Gaddafi: I cannot leave, I will die a martyr
Gaddafi: 'I cannot leave my country, I will die a martyr'
Libyan leader makes rambling speech after days of unrest
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6.17pm: The earthquake in New Zealand led the BBC six o'clock news this evening ahead of Libya - although it had a sizeable package on the uprising, Gaddafi's speech and David Cameron's ongoing tour of the middle east.
In the continuing absence of a team on the ground, the BBC used new footage sent out of Libya using the internet which showed protesters coming under fire on the streets of Tripoli, and images of troops in heavily patrolled residential neighbourhoods.
It cut to a segment from a phone interview with one anguished woman in the city who told of seeing one of her neighbours being shot dead.
"She was a woman who just went out on to the balcony of her house, but they shot her dead," she said
"They are not human."
Protesters in neighbouring Tunisia were shown ripping down the Libyan flag and replacing it with a pre-Gaddafi era one, which the BBC's Ian Pannell said was fast becoming a symbol of the uprising.
The BBC said it had received a large number of emails from Britons who were still in Libya and were worried about how they were going to leave.
5.56pm: Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, spoke earlier for more than an hour in reaction to the protests that have been rocking his country and seem to have left much of its eastern half out of his control. Here are the key points:
Gaddafi is not standing down or leaving the country. He said he would die in Libya "as a martyr".
He called upon his supporters to take back the streets from those who have been rebelling agains! t his ru le. He said they should go out tonight and "chase them".
He railed against the rebels, threatening them with the death penalty and calling them "rats" and drug addicts. He hinted that he had not yet used the type of violence he could do, pointing to China's massacre in Tiananmen Square and the FBI's infamous siege in Waco. At times he would change tack and say he did not blame the young people for rebelling, saying they had been unduly influenced by their counterparts in Tunisia and Egypt.
He announced vague reforms to local government, reforms in which his son Saif will have some kind of role. Saif will also address ambassadors and the media.
To catch up on all today's earlier events, click here.
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