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VOICE-OVER:

ACTOR COMEDIAN ROBIN WILLIAMS COMMITTED SUICIDE BY HANGING HIMSELF...

...IN HIS SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HOME.

OFFICIALS MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT TUESDAY_A DAY AFTER HIS PERSONAL ASSISTANT DISCOVERED HIS BODY.

SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Keith Boyd, Marin County Sheriff's Department

"Entered the bedroom to find Mr. Williams clothed, in a seated position unresponsive with a belt secured around his neck."

THE ACTOR-COMEDIAN HAD BEEN TREATED FOR DEPRESSION RECENTLY...AND HAD A LONG HISTORY WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Keith Boyd, Marin County Sheriff's Department

"Toxicology testing will be conducted to determine if Mr. Williams had any chemical substances in his system at the time of his death."

SOUNDBITE (English) Haven Daley, Associated Press

"Meanwhile, here at the San Francisco home featured in the movie "Mrs. Doubtfire," fans have been stopping by to pay their respect."

SOUNDBITE (English) Marion Blumberg, Fan from San Francisco

"His son went to school with my sons. We would see him at school functions. He was just a regular dad. Loved his kids."

FANS ALSO SHOWED UP AT THE OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR'S FORMER SAN FRANCISCO HOME.

SOUNDBITE (English) Regina Singh, Fan from Sacramento

"Since I've been in this country, all I do is watch his movies. So I'm a very big fan, big time."

THEY'RE ALSO REMEMBERING WILLIAMS AT COMEDY CLUBS IN NEW YORK CITY...

SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Ross, Fan from New York

"I think everyone's very sad, nobody has a bad thing to say about Robin Williams. You can't find anybody who's going to. You know, he was a great, great guy."

...AND IN COLORADO -- AT THE HOME USED FOR HIS BREAK-THROUGH TV SHOW "MORK & MINDY.".

SOUNDBITE: (English) Rose Widera, Boulder Fan

"It was just our way of coming out and paying tribute and saying goodbye.''

WILLIAMS LEAVES BEHIND A WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE STILL PENDING.

HAVEN DALEY, ASSOCIATED PRESS, SAN FRANCISCO.

CELEBRITY FOOTAGE

Beverly Hills - July 29, 2013

1. Various of Robin Williams at CBS party

AP ENTERTAINMENT

Tiburon, California - August 12, 2014

2. Various of small memorial outside Robin Williams' home where he was found dead

ABC NEWS - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA

San Rafael, California - August 12, 2014

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Keith Boyd, Marin County Sheriff's Department (transcript below)

AP ENTERTAINMENT

Los Angeles - October 4, 2006

4. Shot of robin williams being interviewed at movie premiere

CELEBRITY FOOTAGE

Beverly Hills - July 29, 2013

5. Robin Williams at CBS party

AP ENTERTAINMENT

Los Angeles - October 4, 2006

6. Wide of Robin Williams at film premiere

AP ENTERTAINMENT

San Francisco - August 12, 2014

7. Wide of home where 'Mrs. Doubtfire' was filmed

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Haven Daley, Associated Press (transcript below)

9. Various of memorial at 'Mrs. Doubtfire' home

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Marion Blumberg, Robin Williams fan from San Francisco (transcript below)

11. Various shots of memorial set up at former San Francisco home of Robin Williams

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Regina Singh, Robin Williams fan (transcript below)

AP ENTERTAINMENT

New York - August 12, 2014

13. Various of memorial outside Caroline's on Broadway comedy club

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Ross, Robin Williams fan (transcript below)

AP ENTERTAINMENT

Boulder, Colorado - August 12, 2014

15. Various of memorial set up outside the fictional home of 'Mork and Mindy' from the sitcom starring Robin Williams

AP ENTERTAINMENT

San Francisco - August 12, 2014

16. Various cards left at memorials outside 'Mrs. Doubtfire' home

VOICE-OVER:

ACTOR COMEDIAN ROBIN WILLIAMS COMMITTED SUICIDE BY HANGING HIMSELF...

...IN HIS SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA HOME.

OFFICIALS MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT TUESDAY_A DAY AFTER HIS PERSONAL ASSISTANT DISCOVERED HIS BODY.

SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Keith Boyd, Marin County Sheriff's Department

"Entered the bedroom to find Mr. Williams clothed, in a seated position unresponsive with a belt secured around his neck."

THE ACTOR-COMEDIAN HAD BEEN TREATED FOR DEPRESSION RECENTLY...AND HAD A LONG HISTORY WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE.

SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Keith Boyd, Marin County Sheriff's Department

"Toxicology testing will be conducted to determine if Mr. Williams had any chemical substances in his system at the time of his death."

SOUNDBITE (English) Haven Daley, Associated Press

"Meanwhile, here at the San Francisco home featured in the movie "Mrs. Doubtfire," fans have been stopping by to pay their respect."

SOUNDBITE (English) Marion Blumberg, Fan from San Francisco

"His son went to school with my sons. We would see him at school functions. He was just a regular dad. Loved his kids."

FANS ALSO SHOWED UP AT THE OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR'S FORMER SAN FRANCISCO HOME.

SOUNDBITE (English) Regina Singh, Fan from Sacramento

"Since I've been in this country, all I do is watch his movies. So I'm a very big fan, big time."

THEY'RE ALSO REMEMBERING WILLIAMS AT COMEDY CLUBS IN NEW YORK CITY...

SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Ross, Fan from New York

"I think everyone's very sad, nobody has a bad thing to say about Robin Williams. You can't find anybody who's going to. You know, he was a great, great guy."

...AND IN COLORADO -- AT THE HOME USED FOR HIS BREAK-THROUGH TV SHOW "MORK & MINDY.".

SOUNDBITE: (English) Rose Widera, Boulder Fan

"It was just our way of coming out and paying tribute and saying goodbye.''

WILLIAMS LEAVES BEHIND A WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS ARE STILL PENDING.

HAVEN DALEY, ASSOCIATED PRESS, SAN FRANCISCO.

CELEBRITY FOOTAGE

Beverly Hills - July 29, 2013

1. Various of Robin Williams at CBS party

AP ENTERTAINMENT

Tiburon, California - August 12, 2014

2. Various of small memorial outside Robin Williams' home where he was found dead

ABC NEWS - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA

San Rafael, California - August 12, 2014

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Keith Boyd, Marin County Sheriff's Department (transcript below)

AP ENTERTAINMENT

Los Angeles - October 4, 2006

4. Shot of robin williams being interviewed at movie premiere

CELEBRITY FOOTAGE

Beverly Hills - July 29, 2013

5. Robin Williams at CBS party

AP ENTERTAINMENT

Los Angeles - October 4, 2006

6. Wide of Robin Williams at film premiere

AP ENTERTAINMENT

San Francisco - August 12, 2014

7. Wide of home where 'Mrs. Doubtfire' was filmed

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Haven Daley, Associated Press (transcript below)

9. Various of memorial at 'Mrs. Doubtfire' home

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Marion Blumberg, Robin Williams fan from San Francisco (transcript below)

11. Various shots of memorial set up at former San Francisco home of Robin Williams

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Regina Singh, Robin Williams fan (transcript below)

AP ENTERTAINMENT

New York - August 12, 2014

13. Various of memorial outside Caroline's on Broadway comedy club

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Susan Ross, Robin Williams fan (transcript below)

AP ENTERTAINMENT

Boulder, Colorado - August 12, 2014

15. Various of memorial set up outside the fictional home of 'Mork and Mindy' from the sitcom starring Robin Williams

AP ENTERTAINMENT

San Francisco - August 12, 2014

16. Various cards left at memorials outside 'Mrs. Doubtfire' home

SHOTLIST (including transcript):-

Celebrity Footage

Los Angeles, 8 July 2013

1. Wide of Director's Guild of America theater

2. Medium of "The Bridge" poster, push in

3. Medium of Demian Bichir posing for photos

4. Medium of Bichir and girlfriend Stefanie Sherk

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Demian Bichir/Actor, on the core relationship of the show between his character, Det. Marco Ruiz, and Det. Sonya Cross, played by Diane Kruger:

"Sonya and Marco, it's almost like an analogy of Mexico and the United States, because they're so different -- we are so different and so close together -- and we need to work together to solve all the problems that we have in common."

6. Wide of Diane Kruger posing for photographs

7. Medium of Kruger

8. Medium of Kruger and husband Joshua Jackson

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Diane Kruger/Actress, on her character, Det. Sonya Cross:

"Sonya has Asperger's, so it's on the spectrum of autism, and so she has difficulty reading social cues and she's what you would call, I guess, socially awkward. But she has a lot of (unintelligible), it's just there's a delay and she doesn't really understand when to empathize those feelings and so it's been a bit of a daunting undertaking to portray her as accurately as I can and doing justice to people who have that condition."

10. Medium of Annabeth Gish posing for photographs, pull out

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Annabeth Gish/Actress, on the show's authenticity:

"There is 'The Lost Girls of Juarez,' there is sort of the immigration issues, there are all of the border politics, and what FX and we have kind of done, bravely, is really address them authentically as well. The show is substantially in Spanish and English and it's very provocative on so many levels."

12. Medium of Matthew Lliard talking to a reporter

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Matthew Lillard/Actor:

"My character is sinister and weird and odd and he gets weirder and weirder and darker and darker and I get more and more excited to go to work every day."

++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE RESTRICTIONS FOR FX NETWORKS MATERIAL:

--Mandatory on-screen courtesy: "The Bridge Courtesy of FX Networks"

--May be used on all television worldwide. Internet media is restricted to streaming; material may not be placed online for downloading

--Footage may only be used until 1 Aug. 2013

FX Networks

14. Show clip: "The Bridge"

STORYLINE

BICHIR, KRUGER ATTEND 'THE BRIDGE' PREMIERE

Mexican star Demian Bichir and German actress Diane Kruger brought their significant others to the red carpet Monday night (8 JULY 2013) in Los Angeles to celebrate their FX crime drama 'The Bridge.'

Bichir posed with his girlfriend Stefanie Sherk, a Canadian model and actress, while Kruger brought along her husband, actor Joshua Jackson.

"Sonya and Marco, it's almost like an analogy of Mexico and the United States, because they're so different -- we are so different and so close together -- and we need to work together to solve all the problems that we have in common," said Bichir about the show's central relationship between the Mexican detective he plays and Sonya Cross of the El Paso police department, played by Kruger.

Critics have noted the show's similarities to the Showtime hit "Homeland." Both were adapted from successful foreign series and the executive producer of "The Bridge" worked on "Homeland" as well. Each of the main characters also copes with a disability.

"Sonya has Asperger's, so it's on the spectrum of autism, and so she has difficulty reading social cues and is what you would call, I guess, socially awkward," said Kruger. "But she has a lot of CCC, it's just there's a delay and she doesn't really understand when to empathize those feelings and so it's been a bit of a daunting undertaking to portray her as accurately as I can and doing justice to people who have that condition."

"The Bridge" starts with a body found on the bridge between El Paso and Juarez, Mexico, but that initial premise spins out into a variety of plot points -- touching on everything from political corruption to border safety.

"There is 'The Lost Girls of Juarez,' there is sort of the immigration issues, there are all of the border politics, and what FX and we have kind of done, bravely, is really address them authentically as well," said actress Annabeth Gish, who plays a wealthy widow whose husband was involved in some sort of human smuggling. "The show is substantially in Spanish and English and it's very provocative on so many levels."

The detectives soon come to believe they're dealing with more than just one murder, but to give away more than that would be to ruin the experience for viewers.

"My character is sinister and weird and odd and he gets weirder and weirder and darker and darker and I get more and more excited to go to work every day," summed up Matthew Lillard, who plays a newspaper reporter named Daniel Frye.

"The Bridge" begins on FX Wednesday night, July 10. The series airs at 10 p.m. Eastern.

SHOTLIST:

AP Television

Washington, DC - March 18, 2010

1. Tilt down shot of neon ''Elvis'' sign to workers finishing exhibit

2. Wide screen in auditorium, showing film of Elvis performing

3. Close-up newspaper headlines

4. Close-up Presley photograph

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ken Paulson, President, Newseum:

"You know, it is hard to imagine in an era of Lady Gaga, but this man stood on stage, shook his hips and startled America. "

6. Tilt up shot of jumpsuit from Presley''s 1973 Aloha from Hawaii TV concert

7. Various workers putting up photographs

8. Close-up record

9. Mid shot, Elvis performing

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ken Paulson, President, Newseum:

"The press coverage was highly critical. They talked about his threat to the morals of this country and how if this were not stopped young people would be subjected to all kinds of immoral thoughts and sexual thoughts."

11. Push in to newspaper headlines

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ken Paulson, President, Newseum:

"Now, the interesting thing about that is that until then he was a regional performer, he had been a truck driver, he was popular in maybe 3 of the 50 states and then suddenly overnight, you tell America this man is too dirty to be on stage, suddenly everyone looks and pays attention. The press may have turned him into the King of Rock and Roll."

Video exhibit, June 9, 1972

13. Mid shot of news conference Presley is giving in Madison Square Garden, in New York

AP Television

Washington, DC - March 18, 2010

14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ken Paulson, President, Newseum:

"We''ve got a lot of rare archival photos of him sparring with the press and press conferences. They often asked Elvis''s personal feelings on political issues and he steered clear of it - which set him apart from his contemporaries like The Beatles. Elvis wanted to make music, he didn''t necessarily want to make headlines and he certainly didn''t want to make controversy, as ironic as that is from a man who was very controversial when he came on the scene."

15. Images from the exhibit of Presley shaking hands with President Richard Nixon

16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ken Paulson, President, Newseum:

"Apparently, if you are the king of Rock and Roll you can get into the Oval Office on short notice. And that is what happened that day, there was actually Elvis fans inside the White House who made it happen. Elvis walked in, met Nixon and offered his services to help fight the war on drugs. Which obviously has more than a little bit of irony to it."

17. Various photograph of Nixon and Presley, FBI badge Presley requested

18. Close-up cufflinks Nixon gave Presley

19. Wide shot, Presley''s 1957 Harley Davidson Hydra Glide

20. Mid shot display

21. Mid shot people looking at display of when Lisa Marie Presley was born

22. Push into baby outfit

23. Footprints from ''Girl Presley'' that have never been displayed before

24. Various champagne bottle signed by Priscilla Presley

25. SOUNDBITE: (English) Diane Lewis, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi:

"Well, a couple of the items I''d never, that''s never been on display, the champagne bottle with Priscilla''s original signature, I liked the fact the ring receipt - that was all interesting to see, the cost, and of course there is several items here - even though I have been to Graceland, there are several items that are interesting."

25. Walking shot of Paulson in front of movie screen

26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ken Paulson, President, Newseum:

"When Presley died in 1977 a photograph was taken of him in his casket at the morgue, I think it was about 17,000 dollars the National Enquirer paid for that photograph and it became their biggest selling issue to date. But you know, you talk about celebrity journalism and having no shame, we see a lot of it today, it really began in the Elvis 70s era and he was the victim of it."

27. Mid shot, National Enquirer newspaper front page showing the photograph of Elvis in casket

28. Mid shot, Elvis neon sign and poster

LEADIN

The hip-swinging, generation-defining career of Elvis Presley is the subject of a new exhibition in the US.

On show are rare possessions from the Presley estate, including his daughter''s footprints and a signed champagne bottle.

STORYLINE

In what would have been Elvis Aaron Presley''s 75th birthday year, the Newseum in Washington D.C. is retelling the story of the music sensation as he was portrayed in the news media.

The exhibit examines how Presley''s music and physicality pushed the boundaries of U.S. mainstream taste and free expression.

Ken Paulson, Newseum''s President, says the young performer was controversial as soon as he landed on stage.

"You know, it is hard to imagine in an era of Lady Gaga, but this man stood on stage, shook his hips and startled America. "

Paulson says the exhibit traces Presley''s rise to prominence from a regional star to a global icon, who combined traditionally black rhythm and blues with white country music and a swivel of his hips, bringing teenage girls screaming to his concerts.

"Press coverage was highly critical, they talked about his threat to the morals of this country and how if this were not stopped young people would be subjected to all kinds of immoral thoughts and sexual thoughts." says Paulson.

It seems the negative press helped turn Presley into the "King of Rock and Roll".

The exhibit also shows rarely seen photographs and film footage of news conferences.

At a 1972 news conference in Madison Square Gardens, just before performing in four sell-out concerts, Presley avoids answering a reporters question about the Vietnam War draft.

"They (reporters) often asked Elvis''s personal feelings on political issues and he steered clear of it - which set him apart from his contemporaries like The Beatles," Paulson says.

There is also memorabilia from Presley''s notorious visit to the White House during President Richard Nixon''s tenure.

Without an appointment, Presley drove up to the White House gates and asked to see the president.

Within hours he was in the Oval Office offering his help in an anti-drug campaign and asking for a Federal badge to inspire him.

Not only does the exhibit show a photograph of the encounter, it also displays the badge and a pair of cufflinks Nixon presented to Presley.

Designed in conjunction with Elvis Presley Enterprises, the exhibit includes a number of rare objects from the vaults of Graceland that have never been publicly displayed.

The private memorabilia on display for the first time includes the footprints of ''Girl Presley'' as Lisa Marie Presley was known at birth, as well as a champagne bottle signed by the newly weds from the Aladdin Hotel - a gift for Presley''s parents.

Ardent Presley fan, Diane Lewis from Mississippi, delayed her return home by a day to get a sneak peak as workers raced against the clock to finish the displays in time for the opening.

Although she''s visited Graceland, Presley''s home, Lewis enjoyed seeing some of the personal artifacts for the first time.

Even Presley''s death foreshadowed a new era in tabloid news standards, Paulson believes.

"When Presley died in 1977 a photograph was taken of him in his casket at the morgue, I think it was about 17,000 dollars the National Enquirer paid for that photograph and it became their biggest selling issues to date. But you know, you talk about celebrity journalism and having no shame, we see a lot of it today, it really became in the Elvis 70s era and he was the victim of it."

The exhibit runs through to February 14, 2011.

An international coalition of media outlets on Sunday published what it said was an extensive investigation into the offshore financial dealings of the rich and famous, based on data and internal documents from a Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit organisation based in Washington, said the cache of 11.5 million records, which was provided by an anonymous source, detailed the offshore holdings of a dozen current and former world leaders, as well as businessmen, criminals, celebrities and sports stars.

The Associated Press wasn't immediately able to verify the allegations made in articles that were published by the more than 100 news organisations around the world involved in the investigation.

Among the countries with past or present political figures named in the reports are Iceland, Ukraine, Pakistan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Russia.

The Guardian newspaper, which took part in the investigation, published a video on its website late Sunday showing an interview with Iceland's prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson.

During the interview with Sweden's SVT television, the prime minister was asked about a company called Wintris, to which he responded by insisting that its affairs are above board and calling the question "completely inappropriate," before breaking off the interview.

The office of Argentina's president, Mauricio Macri, confirmed on Sunday that the business group owned by his family set up Fleg Trading Ltd., an offshore company based in the Bahamas.

But it said Macri himself had no shares in Fleg and never received income from it.

Macri's office commented after La Nacion, an Argentine national newspaper, reported that he and his family had links to Fleg.

Mossack Fonseca did not immediately respond to an AP request for comment.

An international coalition of media outlets on Sunday published what it said was an extensive investigation into the offshore financial dealings of the rich and famous, based on data and internal documents from a Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca.

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit organisation based in Washington, said the cache of 11.5 million records, which was provided by an anonymous source, detailed the offshore holdings of a dozen current and former world leaders, as well as businessmen, criminals, celebrities and sports stars.

The Associated Press wasn't immediately able to verify the allegations made in articles that were published by the more than 100 news organisations around the world involved in the investigation.

Among the countries with past or present political figures named in the reports are Iceland, Ukraine, Pakistan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Russia.

The Guardian newspaper, which took part in the investigation, published a video on its website late Sunday showing an interview with Iceland's prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson.

During the interview with Sweden's SVT television, the prime minister was asked about a company called Wintris, to which he responded by insisting that its affairs are above board and calling the question "completely inappropriate," before breaking off the interview.

The office of Argentina's president, Mauricio Macri, confirmed on Sunday that the business group owned by his family set up Fleg Trading Ltd., an offshore company based in the Bahamas.

But it said Macri himself had no shares in Fleg and never received income from it.

Macri's office commented after La Nacion, an Argentine national newspaper, reported that he and his family had links to Fleg.

Mossack Fonseca did not immediately respond to an AP request for comment.

AP TELEVISION

Panama City - 3 April 2016

1. Exterior of building where Mossack Fonseca law firm offices are located

2. Photographer taking picture of office sign

3. Sign outside building reads 'Mossfon Asset Management, Mossfon Trust Corporation, Mossack Fonseca, Arango Orillac Clinic'

4. Television news crew reporting from scene

5. Security guard outside the building

AP TELEVISION

FILE: Reykjavik - 29 October 2015

6. Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson at the Northern Future Forum

7. Gunnlaugsson talking (with Cameron sitting to the left)

AP TELEVISION

Panama City - 3 April 2016

8. Cameraman outside office

9. Pan down of exterior of office building

10. Various of camera crews

AP TELEVISION

FILE: Buenos Aires - 16 March 2016

11. Argentine President, Mauricio Macri, being interviewed

12. Various of Macri talking

POOL

FILE: Washington - 31 March 2016

13. Various of Macri arriving at White House

AP TELEVISION

Panama City - 3 April 2016

14. Close of company name, Mossack Fonseca, on side of car

15. Cars inside parking lot of building

16. Traffic on street

SHOTLIST:

1. State Taxation Administration officials walking into news briefing

2. Officials taking their seats

3. Wide pan from press to stage

4. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Cui Junhui, Deputy Director, State Administration of Taxation

"In the last year, due to supervision in special fields and on special cases by the tax levying departments, tax evasion to the value of 35 (b) billion yuan (4.2 billion US dollars) was found out."

5. Cutaway, press

6. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Jin Ren Qing, Director, State Administration of Taxation

"In the last year, we investigated and prosecuted several tax evasion cases related to celebrities and got some response from the general public. However, we did not target them because they are celebrities, it is because there was tax evasion and that lead us to them, so we handled it in accordance with the law. I think under the law, celebrities are the same as ordinary people."

7. Cutaways, reporters

9. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Jin Ren Qing, Director, State Administration of Taxation

"This year, we have a new central party committee with Hu Jintao as the head and we will have a new state council in the coming March. For the Chinese people, a new party committee and a new government shall bring a new scene and new methods. I think a lot of material force will be generated. I have a good forecast of this year's economy which is a good foundation for the tax collection this year."

10. Cutaway, reporters writing

11. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Jin Ren Qing, Director, State Administration of Taxation

"I believe this year's economy is not below that of last year which is my estimate. So the trend that the tax growth rate is higher than that of GDP is going to continue, because in recent years, the tax kept growing at the same rate or higher rate than that of the GDP. I think this trend will not disappear this year."

12. Wide shot media

13. Wide shot closing of news conference

STORYLINE:

China said on Tuesday it would intensify an ongoing crackdown against tax evasion this year in order to boost revenue.

State Administration of Taxation officials said tax evasion deprived government coffers of about 35 (b) billion yuan (4.2 billion US dollars) in revenues last year.

The tax administration has prioritized a crackdown on tax evasion as one of several methods to boost tax revenue.

Deputy director Cui Junhui said at a press conference that tax fraud investigators will pursue both foreign and domestic taxpayers regardless of their size or status.

China's battle against tax evasion last year bagged high-profile cheats including film star Liu Xiaoqing and multimillionaire tycoon Yang Bin.

Liu was arrested June 20 on charges of evading 14.6 (m) million yuan ($1.7 million) in taxes since 1996.

Meanwhile, State Administration of Taxation Director Jin Renqing said that he expected tax revenue growth to slightly exceed gross domestic growth this year, but did not specify a figure.

China posted an 8 per cent year-on-year increase in GDP in 2002 and is expected to record at least 7 per cent GDP growth this year.

China urgently needs higher tax revenues to help offset an expected record budget deficit of 309.8 (b) billion yuan (37.4 billion US dollars) in 2002, fuelled by increased spending on social services and infrastructure projects.

HEADLINE: China anti-Nobel campaign winning it no friends

CAPTION: China's campaign to vilify this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and sabotage the award ceremony showed signs of backfiring Thursday, as criticism of Beijing rose and the imprisoned Chinese dissident seemed to be turning into a celebrity. (Dec. 9)

WHEN THE NOBEL COMMITTEE AWARDS THE PEACE PRIZE FRIDAY THE WINNER WILL BE HERE---BEHIND BARS AT THIS CHINESE PRISON.

(lee-OO' show-BOH') LIU XIAOBO, A 54-YEAR-OLD LITERARY CRITIC AND DEMOCRACY ADVOCATE, IS SERVING AN 11-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOR SUBVERSION. THE SENTENCE CAME AFTER HE CO-AUTHORED A BOLD APPEAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLITICAL REFORM.

(SOT: Thorbjoern Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee)

"This is not a prize against China. This is a prize honouring those people in China and Liu Xiaobo is one of the most prominent ones that is clearly understanding that further economic development in China must be combined with political reforms."

IN NORWAY--WHERE THE PRIZE WILL BE AWARDED--THE NOBEL COMMITTEE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE SELECTION OF LIU SENDS A MESSAGE ABOUT CHINA'S RECORD OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES.

(SOT: Thorbjoern Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee)

"We know already that a lot of Chinese know about the prize so it is creating a huge pressure on Chinese authorities and I believe that this is probably one of the most influential Nobel Peace Prizes that have been issued during the years."

LIU WAS PREVIOUSLY ALMOST UNKNOWN EVEN WITHIN CHINA. IN RECENT WEEKS HE'S TRANSFORMED INTO A CAUSE-CELEBRE AMONG GLOBAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. CHINA HAS RESPONDED BY BLOCKING NEWS WEBSITES IN AN APPARENT ATTEMPT TO LIMIT COVERAGE OF THE NOBEL CEREMONY.

(Mandarin/ Wu'er Kaixi, former student leader of 1989 Tiananmen protests:

"When it just happened, she (China) appears to be jumping up and down, but as our 20-something years of experience can tell us, pressure always works. The Nobel Peace Prize is a pressure, of course it will work. But how can it work, whether it can combine with other power to turn the pressure into a proactive and positive kind of pressure we want to see, this will rely on our joint effort.")

(wehr KY'-shee) WU'ER KAIXI--A STUDENT LEADER OF THE 1989 TIANANMEN SQUARE PROTESTS TRAVELLED TO NORWAY TO WITNESS THE CEREMONY. HE SAYS PRESSURE AGAINST THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS WORKS.

(Mandarin/ Jiang Yu, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman)

"We won't stop or change because of a sign of disturbance or the interference of some anti-China clowns."

BUT CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN REFUTED THAT CLAIM. SHE SAID CHINA WON'T STOP OR CHANGE BECAUSE OF INTERFERENCE FROM WHAT SHE CALLED "SOME ANTI-CHINA CLOWNS."

THE U-S HAS REAFFIRMED IT'S SUPPORT FOR THE AWARD.

18 GOVERNMENTS-- MOSTLY CLOSE ALLIES AND FELLOW AUTHORITARIAN STATES--HAVE SAID THEY WOULD NOT ATTEND THE CEREMONY IN OSLO.

APTN STORY NUMBER: 668033

HEADLINE: British PM shocked by phone hacking

CAPTION: British Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday he was deeply shocked by charges that a tabloid newspaper hacked into the phone mail of an abducted teenage girl and may have hampered the investigation into her disappearance. (July 5)

("On the question about the really appalling allegations about the telephone of Milly Dowler, I mean, if they are true this is a truly dreadful act and a truly dreadful situation. What I have read in the papers is quite, quite shocking, that someone could do this, actually knowing that the police were trying to find this person and were trying to find out what had happened, and we now know the tragedy that took place.")

(""What I would say is that there is a police investigation into hacking allegations. The police in our country are quite rightly independent but they should feel they should investigate this without any fear, without any favour, without any worry about where the evidence should lead them. They should pursue this in the most vigorous way that they can in order to get to the truth of what happened.")

LONDON (AP) _ Britain's long-running phone hacking scandal has taken a sickening twist, with claims that a tabloid newspaper hacked into the phone mail of an abducted teenage girl and may have hampered the police investigation into her disappearance.

Prime Minister David Cameron said Tuesday he was deeply shocked by the new charges and called for a thorough police inquiry.

"If they are true, this is a truly dreadful act and a truly dreadful situation," Cameron said of the allegations.

The case involves 13-year-old Milly Dowler, who went missing in 2002 and was murdered by a nightclub doorman who has been convicted of the crime.

The new allegations center on the controversial News of the World tabloid, which has already seen a number of its journalists arrested for breaking into the cell phone voicemail systems of celebrities, sports figures and royal aides. The newspaper has admitted wrongdoing in those cases and made financial settlements with some of its victims, including actress Sienna Miller.

The newspaper is now accused of hacking into Dowler's voicemail and deleting several messages on her cell phone, giving her parents false hope that she was alive as well as potentially damaging the police effort to find her.

Lawyer Mark Lewis, representing the family, said he plans to sue the tabloid for its interference in the days after the girl went missing while heading home from school in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, south of London. Her remains were found in woodlands six months later by mushroom pickers. It was not clear how long she was alive after being abducted.

"It is distress heaped upon tragedy to learn that the News of the World had no humanity at such a terrible time," Lewis said. "The fact that they were prepared to act in such a heinous way that could have jeopardized the police investigation and give them false hope is despicable."

He said someone at the newspaper should take responsibility.

The Dowler family claims a private investigator working for the paper deleted some of Milly's messages to make room for new messages. The family was told of the intrusion into her cell phone in April, but the accusations were only made public Monday.

Rebekah Brooks, chief executive of News International, which publishes the tabloid, said in an email to her staff Tuesday that the "strongest possible" actions would be taken if the charges were found to be true.

"We were all appalled and shocked when we heard about these allegations yesterday," she said. "I am sickened that these events are alleged to have happened. Not just because I was editor of the News of the World at the time, but if the accusations are true, the devastating effect on Milly Dowler's family is unforgivable."

Brooks said in the email that she had no knowledge of the alleged hacking and said she would not resign.

News International said it would be conducting its own inquiry into the allegations.

"This particular case is clearly a development of great concern and we will be conducting our own inquiries as a result. We will obviously cooperate fully with any police request on this," the company said in a statement.

News International is the main U.K. subsidiary of News Corp., where media mogul Rupert Murdoch is chief executive.

A private investigator and a royals editor who worked for News of the World were jailed in 2007 for tapping the phones of royal household staff. Five more people have been arrested since a fresh police investigation began in January.

Opposition leader Ed Miliband of the Labour Party said Tuesday that Brooks should "consider her position" in light of the new accusations, which he said threaten to put a stain on British journalism.

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SHOTLIST:

AP TELEVISION NEWS

Atlanta, Georgia - 6 February 2006

1. Pullout from sign outside Ebenezer Church to crowds waiting

2. Pan of mourners lined up outside church

3. Tracking shot of mourners standing with umbrellas

4. Mourners entering church

POOL

5. Crowds filing past body of Coretta Scott King

6. Flowers

7. Television show host Oprah Winfrey paying respects

8. Close-up of Winfrey at casket

AP TELEVISION NEWS

9. More mourners walking into church

10. Man holding pamphlet for what he says was the memorial ceremony of Martin Luther King, Jr.

11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Reginald Millines, mourner:

"It's a sense of sadness but joy to know that Sister King is gone - she's gone to be with Martin and hopefully a big reunion is taking place in heaven at this time."

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barbara Richardson, just viewed casket:

"It was very emotional, she is a very beautiful person. Just reminded me of how we need to keep making a difference and that is just inspiring."

13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Reverend Kevin Taylor, from Los Angeles, California:

"We appreciate that legacy, what they stood for and are standing for and that legacy continues even today and so that is what we want to be about and that is why we are here to pay our respects to the King family."

14. Wide exterior of church with lines of people

STORYLINE:

Hundreds of mourners joined family members and celebrities at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Monday to pay their respects to the "first lady of the civil rights movement," Coretta Scott King.

Long queues of people around the church's historic sanctuary, waited for hours in freezing rain to pay their respects.

King's children attended the viewing, as did TV talk-show host Oprah Winfrey.

King, who died January 30 at age 78, was lying in honour at the church where her husband, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., shared his dream from the pulpit in the 1960s.

Inside the silent sanctuary, mourners filed slowly past the casket, some lingering a moment before moving on.

A shroud of flowers blanketed the lower half of the casket, and wreaths stood on either side, decorated with roses, King's favourite flower.

During the weekend, some 42-thousand mourners had walked past King's open casket at the state Capitol, where she became the first woman and the first black person to lie in honour there.

It was a striking contrast to the official snub her slain husband had been given by then-Governor Lester Maddox, an outspoken segregationist.

Mourners from as far away as California stood in line for up to two hours for the viewing, with many saying King was a continuing inspiration even in her passing.

"It was very emotional, she is a very beautiful person. Just reminded me of how we need to keep making a difference and that is just inspiring," said Barbara Richardson.

President Bush and former President Clinton lead the list of dignitaries expected to attend her funeral on Tuesday, to be held at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, in Lithonia, where the Kings' youngest child, Bernice, is a minister.

Civil rights leaders also planned to commemorate King during a service later on Monday which was expected to include the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the Reverend Al Sharpton, Rep. John Lewis, former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and the Reverend Joseph Lowery.

SHOTLIST:

POOL

London, UK - 1 May 1997

1. Various of crowds cheering Tony Blair as he arrives at Downing Street after election victory

POOL

London, UK - 31 July 1997

2. Blair chatting to music star Noel Gallagher at Downing Street party

3. Various of Blair and wife Cherie talking to showbiz guests at party

POOL

London, UK - 4 May 1998

4. Various of Blair welcoming former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to Downing Street

AP TELEVISION

London, UK - 29 May 1997

5. Blair with former US President Bill Clinton outside Downing Street

POOL

Brussels, Belgium - 17 February 2003

6. Various of Blair arriving at European Union (EU) summit, meeting French President Jacques Chirac and other leaders

POOL

London, UK - 1 January 2000

7. Fireworks over Tower Bridge to mark the millennium

8. Queen Elizabeth II and Blair linking arms and singing

POOL

New York, US - 11 September 2001

9. Ambulance driving out from cloud of smoke from attack on Twin Towers, pull out to wide of devastation

POOL

Washington, US - 23 September 2001

10. Blair and US President George W. Bush enter news conference

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:

"I believe we have to go on fighting terrorism as long as it takes, because what happened on 11th September was of course a brutal and horrific attack on America, but it was a demonstration of what these people are capable of in any part of the world."

POOL

Baghdad, Iraq - 17 December 2006

12. Various as Blair emerges from helicopter and greets British troops in Iraq

AP TELEVISION

London, UK - 28 August 2003

13. Various of people demonstrating against war in Iraq

14. Protester wearing Blair mask

15. Protestors holding banners accusing Blair of lying

AP TELEVISION

Ramallah, West Bank - 10 November 2005

16. British treasury chief Gordon Brown enters Palestinian government building

17. Brown holding talks with Palestinian leaders

18. Various of Brown joking and laughing

POOL

London, UK - 26 September 2006

19. Wide of Labour party conference

20. Close-up of banners calling on Blair to stay

21. Blair's wife Cherie sits down and blows Blair a kiss

22. Various as Blair walks onto stage, Brown applauds

23. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:

"Well, at least I don't have to worry about her running off with the bloke next door."

24. Various as Brown laughs, audience applauds

25. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:

"It is hard to let go but it is also right to let go for the country and for you the party."

26. Various as Tony and Cherie Blair embrace then walk off, silhouetted against red light

POOL

Stormont, Northern Ireland 8 May 2007

27. Blair standing next to Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley moments after a new power-sharing executive took power in Northern Ireland's parliament

28. Paisley, Blair, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness and Irish Prime Minister Bertie walking downstairs in ceremony to mark handing over power

29. Pan across leaders as Blair smiles

30. Leaders standing in a line

STORYLINE

Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely tipped to publicly announce his retirement on Thursday after ten years in office.

Blair, who marked his 10th anniversary in power recently, was expected to travel to his Sedgefield constituency in northern England to make the public announcement after he holds a meeting of his cabinet in London.

His announcement is expected to trigger a contest to succeed Blair as leader of the governing Labour Party, and the new leader is likely to become prime minister by early July.

His long-time finance minister and political rival, Gordon Brown, is widely tipped to succeed him.

Blair has been the most successful Labour Party leader of all time, having secured three consecutive election victories. But his achievements have been clouded by the war in Iraq, and more recently, by a scandal over the alleged sale of political honours.

Historians may focus on what might have been.

It was Camelot all over again when Blair swept into Downing Street on 1 May 1997, echoing the Kennedy White House with a wave of optimism that Britain hadn't seen for a generation or more.

Barely 44-years-old, and a keen fan of rock music, Blair and his wife Cherie stamped their own personality on the prime minister's residence, inviting show business and music stars like Oasis front man Noel Gallagher through the hallowed portals of number 10 Downing Street.

Bristling with energy and good intentions, pledging social justice and "whiter than white" ethical standards, no goal appeared too ambitious for the prime minister.

He threw himself enthusiastically into the search for peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, engaging the support of then US President Bill Clinton on both issues.

In the last few days before stepping down, Blair oversaw power being returned to the Northern Ireland Assembly in Stormont, the culmination of ten years of peace negotiations in the region.

Standing on the steps of parliament next to Northern Ireland's newly sworn in First Minister and DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, Blair concluded one of the central aims of his premiership.

For the European Union, accustomed to scepticism from British governments, the arrival of Blair was almost too good to be true.

Reversing the approach of the previous Conservative Party administration, he promised that Britain would play a full part in the development of the EU, and considered scrapping the pound in favour of the Euro.

Other EU leaders responded by according him celebrity status, queuing up for a few words with the glamorous new kid on the block.

As the new millennium dawned, with fireworks lighting up the London skyline and the Blairs singing the night away with Queen Elizabeth II, the future for Blair looked bright indeed.

But everything changed, as it did for so many people across the world, on 11 September 2001.

Blair's immediate and instinctive reaction, which was to support the US, became caught up in a much wider strategic shift that saw Britain's foreign and defence policies swing into alignment with Washington.

Like US President George W. Bush, Blair saw the September 11 attackers as part of an international terror movement that had to be crushed.

And when the 'War on Terror' became linked in some quarters with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's supposed arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, Blair stood alongside Bush and sent British troops into battle in Iraq.

It was a defining moment, a decision that would shape the rest of his premiership.

The war was hugely controversial in Britain.

Opponents accused Blair of bending the truth in order to justify his support for Bush, and although he strenuously denied the charge, his popularity and authority never fully recovered.

Other controversies loomed, including a scandal over the alleged sale of political honours in exchange for donations to party funds, a crime under British law.

Blair was interviewed by detectives investigating the affair, the first time a serving prime minister had been forced to endure such an indignity.

And although Blair himself was not accused of any wrongdoing, the man who had entered office promising his government would be "whiter than white" found himself tarnished by allegations of sleaze.

Politically wounded, Blair was slowly forced to surrender influence to his treasury chief (Chancellor) Gordon Brown, a long-time rival for the top job.

Amid repeated claims of bitter arguments and grudges between the two men, at one point it was said they had stopped talking to each other, Brown began looking like a prime minister in waiting.

He travelled to the Middle East and other parts of the world to discuss issues that went way beyond his finance portfolio.

And so when Blair announced last summer that the autumn party conference would be his last as leader, few were surprised.

Commentators said he looked almost relieved when he took to the podium and acknowledged it was time to "let go."

He even felt relaxed enough to joke about the ferociously bitter feud between his wife Cherie and Gordon Brown.

"At least I don't have to worry about her running off with the bloke next door," he quipped, referring to the fact that the Blairs and the Browns live next door to each other in Downing Street.

But as the drama is entering its final stages. Barring a last-minute challenge, Brown will within weeks secure the job he has coveted for so long.

And the Blairs will walk off into the political sunset, and most likely straight onto the international celebrity speech circuit.

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SHOTLIST

AP Entertainment

US - 27 July 2007

1. Wide of news conference

2. Cutaway of photographer

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Brust, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent:

"What we have here is two individuals who are involved with trying to extort - in fact Tom Cruise's organisation, by threatening to post images of his wedding, which occurred in November of 2006 on the world wide web or otherwise publicise it. The price for not doing this was being negotiated as 1 (m) million 250-thousand US dollars and 1 (m) million 350-thousand US dollars."

4. Cutaway of cameras

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Brust, FBI Special Agent:

"Mr. (David Hans) Schmidt basically said that he wasn't concerned with the legality of the issue. If this confidential agreement wasn't going to be agreed by the Cruise organisation, that it would be a holy blank war, a big war, it would be jihad, he was throwing these comments out. And he threatened that his client would run to the black market and find a buyer for the photos."

AP Entertainment File

Los Angeles, California- February 25, 2007

6. Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes posing for photographers at the 2007 Vanity Fair Oscar party

TWO CHARGED IN CRUISE EXTORTION PLOT

Two men have been charged after allegedly trying to extort more than one million US dollars from Tom Cruise for stolen photos of his wedding.

A criminal complaint said David Hans Schmidt - well known for brokering deals involving compromising celebrity photos and videos, was charged with sending communications for purposes of extortion.

Marc Lewis Gittleman was charged with conspiracy to commit extortion.

Both were arrested this week.

Gittleman obtained photos of the Cruise-Holmes wedding in Italy last year from the event's official photographer, the complaint said.

The photographer, identified as Joshua Bobrove, reportedly had taken a damaged computer hard drive containing the wedding photos to Gittleman to employ his services as a data recovery expert.

Gittleman then made copies of photos on the drive and kept them for himself, authorities said.

He contacted Schmidt after finding a web site touting his abilities to broker celebrity photos.

In the past two months, Schmidt had repeated contact with Cruise representatives and threatened to shop the photos around if he didn't receive 1.25 (m) million to 1.35 (m) million US dollars officials said.

At one point, he allegedly e-mailed the actor's representatives around 7,600 wedding photos as proof he had them.

"He threatened that his client would run to the black market and find a buyer for the photos," said Peter Brust, a special agent in charge in the FBI's Los Angeles office.

It wasn't immediately clear whether Schmidt or Gittleman had retained lawyers.

Schmidt, a 47 year old from Phoenix, was arrested after an undercover FBI agent attended a meeting in West Hollywood between Schmidt and Cruise's representatives.

FBI agents were lead to 33 year old Gittleman, by a license plate number they discovered on a slip of paper in Schmidt's car.

If convicted, Schmidt faces as many as two years in prison and Gittleman as many as five years.

Schmidt was released on 100-thousand US dollar bail.

SHOTLIST:

Havana - 12 September, 2007

1. Cuba's Minister of Culture Abel Prieto and book editors at conference room in International Press Centre:

2. Close up, book on table

3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Abel Prieto, Cuban Minister of Culture:

"It is truly unacceptable that a case of violation of elemental justice should be hidden from North American public opinion as well as much of the public opinion of the world. This is because the large media companies that form opinions and tell people what they should be concerned with, do not pay attention to this case and to this process and do not reflect it."

5. Audience

6. Close up, relatives of the Cuban Five

7. Close up box with new books

8. People receiving book

FILE - February, 2007

Havana

9. Various of roadside billboard with pictures of the Cuban Five and slogan (Spanish) "Freedom Now"

10. Various of book covers with pictures of the Cuban Five (MUTE)

Washington, DC - 12 September, 2007

11. Attorney for the five Cubans, Leonard Weinglass walking to podium

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Leonard Weinglass, Attorney for the Cuban Five:

"This, like the Pentagon Papers trial, is a case that reveals the untold story of the low intensity war, which Danny Glover referred to (in a video introduction) emanating from these shores against the country that is 90 miles away. A war that has lasted for more than 4 decades and of which the American public knows virtually nothing."

13. Audience

14. Reverse shot of Weinglass speaking

15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Leonard Weinglass, Attorney for the Cuban Five:

"Cuba protested each and everyone of those acts, it was introduced into evidence in the trial with the Five. The US did nothing. Cuba went to the UN and asked the UN to pass a resolution against terrorism, years before 9/11... It is still on the agenda of the UN. They haven't acted on it. And when finally nothing else would work, Cuba sent these five men to the United States."

FILE - February 2007

Havana

16. Olga Salanueva, wife of Rene Gonzalez (one of the Cuban Five) and daughter Ivette Gonzalez

17. Medium of the two looking at pictures

18. Medium of Rene Gonzalez in photograph with his daughters/pull out to medium

19. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Olga Salanueva, wife of Rene Gonzalez:

"I did not request a visa to reside in the United States. I know this is not possible anymore, plus we want to live in Cuba when he comes back when he is freed. But I think it is my right to visit him. It is the right of every prisoner to receive the visit of his wife, of his family. The family that we created together. "

20. Pan of billboard with names of Cuban Five

21. Medium of billboard (Spanish) reading "They Will Return"

STORYLINE:

Cuba's culture minister Abel Prieto appealed to world opinion on Wednesday to take up the case of five Cubans convicted on espionage charges in the US.

He called a news conference in Havana on Wednesday to launch a new book on the case of the Cuban Five, celebrated in their home country but little known in the rest of the world.

Fidel Castro's government sent Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Rene Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez to South Florida to gather information about anti-communist exile groups and send it back to the island using encrypted software, high-frequency radio transmissions and coded electronic phone messages.

Leonard Weinglass, attorney for the Five told a student audience in Washington DC that it followed terrorist attacks by anti-Castro Cuban exiles:

"Cuba protested each and everyone of those acts. The US did nothing. Cuba went to the UN and asked the UN to pass a resolution against terrorism, years before 9/11... It is still on the agenda of the UN. They haven't acted on it. And when finally nothing else would work, Cuba sent these five men to the United States", he said.

The book, compiled with writings from 17 Cuban authors with an epilogue by the President of Cuba's National Parliament, reveals what Weinglass called "the untold story of the low intensity war...emanating from these shores against the country that is 90 miles (140 kilometres) away."

Weinglass said the unfair treatment received by the Cuban Five in the United States' judicial system is part of "a war that is lasted more than four decades and of which the American public knows virtually nothing."

"It is truly unacceptable that a case of violation of elemental justice should be hidden from North American public opinion as well as much of the public opinion of the world", said Prieto during Wednesday's press conference.

Weinglass said the five men were trying to gather information that might prevent exile groups from waging more attacks, such as the bombings at Havana hotels that killed an Italian tourist in 1997.

The five were convicted of being unregistered foreign agents and three were found guilty of espionage conspiracy for failed efforts to obtain military secrets.

Hernandez was also convicted of murder conspiracy in the deaths of four Miami-based pilots whose small, private planes were shot down in February 1996 by a Cuban MiG in international waters off Cuba's northern coast.

They were sentenced to terms ranging from 10 years to life in December 2001, but the case has ping-ponged through the court system the last six years due to a round of appeals.

In August 2005, a three-judge panel of the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta tossed out the verdicts, saying the five didn't receive a fair trial because of anti-Castro bias in Miami. But the convictions were reinstated exactly a year later by the full 11th Circuit.

Among the allegations of unfair treatment cited by the defence and various organisations that support their release, is the refusal to grant visas to the wives of two of the detained Cubans to visit their husbands during the nine years they have spent behind bars.

The US has denied visitor's visas to the wives of Rene Gonzalez and Gerardo Hernandez.

In February, Olga Salanueva, wife of Rene Gonzalez told AP Television "it is the right of every prisoner to receive a visit from his wife, of his family, the family that we created together."

"I think it is my right to visit him," she added

Although the five men's so-called "Wasp Network" spy ring recovered no US secrets, federal prosecutors argued for stiff penalties, saying they were well-trained spies who ran foul of federal law by failing to inform the government of their presence.

While serving their sentences, the men have become celebrities in their homeland. As Castro celebrated his 81st birthday last month, messages that the five hope to "celebrate all those future anniversaries together in our beautiful fatherland" were published in the Communist party newspaper.

The agents are currently seeking a new trial that they hope will overturn their prison sentences, which range from 15 years to life.

The book entitled "From the Loneliness and the Hope", (Spanish : "Desde La Soledad y La Esperanza") is accompanied by a music CD with compositions from ten Cuban musicians and composers.

JOHN LEGEND ON TRUMP'S TRAVEL BAN: 'HE IS AN ENEMY OF DEMOCRACY'

Celebrities arrived to the Producer's Guild Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., Saturday (28JAN2017) night as protests sparked around the country in response to President Donald Trump's travel ban.

The executive order bans legal U.S. residents and visaholders from seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S. for at least 90 days.

"We support the protests," said John Legend on the red carpet before the PGA ceremony. "We donated to ACLU today and we are grateful that they were in court in Brooklyn defending the rights of immigrants and refugees to come to this country. And we reject Donald Trump's message of fear and hate and we encourage everybody out there to speak out against it. Call your Congress people, support ACLU, support IRC and all those organizations that are speaking out for immigrants and refugees. And we're going to defeat him. He is an enemy of democracy. He's an enemy of freedom. He's an enemy of inclusion and he's going to lose."

Legend, who participated in the Women's March along with his wife Chrissy Teigen, said he will do whatever he can to help the protesters.

"Chrissy marched in D.C. I marched at Sundance and we're going to do whatever we can to resist his evil regime," he said.

Legend was on hand to support "La La Land," which he appeared in and served as an executive producer on. The retro musical reaped a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations and was also vying for top honors at the PGAs.

A protest at John F. Kennedy airport, where 12 refugees were detained Saturday, swelled to more than 2,000 people, including some celebrities. Protesters also converged in Newark, New Jersey, Denver, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego.

"Lion" star and Oscar nominee Dev Patel called the travel ban "heartbreaking."

"I mean it's completely heartbreaking to be honest. I just flew in from India yesterday and to arrive to such devastating news of such a divisive nature, it's terrible. It's heartbreaking," he said.

Trump's order immediately suspended a program that last year resettled to the U.S. roughly 85,000 people displaced by war, political oppression, hunger and religious prejudice.

He indefinitely blocked all those fleeing Syria, where a civil war has displaced millions of people, and imposed a 90-day ban on entry to the U.S. from seven Muslim majority nations.

Beverly Hills, Calif., 28 Jan. 2017

1. Wide exterior shot of the Beverly Hilton Hotel

2. Zoom out on Kerry Washington

3. Zoom out on Lily Collins

4. Fashion shot, Teresa Palmer

5. Medium shot of Colin Firth

6. Medium shot of John Legend and Chrissy Teigen

7. SOUNDBITE (English) John Legend, actor/recording artist – on the protests against President Trump's travel ban: "We support the protests. We donated to ACLU today and we are grateful that they were in court in Brooklyn defending the rights of immigrants and refugees to come to this country. And we reject Donald Trump's message of fear and hate and we encourage everybody out there to speak out against it. Call your Congress people, support ACLU, support IRC and all those organizations that are speaking out for immigrants and refugees. And we're going to defeat him. He is an enemy of democracy. He's an enemy of freedom. He's an enemy of inclusion and he's going to lose."

Reporter: "I know you both participated in the women's marches. Do you think you'll participate in these protests?"

John Legend: "Yeah, Chrissy marched in D.C. I marched at Sundance and we're going to do whatever we can to resist his evil regime. Thank you."

8. Medium of Dev Patel Speaking

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dev Patel, actor: "I mean it's completely heartbreaking to be honest. I just flew in from India yesterday and to arrive to such devastating news of such a divisive nature, it's terrible. It's heartbreaking."

10. Zoom out on Rami Malek

11. Zoom in on Thandie Newton

12. Medium of Common

13. Zoom in on Amanda Peet

14. Zoom in on Sarah Paulson

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.

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide of Antonio Vasquez, Mexico warlock during news conference

2. Cutaway to press

3. Mid of Vazquez

4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Vasquez, Mexico's "Grand Warlock":

"The problem is the start of a new war in Middle East, a very bad one, even though we didn't want this, Syria will continue to implode and something really big and bad will happen."

5. Wide of news conference

6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Vasquez, Mexico's "Grand Warlock":

"I don't have a doubt that they will take him (Venezuela president Hugo Chavez) nearly dead on 10 January there (to Venezuela), so he's able to take power (referring to inauguration). But we'll see Chavez is done. I don't think he'll pass the three-month mark this year before he dies."

7. Wide of news conference

8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Antonio Vasquez, Mexico's "Grand Warlock":

"That's something we will find out that (Jenni Rivera's plane, referring to the late Mexican-American singer) exploded in the air because the plane without a bomb wouldn't have exploded the way it did."

9. Cutaway of reporter

10. Mid of a wooden box with symbols that he uses to do his predictions

STORYLINE:

"Something really big and bad" in the Middle East and the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, were among the 2013 predictions of Mexico's self proclaimed "Grand Warlock" on Friday.

Despite his somewhat chequered record of past predictions, dozens of reporters on Friday packed a hall in Mexico City's press club to hear Antonio Vazquez and ask him questions, which he answered by reading tarot cards.

Vazquez predicted a new war in the Middle East, chaos in Venezuela and a tough year for Obama.

"The problem is the start of a new war in Middle East, a very bad one, even though we didn't want this, Syria will continue to implode and something really big and bad will happen," Vazquez told reporters.

Vazquez said tarot cards showed Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is battling cancer, would make it to his inauguration on 10 January, but that he would not survive beyond the end of March.

"I don't think he'll pass the three-month mark this year before he dies," Vazquez said.

He also said cards showed him the death of Jenni Rivera, the Latin music superstar who was killed on December 8 in a plane crash, was not an accident.

"The plane would not have exploded the way it did if it wasn't carrying a bomb," he said.

The 72-year-old astrologer has been making predictions since 1980 on events ranging from international incidents to the private lives of celebrities, based on tarot cards and his scrutiny of the stars.

But the warlock, who likes to braid his long, white beard, is perhaps more famous for his erroneous predictions than his successes.

He has been wrong, for example, in forseeing the deaths of Cuba's Fidel Castro and US singer Britney Spears.

A year after he predicted the singer's death he forecast she would continue to triumph.

He also said United States President Barack Obama would lose his re-election bid, only for the president to beat Mitt Romney.

Regardless of his shortcomings, Vazquez's readings get wide coverage in the local media, especially those about the love lives of celebrities.

And there have been times when he has been spot-on.

Last January, the warlock accurately predicted that the world would not end in December, saying theories of doomsday in 2012 were "big fat lies".