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Nga Lufta ne Kosove bombardimet e NATO ne serbi lajmet e Shteteve Perendimore

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00:00I think NATO has made a mistake, and now this mistake must be corrected.

00:05The airstrikes are mistake enough.

00:08Those airstrikes were done without authorization from the United Nations,

00:13disregarding the views of countries like Russia, China, India,

00:20and this has placed the world in a very, very difficult situation.

00:24I also believe that this would be an occasion in which it would be useful

00:30to involve the Russians in the future of Kosovo

00:34and give them some role in the political and security organization of Kosovo

00:42to avoid NATO being caught between all these passionate parties whose quarrels will not end.

00:51A B-1B bomber returning to Fairford early this morning

00:54after a six-hour mission.

00:56Last night, two of the bombers attacked military targets in Yugoslavia.

01:00Today, the aircrews spoke about their mission, though they don't want to be named.

01:04This man, a weapons specialist, was in combat for the first time.

01:08Honestly, I went through a lot of different emotions during the course of the mission.

01:14Actually, to be honest with you, most of the excitement came before getting in the airplane

01:18because I was something familiar about getting in the airplane.

01:21It kind of went back to the way, in a certain sense, like it was in training.

01:27The bombers at Fairford are carrying a payload of up to 84, 500-pound bombs.

01:33They're so-called dumb bombs without any guidance systems.

01:35The B-1B can fly supersonic, but its missions so far have been at subsonic speeds.

01:44It's a very smooth ride, kind of compared to a big Cadillac from time to time.

01:50It's very good at high altitude and fantastic at low altitude.

01:54The wings sweep anywhere from 15 degrees, which they're at right now,

01:57full forward to all the way back to 67.5 degrees for high speed if we need it.

02:02The B-1Bs usually fly with a fighter escort

02:05because they're penetrating heavily defended airspace.

02:08Up close and personal is how one senior commander described their role.

02:13Andrew Moore, Sky News, RAF Fairford.

02:15The NATO have started ferrying up military food rations here.

02:20The Italian army put up a tense city,

02:23and things they hope will slowly get better for these people.

02:26But what we're hearing from these people who are being deported en masse

02:29are continued terrible stories of their journey out of Kosovo.

02:33Not only do they keep telling us that they're being forced out at gunpoint,

02:37but we talk to many, many people who told us

02:39that they are being beaten and robbed of their money.

02:42But NATO has slowly begun to back away from the idea

02:51that its troops could only enter Kosovo

02:53under the terms of the Rambouillet Agreement.

02:56It now says a permissive environment could be created for NATO peacekeepers

02:59by the bombing campaign,

03:01and that could result in NATO forces escorting refugees back to their homes.

03:07I think that the forces that we've gathered

03:08to our peacekeeping forces that await in Macedonia

03:13were always planned to make sure

03:16that the Kosovo Albanians could live in peace and harmony.

03:19Meanwhile, video released by NATO shows that one of the U.S. Air Force's

03:23newest standoff weapons, the AGM-130,

03:26is being used to lower the risk to pilots.

03:28The missile is guided from miles away by a weapons officer

03:32in the back seat of an F-15E who sees the missile's approach

03:36on a TV screen in the cockpit until the explosion destroys the miniature camera.

03:40The 2,000-pound rocket-boosted bomb was used for the first time in Iraq,

03:46but the Pentagon refused to release video like this,

03:48claiming it would give away the weapon's capabilities.

03:52Clear.

03:54Field commanders have called for them,

03:56and America is complying, sending in the air cavalry.

04:0024 Apache helicopter gunships, manned by 2,000 troops,

04:04will take the war to a new and riskier stage.

04:07They fly low, their cannon and missiles can do serious damage to Serb forces,

04:12but they're vulnerable to counterattack.

04:15NATO is not saying when they'll arrive.

04:18B-1 bombers returned safely from a gruelling six-hour mission

04:24attacking Yugoslav targets.

04:27For one weapons specialist, it was his first taste of combat.

04:31Honestly, I went through a lot of different emotions

04:34during the course of the mission.

04:37Actually, to be honest with you,

04:38most of the excitement came before getting in the airplane.

04:41The Allies are resorting to cluster bombs and a wider range of targets.

04:45Last night, NATO struck targets throughout Serbia and Kosovo,

04:51including bridges, fuel depots, communication centres, and army headquarters.

04:58These were all military and military-related facilities

05:02that were judged critical targets to our overall campaign effectiveness.

05:07Politicians say there's no wavering over strategy.

05:10All my contacts with every alliance member,

05:15there is determined unity in order to make sure that Milosevic cannot continue this.

05:22Three American soldiers captured by Serbian forces are not to be put on trial.

05:27In a surprise turn, a Serbian minister said the men would be freed

05:31when the NATO bombing stops.

05:33That won't be for a while.

05:3513 additional stealth fighters arrived in Germany,

05:38bringing to 24 the number taking part in Allied attacks.

05:42And from the Adriatic, the USS Nicholson launched 11 cruise missiles against the Serbs.

05:48Yugoslavia claims three civilians have been killed

05:51and their air defences have downed a missile.

05:54Claims which are unconfirmed.

05:56Gary Lloyd

05:57to the refugees on the border.

06:00Today saw the first consignment loaded hand over hand

06:03onto French helicopters

06:05to be flown up to the Kukesh refugee centres.

06:09We just arrived this morning and prepared transportation

06:11from different material, humanitarian and food

06:15for Kupershny at the frontier.

06:17We travelled with that first convoy of three helicopters.

06:23Although the amount of desperately needed relief supplies they can carry

06:27is severely limited,

06:29it is for now by far the fastest method of travel.

06:32The alternative is a torturous 10-hour drive over rugged terrain.

06:37The landing site was deliberately chosen

06:40to be some distance from the refugees.

06:43The fear was the sight of food being unloaded

06:45could have sparked a riot.

06:48I know that it's not so much by helicopter, you know,

06:52less than truck, but truck is so long, you know,

06:55and we have to bring very quickly to the border

06:58to assist people in emergency.

07:00Armed French troops stood by to maintain order

07:03as curious Albanian villagers looked on.

07:06Further food shipments will follow in the coming days

07:09and 6,000 more military personnel are due to be drafted in.

07:13This is just the start of the airborne aid operation.

07:18The first opening moves

07:20in what will very quickly need to become

07:22a multinational, multi-million pound mission.

07:26And amid this, the Overseas Development Secretary, Claire Short,

07:30arrived in Tirana to assess to what extent Britain will be involved.

07:35We need to get all the refugees properly cared for,

07:39properly fed and properly protected

07:41so the military can do their job, turn back the aggression

07:44and then we'll be able to help them to go home and resettle.

07:48The Albanian authorities are present,

07:51but in reality they will, by and large,

07:53take a back seat in their own country.

07:54For just as the scale of the refugee crisis threatens to overwhelm them,

08:00so too the scale of the humanitarian relief effort required

08:03will also be beyond the capacity of Europe's poorest nation on its own.

08:0924 Apache attack helicopters and 2,000 soldiers

08:13will be sent to the Albanian border with Kosovo to aid in the air war.

08:17As more relief supplies head for the region,

08:19the U.S. announces it will give temporary refuge to 20,000 refugees.

08:23And Yugoslav officials say the three captured U.S. soldiers

08:27will not stand trial and will be released when the bombing campaign ends.

08:33There are growing calls this Sunday evening from members of Congress

08:36to send ground troops into Kosovo

08:38or risk losing the battle with Slobodan Milosevic.

08:41While the President still insists air power is enough,

08:44Bill Plant reports what the Pentagon announced today

08:47may be an indication that it's not.

08:49Bombs from NATO aircraft pounded Belgrade overnight

08:54and today wiped out a thermal plant

08:56which the Serbs claim provided heat to a million people.

08:59The smoke had...

09:01Apache helicopter gunships

09:07and 2,000 support troops to the Albania-Kosovo border.

09:12The obvious question you all have is,

09:14isn't this a step toward the employment of ground troops in Kosovo?

09:18And the answer is, absolutely not.

09:20This is pure and simple an expansion of the air operation.

09:24But support for the low-altitude gunships

09:27would seem to go well beyond that.

09:29It includes a battalion of rocket-launched artillery,

09:3214 Bradley fighting vehicles,

09:33and a wide variety of anti-tank weapons.

09:37In the face of mounting criticism

09:38that the situation in Kosovo has spun out of control,

09:42many in Congress say the air war isn't enough.

09:45This situation needs to be remedied and remedied quickly,

09:48and the only way we're going to be able to do that

09:50is bring the full might of American military

09:53and NATO capability to bear.

09:55This is going to be the beginning

09:56of a very large problem for the United States,

09:59which eventually will require a lot of ground forces.

10:02We have to get on with it.

10:04But despite today's announcements,

10:06the administration remains adamant

10:08that no ground invasion force is in...

10:1085,000 ready-to-eat meals

10:12left Dover Air Force Base this afternoon,

10:14bound for Albania.

10:16It is the second such shipment in as many days.

10:19Randall Pinkston in Albania

10:20was there when the first one arrived earlier today.

10:24On Easter Sunday,

10:26in answer to Albania's prayers for Kosovo refugees,

10:29a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo jet

10:32with 79,000 pounds of food and water

10:35sat down at Tirana Airport,

10:37the first new American military presence

10:40on the ground in the Balkans

10:41since NATO began bombing Yugoslavia.

10:44This initial deployment will soon be joined

10:47by other American forces

10:48and is expected to become part

10:50of a larger NATO humanitarian mission.

10:53We're very happy to be able to come here today

10:56to bring with us these much-needed supplies.

10:59It's just the beginning.

11:01The U.S. military wasted no time

11:03employing helicopters to fly over

11:05Albania's snow-capped mountains

11:07to deliver food and water

11:09to the Kosovo refugees waiting in Koukos.

11:12This trip from Tirana to Koukos

11:14normally takes seven hours over bad roads,

11:17but the U.S. military reduced travel time

11:19to just 30 minutes.

11:21Had you expected to be here

11:23on this Easter Sunday?

11:25Well, not really.

11:26My group got about 30 hours' notice

11:29on this mission.

11:30The group's a contingency response group,

11:32and that's our job,

11:33is to move fast like this.

11:34So here we are.

11:37The Air Force emphasizes

11:38this is a humanitarian mission,

11:40but these are special operations aircraft

11:42designed to operate in dangerous

11:44and hazardous conditions.

11:47And these humanitarian troops

11:48are heavily armed

11:49and alert for any sign of threat

11:51from Serb forces

11:52who are less than 30 miles

11:54from the Koukos airfield.

11:56But now the mission is humanitarian,

11:59and with this new presence,

12:00the U.S. moves ever deeper

12:02into this conflict.

12:04Randall Pinkston, CBS News, Tirana.

12:06When it comes...

12:07...on NATO's plans

12:08for the coordinated use

12:09of these new weapons.

12:10The Apache gunships have the ability

12:14to operate at night

12:15and in bad weather

12:16and fire laser-guided help.

12:18It's to give us the type

12:19of tank-killing capability

12:21that the bad weather has denied us.

12:24It will give us the capability

12:26to get up close and personal

12:28to the Milosevic armor units

12:33in Kosovo.

12:34But NATO has slowly begun

12:35to back away from the idea

12:37that its troops

12:37could only enter Kosovo

12:39under the terms

12:40of the Rambouillet Agreement.

12:41It now says

12:42a permissive environment

12:43could be created

12:44for NATO peacekeepers

12:45by the bombing campaign.

12:47And that could...

12:48...Serb army.

12:49Serbian television

12:50showed pictures

12:51apparently taken inside Kosovo

12:53of the Serb 3rd Army

12:54digging in.

12:56NATO wants to hit

12:57small troop clusters like this

12:58and to do so

12:59a new weapon

13:00is being sent to the region.

13:0424 U.S. Apache helicopters

13:06will go to Albania.

13:07These can operate

13:08in all weathers

13:09and with their Hellfire missiles

13:11are specifically designed

13:12to attack ground troops

13:14and tanks.

13:17Their involvement

13:18together with 2,000 support troops

13:20is a clear escalation

13:22of NATO firepower.

13:23The persistent question

13:24NATO is being asked

13:25is whether perhaps

13:26without admitting it.

13:28It's getting closer

13:28to sending ground troops

13:30into Kosovo.

13:32Absolutely not.

13:33This is pure and simple

13:35an expansion

13:36of the air operation.

13:37It's to give us

13:38the type of tank

13:39killing capability

13:40that the bad weather

13:42has denied us.

13:43It's...

13:43The goal is getting

13:46that food, water

13:47and medicine

13:47to the refugees

13:48on the border.

13:50Today saw the first

13:51consignment loaded

13:52hand over hand

13:53onto French helicopters

13:55to be flown up

13:56to the Kukes refugee centers.

13:58We just arrived this morning

14:00and prepared transportation

14:02from different material

14:04humanitarian and food

14:05for Kukes

14:06near the frontier.

14:09We travelled

14:10with that first convoy

14:11of three helicopters.

14:13Although the amount

14:14of desperately needed

14:15relief supplies

14:16they can carry

14:17is severely limited

14:18it is for now

14:20by far the fastest

14:21method of travel.

14:23The alternative

14:23is a torturous

14:24ten hour drive

14:25over rugged terrain.

14:28The landing site

14:29was deliberately chosen

14:30to be some distance

14:32from the refugees.

14:33The fear was

14:34the sight of food

14:35being unloaded

14:36could have sparked

14:36a riot.

14:38I know that

14:39it's not so much

14:40by helicopter

14:41you know

14:41less than truck

14:43but truck it's so long

14:44you know

14:45then we have to

14:46bring very quickly

14:47to the border

14:48to assist people

14:49in emergency.

14:50Armed French troops

14:52stood by

14:52to maintain order

14:53as curious

14:54Albanian villagers

14:55looked on.

14:57Further food shipments

14:58will follow

14:58in the coming days

14:59and 6,000 more

15:01military personnel

15:02are due to be

15:03drafted in.

15:04This is just the start

15:06of the airborne aid operation.

15:08The first opening moves

15:10in what will

15:11very quickly

15:11need to become

15:12a multi-national

15:14multi-million pound mission.

15:17And amid this

15:18the overseas development

15:19secretary Claire Short

15:20arrived in Tirana

15:21to assess

15:22to what extent

15:23Britain will be involved.

15:26We need to

15:26get all the refugees

15:28properly cared for

15:29properly fed

15:30and properly protected

15:31so the military

15:32can do their job

15:33turn back the aggression

15:34and then

15:35we'll be able to

15:36help them to go home

15:36and resettle.

15:37The Albanian authorities

15:40are present

15:41but in reality

15:42they will by and large

15:43take a back seat

15:44in their own country.

15:45For just as the scale

15:47of the refugee crisis

15:48threatens to overwhelm them

15:49so too

15:50the scale of the

15:51humanitarian relief effort

15:53required

15:53will also be

15:54beyond the capacity

15:56of Europe's

15:57poorest nation

15:57on its own.

15:59James Forlom

15:59Sky News

16:00Albania.

16:02...to be responsible

16:03for a series of massacres.

16:06Now

16:06Kosovar Albanian sources

16:07say Arkhan

16:08has been spotted

16:09in Pristina.

16:10British Foreign Secretary

16:12Robin Cook

16:12has said Arkhan's men

16:13have been incorporated

16:14into the Yugoslav army.

16:17During the breakup

16:18of Yugoslavia

16:19in the early 90s

16:20Arkhan and his followers

16:21were in Kosovo.

16:23He's suspected

16:23of being instrumental

16:24in the suppression

16:25of the ethnic Albanian

16:26population at that time.

16:28...of this activity.

16:31The first image

16:34which I am able

16:35to release to you

16:36showed us

16:37Serbian armour

16:38that was working

16:39in and around

16:40the village.

16:41This is identified

16:42by the circles

16:43on the left side

16:44and the bottom

16:45of the screen.

16:47On the right

16:48of the screen

16:49you can see

16:50the consequences

16:50of the security force

16:52action

16:52with civilians

16:53and vehicles

16:54assembled

16:55in a holding area

16:56presumably

16:57awaiting

16:58transportation

16:59to the border.

17:01Our second shot

17:02showed that

17:03the civilians

17:03had disappeared

17:04and later

17:05a final image

17:07clearly showed

17:08that the village

17:08had been set on fire.

17:10This was harrowing

17:11evidence of how

17:12these Serbian military units

17:14are being employed

17:15to force villagers

17:16from their homes.

17:19Turning to our

17:20air operations

17:21an improvement

17:22in the weather

17:22enabled us to make

17:23full use

17:24of all our assets.

17:26As you can see

17:27from this graphic

17:28we hit a comprehensive

17:29number of targets

17:30throughout the full range

17:32of military categories.

17:34These included

17:35petroleum production

17:37and storage

17:37airfields

17:39air defences

17:40ammunition storage

17:42and bridges.

17:44I would like

17:46to reiterate

17:46that every one

17:48of our targets

17:48is carefully chosen

17:50and vetted

17:51to ensure

17:52its military significance

17:53and each attack

17:55is planned

17:56with meticulous scrutiny

17:57to keep

17:58collateral damage

17:59to civilian property

18:00and loss of life

18:01to the absolute minimum.

18:06In Belgrade

18:07we also hit

18:08an important headquarters

18:09of the Fry Air Defence Forces.

18:12I told you yesterday

18:14of the destruction

18:15of the Security Institute

18:16and today

18:17I can show you

18:18before

18:19and after

18:23reconnaissance pictures

18:25of that target.

18:26As you can see

18:27it was heavily damaged.

18:31We also targeted

18:32Serbian forces

18:33in the field.

18:36These next two slides

18:37in Kosovo

18:38give you an indication

18:39of the forces

18:40we are trying

18:41to interdict.

18:41careful scrutiny

18:44showed us

18:44a field deployed

18:45surface-to-air

18:46missile system

18:47and its support vehicles

18:49together with

18:50numerous armoured vehicles.

18:53The second image

18:54pointed us

18:55to more deployed equipment.

18:57Both target sets

18:59we were able

18:59to subsequently

19:00attack.

19:04There was considerable

19:05surface-to-air missile

19:06activity last night

19:07and anti-aircraft fire

19:09but all our aircraft

19:11returned safely.

19:13We had no airborne claims

19:15but believe

19:16we may have damaged

19:17several MiGs

19:18on the ground.

19:21The weather forecast

19:22remains favourable

19:23and we will continue

19:25to intensify

19:26our operations.

19:28We will capitalise

19:30on the clear weather

19:31to attack strategic

19:32and operational targets

19:34throughout the operational area

19:36but in particular

19:38we will focus

19:39our attention

19:39on fielded forces

19:41in Kosovo.

19:44However

19:44this is no easy task.

19:47You may remember

19:47I described earlier

19:49in the week

19:49the cat and mouse tactics

19:51being employed

19:51by Serbian armoured units.

19:54They are taking

19:55every advantage

19:55of deserted buildings

19:57and terrain

19:58to camouflage

19:59their positions.

20:01Nonetheless

20:02we are putting

20:03considerable efforts

20:04into this critical task

20:06and I expect

20:07that these attacks

20:08will soon

20:08severely disrupt

20:10Serbian military

20:11and special police

20:12operations

20:13on the ground.

20:15I have only one

20:17cockpit video

20:17for you today

20:18which is pretty

20:19self-explanatory

20:20but you will see

20:21towards the end

20:22of the clip

20:23two bombs coming in

20:24from the right-hand side.

20:25Thank you very much

20:49ladies and gentlemen

20:50I now hand over

20:51to Jamie.

20:52We're based in Albania

20:54that means about

20:542,000 American troops

20:56will have to go with them

20:58both to protect them

20:58maintain them

20:59keep them operating

21:00and the hope is

21:02that that will make

21:03a big difference

21:03to the ground war

21:04in Kosovo.

21:05The problem though is

21:05...of Belgrade

21:06among the targets

21:08hit according

21:08to Serbian media

21:09was the headquarters

21:10of the Yugoslav Air Force.

21:13State media reported

21:13a rail line

21:15south of Belgrade

21:16was also hit

21:16as well as

21:17army barracks

21:18in the town of Raska

21:19smouldering fires

21:21could also be seen

21:22about 60 kilometres

21:23south of Belgrade

21:24in the town of Nis

21:25where a tobacco

21:26factory was hit

21:27Serb media says

21:28bombs also damaged

21:29a nearby hospital

21:31and a daycare centre.

21:35Worked through the night

21:36travelling from

21:36one location to another

21:38above them

21:41cruise missiles

21:42were coming in

21:43I saw several

21:43barrages of

21:44anti-aircraft fire

21:45going up to meet them

21:46at one point

21:48overhead

21:48and what sounded

21:49like a plane

21:49could be heard.

21:52As the fires burnt

21:53the authorities said

21:54they'd hit

21:55three cruise missiles

21:55we have no

21:56independent confirmation

21:57of that.

21:58This is what the location

21:59the fires were in

22:00looked like today.

22:02This is the

22:03Vesdara district

22:04of the city centre

22:05and is

22:05or was

22:06a police complex.

22:08Many other targets

22:09were hit

22:09including Belgrade

22:11civilian airport

22:11and other towns

22:12in Serbia.

22:14Water tankers

22:15were brought in

22:16to assist the fire crews

22:17at this rate

22:18the authorities

22:18will eventually

22:19run low on water

22:20as well as fuel.

22:22Tim Marshall

22:22Sky News

22:23Belgrade

22:24The arrival

22:27of 24 Apache

22:28helicopters

22:29over the next few days

22:31will see a dramatic

22:32shift in the conflict.

22:33Although the Americans

22:34and NATO

22:35have insisted

22:35this is not a step

22:37towards the deployment

22:38of ground troops

22:39in Kosovo

22:39it will mean

22:402,000 soldiers

22:41on the ground

22:42in Albania.

22:43The very way

22:44Apache helicopters

22:45operate

22:46flying close

22:47to their targets

22:47makes them

22:48much more vulnerable

22:49to counter-attack

22:50than cruise missiles

22:51launched from bases

22:52hundreds of miles away.

22:54The British Prime Minister

22:55writing in the Sun

22:56newspaper today

22:57again reiterated

22:58his opposition

22:59to ground forces.

23:00There is no question

23:01of NATO ground forces

23:03being sent in

23:03he said

23:04unless it is

23:05to police

23:05an agreed political settlement.

23:08But there is

23:08an appetite

23:09among certain sections

23:10of the military

23:11including those

23:12with experience

23:12of the region

23:13that ground troops

23:14are the only solution.

23:16There is only one way

23:17you can possibly stop

23:18or try to stop

23:20because it is impossible

23:21to stop completely

23:21ethnic cleansing

23:23by small groups of men

23:24who knock on doors

23:25and drag families out

23:27and butcher them

23:28or send them on the way

23:29while they burn their house

23:30or both

23:31and that is

23:32to actually have soldiers

23:33into the precisamente

23:35to the next video.

23:36Thank you.

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