Curated Video
ALBANIA: KING LEKA MAKES PILGRIMAGE TO HIS FATHER'S BIRTHPLACE
Eng/Albanian/Nat
Albania's King Leka has made an emotional pilgrimage to his father's birthplace.
The King, who has lived in exile since he was a child, visited the mountain village of Burgajet for the first time on Sunday.
Thousands of...
Curated Video
USA: NATO: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER
English/Nat
After a long day of meetings and briefings the leaders of NATO countries left behind the business and dressed for an evening of celebration.
However, the evening was marred by protests and the threat of violence.
NATO leaders...
Curated Video
MONTENEGRO: PRO-SERB DEMONSTRATION
Natural Sound
Anti-NATO sentiment has spread following several days of airstrikes above Yugoslavia by the alliance..
Pro-Serb demonstrations have taken place in Moscow and in Israel.
On Monday those were joined by a similar protest in...
Curated Video
BALKANS: KOSOVO: GENERAL CLARK VISITS
English/Nat
General Wesley Clark, NATO's supreme commander, traveled to Macedonia and Albania on Saturday for talks with officials and visits to NATO troops stationed in those countries.
While in Macedonia Clark revealed that a Serb...
Curated Video
Macedonians re-take villages held by Albanian rebels.
1. Wide shot Macedonian tank on road
2. Close-up tank
3. Tank moving into village
4. Various troops loading ammunition into tank
5. Macedonian soldier on guard with gun
6. Various Macedonian soldier on look-out on road into village
7....
Curated Video
BELGIUM: KOSOVO CRISIS: NATO IBRAHIM RUGOVA PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
NATO has received reports that Ibrahim Rugova, the moderate ethnic Albanian leader, is under house arrest by Serb forces in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.
A spokesman on Sunday said that the alliance had learned that...
Curated Video
Albania - Protest against arrest of radio owner
Demonstrators protested on Monday (21/9) against the arrest of an Albanian radio station director accused of taking part in the civil unrest which disrupted Tirana, the capital, last week. Alfons Zeneli was arrested on Sunday. He runs...
Curated Video
Albania - General Elections
Albanians went to the polls on Sunday (26/5) to choose between
Socialists seeking to shed a long legacy of repression, and a new
ruling party tainted with its own reputation for corruption and
abusing power.
exterior polling...
Curated Video
Albania/Kosovo - JNA controls border towns
The Yugoslav army in Kosovo on Friday (19/6) cleared the area near the Kosovo/Albanian border of Albanians in order to control the smuggling of weapons into Kosovo from Albania. The areas south of Djakovica, which includes the border...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: YUGOSLAV ARMY DESERTERS SPEAK OF KILLINGS IN KOSOVO
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
Two deserters from the Yugoslav Army have claimed they were ordered to kill civilians while serving in Kosovo.
The two men, both Montenegrins, fled to the Albanian town of Bajram Curri where they are waiting to hear...
Curated Video
Albania-Violence in Vlora/Andreatta on elections
Italian Defence Minister, Benjamino Andreatta, on Saturday
(10/5) ruled out the possibility of a direct role for the
international forces in Albania during the forthcoming Albanian
elections.
Also, two people were killed and five others...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : EU-Balkans summit in Tirana to strengthen ties amid Russia's war
European Union and Balkan leaders meet in Tirana to discuss strengthening ties as Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reinvigorated the bloc's push for expansion (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
Curated Video
Albania - Parliamentary elections
The murder of an electoral official overshadowed an otherwise
calm day on Sunday (29/06) as the electorate went to the polls
in Albania after four months of chaos and violence.
0:00 MS of Albanians voting;
0:05 MS of man checking...
Curated Video
Albania - Violence continues
Violence in Albania has escalated in the run-up to elections on Sunday (29/6), which many hope will usher in a new government capable of restoring order.
In the southern town of Vlore on Thursday (26/6), at least one person died and...
Curated Video
WRAP Army depot explosion kills at least 7, injures 243; a'math; reax
March 15, 2008
1. Smoke rising from the ammunitions dump, more explosions can be seen, big explosion on the left of the screen destroys houses nearby
2. Zoom out to massive ball of fire and mushroom cloud rising in to the sky
3. More of...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: VIOLENT PROTESTS CONTINUE ON STREETS OF TIRANA
Albanian/Nat
Supporters of former President Sali Berisha seized government buildings in the Albanian capital Tirana on Monday and demanded the government resign.
Government forces launched a counterattack hours later, killing three...
Curated Video
ITALY: FOREIGN NATIONALS CONTINUE TO BE EVACUATED FROM ALBANIA
Italian/Eng/Nat
U-S, Italy and Britain have evacuated hundreds of foreigners from Albania on Friday by air and sea as the country slipped further into chaos.
Four U-S military helicopters evacuated 51 Americans Thursday from Tirana,...
Curated Video
Bosnia - NATO cargo plane leaves for Albania
A NATO cargo plane took off for Albania on Saturday (13/6) at the start of an operation to ship aid to refugees who have fled a military crackdown by security forces in Serbia's Kosovo province. The lumbering Norwegian C-130 left...
Curated Video
Albania - Democratic Party Claims Victory
Albania's ruling Democratic Party on Monday (27/5) celebrated a win in the elections, claiming it had received a convincing vote of confidence. But the DP's opponents have accused them of stealing the election. The DP's main rivals, the...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: TIRANA: BRITISH NATIONALS BEGIN TO LEAVE CAPITAL
Natural Sound
British nationals have begun to leave the Albanian capital of Tirana, and are heading in convoy for the port of Durres.
Around 120 British, Irish and Canadian citizens gathered at the Embassy on Thursday, after officials...
Curated Video
MACEDONIA: NATO TROOPS PREPARE TO ENTER KOSOVO
English/Nat
Macedonian and NATO troops were busy along the border with Kosovo on Thursday morning in anticipation of entering Kosovo as soon as Serb forces begin their withdrawal.
KFOR may be on the move into the devastated province as...
Curated Video
ALBANIA/MACEDONIA: NATO TROOPS PREPARE TO ENTER KOSOVO
English/Nat
American troops left their base in the Albanian capital of Tirana on Thursday, bound for the Macedonia-Kosovo border.
The U-S troops will make up part of the NATO peacekeeping force due to head into the war-torn region to...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: PRESIDENT SALI BERISHA ASKS PROTESTERS TO STOP VIOLENCE
Eng/French/Nat
Albanian President Sali Berisha, in his first public appearance in two weeks of unrest, urged Albanians to abandon violence over failing get-rich-quick schemes.
Berisha spoke to supporters of his Democratic Party on...
Curated Video
US peacekeepers discover weapons cache
Camp Bondsteel, 40 km (25miles) east of Pristina
1. Wideshot of the KFOR and UN police standing, looking at the boxes with ammunition
2. Close up of the hundreds of hand grenades lying on the ground
3. UN policeman taking photo of the...