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00:00...wiped them from history.

00:02This is one man blamed, Arkhan, who ran his own army, slaughtering muslims in the Bosnia war.

00:07Today in the Hague, he was indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal.

00:12I'm hoping that this is sending a sobering signal to all those in Kosovo now,

00:20who should be under no delusion that they're working behind a veil of darkness,

00:25because they've kept the world at a distance.

00:27They are, I think, collaborative methods that will make sure that what is being perpetrated will be revealed.

00:35Arkhan says he's running a football team and nightclub in Belgrade,

00:39but it's alleged that he has been involved in massacres in Kosovo.

00:44As another aid flight from Britain prepared to leave,

00:47news from the Americans that a number of prominent Kosovars,

00:50who earlier this week were reported to have been executed, are in fact alive.

00:54They include one of the Paris peace negotiators.

00:57This cargo is part of a £10 million relief programme from the British government.

01:03The one thing you can be absolutely certain of,

01:05the rest of the world, although it's crying tears for these people at the moment,

01:08it won't accept them in their homes, it won't accept them in their nations.

01:11It'll be very, very hard to find nations who will take Kosovo refugees.

01:16As quickly as they can, the Americans are moving hardware to Britain,

01:19and from Washington news that enough food has been stored to feed 400,000 people for six months.

01:27The Russians are now moving seven ships to the Mediterranean, they say, to observe the situation.

01:32A NATO search overnight intensified at daybreak with Allied helicopters above the Macedonian frontier,

01:46scouring the ground below for any sign of the missing men.

01:49Troops retraced the last known position of the US reconnaissance patrol,

01:54transmitted under hostile fire on Wednesday afternoon.

01:58But despite 20 hours of searching, there was still no sign.

02:02Three US soldiers serving with Task Force Able Sentry,

02:06who were on a routine vehicle patrol in rugged terrain north of the town of Kumanovo,

02:14reported that they had come under fire.

02:17Contact with the patrol was lost, and a search was conducted.

02:23It was these stark images on Serbian television

02:27that finally provided NATO reason enough to call off the search.

02:32Tired and bruised, the three American servicemen lost the day before,

02:35and now in Yugoslav custody.

02:38Yugoslavia says they were intercepted inside Serbia.

02:42NATO says these troops were on Macedonian territory

02:44when they were attacked by a hostile force.

02:48Whatever the truth of the matter,

02:50the events of the past 24 hours have left NATO forces in Macedonia on heightened alert.

02:56NATO has said time and time again

02:58that its forces in Macedonia are a peacekeeping, not an aggressive force.

03:03President Milosevic has responded by saying,

03:05that all NATO forces in the region should be considered a military threat.

03:10Matthew?

03:12German tornado jets take off from an airbase in Italy,

03:15ready for a mission over Yugoslavia.

03:18After decades of NATO membership,

03:20the conflict in Yugoslavia is the first time since World War II

03:23that the German military is going into combat.

03:26It's not a premier that is being celebrated in Germany,

03:29but the Bonn government is firmly behind the NATO action,

03:33and it is backed by a majority in parliament.

03:36But there is growing unease among the social democratic and green parties

03:40forming the government coalition.

03:42For years, many of them were on the front lines of the peace movement.

03:46Their lesson from the horrors of Germany's role in World War II

03:50was to look for peaceful means to solve conflicts.

03:54And now that Joschka Fischer, a long-time pacifist,

03:57is the foreign minister,

03:59many question whether the government is right in participating in airstrikes.

04:04Fischer reflected this week on the criticism.

04:06He spoke of being called a warmonger.

04:10He said he wondered whether he had done enough to prevent the airstrikes,

04:14but concluded that he could honestly say that, yes, he had tried everything.

04:19The foreign minister and his colleagues have only been in office for six months.

04:24After a rocky start for Gerhard Schröder's government,

04:26one newspaper now writes,

04:28the cabinet has grown up,

04:30and it describes how the burden of this crisis can be seen on their faces.

04:34Germany's army is partly made up of draftees,

04:38and they are now active in a region where memories of German occupation

04:42and war crimes are all too present.

04:45The Bonn government speaks of a genocide in Kosovo

04:48and says the airstrikes will continue.

04:51But sending ground forces could be a very different story.

04:54The parliament has ruled that German soldiers could enter Yugoslavia

04:58only as peacekeepers under the Ramboyer Peace Treaty.

05:02Bettina Lushin, CNN, Berlin.

05:06Senator Clinton has again been laying out the rationale

05:09for attacking Slobodan Milosevic's forces.

05:13I hate the idea of having to continue this campaign during this period.

05:19But I hate more the idea that we would walk away from this campaign

05:23while he continues to clean out house after house after house

05:27and village after village after village.

05:29But Mr. Clinton is still saying he has no intention

05:33of sending in U.S. ground troops

05:35unless there is a peace deal first.

05:38Jonathan Hunt, Sky News, Washington.

05:41Forced into exile.

05:43The railway station is in the Kosovo capital,

05:47its platform crowded with refugees.

05:50Men, women and children herded onto trains.

05:54The whole area in front of the station was described

06:05by our OSCE employee

06:07as being completely a seething mass of humanity

06:10with people being pushed onto the trains,

06:13with the platforms being patrolled by people in masks

06:17and waving pistols and pistol-whipping people

06:20as they were getting onto the trains.

06:23...on from purely military to other strategic targets.

06:28These are the remains of the main road bridge

06:30in the town of Novi Sad, north of Belgrade,

06:33bombed last night, wrecking the water supply

06:36and, it's believed, damaging telecommunications.

06:38It's attacks such as this

06:41which are reportedly causing a split

06:43in the Serbian armed forces.

06:45Some are beginning to have doubts

06:46about Milošević's campaign.

06:48Not all his senior commanders

06:50want to pay the same price as President Milošević.

06:55We are getting early reports

06:57of the sackings of some senior Serbian military commanders,

07:02perhaps opposed or troubled by ethnic cleansing,

07:05perhaps worried that they also

07:08might be indicted for a war crime.

07:11Perhaps because they are simply honourable men

07:14revolted by what they're asked to do.

07:18Five American B-1B bombers have arrived

07:20at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire

07:22to bolster NATO forces.

07:24They're equipped with radar

07:26that can see through cloud cover.

07:28Bad weather has hampered bombing raids

07:30throughout the campaign.

07:32At a NATO briefing in Brussels...

07:34It's something we have to live with

07:35that's part and parcel

07:36of flying aeroplanes, unfortunately.

07:39You are saying that there's been

07:40a 75% strike rate so far.

07:44That sounds pretty good

07:45to those of us who are not in the military world,

07:48but just how good is it?

07:51I think that's very good.

07:52The accuracy of the weapons we're using

07:54is very good.

07:55You've seen the video footage

07:57that's been put on TV in the past,

07:59and you can see that actually

08:00when we hit, they are direct hits

08:02and a lot of damage will be done.

08:03Had you planned at the beginning

08:06for an air campaign

08:07that was going to go on

08:08as long as this,

08:09and in fact probably is going to go on

08:10for several weeks more?

08:14Yes, I mean, the campaign...

08:16That's for our political masters,

08:18our military commanders.

08:20Our task here is obviously

08:21to play our part in it.

08:22The pilots are all focused on the task,

08:25and yes, it is sustainable.

08:27We've sized the detachment here

08:28to ensure that we can sustain it

08:30for as long as is necessary.

08:31We're into this much-heralded Phase 3

08:34at the moment.

08:37Seemingly, though,

08:38things have slowed down recently.

08:43Yes, I think the weather

08:45has obviously hampered operations,

08:47as you well know.

08:48The changes of the phases

08:49of the operation to us

08:50really are just a change

08:51of emphasis on target.

08:53For the rest of it,

08:54for the planning

08:54and the way we conduct our missions,

08:56it doesn't really make

08:57much difference to us.

08:58We will be tasked

08:59against various targets,

09:00and that's what we'll concentrate on.

09:02Have your men seen the pictures

09:04of the American soldiers

09:05who've been captured?

09:08Yes, we have.

09:10What is the reaction there?

09:11How distressing do they find it?

09:16Obviously, it's a worry

09:17when you see that sort of thing on TV,

09:18but as we saw the other day

09:20with the downing

09:21of the 117 stealth fighter,

09:24again, there was a concern there,

09:26but what was very reassuring

09:27was how quickly the procedures

09:29that are in place

09:30managed to get the pilot out.

09:31So that in itself

09:32was very reassuring.

09:33So the morale amongst your crews

09:35is high, is it, at the moment?

09:39The morale's very good,

09:40not just amongst the crews

09:41but amongst everybody

09:42on the detachment.

09:43We've got a large detachment,

09:45approximately 300 people,

09:47lots of support personnel

09:47who are also vital

09:48to the operation,

09:49and morale's very good, yes.

09:51I've been reading

09:53that the kind of precision

09:54you're getting

09:55with your strike rate

09:56is much better

09:58than a decade ago.

10:00Can you just tell us,

10:01go a little bit technical on us

10:02and explain why?

10:05I think clearly

10:06as time moves on,

10:08technology improves,

10:09and what we've got in service now

10:10is a fairly recent technology,

10:14and it's clearly better

10:15than we had available

10:1510 years ago.

10:17I wouldn't like to go

10:18into too much detail,

10:18but as you're aware

10:20we're using

10:21precision-guided munitions,

10:23laser-guided bombs,

10:24and a lot of those options

10:26weren't available

10:2610 years ago.

10:28How much interaction

10:29is there with aircraft

10:30from other countries?

10:33A lot.

10:34We are merely

10:35one small element

10:36of a large NATO coalition,

10:39and the packages

10:39of aircraft

10:40that are put together

10:41are really put together

10:42to give self-protection

10:44to each other,

10:45and we are just one part

10:47of a large coalition.

10:48So we're very dependent

10:50on other nations as well.

10:51RAF Wing Command.

10:52Though doubtless

10:53with more caution.

10:54The three,

10:55part of a UN peacekeeping force

10:57in Macedonia,

10:58had been travelling

10:58in only a lightly armoured vehicle

11:00when they went missing.

11:02Their last radio contact

11:03said they were being fired at

11:04and were surrounded.

11:06It does have to be said.

11:07carries massive political risk.

11:21The three soldiers

11:22now in Yugoslav hands

11:24are simply pawns

11:25in a bigger game.

11:26Stephen Sacker,

11:27BBC News,

11:28Washington.

11:30And Stephen Joy...

11:30...is a so far small

11:32but vocal

11:33and violent opposition

11:34to the bombings

11:35to the north.

11:37The US Embassy

11:37was attacked last week,

11:39and there have been

11:40demonstrations

11:41by some of the

11:4240,000 ethnic Serbs

11:44who are part of the

11:45potentially explosive

11:46ethnic mix here.

11:49An incident like today's

11:50was the last thing

11:51NATO

11:51or the Macedonian government

11:53needed.

11:54Keith Graves,

11:55Sky News,

11:56Skopje.

11:56This evening...

11:58...as NATO achieved

11:59in the past week.

12:01At NATO headquarters,

12:02the Supreme Allied Commander

12:03was talking about

12:04the targets they have hit.

12:06In the first night,

12:07the raids were principally

12:08on air defence sites

12:09across Yugoslavia.

12:11By the fifth night,

12:11he said,

12:12there was a much stronger

12:13concentration on targets

12:14in the south of Serbia

12:15and in Kosovo.

12:18Step by step,

12:19day by day...

12:20Overall,

12:21after eight nights,

12:22NATO can show

12:23a lot of flashes

12:24on its target map,

12:25but little apparent

12:26progress in persuading

12:27Mr. Milosevic to relent.

12:29I believe that NATO

12:30attacks have done

12:31substantial damage

12:33to these instruments

12:34of oppression.

12:35The leadership

12:36of the Federal Republic

12:38of Yugoslavia

12:38seems to remain

12:39short-sighted

12:40and defiant.

12:42Perhaps they're

12:43in denial.

12:44So,

12:45how does the campaign

12:46proceed from here?

12:47NATO's only answer

12:48at the moment,

12:49with a ground offensive

12:50still firmly ruled out,

12:51is to threaten

12:52more of the same.

12:53New aircraft

12:54are being committed

12:55to the attack.

12:56These are American

12:57B-1 bombers

12:58arriving today in Britain.

12:59We have the stamina,

13:00says NATO,

13:01and the determination

13:02to continue.

13:04Nicholas Whitchell,

13:04BBC News.

13:06The political environment

13:07that the strikes

13:07are taking place in

13:08is becoming

13:09more complicated.

13:10Julian Mannion,

13:11ITN, Belgrade.

13:13are on the border

13:15between Kosovo

13:16and Macedonia.

13:17They were 200 metres

13:19inside Macedonia,

13:20near the small

13:21Serb village

13:22of Nogolic Chana.

13:23As Colin Baker

13:24now reports,

13:24the villagers

13:25may have played

13:26a part in their capture.

13:28The Americans patrol

13:30one of the most

13:30sensitive border regions,

13:32mobile and on foot.

13:34Two weeks ago,

13:34the Serbs moved

13:3520,000 troops

13:36into this area,

13:37but NATO says

13:38these patrols

13:39are purely routine

13:40security measures.

13:41Using night vision,

13:43this American patrol

13:44last night

13:44searched the frontier

13:45for any sign

13:46of their missing comrades.

13:48And then this morning,

13:49we found the village

13:50where they were taken.

13:51It is on the Macedonia side,

13:53but this is a Serb village

13:54and NATO here

13:55are the enemy.

13:56It is possible

13:57on these unmarked roads

13:58to cross the border

13:59accidentally,

14:00but these were

14:01NATO soldiers

14:02with NATO maps

14:03and satellite

14:04navigation equipment.

14:06If they didn't

14:06cross it accidentally,

14:07then the suspicion

14:08must be that they

14:09were taken

14:09with the help

14:10of these local

14:11Serb villagers.

14:13The three Americans

14:14were behind the church

14:15on the hill.

14:16They reported being

14:17fired on

14:17and then surrounded,

14:19possibly by Serbs

14:20in the village.

14:21One boasted to us today

14:22that he was part

14:23of the operation

14:24and they would take

14:25more captive tonight,

14:26he said.

14:28Not far away,

14:29the local sentiments

14:30are clearly expressed.

14:31These warning signs

14:32should indicate to NATO

14:33the need

14:34for extreme caution.

14:37The search was intense.

14:38Troops massed

14:39along the border,

14:40helicopters flying

14:41the frontier,

14:42a vast area to cover

14:43and time always running out.

14:46So too were the possibilities

14:48as one by one

14:49sectors were cleared.

14:50We know they're not out here,

14:52so we're not going to continue

14:54to search out here.

14:56And then the news came,

14:57the Serbs had them.

14:59Some of the alternatives,

15:01I'm glad to know

15:02they're alive.

15:02and so they left.

15:05One of their patrols

15:06is missing,

15:07but more will be out tonight.

15:10Colin Baker,

15:10ITN,

15:11on the Macedonia-Kosovo border.

15:14...B1 bombers.

15:16The supersonic bombers

15:17can carry 20 cruise missiles

15:19and will operate together

15:20with the B-52 bombers

15:22already flying from the base.

15:24And in Moscow,

15:25the Russian president,

15:26Boris Yeltsin,

15:26continued to speak out

15:27against the NATO attacks.

15:29Today he called

15:30for an emergency meeting

15:31of leading foreign ministers

15:32to discuss the crisis.

15:34He said he was considering

15:35sending more warships

15:36to the Mediterranean.

15:39RAF tornadoes,

15:40equipped with laser-guided bombs,

15:41are preparing to make

15:42the first flights

15:43from RAF Bruggen in Germany

15:45to attack Serb targets.

15:47The ITV Evening News

15:48has exclusive pictures

15:49of their final training mission.

15:51Kevin Dunn reports from Bruggen.

15:56RAF tornadoes taking off

15:58into clear blue skies.

16:00ITN flew with them today

16:02on a training mission,

16:03but their next sorties

16:04may be bombing raids

16:05into Serbia.

16:07There,

16:07the flying conditions

16:08will not be so kind,

16:10and the pilots

16:11could well be flying

16:12into anti-aircraft fire

16:14and possibly surface-to-air missiles.

16:17They will operate

16:18from RAF Bruggen in Germany,

16:20so they will need

16:21to refuel several times

16:22mid-flight.

16:24When they do,

16:25the aircraft hover

16:26around the mother tanker

16:27like impatient kittens

16:29at feeding time.

16:32For every pilot

16:34and every plane,

16:35it is a highly practiced

16:36and skilled maneuver.

16:41On the ground,

16:42the tornadoes

16:43are at their highest

16:44state of readiness.

16:45When NATO decided

16:47two days ago

16:48to beef up its operations

16:50in the air campaign

16:51against Yugoslavia,

16:53four of these

16:53tornado aircraft

16:55were immediately assigned

16:56to NATO forces.

16:58Today,

16:58four more have been declared

17:00fully operational

17:01and ready for missions

17:02over Serbia.

17:04The tornadoes deliver bombs

17:06which are guided

17:07to their targets

17:08by this laser pod,

17:10the plane's so-called

17:11magic eye.

17:11Well,

17:13this is the clever bit

17:14on the airplane

17:15apart from the crew

17:16in the cockpit.

17:18But, of course,

17:18the bomb

17:18sees the reflected

17:20laser energy

17:21and guides itself

17:22to the target.

17:24That is,

17:25provided the weather

17:26is good,

17:27they will be hoping

17:27for clear skies too

17:29over Serbia.

17:31Kevin Dunn,

17:31ITN,

17:32at Aurev Bruggen

17:33in Germany.

17:35We have more

17:35top-sized nations

17:37to get together

17:38to work on the crisis.

17:39The appeal is backed

17:40by the threat

17:41of Russian ships

17:41being sent

17:42to the Mediterranean.

17:45Russia is sending

17:46its most menacing

17:46signals yet

17:47of stronger measures

17:48to prostrate

17:49NATO's campaign

17:50in Kosovo.

17:51The Black Sea Fleet

17:52in Sebastopol

17:53is preparing

17:54a flotilla

17:54of seven ships

17:55including one

17:56reconnaissance vessel.

17:57NATO countries

17:58will fear

17:58that this kind

17:59of high-tech

17:59information gatherer

18:01might provide

18:01Yugoslavia

18:02with eyes and ears

18:03in the Adriatic.

18:04The escalation

18:05of Russia's

18:05diplomatic pressure

18:06comes only a day

18:07after President Yeltsin

18:08made a conspicuous

18:10visit to the

18:10neighbouring Republic

18:11of the Ukraine

18:12which still controls

18:13much of the nuclear

18:14hardware of the

18:15former Soviet Union.

18:16The Russian leadership

18:17is unlikely to go

18:18to war over Yugoslavia

18:19but they have

18:20continued diplomatic

18:21protests over

18:22NATO's involvement.

18:24Today,

18:24President Yeltsin

18:25called for an

18:26emergency meeting

18:26of the foreign ministers

18:27from the group

18:28of eight industrialised

18:29nations

18:29to stop the bombing

18:31of Kosovo.

18:31with its diplomacy

18:34looking tired

18:35Russia has clearly

18:36toughened its approach.

18:38During exercises

18:38in the Barents Sea

18:39today,

18:40the Russian Navy

18:40claimed it had spotted

18:41a watching US submarine.

18:43The Serbs must be

18:44wondering if the hint

18:45of muscle

18:45will have any more

18:47impact on NATO countries

18:48than Russia's

18:49soft-talking.

18:51Any operation

18:52that is going to bring

18:54ordnance from the air

18:55onto the ground

18:55is normally controlled

18:57by a close-air

18:58support team

18:59and of course

19:00there is no

19:01close-air support

19:02team in there.

19:02Ideally,

19:03ground-based

19:03forward controllers

19:04would guide pilots

19:06to small specific

19:06targets difficult

19:07to pinpoint

19:08from the air

19:09but NATO nations

19:10refuse to confirm

19:11or deny

19:12whether there is

19:13a clandestine

19:13NATO military

19:14presence in Kosovo.

19:16Meanwhile,

19:17NATO says

19:17it has gathered

19:18firm evidence

19:19Yugoslav demolition

19:20squads are blowing

19:21up houses

19:22to simulate

19:22NATO bombing.

19:24General Clark

19:24says there is

19:25no sanctuary

19:26for those responsible

19:27for attacks

19:28on Kosovar civilians.

19:30We are all

19:31maintaining their

19:32positions in

19:32northern Macedonia.

19:35These troops

19:36came as

19:36United Nations

19:37observers

19:38monitoring the

19:39volatile Yugoslavian

19:40frontier.

19:42The UN mission

19:42has been closed

19:43down

19:43but these men

19:44and women

19:45of the 4th

19:45Cavalry Regiment

19:46are continuing

19:47their reconnaissance

19:48mission

19:48under the US

19:49flag.

19:51On what NATO

19:52is calling

19:53a routine

19:53reconnaissance

19:54patrol in

19:55Macedonia,

19:55these 3 US

19:57servicemen

19:57ran into

19:58hostile fire

19:59and fell

19:59into the

20:00custody

20:00of the

20:00Yugoslav

20:01authorities.

20:02In these

20:03stark pictures

20:03the 3

20:04appeared

20:04tired

20:05and bruised.

20:06NATO says

20:07they may be

20:07enduring

20:07something

20:08of an

20:08ordeal.

20:09We are

20:09very concerned

20:10about the

20:10safety and

20:11welfare

20:11of the

20:123 soldiers

20:13who were

20:14abducted

20:15by Serb

20:16forces.

20:17We have

20:17all seen

20:18their pictures

20:18we don't

20:19like it.

20:21Before the

20:22pictures were

20:23broadcast on

20:23Serbian

20:24television

20:24NATO

20:25had been

20:26conducting

20:26an intensive

20:27search

20:27after losing

20:28radio contact

20:29with the

20:30US patrol

20:30around

20:31Macedonia's

20:32rugged

20:32Yugoslavian

20:33frontier.

20:35Macedonia

20:35has long

20:36been

20:36weather

20:37busting

20:37remember

20:37of course

20:38that the

20:38weather

20:38has hampered

20:39RAF Harriers

20:40in locking

20:41on to their

20:41targets.

20:42So these

20:42are pictures

20:43just in

20:44of B1Bs

20:45taking off

20:45from RAF

20:46Fairford

20:47in Gloucestershire.

20:54in Gloucestershire.

20:56The Mediterranean, but they did complain they thought an American submarine was monitoring

21:12their exercises, this mobilized European NATO officer, a cock up. The captured soldiers had strayed from the three vehicle patrol and were caught by the Serbs on their own.

21:25This mobilized European NATO officer, a cock up. The captured soldiers had strayed from the three vehicle patrol and were caught by the Serbs on their own.

21:37NATO mounted a token search, but already knew from the soldiers' desperate radio calls what had happened.

21:45That did not lessen the shock and anger at their television appearance.

21:49First, the warning.

21:51Any soldiers captured must be treated in accordance with international law and remind everybody that NATO would expect that to be done.

22:02And then the threat.

22:03We've all seen their pictures. We don't like it. We don't like the way they're treated. And we have a long memory about these kinds of things.

22:12But the implications go further than the plight of three soldiers in the government. But as their hoped-for peacekeeping role in Kosovo has failed to materialize, and they've taken on the appearance of the vanguard of a possible invasion force, their welcome has worn thin.

22:29NATO leaders stressed that the force poses no threat to the Serbs.

22:35But they, and some Macedonians who've been to the base, the capture was the focus of conversation.

22:41There was a lot of concern. I think there was a lot of prayers that went out for the safe return of the servicemen as well as to their families.

22:51Prisoners of war.

22:52The pilot reports that his squadron has, for the most part, been able to precisely drop their bombs.

22:57Weather could be a factor, but basically the targets have been, the aircraft have been pretty successful in coming back with having destroyed their target.

23:05In fact, many of the planes here are capable of accurately delivering bombs from high altitudes whatever the cloud cover, although it can present dangers.

23:14Even in the very worst weather, Air Force officers say, some of their laser-guided weaponry can still be deadly accurate.

23:20But it requires the very risky presence behind enemy lines of forward spotters who can pinpoint the targets with their laser beams.

23:28In the end, though, pilots may soon have both their high technology and good cloud condition.

23:35Meteorologists are predicting the weather may start slowly improving over the weekend.

23:39Jim Bitterman, CNN.

23:41Today, the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, said there were signs that the Yugoslav military hierarchy was under strain.

23:47But the paramilitary leader, known as Arkhan, who's been named as a suspected war criminal, said any ground troops sent into Kosovo would be sent home in body bags.

23:56U.S. warplanes take to the skies above Yugoslavia again tonight.

24:01There are airstrikes around the clock.

24:03And as the early warning sirens wail out over Belgrade, these latest pictures from local television show their devastating impact on the ground.

24:16These are the shattered remains of a main road bridge in the town of Novi Sad, north of Belgrade.

24:22NATO believes the first cracks are now appearing as well in the Yugoslav military leadership.

24:29Interestingly enough, when Ken Bacon was asked in a press conference only an hour ago, and these photos are two hours ago, what was the state of the B-1s?

24:35He said he didn't know, which I thought was quite interesting.

24:38But a number have taken off.

24:40One assumes they're going to head on the most direct route towards Yugoslavia, and will be doing their radar-guided attacks through the clouds on targets in Kosovo.

24:48And I suppose one of the beauties is that they can carry an enormous amount of armament.

24:51The armament is huge. Also, the type of weapons they used in the Operation Desert Fox are satellite-guided bombs, so hopefully greater accuracy.

24:59They've been joined now by more F-117s.

25:02Yes, there was a request from NATO to send more F-117s, the stealth fighter, one of which, of course, was shot down about a week ago.

25:11Twelve more, that should bring the number up to about two dozen.

25:15This tends to show they want to increase the precision attacks over the more dangerous parts.

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