groups every day"

Syria Min of Interior representative at the Human Rights Council: No disapparances applied in Syria. Prison visits by the ICRC and found no cases of torture

11.15:

live images transmitted only by al-Jazeera has shown new strength of the Libyan government continues artillery pounds Sirte, raising more fears about civilian trapped in the city.

NTC says Gaddafi forces outnumber the civilians in the city by two to one, according to the network.

NTC

Field Commander Salah al-Jabo said his men were trying to evacuate the Ibn Sina hospital near the center of Ouagadougou, who said he believes he can be one bases of fighters pro-Gaddafi.

Jabo estimated that there are only about 800 pro-Gaddafi fighters left the city and the area under their control had been reduced to about 20 square kilometers.

At the same time said there were only about 400 civilians remain in Sirte.

This number was impossible to confirm, but an AFP journalist a fraction of the refugees had left on Thursday and yesterday against dozens if not hundreds of car days.

11:06 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has delayed a visit to a

Syrian camp refugee because his mother died, reports Reuters:

Tenzile Erdogan His mother, who was about 80 years, had undergone an operation to remove the gall bladder and passed away on Friday morning, the state news agency Anatolia.

His funeral was scheduled for Saturday in Istanbul.

Prime Minister had planned to visit refugees from Syria in the Turkish province of Hatay on the border with Syria on Sunday.

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

10:47

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Libya

, and the Battle of Sirte, Peter Beaumont filed this report:

forces of the new government of Libya, have launched their biggest assault on the headquarters of the coastal city, still in the hands of pro-Gaddafi, faithful, after saying for days that they wanted to the city end of the week.
extended at the Battle of Sirte was characterized by frequent reversals of fortune of the besiegers who are under intense pressure to capture the city, including the fall, the interim government has announced the "full Libya "will be released and

the beginning of a political process for the elections in eight months.