A day before his 85th birthday, Pope Benedict XVI appeared at his studio window for his usual Sunday Angelus message, looking rested and relaxed.

On April 15th 2012 he addressed the thousands of faithful in St Peter's Square, asking for prayers and for the strength to carry on as he marks his birthday and his seventh anniversary as pope during the same week.

Benedict will turn 85 on April 16th with only one public event on his often-busy agenda - a meeting with a fellow German national, the premier of Bavaria.

Horst Seehofer is coming from the Pope's home state of Bavaria, in Germany, to wish the pontiff a happy birthday.

The rest of Benedict XVI's day will be spent in private with his brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, and is likely to end in dinner with some cardinals and his closest aides.

On April 15th, some of those attending the weekly blessing remarked on Pope Benedict''s ability to carry on in his role.

"He can continue for many years because he is what he is, we see him with his abilities and his strengths, what he does shows that he''s guided by the Holy Spirit," said Sister Emanuela, who came from Como to see the Pope.

Benedict was born and baptised as Joseph Ratzinger on April 16th 1927 in the Bavarian town of Marktl am Inn, Germany.

He has just come out of stamina-taxing Holy Week ceremonies, with public services from Thursday through to Easter Sunday, that drew huge crowds to Rome.

Just before Holy Week, Benedict conducted an exhausting, six-day pilgrimage to Mexico and Cuba, and apparently for the first time in public, he used a cane to help him walk during the airport ceremony before departure.

Benedict leaned on a black cane with his right hand as he walked steadily for about 100 metres (109 yards) to the foot of the Alitalia plane that was carrying him to Latin America.

Benedict then climbed the steps of the aircraft unaided, stopping at one point to wave, before entering the plane and heading for Mexico.

After Mexico, he visited Cuba where he met with former and present Cuban presidents, Fidel Castro and his brother, Raul.

A few months previously, Benedict started using a wheeled platform to save his energy while navigating the vast length of St Peter's Basilica.

Vatican spokesman Reverend Federico Lombardi said no medical condition had prompted the decision to use the moving platform in the basilica.

He said it's merely designed to spare the pontiff the fatigue of the 100-metre (109-yard) walk to and from the main altar.

Given the Pope's age and continued rigorous work schedule, a slowdown is only naturally expected, and some say it's remarkable that he does as much as he does and is in such good health overall.

Earlier in April he confirmed another international trip, a visit to Lebanon in September, and in 2011 he also said he'd like to make it to Rio de Janeiro in 2013 for the next World Youth Day.

But a decline has been noted and that raises questions about the future of the papacy, given that Benedict himself has said that popes should resign if they can't do the job.

"He is the first pope in the history to say openly and to have it written that he would be ready to resign if he was under mental or psychological or physical stress," said pope biographer Marco Politi.

Popes are allowed to resign; church law specifies only that the resignation be "freely made and properly manifested".

Only a handful have done so, however. The last one was Pope Gregory XII, who stepped down in 1415 in a deal to end the Great Western Schism among competing papal claimants.

There are concerns that the existence of two popes - even when one has stepped down - might lead to divisions and instability in the church, and that a new resignation precedent might lead to pressure on future popes to quit at the slightest hint of infirmity.

In November 2011, Benedict had faced another exhausting trip to Benin, West Africa, where, notwithstanding braving temperatures of 32 Celsius (90 Fahrenheit) and high humidity, he managed to deliver a strong message about the future of the Catholic Church in Africa.

Wiping sweat from his brow, he kissed babies who were handed up to him, delivered a tough speech on the need for Africa's political leaders to clean up their act, and visited one of the continent's most important seminaries.

Benedict has a lot of unfinished business on various subject close to his heart: bringing breakaway traditionalists back under Rome's wing, sorting out the fate of the sex abuse-scarred Irish church, and easing tensions with China.

Benedict's papacy has been marked by the sex abuse scandal and the Vatican''s response to it.

Critics say the former Cardinal Ratzinger, both as a former German archbishop and later as a Vatican cardinal who served as the church''s watchdog on doctrinal orthodoxy, was more concerned with saving the church's moral reputation than acting to ensure abusing clergy could no longer harm children.

"Benedict XVI was very clear in condemning the abuses, he was very clear in saying that the priests have also to face their responsibility in front of civil courts, he has met many victims all over the world, but in the same time he has not ordered to open investigations about the past, said Politi.

Only in 2010, at the peak of the latest clerical sex abuse scandal in Europe, did the Vatican explicitly tell bishops to comply with civil reporting requirements where they exist.

The paedophile scandal exploded in recent decades in the United States, but similar clergy sex abuse revelations have tainted the church in many other countries, including Mexico and Italy as well as Ireland.

Benedict has not addressed accusations by many victims and their advocates that church leaders, including at the office in the Vatican that Benedict headed before becoming pontiff, systematically tried to cover up the scandals, and that they have rarely been held accountable for that.

Investigations, often by civil authorities, revealed that church hierarchy frequently transferred paedophile priests from one parish to another.

In his encyclical and on his foreign trips, Benedict has tried to show that Christianity was more than just a set of rules to be followed, clearly aware that the unbending enforcer of Catholic doctrine had to shift gears to be seen as the inspiring spiritual leader of the world''s one (b) billion Catholics.

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3. Wide of St Peter''s Square

4. Pope blessing the faithful in the square from his window

5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sister Emanuela, nun from Como, Italy:

"He can continue for many years because he is what he is, we see him with his abilities and his strengths, what he does shows that he''s guided by the Holy Spirit."

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7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Grazia Cavallo, pilgrim from Sassari, Italy:

"I find him still very German, very autonomous, given his age."

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8. Pope taking eyeglasses off, smiling, blessing faithful in the square and leaving window

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FILE: Ciampino airport, Rome, Italy - 23 March 2012

9. Benedict XVI walking with a cane at Ciampino airport ahead of his departure for Mexico and Cuba, walking on tarmac with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone

10. Pope getting on board of airplane

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FILE: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba - 26 March 2012

11. Various of pope descending from plane

12. Benedict XVI being greeted by Cuban President Raul Castro

13. Mid of pope and Raul Castro listening to national anthems

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FILE: Havana, Cuba - 28 March 2012

14. Various of Benedict XVI arriving for Mass on popemobile

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16. SOUNDBITE (English) Marco Politi, Vatican analyst:

"And he is the first pope in the history to say openly and to have it written that he would be ready to resign if he was under mental or psychological or physical stress."

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FILE: Cotonou, Benin - 20 November 2011

17. Mid of Benedict XVI greeting crowd of faithful from popemobile at "Stade de l''Amitie"

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FILE: Ouidah, Benin - 19 November 2011

15. Mid of pope entering Immaculate Conception Basilica

16. Mid of pope wiping sweat away

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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Marco Politi, Pope biographer:

"There have been rather many mistakes in the leadership of the Holy See in the last years. For instance, with regards to the sex abuse scandal, Benedict XVI was very clear in condemning the abuses, he was very clear in saying that the priests have also to face their responsibility in front of civil courts, he has met many victims all over the world, but in the same time he has not ordered to open investigations about the past."

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FILE: Venice, Italy - 8 May 2011

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A day before his 85th birthday, Pope Benedict XVI appeared at his studio window for his usual Sunday Angelus message, looking rested and relaxed.

He addressed the thousands of faithful in St Peter''s Square, asking for prayers and for the strength to carry on as he marks his birthday and his seventh anniversary as pope this week.

Benedict will turn 85 on Monday with only one public event on his often-busy agenda - a meeting with a fellow German national, the premier of Bavaria.

Horst Seehofer is coming from the pope''s home state of Bavaria, in Germany, to wish the pontiff a happy birthday.

The rest of Benedict XVI''s day will be spent in private with his brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, and is likely to end in dinner with some cardinals and his closest aides.

On Sunday, some of those attending the weekly blessing remarked on Pope Benedict''s ability to carry on in his role.

"He can continue for many years because he is what he is, we see him with his abilities and his strengths, what he does shows that he''s guided by the Holy Spirit," said Sister Emanuela, who came from Como to see the Pope.

Benedict was born and baptised as Joseph Ratzinger on 16 April 1927 in the Bavarian town of Marktl am Inn, Germany.

He has just come out of stamina-taxing Holy Week ceremonies, with public services from Thursday through to Easter Sunday, that drew huge crowds to Rome.

Just before Holy Week, Benedict conducted an exhausting, six-day pilgrimage to Mexico and Cuba, and apparently for the first time in public, he used a cane to help him walk during the airport ceremony before departure.

Benedict leaned on a black cane with his right hand as he walked steadily for about 100 metres (109 yards) to the foot of the Alitalia plane that was carrying him to Latin America.

Benedict then climbed the steps of the aircraft unaided, stopping at one point to wave, before entering the plane and heading for Mexico.

After Mexico, he visited Cuba where he met with former and present Cuban presidents, Fidel Castro and his brother, Raul.

A few months ago, Benedict started using a wheeled platform to save his energy while navigating the vast length of St Peter''s Basilica.

Vatican spokesman Reverend Federico Lombardi said no medical condition had prompted the decision to use the moving platform in the basilica.

He said it''s merely designed to spare the pontiff the fatigue of the 100-metre (109-yard) walk to and from the main altar.

Given the pope''s age and continued rigorous work schedule, a slowdown is only naturally expected, and some say it''s remarkable that he does as much as he does and is in such good health overall.

Just this past week he confirmed another international trip, a visit to Lebanon in September, and last year he also said he''d like to make it to Rio de Janeiro in 2013 for the next World Youth Day.

But a decline has been noted and that raises questions about the future of the papacy, given that Benedict himself has said that popes should resign if they can''t do the job.

"He is the first pope in the history to say openly and to have it written that he would be ready to resign if he was under mental or psychological or physical stress," said pope biographer Marco Politi.

Popes are allowed to resign; church law specifies only that the resignation be "freely made and properly manifested".

Only a handful have done so, however. The last one was Pope Gregory XII, who stepped down in 1415 in a deal to end the Great Western Schism among competing papal claimants.

There are concerns that the existence of two popes - even when one has stepped down - might lead to divisions and instability in the church, and that a new resignation precedent might lead to pressure on future popes to quit at the slightest hint of infirmity.

Last November, Benedict had faced another exhausting trip to Benin, West Africa, where, notwithstanding braving temperatures of 32 Celsius (90 Fahrenheit) and high humidity, he managed to deliver a strong message about the future of the Catholic Church in Africa.

Wiping sweat from his brow, he kissed babies who were handed up to him, delivered a tough speech on the need for Africa''s political leaders to clean up their act, and visited one of the continent''s most important seminaries.

Benedict has a lot of unfinished business on various subject close to his heart: bringing breakaway traditionalists back under Rome''s wing, sorting out the fate of the sex abuse-scarred Irish church, and easing tensions with China.

Benedict''s papacy has been marked by the sex abuse scandal and the Vatican''s response to it.

Critics say the former Cardinal Ratzinger, both as a former German archbishop and later as a Vatican cardinal who served as the church''s watchdog on doctrinal orthodoxy, was more concerned with saving the church''s moral reputation than acting to ensure abusing clergy could no longer harm children.

"Benedict XVI was very clear in condemning the abuses, he was very clear in saying that the priests have also to face their responsibility in front of civil courts, he has met many victims all over the world, but in the same time he has not ordered to open investigations about the past, said Politi.

Only in 2010, at the peak of the latest clerical sex abuse scandal in Europe, did the Vatican explicitly tell bishops to comply with civil reporting requirements where they exist.

The paedophile scandal exploded in recent decades in the United States, but similar clergy sex abuse revelations have tainted the church in many other countries, including Mexicoand Italy as well as Ireland.

Benedict has not addressed accusations by many victims and their advocates that church leaders, including at the office in the Vatican that Benedict headed before becoming pontiff, systematically tried to cover up the scandals, and that they have rarely been held accountable for that.

Investigations, often by civil authorities, revealed that church hierarchy frequently transferred paedophile priests from one parish to another.

In his encyclical and on his foreign trips, Benedict has tried to show that Christianity was more than just a set of rules to be followed, clearly aware that the unbending enforcer of Catholic doctrine had to shift gears to be seen as the inspiring spiritual leader of the world''s one (b) billion Catholics.

On Thursday, Benedict will also celebrate his 7th anniversary since he was elected pope.

At the time of his election to the papacy, Benedict was 78 years old, making him the oldest pope elected in nearly 300 years and the first German in nearly 1,000 years.

He had been planning to retire as the Vatican''s chief orthodoxy watchdog to spend his final years writing in the "peace and quiet" of his native Bavaria.

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Italians gathered at St. Peter's Basilica as a member of the board of the Vatican Bank expressed his opinions over the case of the Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele, who is under arrest at the Vatican, accused of leaking secret Vatican documents to the press.

The Vatican confirmed on May 26th that the pope's butler has been arrested in its embarrassing leaks scandal, adding a Hollywood twist to a sordid tale of power struggles, intrigue and corruption in the highest levels of Catholic Church governance.

Maria, from Milan stated that this scandal should have been anticipated, "because the church is too rich, handles too much money, there are too many interests behind it."

However, Carl Anderson, an American member of the board the Vatican bank, expressed his concerns at the on-going events at the Vatican and urged the public not to jump to conclusions.

"Well, it is really incredible. If you wrote this in fiction, you wouldn't believe it. No editor would let you put it in a novel. So, it is something I find very unbelievable," he added.

Anderson is head of the Knights of Columbus, a major US Catholic organisation.

Paolo Gabriele, a layman and member of the papal household, was arrested on Wednesday after secret documents were found in his Vatican City apartment and was continuing to be held on May 26th, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement.

Gabriele is often seen by Pope Benedict XVI's side in public, riding in the front seat of his open-air jeep during May 23rd general audiences or shielding the pontiff from the rain.

He has been the pope's personal butler since 2006, one of the few members of the small papal household that also includes the pontiff's private secretaries and four consecrated women who care for the papal apartment.

His arrest followed another stunning development at the Vatican this week, the ouster of the president of the Vatican bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, by his board. Sources close to the investigation said he, too, was found to have leaked documents, though the official reason for his ouster was that he simply failed to do his job.

The "Vatileaks" scandal has seriously embarrassed the Vatican at a time during which it is trying to show the world financial community that it has turned a page and shed its reputation as a scandal plagued tax haven.

Vatican documents leaked to the press in recent months have undermined that effort, alleging corruption in Vatican finance as well as internal bickering over efforts to show more transparency in its financial operations.

But perhaps most critically, the leaks have seemed aimed at one main goal: to discredit Pope Benedict XVI's No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican secretary of state.

The scandal took on even greater weight last week with the publication of "His Holiness," a book which reproduced confidential letters and memos to and from Benedict and his personal secretary. The Vatican called the book "criminal" and vowed to take legal action against the author, publisher, and whoever leaked the documents.

Gabriele is believed to have met with his two lawyers and that the Vatican judicial system was taking its investigative course. He hasn't been indicted.

The Vatican has taken the leaks very seriously, with Benedict appointing a commission of cardinals to investigate. Vatican gendarmes as well as prosecutors are also investigating the sources of the leaks.

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On May 30th Pope Benedict XVI broke his silence over the scandal of leaked documents that has convulsed the Vatican, saying he was saddened by the betrayal.

He added that he was grateful to those aides who worked faithfully and in silence to help him do his job.

Benedict was speaking to the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square during his weekly audience, while nearby, behind Vatican walls, his butler Paolo Gabriele remained under lock and key.

Gabriele was arrested the previous week after Vatican investigators discovered papal documents in his Vatican City apartment.

He has pledged to cooperate fully with the investigation.

Rumours have been flying in the press about possible cardinals implicated in the investigation, pending resignations and details of the investigation that even Gabriele's lawyers say they haven't heard.

The Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi has spent much of his daily briefings in recent days denying the various reports.

The scandal represents one of the greatest breaches of trust and security for the Holy See in recent memory, given that a significant number of documents from the pope's own desk were leaked to investigative journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi.

Speaking to journalists on May 30th, Nuzzi, who wrote a book entitled "His Holiness, the Secret Papers of Benedict XVI," said that he could count more than ten people who he was sure were involved in leaking the documents.

The Vatican has denounced the leaks as criminal and immoral and has opened a three-pronged investigation to get to the bottom of who was responsible.

The Vatican has warned of legal action for those who stole, received and disseminated the documents.

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1. Pope Benedict XVI approaching his studio window and cheering crowd

2. Wide of St Peter''s Square

3. Pope blessing the faithful in the square from his window

FILE: Venice, Italy - 8 May 2011

4. Various of pope on gondola

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5. Wide of St. Peter's Basilica from behind columns

6. Medium of dome

7. Medium of Pope's apartment

8. VOX POP: (Italian), Giuseppe, from Milan:

"They are all corrupt: politicians, priests... All of them."

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10. Pope in Popemobile with new butler seated in front passenger seat

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A Hollywood television producer spent 90 minutes in front of the grand jury investigating President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

He's one of the Clintons' oldest and closest friends and says he's "always believed the president was telling the truth."

He'll stay over to help Clinton prepare for his own grand jury testimony on Monday.

More comings and goings were under the media spotlight in Washington D-C on Tuesday.

As usual, Kenneth Starr was one of the first players to appear - he had no comment as he headed off for another busy day with the grand jury.

Seen arriving: one of President Clinton's Hollywood buddies, his personal attorney and the Deputy White House counsel.

Presidential friend and T-V producer Harry Thomason may have been asked if Clinton told him anything about the former White House intern.

Clinton's lawyers, meanwhile, are preparing for his testimony on Monday.

A Clinton confidant says one option being considered would have him repeat his denials of sex with Lewinsky.

But, he would refuse to answer specifics about their relationship.

Legal experts say prosecutors could not force Clinton to provide such details since he agreed to testify and Starr withdrew his subpoena.

How the story will unfold is the subject of intense speculation.

Constitutional scholar, practitioner, columnist, and former associate deputy U-S attorney general, Bruce Fein weighed in at the National Press Club.

Do Clinton's alleged misdeeds amount to an impeachable offence?

Fein went on the record with a solid affirmative.

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"This investigation is not about marital infidelity it's about constitutional infidelity. A president, unlike others in public life, does set the national standard for honesty, decency, integrity in public life. That is a given fact and when the founding fathers explained that the dispositive question in impeachment was the harm to society they were suggesting -- in my judgement accurately - that the president is held to a higher standard because of his influence on society."

SUPER CAPTION: Bruce Fein

Impeachment of the president is serious democratic business according to Fein.

And there are reasons Congress may not want to deal with impeachment.

But Fein says Congress would have no choice if congressional hearings put the players in front of microphones-- on national T-V.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"I do think that once the witnesses-- and I think this would happen if the inquiry began-- started to appear on television, and you can see as we saw in Watergate the counterparts of the Deans, Haldeman, and Ehrlichmans and Mitchells-- their names would be Lewinsky and Linda Tripp and Kathleen Wiley and maybe even the president himself, then that will so pivotally affect public opinion that Congress would be responsive. And I think that's how this should unfold."

SUPER CAPTION: Bruce Fein

Meanwhile the White House is setting aside minute-by-minute security logs, appointment records, phone messages, diary entries.

President Clinton and a trio of attorneys are expected to spend the weekend poring over volumes and staging mock interrogations as they meticulously prepare for Monday's high-stakes face-off with prosecutor Kenneth Starr.

Washington D-C, U-S-A, August 11, 1998

1. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr departing from his home

2. Harry Thomason, presidential friend and T-V director, as he arrives to appear before the grand jury

3. UPSOUND: (English) Harry Thomason

4. Arrival of Clinton's personal attorney David Kendall

5. Arrival of Deputy White House counsel Cheryl Mills

6. Wideshot of national Press Club

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bruce Fein

8. Cutaway

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bruce Fein

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AP Archive Instant Library - World News Review 2007

Tape Number: WNR/IL 2007

Sound: Nat Sot

Duration: 80 minutes 48 seconds

IRAQ

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In January President Bush acknowledged for the first time that he had made a mistake by not ordering a military build-up in Iraq in 2006 and said he was increasing U.S. troops by 21,500 to quell the country's near-anarchy. "Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me," Bush said. The build-up puts Bush on a collision course with the new Democratic Congress and pushes the American troop presence in Iraq towards its highest level yet. It also runs counter to widespread anti-war passions among Americans and the advice of some top generals. In addition to extra U.S. forces, the plan envisions Iraq's committing 10,000 to 12,000 more troops to secure Baghdad's neighbourhoods.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:

"The situation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people, and it is unacceptable to me. Our troops in Iraq have fought bravely. They have done everything we have asked them to do."

SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:

"...our commanders say the Iraqis will need our help. So America will change our strategy to help the Iraqis carry out their campaign to put down sectarian violence and bring security to the people of Baghdad. This will require increasing American force levels. So I have committed more than 20,000 additional American troops to Iraq."

10:00:54

In January two of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants, the half-brother of Saddam Hussein, former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were executed. Both were previously convicted and sentenced to hang on November 5th 2006 but the verdict was upheld by the appellate court on December 26th. The two men were sentenced to death alongside Saddam Hussein for the killing of 148 Sunni Muslims from the town of Dujail after a failed 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam in the northern city.

Barzan Ibrahim, one of three half-brothers of Saddam Hussein, was formerly head of the Iraqi secret service, the Mukhabarat, and was also Iraq's former representative to the United Nations until 1998. Awad Hamed al-Bandar presided over the Revolutionary Court's death sentencing after the attempt on Saddam's life in Dujail.

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2. Close up of Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and former chief of intelligence, rising to his feet

3. Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court

4. Wide shot of defendants in the dock

10:01:15

In February a suicide truck bomber obliterated a Baghdad market in a mainly Shiite area, killing at least 132 people in the deadliest single suicide bomb strike in the capital since the US invasion in 2003. Suspicion fell on Sunni insurgents.

An explosive laden truck carrying a ton (0.9 metric tons) of ammunition hidden beneath cooking oil, canned food and bags of flour, levelled about 30 shops and 40 houses, witnesses said. The blast shaved the walls off nearby buildings, sending bricks, desks and other debris spilling onto Kifah Street, where the Sadriyah market was located. As people gathered around the scene of the blast, police fired into the air to disperse crowds fearing further attacks. The Health Ministry said more than 300 people were injured in the explosion that sent a column of smoke into the sky on the east bank of the Tigris River.

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message traffic and provides counter-terrorism intelligence services for the American government. Al-Furqan is the media production house of the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella organisation for Sunni insurgency groups in Iraq including al-Qaeda.

Graphics overlaid onto the video footage claimed the attack took place in Iraq's Anbar province. No other details were provided.

The video depicted a man crawling under a stationary US armoured vehicle twice, each time to allegedly place explosives under the vehicle. At one point, graphics overlaid on to the video claim to indicate, with a red circle, US soldiers nearby completely unaware of the man's presence as he crawls away. Shortly afterwards the explosives are detonated destroying the vehicle.

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In March Iraq's Sunni Vice-president Tariq al-Hashimi visited victims of a chlorine gas bomb attack at a military hospital inside Baghdad's Green Zone. Al-Hashimi spent a few minutes at the bedsides of several of the patients, many of them children. Some of the patients were on respirators.

In the attack, three suicide bombers drove trucks rigged with tanks of toxic chlorine gas and struck targets in heavily Sunni Anbar province, killing at least two people and sickening 350 Iraqi civilians and six US troops, the US military said. Seven children were among those affected in the attacks.

Chlorine, which irritates the respiratory system, eyes and skin at low exposure and can cause death in heavier concentrations, is easily accessible. It is used for water purification plants, bleaches and disinfectants. The primary effect of the chlorine attacks has been to spread panic. Although chlorine gas can be fatal, the heat from the explosions can render the gas non-toxic. Victims in the recent chlorine blasts died from the explosions, and not the effects of the gas.

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Baghdad, 19 March 2007

1. Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi visiting hospital, talking to a patient on a respirator

2. Mid of patient

3. Al-Hashimi at the bedside of a sick child

4. Close-up of child showing a swollen eye, various tubes attached to face

5. Al-Hashimi standing to next to another ill child lying on stomach in hospital bed

10:02:22

On February 12th Saddam Hussein's former deputy was hanged for the killing of 148 Shiites, an official with the prime minister's office said. Taha Yassin Ramadan, who was Saddam's vice president when the regime was ousted four years ago, was the fourth man executed in the killings of 148 Shiites following a 1982 assassination attempt against the former leader in the city of Dujail.

Ramadan was convicted in November 2006 of murder, forced deportation and torture and sentenced to life in prison. A month later, the appeals court said the sentence was too lenient, and returned his case to the High Tribunal, demanding he be sentenced to death. The court agreed to turn it to a death sentence and an appeals court upheld the death sentence in February

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Baghdad - February 12, 2007

1. Various of former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan in court as judge passes death sentence

10:02:39

A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up in the Iraqi parliament cafeteria on Thursday 12th April, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens in a stunning assault in the heart of the heavily fortified, US-protected Green Zone. The security breach occurred in the third month of a US-Iraqi crackdown on violence in the capital.

State television said at least 30 people were wounded in the attack. The parliament bomber struck the cafeteria while several lawmakers were eating lunch, officials said. After the blast, security guards sealed the building and no one - including lawmakers - was allowed to enter or leave.

No-one claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Baghdad - 12 April 2007

1. Mid shot of parliament in session with members voting

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Baghdad - 12 April 2007

2. Zoom in and out of smoky hallway, men running past UPSOUND: shouting

3. Tracking shot of smoke filled room, men dragging out man on chair

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Four large bombs exploded in mostly Shiite areas across Baghdad on Wednesday 18th April, killing at least 183

people and wounding scores as unrelenting violence severely undermined a two-month old US-Iraqi crackdown to secure the capital.

It was the worst single day of violence since the US-led security clampdown in capital began in February.

In the bloodiest of the attacks, a parked car bomb detonated in a crowd of workers at the Sadriyah market in central Baghdad, killing at least 112 people and wounding 115, according to a hospital official. A police official confirmed the toll, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to release the information.

Among the dead were several construction workers, who had been rebuilding the mostly Shiite marketplace after a bomb destroyed many shops and killed 137 people there in February, the police official said.

The market is situated on a side street lined with shops and vendors selling produce, meat and other staples.

About an hour earlier, a suicide car bomber crashed into an Iraqi police checkpoint at an entrance to Sadr City, the capital's biggest Shiite Muslim neighbourhood and a stronghold for the militia led by radical anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

The explosion killed at least 30 people, including five Iraqi security officers, and wounded 45, police said.

Earlier, a parked car exploded near a private hospital in the central neighbourhood of Karradah, killing 11 people and wounding 13, police said.

The blast damaged the Abdul-Majid hospital and other nearby buildings.

The fourth explosion was from a bomb left on a minibus in the north-western Risafi area, killing four people and wounding six others, police said.

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Baghdad - 18 April 2007

SADRIYAH - AT LEAST 112 KILLED

1. Thick plumes of smoke rising from scene of blast

2. Various of people gathered around looking at wreckage from bombings, women grieving on balcony

SADR CITY - AT LEAST 30 KILLED

4. Wide of blast scene with ambulances and smoke rising UPSOUND: siren

5. Crowd attempting to move wrecked car

6. Fire-fighters alongside cars, spraying water

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Baghdad - 19 April 2007

Sadriyah - Baghdad

7. Wide pan of burnt out minibuses

10:03:44

It was reported on Tuesday 1st May that the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri had reportedly been killed on Monday 20th April in an area north of the capital Baghdad. But Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister, Barham Saleh emphasised the fact that these reports had yet to be been confirmed.

"I insert the word, it is 'preliminary' reports that he was killed probably yesterday in Taji area in a battle involving a couple of insurgents groups, and possibly some tribal people who have been having problems with al-Qaeda,'' he said.

Tribesmen in the western Anbar province have been fighting al-Qaeda for weeks and claim to have killed dozens of them.

However The Islamic State of Iraq - an Iraqi insurgent umbrella group - published a statement on the internet denying that al-Masri had been killed.

The statement, on a website commonly used by insurgents, said al-Masri was alive and "still fighting the enemy of God".

Al-Masri, an Egyptian militant also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, took over leadership of the group and was endorsed by Osama bin Laden after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed last June in a US air-strike in Diyala province.

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Baghdad - 1 May 2007/File

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1. STILL of Abu Ayyub al-Masri who is purportedly the man claiming to be leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and is apparently the same person as a man identified by the nom de guerre, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer

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2. Zoom in to screen showing a video, purportedly of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, being shown on screen to reporters when there were reports claiming he had been killed

10:03:54

US-led forces in Iraq conducting a crackdown on al-Qaeda killed a senior member of the insurgent group who was responsible for the high-profile kidnappings of several Westerners, a US military spokesman told journalists on Thursday 3rd May whilst the Iraqi Interior ministry further clouded days of confusion by stating that two different operatives, one of whom the US said it had killed, were in fact the same man.

US Major General William Caldwell said the killing of Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri, described as al-Qaeda's information minister, had apparently led to confused reports that two other men had been killed - Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the head of an umbrella group of insurgents which includes al-Qaeda, and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Al-Jubouri was killed while trying to resist detention in an operation about six kilometres (four miles) west of the Taji air base, north of Baghdad, early on Tuesday morning, he said.

Caldwell said the body was initially identified by photos, then confirmed by DNA testing on Wednesday.

Al-Jubouri was alleged to have been deeply involved in the kidnapping of American reporter Jill Carroll, who was released, and Tom Fox, one of four men from the Chicago-based peace group Christian Peacemaker Teams who was found fatally shot in Baghdad on March 10, 2006.

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1. Zoom into close up of photo of bloated dead body of man Iraqi Interior Ministry claim is Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, at Iraqi Interior Ministry news conference

2. Photo of Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri, shown at news conference

10:04:04

In June an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majid, and two other former regime officials to death by hanging for their roles in a 1980s scorched-earth campaign that led to the deaths of 180-thousand Kurds.

Al-Majid, the former head of the Baath Party's Northern Bureau Command, trembled and stood silently as the judge read the verdict. Al-Majid was better known as "Chemical Ali", a nickname he earned for his alleged use of chemical weapons

The judge, Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, said al-Majid was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for ordering army and security services to use chemical weapons in a large-scale offensive that killed or maimed thousands.

Saddam's former defence minister and his armed forces deputy director were also sentenced to hang for their roles in the so-called "Operation Anfal" campaign.

The judge sent former minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai to the gallows after ruling that the defendant ordered a large-scale attack against civilians and used chemical weapons and deportation against the Kurds.

The former deputy director of operations for the Iraqi Armed Forces, Hussein Rashid Mohammed, was sentenced to death after he was convicted of drawing up military plans and other allegations against the Kurds.

Two other former regime officials - Farhan Mutlaq Saleh, former head of military intelligence's eastern regional office, and former director of military intelligence under Saddam Hussein and Sabir al-Douri, were sentenced to life in prison.

The judge announced that the charges had been dropped against Taher Tawfiq al-Ani, the former governor of Mosul and head of the Northern Affairs Committee, because of insufficient evidence.

That decision had been expected as the prosecutor had requested that al-Ani be released.

Kurds welcomed the verdicts as their chance to taste vengeance, although the case did not deal with the most notorious gassing - the March 1988 attack on the northern city of Halabja that killed an estimated five thousand Kurds.

A Kurdish resident of Halabja, scene of a notorious chemical attack which claimed the lives of thousands, said he wanted al-Majid and his co-defendants to be executed in the cemetery where many of the victims are buried.

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Baghdad/Halabja - 24 June 2007

1. Wide of Ali Hassan al-Majid, Hussein Rashid Mohammed, Farhan Mutlaq Saleh, Sabir al-Douri, Taher Tawfiq al-Ani and Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai in dock

2. Chief Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa

3. Ali Hassan al-Majid

4. Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali)

Halabja north of Baghdad

5. Sign reading: ''Welcome to Halabja''

6. Gravestones and monument representing man disfigured due to chemicals

7. Man reciting verses from Holy Quran

10:04:30

Tension was high on the border between Iraq and Turkey in October. Funerals were held on Monday 8th October for 13 Turkish soldiers killed in an ambush in the south-eastern province of Sirnak. After the funeral, at a military compound in Sirnak, the bodies of the soldiers were taken to their hometowns by ambulance and helicopter. Mehmet Gungor, one of the attendees, blamed the PKK, or Kurdistan Workers' Party, for the attack.

On 8th October, the Turkey's government met to discuss what to do next after Turkish troops shelled an area near Iraq to try to stop the rebels from escaping across the border. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey would take up the issue of fight against the PKK.

Turkey has been pressing Iraq and the United States to hit PKK bases in northern Iraq, and has considered a unilateral military operation across the border to root out the rebels.

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Sirnak - 8 Oct 2007

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2. Close-up of photos of the 13 killed soldiers

3. Wide of helicopters taking bodies of soldiers back to their hometowns, zoom-in to one of helicopters, zoom-out to helicopters flying away

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Residents of a Kurdish village near the Iraqi-Turkish border said their village and surrounding area was "bombarded by Turkish army artillery" late on the evening of Monday 8th October.

On Tuesday 9th October, a villager from Dera Loc - near the Ibrahim al-Khalil border crossing between Kurdistan and Turkey - pointed out the village which he says "was bombarded by Turkish army artillery.''

Villagers in Dera Loc pointed out craters in the ground which they said were a result of the alleged bombardment.

Turkish officials did confirm that troops had shelled an area, in Turkey, near the Iraqi border to try to stop rebels from escaping across the border following the rebel attack.

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Dera loc, Iraq - 9/8 Oct 2007

Dera Loc, Iraq - 9 October 2007

1. Smoke rising from mountains around Dera Loc village

2. Wide of village

3. Various of craters in ground

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5. Wide village ++MUTE++

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Turkish soldiers continued patrolling the Iraq border on Friday 12th October, as Turkish prime minister said his country would be ready to pay the price of an Iraq campaign, if it decided to go ahead with a cross-border offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.

Turkey accuses Kurdish rebels of crossing back and forth from bases in Iraq, using remote, mountain passes that are difficult to monitor.

In recent months, Turkey has increasingly criticised both the US and Iraq for failing to eliminate the Kurdish rebel bases, and most parties in the 550-seat Turkish assembly were expected to support the motion for an incursion.

Rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, have been fighting for autonomy in southeast Turkey since 1984 in a conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

Turkey conducted two dozen large-scale incursions into Iraq between the late 1980s and 1997.

The last such operation, in 1997, involved tens of thousands of troops and government-paid village guards.

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Sirnak - 12 Oct 2007

1. Patrol platoon with armoured vehicle and signal jammer truck to avoid remote controlled mine explosions

2. Soldiers searching for mines

3. Close of soldier using binoculars to check mountains for extremists

4. Armoured vehicle driving over camera on road

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10:05:27

A senior Palestinian security officer allied with Fatah was killed when Hamas militants laid siege to his house in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. The officer, Colonel Mohammed Ghayeb, was the chief of the Preventive Security Service in northern Gaza. His killing was expected to trigger revenge attacks by the men under his command. Ghayeb was on the phone to Palestine TV just moments before his death and appealed for help as his house in Beit Lahiya came under attack. The battle outside the house raged for much of the day and killed four of Ghayeb's guards and a Hamas gunman. About three dozen people, including eight children, were also wounded.

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Jebaliya, 4 Jan 2007

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1. Ambulance arriving with body of Colonel Mohammed Ghayeb

2. Close up of Ghayeb's face

10:05:36

Palestinian militants allied to President Mahmoud Abbas marched into a Nablus bank on January 28th and snatched a local Hamas leader in front of news crews and startled tellers, as violent confrontation between Abbas' Fatah movement and the radical Islamic Hamas spilled over from the Gaza Strip into the West Bank. A group of about 15 Al-Aqsa gunmen had been roaming the streets of Nablus looking for known Hamas members, and attracting a tail of newsmen as they went, when they stormed into the city's Arab Islamic Bank and spotted Fayyad Al-Arba. Without bothering to mask their faces or stop news cameras recording the scene they hustled the protesting Hamas man out of the building and into a car, which sped away. Abu Jabal, head of Al-Aqsa Brigades in Nablus, said his men had abducted between ten and fifteen people. "Our demand is the resignation of the interior minister (Said Siyam) and the suppression of the executive force in Gaza," he said.

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Nablus - 28 Jan 2007

1. Various of Abu Jabal, head of Al-Aqsa Brigades in Nablus in street

2. Gunmen taking Hamas official out of the building plus shots fired

3. Gunmen putting Hamas official in vehicle outside

10:05:56

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas urged gunmen to withdraw from Gaza City's streets in February, after both Hamas and the rival Fatah movement violated a ceasefire deal. Fatah spokesman Abdel Hakim Awad said both sides involved in the factional clashes affecting Gaza were in constant contact to end the violence and preserve an agreed truce. Hamas and Fatah gunmen have clashed at Cabinet ministries, universities and security headquarters in defiance of the truce that it was hoped would calm the seething Gaza Strip. Gunmen set up roadblocks at various points in the city, stopping cars and searching them for rivals.

More than 100 Palestinians have been killed in internal violence since Hamas, which rejects Israel's right to exist, won parliamentary elections a year ago and wrested power from Fatah, which advocates peacemaking with the Jewish state.

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Gaza City - 3 Feb 2007

1. Armed masked gunmen walking in street, AUDIO: Gunshot

2. Medium shot of Shefa hospital entrance with people sheltering from gunfire

10:06:10

In February Israeli workers began a dig at a centuries-old walkway that leads to a holy site disputed by Muslims and Jews. Palestinians have warned the work just outside the site, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, would inflame already high tensions and officials suggested Israel is planning to damage the compound, Islam's third-holiest site.

Palestinians demonstrated outside the Holy Land's most contentious religious site throughout February, protesting against construction work being carried out by Israel on a new ramp up to the hilltop compound. Israeli police stormed the shrine after noon prayers on February 9th, firing stun grenades and tear gas to disperse hundreds of Muslim worshippers who threw stones, bottles and refuse in an eruption of outrage over contentious Israeli renovation work. The clash came after days of mounting tensions over the work and raised concern that protests could spread to the West Bank and Gaza, as they did at the start of the second Palestinian uprising in 2000. About 200 police streamed on to the hilltop compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, to try to quell the violence, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. As many as 300 protesters barricaded themselves inside the Al-Aqsa mosque at the compound. Seventeen protesters and 15 police officers were slightly injured, police said.

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Jerusalem - 6 Feb 2007

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Jerusalem, 8 Feb 2007

2. Bulldozer working near site

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Jerusalem - 9 Feb 2007

3. Protester being arrested by police

4. Soldiers in positions on wall of Old City AUDIO: gunfire and sirens

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Jerusalem - 9 Feb 2007

5. Muslim worshippers throwing stones inside mosque compound, tear gas being fired

6. Man praying in midst of clashes

7. Policemen firing tear gas at protesters, storming mosque

8. Various of clashes

10:07:19

The new Hamas-Fatah coalition won overwhelming parliament approval on March 17th, clearing a final formal hurdle before taking on the challenge of persuading a sceptical world to end a crippling year-long boycott of the Palestinian government. Speaking after the vote, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, a close ally of President Mahmoud Abbas, said he hoped "everyone in this government, including the Prime Minister will act as the prime minister, minister of all the Palestinians, and not just to serve their interests." After the 83-3 vote was announced, lawmakers jumped up from their seats and clapped. In all, parliament has 132 members, but 41 of them are in Israeli detention.

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Gaza City - 17 March 2007

Gaza city, Gaza strip

1. Parliament speaker Ahmad Bahar, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas hold hands and wave

2. Various of Parliament members raising hands in favour of government

3. Bahar talks and then hugs and kisses Haniyeh, the two shake hands

10:07:35

Kidnappers freed a Peruvian news photographer held since January 1st, according to officials from the Palestinian Fatah movement. The photographer, Jaime Razuri, worked for the French news agency AFP. The 50-year-old was abducted at gunpoint from a part of central Gaza City where many foreign journalists have offices. There was no immediate word on who the kidnappers were.

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Gaza City, 7 Jan 2007

1. Mid of Peruvian photographer Jaime Razuri with Tayeb Abdel Rahim, Abbas aide

2. Close-up of Razuri

10:07:44

In March masked Palestinians kidnapped a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) reporter at gunpoint from his car in Gaza City, Palestinian security officials said. As he was being taken, the journalist threw a business card on the street that identified him as Alan Johnston of the BBC, the officials said. Four gunmen carried out the kidnapping, and Johnston's car was found abandoned near his Gaza City apartment, security officials said, who asked that their names not be used as they were not authorised to speak to the media. Police found the lease of the rental car, which stated the vehicle was rented to the BBC.

Palestinian journalists later held a sit-in, to call for the release of Johnston.

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Gaza city - 12 March 2007

1. Alan Johnston's BBC car in Gaza police station

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Gaza City, 17 March 2007

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2. Medium of demo outside Shawa building

3. Close up of sign with Alan Johnston's picture on it

10:07:59

In March three masked Palestinian gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying the chief of the U.N. refugee mission in Gaza and tried to kidnap him. The target of the attempt was John Ging, head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) in Gaza. He said no one was hurt in the kidnap attempt, in northern Gaza. Ging said he, a driver and a security official were travelling in an armoured vehicle when the gunmen jumped out of a white Subaru and opened fire. He said the men had tried to force the car door open, but the driver managed to speed away, under continued gunfire. The vehicle was clearly marked with the U.N. insignia and a U.N. flag, he said. Eleven bullets pierced the car, Ging added. The incident took place about half a mile (one kilometre) from the Erez passenger crossing into Israel, he said.

No one claimed responsibility

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Gaza City - File

FILE: Gaza City - 3 November 2006

1. John Ging, head of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in Gaza walking into room

10:08:06

Hamas reluctantly brought Fatah into the coalition in March 2007 to quell an earlier round of violence, but the uneasy partnership began crumbling in May over control of the powerful security forces.

The two factions have warred sporadically since Hamas took power from Fatah last year, but never with such intensity.

A militant commander affiliated with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement was shot dead in May, in the most serious attack since Abbas launched a new effort to calm a wave of violence in the Gaza Strip earlier in the month.

Fatah quickly blamed the rival Hamas group, with which it shares power in the Palestinian government, and the dead man's comrades vowed revenge.

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Hamas fighters launched a fierce offensive on Gaza City in June, attacking the main security bases and the president's compound with mortars and rockets and sending some of the rival Fatah forces fleeing in disarray as the Islamic group appeared close to taking over the entire Gaza Strip. At least 60 died in the June campaign

Khan Younis fell to Hamas when militants detonated a one-ton bomb underneath a security headquarters there, demolishing the building and killing at least one person, Palestinian security and medical officials said.

Security forces later said they lost control of the town.

The building was destroyed by a bomb planted in a tunnel underneath it, said Ali Qaisi, a presidential guard spokesman.

At least one person was killed and eight others were injured, medics said.

A group of boys ran to the local mosque to seek shelter from the crossfire of a fierce gunfire they found themselves caught in. They were trapped inside the mosque for almost an hour.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas moved quickly to cement his rule in the West Bank on the 15th of June, as major political fallout from Hamas' military rout of Fatah in Gaza continued.

He replaced the Hamas Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, with Finance Minister Salam Fayyad, an internationally respected economist, and a new moderate government was to be formed later in the day.

A Hamas military victory in Gaza would split Palestinian territory into two, with the Islamic militants controlling the coastal strip and Western-backed Fatah ruling the West Bank, pushing hopes for statehood even further away. Hamas fighters who wrested control of most of the Gaza Strip focused their firepower on 14th June on the battle's top prizes - Fatah's security and political command centres in Gaza City.

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Gaza - 14 June 2007

1. Wide of Gaza City skyline at dawn/UPSOUND: gunfire

2. Wide of skyline/ UPSOUND: Gunfire

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Gaza City - 13 May 2007

3. Two women crying

4. Male relatives kissing face of militant commander Baha Abu Jarad, of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades

5. People grieving around body

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Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Gaza City's Shojaiyeh District, Gaza Strip, and Gaza City, near the Egyptian Representation Office, Gaza Strip - 13 June 2007

Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip

6. Walking shot of people in the street running to hide from gunfire, UPSOUND: gunfire

7. Boys hiding at local mosque, pan right to people hiding from gunfire underneath tin roof, UPSOUND: gunfire

8. Various of boys taking refuge inside mosque, UPSOUND: gunfire

Gaza City's Shojaiyeh District, Gaza Strip

9. UPSOUND: gunfire, people scatter

Gaza City, near the Egyptian Representation Office, Gaza Strip

10. Man in traditional dress with flags of all Palestinian factions tied together, waving at gunmen on street corner, UPSOUND: gunfire

11. Gunman firing, man stopping him, pushing him back, UPSOUND: gunfire

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Ramallah, West Bank and Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 15 June 2007/File

Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 15 June 2007

12. Various of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh arriving at demonstration and waving to crowd UPSOUND: cheering and gunfire

Ramallah, West Bank - 15 June 2007

13. Close-up on Palestinian flag

14. Mid of Abbas at Friday Prayers

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Nablus, West Bank - 13 June 2007

15. Gunfire exchanged with Al Aqsa Brigades gunmen

16. Mid of gunmen

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Khan Younis - 13 June 2007

17. Back shot of militant holding rifle, UPSOUND: gunfire

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Rafah, Gaza Strip -14 June 2007

18. Wide of the explosion of a Fatah-allied security building, (also called Preventive Security building) pull out to show crowd cheering and clapping and running towards the scene: UPSOUND: gunfire

19. Masked Hamas fighters rising up from their kneeling position on the road, after prayers, other gunmen firing into the air

20. Masked Hamas gunmen carrying away computers from scene

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Gaza city, Gaza Strip - 15 June 2007

21. Wide of jeep carrying masked Hamas military wing spokesman Abu Obeideh with other fighters

22. Close-up of masked fighter

10:10:15

Palestinian security forces allied with Fatah arrested three dozen Hamas members in the West Bank on 14th June.

The move came as Hamas were close to a military takeover of the Gaza Strip.

Fatah leaders said a decision was made by security commanders to crack down on Hamas in the West Bank, to prevent it from taking any positions in that territory, a Fatah stronghold.

Arrests of Hamas activists were reported in the West Bank towns of Jenin, Nablus, Jericho, Ramallah and Bethlehem.

In Nablus, masked security agents and Fatah gunmen rode together in cars, searching for Hamas members, and broke into several homes of Hamas activists.

In one area, a brief firefight erupted, with Fatah and Hamas gunmen exchanging fire in the centre of the West Bank city.

On Saturday16th June Fatah gunmen took over the Hamas-controlled city council in Nablus and other Hamas-run institutions in the West Bank.

Gunmen arrived at the council building shooting in the air, walked in and then climbed to the roof where they hung flags of Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, from the roof.

In Ramallah, at the parliament building, Fatah supporters chanted, "Hamas Out," climbed on the roof of the building and fired in the air.

They placed Fatah and Palestinian flags on the building.

Gunmen entered the office of Deputy Speaker Hassan Kreisheh and tried to seize him, but Fatah employees stopped them.

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Nablus, West Bank - 14 June 2007

1. Fatah gunman gathering in city centre

2. Mid of gunman aiming weapon

3. Gunfire erupting, people running to take cover, gunmen aiming weapons, UPSOUND: gunfire

4. Various of office supply and furniture thrown from offices of Palestinian Legislative Council

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Nablus - 16 June 2007

5. Fatah gunmen approaching building while shooting in the air, pan to gunmen gathered outside building entrance

6. Pan from mid of masked gunmen to fighters at entrance

7. Tilt up from gunmen in street to rooftop with two flags, pan back to gunmen shooting into the air

8. Zoom in to more gunmen on rooftop

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Ramallah, West Bank - 16 June 2007

9. Top shot Fatah gunmen coming out of building pulling Deputy Speaker Hassan Kreisheh, out of the building, Kreisheh stumbling in the scrum

10. Various of Fatah gunmen approaching another building

11. Exterior of the Council of Ministers building, gunmen entering

10:11:22

Deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Sunday 24th June called for the kidnapping of British journalist Alan Johnston to end, as a new video recording was seen, which shows Johnston wearing what appears to be an explosives belt.

In the video, Johnston warns the belt, which is of the type suicide bombers use, will be detonated if an attempt is made to free him by force.

The one-minute-42-second tape, called "Alan's Appeal," was posted on a Web site used by militant groups to post their messages.

The video was made by the Army of Islam, a shadowy group with apparent al-Qaeda links that claimed responsibility for snatching Johnston, a correspondent with the British Broadcasting Corporation, from a Gaza City street on 12th of March.

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1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Alan Johnston, Kidnapped BBC Journalist: (Includes on-screen graphics)

"Captors tell me that very promising negotiations were ruined when the Hamas movement and the British government decided to press for a military solution to this kidnapping and the situation is now very serious. As you can see I've been dressed in what is an explosive belt, which the kidnappers say will be detonated if there's any attempt to storm this area. They say they are ready to turn the hideout into what they describe as a death zone if there's an attempt to free me by force."

10:12:03

An Israeli aircraft attacked a car in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday 7th May, saying the vehicle was carrying militants preparing to fire rockets into Israel.

The air strike occurred shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned of severe consequences if recent rocket fire out of Gaza continued.

The attack occurred near Beit Hanoun, allegedly a frequent launching ground for Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel.

The Islamic Jihad, a militant group in northern Gaza, said its members were in the car on a 'holy mission.'

Israeli citizens in Sderot ran to shelters in panic on Wednesday 16th May as Hamas militants fired eight rockets into Israel, following a barrage of around 20 rockets that seriously wounded an Israeli woman on Tuesday.

Wednesday's rocket salvo at the southern Israeli town of Sderot, just outside Gaza, continued a barrage that began in earnest on Tuesday 15th and wounded 21 Israelis, one seriously, a woman whose house took a direct hit.

There were no casualties on Wednesday morning, but school was cancelled in Sderot and residents huddled in bomb shelters.

Hamas said its rockets were retaliation for Israeli violence.

A Hamas compound in central Gaza City was one of three targets hit by Israeli air strikes on Thursday 17th May, adding a new layer of violence to internecine Palestinian fighting that has paralysed the Gaza Strip.

One person was killed at least 45 people were wounded at the compound, Palestinian witnesses and medical officials said.

Two other people were killed and scores injured in later air strikes in Gaza City.

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Gaza City - 20 June 2007

Jebaliyah refugee camp

1. Hamas supporters burning Israeli flags

Gaza City

2. Masked Palestinian boy marching with Hamas ribbon round his head

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3. Rocket being launched

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Sderot, Israel - 15/16 May 2007

4. Children running towards shelter shouting, UPSOUND: rocket exploding

5. People walking away from house, camera tracks to window and films smoky interior

6. Various of damaged house

7. Various of damaged furniture and household items

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Gaza City - 17 May 2007

8. Wide of smoke rising over Gaza skyline

9. Man gesturing to people inside the bombed out building, UPSOUND: Gunfire/Sirens

10. Top shot of rubble and rescuers

11. Body being carried out on stretcher

10:13:14

Kidnapped by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza for in March, British journalist Alan Johnston had only one link to the world, a radio that picked up British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programmes reporting frantic efforts to free him. Confined to a dark room by his captors, Johnston told the BBC after his release on July 4th that he was often unsure if he was going to live or die.

He thanked his colleagues for standing by him; "I'm so immensely grateful for that, and I will be all my life," Johnston said in Jerusalem, addressing a BBC rally in London celebrating his release.

Johnston, a native of Scotland who reported from Gaza for the BBC for three years, was snatched from a Gaza City street by masked gunmen on March 12, shoved into a car and spirited away. Johnston was one of in a string of foreigners kidnapped in Gaza, though his time in captivity was by far the longest.

He was released before dawn on July 4th in a deal between Gaza's Hamas rulers and his kidnappers from the Army of Islam, a group run by one of Gaza's most notorious and heavily armed crime families, the Doghmush clan.

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Gaza City - 4 July 2007

1. Deposed Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, putting Palestinian sash around freed BBC journalist Alan Johnston's neck

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Gaza City - 4 July 2007

2. Various of BBC Journalist Alan Johnston being escorted by Hamas security after being released from deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's office

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Jerusalem - 4 July 2007

3. Johnston waving to crowds and shaking hands with British Consul-General in Jerusalem, Richard Makepeace

10:13:40

In September Police claimed to have cracked a cell of young Israeli neo-Nazis suspected in at least 15 attacks on foreign workers, drug addicts, homosexuals and observant Jews. Eight gang members have been arrested, and a ninth fled the country, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

"This was a cell, an active neo-Nazi group that in fact began here in Israel carrying out attacks and sabotage as well as different attacks on individuals. Unfortunately a number of individuals were injured," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

All are in their late teens or early 20s, immigrated from the former Soviet Union and have Israeli citizenship, Rosenfeld also said.

The gang documented its activities on film and in photographs, and Israeli TV stations showed grainy footage of people lying helpless on floors while several people kicked them.

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Ramleh, near Tel Aviv - 9 September 2007

AP Television news

1. Members of Neo Nazi suspects getting out of car

2. Members of cell walking in court room

3. Courtroom symbol on wall

4. Mid of Neo Nazi suspects

Tel Aviv - Recent

Police Handout

6. Various of Neo Nazi cell members beating by-passers at central bus station in Tel Aviv

7. STILL of drawing of man holding Neo- Nazi flag

8. Cell members beating man

9. STILL of man giving Nazi salute

10. Various of cell members beating up a man

10:14:08

On September 28th some 20-thousand mourners gathered in Jerusalem to accompany the body of Rabbi Avraham Shapira, an Israeli spiritual leader, to its final resting place, the Mount of Olives. Shapira, famous for urging soldiers to disobey orders to evacuate the Gaza Strip, died in Jerusalem at the age of 94. A chief rabbi in Israel for 10 years beginning in 1983, Shapira spent much of his life fighting vigorously against territorial concessions to the Palestinians - emerging as one of the Jewish state's most divisive religious figures. To his followers, however, Shapira was a sage. When he was taken to the hospital earlier in the week, thousands prayed for his well-being at Jerusalem's Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site. Because the funeral took place during the joyous, week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot, or Feast of Tabernacles, rabbis told mourners it was best to avoid crying.

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Jerusalem - 28 Sep 2007

Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

1. Wide of mourners marching during funeral procession, Dome of the Rock in background

2. Wide of mourners marching in funeral

3. Mid of people carrying body of Rabbi Avraham Shapira to burial at cemetery

4. Mid of man crying

5. Wide of mourners at funeral, Dome of the Rock in background

LEBANON

10:14:34

Opposition protesters blocked roads with car tyres around the Lebanese capital of Beirut and other regions on January 23rd to enforce a general strike aimed at toppling Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's government. Opposition activists turned out early in the morning to burn tyres on major highways north, south and east of the city as well as a ring road around downtown Beirut, sending black clouds of smoke billowing in the air, witnesses said. Army troops and fire engines moved in to remove the obstacles. The road to Beirut international airport was blocked, as were the highway linking Beirut with the mountains and the highway to Damascus, the Syrian capital, Hezbollah's television stations reported. Scores of opposition supporters took the streets and in some instances security forces stood by and watched.

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Beirut - 23 Jan 2007

++PRE DAWN SHOTS++

1. Wide top shot of city skyline with plumes of smoke rising from fires

2. Wide shot of protesters and tyres on fire

3. Wide shot of military vehicles arriving at the scene

4. Strikers protesting

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Beirut - 23 Jan 2007

5. Lebanese army arresting a protestor

6. Various of clashes in the street

7. Lebanese army shooting in the air

10:15:17

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah told a crowd of mourners who had gathered in southern Beirut to commemorate the festival of Ashoura, that the US president , who he referred to as the "greatest satan", wanted to punish his group because they "stood fast and were victorious" in last summer's war against Israel.

Nasrallah was responding to a statement made by US President George W Bush earlier in January in the which the president condemned a recent outburst of violence in Lebanon.

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Beirut, 30 Jan 2007

1. Wide shot of building with Nasrallah speaking from balcony

2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Secretary-General:

"(US President) George Bush wants to punish you because you stood fast and were victorious."

3. Crowd of women chanting

4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah Secretary-General:

"When the greatest Satan declares his enmity and his war against us, this is a great honour of which we are proud."

10:15:47

Lebanese tanks pounded shells at a militant group's headquarters in a Palestinian refugee camp next to the northern city of Tripoli on the afternoon of Sunday 20th May.

The shelling came hours after clashes that left 13 soldiers and several militants dead, along with dozens of wounded.

Security officials reported a further 19 soldiers and 14 police officers injured in the fighting, the worst violence to hit the northern city in two decades.

A spokesman for the Fatah Islam group, Abu Salim, said two militants were killed and five wounded inside the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp.

The group is considered by some Lebanese officials to be a radical Sunni Muslim group with ties to al-Qaeda, or at least al-Qaeda style militancy and doctrine.

The fighting threatens to further destabilise a conflict-ridden Lebanon that is facing its worst political fall out between the Western-backed government and pro-Syrian opposition since the end of the 1975-90 civil war.

Initially, gunfire erupted early on the 20th after police raided a militant-occupied apartment on Mitein Street, a major thoroughfare in Tripoli, looking for suspects in a bank robbery a day earlier in Amyoun, a town southeast of Tripoli, in which gunmen made off with 125-thousand US dollars in cash.

The armed militants resisted arrest and a series of battles then ensued that spread to surrounding streets and the nearby Palestinian refugee camp.

Lebanese troops pounded a Palestinian refugee camp with artillery and tank fire for a second day on Monday 21st May, raising huge palls of smoke as they battled a militant group suspected of ties to al-Qaeda.

The fighters holed up in the camp returned fire - lending credence to reports that they are far better armed than first thought.

Artillery and machine gun fire echoed around a crowded Palestinian refugee camp for a third straight day Tuesday 22nd May, as the Lebanese government ordered the army to finish off the Fatah Islam fighters holed up inside the camp in the country's north.

Black smoke billowed from the area after artillery and machine gun exchanges at the Nahr el-Bared camp on the outskirts of the port city of Tripoli.

Hundreds of Palestinian civilians continued to stream out of the besieged Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Wednesday 23rd after a truce in the fighting mostly held overnight.

About 15-thousand, nearly half the camp's residents, fled late at night when the lull took hold in fighting between Lebanese troops and Islamic militants who were barricaded in the crowded Nahr el-Bared refugee camp, relief officials said.

About 1-thousand fled on Wednesday morning.

The Lebanese air force on Saturday 2nd June joined tanks and artillery in pounding Islamic militant hideouts on the second day of an intensifying offensive to uproot al-Qaeda-inspired gunmen barricaded in a Palestinian refugee camp.

A French-made Gazelle helicopter fired two missiles and directed machine gun fire at suspected militant hideouts on the western edge of the Nahr

el-Bared camp near the Mediterranean coastline, in an apparent attempt to block any sea escape route.

It was the first time the army used its limited air force capability in the battle, signifying the intensity of the ground fighting.

The army has helicopters, but no fixed-wing aircraft.

There was more heavy shelling on Wednesday 13th June in the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, as Lebanese troops reportedly clashed with Muslim militants still holed up there.

More than 25,000 people have fled the Nahr el-Bared camp, near the northern city of Tripoli, since fighting between the Lebanese army and Fatah Islam militants began on May 20.

Dozens of people have been killed since then.

The army said that the number of troops killed since the fighting began to 61.

The fighting has also claimed the lives of at least 60 Fatah al-Islam militants and at least 20 civilians.

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Tripoli - 20 May 2007

1. Tanks and soldiers in the streets of residential area

2. Soldiers firing from armoured vehicles at building occupied by militants

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Tripoli and Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp - 20 May 2007

Tripoli

3. Lebanese army troops running across street and firing at building

4. Soldier firing at building

Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp

5. Tank firing missile on target inside refugee camp

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Nr Nahr El-Bared - 21 May 2007

6. Wide of Tripoli skyline, building explodes

7. Wider shot of black smoke, AUDIO: loud explosion, pan to fresh white plume of smoke

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Nahr El-Bared - 21 May 2007

8. Wide of skyline with smoke rising

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Near Nahr el-Bared, Lebanon - 22 May 2007

9. Wide of explosion on top of building with black smoke billowing from building AUDIO: gunfire and shelling

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Nahr el-Bared - 23 May 2007

10. Various of refugees leaving camp

11. Refugees getting out of red truck

12. Refugees in red truck

13. Various of damaged buildings inside camp

14. Pan across destroyed vehicle

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Nahr el-Bared - 2 June 2007

15. Wide skyline shot of camp with explosion and smoke rising

16. Lebanese army helicopter flying over camp

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Nahr el-Bared - 1 June 2007

17. Various of armoured cars and military vehicles on the move

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Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp - 13 June 2007

18. Various of shelling at camp

19. Various of shelling

10:17:57

Lebanese troops on July 5th resumed pounding suspected hideouts of al-Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Lebanese troops, backed by artillery and tank fire, blasted suspected hideouts of Fatah Islam militants barricaded inside the Nahr el-Bared camp near Tripoli. The refugee camp and its remaining inhabitants have now endured more than forty days of gun battles between the Lebanese troops and militants.

Meanwhile Lebanese authorities and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) started distributing money to the displaced from Nahr El-Bared - 1350 US dollars for each family. Some of the money was contributed by Saudi Arabia, said Richard Cook, General Manager of the UNRWA. UNRWA launched a worldwide campaign to gather money to help the displaced Palestinians and to rebuild Nahr El-Bared camp once the violence stops.

On July 12th two Lebanese soldiers were killed as the army pounded a refugee camp with artillery fire, but the military denied reports that the barrage was part of a final assault on the al-Qaeda inspired Islamic militants barricaded inside. AP Television filmed heavy shelling, which began just before dawn just hours after more than 150 civilians fled on foot from the camp and the army moved tanks and armoured vehicles up towards the camp. The army said two soldiers were killed Thursday, bringing the number of military dead to 88 since fighting began at the Nahr el-Bared camp on May 20. Earlier an armoured personnel carrier was seen ferrying at least two wounded soldiers out of the camp. From five to 10 shells were slamming into the camp every minute.

Plumes of black smoke continued to rise from tank and artillery shellfire at the beleaguered Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on July 14th as Fatah Islam gunmen holed up there exchanged heavy fire with the encircling Lebanese army troops. The army said two soldiers died on July 13th, one from wounds he suffered in fighting on the 12th. The fatalities brought to 94 the number of soldiers killed since fighting began on May 20.

Most of Nahr el-Bared's 30,000 residents had fled since the beginning of the battles, and conditions are desperate for those still inside. The Lebanese army said that it had seized control of a number of buildings in the camp that had been used by Fatah Islam militants to attack and snipe at soldiers.

On July 14th Lebanon's rival parties met at a French chateau for rare and long-awaited talks which it is hoped will start the process of healing the rift between enemies mired in a political and sectarian crisis which is threatening to tear their country apart. But the closed-door meetings, organised by France with U.S. and Iranian approval, were not expected to end the political deadlock between the Western-backed prime minister and the Hezbollah-led opposition. The meetings at La Celle Saint Cloud, a small town west of Paris, mark the first time that the 14 parties are meeting since a national dialogue conference in November that failed to resolve the tensions.

Heavy shelling continued at a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon on July 17th as army troops continued to pound damaged buildings, believed to be the remaining hideouts of al-Qaeda-inspired militants holed up inside with artillery and tank fire. Lebanese security officials said significant progress was being made by the military, and a senior official said the southern part of the Nahr el-Bared "old camp" - a reference to an area deep within the camp with narrow, winding streets where the Fatah Islam militants are believed to be holed up - would soon be entirely under the army's control. He said that militants from the Fatah Islam group were now encircled in an area thought to be no bigger than 500 square metres.

On September 2nd the last stronghold of Islamic militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon fell to the army, security officials said. Only occasional gunfire could be heard inside the Nahr el-Bared camp, hours after the army killed 39 militants and captured at least 20 others as they tried to break out of the camp. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the last stronghold of Fatah Islam militants fell later in the day to the army, which captured five wounded militants in their hideout. The army, which said it lost three soldiers in the gun battle, was not ready to formally declare an end to fighting in the camp, large parts of which were destroyed by army bombardments in the last three and a half months.

The gun battles that began during the dawn breakout had continued through the early afternoon, with troops chasing Fatah Islam fighters in buildings, fields and roads around the camp, in an area called Wadi El-Gamous. The clashes eventually tapered off, but the military search continued. Celebratory gunfire erupted in nearby villages as soon as news of the latest developments spread. Dozens of residents took to the streets of Mohammara, waving Lebanese flags and honking their horns as troop convoys poured into the area with soldiers flashing victory signs. Several Red Cross and military ambulances were seen racing out of the camp, reportedly carrying militant casualties and transporting them to the Government Hospital in the nearby port city of Tripoli. Army officials and senior security official told the Associated Press that they did not know whether Fatah Islam leader Shaker al-Absi was among those who attempted to break out. Al-Absi has not been seen or heard since early in the fighting. The military said three soldiers were killed on September 2nd and two on Saturday September 1st, raising to 158 the total number of troops who have died in the conflict.

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Nahr El-Bared - 5 July 2007

1. Wide of shelling on Nahr El-Bared Palestinian refugee camp

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Nahr el-Bared - 12 July 2007

2. Sparks flying from explosion AUDIO gunfire

3. Various of explosions and sparks flying AUDIO gunfire

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Nahr el-Bared - 12 July 2007

4. Tanks and armoured vehicles UPSOUND: Gunfire

5. Various of tanks and army vehicles moving into position

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Nahr el-Bared - 14 July 2007

6. Lebanese army Jeep coming out of the camp

7. Camp, ruined buildings, thick smoke rising from shell strikes (AUDIO: shellfire)

8. Wrecked building in camp, Lebanese flag flying from top

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La Celle Saint-Cloud - 14 July 2007

9. Pan of delegates sitting at round table

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Nahr El-Bared - 15 July 2007

10. Camp being shelled, sending smoke and debris into the air, AUDIO: shelling

11. Lebanese army soldiers patrolling inside camp

12. Wide of explosion, sending debris into the air

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Nahr El-Bared - 17 July 2007

++NIGHT SHOTS++

13. Wide of Nahr El-Bared camp as flashing shell hits building UPSOUND: explosions

14. Flashing light from explosion inside camp UPSOUND: explosions

++DAY SHOTS++

15. Smoke rising over camp as shelling continues UPSOUND: shelling

AP TELEVISION

Nahr El-Bared - 23 Aug 2007

14. Wide of refugee camp with missile hitting it and big plume of smoke rising ++UPSOUND: shelling++

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Nahr el-Bared area - 2 Sep 2007

15. Soldiers searching (AUDIO gunfire)

16. Medium of soldiers searching in fields

17. Woman celebrates (AUDIO)

18. Locals celebrate as army vehicles drive by (AUDIO: cheering)

PAKISTAN

10:20:04

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a courtroom in troubled south-western Pakistan, killing a judge and 14 others, police and other officials said. At least 24 people were wounded in the suicide attack, in the country's impoverished Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is the capital. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack at the District Courts complex in Quetta which killed civil judge Abdul Wahid Durrani, five lawyers and relatives of some of those on trial, according to police sources. Baluchistan police chief Tariq Khosa said the attacker was included among the 16 dead.

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Quetta - 17 Feb 2007

++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: GRAPHIC MATERIAL++

1. Dead body wrapped in sheet being removed from blast site

2. Fire burning inside court room

3. Damage at bomb blast site

4. Police tape cordoning off area

5. Dead bodies on floor of hospital

10:20:24

Pakistan's suspended chief justice was cheered by thousands of supporters as he travelled through eastern Pakistan on Saturday 23rd June ahead of another rally demanding an end to the government of President General Pervez Musharraf.

In the town of Okara, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry's motorcade was greeted with rose petals and dancing in the street.

Chaudhry was suspended by President General Pervez Musharraf on 9 March, 2007, accused of abusing his office to get a prized job for his son. It led to nationwide protests, becoming the deepest political crisis of the Musharraf presidency.

Chaudhry denies the charges and has been fighting a legal battle to be reinstated, addressing rallies across the country and drawing the support of tens of thousands of people.

Most of Pakistan's political parties opposing Musharraf's military rule have also joined Chaudhry's rallies.

On 7th June thousands of protesters took to the streets of Lahore in eastern Pakistan, the latest in a series of demonstrations against President General Pervez Musharraf's ouster of the country's top judge.

The crowd of demonstrators, which included hundreds of lawyers backed by opposition political party supporters, was estimated at around 7-thousand by observers.

The protesters, carrying banners and flags, chanted "Go Musharraf, Go!"

Earlier in May police were forced to use tear gas to dampen down the protest after a general strike was observed in Karachi as well as Lahore and other major Pakistani cities to voice dissatisfaction over the way the violence was being handled and Musharraf's suspension of the Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry.

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Okara - 23 June 2007

+++QUALITY AS INCOMING+++

1. Close up, suspended Chief Justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry receives bar life membership certificate, framed

2. Chaudhry on a stage UPSOUND: applause

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Lahore - 7 June 2007

3. Wide top shot of protest against suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry on 9 March

4. Lawyers chanting slogans against Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf

5. Protesters burning effigy of Musharraf

6. Riot police watching protest

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Karachi - 14 May 2007

++NIGHTSHOTS++

7. Police firing tear gas in the Lyari area in Karachi UPSOUND: gunshots

8. Protesters running away from tear gas

10:20:56

A car bomb exploded in the car park of the High Court building in north-western Pakistan on Tuesday 29th May, injuring at least seven people, police said.

The blast happened in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, and most of the injured were passers-by, a local police official said.

The injured were taken to a hospital, a police official said, adding that there was no immediate indication who was responsible for the bomb.

Earlier in the month a suicide attacker carrying a warning for American spies detonated a bomb which ripped through a hotel in the north-western city of Peshawar, killing at least 25 people and wounding 30, police said.

The explosion ripped through the reception area of the four-storey Marhaba Hotel in Peshawar's old city, close to the border with Afghanistan.

The explosion devastated the ground-floor restaurant, leaving the victims scattered among broken tables and shattered crockery both inside the building and out in the street.

No group claimed responsibility for the blast, which deepened instability in Pakistan, still reeling from bloody political riots at the weekend in its commercial capital, Karachi.

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Peshawar - 29 May 2007

1. Policemen moving wreckage of car from blast area

2. People surrounding wreckage of car

3. Bomb disposal official searching for evidence at scene of blast

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Peshawar - 15 May 2007

4. Wide of people at scene of the blast

5. Police officers searching through rubble

6. Wide of rubble

10:21:32

On July 3rd security forces clashed with militants outside a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, triggering gunfire that left killed two police officers, one soldier dead and clerics claimed that nine of their supporters died. Several students and troops were also injured. The battle marked a major escalation in a standoff at the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, whose clerics have challenged the military-led government by mounting a vigilante anti-vice campaign in Islamabad. Trouble began when student followers of the mosque, including young men with guns and dozens of women wearing black burqas, rushed toward a nearby police checkpoint. A man used the mosque's loudspeakers to order suicide bombers to get into position.

Dozens of stone-throwing students shattered windows of a government building near the mosque, chanting, "Taliban, long live Taliban," a reference to Afghanistan's radical Islamic insurgents. Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the mosque's deputy leader, said the Rangers sparked the trouble by erecting barricades near the mosque. When asked about the presence of armed students at his mosque, Ghazi said they "are our guards."

Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf had said the previous week that he was ready to raid the mosque, but warned that suicide bombers from a militant group linked to al-Qaeda had slipped into the mosque.

On July 4th a curfew was imposed. Leaders of a besieged radical mosque remained defiant as a deadline calling for their immediate surrender passed. However, more than 340 of their followers surrendered as government troops with armoured personnel carriers tightened their stranglehold on the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in the heart of Islamabad, said the capital's top security official Khalid Pervez.

On July 6th, after dusk, a half dozen explosions rocked the area around the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, shooting debris high above the tree tops along with plumes of smoke and red dust. Officials said troops were trying to unnerve those who remained while also knocking holes in walls of the mosque compound so that students allegedly being held as human shields could escape.

On July 11th the 43-year-old pro-Taliban cleric Adbul Rashid Ghazi was killed after pushing authorities too far with his drive to enforce strict Islamic law in the city. He was radicalised by the 1998 sectarian assassination of his cleric father.

On July 15th a suicide bomber targeted scores of people who were taking medical and written exams for recruitment to the police force in the city of Dera Ismail Khan in Pakistan's troubled North West Frontier Province ( NWFP) near the Afghan border. According to police the blast killed 26 people and wounded 35. Police said that the dead included six police officers. More than 150 people were on the grounds of the police headquarters when the bomber struck. Police said the bomber's head and suicide vest had been found. Another police official at the scene said that there were at least 12 bodies lying in the police recruitment centre. It was not the only suicide attack on the 15th as militants in northwest Pakistan tore up a peace pact with the government and launched attacks and bombings that killed at least 70 people, in a dramatic escalation of violence in the al-Qaeda infiltrated region. The attacks followed strident calls by extremists to avenge the government's bloody storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque and a declaration of jihad, or holy war, by at least one pro-Taliban cleric. Termination of the peace treaty, the hopeful handiwork of President General Pervez Musharraf, puts even greater pressure on the military leader as he wrestles with both Islamic extremists and a gathering pro-democracy movement.

On July 17th a suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and injured 40 at a rally for Pakistan's suspended chief justice, increasing tension in a country already reeling from a burst of violence by Islamic extremists. Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry was heading toward the district court in the capital, Islamabad, to address a gathering of lawyers when the bomb exploded, police said. An AP Television cameraman was filming the rally and captured the moment of impact and the chaos immediately after the explosion. Police said the blast happened near a stage set up for Chaudhry. Hundreds of people were present at the time, but the chief judge himself was still several kilometres (miles) away at the time. Following the attack, Chaudhry sought refuge at the Supreme Court. There was no immediate indication of who carried out the attack, which came before a verdict in a legal battle that has pitched Chaudhry against President General Pervez Musharraf and which could determine the military ruler's political future. The attack also came amid a spate of bombings and suicide attacks in the north west blamed on Islamic extremists enraged by President General Pervez Musharraf's decision to storm Islamabad's Red Mosque and deploy troops in militant strongholds near the Afghan border.

On July 27th Pakistan Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said the government had received intelligence about a possible suicide bombing in Islamabad's Aabpara market prior to the blast that killed at least 13 people and wounded 61 on Friday. The bomber struck after hundreds of protesters clashed with police as the city's Red Mosque reopened for the first time since the army ousted Islamic militants in a bloody raid. One witness said the blast went off inside the Muzaffar Hotel, located in the market area about a half-kilometre (quarter mile) from

the mosque.

After the bombing, police retook control of the mosque, said Zafar Iqbal, the city police chief. Pakistani police arrested around 50 protesters after dispersing religious students and other supporters of the mosque's pro-Taliban former clerics with tear gas outside the mosque. The government had reopened the mosque for the first time to the public on Friday since a bloody army siege two weeks ago dislodged militants.

On July 19th former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said that Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf, should resign from his military post if he is to continue as Pakistan's ruler, said, after officials confirmed that the two had held secret talks on a possible power-sharing pact. Bhutto, the self-exiled leader of the country's largest opposition party, would not comment on the meeting, that officials said took place in the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi. Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, and Bhutto are widely reported to be working on an alliance designed to bolster the increasingly embattled president's political strength while allowing the opposition leader to return home and become prime minister for the third time. The pact would likely require Musharraf to lead changes to the constitution to remove a ban on anyone serving as prime minister more than twice.

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Islamabad - 3 July 2007

1. Wide of religious students outside the Lal Masjid mosque

2. Women seminary students of Jamia Hafsa mosque wearing head to toe burqas marching past and chanting, some carrying long sticks

3. Wide of scene as gas canisters explode among the women AUDIO: Gun fire

4. Wide pan of female students on rooftop

5. Mid of student with gun

6. Students picking objects off the ground and throwing them AUDIO: Gun fire

7. Armed students AUDIO: Gun fire

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Islamabad - 3 July 2007

8. Various of rioters attacking perimeter wall of environment ministry building, across the street from the mosque

9.. Wide of police firing tear gas from armoured car

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Islamabad - 4 July 2007

10. Close-up of barbed wire security fence, with soldiers patrolling

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Islamabad - 6 July 2007

11. Wide of Red Mosque, AUDIO: Gunfire

12. Rangers shelter in front of closed shop near mosque, AUDIO: Gunfire

13. Blindfolded students from mosque led away by Pakistan Army special forces after their surrender

14. Soldier's gun barrel, AUDIO: Gunfire

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Islamabad - 10 July 2007

15. Mid of dawn over mosque

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Islamabad - 11 July 2007/FILE

FILE: Islamabad, 6 April 2007

16. Wide of traffic passing in front of Lal Masjid (Red Mosque)

17. Students on rooftop lookout position

18. Wide of people at prayer

FILE: Islamabad, March 2007 (exact date unknown)

19. Various of Abdul Rashid Ghazi addressing a news conference

FILE: Islamabad - 4 January 2002

20. Ghazi with worshippers

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Dera Ismail Khan - 15 July 2007

21. Wide of scene of the bomb attack

22. Various of dead bodies on stretchers with people gathered around

23. Close up of relative crying

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Islamabad - 17 July 2007

++ NIGHT SHOTS++

24. Top shot of celebration, people dancing UPSOUND: explosion, camera shakes

25. Track shot of security officials at the site to body

26. Wounded woman sitting down

27. Tracking shot of photographers taking picture of wounded man shouting to mid of wounded man with injuries in his face

28. Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry enters Supreme Court

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Islamabad - 27 July 2007

29. Tilt down of people outside damaged Muzaffar Hotel in Aabpara market

30. People at scene of blast

31. Protesters throwing stones at armoured personnel vehicle

32. Protesters throwing stones

33. Policemen arresting student

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Islamabad - 3 July 2007

34. Various of street fighting between militants and security forces at Red Mosque

FILE: Islamabad, March 2006

35. Musharraf shaking hands with President George W Bush

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AP TELEVISION

FILE: London, UK - 19 October 2006

36. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pose for cameras

10:24:25

In October President Musharraf won most votes in presidential election but the Supreme Court said that no winner could be formally announced until it rules if the general was eligible to stand for election while still army chief.

Also in October ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto returned from exile but this was marred when a suicide bomb targeted her homecoming parade in Karachi.

In November General Musharraf declared a state of emergency while still awaiting Supreme Court ruling on whether he was eligible to run for re-election. Chief Justice Chaudhry was dismissed. Ms Bhutto and other opposition leaders were briefly placed under house arrest.

As lawmakers voted on October 6th in a presidential election civil society and opposition activists continued to protest his candidacy. Chanting slogans against Musharraf, dozens of lawyers clashed with police outside the provincial assembly in the north-western city of Peshawar. They burned an armoured police vehicle, threw rocks at officers, and burned an effigy of Musharraf before police swinging batons dispersed them.

Meanwhile, police in Karachi fired tear gas and detained some opposition activists who blocked a road by burning tyres to protest against Musharraf, according to a local police chief.

"We are staging a protest against Musharraf and the police have been shelling teargas since early this morning. Inshallah, Musharraf is bound to go and the hegemony of the uniform would not last long," one of the protesters told AP Television.

Musharraf, who seized power in a 1999 coup, faces a retired judge as his chief rival, in his bid to secure a new five-year term and could yet face disqualification by the Supreme Court.

Many opposition parties either abstained or boycotted the election in protest at Musharraf running while army chief.

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Peshawar and Karachi - 6 Oct 2007

Peshawar

1. Various of lawyers burning effigy of General Pervez Musharraf and chanting anti-Musharraf and anti-government slogans

2. Various of lawyers crowded in front of armoured police vehicle, some hitting it with sticks

Karachi

3. Various of protesters burning tyres

4. Various of police arresting protesters

5. Police firing teargas

10:24:54

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on October 19th that she would not give in to the militants whom she blamed for an assassination attempt against her - a suicide attack that killed up to 136 people and dampened her long-awaited return to Pakistan. Bhutto said that ahead of her arrival in Karachi, she had been warned suicide squads

had been dispatched to kill her. She said telephone numbers of suicide squads had been given to her by a "brotherly" country and she alerted President General Pervez Musharraf in a letter dated October 16.

"There was one suicide squad from the Taliban elements, one suicide squad from al-Qaeda, one suicide squad from Pakistani Taliban and a fourth group I believe from Karachi," she said.

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Various - 19 Oct 2007

English/Nat

Part No Pakistan

SHOTLIST

++NIGHT SHOTS++

18 October 2007

1. Various of injured at scene

Karachi - 19 October 2007

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan

"To save Pakistan, and to save democracy, because we believe democracy alone can save Pakistan from disintegration and a militant take-over, then we are prepared to risk our lives and we are prepared to risk our liberty. But we are not prepared to surrender our great nation to the militants."

10:25:27

Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf said in an address to the nation late on November 3rd that Pakistan was at a "dangerous" juncture, and that "Islamic extremists and terrorists" were threatening the authority of the government.

The military ruler, speaking on state-run Pakistan TV hours after he imposed emergency rule, said he hoped democracy would be restored following parliamentary elections - due by January.

During a long speech, he later went on to say that "some elements" were interfering in the "democratic process, placing restrictions and hurdles in its path."

He cited "terrorism, extremism, paralysis of government and bureaucratic operations, demoralised law enforcement agencies, restrictions and interference in democratic operations" as reasons for declaring a state of emergency.

"I am very sad to announce that the economic boom and social welfare Pakistan was once experiencing have now stopped and are starting to take a downward turn, but this has not yet started and if we can stop this downward turn then we must," he said.

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Islamabad - 3 Nov 2007

1. Wide of people sitting in cafe

2. Close up of men watching Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf address the nation

3. Close up of Musharraf on television

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Islamabad/Karachi - 4 Nov 2007

Islamabad

4. Headline reading (English) 'Musharraf declares state of emergency'

5. Police vehicles, barbed wire, in front of president's House

6. Police in front of Supreme Court building

7. Paramilitary troops beside road

8. Wide pan of troops walking behind barbed wire

Karachi

9. Paramilitary troops on streets

10. Close up of newspaper with headline reading (English) Gen Musharraf's second coup

AFGHANISTAN

10:26:36

In January British troops launched a pre-dawn attack on a Taliban position in southern Afghanistan that left 16 suspected insurgents and one British Marine dead. Footage shot by an AP Television News crew embedded with British troops in Helmand province showed snipers setting up positions on a hilltop before launching their attack on mud-brick compound. NATO commanders said insurgents, who were disrupting planned work on a damn project, had based themselves at the compound. Dutch and British Apache attack helicopters firing missiles into the compounds believed used by the militants. Around a hundred soldiers of the 42 Commando Royal Marines took part in the eight-hour operation. American aircraft also joined in the battle, dropping 500-pound (225-kilogramme) bombs.

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Kajaki, 13 Jan 2007

Night (pre-dawn)

1. Wide of hill, rockets being fired UPSOUND: gunshots

2. UPSOUND: (English) (Q: What are they fighting now?))

"There people are..they have the enemy on top of the hill."

Day shots

3. British soldier watching commandos marching in line

4. Close up of soldier firing UPSOUND: gunshot

5. British soldiers firing machine guns UPSOUND: machine gun fire

6. British soldier firing machine gun towards compounds

7. British soldiers firing machine guns

8. British soldiers entering compound, zoom in

9. US Air Force plane covering ground operation, missiles being fired

10. Large gun lying on the ground, smoke from mortar shots on the background

10:27:23

In February a suicide bomber killed at least 14 people and wounded about a dozen more outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, during a visit by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. The Taliban claimed responsibility and said Cheney was the target.

The blast happened at the main entrance to the base at Bagram, north of the capital, Kabul. Cheney's spokeswoman said he was fine, and the vice president later met with President Hamid Karzai in Kabul before leaving the country. There were conflicting reports on the death toll. The Provincial Governor said 20 people were killed, while NATO said initial reports indicated three fatalities, including a U.S. soldier, a South Korean coalition soldier and a U.S. government contractor whose nationality wasn't immediately known. NATO said 27 people were also wounded.

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Bagram/Kabul, 27 Feb 2007

Bagram

1. Wide of area near blast site

2. Various shots of relatives carrying bodies

Kabul

3. Various of US Vice President Dick Cheney arriving with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

10:27:45

A short videotape was released on the internet on Sunday 1st April purportedly showing militants launching an attack against a US military camp in Afghanistan.

The authenticity of the video could not be immediately verified, but the tape appeared on a Web site commonly used by Islamist militants and carried al-Qaeda's As-Sahab media production wing logo.

The video clip was titled "Holocaust of the Americans in the land of Khorasan, the Islamic emirate."

Khorasan, a name from the Persian empire, is the word militants use for Afghanistan.

The video carried a subtitle that read "A heroic operation against an American centre in Kunar."

It showed four bearded young fighters wearing traditional Afghani clothing and ammunition vests, carrying machine guns as they walked down a single-track trail road hugging the mountainside.

The video clip also showed small arms fire breaking out after several blasts hit the camp.

The video gave the date of the alleged attack, using the Islamic calendar, as occurring late last year.

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Date and Location Unknown

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1. Two explosions take place

10:27:56

In March a US-led coalition operation supported by NATO troops killed feared Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah, dealing the insurgency a "serious blow," a NATO statement said, confirming Afghan reports of his death.

Mullah Dadullah, a commander who reportedly trained suicide bombers, was killed after he left his "sanctuary" in southern Afghanistan, said a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force. It said Afghan forces assisted in the operation.

A spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence service said that Dadullah was killed on Saturday 30th March in the province of Helmand.

A second intelligence service official said Dadullah was killed near Helmand's Sangin and Nahri Sarraj districts, which have seen heavy fighting involving UK and Afghan troops and US Special Forces.

The official was not authorised to give his name.

But Qari Yousef Ahmadi, a purported Taliban spokesman, denied that the Taliban commander had been killed.

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Kandahar - File/13 May 2007

AP Television

Kandahar - 13 May 2007

1. Man pulling sheet to reveal body of Mullah Dadullah

2. Mid of body

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As-Sahab - Insurgent video

FILE: Date and Location unknown

3. Mullah Dadullah firing rocket propelled grenade

4. Various of Mullah Dadullah firing PK (Kalashnikov) machine gun

5. Mullah Dadullah greeting members of the Taliban

10:28:22

On Sunday 10th June Taliban militants fired rockets close to where Afghan President Hamid Karzai was addressing a group of local, foreign and Afghan delegates in central Afghanistan, in an apparent assassination attempt.

Mohammad Karim Rahimi, Afghan presidential spokesman, said the missiles fell far from their alleged target and no one was hurt or injured in the incident.

A purported Taliban spokesman said that Taliban militants were behind the attack.

Karzai was addressing elders and residents of the Andar district in Ghazni province at the time of the rocket fire, police said.

The noise of the rockets sailing through the air clearly rattled some of the delegates, but Karzai moved quickly to reassure the group they were safe.

"Sit down, sit down. Do not be scared nothing is happening we are still talking," he said in a departure from his speech.

Just a few moments later, Karzai laughed nervously at the incident, signalling signs of relief.

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Kabul - 10 June 2007

AFGHAN GOVERNMENT HANDOUT (Audio as incoming)

1. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Hamid Karzai, Afghani President:

"I hope there will be no more rocket attacks." (Laughs and gestures to crowd) UPSOUND applause

AP TELEVISION

2. Exterior of Afghan presidential palace

10:28:32

On July 5th a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan killing 10 policemen and wounding 11, authorities said. The suicide attacker detonated his explosives in a room where the policemen were eating lunch at a checkpoint near Spin Boldak, a town on the Pakistani border, a local police official and an eyewitness said. "A suicide bomber detonated inside the building. When police were having lunch, he exploded himself. Some policemen were killed, others were wounded," an eyewitness said. Spin Boldak's district police chief was among those wounded in the attack, said the police chief of Kandahar province. Two of the checkpoint rooms were destroyed, the local police official said. Suicide attacks have become a prominent tactic of Taliban militants, who have dramatically stepped up their campaign of violence against the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai. Also on July 5th, a roadside bomb hit a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Alliance) convoy in eastern Afghanistan, leaving one soldier dead and wounding two others, the alliance said. The blast raised the number of foreign soldiers killed in the country this year to at least 103.

On July 18th insurgents attempted a double suicide bombing at a provincial police station in Afghanistan in a day of violence that left more than 17 police dead in clashes across the country. In Khost, in the east of the country, the first of two suicide bombers blew himself up at the police station, killing at least three police. The second suicide bombing was thwarted when police shot and killed a second bomber who had run into the police headquarters, police at the scene told AP Television. AP Television footage showed the body of the man identified by police as the second bomber.

On August 18th a suicide car bomber detonated near a convoy of private security forces in southern Afghanistan, killing four Afghan guards and 11 civilians, including women and children, police said. The bomb went off west of Kandahar city and also wounded six other guards as well as 20 civilians who were in two minivans passing by the convoy, according to Kandahar's provincial police chief. Three women and two children died in the blast, and five women and three children were among the civilians wounded. "The bomb killed personnel belonging to a private security company and killed and wounded many civilians," an Afghan police officer told AP television. Women's and children's shoes were scattered about the area.

Other attacks included a suicide bomber on a motorised rickshaw blew himself up in a crowded market in southern Afghanistan on September 11th, killing at least 28 people in one of the deadliest bombings since the fall of the Taliban, officials said. The bomb detonated near a taxi stand just before evening prayers, in the town of Gereshk in Helmand province, the world's largest poppy-growing region and site of the country's worst violence this year. Gereshk district chief said about 28 people were killed, saying 13 police and about 15 civilians had died.

On September 29th a large bomb ripped through a crowded police bus in Kabul tearing off the roof and killing at least 27 people, an Afghan army medical official said. Dozens of civilians and police officers were seen taking bodies away from the scene. Witnesses said the bus had been torn apart by the blast and body parts were scattered in all directions. AP Television footage showed the extent of the damage to the bus, the force of the explosion peeling off the roof and exposing chairs. Windows of nearby shops were blown out. A police officer at the scene said the bus was full of passengers when the blast hit at 6:45 am (0245 GMT).

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AP TELEVISION

near Spin Boldak, 5 July 2007

1. Wide of blast site, soldier holding rifle in the foreground

2. Pan of badly damaged building

3. Building being demolished

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AP TELEVISION

Khost - 18 July 2007

4. Wide exterior of Khost provincial police station

5. Body of second suicide bomber shot and killed before he could detonate explosives

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Suicide car bomber kills 15, wounds 26

AP TELEVISION

Kandahar - 18 Aug 2007

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6. Afghan police at the blast site

7. Various of damaged and burnt out cars and vans

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At least 27 people killed after bomb rips through police bus in Kabul

AP TELEVISION

Kabul, 29 Sept 2007

8. Wide of people beside the destroyed bus

9. Rescuers dragging away a body

10:29:13

A purported Taliban spokesman said on July 25th that negotiations for the lives of 23 South Korean hostages have stalled and that the militants planned to kill a few of the captives immediately. Qari Yousef Ahmadi, who claims to speak for the militants, said the Afghan government hadn't responded to any of its demands and that between 11:30 a.m. (0700 GMT) and 2 p.m. (0930 GMT) the militants would kill "a few" of the hostages. Though some of Ahmadi's statements turn out to be true, he has also made repeated false claims, calling into question the reliability of his information.

Meanwhile a provincial police chief, said he thought talks had been on a positive track and said the new threat was a surprise.

The South Korean hostages, including 18 women, were kidnapped on September 19th while riding a bus through Ghazni province on the Kabul-Kandahar highway, Afghanistan's main thoroughfare. South Korean negotiators have travelled to Ghazni province to take part in the negotiations. Three previous deadlines for the hostages' lives had passed with no consequences.

On July 31st police discovered the body of a second South Korean hostage slain by Taliban militants in central Afghanistan, officials said. The man's body was found on the side of the road at daybreak in the village of Arizo Kalley in Andar District, some 10 kilometres (6 miles) west of Ghazni city, said the chief administrator in the area. A purported Taliban spokesman claimed the hard-line militia killed the South Korean hostage Monday evening because the Afghan government failed to release imprisoned insurgents. Qari Yousef Ahmadi, the purported Taliban spokesman, said senior Taliban leaders decided to kill the captive because the government had not met Taliban demands to trade prisoners for the Christian volunteers, who were in their 13th day of captivity on Tuesday.

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AP TELEVISION

Ghazni/Unknown - 21/25 July 2007

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FILE: Ghazni, 21 July 2007

1. STILL: Police searching vehicles on Kabul-Kandahar highway close to where 23 South Koreans were abducted

Location unknown - 25 July 2007

2. AUDIO: (Pashto) Qari Yousef Ahmadi, purported Taliban spokesman in a telephone interview with The Associated Press:

"The Taliban have lost their patience with it all so they (the South Korean hostages) will be killed, one hundred per cent, because a lot of time has passed since the deadline and there has been no response (from the authorities negotiating). The Taliban takes no responsibility for the killing."

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Police discover body of 2nd slain South Korean hostage

AP TELEVISION

Ghanzi - 31 July 2007

3. Wide of police inspecting body

4. Police carrying body into the back of police vehicle

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Taliban hands over two female South Korean hostages

AP TELEVISION

Ghazni, 13 August 2007

5. Wide of ICRC (International Committee of Red Cross) vehicles waiting on roadside in village of Arzo Kele in Ghazni

6. Freed South Korean hostages being escorted into ICRC car

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Taliban free three South Korean hostages

AP TELEVISION

Qala-E-Kazi, 29 August 2007

7. Three freed hostages inside vehicle, their faces are covered with shawls

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Taliban releases 5 more South Korean hostages

AP TELEVISION

Ghazni City - 29 August, 2007

8. Red Cross vehicle driving into ICRC office

9. Guard closing gate

10:29:57

President Hamid Karzai declared three days of national mourning on November 7th, a day after a suicide bomber attacked a group of lawmakers in the country's north, killing at least 41 people, including six members of parliament.

Karzai said at least 41 people were killed in the blast, making the bombing the deadliest attack in the country since the ouster of the Taliban regime from power in the US-led invasion in 2001. He said the toll could rise even further.

The Ministry of Interior said at least 28 people were killed, including five parliament members as well as children in one of the deadliest attacks of the year.

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Baghlan - 7 Nov 2007

1. Police guarding attack site

2. Cutaway of gun

3. Victims blood stained belongings on ground

4 Close up of blood stained sandal

5. Students notebooks stained with blood

6. Police at scene

TERRORISM

10:30:30

(Al Qaeda number two al Zawahri criticises Bush Iraq plan)

A U.S. group that tracks al-Qaeda messages said that it had intercepted a video that purportedly shows al-Qaeda's deputy leader mocking U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to send 21-thousand more troops to Iraq. In the video a man believed to be Ayman al-Zawahri, challenges Bush to send "the entire army" and vows insurgents will defeat US forces. The Washington-based SITE Institute said it had intercepted the video from Ayman al-Zawahri, which had not yet been posted on Islamic militant Web sites, where his messages are usually posted. SITE did not elaborate on how it received the message. There was no immediate independent confirmation of the video's authenticity.

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1. SOUNDBITE (Arabic - with English subtitles) Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaeda's deputy leader:

++PLEASE NOTE SUBTITLES PROVIDED BY SITE INSTITUTE++

"(U.S. President George W.) Bush raved in his latest speech, and among his ravings was that he will be sending 20-thousand of his troops to Iraq. ....Aren't you aware that the dogs of Iraq are pining for your troops' dead bodies? So send your entire army to be annihilated at the hands of the Mujahideen.... Also among his ravings is that he has deprived al-Qaeda of a safe haven in Afghanistan...."

10:31:16

(Cuba - Guantanamo Bay / David Hicks conviction)

An Australian detainee held for five years at Guantanamo Bay was found guilty in March of providing material support for terrorism, the first conviction at a U.S. war crimes trial since World War II.

David Hicks, a 31-year-old Muslim convert, faces a prison sentence of up to seven years under a plea agreement revealed on Friday that also requires Hicks to drop any claims of mistreatment by the US government since he was captured in Afghanistan and taken to Guantanamo Bay, said the judge, Marine Corps Colonel Ralph Kohlmann.

If sentenced to seven years, the plea agreement calls for an unknown portion of that to be suspended.

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Guantanamo Bay - FILE

FILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - date unknown

1. Close-up of sign at Camp Delta

2. Mid view of corridor between cells

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AGENCY POOL

Guantanamo Bay, 27 March 2007

3. Guard in watchtower

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Guantanamo Bay - 30 March 3007

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4. Wide of US naval base

5. Sketch of lawyer and Hicks, zoom-in to close-up of Hicks ++MUTE++

6. Sketch showing Hicks and his lawyer ++MUTE++

10:31:47

(Philippines - Military confirms killing of top al-Qaeda linked militant, Jainal Antel Sali Jr., wanted by US)

A top al-Qaeda-linked militant, long wanted by US and Philippine authorities for deadly terror attacks, has been killed in a clash with troops in a major blow to the rebel group, the military said on January 17th.

Jainal Antel Sali Jr., popularly known as Abu Sulaiman, a top leader of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group, was fatally shot in a fierce gun battle with army special forces on the mountainous southern island of Jolo, military chief General Hermogenes Esperon said, confirming earlier reports of the militant's death.

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Manila, 17 Jan 2007

1. Wide shot of news conference with Philippine Armed Forces Chief Hermogenes Esperon

2. Cutaway of cameras

3. Esperon holding up image of al-Qaeda-linked militant, Jainal Antel Sali Jr

4. US poster showing most-wanted terror suspects

5. Close-up image of Jainal Antel Sali Jr on poster

6. Zoom into Esperon crossing out Sulaiman's picture on most-wanted poster

10:32:12

(Algeria - Bomb Blast Near Government Building and Militant Video Purports to Show Bomb Construction)

Two bomb attacks, one targeting the Algerian prime minister's office and the other a police station, killed at least 23 people and injured 160 on Wednesday 11th April, the official news agency reported.

The Al-Jazeera television station reported that it received a telephone call from a spokesman for al-Qaeda in Islamic North Africa saying the group had carried out the attacks.

Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem called the attack a "cowardly, criminal terrorist act" as he spoke to reporters outside his wrecked offices in the capital Algiers.

Parts of six floors of the building were ripped away, and the iron gates outside were bent by the force of the blast.

The official APS agency reported that the bombing of the government building killed at least 12

people and injured 118, citing civil defence authorities.

It said 11 others were killed and 44 wounded in the attack on the police station of Bab Ezzouar, east of Algiers.

The attacks come as Algeria still nurses fresh and painful memories of a convoluted civil war between government forces and Islamic guerrillas that killed some 200,000 people.

After years of relative calm, an al-Qaeda affiliate recently has recently waged several smaller attacks.

In May the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera Television aired a video it said was from al-Qaeda's branch for North Africa, showing what appears to be preparation and an explosion that is purported to be a suicide bombing in Algeria that killed 33 people in April.

The brief footage showed a purported device being constructed and wires and timers being connected up, followed by a large explosion.

The network provided no details on how or when it obtained the video.

AP Television acquired the footage from IntelCenter, a US based company that provides the US government with counter - terrorism information.

A group called Al-Qaeda in Islamic North Africa claimed responsibility for last month's coordinated suicide bombings in Algiers. The blasts targeted the prime minister's office and a police station in the city.

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Algiers - 11 April 2007

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1. Victim of bombing being helped down stairs outside prime minister's office

2. Various of victims being helped into helped into ambulance

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3.. Various of men assembling what appears to be a bomb

4. People connecting clocks and wires

5. Wide shot showing an explosion purportedly April's suicide bombing in Algeria

10:32:51

(Indonesia - Police Arrest Jemaah Islamiyah Leaders)

Indonesian police have arrested the alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian terror group blamed for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and a series of other attacks in recent years, a spokesman said on Wednesday 13th June.

Abu Dujana, Indonesia's most wanted Islamic militant, was detained along with seven other suspects in raids on the country's main island of Java over the previous weekend, said national police spokesman Inspector General Sisno Adiwinoto.

The capture of Dujana, an Afghan-trained militant who police say once had links with al-Qaeda, is a major victory in the fight against terrorism in Indonesia, a secular nation with the world's largest Muslim population.

Adiwinoto said Dujana, who played a major role in "almost all" the bombings in Indonesia, was being held at an undisclosed location.

Police identified him using dental records and DNA samples, he said.

Jemaah Islamiyah members have been blamed for four attacks on Western targets in Indonesia in recent years, including the Bali nightclub attacks that killed 202 people.

It was also confirmed that the head of Southeast Asian militant network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) was arrested along with its military commander last week, in a double blow to the group blamed for the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings and other bloody attacks, police said.

Zarkasih, who goes by one name and is now believed by authorities to be the network's overall head, was arrested over the weekend soon after the detention of Abu Dujana, said Brigadier General Suryadarma Salim.

Like other top leaders, he underwent military training in Afghanistan in the late 1980s, Salim told reporters.

In a videotaped confession shown by police at the news conference, Zarkasih said he became the "emergency head" of JI in 2005.

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AP TELEVISION

Jakarta -13 June 2007

1. Various of police official showing picture of terrorist suspect, Abu Dujana

2. Police diagram with photographs

3. Close up, from diagram, Abu Dujana (cropped)

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AP TELEVISION

Jakarta - 15 June 2007

4. Pictures on screen of JI members arrested last week

5. Close-up of picture if JI leader Zarkasih

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AP TELEVISION

Yogyakarta - 20 June 2007

6. Dujana with his wife and child

10:33:20

(UK - Suspected Bombs in London and Bomb Blast at Glasgow Airport)

British police defused a suspected bomb found in a parked car in central London near Piccadilly Circus.

Police said the car, contained a "potentially viable explosive device" but would not give further details.

The area around the vehicle was cordoned off as a precaution on Friday morning (29th June) while explosives officers examined the vehicle. London transport officials said the Piccadilly Circus Underground train station was temporarily closed.

The area where the car was found is the site of restaurants, bars, a cinema complex and, most famously, theatres.

Security experts said the bomb could have been timed to coincide with the change at the top of Government.

Bomb disposal experts defused a bomb in a car rigged with a mix of petrol, propane and nails in the city's bustling theatre district and later discovering a second car equipped with another bomb.

The first explosive, found in a car parked outside a nightclub and safely defused by a bomb squad, was powerful enough to have caused "significant injury or loss of life," British anti-terror police chief Peter Clarke said.

The second bomb was discovered hours later in another Mercedes parked illegally in the West End theatre district and then towed to an impound lot near Hyde Park.

Three terrorist suspects were in police custody on Sunday 1st July and a fourth man under guard in hospital, following attacks that saw a flaming jeep crash into a Scottish airport and two car bomb plots foiled in central London.

Scotland Yard said two people had been arrested in Cheshire, a county in northern England, in a joint swoop by specialist officers from London and Birmingham.

In Scotland, officers arrested two men, one of them on fire, after a Jeep Cherokee rammed into Glasgow airport and burst into flames.

Scottish police said the attack in Glasgow was linked to two unexploded car bombs found in London a day earlier.

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AP TELEVISION

London - 29 June 2007

1. Pan of Piccadilly Circus

2. Mid of police vans on cordoned off street

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Pool

London - 29 June 2007

Haymarket area - June 29, 2007

3. Side shot of car

4. Various of bomb experts in protective suit getting ready to load car into trailer

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Glasgow - 30 June 2007

5. Wide of Glasgow airport

10:33:50

(Al Qaeda Videos Featuring Osama bin Laden and Walid al-Shehri and Bush Reaction)

In September a videotape purportedly of Osama bin Laden and Walid al-Shehri was released on the sixth anniversary of the 11 September attacks on the US showed a still photograph of the al-Qaeda leader superimposed upon a photograph of a burning World Trade Centre. IntelCenter, a monitoring group in Washington D.C., said it had obtained the 47-minute videotape privately and provided it to Associated Press Television News.

The voiceover praised Walid al-Shehri (also known as Abu Mus'ab), a man identified a September 11 hijacker, saying al-Shehri "and his brothers have made a covenant with Allah to support their religion. And they were faithful to their covenant." Al-Shehri was identified as one of the hijackers on American Airlines flight 11 that hit the World Trade Centre.

Osama bin Laden appeared for the first time in three years telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they want the war in Iraq to end. In the video, bin Laden was shown wearing a white robe, a white circular cap and a beige cloak, seated behind a table as he read an address to the American people from papers before him. His trimmed beard was shorter than in his last video, issued in 2004, and was fully black - apparently dyed, since in past videos it had turned nearly entirely grey. The footage gives a rare look at the al-Qaeda leader, who is likely to have avoided appearing in videos as a security measure.

US President George W. Bush reacted to the video saying "The tape is a reminder about the dangerous world in which we live, and it's a reminder that we must work together to protect our people against these extremists who murder the innocent in order to achieve their political objectives."

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1. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Walid al-Shehri, September 11 Hijacker:

"We will come at you from your front and your back, and from you right and your left. From the underneath you and from on top of you. And the truth is in what you see not what you hear. The difference between you and us, you cowards, is that you fear death and are frightened by it whereas we wish for it and seek it in the name of God."

2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Walid al-Shehri, September 11 Hijacker:

"I announce on behalf of myself and my brothers in Afghanistan that as we carry our arms on our shoulders, we promise Allah that we will sacrifice everything until you (the US) fall as the Soviet Union has fallen before you and you leave our country defeated as you were defeated in Somalia once before, as long as we shall live, and may Allah bear witness to what we say."

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3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda leader:

"People of America, I shall be speaking to you on topics of importance to you, so lend me your ears. I start with the war between us and you, and some of its repercussions on us and you. To start with, I say that despite America having the greatest economic power, and the mightiest and most modern military arsenal as well, it spends on this war and its army more than what the entire world spend on its armies. It is the superpower which is influential on world politics, as if the unjust veto is a monopoly for it only. Despite all of this, with Allah's grace, 19 young men were able to change the direction of its compass."

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4. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:

"The tape is a reminder about the dangerous world in which we live, and it's a reminder that we must work together to protect our people".

10:34:57

(Yemen - Bomb Aimed at Tourists)

On July 2nd a suicide car-bomb killed seven Spanish tourists and injured six others. The Europeans were among 10 people when a suspected al-Qaeda suicide bomber drove his car into a group of tourists outside a temple in a part of central Yemen known for its lawlessness, officials said. Witnesses reported seeing a car drive into the group of tourists on a road outside the temple site.

Three Yemenis, including the suicide bomber, were also killed in the attack outside the 3,000-year-old Queen of Sheba temple in the central province of Marib, the officials said. AP Television showed footage of the mangled remains of several vehicles at the site, less than an hour after the explosion.

Spain's Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said the suicide bomber drove into the middle of a convoy, killing the seven Spaniards and wounding five other Spanish tourists, including one seriously.

Yemeni security officials said they had been warned about a possible al-Qaeda attack, but said they did not think it would include the suicide bombing at the temple.

The warning was said to be for attacks against Yemeni oil facilities, government institutions and foreign embassies. Heightened security measures had been taken at those facilities, officials said.

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Marib - 2 July 2007

1. Wide of immediate aftermath at scene with workers inspecting damage by torch light

2. Various of damaged vehicle, debris

3. Various of damaged vehicles

IRAN

10:35:22

(Iran - Nuclear Dispute)

Diplomats from the Non-aligned Movement, Arab League and Group of 77 toured Iran's nuclear facility at Isfahan in February. The visit to the Isfahan Uranium Conversion facility in central Iran is the first tour by diplomats of an Iranian nuclear facility since the United Nations Security Council approved economic sanctions on Iran on December 23 for failing to halt uranium enrichment. The council gave Iran 60 days - a period that elapses later this month - to halt enrichment, otherwise it will consider taking additional steps. Diplomats and journalists visited several areas of the Isfahan facility were shown two cameras installed by the IAEA in the building to monitor activity where UF-6 or uranium gas is produced. Iran's chief delegate to the UN nuclear watchdog, Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, said the cameras are in place according to Iran's obligations under the Non-proliferation Treaty.

Also in February Iranian students formed a human chain around Azadi square in Tehran to voice their support for Iran's nuclear program. The students lined up around the square holding a long white cloth covered in signatures to show their support for Iran's nuclear activities and chanted "nuclear energy is our definite right," and "down with America." The show of support by the students came during the ten-day period of Fajr - an annual ten-day celebration in Iran of the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the pro-US shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Iran has failed to comply with a United Nations (UN) Security Council Ultimatum requesting that it freeze its uranium enrichment programme, which may clear the way for harsher sanctions, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced in February. In its report the IAEA detailed recent activities claiming Tehran was expanding its enrichment efforts, setting up hundreds of uranium-spinning centrifuges in an underground hall and bringing nearly 9 tonnes of the gaseous feedstock into the facility in preparation for enrichment. It added that Iranian officials had informed the agency that they would expand their centrifuge installations to have thousands of them ready by May.

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Iran - date unknown

Bushehr, Iran - date unknown

1. Tracking shot of Bushehr plant

2. Exterior of plant

3. Employees at work inside the plant

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Isfahan - 3 February 2007

4. Diplomats from the Non-aligned Movement, Arab League and Group of 77 walking down steps at nuclear facility, dressed in special outfits

5. Wide of Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) control room

6. Wide facility worker in control room

7. Container filled with yellow cake for use in enrichment process

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AP Television

Tehran - 5 Feb 2007

8. Students carrying petition in support of Iran's nuclear programme

9. Close-up of petition

10. Low angle view of students holding petition and Iranian flag

11. Students lined up holding petition and chanting UPSOUND: (Farsi) "Nuclear energy is our definite right."

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New York, 22 Feb 2007

12. Close up title of IAEA report on Iran, reading in English: "Implementation of the NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) Safeguards Agreement and Relevant Provisions of Security Council Resolution 1737 (2006) in the Islamic Republic of Iran."

13. Close up of paragraphs of report summary, reading in English: "Summary"

10:36:21

(Iran - 15 British sailors held by Iran)

Iraqi and British troops were on patrol on March 24th in the Persian Gulf, the day after Naval forces of Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Guards captured 15 British sailors and marines at gunpoint in the Persian Gulf. U.S. and British officials said a boarding party from the frigate HMS Cornwall was seized during a routine inspection of a merchant ship inside Iraqi territorial waters near the disputed Shatt al-Arab waterway.

Britain's Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said "Our personnel were in two boats which were operating in Iraqi territorial waters in accordance with UN Security Council resolution 1723, acting in support of the government of Iraq to stop smuggling."

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AP TELEVISION

Basra, 24 Mar 2007

1. Various of vessels sailing in Iraqi territorial waters - Shatt al-Arab waterway

2. Various of Iraqi troop patrols in Shatt al-Arab waterway

10:05:11

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Suez Canal - 21 September 2001

1. Wide of HMS Cornwall sailing down Suez Canal

2. Pull-out of HMS Cornwall

10:36:53

(Iran - British Sailors Released)

Fifteen British sailors who were pardoned by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday 4th April, talked with the Iranian President in Tehran apparently minutes before they were to be freed.

AP Television captured images of the Iranian President shaking hands with some of the sailors on the steps of the presidential palace.

He held brief conversations with each sailor through a translator.

Dressed in new suits, the crew were smiling and thanked him for their release.

The meeting took place shortly after the Ahmadinejad announced at a news conference that his government would release the 15 detained British sailors and marines as an Easter season "gift" to the British people.

The 15 British sailors and marines were captured by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf on March 23.

The arrest happened while the British sailors and marines were patrolling for smugglers near the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab, a waterway that has long been a disputed dividing line between Iraq and Iran.

Tehran said the crew was in Iranian waters.

The crew returned home on Thursday 5th April, and broke open champagne and changed from the civilian suits they had been wearing when they left Tehran, into fresh uniforms on the flight home.

After landing at Heathrow, they smiled and stood at attention, whispering to each other and basking in the joy of returning to British soil.

The British crew was then whisked by helicopter to the Royal Marines base at Chivenor, near the Devon coast 210 miles (335 kilometres) southwest of London, where they were to be debriefed.

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Tehran - 4 April 2007

1. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and officials including Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki (beard) walking down steps at presidential palace

2. Leading Seaman Faye Turney (in headscarf) flanked by British sailors

3. Ahmadinejad with operator maintainer Arthur Batchelor

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London -5 April 2007

4. Plane taxiing with helicopter in foreground

5. Close pan across sailors

10:37:28

(Iran - Anti-British Demon Outside UK Embassy - Stone-Throwing)

About 200 students on Sunday 1st April rallied in front of the British Embassy in Tehran, calling for the expulsion of the country's ambassador because of the standoff over Iran's capture of 15 British sailors and marines.

Students from different universities chanted anti-British slogans, as well as slogans against the US and Israel.

Some demonstrators threw stones and firecrackers at the embassy building, and smoke could be seen rising from the main gate.

Several dozen policemen successfully prevented protesters from entering the compound, although a few did briefly scale a fence that lies outside the compound's walls before being pushed back, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.

Chanting "death to Britain" and "death to America", the demonstrators demanded that the Iranian government expel the British ambassador and close down the embassy.

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Tehran - 1 April 2007

1. Wide of demonstration in front of embassy

2. Boy throwing stone toward embassy

3. Protesters taking stones from a passing van

4. Pan from firecracker smoke near embassy gate to demonstrators chanting (Farsi) "Death to England"

10:37:48

(Iran - Ahmadinejad Warns the West No Backdown on Nuclear Programme)

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday 3rd June issued a warning to the west that his country would not back down on its nuclear programme, despite the threat of more international sanctions against his country.

Speaking in Tehran, Ahmadinejad issued the warning during a ceremony to mark the 18th anniversary of Grand Ayatollah Khomeini's death, a leader known as the father of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution

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Tehran - 3 June 2007

1. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian president:

"Be aware that in Iran you (the West) will not find anyone who retreats and even if anyone has this thought of surrender in mind, they will not dare express that. This nation will not retreat even one iota on the nuclear issue."

10:38:24

(Iran - Public hanging of Two Men For Killing Judge)

On August 2nd Iranian authorities publicly hanged two men convicted of killing a prominent judge, a police officer and a bystander in a string of robberies and attacks, the state broadcasting company reported. Flanked by masked hangmen, 28-year-old Majid Kavoosifar and his 24-year-old cousin Hossein Kavoosifar, were executed in front of the main offices of the judiciary in central Tehran. The two men were convicted of shooting dead Judge Hassan Moqaddas in his car outside his central Tehran office in August 2005. The judge supervised several courts and specialised in vice cases.

Kavoosifar confessed after a three hour interrogation to murdering the judge as part of a personal vendetta, according to judicial officials quoted by state media. He and his cousin also admitted killing the police officer and another man, as well as wounding three others, during five separate armed robberies, officials said. Kavoosifar fled to the United Arab Emirates after killing the judge, but was later detained there and returned to Iran by Interpol in May 2006.

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Tehran - 2 August 2007

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1. Close up of noose and picture of the assassinated judge on a building in background

2. Mid of Tehran's chief prosecutor Saaid Mortazavi, reading the charges before execution

3. Mid of guard putting the noose around Majid's neck

4. Wide of Majid Kavoosifar and his cousin Hossein Kavoosifar hanging from cranes

ASIA

MYANMAR

10:38:48

(Myanmar - Protests)

On September 20th almost 1-thousand Buddhist monks, protected by a larger crowd of onlookers, marched through Myanmar's biggest city for a third straight day on Thursday and pledged to keep alive the most sustained protests against the military government in at least a decade. The junta, normally quick to crack down hard on dissent, left them unmolested, apparently fearful of stirring up further problems. The monks chanted as they marched in a steady rain from the golden Shwedagon pagoda, the country's most revered shrine, to Sule pagoda in downtown Yangon, and then rallied briefly outside the American Embassy. The US is one of the junta's major foreign critics.

The protest attracted around 5-thousand followers who marched behind and alongside the monks, linking arms to prevent disruption from outside agitators. The monks' marches during the week had given new life to a protest movement that began a month ago after a huge government-ordered hike in fuel prices, sparking demonstrations against policies that are causing economic hardships. The protests also reflect long pent-up opposition to the repressive military regime, and have become the largest challenge to the junta since a wave of student demonstrations were forcibly suppressed in December 1996. The government appeared to be handling the situation carefully, aware that any mistreatment of the monks could ignite public outrage in the predominantly Buddhist nation.

On September 24th Myanmar's junta confirmed that its security forces had opened fire on demonstrators who failed to disperse, killing one person, but dissident groups reported as many as five dead, including monks. The government's announcement on state radio and television was the first acknowledgment that force had been used to suppress the protests and the first admission that blood had been shed. It said the security forces fired after the crowd of 10-thousand people, including "so-called monks", failed to disperse at the Sule Pagoda in the capital, Yangon. It added the police used "minimum force" after members of the crowd tried to grab their guns. The dead man, aged 30, was hit by a bullet, the announcement said. It said the wounded, two men aged 25 and 27, and a 47-year-old woman, were also hurt when the police fired, but did not specify their injuries.

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Yangon - 20 Sept 2007

1. Long shot of monks marching, people clapping hands as they pass by

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Yangon - 24 Sept 2007

2. Wide of thousands of protesters, with monks at the front

3. Top shots of protesters in street

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Yangon - 26 Sept 2007

4. Wide of street with crowd in background UPSOUND: gunfire

5. People running away

6. Monks surrounded by civilian protestors marching down street

7. Military troops climbing into trucks

8. Wide of protestors throwing stones at passing military convoy

9. Wide shot of crowd running away from tear gas fired by security forces

10. Wide of troops holding guns

11. Tilt up from crowd to wide of Sule pagoda in background

KASHMIR

10:39:45

(Kashmir - Three soldiers killed, three wounded in roadside bomb attack)

Separatist rebels set off a roadside bomb that killed three soldiers and critically wounded three others in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said. A separatist group later claimed responsibility for the attack at the village of Braw Bandina. It also joined calls for a general strike on India's national day to protest at New Delhi's rule over the predominantly Muslim territory.

In a telephone call to the Current News Service, a local news agency, a man who gave his name as Junaid-ul-Islam claimed responsibility for the blast on behalf of the Hezb-ul-Mujahedeen. He said the separatist group also called for a general strike in India's part of the Himalayan state on India's national day. The moderate and hard-line factions of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, an umbrella group of separatist political and religious groups, have already made a similar call for a strike.

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Braw Bandina, 23 Jan 2007

1. Wide shot of army vehicle turned up-side-down with crater in ground from impact of explosion

2. Soldiers on top of upturned vehicle

3. Various shots of soldiers around upturned vehicle

10:40:00

(Kashmir - Protesters clash with police in over alleged civilian killings)

Police fired tear gas and used batons to control hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators in Indian-administered Kashmir who were protesting alleged slayings of civilians by security forces, an official said. Twelve people were detained and a police driver was injured by a stone thrown by the protesters, said a senior police official. Five bodies have been exhumed in the past week by government officials in different parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir in a rare investigation into the alleged killing of civilians by security forces. Six police officers have been accused of killing innocent people and then claiming they were militants to receive rewards.

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Srinagar, 6 Feb 2007

1. Protestors pelting stones towards police

2. Various of police firing tear gas towards protesters

3. Wide of police charging towards protestors

4. Mid of women chanting (Kashmiri): "We want freedom!"

10:40:18

(Kashmir - Tourist Bus Bomb)

On July 29th At least five people, including 4 tourists, were killed and more than 20 injured when a blast ripped through a tourist bus near the famous Dal lake in Indian Kashmir. Senior police superintendent Sayeed Mujtaba Ali told Associated Press Television most of the tourists in the bus were from the Western Gujarat state. Investigations are now underway to determine the cause of the blast.

Those injured were rushed to the main hospital in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state. Last year, several tourists were killed and scores of others injured in a series of grenade attacks at various locations around Indian Kashmir where anti-India sentiment runs deep. Some 700-thousand Indian soldiers are trying to suppress a separatist insurgency that has left more than 68-thousand people dead since its inception in 1989. Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both in its entirety.

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Srinagar - 29 July 2007

1. Pan of bus

2. Various of body of a victim

3. Wide shot of injured being taken towards operation theatre

INDIA

10:40:32

(India - Bomb Attacks Kill 42 in Hyderabad)

On August 26th at least 42 people were killed in a pair of bombings that tore through a popular restaurant and a park in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Relatives of the victims gathered at one of the city's morgues to try to identify their loved ones. Many of the victims were killed in the restaurant, which was destroyed by a bomb placed at the entrance.

The other blast struck a laser show at an auditorium in Lumbini park. By the next morning, the death toll had risen to 42 as victims succumbed to injuries sustained in the attacks, according to the state home minister. Some 50 people were wounded in the two blasts.

The attacks were the latest in a series of bombings to hit India in the last year and nearly all have been blamed on Islamic extremists with foreign connections - even when Muslims were targeted. The chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state, where Hyderabad is located, suggested that Bangladesh-based Islamic extremists may have been behind the bombings. He did not name any groups or gave any more information, but Indian media reports, quoting unnamed security officials, identified Harkat-ul-Jehad-i-Islami.

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Hyderabad - 26 Aug 2007

1. Various of forensic team at the blast site

2. Pan from debris to forensic team

NEPAL

10:40:49

(Nepal - Curfews imposed in Southern Nepal to curb violent demos / Clashes)

Police fired tear gas in clashes with protesters in Nepal's second-largest city, Biratnagar, as unrest continued in several towns across the southwest of the country. The disorder comes despite the decision by authorities to impose curfews to curb violent, escalating demonstrations by residents who say the government has neglected their region's development and rights. A daytime curfew has been imposed in four major southern towns, Birgunj, Biratnagar, Janakpur and Lahan in an effort to contain rising tensions.

The trouble in southern Nepal began earlier in March, when protests in Lahan ended with one person being killed. Four more died in violent demonstrations there earlier this week. Since then, the protests have spread to other parts of the south, where daily life has been crippled by curfews imposed by authorities and a general strike called by protesters. The protests have been organised by the Tarai People's Rights Forum, a group that says it is working for the rights of the people in Nepal's southern plains.

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Biratnagar - 27 Jan 2007

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1. Riot police charge protesters in the city of Biratnagar, 400 kilometres (250 miles) southeast of Kathmandu

2. Riot police holding shields in the street, protesters in the background

3. Police officer firing tear gas shell at protesters

4. Tear gas filling the street, protesters in the background

5. Riot police running down street

10:41:15

(Nepal - 26 dead after clashes in southern Nepal)

Security forces were on alert in southern Nepal after a fierce gun battle between former communist rebels and ethnic rights activists left 26

dead and 35 wounded the day before, officials said. A spokesman for Nepal's Home Ministry said security forces in the southern region were ordered to be on high alert to prevent any further violence. The spokesman said curfew was imposed on Wednesday at Gaur, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) south of the capital, Kathmandu, after Maoist supporters clashed with members of the Madeshi People's Rights Forum. Activists from both groups had gathered at the same spot to hold separate rallies when arguments between them erupted over who had the right to use the land. Fighting quickly broke out and shots were fired.

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Gaur, 22 March 2007

1. Site of political rally where clash initially started, with damaged furniture

2. Various shots of dead bodies covered with white sheets and laid out in a row, still near site where clash took place

(Nepal - Four Bombs Hit Nepalese Capital)

On September 2nd four bombs exploded almost simultaneously around the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, leaving at least two people dead, according to initial reports. Thirteen people were believed to have been wounded, police said, with seven reported to be in a critical condition. One of the bombs exploded inside a moving bus about 300 metres (one thousand feet) from the army headquarters in the capital.

Minutes later, another blast occurred on a nearby roadside. A further two blasts took place on the outskirts of the city. One was in Balaju district and the other near Tribhuvan University in Kirtipur, 13 kilometres (eight miles) southwest of Kathmandu.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts.

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Kathmandu - 2 Sep 2007

1. Various of damaged bus and security men at work

2. Various of damaged bus stop

BANGLADESH

10:41:39

(Bangladesh - Student Protests Against Government and Clashes With Police / Arrest of Former Premier)

On August 22nd Bangladesh's military-backed government imposed an indefinite curfew in six major cities clearing the streets and temporarily cutting cell phone service in a bid to quell unrest by students demanding an end to emergency rule. As the curfew came into effect at 8 pm (1500 GMT), police using loudspeakers urged residents to

stay home. Security forces patrolled the deserted streets. The country's interim head of government, Fakhruddin Ahmed, said in a brief televised speech that the measure was temporary. The curfew order came on the third day of unrest after students, whose protests had been largely confined to university campuses, spilled into the streets of Dhaka, burning cars and buses and battling with security forces. Northwest of the capital, the first death was reported when students attacked a police checkpoint, the United News of Bangladesh agency said.

There were competing accounts of how the unidentified victim died, students charged police fatally beat him, but police said the man was killed by a stone thrown by a protester. Demonstrations have spread across the grindingly poor South Asian country since Monday with students demanding an end to emergency rule. The emergency was imposed in January when President Iajuddin Ahmed cancelled scheduled elections, outlawed demonstrations, curtailed press freedoms and limited other civil liberties. The interim government now running Bangladesh is doing so with the backing of the military, which ruled the country throughout the 1980s.

The protests began when University of Dhaka students called for the removal of an army post from the campus. The soldiers withdrew a day later after violent protests left 150 injured, but the students' demands escalated and the protests continued. Hundreds have since been injured. On August 22nd students said they wanted the return of democracy immediately.

On July 16th Bangladesh's military-backed interim government, in the midst of a major anti-corruption drive, boosted security across the country following the arrest of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Bangladesh has been under a state of emergency since mid-January, and a military-backed interim government has vowed to fight corruption and clean up the nation's often violent politics before holding new elections. All political gatherings are currently banned.

The central headquarters of the country's two major political parties, Hasina's Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which once thronged with activists, now remain shuttered and locked, with riot police guarding the entrance. More than 170 people - most of them associates of Hasina and her rival Khaleda Zia, who heads the BNP - have been arrested under the government's anti-corruption drive. Hasina's party has decried the arrest as politically motivated, and Hasina has said it was aimed at keeping her from running in the country's next elections. The government has denied the allegations.

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Dhaka - 22 Aug 2007

Dhaka University Campus - 22 August 2007

1. Wide of students throwing stones as teargas shells land into crowds

2. Wide of riot police firing rubber bullets

3. Mid of students throwing stones as teargas and rubber bullets are fired

4. Mid of police throwing stones at protestors

5. Wide of policeman standing as tyres burn on the road

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6. Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina, in white

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Dhaka - 16 July 2007

7. Wide shot of temporary jail housing former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

8. Various of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB - Bangladesh's elite security forces) guarding barricades outside jail

CAMBODIA

10:42:24

(Cambodia - Top Surviving Khmer Rogue Leader Arrested for War Crimes)

Nuon Chea, the top surviving leader of Cambodia's notorious Khmer Rouge, whose radical policies were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 (m) million people, was charged on September 19th with crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Nuon Chea was arrested at his home in Pailin in north-western Cambodia near the Thai border and flown to the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, where he was put in the custody of a UN-supported genocide tribunal.

The tribunal is investigating abuses committed when the communist Khmer Rouge held power in 1975-79. The Khmer Rouge have been blamed for the deaths of their countrymen from starvation, ill health, overwork and execution.

Officers later took the 82-year-old Nuon Chea, who denies any wrongdoing, into custody and put him into a car and then a helicopter for the capital, Phnom Penh, as his son and dozens of onlookers gathered to watch the historic scene in silence, witnesses said.

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FILE: Pailin - 3 July, 2006

1. Mid of Chea's house

2. Close-up of Chea putting sunglasses on

3. Chea sitting at table with radio

4 Cutaway of close-up of radio

5. SOUNDBITE: (Khmer) Nuon Chea, Former Khmer Rouge Leader:

"I feel normal and of course I have a responsibility for what happened, not for the killing but for not being able to protect my own people."

6. Chea standing outside his house

7. Close-up of Chea's face

TURKEY

10:42:54

(Turkey - Armenian journalist shot dead at entrance to his newspaper's office)

Journalist Hrant Dink, one of the most prominent voices of Turkey's shrinking Armenian community, was killed by a gunman at the entrance to his newspaper's offices, police said. Dink, a 53-year-old Turkish citizen of Armenian descent, had gone on trial numerous times for speaking out about the mass killings of Armenians by Turks at the beginning of the 20th century which many historians describe as a genocide. Dink's body could be seen lying face down and draped with a white cover on the sidewalk in front of the newspaper's entrance. A large crowd gathered around the shooting site as police cordoned off the area.

Workers at the newspaper, including Dink's brother, who has also been put on trial in Turkey, could be seen weeping and being consoled by others near his fallen body. In the past Dink had received threats from nationalists, who viewed him as a traitor. Dink was a public figure in Turkey, and as the editor of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, one of its most prominent Armenian voices. Tens of thousands of people marched in a funeral procession for Dink in an extraordinary outpouring of support for a more liberal Turkey where people are not killed for their ideas.

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Istanbul - 19 January 2007

1. Body of murdered journalist Hrant Dink

2. Body on the ground

3. Woman crying on the street

4. Body lying on ground in front of the Agos (the newspaper where he worked) building

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Istanbul -12 October 2006

5. Exterior of Agos daily newspaper building

6. Zoom out from a photograph in background to Hrant Dink at his desk

7. Dink at his desk

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Istanbul, 23 Jan 2007

8. Wide funeral procession, hearse carrying coffin

9. Funeral procession

TAIWAN

10:43:29

(Taiwan - Research team claims breakthrough in bird flu vaccine)

Taiwan said in January it has developed a high-yield, safe bird flu vaccine, becoming one of the countries near the stage of producing a vaccine against the H5N1 virus. Taiwan's National Health Research Institute succeeded recently in developing the vaccine after 17 months of research. The team had to start from "ground zero" because Taiwan had not engaged in similar programmes before, said Pele Chong, who leads the vaccine development programme at the institute. Chong said it took 4 months to set up the laboratory, and another 13 months to develop the vaccine.

Taiwan has not reported any human cases of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, but several fowl smuggled from China tested positive in 2005. Singapore, China and India are researching bird flu vaccines, following the lead of Western pharmaceutical firms. In case a bird flu epidemic should break out in Taiwan, the state-funded agency will have the capability to produce small amounts of the vaccine in its laboratory and give limited injections to poultry farmers and medical personnel, institute officials said.

A production line will be built by the end of the year and formal production is expected to begin in late 2008 following months of human clinical tests, they said. "If we are fast enough to produce 200-thousand in three months, that means if we follow the schedule, we can complete this production at the end of this year," said Su Yi-jen, the director of Vaccine Research and Development Centre. As a latecomer in the field, Chong said Taiwan opted for the more advanced cell-culture technology instead of the traditional method of developing vaccines using poultry eggs. Chong said his team manages to enhance the vaccine yield by implanting the strain into dog kidneys to multiply the number of viruses. "Now we are doing optimum doses to see which dose will give us a hundred percent protection," Chong said. Taiwan hopes to eventually produce up to 80,000 doses of the vaccine a month, institute officials said.

Bird flu has claimed at least 163 lives worldwide since it began ravaging Asian poultry farms in late 2003, according to the World Health Organisation.

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Jakarta, 21 Jan 2007

1. Various of poultry

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Maioli, 29 Jan 2007

1. Close-up of two bottles of H5N1 vaccine bulk

2. Close-up of label on bottle reading "H5N1 avian flu vaccine bulk"

3. Various of researchers in laboratory

GEORGIA

10:44:01

(Tens of thousands rally in Georgia's capital as pressure mounts on president)

Tens of thousands of opposition supporters rallied on November 2nd in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, accusing President Mikhail Saakashvili of leading the country away from democracy.

The rally is the latest protest against Saakashvili, a stalwart US ally, who faces his worst political crisis since he was propelled to power in the 2003 uprising known as the Rose Revolution.

Opposition leaders at the rally said their main demand was the reversal of a decision to move back next year's parliamentary election by several months.

Political turmoil in the former Soviet nation was sparked by sensational allegations against Saakashvili by his former defence minister, Irakli Okruashvili, who was effectively sacked late in 2006.

Okruashvili, a one-time Saakashvili supporter, was arrested but then freed on multimillion-dollar bail in October after he retracted allegations accusing Saakashvili of corruption and a murder plot.

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Tbilisi - 2 November 2007

1. Mid of crowd of protesters walking

2. Wide of anti-Saakashvili protesters gathered in front of Parliament building

3. Mid of flags

4. Mid of Goga Khaindrava, a former government minister turned opposition leader, addressing crowd

5. Mid of protest rally

6. SOUNDBITE (Georgian) Gia Tortladze, opposition leader:

"We will not disperse until our demands are fulfilled. People will not disperse."

NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA

10:44:28

(Two Koreas meet at first summit for seven years)

The leaders of the two Koreas began formal talks on October 3rd at the first summit between the divided countries in seven years. After an initial chilly reception North Korea's Kim Jong Il appeared to warm to South Korea's Roh Moo-hyun. .According to South Korean news reports, Roh told Kim he was concerned about flooding in the North, where this year's seasonal summer rains left some 600 people dead or missing and tens of thousands homeless. North Korea delayed the summit from its original late August date due to the disaster.

The two Koreas remain technically at war since a 1953 cease-fire ended the Korean War, despite seven years of warming ties. Roh has not given any specifics about what he will propose or seek, prompting criticism from conservatives at home that the summit is an ego trip for the South Korean leader to establish a legacy for his unpopular administration, which ends in February.

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Pyongyang - 3 Oct 2007

1. North Korea leader Kim Jong Il shakes hands with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, his wife and members of South Korean delegation

2. Various of Roh and Kim exchanging words

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Pyongyang - 3 Oct 2007

3. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korea's second in command, Kim Yong-nam, president of North Korea's Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, walking into the banquet hall

EUROPE

FRANCE

10:45:03

(France - Presidential Elections and Riots)

French voters elected Nicolas Sarkozy as their new president by a comfortable winning margin, according to final results on Monday April 30th. The results show a convincing win for US-friendly, conservative Sarkozy with 53.06 percent of the vote over Socialist Segolene Royal's 46.94 percent. Turnout was a strong 85 percent.

Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon in an effort to disperse a crowd of angry demonstrators lobbing bottles and paving stones in protest at conservative Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential election victory - one of a handful of incidents reported around France. Police armed with shields repeatedly fired tear gas but the crowd taunted them for more than three hours before dispersing.

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Paris - 29 April 2007

1. Socialist candidate, Segolene Royal, visits a homelessness services office and talking with doctor

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Paris - 29 April 2007

2. Conservative presidential candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy, greeting supporters at a rally in Paris

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Various - 6 May 2007

AP Television

Melle, Western France

3. Segolene Royal casting her ballot

POOL

Neuilly, Paris

4. Nicolas Sarkozy casting his ballot

POOL - No Access France

Correze, Central France

5. French President Jacques Chirac coming out of voting booth

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Anti Sarkozy protesters clash with police

AP TELEVISION

Paris - 6 May 2007

6. Anti Nicolas Sarkozy demonstrators throwing rocks and bottles at the riot police near the Place de la Bastille

7. Demonstrator throwing rocks

8. Close of demonstrator walking next to a member of the riot police

9. Various of demonstrator being held to the ground by the riot police

10. Riot police with fire burning in background

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Paris - 6 May 2007

11. Sarkozy on stage waving at crowds celebrating victory

CYPRUS

10:45:50

(Cyprus - Turkish Cypriots dismantle controversial bridge along green line)

Turkish Cypriots dismantled a bridge that has angered Greek Cypriots and frustrated plans for a new crossing in the heart of Europe's last divided capital. Work on the bridge started early and was finished a day ahead of schedule. Removal of the footbridge at the Turkish end of Ledras Street could revive bilateral efforts, frozen for over a year, to allow movement between the Greek and Turkish sectors in the walled Old City, Nicosia's commercial and tourist centre.

Oya Gürel, a resident of the Turkish Cypriot north said the removal of the bridge was a good step. ''In a way it is good to be removed because, well it is a good step forward towards a peace movement, a solution movement.'' Greek Cypriots claimed the bridge, which carries Ledras Street over a road used by the Turkish military, encroaches on the United Nations (U.N.) patrolled buffer. Although five crossings have functioned on the island since 2003, there are none in the city centre and for more than four decades Ledras Street has been the most prominent symbol of Cyprus' ethnic partition.

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Nicosia - 9/10 Jan 2007

Turkish Cypriot north

1. Banner (English): 'Those who are watching from the wall of shame! This is the bridge of peace.'

2. Men working on bridge

3. Aerial shot of street and footbridge

Greek Cypriot south

4. Turkish Cypriot custom's post with sign (Turkish): "Come break down your wall and together we will get rid of the bridge."

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AP TELEVISION

Nicosia - 9 March 2007

5. Wide of new makeshift barrier in Ledras Street in Nicosia

6. Armed soldier standing in street in front of gathered people and press

7. Wide of flags flying

BULGARIA / ROMANIA

10:46:15

(Bulgaria/Romania - Accession celebrations in Sofia and Bucharest)

In Romania and Bulgaria, the new year marked a historic milestone, with the two countries becoming the newest members of the European Union.

In the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, thousands of party-goers crammed into Battenberg Square and cheered and embraced each other as the clock struck midnight heralding in the new year. Fireworks lit up the sky over the building where the Communist Party once had its headquarters, and the European Union's anthem sounded out over loudspeakers. One reveller, Marko, said, "this is an historical moment. It is a wonderful night. We hope for better things in the future."

In the Romanian capital of Bucharest blue-and-gold EU flags fluttered and fireworks thundered in at midnight. Bulgaria and Romania threw off communism in 1989, applied for EU membership in 1995 and began accession talks in 2000. The negotiations ended two years ago, and the European Commission declared in September that both were ready to join the bloc. But the two nations, hailing from one of the poorest corners of Europe, are joining under strict conditions and at a time when EU leaders are putting the brakes on further enlargement.

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Various, 31 Dec 2006/1 Jan 2007

Sofia, Bulgaria

1. Screen with countdown to New Year on it with Bulgarian flag changing into European Union flag, pull-out to wide of crowd

2. Wide of fireworks, people waving Bulgarian flags (AUDIO: Music)

3. People waving Bulgarian flags (AUDIO: Music)

Bucharest, Romania

4. Wide aerial view of crowd and laser lights display in central Bucharest

5. Various of people with Romanian and European flags (AUDIO: Music)

EUROPEAN UNION

10:46:35

(EU - 50th Anniversary celebrations)

The European Union is marking its 50th anniversary this weekend - and summit leaders will be celebrating with birthday cakes from across the community. Two traditional cakes or pastries have been selected from each member state, and the recipes sent to a specialist team of German chefs in Berlin.

To mark the 50th Anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, the EU's Committee of the Regions is holding its 69th plenary session in Rome. The session began with a choir singing the European anthem. The President of the EU Committee of the Regions, Michel Delebarre, spoke of the power of European democracy combined with social and economic efficiency. As the officials celebrated the EU's achievements in past decades, they looked at ways to revive public enthusiasm for European integration, a process that has been stalled since efforts towards adopting an EU constitution failed. EU President Manuel Jose Barroso and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi both spoke about the urgency of resolving the question of the European constitution. "We need for Europe in the 21st century European institutions that are more effective, more democratic and more transparent. We need more coherence on the institutional plan. I say once again the Treaty of Nice is not sufficient, we need a resolution to the constitutional question in Europe," Barroso said.

The European Union's 50th birthday declaration includes a pledge to overhaul the foundations of EU by 2009, but it fails to mention the EU's constitution, according to the latest draft distributed to member states late on Thursday.

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AP TELEVISION

Berlin, Germany - 21 March, 2007

1. Pan across cakes from various EU states

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Italy - Celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome

AP TELEVISION

Rome - 23 March 2007

2. Close up of sign of 50th Committee of the Regions

3. Wide of stage, choir singing

4. Mid of EU member country's flags

5. SOUNDBITE (French) Manuel Jose Barroso, European Commission President:

"We need for Europe in the 21st century European institutions that are more effective, more democratic and more transparent."

RUSSIA

10:47:14

(Russia - Former President Boris Yeltsin Dies)

Former President Boris Yeltsin, who was instrumental in the final collapse of the Soviet Union, pushed Russia toward pluralism and a market economy, and launched the first war in Chechnya, has died, a Kremlin official said Monday.

He was 76.

The Interfax news agency cited an unidentified medical source as saying he had died of heart failure in the Kremlin Clinic Hospital.

Although Yeltsin was initially admired abroad for his defiance of the Communist system, many Russians will remember him mostly for presiding over the steep decline of their nation.

It was a period where the oligarchs came to the fore - an elite rich made billions from the state's resources, as the huge majority remained poor.

Thousands of tearful mourners filed past the open coffin of former President Boris Yeltsin on Wednesday 25th April, lighting candles and crossing themselves to the sound of chanted Orthodox prayers as foreign dignitaries headed to Moscow to pay their last respects.

Yeltsin's widow, Naina, and his two daughters sat dressed in black alongside the casket, which was draped in the Russian tricolour in the centre of the cathedral's nave.

He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery

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Various, File

AP Television News

Moscow - 21 August 1991

1. Yeltsin waves Russian flag

AP Television News

Kremlin - October, 1995

2. Yeltsin pinches secretary in Kremlin

AP Television News

USA - October 1995

3. Yeltsin and Clinton share a joke

Russian Pool

Rostov - June 1996

4.Various shots of Yeltsin dancing to appreciative crowd during re-election campaign

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Moscow - 25 April 2007

5. Yeltsin's widow Naina leans into casket and strokes her husband's face

6. Low shot of portrait of Boris Yeltsin, with his widow crying in background

7. Mid shot of Naina standing by coffin and turning away

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Moscow - 26 April 2007

8. Close-up of Yeltsin's grave with a wooden cross and a picture of the himself, covered with flowers

9. Naina Yeltsin, wife or Boris Yeltsin and family walk into cemetery

10. Naina Yeltsin stands by her husband's grave

10:47:56

(Russia - Putin Warns of "Retaliatory Steps" if US Builds Europe Missile Defence)

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Moscow would take "retaliatory measures" if Washington proceeds to build a planned missile defence system for Europe.

Speaking days before he heads to Germany for the annual summit with US President George Bush and other Group of Eight (G-8) leaders, Putin assailed the White House plan to place a radar in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in neighbouring Poland.

Washington says the system is needed to counter a potential threat from Iran and North Korea.

Putin said neither Iran nor North Korea have the rockets that the system is intended to shoot down, suggesting the system would be used instead against Russia.

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KREMLIN POOL

Moscow - 1 June 2007

1. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, Russian President:

"First of all, we want to be heard. We want to make our position understandable. We do not exclude that our American partners may reconsider this decision. We are not enforcing something on somebody. We are basing our arguments on common sense and think that common sense exists in all of us. If this does not happen then we will withdraw any responsibility for our retaliatory measures because it wasn't us who initiated a new round of arms race development in Europe".

10:48:38

(Russia - Zubkov Becomes Prime Minister)

The lower house of parliament confirmed Viktor Zubkov as Russia's new prime minister on September 14th, two days after his surprise nomination by President Vladimir Putin.

Zubkov, seen as a Putin loyalist, pledged to implement the president's policies to ensure stability and economic growth. The previously little-known Zubkov also hinted some unpopular ministers could be fired.

"There are a lot of problems in the social sphere. The people are unhappy, so of course we will adopt measures and make necessary personnel changes in the social sphere," he said.

Lawmakers voted 381-47 to approve Zubkov for the post, with eight legislators abstaining.

Speaking to reporters after his nomination, he said he was grateful, but cautiously pointed out: "The president has yet to sign a decree."

Russian State Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov said: "It is one of the best results in the State Duma's history of voting for prime ministers."

But Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov was less than enthusiastic about the appointment.

"There is not even a shadow of new policies. He is not strong enough to fight the bureaucracy, oligarchs and bandits. We will see what government he will propose. If he proposes the same staff then we shall not expect any serious changes," he said.

The confirmation had been a foregone conclusion in the 450-seat State Duma, which is dominated by the Kremlin-controlled United Russia Party and other Putin allies.

Zubkov's nomination to replace dismissed Premier Mikhail Fradkov, however, sparked political intrigue just six months before the March presidential vote.

Putin, who is barred from seeking a third term as president, had been expected to replace Fradkov with a more prominent figure, most likely former Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov, who would then have been tapped to run as Putin's chosen successor.

Zubkov, a 65-year-old former state farm director who ran Russia's anti-money-laundering agency for six years, added to the speculation on Thursday by saying he would not rule out a presidential bid himself, suggesting he should be considered a potential successor.

Putin apparently intended to show the country, particularly Kremlin factions jockeying for position before the election, that he is no lame duck and will continue calling the shots.

Zubkov's remarks before the vote echoed that message - he underscored his loyalty to Putin, saying his priorities were those of the president.

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Moscow - 14 Sept 2007

1. Wide exterior of Russian State Duma, lower house of parliament

2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Viktor Zubkov, newly appointed Russian prime minister:

"I am grateful to the deputies of the State Duma that they approved me as the Chairman of the Cabinet. The president has yet to sign a decree (on my appointment). Because of many urgent issues I have to consider today I'd like to thank you for coming here."

10:48:53

(Russia - Andrei Lugovoi Denies Murdering Litvenenko and is Picked as Nationalist Parliamentary Candidate)

On August 28th the ex-KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi described those who had accused him of murdering Alexander Litvinenko as "enemies of Russia". At a news conference in Moscow, Lugovoi reaffirmed his innocence in the murder of the ex-Russian security officer-turned-Kremlin critic. Lugovoi's business partner Dmitri Kovtun, who was also in London when Litvinenko was poisoned, also attended the news conference. Tensions between Moscow and London arose over Russia's refusal to extradite Lugovoi, the sole suspect in the poisoning death of Litvinenko.

Lugovoi was one of three Russians who met with Litvinenko in a London hotel November 1, the day he fell ill after ingesting radioactive polonium-210. The standoff escalated mid July after Britain responded to Russia's refusal to extradite Lugovoi by announcing the expulsion of four Russian diplomats.

On September 17th the vehemently nationalist Liberal Democratic Party named Lugovoi on its list for parliamentary candidates, Russian news reports said. Andrei Lugovoi, a Moscow businessman who runs a private security agency, was chosen at a party congress to be second on its candidate list for the December 2 elections, the reports said.

Interfax news agency quoted party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky as saying the nomination of Lugovoi was a response to what he called an "impudent proposition" that Russia change its constitution to allow the extradition of the former KGB officer. During a joint news conference with Lugovoi, Zhirinovsky referred to Britain as "our historical enemy."

As a member of the Duma, Lugovoi would be granted immunity from prosecution. Russian law states that immunity can only be lifted if a special request from prosecutors is approved by the members of parliament.

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Moscow - 29 August 2007

1. Mid of ex-KGB officer Andrei Lugovoi and Lugovoi's business partner Dmitry Kovtun sitting down

2. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Andrei Lugovoi, ex-KGB officer:

"Answering your question whether I killed Litvinenko - I answer with certainty, with open eyes and face - No, I didn't kill (him)."

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Moscow - 17 September 2007

3. Close up of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of Liberal Democratic Party, and Lugovoi posing for cameras

10:49:11

(Russia - Trial of Moscow Serial Killer)

On September 13th a man accused of killing dozens of people in a Moscow park over several years went on trial.

After his arrest last year, Alexander Pichushkin claimed that he had killed more than 60 people, but prosecutors said they had only gathered evidence to charge him with 49 murders.

Pichushkin allegedly killed most of his victims by smashing their skulls with a hammer or throwing them into sewage pits after getting them drunk.

Pichushkin allegedly rammed sticks or vodka bottles into the shattered skulls of some of his victims.

More than 40 were purportedly killed by being tossed into a sewage pit.

As the killings grew more frequent in 2005 and panic spread through the public, hundreds of police were sent to sweep the 6.6-square-mile park for suspects.

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Moscow - 11/12 Sept 2007

Moscow - 11 September, 2007

1. Wide shot Moscow's Bitsa park

2. Wide shot pan Bitsa park

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Moscow - 13 Sept 2007

3. Exterior shot of Moscow City Court

4. Mid shot of suspect Alexander Pichushkin pacing in glass cell

PORTUGAL / UK

10:49:36

(Portugal / UK - The Search for Madeline McCann)

The parents of a British girl who vanished in southern Portugal almost four months ago said on August 31st they are suing a Portuguese newspaper over an article alleging police believed they accidentally killed the toddler.

Kate and Gerry McCann said they were "deeply hurt" by the report in July in weekly Tal and Qual which claimed in a front-page story that police were certain they accidentally killed their 4-year-old daughter Madeleine, apparently by giving her an overdose of sedatives.

"This statement is without truth or evidence," the McCanns said in a statement through a family spokesperson, Justine McGuinness.

Madeleine vanished May 3 from an apartment where she was sleeping with her 2-year-old twin siblings in Praia da Luz, a town on Portugal's southern Algarve resort coast.

Her parents were having dinner in the hotel's restaurant with vacationing friends and said they checked on their children at regular intervals.

The McCanns have remained in the Algarve since the disappearance, running an Internet campaign to find their daughter and visiting several countries where she may have been taken by an abductor.

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Praia da Luz - 31 Aug 2007/ File

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POOL - Date and location unknown

1. Various stills of Madeline McCann released after her disappearance.

Praia da Luz, Portugal - 31 August 2007

AP Television

2. Shot of exterior and sign: 'The Ocean Club'

3. Mid of villa where she vanished from

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POOL

East Midlands Airport, UK - 9 Sep 2007

4. Kate and Gerry McCann leaving plane at East Midlands Airport with twins Sean and Amelie

UK

10:50:08

(UK - Power-Sharing Northern Ireland Assembly Convenes)

Protestant leader Ian Paisley, who spent decades refusing to cooperate with Northern Ireland's Catholic minority, was elected to oversee a power-sharing administration alongside his long-time Sinn Fein foes.

The unopposed election of Democratic Unionist Party chief Paisley and Irish Republican Army veteran Martin McGuinness to lead a new 12-member administration heralded an astonishing new era for Northern Ireland following decades of bloodshed and political stalemate that left 3,700 dead.

81-year-old Paisley immediately affirmed an oath pledging to cooperate with Catholics and the government of the neighbouring Republic of Ireland, moves that the evangelical firebrand had long denounced as surrender.

Seconds later, Sinn Fein deputy leader McGuinness accepted the number 2 post of deputy first minister.

56-year-old McGuinness affirmed the same oath, which required all ministers to support the Northern Ireland police and British courts, a position that Sinn Fein refused for decades to accept.

Within a few more minutes, all 12 power-sharing positions were filled on the basis of how many seats each party holds in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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Belfast - 8 May 2007

1. Pan of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness and head of Democratic Unionist Part, Ian Paisley

2. Blair, Paisley, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain and McGuinness walking down stairs

3. Ahern, Blair, McGuinness and Paisley

4. Pull out from dignitaries to leaders

10:50:25

(Tony Blair steps down as PM and becomes Middle east Envoy. Gordon Brown takes over)

British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced on May 10th that he would step down as prime minister on June 27th, after a decade in office in which he brokered peace in Northern Ireland and followed the United States to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Blair made the announcement at Trimdon Labour Club in his Sedgefield constituency in northern England.

Treasury chief Gordon Brown, Blair's partner in reforming the Labour Party and a sometimes impatient rival in government, won the election as the party's new leader and became next prime minister.

Earlier in May, Blair said Brown would make "a great prime minister."

Concluding his speech, Blair told the audience, and the millions watching on television or listening on the radio, "So it has been an honour to serve it. I give my thanks to you the British people for the times that I've succeeded, and my apologies to you for the times I've fallen short. But good luck."

In July Tony Blair made his first public comments as the international community's Mid-east peace envoy and urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to take advantage of a new "sense of possibility" in the region. Blair had come to talk to both Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

"I think there is a sense of possibility, but whether that sense of possibility can be translated into something, that is something that needs to be worked at and thought about over time," Blair told reporters after his talks with Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem.

Blair is in the region as the new envoy for the "Quartet" of Mid-east mediators - the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia.

After his talks with Peres, the envoy met separately with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

In September Israeli foreign minister Tzipni Livni met Quartet representative Tony Blair in New York ahead of a United Nations (UN) summit on global warming. Livni was due to participate in a meeting of donor nations to the Palestinian Authority that will be held at UN headquarters.

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UK POOL

Trimdon, northern England - 10 May 2007

1. Various of Blair given standing ovation as he enters Trimdon Labour Club

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

"Today I announce my decision to stand down from the leadership of the Labour Party. The party will now select a new leader. On the 27th of June I will tender my resignation from the office of prime minister to the Queen (queen Elizabeth II)."

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Manchester, 24 June 2007

3. Various of Gordon Brown receiving ovation from audience members

AP Television

Ramallah, West Bank - 10 November 2005

4. Close-up of Gordon Brown smiling and laughing

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Jerusalem/Ramallah - 24 July 2007

Jerusalem

5. Blair enters Israeli president's official residence

6. Blair and President Shimon Peres in news conference

7. Blair shakes hands with Peres, then they exit

AP Television

Ramallah

8. Blair convoy arrives at headquarters of Palestinian National Authority, Blair gets out of car and is greeted by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and officials

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New York - 24 Sept 2007

9. Israeli foreign minister Tzipni Livni meeting Quartet envoy Tony Blair

FINLAND

10:51:14

(School Shooting)

An 18-year-old man opened fire at a high school in southern Finland on 7th November, leaving at least seven people dead and 11 injured, officials said.

Police said they had the situation "under control" after they surrounded the high school in Tuusula, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of the capital, Helsinki.

They did not confirm the number of victims nor whether the gunman was holding hostages inside.

A medical response leader at the scene told the Associated Press that at least seven were dead.

Finnish media said the shooter revealed his plans in a YouTube posting before the attack.

The video, titled "Jokela High School Massacre," showed a picture of a building by a lake and two photos of a young man holding a hand gun.

The person who posted the video was identified in the user profile as an 18-year-old man from Finland.

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Tuusula - 7 Nov 2007

1. Pan of street near scene of shooting at high school, photographers and police

2. Mid of police at scene

3. Police van driving towards school

4. Various of person viewing the You Tube website, which reportedly showing the 18-year-old before the shooting

UKRAINE

10:51:44

(Elections)

In March the political crisis deepened in Ukraine as the president and prime minister vie for power. Both sides held rival rallies in Kiev. In April President Viktor Yushchenko dissolved parliament and called a snap election after talks with parliamentary leaders fail to resolve a long-running power struggle with pro-Russian Prime Minister Yanukovych. In October President Yushchenko urges all parties to hold coalition talks after no clear winner emerges in the election even though preliminary results indicated that the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc was leading parliamentary elections with 33 percent of the vote.

President Viktor Yushchenko called the early vote to end a standoff with Yanukovych. Their coalition could mend a rift in Orange Revolution forces that had thrown the nation into political turmoil.

"The number of members of the parliament of this coalition would be slightly higher than in the opposition, and such a coalition can be stable, and a government based on such a coalition also can be stable," said analyst and deputy editor in chief of "Expert" magazine, Oleg Voloshin.

Yanukovych draws his support from the Russian-speaking east and south and is considered more Russia-friendly, though he has increasingly underlined his push for Ukraine's integration into Europe.

Yanukovych supporters, meanwhile, gathered in Independence Square carrying blue flags, although the scenes were not as dramatic as the upheaval of three years ago.

However, exit polls suggested those parties, including the Communists, would not get enough seats to overcome an Orange alliance.

"The main thing on our journey is to unite Ukraine," Yanukovych told supporters in Independence Square.

"We are fed up with all these elections. We don't need fights. Politicians should not look for the enemy in each other, and all the less so in their voters. We need to teach other to listen and understand and the most important thing is that this understanding is passed down to the people.''

Yushchenko, 53, has struggled with disillusionment and a loss of support among many voters now backing Tymoshenko, 46, known for her intense demeanour and the photogenic flaxen hair braid wrapped on her head.

The infighting in the Orange camp has fuelled widespread cynicism and apathy among voters who blamed leaders for failing to deliver on their promises.

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Kiev - 1 October 2007

1. Map showing results

2. Pan of electronic board showing results

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Kiev, 1 October 2007

3. Various of Yanukovych supporters in audience

4. Yanukovych on stage waving

For the first time since World War II, former Ukrainian partisans celebrated their nationalist army's creation on October 14th with the full approval of the Ukrainian government, despite efforts by angry socialists and communists to break up their gathering in central Kiev.

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army, or UPA, battled both Soviet and Nazi forces during the war, and for several years after the war continued to carry out raids against the Soviets and to disrupt efforts to collectivise farms.

As the crowd of several thousand included uniformed veterans, their relatives and many young Ukrainians gathered to celebrate, riot police clashed with the socialist and communist protesters who had gathered to demonstrate nearby.

It's thought the clashes began when the left wing protestors tried to make their way towards Sofia Square, to confront the Nationalists.

Police in riot gear quickly moved in and violent scuffles occurred, as protestors were beaten back with batons and shields.

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Kiev, 14 Oct 2007

5. Riot police pushing back left wing protestors with metal shields

6. Wide shot of left wing protestors with flags and riot police with pan left to more riot police running towards the police line

7. Close up of riot police and left wing protesters pushing each other back with police shields

8. Close up of riot police and left wing protestors clashing

9. Mid of women being removed by riot police

10. Mid of old woman shouting at riot police, pan to riot police

AFRICA

SOMALIA

10:52:44

(Somalia - President pays first visit for 40 years / continued fighting)

The Somalian president Abdullahi Yusuf flew into the capital Mogadishu in January, for his first visit since taking office in 2004.It is the first time in 40 years that Yusuf has visited the capital and his arrival came 10 days after his government's forces, backed by Ethiopian troops, drove the militant opposition group - the Council of Islamic Courts - from the city.

Pockets of resistance still remain, however, and 72-year-old Yusuf's visit was preceded by two days of violence, with gunmen attacking Ethiopian forces. Later the president said "We have not pardoned the leaders of the Islamists but we can give an amnesty to the fighters if they lay down their arms, because they are young men who are misled,"

In March fighters believed to be linked to Somali's ousted Union of Islamic Courts movement dragged the corpses of at least two soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu and set their bodies on fire during fierce street battles with government forces trying to consolidate their control of the capital. Fighting between Islamic militants and Somali and Ethiopian troops continued in Mogadishu throughout March, as residents continued to flee the restive city. Residents leaving their homes boarded minivans or taxis, with the poorer ones carrying their belongings on their heads and in plastic bags.

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AP TELEVISION

Mogadishu - 8 Jan 2007

++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

1. Wide of people departing plane

2. Zoom in to Somalian President Abdullahi Yusuf and others departing plane

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AP TELEVISION

Mogadishu - 9 Jan 2007

++ QUALITY AS INCOMING++

3. SOUNDBITE (Somali) Abdullahi Yusuf, Somali President:

"We have not pardoned the leaders of the Islamists but we can give an amnesty to the fighters if they lay down their arms, because they are young men who are misled."

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AP TELEVISION

Mogadishu - 21 March 2007

++ PLEASE BE AWARE OF VERY GRAPHIC SHOTS OF BODIES ON FIRE AND CORPSES ON STREET +++

4. Ethiopian soldier on fire and woman beating his body

5. People cheering in the street

6. Body of another dead soldier being dragged along the ground

7. Somali government soldiers on fire

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AP TELEVISION

Mogadishu - 22 March 2007

8. Wide of women running, AUDIO: Gunfire

9. Family with belongings leaving area, AUDIO: Gunfire

ETHIOPIA

10:53:43

(Ethiopia - Tour group kidnapped)

Two bullet-ridden British embassy vehicles were filmed by abandoned by the side of the road in March in the village of Hamedali where five Britons linked to the embassy in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa disappeared earlier in the month. An AP Television cameraman came across the two vehicles in Hamedali, a remote village that is the last staging post before the region's famous salt lakes. The sides of each vehicle were riddled with bullet-holes.

The tour group, which also included 13 Ethiopian drivers and translators, went missing on Thursday while travelling in Ethiopia's Afar region, a barren expanse of salt mines and volcanoes 800 kilometres (500 miles) northeast of the capital. Five Europeans were later reunited with family and loved ones after being kidnapped held captive for 13 days by an armed rebel group in one of the most inhospitable places on earth, officials said..

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Hamedali, Ethiopia - 5 March 2007

1. Shot-up British Embassy vehicles abandoned on the side of the road

2. Bullet holes in car

3. Interiors of the car - with clothes, food and cameras

4. Hamedali villagers with guns

5. Zoom into villager holding gun

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Mekele - 12/14 March 2007

1. Mechanic examining door

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

10:54:13

(DR Congo - Fighters loyal to failed presidential candidate clash with army)

Fighters loyal to a failed presidential candidate clashed with army forces in Congo's capital in March, United Nations officials and witnesses said. It was the first fighting in Kinshasa since a leader was installed late last year in the country's first free presidential vote in decades. Gunfire and heavy explosions started sounding around the home of former warlord and one-time presidential hopeful Jean-Pierre Bemba around noon on March 22nd (1100GMT), said a UN military spokesman.

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Kinshasa - 22 March 2007

1. Wide of former warlord and one-time presidential hopeful Jean-Pierre Bemba's house

2. Close of Bemba's security guards

3. Wide of government army in front of Bemba's house, zoom in

4. People hurrying away from the streets to avoid the shooting UPSOUND gunshots

5. Various of government army running UPSOUND gunshots

6. Deserted street, UPSOUND gunshots

ZIMBABWE

10:54:43

(Zimbabwe - Political situation)

Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe dismissed Western nations in March, accusing them of supporting what he called violent opposition activists and telling them that in his view 'they can go hang.'' In comments made after a five-hour meeting in Harare with President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania Mugabe rejected all Western criticism of his regime.

Zimbabwe police had earlier banned rallies and demonstrations across large areas of the capital Harare, citing looting and destruction of property. Police issued the three-month ban in Mbare and Harare South districts - both hotbeds of opposition support - in notices placed in the official Herald newspaper. The two areas cover several working-class suburbs and include sporting grounds usually used by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) for rallies.

Also in March police arrested and beat up opposition party supporters who planned to demonstrate against deteriorating living conditions and plans by President Robert Mugabe to postpone presidential elections from 2008 to 2010. The leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition party and about 50 other democracy activists, many of them bandaged and bruised, were taken to hospitals following a court appearance - two days after they were arrested and reportedly beaten for trying to attend an opposition meeting. The activists were ferried to private hospitals in ambulances and other vehicles under police guard, as their lawyers said the state intended to charge them with incitement to violence. Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, walked slowly to an ambulance looking disoriented but able to board a minibus unaided. "Terrible...It was a sadist attack on defenceless people," Tsvangirai said, responding to a question about how he felt.

The leader of a breakaway faction of Tsvangirai's party, Arthur Mutambara, also told journalists that they would "continue to defy" the Mugabe government. A crowd outside the court sang and waved the opposition party's open hand salute.

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Harare - 15 March 2007

1. Various of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, and Tanzanian President Jikaya Kikwete walking out of building

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AP TELEVISION

Harare, 22 Feb 2007/File

February 22 2007

1. Newspaper headlines reading (English): "Govt bans rallies", "Police vs. People"

FILE - Recent

2. Various of riot police in road

10:22:55

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Zimbabwe - Badly bruised Morgan Tsvangirai taken to court

AGENCY POOL

Harare - 13 March 2007

++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

1. Various of Tsvangirai being helped off the truck and towards court

2. Various of Tsvangirai walking out of court, followed by a group of people

MALAWI

10:55:13

(Malawi - Madonna at Orphanage with David Banda and Daughter Lourdes)

Pop star Madonna and the young Malawian boy she is in the process of adopting, visited his old orphanage along with her daughter Lourdes.

Children at the church-run Home of Hope orphanage in Mchinji, a village near the Zambian border, sang and recited lessons for the pop star, while her daughter, Lourdes, took video footage.

As she was leaving the orphanage Madonna posed for photographs, holding hands with Lourdes and David in her arms.

She and her daughter waved for the cameras and, laughing, tried to encourage the little boy to wave.

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Mchinji, 17 Apr 2007

1. Zoom in to Madonna carrying baby David Banda, with daughter Lourdes next to her, baby David is waving to the journalists

KENYA

10:55:33

(Kenya - Police Crackdown on Mungiki Sect)

Kenyan police stormed a Nairobi slum searching for members of a shadowy religious sect accused of beheading its victims, killing more than 20 suspects during explosive overnight gun battles, officials said.

Authorities were on a manhunt following the shooting deaths of two police officers, believed to be the work of Mungiki.

A poor area of Nairobi believed to be a stronghold for gangsters who behead their victims erupted into deadly gun battles on Thursday 7th April, killing at least 11 people as paramilitary police rounded up hundreds of residents, beating them with truncheons and demolishing homes.

The violence, on the third day of a crackdown on the Mungiki sect, was reminiscent of the politically volatile 1990s, when police would storm impoverished areas in search of opposition supporters.

Mungiki was inspired by the 1950s Mau Mau uprising against British rule but has become a street gang linked to murder, political violence and extortion.

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Nairobi - 4/5 June 2007

1. High shot of police searching vehicles

2. Police pushing man to the ground, talking to him then letting him go

3. Police kicking and beating a man in the street

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Nairobi - 7 June 2007

4. Wide shot of Mathare, an impoverished area of Nairobi, AUDIO gunfire

5. Long shot of street with police firing into the air and one hitting a person laying on the ground

6. Various of people being forced by the police to lay on the ground

7. Wide shot of people walking past shacks, AUDIO of gunfire

8. Various long shots of armed police standing near people laying on the ground, people standing

SUDAN

10:56:17

(Darfur - Mass Graves and Refugees)

In April the aid agency Oxfam launched an appeal in aid of people caught up in fighting in the Darfur region of Sudan and in neighbouring Chad.

Since 2003 violence had plagued in Darfur, where more than 200-thousand people have been killed and 2.2 (m) million forced to flee their homes in nearly four years of fighting between the government and ethnic African rebels.

There are currently around 250,000 refugees from Darfur in Chad, while Oxfam estimates that 140,000 more of its own citizens have been displaced by recent fighting.

Oxfam has described the situation in the Darfur region as the world's greatest humanitarian crisis.

Meanwhile uncovered by a restless wind, skulls and bones poke above the thin dirt in a part of Darfur, lying surrounded by half-buried, rotting clothes. A quiet and serious man, close to tears, scratches through the sand.

There are other, bigger grave sites elsewhere, he says, but the bones he is looking at are those of 25 people who he is sure were his friends and fellow villagers.

Some of them were dragged from the prison where he was held and were axed to death, he says.

Aid workers and United Nations (UN) personnel say the burial site is just one of three dozen mass graves around Mukjar.

It is a town at ground zero of the Darfur calamity, holding evidence at the heart of the international community's case against Sudanese leaders for war atrocities.

More than 200,000 civilians have died and 2.5 (m) million are homeless out of Darfur's population of six (m) million, the U.N. says.

Kalma is a microcosm of the misery - a sprawling camp of mud huts and scrap-plastic tents where 100,000 people have taken refuge.

It is so full of guns that overwhelmed African Union peacekeepers long ago fled, unable to protect it.

It is so crowded that the government has tried to limit newcomers - forbidding the building of new latrines, so a stench pervades the air.

In Kalma, collecting firewood needed to cook meals is becoming more perilous as the trees around the camp dwindle and women are forced to scavenge ever farther afield, leaving them more vulnerable to being raped.

Firewood collecting is strictly a woman's task, dictated both by tradition and the fear that any male escorts would be killed if the janjaweed found them.

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Recent

1. Children surrounding water pump

2. Woman and children with water cans

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Mukjar, West Darfur - April 2007

++PLEASE NOTE: THE SURVIVORS' FACES HAVE BEEN PIXELLATED TO PROTECT HIS IDENTITY++

Mukjar, West Darfur

3. Pan of earth at grave site

4. Torture and imprisonment survivor holds skulls found in the grave where he says his friends' bodies were dumped

5. Close up of small collection of skulls and bones lying on the earth

6. Various of survivor digging through soil to reveal damaged skull

10:24:48

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AP TELEVISION

Kalma, Recent

7. Pan of Kalma camp

8. Camp inhabitants walking

9. Women sitting inside tent with child

10:57:10

(Darfur - Ban Ki-Moon Visits Displaced Persons' Camp)

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on September 5th he was "shocked and humbled" by a visit to a Darfur refugee camp where thousands cheered him and that it had strengthened his resolve to bring peace to the war-torn region. Thousands of refugees at Al Salaam camp in North Darfur chanted "Welcome! Welcome Ban Ki-Moon!" when the U.N. chief entered the camp, home to 46-thousand Darfur refugees.

"I am glad to be here among you. I am hear to bring you a message of hope, peace and security and water," Ban told the crowd at a water tower in the camp.

The scene contrasted his visit earlier in the day to the UN compound in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, when he was disrupted by an uninvited a group of about a dozen people who protested his visit.

The protest raised security concerns, forcing Ban to change part of his schedule.

Ban promised to step up efforts to end the protracted conflict that has killed more than 200-thousand people and left more than 2.5 (m) million displaced and urged the world to be more sympathetic to the millions whose lives have been uprooted. The trip to Darfur and the rest of Sudan is Ban's first since taking over as U.N. chief in January. His trip comes at a time that the U.N. and the African Union are pressing to deploy a 26-thousand-strong joint peacekeeping force in Darfur and restart peace negotiations between the government and splintered rebel groups.

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Various - 5 Sept 2007

AP Television

UN compound in El Fasher

1. UNAMIS (United Nations Advance Mission in Sudan) convoy with UN secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

POOL

Al Salaam Camp

2. Security, troops and bodyguards

3. Close up, Ban (in UN cap) waving, pull out

4. Close up of crowd

5. Ban with flowers

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FILE: Kalma camp, Sudan - 27 May, 2007

6. Refugee camp

BURUNDI

10:57:40

(Burundi - 26 Killed in Factional Fighting)

On September 4th rival factions within Burundi's last rebel group clashed in the capital killing 26 people, officials said - the worst fighting in Bujumbura in four years.

Tensions over the leadership of the National Liberation Force (FNL-Front National de Liberation) had been simmering for months before the dawn attack about 10 kilometres (6 miles) from central Bujumbura. The violence killed 25 rebel fighters, one civilian and wounded six others, Mayor Elias Duregure and a rebel spokesman said. Duregure promised to track down those responsible:

"Now, we are going to remove and to bury the bodies, after we will see how we can isolate those who called themselves the FLN dissidents and secure the area so that the population feels safe."

Bujumbura last saw such violence in July 2003, when scores of people died in a week of fighting between soldiers and rebels. Godeship Ntakirutimana, a spokesman for the FNL faction that says it was attacked, said 400 of his men were in a barracks when gunmen opened fire on them and threw grenades. Ntakirutimana said that 77 combatants of his faction surrendered to the police on Tuesday and had been disarmed.

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Bujumbura - 4 Sep 2007

++PLEASE BE AWARE THIS PACKAGE CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES SOME CLIENTS MAY FIND DISTURBING++

++QUALITY AS INCOMING++

1. Displaced people walking by side of road

2. Rebels leaving camp and surrendering to police (dressed in blue)

3. Body of a young rebel

4. People looking at another body

5. Group of rebels sitting on ground

6. Policemen patrolling

7. A group of rebels surrendering

8 .Close-ups of bodies of young rebels

LIBYA / BULGARIA

10:58:09

Libya / Bulgaria - Bulgarian Medics Freed

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to life in prison in Libya for allegedly contaminating children with the AIDS virus have been released, and left Tripoli on July 24th on board a plane with the French president's wife, Cecilia Sarkozy, France's presidential palace said. The delegation, which had arrived in Tripoli on July 22nd to negotiate their release, included the European Union commissioner for foreign affairs, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, and chief French presidential aide Claude Gueant.

France had been seeking the return home of the six - in jail for the past eight years - as a final goodwill gesture by Libya after it commuted their death sentences in favour of life in prison.

Bulgaria made an official request for Tripoli to repatriate the medics to serve their sentences in Bulgaria. It granted citizenship to the Palestinian doctor, Ashraf al-Hazouz, last month.

Libya accused the six of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV. The medics, jailed since 1999, deny infecting the children and say their confessions were extracted under torture.

Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were pardoned by Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov on their arrival in Sofia on Tuesday, after spending eight and a half years in prison in Libya.

Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Ivailo Kalfin, announced the pardon shortly after the medics arrived on Bulgarian soil.

"The President of the Republic of Bulgaria is issuing a decree to pardon our compatriots", he said.

The six disembarked and were welcomed on the tarmac by family members who hugged them, one lifting the Palestinian doctor off the ground.

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Tripoli - File

FILE: 16 July 2006

1. Wide of Tripoli city skyline

FILE: 19 December 2006

2. Five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian doctor Ashraf Alhajouj in court behind bars standing up as their names are read out

AP TELEVISION

Sofia - 24 July 2007

3 Ashraf Alhajouj, released medic, coming down steps of plane

4. People greeting medics

5. Wide of medics and friends and family during photo op

CHAD

10:58:36

(Charity workers charged with kidnapping)

In October six French nationals were charged with kidnapping after a failed attempt to fly from Chad with 103 children a charity said were orphans from Sudan's war-battered Darfur region, authorities said.

A judge in the eastern city of Abeche also agreed to allow prosecution charges of complicity against three French journalists, Justice Minister Pahimi Padacket Albert said.

A seven-person flight crew also would be charged with complicity, he told The Associated Press.

L'Arche de Zoe, or Zoe's Ark, said it had arranged French host families for the children to save them from possible death in Sudan's western Darfur region.

More than four years of conflict there has left more than 200-thousand people dead and 2.5 million (m) displaced, many to eastern Chad.

Seven Spanish citizens who work for a Barcelona-based charter airline also were detained in the case, as was a pilot from Belgium, the two countries said.

Chad freed the people in early November after more than a week in detention, and they boarded a plane in the capital N'Djamena, accompanied by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Sarkozy had flown to Chad to discuss the case of a total of 17 Europeans accused of involvement in an alleged plan to kidnap 103 African children.

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Abeche, 28 Oct 2007

(audio as incoming)

1. Exterior of Zoe's Ark compound where the children were previously kept

Spanish charter plane on tarmac

2. Various of orphanage where children are now staying

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N'Djamena - 3 Nov 2007

3. Head of French charity Zoe's Arc, Eric Breteau walking into courthouse

4. Three Spanish crew members entering courthouse

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N'Djamena, 4 Nov 2007

5. Exterior front of airport terminal, released Europeans (women in white shirts and red waistcoats are members of Spanish air crew who were detained), French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Chadian officials and soldiers approaching along red carpet on way to plane

6. Woman squeezing their way through crowd on way to plane

NORTH AMERICA

JAMAICA

10:59:18

(Jamaica - Bob Woolmer murder)

Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer was strangled in his hotel room after the team's surprise World Cup defeat by Ireland and a murder investigation is underway, Jamaican police said. The 58-year-old Woolmer was found unconscious in his hotel room in Jamaica, after the loss to Ireland on St. Patrick's Day meant Pakistan was knocked out of the tournament. He was later declared dead at a hospital.

Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas in a statement that the pathologist report found Woolmer's death was due to "asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation". "In these circumstances, the matter of Mr. Robert Woolmer's death is now being treated by the Jamaica Police as a case of murder," he added.

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AP TELEVISION

Mohali, India - 7 March 2005

1. Pakistani coach Bob Woolmer with team at net practice

2. Wide shot of Woolmer with team at net practice

10:16:55

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Trinidad - Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer dies during World Cup

AP TELEVISION

Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago - 5 March 2007

3. Woolmer and Pakistani cricket captain Inzamam ul Haq walking

4. Woolmer watching nets practice

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Jamaica - Police say Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was strangled

AP TELEVISION

Kingston - 22 March 2007

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Karl Angell, police spokesman:

"The pathologist report states that Mr. Woolmer's death was due to asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation. In these circumstances, the matter of Mr. Robert Woolmer's death is now being treated by the Jamaica Police as a case of murder."

USA

10:59:48

(USA - Aftermath of Campus Shooting at Virginia Tech)

A gunman opened fire in a dormitory and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday 16th April, killing at 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in US history, government officials said.

The gunman, a fourth-year student from South Korea, Cho Seung-hui, then committed suicide, bringing the death toll to 33.

The shootings spread panic and confusion on campus, with witnesses reporting students jumping out classroom windows to escape the gunfire.

Students and faculty members carried out some of the wounded themselves, without waiting for ambulances to arrive.

Police with flak jackets and assault rifles swarmed the campus.

The shootings took place at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre (1,050-hectare) campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. (1115 GMT) at West Ambler Johnston, a co-ed residence hall that houses 895 people, and continuing about two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building.

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Blacksburg - 16 Apr 2007

1. Pan from sheriffs car to wide shot of Norris Hall, the building where some of the shootings occurred

2. Police vehicle outside Norris Hall

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Blacksburg, 16 April 2007

3. Wide shot flags at Virginia Tech flying at half mast - college flag, state flag, national flag

4. Medium shot students hugging, pull out to students and relatives walking away

5. Wide shot crime scene tape in tree outside campus building

6. Wide shot police officers holding rifles

10:14:23

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Police Handout

File

MUTE

7. STILL of Cho Seung-hui, identified by police as the man who carried out the shootings at Virginia Tech

11:00:30

(USA - Former White House Aide, Lewis Libby, Sentenced to 2.5 Years for Perjury)

Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation.

Libby stood calmly before a packed courtroom as a federal judge said the evidence overwhelmingly proved his guilt.

The highest-ranking U.S. official convicted of a crime since the Iran-Contra affair in the mid-1980s, Libby was found guilty in March of lying to investigators about what he told reporters regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Her identity was leaked to reporters in 2003 after her husband began criticising the Bush administration's war policies. Neither Libby nor anyone else eventually was charged for leaking Plame's name.

Libby has steadfastly maintained his innocence of the lying and obstruction charges that brought him down.

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Washington DC, 5 June 2007

1. Former White House aid Lewis "Scooter" Libby walking with his attorneys towards the US District courthouse

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Washington DC and Arlington, Virginia - 5 June 2007 and File

AP Television

Washington, DC - 5 June 2007

2. Lewis "Scooter" Libby walking out of courthouse and through media and protesters towards car

AP Television

Washington, DC - February 2007

3. Shot of Valerie Plame leaving her home, not commenting to reporter

POOL

FILE - Arlington, Virginia, Unknown Date

4. Close-up pull back of Vice President Dick Cheney listening to President Bush

11:00:55

(USA - Aviation Adventurer Steve Fossett Missing)

The search was continuing in September for millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who went missing on Tuesday September 4th after taking off in a single-engine plane the day before, US officials said.

Searchers in rugged western Nevada had little to go on because Fossett apparently did not file a flight plan, a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman said.

The 63-year-old took off in the small plane on the morning of September 3rd from an airstrip at hotel magnate Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch. It was not clear whether anyone else was aboard. He did not return as scheduled around noon, and a friend reported him missing on the night of the 3rd, an FAA spokesman said.

In 2002, Fossett became the first person to fly around the world alone in a balloon. In two weeks, his balloon flew 19,428.6 miles (31,265.85 kilometres) around the Southern Hemisphere. The record came after five previous attempts - some of them spectacular and frightening failures.

In March 2005, Fossett became the first person to fly a plane solo around the world without refuelling. He and a co-pilot also claim to have set a world glider altitude record of 50,671 feet (15,444.52 meters) during a flight in August 2006 over the Andes Mountains.

Fossett swam the English Channel in 1985, placed 47th in the Iditarod dog sled race in 1992 and participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans car race in 1996.

Fossett was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in July.

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Various - FILE

AP Television

Chantilly, Virginia - 23 May 2006

1. FILE of Steve Fossett getting out of the Global Flyer

2. FILE of Fossett standing in front of Global Flyer

3. FILE of Fossett in front of the global flyer

4. FILE of Fossett talking

Cape Canaveral, Florida - 2 February 2006

5. Close-up shot of Fossett

6. Close-up shot of Fossett

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

BRAZIL

11:01:27

(Pope's visit to Brazil)

Pope Benedict XVI canonised an 18th-century Franciscan monk as Brazil's first native-born saint as hundreds of thousands cheered and waved flags from all corners of South America.

Surrounded by Latin American bishops and choirs of hundreds, Benedict sat on a throne of Brazilian hardwood as he pronounced the sainthood of Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvao, an 18th-century Franciscan monk who is credited by the church with 5-thousand miracle cures.

The canonisation makes Galvao the first native-born saint from the world's largest Roman Catholic country, home to more than 120 (m) million of the planet's 1.1(b) billion Catholics.

Friar Galvao, who died in 1822, began a tradition among Brazilian Catholics of handing out tiny rice-paper pills, inscribed with a Latin prayer, to people seeking cures for everything from cancer to kidney stones.

After canonising Friar Galvao, the pope hugged Sandra Grossi de Almeida, 37, and her son Enzo, 7.

She is one of two Brazilian women certified by the Vatican as divinely inspired miracles justifying the sainthood.

She had a uterine malformation that should have made it impossible for her to carry a child for more than four months, but after taking the pills, she gave birth to Enzo.

Grossi explained in a recent interview with The Associated Press that she I believed in God, and the proof was right there.

Pope Benedict's trip has so far focused on reinforcing church doctrine on abortion, sexual morality and euthanasia.

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Sao Paulo, 11 May 2007

1. Wide of crowd at Canonisation ceremony

2. Mid shot of Pope Benedict XVI praying

3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Pope Benedict XVI: (partly covered with pictures of crowd applauding)

"In honour of the Holy Trinity, for the exultation of the Catholic faith and the growth of Christian life, by the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the apostle saints Peter and Paul and after having reflected for a long time, and invoked the Divine help many times, and having heard the opinions of many of our brothers from the episcopate, we declare and define as Saint the Devout Antonio de Sant'Anna de Galvao. We inscribe him in the list of Saints and we establish that in all of the Church he is devoutly honoured among the saints. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit."

4. Pan of nun and Sandra Grossi de Almeida, a woman certified by the Vatican as a divinely inspired miracle, her son Enzo, and Franciscan monks holding relics linked to the new saint's life

5. Mid shot of Pope Benedict XVI with Sandra Grossi de Almeida and son Enzo

ARGENTINA

11:02:13

(Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner wins Presidential Elections)

In October Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was elected president, having captured 45% of the vote. Argentina's first lady closed her presidential campaign, saying that her husband had worked to restore the country's dignity after a deep economic crisis, and pledging to finish the job he had started.

Much of her success is due to her husband President Nestor Kirchner, who cheered at her side but didn't speak at her final rally, in La Matanza. Talking in a speech at the rally, Fernandez spoke at length about what Kirchner has accomplished, rather than about her own plans.

"Looking at what we have done and with the confidence that it is possible to transform this country, I invite all of you to join this change," she said, as a few thousand supporters applauded and waved flags under a cold drizzle.

But Fernandez's support doesn't come only from her husband - she has won respect in her own right for her defence of women's rights and her fierce campaigning to punish the atrocities of the 1976-83 military dictatorship.

Fernandez, a 54-year-old three-term senator, captured 45 percent of the vote in the elections, outpacing runner-up Elisa Carrio by more than 22 percentage points. A dozen other candidates trailed behind.

Fernandez takes over from her husband on 10 December.

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Final rallies for 2 presidential candidates, 3rd visits poor neighbourhood

AP TELEVISION

Buenos Aires, 25 Oct 2007

La Matanza

1. Pan left of presidential rally of Argentinean First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, UPSOUND: music

2. Wide of Fernandez de Kirchner speaking on stage, supporters with flags cheering

3. Fernandez saluting supporters, UPSOUND: music

Buenos Aires

4. Wide of presidential candidate, former lawyer Elisa Carrio walking to podium and greeting supporters

5. Mid of Carrio saluting supporters

6. Carrio saluting supporters

Lomas de Zamora

7. Presidential candidate and former economy minister Roberto Lavagna posing for picture with residents of a poor neighbourhood

8. Lavagna helping out workers to build roof

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New president in first public appearance at Casa Rosada

AP TELEVISION

Buenos Aires - 30 Oct 2007

9. Conference room with President Nestor Kirchner and his wife, President-elect Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, inside Casa Rosada (presidential palace)

10. Fernandez clapping

CHILE

11:03:11

(Former dictator Pinochet's relatives, associates indicted on corruption charges)

In October the widow and five children of General Augusto Pinochet were among 23 people indicted on charges of corruption related to the late dictator's US bank accounts, a judge said.

Most of the suspects, including widow Lucia Hiriart and Pinochet's grown children, have already been arrested, police director Arturo Herrera said.

Those indicted also included at least four retired army generals - Jorge Ballerino, Guillermo Garin, Juan Romero and Hector Letelier - as well as lower-ranking officers, Pinochet's long-time secretary Monica Ananias and one of his lawyers, Ambrosio Rodriguez.

Judge Carlos Cerda said he ordered the arrests because " there are founded presumptions, that are justified in the resolution, pointing to those people, who are, of course, relatives of Augusto Jose Ramon Pinochet Ugarte, may he rest in peace, having participated in that crime. ( referring to misuse of public funds)"

Cerda was to decide whether to keep them in custody or free them to stand trial.

The judge's ruling is related to an investigation into the multimillion-dollar (-euro) accounts the former ruler owned at the Riggs Bank in Washington and other foreign banks.

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Santiago, 4 Oct 2007

1. Pan of journalists outside Augusto Pinochet's compound in Santiago

2. Mid view of Lucia Hiriart leaving Police Correction's Service facilities

3. Wide view of Maria Veronica Pinochet leaving Police Correction's Service facilities

4. Wide view of Jacqueline Pinochet leaving Police Correction's Service facilities

NICARAGUA

11:03:33

(Inauguration of Daniel Ortega)

Former revolutionary Daniel Ortega returned to power in January, hours after his leftist ally Hugo Chavez was sworn in for another six years as president of Venezuela, in triumphant celebrations in which Latin America's top leftists promised to unite in favour of the poor and against US influence in the region.

Appearing in Managua before thousands of cheering supporters, Ortega, Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales called for the quick recovery of Cuba's ailing Fidel Castro and pledged to form a coalition of leftist leaders who would fight to nationalise natural resources. In a rousing speech before thousands, the three called for a united, leftist front.

"Now we have the task of forging a new path, a road that allows Nicaraguan families to live with dignity, that allows the Nicaraguan people to prosper," Ortega said.

Before taking office, Ortega promised to respect private property and business and maintain relations with Washington, which backed a rebel insurgency aimed at toppling him in the 1980s.

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Managua, 10 Jan 2007

1. Medium of Daniel Ortega walking into his inauguration ceremony

2. Medium of Ortega waving to crowd

3. Medium of (left to right) Bolivian President Evo Morales, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Haitian President Rene Preval

4. Wide of (left to right) Bolivian President Evo Morales, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Haitian President Rene Preval

BOLIVIA

11:04:11

(Clashes after thousands of miners take to the streets)

In February more than 20,000 miners from across Bolivia marched into the capital La Pa to protest against President Evo Morales' plans for a steep hike in mining taxes. Many miners say they are worried that the increase could unfairly burden hundreds of small independent miners' cooperatives. The hard-hatted miners whistled and chanted as they filed through the centre of the capital, tossing bits of dynamite that sent booming explosions echoing through the streets. Police said they had confiscated some 284 sticks of dynamite carried by the protesters, along with hundreds of detonators and rolls of fuse - all freely sold in Bolivia.

The proposed tax increase would be directed instead at larger private mining companies operating in Bolivia, officials said.

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La Paz, 6 Feb 2007

1. Wide of miners protest

2. Close up of miner yelling "long live Bolivia's miners"

3. Medium of miners and government supporters clashing

4. Medium of one protestor trying to punch other protestor

5. Close up of miners lighting dynamite/pan to miners throwing it to the ground

6. Wide of dynamite exploding

MEXICO

11:04:32

(Tear gas fired as riot police try to break up protest)

In July thousands of members of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca teacher's union (APPO) clashed with police after officials prevented the group from entering an auditorium. At least four buses were burned and destroyed. Hundreds of people also hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at police. Members of Mexico's Federal Police were in full riot gear, and used tear gas against the protests.

Clashes began when a group of members of APPO were trying to get to an auditorium located at the Cerro del Fortin to celebrate their own version of the Popular festival celebrated every year by local authorities known as " Guelaguetza."

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Oaxaca - 16 July 2007

1. Wide of burning bus rolling and crashing into building

2. Mid of federal police running in riot gear

3. Wide of protesters throwing rocks

4. Mid of same

5. Mid of protesters fleeing tear gas

6. Close up burning bus

7. Wide of burning bus

PERU

11:05:08

(Fujimori faces charges of corruption and sanctioning death squads)

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori returned to Lima in September to face charges of corruption and sanctioning death squad killings - a grim homecoming for the strongman who fled the country seven years ago as his government collapsed in scandal.

The plane carrying the 69-year-old former ruler landed in a heavy mist at Lima's Las Palmas air force base, a day after Chile's Supreme Court authorised his extradition.

He was then flown by helicopter to a police base, where he is to be held until a permanent facility is prepared for his detention.

Some 700 supporters who gathered outside the police air terminal across town to greet him were frustrated when his plane was diverted to the air base.

Fujimori's extradition from Chile has provoked reactions ranging from elation to indignation.

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Fujimori arrives in Lima

AP TELEVISION

Lima - 22 Sept 2007

1. Helicopter carrying Fujimori

2. People holding banners and Peruvian flags chanting: (Spanish) "Freedom for Fujimori"

3. Wide exterior of special police headquarters where Fujimori was taken to

4. Mid shot of people waiting on the bridge with a placard of Alberto Fujimori that reads in Spanish "Let's defend the innocence of Fujimori"

5. Various of people standing on the bridge chanting and carrying balloons while they wait for Fujimori's arrival

6. Mid shot of Santiago Fujimori, Alberto Fujimori's brother talking followed by reporters

7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Keiko Fujimori, Alberto Fujimori's daughter:

"We are going to be vigilant and alert that he (referring to Fujimori) will be treated respectfully, so he can receive a fair treatment and process."

WORLD NEWS

CLIMATE CHANGE

11:05:51

(Various - Climate Change Debate)

In April the European Union's top environment official criticised the United States and Australia for not doing enough to cut carbon dioxide emissions, at the start of a UN conference to assess the impact of global warming.

The US should end its "negative attitude" toward international negotiations on a new climate change pact to reduce emissions, EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told the conference of experts from around the world.

Dimas was speaking at the start of a five-day meeting in Brussels, of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a network of more than two-thousand scientists, to finalise a report on how warming will affect the globe and whether humans can do anything about it.

Also in April a major climate meeting opened in Bangkok with delegates debating how to rein in rising greenhouse gases that could put hundreds of (m) millions at risk of hunger and disease in the coming decades.

As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, meeting got underway rain was falling steadily in the Thai capital.

The apparent start of Thailand's rainy season, a month early, brought a tangible element to a conference that brings a lot of theory and research together and puts conclusions down on paper.

More than 130 governments are participating in the sometimes contentious process of defining the damage of global warming, why it is happening and how to mitigate its effects.

As delegates arrived for the conference they were met by activists encouraging them to look at alternative and renewable energy, a subject that was welcomed by at least one participant.

In May city leaders from around the globe gathered on Tuesday for an environmental summit hosted by former US President Bill Clinton and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The summit's message was that the campaign to reverse global warming begins with the world's mayors and they could not afford to wait for their countries to enact national policies.

Mayors and local leaders from more than 30 cities kicked off the conference, known as the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit, which first met in 2005 in London.

Organisers said that the city's leaders had to take responsibility for addressing climate change because they covered less than one percent of the Earth's surface, but generated 80 percent of heat-trapping greenhouse gases.

The summit includes mayors from Seoul to Sao Paulo, Albuquerque to Addis Ababa.

London's Mayor Ken Livingstone addressed the conference said that each city had a role to play when it came to fighting global warming.

Clinton's foundation has created an arrangement among 16 cities, four energy service companies and five global banking institutions that will result in major environmental upgrades in existing buildings throughout the cities, which include New York, Chicago, Houston, Toronto, Mexico City, London, Berlin, Tokyo and Rome.

Clinton said at a news conference in New York, flanked by the mayors of London and New York, that there is now "the technology to reduce energy consumption in buildings by 25 to 50 percent."

"If all buildings were as efficient as they could be, we'd be saving an enormous amount of energy and significantly reducing carbon emissions," he said.

"Also we'd be saving a ton of money for people who pay utility bills," Clinton added.

In June former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Live Earth founder Kevin Wall signed a pledge committing them to making environmental changes in all aspects of their lives, including urging their government to make changes to tackle the climate change crisis.

The pair, joined by CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection, Cathy Zoi, are hoping that the July 7th Live Earth concert will encourage individuals from around the world to get involved in countering climate change, Gore said.

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Belgium - Five-day meeting in Brussels, of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

AP TELEVISION

Belgium - 2 April 2007

1. Wide pan of interior of meeting room

2. Wide of meeting room

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Stavros Dimas, EU Commissioner for the Environment:

"It is obvious that the importance of the United States is paramount because they are emitting about one-fourth of the world's emissions of greenhouse gases."

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Thailand - Climate Change Conference

AP TELEVISION

Bangkok - 30 April 2007

4. Various of delegates arriving for conference and being handed windmills on pens from activists as they walk through gates of UN building, one activist holding sign reading: (English) "Climate Change"

5. Close-up of sign reading: (English) "Energy (R)evolution"

6. Wide of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rajendra Pachauri, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman:

"The IPCC doesn't have any muscle, it has grey matter but, you know, the muscle will have to come from somewhere else."

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USA - City leaders from around the world attend climate summit

AP TELEVISION

New York - 15 May 2007

8. Wide of C40 Large Cities Climate Summit

9. London Mayor Ken Livingstone at C40 meeting

10. Cutaway of crowd clapping

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Former President Clinton at Mayors Meeting on Climate Change

AP TELEVISION

New York - 16 May 2007

11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton, former US President: (flanked by two mayors)

"Every day these people will get up and try to make something good happen. So the exhilarating thing to me is, that we're back in the solutions business which is what I think politics should be about."

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USA - Al Gore calls for stronger measures to combat global warming

AP TELEVISION

New York - 28 June 2007

12. Tilt down of live Earth 7 point pledge

13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Al Gore, former U.S. Vice President:

"We have to get all nations involved, but in order to accomplish that we have to bring about a sea change in public opinion all around the world."

NEW LEADERS

11:07:09

(Various - New World Leaders Wrap - Shimon Peres Becomes New Israeli President, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Becomes Nigerian President, Hose Ramos Horta Becomes President of East Timor, and Bertie Ahern Re-elected Irish Prime Minister)

In June elder Israeli statesman Shimon Peres was elected as Israel's ninth president in a race that capped his six-decade political career. Peres, of the ruling Kadima Party, won the support of 86 of parliament's 120 members in a second round of yea-or-nay voting in which he stood alone. His two rivals, Reuven Rivlin of the hawkish Likud and Colette Avital of the centrist Labor, withdrew from the race after he seized a commanding lead in the first round.

In April Umaru Musa Yar'Adua of PDP was declared the winner after Nigeria's presidential elections that were denounced by the opposition and declared deeply flawed by international observers.

In May Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta was sworn in as East Timor's president, vowing to unite the desperately poor nation more than a year after violence brought down its young government. But hours after he took the oath of office, a clash in the capital left at least one man dead and several others wounded, police and hospital officials said. United Nations peacekeepers were deployed to help restore order.

Also in May Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern looked ahead to another five years in charge of Europe's most economically dynamic country - but faced tough negotiations to produce a stable coalition government. Following his election triumph, he faced coalition negotiations with both the Labour Party and the Greens. Both are strident left-wing critics of Ahern's pro-business government that, for the past 10 years, has promoted Ireland as a low-tax magnet for American investment and European immigration.

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Jerusalem - 30 May 2007

1. Shimon Peres taking his seat at the round table

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Jerusalem - 13 June 2007

2. Close up of Peres praying at Western wall

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AP TELEVISION

Katsina - 21 April 2007

3. Mid shot of Umaru Yar'Adua, Katsina State Governor and Nigerian presidential candidate, at polling booth casting ballot and waving afterwards

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AP TELEVISION

Dili - 20 May 2007

4. Mid shot of East Timorese President, Jose Ramos Horta sitting next to Jacob Fernandes, Vice President of Parliament

5. Horta swearing oath of office

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Berlin - 31 May 2007

6. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt posing for photo op

7. Bertie Ahern speaking on podium

DISASTERS

11:07:53

(Mexico - Worst flood in 50 years)

In November, a week of devastating floods caused by heavy rains have left 80 percent of the Mexican Gulf Coast state of Tabasco under water, and destroyed or damaged the homes of about half a million people.

Mexican emergency officials prepared huge pumps to suck water from the flooded streets of the state capital Villahermosa, as rivers began to subside after some of the worst flooding in the country's history.

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AP TELEVISION

Villahermosa, 5 Nov 2007

1. Various of flooded street

2. Statue poking out of flood water

3. Mid of same

4. Tilt from statue in flood water to sand bags

5. Motor boat passing by

11:08:16

(Bolivia - Floods)

Thousands of people in the Bolivian state of Beni were left homeless after heavy rains caused widespread flooding. AP Television showed aerial pictures of the floods, which have blocked roadways and damaged many houses. According to the National Meteorologic and Hydraulic Service, the intense rains experienced throughout the country have affected more than fifty-thousand families. Families living near Trinidad evacuated their homes in boats and makeshift rafts, as water levels rose above their knees.

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AP TELEVISION

Beni, 14 Feb 2007

1. Aerial of Mamore river flooding road

2. Wide of flooded town

3. Medium of people in boat

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Trinidad - 28 Feb 2007

1. Wide aerial of houses flooded in Trinidad

11:08:35

(Colombia - Bodies brought to the surface after 32 miners killed in explosion)

Rescue crews worked during the night on February 4th to recover the bodies of miners killed in an explosion at a makeshift coal mine in north-eastern Colombia.

Three bodies were retrieved by midnight, according to an official helping to coordinate the rescue operation, and 29 more bodies had been located in gas-filled tunnels about 400 metres (1,300 feet) below the ground. These could not be removed safely from the mine in the remote hamlet of San Roque, 255 miles (410 kilometres) northeast of Bogota, the official said. Family members, who had rushed to the mine shortly after the explosion, were relocated to the nearby town of Sardinata, where they awaited news. Officials believe the explosion was caused by a spark igniting the gas inside the mine.

Norte de Santander, where the mine is located, is a violence-ridden state overrun by leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups who often

battle each other for control of lucrative drug smuggling routes across the border with Venezuela. Many mines in Colombia are makeshift affairs with few or no safety procedures.

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San Roque - 4 Feb 2007

++NIGHT SHOTS++

1. Exterior of coal mine

2. Various of rescue workers carrying stretchers with bodies recovered from mine

3.Bodies wrapped in black bags being secured on back of truck

11:08:53

(Indonesia - At least 70 dead after powerful earthquake)

A powerful earthquake jolted western Indonesia in February, killing at least 70 people and injuring hundreds as they fled shaking buildings, crumpled homes and hospitals. The 6.3-magnitude quake struck on Sumatra island and was felt as far away as neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore, where some tall buildings were evacuated. Several aftershocks followed, the strongest measuring 6.1, adding to fears of people already too nervous to return indoors. The worst-affected area appeared to be around Solok, a bustling town close to the epicentre where two children were killed when a two-story building collapsed on the school playground, said police spokesman Supriadi. Solok is about 900 kilometres (660 miles) west of the country's capital, Jakarta.

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Solok, 6 March 2007

++NIGHT SHOTS++

1. Various of houses destroyed by quake

11:09:11

(Indonesia - Floods in Jakarta)

Floods that have crippled much of Indonesia's capital and killed at least five people worsened on February 4th, inundating scores of districts and leaving about 145-thousand people homeless, officials and witnesses said. Overnight rains caused more rivers to burst their banks across Jakarta, sending muddy water up to three metres (nine-and-a-half feet) deep into more residential and commercial areas in the densely packed city of 12 (m) million people. Hundreds of people made their way through the flooded streets as two days of incessant rain over Jakarta triggered the city's worst floods in recent memory. The floods highlighted Indonesia's infrastructure problems as it tries to attract badly needed foreign investment.

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Jakarta, 4 Feb 2007

1. Wide of flooded street with Kuningan office district in the background

2. Peoples walking on flooded street next to river bank

3. Various of cars driving along flooded street

4. Flooded neighbourhood of Karet in Jakarta

11:09:31

(Mozambique - Cyclone and floods)

Cyclone Flavio swept ashore in central Mozambique in February with sustained winds of 200 kilometres per hour (125 mph), bringing heavy rains and new misery to tens of thousands of people already forced from their homes by flooding.

Flavio moved ashore at the tourist town of Vilankulo in Inhambane Province. Some homes were destroyed and others had their roofs ripped off. The government had evacuated many of the people in the area, taking them to higher ground further inland. The cyclone hit an area already flooded from the torrential rains that have drenched central Mozambique since January.

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Vilankulo, 22 Feb 2007

1. Corrugated roofing lifted off huts and into the air by cyclonic winds

2.Wide of children taking shelter next to house

3. Palm tree bent by wind

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Caia, 13 Feb 2007

4. Aerial of bridge across flooded area near town of Mutarare

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Caia, 15 Feb 2007

5. Ground shot of flooded land

6. Man wading through flood waters bearing a load and carrying fish

11:10:05

(Solomon Islands - Tsunami)

At least 28 people were killed in the Solomons and neighbouring Papua New Guinea after a tsunami hit the region on Monday 2nd April, officials said the toll was likely to rise further as a detailed aerial assessment was made of Gizo and surrounding villages where only scattered radio reports have been collected so far.

Survivors picked through ruined stores on Tuesday 3rd looking for drinking water and food in a Solomon Islands town devastated by the tsunami, as an international relief effort started to get underway.

Thousands of people in the town of Gizo in the South Pacific country's far west spent Monday night sleeping under tarpaulins or in the open on a hill behind the town following a massive undersea earthquake that sent tsunami waves crashing through the town.

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Gizo - 3 April 2007

1. Various aerials of destruction in Gizo

11:10:24

(USA - Los Angeles Wildfire)

A wildfire roared across brush-covered hills in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, threatening some of the city's most famous landmarks and causing some residents to leave their homes.

The wall of flames raced across ridges and jumped fire lines late on Tuesday evening (8th May) as it drew closer to homes and the Griffith Observatory.

Hundreds of fire-fighters and five water-dropping helicopters were sent to Griffith Park, a mix of wilderness, cultural venues, horse and hiking trails and recreational facilities set on more than four-thousand acres (1,620 hectares) on the hills between Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.

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Los Angeles - 8 May 2007

1. Various aerial shots of fire and smoke

2. Wide of fire

3. Various of fire

4. Wide of smoke billowing out with buildings in foreground

5. Various of fire and choppers dumping water on flames

11:10:43

(Cameroon - Plane Crash)

None of the 114 people aboard a Kenya Airways flight survived its crash into a thick mangrove swamp over the weekend, an official said after returning from the water-filled crater he said the plane left.

The plane had taken off from Douala, Cameroon's commercial capital, and its wreckage was found just 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the town's outskirts.

Among the passengers was Nairobi-based Associated Press correspondent Anthony Mitchell, who had been on assignment in the region.

While the site where the plane went down was not remote, it was in a dense and hard-to-access mangrove forest.

The wreckage was found southeast of Douala, along the Nairobi-bound plane's flight path from the Douala airport - more than 40 hours after the Boeing 737-800 lost contact with the airport.

Flight 507 had departed from Douala airport, an hour late because of rain, with 105 passengers and nine crew members on board.

The plane issued a distress call, but then lost contact with the radio tower between 11 and 13 minutes after take-off, officials said.

One of the many unanswered questions is why the plane stopped emitting signals after an initial distress call.

The plane is equipped with an automatic device that should have kept up emissions for another two days.

Kenya Airways is considered one of the safest airlines in Africa and the plane was only six months old.

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Mbanga-Pongo, Cameroon - 07 May 2007

1. Wide shot of people coming out of dense bushes

2. Close-up of cables from plane in hands of one of rescue team

3. Wide shot of rescuers on site

4. Wide shot of rescuers with white plastic sheeting

11:11:03

(Pakistan - Floods)

Helicopters were air-dropping urgent relief aid some of the more than 800,000 people battered by monsoon-spawned flooding in coastal areas of Pakistan, officials said.

Many of the stricken were living in higher open areas or atop the roofs of buildings to escape the floodwaters that inundated large areas of Baluchistan province in the wake of Cyclone Yemyin.

In one of the hardest hit areas, the city of Turbat and surrounding villages, the first relief supplies only began arriving some 48 hours after the cyclone hit, sparking the mayor to hand in his resignation and angry residents to protest.

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Turbat - 28 June 2007

1. Aerial shot of flooding stretching over wide area

2. Mosque under water, animals on the roof

3. Aerial of people in flood waters waving

4. Aerial of houses under water

5. Pakistan military helicopter rescuing local people from floods

11:11:28

(USA - California Bridge Collapse)

A section of freeway that funnels traffic onto the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in California collapsed after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire.

The heat from the fire was intense enough to melt part of the freeway and cause the collapse.

The truck's driver managed to walk away from the scene with second-degree burns.

No other injuries were reported, which officials said was principally because the accident happened so early in the morning.

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Oakland, California - 29 April 2007

1. Wide shot damaged bridge, flames and smoke

2. Close-up of flames

3. Wide shot damaged bridge, flames and smoke

4. Various of collapsed bridge and flames

11:11:48

(USA - Stormchaser Video of Giant Hail and Tornado Forming)

Large pieces of hail falling from the sky in Trego County, Kansas were filmed by storm chasers as the American state was hit by violent weather for a second day in a row.

Some of the pieces were reported to be larger than golf balls.

On May 22nd, images were captured in Graham County of what appeared to be a tornado trying to form.

Parts of the state continue to be under severe thunderstorm warnings.

Kansas was recently devastated by a powerful tornado on May the 4th, which obliterated the town of Greensburg.

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Various - 22/23 May 2007

Trego County, Kansas - May 23, 2007

1. Wide of large hail falling seen from inside a car

2. Close-up of large balls of hail

Graham County, Kansas - May 22, 2007

3. Wide shot of a large cloud with what appears to be a tornado trying to form in it, seen from moving car

4. Wide shot of cloud with a tornado seemingly forming, seen from moving car

11:12:10

(USA - Minneapolis Bridge Collapse)

New video released on August 2nd shows the horrific scene in Minneapolis a day earlier when an eight-lane bridge collapsed in the middle of the evening rush-hour, sending dozens of cars into the Mississippi River. The video, taken from an Army Corps of Engineers surveillance camera, shows the bridge actually collapsing, followed by a large cloud of dust.

Authorities said the search was now considered not a rescue but a recovery operation. The official death toll has been lowered to four, but Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan warned the final number could change as divers comb the wreckage for as many as 30 people still missing.

The eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, was in the midst of being repaired and two lanes in each direction were closed when the bridge buckled during evening rush hour on Wednesday, sending dozens of cars plummeting more than 60 feet (18 meters) into the Mississippi River. More than 60 people were injured and as many as 50 vehicles were in the river, many of their occupants having scrambled to shore.

Amateur videographer Ben Martin, who lives near the river, was told by his roommate that the bridge had gone down. He told AP Television that when he first approached the scene he had no idea of the scope of the collapse and didn't know what to expect.

"Its one of those things where you see it on TV and it doesn't really do it justice," he said.

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First CCTV pictures of moment when road bridge collapsed

Army Corps of Engineers Handout

Minneapolis, 2 August 2007

MUTE

1. CCTV footage of bridge collapsing, water splashing

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Minneapolis - 2 August 2007

2. Wide zoom out of collapsed bridge

3. Empty cars sitting on bridge

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Minneapolis - 1/2 August 2007

POOL

Minneapolis, Minnesota - 2 August 2007

4. Close-up of bridge collapse, cars in water

5. Close-up of cars stuck on mangled bridge debris

6. Cars sitting atop collapsed bridge

7. Wide of collapsed bridge section in water

AMATEUR VIDEO

August 01, 2007

8. Wide of people helping the rescue effort, zoom out to wide of the collapse

11:12:58

(Bangladesh - Floods)

On August 3rd torrents of water washed away homes, crops and cows, leaving hungry and frightened villagers perched in treetops or on roofs as the death toll rose from monsoon rains across northern India and Bangladesh. In Dhaka, footage filmed by The Associated Press showed flooded streets with people on row boats and rickshaws. Vital to farmers, the annual rains have always been a blessing and a curse in the subcontinent. Even in areas where the rains are no worse than usual, the monsoon disrupted life. The South Asian monsoon season runs from June to September as the rains work their way across the subcontinent.

Health workers, meanwhile, were fanning out across parts of Bangladesh and India to try to prevent the spread of waterborne diseases like diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera. The more immediate problem is finding enough food. With many farms and crops destroyed costing an already poor region (m) millions of US dollars, food shortages were becoming a pressing problem.

So far this year, some 14 (m) million people in India and five (m) million in Bangladesh have been displaced or marooned by the flooding, according to government figures.

At least 132 people have died in recent days because of the floods in India and 54 more in Bangladesh.

In Bangladesh, the floods inundated parts of a major highway connecting Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, with much of the rest of the country.

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Dhaka, 3 August 2007

1. Wide of flooded street with people, row boat and rickshaws passing each other

2. Mid of carts and rickshaws in water

3. Close-up of wheels and legs in water

4. Pan left interior of flooded house, child washing his face, other child sitting on bed

11:13:28

(Nepal - Floods)

On July 27th flooding in southern Nepal completely covered a district, home to half a (m) million people, forcing residents of its largest city to use boats and swamping neighbouring regions, an official said.

Initial reports said at least four people were killed this week by the flooding in Nepalgunj city - 500 kilometres (310 miles) southwest of the capital Kathmandu - and officials were on alert for more casualties, said a Home Ministry official. Officials are waiting for details to come from remote villages, the official said. The water was so deep in places that villagers have been forced to flee to higher ground, he added.

The district who faces some flooding annually - is now is entirely under water, an official said. The only way to move around the administrative capital Jaleswor is by boat, he said.

Scores of people are killed in the Himalayan nation each year during the rainy season by landslides in mountainous areas or flooding in the southern plains.

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Nepalgunj city, 27 July 2007

1. People walking through flooded marketplace

2. People standing on one side of a road partially washed away by river

3. Villagers using boats to get around

4. Two villagers wading through floodwater

11:13:44

(North Korea - Floods)

Floods caused by rains have destroyed more than one-tenth of North Korea's farmland at the height of the impoverished country's growing season, official media reported on August 8th.

The damage has submerged, buried or washed away more than eleven-percent of rice and corn fields in the country, Korean Central News Agency reported, citing Agriculture Ministry official Ri Jae Hyon.

The North is especially susceptible to bad weather because of a vicious circle where people strip hillsides of natural vegetation to create more arable land to grow food, increasing the risk of floods and erosion.

The country has suffered from food shortages since the mid-1990s, due to natural disasters along with outdated farming methods and the loss of Pyongyang's Soviet benefactor.

Some 46-thousand hectares (113,666 acres) of fields in South Pyongan and South Hwanghae provinces were decimated in storms that began on August 7, KCNA said, noting those areas are the "main granaries of the country."

Another 37-thousand hectares (91,427 acres) were also destroyed in North Hwanghae province, the agency said.

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Nr Pyongyang - 15 Aug 2007

1. Pan from water rushing by to people standing on road damaged by floods

2. Flooded maize fields

3. Interior of house, flood water on floor of kitchen

11:13:58

(Uganda - Floods)

Torrential downpours and flash floods across Africa have submerged whole towns and washed away bridges, farms and schools.

This summer's rains have killed at least 150 people, displaced hundreds of thousands and prompted the U.N. to warn of a rising risk of disease outbreaks.

In eastern Uganda, nine people have been reported killed and 150,000 have been made homeless since

early August.

Another 400,000 - mainly subsistence farmers - have lost their livelihoods after their fields were flooded or roads washed away and the rains are forecast to worsen in the next month.

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Katakwi Dist - 15 September 2007

1. Jeeps driving through floodwaters on road

2. Minibus driving through floodwater

3. People pushing car through mud

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Magoro - 19 Sept 2007

4. Aerial of floods

11:14:16

(UK - Floods)

Rivers swollen by Britain's worst flooding in 60 years were expected to reach peak levels late on July 23rd, as rescue workers helped residents and 350-thousand people without drinking water.

Large swathes of land remained flooded as emergency workers tried to pump water from affected areas and residents embarked on salvage operations, piling sandbags against doors to keep the water out.

The heaviest flooding was in Gloucestershire, about 120 miles (200 kilometres) west of London, inundating pumping stations and cutting off drinkable water to an estimated 350-thousand people.

Authorities deployed some 900 tanker trucks in the region with emergency water rations.

Bottled water was being deployed by the army, using nearby Cheltenham racecourse as a distribution centre.

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Tewkesbury - 24 July 2007

1. Various of Tewkesbury Abbey surrounded by floodwaters

2. Villager being ferried in dinghy

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Gloucester/Abingdon - 24 July 2007

Gloucester, Gloucestershire

3. Wide of street and flooded petrol station

Abingdon, Oxfordshire

4. Close-up of "for sale" sign, zoom out to flooded river

11:14:32

(Hawaii - Volcano)

On July 22nd lava continued to flow from a set of fissures east of Pu'u O'o crater on Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, one of the world's most active volcanoes, scientists said. Molten rock began oozing in the remote area known as the east rift zone, on the Big Island of Hawaii, for the first time in 15 years.

Scientists have set up a Webcam in the area, but visibility has been poor because of the weather, with the best view available from the air.

The lava formed three ponds about 3 yards (2.74 metres) to 5 yards (4.57 metres) high and 100 yards (91.41 metres) wide.

Ponds are typically formed when lava slowly moves to the surface, as opposed to vigorous activity that will move lava away from a vent.

The eruption, along a one-mile (1.6-kilometre) long line of fissures, is occurring within the state's Kahaualea Natural Area Reserve.

It is the first time lava has erupted east of Pu'u O'o since February 7, 1992.

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Kilauea, 22 July 2007

1. Various aerials of lava flowing from volcano

11:15:02

(Greece - Forest Fires)

A wave of massive fires raged out of control across Greece early on August 25th, sweeping into mountainous towns and villages and killing at least 18 people in the south. It was the country's deadliest forest fire toll in decades. Rescue crews were checking reports of several other bodies found in a mountain village in the western Peloponnese, fire department spokesman Nikos Diamandis said .

Throughout the day on August 24th and into the night, 170 fires raged across the country, with blazes reported from the western Ionian islands to Ioannina in north-western Greece and down to the south.

The most devastating, and deadly, fires were in the Peloponnese region of the south.

Hundreds of people were reportedly trapped by the flames, many in mountainous villages in the western Peloponnese, near the town of Zaharo.

That fire, which was too large for the fire department to give accurate details on how many hectares had been burned, killed at least 11 people, including three fire-fighters, authorities said.

Hot, dry winds gusting to gale force throughout August 24th frequently prevented fire fighting planes from taking off, leaving mainly ground forces to fight the flames in the southern Peloponnese, occasionally helped by helicopters.

By August 25th the death toll had risen to at least 44.

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Zaharo - 25 August 2007

++NIGHT SHOTS++

1. Various of forest fires

Seven kilometres from Zaharo

++NIGHT SHOTS++

2. Various of burnt out cars in which an unknown number of people were burned to death

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Neohori - 25 Aug 2007

3. Various shots of swatting fire with tree branches

4. Wide of plane in smoke-filled sky

11:15:34

(Thailand - Phuket Plane Crash)

Authorities searched the remains of a plane that crashed and killed 90 people, mostly foreigners, on Thailand's resort island of Phuket, finding flight data recorders but saying on September 17th it was too early to tell what caused the crash.

The budget One-Two-Go Airlines flight was carrying 123 passengers and seven crew from Bangkok to Phuket when it skidded off a runway on September 16th when landing in driving wind and rain, catching fire and engulfing some passengers in flames as others kicked out windows to escape.

Forty people were injured in the accident, Thailand's worst air crash in a decade, and investigators were searching for at least five more bodies.

A One-Two-Go list of dead passengers obtained by the Associated Press included 54 foreigners and 36 Thais.

Among them are victims from the United States, France, Israel, Sweden, Iran, Australia and United Kingdom.

The Indonesian pilot and Thai co-pilot were also killed in the crash.

Dalad Tantiprasongchai, daughter of the chairman of Orient-Thai Airlines, which owns One-Two-Go, said the airliner would be providing 100,000 baht (3,125 US dollars) initially to families of the dead for the funeral and other costs.

The plane rammed through a low retaining wall and split in two after it crashed.

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Phuket - 16/17 Sept 2007

1. Wide of the scene of the plane crash

2. Various of debris from the plane crash

3. Wide of the crash site

4. Wreckage

5. List of passengers on board the flight released by the One-Two-Go airline, on a notice board at the Bangkok Phuket hospital

11:16:04

(India - Train fire)

An explosion on a train heading from India to Pakistan set off a fire that swept through two coaches early on Monday 19the February in northern India, killing at least 66 people. Authorities say two suitcases packed with unexploded crude bombs and bottles of gasoline were found in train cars not hit in the attack, leading them to believe the fire was set off by an identical explosive device. The fire broke out just before the train reached the station in the village of Dewana, about 80 kilometres north of New Delhi. The blaze engulfed two coaches of the Samjhauta Express, one of two train links between India and Pakistan. At least 30 passengers who were burned or injured in the blaze were taken to hospital in the nearby town of Panipat, the general manager of the Northern Railway said. The dead included both Indians and Pakistanis.

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Panipat, Near Dewana, 19 Feb 2007

1. Crowd gathered round burnt train carriages as another train passes behind

2. Various of burnt out interiors of train carriages

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Panipat, Near Dewana, 19 Feb 2007

01. Pan of charred coach; rescue personnel working inside

FEATURES AND TECHNOLOGY

11:16:34

(USA - Apple unveils long-awaited iPhone at MacWorld)

Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs at Macworld made the company's long-awaited jump into the mobile phone business and renamed the company to just "Apple Inc," reflecting its increasing focus on consumer electronics. The iPhone, which starts at $499 US dollars, is controlled by touch, plays music, surfs the Internet and runs the Macintosh computer operating system. IPhone uses a patented touch-screen technology Apple is calling "multi-touch."

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San Francisco - 9 Jan 2007

1. VS iPhone on display

11:16:59

(Israel - Fifty thousands guests attend a huge wedding in Jerusalem)

Thousands of orthodox Hassidic Jews gathered in Jerusalem in February to celebrate the wedding of the grandson of a leading Rabbi. Several roads were sealed off from traffic and given over to the wedding guests, some of whom had travelled from all over the world. Police were told to expect fifty thousand guests. This is said to be the biggest wedding in Israel's 58 year history.

The wedding was that of Aron Noah Alter, the eldest grandson of leading Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, who is also known as the Rabbi of Ger Hasidic dynasty in Jerusalem. Partygoers at the wedding attached special importance to this marriage because it holds out promise for the continuation of the Gerrer dynasty. Traffic police were told to expect rush hour disruptions as fifty thousand guests converged on a small neighbourhood in north Jerusalem. Rather than send out fifty thousand invitations, the couple's families sent emissaries to hundreds of synagogues where entire congregations were invited by word of mouth. The bride didn't see anything of her big day and her identity was also kept secret from the media.

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Jerusalem - Feb. 27, 2007

1. Wide of boy looking through binoculars at thousands of ultra orthodox Jews at wedding site

2. Wide of ultra orthodox Jews looking through binoculars to the area where wedding is taking place at

3. Wide of Huppa (Hebrew word for the place where the wedding ceremony takes place), bride can be seen

4. Various of ultra orthodox Jews dancing at the wedding celebration

11:17:24

(Mexico - Nude Cyclists Protest Against Traffic in Mexico City)

At least 200 people rode bicycles in the nude through the streets of Mexico City in June to protest against the traffic in Mexico City.

The group "Bicitekas", called on people in Mexico City to strip off and ride bicycles through the city to highlight the dangers cyclists face on the city's roads.

"People are not conscious of the risk that we run when we are riding a bicycle. The cars come really near us, and people believe that we have the body of a car. This (the human body) is our only body," one naked protester told AP Television.

Bemused onlookers watched as the protestors cycled around the city.

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Mexico City - 9 June 2007

1. Men taking their clothes off

2. People with banner reading: "World naked bike ride 2007"

3. Wide of naked people waiting to ride bicycles

4. Woman putting body paint on a naked man

5. Various of people riding bicycles on Reforma Avenue

6. People watching the protest

11:18:05

(China - World's Tallest Man Meets 73 cm-tall Woman)

The world's tallest man met with a woman more than 1.5 m (five feet) shorter than him on July 13th in Baotou city. Bao Xishun, a 56 year-old herdsman from Inner Mongolia, is the world's tallest man and measures 2.36 m (7 foot 9 inches) tall. He Pingping, the woman he met, comes in at just 73 cm-tall (2 foot 5 inches) and is applying to be entered in the Guinness World Record as the world's shortest adult.

Meeting with the world's tallest man is the long-cherished dream of He Pingping, according to an organiser of the meeting. The meeting between He Pingping and Bao Xishun comes just one day after Bao was married. Bao married 1.68m (5 foot 6 inches) saleswoman Xia Shujian late this March after a global search for a suitable bride.

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Baotou city - 13 July 2007

1. People carry tiny woman, He Pingping, to meet the world's tallest man Bao Xishun

2. Bao Xishun shakes hands with He Pingping

11:18:25

(Russia - French "Spiderman" Climbs Highest Building in Europe)

On September 4th an extreme climber known as "Spiderman" scaled Europe's highest building - the Federation tower in Moscow. It took Alain Robert just over 20 minutes to climb the 242 metres (799 feet) to the top of the skyscraper, using windowsills and structural edges as footholds. But instead of a welcoming party showering him with congratulations, the 45-year-old Frenchman received a frosty reception as he reached the top - he was met by Russian police who placed him under arrest. Robert said he did not know the reason for his arrest and there was no official comment from police.

The ITAR-Tass news agency said the climber could face a fine for violating safety norms at a construction site. The Federation tower is part of a sprawling business complex that is still under construction. Robert has climbed more than 70 of the world's tallest structures, including the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and the Petronas Towers

in Kuala Lumpur, with his bare hands and without a safety net.

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Moscow - 4 Sep 2007

1. West Tower of Moscow City compound

2. Alain Robert climbing, zoom out

3. Spectators with binoculars and telescope

4. Alain Robert climbing last few feet to the top

11:18:49

(Various - Launch of the Final Harry Potter Book - even in Afghanistan)

Excited Harry Potter fans have been cueing up in front of bookshops across the world, to be the first to get their hands on "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," the seventh and final volume in the boy wizard's saga.

Bookstores in France, Germany, Australia, Thailand, Japan, the Philippines and many more threw open their doors on Saturday July 2nd to sell the last instalment of the popular series.

Eager readers, many of whom had cued for hours, rushed from the tills, opening the thick hardback book to take in the opening words: "The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane."

Even Harry Potter fans in living in Kabul were delighted to be able to get their hands on copies of the latest title on July 21st, the same day that the book hit shops elsewhere around the world.

Flights into Kabul are infrequent, but a international freight forwarding company, Paxton International did Potter lovers a favour by shipping in dozens of copies of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' from Dubai on an early morning flight.

Rowling's books about the bespectacled orphan with the lightning-bolt scar have sold 325 (m) million copies in 64 languages, and the launch of each new volume has become a Hollywood-scale extravaganza.

"Deathly Hallows" has a print run of 12 (m) million in the United States alone, and Internet retailer Amazon says it has taken 2.2 (m) million orders for the book.

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Various - 21 July 2007

Berlin, Germany - 21 July 2007

1. Books being unveiled - people grab copies of book and cheer

Sydney, Australia - 21 July 2007

2. Girl dressed as a witch touching an unopened box of Harry Potter books

Bangkok, Thailand - 21 July 2007

3. Various of replica of Hogwarts train

4. Wide of replica of Diagon Alley - a location in the book

Manila, Philippines - 21 July 2007

5. People going into bookstore

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Kabul - 21 July 2007

6. Pan from bookstore to street

7. Mid of traffic

8. Pedestrian outside bookstore

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London - 20 July 2007

9. Pan of people queuing to buy book outside shop

10. Various of crowds outside shop cheering

STOP PRESS

BANGLADESH - CYCLONE

11:19:50

In November thousands of survivors waited for relief aid amid their wrecked homes and flooded fields after the deadliest storm to hit Bangladesh in a decade, as authorities say the death toll from the cyclone has reached 1,861.

The government deployed military helicopters, naval ships and thousands of troops to join international agencies and local officials in the rescue mission following Tropical Cyclone Sidr.

Sidr's 240 kilometre per hour (150 miles per hour) winds smashed tens of thousands of homes in south-western Bangladesh and ruined much-needed crops just before the harvest season.

Aid organisations said they feared food shortages and contaminated water could lead to widespread problems if people remain stranded.

An estimated 2.7 (m) million people were affected and 773-thousand houses were damaged, according to the Ministry of Disaster Management. Roughly 250-thousand cattle and poultry perished, and crops were destroyed along huge swaths of land.

The cyclone that tore across the Bangladesh coast killed more than 3,100 people, authorities said, as survivors buried their loved ones and waited for aid to arrive.

Local media reports say more than 4,000 people were killed, a number that some have predicted could go even higher.

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Khulna - 17 November 2007

1. Wide of destroyed house

2. Collapsed roof

3. Wide of fallen trees and collapsed houses

4. Wide of collapsed tree

5. Pan left of fallen trees and destroyed houses

6. Wide of river

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Mongla and Morrelganj - 18/19 November 2007

Mongla - 18 November 2007

7. Wide of collapsed house

8. Mid of sign of collapsed homeopathic medical college

9. Wide of medical college shed

10. Mid of collapsed tin shed and corrugated iron

Morrelganj - 19 November 2007

11. Tracking shot from boat of destroyed buildings along riverbank

12. Various of destroyed buildings and remaining floodwater

11:20:48 END

REMEMBERING MICHAEL JACKSON, WHOSE DEATH SHOOK THE WORLD TEN YEARS AGO

The sudden death of Michael Jackson came as a shock to the world.

The pop star died at University of California Los Angeles Medical Centre on 25 June 2009 after suffering a cardiac arrest.  He was 50.

Stores were inundated with orders for Jackson's music and a chorus of grief for the megastar spread around the world, from statesmen to icons of music to legions of heartbroken fans.

Diana Ross, who helped launch Jackson's career, said she couldn't stop crying at the sudden and shocking death.

Lisa Marie Presley, briefly married to the pop icon in the mid-1990s, said he had confided to her 14 years ago that he worried about facing the same tragic fate as her father, Elvis Presley, who died of a drug overdose at age 42.

The White House also weighed in for the first time, with President Barack Obama saying Jackson was a spectacular performer and music icon whose life nonetheless had sad and tragic aspects.

The House of Representatives observed a moment of silence.

After Jackson was acquitted on child molestation charges in 2005, prosecutors argued against returning to Jackson items including syringes, the drug Demerol and prescriptions for various drugs, mainly antibiotics, in different people's names.

Jackson died after being stricken at his rented home in the posh Los Angeles neighbourhood of Holmby Hills.  Paramedics tried to resuscitate him for three-quarters of an hour before rushing him to hospital.

Jackson was preparing for a monster comeback bid - a series of 50 concerts that was to begin the month after his death in London.

A handful of bleary-eyed fans camped out throughout the night with media outside the Jackson family house in the San Fernando Valley and near his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame upon news of his passing.

People heading to work in New York stopped to pay respects outside Harlem's Apollo Theater, where Jackson performed as a child.

Jackson's death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music's premier all-around performer.

His 1982 album "Thriller" - which included the blockbuster hits "Beat It," "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" - is the best-selling album of all time worldwide.

Yet after selling more than 61 million albums in the U.S. and having a decade-long attraction open at Disney theme parks, Jackson died reportedly awash in about 400 million (m) US dollars in debt, on the cusp of a final comeback after well over a decade of scandal.

The public first knew Jackson as a boy in the late 1960s, when he was the precocious, spinning lead singer of the Jackson 5, the singing group he formed with his four older brothers out of Gary, Indiana.  Among their No. 1 hits were "I Want You Back," "ABC" and "I'll Be There."

He was perhaps the most exciting performer of his generation, known for his backward-gliding moonwalk, his feverish, crotch-grabbing dance moves and his high-pitched singing, punctuated with squeals and titters.

His single sequined glove, tight, military-style jacket and aviator sunglasses were trademarks, as was his ever-changing, surgically altered appearance.

"For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don't have the words," said Quincy Jones, who produced "Thriller."

"He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever. I've lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him."

Jackson ranked alongside Presley and the Beatles as the biggest pop sensations of all time.  He united two of music's biggest names when he was briefly married to Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie.

Jackson's sudden death immediately evoked comparisons to that of Presley himself, who died at age 42 in 1977.

As years went by, Jackson became an increasingly freakish figure - a middle-aged man-child weirdly out of touch with grown-up life.

His skin became lighter, his nose narrower, and he spoke in a breathy, girlish voice.

He often wore a germ mask while travelling, kept a pet chimpanzee named Bubbles as one of his closest companions, and surrounded himself with children at his Neverland ranch, a storybook playland filled with toys, rides and animals.  The tabloids dubbed him "Wacko Jacko."

After the enormous success of "Thriller," Jackson had strong follow-up albums with 1987's "Bad" and 1991's "Dangerous," but his career began to collapse in 1993 after he was accused of molesting a boy who often stayed at his home.

The singer denied any wrongdoing, reached a settlement with the boy's family, reported to be 20 million (m) US dollars, and criminal charges were never filed.

Jackson caused a furore in 2002 when he playfully dangled his infant son, Prince Michael II, over a hotel balcony in Berlin while a throng of fans watched from below.

In 2005, he was cleared of charges that he molested a 13-year-old cancer survivor at Neverland in 2003.  He had been accused of plying the boy with alcohol and groping him, and of engaging in strange and inappropriate behaviour with other children.

The case followed years of rumors about Jackson and young boys.  In a TV documentary, he acknowledged sharing his bed with children, a practise he described as sweet and not at all sexual.

Despite the acquittal, the lurid allegations that came out in court took a fearsome toll on his career and image, and he fell into serious financial trouble.

Earlier this year, the co-executor of Jackson's estate said that he was confident the late superstar's supporters will be able to protect his legacy in the wake of an HBO documentary featuring the disturbing stories of two men who say Jackson sexually abused them as boys.

John Branca called the documentary a one-sided "made-for-TV-movie" and accused the film's subjects of being motivated by money.

The men first came forward with their stories years earlier in lawsuits. Both of them had previously denied the singer sexually abused them, but said having their own children and Jackson's 2009 death forced them to face the truth. Their lawsuits were dismissed for technical reasons.

In his private life, Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley in 1994, and they divorced in 1996.  Later that year, Jackson married Deborah Rowe, a former nurse for his dermatologist.

They had two children together: Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., known as Prince Michael, and Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, 11.  Rowe filed for divorce in 1999.

Jackson also had a third child, Prince Michael II, now 7.  Jackson said the boy, nicknamed Blanket as a baby, was his biological child born from a surrogate mother.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Los Angeles, California, June 26 2009

1. Various shots Michael Jackson's star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, surrounded by flowers, candles and photographers

2. Various shots fans crying

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Encino, California, 26 June 2009

3. Wide shot fans gathering outside family home, comforting each other, floral tributes placed by roadside

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Washington, DC, 26 June 2009

4. UPOSOUND (English) Representative Jesse Jackson Junior, Democrat - Illinois:

"On August 29, 1958 he visited Gary, Indiana and touched a young man with an abundance of his blessings. With that gift, that young man Michael Joe Jackson would touch and change the world. His heart couldn't get any bigger and yesterday it arrested. I come to the floor today on behalf of a generation to thank God for letting all of us live in his generation and in his era. And with that, Madam Speaker, we would ask members to please stand for a moment of silence."

5. Various shots House of Representatives standing and observing a moment of silence for Jackson

ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York City, 26 June 2009

6. Pull out from Times Square television monitor announcing pop star Michael Jackson's death

7. Various of ABC ticker in New York's Times Square displaying news of Michael Jackson's death

8. Medium shot fans holding stereo playing "Rock With You" by Michael Jackson

9. Close-up of New York Times front page with picture of Jackson

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Detroit, Michigan, 26 June 2009

10. Tilt down shrine outside Motown Museum with balloons, flowers and teddy bears

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cleveland, Ohio, June 26 2009

11. Wide shot exterior Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And Museum

12. Various shots Michael Jackson exhibits

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Terry Stewart, President & CEO Rock and Roll Hall of Fame And Museum:

"I can't believe he'S gone. I can't believe he's left us. It is the same sinking feeling I had with Elvis Presley and John Lennon - not that I am comparing them - but the fact is you're talking about artists like Michael Jackson who had an impact around the world - all cultures, all ages - and whoever expects, no one expects them to ever die, never mind pass away at such an early age."

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gary, Indiana, 25 June 2009

14. Various shots fans gather outside Michael Jackson's boyhood home, exterior of home with gifts

ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York, 25 June 2009

15. Wide shot female fan dancing

16. People chanting "Michael Jackson" in front of the Apollo Theatre

17. Apollo Theatre sign

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Beijing, 26 June 2009

18. Wide shot of photo of Michael Jackson displayed on public screen

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mexico City, 25 June 2009

19. Medium shot Michael Jackson impersonator dances the "moonwalk" as he comes into the plaza of the Angel of Independence

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Paris, 26 June 2009

20. Medium shot newspapers with headlines reading: (French) "Michael Jackson is dead" and "The Death of Michael Jackson"

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Zwentendorf, Austria, 24 July 2009

21. Medium shot Andie MacDowell arrives at gala honoring Michael Jackson's humanitarian work after his death

22. SOUNDBITE (English) Andie MacDowell, actress:

"I congratulate Austria for turning attention towards his humanitarian acts. I think that, I think that that is really important and it would be what he would want at this moment - for everybody to understand everything that he did."

23. Medium shot Jermaine Jackson arrives at gala

24. SOUNDBITE (English) Jermaine Jackson, Michael's brother:

"It's a wonderful feeling and I said for many times this is very much what Michael's message was all about - healing the world, making the world a better place to live. There's been so much sensationalism, false accusations, things that are not true, facts that are ungone, gone without saying. And the fact that they need to look at is what he's done. There are so much work on the humanitarian side."

25. Wide shot Jermaine Jackson speaks to reporters

26. SOUNDBITE (English) Jermaine Jackson, Michael's brother:

"He was able to reach out to people and to governments and to try to make a change so that's what Michael is - he's a wonderful entertainer but he's a greater humanitarian."

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Los Angeles, 7 July 2009

27. Medium shot Michael Jackson's death certificate released by Los Angeles County Health Services

28. Close-up of Jackson's death certificate

ASSOCIATED PRESS

London, 24 July 2009

29. SOUNDBITE (English) Uri Geller:

"You know throughout the years there was so much negativity hurled at Michael Jackson, I looked at it as media bullying, worldwide media bullying, non-stop, day in, day out, whether it was the color of his skin or his face, or the controversies that dogged Michael."

ASSOCIATED PRESS

London, 10 July 2009

30. Pan from press to medium shot press conference

31. SOUNDBITE (English) Shah Rukh Khan, actor - on Michael Jackson:

"It's perhaps not the nicest thing to be as sensitive as he was.  He was such a wonderful being.  I've met him and he was really nice, a very kind human being and I feel very sad.  I mean, I cried, which has been a long time since I cried last.  My wife cried and my kids cried, we really liked him."

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Encino, California, 7 July 2009

32. Car with Jackson's father Joe Jackson leaving for his son Michael's funeral, followed by convoy of other cars

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Los Angeles, 7 July 2009

33. Wide shot of motorcade turning into Staples Center, zoom into hearse entering complex

34. Wide shot floral tribute reading "We love you Michael" outside Staples Center

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Santa Barbara, California, 2 July 2009

35. Various shots Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch

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London, 7 July 2009

36. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Williams, recording artist:

''I will remember him for the great things that he contributed to music. The dancing, his charitable contributions, how he loved, he loved people, he loved everybody. I pray from today on out we will focus on that. He's not here, so all the things that are negative, it's like who are you trying to hurt? He's not here to hear it. Are you trying to hurt the family? It's like he's gone already let's focus on what he did leave which is great music for us to continue to dance to and he left huge, huge shoes to fill."

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London, 16 June 2009

37. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly Rowland, recording artist:

''The first time I met Michael Jackson it was with Destiny's Child and he actually sang 'Bootylicious' to us, and my mouth was wide open and I couldn't say anything because he just, he takes you back.  Michael's presence is so sweet, it really is and when he sang it, he just sang it just because he loves the record and we were like, 'You inspire everything we do,' you know?  And just to this day, like I know I see so much of him in so many different artists.  He inspires so many.''

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Washington, DC, 2 July 2009

38. Wide shot US President Barack Obama walks in and greets Associated Press White House Press Correspondent Jennifer Loven

39. SOUNDBITE (English), Barack Obama, US President:

"You know, I think that Michael Jackson will go down in history as one of our greatest entertainers.  I grew up on his music, still have all his stuff on my iPod.  You know, I think that his brilliance as a performer also was paired with a tragic and,in many ways, sad personal life.  But you know, I am glad to see that he is being remembered primarily for the great joy that he brought to a lot of people through his extraordinary gifts as an entertainer."

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New Orleans, 3 July 2009

40. Medium shot of Queen Latifah standing with three unidentified women at her "My Black is Beautiful" campaign at the Essence Music Festival

41. SOUNDBITE (English) Queen Latifah, actress/recording artist - on Essence Music Festival paying tribute to Michael Jackson:

"I think it's only befitting that we honor Michael Jackson in every way possible."

42. Medium shot Queen Latifah signing autographs

43. SOUNDBITE (English) Queen Latifah, actress/recording artist:

"He's the greatest entertainer of all time, bottom line.  There's no one who can compare to him. There's no one who's had, you know, over 40 years of music in them, from a child on up to being a 50-year-old and about to go on a world tour, play 50 dates in one city alone and sell 'em out in a day, basically."

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Unknown location, 31 August 1971

44. STILL IMAGE: The Jackson Five, with Michael Jackson top right

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Los Angeles, 25 February 1983

45. STILL IMAGE: Michael Jackson and Jane Fonda with records

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Los Angeles, 28 February 1984

46. STILL IMAGE: Michael Jackson and producer Quincy Jones, holding eight Grammy Awards for "Thriller"