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Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, has vowed to fight to the end\u00a0in a speech broadcast live on state television, amid one of the fiercest NATO air strikes on Tripoli.<\/p>\n

“We only have one choice: we will stay in our land dead or alive,” he said in the audio address on Tuesday, calling on his supporters to flock to his Bab al-Aziziya compound in the capital.<\/p>\n

“We will not kneel! We will not surrender.”<\/p>\n

“We are stronger than your missiles, stronger than your planes and the voice of the Libyan people is louder than explosions,” he said.<\/p>\n

Gaddafi said he was ready to unleash between 250,000 to 500,000 armed Libyans to swarm across the country to cleanse it from “armed gangs”, a reference to the rebels controlling\u00a0parts of the North African country.<\/p>\n

“Whether we are martyred, killed or commit suicide, we care about our duty towards history,” Gaddafi said, demanding to know why the bombardment was continuing.<\/p>\n

Gaddafi was last seen on state television on May 30 in footage of him meeting Jacob Zuma, the South African president.<\/p>\n

NATO intensifies raids<\/strong><\/p>\n

Waves of NATO aircraft hit the Libyan capital on Tuesday, including targets in the vicinity of the Bab al-Aziziya compound, in the most sustained bombardment of the Libyan capital since\u00a0the military alliance\u00a0began air strikes in March.<\/p>\n

Moussa Ibrahim, the Libyan government spokesman, told reporters it was the heaviest day of shelling in the capital.<\/p>\n

Ambulances, sirens blaring, could be heard racing through the city during the day-long raids that shook the ground and sent thundering sound waves across the capital.<\/p>\n

The AFP news agency reported that four explosions were heard from the centre of the city, while the AP news agency\u00a0reported that low-flying NATO aircraft carried out nine successive attacks in the capital.<\/p>\n

The strikes hit the Popular Guard compound and the Revolutionary Guard compound, a Libyan official told reporters in the capital.<\/p>\n

NATO officials have warned for days that they were increasing the scope and intensity of their two-month campaign to oust Gaddafi after more than 40 years in power.<\/p>\n

The alliance is assisting a four-month old rebel\u00a0offensive that has seized large\u00a0swathes of eastern Libya and pockets in the regime’s stronghold in the west.<\/p>\n

On Monday, NATO air raids on the capital targeted the communications of the battered government, hitting offices of the state broadcaster and military intelligence headquarters, officials said.<\/p>\n

Diplomatic efforts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Benghazi, a Russian delegation met with the rebel’s National Transitional Council (NTC), which controls the city and eastern Libya.<\/p>\n

Mikhail Margelov, special representative for Africa,\u00a0said that Gaddafi had lost his legitimacy but that NATO airstrikes were not a solution to the stalemate in Libya.<\/p>\n

“Russia is ready to help now; Russia is ready to help politically, economically and in other possible ways,” Margelov said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We are as a prominent member of the National Security Council, we are, as a member of G8,\u00a0ready to carry our part of responsibility for the future of these extremely important Arab and African nations.”<\/p>\n

Despite\u00a0the opposition forces making major advances in the country’s east, Russia, which has\u00a0extensive business ties with Gaddafi’s regime,\u00a0is still unwilling to drop the possibility of a political solution.<\/p>\n

Also\u00a0on\u00a0Tuesday, Gaddafi dispatched Abdul-Ati al-Obeidi,\u00a0his foreign minister,\u00a0to Beijing for talks, in an apparent effort to restore some of the Libyan government’s influence.<\/p>\n

China has pointedly avoided joining international calls for Gaddafi to step down, but did not exercise its veto power at the UN Security Council when a resolution to intervene in Libya was passed.<\/p>\n

Hong Lei, the Chinese foreign ministry’s spokesman, told reporters at a regular briefing that talks with al-Obeidi would focus on the need for a political solution to the Libyan crisis.<\/p>\n

But in a break from its earlier stands, China on Friday said it was reaching out for the first time to the Libyan rebel council, with the country’s ambassador to Qatar meeting with the head\u00a0NTC in Doha, the Qatari capital.<\/p>\n

China also\u00a0abstained in the UN Security Council vote authorising the use of force against the Libyan government and has repeatedly criticised the NATO bombing campaign.<\/p>\n

Rebels gain<\/strong><\/p>\n

The latest air strikes follow recent gains made by rebels seeking to end Gaddafi’s more than four-decades rule.<\/p>\n

Reports on Monday said the rebels had entered the northwestern town of Yafran, previously held by government forces.<\/p>\n

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO’s secretary-general, said on Monday that the alliance had damaged or destroyed 1,800 military targets in Libya so far.<\/p>\n

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