Message for Gadhafi Loyalists; Long Road Ahead for Nanny; U.N. Discusses Aid to Libyan Transitional Government; Gadhafi Nanny Gets Treatment
BECKY ANDERSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL HOST: On the road to Gadhafi's hometown with a message for his loyalists -- lay down your weapons by Saturday, or else. Help at last, but still a long road ahead for this nanny to the Gadhafi family. We're going to have an update and her condition for you. And then, a day meant for celebration leads to carnage in Syria. No break in the government crackdown on the last day of Ramadan. And the sweet smell of success -- how marketeers are assaulting your senses and reaping the benefits. These stories and more tonight as we connect the world. Surrender by Saturday or face the final battle -- Libyan rebels now giving all towns remaining loyal to Moammar Gadhafi a new deadline for giving up the fight. Well, their main focus is Sirte, Gadhafi's hometown and last major stronghold. Rebels are negotiating with tribal leaders there, saying that they want to avoid further bloodshed, but warn they will resort to force if necessary and are making final preparations. Well, they're now flanking Sirte from east and west, eager to end a civil war they say has claimed at least 50,000 lives -- to end it, of course. Let's get an update on the ground. Frederik Pleitgen has been following rebel movements today near Sirte and filed this report a short time ago for you.</s>FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The front line to the west of Sirte is actually quite unique. It's about 100 kilometers away from the actual town. So Sirte is about 100 kilometers that way. Gadhafi's forces are about 70 kilometers in that direction. Now what the guys here will do, these are the rebels that come from Misrata and are looking to make it along the way to Sirte. And what they will do is they'll launch small teams in that direction to go to some of the villages there. They say in the past, they've had a lot of contact with pro-Gadhafi forces, but they haven't made that final push to try and take the city. And they say that they will only do that if they get the order from the National Transitional Council. "All we're waiting for is the order from the National Transitional Council to move into Sirte," he says. Several dozen fighters are waiting here, at this checkpoint. They've got, I would say, about 10 to 15 gun trucks stationed here, a lot of quite heavy weapons, as well. The interesting thing, though, about the fighters that are here, a lot of them are actually from the town of Misrata. And they say they felt that when they got the Gadhafi forces out of Misrata, that their job was over. However, now they've pushed all the way over here, to the front lines close to Sirte. But they say they're still very recently to actually go into that town and fight. They hope that things can be solved through negotiations.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now, when we get back to the revolution again, we want to go back to revolution again.</s>PLEITGEN: OK. So no one is going to march to Sirte?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.</s>PLEITGEN: The National Transitional Council has issued an ultimatum to the tribes that are still loyal to Moammar Gadhafi. They say these tribes need to surrender in the coming four days, during the holiday of Eid or the National Transitional Council will send in heavy weapons. And what they mean by heavy weapons is what you see right here, the typical sort of pickup trucks with anti-aircraft weapons mounted to them, with heavy machine guns mounted to them, some of them also with multiple rocket launchers on the backs of their beds. So those are the kinds of weapons that are threatening to attack Sirte right now. But again, the rebels here that we're meeting at the front lines say they hope all of this can be solved through negotiations. It seems as though right now, though, those negotiations are in some very deep water.</s>ANDERSON: Frederik Pleitgen reporting as the battles, of course, continue. Libya's opposition already looking ahead to rebuilding the country. And a top priority is getting lucrative oil fields back online. Finance Minister Ali Tarhouni gave some estimates today at a news conference in Tripoli. He also spoke with our Nic Robertson just a short while ago -- Nic, what did he say?</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, he said he hopes to be back up to about 500 million barrels -- 500 million, 500,000 barrels. Libya was only producing 1.2 million barrels a day before the current crisis. He hopes to be back up to about half a million barrels a day within weeks, perhaps six months, he said, to be back up to 100 percent production, where the country was before the conflict began. He said that he estimates about 15 percent of the oil facilities around the country have been damaged. But he's already -- he said they're already on the verge of beginning to pump gas and oil out of the country, to begin to be in a position to export it again. So he put -- he put quite a -- quite a good assessment, in his opinion, of how quickly the country can get back up and running. But I also talked to him about -- about the issue of negotiations and, most importantly, for so many people here, where Moammar Gadhafi is.</s>ALI TARHOUNI, LIBYAN FINANCE MINISTER: We have a pretty good idea of where -- the whereabouts of Gadhafi is.</s>ROBERTSON: Where is he?</s>TARHOUNI: That I can't tell you.</s>ROBERTSON: Is it in the south of the country?</s>TARHOUNI: I can't really tell you.</s>ROBERTSON: Is he taking shelter with tribes that are still loyal to him?</s>TARHOUNI: I can't even tell you that.</s>ROBERTSON: And right now, you have given the Gadhafi loyalists in Sirte until the end of the week to negotiate. Why have you given them so long?</s>TARHOUNI: I think I'm hoping and I'm hopeful, actually. I think the wiser and the elders of these tribes will realize that bloodshed is not only a waste, but actually they have no way to go. And -- and I think, until the end of the week is ample time. If it need to be, if it needs to be extended, we will do that. The main goal is that we want to stop the bloodshed.</s>ROBERTSON: Right now, a lot of the south of the country is not in the hands of the National Transitional Council.</s>TARHOUNI: Right.</s>ROBERTSON: Exactly how much of the country do you control? And the south is huge. It's a vast area. How are you going to regain control of it and how long will that take?</s>TARHOUNI: Well, there -- the truth of the matter is that our -- that, like everywhere else, there -- that a lot of types (ph). And the south is actually, has never been as loyal as it has</s>ROBERTSON: What -- what about Sebha, a big important town in the south?</s>TARHOUNI: Right.</s>ROBERTSON: That's been loyal to Gadhafi.</s>TARHOUNI: This is the one I'm talking about.</s>ROBERTSON: And how long before this is going to be back entirely in the hands of the National Transitional Council?</s>TARHOUNI: I wish it's tomorrow. But I know better than that. I think this drug (ph), this killer knows that he has nowhere to go, but also, he thinks that he can negotiate, he thinks that he can find a way out of the trouble that he's in. So I'm -- I'm thinking, you know, a matter of days. The report that I got today from the security and from different agencies, everybody is an optimist. They're talking about a week or so. I really have no problem of waiting another week. I waited 42 years, so it's not really an issue for me.</s>ROBERTSON: So what's interesting about that, Becky, about that is that, really, we've talked so far about the rebels going up against Gadhafi loyalists, against his military forces, the army that were protecting him. Now we're talking about something a little bit different. We're talking about tribes, tribe on tribe or rebels and the tribes who support them against Gadhafi's tribe, unless, of course, this rapprochement and everyone agrees. But there is something different here. That -- we're talking now about the potential of division between tribes across the country -- Becky.</s>ANDERSON: Nic Robertson reporting from Tripoli. Thank you, Nic. Talking there to a significant member of what is Libya's interim government. The United Nations Security Council meeting today talking about ways that it can assist Libya's opposition government. Let's bring in our senior U.N. correspondent, Richard Roth, for more details. You had -- you heard Tarhouni suggesting that he hopes, at least, to get up to some half a million barrels of oil a day soon, with a view to getting back to 1.2 million at some later date. They need money to do this. They'll get money from the oil fields, of course. But they need money to get the whole process started -- Richard, don't they?</s>RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR UNITED NATIONS CORRESPONDENT: Yes. And the U.N. Security Council Sanctions Committee on Libya released $1.6 billion in frozen assets at a request by the U.K. government. Germany and France also have similar requests in. It's all starting to unfreeze accounts and get humanitarian and other money going in to revitalize society. For the first time in months, we heard, at the Security Council just minutes ago, a rather optimistic view when it comes to Libya, facts provided by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.</s>BAN KI-MOON, U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL: I think we can all be encouraged by the current trend. Yesterday, we received a confirmation that members of Moammar Gadhafi's family have sought asylum in Algeria. The National Transitional Council appears to be largely in control of Tripoli and other cities. Fighting continues in some parts of the country, most notably, Sirte, Sabha and Tualaf (ph) and points to the south. And I think we can now hope for a quick conclusion to the conflict and an end to the suffering of Libya's people.</s>ROTH: The U.N. has a major plan for assisting Libya. The Security Council stressing Libyan people still have to be nominally in charging. There has to be a lot coordination with different agencies that will pour in there. Becky, we've seen this, of course, in other areas and other countries coming out of conflict. There's a lot of hard work ahead -- back to you.</s>ANDERSON: But at least some optimism out of the U.N. Security Council this evening, as you suggested, Richard. Thank you for that. Richard Roth for you out of New York this evening. Well, as Gadhafi's dictatorship crumbles, so did any pretense about life under his regime. Now, yesterday, if you were watching at this hour, we brought you a heartbreaking story of a nanny who lived in the villa of one of Gadhafi's sons, Hannibal. Well, she has suffered unimaginable abuse. But with the Gadhafis gone, she no longer has to suffer in silence. Dan Rivers visited her in the hospital today, where she's finally receiving treatment. I've got to warn you, though, these images of her injuries are very hard to watch.</s>DAN RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT  (voice-over): Slowly, slowly, she whispers as they unwrapped her dressing. What you're about to see is difficult to watch. God only knows how painful it is for Shweyga to endure. The entire top of her head is burnt and many of the wounds are infected. The nanny to Hannibal Gadhafi's children is thankfully now in a hospital burn unit in Tripoli. She's finally beginning to get the antibiotics and the care she needs. This is how we found Shweyga, abandoned in the Gadhafi family compound with horrific burns that she says were inflicted by Hannibal Gadhafi's wife, Aileen. She told us how boiling water was poured over her head, punishment for failing to keep a Gadhafi grandchild from crying. An account corroborated by co-workers. But now she's already sounding more optimistic. She says she already feels better than before. (on camera): Well, it's great to see that Shweyga is in a much better place than when we found her yesterday. But it's also clear she's got months more treatment ahead if she's going to have any kind of a normal life. (voice-over): These photos show her horrible condition when she first arrived at the hospital in June. They were taken by doctors who started to treat her. But the doctors say they were bullied into stopping treatment by Hannibal Gadhafi's staff.</s>RIDA FRANKA, DIRECTOR OF TRIPOLI BURN UNIT: So first they came and threatened me here. And they said you have to -- you have to discharge this case or otherwise you will have a lot of problems.</s>RIVERS (on camera): Despite the threats, the guard later brought her back secretly for more treatment. When the Gadhafi family found out, doctors say they were again ordered to stop treatment. This video was taken by a doctor a week ago, when Shweyga finally made the treacherous journey to a clinic through the fighting. Doctors say it was too dangerous to get to the burn unit and she was sent home after her dressings were changed. Dr. Rowida Zawiya (ph) took that video and it is damning about Hannibal and Aileen Gadhafi.</s>ROWIDA ZAWIYA: There's no humanity. They are so -- I don't know, actually. Maybe they're insane. I'm not sure.</s>RIVERS: Three weeks ago, that candor might have brought a death sentence. Now they're free to speak and to care for Shweyga Mullah. Dan Rivers, CNN, Tripoli.</s>ANDERSON: And that is one of the most infuriating parts of this story, is it? Shweyga could have been treated months ago, indeed, was even in a hospital but was forced to leave. I want to talk more about the extent of her injuries, what can be done for her and what sort of psychological damage perhaps she will suffer from all this. We're joined by Jorge Leon-Villapalos. He's a burn specialist at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital here in London, I -- I believe, one of the only major specialist burn units here in the country. Jorge, as we -- as we watch those pictures, that video, I mean it is absolutely heartbreaking. Is this as bad as it gets?</s>JORGE LEON-VILLAPALOS, BURN SPECIALIST, CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL: It can actually, it can even get worse. But there is no doubt that this poor lady has suffered a phenomenal amount of pain, a phenomenal amount of suffering and that the scars that actually these injuries may leave may be actually ever lasting. And I'm not talking about that. I'm talking, also, about the -- the last thing psychological impact that it can have on her personality, regarding her looks and how she will relate, actually, is through her society.</s>ANDERSON: I want to have a look at some of the pictures that we have of Shweyga so that you can talk myself and the viewers what you're seeing here. We believe that she was scalded with boiling water. Is this the sort of burns that you would expect to see as a result of that kind of injury?</s>LEON-VILLAPALOS: They're certainly compatible with that type of injury. But there is no doubt that these burns are actually not only very extensive, but possibly, they were actually very deep at the time. And on the basis of what I can see, I can only ascertain that the type of liquid that she may have poured with -- been poured with -- was actually as extremely hot and that the suffering, the pain and certainly as the damage to her skin may have been phenomenal.</s>ANDERSON: So what can be done at this stage?</s>LEON-VILLAPALOS: It is difficult to know, obviously. Our colleagues at Libya have done, actually, the best that they can with the resources that they have got available. Now, these type of injuries, we can see them basically, see in our units. We treat them in a very multi-disciplinary way, by giving them not only the imperative and medical support that they may actually just need, but also the psychological support and then put up a whole area of professionals that will deal with the marks of these type of injuries, like scars or, effectively, the way she feels about her looks.</s>ANDERSON: All right. And you're a plastic surgeon, I know, as well.</s>LEON-VILLAPALOS: That is correct.</s>ANDERSON: What can be done to help the psychological damage, which would be sort of, you know, the way I look and feel going forward, by somebody who specializes, as you do, in</s>LEON-VILLAPALOS: It's a very long process. And then the</s>ANDERSON: You said that your colleagues in Libya are doing what they can in what are, let's face it, limited resources. Many of these hospitals don't even have any doctors, at the moment, or any medical supplies. She needs to leave Libya at some point soon, doesn't she? How long does she have before this will be physical, long-lasting scarrage?</s>LEON-VILLAPALOS: In general terms, we say that any type of this burn that does not heal within a two to three week period, usually it leaves permanent scarring. It is the effect of the scarring that we tend to probably deal with at this stage. We say that burns patients are outpatients for life precisely because of that reason. Burns leave not only disfigurement, but also contracture, functional problems, you know, problems that actually are disruptive of daily living. But not only that, but also you have the inability to really just look at yourself in the way that you were before and actually just deal with the normal type of just rejection of society toward anyone that actually looks different.</s>ANDERSON: Really amazing. Really good points there. OK, thank you very much, indeed, for joining us, your expert on this. There's no doubt about it, I do have to tell you that this story has touched an outrage to people around the world. Many of you are writing or calling us asking how you can help. Well, CNN is working with humanitarian organizations and medical officials. And as soon as we finalize a plan is to -- a route forward so far as action is concerned, we will get it to you, of course, straight. But log onto CNN.com/impact and do stay tuned for updates here on CONNECT THE WORLD. It's 19 minutes past 9:00 in London. Coming up next, he was President Bush's right hand man. But does Dick Cheney have any regrets about the war in Iraq? Plus, in about 10 minutes time, we're going to find out whether it was all plain sailing for Roger Federer at the U.S. Open. And if you've wondered why your supermarket shopping is burning a hole in your market, then don't miss our tricks of the trade report here in about 30 minutes. You're watching CNN. This is CONNECT THE WORLD. I'm Becky Anderson in London. 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