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Gaddafi ‘personally ordered’ Lockerbie bombing
The Lockerbie bombing was ordered personally by Colonel Gaddafi, according to quotes attributed to Libya’s ex-justice minister who resigned recently in protest at the clampdown on anti-government demonstrators. 270 people were killed when the Pan Am flight exploded over the Scottish town on its way to New York. In an interview with Expressen, a Swedish tabloid newspaper, Mustafa Abdel-Jalil is quoted as saying he has proof that Gaddafi gave the order. The paper did not say what the proof was. “The information that’s coming out today is the smoking gun that we’ve been waiting for for 23 years,” said Bert Ammerman, the brother of a passenger killed on board. “It’s now out in the open. A justice minister has clearly stated that Gaddafi ordered the bombing of Pan Am 103. That is an act of war. Finally an American administration can’t hide behind the rhetoric any longer. They must respond, they must react. President Obama, what are you going to do?” The former minister reportedly said that Gaddafi gave the order to Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of the bombing. He returned to Libya in 2009 after being freed from jail in Scotland on compassionate grounds. Suffering from cancer, it was said that he was about to die. He is still alive. Copyright © 2011 euronews

Demands grow for Yemen’s leader to go
Demands for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign have for the first time reached the northern city of Sa’dah. Thousands turned out with banners condemning his regime and calling for his three-decade rule to end. Opposition parties have warned if the leader doesn’t respond he will face the same fate as the toppled rulers of Egypt and Tunisia. So far most of the demonstrations have been in the capital, Sanaa, but a teenager is said to have died in clashes with soldiers in Aden. The pressure on Saleh to go has been growing for more than a week. At least a dozen people have died and opposition parties are in no mood to accept the president’s offer of a dialogue. They want a root and branch reform of the political system which has for decades favoured Saleh’s allies. Copyright © 2011 euronews

Malta at centre of operations in Libyan crisis
Over the last seven days at least 8,000 foreigners with more than 50 different nationalities between them have been evacuated from Libya and brought to the island of Malta. Whether it be by air or by sea, the country has welcomed them as part of a full scale international operation. The Maltese government has set up a command centre to manage the crisis. Malta’s Foreign Minister Tonio Borg said: “The more difficult areas are the oil fields in the desert, and I say this because there is not just one but there are a lot of installations if you look at a map. So those are more difficult to evacuate and we not have evacuated everyone.” Two more catamarans with more than 500 passengers on board are due to arrive later today. Malta’s Prime Minister Laurence Gonzi said a quick conclusion to the operation would be essential. “We are foreseeing a scenario where it will be absolutely vital for us to provide basic essential needs for the Libyan people in Libya.” The UK has not waited for Gaddafi to go. Once more its military planes flew into Libya without permission and picked up civilians from the desert oil fields. Copyright © 2011 euronews

Influx of North Africans with sights set on Italy
They are arriving in their scores, crammed onto?�small craft.?�In the last week alone, an estimated 5,500 illegal immigrants, mainly from Tunisia, have landed on the southern coast of Italy. It is a massive influx aimed mainly at the island of Lampedusa.?� ?�The?�tiny island?�only has?�6,000 inhabitants itself. It is?�just 138 kilometres from the Tunisian coast.?�Hundreds of young Tunisians from towns like Zarziz, Ben Guerdane, Tataoiune, Medenine?�and Gafsa, have joined the exodus towards Europe driven by high unemployment at home.?�“We’re not afraid to go from Djerba to Lampedusa,” said one voyager. “It’s 24-hours on a boat by sea. You pay 2,000 dinars – about 1,500 euros.”?�Italy declared a humanitarian emergency on Saturday and re-opened the Lampedusa centre for identification and expulsion. More than 2,000 immigrants jammed in, the majority young Tunisian men.?�“I come from Tunisia, everyone you see here comes from Tunisia, we are all afraid after the revolution that has taken place because nothing has changed,” said one?�newly arrived immigrant.?�“From the 14th of January nothing has changed. All of us here, we are not asking for anything, we only ask for a possibility to find work in Europe.”?�Italy has already dealt with significant waves of illegal immigration, but since a controversial deal with Libya signed?�in 2008, the numbers have?�tumbled in recent years from 36,000?�to 4,300 last year.?�But this latest influx has caught Italy and the European Union unawares.?�Mario Marazzitti from the Catholic humanitarian organisation?�Sant’Egido said: “I think that it is correct that in an international crisis now we have to find?�immediately a European table (sic) and decide who can help Italy to bear this weight.”?�Marazzitti said?�this current flow of immigrants is not going to stop in the near future. He compared it to the wave of Albanians who headed into Italy after the fall of communism in 1991.?� Copyright © 2011 euronews

Gaddafi attacks repelled in Benghazi
A hospital in Benghazi says 26 people are dead and and 40 injured after bombardments by Gaddafi’s forces. The rebels say that a fighter jet shot down over the city, was one of theirs sent out to repel the government attack. TO READ – Libya: a timeline of international diplomacy The fighting will be viewed by the international community as a clear breach of the ceasefire announced by the Libyan government yesterday, although a spokesman earlier insisted that they were honouring the policy and that it is the rebels who are attacking them. Reports are still hard to verify with claim and counter-claim, but the insurgents do appear to be in jubilant mood in Benghazi, claiming to have repelled the attacks and captured a tank in the process. Residents seem almost in a celebratory mood as they patrol the streets, waving rebel flags and firing guns in the air. People living in the another rebel held town, Misrata, also claim Gaddafi is breaking the ceasefire with snipers shooting people from the rooftops. They also said there’s been some shelling of the city though not as much as on Friday. Copyright © 2011 euronews