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00:00...fix to the nose of a plane flying overhead.
00:03NATO spokesman Jamie Shae
00:04says the repeated bombardment
00:06should wear down the Yugoslavs.
00:09It's a snowball
00:10affair.
00:12A snowball begins in a small way
00:14but as it goes down the mountain
00:15it picks up more and more momentum
00:17and eventually it becomes a very large
00:19and highly irresistible object
00:21and I think we're seeing the same.
00:23This air campaign is having a cumulative effect
00:26and there will come a moment
00:27when the pressure simply reaches breaking point.
00:30for President Milosevic
00:31and his military
00:32and at that moment we will have the success
00:34that we've been looking for.
00:37...baric act in the Balkans.
00:40The swelling NATO aggression
00:41has become a ruthless war of extermination
00:43against the peoples of Yugoslavia.
00:46The Russian media are echoing those views
00:48but anti-NATO sentiment
00:49is fostering a culture of fear
00:51and as CNN Steve Harrigan reports
00:53Russia's attempts to rally its people
00:54may lead to unforeseen problems.
00:57In the heart of Moscow
01:04taxi driver Anatoly Kuznetsov says
01:06he's afraid of a NATO attack.
01:10This attack on Yugoslavia
01:12is just a dress rehearsal for NATO.
01:14Russia is next.
01:15Anatoly is not alone.
01:18In a recent poll by the Russian Center for Public Opinion
01:2163 percent
01:23almost two-thirds of all Russians
01:25say that Russia has reason
01:27to fear an attack from the NATO alliance.
01:31Who's next, the Russians say?
01:32Who's next?
01:34It's a very important question for all of us.
01:38Most of the same pictures of NATO strikes
01:42against Yugoslavia
01:43that are shown in the West
01:44are shown on Russian television.
01:47But here those pictures tell
01:49a very different story.
01:52The refugees are trying to save themselves
01:55from the NATO bombing.
01:56Instead of preventing a humanitarian catastrophe,
02:00NATO is causing one.
02:01In this case,
02:03it's not the pictures talking
02:05or the refugees themselves,
02:07but the Russian government.
02:09The two largest television channels in Russia
02:11are controlled by the state.
02:14We try to bring the Russian government's viewpoint
02:17to our viewers.
02:20That viewpoint blames the refugee crisis
02:22in Yugoslavia on NATO airstrikes.
02:25But analysts warn
02:26stirring up anti-Western sentiment
02:28could backfire on the Russian government.
02:31The danger is that
02:33they might energize nationalism,
02:38xenophobia, anti-Western feelings
02:39that they will be not in a position to control.
02:44And in an election season,
02:45a battle to control those feelings
02:47or to push them even further
02:49has already begun.
02:52Steve Harrigan, CNN, Moscow.
02:55Have both the B-52s and those B-1Bs
02:58now stationed there at Fairford
03:02with the capability of bombing through the cloud.
03:07And our correspondent, Andrew Moore,
03:08is actually there at Fairford.
03:10And, Andrew, it looks as if this particular aircraft
03:13at least may be starting some kind of operation.
03:16Yes, I can see, as you can see,
03:19two of the B-52s taxing off at the moment.
03:22It looks as if a third will be joining them fairly shortly.
03:25What we never know here at Fairford
03:27is whether these planes are on a bombing mission
03:29or whether they are returning to the States.
03:31But it certainly looks as if they'll be taking off fairly shortly.
03:34And we've certainly seen evidence
03:36of some ground activity there at Fairford
03:39within the last few hours.
03:42That's right.
03:43Earlier on in the day,
03:44just past where those B-52s are taxing now
03:47are the B-1B Lancer bombers.
03:49And we certainly saw bombs being loaded onto those planes.
03:53Some of these B-52s have been loaded with cruise missiles.
03:57Whether these particular planes are armed or not,
04:00we just don't know.
04:01And obviously, for operational reasons,
04:03we're not made aware of what bombing missions
04:08might be going on.
04:09But we saw earlier pictures of those sort of plane spotters
04:13gathering at the edge of the airfield,
04:16looking through the wire at all this going on.
04:20That's right.
04:21I mean, in front of me now,
04:22there must be about 100 people watching these planes
04:24from this particular location all around the airfield.
04:27It's been a big problem for the police.
04:29There have been so many people coming here to see the planes.
04:32It's causing traffic problems.
04:34There have been a few demonstrators here as well.
04:37I can see a few banners left on the fence here saying stop the bombing.
04:41A very small demonstration, though, it has to be said.
04:44But bearing in mind the sensitivity of these operations
04:46and the fact that these planes are operational almost all the time,
04:51and security very important there.
04:55That's right.
04:56Security has been heightened in the last few days.
04:58Certainly within the perimeter,
05:00we've seen the police patrolling.
05:02They've been patrolling around the perimeter.
05:04And whenever you see these planes,
05:06especially when the cruise missiles are being loaded on board,
05:09you see armed guards around to make sure
05:11that nobody crosses this perimeter fence,
05:14is this barbed wire fence here.
05:16But you are still able to obviously film
05:19and bring us these live pictures
05:22of the movements on the tarmac from the edge of the airfield.
05:28That's right.
05:29From the perimeter fence,
05:30anyone can come along and see what's happening.
05:33The American Air Force, when operations are over,
05:36are being very open with us,
05:37as open as they can be.
05:39So often when a bombing mission has been completed,
05:41then they will confirm what has happened.
05:44We can see some of the posters there, Andrew.
05:46Just to interrupt you with, as you said,
05:48the message from the demonstrators.
05:50How vocal have those demonstrations been?
05:53There was a group of about a dozen demonstrators
05:56who were here just after lunchtime.
05:58And they were chanting here for about half an hour
06:02and then left their posters behind.
06:04There was another similar small demonstration a few days ago,
06:07but certainly no mass demonstrations here.
06:10The people who've come here just to watch the planes,
06:14there are far more of them than there are demonstrators.
06:16And indeed the local population now presumably used to hearing
06:19these jets screaming off at all times of the day and night.
06:24That's right.
06:25I mean, this airbase here, RAF Fairford,
06:27one of the longest runways in Europe, two miles long,
06:30is normally effectively mothballed,
06:32but recently it's become a very busy and active airbase.
06:36at the moment there are eight B-52s here,
06:39three on the taxiway, as we can see,
06:41five others left on the ground,
06:43and on the other side of the base,
06:45five of those B-1 bombers.
06:47So certainly here, a very busy base,
06:49and large numbers of support personnel have flown in
06:52to support these planes.
06:55And with them, of course, there are the transport planes,
06:57the Galaxy transport planes coming and going.
06:59And one of those left airfield earlier on today.
07:02Well, Andrew, thanks indeed for the moment for joining us.
07:05But of course, we'll return to as and when those planes take off.
07:08Obviously, it's going to take them some time
07:10to reach the end of that two-mile runway.
07:12But, Andrew, for the moment, thanks very much indeed.
07:17Harriet, through.
07:18And indeed, just to bring you right up to date on that,
07:20we're hearing now that Mr Blair has spoken tonight
07:23by telephone to Bill Clinton.
07:25for about 20 minutes or so.
07:27Downing Street said that they agreed that Friday night's raids
07:30showed Milozovic NATO's determination
07:32to take his military machine apart from top to bottom.
07:35Also, getting news of what Bill Clinton has said
07:37in his weekly radio address to Americans,
07:40that the United States will stand with its NATO allies
07:42and see that Yugoslav President Milozovic
07:44pays a very high price for his actions in Kosovo.
07:48Our nation cannot do everything, he said.
07:50We can't end all the suffering.
07:51We can't stop all the violence.
07:54And indeed, we saw overnight that attack
07:56on the Yugoslav Interior Ministry
07:59and headquarters of the secret police in Belgrade
08:02described by Tony Blair as highly successful.
08:07And it was intimated that perhaps that latest attack
08:10was carried out by cruise missiles,
08:12which are capable of operating despite the continuing
08:14heavy cloud and bad weather over Yugoslavia.
08:18And in addition to this air operation,
08:21in Britain indicating that it's trying to set up sanctuaries
08:24within Macedonia and Clare Shortwitle,
08:27the International Development Secretary,
08:29flying to Macedonia tomorrow with a team of officials
08:32to discuss how Britain can help
08:35and perhaps establish a NATO air bridge into Macedonia
08:39to take in food, blankets, and medicine.
08:42And indeed, NATO discussing,
08:45in addition to this military operation,
08:47I can help with establishing better aid,
08:51help in both Macedonia and Albania,
08:54where there are problems getting aid
08:56from the capital, Tirana, to the border.
08:59The base element in Operation Allied Force
09:01is the USS Gonzales,
09:03an American Navy destroyer in the Adriatic.
09:05It is one of a new class of ships
09:07designed to avoid detection.
09:08CNN's Martin Savage reports from aboard the Gonzales.
09:12Viewed from the air,
09:14the USS Gonzales might seem impossible to miss.
09:17But try and view the guided missile destroyer on radar,
09:19and it's possible you just might.
09:22You see, the Gonzales was built from the keel up
09:25to be a stealth ship.
09:26There's no such thing as an invisible ship,
09:29but we can work within the laws of physics
09:32to try and help ourselves out.
09:34You'll notice, looking at the top side of the ship,
09:37that everything tends to be very angular.
09:40Employing the same technology the Air Force uses
09:42to make its stealth fighters and bombers
09:44hard to spot on radar,
09:45the U.S. Navy worked to do the same
09:47with its new Arleigh Burke class of destroyers,
09:50all 9,000 tons of them.
09:52Almost every part of the ship's superstructure
09:54is angled in some way to reflect away
09:57rather than return an enemy's radar signal.
10:00It's the return that gives a ship away.
10:03The stealthy design goes down right
10:04to some of the smallest of details.
10:07The lifelines, for example,
10:08on an older vessel would be one-inch poles.
10:11Here, there's steel cable covered with rubber.
10:14Stanchions set at an angle in the deck
10:17and diamond shape.
10:19Items on the ship's exterior
10:20that can't be reshaped
10:21are instead covered with a special rubber coating
10:24that absorbs radar energy
10:25that even includes the ship's gong.
10:29But it's not just a ship's shape
10:31that can give it away.
10:32So can heat, especially from its engines.
10:34What we want to do
10:35is reduce the infrared signature
10:37that's put off by the ship's exhaust system.
10:40We have the boundary layer infrared suppression system,
10:42which brings air from outside the ship
10:45into the exhaust system,
10:46mixes it in with the exhaust,
10:48reduces the temperature,
10:49and it reduces the ability
10:51of a heat-seeking missile.
10:53The Gonzales also has a special system
10:55that uses air bubbles
10:56to greatly cut back the destroyer's noise
10:59as it passes through the ocean,
11:01making it tough to find with sonar.
11:02The end result,
11:04in war games in which the Gonzales
11:06had to penetrate enemy defenses
11:07to strike a prime target,
11:10the destroyer has a perfect record of kills.
11:13We have completed two different exercises
11:16as we work through what we call
11:17the inter-deployment training cycle.
11:20And the ship, during those exercises,
11:22was able to, as an opposing force,
11:25go against the opposite force
11:27and sneak up on them, basically, undetected.
11:31Aboard the USS Guided Missile Destroyer Gonzales,
11:34when it comes to possible detection
11:36by a hostile force,
11:38out of sight and out of mind
11:40is the best policy.
11:43Martin Savage, CNN,
11:44aboard the USS Gonzales in the Adriatic.
11:47Nathalie, a day of very intermittent activity here
11:55since very early this morning.
11:57Flights just every two or three hours,
12:00usually just one or two or three strike aircraft leaving,
12:04sometimes complemented around the same time
12:06by radar jamming and surveillance aircraft.
12:09But for the most part,
12:10the pattern of the past few days has held here
12:13very patchy flying from Aviano Air Force Base
12:17in northern Italy.
12:19Now, the sun is going down here.
12:20That's typically when the activity picks up.
12:22But so far, we're not even hearing that loud whine
12:26that typically means strike aircraft
12:27are beginning to taxi out onto the tarmac,
12:31preparing to fly into Yugoslavia.
12:33We're not hearing that.
12:34Just hearing the propellers of some,
12:36presumably, C-130s over there at the airbase.
12:38Very patchy activity here,
12:40no doubt, presumably,
12:41down to the weather in the Balkans.
12:44They're simply not able to fly
12:45as many aircraft out of here
12:46as presumably they would like to.
12:49One thing that did not happen today as well,
12:52we were expecting as many as 24 stealth F-117 aircraft
12:57to come in here to bulk up
12:59the 150 or so aircraft already here.
13:02Those stealth fighters have apparently gone to Germany instead.
13:06Now, the only novelty today, if you will, Natalie,
13:11a gathering of a few hundred protesters.
13:14Now, all day long here at Aviano,
13:16the police presence grew.
13:17It became more difficult than usual
13:19to get into the Air Force Base here.
13:23More roadblocks than in the past few days
13:25as police braced for what they thought might be
13:27a pretty large demonstration.
13:29Well, the protesters did turn out,
13:31but only a couple of hundred,
13:33mostly Italians,
13:34some leftist groups, anarchist groups,
13:37some Christian groups.
13:39They gave some speeches
13:41protesting the NATO airstrikes,
13:45but for the most part,
13:46what had thought to be perhaps
13:48a demonstration that might amount
13:50to some trouble here
13:51was quite quiet.
13:52And as we go into evening now here,
13:55as the sun goes down,
13:56as I said,
13:57remains quite quiet here.
13:58Still only intermittent activity here
14:00at Aviano Air Force Base
14:02in northern Italy.
14:03Bill...
14:0490% of the combat missions
14:08over Yugoslavia
14:09are being launched
14:10from bases in Italy,
14:11and the backwash
14:12is now being felt
14:13in government circles in Rome.
14:15The communists
14:16in the center-left coalition
14:17are withdrawing
14:18two ministers from the cabinet,
14:20but say they'll still support
14:21the government in parliament.
14:24Peace protesters gathered today
14:25for a demonstration
14:26outside the Aviano Air Base
14:28in north-eastern Italy,
14:30the heart of Operation Allied Force.
14:32But the latest polls here indicate
14:34the television pictures
14:35of tens of thousands
14:37of desperate refugees
14:38fleeing Kosovo
14:39have had a great impact
14:40on public opinion here.
14:42The number of people
14:43who think the bombing is justified
14:45is rising significantly,
14:47and there's a strong surge of support
14:49for Italy to take
14:50a more active military role.
14:53The poll also shows
14:54support for NATO action
14:55is strongest amongst the youngest.
14:58Support, too,
14:58for the American aviators
14:59at the base
15:00with a phone call
15:01from President Clinton.
15:02I know that I've taken you
15:04almost up to your departure time,
15:05and I don't want to keep you
15:06late for your mission,
15:07but you just know
15:08we're all proud of you,
15:09and what you're doing
15:10is very important
15:10for our country
15:11and for the future of the world,
15:12and we thank you very much.
15:14Thank you, Mr. President,
15:15for the great words.
15:16Tonight, NATO's tactics
15:18will be the same
15:19to grind down
15:19the military machine
15:20of President Milosevic,
15:22but the campaign
15:23is taking a lot longer
15:24than the planners thought.
15:26David Chater, Sky News,
15:27Aviano, Italy.
15:31...targeted the Interior Ministry
15:32because this was
15:33the control center
15:34responsible for
15:35Serbian atrocities in Kosovo.
15:37The buildings are believed
15:38to have been virtually empty
15:39at the time,
15:40and there were no civilian casualties.
15:42We have shown that...
15:43The first report
15:43was in the past hour or so
15:45that the Kamenichki Bridge
15:47at the city of Novi Sad,
15:49Yugoslavia's second largest
15:50population center,
15:51some 80 miles north of Belgrade,
15:54was attacked.
15:55This is the second crossing
15:56over the River Danube there,
15:58which has been attacked
15:59and destroyed by NATO action.
16:02The first bridge went down
16:03on Wednesday night,
16:05blocking the River Danube,
16:06which is an important,
16:07in fact, vital waterway
16:09for many central European economies.
16:10And then this evening,
16:12confirmation, as you can see
16:13from these Serbian television pictures,
16:16that a second bridge
16:17over the River Danube
16:18was attacked,
16:19and sections of that bridge
16:20are also now
16:21in the River Danube.
16:23We had eyewitness reports
16:24a short time ago
16:25that perhaps at least one car,
16:27maybe more, we don't know,
16:29might have been on the bridge
16:30at the time of the attack.
16:32We certainly had eyewitness reports
16:33from Novi Sad there
16:34of emergency services
16:36rushing to the scene
16:38and perhaps trying to mount
16:39some sort of water rescue operation,
16:41but we have no exact confirmation
16:43of that at this stage,
16:45although a government official here
16:46did tell me
16:47that he did believe
16:48reports from the police in the area
16:50that there was at least
16:52one car on the bridge,
16:53but as I say,
16:54no visual confirmation
16:55of that at the moment.
16:56And then shortly after
16:57the attack on the Kamenichki bridge
17:00in Novi Sad,
17:01a second report
17:02of yet another bridge
17:03being hit at the city
17:05of BreÄka Palanka
17:07some 30 miles west
17:09of Novi Sad.
17:10That also hit.
17:11We await to see
17:12visual confirmation
17:13of that from Serbian television.
17:15There is the war in the air
17:17and there is a third war,
17:18the picture war.
17:20The images people see
17:21of the war
17:21and how those images
17:22shape their view
17:23of what's happening.
17:24Who is winning
17:25the picture war?
17:26Slobodan Milosevic
17:27in one view.
17:29He is managing
17:30the war of pictures.
17:32This campaign
17:34of mass deportation
17:35is deliberately orchestrated
17:37by a number
17:39of clearly evident elements.
17:43ĆœivÄlĂĄ Srbija!
17:44ĆœivÄlĂĄ Srbija!
17:46Milosevic controls
17:47what Serbs see
17:48on Serb TV,
17:49captured Americans,
17:50a seemingly cordial meeting
17:52with a Kosovar leader,
17:53but others are also watching
17:54and they are seeing
17:55other pictures,
17:56other images.
17:57I'm not sure
17:58he's winning the war
17:58in the United States
17:59because the emotion
18:01of three American men
18:04bruised and wounded
18:05being held captive
18:06is a very powerful emotion
18:08for Americans.
18:09Where people might have wondered
18:11in the past,
18:12now universally
18:14he and his government
18:15is seen as a bunch of thugs.
18:18Called Albanian terrorists,
18:21but the commander
18:21of the Pristina Corps
18:22said the border was secure.
18:25Patrols were depicted
18:26in high spirits
18:28and the latest batch
18:29of teenage recruits
18:30were shown taking
18:31their oath of allegiance.
18:33A Spanish television crew
18:35and a Dutch photographer
18:36were arrested
18:37on the Macedonian border
18:38for allegedly entering
18:39Serbia illegally.
18:41They appeared
18:42to have been forced
18:43to make public statements
18:44about NATO attacks.
18:45My personal opinion
18:46is that this is a crime
18:49against civilians.
18:52NATO's forces
18:53have been bolstered
18:54by four fighter planes
18:55from Canada
18:56and another eight
18:57will join them.
18:59Gary Lloyd, Sky News.
19:01Another two million
19:02is coming from
19:03the Irish Republic.
19:04Tonight,
19:05more urgently needed supplies
19:06were flown out
19:07from Kent.
19:10At a small airfield
19:11in Kent,
19:12more than 20 tonnes
19:13of tents and blankets,
19:15ready to be loaded
19:16onto a cargo plane tonight.
19:19By tomorrow,
19:19they will provide shelter
19:21for Albanian refugees
19:22from Kosovo.
19:25This flight
19:26is one of a number
19:27of government-sponsored missions
19:28leaving the country
19:29over the next few days.
19:32Other countries
19:33have been providing
19:34their own aid,
19:35this plane arriving
19:36from Poland.
19:37And money to save lives
19:39is coming in,
19:40steadily.
19:41Good morning.
19:42This centre in Bristol
19:43is taking about
19:44400 calls a day.
19:46The charity hopes
19:46advertising will boost
19:48the response.
19:49Every time there's an ad
19:50that goes out on the radio
19:51we have a bit of a flush
19:52of responses from people,
19:54but it's been slow
19:55and steady
19:55all day today
19:56and yesterday.
19:57Britain today
19:58doubled its commitment
19:59to ÂŁ20 million.
20:01Other countries
20:02are emptying their pockets
20:03with sums as high
20:04as ÂŁ32 million
20:05from the United States.
20:07So much aid
20:07and help
20:08for so many,
20:09but why has so little
20:10reached those in need?
20:12And on night-time landings
20:13and a lack of cargo
20:14handling equipment
20:15is slowing the arrival
20:17of aid.
20:18The government
20:18has vowed
20:19that NATO
20:19will now act
20:20as a relief organisation
20:21to overcome the problem.
20:23We will continue
20:24to give this issue
20:26the priority it needs,
20:28responding to the
20:29human misery
20:30and the human need
20:31that we can see.
20:32And that is
20:33in stark contrast
20:34to the brutality
20:35and the callousness
20:36with which President
20:37Milosevic
20:37has created this misery.
20:39But where do
20:40the quarter of a million
20:41ethnic Albanians
20:42eventually go?
20:43Germany has said
20:44it's ready to take refugees
20:45but stressed that
20:47they will have to
20:47return home
20:48if and when it's safe.
20:50Chris Rogers'
20:51Sky News
20:51sources here
20:52are saying that
20:53there may well
20:53have been motorists
20:55using the bridge
20:56at the time
20:56it was attacked
20:57by that cruise missile.
20:58The beta news agency
21:00here is reporting
21:01several casualties
21:02as a result
21:03of the strike
21:04against the bridge.
21:05Also we have
21:06as yet unconfirmed
21:07by NATO
21:08reports that
21:09another bridge
21:09at a town
21:10called
21:10BlaÄka Polanka
21:11about 30 miles
21:13west of Novi Sad
21:14was also hit.
21:15That bridge
21:15an important link
21:17from Serbia
21:18to Croatia.
21:19Back to you, Joey.
21:20And before you go here
21:21what about
21:22Mr. Milosevic?
21:23Over the last few days
21:25the weather
21:26has been quite a problem
21:27it's been misty
21:28foggy
21:28and more than
21:29the weather here
21:30the problem is
21:31the weather
21:31over Yugoslavia.
21:33Today we're hearing
21:34many more planes
21:35taking off
21:36and matter of fact
21:37there's a bit of noise
21:38behind me right now.
21:40We don't of course
21:40know the precise
21:41destinations
21:42of these planes
21:43many of them
21:45are involved
21:46in patrols
21:46over the Adriatic
21:47providing cover
21:48for NATO ships
21:50there.
21:51Also they're
21:52flying over
21:53over Bosnia
21:54where there's
21:55a peacekeeping force.
21:56The feeling
21:57on the base
21:57is they're
21:58looking forward
21:59to a little
21:59more clear weather
22:00so they can
22:01get back
22:02to action.
22:03I hope
22:04you can hear
22:04me.
22:08A sense
22:12of the activity
22:13and the sound
22:14of it
22:14from CNN's
22:15Ben Wheat
22:15a minute
22:16Aviano.
22:17Joey?
22:18Native forces
22:19CNN's David Ensor
22:20with our report.
22:23The announcement
22:24the USS Teddy
22:25Roosevelt
22:25and its carrier
22:26battle group
22:27will join
22:28NATO forces
22:28in operations
22:29against Yugoslavia
22:30means about
22:31another 50
22:32combat planes
22:33for the
22:33alliance arsenal.
22:34It also adds
22:35several more
22:36ships capable
22:37of firing
22:37cruise missiles.
22:39The Pentagon
22:39is also sending
22:4013 F-117
22:42stealth fighter
22:42bombers.
22:43NATO officials
22:44say they will
22:44use the increased
22:45firepower
22:46until Belgrade
22:47backs down.
22:48We are determined
22:49to keep this
22:49going until
22:50we stop
22:50the Serb
22:51armed forces
22:51and we're
22:52hoping to
22:52do that
22:53very soon
22:53in the next
22:54few days.
22:55Our pressure
22:55is intensifying
22:56all the time.
22:57But NATO
22:58and Pentagon
22:59officials remain
23:00frustrated
23:00they have been
23:01able to do
23:02so little
23:02to stop
23:03alleged
23:04Serb
23:04atrocities
23:05in Kosovo.
23:06We continue
23:06to attack
23:07those things
23:08that sustain
23:09their forces.
23:11As we've
23:11said from
23:12the beginning
23:12you cannot
23:13stop
23:13this level
23:15of violence
23:15in Kosovo
23:16from air
23:17power
23:17instantly.
23:18Pentagon
23:19officials
23:19admit
23:20the A-10
23:20planes
23:21designed
23:22to target
23:22tanks
23:23and troops
23:23on the
23:24ground
23:24have yet
23:25to fire
23:25in anger.
23:26The spokesman
23:27says however
23:27that Apache
23:28ground attack
23:29helicopters
23:29may soon
23:30be deployed.
23:31I would
23:32expect
23:32action
23:34to be
23:35forthcoming
23:36on that
23:36and
23:37that's
23:39all I can
23:39say.
23:41I would
23:42expect
23:42relatively
23:43soon.
23:44The Apache
23:44helicopters
23:45could be
23:45very effective
23:46against
23:46Serb
23:47tanks
23:47and
23:48artillery.
23:48They
23:48move
23:49fast
23:49and
23:49low
23:50with
23:50considerable
23:51night
23:51capability.
23:53But they
23:53would require
23:53several hundred
23:54army support
23:55personnel
23:55and their
23:56deployment
23:57would raise
23:57the risk
23:58of American
23:59casualties.
24:00The
24:00humanitarian
24:01tragedy
24:02is also
24:02getting
24:02Pentagon
24:03attention.
24:04A giant
24:04C-17 cargo
24:05plane left
24:06the U.S.
24:07carrying food
24:08for refugees
24:09in Albania.
24:10You saw
24:10these yesterday
24:11but this
24:12is a packet
24:13that holds
24:14enough food
24:15to feed
24:16one refugee
24:17for a day.
24:19It's about
24:192,200 calories
24:21and it is
24:23non-meat
24:25so it can be
24:26eaten by
24:26people of
24:27all faiths.
24:29What Pentagon
24:29officials are
24:30counting on the
24:31most though
24:31is a break
24:32in the weather
24:33for the pilots
24:33officials say
24:34the last 48
24:35hours have been
24:36the worst.
24:37A break in the
24:37clouds would
24:38allow them to
24:38target with
24:39laser-guided
24:40weapons against
24:41Serbian forces
24:41on the ground
24:42in Kosovo.
24:44David Ensor
24:44CNN live
24:45at the Pentagon.
24:47In a hospital
24:48according to
24:49the Serbian TV
24:50report
24:50and the Serbian TV
24:52says that
24:53these people
24:53were injured
24:54during the
24:55latest NATO
24:55strike on a
24:56bridge in
24:57Novi Sad.
24:57This is one
24:58of the two
24:58bridges that
24:59have been hit
24:59over the
25:00Danube River
25:01in the town
25:01of Novi Sad
25:02the second
25:03biggest city
25:03in Yugoslavia.
25:05There is no
25:06independent
25:06confirmation that
25:07the injured
25:08shown in these
25:08pictures are
25:09in fact people
25:10who were injured
25:10in that strike
25:11but that is
25:11what Serbian TV
25:12tells us.
25:13Take a break
25:14here in return
25:14with war.
25:15The Cold War
25:15chill in the
25:16air again.
25:18Russian warships
25:18are on the
25:19move and
25:20Moscow is
25:20seething with
25:21anti-Western
25:22fury.
25:24The airwaves
25:25are full of
25:26pro-Serbian
25:27propaganda with
25:28barely a mention
25:29of the suffering
25:30in Kosovo.
25:31This Russian
25:32electrical shop
25:33is throwing out
25:34its Western
25:35goods and using
25:36the American flag
25:37as a floor mop.
25:39It's an
25:39isolated incident
25:40but this
25:41country is now
25:42united in
25:43opposition to
25:44the NATO
25:44airstrikes.
25:46These young
25:47Russians have
25:47come forward
25:48to volunteer
25:49to fight
25:49with the
25:50Serbs.
25:51Again,
25:51they're a
25:51small extreme
25:52minority but
25:54their numbers
25:54are growing
25:55as the war
25:56in Yugoslavia
25:57escalates.
25:5824-year-old
25:59Vladimir says
26:00some of his
26:00colleagues have
26:01already left
26:02for Belgrade.
26:03We've got to
26:07stop this war.
26:08No one wants
26:09to fight
26:09but maybe
26:10by going
26:10to Yugoslavia
26:11we'll make
26:12NATO and
26:12America think
26:13again and
26:14stop their
26:14stupidity.
26:16Amongst the
26:17political elite
26:18tempers are
26:19flaring with
26:19nationalist and
26:20communist MPs
26:21on the war
26:22path.
26:23They're urging
26:23the government
26:24to break the
26:25international
26:25embargo and
26:26send arms to
26:27in Yugoslavia.
26:29Powerful voices
26:30like the retired
26:31general Alexander
26:32Lebed have
26:33endorsed the
26:33plan.
26:36But the
26:37Kremlin is
26:37still urging
26:38caution.
26:39It's sending
26:40humanitarian aid
26:41and moral
26:42support to the
26:43Serbs but
26:43nothing else.
26:44It's still
26:45hoping to
26:45produce a
26:46diplomatic
26:46miracle.
26:47We don't
26:48believe that
26:48ultimatums is
26:50the best choice
26:50in diplomacy
26:51and we need
26:52to give
26:53room to
26:54diplomacy to
26:55work because
26:56force did
26:57not prove
26:58that it's
26:59efficient.
27:03But how
27:03long until
27:04Russia's
27:05patience
27:05snaps?
27:06So far
27:07all Moscow's
27:07attempts to
27:08mediate have
27:09been ignored
27:09fueling
27:10anti-western
27:11sentiment here
27:12and raising
27:13worrying
27:14questions about
27:15the road
27:15ahead.
27:16As of now
27:17I don't see
27:18why Russia
27:20should get
27:20involved in
27:21that conflict
27:22militarily
27:23but if that
27:24happens
27:25then that
27:27will not
27:27be a
27:28cold war
27:28that
27:29will be
27:29a real
27:29war.
27:31For the
27:31moment
27:31Russian
27:32angu...
27:33Continuing
27:34with two
27:34Danube
27:35bridges
27:35hit
27:35the Serbs
27:36say one...
27:37here...
27:38to
27:39stop
27:39and
27:40let's
27:41see...
27:42here...
27:42there...
27:43here...
27:43there...
27:44the
27:45nd
27:46it
27:46and
27:47that
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