The predicament on Libya's border with Tunisia has attained crisis level, as tens of thousands of foreigners flee unrest inside the country, the UN says.
Help 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 instructed Western journalists he is loved by his individuals and denied protests in Tripoli.
His interview arrived amid reviews that he is attempting to regain control of rebel locations in western Libya.
Col Gaddafi is facing a massive problem to his 41-year rule, with protesters in control of towns inside the east.
Witnesses stated pro-Gaddafi forces attempted to retake the western metropolitan areas of Zawiya, Misrata and Nalut on Monday but were repulsed by rebels aided by defecting army units.
The rebels stated that they had killed eight pro-Gaddafi militia, but there were no opposition fatalities. There has been no word through the authorities on casualties.
You'll find fears in Zawiya the city could be attacked through the air, however the rebels remained defiant.
"We're not
right here for power, authority or money," they stated inside a concept aimed at Col Gaddafi.
"We are right here for the result in of freedom as well as the price we are prepared to pay out is with our own blood... It really is victory or death."
In other developments:
* The Red Cross is requesting access to western Libya, amid unconfirmed reviews of attacks on doctors and summary killings of patients
* Austria freezes property of your Libyan leadership really worth one.2bn euros ($1.65bn; £1.02bn) as Germany freezes the bank account of one particular of Col Gaddafi's sons
* Libyan air force planes reportedly attacked ammunition depots inside the eastern towns of Ajdabiya and Rajma
* About 400 protesters gathered inside the Tripoli suburb of Tajoura on Monday - Gaddafi supporters attempted to disperse them by firing inside the air
* Reviews say there are lengthy queues in Tripoli banking institutions as individuals attempted to gather the 500 dinars (£250; $410) promised from the authorities in an attempt to quell the unrest
'Forgotten'
A spokeswoman for the UN Large Commissioner for Refugees, Melissa Fleming, stated 70,000-75,000 individuals have fled to Tunisia given that violence started in Libya on 20 February. A comparable number have gone to Egypt, where most are in a position to go on their journeys onward.
"Our employees about the Libya-Tunisia border have instructed us this morning the predicament there is reaching crisis level," she stated, quoted by AFP news agency.
About two,000 individuals are crossing into Tunisia every hour but as soon as in Tunisia many of them have nowhere to go. One more 20,000 are stated to be backed up about the Libyan aspect.
Most are Egyptian, but you'll find also important numbers of Chinese and Bangladeshis.
The Egyptians are angry, complaining that they've been forgotten by their authorities, says the BBC's Jim Muir about the border.
Temperatures plummeted overnight and our correspondent noticed the body of a young Egyptian guy who had apparently died of cold.
Tuesday, 1 March 2011
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