(8 Aug 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Various of tanks on fire after being hit by Nato airstrike
2. Rebels on pick-up trucks advancing north
3. Wide of rebels firing machine-gun from moving vehicle
4. Rebels taking cover from enemy fire, AUDIO: Bullets whizzing past
5. Close of bloodstained hand of dead soldier loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
6. Mid of rebels surrounding two bodies of soldiers loyal to Gadhafi
7. Mid of doctor treating wounded Gadhafi soldier who rebels have taken prisoner
8. Close of captured soldier being given water
9. Pan of rebels driving rocket-launcher truck which they have seized from Gadhafi''s forces
10. Close of smouldering car, AUDIO: firing
11. Low angle of smouldering debris and burned out car
12. Close of missile abandoned on side of road as rebel vehicles pass
13. Mid of rebels
14. Wide of rebels walking past smoke rising
STORYLINE
Dramatic pictures emerged on Monday of the ongoing fighting in western Libya between rebels and forces loyal to embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi.
The footage showed rebels in the town of Bir Ghanam on Saturday advancing on Gadhafi''s forces shortly after a NATO airstrike, which destroyed several Libyan army tanks.
At one point, the rebels came under fire and leaped to the ground as enemy bullets flew overhead.
Medical officials said five rebels and three regime soldiers were been killed in the fighting.
The footage showed the dead bodies of two soldiers loyal to Gadhafi lying on the ground covered by blankets and another wounded regime solider receiving treatment from a doctor in the field.
A rebel commander said opposition forces captured Bir Ghanam and moved a few miles beyond it, as well as making advances on a separate highway to Sabratha.
In Tripoli on Sunday, Libyan Prime Minister Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi acknowledged that rebels had entered Bir Ghanam, but were then driven out after a few hours.
Rebels are hoping for a breakthrough in the far west of Libya, frustrated with the stalemate in the centre of the country, where their underequipped forces have been unable to budge the battlelines despite five months of NATO airstrikes on Gadhafi''s military.
Rebels control most of the eastern half of country, while Gadhafi''s regime holds most of the west, centred around Tripoli, the country''s capital.
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