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00:00...remain relatively light.
00:02That could now change, as the aircraft based here
00:05must now be prepared for the possibility of low-level and daylight missions.
00:12There isn't a single sortie that is flown
00:14where these boys aren't absolutely ready and aware
00:18of the potential threat to them, which is sophisticated.
00:23A point that air crews and senior officers will reiterate
00:26when George Robertson arrives here later today.
00:30The Defence Secretary visits the base
00:32just as the operation enters a decisive and far more risky second phase.
00:38And it's one in which the Harriers based here will play a decisive role.
00:43A military operation now firmly focused on striking at the root cause
00:48of the refugee crisis which now threatens to engulf the region.
00:52James Forlong, Sky News, at the Gioia del Colle airbase, southern Italy.
00:58The airstrikes took on.
01:00Some live pictures coming in of B-52s returning to RAF Fairford.
01:05We saw them leaving earlier in the day
01:07and there is a thought there that they may...
01:11I think you can see the pictures that they have possibly been out
01:14on the latest round of assignments over the Balkans,
01:18but we'll find out that later when the USAF and NATO briefs us.
01:24But it looks like, according to what we're hearing,
01:28Phase 2 is now starting to become apparent,
01:32which is a NATO effort to strike more at the Yugoslav ground troops
01:37or the Serbian police ground forces and so on.
01:41Do you see that as an encouraging sign,
01:42that they're getting in closer to the people
01:44who are actually doing the damage on the ground in Kosovo itself?
01:48Yes, and bluntly they got there a bit faster than I thought they would.
01:50I thought it would take rather longer to take down the Yugoslav air defences.
01:54Let me tell you when I think we will know that Phase 2 is clearly embarked
01:57and we will begin to see the first effect of that
01:59on the operations on the ground in Kosovo.
02:02It's when we begin to undertake sorties and actions by daylight.
02:06Now, it's much more dangerous.
02:08You're firing this from close up to your target,
02:10not 100 miles away with a cruise missile.
02:12And, of course, at this stage,
02:14you become a prey to handheld guided missiles,
02:16but sooner or later that moment will have to arrive.
02:19And when it does,
02:20and I've seen the Serb army in operation,
02:22good gunners they are,
02:23good at camouflage and maneuver and being shot back at.
02:26They're very good at shooting at people.
02:28They're not much good at being shot back at.
02:29I think they'll be very, very significant
02:31and quite easy targets for fighter ground attack aircraft,
02:36perhaps even attack helicopters,
02:37in the phase that begins to operate during daylight hours.
02:41and we haven't seen that yet,
02:42though in due course I think we will.
02:45Mr. Ashdod, you, as an ex-soldier,
02:48you feel it's inevitable that ground troops
02:50will have to be deployed to finish off this job
02:53if we're to do it properly.
02:55How do you think of that?
02:56Because I understand that four took off.
03:00Indeed so, that's the case.
03:01Four took off this morning.
03:03Now, initially, we thought that they were making their way
03:05to the United States on a resupply mission,
03:08possibly to collect more cruise missiles.
03:10The timing of the return of this bomber
03:12and the three which we believe will follow it
03:14in the next 15 minutes or so
03:16indicates that that initial information was incorrect
03:18and it's far more likely that they've been on a bombing run
03:21and given that they have been away just under seven hours,
03:25one would assume that certainly Kosovo
03:27was the place that they've been to.
03:29And any official word on what they've been doing?
03:33No, absolutely none.
03:34And all the United States Air Force will say
03:36is that we have airplanes in the air
03:39and they are carrying out the tasks designated to them by NATO.
03:43As you can imagine, that does cover everything
03:45from launching cruise missiles
03:47to relocating to another airfield for whatever reason
03:51to collecting supplies, cruise missiles from America
03:54or simply refueling wherever.
03:56But so, as you can imagine, on an operation like this,
03:59all details are kept classified and are not confirmed at all.
04:04The first few nights, radar sites, airfields and missile batteries were attacked.
04:10That campaign continues, but now, in phase two,
04:14NATO has drawn a line across Yugoslavia to try to protect Kosovo.
04:19Any military presence south of this line, the 44th parallel,
04:23is liable to be attacked.
04:24The principal targets are the Yugoslav Army,
04:26the Serbian Special Police, and Serbian paramilitary groups.
04:31Unmanned surveillance aircraft like these used by NATO in Bosnia
04:35should be able to pinpoint those targets.
04:37They will also be used to gather evidence about war crimes.
04:41Then much will depend on this aircraft,
04:43the A-10 Thunderbolt of the US Air Force.
04:46It's slow and vulnerable,
04:48but extremely effective in dealing with armoured vehicles and ground forces.
04:51At NATO headquarters,
04:54officials accept that the Serb campaign is further advanced than NATO's.
04:59We will have to catch up.
05:00We are throwing as much effort as we can into it.
05:03I can assure you that every military person in the NATO chain
05:08is very well aware of the urgency,
05:11and we are moving heaven and earth to try and get up to speed
05:14and get into there,
05:16and to address the problem as quickly as we can.
05:18More B-52 bombers arrived in Britain from America this evening.
05:22NATO knows that this operation is now a race against time
05:25with no guarantee of success.
05:27It knows, too, that for very many Kosovar Albanians,
05:30it is already too late.
05:32Nicholas Whitchell, BBC News.
05:35Well, as the NATO campaign has intensified...
05:38...this afternoon,
05:40Mr Robertson warned that the risks being taken by RAF pilots
05:44were increasing all the time.
05:45Flying in to deliver praise and encouragement,
05:51the Defence Secretary and representatives
05:53from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties
05:56came to the RAF base in southern Italy
05:58to see the NATO operation at first hand.
06:04The politicians told the Harrier pilots they were proud of them.
06:08Then the Defence Secretary was given more details
06:11of last night's operation
06:12when a Harrier jet came under heavy anti-aircraft fire over Kosovo.
06:17The plane was also detected
06:18by Serbian surface-to-air missile systems.
06:22For almost an hour, George Robertson
06:23heard about the continuing danger
06:25of flying over enemy territory.
06:28Well, there are clearly risks,
06:29but people who are brave and skilled and professional
06:32seem to take that under strides,
06:34but it certainly would frighten most of us
06:36who don't have to experience that on a day-to-day basis.
06:41There were warm words, too,
06:43for the RAF support personnel
06:44who helped to keep the whole operation going.
06:47But all here gained the impression
06:49that the attack on Serbian targets
06:51will continue for some time yet.
06:53Hopes of a short war are fading.
06:55Tonight, these Harriers may be flying again.
07:00The Defence Secretary knows
07:01that the Serbians have plenty of weapons left
07:04in their armoury.
07:05The Defence Secretary's visit
07:06has been much appreciated here,
07:08but the air crews will have left him in no doubt
07:11about the continuing dangers they face,
07:13despite the days of bombing
07:15supposed to disable Serbia's anti-aircraft capability.
07:19Jonathan Sharpe...
07:20...start of Phase 2,
07:21a deliberate policy to attack Serb troops
07:24responsible for the massacres in Kosovo.
07:27The bombing over the last five days
07:28had been aimed at destroying military command centres.
07:31As ITN's Robert Moore reports,
07:33today's raids reflect the growing anxiety
07:35that airstrikes alone
07:36may not be able to finish the job.
07:42Throughout the day,
07:43NATO warplanes have launched a series of combat missions
07:46from their Italian bases.
07:48F-16 and F-18 strike aircraft,
07:51as well as prowlers,
07:52whose job it is to disable enemy radar,
07:54all took to the skies and headed for Yugoslavia.
07:58And warships such as the USS Philippine Sea
08:01sailing in the Adriatic
08:02have also fired more cruise missiles.
08:08But it's widely acknowledged that air power and missiles
08:11are not able to halt the atrocities.
08:14But the effort has now shifted
08:15to hitting the infrastructure supporting that repression.
08:18The tempo of operations is getting faster,
08:21and the focus of our operations
08:22is shifting decisively
08:24towards actions against the forces
08:26implementing Milosevic's policy of repression in Kosovo.
08:31One example,
08:32an ammunition facility in Kosovo
08:34was targeted by RAF Harriers last night.
08:36At a briefing,
08:37the pilot's raid was described as highly successful.
08:39He's tracking the target continuously
08:41while he's manoeuvring away from the target,
08:42and you'll shortly see weapon impact.
08:47And there we have a very successful attack.
08:50But one bomb did clearly miss its target,
08:53exploding on open ground.
08:56There's the one that didn't impact properly,
08:58but the second weapon guided precisely onto the target,
09:01so that target was also destroyed.
09:02But with so many of the atrocities
09:05being carried out
09:05by highly mobile paramilitary forces,
09:08it seems clear that NATO ground troops,
09:10not distant air power,
09:11would be required to halt the brutality.
09:14Into this complex military picture
09:16comes fresh diplomatic activity.
09:18A Russian team is flying to Belgrade tomorrow
09:20to try and mediate,
09:21headed by Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov.
09:23But there is still no sign
09:25that Yugoslavia will agree
09:26to the international peace plan on Kosovo.
09:29In the Commons,
09:30the Prime Minister dismissed charges
09:31that NATO actions
09:32have made the situation even worse.
09:34He said the bombing must now intensify.
09:37For every act of barbarity,
09:40every slaughter of the innocent,
09:42Milosevic should be made to pay
09:44a higher and a higher price.
09:49This evening,
09:50as America's giant B-52 bombers
09:52landed back in Britain
09:53after another mission,
09:55all the signs are of a growing air campaign,
09:58the one that is proving unable to halt
09:59the unfolding humanitarian tragedy.
10:03Robert Moore.
10:04This nightly bombardment
10:06means NATO believes
10:07it has neutralised Serbia's air defences,
10:10and the cockpit videos
10:11from other aircraft,
10:12in this case British Harriers,
10:14show them now operating
10:15directly over Kosovo.
10:17This was an ammunition dump.
10:20NATO's targets
10:21are now clustered around Kosovo
10:23in a desperate race
10:24to halt Serb military forces
10:25in their campaign
10:26against Kosovo's Albanians.
10:28There is a campaign.
10:31A blaze of lightning
10:32momentarily shatters
10:33the darkened bridge
10:34of the U.S.-guided missile destroyer
10:36Gonzales.
10:37The storm at sea
10:38showing up on radar
10:39like a sinister cloud.
10:42Military planners admit
10:43bad weather in the region
10:44has at times
10:45limited the effectiveness
10:47of the ongoing NATO strikes
10:48on Serb targets.
10:51And weather isn't the only problem.
10:53Smoke from fires burning in Kosovo
10:55is also interfering
10:56with NATO's use
10:57of laser-guided bombs.
10:59But the Navy's latest version
11:00of the Tomahawk cruise missile
11:01fired out of these launchers
11:03on deck here
11:04are for the most part
11:04unfazed by either smoke
11:06or bad weather
11:07since their targeting system
11:09relies not on vision
11:10but on global positioning satellites
11:13to tell them where to go.
11:14Information is downloaded
11:15from the satellite
11:16to the Tomahawk in flight.
11:18It corrects its flight path.
11:22It leads it to its target.
11:24It's very precise.
11:26Advancements in technology
11:27have done more
11:28than just make the Tomahawk
11:29an all-weather system.
11:31They have changed it
11:32from a strategic
11:32to a tactical weapon.
11:37The Navy's first use
11:38of the Tomahawk
11:39was during the Gulf War.
11:41Then, strikes had to be planned
11:42at the Pentagon level
11:43often weeks in advance
11:45due to the time
11:45to promote the missile's
11:47older guidance system.
11:50As the recent
11:51quick-task daylight launches
11:53show in the Kosovo crisis,
11:55the time between
11:56when a target is spotted
11:57and fired on by a Tomahawk
11:58has been greatly reduced,
12:00bringing the decision-making level
12:02down from the Pentagon
12:03and putting it into the hands
12:05of local commanders
12:06closer to the conflict.
12:07It's about a good design
12:09with special internet capability
12:11on the classified
12:12and unclassified systems
12:13so we can exchange data rapidly.
12:16Much more different
12:17than in 1991
12:19where they're trying
12:20to transmit everything
12:21by radio.
12:21We don't have to do that anymore.
12:23In many ways,
12:24the Navy's newest version
12:25of the Tomahawk
12:26shares the old traditions
12:27of the U.S. Mail Service,
12:29undeterred by weather
12:30and very capable
12:32of delivering.
12:34Martin Savage, CNN,
12:36aboard the U.S. destroyer
12:37Gonzales in the Adriatic.
12:41At the weekend,
12:44they ordered Phase 2,
12:46a shift towards bombing
12:47more of the units
12:48which are actually
12:49operating in Kosovo.
12:52The Yugoslav army
12:53has about 300 tanks,
12:55400 field guns
12:56and 1,000 other armoured vehicles
12:58in the province.
13:00If NATO wanted to destroy,
13:01say, half of those targets,
13:04Gulf War experience
13:05suggests they'd need
13:06between 1,000 and 1,500
13:08ground attack missions.
13:09So far,
13:11they've been flying
13:12only 20 to 30 each day.
13:15Either it's going to take
13:15a couple of months
13:16to make really deep inroads
13:18or NATO needs to commit
13:19a whole lot more aircraft.
13:22Today, though,
13:23NATO appeared unable
13:24to provide any detail
13:26on promised further deployments.
13:28We saw yesterday
13:30two countries,
13:31the U.S. and the U.K.,
13:32announced that they were
13:33sending further aircraft.
13:35Other countries,
13:36I'm certain,
13:36will be doing that
13:37in the next few days
13:38simply because
13:39in a rolling air campaign
13:42such as this,
13:43there is, of course,
13:44the need not only
13:44to have further
13:46specialised aircraft
13:47but also rotation.
13:49The reinforcements
13:50are coming
13:50and we are getting
13:51some very good aircraft
13:52and support aircraft
13:54as well
13:54to help us
13:55to do our job.
13:56So far,
13:58the four Harriers
13:59sent yesterday from Britain
14:00are the only
14:01firm reinforcements.
14:03The Americans
14:04are following
14:04but others
14:05seem more reticent.
14:07President Clinton
14:08has spoken of
14:09degrading the Yugoslav forces
14:11but how much
14:12are we going to do
14:13and Eugene Campbell
14:13on board
14:14as they fired off
14:15cruise missiles?
14:16Here's Norman Rees.
14:18It's 10 o'clock at night
14:19in the Gloucestershire
14:20countryside
14:21and on the flight deck
14:22of this American B-52
14:23it's the final seconds
14:25before take-off
14:26from RAF Fairford.
14:28On stick.
14:29On board
14:29six fully armed
14:30cruise missiles
14:31five hours away
14:32target areas
14:33in Serbia
14:34and Kosovo.
14:35On the cockpit display
14:36the outline
14:37of the other B-52
14:38on the same mission.
14:41An ITN nightside camera
14:42captures the routine
14:43of the American crew
14:45charting the route
14:45to their assigned target.
14:47As the bombers
14:48near the target
14:48the launch crew
14:49prepare the missiles.
14:51The B-52
14:51leading the formation
14:53fires first.
14:55We're most likely
14:56are going to see
14:57the missiles.
15:03There's another one.
15:06On board this B-52
15:07the countdown
15:08to their launch begins.
15:10Airspeed's good.
15:11Wings are level.
15:12The atmosphere
15:13is businesslike.
15:14Nothing to indicate
15:15that six missiles
15:16are launched
15:17in six minutes
15:18to targets
15:18more than 500 miles away.
15:20Each missile
15:21costing 1.2 million dollars.
15:24Five
15:24four
15:26three
15:27two
15:27one
15:29zero
15:30missile
15:31away.
15:32In military terms
15:33it's a complete success.
15:36Tell them we're
15:37complete with launch.
15:38Understand complete?
15:39Yes.
15:40Outstanding.
15:41Ten hours after takeoff
15:43it's returned to base.
15:4412,000 pounds
15:46of high explosive
15:47delivered to enemy targets
15:48touchdown back
15:49at RAF Fairford.
15:53Norman Reese
15:54ITN
15:55B-1B bombers
15:57not so much
15:58because it needs
15:58long-range bombers
15:59but because the B-1B
16:01can deliver
16:02high-tech cluster bombs.
16:04The bomblets released
16:05are heat-seeking
16:06and especially effective
16:07against tanks
16:08and armoured vehicles.
16:09That's what's needed
16:10if the accelerated
16:11Serb push
16:12in Kosovo
16:13is to be stopped.
16:14In terms of
16:15can we catch up
16:15we will have to catch up.
16:18We are throwing
16:19as much effort
16:20as we can into it.
16:21To achieve that goal
16:22in Kosovo's rough terrain
16:24military experts
16:25consider a tactic
16:26known as a
16:26kill box.
16:28It breaks the terrain
16:29down as in a grid
16:30and uses varied resources
16:31to take control
16:32of a limited area
16:33for a limited time.
16:35One scenario
16:35would bring in
16:36the B-1Bs
16:37and heavy bombers.
16:38The swift strikes
16:39of F-16 fighters
16:40the low, slow
16:42but deadly
16:42A-10 tank killers.
16:44The A-10s are a threat
16:45to the Serbs' mobility
16:46their tanks
16:47and their armoured vehicles.
16:49First, NATO forces
16:50though are concentrating
16:51on cutting off
16:52Serbs' supply lines.
16:53The impact
16:54the air campaign
16:55can succeed
16:56in its objectives
16:57which are
16:58to force Milosevic
16:59to make peace
17:00or severely limit
17:01his ability
17:02to make war.
17:03CBS's David Martin
17:04has the latest now
17:05from the Pentagon.
17:07The U.S. Navy
17:08launched cruise missiles
17:09at a target
17:09that until last night
17:11had been off-limits
17:12because of the danger
17:13of hitting nearby civilians.
17:15But now,
17:15NATO is racing
17:16to destroy
17:17the Serb military
17:18and police
17:18before they wipe out
17:20the Albanian population
17:21of Kosovo.
17:22So on the fifth night
17:23of airstrikes,
17:24NATO declared
17:25the Serb police headquarters
17:26in Kosovo
17:27fair game
17:28even though it is located
17:29in the middle of a city.
17:31At the same time,
17:32British jets bombed
17:33an ammunition storage depot
17:35used by the police
17:36in Kosovo.
17:37The NATO allies
17:38are together
17:39taking tough action
17:41to limit the capability
17:43of the Serb security forces
17:44to suppress
17:46the civilian population
17:48in Kosovo.
17:49But NATO is starting
17:50to feel the strain.
17:52More B-52s
17:53had to be sent
17:53to England
17:54because the original
17:55supply of air-launched
17:56cruise missiles
17:57is all but exhausted.
17:58And there is no end
18:00in sight.
18:01More ships armed
18:01with sea-launched
18:02cruise missiles
18:03are on their way
18:04and B-1 bombers
18:05which can carry
18:0684 500-pound bombs
18:08apiece
18:08will begin operations
18:10later this week.
18:11NATO aircraft
18:12are hitting staging areas,
18:14supply depots,
18:14and ammo dumps
18:15but are still
18:16not hitting Serb troops
18:17in the field.
18:18This is not
18:19attacking individual
18:22tanks and artillery.
18:24That's going to take
18:25more time
18:25and better weather
18:26than we have right now.
18:28Night number six
18:29of airstrikes
18:29is now underway.
18:31The weather is bad
18:32and forecast to remain
18:33that way
18:33for the next
18:34two or three days.
18:35That will probably
18:36slow down operations
18:38in what has become
18:38a grim contest
18:40to see if NATO
18:41can keep bombing
18:42longer than the Serb army
18:44can keep killing.
18:46David Martin,
18:46CBS News.
18:47The Pentagon.
18:47...saying little
18:48about the weekend crash
18:49of an F-117A
18:51stealth fighter
18:52in Serbia
18:53or about the rescue
18:54of the pilot.
18:55CBS News senior
18:56European correspondent
18:57Tom Fenton
18:58has been digging
18:58for details
18:59on the heroic effort
19:00to get the American airmen
19:02back to home base
19:03in Aviano, Italy.
19:05Late Saturday night,
19:07minutes after
19:07the stealth fighter
19:08went down,
19:09an extraordinary search
19:10and rescue operation
19:11started up.
19:12The plane was destroyed,
19:14but the pilot
19:14was alive
19:15somewhere deep
19:17in enemy territory.
19:18With a Serb manhunt
19:19underway,
19:20the race was on
19:21to find a single man
19:22in the middle
19:23of the night.
19:24Homing in
19:24on the pilot's
19:25emergency signal,
19:26helicopters with
19:27special operations
19:28teams on board
19:29raced towards a spot
19:30west of Belgrade.
19:32As seen in this
19:32training video,
19:33the unit is prepared
19:34to do it all.
19:36Fight its way in,
19:37administer first aid,
19:38and get their guy
19:39home alive.
19:40What you can't see
19:41is the danger
19:42and daring.
19:43Former unit member
19:44John Smith.
19:45You rely on speed
19:47and violence of action
19:48to get in quickly,
19:50find your survivor,
19:51recover him,
19:52authenticate him,
19:53and get him out of there.
19:55As the mission
19:56unfolded on the ground,
19:57Allied planes
19:58circled above.
19:59On board this C-130,
20:01tension rose
20:01as the crew
20:02watched and waited.
20:03When the good news
20:04came,
20:05professional cool
20:06gave way to celebration.
20:07The excitement inside,
20:08it was deafening.
20:10Everybody was cheering
20:11and clapping.
20:12We finally were able
20:13to see the end
20:15of our job.
20:17And the stakes
20:18could not have been higher.
20:19In past wars,
20:20captured pilots
20:21have become tools
20:22of enemy propaganda
20:23or names added
20:25to the list
20:25of the missing and dead.
20:26forces as NATO
20:29intensifies its campaign
20:30to stop what it calls
20:31ethnic re-engineering
20:33by Serbs.
20:34At the Pentagon,
20:35spokesman Kent Bacon
20:36says the bombing campaign
20:37is taking a toll
20:38on the Yugoslav army.
20:40He insists...
20:41...alleged attacks
20:42on ethnic Albanians
20:43in Kosovo.
20:44The U.S. Air Force
20:44has added one more
20:45plane to the mix.
20:47It's sending
20:47five B-1B bombers,
20:49not so much because
20:50it needs long-range bombers,
20:51but because the B-1B
20:53can deliver
20:53high-tech cluster bombs.
20:55The bomblets released
20:56are heat-seeking
20:57and especially effective
20:58against tanks
20:59and armoured vehicles.
21:01That's what's needed
21:02if the accelerated
21:03Serb push in Kosovo
21:04is to be stopped.
21:05In terms of
21:06can we catch up,
21:07we will have to catch up.
21:10We are throwing
21:11as much effort
21:12as we can into it.
21:13To achieve that goal
21:14in Kosovo's rough terrain,
21:16military experts
21:16consider a tactic
21:17known as a kill box.
21:19It breaks the terrain
21:20down as in a grid
21:21and uses varied resources
21:22to take control
21:24of a limited area
21:25for a limited time.
21:26One scenario
21:27would bring in
21:28the B-1Bs
21:29and heavy bombers,
21:30the swift strikes
21:31of F-16 fighters,
21:32the low, slow,
21:33but deadly
21:34A-10 tank killers.
21:36The A-10s are a threat
21:37to the Serbs' mobility,
21:38their tanks
21:39and their armoured vehicles.
21:40First,
21:41NATO forces, though,
21:42are concentrating
21:42on cutting off
21:43Serbs' supply lines.
21:45The impact...
21:46So mighty
21:47and self-confident,
21:48the plan was
21:49for this overwhelming
21:49air power
21:50to bomb the Serbs
21:51to the peace table
21:52and to save
21:52the Kosovo Albanians.
21:54But nearly one week on,
21:55no-one knows
21:56if the bombers
21:57will be enough.
21:59Even the first phase,
22:00destroying the Serbs'
22:01air defences,
22:02has been easier
22:02to plan
22:03than to carry out.
22:04Airfields,
22:05radars
22:06and the troops
22:06that support them
22:07have all been targets
22:08and NATO says
22:09it is on course.
22:10But the bombing
22:11has clearly achieved less
22:12than NATO wanted to
22:14by this stage
22:14in the campaign.
22:16The bad weather
22:16is blamed
22:17and the result
22:18is that even now
22:19NATO cannot be sure
22:20the skies are safe.
22:22They have taken out
22:22a lot of the Serbian
22:24air defence capability
22:25but it's well integrated
22:27which means that
22:28it can be reconstructed
22:30after some damage.
22:31So there is a lot
22:33of redundancy
22:33in that system
22:34and as a result of that
22:36you'll never make
22:37the skies completely safe
22:38while there's
22:39almost anything there
22:40and there is still
22:41quite a lot there.
22:42So phase two
22:43underway now
22:44hitting Serb forces
22:45in Kosovo
22:46is the most hazardous
22:47and the least certain.
22:49Nearly all last night's
22:50air attacks
22:50were inside Kosovo.
22:52RAF Harriers
22:53struck at ammunition
22:54stores there
22:54for example.
22:55But the key elements
22:56the tanks
22:57guns and soldiers
22:58are easy to hide.
23:00They can be placed
23:00among houses
23:01so NATO risks
23:02killing civilians.
23:03There's also the possibility
23:04that Kosovo Albanians
23:06will be used
23:06as human shields
23:07yet another restraint
23:09on the use of air power.
23:11All this raises questions
23:12about whether the
23:13airstrikes alone
23:14can stop the ethnic cleansing
23:16and what NATO
23:17should do
23:17if they don't.
23:18Already some
23:19influential figures
23:20say a huge force
23:21of troops
23:22should be readied
23:22for action.
23:24If Mr. Milosevic
23:25was convinced
23:26that that is an option
23:28that we might exercise
23:29I think it could
23:30lend impetus
23:32to convincing him
23:33that he cannot win
23:35and that we will not
23:36allow him to win.
23:38We are a superior power
23:39and we must win
23:40this conflict
23:41with whatever it takes.
23:43A NATO ground force
23:46is in position
23:47near the Kosovo border
23:48not to fight its way in
23:49but to police
23:50a peace deal
23:51if one comes about.
23:52Public pressure
23:53could change that though
23:54if demands grow
23:55to do more
23:56to save the Kosovo Albanians.
23:58That would require
23:59a far bigger force
24:00than this
24:00months to build it up
24:02and for the...
24:02Which I have to say
24:03I have absolutely
24:04no independent confirmation
24:06is of a large number
24:09of refugees
24:10being attacked
24:11by artillery
24:12and tanks
24:13in the Parujsa Valley.
24:20And of course
24:21the Parujsa Valley
24:22is in the vicinity
24:24of Arasovac.
24:26I will seek
24:26further confirmation
24:28and give you
24:29more details tomorrow.
24:30I will leave Jamie
24:34to give you
24:34more details
24:35of the humanitarian
24:36situation
24:37on the ground.
24:39Turning to our
24:40air operations yesterday
24:42we attacked targets
24:43in these locations
24:44in the Fry
24:45and in Kosovo
24:46and we have good
24:48initial evidence
24:49of our success.
24:52Despite poor weather
24:54we are managing
24:54to attack
24:55Serbian military
24:56and MUP assets
24:57and in particular
24:59we are stepping up
25:00our interdiction
25:01against their
25:02field forces
25:03in Kosovo.
25:06Before leaving
25:07this slide
25:07I would like to bring
25:08up an important point.
25:10Each of the triangles
25:11that you see
25:12on the map
25:13represents an area
25:14where numerous targets
25:16or aim points
25:17will have been struck.
25:21We will continue
25:23to plan vigorously
25:24to maintain
25:25and where possible
25:26increase the intensity
25:27of these operations
25:28over the coming days.
25:33Last night
25:34SAM activity
25:35remained relatively low
25:37but we cannot
25:38underestimate
25:38the remaining
25:39effectiveness
25:40of the integrated
25:41air defence system.
25:43We are detecting
25:44a very well
25:46orchestrated
25:46and dynamic
25:47tactical air defence
25:49campaign against us.
25:51However
25:51to our advantage
25:53the complications
25:54and mobility
25:55that the Fry
25:56is forced to
25:57introduce into
25:58its system
25:58leads to the
26:00disruption
26:00and degradation
26:01of the effectiveness
26:02of its application.
26:05I can reiterate
26:06that thankfully
26:08we had no losses
26:09yesterday
26:10and we were not
26:11offered the opportunity
26:12to engage
26:13any aircraft
26:14from the Fry.
26:15Let me now
26:19show you some
26:19imagery
26:20of some of
26:21our recent
26:21attacks.
26:25The film clips
26:26that you are about
26:26to see
26:27are of a recent
26:28attack
26:28on the large
26:29MUP headquarters
26:30complex
26:31in Pristina.
26:32It is a large
26:33complex.
26:35The whole image
26:36you are about
26:37to see
26:37represents just
26:38one part
26:39of this
26:39extensive complex.
26:41Each clip
26:42depicts aircraft
26:43targeting
26:44different impact
26:45points
26:46on the facility.
26:48You will also
26:49notice secondary
26:50explosions
26:50resulting from
26:51the attack.
27:11crisis in Kosovo
27:20as a modern
27:21day
27:21great terror.
27:23These are
27:24today's
27:24main developments.
27:27Yugoslavia's
27:28President Milosevic
27:29says he is ready
27:30for peace
27:30but that troop
27:31levels in Kosovo
27:32will be reduced
27:33only after NATO
27:34stops its campaign.
27:36After
27:36says he is
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