English/Nat

Mission Controllers at NASA may decide to lengthen the American Shuttle's stay in orbit for an extra day.

Earlier in the flight the crew of Atlantis had problems assembling an exercise treadmill to be used on the international space station being built later this year.

The shuttle is currently docked to the Russian space station "Mir" where it picked up one America astronaut and dropped off his replacement.

The crew of the American Space Shuttle and Russian Space Station "Mir" say their goodbyes as the Atlantis prepares to return to earth.

The U-S astronaut John Blaha who has been on board the Mir for four-months - and is being replaced by Dr. Jerry Linenger.

But NASA may force Blaha to stay in space for an extra day as experiments on exercise equipment haven't gone to plan.

The equipment will be needed on the planned international space station to help space travellers fight the typical loss of bone and muscle mass in weightlessness.

As astronauts on the Atlantis prepare to undock from the "Mir" on Sunday night they're planning to squeeze in time on the treadmill to gather the necessary data.

If all goes well the Atlantis could land on Wednesday.

Mir" Space Station, 19 January 1997

1. Russian & American Astronauts talking to NASA control

2. Astronauts talking to each other

3. Shaking hands and hugging

4. Leaving.

42248 IRAQ: 6TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1ST IRAQI MISSILE ATTACK ON TEL AVIV CELEBRATED 1/19/97 EF97/0056 16:17:54 00:01:43 APTV VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) English/Nat

Thousands of Iraqis rallied in Baghdad on Saturday to celebrate the 6th anniversary of the first Iraqi missile attack on Tel Aviv in 1991.

It's called "Science Day" when people turn out to show their loyalty to President Saddam Hussein who ordered the strikes during the second Gulf War.

Thousands of people rallied in the centre of Baghdad, in the Al-Mosstansirya-seq quarter, to mark the anniversary of the 1991 missile attack on Israel.

Carrying portraits of Saddam and banners swearing their allegiance - Iraqis honoured their president for ordering the attacks on Tel Aviv.

It's an annual event - schools and government offices also carry out their own forms of celebration.

At the martyr monument people showed the "V" for victory sign and remembered the night of 18th January, 1991, when Iraq released 39 missiles over Tel Aviv, the Occupied Territories and the Allied Forces in the desert.

"Science Day" also pays tribute to the Iraqi scientists who made the long-range missiles.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"They call this science day because these Iraqi rocket hits on Tel Aviv in 1991

were with rockets made by Iraqi scientists, not supported by other scientists from all over the world".

SUPER-CAPTION: Ghassan Raddwan

Officially at least, Iraqis see the day as one of victory.

Much of the weaponry and scientific installations were destroyed during the Gulf War and its aftermath.

Baghdad, Iraq, January 18, 1997

1. Various of rally.

2. Various of people waving banners.

3. Cutaway young child on shoulders of parent at rally.

4. Wide shot rally - huge picture of President Saddam Hussein in background.

5. Close-up banner reading "victory will be achieved with the patronage of almighty God and President Saddam's leadership"

6. Mid shot Latif Nsayyif Jassem addressing crowds.

7. Close-up same.

8. Wide shot chanting and signing victory.

9. Portrait Saddam Hussein.

10. Wide shot rally.

11. Mid shot Iraqi protester chanting.

12. Wide shot victory sign with martyr monument.

13. SOUNDBITE: Ghassan Raddwan (English)

14. Wide shot pan martyr monument.

42251 BULGARIA: SOFIA: PROTESTS CONTINUE AGAINST SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT 1/19/97 EF97/0056 16:27:51 00:02:13 BNT No Access Bulgaria VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) English/Nat

A huge crowd of opposition supporters greeted the inauguration of Bulgaria's new president Sunday, as protests continue against the country's socialist government.

Petar Stoyanov became Bulgaria's second democratically elected head of state in a brief ceremony inside Parliament but then joined an opposition rally outside the cathedral.

Bulgaria's capital Sofia has been rocked by almost two weeks of protest rallies calling for new elections.

An estimated forty thousand people filled the square in front of Sofia's Saint Alexander Nevski cathedral to welcome the new president.

Petar Stoyanov overwhelmingly won last November's elections as the candidate of the anti-Socialist opposition front.

On Sunday he - and his deputy Todor Kavaldziev - were sworn in front of a Parliament driven by political conflict.

For the past 13 days - tens of thousands of protesters have rallied in Sofia and other cities across the country demanding a change of government.

But opposition deputies suspended their boycott of the legislature for the occasion and sat together with members of the Socialist Party, former Communists, whom they want to oust from power.

The Socialists have led five of seven governments in Bulgaria since 1989 and been widely blamed for Bulgaria's economic misery - annual inflation is running at over 300 percent.

Stoyanov will have a tough task ahead if he is to turn the country around - but he has something the government does not - popular support.

SOUNDBITE: (rough translation - for guidance only)

"I beg you don't ****** forever. Ladies and gentlemen and young friends of mine who were at the front line, I thank you. "

SUPER CAPTION: Petar Stoyanov, New Bulgarian President

He thanked everyone who had taken part in the recent rallies.

SOUNDBITE:

"We won together, this is our victory."

SUPER CAPTION: Petar Stoyanov, New Bulgarian President

Chanting "victory, victory, victory" and singing "no more communism" the crowd called for him to order new elections when he formally takes office on Wednesday.

Sofia, Bulgaria, January 19, 1997

1. Election banner with President's picture and pull out to wide of crowd singing

2. President and entourage walk onto platform

3. Crowd singing national anthem and waving flags

4. Close-up of President singing national anthem pull out to entourage singing

5. Crowd waving flags

6. President at microphone

7. SOUNDBITE: Petar Stoyanov, New Bulgarian President

8. Cutaway of crowd

9. SOUNDBITE: Petar Stoyanov, New Bulgarian President

10. Close-up of people in crowd chanting "victory, victory, victory" and tilt up to flags and banners

42252 USA: CHICAGO: STEVE FOSSETT EXPECTED TO LAND IN INDIA OR BANGLADESH 1/19/97 EF97/0057 19:42:59 - 20:08:18 00:01:12 CLTV No Access Chicago VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) English/Nat

An American millionaire's dream of being the first balloonist to circumnavigate the globe looks set to be thwarted.

Steve Fossett is expected to land either in India or Bangladesh around 0700 GMT Monday.

The trip that began in St. Louis six days ago was cut short due to fuel shortage.

The balloonist may not have achieved his ambition but he has made the record books by flying twice as far as anyone else in a balloon.

The daring balloon attempt by a 52-year-old securities trader looks set to finish in failure Monday despite having set new records for distance and duration.

Steve Fossett's dream of being the first balloonist to travel around the world non-stop was thwarted after six days due to short supplies of fuel.

Fossett - who lifted off in his silver-coloured Solo Spirit balloon from Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Monday night - was forced to use up fuel stocks after he was initially refused permission to cross Libyan airspace.

It is anticipated that Fossett will land along the east coast of India, south of Calcutta.

Floating at 20,000 feet above India on Sunday, Fossett and his

supporters back in the Midwest plotted a landing before he began

passing over the rugged mountains of Southeast Asia or the Pacific

Ocean.

SOUNDBITE:

" If he's thinking proper, he'll realise that he's gonna drift towards up into the Himalayas, and he'll want to try to land as soon as he can just before or just after sunrise before he gets any closer to the Himalayan mountains."

SUPERCAPTION: Bo Kemper Member of support team

Fossett already has far eclipsed his own distance ballooning record, 5,435 miles (8,746 kilometres) on a 1995 flight from Seoul, Korea, to

Canada.

SOUNDBITE:

"You have to remember this has never been done. Steve's just gone half way around the world. The other two teams that have ever tried this went at the most 4-hundred miles. Steve's gone over 7-thousand miles. He's been travelling up to five miles above the earth. I mean this is an unbelievable physical feat. Technologically it shows that we can do it. And I think the thing that people have to remember is that we've had tremendous competition from the Swiss and the English. An American has broken the record and will probably have his name on two of the three most prestigious titles in aviation."

SUPERCAPTION: Bo Kemper, Member of the support team

The American planned to stay aloft until early Monday so he'd

beat not only a world distance record for ballooning but

also the record for longest time spent in the air.

By noon Saturday, Fossett had travelled 9,600 miles (15,500

km) .

Inside the cabin, temperatures ranged from zero degrees to

10 degrees F (-18 C to -12 C); outside it was 30 to 50 F

below (-35 to -45 C).

Fossett's cabin heaters don't operate in the oxygen-starved altitudes above 24,000 feet (7,315 m), and he is expected to capitalise on the strong winds above that great height all day.

But at night, Fossett planned to drop to about 18,000 feet (5,500 m) in order to get the heaters working again.

The physical strain on Fossett was also cited as a reason

to abort the mission.

The millionaire failed his first round-the-world attempt one year

ago.

His current adventure was the third transglobal attempt this year.

British businessman Richard Branson's Global Challenger balloon was forced down by equipment problems in the North African desert January 8 after lifting off from Marrakech two days earlier.

Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Bertrand Piccard and his crew ditched in the Mediterranean four days later after kerosene fumes filled their cockpit.

The American stockbroker should take solace on his return to earth that although he did not fulfil his dream, the record breaking balloon flight has made him master of the sky.

APTV

Chicago, USA, January 19 1997

1. Set up Bo Kemper

2. SOUNDBITE: Bo Kemper

3. Wide shot Bo Kemper

4. SOUNDBITE: Bo Kemper

5. Wide shot Bo Kemper

42253 SERBIA: BELGRADE: 61ST DAY OF ANTI-GOVERNMENT DEMONSTRATIONS 1/19/97 EF97/0056 16:25:05 00:02:37 POOL VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) English/Nat

Thousands of opposition supporters gathered on Sunday in Belgrade as their protests continued into their 61st successive day,

As police again blocked streets around the main city square, many brought their dogs along for the walk, mocking police containment of the demonstrations to pedestrian zones.

Opposition leader Vuk Draskovic expressed concern that as the pressure on Milosevic increases, his next move may be to provoke bloodshed.

It was the dogs day out in Serbia Sunday, as demonstrators brought canine pets to the 61st consecutive day of rallying.

10 thousand protesters gathered in the centre of Belgrade, some clutching stuffed animals, doing their best to comply with the protest organisers' request that the theme of the day's protest be dogs.

The protest mocked the police containment of the demonstrators in a pedestrian zone, the slogan for the day: 'If we can't walk, let's walk our dogs.'

As opposition leader Zoran Djindjic was securing the support of German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel in Bonn, at the rally his colleague Vuk Draskovic expressed concern over the next possible move by an increasingly desperate Milosevic.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"I am very afraid that Mr Milosevic has decided to solve the problem of annulling election results of the people of Serbia by producing a bigger and the biggest problem. By producing bloodshed in Kosovo."

SUPER CAPTION: Vuk Draskovic, Serbian Opposition Coalition Leader

This would push the fight for democracy into a critical stage.

SOUNDBITE:

"This is the biggest problem Serbia could face very soon, and all Balkans and Europe"

SUPER CAPTION: Vuk Draskovic, Serbian Opposition Coalition Leader

His concerns follow recent accusations by the Serbian government that the Opposition Party Zajedno (Together) Coalition triggered a recent car bomb attack in Pristina.

However the terrorist attack has widely been seen as an act of the ethnic Albanian separatist organisation.

Belgrade, Serbia - January 19th, 1997.

1. Wideshot of rally blocked by line of police

2. Wideshot of police filing along

3. Various shots of rally in square

4. Medium shot stuffed toys on frame

5. Close-up of dog

6. Various shots of crowd saluting with sign of peace

7. Wide shot of opposition leaders on podium

8. SOUNDBITE: Vuk Draskovic, Serbian Opposition Coalition Leader

9. Cutaway of hands held in peace signs

10. SOUNDBITE: Vuk Draskovic, Serbian Opposition Coalition Leader

11. Cutaway sign reading 'we want our victory'

12. Various shots of crowds

13. Various shots Vuk Draskovic addressing crowd from podium

14. Wide high shot of rally in square

42254 FRANCE: PARIS: 2ND DAY OF PREMIERE HAUTE COUTURE FASHION EVENT 1/19/97 EF97/0056 16:22:23 00:02:34 APTV VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) English/Nat

At the second day of Paris's premiere haute couture fashion event Sunday - it was Olivier Lapidus and Torrente's turn to show off their wares.

The feature of Lapidus's show was his choice of "bio-fibres" - fabrics extracted from vegetables, fruits and flowers.

Over the next week some of the world's top designers will exhibit at the event organised by the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne.

When Olivier Lapidus's designs took centre stage at the spring/summer haute couture fashion event in Paris Sunday - all talk was about his choice in fabrics.

The designer had chosen to work with "bio-fibres" - extracted from vegetables, fruits and flowers.

Early in the show a model appeared on the catwalk dressed in a shirt with real flowers.

37 year old Olivier Lapidus, son of Ted, has proven to be experimental in the past.

The youngest of the French high fashion designers - last July Lapidus unveiled a solar energy garment.

The Lapidus motto - research enables industry to advance and industry helps fashion to progress.

Lapidus would like to turn the European agricultural surplus into a range of textiles.

One of the most beautiful of the Lapidus creations was the red evening dress modelled later in the show.

This gown was made with silk, grape vine and blackcurrant.

And then came the wedding gown - traditionally a designer's show stopper.

The gown was modelled by Olivier Lapidus's fiancee.

The designer joined her on the catwalk to receive his applause - she will wear the bridal gown at their March wedding.

Backstage there was congratulations for the innovative Lapidus collection.

The young designer explained his philosophy on haute couture.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"Haute Couture for me is a laboratory. It is not only the past, it is not only the history, the museum if you want, it is not only naked women with you know many embroideries. Haute couture has to be alive. Haute couture has to bring something to people and this is why I try to make new things in haute couture. And this time those fibres from roses from you know flowers, fruit, vegetable, whatever - they are going to give maybe 300 new fibres in the normal textile field."

SUPER-CAPTION: Olivier Lapidus, French designer.

The theme of the Torrente spring summer haute couture collection was "distant travels, to the southern seas, to Polynesia."

The philosophy behind these designs - fashion which is simple, pure and rhythmic.

The models showed off body hugging cocktail dresses and suits with slim fitted coats and straight cut double breasted jackets.

Madame Rose Torrente-Mett also showed off her taste for extreme sophistication through her range of evening gowns.

As tradition requires - she also joined the models on the catwalk after revealing her bridal gown.

Paris, France, 19th January 1997

1. Wide shot catwalk for Lapidus show

2. Close-up of model wearing shirt with real flowers

3. Pan up on blue and white dress

4. Various shots of gowns

5. Mid shot of model in trousers and cropped top

6. Close-up of red flower dress

7. Wide shot of same

8. Mid shot of gold dress

9. Wide shot of Lapidus on catwalk with model/fiancee in wedding gown

10. Mid shot of same

11. Mid shot of Lapidus being congratulated backstage

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Olivier Lapidus

13. Wide shot of Torrente show

14. Pan down blue gown

15. Pan up suit

16. Mid shot evening gowns

17. Mid shot with bridal gown and Madame Rose Torrente-Mett

18. Wide shot of same

KEYWORDS: FASHION

42255 WEST BANK: HEBRON: YASSER ARAFAT 1ST VISIT SINCE ISRAELI REDEPLOYMENT 1/19/97 EF97/0056 16:00:53 0:02:57 APTV VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) Arabic/Nat

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has arrived in Hebron to the cheers of more than 60- thousand jubilant Palestinians.

They are celebrating the Palestinian take-over of most of the city after three decades of Israeli occupation.

Arafat said he hoped the agreement on Hebron would be a step towards bringing a lasting peace to the rest of the Middle East - including Syria and Lebanon.

Before leaving for Hebron - in a triumphant return to the city he last saw more than 30 years ago - Yasser Arafat inspected a guard of honour in Ramallah.

His helicopter then whisked him off to the city whose future he's spent so many months negotiating.

He landed just outside the former Israeli military headquarters where Palestinian activists were jailed during Israeli rule. The building will now serve as the Palestinian police H.Q..

As he was driven from the landing pad to the building, Arafat threw kisses to the crowd which was chanting "Long live Palestine" and "Long live Arafat."

He told the crowd of more than 60-thousand people that Hebron is a "liberated city" but he said Palestinians don't want confrontation with the Jewish settlers - they want peace.

He also said peace must now spread to the rest of the Middle East.

SOUNDBITE:

"But (I call for) a just and comprehensive peace not only in Egypt, and Jordan and Palestine but also in Syria and Lebanon so that peace is just and comprehensive and lasting in the whole of the Middle East."

SUPER CAPTION: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Leader

And to tumultuous cheers - he promised that some jailed Palestinians would now be released.

SOUNDBITE:

"Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, ( jailed head of Hamas) soon, very soon, will come out from prison".

SUPER CAPTION: Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Leader

Hebron is the last West Bank city to come under Palestinian rule under the agreement signed by Arafat and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Wednesday.

Ramallah and Hebron, West Bank. January 19th 1997

Ramallah:

1. Various Arafat inspects guard of honour in Ramallah

2. Arafat gets into helicopter and flies to Hebron

Hebron:

3. Helicopter lands

4. Arafat gets out

5. Arafat surrounded by people, gets onto truck and drives through cheering, flag-waving crowds

6. Palestinian soldier on horseback in crowd

7. Wide shot new police headquarters

8. Wide shot Arafat speaking

9. SOUNDBITE: Arafat

10. Wide shot Arafat speech

11. SOUNDBITE: Arafat

12. Arafat waves to crowd and leaves

42256 WEST BANK: HEBRON: REACTIONS TO REDEPLOYMENT OF ISRAELI TROOPS 1/19/97 EF97/0056 16:03:58 00:01:43 APTV VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) English/Nat

As the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat arrived in Hebron for the first time in nearly three decades, Jewish settlers are still angry that the city has been handed back to the Palestinians.

Arafat's government took control of 80 percent of Hebron on Friday after months of negotiations with the hard-line government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

As thousands of Palestinians gave their leader Yasser Arafat a hero's welcome into Hebron, the mood in the Jewish sector was much more sombre.

The people of H2 - as the 20 percent of Hebron remaining under Israeli control will be known - were not celebrating.

This area in the heart of the city is home to about 500 Jewish settlers and about 15-thousand Palestinians and is heavily guarded by Israeli police.

The settlers say they will not give up their fight for Hebron which is considered holy to both Jews and Muslims.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"The Jewish community now has to survive, but after the survival you'll see the revival, it will not be only survival"

SUPER CAPTION: Benny Elon, Member of Knesset for right-wing Moledet party

Despite Arafat saying he did not want confrontation with the Jewish settlers - attitudes remained unchanged and Arafat's visit was not welcomed.

A settlers' spokesman said it was a desecration to allow their "arch enemy" Arafat into the city.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"The Israeli government that we elected, allowed our arch enemy to come into Hebron. The man who's hands are soaked with the blood of so many Jewish men, women and children is despicable. We feel that this is a desecration of the sanctity of the second holiest city of the Jewish people in the land of Israel."

SUPER CAPTION: David Wilder, Hebron Settlers' spokesperson

The potential difficulties of life under the new regime are still yet to be fully realised.

The dividing line between H1 - the Palestinian controlled part of Hebron and H2 - the Israeli controlled sector - has been kept deliberately vague.

Israeli army commanders said the vagueness was intentional - to

avoid cutting the town in two and to permit free movement.

But new checkpoints have sprung up on either side and there are fears a new "Berlin" may have been created - a city divided by imaginary lines and centuries old hatreds.

Hebron, West Bank, January 19th 1997

1. Tilt down settlers building

2. Pull out Israeli police around market

3. Wide shot group gathered on street

4. Various shots Jewish settlers

5. SOUNDBITE: Benny Elon, Member of Knesset for right-wing Moledet party

6. Wide shot street scene in Hebron

7. SOUNDBITE: David Wilder, Hebron Settlers' spokesperson

8. Wide shot of Israeli police

9. Various shots market place in Hebron

10. Wide shot Israeli police patrolling area

11. Pan of street near market in Hebron

42258 SOUTH AFRICA: ONE OF WORLD'S HIGHEST RATES OF RAPE 1/19/97 EF97/0056 16:08:47 00:03:09 ALL APTV EXCEPT SHOT 1 = SABC Please Note: legal restrictions may apply to footage of rape victims who are minors. VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) English/Nat

South Africa has one of the highest rates of rape in the world. It is estimated that a woman is raped every 34 seconds.

And police believe many more cases go unreported.

Many believe crime and violence are getting out of control. They are calling for the government to crack down on violent crimes and bring back the death penalty for rapists.

It's a crime that happens every day in South Africa.

Only a few rare cases, like the recent plight of four Johannesburg teenagers raped in their homes during two separate attacks in two weeks, hit the headlines nation-wide.

Groups of armed men broke into the victims' homes and tied up family members before robbing the houses and raping four girls aged from thirteen to twenty-four.

Eight suspects allegedly involved in the attacks appeared in court last week and were denied bail.

SOUNDBITE:

"He tied us all in the bedroom. Like he told us to shut up. He doesn't want our lives, he just wants money. And then he said that I must get up so I got up. He took me to the bathroom and he raped me. And he just left me there."

SUPERCAPTION: Fourteen-year-old rape victim

South Africa's Human Rights Commission last week revealed that over 31-thousand rapes were reported to police during the first half of last year.

But the figure gives only a partial idea of the tragedy - police believe only one in thirty- five cases of rape are reported.

For those who have suffered this crime, or who have to deal with family members victims of rape, pain and anger become a daily reality. But many have decided to fight back.

SOUNDBITE:

''I would like to send a message to all rapists that your days are numbered. That you have messed with the wrong people. And that we can fight back. This is it. This is it."

SUPERCAPTION: Jane, Mother of teenage rape victim

The families of the recent Johannesburg rape victims organised a public meeting calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty, abolished in 1995 after the A-N-C won the country's first democratic elections.

They launched a campaign named "Camelot" - Campaign Against Murderous Empowered Laws of Treason - calling on citizens to press for changes in legislation to crack down on rapists and child abusers.

They want to see men accused of rape being denied bail, and those convicted, being surgically castrated within 24-hours of sentencing.

Their pleas are addressed to South Africa's Justice Minister, who is spearheading the move towards the creation of special "rape courts".

These courts will help magistrates and prosecutors deal more efficiently with the rape cases when they are separated from the general case roll.

Magistrates will be required to ensure unfair cross-examination of rape victims is not carried out and that they are handled with compassion.

New legislation to get tough on rapists is to be presented to South Africa's parliament in the first half of this year.

SOUNDBITE:

"And our courts must send a signal to society that we are not prepared to tolerate this kind of crime. And therefore heavy sentences will have to be imposed."

SUPERCAPTION: Dullah Omar, Justice Minister

Being security conscious has become a way of life for women in South Africa. Those who can afford weapons learn how to use them. Shooting ranges around the country have many women members, and most offer shooting instructions for women.

Self-defence seminars and classes are also popular. During these sessions women are taught how to react when being attacked.

And how not to think like a victim, but to adopt a calm attitude during a violent attack.

Women feel threatened by the ever increasing violent crimes.

Locking doors, checking where and when you walk or whether you're being followed is an everyday reality for women living in South Africa.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

''It is not the way I want to live. I want to be free and have freedom of movement, go wherever I want to go at any time of the day. Not thinking of someone who is following me or thinking of my safety."

SUPERCAPTION: Salome Masondo

Groups like People Opposing Woman Abuse believe the reasons for the country's rampant rape crimes cannot be attributed to a single factor.

They're pushing the government to set up an intensive education campaign to teach girls from an early age what their rights as women are.

SOUNDBITE:

"South Africa has a very high general rate of violence and crime. And I think that contributes towards the situation. I think it also stems from the patriarchal society we live in."

SUPERCAPTION: Sally Shackleton, People Opposing Woman Abuse POWA)

The "Camelot" activists have declared February 14, Valentine's Day, a national day of mourning for all rape victims. They're urging people to embark on passive strikes by marching to a local court house and laying wreathes.

South Africa, Johannesburg , 13, 16, 17, 18 January 1997; Pretoria, 17 January 1997; Soweto, 17 January 1997 & Vanderbijlpark, 17 January 1997

1. Wide shot interior home of rape victim (Johannesburg, 13 January 1997, SABC)

2. Mid shot bedroom

3. Close-up mask on wall of girl's bedroom

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Fifteen-year-old rape victim

5. Wide shot exterior home of second rape victim

6. Mid shot interior on staircase

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jane, Mother of Teenage rape victim

8. Wide shot exterior hall for public meeting (Johannesburg, 17 January 1997, APTV)

9. Wide shot volunteers handing out petitions

10. Mid people signing petitions

11. Close-up "Camelot" petition

12. Mid shot Charmaine Young (mother of teenage rape victims) addressing crowd

13. Wide crowd cheering

14. Mid shot Justice Minister Dullah Omar set up (Pretoria, 17 January 1997, APTV)

15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dullah Omar, Justice Minister

16. Wide shot two women practising at shooting range (Johannesburg, 18 January 1997, APTV)

17. Mid shot woman checking targets

18. Wide shot woman shooting

19. Close-up woman shooting

20. Wide shot self defence lecture (Vanderbijlpark, 17 January 1997, APTV)

21. Mid shot women watching

22. Mid shot instructor Janette Schoultz demonstrating self defence moves.

23. Women watching

24. Wide shot street Soweto (16 January 1997, APTV)

25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Salome Masondo

26. Anti-rape video (ex POWA - People Opposing Woman Abuse)

27. Wide interior POWA offices (Johannesburg, 16.1.97, APTV

28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sally Shackleton, POWA

29. Mid shot book on abuse, tilt to woman writing

42259 SERBIA: BELGRADE: SENIOR UN ENVOY ELIZABETH REHN CRITICISES MILOSEVIC 1/19/97 EF97/0056 16:07:50 00:00:49 POOL VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) English/Nat

A senior U-N Envoy has added her voice to the chorus of criticism facing the Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

Elizabeth Rehn, the organisations Human Rights Envoy in the former Yugoslavia urged the President to acknowledge the election triumphs of opposition parties.

She announced that her delegation fully supported the OSCE report on the November 17 election result, which recognised the opposition's victory.

Elizabeth Rehn's comments underline the growing international pressure on President Milosevic to accept the result of November's poll.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"The whole system of elections must be renewed."

SUPER CAPTION: Elizabeth Rehn, U-N Human Rights Envoy

The basis of the international disquiet is a report from a delegation of OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) members, led by the former Spanish Premier Felipe Gonzalez.

They ruled that the Serbian opposition had won local elections in 14 big cities and towns throughout the country.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"I made of course my points clear - that the Gonzalez Report must be followed"

SUPER CAPTION: Elizabeth Rehn, U-N Human Rights Envoy

The OSCE delegation had originally been invited to look at the results by the Serbian President himself, but Milosevic has shown little sign of accepting the report's findings.

The government's refusal to act triggered mass protests across the republic which have been going on for nine weeks.

Rehn's comments came as she held talks with the Yugoslav Foreign minister Milan Milutinovic and Serbia's opposition leaders, but she did not meet the Serbian president.

She later denied reports that Milutinovic had claimed student protesters were being paid to demonstrate

Belgrade, Serbia - January 19th 1997.

1. Wide shot press conference

2. SOUNDBITE: Elizabeth Rehn, U-N Human Rights Envoy

3. Cutaway of press

4. Cutaway of cameraman

5. SOUNDBITE: Elizabeth Rehn, U-N Human Rights Envoy

6. Wide shot press conference

7. Pan of Press conference.

42260 PAKISTAN: LAHORE: PROTESTERS SET LIGHT TO IRANIAN CULTURAL CENTRE 1/19/97 EF97/0056 16:05:49 00:01:52 APTV VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) Natural Sound

About five hundred Sunni Muslim demonstrators set fire to an Iranian Cultural Centre in the Pakistani city of Lahore, Sunday, following the death of an Islamic leader in the city the day before.

The leader of a prominent Sunni group was among 25 people killed when a bomb in a motorcycle exploded outside a courthouse.

Militant Sunnis have blamed Iran - which is predominantly Shi'ite - for the bomb attack and demanded the government sever its links with Tehran.

There was still anger on the streets of Lahore as fire fighters put out the blaze which had destroyed the Iranian Cultural Centre.

A few demonstrators - a fraction of the number which had earlier attacked the building - threw pieces of debris at the authorities tackling the fire.

Also gutted in the blaze was the office of Pakistan's Senate Leader - Wasim Sajjad - which was next door.

The mob was acting in revenge for the killing of 25 people - including Zia-ur Rehman, a leader of a Sunni Muslim group called the Guardians of the Friends of the Prophet.

They died when a motorcycle bomb exploded outside a court in the city.

Eight thousand people attended Rehman's funeral which was held in his hometown of Jhang, about 200 kilometres (125 mile) southwest of Lahore.

Rehman and another leader - Azim Tariq - were at the Lahore Sessions Court for their trial on murder charges - Tariq was seriously wounded.

Both the men Tariq and Rehman were candidates in next month's general elections, but after the bombing the authorities decided to postpone elections in Rehman's central Punjab constituency.

No-one has claimed responsibility for the bombing but the Guardians are blaming Pakistan's Shi'ite minority - saying they are backed by Iran.

Sunni radicals have vowed to seek revenge for the bombing, a threat that has police worried about retaliatory attacks against Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslims

Lahore, Pakistan, 19 January 1997

1. Demonstrators throwing debris at firemen

2. Close-up of steaming rubble

3. Close-up of flame, pull out to building

4. Burnt out building, pan to onlookers

5. Pull out from burnt air conditioning unit to firemen

6. Walking shot of firemen examining burnt out building

7. Pull out from window to burnt out building

8. Pan from fire engine to building

9. Pull out from flames in window to wide shot of building

10. Fire engine reversing and pan to riot police

42261 USA: ATLANTIS ASTRONAUTS PREPARE TO UNDOCK FROM SPACE STATION MIR 1/19/97 EF97/0056 16:12:04 02:34 NASA VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) Natural Sound

Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis and space station Mir have sealed the hatches connecting the two vessels Sunday in preparation for undocking.

NASA still has to decide if the US shuttle will stay in space for an extra day to complete tests on exercise equipment for the new international space station.

The Shuttle crew had earlier experienced difficulty assembling a treadmill and lost data when a computer failed.

The crews of the Atlantis space shuttle and the Mir space stations said their good-byes Sunday.

They held a farewell party for John Blaha who's being replaced after four months in space.

Astronaut Jerry Linenger will now be staying with the Russian crew aboard Mir for 4 and a half months.

He thanked his Mission Control team-mates for getting him to the space station.

UPSOUND:

I just want to say thanks for getting me up here. You all did a great job, I appreciate it and I'll see you all in the summer."

SUPERCAPTION: Jerry Linenger. US Astronaut

UPSOUND:

"Jerry, from all the folks down here it was a great pleasure and god speed."

SUPERCAPTION: US NASA Mission Controller.

Linenger replaces Blaha, who has been in space aboard the orbiting outpost since September.

After waving goodbye, the Russian team closed the hatch leading to

Mir in preparation for the crafts separation later Sunday.

The Atlantis astronauts then tested lights illuminating the so-called docking vestibule that bridges the two spacecraft.

After that, U-S astronaut Mike Baker slipped the Atlantis hatch into place and the Atlantis crew depressurised the vestibule.

Elsewhere in the shuttle, the crew continued tasks to prepare for Sunday night's separation and return to Earth later next week.

Inside the Spacehab module, astronaut Marsha Ivins stowed gear received from the Mir station, including food for Blaha.

US Shuttle, Houston, 19 January 1997

1. Shuttle crew saying good-byes to Mir crew.

2. Mir crew through docking vestibule

3. UPSOUND: Jerry Linenger, Astronaut (over shot of Mission Control, Houston)

4 UPSOUND: Reply from Mission Control controller.

5. Mir crew waves

6. Mir crew closes hatch

7. Mir station exterior

8. US astronaut Mike Baker closes Atlantis hatch

9. Atlantis crew on flight deck

10. Atlantis crew in Spacehab module

11. Stowing gear

42263 ALBANIA: TIRANA: PROTESTS OVER MONEY LOST IN PYRAMID SCHEMES 1/19/97 EF97/0057 19:35:50 00:03:01 APTV VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) Albanian/Nat

About 25-thousand demonstrators took to the streets of central Tirana Sunday, demanding that the government take responsibility for the money they lost in pyramid schemes.

Clashes broke out when police tried to push back protesters using batons and water canons.

Over half a million Albanians have invested in these phoney investment schemes promising sky-high interest rates. Many have forfeited all their savings.

Demonstrators, backed by the opposition parties, blame the government for their losses.

Violence broke out in Albania Sunday as twenty-five thousand demonstrators rallied in the capital Tirana and several other cities.

They are calling for the government to take responsibility for their losses following mass investments in fictitious companies.

Chants of ''down with dictatorship'' mingled with those demanding ''We want our money,'' as protesters in several cities battled police and lobbed stones at government buildings.

In Tirana riot police blocked the streets leading into Skanderbeg Square.

Attempting to push back the protesters, they beat their batons against their shields, but then charged the demonstrators - several were injured.

Plainclothes officers stopped opposition party leaders trying to address the crowd - smashing their megaphones and beating them. Several people were thrown into police vans.

Rexhep Nejdani, the deputy chief of the Socialists, suffered arm injuries.

Supporters trying to shield the opposition leaders were also clubbed by police.

A wave of unrest has swept across Albania over the past week after two pyramid schemes began to collapse.

An estimated 5-hundred-thousand of Albania's three-point-two million citizens have invested money in scams involving fictitious investment companies and charities offering double-digit interest rates.

As elsewhere in post-Communist eastern Europe, pyramid schemes have popped up in poverty-ridden Albania, offering sky-high interest rates to citizens with average monthly wages of sixty to eighty dollars.

Early investors made fortunes in the funds. But because the schemes pay the first investors with the money from later ones, they require a steady stream of new contributors.

Without that, they crumble - as in the case of two of Albania's 10 funds that failed to pay out over the past week, sparking violent demonstrations

The demonstrations against the funds have quickly turned against the government, which investors blame for allowing the get-rich-quick schemes to operate in Albania.

Myfit Muro, from the southern port of Vlaro, sold his house and has invested over 10- thousand dollars (10- million leks) in a pyramid scheme. He's lost everything and now plans to emigrate to Italy.

SOUNDBITE:

The president must say if we will get the money or not. Why did the government allow three or four people to collect all the money of the Albanians and cheat them? Where was the government and the president then? How could they operate without a licence? If I open a shop I need a licence. How could they operate without it?

The people have given the president their vote and he cheated them.

SUPERCAPTION: Myfit Muro, victim of a pyramid scheme,

Astrit Dalip is another typical case.

SOUNDBITE:

I used to work as a butcher in Italy. I have just come back to Albania with 36 (m) million Italian liras (24-thousand dollars), which I deposited at Gjallica (one of the two funds that went bust). I do not expect to get the money back. All the companies are collapsing.

Q: What will you do?

I will emigrate again together with my six brothers.

Q: Whom do you blame for this?

I do not know. We have remained like fish without water. All our money is now at Gjallica.

SUPERCAPTION: Astrit Dalip, victim of pyramid schemes

On Saturday, President Sali Berisha said the government would offer jobs and bank credits to the people most affected by the investment fund failures.

The government last week froze 255 (m) million dollars in assets of some of the funds.

Opposition leaders have accused some of the pyramid-scheme companies of having financed the Democrats' campaign for the May elections.

Albania, Tirana - January 19, 1997 & Vlora, January 17, 1997

1. Wide shot of demonstrators

2. Top shot of protesters shouting slogans

3. Police beating a demonstrator

4. Police pushing back demonstrators.

5. Wide shot demonstration

6. Riot police getting out of van

7. Cutaway man pushed around by police

6. Top shot of demo

7. Southern port of Vlora, ship (January 17, 1997)

8. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Myfit Muro, victim of a pyramid scheme (Vlora, January 17,1997)

9. Cutaway port of Vlora. (January 17, 1997)

10. SOUNDBITE: (Albanian) Astrit Dalip, victim of a pyramid scheme (Vlora, January 17, 1997)

11. Top shot of demonstrations

42276 PERU: ARCHBISHOP OF LIMA CARDINAL LANDAZURI'S FUNERAL 1/19/97 EF97/0057 19:51:01 - 20:37:17 - 21:00:53 00:02:35 APTV VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) Spanish/Nat

President Fujimori and other Peruvian government officials took a break from the month- old hostage crisis to spend part of Sunday saying farewell to Cardinal Landazuri - the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lima.

The cardinal died last Thursday aged 83 after a long battle with cancer.

Mr Fujimori is still refusing to back down over the key demand made by Marxist rebels holding 73 hostages at the Japanese Embassy.

The rebels are insisting the Government release more than 300 Tupac Amaru guerrillas before beginning mediation talks.

Another hostage ventured outside the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima Sunday.

He was identified as the Japanese embassy second secretary Akihisa Ouyigama.

His task - to take batteries out of cars parked in the compound.

One police officer outside the compound speculated that the rebels needed the batteries to power their radios.

On Saturday afternoon - two other hostages made an appearance outside the residence.

Rebels had sent them onto the roof to arrange rebel banners on the side of the building.

The Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement has accepted a government proposal for mediation by Canada's top envoy.

But there's no sign either side is ready to back down over the key issue of the status of 300 jailed guerrillas.

The rebels say it is the government's refusal to negotiate on this issue that is keeping them from the negotiating table.

President Alberto Fujimori says he'll talk about them - but won't release them.

Meanwhile, President Fujimori joined thousands of mourners at Lima's Roman Catholic Cathedral to say farewell to the city's Archbishop - Cardinal Juan Landazuri Ricketts Sunday.

The 83 year old Archbishop died three days ago after a long battle with cancer.

The funeral gave the President and other government officials an opportunity to show it is business as usual despite the month-long stand-off.

Meanwhile, police have ordered journalists from three international news agencies to abandon a rooftop next to the Japanese ambassador's house.

The reporters had been paying the owners of the private home which is within police lines.

Police say it's for security reasons, but there is talk that the order was given by the government to limit coverage of the crisis.

Since the crisis broke out on December 17 the rebels have enjoyed international publicity for their cause.

Lima, Peru, 19 January 1997

1. Wide shot Japanese Ambassador's residence

2. Hostage outside residence with car batteries

3. Security surrounding residence

4. Wide shot Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and government officials walking on Lima streets for Cardinal's funeral

5. Church officials and crowds at Lima cathedral

6. Various of crowds and church officials in funeral procession from cathedral to government palace

7. Various of President Fujimori and government officials watching procession from government palace

8. Wide shot Japanese Ambassador's residence; tilt down to press on roof

9. Various of press dismantling area

10. Security checking journalist

11. Wide shot press area outside residence

42278 MEXICO: TOP CELEBRITIES LUCERO AND MANUEL MIJARES GET MARRIED 1/19/97 EF97/0057 21:25:56 00:02:31 TELEVISA TELEVISA = NO ACCESS MEXICO, TV AZTECA, CNN, NBC, TELENOTICIAS VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) Spanish/Nat

Two of Mexico's top celebrities, Lucero and Manuel Mijares, wed late Saturday in a lavish ceremony broadcast live on national television.

At least 300 guests crowded the centuries-old San Ignacio Loyola chapel for the ceremony.

Thousands of fans gathered outside for a glimpse of the happy couple, holding up traffic for hours in downtown Mexico.

Soap opera or reality?

For millions of fans across the Spanish-speaking world it was hard to tell the difference as two of Mexico's biggest artists - who have sold millions of pop records - tied the knot.

Lucero entered the chapel on the arm of her father, Antonio Hogaza.

She wore an off the shoulder organza dress, embroidered in pearls.

He wedding to Manuel Mijares married Saturday in a ceremony was estimated to have cost 14 (m) million dollars.

But they won't have to pay for all of it.

According to local press reports, television rights were sold to broadcasters for about eight (m)illion dollars.

There was traffic mayhem as thousands of people gathered at the chapel to get a closer look of the happy couple.

The ceremony was performed by Mexico's archbishop and even the Pope sent a greeting.

Guests included members of the elite of Mexican society and celebrities.

The musical portion of the event included 'Pomp and Circumstance No. 1,' as well as pieces by Verdi, Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, and Chopin, played by an orchestra directed by Carlos Esteva.

The newlyweds will take a 45-day sea cruise for their honeymoon to Japan and the Far East.

Mexico City, Mexico, 18 January 1997

1. Procession of Lucero Mijares and father down the aisle to the altar

2. Zoom in bride and groom at altar

3. Close-up outside of church

4. Pan of fans behind fence to security guards

42279 SERBIA: BELGRADE: PROTESTERS BRING PETS ALONG TO DEMONSTRATION 1/19/97 EF97/0057 19:38:59 00:03:04 AGENCY COMMON VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat

The ever-imaginative protest movement in Serbia has brought out its latest weapon onto the streets of Belgrade - thousands of family pets.

On the 61st successive day of demonstrations, the protesters decided to mock the way the riot police are preventing them marching anywhere but pedestrian zones.

They were boosted by comments from a senior U-N envoy who urged President Slobodan Milosevic to acknowledge the results of the disputed November 17 poll.

It was a dog day afternoon in Belgrade Sunday, as pro-democracy supporters brought animals of all shapes and sizes along to the latest protest rally.

Barks punctuated the music and whistles as German shepherds rubbed rumps with poodles as about 10,000 protesters gathered in the centre of Belgrade.

SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)

"He came to protest and to show that even the four legged citizens of Serbia are against this regime."

SUPER CAPTION: Pro-democracy demonstrator

The protest mocked the police containment of the demonstrators in a pedestrian zone.

The slogan for the day: 'If we can't walk, let's walk our dogs.'

Some demonstrators clutched stuffed animals, birds, cats and wind up toys doing their best to comply with the organisers' request that the theme of Sunday's protest be dogs.

After nearly two months of continuous protests, organisers have tried to keep up interest by introducing daily themes.

In the main city square, the emphasis of the rally was on peace.

Opposition leader Vuk Draskovic expressed concern an increasingly desperate Milosevic may attempt to provoke bloodshed in an effort to win the battle for power..

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"I am very afraid that Mr Milosevic has decided to solve the problem of annulling election results of the people of Serbia by producing a bigger and the biggest problem. By producing bloodshed in Kosovo."

SUPER CAPTION: Vuk Draskovic, Serbian Opposition Coalition Leader

This would push the fight for democracy into a critical stage.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"This is the biggest problem Serbia could face very soon, and all Balkans and Europe."

SUPER CAPTION: Vuk Draskovic, Serbian Opposition Coalition Leader

His concerns follow recent accusations by the Serbian government that the opposition coalition Zajedno (Together) triggered a recent car bomb attack in Pristina.

That attack that has been blamed by others upon an ethnic Albanian separatist organisation.

Elsewhere in Belgrade - a senior U-N envoy added her voice to the chorus of criticism facing the Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic.

The U-N Human Rights Envoy in the former Yugoslavia, - Elizabeth Rehn - urged the President to acknowledge the election triumphs of opposition parties.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"The whole system of elections must be renewed."

SUPER CAPTION: Elizabeth Rehn, U-N Human Rights Envoy

The basis of the international disquiet is a report written by international delegate from the O-S-C-E (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) led by the former Spanish Premier Felipe Gonzalez.

They ruled that the Serbian opposition had won local elections in 14 big cities and towns throughout the country.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

'I made of course my points clear - that the Gonzalez Report must be followed'.

SUPER CAPTION: Elizabeth Rehn, U-N Human Rights Envoy

The O-S-C-E delegation had originally been invited to look at the results by the Serbian President himself, but Milosevic has shown little sign of fully accepting the report's findings.

Serbia, Belgrade - January 19th, 1997

1. Various shots of protesters with their dogs

2. SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat) Pro-democracy demonstrator

3. Two shots of toy pets

4. Two shots of doves of peace

5. Toy gorilla waving

6. High wide shot of police blockade of marchers

7. High wide shot of police walking in single file along

8. Various shots of people giving peace sign at rally in city square

9. Opposition leaders on podium

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vuk Draskovic, Opposition Coalition Leader

11. Cutaway crowd

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vuk Draskovic, Opposition Coalition Leader

13. Cutaway placard saying 'we want our victory'

14. Wide shot rally

15. Wide shot press conference

16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elizabeth Rehn, UN special Envoy for Human Rights

17. Cutaways press

18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Elizabeth Rehn, UN special Envoy for Human Rights

19. Cutaway press

20. Wideshot press conference

42280 RUSSIA: MOSCOW: NATO SECRETARY GENERAL JAVIER SOLANA VISIT 1/19/97 EF97/0057 20:34:26 00:00:42 RTR No access Russia VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) Natural Sound

The secretary-general NATO arrived in Moscow Sunday on a mission to ease Russian fears over the alliance's expansion plans.

Javier Solana is expected to hold five hours of talks on Monday with Russia's Foreign Minister about moves to extend NATO membership to former members of the Warsaw Pact.

Solana wants to establish a new relationship between Russia and NATO before it designates its new members at a July summit.

NATO Secretary General Javier Solana arrived in Moscow Sunday night for talks with Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov.

The 16-nation alliance is eager to establish a new relationship with its old adversary before its summit this summer.

That gathering will decide which countries NATO will allow to join.

The meeting with Primakov, closed to the press, will take place Monday at a government residence outside Moscow.

It is expected to last at least five hours.

Moscow opposes NATO's plans to take in as many as a dozen new members, including many of Russia's former allies in the defunct Warsaw Pact.

However, Primakov said last week that Moscow might be satisfied if NATO provided guarantees that it would not move its military infrastructure, above all nuclear weapons, onto the territory of new members.

Moscow, Russia, 19 January 1997

1. Exterior Bolshoi theatre

2. Government cars wait outside the Bolshoi theatre

3. Close-up government car driving past

4. Muscovites standing outside the Bolshoi theatre

5. Cutaway of television camera

6. Javier Solana's limousine arrives at the Bolshoi theatre

7. Javier Solana flanked by aides enters the Bolshoi theatre

42191 BOSNIA: CANADIAN SOLDIERS STAND ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT UPDATE 1/18/97 EF97/0053 16:09:36 00:01:54 APTV VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) Serbo-Croat/Nat

Forty-seven Canadian soldiers stand accused of sexual misconduct, drunkenness and other abuses in Bosnia.

The abuses allegedly took place on a U-N Peacekeeping mission to protect a mental hospital in central Bosnia in 1993 and '94.

Physical abuse of patients, excessive drinking and sex with interpreters and nurses -- are some of the charges being levied against the Canadian 12th Armored regiment.

Their army commander says the soldiers face disciplinary hearings that could end their military careers.

The Canadian 12th Armoured regiment was assigned to protect a mental hospital in Bakovici, Bosnia located in the war zone.

The regiment was part of the UN peacekeeping forces in Bosnia.

Until the accusation surfaced the mission had been depicted as heroic and successful.

A report on the alleged abuses says the soldiers engaged in consensual sex with nurses at a mental hospital, bought black-market alcohol and abused patients.

Staff at the mental home in Bakovici have confirmed that the incidents took place.

But they claim they were in no position to do anything about it at the time because the country was in the middle of a civil war.

SOUNDBITE: (Serbo-Croat)

"We tried to prevent this what happen but it was difficult and soldiers were drinking every night".

SUPER CAPTION: Ivo Markija, Hospital Director

Originally 57 members of the Canadian 12th Armored regiment were named and accused of committing various offences.

Ten of the soldiers left the army, leaving 47 soldiers still subject to military discipline.

The soldiers were on a tour in 1993 and 1994 in Bosnia.

During the conflict the hospital was for some time in the hands of the Croats and subsequently controlled by the Bosnian Serbs.

The report blames much of the wrongdoing on inexperienced leadership.

Bakovici, Bosnia, January 18, 1997

1. Mental Institution at Bakovici

2. Patients though door

2. Sign on the building

3. Various of patients inside

4. Board on the wall with pictures of Canadian soldiers on it

5. Various still photos of Canadian soldiers

6. Pan of photos

7. Sign over photos saying "When it was most difficult for us the UNPROFOR soldiers helped"

8. Still photo of soldier and patient

9. Various of patients in the hospital

10. Canadian flag on the wall inside hospital

11. SOUNDBITE: Ivo Markija, Hospital Director

12. Various shots of hospital

41972 CHILE: SANTIAGO: UNDERGROUND TRAIN NETWORK TO GET FACE-LIFT 1/20/97 EF97/0060 21:13:14 00:02:27 APTV VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) Spanish/Nat

Santiago's underground train network is getting a facelift.

Leading artists from Chile and beyond have been given the task of smartening up the modern and efficient but otherwise drab metro .

Riding the metro in the Chilean capital has become something of a cultural experience.

Several stations have been transformed into temples of contemporary art.

This mural by Mario Toral - Visual Memory of the Nation - is one of several that are delighting Santiago's commuters.

Measuring more than 100 feet (30 metres) long and 60 feet (20 metres) wide, it's being billed as Latin America's largest mural.

Completed last May, the enterprise took the internationally renowned painter and a team of assistants two years to execute.

The painter also hopes to complete a second segment of the same size which will narrate Chile's history after the Spanish conquest.

Most recent of the works is "Tiles for Santiago" by Portuguese artist Rogerio Ribeiro which graces the walls of Santa Lucia station and was inaugurated by the president of Portugal last November.

The work is composed of 44-thousand tiles depicting historical episodes common to both Portugal and Spain.

Santiago's travelling public has contemplated the changes with a mixture of bemusement and enthusiasm.

SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)

"I've been looking at them for a while and I think they're beautiful. I think they ought to put them everywhere so young people like us can learn about this. Very nice."

SUPER CAPTION: Maria Urrutia, Metro passenger

SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)

"Fantastic. We're seeing it in other stations and it's good for people's culture. But it's nothing new -- here in Chile it's new but abroad there are always exhibitions and things like that. All culture is good."

SUPER CAPTION: Saturnino Brasa, Metro passenger

SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)

"I think it's wonderful, really lovely. The best thing around."

SUPER CAPTION: Raquel Poblete, Metro passenger

So far four stations have been transformed into works of art.

But metro directors say 13 more projects are underway.

SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)

"We've been developing from hanging oil paintings in the stations to more important works where the whole station is used: tiles, stonework, for example, which are more durable and represent a more global use of the stations."

SUPER CAPTION: Daniel Fernandez, Metro director

The scheme has breathed new life into a modern and efficient but otherwise drab metro.

And it's all been achieved at no cost to the public.

Each station has been sponsored by a private company, with the sole incentive that they can afterwards use the artwork for publicity.

Santiago, Chile, recent video

1. Various of Mario Toral's Memoria Visual de una Nacion (Visual Memory of a Nation) at Universidad de Chile metro station

2. Various of "Tiles for Santiago" by Portuguese artist Rogerio Ribeiro at Santa Lucia station

3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Maria Urrutia, Metro passenger

4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Saturnino Brasa, Metro passenger

5. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Raquel Poblete, Metro passenger

6. Metro passengers coming up escalator in front of mural

7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Daniel Fernandez, Metro director

8. Various of "Constelacion II" by Pablo Mac-Clure at Metro de los Heroes

42120 SOUTH AFRICA: SPECIALLY TRAINED DOGS HELP ARSON INSPECTORS 1/20/97 EF97/0058 07:35:22 00:02:33 SABC No Access South Africa VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) Natural Sound

Specially trained dogs have become an invaluable tool to emergency and rescue workers around the world.

Their acute sense of smell has saved countless lives after avalanches or earthquakes.

For one dog in South Africa, sniffing out the cause of a fire is all in a day's work.

Tilly has an uncanny ability to help arson investigators.

She's been highly successful and both Tilly and her trainer are now off to the United States to share their knowledge at an international police investigations' conference.

Eighteen months ago Tilly was trained by Inspector Kim Yates to become an arson investigator.

The idea of using dogs to sniff out flammable liquids at fire scenes first started in the United States, but Tilly has been such a success that she and her owner are off to teach American dogs new tricks.

After a fire has been put out, she sniffs through the debris, and lies down when she finds the cause.

Last year Tilly investigated two hundred and forty-two fires.

And of all the samples she identified, ninety percent tested positive for arson.

According to her trainer, she can sniff out a fraction of a millilitre of petrol in a building after a blaze.

She has been trained to distinguish between the petroleum released from burnt plastics and other petroleum based liquids used to start a fire.

Tilly's reputation for having one of the best noses in the fire investigation business has won her widespread acclaim.

Now, she along with her owner have been invited to the U-S to help train other dogs in her specialised skills.

Cape Town, South Africa, January 16, 1997

1. Dog with owner walking

2. Close-up dog walking next to owner

3. Man pouring liquid over wood

4. Wood burning

5. Close-up dog watching fire

6. Dog runs to fire, sniffs through wood

7. Dog lies down in wood, identifies flammable liquid

8. Flammable liquids put out by policeman, dog identifies

9. Dog being led into cage

10. Close-up dog in cage

KEYWORDS: NATURAL HISTORY

42277 EGYPT: CAIRO: WORLD'S 2ND LARGEST INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR OPENS 1/20/97 EF97/0058 04:28:21 - 07:38:03 00:02:10 APTV VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) English/Nat

Publishing houses from around 80 countries are taking part in the Cairo International Book Fair - the second largest in the world.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak opened the two week event which is expected to attract more than three (m) million visitors of all nationalities.

It's one of the Egyptian capital's biggest cultural events - The Cairo International Book Fair.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak inaugurated the 29th fair - the largest in the Middle East and the second largest in the world.

Mubarak and Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzoury toured one of the seven exhibition halls where state and private-run publishing houses from 80 countries are exhibiting.

They also met a number of foreign publishers.

The book fair continues for 13 days and is run by the Egyptian General Book Organisation.

Some four (m) million books are on display but there's also CD-roms and artistic and cultural activities such as literary seminars and poetry readings.

The fair is being held in the slower weeks of Ramadan.

The Nasser City Fair grounds are open all day except during sunset when Muslims go home to break their fast.

One exhibition that has already proved popular with visitors is the Greek stand.

Although it's a small display, the murals and paintings shown in books and on CD-rom depicting the Greek influence on Egyptian history are particularly eye-catching.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"Try to promote the Greek civilisations abroad and in other countries. One of our activities are to promote the Greek books."

SUPER-CAPTION: Asterios I. Topis, Director of the Foundation For Hellenic Culture, Annex of Alexandria

The booth was organised by the Foundation for Hellenic Culture located in Alexandria, which was one of the most important cities of the Greek empire until the third century AD

Stephan Barthelmess is the project manager of the largest book fair in the world - the Frankfurt Book Fair.

WORLD NEWS REVIEW 1997

Duration 53:57

Sound: Ch 1 Nat Sot

DEATH OF DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES

10:00:00

Angola: Diana off plane

Landmine disposal work

amputees

Pakistan : Diana in hospital ward

Diana sot "For those of us who have..."

London : premiere 'Love and War'

Windsor, England : Prince Charles, Diana, Prince William out of car

10:01:06

New York : Diana and Mother Teresa

London : Diana kneels, accepts small girl's bouquet

Wiltshire, England : wide shot then zoom in exterior Camilla Parker Bowles' house

Car away with Camilla Parker Bowles, photographer snapping

Bosnia : Princess Daina's landmine campaign

Diana sot "The mine is a stealthy....of which we hear little"

Photocall - limbless sportsmen

10:02:23

Various British newspaper articles and photos Diana and Dodi al Fayed

Bosnia

Paris : Charles, Prince of Wales, with Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Lady Jane Fellowes (Diana's sisters)

UK: Prime Minister Tony Blair sot "Everyone....hearts go out to them".

Kensington Palace ext. - sea of flowers

Westminster Abbey ext.- c/us British public, displays of emotion

USA

10:03:51

Washington DC : US President Bill Clinton into car outside White House

Inauguration ceremony - Bill Clinton, wife Hillary, daughter Chelsea

Clinton sworn in

4-gun salute

Clinton dancing with Hillary

slo mo Clinton jogging

Paula Jones (accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment) sot underlay "Mr Clinton tried to...

Paula Jones in vision .....

LS Supreme Court ext. with Jones underlay "...humiliating"

10:05:03

California : Heaven's Gate cult mass suicide

SPACE

10:05:19

American Mars space probe

sot Nasa scientist Dr Matthew Golombek "We had a...from surface of Mars"

Mars via space probe

Astronauts laughing and talking on Mir

RUSSIA

10:06:13

Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Russian President Boris Yeltsin embracing

Russian troops

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of Liberal Democratic Party, during 'fool' card game with chess master Anatoly Karpov

Head of Russian Intelligence Valentin Kovalyov driving off in car

Russian newspaper headlines

10:07:07

Moscow 850th anniversary celebrations

President Boris Yeltsin watching celebrations

Magician David Copperfield waving to crowds

russian orthodox church

internet cafe

tattoo fan club graffiti

VS tattoos being created and tattooed bodies

competition for female bodyguards

funeral of assassinated businessman

female bodyguard fights man in ring

St Petersberg, couple spend honeymoon in shop window

EGYPT: TERRORIST ATTACKS BY EXTREMISTS

10:09:07

Cairo : amateur video attack on German tourists in bus

aftermath

int court scene, prisoners shouting behind bars

Luxor ; pan ext Hatshepsut temple

survivor Luxor massacre in wheelchair

police or army, tourists outside Hatshepsut temple

tourists onto plane leaving Egypt

IRAN: ELECTIONS

10:10:18

Iran : cu hand into ballot box

Mohammad Khatami, moderate cleric, new president

vs gvs skyline, mosques, including Isfahan (summer residence of the empire's rulers)

ISRAEL: MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS

10:10:44

Hebron : Israeli security forces

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat waving in open car

pb Arafat from rear with crowds

Palestinians on horseback

vs night Israeli troops

ms squat building / check point

rv teenage / young Israeli orthodox settlers with guns

sot Jewish settler Noam Arnon : "The goverment of Israel..into hands of the PLO".

Israeli settlements

Palestinian shouting into megaphone

Palestinan crowds chanting, waving large Palestinian flag

slo mo aftermath suicide bomb attack in Jerusalem

HONG KONG: HANDOVER OF HONG KONG TO CHINA

10:12:43

handover ceremony

cu British flag (Union Flag)

Prince Charles salutes

Governor Chris Patten sot "It has been...for your future" music British national anthem "God Save The Queen" playing under him

ws Hong Kong harbour

Prince Charles knights Hong Kong dignitary

int auditorium Patten and European crowds waving, flags

Beijing : zoom in Chinese leaders to Jiang Zemin

Jiang sot in Mandarin

Beijing, countdown to Hong Kong handover analog clock

fireworks display

Hong Kong : Chinese troop trucks arrive in rain

anti-Chinese takeover protest

Hong Kong fashion show

CHINA

10:14:51

ext skyscrapers (Central)

tilt down ext Shanghai Banking Corporation Building

street scenes Chinese, Europeans

Chinese troops raise Chinese red flag

cu singer Julio Iglesias smiling, leaving plane

Chinese ballroom dancers at award ceremony

vs foreign beer festival, Chinese drinkers

cu Becks beer in glass-fronted fridge

ms Chinese sitting around table drinking

10:15:42

ws landmark, Potala, Lhasa, Tibet

mcu Tibetan monk chanting

monks pouring hot liquid into bowls for other monks

Taiwan outdoor gathering at temple

Dalai Lama at gathering, with hands together, smiling

ws statue of Buddha

monks at prayer, sitting cross-legged on floor

c/a altar with pots and flowers

ms monk (Dalai Lama) kissing floor

ws tall building with coloured balconies (conference centre in Taiwan)

tracking shot into ws Dalai Lama addressing crowd

SOT Dalai Lama (in English) "To create peaceful, happy...."

vs street scenes, people walking

pan hillside by lake

CAMBODIA: POWER STRUGGLE

10:27:06

aerial city Phnom Penh

ws gunman hiding behind tree

ws gunmen on low roof with fire in background

ws people running across courtyard

ms woman climbing into truck, being helped by others in truck

ms someone (Pol Pot) shaking hands

Pol Pot walking in front of crowds, applauding, smiling

cu human skull and bones on ground

cu human skulls in water

procession of people riding bikes through countryside

people running carrying children and possessions

mcu corpse superimposed over

Phnom Penh vs street scenes with cu faces

ms city, Phnom Penh with sound of explosions in background

vs looting and vehicle damage in street

Cambodia and Thailand border, explosions behind fencing

troops running with guns and artillery fire

injured soldier being carried

THAILAND: FINANCIAL CRISIS

10:18:45

Thailand interior stock market with workers at computer terminals

tilt exterior high rise building

woman getting into car

sot Democratic Party spokesman Abhisit Vejajjicha

man counting money

Japan, Man on trading floor making gestures

Indonesia, Exterior Bank Pacific

JAPAN: NEW TRANSPORT SYSTEM

10:19:25

Tokyo, VS commuters inside public transport system

MS electric train moving and track

INDONESIA: POLLUTION

10:19:51

motorbikes driven on road

Jakarta, Motorbikes on road amongst other transport

smog

VS burning bush and burnt shrub and farmland

Thailand, Scenes at airport

Thailand, Pan of beach

WS Kuala Lumpur theme park

Jakarta hospital with patients suffering from respiratory problems, CU female patient

Borneo orangutans

Borneo forest fires

NATURAL DISASTERS

10:21:22

Manila, Philippines VS floods

China floods and typhoon damage

NORTH KOREA: FAMINE

10:21:53

North Korean villagers working and farming crops

CU maize crop in person's hand

CU's starving children

vehicles with supplies moving and market scenes

North Korea, ceremony for work on nuclear power station

bomb blasts

SOUTH KOREA: RIOTS

10:27:14 VS Riot police doing security checks

10:27:23 MS Crowd at demonstration waving hands and flags

10:27:28 scenes of rioters throwing fire bombs with police reactions

10:27:47 MS rioter running, throwing bomb, jumper catching fire,

tearing jumper off to reveal naked torso

ANIMAL STORIES

10:23:55

MS bear

bear with cubs walking along river bank

bear in tree being shot at, falling out of tree and being mauled by dogs

CU persons hands cutting flesh

Seoul, CU menu with "bear palm dish" on it

Philippines, cockfighting

CU cockerel meat on open stove in street

Egypt, green frog farm with VS of preparations of frogs legs

Malaysia, CU Scorpion

VS Scorpions crawling over man's body and face

South Korea, birth of twin giraffes

baby giraffes with mother

Scotland, Dolly the genetically engineered sheep in pen

VS Scientists in laboratory with equipment

microscopic CU of cells

sot Father Kevin Wildes of Georgetown University

US, Press conference with sot President Clinton

sheep being fed in pen

UK: CELEBRITIES

10:26:53

album cover of Spice Girls panning back to its owner standing in queue waiting for the girls

photographers in crowds surrounding Spice Girls

Spice Girls in vehicle with crowds gathered

Madrid, Fans cheering

sot Spice Girl "Muchas grazias Espana"

Spice Girls at book launch signing copies

Spice Girls with Prince Charles, kissing him and pinching his bottom

Liam Gallagher of Oasis walking into building with wife Patsy Kensit

Liam Gallagher SOT "that's why I hate you" at camera

Liam and Patsy's marriage certificate

Liam and Patsy in bed with Union Jack covers on cover of Vanity Fair magazine

MS Elton John's CD 'Candle in the Wind' display in shop with woman stacking shelves, customer at listening post with headphones and customers at checkout

CU 'Candle in the Wind' disc

UK: ELECTIONS

10:28:25

London, New British Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair and wife Cherie Blair with greeting crowds outside Downing Street

MP's gathered round table, pan across

EUROPE: SINGLE CURRENCY DISPUTE

10:28:57

Tony Blair shaking hands with European members VS European members including German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, French Prime Minster Lionel Jospin and French President Jacques Chirac at table

ALBANIA: COLLAPSE OF INVESTMENT PYRAMIDS LEAD TO ARMED REBELLION

10:29:19

crowds shouting and waving arms

President Sali Berisha speaking

VS protestors and cu Albanian newspapers being read

man arguing with bank teller

MS protestors with old woman lifted above heads

VS violent confrontations with riot police, vehicle being overturned, injured man being supported

Durres, French troops landing at harbour, CU troops looking at map

Exiled King of Albania, King Leka I, arriving out of plane

crowds surrounding official car

elections, man at ballot box

sot President Berisha

three men shooting rifles from a balcony

Albanian flags being waved

VS fighting scenes inside parliament

SWITZERLAND: DISPUTE OVER WORLD WAR II JEWISH MONEY

10:31:00

Geneva, MS exterior Swiss government building

MS interior conference

VS exterior Swiss banks

FRANCE: STOLEN PAINTINGS EXHIBITION

10:31:20

Paris, WS exterior Musée d'Orsay

PB aerial interior Musée d'Orsay

VS paintings hanging on walls

GERMANY: ANTI-NUCLEAR PROTESTS

10:31:43

police wearing helmets marching with trucks carrying radioactive waste

protestors displaying banners

VS protestors in forest road confronting police with riot gear who spray water

truck with radioactive cargo moving

GERMANY - CZECH REPUBLIC

10:32:22

Prague, anti-German protests

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrival, waving to crowds and entering building

MS Kohl signing peace agreement

CENTRAL EUROPE: FLOODS

10:32:44

MS lake on German/Polish border

VS houses and dwellers during floods

ITALY: EARTHQUAKE

10:37:35 Assisi, Church exterior

10:37:39 rescue workers with injured victims

10:37:34 roof of Basilica, pan across

10:37:52 rescue workers digging in rubble

NORWAY: HELLS ANGELS

10:37:56 VS bomb blast fire with fire

10:37:59 pb aftermath of woman in wreckage of vehicle

10:38:06 VS bomb blast fire scenes

10:38:12 CU Hells Angels laying coffin in vehicle

10:38:17 Hells Angels riding on motorbikes outside church

FRANCE

10:33:58

Paris, VS protest against new immigration law

SOT French President Jacques Chirac

Prime Minister Alain Juppé getting out of car and walking up steps of building

Newly elected Prime Minister Lionel Jospin walking amongst crowds

Paris, Socialist supporters celebrating

Gvs street scene with Arc de Triomphe in background

GVs cafe scenes

Pan lorry lined up

VS lorry drivers striking

MS French baguettes on table

baguette being cut

trays of baguettes being placed in oven to bake

children wearing white chefs hats learning how to make baguettes

10:35:38

VS fireworks celebrating 50th Cannes film festival

MS Dennis Hopper with girl

MS paparazzi

MS Claudia Schiffer and Matthew Modine

MS Daniel Auteuil with girl

MS crowd

MS Sylvester Stallone waving

Gerard Depardieu with girl

Johnny Depp

Kenneth Brannagh, Kate Winslet and Charlton Heston

HOLLYWOOD

10:36:08

VS the making of 'The Lost World'

dissolve into MS Steven Speilberg sot

VS filming scenes of 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'

Vox pops

MS Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson swearing oath in court

lawyer in court questioning

sot Pamela Anderson

VS Judge, lawyer and Pamela Anderson in court

INDIA

10:37:18

MS body of Mother Teresa with people paying tribute

Calcutta, Mother Teresa's charity mission with VS nuns and Mother Teresa in wheelchair, speaking and clasping hands together

state funeral of Mother Teresa with troops carrying coffin

troops giving gun salute

Delhi, WS Red Fort

MS Indian flag raised for 50th anniversary of independence celebrations

Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral standing between two guards saluting

planes in sky over tilt Indian flag

VS celebrations: crowds, balloons, marching girls carrying flags

Kashmir, Pan Lake Dal

Srinagar, street scenes

Kashmir, Indian troops fighting with CU rifle pointing and soldiers aiming

PAKISTAN

10:39:01

former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto speaking at open air rally

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif clapping in vehicle surrounded by crowds

VS Bhutto in court

sot Bhutto

VS fireworks for 50th anniversary of independence celebrations

Pakistan fashion show

FASHION

10:39:45

VS fashion rest of world

AFRICA

10:40:12

Kinshasa, Zaire, (Democratic Republic of Congo) VS anti-Mobutu reactions

sot angered citizen

MS President Mobutu Sese Seke shaking hands

CU Mobutu

people running in street

Zaire, VS refugee mothers and children

CU President Laurent Kabila

MS refugees walking on road carrying bags of supplies on heads

10:41:12

people cheering arrival of liberation army troops in vehicle

VS traditional musicians and dancers

MS crowds at inauguration of Kabila

MS Kabila being sworn in

Nairobi, VS fighting and confrontation with police in street

sot protestor during demonstration

VS violent clashes with police

10:42:21

sot angry protestor

CU zoom mans face with blood streaked over cheek and ear

VS clashes with police in street, rocks and tear gas being thrown

Tanzania, tourists at National Park in vehicles watching wildlife through binoculars

CU woman's face with binoculars

montage of wildlife in National Parks

MS tourists watching from vehicle

MS landscape pan l/r

montage of wildlife

VS waterfalls

HAWAII: VOLCANO

10:43:45

VS lava flows

MONTSERRAT: VOLCANO

10:44:11

Montserrat, VS volcanic clouds of smoke

sot male islander describing problems

pan across terrain

PERU: HOSTAGE CRISIS

10:44:32

Lima, VS troops and red cross officials outside Japanese ambassador's residence

prison guard pan across prison courtyard

upward view guard with rifle

MS prison compound

man on hands and knees working at tunnel entrance

tunnel interior

aerial residence

body bag of rebel being removed from residence into ambulance

sot released hostage Jorge Gumucio, Bolivian ambassador

President Fujimori walking up stairs of residence past body of rebel leader Nestor Cerpa Cartolini (body on right)

Lima, MS cross on grave of Cerpa Cartolini

cameramen with man holding receipt from the Ministry of Health where the name of Cerpa Cartolini appears

pan across cemetery

CUBA

10:45:52

Havana, MS funeral cortege of rebel icon Ernesto "Che" Guevara

people lining streets with poster of Che Guevara

CU coffin as it drives past cutaway CU woman crying

WS Santa Clara state funeral

CU headstone

CU President Fidel Castro SOT

MS statue

WS parade

Havana, CU pan across classic American cars

WS capital building and 'servicio especial' car driven along road

USA

10:47:00

Nevada desert, MS Thrust, the car which broke landspeed record

MS Richard Noble, the team leader balancing on shoulders of team members waving British flag

Missouri, night scene of round-the-world hot air balloon travelling upwards into sky

VS balloon flight during day

CU balloon

India, slow zoom to balloon caught in tree

CU sot Steve Fossett, team leader for record breaking round-the-world ballooning attempt

CU zoom actor Robert Mitchum paying tribute

CU zoom actor James Stewart paying tribute

Gianni Versace at end of fashion show congratulating and kissing models

VS scenes of aftermath of Versace shooting: attempted revival of body, police and fire vehicles, aerial police raid on killer Andrew Cunanan

pan down interior church of memorial service

mourners including Santo Versace and Donatella (brother and sister of Gianni Versace)

Princess Diana comforting Elton John at funeral of Gianni Versace

PRINCESS DIANA: DEATH AFTERMATH

10:48:50

newspaper headlines of Diana death

MS paparazzi

MS angry public. SOT man "...you the press that killed her. You're the scum."

Sylvester Stallone outside Planet Hollywood, Italy, surrounded by press.

tilt down actor George Clooney sot "My fight's not been with the paparazzi, it's been with the tabloids."

newspaper printing presses - Daily Mirror on belt

London : Queen Elizabeth in evening gown out of car

Anthony Holden, Royal Biographer, SOT "Their style is as if we still had an empire, as if three-quarters of the globe were still coloured pink. It isn't and it hasn't been for 50 years, and they have to wake up to that fact."

South Africa : Prince Charles and younger son Prince Harry

VS Prince Charles with Spice Girls and President Nelson Mandela

LANDMINES: CAMPAIGN FOR BAN

10:50:17

Cambodian landmine amputee moving down road in wheelchair

amputees in hospital beds

CU face of mine clearance expert as he inspects and cleans landmine in ground

CU landmine in ground being cleaned

MS mine blown up

Diana presented with flowers by landmine victim

CU victim's leg and crutches tilt upwards

MS woman sot

1998 What next?

10:50:56

aerial shot of Rome over Colosseum, pan left

long shot over Tiber river, showing bridge, St. Peter's Cathedral in the distance

front view ground level St. Peter's

Czech Republic : Pope John Paul II walking slowly in church with bishops

Brazil : Pope in popemobile

Rome : Pope as Cardinal Wojtyla before election in 1978

Brazil : Pope slowly into church, left side of face stiff, makes sign of the cross

Bern, Switzerland, Yasser Arafat at press conference speaking at podium with trembling lip

CU Saddam Hussein with dignitaries

Salahuddin Province, near Tikriti, Iraq, Saddam Hussein swimming with bodyguards in Tigris river

CU Saddam Hussein out of water

10:52:43

Red Square, Moscow, Saint Basil's Cathedral

Red Square Gate

Moscow, Boris Yeltsin's inauguration ceremony as president of Russian Federation

Moscow, Boris Yeltsin addressing supporters

Yeltsin shaking hands with American cardiologist Michael Debakey in Central Clinic before undergoing heart surgery

Yeltsin tweaking bra strap of unsuspecting female

CU clock tower

1Boris Yeltsin and Jiang Zemin indoors shaking hands, embracing and kissing

10:53:37 END TITLES

10:53:57 END

The Arab-Israeli Conflict vol 6 (1994-2006)

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(Vol 1 = GEN0898, Vol 2 = GEN0919, Vol 3 = GEN0922, Vol 4 = GEN0926, Vol 5 = GEN0934

All Natural Sound and Colour except where stated.

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WTN

Various Locations - 28 December 1993-2 January 1994

Negotiating teams, led by Israeli FM, Peres, talk in Cairo to try to break the deadlock over Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Anti-PLO Arab factions gather in Damascus to try to settle differences in their struggle against peace accord. Clashes in Gaza City with Israeli troops and Islamic resistance movement, Hamas. In Nablus, Fatah supporters rally to celebrate anniversary of group's foundation. Jewish settlers block the main N-S highway in Jordan Valley to protest the peace accord

Cairo, Egypt - 28 December 1993

Ext meeting place

Israeli FM, Shimon Peres meeting with Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak and other officials

Damascus, Syria - 30 December 1993

GVs Palestinian delegations

PAN round table

Damascus Hamas spokesman, Ibrahim Ghosha speaking against agreement

Gaza City - 1 January 1994

Stones thrown at soldiers on street: WS street as youths throw stones

Soldiers fire from back of jeep

Soldiers tackle and kick stone-thrower

Nablus, West Bank - 1 January 1994

Masked Palestinians escort crowded jeep through Nablus street

Armed youths in jeeps

Man among marching Palestinians fires into the air

Na'ama Settlement, Jordan Valley - 2 January 1994

Man throws Palestinian flag into burning bus

10:01:47

W066232

Israel - Rabin Ready For Peace With Syria

WTN

West Jerusalem - 23 January 1994

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said on Sunday (23/1) he was ready to negotiate peace with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad anywhere on earth and without prior conditions.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin walks onto podium and prepares to speak

Cutaway of audience (over Rabin's speech)

SOT Rabin: "I'm ready to meet president Assad in Damascus, in Jerusalem, in any place on earth."

Likud protestors with donkeys (symbolising likud's belief that anyone who would sign peace deals with the Syrians is a donkey)

Wide shot of protestors with donkeys

10:02:07

W065949

Israelis & Palestinians Near Agreement

WTN

Khan Yunis and Gaza Strip - 27 January 1994

Israel 6 weeks late withdrawal - Palestinians protest

Khan Yunis, Gaza

Burning tyre

Palestinian flags

Gaza Strip

Palestinian gunman in car

Car driving off.

10:02:22

W066029

Switzerland - Middle-East Talks

WTN

Davos, Switzerland - 29 January 1994

A senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization said that negotiators had reached a compromise on final terms for an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres pan to PLO leader Yasser Arafat

Peres and Arafat getting up and shaking hands

Peres english sot "shaking hands in day and negotiate at night"

Peres "we like to work late"

10:03:15

W064987

West Bank - Shooting

WTN

West Bank - 25 February 1994 and file

The Middle East peace process was thrown into disarray when an American born Jewish physician, Baruch Goldstein, massacred dozens of Arabs and wounded scores at a Hebron Mosque. The gunman fired an automatic rifle and threw two grenades as worshippers knelt in prayer. Soldiers shot dead at least 12 Palestinians in protests after the dawn massacre, the biggest single killing of Arabs since Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967.

Hebron - 25 February 1994

Blood on path to mosque

Ibrahim mosque

Troops outside mosque

Ambulance arrives at hospital

Man rushed into hospital on stretcher

Victim in hospital

Hebron - 18 November 1993

Baruch Goldstein talking with others

Goldstein and others

Occupied Territories - 25 February 1994

Palestinians rioting in the street

Stones thrown at police

Soldier fires shot

Wounded Palestinian carried off

Soldiers running down street

Jerusalem - 25 February 1994

Palestinian peace negotiator, Faisal Husseini sot: what we are asking now and immediately from the israeli authority - to disarm all the settlers in the occupied territories

Jeep arrives at temple mount

People throwing stones

Soldiers fire tear gas

Reinforcements brought in

10:05:00

W064973

Israel - Jerusalem Protest Against Killings

WTN

Jerusalem - 25 February 1994

Palestinian youths demonstrated in protest at the killing of at least 48 Palestinians in a mosque in Hebron.

Soldiers firing

Palestinians throwing stones from roof of al aqsa mosque

Palestinians throwing rocks

Soldier fires gun

10:05:28

W064974

West Bank: Shooting

WTN

Jerusalem - 25 February 1994

A Jewish settler firing an automatic rifle massacred dozens of Muslim worshippers kneeling at a mosque, then apparently killed himself. The massacre ignited riots through the Israeli-occupied territories of the Middle East.

Police with riot shields walking along wall

Palestinians throwing stones

Throwing rocks

Orthodox jews watching from balcony

Arabs on top of wall

Israelis firing tear gas

Mullahs trying to get youths off wall

Hebron - File 18 November 1993

Still frame of Baruch Goldstein

10:06:21

Black

10:07:37

W065049

Egypt/Cairo - Students Protest

WTN

Cairo - 27 February 1994

Egyptian police fired tear gas at hundreds of angry students and hit some with batons to prevent them marching on the Israeli embassy in protest at the Hebron mosque massacre

Riot police

Police with shields marching

Protesters pushing fake israeli flags in front of them

Protesters burn israeli flags

Protesters shouting

Waving fists and copies of koran

Riot police advance with batons

10:08:28

W063416

Israel/Gaza - 400 Palestinians Freed

WTN

Nahal Oz, Corder between Israel and Gaza - 1 March 1994

Israel freed 400 Palestinian prisoners in the Gaza strip in their bid to save peace talks which the PLO suspended over the slaughter of Moslem worshippers by a Jewish

settler.

Border crossing with crowds

VS buses with released prisoners waiting to cross into Gaza

Palestinians leaning out of bus windows

VS palestinians boarding buses for journey to Gaza

10:09:02

W063452

Gaza - Hamas Rally

WTN

Gaza Strip - 2 March 1994

Thousands of supporters of the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, held two big rallies, one in Gaza City and one in Khan Yunis, to mourn the victims of Friday's Hebron massacre. Demonstrators held big black and green flags and banners. In Khan Yunis, armed men fired several rounds of bullets in the air to illustrate their defiance of the Israeli army which has kept the Gaza Strip under strict military closure since Friday.

Minaret with flag on top

Amplified voice summoning the faithful

GVs of rally

Palestinians dressed as Orthodox Jews in re-enactment of the Hebron massacre

Moslems praying in re-enactment

"Jews" shooting them in the re-enactment

10:09:52

W063555

Israel/Occupied Territories - Hebron Aftermath

WTN

Hebron and Gaza - 14 March 1994

The Israeli army turned back hundreds of Israeli Arab citizens heading to Hebron on to pray for victims of a mosque massacre on the Moslem feast of Eid al-Fitr. Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza on Monday in celebrations for the three-day muslim holiday Id Al-Fitr. The marchers, mostly supporters of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), fired shots in the air, shouted slogans, and waved flags.

Hebron

Wide-shot of Israeli security forces at a checkpoint into Hebron

Israeli soldier explaining to a group of Israeli Arabs why they can not go into Hebron

Israeli Arabs, who are attempting to visit their relatives in Hebron, waiting by their buses

Gaza

Palestinian militant marching with loudhailer (the demonstration is held to coincide with the three-day muslim holiday Eid al-fidr)

Masked Palestinians standing in file

Small child with gun

Palestinians marching down street

Palestinian firing gun into air

Rear views of marchers

Demonstrators marching towards camera

10:10:25

W066549

Egypt - Agreement Signed

WTN

Cairo, Egypt - 4-5 May 1994

PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed a historic agreement on limited Palestinian self-rule for Gaza and Jericho at a glittering ceremony in Cairo. Arafat signed the 200-page document first on an ornate marble-top table before 2,500 foreign dignitaries and Egyptian celebrities.

Wide shot of group on stage

Pan of group

PLO Yasser Arafat walking over to books

Arafat signing

Cutaway

Rabin signing

Rabin and Arafat shaking hands

Rabin to podium

Rabin sot on the remaining problems of the Middle East situations and to overcome 100 years of animosity and bloodshed

10:12:21

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Egypt - Palestinian Police Leave For Gaza

WTN

Rafiah, Egypt - 7 May 1994

Hundreds of members of the new Palestinian police force left their Egyptian training camp for duty in Gaza. They were the vanguard of an Arab security force that will replace Israelis as law enforcers in the newly declared autonomous zone.

WS of police force standing in line

CU police commander

MS commander with force in background

Cheering police showing v-sign

Trucks driving past

10:12:50

W066773

West Bank - Israelis Hand Over Jericho

WTN

Jericho - 13 May 1994

Israel handed over Jericho to jubilant Palestinian police, its first withdrawal from the West Bank in 27 years of occupation. Seven busloads of Palestinian police crossed the Jordan River at the Allenby bridge to take control of the town. By mid-morning, the Israeli army had turned over all 20 government offices as well as the main military headquarters to the Palestinian army, now known as the Palestinian National Security Forces.

Early morning scenes of palestinian police and local people, with hugs and embraces, as old Israeli police station is handed over

Policeman holds up gun

Day shot of Palestinian flag over police station

10:13:18

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Gaza - Palestinian Takeover Celebrated

WTN

Jabaliya, Gaza Strip - 14 May 1994

The Palestinian police force took over three Israeli army installations in Jabaliya refugee camp and a fourth one in Gaza city, marking the beginning of Palestinian control over the city. Hundreds of people were waiting for the police force as they walked through the police station in Gaza and the military command of the Israeli army in the Jabaliya refugee camp. The event had particular significance because Jabaliya was the birthplace of the Intifada, the Palestinian campaign to expel Israeli troops from the occupied territories.

Army antenna with Palestinian on top hoisting the national flag

People cheering

Happy people distribute sweets among others

Women and children with guns

Policeman with Palestinian flag

10:13:55

W068442

Israel - Police Clash With Protestors

WTN

Jerusalem - 1 July 1994

Police clashed with demonstrators seeking to block the main entrance into Jerusalem. Several hundred right-wing Israelis gathered at the city limits, to protest against the visit of PLO leader Yasser Arafat to Gaza.

Demonstrators

Pushing and shoving

Police lifting protestors

Demonstrator SOT that she is not going to sit by and let a mass-murderer go by. This is not a Palestinian state

Pan chanting demonstrators

Poster of Arafat that describes him as a murderer

10:15:28

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Gaza / Egypt - Arafat Arrives

WTN

Gaza - 1 July 1994

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, in his first speech inside a Palestinian self-rule area, vowed to take his struggle from Gaza to the holy city of Jerusalem claimed by Israel as its eternal capital. "From Gaza we will go to Hebron and Nablus and Tulkarm and Beit Jalla and Beit Sahour and finally, at last, Jerusalem," he told thousands of Palestinians gathered in Gaza City.

Arafat's motorcade into rafah

Arafat on shoulders of supporters

Security

Cars with palestinian flags

Huge crowd

Security

Arafat being mobbed by supporters

Arafat along through huge crowd of supporters

Guns fired in air

Um Jihad in black and white dress waving

Huge crowd

Arafat through crowd

Top shot of huge ecstatic crowd

Arafat at podium

Arafat speaking

Huge crowd

10:17:37

W068450

Gaza - Arafat Kisses Ground

WTN

Gaza - 1 July 1994

Yasser Arafat made a triumphant entry into the Gaza Strip capping a 27-year odyssey from guerrilla fighter to government leader.

Arafat out of limo and greeted

Arafat kneels down and kisses ground

10:18:17

W068396

West Bank - Arafat's Tumultuous Welcome

WTN

Jericho and Kfar Edomin, West Bank - 5 July 1994

PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, inaugurating his first self-rule administration, quickly put senior officials to work on plans to create housing and jobs in the impoverished Gaza Strip.

Jericho

Arafat disembarking helicopter pull out to crowd

Crowd waiting to greet arafat

CU arafat walking through crowd

Arafat surrounded by soldiers

WS assembled crowd

Arafat taking salute

Marchpast of troops and banners

Arafat kissing Orthodox Jews

CU Arafat kissing Jews

WS assembled crowd zoom to arafat

Arafat speaking at podium

Crowd cheering and throwing flowers

Arafat swearing in new ministers

Kfar Edomin

Jewish settlers' roadblock of fire outside Jericho

CU tyres burning in street

Jericho

crowds celebrating in street

10:19:21

W069607

Jordan/Israel - Inauguration of Border Crossing

WTN

Border crossing between Jordan and Israel, 3 km north of the Red Sea ports of Aqaba (Jordan) and Eilat (Israel) - 8 August 1994

A new land crossing between former enemies Israel and Jordan was to be inaugurated by US Secretary of State Warren Christopher and dignitaries from both countries. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Crown Prince Hassan ibn Talal of Jordan were to attend the opening of the 3.5 kilometre (two mile) stretch of road between the resort of Eilat, on the Israeli side, and the Red Sea port of Aqaba, on the Jordanian side.

WS border crossing and tent

Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Jordan's crown prince Hassan , US. secretary of state Warren Christopher preparing themselves in front of the ribbon

Rabin and Hassan cut ribbon

10:20:12

W070500

Gaza - Arafat Greets Jews In Hebrew

WTN

Gaza - 1 September 1994

The PLO chairman, Yasser Arafat, wished the Jewish people a happy new year in hebrew, following his meeting with the Israeli Housing Minister Binyamin ben-Eliezar, at the PLO office in Gaza City. Arafat gave his blessings during a joint press conference in which he and the minister briefed journalists on the obstacles still faced by negotiators in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shaking hands with Israeli minister of infrastructure, Binyamin ben-Eliezar

Arafat wishing the jewish people a happy new year in hebrew

10:20:39

W072765

Israel - Tel-Aviv Bus Bomb Outrage Reactions

WTN

Tel Aviv - 19 October 1994

Israel's army chief said a Moslem Arab suicide bomber may have carried out a bus bombing that killed at least 16 people in the heart of Tel Aviv.

Aerials of explosion site

GVs wreckage from explosion

Weeping woman being consoled by people

10:21:25

W073393

Israel And Jordan Sign Historic Peace Treaty

Pool

Araba, Jordan - 26 October 1994

(Video as incoming)

Israel and Jordan ended 46 years of hostility by signing a peace treaty witnessed by US President Bill Clinton at the Arava desert border crossing south of the Dead Sea.

The prime ministers of both countries signed the historic document to the applause of nearly 5,000 guests. Yitzhak Rabin signed for Israel while King Hussein looked on as his prime minister Abdul-Salam al-Majali signed for Jordan. The treaty, backed by all Israelis except the extreme right wing, ended a 46-year-old state of war between Jordan and Israel. However, it was condemned by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Muslim militants on both sides of the border. The signing ended

with the release of 10,000 balloons in the colours of the Israeli and Jordanian flags.

WS podium.

Rabin, Clinton and Hussein on podium.

CU Hussein.

Flower girls on stage.

English SOT Rabin: "Time has come not only to dream peace but to realize it."

Signing of treaty.

10:22:08

W074244

Gaza Strip - Palestinian Police Shoot 13 Hamas

WTN

Gaza - 18 November 1994

Hamas, the radical Palestinian Muslim fundamentalist movement, pledged to retaliate against Yasser Arafat's Palestine National Authority after its followers were slain by Palestinian police in Gaza. Thirteen people were killed and about 200 wounded in Gaza City earlier in the day when Arafat's police opened fire on a crowd of Hamas Islamic militants after the demonstrators surrounded police headquarters, the central jail and other Palestinian government buildings, hurling stones and shouting insults. The violence was the most serious confrontation between Arafat's self-rule administration and fundamentalist hardliners opposed to the peace process with Israel. The self-rule government has administered Gaza, a Hamas bastion, and the West Bank town of Jericho since May. The confrontation raised questions about the future of the peace process with Israel. Tensions have been building between the PLO and Hamas as a result of a series of suicide bombings and shootings aimed at Israeli targets, including the Tel Aviv bus bombing on 19 October Oct. 19 that claimed 22 lives. Israel demanded that Arafat act to stop the bloodshed or Israel would freeze the expansion of autonomy into the rest of the West Bank. Arafat rounded up about 160 Islamic militants after a suicide bombing last week in which three soldiers were killed.

Gunfire.

People fleeing.

People running in chaos.

Police firing weapons.

Running men carrying away wounded.

Man with bloody leg being carried.

Fence being pulled down.

Arafat praying.

Arafat celebrating and dancing.

10:23:07

1419

Norway - Nobel Peace Prize

APTV

Oslo - 10 December 1994

Nobel peace prize winners Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres are using the ceremony in Oslo to step up their negotiations. The P-L-O leader and the Israeli Foreign Minister held private talks just hours before receiving their prizes.

Anti-PLO demonstrations

Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat arrive at press conference

10:23:45

W018490

Israel/West Bank - Settlement

WTN

El Khader, Near Ephrat, West Bank - 2 January 1995

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin decided to halt work on an expanding Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank that has threatened to wreck autonomy talks with the Palestinians.

WS of bulldozers on disputed land.

Israeli soldiers on standby.

Palestinians staging sit-in.

Bulldozer on hill.

10:24:10

W019481

Israel - Explosion

WTN

Beit Lid, Near Netanya, Israel - 22 January 1995

President Ezer Weizman, in an open challenge to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, called for a suspension of peace talks with the PLO after Islamic suicide bombers killed 19 people in Israel. Weizman was speaking after suicide bombers killed 19 people and wounded 62 at a crowded bus stop north of Tel Aviv.

Blood-splattered ground and abandoned belongings.

Blown-out bus.

Emergency crews at site.

Body being carried out in sheet.

Man puts sheet over body.

Man picking up debris behind police line.

SOT of Rabin saying some Palestinians are attempting to halt the peace process

10:24:44

W021657

West Bank - Palestinians Kill Two Hebron Settler

WTN

Hebron - 19-20 March 1995

Israeli soldiers clamped a curfew on the West Bank town of Hebron following the killing of two Jewish settlers by Palestinian gunmen. More than 100,000 Arabs were confined to their homes by the Israeli army, to protect them from revenge attacks by Jewish settlers.

Aftermath shooting scene.

Crowds.

GVs crime scene.

WS mosque from where the shots were allegedly fired.

Israeli soldier patrolling rooftop

10:25:14

W022380

Lebanon/Israel - Rocket Attacks / Aftermath

WTN

Lebanon and Israel - 31 March 1995

Katyusha rockets fired by guerrillas in south Lebanon hit northern Israel and killed one Israeli and wounded nine, Israel Radio reported. Three Israeli helicopters then struck the south Lebanon villages of Aziyeh, Zabkine and Haniyeh, moving from one village to the next to carry out the punitive retaliation. The villages are inhabited by Shi'ite Muslims and are controlled by the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants who oppose the Middle East peace process.

Imla Tuffah region, Southern Lebanon

Wrecked car on roadside.

Burned-out remains of car.

People looking at wreckage.

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Nahariya, Northern Israel

Police officer alighting from car.

Tracking shot along ground, showing property damaged by rocket.

Kiryat Shmona, Northern Israel

Youth with blood-stained clothes.

Man with bleeding arm.

10:25:42

W022482

Gaza - Suicide Bomb Attacks

WTN

Kfar Darom, Gaza Strip - 9 April 1995

Seven Israelis were killed and 45 injured in two separate suicide bomb attacks in Gaza. In the first attack near the town of Kfar Darom, an Islamic militant drove a van loaded with explosives into an Israeli bus, killing six people. Two hours later, on the same road, a Palestinian car drove into an Israeli convoy of several cars and exploded, killing one Israeli. Representatives of Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.

WS side of bus.

Interior showing seats.

PULL-OUT to show driver's seat.

CU blown-up side of bus.

WS bombing scene.

Van used by bomber.

10:26:04

W022829

West Bank - Israelis Kill Hamas Trio

WTN

Hebron - 16 April 1995

Israeli troops ambushed and killed three members of the Muslim militant movement Hamas in the heart of the West Bank city of Hebron. State-run Israel Radio said the Hamas militants, wanted for attacks in the Hebron area during the last 18 months, were killed by undercover troops disguised as Arabs. It said guns, grenades and weapons magazines were found in the vehicle of the Hamas fighters.

Hillside scene of shooting.

Corpse on stretcher at rear of ambulance.

Group of Israeli Army soldiers watching.

Soldiers around militants' car.

Bullet holes in side of car.

10:26:25

W024712

West Bank - Troops Blast Hideout And Kill Suspect Muslim Militant

WTN

Hebron - 2 June 1995

Israeli troops fired anti-tank missiles at a suspected Muslim militant hideout in the West Bank during a 10-hour siege. One Palestinian was killed. After the raid, the army placed a curfew on Hebron, a town of 80,000 Palestinians and 450 Jewish settlers, to prevent street protests and revenge attacks by supporters of the militant Islam organisation, Hamas. Witnesses said soldiers had pulled one body from the rubble of the house in Hebron and later demolished the remains with a bulldozer. The Israeli army acted on suspicion that wanted Muslim guerrillas were hiding in the premises. Hebron has been a hotbed of violence and is a Muslim militant stronghold.

Israeli soldiers moving in on house.

Soldiers on rooftop opposite suspected Muslim hideout.

Suspected hideout with smoke coming from premises, audio gunfire.

Israeli soldiers crouching on ground.

Explosion from rocket at front of house.

Suspected militants (unseen) returning fire.

Bulldozer moves in to demolish premises.

WS premises and another explosion.

10:27:13

W025355

Gaza - Palestinians Mourn Fatah Leaders

WTN

Jebaliya, Gaza Strip - 14 June 1995

In the Jebaliya refugee camp near Gaza City, funerals were held for Hassan Abu Furaya and Abdel Nasser Abu Salah. They died together with Abu Hatla. Both men were

members of Fatah's "Force 17", a unit responsible for protecting PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. A PLO spokesman said both were trying to help Abu Hatla cross the border into Israel. Near the West Bank town of Ramallah on Wednesday afternoon, Palestinians and Jewish settlers held separate small protest demonstrations.

Crowd at funerals of Abu Furaya and Abu Salah.

People digging graves.

Wreath being placed.

10:27:36

W026869

Israel - Suicide Attack On Bus Leaves Six Dead

WTN

Tel Aviv - 24 July 1995

An explosion ripped through a commuter bus in Tel Aviv killing at least six people and wounding more than 30. Shortly after the attack the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas claimed one of its members carried out the bombing. The explosion occurred at 8.45am during the rush hour, near the Tel Aviv Diamond Exchange in the suburb of Ramat Gan.

Back-shot of bombed-out bus.

CU body on ground.

Zoom into interior of bus and police checking wreckage.

10:27:51

W027387

Israel - Scuffles As Jews Besiege Mosque

WTN

Jerusalem - 6 August 1995

Israeli security forces sealed off Jerusalem's Temple Mount after dozens of Jews tried to force their way into the compound controlled by Muslims. Border guards repeatedly shoved back extremists demanding the right to pray on Temple Mount - called Haram esh-Sharif in Arabic. Jerusalem police chief Aryeh Amit said the site would remain closed until further notice "to calm things down and avoid violence and clashes." Two Jews allowed into the site had to be quickly escorted out by police

after being surrounded by angry Muslims. "Tension is mounting in the Old City," Amit admitted as Arab mosques called on the faithful to turn out to protect the haram.

Aerial Temple Mount, zoom in to Wailing Wall.

Procession of Jewish "Temple Mount Faithful" approach complex.

Pan Wailing Wall with thousands of Jews praying.

Muslims entering al-Aqsa mosque.

Green door entrance.

Jews press up against police.

Scuffles and pushing.

10:28:32

W028783

West Bank - Girls School Attacked

WTN

Hebron - 10 September 1995

Jewish settlers invaded a Palestinian school for girls in the West Bank city of Hebron and beat up the headmistress. Palestinian witnesses said three settlers barged into the school in the city centre, attacked the principal and students and broke doors and windows.

Schoolgirls marching with flag

Girls run in panic, man follows with flag

Security force soldiers among girls

Injured girls being carried

Men running with injured girls

10:29:04

W029485

USA - Palestinian Self-Rule Extension To Be Signed

WTN

Washington - 28 September 1995

Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization were to sign a historic self-rule accord for the West Bank at the White House. Bill Clinton began the day's proceedings by meeting separately with Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin at the White House ahead of the signing ceremony. Talking to reporters as his talks with Arafat began, Clinton stressed the US commitment to the Middle East peace process. "Now that they have taken this other important step, as they take successive steps, we will try to make sure each of these steps succeeds and we build on it," he said. But the PLO leader had a word of caution saying that the peace process had many enemies and stressing its need for support to overcome terror tactics aimed at destroying it. The Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said:"I believe what has happened in the last two years is remarkable progress towards tranquility and stability and peace.

Arafat and Clinton presser

WS presser

SOT Arafat says the peace process has many enemies, it is the peace of the brave, we need help to overcome terror

Presser Rabin and Clinton

10:29:42

W030640

Gaza - Angry Reaction To Shakaki Assassination

WTN

Gaza - 29 October 1995

Palestinian militants, who are opposed to the Israeli-PLO peace process, vowed to avenge the assassination of their leader. Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shakaki was killed in Sliema, Malta, on Thursday (26/10). He was shot outside a hotel by a gunman on a motorbike. The Jihad claims the killer was an agent of the Israeli secret service, Mossad. The organisation says it will avenge Shakaki's death with attacks on Israeli targets around the world.

Man in crowd holds up photo of shakaki with chanting

Lighting US and Israeli flags

Angry man chanting

Flags on fire

10:29:55

17119

Israel - Rabin Assassination: Last Speech at Rally

Pool

Tel Aviv, Israel. - 4 November 1995

The last speech made by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was a call to pro-peace activists for continued progress in reaching a political settlement in the Middle East .Within an hour the Prime Minister was dead, gunned down by three bullets as he left the rally. Rabin was about to get into his car to leave when the gunman fired the bullets from a close distance, hitting Rabin in the back and stomach. A suspect, a right-wing law student, was in custody. Rabin was taken to Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital where he died about an hour later on the operating table.

Various demonstrators with banners and placards

SOUNDBITE: Rabin (Hebrew)

"Good evening, good week. Let me say that I'm getting excited as well. I would like to thank each and every one of you that stood here against violence and for peace. This government that I have the privilege of leading...."

Close-up of Palestinian and Israeli flags

10:30:37

W030934

Israel - Assassination Yitzhak Rabin

WTN

Tel Aviv - 5 November 1995

(Audio as incoming)

A day after Israeli PM, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated by an extremist Jew, Israeli police and the domestic intelligence service Shin Beth were under fire for their failure to protect Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from an assassin's bullets. Rabin was shot by a 27 year old student as he was leaving a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Israeli Cabinet ministers met in an emergency meeting after the shooting and announced Shimon Peres would step in as acting prime minister The death of Rabin has thrown doubts on the future of the Middle East Peace process but Peres stated he was certain Rabin's last wish would be to continue the peace process

GVs security outside hospital

SOT Israeli health minister Ephraim Sneh outside the hospital announcing in english the death of prime minister Rabin

GVs roundtable of cabinet emergency meeting

CU of Rabin with Peres singing at the peace rally before Rabin was shot

10:31:40

17145

Israel - Rabin Assassination : Arafat Reaction

APTV

Gaza - 5 November 1995

SOUNDBITE: (English) Yasser Arafat

"I am very saddened and very shocked for this awful and terrible crime. Against one of the brave leaders of Israel and the peace makers".

10:32:05

17229

Israel - Rabin Assassination : Grieving Mourners at Funeral

APTV

6 November 1995

Men moving casket into jeep to go to funeral grounds

Leah Rabin greeting someone at funeral grounds

AUDIO: Siren sounding as soldiers salute and funeral-goers and Israelis observe a moments silence

10:32:39

17213

Israel - Rabin Assassination : Alleged Killer Appears in Court

APTV

Tel Aviv - 6 November 1995

The alleged killer of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has appeared in court in Tel-Aviv, where he was remanded in custody for 15 days. Police say 27 year-old Yigal Amir has confessed to the killing. There was intense security at Tel Aviv's main courtroom for the appearance of the suspected assassin of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Yigal Amir was hustled into the court surrounded by police and soldiers. Unshaven and handcuffed, the slightly built Amir was brought before Magistrate Dan Arbel. He told the judge he killed Rabin to stop the peace process. The 27 year old law and computer science student said Rabin was giving Israel away to the Arabs.

Amir being led in surrounded by police

10:32:50

W031026

Israel - Rabin's Death Aftermath/ Raviv Arrested

WTN

Jerusalem and Tel Aviv - 8 November 1995

Israel arrested a Jewish extremist leader in connection with the murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a young Israeli law student. Police are trying to determine if Rabin's confessed killer, 25-year-old Yigal Amir, and his brother, who is being held as an accomplice, were part of a right wing conspiracy. They arrested Avishai Raviv, leader of the militant right wing group Eyal. Eyal is the youth movement of Kach, a banned anti-Arab group.

Hertzl cemetery, Jerusalem:

Rabin's flower-covered grave

Rabin's photo on grave

Tel Aviv

Avishai Raviv seated in courtroom between guards

CU handcuffs on Raviv's wrists

CU Raviv's face

WS Raviv in courtroom

10:33:08

W032591

West Bank - Opening Of By-Pass Round Bethlehem

WTN

Bethlehem - 20 December 1995

Israeli authorities opened a by-pass road around Bethlehem so Jewish settlers living south of the town can reach Jerusalem without passing through Palestinian territory.

CU of town, pullout to show digger and new road

WS of new road and cars driving

WS of Palestinian flags along road

Shot of man putting up flag on side of house

CU of a garlanded VW Beetle

WS of flag on steeple

10:33:39

W032661

West Bank - Israeli Soldiers Leave Bethlehem

WTN

Bethlehem - 21 December 1995

Israeli soldiers evacuated Bethlehem, leaving the biblical birthplace of Jesus to celebrating Palestinian police and thousands of dancing residents in time for Christmas. As the last Israeli border troops left the town without major incident, thousands of people celebrated in Manger Square, dancing and singing while fireworks lit the night sky.

WS Israeli jeeps departing

MS jeeps depart, pull out to overview

MS Israeli soldiers wave out of jeep

WS fireworks over Bethlehem

WS older men in traditional dress dance in circle and clap

MS man waves Palestinian flag

10:34:18

W032685

West Bank - Palestinians Raise Flag In Bethlehem

WTN

Bethlehem - 22 December 1995

Palestinian flag-raising on roof

10:34:26

W032718

West Bank - Arrival Yasser Arafat In Bethlehem

WTN

Bethlehem - 23 December 1995

PLO chairman Yasser Arafat arrived in Bethlehem and was greeted by a crowd of thousands celebrating the city's first Christmas, for many years, under Palestinian rule.

Church bells peeling

Arafat waves victory sign to cheering crowd

WS chanting crowd

Arafat addressing crowd saying: "Jesus, the Palestinian, peace be upon him."

10:34:52

W053604

West Bank - Bomb Maker Killed

WTN

Nablus - 5 January 1996

The Hamas Islamic movement's master bomb maker Yehiya Ayash was reportedly shot dead by Israeli security forces in the Gaza Strip.

WS family home

CU photo pull out to ms

MS family members sit around and listen to radio

MS mother wailing

10:35:12

W053560

Gaza - Hamas Mourners Hit By Gunshots

WTN

Gaza - 6 January 1996

Crying for vengeance, thousands of supporters of the Hamas Islamic militant group marched behind the coffin of Yehiya Ayash in Palestinian-ruled Gaza. Hamas guerillas saluted Ayash by firing automatic weapons into the air but accidentally hit four mourners.

WS crowd of mourning palestinians

WS crowd taken from roof top

MS of crowd carrying coffin

Man fires gun into crowd

CU more gunfire

10:35:39

W053633

West Bank - Arafat Speaks Out

WTN

Dura, West Bank - 7 January 1996

PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat directly accused Israel of assassinating the suspected Hamas bomb maker Yehiya Ayash, who died in an explosion on Friday (5/1). He spoke at a Palestinian election campaign rally at the West Bank town of Dura.

SOT of Arafat in Arabic, from window ledge

SOT in Arabic, CU of Arafat.

10:35:52

W053801

Israel - Yigal Amir Court Case

WTN

Tel Aviv - 14 January 1996

The confessed assassin of Yitzhak Rabin and two others were formally charged in a Tel Aviv court of conspiracy to murder the Israeli prime minister. Yigal Amir, his brother Hagai and friend Dror Adani were also accused of planning to carry out anti-Palestinian attacks with weapons which they had amassed, court sources said.

Ext of courthouse building.

MS of Amir being brought into courtroom surrounded by security and led to his seat.

Pullout of court symbol to show courtroom.

MS of Amir's brother and other defendant led to seats.

MS of counsel talking to Amir.

10:36:34

W055061

Gaza - Inauguration Of Arafat

WTN

Gaza City - 12 February 1996

PLO leader Yasser Arafat took the oath of office as president of the Palestinian Authority, in a solitary ceremony that emphasized his personal grip on power.

WS arafat at lectern

Upsot Arafat speaks non-English

Arafat speaks with his right hand on koran

Applause arafat kisses dignitaries

Members of new parliament congratulate Arafat

Outside legislative council band plays

CU Arafat marches to band

Palestinian police dance in the streets of Gaza city

CU man dance stick

10:37:17

W055586

Israel - At Least 25 Killed In Bomb Attacks

WTN

Jerusalem - 25 February 1996

Palestinian Islamic militants blew up a packed Jerusalem bus and a group of soldiers in southern Israel in twin suicide attacks that killed 25 people and wounded 80. The coordinated attacks were the deadliest suicide bombing in Israel's history. Militants of the fundamentalist Islamic Resistance Movement HAMAS claimed the bombings in a phone call to Israel radio and a leaflet distributed in the Palestinian territories, saying the attacks were in revenge for the January murder of Yehiya Ayash, mastermind

of an earlier HAMAS suicide bombing campaign.

WS zoom in on skeleton of bus

MS investigator picks through remains of bus

WS looking down on bus

MS body lying on ground

WS body lying by bus

10:37:34

W055834

Israel - Jerusalem Bomb

WTN

Jerusalem - 3 March 1996

Israel's Prime Minister, Shimon Peres, declared all-out war against the Palestinian militant group HAMAS, saying he would not rest until it had been completely destroyed.

Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, described the bombing as a "disaster" and announced the banning of armed radical groups in Gaza and the West Bank, including the armed wing of HAMAS, the Ezzedin al-Qassam. Amid scenes of anguish, Israelis started burying the victims of the bomb.

WS and pan of bus bombing scene

Soldiers in wreckage of bus, bodies visible

WS wreckage of bus

Forensic team sifting through debris

10:37:49

W056156

Israel - Blockade Extends To Coastline

WTN

Gaza - 8-9 March 1996

Israel tightened its "closure" of self-rule areas, sealing off the Palestinian Autonomy's coast line in a bid to prevent wanted Islamic Jihad and Hamas members from getting out of Gaza via the sea. The sea blockade even extended to preventing local Gaza fisherman from heading out to sea...another crippling blow to the ailing Palestinian economy.

MS concrete barrier being loaded into place

MS Israel flag, pulls to ws of concrete border

WS single man walking done empty road, with concrete borders on the side

10:38:02

W056890

Israel - Life Sentence For Rabin's Murderer

WTN

Israel - 27 March 1996

Yigal Amir, the Jewish radical who assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to halt the Palestinian peace process, was sentenced to life in jail, the harshest punishment allowed in Israel. Amir, 25, received an additional six years in prison for aggravated assault against one of Rabin's bodyguards, Yoram Rubin, who was wounded in the November 4 shooting.

Yigal Amir walks into court

CU amir smiling

WS courtroom, judge speaking

CU Judge Edmond Levy speaking

CU Amir on monitor in press room

SOT Prime Minister Peres "For me it was a reminder of the terrible night when I saw one of the greatest people of our time fall down innocently just because he led his people in the right direction

10:36:47

W057618

Lebanon - Bomb Attacks Continue

WTN

Various Locations - 16 April 1996

Israeli aircraft and artillery killed at least six Lebanese in attacks during an offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas that escalated despite diplomatic efforts to end the violence. Despite Israel's blitz, Iranian-backed Hezbollah kept up Katyusha rocket attacks on northern Israel, firing a barrage that hit an Israeli settlement near Naharia. Homes were damaged and several people were wounded.

Northern Israel:

WS israeli artillery firing into southern lebanon

Southern Lebanon

Israeli warplanes dropping missile-deflectors over port city of tyre

Various explosions near tyre

Nabityeh, Southern Lebanon

Various of shells exploding on outskirts of Nabityeh and vicinity

10:39:21

W057813

Lebanon - Shelling Aftermath

WTN

Lebanon - 19 April 1996

Israel pushed ahead with its military offensive into southern Lebanon, following its disastrous bombing blitz of a UN refugee camp which killed at least 75 people.

Qana

WS UN helicopter above Qana base, pan to UN soldier on tank

CU soldier working in wreckage at qana base

MS soldier throws stakes into fire

Nabatiyeh

WS men walk through rubble in streets of Nabatiyeh

WS man sitting in street handles worry beads

CU loading bodies into truck

WS bodies in bags inside container

Near Tyre

SOT: ws near Tyre israeli gunship off the coast firing

Two men running towards Lebanese army checkpoint

Zoom into smoke following bomb-blast in distance.

WS injured girl in hospital

CU grieving woman

CU face injured girl

10:40:07

W058303

Lebanon - Attacks Continue

WTN

Qlayleh Village - 24 April 1996

Israel kept up a relentless bombardment of south Lebanon, hitting roads to isolate Hezbollah guerrillas but also endangering UN relief convoys.

WS UN troops running

MS UN troops carrying injured

WS explosion

WS destroyed house

WS man walks across mound of rubble

10:40:29

W059700

Israel - Peres & Netanyahu Vote In Cliffhanger Poll

WTN

West Bank and Israel - 29 May 19996

Israelis went to the polls amid unprecedented security to choose a new prime minister and parliament in elections seen as a turning point for the Middle East peace process. Prime Minister Shimon Peres was among the early voters. He said he didn't see the election as a personal competition, or a confrontation between the parties, but instead a choice of future for the nation. Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, 46-year-old head of the nationalist Likud Party, voted with his wife Sarah in Jerusalem's Beit Hinour school. He and Peres were neck and neck going into the election. It's the first time Israelis have had the chance to directly elect their Prime Minister and more than 70% of Israel's 3.9 million voters turned out to do so.

Jerusalem

Army patrol in street

Soldier checks identity of resident;

Tel Aviv

Peres drops vote in ballot box;

Jerusalem

Netanyahu voting

10:40:52

W059701

Israel - Netanyahu Has Vowed To Halt Handover

WTN

Israel - 30 May 1996 and file

Binyamin Netanyahu, at 46, is easily the youngest leader Israel has had -- indeed, he is the first who is younger than the Jewish nation itself. As thousands of celebrating supporters of his right wing Likud party surrounded its headquarters to anticipate and savour their victory with singing and dancing in the streets, Netanyahu himself was holding back from triumph until victory was statistically assured. The Central Election Commission said he was headed for about 50.3 percent of the vote, ousting Shimon Peres from the Premiership.

Tel Aviv - 30 May 1996

People cheering and dancing on the streets outside party headquarters

Israeli, with dog applauding

Jerusalem - 26 March 1996

Campaign poster of Netanyahu

Netanyahu emerging with wife Sarah, having voted in Likud primaries.

10:41:25

34788

West Bank- Palestinians and Israeli Soldiers Engage in Gun Battle

APTV

Ramallah - 25 September 1996

Palestinians and Israeli soldiers engaged in gun battles near Ramallah as riots erupted in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Three Palestinians, including two policemen, were killed and at least 180 people were injured in the worst violence since the 1987-93 revolt against Israeli occupation. The violence was sparked by Israel's completion of an archaeological tunnel near Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque compound, one of the holiest sites of Islam. The firefight broke out near an Israeli army checkpoint south of Ramallah. Israeli troops had tried for hours to break up a protest by more than a thousand Palestinian stone throwers. The Palestinians were demonstrating against the opening of a tourist tunnel in Jerusalem. It runs along Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque compound - the third holiest site of Islam - and Palestinians claim the tunnel undermines their rights to the Muslim shrines.

Various: shoot out

Injured man carried, people come to help, then get shots fired

Day: various soldiers clashing with stone-throwing Palestinians

10:42:57

34836

West Bank/Gaza Strip - Violence Increases Between Palestinians and Israelis

APTV

Ramallah, Gaza and Bethlehem - 26 September 1996

The body count is mounting as the violence between Israelis and Palestinians escalates. Israel has now brought in heavy weapons including helicopter gunships and tanks to tackle Palestinians armed with rifles and rocks in Gaza and the West Bank. At least 30 Palestinians and five Israelis were killed in clashes that within hours escalated from stone-throwing demonstrations into widespread shooting. Some 400 Palestinians and at least 19 Israelis were injured. Israeli helicopter gunships opened fire on Palestinian soldiers and civilians as riots across the West Bank and Gaza Strip turned into full-scale gun battles. At least 30 Palestinians and five Israelis were killed as the violence swept into virtually any town where Palestinians and Israelis coexist. Hundreds were wounded.

Ramallah

Israeli helicopter firing

Palestinian soldier firing

Gaza

Palestinians ducking

Ambulance

Bethlehem

Wide-shot Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli troops

Various Israeli soldiers firing at Palestinians

10:43:41

W049619

Israel - Israel reopens tunnel

WTN

Jerusalem - 29 September 1996

Israel reopened the controversial tunnel in Jerusalem linking the Wailing Wall with the Arab marketplace in the Old City. Tourists and Israelis eagerly walked through the passageway, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would remain open forever.

Gate being reopened

Israeli soldiers on balcony over gate, pan down to entrance

People entering tunnel

Interior view tunnel

10:44:05

W033084

West Bank - Hebron shooting

WTN

Hebron - 1 January 1997

A right wing Israeli soldier fired his M-16 rifle into a crowded vegetable market in Hebron, wounding six Palestinians in an attempt to derail Israel's planned partial troop withdrawal from the West Bank city.

WS chaos in street at entrance to vegetable market, Israeli soldiers trying to grab renegade soldier Noam Friedman

MS officer pinning Friedman to ground, then dragging him away

MS Friedman being shoved into small concrete shelter for his own protection

WS Palestinians carrying wounded man through street

MS Israeli police and Palestinians arguing, traffic chaos

10:44:40

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Israel/West Bank - Jewish settlers in Hebron

WTN

Hebron, Beit El and Jerusalem - 3 January 1997

The agreement for the partial withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank town of Hebron looked to be hanging in the balance. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was holding a cabinet meeting after a number of hard-line ministers threatened not to back the deal. A petrol bomb attack by Palestinian youths in the Jewish sector of Hebron, and fighting in southern Lebanon between Israeli and Hezbollah forces, added to tension. Israeli settlers who have occupied two hill tops in the West Bank agreed to withdraw.

Hebron

MS police van driving at speed in street;

MS police searching youth against wall;

CU police arresting youth;

Jerusalem

WS of cabinet meeting;

MS of one side of table at cabinet meeting;

MS of Netanyahu with other ministers;

Beit El, West Bank

WS of crowd of settlers;

CU Israeli flag, pulls out to group of settlers;

CU of book, PANS up to chanting Rabbi

10:45:24

W033546

Middle East - Peace deal reached

WTN

Erez Crossing, Israel-Gaza Border - 15 January 1997

Israel and the Palestinians struck a landmark accord to extend Palestinian rule to the flashpoint city of Hebron, breaking a deadlock in the Middle East peace process since Israel's elections last May. Israel's cabinet, a coalition of right-wing and religious groups, met for more than six hours to study the accord, while dozens of angry Jewish settlers from the Palestinian territories protested outside the prime minister's office. The long-delayed Hebron agreement was sealed at a midnight summit at the Erez Crossing point between the Gaza Strip and Israel between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Israeli officials said the troop redeployment from Hebron would take place over the next five days, probably at the weekend.

Dennis Ross SOT:"I am very pleased to announce on behalf of the two leaders that they have reached agreement on a protocol on Hebron re-deployment"

cutaway photographers

MS Netanyahu and Arafat shake hands

10:45:50

W033695

West Bank - Arafat arrives in Hebron

WTN

Hebron - 19 January 1997

A triumphant Yasser Arafat declared Hebron a "liberated city" before he headed back to Gaza the makeshift seat of his government. It was a big day for the Palestinian leader, liberation for one of the West Bank's most disrupted towns, as well as his first visit to Hebron in more than 30 years. Arafat was given a rapturous welcome by tens of thousands of Palestinians waving flags to greet their leader and mark the official expansion of self-rule to Hebron. But for the Jewish settlers Arafat's arrival and the Israeli withdrawal was seen as a betrayal.

(Logo in vision)

MS Arafat in car waving to crowd;

WS Arafat's convoys moves slowly through crowd as people reach up to shake his hand;

WS crowd;

MS Arafat convoy;

MS Arafat declaring Hebron a liberated city

10:46:19

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West Bank - Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers

WTN

Hebron - 12 April 1997

Unrest in the West Bank took a new turn when Jewish settlers and Palestinians hurled stones at each other as police on either side of the religious divide tried to restrain

them.

WS Palestinian youths throwing stones;

MS Palestinians throwing stones;

FX bang, all duck;

MS Israeli soldier fires rifle;

WS man waving Israeli flag;

WS Israeli settler throws stones;

WS Israeli soldiers stop settlers from throwing stones;

MS Israeli soldiers fires at two palestinians running across end of road

10:46:54

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Israel - Terrorist bomb blast at market

WTN

Jerusalem - 30 July 1997

Fourteen people were killed when a pair of suspected Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves apart in a crowded open-air market in mainly Jewish west Jerusalem. More than 150 people were injured in the two blasts, which occurred less than a minute apart.

Tracking scene immediate aftermath;

Injured man being given oxygen on ground

HS scene people searching through rubble with stretchers;

MS scene with burst water melons

WS cleaning-up operation;

Orthodox Jewish man looking for remains

10:47:21

W111609

Lebanon - Israeli warplanes strike southern Lebanon

WTN

Iqlim Al-Tuffah Region, Southern Lebanon - 22 February 1998

Israeli warplanes, in ten consecutive runs, fired at least 12 rockets on hills overlooking the Iqlim al Tuffah region, where the Hezbollah maintains strongholds. The raids followed an attack by Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas on Israeli troops in the Israeli-occupied border area, security sources said.

VS area;

VS smoke billowing into sky;

VS heavy smoke over Hezbollah posts

10:47:38

W001975

Gaza - Palestinian protest

WTN

Gaza - 1 May 1998

Palestinians marched to the Israel-Gaza border in a Labour Day demonstration against the continuing Israeli closure of the West Bank and the Gaza strip. But it was a protest that went wrong, as far as some of the demonstrators were concerned. When it came to the ritual burning of an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and an Israeli flag, the flames spread to the clothing of bystanders, and five people were taken to hospital with burns.

Crossing point between Gaza Strip and Israel;

Palestinian protesters with banners;

Palestinian police forming cordon;

demonstrators setting light to effigy of Benjamin Netanyahu;

Man with clothes alight on floor

10:48:11

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West Bank - March of the Keys

WTN

Deishe, West Bank - 13 May 1998

Hundreds of Palestinian refugee schoolchildren held a "march of the keys" to mark the 50th anniversary of the loss of their family homes in what is now Israel. Around 500 pupils from the Daheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem joined the march, some carrying the real keys of their families' lost houses and others bearing symbolic wooden keys.

CU giant keys being held aloft by children;

WS rally with keys and banners;

CU real key pull-out to show two men holding them;

Children with tags round neck with names of villages;

Elderly man with key;

10:48:30

92179

USA - Middle East Land for Peace Deal

Pool

Washington - 23 October 1998

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat agreed on a breakthrough land-for-peace deal on the violence-scarred West Bank, the culmination of marathon negotiations mediated by President Bill Clinton. Under the deal, the Palestinians will eliminate anti-Israel provisions in their founding charter and the Israelis will free scores of alleged political prisoners, U.S. and Palestinian.

Still of Clinton and Netanyahu

Still of Arafat and Clinton

Still of Netanyahu and Arafat talking

Still of Arafat and Netanyahu shaking hands

10:48:42

W009098

Israel - Netanyahu signs peace accord

APTN/Pool

Beit El, Jerusalem and Washington - 21-23 October 1998 and file

After nine days of intensive negotiation with the Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a peace accord. But with just five of his 16 cabinet ministers in favour of the agreement, the question he now faces is whether he has still got a government. The right-wing factions in Netanyahu's coalition government are threatening to vote in favour of the early dissolution of the Knesset and the nomination of a right wing candidate to run against Netanyahu. Likud MK Moshe Arens says that, before implementing the agreement, Netanyahu still has a long way to go to convince his right-wing coalition of the merits of the peace deal.

APTN

Beit El, Israel - 21 October 1998

Various settlers blocking roads and praying.

Pool

Washington - 23 October 1998

Signing ceremony

APTN

Jerusalem - file

Cabinet meeting, various.

10:49:13

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News Review 1999

APTN

Various Locations - 1999

Ehud Barak's supporters chanting on winning election

Ehud Barak

Netanyahu at microphones

Barak along with wife and flowers at Rabin's memorial

Arafat and Barak signing accord in Egypt

Buses along as 200 Palestinian prisoners released

Women wailing

Clashes at unauthorised Jewish settlement in Havat Maon, West Bank

Israeli troops forcing settlers out

Man pushed over and clashes

Woman settler saying that this is ethnic cleansing of Jews by a Jewish government

Sunset and silhouette of troops dragging men away

Crowd gathered in Jerusalem with Israeli flags

Barak speaking in Hebrew saying that Jerusalem would always be the eternal and undivided capital of Israel

People at wailing wall

Barak at wall

Israeli planes in air over Lebanon border area - smoke rising from attack

Syrian troops dancing and celebrating

GV Pro-Assad rally

Syrian President Assad with supporters after winning election (he was the only candidate)

King Hussein of Jordan out of plane with wife Noor (after receiving treatment for cancer in the USA)

Convoy along with coffin of Hussein

Mourners

Clinton at funeral for other former US presidents including, Bush, Ford and Carter

Jordan's Crown Prince Abdullah

10:52:29

170371

Israel - Millennium in Jerusalem

APTN

Jerusalem - 31 December 1999-1 January 2000

A new millennium sunrise over the city of Jerusalem, but it brought little change to daily lives of many of the inhabitants here As dawn broke worshippers made their usual morning prayer vigil within the walls of the Old City. The early morning rays of sunlight backlit the Dome of the Rock, and Al Aqsa mosque. Jerusalem is holy to all three major religions of the book: Christianity, Islam and Judaism, but control of the city has been the catalyst to wars ancient and modern.

Wide shot of Dome of the Rock and Jerusalem skyline

Various of people offering prayers at the old city walls

Cross zooms in to midnight bells ringing at church

10:53:29

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Israel - Torture Cells Revealed

APTN

Gaza - 10 February 2000 and file

A newly published Israeli government report has acknowledged what Palestinians and human rights groups have said for years - that Israel systematically used illegal force against Palestinian suspects during the intifada. The State Comptroller's report was written in 1997 but withheld by the government until now. The newly released report covers the years 1988 to 1992, when the intifada, or Palestinian uprising against Israel, was at its height. Unprecedented numbers of Palestinians were being arrested and interrogated. Gaza's former interrogation centre - now used as the Palestinian Police Headquarters.

Zoom out former interrogation centre in Gaza, now used as the Palestinian Police Headquarters

Interior shots of cells

10:53:49

183025A

West Bank - Riots

APTN

Nablus and Ramallah - 14 May 2000

Frustration over stalled negotiations exploded into violence as thousands of Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli troops in demonstrations that left at least 23 people injured. In Nablus, a large crowd of protesters watched as an effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was burnt. Demonstrators erected burning barricades on roadways and threw rocks at Israeli troops, who replied by firing tear gas and rubber-coated steel pellets. In Ramallah masked men from outlawed Palestinian guerrilla groups roamed the streets, firing machine guns into the air. Later youths were involved in clashes with the Israeli security services. Soldiers in armoured vehicles threw tear gas grenades and fired rubber-coated steel pellets. At least 10 Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were injured during the demonstrations.

Nablus

Wide shot of demonstrator with Palestinian flag on top of building

Masked gunmen holding guns in air (sound of firing in background)

Woman holding baby and gun in window

Effigy of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak being set alight

People crouching in fields, gunfire sound in background

Injured Palestinian limping

Various, Israeli soldiers firing tear gas

Ramallah

Masked Palestinians firing in air

Palestinians on rooftop firing in air

10:54:27

183116A

West Bank - Violence

APTN

Ramallah and Bethlehem - 15 May 2000

Israeli troops and Palestinian police fought fierce gun battles in some of the worst violence in years. At least three Palestinians were killed and more than 320 injured as protests swept the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The violence came despite a decision by the Israeli Cabinet to transfer three West Bank villages near Jerusalem to Palestinian control in a good-will gesture. Ramallah saw one of the most intensified standoffs between Israeli troops and Palestinian police. The police were shooting from rooftops and exchanging fire with Israeli soldiers in the streets below. Two Palestinian policemen were killed, according to Israeli and Palestinian security officials. In Bethlehem the stone throwing intensified as soldiers fought back. Thick clouds of tear gas and smoke from burning tires rose into the air.

Ramallah

Various shots Israeli troops in gunfight

Various of firing between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian police Israeli helicopters dropping canisters over the scene

Bethlehem

Long shot of Palestinian protestors throwing stones

Israeli soldiers firing

Long shot Palestinians throwing stones on soldiers from building

Mid shot Palestinians throwing stone

Soldiers firing

Long shot stone throwing

10:55:02

183777

Israel - Troops Withdrawal from Lebanon

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Ghajjar, Northern Israel (close to border with South Lebanon - 23 May 2000

Israeli troops are continuing their withdrawal from South Lebanon, which they have occupied for 22 years. In the wake of their retreat, the pro Israeli militia group, S-L-A (South Lebanon Army) has fallen apart - its troops fleeing town after town as their posts fall to Hezbollah guerrillas. With the S-L-A unable to hold its ground in the central area of the Israeli-occupied zone, Israel has been speeding up its withdrawal. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak says that troops could be out within 10 days, more than a month ahead of Israel's self-imposed July 7th deadline.

Various SLA tanks that have pulled out of Lebanon at new base just across border in Israel

Wide shot artillery pieces that have pulled out of Lebanon

Various SLA soldiers

10:55:32

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Lebanon - Israel Withdrawal Wrap

APTN

Various, South Lebanon - 23 May 2000

Jubilant Lebanese guerrillas and their civilian sympathisers have continued to sweep back into areas deserted by the Israeli backed South Lebanese Army. And more S-L-A weapons have been falling into the hands of Hezbollah, heightening Israeli concerns. Meanwhile the head of Hezbollah has urged S-L-A militiamen to surrender and assured that they will be treated fairly. But he also warned Israel that the killing of six Lebanese civilians amid firing by Israelis and members of the S-L-A was "a very serious matter" He said his group was still deciding how to respond. These scenes are being repeated in areas across what had been, until recently, occupied territory. These people are celebrating the withdrawal of the Israeli army, and the collapse of its S-L-A ally. The crowds wave not only Lebanese flags, but also those of the main Shiite guerrilla groups Hezbollah and Amal.

Shaheen Village, Western Sector

Various convoy of cars and trucks carrying Amal Movement and Hezbollah flags

Women by roadside greeting comers

People hugging

Hezbollah fighters by roadside hugging

Bint Jbeil

High shot of crowd celebrating, waving Lebanese, Hezbollah and Amal flags

Man with gun giving another man a "high-five"

Old woman with pot on head with Lebanese flag in it

10:56:09

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Syria - Funeral of President Assad

APTN

Damascus - 13 June 2000

Pallbearers in scarlet berets and combat fatigues carried the body of Syrian President Hafez Assad through the mourner-thronged streets of the capital. On the streets of Damascus, crowds of tens of thousands surged along the cortege route. In dark mourning suits or flowing Arab robes, world leaders and other dignitaries paid tribute at the flag-draped casket of Assad, who died Saturday at age 69, at the elaborate, white marble People's Palace, set on a Damascus hillside. But for ordinary Syrians, the loss of the only president many had ever known sparked a remarkable outpouring of grief that at times seemed staged, at other times almost unbearably heartfelt. They took to the streets of cities and villages, chanting praise for Assad and for Bashar, his son and heir apparent.

Security police holding back crowd of hundreds of mourners

Wide shot funeral procession

Wide shot procession

10:56:39

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Israel - Violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque

APTN

Jerusalem - 29 September 2000

Palestinians accused Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon of igniting a "religious war" that erupted in the bloodiest fighting in four years. Tensions have been high at a Jerusalem holy side revered by both Jews and Muslims since Sharon visited there to show that Israel is in control. Palestinians threw stones at Israeli riot police, who fired back live rounds and rubber bullets. Four people were killed and about 175 people were hurt, including 44 Israeli police and 15 civilians. The Jerusalem shrine is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram as-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary. The violence began at the Al-Aqsa mosque when Palestinians worshippers began stoning Israeli police after attending Friday prayers.

Muslim worshippers, various

Palestinian protesters throwing stones at Israeli riot police, various

Protesters hiding behind stonework

Injured protester is carried away, various

Riot police pushing at protesters

Police firing at protesters, various

Poster of Sharon with message "Miserable Killer"

Israeli flag being burnt

10:57:40

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Instant Library 2001

APTN

Various Locations - 2001

New Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

Palestinians burning effigy of Prime Minister Sharon

Palestinian negotiator Sacb Erekat talking about the Jekyll and Hyde appearance of Israel's desire for peace

Israeli / Palestinian street violence

Suicide bomber attack in Netanya - 4 killed and 45 wounded

Leader of the Palestinian Militant Group Hamas Sheik Ahmed Yassin saying that Israel must take responsibility for all these events because Israel is the one that occupied Palestinian lands

Israeli soldiers in Gaza

Israeli bombing Gaza (April 16)

Gunfire over Bethlehem

Funeral of Palestinian teenager Rami Musa killed by Israeli bombing

Funeral of Palestinian baby killed by Israeli bombing

Sharon meeting settlers

Airstrikes in West Bank

Arafat calling for the cessation of all forms of violence

Damage to Pizza restaurant in Jerusalem from Palestine suicide bomber

Israeli assassination of Mustafa Zibri (Abu Ali Mustafa), a leading Palestinian

Israeli spokesman announcing assassination of Mustafa

Mustafa Zibri (sepia and slow motion)

Palestinian assassination of Israeli tourism minister Rahavam Zeevi

Israeli tourism minister Rahavam Zeevi (ultra-nationalist)

Zeevi funeral

Israeli tanks in West Bank

11:01:14

G00191

Instant Library 2002 - Suicide bombs

APTN

Various Locations - 2002

In 2002, there was no let up in the deadly suicide attacks against Israelis, despite the Israeli offensive against the Palestinians greatly restricting their movement and increasing security around Palestinian-controlled areas.

On January 27, for the first time, a female suicide bomber struck. 28 year old Wafa Idris killed herself and an 81 year old Israeli man when she detonated the explosives she was carrying in a busy shopping street in Jerusalem. Her mother said Wafa had been shot three times by rubber bullets while working as a paramedic for the Red Crescent in Ramallah.

On June 18 there were devastating scenes when a suicide bomber killed himself and 19 civilians in a bomb attack on a bus in southern Jerusalem.

On March 27, in the Israeli resort of Netanya, a bomber blew himself up at a hotel, killing 28 Israelis celebrating Passover. The attack claimed by militant group Hamas, was the deadliest since the beginning of the uprising.

On March 9 at least 11 people were killed and 50 injured in a suicide bomb attack on a crowded cafe in west Jerusalem, near the official residence of then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

And on May 7 a suicide bomber attacked a social club in the Israeli town of Rishon Letzion, killing 16 people and injuring more than 50.

Jerusalem - January 27, 2002

Scene of attack after first female suicide bomber hit

Debris from blast

Woman holding injured woman

Police at scene

11:01:33

Ramallah - January 30, 2002

Picture of suicide bomber

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Safia Idris, Mother of female suicide bomber Wafa Idris

"She left on Sunday. I had no idea of what she was doing or where she was going, she didn't tell me anything."

11:01:44

Jerusalem - June 18, 2002

Zoom into damaged bus and soldiers after suicide bomb which killed 19 people

Bodies on ground covered with black plastic, pan to bus

Wide of damaged bus

Body bags beside road, pan to bus

Various shots of fax in Arabic from militant group Hamas claiming responsibility for suicide bombing

11:02:09

Netanya - March 27, 2002

Exterior damaged hotel after suicide bomber blew himself up in the dining room killing 19

Various destruction inside hotel

Various pans of scene outside hotel with police and bodies on ground

11:02:30

Jerusalem - March 9, 2002

Investigators at entrance to cafe

Various exteriors of cafe

Various of cafe interiors seen through broken windows

11:02:47

Rishon Letzion - May 8, 2002

Wide of scene of bomb attack outside social club where 16 people were killed

Various bombed building and investigators sifting through debris

11:03:01

G00191

Instant Library 2002 - Israeli attacks on Palestinian headquarters

APTN

Various Locations - 2002

With no end in sight to the cycle of violence in the Middle East, the Israelis sought to consolidate their position and force the Palestinian administration to prevent more suicide attacks. On January 18, the Israelis sent more than 20 tanks to surround Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah. Overnight the pressure was turned up, when Israeli tanks and armoured personnel carriers sealed off Arafat's Ramallah headquarters and destroyed a Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation building. The siege came after Arafat had already been confined to Ramallah for several weeks by the Israeli authorities. Now he was confined to his office. On the 20th of February Israeli helicopters fired on Arafat's office for the first time, causing massive destruction.

Arafat was not released from his confinement until May. The Israeli Defence Force had destroyed all of Ramallah's infrastructure - and its bureaucracy, schools and security services. The Israelis would return to put Arafat under siege several times later in the year, although never for such an extended period.

Ramallah, West Bank - January 18, 2002

Tank blocking road near Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters

11:03:06

Ramallah - January 19, 2002

APC drives into car park in front of the Palestinian Broadcasting Centre

Explosion, lights go out

Wide of PBC building in flames

Wide PBC building entrance

11:03:28

Ramallah - February 20, 2002

Missiles hitting Arafat's office

Various interior shots (with blood on the ground) inside Arafat's residence

11:03:42

Ramallah - February 21, 2002

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader

"This is an attempt to nail down the Palestinian people and its leadership. They don't know that we as a people are undefeated and this leadership is part of the undefeated people."

11:03:58

G00191

Instant Library 2002 - Operation Defensive Shield

APTN

Various Locations - 2002

Israeli forces also attacked Palestinian areas they said were breeding ground for suicide attackers. Operation Defensive Shield was the largest military operation in the West Bank since 1967, launched in response to the Passover suicide attack in Netanya, when 28 people were killed. Nablus and Jenin were the two places highest on the Israeli blacklist. In Nablus, the West Bank's largest city, Israeli forces battled with Palestinian gunmen. The fighting meant many of the injured, and those killed, could not be evacuated and human rights organisations complained of lack of access to parts of the city. Jenin camp too was out of bounds to human rights organisations while Israeli tanks moved in, destroyed homes and launched fierce fighting to rout out terrorists. Journalists were only able to enter the camp six weeks after the Israelis attacked. They found the once lively streets were silent and that many of the camp's people had fled during the fighting. Israel estimated 100 Palestinians were killed in the camp during eight days of the deadliest fighting. Palestinians said the toll was far higher and that many people were also starved, or cut off from their water supplies. Israel lost 23 soldiers in the Jenin operation. After the Israelis left, the Palestinians struggled to come to terms with the extent of the devastation. Hardly a building remained untouched and the streets were piled high with rubble.

Nablus - April 7, 2002

Wide shot of Nablus, with AUDIO gunfire

Various of gunmen firing on Israeli position from behind the wall

Body of gunman

Gunmen firing

Injured man being dragged to safety

11:04:24

Jenin - April 13, 2002

Destroyed street in Jenin

Woman carrying bottle

Women entering home which has been half destroyed

Street littered with debris from buildings

Women salvaging possessions

Jenin - April 16, 2002

Woman drinking from tap in the rubble

Sewage water in rubble, pan to women sitting and talking in demolished house

Woman standing on first floor of destroyed house with her children

Pan of destroyed houses

11:05:10

G00191

Instant Library 2002 - The Battle of Manger Square

APTN

Various Locations - 2002

After running battles with Israeli troops, about 200 Palestinian gunmen forced their way into the Church of the Nativity - believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ - in Bethlehem's Manger Square. Israeli tanks positioned themselves on the square and soldiers occupied buildings overlooking the church. Thus began the siege of Bethlehem that lasted five weeks. Those inside the church with the gunmen included human rights activists, journalists and members of the church's clergy.

During the siege, while intense negotiations took place, some of those holed up inside, and the bodies of those killed in gun battles with the Israelis, were able to leave. Israeli soldiers threw smoke bombs between those leaving and journalists, blocking the view.

A European-brokered deal ended the siege. As part of the deal, 13 of the group- those highest on Israel's wanted list- were deported, first to Cyprus and then to other European countries. Another 26 militiamen were transported to the Gaza Strip, where they were to remain, exiled from the West Bank.

Bethlehem - April 2, 2002

Various of Bethlehem, AUDIO gunfire

Bethlehem - April 2, 2002

Tank driving towards camera, drives over car in street

Bethlehem - April 8, 2002

Various early morning shots of Manger Square, smoke rising with AUDIO heavy gunfire

Israeli soldiers searching firefighters (before allowing them to attend to fire)

Bethlehem - April 25, 2002

Wide shot Manger Square with tank in front

Blindfolded prisoners leaving church

Bethlehem May 4, 2002

Israeli soldier standing guard

Church bells ringing, zoom out to church

11:06:16

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World News Review 2003

APTN / Pool

Various Locations - 2003

APTN

Hope of progress in the Middle East peace process lay with the appointment of Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) as the first Palestinian Prime Minister. After pressure applied by both The United States and Israel, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat agreed to relinquish some of his power to create the new post. The appointment was seen as a pre-cursor to the U.S. unveiling its "road map" to peace, with the aim of establishing Palestinian statehood within three years. However, continued violence and Israeli strikes within the West Bank and Gaza on Hamas targets were a constant setback to progress.

7.3.03 - Ramallah, West Bank

Abu Mazen, Palestinian Prime Minister Designate, sitting at desk

18.3.03 - Ramallah, West Bank

Various of Palestinian Legislative Council meeting in chamber

Various of council members voting on resolution

11:06:04

9.4.03 - Gaza

Various shots of bodies being carried through crowd

Various shots of masked paramilitary fighters with guns in burial parade

9.4.02 - Jenin

Damaged empty classroom, pan to blood on floor

Close up of broken light and blood splattered floor

Pockmarks on ceiling and walls

11:07:07

U.S. special operations forces in Iraq captured Mohammed Abu Abbas, leader of a Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner Achille Lauro in 1985. He was reported to have lived in Iraq for 17 years. Abbas' case had been mentioned in an October 2002 speech by President Bush, used as evidence of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's support for international terrorism. The Palestinian Authority immediately asked for the release of Abbas, saying his arrest violated a 1995 interim agreement between Israel and the Palestinians that said no PLO officials could be arrested for violent acts committed before the 1993 Israel-P.L.O. pact of mutual recognition.

File, 20.4.96 - Gaza

Mohammed Abu Abbas - allowed into Gaza for first time to attend Palestinian National Council meeting sits down

Abbas greets man

16.4.03 - Baghdad

Wide shot of exterior Mohammed Abbas' house

11:07:21

In April, following a bitter stand-off, the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and his prime-minister designate Mahmoud Abbas finally agreed on the formation of a new cabinet. Arafat had challenged several key appointments made by Abbas during the course of the power struggle. After officially accepting the position of Palestinian Prime Minister, one of Abbas' first acts was to formally accept a draft of the internationally backed peace plan, known as the "road map". The "road map" required an immediate ceasefire, a crackdown on Palestinian militants and Israel's withdrawal from Palestinian towns and the dismantling of Jewish settlements. But just a day after the plan was presented, its success was already under threat. Following a suicide bombing attack in Tel Aviv, Israel struck a Hamas stronghold in Gaza in a raid aimed at taking out Yousef Abu Hein, a leading Hamas bomb maker.

23.4.03 - Ramallah, West Bank

Wide shot of Arafat (centre) holding hands with Mahmoud Abbas ( left) and Suleiman (right) seated at table

1.5.03 - Ramallah, West Bank

Mid shot of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas meeting his cabinet of ministers, shot pulls out to wide

11:07:38

1.5.03 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip

Various shots of masked Hamas gunmen standing amid wreckage of houses at site of Israeli raid

Various shots of ruined buildings

Blood visible on wreckage

Wide shot Gaza City skyline explosions, dust clouds rising above horizons

11:08:00

The "road map" peace plan faced opposition from within Israel. Jewish settlers, once allied to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, rallied against him as he met with both the Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and the U.S. President George W. Bush in a summit in Jordan. The result: a pledge by Israel to dismantle illegal settlements in Palestinian areas, while the new Palestinian prime minister renounced all terrorism against Israel.

4.6.03 - Jerusalem

Various of Jewish settlers protesting with banners

Various wides of protest rally

11:08:18

Pool

4.6.03 - Jordan

US President George W. Bush, Palestinian Prime Minister Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, walk out and wave to media. AUDIO members of media asking them to shake hands, they don't

Leaders walking to podium

Bush and Abbas sitting in garden

11:08:41

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Setbacks to the progress of the peace plan were frequent. Israel continued with the construction of a barrier dividing Israel from areas of the West Bank. While Israel claimed it was merely a measure to protect them against suicide bombers, the Palestinians said it cut thousands of people off from their land and jobs and encroached into large sections of their territory. Despite the construction of the 250 kilometre long fence, the suicide bombings continued. At least 18 people were killed and over 40 injured when a bomb went off in packed bus full of Jewish worshippers returning from prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. In response, Israel froze contact with the Palestinian authority and stopped the handover of two West Bank towns. They also launched a new wave of attacks on Hamas targets in both the West Bank and Gaza.

21.7.03 - Jayous, West Bank

Wide shot of truck moving along the security zone of the road

Bulldozer and truck seen working over barbed wire fence

18.7.03 - Bethlehem, West Bank

Shot of fence warning sign

29.7.03 - West Bank

Fence snaking along for kilometres

Aerial following fence, Palestinian towns and Israeli settlements close to fence

11:09:36

19.8.03 - Jerusalem

Wide shot of ambulances at scene

Various of bus and wreckage at site

Pool

19.8.03 - Jerusalem

Zoom in to front of bus where blast happened

11:09:57

APTN

9.9.03 - Hebron, West Bank

Various shots of apartment building where Kawasme family lived being shelled by tanks

Various shots of Israeli troops attacking apartment building; UPSOUND: Gunfire

Apartment block being demolished

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Following the resignation of Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian Prime Minister, Ahmed Qureia emerged as the frontrunner to take over the position.

Israel maintained its pressure on the Palestinian authority, issuing threats to expel the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. An Arab backed resolution at the United Nations demanding that Israel halt the threats was blocked by a U.S. veto in the security council vote - three other nations abstained: Britain, Germany and Bulgaria. In October, Israel launched an air strike against Syria, hitting what they claimed was a suspected Islamic Jihad training base outside Damascus. The attack on Syria led to an escalation of tensions along the border with Israel and Lebanon, where Syria was the main power-broker. In his first comments following the attack Sharon defended Israel's right to protect its citizens.

9.9.03 - Ramallah, West Bank

SOUNDBITE: (English) Ahmed Qureia, candidate for Palestinian Prime Minister

"We are committed to the peace process, we are committed to the road map, we are committed to all our commitments in the road map, we are committed to security and everything. And we want the other side to commit to it themselves."

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16.9.03 - New York, USA

Security Council voting on draft resolution, some voting for, US voting against, some abstain

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7.10.03 - Jerusalem

SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister

"Israel will not be deterred from protecting its citizens and will strike its enemies in every place and in every way."

11:11:08

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World News Review 2004 - Middle East: West Bank Barrier

APTN

Various Locations - 2004

In July, the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands ruled that a 685-kilometre long security barrier built by Israel along the length of West Bank was illegal. The court's decision was based on its finding that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian areas occupied by Israel in the 1967 war were a violation of the Geneva Convention, as was occupation of East Jerusalem. But Israel said the ruling would not change its policy on the barrier or the Palestinians. Israel claims the barrier is to protect Israeli citizens from attacks by Palestinian militants such as suicide bombers. The Palestinians, whose lives in some places have been severely disrupted by the complex of high concrete walls, razor-wire fences, trenches and watch towers, said it was like living in "a big prison." In its completed form the barrier is to stretch 730 kilometres, although there have been calls in Israel for the route to be changed to the 1967 border. The Palestinians say that the completed barrier will separate thousands of Palestinians and some 45-thousand Jewish settlers from the main Palestinian areas, by dipping deep into the West Bank. The fence cuts many people off from schools, medical clinics, jobs and agricultural land.

Abu Dis, West Bank - January

Wide shot of wall between Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem and the village of Abu Dis in the West Bank

Palestinians jumping over wall

Abu Dis, West Bank - 16 January 2004

Wide shot of wall

Abu Dis, West Bank - 16 January 2004

Nuns walking by security fence

People clambering through fence

Pull out to wide of fence, graffiti reads "Peace comes by agreement not separation."

Qalandiya, West Bank - 10 July 2004

Close up minaret through break in concrete barrier pull out to wide shot

11:11:48

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World News Review 2004 - Middle East: Gaza Raids

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Various Locations - 2004

Israeli security forces made raids into the Rafah camp on the border with Egypt in the Gaza Strip to destroy houses and the ruins of a mosque, saying the buildings give cover to gunmen and weapons smugglers. Nine Palestinians were killed in January in fierce fighting with Israeli troops in Gaza City, after the army launched an operation near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim, in the heart of the teeming Gaza Strip. Palestinian militants fired anti-tank missiles and set off an explosive at the troops who fired back, the army said. In February, Israeli troops moved into a neighbourhood at the eastern edge of Gaza City, killing four Palestinians and wounding 13 others, residents said. Two of the dead were reported to be militants, including a Hamas leader.

Netzarim, Gaza Strip - 28 January 2004

Wide shot of Israeli tank driving down street towards camera, rocket is fired, passing just in front of tank, UPSOUND gunfire

Man walking past ambulance carrying rocket propelled grenade (RPG) launcher

Armed men moving down street, looking for cover from Israeli gunfire

Gaza City - 11 February 2004

Palestinians beside to burning tyres, UPSOUND gunfire, group scatters, pan to Palestinians behind wall

Palestinian carrying RPG launcher

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World News Review 2004 - Middle East: Suicide Attacks

APTN

Various Locations - 2004

In spite of the security efforts, Palestinian suicide bomb continued to get through to attack Israelis. In mid-January a woman blew herself at the main crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip at Erez, killing at least four Israelis and wounding seven other people. She was identified as Reem Raiyshi, aged 21, a Gaza woman described as a Hamas militant and the first female suicide-bomber from the Islamic militant group. Two weeks later a Palestinian man blew himself up on a bus in the downtown Rehevia district of Jerusalem, killing at least 10 bystanders and wounding about 30 in an attack outside Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's official residence. At the end of February, a Palestinian blew himself up on a crowded city bus during rush hour in downtown Jerusalem, killing seven people and wounding more than 60 people, 11 of them seriously. In March, Palestinians blew themselves up in Ashdod, a closely guarded Israeli port, killing 10 Israelis in the first deadly attack on a strategic Israeli installation in more than three years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

In August, Palestinian suicide bombers blew up two buses almost simultaneously in the main street of Beersheba in southern Israel, killing 16 people and wounding more than 80 others. The militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was revenge for the Israeli assassination of two of Hamas leaders in March. In response, Israeli forces closed off the West Bank city of Hebron and blew up the home of Ahmed Kawasmeh, one of the two Beersheba suicide bombers, and ransacked the house of the other bomber.

Jerusalem - 22 February 2004

Various shots of emergency crews around damaged bus

Beersheba - 31 August 2004

Various shots of burned out bus

Hebron - 1 Sep 2004

Various night shots of Israeli soldiers outside house of Ahmed Kawasmeh

Soldiers escorting people from the house

Old man looking at damage to house

Various shots of destroyed interior of house of second Beersheba bomber

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World News Review 2004 - Middle East: Israel and Hamas

APTN

Various Locations - 2004

Israel used the Palestinian suicide-attacks on Ashdod to justify the assassination of the founder and spiritual leader of the Hamas group, Sheik Ahmed Yassin in Gaza City in late March. A rocket fired from an Israeli helicopter struck the wheelchair-bound Yassin as he left a mosque near his house at daybreak. Yassin was the most influential Palestinian militant leader to be killed by Israel and Hamas threatened bloody revenge. In a spontaneous outpouring of rage and grief, tens of thousands of Palestinians, led by hundreds of militant gunmen, poured into the streets of Gaza City after hearing of Yassin's death. Yassin had dodged previous Israeli attempts to kill him. His assassination provoked demonstrations across the Muslim world, including Baghdad, Turkey and Palestinian communities in Lebanon.

Yassin's deputy Abdel Aziz Rantisi succeeded the Hamas leadership and vowed there would be no let up in the Hamas campaign against Israel. But Rantisi was killed in late April when two Israeli rockets fired from a helicopter hit his car in the Sheik Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City. Rantissi was rushed to the hospital and into emergency surgery, but he died five minutes after arriving. Two of his guards were also killed and five bystanders pedestrians were wounded. Hamas had claimed responsibility for most of the 112 suicide bombings that have killed 465 people on the Israeli side during three and a half years of violence. Hours before Rantisi was killed, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at the Erez industrial zone, killing an Israeli border policeman and injuring three other security workers. Thousands of supporters escorted the body of Rantisi down the streets of Gaza at his funeral.

Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 16 January 2004

Various shots of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin

Gaza City - 22 March 2004

Close up pieces of Yassin's wheelchair on ground after the Israeli rocket strike that killed him

Sidon, southern Lebanon - 23 March 2004

Religious figures marching in procession behind the wheelchair

Tripoli, northern Lebanon - 23 March 2004

Men dressed in Hamas colours carrying models of rockets and rocket launchers

Gaza City - Unknown date

Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi at protest march, surrounded by gunmen

Gaza City - 17 April 2004

Car being lifted and turned over by crowd, men trying to reach inside

Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi being wheeled through hospital corridor crowded with media

Gaza City - 18 April 2004

Various shots of Hamas supporters carrying the body of Abdel Aziz Rantisi on a stretcher

11:13:33

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World News Review 2004 - Middle East: Gaza Raids

APTN

Various Locations - 2004

In May, Israeli forces reportedly fired tank shells, helicopter missiles and machine-guns at a crowd of thousands of Palestinians demonstrating against an Israeli raid on the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza. Witnesses and medical workers said at least eight people were killed, two of them children, and 50 people were wounded. The Israelis had launched "Operation Rainbow" in the Rafah camp two days earlier, to hunt down militants and destroying arms-smuggling tunnels that run from Rafah beneath the nearby border. In September, Israeli forces pushed into the largest Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, at Jebaliya near Gaza, after a rocket attack killed two young children in the Israeli border town of Sderot. Twenty-three Palestinians were killed in the attack and at least 108 wounded, the highest single-day Palestinian casualty count in 30 months.

Rafah, Gaza Strip - 19 May 2004

Various wide aerial shots of Palestinian crowd marching

Israeli helicopter firing overhead

Explosion among crowd, people running away

Injured being carried away from scene

Ramallah, West Bank - 30 September 2004

SOUNDBITE (English) Saeb Erekat, Palestinian cabinet minister:

"Violence will breed violence, bullets will breed bullets, hate will generate more of it."

Jebaliya, Gaza Strip - 30 September 2004

Various shots of Israeli tank positioned on high ground overlooking refugee camp

Various shots of street scenes in Jebaliya, UPSOUND gunfire, people run for cover

Masked Palestinian gunman running along alley, one of them carries cable for explosives

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World News Review 2004 - Israel: Vanunu

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Various Locations - 2004

A defiant Mordecai Vanunu walked out of prison in late April, after serving 18 years for spilling Israel's nuclear secrets, saying he was proud of his actions and complaining he had been treated cruelly by his jailers. Vanunu flashed victory signs and waved to hundreds of cheering supporters as he walked into the courtyard of Shikma Prison in the coastal town of Ashkelon. Dozens of counter-demonstrators booed and shouted epithets. In 1986 Vanunu, a nuclear technician, leaked details and pictures of Israel's alleged nuclear weapons programme to a British newspaper. Based on his account, experts said at the time that Israel had the world's sixth-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. Israeli agents abducted Vanunu from Italy before the article was printed and he was convicted of treason in a closed trial. He said he had been kept in solitary confinement for 12 years in an attempt to drive him mad. Vanunu was released subject to is subject to a broad array of speech and travel restrictions. In November after he was arrested again for breaching the restrictions.

Ashkelon, Israel - 21 April 2004

Mordecai Vanunu walking out of prison with brother Meir (in blue shirt) and waving and making victory sign

SOUNDBITE (English) Mordecai Vanunu, nuclear whistleblower:

"I am proud and happy to do what I did. All the secrets that were published are in the hands of the world, all the world, every state, 180 states received this secret."

Medium close shot of Vanunu

11:14:44

G00413

World News Review 2004 - Egypt Hotel Bombing

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Egypt - 2004

In October, bombs exploded at two resorts in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula where Israelis were vacationing at the end of a Jewish holiday. At least 32 people were killed and more than 120 wounded in the blasts at the Taba Hilton, a luxury hotel just south of the Israeli border, and at the Ras Shitan camping area near the town of Nuweiba, 55 kilometres south of Taba. Most of the victims were Israelis. In Taba, a car laden with explosives drove into the lobby of the hotel and exploded, while a suicide-bomber blew himself up near the hotel swimming pool. The blast collapsed a 10-storey wing of the hotel. Two smaller car bombs exploded at Ras Shitan. Two previously unknown Islamic militant groups claimed to have carried out the attacks. Israel blamed al-Qaida, and Egyptian police arrested a number of Bedouin tribesmen on suspicion that they supplied the bombs. About 15-thousand Israelis had been spending the weeklong Jewish holiday of Sukkoth in the Sinai, despite Israeli government warnings of the risk of terrorist attacks on Israeli tourists in the area. The region was controlled by Israel from 1967 to 1989.

Taba - 8 October 2004

Wide shot of Taba Hilton hotel, built by Israelis when Israel controlled Taba from 1967 to 1989

Mid shot of Taba Hilton hotel

Taba - 9 October 2004

Wide shot of hotel

Heavy machines moves in to demolish part of wall

Body being carried away on stretcher

Top shot of digger working

Near Nuweiba - 8 October

Damaged buildings and damaged pickup truck at the Ras Shitan camping area.

11:15:16

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World News Review 2004 - Death of Yasser Arafat

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Various Locations - 2004

The ailing Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, left the West Bank on board a Jordanian military helicopter in late October, heading to a clinic near Paris in France for critical medical treatment. It was the first time that Israeli forces had allowed Arafat to leave his besieged headquarters in Ramallah for almost three years. The Palestinian president was said to be suffering from a serious but undisclosed illness. Under French law his wife, Suha Arafat, controlled access to her husband and declined to release details of Arafat's condition. Arafat's Palestinians deputies denied that he was dying and said that he would recover. But after two weeks, when Arafat was reported to have slipped into a coma, they abandoned their public optimism and began hurried preparations for his death.

Ramallah, West Bank - 29 Oct 2004

Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is helped into Jordanian helicopter.

Wide shot of people watching from the top of a wall

Pan shot of helicopters flying off

Clamart, Near Paris, France - 29 October 2004

Crew takes Arafat on stretcher from helicopter and into building

Clamart, France - 29 October 2004

Hospital complex where Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was treated

Clamart, France - 30 October 2004

Various shots of a rally of Arafat supporters near the hospital where he is being treated.

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Arafat died in intensive care at the Clamart clinic in the early hours of 11 November 2004. He had been a leader of the Palestinian struggle against Israel for four decades, and Palestinians were united in grief when they awoke to news of his death. Palestinian flags were lowered to half-mast at the compound in Ramallah where he had spent his final years. His body was flown from France to Egypt, where he had been born, and where was accorded a military funeral ceremony. A helicopter then flew his coffin to Ramallah in the West Bank, where he was buried in a grave outside his besieged headquarters. Tens of thousands of people swarmed around the helicopter that brought him to the Ramallah compound. As the coffin was carried toward the grave site, police jumped on top of it, waving their arms and flashing the victory sign. People chanted, "With our blood and our soul we will redeem you Yasser Arafat!" Palestinians consider the grave site in Ramallah a temporary one - a place for Arafat's body until they can honour his request to be buried at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Israel refused this request. Speaking at the graveside, Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat said: "My heart is broken because President Arafat is dead, and the Israeli occupation is not ".

Clamart, France - 11 November 2004

SOUNDBITE (French) General Christian Estripeau, hospital spokesman:

"Mr Yasser Arafat, president of the Palestinian Authority, has died at the Percy Military Training Hospital in Clamart on November 11, 2004 at 3:30"

Ramallah, West Bank - 11 November 2004

Palestinian flag is lowered to half-mast

Ramallah, West Bank - 12 November 2004

Wide shot of Yasser Arafat's compound, the Muqata, and thousands of mourners gathered

Masked men holding swords entering

Pan of crowd in compound

Coffin being carried through crowd AUDIO guns being shot in air to move crowd

Police officers getting on top of coffin, which slowly moves through the crowd UPSOUND chanting

Officials paying their respects at grave, including Palestinian minister Saeb Erekat, holding wreaths

Troops salute at graveside

11:17:04

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Instant Library 2005

AP Television News / Pool

Various Locations - 2005

Israel and the Palestinians

The Palestinians held their first presidential election in nine years on January, choosing a successor to longtime leader Yasser Arafat in a vote many across the world hoped would usher in a moderate leadership and revitalise the Middle East peace process. Mahmoud Abbas, the acting president and the candidate from of Arafat's ruling Fatah movement, was elected with 62.3 percent of the vote. The landslide vote was seen to give Abbas a clear mandate to resume peace talks with Israel , but he still faces t he tough task of reining in powerful armed extremist groups.

Abbas and the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met face-to-face at a summit in Egypt in early February. The two leaders smiled broadly as they leaned across a long table to shake hands as they met for the first time. During the summit, Abbas and Sharon announced a ceasefire to end the last four years of violence between Israelis and Palestinians, and spoke of their hopes for a new era of peace talks.

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East Jerusalem - 9 January 2005

Sunrise over old city with the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque centre shot

Abbas-Yasser Arafat banner hanging above road

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Ramallah, West Bank - 9 January 2005

Pool

Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) casts vote

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Ramallah - 10 January 2005

Pie chart showing percentage of votes of each candidate at Election Commission press conference

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Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt - 8 February 2005

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas shaking hands

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Sharm el-Sheik - 8 February 2004

Medium frontal shot of Sharon, Abbas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordanian King Abdullah posing for photographers

11:17:36

Israel 's former President Ezer Weizman died in April, aged 80. A former combat pilot and military commander, Weizman had built up the nation's air force and helped bring about the Jewish state's first peace treaty with an Arab country. In nearly three decades in political life, Weizman had made a highly public transition from hawk to dove, saying the Jews had to learn to "share this part of the world" with the Arabs. As Defence Minister in 1979, he was instrumental in negotiating Israel 's peace treaty with Egypt . Weizman's casual style breathed life into the Israeli presidency, a largely ceremonial office, and endeared him to the Israeli public. His bluntness and sharp-tongued barbs often got him into trouble. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told a memorial service that the story of Weizman's was "the story of Israel ."

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FILE: Various dates and locations

Weizman and his wife Reuma during ceremony for Italian president, 11 October 1999

Weizman before speech to high school students where he spoke against gays, 23 December 1996

Weizman in Gaza for talks with Yasser Arafat, 6 May 1997

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Near Caesarea, northern Israel - 26 April 2005

Wide shot flag-draped coffin

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approaches coffin

Reuma Weizman, widow of Ezer Weizman

Various coffin being carried to cemetery

11:18:07

Gaza Withdrawal

Prime Minister Sharon pushed ahead with his plan to disestablish 25 Jewish settlements in Gaza and the West Bank . But he faced bitter opposition from the settlers and their supporters. In July, opponents of the withdrawal plan gathered in the southern Israeli town of Netivot , for the first leg of a three-day protest march to Gaza , 25 kilometres (15 miles) away. But the police declared the march illegal and some 20-thousand police and soldiers were deployed at the scene to prevent them from going ahead. At the Kissufim Crossing between Gaza and Israel , troops started work on a barrier and wire fence to improve security at the crossing.

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Kissufim Crossing - 18 July 2005

Israeli soldier erecting a wall near the crossing

Wide shot of wall

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Netivot, southern Israel - 18 July 2005

High shot pan of thousands of people dancing at demonstration, UPSOUND singing and clapping

The first Jewish settlers to leave Gaza moved into temporary accommodation in the southern Israeli village of Nitzan at the start of August. Some 164 prefabricated houses had been built in Nitzan to house dozens of settler families expected to make the move. Officials estimate that about half of the 8,500 Gaza settlers will leave voluntarily before the forcible evacuation date of August 17, and the others would offer varying degrees of resistance. They settlements were the first to be removed since Israel captured the territories in the 1967 Mideast War. Hundreds of settlers at the Elei Sinai settlement in the northern Gaza strip attending a final gathering before they left the site at the end of a two week grace period after the formal withdrawal on August 1.

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Nitzan - 1 August 2005

Wide shot of "caravilla" (temporary/mobile home) site

Movers helping family unload van

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Elei Sinai Settlement, northern Gaza - 13 August 2005

UPSOUND (Hebrew) rabbi and settlement leader:

"We are not being expelled by a non-Jew. We are being taken out of here by Jews, and this is the pain. If a Gentile came and burned my house, if this Gentile shot a bullet in me, it wouldn't hurt me as much."

When the grace period was over, Israeli troops moved in to issue eviction notices to the remaining settlers. Defiant and tearful settlers locked the gates to their communities, formed human chains and burned tires to block troops from entering. In Gaza 's largest settlement, Neve Dekalim, residents blocked the main road, stopping army vehicles and scuffling with soldiers. Later they burnt the eviction notices. Police and soldiers waited in the sweltering sun and avoided confrontation at the behest of their commanders. In one scene, a sobbing settler pleaded with a brigadier general not to evict him before the two men embraced. In other communities, residents, many wearing orange -- their protest colour -- tearfully implored soldiers not to carry out their orders.

But the withdrawal went on regardless, and the troops dragged hundreds settlers from homes and synagogues and hauled them onto buses to new homes in the following days. In the West Bank , an Israeli settler was arrested for killing three Palestinians and wounding two others in a shooting spree that aroused fears of Palestinian retaliation and the disruption of the evacuation mission which had gone largely without serious violence. In Gaza , unarmed soldiers carried away worshippers still wrapped in their white prayer shawls, while wailing men ripped their shirts in a Jewish mourning ritual. One 54-year-old woman from the West Bank set herself on fire at a police roadblock in southern Israel to protest the Gaza pullout, suffering life-threatening burns on 70 percent of her body. In Morag, soldiers encountered cement blocks and burning garbage containers when they entered the settlement early on Wednesday, and briefly clashed with residents. But as the day dragged on, the protesters gradually surrendered and let themselves be carried away to buses.

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Neve Dekalim settlement, southern Gaza - 15 August 2005

Various shots of Israeli tanks and security forces marching down road

Various shots of scuffles between settlers and security forces

Various shots of settlers burning eviction notices

Gan Or, part of the Gush Katif settlement in southern Gaza - 15 August 2005

Wide of settlers by fence singing

Pan of settlers behind fence singing

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Neve Dekalim, Gaza - 17 August 2005

Various shots of of metal barricades burning in the street

Woman being carried by female security forces

Settler being forcibly put onto bus

Morag, Gaza

Door being broken down and soldiers enter

People standing on roof of house with Israeli flag

For comprehensive coverage of the 2006 war in Lebanon please see the Lebanon vol 4 clipreel

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World News Review 2006

AP Television / Militant Video

Various Locations - 2006

In January, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massive, life-threatening stroke. Some Israelis came to the Jerusalem Western Wall to pray for his health. Doctors placed Sharon on a respirator and were trying to save his life just hours before the overweight, 77-year-old was scheduled to undergo a procedure to seal a hole in his heart that contributed to a mild stroke on December 18.

Israel Radio quoted an unnamed Israeli health official as saying Sharon 's prospects of a full recovery from the 4 January stroke were slim. Sharon underwent emergency surgery after a brain scan revealed a rise in intracranial pressure and some bleeding in his brain.

Sharon 's health crisis comes at a time of upheaval among Palestinian factions in Gaza and in the midst of both Israeli and Palestinian election campaigns.

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Jerusalem

Close-up of newspaper headlines

Three weeks earlier, as 2005 drew to a close, Israel denied a British newspaper report that it had plans to attack Iran in March 2006, though officials conceded that they would not rule out a military strike if Iran advanced its efforts to develop nuclear weapons.

London 's Sunday Times that said Israel has a plan for a combined air and ground attack on targets in Iran if diplomacy fails to stop the Iranian nuclear programme. Sharon 's inner Cabinet authorised the attack, the newspaper said. Vice Premier Ehud Olmert, a close confidant of Sharon , called the report "ridiculous."

Olmert became prime minister after Sharon suffered his stroke.

Israel has identified Iran as the greatest threat to the Jewish state and rejects Iran 's claims that its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes.

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Jerusalem , 11 Dec 2005

Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon opening meeting

Wide shot of Israeli cabinet; Vice Premier Ehud Olmert next to Sharon

The Islamic militant group Hamas has won a huge majority in parliamentary elections in January, winning 76 seats in the 132-member parliament, as Palestinian voters rejected the long-time rule of the ailing Fatah Party. Hamas' sweeping victory dramatically shook up the political landscape of the Middle East, propelling the Islamic militant group, which has sustained a bloody military campaign against Israel, and in turn had its last two leaders and countless other activists assassinated by the Jewish state, into government.

The Hamas victory reflected popular discontent with Fatah, the secular party that has led the Palestinian Authority since its creation 12 years ago and has been accused of widespread corruption and mismanagement.

In response, Israel halted crucial monthly payments to the Palestinian Authority, though it did not immediately block millions of dollars in humanitarian aid that moves through Israeli banks. In Gaza , Hamas' prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, accused Israel of inflicting ongoing collective punishment on the Palestinian people.

Commenting on the halt in Israeli funds, Mahmoud Zahar, a senior Hamas leader from Gaza who has been nominated as the movement's parliamentary faction leader, said the group would not allow Israel to "strangulate or starve" the Palestinian people.

There are three and a half (m) million Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem .

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Jerusalem , Israel - 25 January 2006

Sunrise over the Al Aqsa Mosque

Balata Refugee Camp, Nablus, West Bank

Gunmen handing over weapons before entering polling station

Interior polling station, man casting his vote

Azariya village, West Bank

Hamas flags on mosque minaret

11:20:20

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Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip - 26 January 2006

Wide shot thousands of Hamas supporters marching in streets, with green Hamas flags and Palestinian flags

Hamas supporters chanting "Hamas"

Hamas supporters chanting slogans holding rifles

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Gaza City , Gaza Strip - 17 Feb 2006

Hamas Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, talking to media

Hamas member of parliament arriving

Interior shot of members of parliament in meeting with Haniyeh

Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader from Gaza at the news conference

In April, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up near a fast food restaurant in a bustling commercial area of Tel Aviv during the Jewish holiday of Passover, killing six people and wounding at least 35 others. A security guard posted outside the restaurant, which had been the target of a previous suicide bombing last January, prevented the bomber from entering the building, police said.

It was the first suicide bombing in Israel since the Hamas militant group recently took over the Palestinian government. Hamas and other militant groups have been observing a cease-fire with Israel for more than a year, though the new Hamas-led Palestinian leadership has refused to condemn attacks against Israelis.

The bomber struck the same restaurant, "The Mayor's Felafel," that was hit by an attacker on January 19. In that attack, 20 people were wounded.

Later that day, police stopped a car with three suspected Palestinian accomplices the West Bank . They were filmed handcuffed and stripped down to their underpants in the Ofer camp on the West Bank side of the pre-1967 border, which is presently part of municipal Jerusalem .

The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing. In a phone call to the Associated Press, the group identified the bomber as Sami Salim Mohammed Hammad and later they released a video showing the purported suicide bomber reading a statement.

In response to the bombing, Israeli aircraft attacked an empty metal workshop in Gaza City , causing no injuries. The army said the workshop was used by the Popular Resistance Committees militant group to manufacture homemade rockets to launch at Israel .

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Tel Aviv , Israel - 17 April 2006

Various of damaged restaurant, sirens

Wide of damage

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Ofer Camp, municipal Jerusalem - 17 April 2006

Various of arrested men, stripped down to underpants, under Israeli soldiers'' guard

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1. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sami Salim Mohammed Hammad, purported suicide bomber

"In the name of God, I would be a martyr. My name is Sami Salim Mohammed Hammad. I am the son of the Jerusalem Brigades of the Islamic Jihad.

11:21:25

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Gaza Strip - 18 April 2006

Various of people searching through rubble

Man showing pieces of missile

A month later, Hamas gunmen traded heavy fire with Palestinian police near the parliament building in Gaza City , killing the driver of Jordan 's ambassador in Gaza . The diplomat's car was hit by three bullets fired into the windshield. The ambassador was not in the vehicle when it came under fire. The Hamas gunmen, holed up in an abandoned building during the battle, fired a rocket-propelled grenade and threw two hand grenades at the police, witnesses said.

Security officials said the incident began when members of a new Hamas militia stopped a car carrying members of the Preventive Security Service, a branch loyal to moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Preventive Security officials said Hamas militiamen fired at the car.

11:21:37

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Gaza City , 22 May 2006

Wide shot of Gaza city

White Car stops in road, driver appears injured

Men surround Jordanian embassy car with bullet hole on windshield

Also in May, the funeral of assassinated Hamas security chief Abu Samhadana took place as hundreds of gunmen escorted his body from the morgue in Gaza to his house for a leave taking ceremony. No mosque could accommodate the tens of thousands expected to attend the funeral prayer in the Rafah refugee camp where Samhadana had lived, so a makeshift mosque was set up at the local stadium.

Palestinian militants vowed to avenge Israel 's assassination of Samhadana, an attack that threatened to ignite large-scale violence between the two sides. Hours after his death, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets into Israel , hitting a building in the southern town of Sderot , but causing no casualties, the military said.

Samhadana's appointment as Hamas' top enforcer helped to set the stage for recent Palestinian infighting that has killed 16 people and raised the spectre of all-out conflict between Hamas and the long-ruling Fatah movement it swept aside in January parliamentary elections.

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Masked gunmen marching

Masked gunmen on top of vehicle

Close shot, body of Jamal Abu Samhadana

In June, thousands of Palestinians joined the funeral procession of seven civilians killed when an Israeli artillery attack tore into a beachside picnic in Gaza . The mourners at the funeral procession in Beit Lahiya chanted "revenge, revenge" and "destroy Israel , destroy America " as they made their way through the town's narrow streets, carrying the victims' bodies.

The Israeli army said it had targeted areas in the northern Gaza Strip used by Palestinian militants to fire homemade rockets at Israel , but said that one artillery strike appeared to go off course. The beach attack prompted the military wing of the Islamic group Hamas to call off a 16-month-old truce with Israel .

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Gaza beach, near the city of Beit Lahyia , Gaza Strip - 9 June 2006

Cars at beach

Plastic toys on beach

Child lying on hospital bed

Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, 10 June 2006

Woman crying

Various of dead bodies wrapped in Hamas' flag in mosque

Funeral procession

Man carrying dead body of baby in procession

In a separate incident, hundreds of Palestinian security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas went on a violent rampage against the Hamas-led government. They riddled the parliament and Cabinet buildings with bullets before setting them alight to protest an attack against their comrades in the Gaza Strip by Hamas gunmen, who had attacked a Preventive Security installation. The attack set off daylong clashes that left two people dead and 14 wounded.

The security men stormed the two-building Cabinet complex, where they smashed furniture, water coolers and air conditioners, destroyed computers and scattered documents. No casualties were reported.

When a fire engine approached the scene, one gunman lay on the road in front of it, preventing it from reaching the building. The Cabinet fire was eventually extinguished, but the crowd then set the second floor of the parliament building on fire.

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Gunmen shooting in the air

Exterior of PLC building

Broken windows scattered on ground

People at entrance to building, shots fired

Gunman on balcony of building

Palestinian security forces entering building

In Northern Gaza, Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a car in the crowded Jebaliya refugee camp, killing a teenage girl and two young children and wounding eight people. The Israeli military reported the car was carrying militants from the Al Aqsa martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with the Fatah movement of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

It was at least the second Israeli military action against militants in recent weeks to claim civilian victims.

An air strike in early June killed eight civilians, in addition to the two militants it targeted. About 100-thousand Palestinians live in the Jebaliya camp, just north of Gaza City , making it the largest refugee camp in Gaza . Funerals were held the following day.

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Gaza City , Gaza Strip - 20 June 2006

Car targeted by Israeli missile surrounded by people

Various of wounded children on stretcher

People gathered around body of boy killed in attack

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Jebaliya, near Gaza city, Gaza Strip - 21 June 2006

Various of bodies of children carried by crowd through the street UPSOUND: gunshots and chanting

Men carrying dead bodies on stretchers

Israeli troops entered southern Gaza and planes attacked three bridges and a power station, knocking out electricity in most of the coastal strip, stepping up the pressure on Palestinian militants holding a 19-year-old Israeli soldier captive.

Israeli troops began taking up positions in two locations east of the Gaza town of Rafah under the cover of tank shells, according to witnesses and Palestinian security officials. Palestinians dug in behind walls and sand embankments, bracing for a major Israeli offensive.

Israel said only freedom for the captive soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit, could defuse the crisis, not a political agreement.

Shalit was captured on 25 June 2006 in an attack on an army base in southern Israel by militants affiliated with the Palestinians' ruling Hamas party. The Palestinian government has called for the soldier's release, but Israel thinks the group's Syria-based leaders ordered the operation.

Palestinian groups say the attack and subsequent capture of Shalit was a response to several Israeli airstrikes that killed a number of their civilians.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army bombed a house in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, described by locals as a factory used by Palestinian militants to make and store rockets for use against Israel . According to eyewitnesses at the scene, an unmanned aerial vehicle fired a guided missile into a building.

The building is just a few kilometres (miles) from where an Israeli armoured column has pushed into Gaza and taken up positions at an abandoned airport, to try and force the release of Shalit. At Nahaloz, on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza , Israeli tanks were seen firing shells. Major General Yoav Galant, a commander in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF), said Israeli forces were "activating" in a few places in the Gaza Strip in an effort to secure the release of the soldier.

The ground offensive was Israel 's first since pulling all of its soldiers and settlers out of Gaza over the summer (2005).

Israeli forces arrested Palestinian deputy Prime Minister Nasser Shaer as part of their operation find Shalit. Shaer had criticised Israel 's operations: "There is a real disaster in Gaza now." The arrest of the seven Hamas cabinet ministers and 20 lawmakers is seen by some observers as an Israeli attempt to use them as bargaining chips to win the release of the soldier.

Israeli tanks in Nahal Oz, South Israel, launched artillery attacks on Gaza , partially destroying the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.

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Kerem Shalom Gate (border of Israel and Gaza ), 1.5 miles (two kilometres) south of Kerem Shalom - 28 June 2006

Wide of Israeli tanks

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Rafah, Gaza Strip - 28 June 2006

Pan of firemen hosing wreckage of burning house

Nahaloz , Israel - near Gaza border

++DUSK SHOTS++

Various of tanks firing shells

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Ramallah, West Bank, 28 June 2006

Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Nasser Shaer

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nasser Shaer, Palestinian deputy prime minister:

"There is a real disaster in Gaza now."

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Exterior of office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Hanyieh

Damage to structure

Interior - various of damage

Meanwhile, Israeli troops raided a Palestinian hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus , looking for a wanted man wounded in an earlier operation. The soldiers shot stun grenades and tear gas as they stormed the hospital, and once inside, put the doctors and nurses on one floor, they said. The target of the Israeli operation was a Palestinian wounded in an Israeli raid on the nearby Balata refugee camp in mid June, but it was not clear if he was in the hospital at the time. In Gaza , Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned overnight Israeli air-strikes, after a meeting with the UN special envoy to the Middle East .

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Gaza - 2 July 2006

Various of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh walking through rubble at Haniyeh's damaged office

Nablus, West Bank

Israeli troops running to the front of the hospital

Injured man being rushed from shop across the street to the hospital

Israeli soldier rushing people and press out of the hospital

As the search for a captured Israeli soldier continued, Israeli aircraft hit several targets around the Gaza Strip, including a building in Gaza City where the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades has an office, Palestinians and the military said. The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades are a violent offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.

A missile struck the second floor of the two-story building, setting it on fire. No one was in the office at the time of the attack, after midnight. The strikes by the Israeli military followed a earlier warning from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that he instructed the army to do all it could to free the captured soldier, Corporal Gilad Shalit.

As part of the operation to free Shalit, Israeli forces launched three attacks near Khan Younis in southern Gaza , killing two people and wounding several others. In one attack, an Israeli aircraft attacked a group of Palestinian militants, killing two people who were later identified as members of armed Palestinian groups.

The army confirmed it had carried out an airstrike in Khan Younis after Israeli forces were attacked with seven anti-tank missiles and a rocket. Palestinians were also injured in two other purported attacks near Khan Younis, though no further information was currently available about the incidents. The attacks come as Israel expanded its operation in Gaza . Officials decided to step up the offensive, after Palestinian militants from the ruling Hamas party fired two upgraded rockets into the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon .

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Gaza City - 3 July 2006

Various wide shots of explosions in the city (AUDIO: explosions)

Ambulance at scene of explosion

Pan across to fire burning on second floor of building

Fire in building

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Khan Younis, 6 July 2006

Wide top shot of buildings, AUDIO of gunfire

Long shot of smoke rising from Israeli tank on cleared land

Masked gunmen walking past, one armed with rocket-propelled grenade launcher

Israeli helicopter firing missiles overhead, AUDIO of gunfire

Various of gunmen on the street, bystanders taking cover behind buildings

In October, frustrations boiled over in Gaza City as militiamen from the ruling Hamas party used guns and clubs to break up police protests over unpaid government salaries. Since Hamas won elections in January, Israel and the West have withheld tax payments and foreign aid in an effort to force Hamas to recognise and stop attacking Israel .

Two people were killed, including a 15-year-old boy, and at least 32 were wounded, including three schoolchildren and a TV cameraman for the Arab satellite TV station Al-Arabiya. After the crowd of protesters there swelled to include hundreds of police and civilians, Hamas militiamen rush in swinging clubs and firing in the air. Militiamen and security personnel - including members of Abbas' elite bodyguard unit - began trading fire on two of the main streets of Gaza City near parliament, and gunmen from both sides took positions on rooftops near the legislature.

In retaliation dozens of supporters from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party ransacked and torched the empty Council of Ministers building in the West Bank city of Ramallah , the seat of the Palestinian government.

Some of the militants set an office on the second floor on fire, and soon the entire floor was engulfed in flames. The militants threw files out the windows and witnesses could see pieces of furniture being thrown about.

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Gaza - 1 October 2006

Wide shot Gaza skyline, audio of gunfire

Wide shot crowd at street, Hamas militiamen trying control the crowd

Various shooting by Hamas militiamen, people running away

Hamas militiamen beating one of protestors

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Fatah protesters climbing the Palestinian Cabinet building

Fatah protesters storming the Cabinet building

Various of Fatah members smashing windows and equipment in building

Fatah guards standing outside the Cabinet building while protester smashes a window

Smoke pouring from building

Fire seen through barred window

Cabinet building and guards

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Universal Newsreel 1949

02:02 Marshall Resigns State Post

Former wartime Army Chief of Staff George C Marshall is at home with Mrs Marshall in Pinehurst, North Carolina following his resignation from the office of US Secretary of State. He is recuperating from a recent operation. In Washington, Dean Acheson, the present Undersecretary of State, has been named by President Truman to replace Mr Marshall. James E Webb moves up into Acheson's present post.

02:47 Tragedy Mars Air Show

Amid the events of a spectacular display of formation flying, stunts and speed races at the Air Manoeuvres in Miami, unscheduled drama occurs when a Shooting Star crashes.

04:42 18,000 Mummers In Parade

Philadelphia - The weather held up "King Momus", but when he arrives he outdoes himself with the biggest and most lavish Mummers Parade of all time. Two million spectators view the glittering procession of fun-makers at the traditional celebration of the New year.

05:32 Four-Year-Old Minister

Long Beach California - Marjoe Gortner, four-year-old ordained minister, known as the miracle child evangelist, performs a wedding ceremony for a sailor and bride. The youngster has caused a furor in religious circles.

06:29 Miss Press Photographer

New York - 21 year-old Jeanne Crow of Florida is chosen Queen of the Press Photographers.

07:21 Cardinal Mindszenty Faces Death Penalty

The world stands aghast as the death sentence is asked in a Communist court for Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, primate of the Catholic church in Hungary. In New York, Cardinal Spellman denounces the mock treason trial as a blow against civilisation.

08:32 Navy's Air Giant Spans Continent With 90 Abroad

The Navy commissions its 92-ton transport, after which it carries 90 persons non-stop across the continent in nine and a half hours - the largest payload in history.

09:37 Thousands Flee Nanking

The Chinese Nationalist capital becomes a ghost city as the government and thousands of citizens use every means of transportation to evacuate the city. Chinese Communist forces massed across the river threaten to take over hourly.

10:54 Dimaggio Ends Hold-Out

New York City. New York Yankees baseball team owner Dan Topping and Joe DiMaggio are all smiles as Joe signs his new contract for a reputed $100,000.

11:15 Ice Skating Championships

Newburgh New York - The Mid-Atlantic titles are at stake, as skaters from midget size to the men's classes who speed and spills.

12:17 Israel Approved As United Nations Member

Lake Success. New York - The Security Council by a vote of nine to one recommends the Jewish Homeland for membership in the United Nations, subject to ratification by the General Assembly.

13:06 The Life Of Riley

Cincinnati - Crowds throng to see William Bendix and his cast as U-I's film based on the popular radio programme "The Life of Riley" has its premiere.

14:08 Pyramids Sweep Country

The latest craze in the US is "Pyramid Clubs". It all works a bit like a chain letter. By throwing in a dollar you stand to win $2,048 and people around the country are joining in the fun and the chance to make "easy money".

16:15 Nato Is Born

In Washington DC, the United States signs a joint defence treaty with eleven other Western democratic nations - the first such peace-time alliance in America's history. President Truman calls it a "shield against aggression".

17:34 Churshill Says A-Bomb Checks Reds

Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, is invited to speak at the mid-century convocation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and 14,000 people fill Boston Gardens to hear him. Warning of Soviet agression, Churchill says that the atomic bomb in US hands has been the sole deterrent to Communist expansion over Western Europe.

19:03 East-West Cagers Meet

New York - Madison Square basketball fans see the East win with a hair-raising finish for a one point triumph.

20:28 Easter Parade

The traditional Easter celebration in New York City centres in front of St Patrick's Cathedral. As worshippers emerge, they become part of the massive crowd of one and a half million people thronging Fifth Avenue to display their Spring finery, with emphasis on the bonnets.

21:52 Toronto Takes Third Straight Stanley Cup

Toronto - The Toronto Maple Leafs take the fourth game to give them the championship for the third year.

23:37 The Cold War Thaws A Little

After almost a year in which West Berliners received food and supplies via the US Airlift, the blockade has been broken - Russia opens the door to admit trucks and trains into the city once again. The world looks anxiously toward the 4-power conference of ministers in Paris to resolve the East-West problem in Germany.

25:01 Holland Tunnel Rent By Blasts

New York - A truck loaded with carbon disulphide, colliding with another, sets off explosions that rip 300 feet of the tunnel and injure 66, as motorists flee the under-water vehicular passage.

26:40 "Capot" Wins Preakness

Capot, the colt which was nosed out in the Kentucky Derby, wins in a photo decision over Palestinian.

28:19 Rita Hayworth And Prince Aly Khan Wed

France - The sleepy Riviera village of Vallauris becomes the centre of romance's stage as glamorous Rita Hayworth weds Prince Aly Khan.

30:14 Indianapolis "500"

Bill Hollands sets a new record of 121 miles an hour to take the gruelling 500 mile Memorial Day race.

32:29 New Heavyweight Champion

Chicago - Ezzard Charles wears boxing's heavyweight crown after his defeat of Jersey Joe Walcott. But his title is not recognised in New York State and England.

33:21 Tennis Matches Open At Wimbledon

England - Gardner Mulloy and Ted Schroeder put on a five set sizzler that has the fans on their feet. After trailing two sets, Schroeder turns on the steam and wins.

34:54 Aviation Strides

The 'Paraplane' makes its bow. It takes off in 200 feet and lands in the same.

35:49 Miss Atlantic City

Atlantic City - The title is won by Terry Gualtieri.

36:34 Young Marble Champions

Winners Emma Miller and George Wents show their dexterity at the National Marble Tournament for youngsters.

37:21 "Flying Saucer" Found

The Maryland State Police discover some odd looking experimental circular craft in an old shed, which might (or might not) be the "flying saucers" people have reported seeing in the skies. they don't look too impressive, but the Air Force investigates - just in case.

38:16 Swiss Alpine Fortress

Celebrating 658 years of independence, Switzerland has released these hitherto secret films showing one example of a remarkable series of forts concealed high in their mountains. Cleverly camouflaged, the forts are fully equipped strongholds from which the Swiss could hold off any threat to their age-old freedom.

39:09 New Boat Design

Veteran boat designer and famed racing pilot Gar Wood takes the wheel of his new boat, Venturi, a twin hulled craft unlike any other in existence. Originally planned for the Army Air Force, the 188-foot ship was built secretly during the war and Wood expects the design to vitally affect passenger crafts in future. Tests have proved that the vessel will not roll and it is called unsinkable.

39:57 Indians Adopt Sophie Tucker

Canada - Sophie Tucker, "The Last of the Red Hot Mommas", dresses up in Indian regalia and tries a few steps of a tribal dance after being inducted into the Mohawk Tribe.

40:35 Connie Mack Honoured

New York - The 'Grand Old Man' of baseball, Connie Mack is cheered by thousands as he rides in triumph up Broadway. He also has a 'Day' at Yankee Stadium where he is honoured for his 50 years as a manager.

41:23 National AAU Swim Meet

Los Angeles - Hironoshin Furuhashi of Tokyo breaks four records as he leads the team to victory... Slow motion shots show US divers in winning form.

43:05 1949 Beauty Queens Chosen

"Miss America" of 1949 is petite 18 year old Jacqueline Mercer of Arizona... And Mrs Frances Cloyd of California is elected Mrs America.

44:46 World's Third Largest Bridge Rebuilt

Tacoma, Washington - After years of planning, construction is again underway on a new Narrows Bridge over Puget Sound, to replace the one that crashed so spectacularly back in 1940. Newsreel clips show dramatic pictures of that catastrophe.

45:55 Britain Launches Giant Airliner

England - The Brabazon I, the world's largest civil land plane, goes aloft for its first test flight. The great plane is a prototype of a new commercial craft that will carry 100 passengers on the New York to London run.

46:58 Film Festival At Cannes

Cannes, France - The Riviera resort goes all out in festivities to welcome visiting films and film celebrities from America. Yvonne DeCarlo, Edward G Robinson and others are greeted.

47:59 Stunt Flight

Alexandria, VA - Tommy Walker keeps the airminded on the edge of their seats when deliberately runs his small biplane into a wall - and walks away from it.

48:43 Riggs Wins At Forest Hills

Bobby Riggs takes the professional tennis title for the third straight year, winning from Don Budge in an exciting match.

49:20 Hong Kong Girds Against Invasion

The British Crown Colony of Hong Kong is now in the path of the invading Chinese Communists, who command a position only a few miles away. Hong Kong has become the most important seaport in China since the fall of Shanghai to Communist forces. The British send massive reinforcements of troops, field artillery and air squadrons to beat off any attempt that might be made to take Hong Kong.

50:47 Nation Stirred By Truman Report That Russia Has The Atom Bomb

President Truman's surprise announcement that Russia now possesses the atom bomb makes big headlines in the US. The electrifying news brings instant response from United nations delegates meeting at Flushing Meadows. Assembly President Romulo says the news means that the world now must strive harder for atomic controls. Meanwhile, at Hanford, Washington security measures are increased at the great plutonium plant.

SHOTLIST:

1. People and Italian Carabinieri police in Portico d'Ottavia, Rome

2. Roman Jew holding the peace torch leaving Portico d'Ottavia

3. Italian journalist holding at peace torch at Piazza Farnese, people shouting 'Al-Bashir murderer'

4. Darfur Refugees holding signs reading "do not forget Darfur" and shouting "Murderer"

5. Peace torch held by Italian journalists arriving in Piazza Farnese

6. Refugees standing

7. Peace torch held by two italian journalists in Piazza Farnese

8. Cutaway of refugees

9. Darfur Refugee holding peace torch and Rome Councillor of Social Politics Jean-Leonard Touadi talking on the stage

10. Close up of torch

11. Close up of refugee

12. Refugees standing with posters

13. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Suliman Ahmed, Sudanese Refugee:

"This day has been organised by "Italians for Darfur," the Darfur refugees, Article 21 and the Italian Jewish Community. This is a world day, about 30 other countries supported this initiative, organised to stop this bloodbath in Darfur."

14. Refugees holding posters reading "justice and peace to Darfur"

15. SOUNDBITE (Italian) of Riccardo Nuri, Amnesty International

"It's really important to talk about the Darfur issue, it always is, but especially in the wake of such an important visit as (Sudanese) President (Omar) al-Bashir, during which some commitments were made. Starting from today, with this demonstration we intend to let President al-Bashir know that we will check if this commitment to carry on this peace process is real or his words were just nice words during a diplomatic meeting."

16. Various of shots from a documentary on big screen

STORYLINE:

A peace torch carried from Oure Cassoni refugee camp in eastern Chad was handed over to a survivor of the Darfur conflict in Rome on Sunday.

The torch handover marks Global Day for Darfur, a campaign calling for an immediate cease fire in the remote western region of Sudan.

Promoted by the association "Italians for Darfur" the event is part of a wider international campaign called Global Day for Darfur organised by both celebrities and activists to raise awareness of the killings in Darfur.

"This is a world day, about 30 other countries supported this initiative, organised to stop this bloodbath in Darfur", said Suliman Ahmed a refugee from Darfur.

The four-year-old conflict between rebels and government-backed Janjaweed militias has killed 200,000 people and left 2.5 (m) million homeless.

Organisers warned some in the international community have become complacent since the U.N. Security Council approved a resolution on July 31 calling for a 26,000-strong African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force for the vast, war-battered region in western Sudan.

The force's deployment faces delays due to a lack of aviation, transport and logistics units, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned last month.

But in the meantime, the violence in Darfur has increased, the organisers of the global Darfur protests said.

Last Friday in a rare, high-profile visit, Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir met with the pope and Italy's premier and offered to declare a cease-fire with Darfur rebels to coincide with the start of U.N.-backed peace talks next month.

"It's really important to talk about the Darfur issue, it always is, but especially in the wake of such an important visit as President al-Bashir during which important commitments were made", said Riccardo Nuri of Amnesty International.

"With this demonstration we intend to let President al-Bashir know that we will check if this commitment to carry on this peace process is real or his words were just nice words during a diplomatic meeting", he added.

Just before the Global Day for Darfur celebrities and activists urged world leaders on Saturday to demand an immediate cease-fire and the swift deployment of an expanded peacekeeping force.

Street protests were planned on Sunday in cities in Britain, the U.S., New Zealand, South Africa and Japan to call for action in Darfur.

The conflict began when ethnic African rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government in 2003, accusing it of decades of neglect.

Sudan's government is accused of retaliating by unleashing a militia of Arab nomads known as the janjaweed, a charge it denies.

Efforts also are under way to speed up the deployment of the African Union-U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur that is to replace a smaller, ineffectual mission of African Union troops.

Saturday's letter urged politicians meeting at the U.N. to move beyond sympathy for the suffering and to step up the pressure on all parties in the conflict to agree to an immediate cease-fire.

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1. Wide of Buckingham Palace

2. Mid shot of Buckingham Palace

3. Set up shot of Duncan Larcombe

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Duncan Larcombe, Royal Correspondent for British newspaper The Sun:

"Well, the story has been, 'When will they get married?'. And we were so pre-occupied with that and everyone was that the story 'When will they split' wasn't even something we contemplated. So it is a surprise, it's a bolt from the blue. Only three weeks ago, the two of them were in Zermatt, in Switzerland, in the Alps, skiing down the mountains, cuddling and kissing, having a whale of a time. You could not have predicted three weeks ago that they'd be here today announcing that they've split up once and for all."

5. Cutaway of Larcombe's hands

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Duncan Larcombe, Royal Correspondent for British newspaper The Sun:

"William, after what happened to his father, cannot get it wrong. He cannot marry the wrong woman, and I suppose, in a funny kind of way, it's better that we're here today talking about his girlfriend leaving, splitting up with her, than us talking about a royal divorce which might cause serious problems for Buckingham Palace in the future."

7. Larcombe walking away, pan to Buckingham Palace

8. Wide of Victoria station in London

9. Man buying newspaper

10. Zoom into Sun newspaper with headlines reading "Wills and Kate split"

11. Pan down of postcard stand with postcards showing Prince William and the Royal Family

12. Set up shot of Arthur Edwards reading the Sun newspaper in a cafe

13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Arthur Edwards, former Royal Photographer for The Sun:

"I was absolutely shocked when I found out that they, him and Kate, finally decided to split. But I suppose if I think about it, not surprised because the clues were there. William was just getting up to pranks with girls at night clubs in Bournemouth, and normally they go on holiday at Easter time for ten days, but this time this year they didn't. So the clue was there, but I'm still shocked because I thought she and he were a perfect couple."

14. Cutaway of Edwards

15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Arthur Edwards, former Royal Photographer for The Sun:

"If I think about it, I think he's making a bit of a mistake here. Because this girl is a really lovely girl. She looks good and the acts perfectly, and people who work for Prince William tell me she's a fantastic person, absolutely fantastic."

16. End shot of Edwards sitting in cafe

PRINCE WILLIAM AND GIRLFRIEND SPLIT.

Prince William and his long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton have ended their relationship, a British newspaper reported on Saturday.

The Sun said the couple had reached an "amicable agreement" to separate.

William's Clarence House office refused to comment, saying it did not discuss the prince's private life.

The newspaper said the split was caused by the huge pressures on the young couple and because of William's career in the army.

He graduated earlier this year from Sandhurst military academy.

The 24-year-old prince and 25-year-old Middleton met as students at St. Andrews University in Scotland and have been dating for several years.

Middleton has been the focus of intense media pressure for months as rumours spread that the couple would announce their engagement.

The news took many royal-watchers by surprise. It was widely thought the couple would soon announce their engagement; one bookmaker was so certain of a royal wedding it stopped taking bets on it earlier this year.

The retail chain Woolworths had commissioned mugs, plates and other Wills-and-Kate memorabilia, despite the absence of a formal engagement.

"Only three weeks ago, the two of them were in Zermatt, in Switzerland, in the Alps, skiing down the mountains, cuddling and kissing, having a whale of a time," Duncan Larcombe, The Sun's Royal Correspondent told AP Television. "You could not have predicted three weeks ago that they'd be here today announcing that they've split up once and for all."

But behind the scenes, a different story was unfolding. The Sun said the split was caused by the "extraordinary pressures" on the couple and by William's career in the army.

The second in line to the throne graduated from Sandhurst military academy in December and is undergoing further training at an army base in rural England, while Middleton lives in London.

In recent weeks, William has been photographed at nightclubs in the company of several young women.

Arthur Edwards, a former royal photographer who has photographed Prince William since he was born, said there were clues suggesting a break-up was near.

"William was just getting up to pranks with girls at night clubs in Bournemouth, and normally they go on holiday at Easter time for ten days, but this time this year they didn't," said Edwards.

He added: "I think he's making a bit of a mistake here. Because this girl is a really lovely girl. She looks good and the acts perfectly, and people who work for Prince William tell me she's a fantastic person, absolutely fantastic."

Both Edwards and Larcombe believe media pressure put a great strain on the couple's relationship.

"After what happened to his father," said Larcombe, the prince "cannot get it wrong. He cannot marry the wrong woman."

Once the couple's relationship became public with a joint photo on a Swiss skiing holiday in 2004, Middleton was a media darling.

The brunette fashion buyer was photographed attending public events, going to work, even getting a parking ticket - a level of attention

that evoked the romance of William's father, Prince Charles, and the then-Lady Diana Spencer a quarter-century ago.

Charles and Diana married at St. Paul's Cathedral in 1981, in a televised ceremony watched by millions around the world.

They had two sons, William and Harry, but divorced in 1996 after admissions of adultery on both sides. Diana died in a car crash in Paris in

August 1997.

William was determined Middleton would not suffer the same media hounding his mother had endured, appealing through his office for

the media to leave her alone.

Middleton has frequently had to dodge paparazzi on her way to work as a retail accessories buyer in scenes that evoked the romance of William's father, Prince Charles, and the then-Lady Diana Spencer a quarter-century ago.

"After what happened to his father," said Larcombe, the prince "cannot get it wrong. He cannot marry the wrong woman."

After divorcing Diana, Prince Charles married his childhood sweetheart Camilla Parker-Bowles.

Another factor, added Larcombe, was William's young age. The prince has frequently declared that he doesn't want to be married until in a few years.