ELEANOR HALL: Libya, where he now talks between the Transitional National Council of the country and loyal to Gaddafi have broken down and both parties are ready for a big shock in the city of Bani Walid.
The desert city is one of the last under the control of supporters of Gaddafi and tribal elders refused to surrender.
The interim governing council said that the time for talking is over the rebels and Libya are awaiting the green light to launch the final assault, as Emily Bourke reports.
EMILY BOURKE: Hopes for a peaceful solution to the dispute was one of the remaining bastions Moammar Gadhafi appears strokes and a major military assault in the desert city of Bani Walid is imminent.
The city is one of only a handful of areas in Libya still under the control of supporters of Gaddafi.
Outside the city, Dr. Kenshil Abdullah, a negotiator for the National Transition Council, said that negotiations with tribal leaders are over.
KENSHIL ABDULLAH: It's the only thing we do not want any bloodshed in Bani Walid, because we kill, kill with a gun or sniper or something. They are nothing, you know, run out.
REPORTER: What are you asking when negotiating? What do you want?
KENSHIL ABDULLAH: They wonder whether the revolution, come to Bani Walid, asks us to put our weapons and that means we have to kill us, you know. We can not do that.
EMILY BOURKE: Dr Omar el-Mansour Kikhi, a Libyan-American activist and professor of political science at the University of Texas, says that while Bani Walid is not strategically vital, it remains important to the rebels.
Omar El-Kikhi MANSOUR: Well actually the basis for one of the largest tribes in Libya, and this is the tribe Warfalla that in recent years Gaddafi tried to approach and tried to link his own small tribe, the Qadhadhfa to Warfalla and established a series of Warfallis in the government and gave them privileges and so on.
And what really is the last bastion of Gaddafi and therefore is very important to overcome Bani Walid, grasp the revolutionary forces, and it is important to be taken by the people of Bani Walid, who are members of the revolutionary forces.
EMILY BOURKE: But now there are questions about what motivates Gaddafi loyalists.
Anthony Shaffer of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, says that some supporters of Gaddafi are not fighting for a sense of loyalty.
Anthony Shaffer: The tribe think the reason they are negotiating so hard is so they can benefit or at least have a good opinion of this revolution. I think that is what is most important.
This is not simply a freedom as we have seen rising in Egypt. These are tribal issues dating back to the monarchy and, as we have seen, as we have seen, the pro-monarchy tribes, have moved east to the west, and that's what we're seeing here. We are seeing the end of the primacy of these tribes are related to Gaddafi and I think they want a fair deal to go ahead with the NTC.
EMILY BOURKE: In Tripoli, life has started returning to normal.
NTC officials have announced plans to take their heavily armed fighters under the control and try to integrate thousands of them in the police and find work for others.
Officials say there will be retraining and reintegration plans for those who fought for Gaddafi.
But senior UN humanitarian in Libya is concerned about the humanitarian problems in the pockets of a few of the territory in which Gaddafi's supporters are still in control.
The desert city is one of the last under the control of supporters of Gaddafi and tribal elders refused to surrender.
The interim governing council said that the time for talking is over the rebels and Libya are awaiting the green light to launch the final assault, as Emily Bourke reports.
EMILY BOURKE: Hopes for a peaceful solution to the dispute was one of the remaining bastions Moammar Gadhafi appears strokes and a major military assault in the desert city of Bani Walid is imminent.
The city is one of only a handful of areas in Libya still under the control of supporters of Gaddafi.
Outside the city, Dr. Kenshil Abdullah, a negotiator for the National Transition Council, said that negotiations with tribal leaders are over.
KENSHIL ABDULLAH: It's the only thing we do not want any bloodshed in Bani Walid, because we kill, kill with a gun or sniper or something. They are nothing, you know, run out.
REPORTER: What are you asking when negotiating? What do you want?
KENSHIL ABDULLAH: They wonder whether the revolution, come to Bani Walid, asks us to put our weapons and that means we have to kill us, you know. We can not do that.
EMILY BOURKE: Dr Omar el-Mansour Kikhi, a Libyan-American activist and professor of political science at the University of Texas, says that while Bani Walid is not strategically vital, it remains important to the rebels.
Omar El-Kikhi MANSOUR: Well actually the basis for one of the largest tribes in Libya, and this is the tribe Warfalla that in recent years Gaddafi tried to approach and tried to link his own small tribe, the Qadhadhfa to Warfalla and established a series of Warfallis in the government and gave them privileges and so on.
And what really is the last bastion of Gaddafi and therefore is very important to overcome Bani Walid, grasp the revolutionary forces, and it is important to be taken by the people of Bani Walid, who are members of the revolutionary forces.
EMILY BOURKE: But now there are questions about what motivates Gaddafi loyalists.
Anthony Shaffer of the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, says that some supporters of Gaddafi are not fighting for a sense of loyalty.
Anthony Shaffer: The tribe think the reason they are negotiating so hard is so they can benefit or at least have a good opinion of this revolution. I think that is what is most important.
This is not simply a freedom as we have seen rising in Egypt. These are tribal issues dating back to the monarchy and, as we have seen, as we have seen, the pro-monarchy tribes, have moved east to the west, and that's what we're seeing here. We are seeing the end of the primacy of these tribes are related to Gaddafi and I think they want a fair deal to go ahead with the NTC.
EMILY BOURKE: In Tripoli, life has started returning to normal.
NTC officials have announced plans to take their heavily armed fighters under the control and try to integrate thousands of them in the police and find work for others.
Officials say there will be retraining and reintegration plans for those who fought for Gaddafi.
But senior UN humanitarian in Libya is concerned about the humanitarian problems in the pockets of a few of the territory in which Gaddafi's supporters are still in control.
