Musa Ibrahim, says its a trick its a trick its a trick

• The full quote from Musa Ibrahim, the government spokesman, when rejecting the opposition's conditions for a ceasefire:

  The rebels never offered any peace.....we are the ones who offered peace weeks ago, and we said we are going to talk, and let's sit down and everything. The rebels are not offering peace. If you are making impossible demands, it's a trick, it's a trick. So, okay, I could come to the rebels and say: 'rebels, I offer you peace, get out of Benghazi on a ship, this is my condition.' You can't do that. These are our cities, these are the cities of the Libyan government. You hate this government? You can hate it. Many people hate their governments. That's not the question. If you want peace, you keep things as they are, you sit down and you negotiate. But to make impossible demands is a trick. So what they are doing is not a genuine wish for peace." 

• 11:37pm

  US-based rights watchdog Human Rights Watch says that the use of landmines by the Libyan government has been "confirmed".

  According to the group, troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi have used both antipersonnel and antivehicle mines during the current conflict with the opposition. 

  Pictures have been taken of mines laid by pro-Gaddafi forces (about two dozen antivehicle and three dozen antipersonnel mines) on the outskirts of Ajdabiya.

  HRW's release is available here.

  
  
• 11:32pm

  Franco Frattini, the Italian foreign minister, says his country has not ruled out the possibility of arming the Libyan opposition, but that to do so would be an "extreme measure".

  Frattini said it would be a decision taken if it became "the only possible option to protect civilians".
• 11:27pm

  Libyan television reports that coalition forces hit civilian and military areas in the towns of Khoms and Arrujban on Friday.

  Khoms is about 100km east of Tripoli, and Arrujban is about 190km southwest of the capital.
• 10:24pm

  The Associated Press reports that the US will "soon" stop firing Tomahawk cruise missiles, in addition to pulling attack aircraft out of operations, in the Mediterranean theatre.
• 10:19pm

  Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, a Nicaraguan diplomat whose name had been discussed as a possibly Libyan government envoy to the United Nations,  will now be representing his own country as a deputy ambassador, the UN says.
• 10:08pm

  On Al Jazeera right now: David Frost interviews Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO's secretary-general. Watch live here.