Lebanese citizens on Tueday reacted to the verdicts of the trial in absentia of four members of the Hezbollah militant group accused of involvement in the truck bomb assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.

The presiding judge at the U.N.-backed tribunal in the Netherlands said the evidence against them was "almost entirely circumstantial."

The verdicts were delayed by nearly two weeks as a mark of respect for victims of the explosion in Beirut's port which killed around 180 people, injured more than 6,000, left a quarter of a million with homes unfit to live in.

Presiding Judge David Re said the written judgment in the long-running trial amounted to more than 2,600 pages with some 13,000 footnotes.

Sketching the complex political backdrop for the assassination, Re said Hariri was a supporter or reducing the influence of Syria and Hezbollah in Syria in the months before his death.

Judges were "of the view that Syria and Hezbollah may have had motives to eliminate Mr. Hariri, and some of his political allies," Re said, but he added that "there was no evidence" that the Hezbollah leadership or Syria was involved in the truck bombing.

One supporter of the late Prime Minister said he had been waiting for the result of the trial "for 15 years" and that "God willing today the truth will be made public."

Beirut - August, 18, 2020

1. Various posters of Lebanon's late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, on Beirut roads

2. Various of people watching TV in a coffee shop

3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abo Azizi, Hariri supporter:

"Rafik Hariri was killed and may he rest in peace. It is not important to take your right on the ground, but it is important that you know who killed Rafik Hariri so that people know how a peaceful man whose hands were not tainted with blood was killed."

4. Hariri posters in Tareeq Al-Jadideh neighborhood

5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abed Itani:

"We have been waiting for the truth for 15 years and God willing, today the truth will be made public. All what we want from the world and the Lebanese state is that those who carried out this explosion be punished in accordance with justice."

6. Various of Lebanon's late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri statue

The trial of the Hezbollah members and supporters suspected of being behind the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, will finally start this week, nine years after his murder.

The suicide truck bomb attack that killed Hariri and 22 others on February 14, 2005 was one of the most dramatic top-level assassinations the Middle East and immediately caused an increase in what were already huge sectarian divisions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

The United Nations-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon will begin on Thursday on the outskirts of The Hague in the Netherlands.

However, the five key suspects behind the attack will be tried in absentia as they are still yet to be arrested.

They included four Hezbollah members indicted in 2011 with plotting the attack and another supporter charged last year. All of them remain at large.

The trial will be held under a hybrid system of international and Lebanese law.

Hezbollah has condemned the trial as a conspiracy by its archenemies the US and Israel. It's also denied any involvement in Hariri's assassination.

Despite widespread criticism of the trial, some inside Lebanon are optimistic that justice will prevail.

"We are confident that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will conduct these proceedings and the procedure in a very fair way in order to let the Lebanese at last find out the truth," said Ibrahim Najjar, a former Lebanese Justice Minister.

Other are hoping that the trial will help bring an end to the string of political assassinations which have rocked the country since Hariri's death.

The last attack was on December 27, 2013 when former finance minster Mohammed Chatah, a Hezbollah critic and also former aide to Hariri, was killed in a car bombing in Beirut.

"We and the international community wanted the tribunal to punish the criminals and to stop political assassinations," said legislator Atef Majdalani, a member of the Future Movement bloc that is headed by Hariri's son, Saad, also a former prime minister.

"Truth will emerge, justice is coming, therefore you should either move along this road, the road of justice, or justice will get you," Majdalani added.

But many question whether justice will indeed be done while the key defendants in the case are still at large.

AP TELEVISION

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1. Wide of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's grave with photos of him in the background and the statute of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon next to the grave

2. Close of the UN-ratified Statute reading (Arabic) "Statute of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon"

3. Mid of Hariri grave with photo on top

4. Wide of former Lebanese Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar walking in his house

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ibrahim Najjar, former Lebanese Justice Minister:

"We are confident that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will conduct these proceedings and the procedure in a very fair way in order to let the Lebanese at last find out the truth."

6. Close of Najjar's hands holding a pair of glasses

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ibrahim Najjar, former Lebanese Justice Minister:

"I think that for the first time since 1943, Lebanon is about now to discover the truth within an independent tribunal."

8. Close of photograph of Najjar

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ibrahim Najjar, former Lebanese Justice Minister:

"Yes, there is a fear, at least somebody, some witnesses have declared that they fear to appear before the court and to say everything they have in mind or in their knowledge. I think that there is a real fear because when you kill a witness the truth is affected, that is why I think that there are special precautions, special undertakings that have been decided by the tribunal in order to protect them."

10. Mid of traffic at the explosion site where Hariri was killed

11. Close of Hariri statue

12. Atef Majdalani, Lebanese Member of Parliament walking

13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Atef Majdalani, Future Movement MP:

"We and the international community wanted the tribunal to punish the criminals and to stop political assassinations, and to say that political assassinations will not solve any problems and that criminals responsible will be punished."

14. Close of photo of Majdalani and Hariri

15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Atef Majdalani, Future Movement MP:

"Truth will emerge, justice is coming, therefore you should either move along this road, the road of justice, or justice will get you and punish the criminals among you."

FILE: AP TELEVISION

14 February, 2005

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16. Various of Hariri assassination blast site with burnt out cars and emergency services attempting to control flames

17. Wide top shot of people gathering at Martyrs' Square in Beirut

SHOTLIST

November 21, 2006

1. Tracking shot showing soldiers and crowd around Pierre Gemayel's car

2. Front shot of damaged car

3. Bullet holes in Gemayel's car window

4. Bullet holes in door on other side of car, zoom in to bloody interior of car

5. Soldiers making their way to scene

November 21, 2006

6. Wide of news conference room

7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Fuad Saniora, Lebanese Prime Minister:

"To your lovely parents, to your wife and children, to all who love you and to all free men, I pledge to you that your blood will not go in vain."

8. Wide of conference ending

9. Cutaway close-up of Lebanese flag

10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Emile Lahoud, Lebanese President:

"This speech was meant for the Lebanese, meant to congratulate them for independence day. But we were all Lebanese surprised by this criminal act that killed Pierre Gemayel at this time. Who ever committed this crime is following crimes that started with (the assassination of the) late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and because of this, I tell you, that at this particular time we have to be united."

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11. Crowd gathered outside hospital

12. Walid Jumblatt, a prominent Druse politician in the anti-Syrian coalition, making his way through the crowd

13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Walid Jumblatt, Prominent Druse politician in the anti-Syrian coalition:

"We won't let them divide us in Lebanon and the international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for political assassinations in Lebanon will come soon.''

November 21, 2006

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14. Wide exterior of St. Joseph's hospital

November 21, 2006

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15. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Amin Gemayel, father of Pierre Gemayel and former Lebanese President:

"Today Pierre died as a martyr for his cause. All I ask from the people who loved Pierre is to protect the cause, Pierre killed for the cause of Lebanon, for the cause of freedom.''

16. Amin Gemayel being consoled by Walid Jumblatt

November 21, 2006

17. Wide of people gathered inside St. Jospeh's hospital

18. Man with poster of Pierre Gemayel, shouting

19. Men chanting

20. SOUNDBITE (English) Gemayel supporter, Vox Pop:

"We will not forget him after some months. We must work together in a very progressive way and in a peaceful way also."

November 21, 2006

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21. Various of angry protesters gathering and scuffles with security personnel

22. Crowd of supporters chanting with raised fists

23. Tilt up of supporters demonstrating with poster of Pierre Gemayel

November 21, 2006

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24. Fire burning on the street, with soldiers monitoring situation

25. Pan across protesters gathered near the fire

26. Crying women holding photographs of Pierre Gemayel

FILE - Recent

27. Pierre Gemayel arriving in car

28. Various of Pierre Gemayel with father Amin, a former president

FILE - 1982

29. Various of Bashir Gemayel (uncle of slain minister) in military uniform on left reviewing militia with his father (in suit), Pierre Gemayel (grandfather and namesake of slain minister)

30. Various of funeral of Bashir Gemayel

November 21, 2006

31. Pull out to wide of fires in street

STORYLINE

Pierre Gemayel, an anti-Syrian politician and scion of Lebanon's most prominent Christian family, was gunned down Tuesday in an assassination that heightened tensions amid a showdown between opponents and allies of Syria that threatens to topple the US-backed government.

Gemayel, the industry minister, was the fifth anti-Syrian figure to be killed in the past two years and the first member of the government of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora to be slain.

Saniora went on national television to call for unity and warned of "sedition" against Lebanon.

"I pledge to you that your blood will not go in vain," Saniora said, eulogising Gemayel.

Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud called for citizens to be united in this tragic time, a sentiment that was echoed by Walid Jumblatt, a prominent Druse politician in the anti-Syrian coalition.

"We won't let them divide us in Lebanon and the international tribunal to prosecute those responsible for political assassinations in Lebanon will come soon," Jumblatt said as he offered condolences to Amin Gemayel, father of the slain minister.

Amin Gemayel, a former Lebanese president, told reporters that his son had "died as a martyr".

"All I ask from the people who loved Pierre is to protect the cause, Pierre killed for the cause of Lebanon, for the cause of freedom,'' he told reporters.

The killing has sparked condemnation across the world and from crowds of supporters in Beirut.

Emotional crowds gathered in the streets, with some angry protesters scuffling with security personnel.

There were fires in the streets as many supporters pledged to keep Gemayel's memory alive.

"We will not forget him after some months. We must work together in a very progressive way and in a peaceful way also," said one supporter.

Gemayel's fatal shooting will certainly heighten the political tension in Lebanon, where the leading Muslim Shiite party Hezbollah has threatened to topple the government if it does not get a bigger say in Cabinet decision making.

Witnesses said Gemayel was shot in his car in Jdeideh, a Christian neighbourhood, his constituency on the northern edge of Beirut.

They said a car rammed Gemayel's car from behind and then an assailant stepped out and shot him at point blank range.

Gemayel was rushed to a nearby hospital seriously wounded, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) and Voice of Lebanon, the Phalange Party's radio station, reported.

The party radio later said he was dead, as did the National News Agency.

Gemayel was a member of the Phalange party and supporter of the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, which is locked in a power struggle with pro-Syrian factions led by Hezbollah.

He was first elected to parliament in 2005 and was believed to be the youngest legislator in the legislature, where anti-Syrian groups dominate.

The Gemayels have been a political dynasty in Lebanon. The name is famous, and also infamous in some quarters for being a driving force behind the right wing Phalange Party - that fielded the largest Christian militia during the 1975-90 civil war between Christians and Muslims.

The slain minister of industry was the son of former President Amin Gemayel and nephew of Bashir Gemayel, a former president assassinated after the Israeli invasion in 1982 for his tacit collaboration with the Jewish state.

That assassination led to the Christian militia massacre of Palestinians in Sabra and Chatila in September 1982.

Pierre Gemayel's grandfather and namesake founded the Phalange Party in 1936 after a visit to Nazi Germany.

Gemayel is the fifth anti-Syrian figure to be assassinated in the past two years in Lebanon.

Former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was killed in a massive car bombing in February 2005.

The journalist and activist Samir Kassir and former Communist Party leader George Hawi were killed in separate car bombings in June last year.

And lawmaker and newspaper manager Gibran Tueni was killed in a car bombing in December.

A U.N.-backed tribunal in the Netherlands is delivering verdicts Tuesday in the trial in absentia of four members of the Hezbollah militant group who are accused of involvement in the truck bomb assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The verdicts were delayed by nearly two weeks as a mark of respect for victims of another devastating explosion - the detonation of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut’s port.

The Aug. 4 blast killed around 180 people, injured more than 6,000, left a quarter of a million with homes unfit to live in and plunged a nation already reeling from economic and social malaise even deeper into crisis.

Guilty verdicts could compound tensions in the tiny country. Hariri was Lebanon’s most prominent Sunni politician at the time of his Feb. 14, 2005, assassination, while the Iran-backed Hezbollah is a Shiite Muslim group.

The trial centered on the alleged roles of four Hezbollah members in the suicide truck bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others and wounded 226 people. Prosecutors based their case largely on data from mobile phones allegedly used by the plotters to plan and execute the bombing.

During the trial, which started in 2014 and spanned 415 days of hearings, the tribunal in Leidschendam, near The Hague, heard evidence from 297 witnesses.

Initially, five suspects were tried, all of them Hezbollah members. Charges against one of the group’s top military commanders, Mustafa Badreddine, were dropped after he was killed in Syria in 2016.

The remaining suspects are Salim Ayyash, also known as Abu Salim; Assad Sabra, Hassan Oneissi, who changed his name to Hassan Issa and Hassan Habib Merhi. They are charged with offenses including conspiracy to commit a terrorist act.

If they are convicted, hearings will be held at a later date to determine their sentences. As the U.N.-backed court has no death sentence, the maximum sentence is life imprisonment.

None of the men is ever likely to serve time as Hezbollah has vowed not to hand over any suspects. Prosecutors and defence lawyers can appeal the verdicts.

Hariri’s son Saad, himself a former prime minister, is attending the day-long delivery of the judgment and was one of four victims present in the courtroom for the hearing.

ARCHIVE: Beirut - 14 February 2005

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1. Various of cars burning amid aftermath of bomb blast that killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri

2. Various aftermath shots of attack on Hariri's car, fire crews putting out flames

ARCHIVE: Beirut - 21 October 2004

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3. Hariri walking to meet Lebanese President Emile Lahoud

4. Hariri meeting Lahoud

5. Close up Hariri

ARCHIVE: Date and location unknown

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6. Various of Hariri at rally

7. Various of Hariri greeting people

8. Various of Hariri in meeting with officials

ARCHIVE: Paris, date unknown

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9. Various of Hariri meeting French President Jacques Chirac

ARCHIVE: Beirut - 15 February 2005

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10. Hariri's son Saad Hariri beside blast crater

11. Lebanese soldiers checking the site

12 . Various of Saad Hariri praying at the blast scene for his father

SHOTLIST:

AP Television

1. Wide of funeral

2. Wife of Walid Eido, assassinated prominent anti-Syrian legislator waving from balcony

3. Women crying and waving

4. Ambulance covered by Lebanese flag and Eido's poster

5. Youths chanting slogans whilst travelling with ambulance

6. Wide of funeral

7. Mid of Saad Hariri, son of Rafik Hariri the slain former Lebanese prime minister walking along in procession

8. Wide of funeral procession

9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Walid Jumblatt, Druse politician and anti-Syrian legislator:

"Syrian regime with their allies are trying to reduce our majority in the parliament. They have killed yesterday (Wednesday) a prominent member of parliament. They can kill three more, if they kill three more members we will lose the majority and this is their calculation so that the government of Saniora will fall down. We have got to resist and we are calling and will call for elections for the lost MP Walid Eido and for the other one, Pierre Gemayel (assassinated minister) Whatever the price is, we have to do it to not allow the Syrians to achieve their aims."

10. Top view of funeral procession

11. Mid of officials during funeral

12. Mid of Hezbollah MP bloc's flag

13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hussein Hajj Hassan, Hezbollah MP:

"We condemn the terror act which led to the killing of legislator Walid Eido, his son, two of his bodyguards and several Lebanese citizens. And we think that these crimes are taking place and are synchronised by the political exposure in the country. We think that the politicians are invited to find a political solution to the crisis in order to deal with all the disputed issues, as well as dealing with the security exposure. Some intelligence parties are getting benefits and committing these acts of terror and acting seditiously against the Lebanese."

14. Hezbollah and Lebanese flag

AP Television

15. Mid of Ghazi Aridi, Lebanese information minister

16. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ghazi Aridi, Lebanese information minister:

"Somebody is trying to say that neither the international tribunal nor anything else can secure the Lebanese or their leaders. We will keep resisting and we will face this series of terrorist acts."

POOL

17. Wide of crowd outside mosque

23. Spiritual leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim, Grand Mufti of the Republic Sheik Mohammed Rashid Kabbani leading prayers with Saad Hariri next to him and other men praying

24. Jumblatt seated

25. Young men crying over coffin

26. Men leaving mosque

27. Coffins being carried out of mosque

POOL

28. Coffins being carried out of mosque

29. People leaving mosque

30. Coffins being carried into cemetery

STORYLINE:

Tens of thousands bade farewell on Thursday to victims of a powerful car bombing that killed a prominent anti-Syrian legislator and nine others as the government - reeling from another blow targeting its supporters - sought international help.

The bomb ripped through Walid Eido's car on Wednesday as he drove from a seaside sports club, also killing his 35-year-old son, two bodyguards and six passers-by.

The funeral procession swelled to tens of thousands, escorting Eido's body and that of his son and a bodyguard behind ambulances covered with Lebanese flags.

It drove down the main thoroughfare of Corniche Mazraa in the Muslim sector, where pictures of the slain politicians were posted on walls and overpasses and Eido's widow waved to the crowds from a balcony.

Saad Hariri, leader of the anti-Syrian majority bloc in parliament to which Eido belonged to, Druse politician Walid Jumblatt and other prominent anti-Syrian leaders also marched in the procession.

Jumblatt, an anti-Syrian MP, said that if the Syrian regime kill three more MPs, "we will lose the majority and this is their calculation so that the government of Saniora will fall down."

"We have got to resist and we are calling and will call for elections for the lost MP Walid Eido and for the other one Pierre Gemayel (assassinated minister) whatever the price is, we have to do it to not allow the Syrians to achieve their aims," he said.

One Hezbollah MP, whose party is pro-Syrian, also condemned the killings.

"Some intelligence parties are getting benefits and committing these acts of terror and acting seditiously against the Lebanese," Hussein Hajj Hassan said.

The blast that killed Eido was a new blow to the stability of an already conflict-torn nation.

It came just three days after the government, together with the United Nations, started putting together an international tribunal ordered by the UN Security Council to try suspects in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut two years ago.

The tribunal has been strongly opposed by Syria and its allies in Lebanon.

"Somebody is trying to say that neither the international tribunal nor anything else can secure the Lebanese or their leaders. We will keep resisting and we will face this series of terrorist acts," Ghazi Aridi, the Lebanese information minister said.

Eido was a prominent supporter of the tribunal, a staunch follower of Hariri and the seventh anti-Syrian figure killed in Lebanon in the past two years.

Many in Lebanon have accused Syria of being behind the slayings, a claim Damascus denies.

Lebanon's majority coalition blamed Syria for Wednesday's assassination.

Syria controlled Lebanon for 29 years until it was forced out after Hariri's assassination, and its Lebanese opponents believe it is seeking to regain domination by plunging the country into chaos.

Businesses, schools and government offices were closed on Thursday after the government declared a day of national mourning.

The killings were likely to further enflame Lebanon's bitter power struggle between Saniora's Western-backed government and its Syrian-backed opponents, led by the Hezbollah militant group.

As the fighting in the north, pitting the Lebanese Army against Palestinian militants, with Palestinian refugees under siege, continues, many fear the violence there and in Beirut could push the polarised nation, with a fragile balance of ethnic and religious groups, into a new civil war.

SHOTLIST:

POOL

1. Mid of funeral procession with Saad Hariri, son of Rafik Hariri the slain former Lebanese prime minister raising his open palm to the crowds

2. Mid of banner with image of Walid Eido and his son

3. Mid of people waving Lebanese flags during procession

4. Wide of men walking along in funeral procession

5. Mid of Walid Jumblatt, Druse politician walking along in procession

6. Mid of funeral procession

AP Television

7. Mid of Ghazi Aridi, Lebanese information minister

8. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ghazi Aridi, Lebanese information minister:

"Somebody is trying to say that neither the international tribunal nor anything else can secure the Lebanese or their leaders. We will keep resisting and we will face this series of terrorist acts."

POOL

9. Wide crowd outside mosque

10. Jumblatt and other politicians shaking hands with officials inside mosque

11. Wide of crowd outside mosque

12. Tilt-up from coffins to men praying inside mosque

13. Wide pan across crowd outside mosque

14. Jumblatt seated

15. Spiritual leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim, Grand Mufti of the Republic Sheik Mohammed Rashid Kabbani leading prayers with Saad Hariri next to him and other men praying

16. Jumblatt seated

17. Young men crying over coffin

18. Men leaving mosque

19. Coffins being carried out of mosque

20. Zoom out from poster of Walid Eido and his son to wide of crowd outside mosque

STORYLINE:

Beirut on Thursday mourned the victims of a powerful car bombing that killed a prominent anti-Syrian legislator and nine other people as the government, reeling from another blow targeting its supporters, sought international help.

Prime Minister Fuad Saniora has called for an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers and the international community to assist in the investigation of Walid Eido's assassination near a popular waterfront promenade in Beirut.

The bomb ripped through his car on Wednesday as he drove from a seaside sports club, also killing his 35-year-old son, two bodyguards and six passers-by.

On Thursday the bodies of Eido and his son were slowly being taken in ambulances from the American University Hospital in West Beirut to the Verdun neighbourhood where the slain politician lived.

The funeral procession went through the main thoroughfare of Corniche Mazraa in the Muslim sector, where pictures of the slain politicians were posted on walls and overpasses.

Thousands of mourners gathered on the streets, waving Lebanese flags, those of the Hariri Future movement and banners of various Sunni factions.

"Somebody is trying to say that neither the international tribunal nor anything else can secure the Lebanese or their leaders. We will keep resisting and we will face this series of terrorist acts," Ghazi Aridi, the Lebanese information minister said.

Thursday's funeral procession swelled to tens of thousands escorting the coffins to a mosque at the Shohada Cemetery several kilometres (miles) away for a prayer service and internment.

Saad Hariri, leader of the anti-Syrian majority bloc in parliament to which Eido belonged to, Druse politician Walid Jumblatt and other prominent anti-Syrian leaders also marched in the procession.

At the mosque, male relatives sobbed and bent to kiss the coffins laid next to one another.

The spiritual leader of Lebanon's Sunni Muslim, Grand Mufti of the Republic Sheik Mohammed Rashid Kabbani led the prayers, with Saad Hariri at his side.

The blast that killed Eido was a new blow to the stability of this conflict-torn nation.

It came just three days after the government, together with the United Nations, started putting together an international tribunal ordered by the UN Security Council to try suspects in the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in Beirut two years ago, a move strongly opposed by Syria and its allies in Lebanon.

Eido was a prominent supporter of the tribunal, a staunch follower of Hariri and the seventh anti-Syrian figure killed in Lebanon in the past two years.

Many in Lebanon have accused Syria of being behind the slayings, a claim Damascus denies.

Lebanon's majority coalition blamed Syria for Wednesday's assassination.

Syria controlled Lebanon for 29 years until it was forced out after Hariri's assassination, and its Lebanese opponents believe it is seeking to regain domination by plunging the country into chaos.

Businesses, schools and government offices were closed on Thursday after the government declared a day of national mourning.

The killings were likely to further enflame Lebanon's bitter power struggle between Saniora's Western-backed government and its Syrian-backed opponents, led by the Hezbollah militant group.

Many fear the violence could push the polarised nation, with a fragile balance of ethnic and religious groups, into a new civil war.

A United Nations tribunal in The Hague will finally deliver verdicts this week in the case of four members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, accused of assassinating former prime minister Rafik Hariri more than 15 years ago.

The verdicts in The Hague are likely to raise tensions in Lebanon still further, a fortnight after the port explosion in Beirut.

Hariri was blown up by a truck bomb in the Lebanese capital in 2005, in an attack that killed a total of 22 people and injured several hundred others.

He was Lebanon's most prominent Sunni politician at the time and was seen as generally pro-Western, while Hezbollah is a Shiite movement backed by Iran.

The death of Hariri changed the face of Lebanese politics and split the country into two broad factions - one of them largely pro-Western, the other influenced heavily by Iran and Syria.

The killing triggered widespread street protests which eventually led to Syrian troops withdrawing from Lebanon, although Syria denied any role in his murder.

The UN tribunal was set up in 2007 under a Security Council resolution, and initially five suspects were tried in absentia in the case, all of them Hezbollah members.

One of the group's top military commanders, Mustafa Badreddine was killed in Syria in 2016.

The four remaining defendants are Salim Ayyash, also known as Abu Salim; Hassan Oneissi, who changed his name to Hassan Issa; Hassan Habib Merhi; and Assad Sabra.

They are charged with offenses including conspiracy to commit a terrorist act and face maximum sentences of life imprisonment if convicted.

Sentences will not be announced Tuesday but will be determined at later hearings.

But they are unlikely to serve any prison time: despite international arrest warrants, they still haven't been handed over to the court, and Hezbollah has vowed they never will be.

Even if they are all convicted, Hezbollah as a group will not officially be blamed as the tribunal only accuses individuals, not groups or states.

Marwan Hamadeh served under Hariri as economy minister, and was himself the target of a car bombing in 2004, a year before Hariri died.

Hamadeh survived, although one of his bodyguards was killed.

He said that even if no individual is brought to justice at the end of the tribunal hearing, the case will have succeeded in sending a message about the organisation or the country that ordered Hariri's death.

"It's going to say there is an organization in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East who has been, until now, using political murder as a way of putting countries under their control," he said.

The verdicts are expected to add to the current turmoil in Lebanon, still reeling after the Beirut port blast.

Lebanese officials believe the port explosion was caused by the accidental ignition of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate which was stored in a warehouse there.

While it remains unclear what caused the fire that led to the explosion, Hezbollah - which maintains huge influence over Lebanese politics - is being sucked into the public fury directed at the country's ruling class.

Beirut - 1 August 2020

1. Various of traffic on road where former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in 2005

2. Various of statue of Hariri

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Marwan Hamadeh, former economy minister who survived:

"It's going to be a great, great moment, not only for me as a victim but for me as a Lebanese, as an Arab and as an international citizen looking for justice everywhere. This is the first time a special tribunal has been created to focus and to investigate a case where a single assassination then developed into serial murders, has really completely turned over the fate of one country."

4. Glass plaque bearing Hariri's image in Hamadeh's office

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Marwan Hamadeh, Lebanese legislator and survivor of a political assassination:

"It's going to be a message, it's going to say there is an organization in Lebanon and elsewhere in the Middle East who has been, until now, using political murder as a way of putting countries under their control."

6. Close of Hamadeh's hands

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Marwan Hamadeh, Lebanese legislator and survivor of a political assassination:

"Beside the justice of men, there is a Godly justice and the major suspects - either Iranian, Syrian or Lebanese, who were involved in a way with the Hariri assassination - have evaporated (disappeared)."

8. Exterior of Al-Amin Mosque in Beirut

9. Closeup of mosque minarets, with tower of neighbouring St George's Cathedral on right

10. Various of Hariri's grave site

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Omar Nashabe, former consultant for the defense team in the Special Tribunal of Lebanon:

"This is the first international tribunal for terrorism and it was set up without the approval of the Lebanese parliament, whereas it relies on Lebanese law that actually criminalizes terrorism because there is no international consensus on how to define terrorism. So it did not get the approval of the local parliament and it was passed under chapter seven."

12. Books on wall of Nashabe's office

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Omar Nashabe, former consultant for the defense team in the Special Tribunal of Lebanon:

"There are no indications that there are any surprises that would actually be so radical and dramatic. I think the indictment that has been amended several times in the main case, the charges that are in the indictment will be most likely confirmed by the court. This will lead, later on, to perhaps and very likely that we will have an appeal so therefore it is not the end of the course."

ARCHIVE: Beirut - 14 February 2005

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15. Various of cars burning amid aftermath of bomb blast that killed Hariri

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LENGTH: 7.06

SHOTLIST:

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 2 January 2014

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1. Various of people crowding round the site of car bomb

2. Wide of the crowd being held back by police

3. Mid of soldiers arriving at the scene

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 16 January 2014

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4. Wide of people removing piece of cloth covering a billboard featuring image of former Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, words reading: (Arabic) "Time for Justice"

5. Close-up of digital clock showing number '1', counting the number of days the trial will take

6. Tilt-down from billboard to people gathered around sign

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 14 February 2005

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7. Various of Hariri assassination blast site with burnt out cars and emergency services attempting to control flames

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 8 March 2014

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8. Various of women marching

9. Mid of women holding posters outside the Lebanese parliament

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 6 April 2014

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10. Wide of Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam arriving at the Grand Serail

11. High shot of Salam and relatives sitting down and surrounded by the media

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tammam Salam, Lebanese Prime Minister:

"I am sure we will be able to put matters in the right perspective taking into consideration what our people, what the Lebanese, are looking forward to."

AP Television

Tripoli, Lebanon - 3 April 2014

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13. Pan across Syrian refugees at UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) registration centre

14. Tilt-up from Syrian refugee child Omar to his mother Bushra, who is the one millionth Syrian refugee to be registered in the region

15. Bushra and her children accompanied by UNHCR employee

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 12 November 2014

++16:9++

++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Maha Yahya, Carnegie Centre for Middle Eastern Studies:

"The challenge today is waking up to the realisation that this is a very protracted conflict. It's not going to end tomorrow. It's going to take some time. We don't know how long, but there is a large number of people who are not going home soon."

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 23 April 2014

++16:9++

17. Pan of lawmaker and former army commander, Michel Aoun, arriving at parliament

18. Pan of lawmaker and former Prime Minister, Fouad Saniora (right) arriving

19. Pan of presidential candidate Henry Helou (left) and lawmaker Akram Shohayeb arriving

Pool

Beirut, Lebanon - 23 April 2014

++4:3++

20. Various of lawmakers counting votes

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 19 November 2014

++16:9++

21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sami Nader, Middle East affairs analyst and Professor at Saint Joseph University, Beirut:

"The Lebanese missed the opportunity to elect a president 'Made In Lebanon' by May 25. After this, the problem now to get a solution you need kind of a regional consensus. You need a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, mainly. And this deal doesn't seem in (on) the horizon yet."

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 20 June 2014

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22. Wide of police standing outside the hotel in Hamra where suspects were arrested

23. Wide shot of the area where the suspects where arrested

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 25 June 2014

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24. Close-up of hotel room where a suicide bomber detonated his vest in the Savoy Hotel in Raouche, Beirut

25. Wide of first responders

26. Wide of tourists leaving the hotel on foot and answering questions from reporters

AP Television

Arsal, Lebanon - 6 August 2014

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27. Wide of smoke rising in mountain area above Arsal

28. Close-up shot of smoke rising

29. Various of army tanks pulling into Arsal

30. Various of ambulances driving into Arsal

31. Wide of soldiers riding in armoured vehicles

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 19 November 2014

++16:9++

32. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sami Nader, Middle East affairs analyst and Professor at Saint Joseph University, Beirut:

"This Arsal war showed how fragile is the situation in Lebanon. How the borders are not really controlled. And how much capabilities and support the Lebanese army need."

AP Television

Fnaydek, Lebanon - 3 September 2014

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33. Various of crowd carrying the coffin containing body of Lebanese soldier Sergeant Ali Sayid, moving towards mosque, AUDIO: gun fire

34. Poster showing Sayid

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 19 November 2014

++16:9++

35. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sami Nader, Middle East affairs analyst and Professor at Saint Joseph University, Beirut:

"The Lebanese army in a way was victim. Yes, the Lebanese army was isolated. It's the only remaining Lebanese institution. One has to keep in mind that we don't have a president, there is a void at the level of the presidency, the parliament is practically freezed, all what they have achieved is to prolong their own mandate, to extend their own mandate and the Lebanese government is really in a very fragile situation."

Future TV - No Access Lebanon

Tripoli, Lebanon - September 2014

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36. Wide of people waving Islamic State flags

37. Mid of Sheikh Khaled Hoblos speaking to the crowd

AP Television

Tripoli, Lebanon - 26 October 2014

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38. Wide of soldiers running

39. Wide shot of soldiers firing weapons

40. Various of families being evacuated

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 20 November 2014

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41. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nadim Houry, Human Rights Watch:

"There is a lot of speculation today about ISIS' strength in Lebanon. But at this stage there is no indication that ISIS is going to seep through Tripoli tomorrow and control the city. Quite the contrary. I mean we saw that the army was actually able to beat back many of these groups and that actually many of these groups, while they may be Islamist, are not necessarily affiliated with ISIS."

AP Television

Brital, Lebanon - 10 September 2014

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42. Various of Syrian tents burnt to the ground

43. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Khaled Darwish, 11-year-old Syrian refugee:

"When we returned, we found that the tents were all burnt and black and I found all my toys burnt. Everything was burnt. Even my bicycle was burnt. All my toys and my ball."

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 15 December 2014

44. High shot of Wahda al-Sayyed, wife of kidnapped soldier Khaled Moqbel, pouring gasoline on tyres in street

45. Police trying to move al-Sayyed away, but she throws lighted paper to set tyres on fire

46. Wide of tyres burning

47. Soldier guarding the scene

48. Pan right of pictures of captured soldiers and police officers on a billboard

49. Wide of photos next to tents where relatives of the kidnapped are protesting

AP Television

Beirut, Lebanon - 26 November 2014

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50. Wide of memorial to mark the death of Lebanese singer Sabah

51. Close-up of photograph of Sabah

52. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Lina Fghali Maalouf, Relative of Sabah:

"The people have lost a column from Baalbek's ancient ruins."

53. Mid of friends hugging in grief

54. Pull focus of decoration

LEADIN:

2014 has been a tumultuous year for Lebanon, as Syria's civil war continued to spill over into the country.

From managing one million refugees, to suicide bombings and clashes between government forces and Islamic militants, the past year has been a challenging one.

STORYLINE:

January 2nd, just two days into the new year and a deadly car bomb shakes the Beirut suburb Haret Hreik - known for being a Hezbollah stronghold.

The attack kills five people, wounds dozens more and raises fears that the country is being pulled in opposite directions by sectarian tension.

January also signals the start of the long-awaited trial over the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri - nine years after his death.

From The Hague, in the Netherlands, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) will try five suspects, all tied to Hezbollah, for Hariri's death.

There are still many questions to answer, not least the whereabouts of the five suspects - they've not been caught and are being tried in absentia.

In February, ten months after becoming prime minister, Tammam Salam finally forms a government.

Salam's 24-member national unity Cabinet includes members of the Western-backed coalition as well as those of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group and its allies.

"I am sure we will be able to put matters in the right perspective taking into consideration what our people, what the Lebanese, are looking forward to," he says at the time.

Many hundreds of women and activists march to Lebanon's parliament to show their support for victims of domestic violence to mark International Women's Day on 8 March.

Several high profile cases of domestic murders hit the headlines in 2014.

This year, the first Lebanese law against domestic violence was passed, offering Lebanese women some protection from abuse.

April 3rd is something of a milestone in the country.

Three years after the beginning of the Syrian conflict, Lebanon saw the one millionth Syrian to be registered as a refugee.

Almost one in four people in Lebanon are now refugees from neighbouring Syria.

"The challenge today is waking up to the realisation that this is a very protracted conflict. It's not going to end tomorrow. It's going to take some time. We don't know how long but there is a large number of people who are not going home soon. So their needs need to be addressed very quickly before it explodes in all of our faces," says Maha Yahya, from the Carnegie Centre for Middle Eastern Studies.

The country's infrastructure - from schools and hospitals to rubbish collection - remains over burdened, with some communities now imposing restrictions on refugee numbers.

In May, President Michel Suleiman left office, leaving behind an empty seat after parliament failed to elect his successor. The 25 May deadline passes, but no replacement is found.

"The Lebanese missed the opportunity to elect a president 'Made In Lebanon' by May 25," explains political analyst Sami Nader.

"After this, the problem now to get a solution you need kind of a regional consensus. You need a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia, mainly. And this deal doesn't seem on the horizon yet."

A candidate must secure at least a two thirds majority in the 128-member parliament to become president.

Despite holding parliamentary meetings throughout the year to try and solve the issue - to this day the position remains unfilled.

In June and July the country is once again on high alert after a series of suicide bombings.

Suspects arrested in Hamra in June are believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State group and are said to have been planning an attack against the Speaker of Parliament, Nabi Berri.

Days later, flames engulf part of the four-star Duroy Hotel by Beirut's corniche after a suicide bomber blows himself up during a police raid on his room.

The suicide bomber was a Saudi national. His collaborator, also Saudi. This adds to the strain between Lebanon and the Gulf states.

The boldest incursion of jihadi fighters into Lebanese territory comes in August, when militants launch an offensive on the Syrian-Lebanese border town of Arsal.

The army regains control of the area, but locals and Syrian refugees, who have already fled the neighbouring civil war, are displaced once again.

In early August it's reported that 20 soldiers and policemen have been taken hostage by the militants.

"This Arsal war showed how fragile is the situation in Lebanon. How the borders are not really controlled. And how much capabilities and support the Lebanese army need," says Nader.

On 28 August, social media starts to report that one of the captives, soldier Ali Sayid, has been beheaded.

Massive crowds attend his funeral on 3rd September in Fnaydek.

A few days later the group says it has beheaded a second soldier, 20-year-old Abbas Medlej - sparking fears for the other hostages held by the group.

"The Lebanese army in the way was victim," says Nader.

"Yes, the Lebanese army was isolated. It's the only remaining Lebanese institution. One has to keep in mind that we don't have a president, there is a void at the level of the presidency, the parliament is practically freezed, all what they have achieved was to prolong their own mandate, to extend their own mandate and the Lebanese government is really in a very fragile situation."

The country's sectarian crisis comes to a head in October when fighting between government forces and gunmen erupts in Tripoli.

The city has become a hot bed for Islamic militants with firebrand clerics like Sheikh Khaled Hoblos openly preaching in the streets.

Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch, appeals for calm.

"There is a lot of speculation today about ISIS' strength in Lebanon. But at this stage there is no indication that ISIS is going to seep through Tripoli tomorrow and control the city. Quite the contrary."

"I mean we saw that the army was actually able to beat back many of these groups and that actually many of these groups, and that although many of these groups while they may be Islamist, are not necessarily affiliated with ISIS. But almost, that sort of the issue here is, I think the main challenge is ISIS is able to frame the terms of the debate in many countries.

"And what is needed in Lebanon are pre-emptive strategies to undercut the potential implementation, or growth of ISIS movements."

The four day gun battle claims 20 lives as the army slowly regains control of Tripoli's Bab al-Tabbaneh neighbourhood - though the gang leaders they're hunting escape.

After three years of accepting Syrian refugees into the country, Lebanon has had enough.

On 18 October, it's reported that officials have closed the border between the two countries, despite pressure from the UN to keep it open.

According to official numbers, more than 1.2 million Syrian refugees now live in Lebanon - representing more than 20 percent of the population.

Refugees also appear to be targeted by disgruntled Lebanese citizens.

Eleven-year-old Khaled Darwish came back to his tent to find it burned to the ground.

"When we returned, we found that the tents were all burnt and black and I found all my toys burnt. Everything was burnt. Even my bicycle was burnt. All my toys and my ball," he says.

As the year draws to a close, the soldiers and police officers held hostage by Islamic militants, are no closer to being released.

The families of the hostages continue to protest, their anger now aimed at the government who they say haven't done enough.

Four soldiers have so far been executed by their captors.

The 26 November, saw the passing of one of the country's legendary singers.

Lebanese diva Sabah, died aged 87.

Mourners pay tribute to her incredible musical talent, provocative charm and huge heart.

As relative Lina Fghali Maalouf says, "The people have lost a column from Baalbek's ancient ruins."

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SHOTLIST

1. 'An-Nahar' newspaper building with big poster of Gibran Tueni on side

2. Close up on poster

3. People marching

4. Protesters shouting slogans

5. Various of demonstration, flag waving people

6. Various of closed shops, banks and schools

7. Various of security forces on the streets

8. Newspapers on sale

9. Various of newspapers

10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Vox pop:

"We ask for a firm decision about the Syrians and we call to impose sanctions on them and even change the regime. This regime looks very criminal, we cannot reach an understanding with them."

11. Various of mourning signs in Sassine Place in Ashrafieh (area of Beirut which Tueni represented in parliament), pictures of Tueni and Lebanese flags

12. Cars driving through the street with Tueni posters, part of funeral procession

13. Various of funeral procession, coffins (of Tueni and his two bodyguards) draped in Lebanese flags being taken through Sassine

14. Atef Majdalani, MP from Hariri bloc in parliament, reading newspaper

15. Cutaway photo of Atef Majdalani and former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri

16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Atef Majdalani, MP from Hariri bloc in Lebanese parliament:

"We call on the international community to stop these terrorist operations, these crimes and these assassinations that are being carried out by totalitarian regimes, by dictatorial and oppressive regimes."

17. Various of funeral, crowd holding signs and waving Lebanese flags

STORYLINE:

Thousands of flag-waving Lebanese - both Christian and Muslim - bid farewell on Wednesday to murdered newspaper editor Gibran Tueni.

The mass turn-out demonstrated the level of anger felt towards Syria, which has been blamed for the Monday car bombing which killed Tueni.

A general strike called in mourning for Tueni was widely respected with banks, businesses and schools closing their doors for the day.

Hundreds of Lebanese troops and police took up position in a central square where, on March 14, about a million people heard Tueni call for the withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon.

An outspoken critic of Syria, Tueni was killed by a car bomb on Monday as he was being driven to work through an industrial suburb of Beirut.

The 48-year old was the fourth anti-Syrian figure to be killed since February.

The series of bombings began with the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was killed in a truck bombing.

A previously unknown group has claimed responsibility for the blast that killed Tueni and two bodyguards, and wounded 30 other people.

But Tueni's colleagues and political allies have blamed Syria, which has denied involvement.

In the Beirut district of Ashrafieh, which Tueni represented in parliament, several thousand people marched behind his coffin and those of his bodyguards.

Others waited outside An-Nahar's offices in the city centre, where a giant portrait of Tueni hung down the side of the building.

Men, women and children - including families and political activists - waved Lebanese flags and held pictures of Tueni.

Many shouted slogans against Syria and its President Bashar Assad.

The strike that anti-Syrian groups had called in mourning for Tueni was observed not only in Beirut, but also in the southern provincial capital of Sidon and in the mountains of central Lebanon.

But in eastern Lebanon, where pro-Syrian groups are dominant, the strike call was ignored.

Opponents of Syrian influence in Lebanon are counting on the public anger over Tueni's killing to bolster their cause and close ranks in the face of what they see as a Syrian threat to pick off their leaders one by one.

Meantime, on Tuesday the chief U.N. investigator into the Hariri assassination, German magistrate Detlev Mehlis, told the U.N. Security Council that the latest evidence strengthened his belief that Syrian and Lebanese intelligence officials were involved in the murder.

Mehlis had interviewed Tueni as a witness.

Hariri's death in February sparked mass protests and intensified international pressure which forced Syria to withdraw its army from Lebanon after nearly three decades of political and military control.

Syria has denied involvement in Hariri's killing.

France circulated a resolution in the Security Council co-sponsored by Britain and the United States, which would broaden the scope of the U.N. investigation to include all the attacks in Lebanon since October 1, 2004.

The draft resolution seemed to deflect the Lebanese government's request for an inquiry into Tueni's killing and an international tribunal for the suspected killers of Hariri.

SHOTLIST

Beirut

1. Various of car wreckage of Tueini

2. Various of aftermath of explosion

3. Wide exterior of the Grand Serail

4. Close-up of Lebanese flag

5. Wide interior of the High Security council meeting

4. Mid shot of Lebanese Prime-Minister Fuad Saniora

5. Various of council's meeting

Beirut

6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fuad Saniora, Lebanese Prime-Minister:

"We will not surrender, we will not surrender. The criminals continue to kill us one after the other. We will not surrender whatever is the price."

7. Cutaway cameramen

8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Fuad Saniora, Lebanese Prime-Minister:

"This hideous crime occurs while Judge Detlev Mehlis presents his report, with whatever indications and significance it has especially after what has been recently said as declarations and threats that are very clear."

9. Wide of news conference

10. Various of Saniora meeting ambassadors

Beirut

10. Sit-in in Christian Ashrafieh neighbourhood (central Beirut)

11. Various of sit-in

12. Man holding poster of journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueini

13. More of sit-in

14. Security forces

Damascus

15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mehdi Dakhlallah, Syrian Information Minister:

"Actually I think Lebanon's enemies are responsible for all these explosions that are happening nowadays. No matter how the relationship between Syria and Lebanon is, or what in JebranTueni's attitude towards Syria was and what he announced. Syria condemns the killing of Gobrin Tueni, Syria totally refuses these charges because it is against Syrian policy and manners."

16. Street scene

STORYLINE:

Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Monday he will ask the United Nations to set up a new inquiry into anti-Syrian journalist and MP Gibran Tueni's slaying and previous bombings and to create an international tribunal to try suspects in the Hariri assassination.

"The criminals continue to kill us one after the other. We will not surrender whatever is the price," Saniora said.

A previously unknown group, "Strugglers for the unity and freedom in the Levant," claimed responsibility for the blast, but many quickly implicated Damascus in the slaying.

The statement's authenticity could not be independently confirmed.

The bombing came the day that the U.N. Security Council received a U.N. inquiry's report into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

New evidence has only reinforced investigators' belief that the Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services were likely involved in the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, a U.N. probe said in the new report Monday.

The 25-page report from German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis' team again accused Syria of trying to obstruct his probe when it demanded that he revise his findings after a crucial witness recanted his testimony.

Mehlis will brief the council on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, in the Christian quarter of Ashrafieh, Tueni's constituency, orthodox churches tolled their bells. Dozens of Tueni supporters held a sit-in to mark the death of the lawmaker.

Police said Tueni was one of three people killed when a car bomb exploded as his motorcade drove through the hilly industrial suburb of Mkalles.

The others were his driver and an unidentified passerby. Another 30 people were wounded in the bombing, which started a fire that destroyed at least 10 vehicles.

Tueni, 48, who had championed the U.N. investigation into Hariri's killing, had returned only Sunday from France, where he had been staying periodically for fear of assassination.

The U.N. inquiry reported in October that Syrian and Lebanese intelligence officials were implicated in Hariri's death.

Syrian Information Minister Mehdi Dakhlallah denied his government was involved in the killing.

After Hariri's death, Tueni played a prominent role in the leadership of the mass demonstrations that, combined with international pressure, succeeded in forcing Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon in April, ending a 29-year presence in the country.

SHOTLIST:

1. Mid shot wreckage on ground, men including soldiers standing around

2. Close of officials talking to troops

3. Mid shot machine gun on road by UN vehicle

4. Various officials talking to troops

5. Tilt down from troops to machine gun

6. Various UN armoured personnel carriers (APC)

7. Mid shot tank, ambulance pulls up in background

8. Crowd around man seated on ground

9. Mid of APC

STORYLINE:

At least five French peacekeepers were injured on Tuesday when a roadside bomb blew up next to a United Nations convoy in which they were travelling in south Lebanon.

The bomb went off at the southern entrance of the port city of Sidon as a UN convoy with several vehicles was passing by.

It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack.

However political tensions are rising in Lebanon over a UN-backed tribunal's indictment last month of four Hezbollah members in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

UN peacekeepers have been deployed in southern Lebanon since 1978 to monitor the border with Israel.

The force was boosted after Israel and Hezbollah fought a war in 2006 and now numbers are close to 12 thousand.

There was a similar attack about two months ago, when a roadside bomb ripped through a UN convoy carrying Italian peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, wounding six.

The May the 28th attack was the first since 2008.

UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) spokesman Neeraj Singh said five peacekeepers were injured in Tuesday's bombing and three were taken to hospital.

He did not say what nationality they were, but Lebanese security officials said they were French.

French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said six French peacekeepers had been wounded.

In a statement, Juppe said he condemned the attack and demanded that Lebanese authorities do everything possible to bring those responsible to justice.

The discrepancy in casualty numbers could not be immediately reconciled.

Meanwhile Prime Minister Najib Mikati denounced the bombing and ordered an immediate investigation, his office said.

No group has admitted the attack.

APTN INSTANT LIBRARY - WORLD NEWS REVIEW 2005

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IRAQ CHRONOLOGY

10:00:20

438230

AP Television News

Harithiya, western neighbourhood of Baghdad - 3 January 2005

Top shot of the area where the car bomb exploded near Allawi's residence

Policemen and ambulance at scene

Beiji, north of Baghdad - 3 January 2005

Various shots of thick smoke from burning oil pipeline

438256

AP Television News

Al-Qadissiyah neighbourhood, Baghdad - 3 January 2005

Various Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) on fire with US soldiers nearby

US armoured vehicle at scene

US Humvee driving past burning vehicle

438331

AP Television News

Baghdad, Iraq - 4 January 2005

Various of scene after the attack

Various of damaged car with blood stains

438409

AP Television News

Baghdad - 5 January 2005

Coffin of Governor Ali al-Haidari passing as it is carried in procession along street, with a relative carrying framed photo of al-Hadari

439335

AP Television News

Najaf - 14 December 2005

Black banner condemning the assassination of Sheikh Mohammed Finjan

Various shots of funeral procession with four coffins

439399

AP Television News

Basra - 15 January 2005

Various shots of demonstrators carrying lanterns, calling for fuel, electricity and gas

10:01:43

439723

AP Television News

Baghdad - 19 January 2005

Various of men reading newspapers on sidewalk after publication of photographs

440525

Pool

Baghdad - January 29, 2005

US helicopter flying overhead

Various shots of US military vehicles driving along empty street

Iraqi National Guards searching car at checkpoint

Man being searched by guards

AP Television News

Sadr City - January 29, 2005

Iraqi troops guarding polling centre

440581

Pool

Baghdad -30 January 2005

Interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer voting

SOUNDBITE (English) Ghazi al-Yawer, interim Iraqi President: " This will be our first step to joining the free world and being a democracy that Iraqis will be proud of.

" Abdul aziz Al-Hakim, Shiite cleric and leader of the key Shiite political organisation, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, voting

440624

AP Television News

Baghdad - 30 January 2005

Long queue of people waiting to vote, man being searched

Old woman casting vote

Voter looking at ballot paper

AP Television News

Salihiyah neighbourhood, Baghdad - 30 January 2005

Various of masked Iraqi soldier dancing in street

Agency Pool - 30 January 2005

Sadr City, Baghdad

Woman leaving polling station shouting: (Arabic) "This is the day of victory!"

UK Pool - No Access UK

Basra - 30 January 2005

Various of woman voting

Man walking through street draped in Iraqi flag

Agency Pool

Kirkuk - 30 January 2005

Men dancing and waving Kurdish flags

440724

Agency pool

Basra - 31 January 2005

Various of British soldiers dancing and singing with Iraqis at a Basra checkpoint

Agency Pool

Basra - 31 January 2005

Election official opening ballot box

Ballot papers being poured onto table

Wide of election officials counting ballot papers

Agency pool

Basra, 30 January 2005

Wide of Iraqi soldiers in street

Iraqi soldier taking aim, UPSOUND of gunfire

Various of Iraqi soldiers in street, UPSOUND of gunfire

Pool

Baghdad, 31 January 2005

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ayad Allawi, Iraqi interim Prime Minister:

"Today we are entering a new phase in our history and it is a time for all Iraqis to come together to build our future. Those who voted, those who didn't vote."

10:04:28

Iraq in February

440760

Baghdad - 1 February 2005

Wide shot of blindfolded captives seated at table with captured weapons

Various captured men with weapons in front of them on table

440989

Kirkuk - 3 February 2005

Wreckage from bomb

Soldier soldier at scene

Pan of flag covered bodies in truck

441096

Rome, 4 February 2005

Various interiors of newsroom

STILL of kidnapped journalist Giuliana Sgrena

441388

AP Television News

Baghdad - 8 February 2005

Mid shot of released hostages at Egyptian embassy

Wide of two of the released hostages

441770

AP Television News

Basra - 12 February 2005

Wide shot of the scene where judge Taha al-Amiri was killed, police car

Close up of policeman holding bullet shell

441775

AP Television News

Basra - 12 February 2005

Al-Amiri's coffin on roof of car

442286

AP Television News

Baghdad - 17 February 2005

Wide shot of the news conference

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Hussein Hindawi, Head of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq:

"In accordance with its legal responsibility, the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq has organised and supervised the elections held on January 30 according to Iraq's administrative law of the transitional stage. The elections were aimed to elect a National Assembly, the Kurdistani National Assembly and provincial council for 18 Iraqi provinces."

Wide shot of news conference

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hamdiya al-Husseini, Independent Electoral Commission official:

"First, the United Iraqi Alliance: 140 seats. Second, the Kurdistan Alliance: 75 seats. Third, the Iraqi List: 40 seats. Fourth, Iraqis: five seats."

441830

AP Television News

Various - File

Close shot of Jalal al-Talabani, Head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan

Ayad Allawi Interim Prime Minister, Head of Iraqi National Accord shaking hands with officials

Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Interim Vice-President and Head of Dawa party

Various of Massoud Barazani, Leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party

Various of Ahmad Chalabi Head of the Iraqi National Congress

443235

AP Television News

Hilla - 28 February 2005

Wide shot of scene of suicide car bomb attack on crowd of recruits, residents at scene

Wreckage of attacker's car

Various shots of people looking for remains of those killed in suicide bombing

Wall stained with blood

10:07:22

Iraq in March

444141

AP Television News

Central Baghdad - 10 March 2005

US soldiers at scene of attack on car carrying Baghdad district police chief Ahmed Abeis

Bullet holes in windscreen

Bullet holes in body of pick-up truck

Various of damage to pick-up truck

444691

Baghdad -16 March 2005

AP Television News

US soldiers in street

Pool

Interiors of convention centre

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheikh Ghazi Al-Yawer, Interim President:

"We have to know that there are no winners or losers among us. We either all win or we all lose. Let's unify our goals, irrespective of the means."

Wide of podium

Members of National Assembly rising to take oath

445835

Iraq Assembly 3

AP Television News

Baghdad - 29 March 2005

UPSOUND: (Arabic) Shatha al-Mousawi, Female Assembly Member:

"I would like an explanation as to why you don't have a result so far."

Wide shot of meeting room UPSOUND: (Arabic) Dari al-Fayadh, acting Speaker of National Assembly:

"Now I call upon the media to leave as we will now have a closed door session."

COLOUR BARS

10:09:12

Iraq in April

446816

AP Television News

Baghdad - 7 April 2005

Newspapers

Newspaper headline reading: "Today: al-Jaafari to be named as Prime Minister"

FILE: Various locations and dates

Various of Ibrahim al-Jaafari

446858

AP Television News

Baqouba - 7 April 2005

US Humvees with white smoke rising from an attack with a roadside bomb attack

US troops with Humvees blocking main street

Tikrit - 7 April 2005

Various of wreckage of car bomb attack that injured three Iraqi policeman.

Close-up of car bomb engine

446860

AP Television News

Baghdad, 7 April 2005

Ibrahim al-Jaafari (with beard) shaking hands with lawmaker

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Jalal Talabani, Kurdish leader, Swearing in as Interim President:

"I swear by God that I'll sincerely perform my tasks and legal responsibilities and I work for maintaining the general and private freedoms and the independence of judiciary and I'll commit by putting into force legislations honestly and sincerely, God may witness."

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ghazi al-Yawer, Sunni Arab leader, Swearing in as Vice President:

"I swear by God that I will sincerely perform my duties and legal responsibilities

Iraqi flags

447162

AP Television News

Baqouba, 11 April 2005

Wide shot of demonstrators chanting anti-America slogan

Banner reading "No to occupation - Yes to independence"

Demonstrators burning American flag

447358

AP Television News

Baghdad - 13 April 2005

Various of plume of thick smoke

Various of plume of black smoke and fire

Various of fireballs smouldering from burning oil tanker

448277

AP Television News

Baghdad - 22 April 2005

Pan down from minaret tower to destroyed wall

Various of people at scene of blast, collapsed wall, people moving rubble

Pan interior shot of mosque, shattered glass on carpet

Various of smouldering mini-bus

10:11:56

Iraq in May

448973

Pool

Near Samawa - April 2005

Outgoing Iraqi Minister for Human Rights, Bakhtiar Amin, and Regime Crimes Liaison (RCL) officer walking with reporters through mass grave site

Close-up skull in ground

Various RCL officers working on small area with more than 80 skeletons

Close-up skulls and clothing

449096

AP Television News

Mari area, Diwaniyah Province - 1 May 2005

Residents digging, exhuming remains

Close-up skeletal remains, skull

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yaha al-Kasir, human rights activist:

"These graveyards are in Shanafiyah, at the Mari area near Diwanyah province. This site contains 19 graves. It contains thousands of Shiites and Sunnis."

450576

Pool

Baghdad - 17 May 2005

Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazzi hugging Iraqi president Jalal Talabani

Various talks between Kharazzi and Talabani

450955

AP Television News

Kut - 22 May 2005

Wide shot of exterior of court

Various of the interior of the court, with audience carrying banners reading: "The minimum sentence for them is the death penalty"

Three Iraqi convicts standing near the court bench

Three convicts standing, overlaid with UPSOUND (Arabic) Judge reading sentence:

"The court has sentenced Bayan Ahmed Saeed ,Odai Dawood Salman and Dhaher Jassim to the death penalty, according to item number 406/1 ab."

10:13:20

Iraq in June

451904

AP Television News

Shamiyah - 1 June 2005

A'jil al-Sharqiyah village, Shamiyah district southwest of Baghdad, June 1, 2005

Night shots

Group of soldiers in doorway - detachment moves into house

Soldier stands over women and children during search

Soldiers searching house

Soldiers with suspects

452959

Iraqi Special Tribunal

Unknown location and date

(Mute)

Close up Saddam Hussein talking

Pull out member of court

Medium of Saddam seated, another man in background

453177

Iraqi Special Tribunal

Unknown location and date

Wide of man wearing white garment sitting on a chair, as person off camera asks for his name, UPSOUND (Arabic) "Sab'awi Ibrahim al-Hassan, Saddam's brother-in-law."

454278

Iraqi Special Tribunal

Unknown location and date

Saber Abdulaziz Al-Douri seated

Iraqi flag

Tariq Aziz seated, saying "I was Foreign Minister in 1991, and Prime Minister"

454422

AP Television News

Rashidiya - 29 June 2005

Various of crowd carrying coffins of Iraqi MP Sheikh Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, his son and two of his bodyguards who were killed in a suicide bombing on Tuesday

Various of funeral procession with mourners holding up their guns and chanting

10:14:57

Iraq in July

456169

AP Television News

Tehran, Iran - 16 July 2005

Various of al-Jaafari and Aref at reception ceremony

Al-Jaafari and Aref giving news conference

Close up of Aref

Close up of al-Jaafari

456270

AP Television News

Tehran - 18 July 2005

Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iraqi Prime Minister and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Iran's President-elect in talks

456206

AP Television News

Mussayib - 17 July 2005

Various of damaged vehicles at bomb scene

456232

Pool

FILE: Baghdad - 1 July 2004

Close up Saddam Hussein talking in interrogation video

AP Television News

Baghdad - 17 July 2005

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Judge Raid Juhi, chief judge of the Iraq Special Tribunal:

"With the completion of the investigative procedures, the accused Saddam Hussein Majid, Barazan Ibrahim al-Hasan, Taha Yassin Ramadan, Awad Hamed al-Bandarand, and others deemed to be their accomplices, have been indicted to be tried by the Trial Chamber under clauses (1), (4), (6) and (9) of Article 12 (a) of the Statute of the Iraqi Special Tribunal, which deal with crimes against humanity, and in accordance with Article 15 of the Statute. With this announcement, the IST has raised this historical trial to a new level on the basis of legal evidence as the Trial Chamber judges will determine the date of the beginning of the trials in the next few days."

Pool

FILE: Baghdad - 1 July 2004

Wide shot Saddam Hussein being interrogated by Judge Juhi

10:16:49

Iraq in August

459530

AP Television News

Basra - 23 August 2005

Wide shot of South Oil Company

Sign reading "South Oil Company"

Various of fire from oil refinery

Man closing oil production lines

460039

AP Television News

Tikrit - 29 August 2005

Demonstrators marching and applauding

Demonstrators marching and chanting

Demonstrator holding picture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and chanting pro-Islam slogans

460133

AP Television News

Ramadi - 30 August 2005

Demonstrators carrying pictures of Moqtada al-Sadr (Shiite cleric) his father and former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein chanting (in Arabic) "No to the constitution."

Pictures and placards reading (in Arabic) "No to federalism."

Kut - 29 August 2005

Wide shot of pro-constitution demonstration

Demonstrators carrying pictures of Shiite clerics Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, chanting pro-constitution slogans

460202

AP Television News

Baghdad - 31 August 2005

Various of crowds of pilgrims heading to the holy Imam Mousa al-Kadim shrine

Various of pilgrims carrying coffin covered in green and gold cloth symbolising the "Imam Kadhim"

People in river retrieving bodies and lost items

Pilgrims on the bridge where the railing collapsed

460245

Baghdad - 31 August 2005

Close-up of pilgrims' shoes on bridge Al-A'imma, tilt up to people walking past

10:18:17

Iraq in September

461415

Tal Afar - 12 September 2005

AP Television News

Row of Iraqi soldiers armed with Kalashnikovs walking by a wall and raiding a house

More Iraqi soldiers running in a road and taking position in a nearby house

Wide interior of suspected insurgents, blindfolded and sitting in the ground, surrounded by Iraqi soldiers

461622

AP Television News

Kazimiyah district, Baghdad - 14 September 2005

Various of emergency services at scene

Shula district, Baghdad - 14 September 2005

Zoom in to burnt out car

Debris at scene with Iraqi police and soldiers

Alawi al-Hillah neighbourhood, Baghdad - 14 September 2005

Plume of black smoke rising from skyline

Various shots of burnt out and upturned vehicles under bridge

462191

AP Television News

Basra - 20 September 2005

Wide shot of wrecked trailers outside prison

Wide shot of hole in wall where armoured personnel carrier forced its way into prison

Flattened police car outside prison

Police standing in group next to damaged trailer

Various of car wreckage

Soldiers standing next to damaged jeep on side of road

462636

AP Television News

Baghdad - 25 September 2005

Wide of street where ambush took place with policemen standing guard

Medium of the bank vehicle that was carrying the money

Wide of the targeted vehicle

10:19:44

Iraq in October

464200

AP Television News

Baghdad - 12 October 2005

Wide shot of National Assembly

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Head of the Islamic Supreme Council:

"Today it was a day where consensus was reached between the main and the important parties of the Iraqi people. Consensus has been reached today which led to the launch of the Constitution draft which is now in the hands of the great Iraqi nation."

464442

US Pool

Baghdad - 15 October 2005

++Audio as incoming++

Talabani casting his vote

Ibrahim al-Jaafari voting

464803

Pool

Baghdad - 19 October 2005

Saddam Hussein being brought to the box

Judge smiling

UPSOUND (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi President:

"I do not respond to this so-called court, with all due respect to its people, and I retain my constitutional right as the president of Iraq. Neither do I recognize the body that has designated and authorised you, nor the aggression because all that has been built on a false basis is false."

465289

AP Television News

Baghdad - 24 October 2005

++Mute++

Wide of square near Palestine hotel showing truck coming under fire (bottom right)

Explosion going off

Big ball of flame covering screen

Smoke rising

465295

AP Television News

Baghdad - 24 October 2005

Journalists walking and running through corridor of hotel, corridors smoky with dust from blast, another blast occurs

Injured journalist assisted

465296

AP Television News

Baghdad - 24 October 2005

Various of square, with audio of ambulances and gunfire

SECOND explosion going off

465319

AP Television News

Baghdad - 24 October 2005

Wide of Firdous square with cars driving round

Two white cars approach wall surrounding Palestine Hotel at front of screen, second car stops momentarily, then explodes (time code on screen 17:21:09)

465330

AP Television News

Baghdad, 24 October 2005

Damage to hotel entrance

Fallen 'Reception' sign

Various of serious damage to hotel

465410

AP Television News

Internet - 25 October 2005

Pan down website

Mid shot of web page

POPE

10:23:02

Death of Pope John Paul II

446294

AP Television News

Gemelli Polyclinic hospital, Rome - 6 February 2005

People standing outside hospital looking up at pope's window

Pope John Paul II appearing at hospital window, waving

AP Television News

Vatican - 6 February 2005

Popemobile driving into Vatican

AP Television News

Rome - 13 March 2005

Wide of Pope reading at the window

UPSOUND (Italian) Pope John Paul II:

"Dear brothers and sisters, thank you for your visit. Greetings to the people of Wadowice" (this was the last time he was heard to speak clearly in public)

AP Television News

Vatican - March 27, 2005

Pope John Paul trying to speak, giving signs of the cross

Young woman in tears

Pope disappears from window

446307

AP Television News

Vatican - 2 April 2005

SOUNDBITE: (English) Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Papal spokesman:

"The Holy Father John Paul II died this evening at 9:37 pm (1937GMT) in his private apartment. "

Wide pan of Saint Peter's square, zoom in on bells tolling in Saint Peter's basilica

446396

AP Television News

Vatican City - 3 March 2005

6. Bishop with pope

12. Pope lying in state, Swiss guard in background

13. Tilt down from ornate mantelpiece to pope with Swiss guards standing at either side

TERRORISM

10:24:49

Spain and ETA

441496

AP Television News

Madrid - 9 February 2005

Pan to damaged building

Close up damaged facade with workers clearing up debris from broken windows

Cordoned building

Close up debris on floor

Close up broken windows

Pull out from workers on crane to wide of scene

10:25:27

Egypt Bombs

456784

AP Television News

Sharm el-Sheik - 23 July 2005

Various shots of damaged Ghazala Gardens hotel

Various shots of scene at the Ghazala Gardens Hotel

Hotel sign

Various shots of people picking through damage

456816

AP Television News

Sharm el-Sheik - 23 July 2005

Amateur video slow-motion wise shot of scene of blast (Mute)

10:26:34

UK London Bombs

455263

AP Television News

Russell Square - 7 July 2005

Wide of police motorbike traveling towards bus at Russell Square blast scene

Various of scene with police

Men in white crime scene jump suits at scene

455241

AP Television News

Singapore - 7 July 2005

SOUNDBITE (English ) Ken Livingston, Mayor of London:

"This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers. It was aimed at ordinary working class Londoners. Black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old.

455282

AP Television News

London - 7 July 2005

Various of people walking near Aldgate train station, streets blocked off by police

455401

AP Television News

London - July 2005

Various pictures of missing people posted at King's Cross station

Flowers outside King's Cross Station

455464

AP Television News

London - 7 July 2005

Young woman taping poster of missing person to lamppost

456627

AP Television News

London - 7 July 2005

Mid shot of police around cordoned off area at Warren Street tube station

10:27:41

Indonesia Bali Bombs

463181

AP Television News

Jimbaran Beach, Bali - 1 October 2005

Various shots of bomb damaged Raja restaurant

Various shots outside Raja restaurant

463185

AP Television News

Jimbaran Beach, Bali - 1 October 2005

Restaurant sign, pan down to inside of restaurant

463190

AP Television News

Jimbaran Beach, Bali - 1 October 2005

Various interiors of Nyoman café where bomb detonated

463201

AP Television News

Kuta, Bali - 2 October 2005

Various shots of broken windows and glass on streets

463201

AP Television News

Jimbaran Beach - 2 October 2005

Wide shot of police tape across beach where blasts occurred

Tables and chairs knocked over by blast at cafes

10:28:52

India Bombs

465464

AP Television News

Lawaypura, near Srinagar - 26 October 2005

Various of wrecked military bus

Front of damaged bus

Soldier throwing something inside bus

Soldier with gun; bus in background

Shattered glass

465716

AP Television News

New Delhi - 29 October 2005

Sarojini Nagar neighbourhood, New Delhi

Night shots

Wide shot police closing bomb site and ambulance driving off

Bomb site with police looking at damage

Wide shot bomb site

Rescue workers and police clearing up scene

465737

AP Television News

New Delhi - 29 October 2005

Paharganj, New Delhi

++Night shots++

Pan from damaged shops to security and crowd at blast site

Debris on the ground

Various of damaged shops

Policemen searching the debris

Wide shot blast site

NATURAL DISASTERS

10:30:04

Tsunami

438020

AP Television/Amateur video

++ NOTE: Upsound includes obscene language++

Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand - 26 December 2004

Various shots of beach shore as taken from apartment (UPSOUND family talking about size of oncoming wave)

Second wave crashes on to shore UPSOUND "Jesus Christ, look at that, (swears)..get in, get in, get in", family rushes inside, shot pans to flooded shoreline, sea water rushes into complex

437671

AP Television/Amateur video

Patong Beach - 26 December 2004

Wave hitting Patong Beach

437706

Krabi Island - 26 December 2004

AP Television/Amateur Video - December 26, 2004

Beach with boats being pulled in by surf

437689

AP Television News

Beruwela - 26 December 2004

AP Television/Amateur video

Huge wave washes over hotel guests and staff seating area into courtyard

Furniture and people floating in water

437852

Galle, Sri Lanka - 26 December 2004

AP Television/Amateur video

Torrent rushing through town, vehicles and people being swept along

Various of buses and debris being swept along by torrent, UPSOUND of screaming

People clinging onto side of building, water rushing past

Pan of flooded area, people sitting on top of half-submerged buses, UPSOUND of distressed woman

438978

AP Television/Amateur video

Kalmunai, Sri Lanka - 26 December 2004

People waist deep in water,

People wandering through flooded streets in obvious grief

440746

AP Television

Banda Aceh, Indonesia - 26 December 2004

Wide of car dragged by the torrent

People holding to trees to escape the floods

Another car dragged by torrent

Various of dead covered with flags and plastics

10:33:19

Hurricane Katrina

460059

AP Television News

Mobile, Alabama - 29 August 2005

Close-up waves crashing over wall

Mid shot of downtown, rain

Pan view from water to sandbags in front of windows and doors

460176

AP Television News

Biloxi, Mississippi - 30 August 2005

Street sign collapsed

460183

AP Television News

Gulfport, Mississippi - 30 August 2005

Damaged tourism building in Gulfport

460188

AP Television News

Biloxi - 30 August 2005

Wide shot of boat in field of debris

Pan of debris and cars

Man in rubble

460246

AP Television News

Biloxi - 31 August 2005

Walking shot through the destruction in Delarie's house

460267

Pool

Washington DC - 31 August 2005

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

"The country stands with you, we'll do all in our power to help you."

460269

AP Television News

Biloxi - 31 August 2005

I-90 highway completely ripped apart, pull out to wide shot of highway rubble

White van crashed up on a fence

460325

AP Television News

Biloxi - 1 September 2005

James Bellot next to spray-painted words on side of his house reading: "Keep Out or Die"

SOUNDBITE (English) James Bellot, Biloxi home heavily damaged in hurricane:

"If you're sleeping at night time and you've got a handful of canned goods, people will try to come in and get them. I look at it this way, it's like a battleground, you know?"

460345

AP Television News

Mississippi - 1 September 2005

Destroyed house on stilts

460362

FEMA VNR

Gulfport, Mississippi - 1 September 2005

Aerial view of flooded oil refinery

460490

AP Television News

New Orleans - 2 September 2005

Medic giving dehydrated man water

Wide of people waiting outside Superdome

460528

AP Television News/DoD

New Orleans - 3 September 2005

Wide of flooded street on French Quarter

Close-up of street sign reading "Bourbon Street"

Wide of flooded street, car in the middle

Various of warehouses on fire along Mississippi River, black smoke billowing in the sky

460542

AP Television News

New Orleans - 5 September

People waiting outside New Orleans Convention Centre

SOUNDBITE: (English) Phyllis Symington, New Orleans Resident:

"We can go and help in Sudan but we can't help our own people. We've been sleeping in the streets for five days and nights.

460558

AP Television News

New Orleans, Louisiana - 3 September 2005

Street outside New Orleans Convention Center

460665

New Orleans - 5 September 2005

AP Television News

Various of flooded streets

People in canoe looking for food and water

Sign saying "Katrina Cafe" on flooded street

460758

AP Television News

Pass Christian, Mississippi, 5 September 2005

Tracking shot of devastated, flattened neighbourhoods

460854

AP Television News

Houston, Texas - 6 September 2005

Close-up children playing

Pan view, interior of Astrodome

Close-up man holding a sign, searching for missing people

460858

AP Television News

New Orleans - 6 September 2005

Various of flooded streets

Patrols in small boats

Woman wading in water

460830

AP Television News

Mississippi - 6 September 2005

++Audio as incoming++

Long Beach, Mississippi

Close-up tombstone saying "R.I.P. Katrina" (Rest In Peace Katrina)

10:36:39

Pakistan Earthquake

463755

AP Television News

Islamabad, Pakistan - 8 October 2005

Wide shot of building and rubble

Various of collapsed building; helicopter overhead

Car amidst the rubble

Injured man being carried away

Another injured man lying in the rubble

463805

AP Television News

Islamabad - 8 October 2005

people moving blocks of concrete

People clearing rubble with shovels

Rescue teams removing rubble

463878

AP Television News

Balakot, Pakistan - 9 October 2005

Various aerials of massive destruction in northern city of Balakot

463880

AP Television News

++NOTE: Distressing images++

Muzaffarabad - 9 October 2005

Wide of "Islamabad Public School"

Damaged building with legs of dead child hanging

Close up of legs of child

Crack in road

Various of destroyed road

10:37:39

Iran Earthquake

442747

AP Television News

Hoodkan village, Kerman province - 22 February 2005

Pull out to wide shot of wrecked village

Wrecked buildings and people digging

Various shots of villagers digging

Wrecked mosque

Islamabad village, Kerman province - 22 February 2005

Tracking shot through wrecked village

Tracking shot, people and wrecked buildings

10:38:24

Ecuador Volcano

465224

AP Television News

Ilsa Isabela, Galapagos Islands - 23 October 2005

Various of lava flowing from Sierra Negra volcano

10:38:56

Central America Floods

463358

AP Television News

San Salvador - 3 October 2005

Onlookers watching landslides coming down a mountain slope

Various of strong water currents carrying debris

463442

AP Television News

Chiquimulia, Guatemala - 4 October 2005

Various of rescue personnel extending ropes to reach opposite shore

463801

AP Television News

Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala - 7 October 2005

Spanish/Nat

463615

AP Television News

Chiquimulia - 5 October 2005

Family walking through flooded street

463814

AP Television News

++Video as incoming++

San Salvador, El Salvador - 7 October 2005

Pan of destroyed car

Pan of flooded street

Tractor clearing flooded area

464325

AP Television News

San Marcos, Guatemala - 13 October 2005

Search and rescue

Pull out of man calling on phone

Candles at memorial

CRASHES AND RESCUE

10:39:58

Greece Jet

458791

AP Television News

Near Grammatikos, Greece - 15 August 2005

Wide shot crash scene, emergency vehicles and tail of plane on hill side

Tail section of plane, fire engine next to it and workers examining it

Workers lift up wreckage with their feet on scorched hillside

458837

AP Television News

Grammatikos - 16 August 2005

Mid shot of relative walking over and placing flowers close to plane wreckage

10:40:16

Venezuela Jet

458998

AP Television News

Machiques, Venezuela - 17 August 2005

Various aerials crash site

458910

AP Television News

Machiques - 16 August 2005

Wide of plane wreckage

Mid shot of investigators lifting up plane debris

10:40:41

460666

AP Television News

Medan, Indonesia - 5 September 2005

Smoke billowing from scene

Various of people looking at remains of plane

Various of remains of plane with smoke rising from it

Remains of plane on fire

10:41:11

Italy Trains

438697

AP Television News

Near Bologna - 7 January 2005

Night shots

Various shots of train wreck

Various shots of workers using cutting equipment

10:41:33

Pakistan Train

455871

AP Television News

Near Ghotki - 13 July 2005

Various shots of upturned train, people sitting and standing on top

Shot showing impact of collided trains

Covered dead body near train

Tilt up of trains

455917

AP Television News

Near Ghotki - July 13, 2005

Various shots of train wreckage

10:42:08

Russia Submarine

458076

Russian Pool

Beryozovaya Bay - 7 August 2005

Various shots of rescued submarine on the surface surrounded by rescue ships

Mid shot of Sergei Ivanov watching from ship as submarine rescue is confirmed

Long shot of submarine on the surface

AP Television News

Petropavlosk Kamchatsky - 7 August 2005

Rescued submariners on deck of navy vessel

BIRD FLU

10:42:37

Asia Bird Flu

442787

AP Television News

FILE: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Recent

Various shots of Vietnamese chicken farm

Poultry being checked at checkpoint

Poultry being sprayed

444037

AP Television News

Thai Binh Province - 4 March 2005

Various shots of farmer feeding his livestock

452721

AP Television News

Beijing - 10 June 2005

Wide shot of press conference given by World Health Organisation

SOUNDBITE (English) Doctor Shigeru Omi, World Health Organisation Regional Director:

"The virus remains unstable, unpredictable and very versatile. "

456568

AP Television News

Tangerang, Indonesia - 21 July 2005

Various shots of ducks in poultry farm

Various shots of ducks having blood samples taken

SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesian) Siti Fadilah Supari, Indonesian Health Minister:

"In places where we find bird flu cases, we must slaughter all animals and poultry within a three-kilometre radius."

462064

AP Television News

Jakarta - 19 September 2005

Wide shot of entrance to Ragunan zoo

Various shots of zoo workers having their blood taken

Mother carrying a child, who is the latest child suspected of contracting bird flu, into isolation unit

Two children suspected of contracting bird flu in an isolation room

464039

AP Television News

New York - 29 September 2005

SOUNDBITE (English) Doctor David Nabarro, World Health Organisation (WHO):

"The avian flu epidemic has to be controlled if we are to prevent a human influenza pandemic."

Wide press conference

SOUNDBITE (English) Doctor David Nabarro, World Health Organisation (WHO):

"Let's say the range of deaths could be anything between five and 150 million, which is a range that's often quoted at me. "

463768

Ceamurlia Romania - 8 October 2005

Officials throwing carcasses into pit

Officials pouring inflammable liquid into pit

Officials throwing burning rag into pit to burn carcasses

Various of nurses injecting woman in arm with vaccine

464698

AP Television News

Fetesti, 150 kilometres (93 miles) east of Bucharest - 17 October 2005

Various of trains being disinfected by spray cannons

AP Television News

Danube delta, Romania - 17 October 2005

Sunset over delta with birds flying by.

LIVE8/G8

10:44:45

Geldof Launches Live8

451831

AP Television News

London, UK - 31 May 2005

SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Geldof:

"What Live Aid did, joyously, enthusiastically, was open up the avenues of possibility. Finally, Live 8 invites you to walk down them."

454198

Pool

Glastonbury, UK - 26 June 2005,

Bob Geldof on stage with Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis

454611

AP Television News

Tokyo, Japan - 1 July 2005, Japan

Various shots of construction workers bringing up a large banner reading "Live 8"

Various shots of audio equipments under preparations.

454710

AP Television News

Tokyo, Japan - 2 July 2005

Various shots of LIVE8 signs outside the Makuhari Messe venue

Various shots of people queuing up to receive tickets

454712

AP Television News

Tokyo, Japan - 2 July 2005

Various of Japanese audience at the lobby where white poverty wrist band and the goods are on sale

454721

AP Television News

Rome, Italy - 2 July 2005

Wide shot Circus Maximus with stage in background

454796

AP Television News

Rome - 2 July 2005

Wide pan of crowd and stage

Giant screen playing Live8 commercial

454727

AP Television News

Berlin, Germany - 2 July 2005

Wide shot of stage being prepared in front of Victory Column

Tilt down from Brandenburg Gate to drummers playing in street

454741

Versailles, France - 2 July 2005

Wide pan of of crowd in front of concert stage

454795

AP Television News

Paris, France - 2 July 2005

Mid shot banner in crowd

454719

London, UK - 2 July 2005

Wide shot of stage in Hyde Park

454778

AP Television News

Paris, France 2 July 2005

Wide shot of Live8 stage

Pan of stage

Pan of crowd

London, UK - 2 July 2005

WS Live8 stage in London's Hyde Park

WS crowd

454765

AP Television News

Soweto, South Africa - 2 July 2005

South African family watched Live8 concert at home on television

Nairobi, Kenya - 2 July 2005

Man drinking a beer watches Live8 on television

10:46:48

G8 Summit and Protests

454893

AP Television News

Edinburgh, Scotland - 4 July 2005

Various shots of demonstrators banging drums

Pan from police across to demonstrators

Various shots of police forming line, keeping back protesters

455071

AP Television News

Bannockburn, Scotland - 6 July 2005

Protesters attacking a police van with golf clubs and rocks

Close of police handcuffing protester on ground

Police in riot gear running down street

455154

Pool

Gleneagles, Scotland - 6 July 2005

Various of leaders of the G8 posing for a photograph with Queen Elizabeth II - her husband Prince Philip and Prime Minister Tony Blair greet leaders of the G8: US President George W. Bush and wife Laura, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and wife Sheila, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and wife, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and wife, Doris Schroeder-Koepf, Russian President Vladimir Putin and wife Lyudmila, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, French President Jacques Chirac, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi

MIDDLE EAST

10:47:35

Jordan Bombs

466747

AP Television News

Amman, Jordan - 10 November 2005

Exterior of Radisson Hotel after attack

466956

AP Television News

Amman - 12 November 2005

Interior pan left damaged Radisson hotel lobby

Various devastated lobby

466755

AP Television News

Amman - 10 November 2005

++ Mute ++

Wide of Hyatt hotel

Mid shot of sign reading: "Hyatt"

466804

Amman - 10 November 2005

Pan from damage on floor to smashed window

Pile of wrecked furniture in a pile, tilt up to ruined ceiling

Various of damaged interiors in Hyatt Hotel

466733

AP Television News

Amman - 9 November 2005

Jordanian Prince Hashim walking past (with beard), wearing military uniform and red beret

10:48:39

Lebanon Hariri

441923

AP Television News

FILE: Various locations and dates

Various file shots of former PM Rafik Hariri

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Beirut, Lebanon - 14 February 2005

AP Television News

Various shots of immediate aftermath of attack on Hariri

Firemen putting out flames of car

Various shots of burnt out cars firemen on scene

Wide of devastated area, pan to smouldering car

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AP Television News

Sidon, Lebanon - 15 February 2005

Demonstrators holding pictures of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri

Burning of tires

Reverse of men throwing stones at security personnel in background down street

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Pool

Beirut - 15 February 2005

Wide of room with guests holding up Hariri's coffin and shaking it as part of grieving ceremony, bearing it

Aerial of Beirut suburb showing tall buildings and streets crowded with people

10:49:58

Israel and the Palestinians

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AP Television News

East Jerusalem - 9 January 2005

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

Abbas-Yasser Arafat banner hanging above road

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AP Television News

Ramallah, West Bank - 9 January 2005

Pool

Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) casts vote

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Pool

Ramallah - 10 January 2005

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

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AP Television News

Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt - 8 February 2005

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

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AP Television News

Sharm el-Sheik - 8 February 2004

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

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AP Television News

FILE: Various dates and locations

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

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

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

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Pool

Near Caesarea, northern Israel - 26 April 2005

Wide shot flag-draped coffin

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approaches coffin

Reuma Weizman, widow of Ezer Weizman

Various coffin being carried to cemetery

Gaza Withdrawal

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AP Television News

Kissufim Crossing - 18 July 2005

Israeli soldier erecting a wall near the crossing

Wide shot of wall

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AP Television News

Netivot, southern Israel - 18 July 2005

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

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AP Television News

Nitzan - 1 August 2005

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

Movers helping family unload van

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AP Television News

Elei Sinai Settlement, northern Gaza - 13 August 2005

UPSOUND (Hebrew) rabbi and settlement leader:

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

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AP Television News

Neve Dekalim settlement, southern Gaza - 15 August 2005

Various shots of Israeli tanks and security forces marching down road

Various shots of scuffles between settlers and security forces

Various shots of settlers burning eviction notices

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

Wide of settlers by fence singing

Pan of settlers behind fence singing

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AP Television News

Neve Dekalim, Gaza - 17 August 2005

Various shots of of metal barricades burning in the street

Woman being carried by female security forces

Settler being forcibly put onto bus

Morag, Gaza

Door being broken down and soldiers enter

People standing on roof of house with Israeli flag

10:52:49

Saudi King

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Pool

FILE: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - July 2004

Crown Prince Abdullah meeting then-US Secretary of State Colin Powell (Mute)

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AP Television News

Riyadh - 2 August 2005

High shot of Riyadh

Wide of poster of King Fahd

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AP Television News

Riyadh - 2 August 2005

Various shots of body of late King Fahd wrapped in a plain brown cloth and carried into mosque on a wooden plank (carried by his sons) in mosque

Various shots of King Abdullah praying

ASIA

10:53:29

Iran

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Tehran, Iran - 17 June 2005

AP Television News

Voters cast ballot

Rafsanjani votes

Khatami enters polling station

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AP Television News

Tehran - 29 June 2005

Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

President Mohammad Khatami of Iran sitting with Ahmadinejad

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AP Television News

Tehran - 3 August 2005

Ayatollah Khamenei handing over presidency to Ahmedinejad (former president Khatami also on podium)

Dignitaries attending ceremony

Ahmedinejad embracing Khamenei and Khatami

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AP Television News

Bushehr, Iran - 27 February 2005

Long shot Bushehr power plant

Mid shot Bushehr power plant

Anti-aircraft defence position at Bushehr nuclear power plant

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AP Television News

Bushehr - 22 June 2005

Various of workers constructing new phases of plant

Centrifuges inside nuclear plant

Various of workers constructing new phases of plant

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AP Television News

Tehran - 2 December 2004

Various shots of proposed human shields and suicide attackers at Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery south of Tehran

Young girl who has registered as a suicide bomber with her father

Poster reading "Israel must be wiped out of the world"

A woman who has registered as a suicide bomber queues up

10:55:02

Pakistan Rape Case

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AP Television News

++Audio as incoming++

Multan, Pakistan - 4 March 2005

Exterior shot of Lahore High Court Multan Branch, rape victim Mukhtar Mai (on right) with her friend walks into shot

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Islamabad, Pakistan - 5 March 20005

Rape victim Mukhtar Mai

SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mukhtar Mai, Rape Victim:

"The first time round the court awarded them the death penalty. That's what I want again now."

Mai surrounded by media

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AP Television News

FILE: Meerwala, Punjab province - 6 July 2002

Various of village where alleged rape took place

AP Television News

FILE: Dera Ghazi Khan - 26 July 2002

Accused men led into police van

10:55:47

Kyrgyzstan Unrest

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Bishkek - 24 March 2005

AP Television News

Rear shot riot police with shields standing by as crowds march past carrying pink banners (signifying their loyalty to the opposition)

Crowds gathered in square for rally

Closer shot protesters jeering and throwing stones at riot police

Wide shot riot police running

Zoom in through gates to crowd of protesters cheering on steps of presidential headquarters (known as the White House)

Wide shot presidential compound

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Bishkek - 24 March 2005

AP Television News

Opposition leader Ulan Shambetov sits in Akayev's chair surrounded by supporters

SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Ulan Shambetov, opposition leader:

"It's not the opposition that has seized power, it's the people who have taken power. The people. They have been fighting for so long against corruption, against that family (Akayev's)."

Mid shot crowd on top of APC

Wide shot as man in hat rips up photo

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AP Television News

Bishkek - 28 March 2005

Various shots of Kyrgyz interim leader Kurmanbek Bakiyev in parliament

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AP Television News

FILE: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan - 15 December 2001

Akayev at conference on security and stability

An interim government headed acting President Kurmanbek Bakiyev

10:57:09

Kashmir

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AP Television News

Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir - 13 May 2005

Policemen moving in as tires burn atop a traffic post, firing tear gas shells

Policeman firing teargas shells

Burning tire at the beginning of a street

Various of youth chanting slogans

Remains of burnt rubber on the road

Funeral procession of two women killed in Thursday's grenade blast

Men carrying the coffins shouting slogans

Top shot of schoolchildren marching

Schoolgirl with placard shouting, 'We want peace'

10:57:50

Afghanistan

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AP Television News

Kandahar, Afghanistan - 17 April 2005

Wide shot burned out wrecks of five petrol tankers

Afghan soldiers examining smouldering tankers

Various shots of Afghan soldiers examining burnt out tankers

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AP Television News

Bashgah, Afghanistan - 3 May 2005

Wide shot of hamlet

Villagers go down hillside of rubble

Damaged houses

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AP Television News

Jalalabad, Afghanistan - 11 May 2005

Wide angry crowds brandishing sticks and chanting, walking past camera

Crowds carrying banners, one says "We strongly condemn insulting Quran by American army"

Crowd throwing stones at sign showing troops

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AP Television News

Jalalabad, Afghanistan - 11 May 2005

Wide shot Afghan National Army soldiers running towards Pakistan consulate, firing at protesters (NATSOUND gunshots)

Plume of smoke coming from consulate building

Building near UNHCR building engulfed in flames - pan left through smoke

AP Television News

Khost, Afghanistan - 11 May 2005

Close up shot protester chanting "death to Bush, down with America"

AFRICA

10:58:57

Sudan

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AP Television News

FILE: Rumbek, southern Sudan - 30 September 2003

Various of Sudanese VP John Garang in yellow patterned shirt being greeted by supporters

Various of crowds welcoming Garang

Garang speaking to crowd

Khartoum, Sudan - 29 May 2005

Various of Annan and Garang at news conference

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AP Television News

++Mute++

"New Site", a former SPLA base in southern Sudan - 2 August 2005

Wide shot commander saluting looking towards the dead body of VP John Garang

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AP Television News

Khartoum - 1 August 2005

Pan from burning cars in the street to people taking refuge on top of building

Close-up of police at back of truck

10:59:40

Zimbabwe

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AP Television News

Highfields Township, Harare, Zimbabwe - 27 March 2005

Banner reading "Our promise to the people", man standing on iron structure

Morgan Tsvangarai, MDC leader on stage chanting and singing

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AP Television News

Harare - 31 March 2005

Mugabe has his identification checked by electoral official

Mugabe puts ballot in box

Morgan Tsvangarai casting his ballot

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AP Television News

Harare - 1 April 2005

SOUNDBITE: (English) Morgan Tsvangarai, Leader of Movement for Democratic Change:

"Mugabe knows that he has cheated in the last three elections and that the MDC has the will of the people."

11:00:24

Somalia

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AP Television News

Jowhar, Somalia - 24 February 2005

Wide of Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed (with red tie) coming out of the aircraft and shaking hands with Somali officials

Wide of Somali army standing to attention

Wide of President Yusuf Ahmed and Somali officials at podium

Mid shot of President Yusuf Ahmed

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AP Television News

Mogadishu, Somalia - 29 April 2005

Ali Mohamed Gedi walking and shaking hands surrounded by media after arrival at airport

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AP Television News

Mogadishu - 3 May 2005

++ Video as incoming++

++ NOTE: Distressing images++

People running up steps of stadium towards injured in immediate aftermath of bomb

Injured or dead people on steps

11:01:11

Kenya

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AP Television News

Nairobi, Kenya - 16 March 2005

Kenyan flag

Wide shot of police on horseback chasing protesters outside the parliament building

Various shots of protesters being dispersed by water cannon, tear gas, and rubber bullets

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AP Television News

Nairobi - 20 July 2005

Policemen being attacked by stone throwing protesters

Protesters throwing stones

Various of riot police beating protesters with sticks and forcing them into a police truck

11:01:55

Togo

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AP Television News

Lome, Togo - 12 February 2005

Wide shot of streets, people calling others to demonstrate

Policemen shooting teargas at demonstrators

Mid shot of policemen shooting

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AP Television News

Lome - 24 April 2005

Main opposition leader Akitani Pop casting his vote

Faure Gnassingbe, presidential candidate, casting vote

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AP Television News

Lome - 25 April 2005

Wide of young man in Be Kopta neighbourhood, walking angrily towards camera with a machete in one hand a stone in the other, fire in background

Wide of protester with stones walking around the fire

Protesters screaming: "We are very angry, we are very angry" in local language

11:03:22

South Africa AIDS

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AP Television News

Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa - 6 January 2005

Nelson Mandela arrives at his house

SOUNDBITE (English) Nelson Mandela, former president

"We must not hide the cause the death of our families because that is the only way we can make people understand that HIV is an ordinary disease, that's why we called you here today to announce that my son has died of AIDS. Thank you."

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AP Television News

Qunu, South Africa - 15 January 2005

Funeral ceremony with photograph of Makgatho Mandela

Mandela sprinkling earth on grave

EUROPE

11:03:22

Germany Elections

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AP Television News

Berlin - 16 September 2005

Interior of souvenir shop with Angela Merkel souvenir doll

Various of slippers reading (German) "Wahl Schlappe" or (English) "Election Defeat" in the colours of the various political parties

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AP Television News

FILE: Berlin - 1 July 2005

Wide interior pan of Parliament session during "Vote of confidence"

Schroeder sitting

AP Television News

Berlin - 5 September 2005

Election posters of Schroeder and Merkel

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AP Television News - 18 September 2005

Hanover

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder with wife at ballot box casting vote

AP Television News

Berlin - 18 September 2005

Christian Democratic Union leader Angela Merkel casting ballot

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Berlin - 19 September 2005

AP Television News

German parliament

'Bild' newspaper showing Merkel and Schroeder on front page, headline reading: (German)"Chancellor War!"

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AP Television News

Berlin - 11 October 2005

SOUNDBITE (German) Gerhard Schroeder, outgoing German Chancellor:

"The president (of the board of industrialists) said he wished for a different election result. I can tell you, so did I."

Merkel talking to party members

11:04:26

Olympic Bids

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AP Television News

Paris - 6 July 2005

Wide shot of Hotel de Ville (Paris town hall)

Screen showing Arc de Triomphe with race track set up

Moscow - 6 July 2005

Wide shot Kremlin and stage

Wide shot Red Square

New York - 6 July 2005

Stage area for viewing party at Rockefeller Centre

Crowd waving flags

Madrid - 6 July 2005

Crowds in Madrid's main plaza

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AP Television News

Paris, France - 6 July 2005

Various shots of crowd gathered to hear result shown live on big screen, howls of disappointment as London is declared winner

London, UK - 6 July 2005

Crowds in Trafalgar Square react with jubilation at news that London will host 2012 Olympics

11:05:23

Corsica Unrest

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AP Television News

Bastia, Corsica - 1 October 2005

Various of protesters chanting and waving banners

Various of police shielding themselves from exploding flares

Close-up protesters throwing rocks at police

Various of riots on the streets

11:05:59

France Riots

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AP Television News

Aulnay-sous-Bois, a suburb northeast of Paris - 1 November 2005

UPSOUND various riot police charge, shooting weapons, fires in street

Youths set alight garbage dumpster

Riot police firing at rioters

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Toulouse - 7 November 2005

Various shots of a bus ablaze at the end of a street

Car ablaze burning in the street

Police running after youth as he throws an object

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AP Television News

Toulouse - 8 November 2005

Various of police in street with burning car in background

Handcuffed youth being taken into station

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AP Television News

Strasbourg - 11 November 2005

Pan to close up firemen breaking window of burning car

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AP Television News

Venissieux, Lyon - 13 November 2005

Car burning, UPSOUND of explosions

firefighters extinguishing blaze

Le Mirail, Toulouse - 13 November 2005

fire fighters beside car on fire

11:06:59

UK Royal Wedding

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UK Pool

Windsor, UK - 9 April 2005

Close up of girl with Union Jack glasses

Charles and Camilla emerge after ceremony and wave to crowds, walking towards car

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AP Television News

Windsor - 9 April 2005

Crowd watching, sign saying "God save the Queen"

11:07:42

Italy Parmalat

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AP Television News

FILE: Parma, Italy - 2004

Pan Parmalat headquarters

Yoghurt on production factory

Inside factory

FILE: Rome - 2003

Closeup of Parmalat milk

Finance Police cars

FILE: Parma - 27 December 2003

Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi leaving police headquarters under arrest

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AP Television News

Milan - 28 September 2005

Wide shot courtroom

Close up Calisto Tanzi, founder and former chairman of Parmalat

11:08:31

Russia Yukos

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AP Television News

FILE: Moscow - date unknown

Wide shot barbed wire at Matrosskaya Tishina prison, where Khodorkovsky is currently being held

Moscow - 4 July 2004

Wide shot Yukos headquarters with police officers in foreground

Wide shot pan police encircling Yukos office

FILE: unknown location - Winter 2001

Various of Yukos oil fields

Moscow - 24 May 2005

Wide shot Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in courtroom cage

Close-up Khodorkovsky

Mid shot Lebedev

11:09:11

EU Referendum

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AP Television News

Hampton Court, UK - 27 October 2005

EU flag

Paris, France - 21 May 2005

Close-up "Vote No" badge

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AP Television News

Paris - 12 May 2005

Two shots crowd waving flags and 'yes' banners, cheering

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AP Television News

Madrid - 20 February 2005

++Night shots++

Ballort envelope reading "Referendum Constitution Europea 2005"

Close up of ballot box at polling station

Electoral officers opening ballot box

Mid shot of electoral worker separating "yes" and "no" ballots in stacks

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Spanish Pool

Madrid - 20 February 2005

SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain:

"So this 'yes' vote is also a way of saying "thank you" to Europe."

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AP Television News

Paris -18 March 2005

News stand on the Champs Elysees with newspaper front page saying "Referendum - No"

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AP Television News

Brussels, Belgium - 29 May 2005

People watching the announcement of the French referendum result on a TV screen at 'The Centre' European policy think-tank

Woman covering her mouth in disbelief

AP Television News

The Hague, Netherlands - 2 June 2005

Newspaper headline about the Dutch 'no' vote

THE AMERICAS

11:10:11

US Libby & Rove

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AP Television News

FILE: Washington DC - Recent

Interior shot of CIA seal

Washington, DC - 13 July 2005

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

"I will be more than happy to comment on this matter once this investigation is complete."

Cutaway of Rove

Pool

Washington, DC - 30 September 2003

Karl Rove walking off aeroplane

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AP Television News

Washington, DC - 3 November 2005

Various shots of Lewis "Scooter " Libby arriving at court

AP Television News

FILE: Washington, DC - Recent

Exterior view of White House

11:10:52

US Plane Scare

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AP Television News

Washington DC, USA - 11 May 2005

Tilt up from grounds of White House to F-16 and Cessna plane in the air

Walking shot on White House driveway, police officer yells

UPSOUND: (English) Police Officer: Officer 1: "Folks you have to get off the grounds, now."

Tilt up from ground to show fighter jet flying next to small plane high overhead

Pool

Washington DC - 11 May 2005

House hearing room, sirens going off, people standing around door

Person comes in and tells everyone to "leave the building"

AP Television News

Washington DC - 11 May 2005

Police patrolling front of White House as people move back inside the building

Wide shot of the Capitol building as people move back inside the building

11:11:31

Summit of the Americas

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Mar del Plata, Argentina - 4 November 2005

AP Television News

Various interiors of hall where the Summit of the Americas is taking place

US President George W. Bush listening

Chavez seated

Argentina Pool

Photo op of leaders participating in the Summit of the Americas

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AP Television News

Mar del Plata - 4 November 2005

Protesters burning U.S flag amid chanting

Various of police behind their barricade and shields

Wide of the street showing plumes of smoke and fire

Rioters approaching police and throwing missiles

squad of riot police on motorbikes

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Brasilia, Brazil - 6 November 2005

AP Television News

Burning poster with Bush as Hitler

Protesters holding large anti-Bush and Columbian President Alvaro Uribe banner reading: "Get out"

Protesters with anti-Bush posters

Pool

Arrival of President Bush, with first lady Laura Bush, and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at podium

11:12:38

Latin America Riots

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AP Television News

Quito, Ecuador - 20 January 2005

Student demonstrators and police yelling at each other

Police firing tear gas canisters

Students flying flag, pull out to wide of protest

Police firing tear gas canisters

Wide shot of police running down the street after students

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La Paz - 24 May 2005

Pan police scattering protesters

Police beating protester

Police firing tear gas canisters

Police escorting detained protester

Police firing tear gas to scatter protesters

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AP Television News

Guatemala City - 9 March 2005

Various of police firing tear gas in streets

Police firing tear gas

Protester throwing rock at police

Protester grabbing tear gas canister and throwing it at police

11:13:59

Chile Pinochet

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AP Television News

FILE: Chile - Recent

Various of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet walking after medical examination

FILE: Santiago, Chile - 3 March 2000

Return of Pinochet after his detention in London

FILE: Santiago - 1983

Pinochet receiving presidential banner

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AP Television News

Santiago - 24 March 2005

Wide of Supreme Court justices

Close up of justice

Augusto Pinochet's defence attorney Pablo Rodriguez before court

Human rights lawyer speaking in court

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AP Television News

Santiago - 10 August 2005

Mid view of Marco Antonio Pinochet climbing out of trunk of car after being transported to prison

11:14:47

Dominican Republic Fire

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AP Television News

Hiuguey - 7 March 2005

++Night shots++

Exterior shot of prison

Shot through roof of prisoners inside, UPSOUND (Spanish) prisoner: "There are still people in the back getting burnt."

Prisoners shouting through bars

Prisoner shouting saying, "it's all the lieutenant's (meaning prison chief's) fault."

++Day shot ++

Various shots of prisoners filmed through roof

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AP Television News

Hiuguey - 7 March 2005

Various shots of dead bodies inside morgue being classified by Red Cross officials and local authorities

11:15:25

Paraguay Kidnapping

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AP Television News

Asunción, Paraguay - 18 February 2005

Exterior of funeral home

Former President Raul Cubas (in black glasses)

Various, mourners tossing flowers on flag-draped coffin

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AP Television News

Bogota, Colombia - 7 March 2005

President Alvaro Uribe, President Duarte and military at the ceremony

Uribe (wearing red tie) and Duarte (wearing yellow tie) at the ceremony

FEATURES AND TECHNOLOGY

11:16:01

Apple Nano and iTunes cellphone

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AP Television News

London - 9 September 2005

Apple Nano iPod being picked up

Nano screen

Nano view from the side

Headphones and a Sony Ericsson "Walkman" phone

Detail of phone

Dunmore walking in office listening to Apple Nano iPod

11:16:39

Tokyo Game Show

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AP Television News

Tokyo Japan - 16 September 2004

People crowding around game displays

Men playing games

Pan from XBOX 360 console to woman playing game

Wide of sign saying "Playstation 3"

Action from display of game (yet to be named) that will be available on Playstation 3

Various shots of PSP (Play Station Portable) display

11:17:15

South Africa Junk Car

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AP Television News

Makapanstad, South Africa - January 2005

Johannes Monene driving the MMW through village

Tight shot Johannes at the wheel of the MMW

Johannes driving into village

Friends gathered around car

Johannes opening car bonnet

Johannes working on engine

11:17:49

UK Robopet

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AP Television News

London, UK - 10 August 2005

RoboPet walks with Robo family in background

RoboPet sits down

RoboPet rolls over

RoboPet face on - rears on to hind legs UPSOUND barking

11:18:25

South Korea Dog Translator

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AP Television News

Seoul, South Korea - 13 May 2005

Close-up of a dog sniffing on camera

Zoom-out from the mobile to the dog barking

Pan from the a dog wagging its tail to the mobile phone

Close-up of a mobile phone screen that reads: "please stop mistreating me, I am in a gloomy mood"

11:18:54

China Pig Olympics

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AP Television News

Shanghai - 17 April 2005

Pigs coming out of pen

Various shots of pigs running on the customised track

Pigs jumping over hurdles

Various shots of pigs jumping into water and swimming

Pigs swimming out of water

Pig being given a medal

11:19:32

Philippines - Animal fashion show for charity

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AP Television News

Manila - 8 Oct 2005

Wide shot of fashion show then zoom in to dogs on the catwalk

Cutaway to child in the crowd

Tracking shot of dog on the catwalk

Dogs in police costume

Various of orangutan dressed as nurse being walked down catwalk

11:20:09

China Chocolate

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AP Television News

Beijing - 10 June 2005

Various shots of models walking the runway stage showing the original outfits made of or with chocolate

Various shots back stage, models putting on chocolate made outfits, close ups of chocolate made ornaments

US Wedding Cake

11:20:47

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AP Television News

New York - 7 June 2005

Wide shot Times Square, tilt down to show brides in front of huge wedding cake

Wide shot UPSOUND: "Go!" - brides start searching cake

Various shots of brides searching cake

Medium shot two brides fight and wrestle for a box

Close up bride with cake on her face, another bride throws cake at her, pull out to wide

Various shots of brides searching for boxes

11:21:23

Belgium Pillow Fight

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AP Television News

Leuven Belgium - 3 May 2005

Wide shot the University Library, tilt down to crowds waiting to take part in event

Free pillows and t-shirts being handed out to students

Various of main pillow fight record attempt taking place

Mid shot of a representative of the company which donated four thousand pillows for the event, signing a check for 10-thousand euros (almost 13-thousand US dollars)

ENDS 11:21:58