CNN World News - 1999-03-25
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[0:03] NATO prepares to launch more air strikes
[0:05] against Yugoslavia. The alliance says
[0:07] all its planes are safe after the first
[0:10] night of raids. Belgrade says women and
[0:13] children were killed and many injured
[0:15] during the bombing. Russia condemns the
[0:17] air strikes as naked aggression and
[0:19] suspends cooperation with NATO.
[0:24] [Music]
[0:29] [Music]
[0:34] Hello and welcome to our special
[0:35] coverage of the Kosovo crisis. I'm
[0:36] Jonathan Man at the CNN Center in
[0:38] Atlanta. NATO has temporarily suspended
[0:41] air strikes against military targets in
[0:43] Yugoslavia after a night of bombardment.
[0:45] Cruise missiles were fired from US
[0:47] vessels in the Adriatic. American B-52
[0:50] bombers left their British air bases and
[0:52] Allied planes took off from Italy to
[0:54] join the offensive. Explosions were
[0:56] heard in Belgrade as well as Kosovo's
[0:58] provincial capital, Christristina, where
[1:00] houses and other buildings were in
[1:02] flames. Pictures of what Belgrade says
[1:04] were its first casualties show women and
[1:07] children being treated in hospital. The
[1:09] Yugoslav Army says an unspecified number
[1:12] of women and children have been killed
[1:13] in military housing hit during the
[1:16] attacks. As daylight breaks in Kosovo,
[1:19] NATO is expected to assess damage from
[1:21] its sorties across Yugoslavia. Joining
[1:23] us now from Avano Air Base in Italy is
[1:25] CNN's Jim Berman.
[1:27] Jim, John, it may be daylight here in
[1:30] Italy, but at the Avano base, but NATO's
[1:32] still keeping us pretty much in a dark
[1:34] in the dark about what's happening
[1:35] operationally. Just a few seconds ago,
[1:37] we saw the passage overhead of a couple
[1:39] of F-16s that