[Lu Stout:] You're watching NEWSTEAM. And these are your world headlines. Now Libya's ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi has reportedly made another desperate call to his followers urging them to fight on to victory. And two audio messages aired on Syrian TV late on Thursday, a man claiming to be Gadhafi warns his enemies to prepare for a long, drawn out war. Now Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has held his first news conference as leader. Mr. Noda pledged to make reconstruction from the March 11th earthquake and tsunami the top priority for his government. He also called for closer ties with China. Now parliament elected Noda on Tuesday, making him the country's sixth new leader in five years. Turkey has downgraded its military and diplomatic relations with Israel over Israel's deadly raid of a Gaza bound flotilla in May last year. Nine Turks on board were killed in the incident. It comes as a UN report says Israel's storming of the flotilla was excessive and unreasonable. And this just into us here at CNN, the latest U.S. jobs numbers are out. It doesn't make for good reading. The U.S. economy added no jobs in August. An economist surveyed by CNN had expected a figure of 75,000 new non-farm payrolls. And the unemployment rate, it remains steady at 9.1 percent. We'll have much more on the latest U.S. jobs numbers in the next hour of CNN, along with the latest market reaction. And the U.S. Labor Secretary will react to these numbers live on World Business Today, that starts in less than half an hour from now. And Andrew Stevens in Hong Kong, Nina Dos Santos in London, Alicia Taylor in New York. Back to Libya now. With Colonel Gadhafi in hiding, more details are coming to light that tell us about the dark secrets of his regime. Now documents, files and photos from notorious Abu Salim Prison have been uncovered. As Arwa Damon shows us, they reveal shocking details of life behind bars.
[Saleh Marghani, Human Rights Lawyer:] This guy, or this family, or this guy, they could be dead or alive. We don't know.
[Arwa Damon, Cnn International Correspondent:] There are piles of photos, audio, and video tapes, stacks of files, papers, the morbid archive of Tripoli's infamous Abu Salim Prison, the site of the 1996 massacre that left at least 1,200 political inmates dead. The location of their bodies still unknown. Many believe they have yet to discover mass graves. Saleh Marghani, along with a team of young lawyers, is trying to save what's left.
[Marghani:] I think the most important thing to do for all this evidence and many other parts of it is to preserve them to be presented say in courts, or for researchers, for historians, so that people will know the facts.
[Damon:] This file says on it Zumar el Kilab el Dola, which translates to remain the groups of stray dogs. And inside are the names of various political activists. And is how the regime used to refer to them. Many of them detained decades ago.
[Marghani:] This guy, first one who was killed in 1984.
[Damon:] Some of the documents are already gone forever, turned into ash in a fire a few days ago, possibly arson at the hands of someone who doesn't want Abu Salim's secrets uncovered. "It pains me. These were some of the best Libyan men," Wajdi al-Unici says sifting through a box of photos. His older brother Rajib was held here, accused of being a member of a banned religious party. Now Wajdi is intently scanning for clues, holding on to a tiny sliver of hope that his brother is alive. "He was doing his military service in 1989," Wajdi tells us. He stopped coming to visit, so my parents began to worry and search for him. At the base where he was stationed they were told he was never there. After a year of scouring the whole country they finally tracked him to Abu Salim. "We saw him three times for 15 minutes each," Wajdi remembers. "The last time was in 1993. And then they closed the door. And from that moment until now we have not seen him." In 2009, the family received a death certificate that Rajib had died in 1996. But they don't believe it. The archives that holds the answers for so many families is being moved to a secure location where the hope is that one day, perhaps, the secrets of Abu Salim will be uncovered. Arwa Damon, CNN, Tripoli.
[Lu Stout:] Now many Libyans decided to flee Gadhafi's regime even before the country erupted into civil war. But now with the former Libyan leader out of the picture, they're hoping to make the move back home. Nima Elbagir reports.
[Nima Elbagir, Cnn International Correspondent:] Like many Libyans living abroad Mahmoud had been desperately watching news of his homeland. He fled Tripoli and the rule of Moammar Gadhafi 10 years ago. His mother joined him here in Dubai after the family home was destroyed in the war.
[Unidentified Male:] They broke the glass and they start shooting everywhere.
[Elbagir:] But his siblings stayed behind. And in the first days of fighting in the capital when information was hard to come by, the worry was almost unbearable.
[Faiwzai Shtway, Mahmoud's Mother:] My friend, my home, my sister, my brother, my family, my everything every day I call my friend, my sister, my my son my big son I have.
[Elbagir:] The family back in Tripoli is safe. But Mahmoud recently received word that a friend had been killed in the fighting. But even knowing the dangers, Mahmoud and his mother say as soon as they can they will return to Libya. During Gadhafi's 42 years of rule, tens of thousands of Libyans went into exile, seeking opportunities and freedoms denied them at home, making lives for themselves and their families here in the Middle East and around the world. But now that Tripoli has fallen and it's Gadhafi and his family who face exile. Many are now asking themselves if it's time to think about returning home and helping rebuild their nation. Along with Mahmoud, Ahmed Rais is also planning his return to Libya.
[Ahmed Rais, Libyan National:] We got a lot of experience in terms of working the immigrants working abroad in the UK or in the U.S. so the contribution is to go back to Libya and take all the knowledge that you learned and the experience from these countries...
[Elbagir:] For their friend, this is an issue that is especially emotional. Her grandfather was the former prime minister of Libya who was forced out when Gadhafi seized power. He later died in prison.
[Rueida Muntasser, Libyan National:] 1969 Gadhafi came to power. My grandfather was captured. He was put in jail. And that was the end of it. They sacked Tripoli. It just happened so quick, so fast, like it's happening now.
[Elbagir:] She knows how quickly things can go wrong. Even when a government has the best intentions. And that's why, she says, it's so important that everyone does what they can.
[Muntasser:] All Libyans want to contribute to society. So and we owe it, we owe it to [inaudible] we owe it to those Libyans who fought, who lost their lives, and who gave they did this to give us this opportunity. How could we not give this to them? They died to see a new Libya. So who is going to build a new Libya? The people.
[Elbagir:] And even as rebels still battle forces loyal to Gadhafi, many Libyans are imagining a place they can again call home.
[Rais:] Libya is going to grow up, people will have their chances, and we can be a free country.
[Elbagir:] Nima Elbagir, CNN, Abu Dhabi.
[Lu Stout:] And with the Gadhafi family's reign at a likely end in Libya, more details of their abuse of power are emerging. This week, Dan Rivers brought us a story of Shrigei Mullah, a nanny for Hannibal Gadhafi's household found badly burned. And now he has been told of routine abuse and imprisonment of Hannibal Gadhafi's domestic staff. He joins me now live from Tripoli with the details. And Dan, more stories of abuse. What have you heard?
[Rivers:] Yeah, this wasn't just confined to one Nanny. Shrigei Mullah who we featured this week. In fact, it sounds like a lot of the staff suffered abuse to varying degrees. We've spoken to one man who is still too afraid to give his name or to show his face, but he took us to another compound that Hannibal Gadhafi used as an office complex. And in that was a sort of secret prison room, cell, where they locked people up, staff, if they felt that they'd done something wrong. He, himself, says he was locked up in this compound for three days on his own with no food or water. He gave us more accounts of other people who had been burnt with boiling water. I've been in touch with another former nanny who has now left Libya, who is on somewhere else in the world. She again is too afraid to be interviewed, but show corroborates this picture that we're building up of terrible abuse of the domestic staff both by Hannibal Gadhafi and his wife Aileen.
[Lu Stout:] It's quite incredible looking at the images there of that apparent jail cell. It's quite sick. Recently, you've also seen Shrigei again, the nanny who was abused by the family of Hannibal Gadhafi. How is she doing?
[Rivers:] She's a lot better, Kristie. She's in the burns hospital in Tripoli still. We went to visit her last night and the health minister for Libya came along. And he expressed her support you know, giving her whatever she needs. And that was encouraging. She even managed to smile. It's the first time I'd seen her smile, which was great. And she, you know, wanted to say her you know, profound thanks to everyone who has helped and contributed money to her care. And that page can be found on cnn.comimpactyourworld but still there. It's going to be a long time, frankly, before she has any semblance of normal life. But you can already see just the dignity which she carries herself at the moment. And, you know, we're all hoping that she can make a full recovery in the course of time.
[Lu Stout:] Yeah, here's hoping for that. And a big thank you to you, Dan, and the team for bringing her story to the world. Dan Rivers there joining us live from Tripoli. And since Dan Rivers first brought to you the story of Shrigei Mullah we have received a huge outpouring of support for her. And donations to a fundraising page, it was set up by Antislavery International along with CNN, have now topped $16,000. If you want to help, there is a special section on our web site you can click on. You just go to cnn.comimpact. And there you will find that link to the Antislavery International page. Once again Impact Your Worldimpact. Now still to come here on News Stream, another big storm is brewing in the Atlantic. The global weather forecast is next.