On air at 1100 GMT: Libya - humanitarian crisis
| 10:11 UK time, Tuesday, 19 April 2011
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For days now we've been told that a humanitarian disaster is unfolding in the city of Misrata. Thousands of people are trapped and they are claims that Col Gaddafi's forces are attacking civilians and there are fears of a massacre being carried out .
But now the Libyan government has promised aid workers it will allow them safe passage into areas they control, according to the UN. As i write the UN's World Food Programme said that it has opened up a new humanitarian corridor in western Libya, allowing it to send in enough food to feed about 50,000 people for a month.
Yesterday 1,000 people who were evacuated from Misrata arrived in the rebel base of Benghazi. We'll be speaking to people inside the beseiged city and to people working on getting them out.
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