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bombardimet e NATO ne serbi
lajmet e Shteteve Perendimore
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00:00... alarm bells ringing.
00:03Officially, NATO chose to believe there had been misunderstandings
00:06and announced that Russian and American ministers would meet next week to smooth them out.
00:11But it was harder to explain away President Yotsin's tough words on television,
00:15warning America not to send ground troops to Yugoslavia
00:18and provoke possible Russian intervention.
00:25Don't push us towards military actions, he said,
00:28otherwise there will be a European war for sure, or even a world war.
00:34The United States says it's been assured that Russian missiles have not been aimed at NATO targets.
00:40That suggestion came from the Speaker of the Russian Parliament and was later denied.
00:44It's assumed this is all part of Russia's internal political battles
00:47and an indication of how dangerous instability in Moscow can be.
00:52Overnight, NATO had also struck at another major oil depot.
00:56Serb television showed an enormous conflagration.
01:01NATO says oil shortages are starting to strangle the Serb military machine.
01:06But there is no indication that Serb forces are withdrawing from Kosovo.
01:10Instead, NATO says they are digging in to resist attack.
01:14Brian Hanrahan, BBC News.
01:15The world's most powerful military force is on the move, but only on the training ground.
01:27U.S. Marines know how to fight in tough conditions.
01:30They have recent experience from Vietnam to Somalia.
01:33But there's no suggestion they're heading for Kosovo, at least not yet.
01:37It's a very tough thing to see things going on and know that Americans are involved with that
01:43and not be there, not be a part of it.
01:46We want to do our part to carry out America's foreign policies.
01:51He hopes that we will accept as permanent the results of his ethnic cleansing.
02:01We will not.
02:02In the end, it's a simple question.
02:04Is America ready to pay a high price to spill its soldiers' blood
02:08to secure victory in Kosovo and defend its credibility?
02:12The President still seems hesitant, but he knows an answer will have to come soon.
02:19Stephen Sacker, BBC News, Quantico Marine Base, Virginia.
02:27Dive, dive.
02:29In the Adriatic, the U.S. Navy prepares another cruise missile attack on Serbia.
02:35Airstrikes are NATO's one means of exerting pressure on Slobodan Milosevic,
02:39yet even in this third week of the campaign, it's not clear if they're working.
02:46The Air Force videos released every day do show the weapons reaching their targets,
02:51but the extent of the damage they cause is not always known.
02:54The bad weather, which so often prevents the bombing, also prevents reconnaissance,
02:58and facts are hard to come by.
03:01The daily briefings at NATO headquarters usually say everything is going according to plan.
03:06Today, though, the military spokesman admitted the bombing still had much to achieve.
03:11I'm very confident that we are moving very firmly in the right direction,
03:15but as far as your question is, we certainly haven't hit a big enough percentage of his forces yet.
03:20The positive view here at NATO headquarters is that Serb forces are being steadily broken by the bombing,
03:26that the refugee crisis has served to galvanise the alliance here,
03:29and that, in the end, Mr Milosevic simply cannot win.
03:33A less optimistic view is that the bombing has so far failed to stop the harassment of the Kosovo Albanians,
03:39and has not, in any sense, yet brought Mr Milosevic to heel.
03:43NATO's response is to build up forces while it tries to work out what to do next.
03:49Albania is becoming the base for 24 Apache helicopter gunships.
03:52They should be highly effective against Serb units in Kosovo.
03:57As will the multiple launch rocket systems being deployed there as well.
04:01Kosovo falls well within their 100-mile range.
04:05The 8,000 NATO soldiers being sent to Albania are meant to help the refugees,
04:10and the 12,000 in Macedonia now are ready to police a peace deal if one comes.
04:15But in case there is no peace agreement, other scenarios are opening up.
04:19NATO forces could enter the province, if bombing makes it safe enough,
04:24and set up a protectorate to help the refugees return.
04:27Or Mr Milosevic could try to partition Kosovo,
04:30keeping the more prosperous areas, including the capital Pristina,
04:34and the battlefield site of Kosovo Polje, so sacred to Serbs.
04:38That wouldn't be a complete victory for him, but it wouldn't be for NATO either.
04:42The new forces are on their way, but how they'll end up being used,
04:46and how they'll affect the future of Kosovo, are questions that NATO can't really answer tonight.
04:52David Shookman, BBC News.
04:54From the Pentagon.
04:56Precision-guided weapons have already hit 150 different targets,
05:00and the U.S. is getting ready to send dozens more aircraft.
05:04But bad weather is moving in, unlikely to slow the airstrikes in the coming days.
05:08Last night, for instance, B-2 stealth bombers were the only planes able to drop their bombs.
05:14The slowdown comes as reliable but unconfirmed reports of what is happening in Kosovo
05:19become more horrifying with each passing day.
05:22Young Kosovar women are being herded into a Serb army training camp
05:28where they are being raped by troops,
05:31and we have reports that as many as 20 may have been killed.
05:35As desperate as these refugees are, they at least have escaped from Kosovo
05:39into the arms of a rapidly expanding relief effort.
05:42There is no relief for tens of thousands still trapped in Kosovo.
05:46We believe that there may be about 150,000 to 200,000 people in Kosovo
05:52currently living without shelter in the woods and on the mountain slopes.
05:58Unless Milosevic reverses course and pulls his army out of Kosovo,
06:02there is no prospect of getting aid to them any time soon.
06:05But the Serb army is not pulling out. It is digging in.
06:09We're up against a wily enemy. He's beginning to dig in.
06:14There are terrain, forests, deserted villages,
06:17which make wonderful places for him to lager up against.
06:21Satellites...
06:22Background CBS's Eric Engberg shows you the war in the Balkans,
06:25the way it's pumped out on Milosevic government-controlled Serb TV.
06:29These are the television images most of the world saw
06:34of the tragic story of Kosovo's refugees.
06:37A human train crossed the border from Kosovo today.
06:40TV viewers inside Yugoslavia that same day saw a far different story.
06:45Tranquil border, just a few refugees, worried only about NATO bombs.
06:51NATO's hopes of turning dictator Milosevic's people against him
06:55by showing the evil of his policies has been blunted by Milosevic's absolute control over the media.
07:01It reports no Serb atrocities and portrays the NATO forces as modern-day Nazis.
07:07The children of Yugoslavia who are daily being affected by NATO criminal sadistic airstrikes...
07:13The inability to marshal the truth against Milosevic at home has frustrated NATO so much
07:18had briefly threatened to bomb Yugoslavian TV transmitters before backing down today.
07:23As in all wars, both sides have withheld and twisted some facts.
07:27Yugoslavia claimed civilian targets had been hit in Pristina.
07:31Bombs fell on the center of the city, killing Serbs, Albanians, Turks.
07:35NATO first denied it, then had to backtrack when Western reporters were taken to the scene.
07:40But Milosevic's propaganda goes far beyond typical government spin.
07:46There's something for the young, daily patriotic rock concerts.
07:50And music videos which transform a Nazi soldier into the U.S. Secretary of State.
07:56The biggest of the big lies, news stories showing busy highways
08:00and claiming that Kosovar Albanians are actually heading home on them.
08:04Losing the TV war where it counts, NATO has made a demand unique in the history of warfare.
08:11Equal time on Serb TV.
08:13Milosevic's propagandists have said no.
08:17Eric Engberg, CBS News, Washington.
08:20...arrives to meet the Macedonian leadership.
08:23Diplomats hope a combination of U.S. political pressure and financial assistance
08:28will soften Macedonia's stance on providing a more permanent home for the Kosovars already here.
08:33We are not going to lose to the likes of Slobodan Milosevic.
08:38And so, be on our team.
08:40And they got that point.
08:43So, you know, things are better this week than they were last week.
08:46But we are not out of the woods yet.
08:48Additional warplanes to attack Yugoslav targets,
08:52including F-16 CJs and the Prowler electronic warfare planes,
08:57specifically designed to attack air defenses and ground targets.
09:00Though he's asking for more planes,
09:03General Clark said the air campaign has already succeeded
09:05in forcing many Serb units to take cover.
09:09They are simply not operating.
09:11They're in hiding.
09:12They've pulled into wood lines, they're hiding in buildings,
09:15and they're doing other things to try to escape the threat of NATO air.
09:17Despite worsening weather,
09:21NATO launched about 200 sorties in the last 24 hours, officials say,
09:26hitting five target areas.
09:29A spokesman said there is now worrying evidence of another type of war crime.
09:34We're getting some very disturbing reports out of Kosovo recently
09:38that young Kosovar women are being herded into a Serb army training camp
09:45near the town of Dakoviča, which is in southwest Kosovo,
09:51where they are being raped by troops.
09:54And we have reports that as many as 20 may have been killed.
09:57At the State Department, they put faces to the names of six commanders
10:01of units now suspected of war crimes.
10:04NATO aircraft continued to go after targets like this bridge over the Danube,
10:09trying to cut off supply lines to the forces in Kosovo.
10:14As for the Apache ground attack helicopters,
10:17they will not take to the skies over Kosovo for at least a week, probably longer.
10:22The Apaches could not be used sooner anyway, officials say,
10:25because Serb air defenses are still too strong.
10:28I don't believe General Clark yet thinks the situation is right
10:32for using helicopters over Kosovo.
10:34The U.S. would have been embarrassed by pictures like these,
10:37a U.S. military spy plane downed over Kosovo,
10:40taking pictures over enemy territory.
10:43This plane and others like it flown by Germany
10:45had no pilot, a drone equipped with cameras and other sensing devices.
10:50So if you look to the east...
10:52But in this war, the Allies proudly show off their intelligence pictures
10:56for a political purpose,
10:58to make the case for the NATO bombing of a sovereign nation.
11:01After NATO bombings of certain sites,
11:05the Serbs very cravenly go in and destroy civilian buildings around those targets
11:12to try to create a misimpression that NATO bombings have destroyed civilian targets.
11:20The United States, Germany, and its Allies are using once-hush-hush intelligence
11:24to make the case of ethnic cleansing against the Serbs,
11:27to bolster pictures from the ground showing the extent of the humanitarian nightmare in southeastern Europe.
11:35Washington is also showing off other sources of information inside Kosovo.
11:40U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has remained in telephone contact with this man,
11:45Hashim Thaci, a KLA leader who cooperated with U.S. negotiating efforts before NATO began bombing.
11:52Thaci, now back inside Kosovo, regularly telephones Albright's office,
11:57usually speaking with a close aide.
11:59I spoke to him yesterday.
12:02I think I spoke to him several times in the last week.
12:05He has tended to try to give me a situation report as best as he can assess of what's going on.
12:12State Department officials tell CNN they consider the KLA to be a passionate
12:17but unreliable source of information.
12:19He's got the latest on that angle for us this morning.
12:22Aram?
12:23Leon, officials here say once again the airstrikes, the latest wave at least,
12:29were limited by bad weather over the Balkans.
12:32Officials indicate a number of planes flew and then returned to their bases or to their ships
12:37without dropping their ordnance on their targets.
12:40British officials say the attacks were against the Serb fuel supply and command and control facilities.
12:49We understand that cruise missiles were used in the attacks.
12:53Serbian television reports that Serbian television facilities in Pristina were attacked
13:01and that a transmitter was struck.
13:03A NATO official tells us that the television station in Pristina was not the target.
13:10That official tells us that a military radio station was the target.
13:14British officials...
13:15It's Roosevelt this week.
13:17Warplanes taking off in the dead of night, destined for the combat zone, on a mission to hit Yugoslav targets.
13:23But there is another sign, one that we usually do not get to see, the enormous carrier crew behind the mission.
13:29CNN's Bill Delaney is on board the Roosevelt.
13:31A third day of launches from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the North Ionian Sea,
13:43in support of NATO's conflict with Yugoslavia.
13:45The power of fighter bombers, F-18s, F-14s,
13:52now attacking bridges, air defense radars, police headquarters, fuel depots.
13:57Catapulting in two seconds from zero to 150 miles an hour.
14:07Only one level, though.
14:12Of the labyrinth that is the Roosevelt.
14:15He was sitting there, he was the first go.
14:17When the night's missions end, for example, the carrier's 70 aircraft become part of a picture puzzle.
14:24Organizing which aircraft needs special maintenance, which don't.
14:27Just a lot of people getting tired now.
14:29You've got to watch what you're really doing.
14:31Working hours have changed a lot.
14:33Usually I work nights, and as you can see, I'm working days now because everything seems to be happening at night.
14:41On every level of the Roosevelt, a new intensity.
14:44Above all the activity of the flight deck and below it,
14:47here on the bridge is still another world of the USS Roosevelt.
14:51As hushed and almost soothing as most everywhere else is loud, nerve-wracking.
14:56Tranquil and where the ship is steered.
15:00Fundamental for high-performance jets on carriers, which must fly directly into the wind off the bow.
15:07For hours, Lieutenant David Riley just watches the wind.
15:11I'm just trying to make sure that we head in the right direction.
15:14Basic stuff mingling with pure power on the Roosevelt's many levels.
15:22Bill Delaney, CNN, on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
15:27Successful attack of the radio relay facility.
15:30One Serbian aircraft was detected off the coast of Montenegro,
15:52but it returned to base before it could be engaged.
15:56At least four, some six sites engaged NATO aircraft with no harm on them.
16:03And we also discussed yesterday the challenge of proving what damage has been caused by Serb forces.
16:14You might recall this.
16:15And I have an image for you.
16:17It shows damaged buildings in a village which have not been the subject of any NATO action.
16:22The very noticeable reduction in Yugoslav army and special police force operations in Kosovo have continued over the last 24 hours.
16:46There were some Serb activities in the southern half of Kosovo with fires burning near Podujevo and Djakovića
16:55and other activity near Urozovac, Malisevo, Kishnareka and Jablanika areas.
17:01Overall, the Yugoslav forces appeared to be focusing on defensive and force protection measures against NATO attacks.
17:09There was one cross-border clash between VJMAP and UCK elements over the Albanian border southwest of Dikane.
17:19At least two Serb artillery rounds landed in Albania.
17:24The result of previous attacks on the army barracks at Prision are shown by these pre- and post-strike images.
17:31Here is the pre-strike and here the post-strike.
17:39A similar attack was effectively done at the army garrison and headquarters at Belgrad.
17:45Again, the pre-strike and the post-strike.
17:49Moving on to the location of ground forces, this picture shows a number of tanks and armored personnel carriers
18:03hiding amongst houses in a village.
18:05We discussed yesterday the challenge of proving and this really shows to you
18:16and it demonstrates the difficulty of attacking such targets.
18:24We are seeking to clarify refugee reports of a possible Serb rape camp in the Djakovića area of Kosovo.
18:31No independent corroboration or detailed confirmation is currently available.
18:37And at this moment, if I may, I would like to come back to yesterday's discussion
18:41of the difficulties of tracking displaced persons within Kosovo.
18:45We have a map which shows some areas where concentrations of displaced persons have been identified.
18:51And I have a photograph on this image.
19:03You can see a line of vehicles, but what we cannot tell you is how many people are associated with them.
19:09And this image shows concentrations of displaced persons without shelters.
19:20But numbers, again, are difficult to assess.
19:27Yesterday, we also discussed the challenge of proving what damage has been caused by Serb forces.
19:33I think it was in the context of the Pristina.
19:36No one is a good idea.
19:39The road is also good.
19:40The city is a good idea.
19:41The space is a very good idea.
19:43The social media has been made at the center of the area.
19:45And that's a pretty good idea.
19:46And I see that it is on the right side of the area.
19:47And that's is a great idea.
19:48The city is a good idea.
19:49But there are some points.
19:50It is a very difficult idea.
19:51If there are some points.
19:52Then there is no points why it's the idea is possible.
19:55And of course, there are the reasons to occur,
19:58when the time is called for responders and the time that you have been arrested.
20:00Here are the forces of the crew.
20:01So if you have to sort of control of the Serb society,
20:03you have a good idea.
20:03And no mais.
20:04The people have a good idea to think about it.
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