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00:00...of Belgrade in the early hours after NATO air raids.
00:04Air raid sirens we know did sound in the capital the first time about four hours ago
00:09and the Yugoslav State News Agency is saying that the refineries and flames and the fire brigade
00:15has been trying to get the fire under control.
00:18They've also been claiming that a residential area has been hit
00:21but of course there's no word from NATO yet as to what is going on.
00:27For 21 days the Harrier pilots have been flying out from Gioia del Colle Air Base
00:34to bomb serv units and military installations.
00:40They're a small but important part of the NATO air campaign.
00:44Last night they hit a fuel depot in Kosovo.
00:48It's a stressful time for the pilots who can't be identified
00:52but morale is said to be high.
00:54You just keep going, you know.
00:59What you do obviously makes you focus when you're doing it
01:05so it's not so much a problem of can you do it.
01:12We work fairly regular hours so your body clock gets used to it so it's fine.
01:18Yesterday the United States Air Force joined the RAF at Gioia del Colle with A-10 tankbusters.
01:26The two squadrons will be planning joint bombing missions.
01:30We've been working with them very closely and we train in peacetime with them a lot.
01:34I think having them here is a good thing.
01:36It means that liaison will be much closer and I think we'll be a more effective team.
01:41About 300 ground crew keep the Harriers in the air in a round-the-clock operation.
01:47Close to 30 missions have been flown.
01:50All the pilots and planes have returned unscathed.
01:54Bombs higher up because of what turbulence there might be coming down
01:57but it's very, very, very, very light that the laws of ballistics allow you to drop bombs
02:03and be able to calculate them.
02:05So it is actually now an art that has been perfected.
02:10So I don't think there's too much of a problem with that.
02:12What you want to do of course is to drop the bombs through the most amount of damage
02:15to the Serb military or the police units without either wasting them or hitting civilian buildings.
02:21What all this is proving still though or reconfirming is that it's a long, slow grinding process
02:28to carry out an air campaign to achieve objectives on the ground, isn't it?
02:32Now you went to the Minister of Defence briefing today.
02:35Did you get any sort of glimmer at all that they're considering more seriously a ground campaign?
02:41Major General Wald was talking about.
02:43What did you make of these?
02:44It struck me a lot of these were quite old pictures.
02:47Some of them are old and in fact some of them we saw last night as well
02:50which is quite interesting that they seem to be quite limited in the numbers of pictures they have
02:55and you can understand why this happens sometimes
02:58because not all of the footage would come through well.
03:02But this is the third of March.
03:03I mean, what are they doing?
03:05I think this is demonstrating...
03:06In this day and age we'd be expected to see yesterday's assessment.
03:09This is actually the footage that we saw yesterday
03:11because this is an interesting one that was being shown at the NATO briefing yesterday
03:17by Colonel Freytag
03:20and this is the one where there are two aircraft strikes on this
03:24and the target where the crosshair is on at the moment, ignore the General's pointer,
03:29but the crosshair of the target in the centre, that target was hit
03:32but also the target just coming into the top right-hand side, the L-shaped building.
03:36That was hit again, you see that being hit.
03:40But the aircraft that we're seeing this from is hitting that other target.
03:43Now, I'm surprised that they're showing that again.
03:45Obviously, rather like in the Gulf War, they showed a sort of selection of 20 or so videos
03:51rather than the several hundred that they've done.
03:53But here again, a use for the cluster bomb munition against ammunition depot.
03:57This is where they had to penetrate through the cloud.
04:00You can see the sort of cloud cover that they're getting there.
04:03More illustrative than contemporaneous?
04:07Yes, I think illustrative, he wants to show, first of all, that they're hitting targets.
04:11Secondly, the sort of targets they're hitting that in the ammunition depots.
04:13And you can see that because when they explode, you get the secondary explosions
04:17as we've seen here with this here with the cluster bomb.
04:20It's a little difficult to see because the pilot's avoiding anti-aircraft fire, I imagine.
04:23But those black sort of clouds there are the cluster bombs going in.
04:28I think also they wanted to demonstrate the full range of what they're doing.
04:31Talk us through the Harriers because there have been quite a bit more information about the Harriers
04:36and particularly relating to the weather, isn't there?
04:38Yes, there is.
04:39We've had a real problem with Harrier operations in the United Kingdom.
04:42This is our illustration of the use of a satellite to identify through cloud
04:46because they can do that.
04:48Serb tanks, the fix of the satellite or the Harrier has got a fix on the position
04:55and it can drop its bombs accurately through the cloud, that sort of layer of cloud.
04:58Pristina.
04:59This airfield near Seneca was hit twice in just four seconds.
05:04This, NATO says, is what a bomb camera saw just before hitting an early warning radar dome near Pristina.
05:12The Allies said Serb soldiers were hunkering down, in part to conserve fuel.
05:16American search and rescue teams wait to snatch pilots out of Serbian territory if they're shot down.
05:23The administration fears that any loss among their forces would soon erode support for action in Kosovo.
05:30But administration officials are facing a ground swell for a ground force and have acknowledged that contingency plans do exist.
05:37It's the first time considering sending ground combat troops into Kosovo.
05:42Under an option now being studied by NATO military planners, the troops would clear a ground corridor
05:48so relief supplies could be delivered to refugees trapped inside Kosovo.
05:53We're deeply concerned that as many as 700,000 people are at risk within Kosovo.
06:00It appears that Belgrade is deliberately depriving them of food and shelter.
06:05Another option under study, airdrop supplies to the refugees just as the US once did in Bosnia.
06:11Airdrops would be dangerous for the crews and probably end up in the hands of the Serb army.
06:16Clearing a ground corridor would also be dangerous since the Serb army has been seen mining the roads leading into Kosovo.
06:23So far, neither option has been approved.
06:26So far, NATO is relying solely on airstrikes.
06:30The US and its allies are making plans to send hundreds more aircraft in the coming weeks
06:35as both sides seem bent on a long, hard fight.
06:38We never see.
06:40The U-2 spy plane is at the forefront of the NATO search for evidence of massacres and war graves.
06:46It carries both conventional cameras and ground-penetrating radar
06:50and searches for areas of freshly disturbed earth which indicate where genocide victims may have been buried.
06:56NATO claims these photographs are the first evidence of genocide in Kosovo.
07:00Comparing the right photograph with the left reveals 96 freshly dug graves in two neat rows.
07:06But this may be just a fraction of the true scale of the horror.
07:10of an hour miles inside Kosovo and the target of Serb militiamen two weeks ago.
07:15Reports from these KLA fighters, confirmed to Sky News by an independent source, indicate that 25 of the 300
07:22villagers were murdered here. 13 of them were men, their bodies thrown down a mine shaft which was then sealed.
07:28It's thought to be only a matter of time before more such atrocities are uncovered.
07:33Paul Brennan, Sky News.
07:34In Washington, Pentagon sources tell CNN the U.S. is sending several hundred more planes to add to NATO's arsenal.
07:43But the Pentagon says there is still no plan to introduce ground troops into Yugoslavia.
07:48CNN's military affairs correspondent Jamie McIntyre has more.
07:53Pentagon sources say the railroad bridge was hit with one of America's newest, most accurate missiles.
07:59The video-guided AGM-130 fired by a US F-15E.
08:04As seen in this direct hit on a Yugoslav early warning radar site, the missile has a camera in
08:10the nose that allows the weapons officer in the back seat of the F-15 to actually see and guide the
08:16missile to its target. The system also means NATO likely has a similar video showing there was a
08:23train on the bridge at the time of the strike. We regret any loss of life that this may have caused
08:29because our policy remains to minimize collateral damage.
08:33In theory, if the F-15 co-pilot saw the train, he could have diverted the missile into the river.
08:38But NATO called the bridge a legitimate military target, saying it was part of an important resupply
08:44route used to transport reinforcements to the Yugoslav army in Kosovo.
08:49Meanwhile, the Pentagon released video showing how despite cloudy skies that have hampered NATO bombing
08:55runs, pilots are still finding holes to hit forces on the ground. Here, an F-16 drops cluster
09:01bombs on an ammunition storage area near Pristina.
09:05Weather is not a sanctuary for Milosevic. And so we have enough weapons to execute through the
09:09weather and we'll continue to do that. Pentagon sources say that 20 days into the operation,
09:13NATO has launched 757 attacks against 155 targets. And that cut off from supplies and support,
09:21the Yugoslav army is showing signs of sagging morale. The U.S. campaign is working.
09:27Clark feels comfortable with it. He's executing that campaign at his
09:31pace, not at Milosevic's pace. More satellite pictures released by the Pentagon showed Yugoslav
09:37forces hunkering down, hiding their armored vehicles in towns and bracing for attack. Combat missions in Kosovo.
09:44Mr. Clinton says their work is part of the United States effort to stop the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo.
09:49What you know and see every night, all those hundreds of thousands of innocent people
09:59uprooted, many of them killed, some of them dying from disease in refugee camps, some families divided
10:09forever. Not because of anything they did, but because they happen to be Albanian instead of Serbian,
10:17Muslim instead of Orthodox Christian. It is a human tragedy that touches everyone.
10:27One of NATO's newest members is carefully watching the conflict in Yugoslavia.
10:31Poland is looking at how NATO operates as Warsaw tries to get Poland's military up to alliance standards.
10:38Polish television reports on how the nation is progressing.
10:40A month in NATO, Poland has assigned about 10% of its armed forces or 19,000 troops for duty
10:51under the Allied command. The Navy was the first to report NATO ready with eight ships, two naval bases
10:58on the Baltic Sea and two airfields. The air force has come out with 8 MiG 29 fighters fully meeting NATO standards.
11:07By the end of the year, 24 Su-22 bombers will be modernized to join the NATO wings.
11:14The first unit to serve on the NATO command, even before Poland got officially admitted to the alliance, was GROM.
11:25We had the privilege and the honor to represent Polish armed forces at the international operation
11:29in Haiti back in 1994.
11:33GROM is the Polish equivalent of the British SAS or the American Delta Force, ready to carry on special
11:40operation anytime and anywhere. Also, the 18th Airborne Battalion, based in Bielsko, in southern Poland,
11:47was put under the Allied Southern Command before Poland joined NATO.
11:53We are ready to be on the move within 24 hours notice.
11:58The 18th Battalion was specially trained to intervene in local conflicts.
12:03It might have gone to Kosovo, had it been decided to deploy troops there.
12:08The men are conscripts, thus they have to volunteer for duty abroad, and they do.
12:14It is an adventure I'd like to experience. What counts is money, and I'd like to see the world.
12:21The world out there is not exactly what they might have dreamt of. Their task is to enforce peace.
12:28But, as it is, the peace has a price.
12:31The centuries old saying goes. If you want peace, get ready for combat.
12:38And this is what the freshmen in the NATO do now. Barbara Grat, Polish television for CNN World Report.
12:47Mr. Ken Bacon of the US Pentagon is calling it up close and personal with Serbian tanks.
12:53And this is the aircraft, obviously, to do that. It carries missiles and has guns.
12:58And it could work with the Harriers in low level, even being an air controller for them and directing them.
13:05So, you know, the combination is quite effective. But what's also worrying, of course,
13:10is every time we have more aircraft, up goes the money. And we're probably talking about
13:14the Americans having to provide about three billion dollars for this aircraft.
13:17He asked over the weekend for another 82 aircraft, some tanker aircraft, and some
13:21aircraft for suppressing air defences. And I think if you look at all that, putting all of
13:26those together, then certainly, yes, what he was aiming to do now, I think, is to continue to bolster
13:32up the amount of aircraft. F-16s like these here. He can always do with more of those, very versatile aircraft.
13:39Hornets for operating off the aircraft carrier, taking those on shore. If you look at the sort of
13:47aircraft he's got, he's got a very good selection of aircraft. But it's not just America, of course,
13:51that the 300 can come from. They might come from other nations as well. I'm sure they're trying to.
13:56The NATO soldiers in Macedonia are still officially a peacekeeping force. But a ground
14:02war involving British troops now appears to look not only inevitable, but a question of sooner rather
14:07than later. Military analysts, consultants and army strategists all appear to agree it's now a question
14:13of timing. Contingency plans for a land attack have been drawn up for weeks.
14:17Any military commander who doesn't make contingency plans for every eventuality,
14:22including an invasion of Yugoslavia, really shouldn't be in command. So I've no doubt at all
14:28that NATO has got contingency plans for everything, including the invasion of Yugoslavia. The thing is,
14:35do you do it? And that's a political decision. It's not a military decision. And yes, it can be done.
14:39Lieutenant Colonel Angus Tavener, who's a consultant for the Ministry of Defence, believes
14:44NATO wants to dominate the skies before airlifting soldiers into the region to secure vital routes
14:50for backup troops. If you're going to attack, then you would need to secure those routes before you
14:57could actually move the main force through. And so to achieve that, you would, I would imagine that
15:03they will be considering an airborne assault of soldiers initially, probably using helicopters,
15:10having achieved the air superiority that they will need so the helicopters can fly safely.
15:17Repeated denials by NATO politicians about a land attack are not surprising, say the planners,
15:22given that any admission would destroy the key element of surprise. But one ground forces analyst
15:27believes a land attack, probably as soon as three weeks time, would be launched only once the
15:33Serbian army's defences have been seriously crippled. Alex Crawford, Sky News.
15:38Taken from a tornado strike aircraft. If you look at this picture, the white buildings on the left,
15:48those are white buildings along in a row there. But look to the right, large one on the right,
15:53it's targeted within the square in the center of the screen. And as you will see in a moment,
16:02the building was hit directly by the tornado aircraft.
16:14There it is, a direct hit. At the very last second,
16:17he saw the passenger train in his bomb sights. Here's how General Clark put it.
16:23He's seeing about this much. And in here you can see the, this is the railroad bridge,
16:30as, which is a much better view than he actually had. You can see the tracks running this way. Okay,
16:36let's run it. Look very intently at the aim point, concentrate right there, and
16:41you can see how if you were focused right on your job as a pilot, suddenly that train appeared. It, it was
16:49really unfortunate. You can see the houses without any roofs all over town. This is the symptom of the
17:00ethnic cleansing, going in, throwing a grenade, starting a fire, turning on the gas before the
17:06grenades thrown, and it blows the roof off. We've seen it all over Bosnia, and here it is. Next,
17:14more burned structures.
17:19All of these are destroyed. Next,
17:23a destroyed farm complex, no roofs, here and here, all burned out. Next,
17:30Widescale destruction. Here, here, here, here, all up in here. These. It's a whole set of communities,
17:44which have been devastated. Next, more burned structures. Here, here, up in here, over in here.
17:54and what you see when you look at this is a widespread systematic pattern of ethnic cleansing.
18:00It's the familiar pattern over the last 10 years. Next, more next. Here's where, uh, not only has he
18:09burned out the village, he's now moving in with military equipment in an effort to disguise himself
18:15and hide. And our analysts have picked out tanks hidden right up next to and inside these structures.
18:23Next, here's a more armor concealed right here. An SA-9 air defense system and more destroyed villages.
18:34We've got the names of these little villages down here on the bottom of the slide. Next,
18:38Infantry fighting vehicles. Next, more tanks and reconnaissance vehicles. Next, Kornikva airfield.
18:52This is a gun camera. You're going to watch another, uh, aircraft bomb fall on a, that just happened to be on the runway at the wrong time.
19:03We were striking the airfield. We were going after hangars. We're not bombing runways normally.
19:12They tend to be relatively easily bypassed and repaired, but there was a, you can't quite make it out.
19:20There it is. If we could stop that and you can, I don't know if you can roll that thing back or not, Pete.
19:27You can see the large fireball there as the MIG was hit.
19:31Next, let's go to the next one. Here's a radar facility in Pristina. It's a radar and control facility.
19:41This is the, uh, area, uh, before it's been struck. Next, and now after it's been struck.
19:52Example, here is the Pristina radio relay facility, and this is one of the precision weapons we're using.
20:00You can see the tower coming into view right here, the building. Here's the aim point of the weapon.
20:06It's getting closer. It's going in and it impacts. I think he was at the Erosovac in Kosovo.
20:15This is a precision guided weapon. You can see the target right over here.
20:19There'll be two struck, actually, in this sequence, as I recall.
20:32Okay, and then I think there's one that comes in over here as well.
20:37Yep.
20:37It's true that a NATO bomber had hit a passenger train in Serbia. The Allies knew it was a massive PR setback to the campaign.
20:46This evening, they've embarked on a damage limitation exercise, with the man in overall charge of the NATO operations in the Balkans, himself explaining how the pilot concerned made his mistake.
20:57Now, the pilot in the aircraft is looking at about a five-inch screen. He's seeing about this much.
21:06And in here, you can see the, this is the railroad bridge, as, which is a much better view than he actually had. You can see the tracks running this way.
21:15Okay, let's run it. Look very intently at the aim point. Concentrate right there, and you can see how, if you were focused right on your job as a pilot, suddenly that train appeared. It was really unfortunate.
21:31Here, he came back around to try to strike a different point on the bridge, because he was trying to do his job to take the bridge down.
21:40Look at this aim point. You can see smoke and other obscuration there. He couldn't tell what this was exactly, and run this video.
21:51Focus intently right at the center of the cross. He's bringing these two crosses together, and suddenly, he recognizes at the very last instant, that the train that was struck here has moved on across the bridge.
22:04So, out here, this is a, this would be considered one target again. There are several aim points in this target, several large buildings, and you can see that they have been systematically destroying their ability to sustain aviation, and to actually repair and maintain aviation.
22:22And several of these areas have been hit. You can see that some are left, but this base right now, from a standpoint of operability, is pretty much down.
22:30There are some aircraft you can see on the tarmac, and I suspect that's exactly where they're going to be sitting until they can either do a repair on their repair capability, or fix them some other way, but they're basically stuck right there in that spot.
22:43Once again, an ammo area in Pristina. We're taking down his, this is one of the larger ones, and I'll just show you that it's a fairly large area, several kilometers across into hilly terrain.
22:57And this target here, I'll show you, there's about eight different target areas that have been struck on that one, and we talked about the new weapon systems we have.
23:08And a B-2 could take this out, and another one the same size, with one load of bombs. So that's pretty good is the way it's working there.
23:18The airfield in Montenegro, we're not hitting targets in Montenegro except for self-defense. This was hit early on in the campaign, and what was taken out are some of the Montenegrin aircraft that were actually threatening NATO forces, and that's purely a self-defense target.
23:38Vehicle storage in Serbia, I'd just like to say that you can see the areas where they did maintenance on their vehicles, military vehicles, they have been systematically destroyed.
23:49They have no vehicle maintenance capability at this depot in Serbia anymore, at Nice.
23:56Lastly, I'll just show you a picture from yesterday. This is in Melasevo area in Kosovo.
24:02You can see several buildings that have been, looks like, destroyed or burned. The roofs are all gone, and this one here is burning, so they're still burning the villages in Kosovo.
24:12Next, I'd like to say, is the early warning radar site in Dakovika, which is in Kosovo.
24:23It's an F-16. Once again, the target is right into the cursor, and you'll see that this early warning radar is one of the primary radars they have for detecting aircraft arriving or departing from Kosovo and the Fry.
24:38That was destroyed, and that was one of those red comm links I showed you on a map earlier today.
24:45Another target was struck north of there by another F-16.
24:49Next is a fuel truck in Kosovo. As I said earlier, we are taking down his sustainment in fuel, both strategic storage and tactical.
24:58This is actually a fuel truck in Kosovo yesterday. It was destroyed, once again, by an F-16.
25:05He's still trying to get fuel in. It's very hard for him, and they have a paucity of fuel available.
25:12Novi Sad Army Barracks. Once again, this is a surface-to-air missile defense facility, repair facility.
25:17This is an F-15 with an optically-guided missile. It gets clearer as you get in, but this is a standoff weapon.
25:27And as you can see, it gets closer into the building, and that building was, I would say, for all practical purposes, destroyed.
25:37Pristina radio relay, once again. I mentioned the comm sites. Another F-15.
25:42Pristina radio relay, once again. Whatever
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