A "desperate situation" is developing at Tripoli's Rixos hotel, according to a BBC journalist trapped there along with some 35 other journalists and foreign nationals.

Conditions "deteriorated massively" overnight, reported BBC correspondent Matthew Price, with pro-Gaddafi guards patrolling the corridors.

"It became clear that we were unable to leave the hotel by our own free will," he told the Today programme.

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