CNN - Operation Allied Force - 1999-04-03
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[0:00] office. Moneyline NewsHour with Lou Dos.
[0:03] Week night, 6:30 Eastern on
[0:06] [Music]
[0:17] CNN. It is Saturday, April 3rd. To our
[0:20] viewers in the United States and around
[0:22] the world, welcome to CNN Saturday
[0:24] Morning. I'm Natalie Allen at CNN Center
[0:27] in Atlanta. and I'm Gene Randall in
[0:29] Washington. For our domestic viewers,
[0:31] showbiz this weekend will not be seen at
[0:32] this hour so we can bring you the latest
[0:34] on the strike against Yugoslavia. NATO
[0:37] is putting together a plan to expand its
[0:38] mission in the Balkans to include
[0:40] humanitarian help. Meanwhile, despite
[0:42] the continuing bombardment of Serb
[0:44] targets, NATO says Belgrade is still
[0:46] waging its campaign to drive ethnic
[0:48] Albanians out of Kosovo and the refugees
[0:50] continue pouring into neighboring
[0:52] countries. NATO spokesman Jamie Sheay
[0:54] says Yugoslav forces have driven nearly
[0:56] 300,000 people from Kosovo during the
[0:58] past 10 days. He says the alliance will
[1:00] send 6,000 Italian troops to Macedonia
[1:03] and Albania to aid humanitarian efforts.
[1:06] We are also looking at a concept of
[1:11] operations for a NATO deployment in
[1:15] Albania to provide direct military
[1:18] assistance to the international relief
[1:20] organizations and the Albanian
[1:22] government. Uh but this is a concept of
[1:26] operations. I anticipate decisions will
[1:28] be taken in the very near future, but we
[1:32] are still at the planning stage for such
[1:34] a NATO uh emergency
[1:37] force. A setback for the refugees.
[1:39] Macedonia has announced it will accept
[1:41] no more expelled ethnic Albanians. Tens
[1:44] of thousands of Kosvar Albanians now are
[1:46] stranded at the Kosovo Mace