SHOTLIST:

Beijing, China. 29 June 2013.

1. 00:00 Wide of Yao Ming and basketball players on stage

2. 00:05 Pull out from Panagiotis Giannakis, head coach of Chinese Basketball team, and players Yi Jianlian, Liu Wei, Wang Zhelin marking the seal of Chinese Basketball team on a calligraphy work, followed by Yao Ming sealing the paper with the stamp of the Yao Foundation

3. 00:24 SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Yao Ming, founder of Yao Foundation:

"I think all the kids we are helping need us to see them as equal as we are. Charity is not just giving, more importantly is the attitude of giving. We should not do charity work as giving from the higher level to the lower ones. We should try to provide opportunity for them. As a traditional Chinese idiom says it is better to teach people fishing than just giving them fish."

4. 00:53 Metta World Peace marking his name seal on the paper

5. 01:02 SOUNDBITE (English) Metta World Peace, NBA player, LA Lakers:

"It's good to be here back in China on behalf of Yao - he has a great Foundation. I played with Yao in Houston. He was a superstar not only because he is from China but just because he was a superstar, very unselfish and this trend carries over to a charity game and his foundation."

6. 01:26 Yao Ming helping Joakim Noah to mark his name seal on the paper

7. 01:36 SOUNDBITE (English): Joakim Noah, NBA player, Chicago Bulls:

"It's a unbelievable honour to be here and this is my first time in China and to be able to be a part of this for Yao and his Foundation and doing this for the kids coming from very far, you know, from New York city to be able to do something like this is very special and to me to do it for Yao's cause it means a lot, playing against a National team, you know Yi (points to Jianlian) we came to NBA together, so a lot of familiar faces as well."

8. 02:16 Yao and players on stage holding the calligraphy work for photos

STORYLINE:

Looking to boost his charity's revenues, Yao Ming has managed to gather a cluster of NBA players together in Beijing for a match against the Chinese national team on July the 1st.

SCRIPTING INFORMATION:

The location will be the venue which hosted the Olympic basketball in 2008.

The date - July the 1st.

The protagonists will be an NBA select team - and the Chinese national side.

And we even know the winner - the Yao Foundation.

The children's charity founded by Yao Ming has benefited since 2007 from games organised by the former Houston Rockets centre.

Steve Nash was instrumental in the inaugural fixture - the second one was staged in Taipei in 2010 with the participation of Jeremy Lin.

As for 2013, six NBA men are in China to play for the Yao Foundation team.

Metta World Peace, formerly known as Ron Artest, used to be a team-mate of Yao's in Houston.

The remainder are Joakim Noah, the Chicago Bulls centre; Kyle Lowry, George Hill, Luis Scola and Tracy McGrady.

China will no doubt also be using the match as preparation for the 2013 FIBA Asian Championships to be played in Manila in early August.

SHOTLIST

1. Bono, lead singer of U2 and co-founder of The One Campaign, enters room

2. Bono sitting with singer Youssou N'Dour

3. Close-up of N'Dour

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ban ki-Moon, UN Secretary-General:

"As I told the General Assembly on Monday, Tuesday and today, our approach to malaria can serve as a model for other campaigns to battle the evils we face now. Not just with disease, but hunger, poverty, illiteracy and gender inequality. The great progress we have seen on malaria comes thanks to you, the generous donors and our other partners, who are putting their money to good use."

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bono, Singer of U2:

"I'd like to say that I'm not here as a rock star. Really, I'm here as a fan. I'm a fan of Malaria No More, what you two gentlemen have done is extraordinary. I'm a great fan of Africa, in particular. I'm a fan of these leaders, incredible: Kagame (Rwanda's President Paul Kagame), Kikwete (Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete), President Kufuor (Ghana's President John Kufuor). I'm in their fan club. And I'm a great fan of the physicians and the scientists, who've gathered on this problem, Bill Gates - he's a rock star."

6. Bill Gates, co-chair of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, sitting next to Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation:

"Beyond that, we want to have a vaccine that has even better effect, that has hundred percent coverage, and in order to promote that, we're announcing, today, the Gates Foundation is giving an additional 168 million (US dollars) to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative."

8. Gates, Brown seated next to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister:

"This is a historic meeting and a historic moment, and I think people are beginning to realise, everybody here, that it's not just a one billion dollar moment, it's going to be a three- three and a half billion dollar moment. And I want to thank Ray and Peter for everything they've done. This campaign, and the campaigns with the Malaria Roll Back Partnership, have achieved more in a year, than most campaigns achieve in a hundred years. Thank you very much for what you've done."

10. Mid of stage

11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian President:

"First it is true that indeed, in Zanzibar we have reached a point where we may soon announce that malaria has been eliminated, which to us is a big success. Of course our preoccupation now is to create the mechanism to sustain the success, so that we don't have a re-emergence. Because, we have succeeded - this is the third time we have succeeded in Zanzibar. We want this time to be the final time."

12. Mid of stage

13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime Minister:

"But to all other governments here, can I say: let us not drop the baton when the focus comes off this meeting. The hard work will be next week and the week after and the year after and the year after that. Our proposal's modest: it's to deal with our own neighbourhood. But we'll take it from there. Thanks very much."

14. Bono leaving the room after the meeting

STORYLINE:

World leaders and celebrities gathered in New York on Thursday announced a new commitment of nearly three (b) billion US dollars to the fight against malaria.

With the number of malaria deaths approaching one (m) million a year, most of them infants and toddlers, the infectious disease has become a scourge in remote areas of Africa and Southeast Asia.

But officials said Thursday, malaria as a mass child killer would be virtually eliminated globally by 2015 under the new plan, which is backed by nearly three (b) billion US dollar in pledges, and could, as UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon said, serve as "a model for other campaigns to battle the evils we face now".

"Not just with disease, but hunger, poverty, illiteracy and gender inequality. The great progress we have seen on malaria comes thanks to you, the generous donors and our other partners, who are putting their money to good use," Ban told the 2008 Malaria Summit.

Led by the Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Malaria, Ray Chambers, who is also co-chairman of the NGO, Malaria No More, the summit brought together government leaders, health ministers, NGOs and leaders from business and industry as part of the Millennium Development Goals.

The ambitious public-private coalition intends to eliminate malaria deaths by 2015, with possible eradication of the disease by 2020.

Specifically, the plan aims to reduce those deaths to almost zero within just seven years by providing better access to bed nets, indoor spraying, improved diagnosis and treatment, preventative measures for pregnant women and development of new vaccines.

The plan was unveiled with much hoopla on Thursday by U.N. officials, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, U2 frontman Bono, "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller, News Corporation's president Peter Chernin and other heads of state and ministers from Australia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Zambia.

Bono, who attended the meeting along with fellow singer, Youssou N'Dour, praised those involved.

"I'd like to say that I'm not here as a rock-star. Really, I'm here as a fan. I'm a fan of Malaria No More," the Irish rocker said. "I'm a great fan of Africa, in particular. I'm a fan of these leaders, incredible: Kagame, Kikwete, President Kufuor. I'm in their fan club. And I'm a great fan of the physicians and the scientists, who've gathered on this problem."

The plan was sponsored by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, which was launched in 1998 by the World Bank and three U.N. agencies: the World Health Organisation, the United Nations Children's Fund and the United Nations Development Programme.

British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown also offered kind words on the programme.

"This is a historic meeting and a historic moment, and I think people are beginning to realise here that it's not just a one billion dollar moment, it's going to be a three- three and a half billion dollar moment," said Brown.

"This campaign, and the campaigns with the Malaria Roll Back Partnership, have achieved more in a year, than most campaigns achieve in a hundred years," he said.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who Bono described as a "rock star" for his charitable work, said greater innovation was needed in the fight against malaria, such as developing new vaccines.

"We want to have a vaccine that has even better effect, that has hundred percent coverage, and in order to promote that, we're announcing, today, the Gates Foundation is giving an additional 168 million US dollars to the Malaria Vaccine Initiative."

The grant was one of many from the private sector announced around the meeting. The largest single pledge to the campaign was 1.1 (b) billion US dollars from the World Bank.

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is giving 1.62 (b) billion over two years, Britain pledged more than 70 (m) million dollars, while Marathon Oil and a coalition of businesses pledged 28 (m) million dollars.

Significant progress in the fight against the disease has been made in parts of Africa, according to Tanzania's president.

"In Zanzibar we have reached a point where we may soon announce that malaria has been eliminated, which to us is a big success," said Jakaya Kikwete. "Of course our preoccupation now is to create the mechanism to sustain the success, so that we don't have a re-emergence."

Originally approved in 2000 by member states, the eight Development Goals are to slash poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality; reduce child mortality; improve maternal health; combat aids, malaria and other diseases; ensure environmental stability; and develop a global partnership for development.

Nearly a quarter billion people get malaria each year, according to a WHO report last week. That figure halved an earlier estimate of 500 million, based on improved measurement techniques.

WHO left unchanged its latest figure for malaria deaths: 881,000 people killed by malaria in 2006, most of them children under 5.

But to meet the plan's ambitious goals, leaders say they will need to collect donations totalling more than six(b) billion worldwide by 2010, including 2.86 (b) billion for Africa, and then spend up to 900 (m) million each year after that for more research on vaccines, drugs and other new preventative tools.