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00:00...anti-NATO spot, one of the TV stations also organized nightly concerts on one of the city's bridges
00:05as hundreds of people gathered every night since the beginning of the bombing campaign
00:09in an attempt to prevent those bridges to be bombed.
00:13Now, if I can go back to what happened last night, the attack happened just about a few minutes after 3 a.m. in the morning
00:19when I heard several powerful explosions which rattled the windows of my hotel room
00:23which stands just a few meters across the street from this building.
00:27A few moments after the attack, I could see light in part of the building still on
00:32suggesting that there may have been people still inside at the time of the explosion.
00:36Belgrade officials who rushed to the scene told Serbian television that as many as 15 people
00:41were working at the radio and television studios in the building
00:44but there are no reports at this time of any casualties.
00:48The Serbian Prime Minister, Mirko Marjanovic, condemned the attack
00:51saying the building had no link to the military.
00:53Here is what he had to say a few moments after arriving on the scene.
00:57Like all that's been done so far, this could only be done by criminals and fascists.
01:05We can say that this will not break us.
01:08We will rebuild all of it once it is time.
01:12Michael, NATO also hit for the fourth time a factory in Valjevo
01:17which is a city 50 miles south of Belgrade.
01:20Serbian television showed the pictures of this powerful explosion
01:23that you can see one after the other.
01:25This factory can...
01:26Pre-strike image of military facilities at Pristina airfield
01:30while the next slide is a post-attack image.
01:35Finally, we have an original image of the Eurosevac Army Garrison
01:44home of the 243rd Mechanized Brigade
01:48a unit actively involved in action against the UCK
01:52and Kosovo Albanian population.
01:54The next image is the cumulative result of our airstrikes
02:03against the same facility.
02:06We have one video of an attack against an underground oil storage facility
02:12in the vicinity of Novi Sad.
02:13A few minutes ago, they'll be taking 96 Kosovar-Albanian refugees
02:43to Peshtoki, which is a town in southwestern Albania.
02:48Now, these people are unable to make the very long and difficult road journey
02:53down to that area.
02:54The roads in Albania are far from ideal.
02:57Some of these people are in very bad condition.
03:00They will be accompanied by their...
03:01The Apaches are in Brindisi.
03:05We've just been briefed by the army
03:07and this is the first briefing that we've had over the past four or five days.
03:11They tell us that a landing strip that was being prepared for the Apaches
03:15was not quite ready yet, which explains why the Apaches are not here.
03:20We were first expecting them on Sunday.
03:22Sonia?
03:23A very small part of the air campaign, by going very low,
03:26going into Kosovo, attacking surface-to-air missiles,
03:29attacking anti-aircraft artillery,
03:31clearing the way for then aircraft such as the Harriers
03:34and the A-10 tankbusters and the F-16s.
03:37They can then provide excellent aerial artillery
03:41for things like helic-borne troops.
03:44So they are a very, very useful weapon.
03:46The embarrassment is their deployment was announced two weeks ago.
03:49The first ones have probably only just arrived in Albania
03:53and there is a certain amount of egg-on face in the U.S. Army.
03:56It's taken so long.
03:56The latest is the helicopters have left Brindisi, Italy.
04:00It's a short hop and we are expecting them any moment.
04:04Now, just behind me, we can see some activity.
04:07Troops have been clearing this runway.
04:09We've been told they'll be landing very close to us.
04:12And just a little distance away, the whole eyes of the world,
04:15we have journalists from China, from Korea,
04:19from even as far away as Australia,
04:21everyone waiting here for the Apaches to arrive.
04:25Now, of course, the Apache mission, dubbed Task Force Hawk,
04:29is to go into Kosovo and try to attack Serbian targets
04:33such as tanks and even troops.
04:37The Apache, specially equipped for this low-flying mission,
04:41it has 16 Hellfire missiles.
04:43It has the capability to fire rockets
04:45and it can also fire a 30-millimeter cannon.
04:48We talked to some pilots today
04:50and they say the Apache will be flying both night and day.
04:53It has very sophisticated avionics.
04:57The Apache, still no sign of them,
05:00but we've been told the Apaches will be accompanied
05:02by other support helicopters.
05:05We should see some Chinooks,
05:08which are large carriers,
05:10large transport as well as goods carriers.
05:14We should also see some supporting Blackhawks.
05:16But the latest from here is, at the moment,
05:19is it's still wait and watch for the Apaches.
05:23The total of 24,
05:25which have been accompanied by several Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters,
05:29bad weather delayed the Apache's deployment for several days.
05:32A spokesman for the U.S.-European Command in Germany has said,
05:34the helicopters have yet to be officially turned over to NATO command.
05:39The low-flying Apache is designed to attack
05:41large concentrations of tanks, armored vehicles, and ground troops.
05:44They set up from Pisa, Italy this morning, refueling on the way.
05:48Now they arrive in Tirana, in Albania.
05:50You can see the landing there in Tirana, in Albania.
06:06The Apache helicopters are landing there.
06:08Considered to be a very powerful ground force aid,
06:13being able to attack large concentrations of tanks,
06:17armored vehicles, and tanks.
06:19As of international media, they've been waiting for the arrival.
06:25You can see them in the foreground of the picture,
06:27waiting for the arrival of those helicopters from Italy.
06:29and it moves up to the troops.
06:30One of those helicopters hired in Pacific Pisa,
06:37and those helicopters have been taken over from Italy and Lyon.
06:38To the airport, you can see them now.
06:40This one on the way they take the arrival of theór einen Monak to happen.
06:41I agree with her who's not corred.
06:42And there's a plan on 기wny my eyes gdzieocado I peepisharmuji.
06:44Njështë
07:14Urodjës të godja
07:44Shreëm ehej të njërën ehej të njërën
08:04Givë me ehej të njërën, një njërën
08:06Sedo të ndë , suksone aër
08:35P Прishti për të garabeq me sopan se rewa.
08:38Ali se bërnët e për aspoki të për
08:41Utërja, a të një të njuërërët efe djë të njërë përshini.
08:45Për njërërëtë përni, amk ebërë mjërërërërëndë të shraëtë.
08:49Yhen se vejrërë ndarë përënë përëshinë të iош këtë të njërërëtë njërërë është që bërështë të njërërëpër.
08:54Kosovo
09:24Njënë, një mek 라qshuës, janë mëndjë ka tëtt ëju dajë të ndjë njefjurënë të merav një një një një një një tëttë një një
09:32Një elek ensure hojume Kabarot, ndjë mërche horimë një një një një një një një një një shinih papurë,
09:38Nasi, hknotset nika nisha për tëmjërën.
09:41As you can see her, it's the Apachetka H-64,
09:47nëjnë as the Helicopter Gun Ship,
09:48nëjnë akeef tëmjëtët nëbjën ekshtënë tëmjëtën,
09:51tëmjët nës juqëtë nebjëtë në nëenjë gëti eku ojëhir për tëmjë.
09:55Së që vërënë ege soneë nënjëtë ektër tëmjëtër gëtër tëmjën tëmjë tëmjë në neshtëraj për
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10:24Wow
10:25Internet
10:28obviously
10:30or at least that's what NATO would
10:32have us believe, they've
10:34going to be
10:36taken into Albania
10:38as I said, within about a week
10:40or so and some 24
10:42in all will be
10:44deployed, the first six there.
10:46Beats of burden. Very much so, they're not
10:48combat helicopters but they can carry
10:4910 or 12 thousand pounds of
10:51stores, if you want to overload them
10:54as British forces do the whole time
10:56can carry up to 90 fully
10:58equipped men. They would
11:00It's called Task Force
11:02Hawk. Its job is to hunt
11:04down and destroy the Serbian
11:06tanks and troops which have proved so
11:08elusive to Allied attack in Kosovo.
11:11These are the first of 24
11:12Apache tankbusters
11:14which will be based at Tirana Airport
11:16backed up by Black Hawk helicopters
11:18and Chinook supply choppers.
11:20Just 100 miles from the border
11:22from here they can strike swiftly
11:24anywhere in Kosovo, reacting
11:26quicker than the NATO jets based in Italy
11:28and, commanders hope,
11:29catching Serb forces before they have
11:32time to take cover.
11:34The Apaches are seen as a vital precursor
11:35to deploying Allied ground troops.
11:37Alliance warplanes are starting their second month of bombing a European nation.
11:42When Mr Blair meets President Clinton shortly, the stakes could hardly be higher.
11:46Robert Moore, ITN
11:49War is escalating and tonight proof of it. The world's most lethal helicopters flying into Albania
11:57and with them a new ability to strike, not at 15,000 feet, but at 50, anywhere in Kosovo.
12:05The Apache helicopters are nicknamed tankbusters.
12:09They can fly at night at 180 miles an hour and lock onto a target three miles away.
12:15The arrival of these helicopters heralds a new phase in this war, a campaign that will be waged, not on the ground but just above it, as the helicopters fly low, deep into Kosovo to attack Serb tanks and artillery. Closer in than NATO has dared to go thus far.
12:33But flying so low will make them highly vulnerable to Serb attack.
12:38With these new weapons come two and a half thousand troops. There'll be 8,000 ready soon.
12:44They're not here simply to feed refugees.
12:47Albania is now being transformed into a vast and lethal military base.
12:52With these new weapons are designed to destroy tanks and break up massed troops and can operate in almost any weather.
13:15Albanian capital Tirana to bolster the NATO campaign against Serb forces in Kosovo.
13:22Jeremy Cook saw the Apaches arrive.
13:24Across the Albanian mountains, bringing NATO firepower into Belgrade's backyard.
13:33The Apaches are state-of-the-art killing machines designed to rain awesome firepower on enemy troops, artillery and armour.
13:43Soon they'll be on the attack against Serb ground forces in Kosovo.
13:47Their cannons fire six rounds a second and they can carry 16 anti-tank missiles.
13:53In contrast to NATO's combat jets, the Apaches' method of attack is said to be low and slow.
14:02Giving more time over their targets and more chance to destroy the enemy.
14:06But it also means a higher risk of being shot down.
14:10Despite that, the pilots say they're ready to go.
14:14Morale is exceptionally high.
14:16I won't speculate on the political message.
14:18Obviously we're here to do a mission.
14:20Our mission is to engage and destroy ground forces.
14:22You can speculate from there what we might be doing.
14:25Apaches don't travel alone.
14:27The first six who arrive in Albania were escorted by as many Blackhawk helicopters,
14:32including those carrying the search and rescue teams that will go into Kosovo if an Apache is downed.
14:38Eventually there will be 24 Apaches flying combat missions from Albania,
14:44but they come with more than 2,000 support personnel.
14:48The military backup includes infantry, artillery and surface-to-air missiles.
14:53Two RF pilots prepare for another attack over Serbia or Kosovo.
14:58Their pre-strike briefing starts with the weather conditions,
15:02often the deciding factor over the success or otherwise of the mission.
15:07The cloud back at base is quite good at least.
15:10We've got a decent air here, very little chance of a shower.
15:13Then, using the latest military intelligence, they plot the danger areas
15:18where the Serbs could attack from the ground.
15:20What we're looking for in this form of close air support is any armour or military activity on the ground
15:27that's clear of any collateral damage areas, which will then be under our rules of engagement, authorised to attack.
15:34Despite flying day and night, the mood is said to be upbeat.
15:38Everything is going really well at the moment.
15:41Morale is high, with the engineers and the pilots, and the aircraft serviceability is magnificent.
15:48After the briefing, the pilots make a final check around their aircraft, making sure that everything is correctly in place.
15:56During the month-long campaign, the RAF's number one fighter squadron has flown 250 missions against various targets.
16:05The RAF Harriers have been responsible for about 10% of the 2,500 NATO attack missions.
16:12And so far, there's no sign of fatigue amongst the pilots.
16:17The extent and sophistication of the NATO campaign means they're not flying into the unknown.
16:23But they are well aware of the real dangers waiting for them only a short flight away.
16:28David Crabtree, Sky News, Southern Italy.
16:32Nice target there, isn't it?
16:34I mean, that's a vehicle shed, a vehicle storage shed.
16:38There may not be vehicles in there, but what they want to make sure is that the VJ have got nowhere to go home to.
16:43And looking by the sort of explosion, there's not a lot of vehicle secondary explosion that came out of that.
16:48And they've actually went through, and this is in Third Army area, which is really in the niche area, F-16s, laser-guided bombs.
16:56Probably the smaller GBU-12s, the 500-pound bombs.
16:59There you can see to the top of the picture where the pointer went to, that was the first target we saw.
17:03This is the third, or the second target, the third building.
17:06Again, doesn't look to me as if there's much in it.
17:09But then, the point is to, you're sort of, they're out away from home at the moment, let's destroy all of the buildings.
17:15So, they've got no fallback position? There's nowhere where they would normally go back and repair the vehicles?
17:21No maintenance facilities, and no home, in a way.
17:25I mean, they're going to be out on the road now, and that makes them far more vulnerable than they were.
17:29I was also reading, just a short time ago, about this Pentagon briefing.
17:34They were also talking about having inflicted serious damage to major routes in and out of Kosovo from Serbia.
17:41Now, this all adds credence to the idea of ground forces.
17:44I think anyone who believes that there would be an invasion of Yugoslavia as a whole is mistaken.
17:50But to go into Kosovo, one, if the plan is to isolate Kosovo, there are 14 roads in, two rail links.
17:57They seem to have blocked 10 of those roads.
17:59They went back last night, and they hit a railway bridge where the railway door had been disrupted.
18:04They've now taken down the bridge, so it would be almost impossible for them to rebuild it.
18:07And then, on top of that, things like the oil refineries like here.
18:10Yes.
18:11So they're degrading and reducing the whole...
18:14The reinforcement capability, I think, which is important.
18:17And they're also isolating the forces which are in Kosovo.
18:21That will make it easier for the Apaches to go in and to deal with them, the multi-launched rocket systems to deal with them.
18:25And eventually, who knows, maybe the tanks of the 4th Armoured Brigade, the British Army.
18:31More refineries.
18:32And these are the stealth fighters.
18:34Talking about 100% of the country's oil refinery capability destroyed, I thought I heard from that Pentagon briefing.
18:40Did I hear that right?
18:41And about a quarter of the total fuel storage areas.
18:45I mean, it's a significant target, anyway.
18:47It is.
18:48And the problem they've got now, of course, is resupplying the oil.
18:51Oil is coming in through Montenegro.
18:53There's no embargo against it coming into the port of Bar and then being shipped up.
18:57So they've started to break the links between Montenegro and Serbia, for that reason.
19:02And they actually don't know what the...
19:04That's interesting.
19:05If we look at that for just for a second to break off there, the SA-6 training facility.
19:09And this is where the missile systems are being trained.
19:11If you look at this, this is a very spectacular explosion there.
19:14There obviously was something else other than just a training computer in there.
19:19They are...
19:20They're just taking away the home base.
19:21That's going to demoralize the VJ.
19:23Nothing an army wants to lose more.
19:25And here, a 500-pound bomb, a GBU-12, against one fuel truck.
19:30I mean, it's degraded the fuel capability wherever they can.
19:33That's just one tanker, 40,000 gallons probably.
19:36But in terms of flying capability, there's enough there for a squadron of aircraft to take off.
19:41So again, keeping the aircraft on the ground.
19:43And, you know, all it's looking at fuel vehicle storage facilities.
19:48Niche, of course, the headquarters of the Third Army.
19:50They desperately want to destroy that capability.
19:53So I see it being isolate the army, give them nowhere to go home to,
19:57and then start to degrade them inside Kosovo.
19:59To a forced entry into Kosovo for NATO will be air mobility.
20:03The mass use of the helicopters now being mobilized in northern Albania.
20:08The alliance's main axis of attack is likely to come across its mountainous border with Kosovo.
20:14Heliborne troops could seize key points ahead of an advance of ground forces using the road from Kukes to the plains around Jakovicja.
20:23Paratroops too could play a key role with major drops to fragment and split resistance by the Yugoslav army.
20:30And it's from Macedonia that NATO could launch its main armoured thrust using the main road from Skopje to Pristina.
20:38Special forces and heliborne troops would again be needed to secure key points ahead of the advance such as bridges and viaducts.
20:47It would take only 75,000 NATO troops to do the job according to defence analysts,
20:52and such a force could be assembled within one month.
20:55The Serbians by then may well be demoralized.
20:58If you're talking about a force that potentially by the time a non-permissive entry goes in will have been very short of food for three weeks,
21:07very short of fuel if not out of fuel, and will have been under constant attack for very nearly a month,
21:13something tells me a lot of the conscripts will perhaps forget about the historical myths
21:17and think a little more about whether they'll get back to Belgrade and Novi Sad.
21:21If the orders were given today, the UK could scramble reinforcements of up to 5,000 troops within four weeks to the battle zone.
21:29A composite brigade made up of paras, commandos and gurkhas, like the one that saw action in the Falklands War,
21:36backed up by artillery, engineers and logistic regiments.
21:40But the commitment of ground forces could mean NATO troops will be in Kosovo to stay,
21:45some say at least for a decade.
21:48At the air bases beside the Adriatic, war is developing its own routine.
21:55Here at Aviano in Italy, the pilots from the 510th Fighter Squadron have flown missions every day of this campaign.
22:03Some are frequently in the air for seven hours a night.
22:07This week these fliers will be joined by reinforcements.
22:14That's the cap right away.
22:16Even whilst missions are being flown in the face of missiles and ground fire,
22:20an intense debate has broken out about the whole Kosovan strategy and the reliance on air power.
22:26The elimination of ground forces as a possibility is both a strategic as well as operational advantage to President Milosevic.
22:35Sign a deal, but Milosevic was building up his forces.
22:39Washington found it hard to read his intentions.
22:42Some argued that the talks in Rambuye were being used by Milosevic as a cover to repair a military campaign.
22:49Ominously, as it turned out, officials were collecting identity documents from villages in central and western Kosovo.
22:56The operation began with the intention of weakening Milosevic's military structure and forcing him to negotiate.
23:03The prevailing political view was that a brief campaign should prove enough.
23:07NATO's commanding officer insists that the decision to exclude ground forces was not a military one.
23:13Was it a mistake before this campaign started to rule out the use of ground forces?
23:18Well, as I said, we had a certain mission to do, and we were after diplomacy,
23:24and we had looked at a number of options over the summer,
23:27and this is the option that the NATO governments chose to select.
23:31The operation Allied force was planned as a campaign of gradual escalation.
23:35Initially, the attacks were limited to Belgrade's air defence system.
23:39Some payloads were reduced to limit surrounding damage.
23:43It took over ten days before the level of attacks reached,
23:46that achieved in the first night of the Gulf War.
23:49When defence buildings were hit, they had already been evacuated.
23:53One American politician described the campaign as bombing light.
23:57To others, NATO was fighting a gesture war.
24:08There was only one alternative to increase the bombing and widen the list of targets.
24:13For the first time, a barrage of cruise missiles hit the heart of a major European city.
24:26The weekend.
24:27But they do not have the means to bring it to an end sooner,
24:30without using ground troops or risking the lives of the pilots
24:33by going after the Serb forces on the ground.
24:36Unless there is a political crack in the Belgrade regime,
24:41and I can't see that at the moment,
24:43there is going to be a long campaign of air to continue
24:46until we can reduce the risks of putting ground troops in.
24:49And there will be casualties.
24:51The crucial political relationship behind Operation Allied Force
24:55is that between Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.
24:58Neither leader can contemplate failure.
25:00Both men have invested political capital in the success of a Kosovan campaign.
25:07Washington and London continue to resist calls for sending in ground troops,
25:11except as part of a settlement.
25:13The politicians have been told there would be significant casualties.
25:17This will be a bayonet knife and bullet war, said one adviser to the White House.
25:22Even so, in recent days, the American administration has been giving itself some room to manoeuvre.
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