Curated Video
ALBANIA: PARLIANMENT DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY
Vlora and Tirana, Albania. March 1st and 2nd 1997
Vlora - 2 March 1997:
1. Wide shot people on protest march.
2. Various more of march
3. Burning T-shirt
4. Woman waving palm frond
5. Various protest
6. Crowd gathered, chanting
Tirana...
Curated Video
KOSOVO: MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS UPDATE
Albanian/Nat
In their first election since the end of Yugoslav rule, Kosovars voted in local elections on Saturday.
Kosovo's estimated 80-thousand Serbs boycotted the election, fearing it would weaken ties to Yugoslavia.
Only...
Curated Video
Albania - Arrival of Spanish troops
Spanish troops began arriving in the Albanian port of Durres on Tuesday (15/4) as the mission to the stricken country gathered pace with the arrival of the vanguard of the Italian-led international force.
WS ship arriving to port;
WS...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: NATO CHIEF COMMANDER GENERAL WESLEY CLARK VISIT
English/Nat
With fighting escalating in Yugoslavia's rebellious Kosovo province, four NATO warships arrived in Albania on Wednesday.
It is the first time NATO has sent a fleet of ships to the Balkans.
The move appears to underscore the...
Curated Video
ALBANIA/KOSOVO BORDER: O-C-S-E PLAN TO SET UP PERMANENT POST
English/Nat
Europe's Organisation for Security and Cooperation (O-C-S-E) is planning to set up a permanent post in north-eastern Albania.
It follows rising tension in the area after a series of incidents in the past few days in the ...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: TIRANA: TRIAL OF LAST COMMUNIST LEADER RAMIS ALIA BEGINS
Natural Sound
The trial of Albania's last communist leader Ramis Alia - and other former officials - began in the capital Tirana on Tuesday.
But proceedings were later postponed for 10 days to allow legal arguments.
Alia, three former...
Curated Video
MACEDONIA: KOSOVAR REFUGEES ARRIVE AT THE BORDER
Eng/Albanian/Nat
A group of about 50 Kosovo Albanian refugees entered Macedonia on Saturday through a previously closed-border crossing and claimed they left behind a town terrorised by Serb forces and civilians.
The refugees entered...
Curated Video
Albania - Latest situation
Several hundred royalists, some heavily armed, demonstrated in Tirana's Skanderbeg Square on Wednesday (2/7) against the result of a referendum on reinstating the Albanian monarchy. Would-be King Leka Zogu and his supporters alleged that...
Curated Video
RUSSIA: MOSCOW: YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC VISIT
Eng/Russ/Nat
The Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has agreed to resume talks with Kosovo separatists, following a meeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin in Moscow.
Milosevic said he was willing to speak to ethnic Albanian...
Curated Video
Albania - Unrest continues to disrupt families
Serbian security forces on Saturday (6/6) continued their military operations against Albanian separatists in western Kosovo province despite an American threat of renewed sanctions against Belgrade.
Some victims of the recent fighting...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: REBELS DEMAND RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT SALI BERISHA
Albanian/Nat
Albanian rebels have said they will no longer continue to support the country's new Prime Minister Bashkim Fino if he doesn't call on President Sali Berisha to resign.
The Socialist leader was appointed Prime Minister last...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: LEZHE: SOLDIERS REMOVE EXPLOSIVES FROM WEAPONS DEPOT
Natural Sound
Albanian soldiers removed explosives from a weapons depot near Lezhe, north of Tirana on Saturday after a massive explosion at the depot demolished surrounding houses.
Several local residents were injured in Friday's...
Curated Video
ITALY: BRINDISI: POLICE STRUGGLE TO DEAL WITH RISING CRIME
Italian/Nat
Italian police, facing a massive influx of Albanian refugees into the country from the strife-torn Balkan country, have been struggling to deal with a resulting rise in crime.
Among the estimated seven-thousand Albanians who...
Curated Video
Albania and Croatia sign NATO accession protocol
1. Wide of room
2. Various of delegates arriving
3. Wide of Albanian Foreign Minister Lulzim Basha (left), Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic (right) NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer UPSOUND (English):
"We would...
Curated Video
USA : WILLIAM PERRY PRESS CONFERENCE ON NATO AIRSTRIKES
English/Nat
U.S. Defence Secretary William Perry said Wednesday he's seen no evidence of any civilians hurt or killed by the two-week NATO bombing campaign against the Bosnian Serbs.
Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon during a photo...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: THIRD DAY OF ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS
English/Nat
Demonstrations against the ruling Socialist government in the Albanian capital of Tirana have been continuing for the third day running.
The protests, organised by the opposition Democratic Party which is led by former...
Curated Video
MACEDONIA: KOSOVO: REUNITING FAMILIES
English/Nat
Aid agencies within Macedonia are struggling to reunite refugee families separated at the Blace border point between Kosovo and Macedonia.
Kosovo Albanian refugees, arriving at Macedonia, have for the main part found...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS: AIRLIFT
English/Nat
Kosovo refugees - old and young - were bundled into helicopters as an international effort to empty camps near the embattled northern Albanian frontier gathers momentum.
A newly born baby and an 87-year-old man suffering...
Curated Video
Albania - Appeal for calm
Albania's Prime Minister Bashkim Fino has appealed for an end to the shooting which began as a 15 minute gun-battle between police and demonstrators supporting a would-be king at a royalist rally on Thursday (03/07).
Leka Zogu, pretender...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: TIRANA: ALBANIANS MOURN DEATH OF MOTHER TERESA
English/Nat
The people of Albania have been mourning the death of Mother Teresa.
Mother Teresa, although born in Skopje, Macedonia, was of Albanian descent.
The Albanian Prime Minister had expressed his country's wish to bury her, but...
Curated Video
USA: WASHINGTON: G-7 MINISTERS ARRIVE FOR IMF MEETINGS
English/Nat
G-7 finance ministers arrived in Washington on Sunday to discuss issues addressed in I-M-F-World Bank meetings.
High on the agenda will be a discussion of financial aid for the Balkans and impending loans to Russia.
The...
Curated Video
Albania - Protests continue
Thousands of demonstrators continued to march in the Albanian port of Vlore on Wednesday (12/2), pressuring the government to refund money lost in pyramid investment schemes. Protestors marched to the local police station where they...
Curated Video
Albania - Compensation for investors
Albania's President, Sali Berisha, said on Wednesday (29/1) that investors into the collapsed "pyramid" investment schemes would receive in compensation about seventy percent of their original deposit.
The president called a press...
Curated Video
ALBANIA: SHKODRA: ANTI GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS
English/Nat
More anti-government demonstrations have taken place in Albania, this time away from the capital, in the town of Shkodra.
People gathered in the town's central square to protest against Prime Minister Fatos Nano, and to pay...