LEADIN

Royal excitement is building in Berlin as Britain's Prince William and Princess Catherine, with their children George and Charlotte, are set to arrive on Wednesday (19 July).

Children at a social centre in the east of the capital are busy with a special British tradition: making Union Jack bunting to make the Royals feel welcome.

STORYLINE

The children at the "Youth house Bolle," a social centre for children from disadvantaged backgrounds in the east of Berlin, are working hard.

They are printing Union Jack flags and hanging them on strings to make bunting - a very British way to get ready for a party.

Germany does not have its own royal household, but on Wednesday Price William and Princess Catherine - also known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - will visit the centre on their first day in the German capital.

They might even bring their children George and Charlotte with them.

The children at Bolle House have been learning about the United Kingdom to prepare for the visit.

Ten-year-old Dean Vorpahl lets everyone know that he knows the colours of the Union Jack flag.

"We make bands with English flags. We have also bands around our wrists with the English colors: white, red and blue," he says.

Around 100 children, from young school children to teenagers, visit the centre each week.

The district is one of the poorest in the German capital, and most of the children in the centre come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

At the centre they get healthy food, can do their homework and of course play.

But on Wednesday there will be no homework, the children are going to show their flags and enjoy the commotion that comes with a celebrity visit.

"On Wednesday Prince William will come with his Duchess Kate to the youth Club Bolle," says Vorpahl.

"There are going to be a lot of police here. And lots of people doing interviews with cameras."

The children have watched videos from the Royal wedding in 2011.

They have also tried to learn a bit of English.

"Many of them are really excited. It is something big when a real prince comes. It is really great," says Stefanie Milios who works at the centre.

Youth house Bolle was founded in 2010 and is a part of an organisation called "Strassenkinder" which translates to "street children."

It is a place for the children to spend their afternoons after school before returning to their homes.

Youth house Bolle runs on donations, and a royal visit can help with fundraising, says Eckhard Baumann who founded the centre.

"First of all, we are thinking that maybe the children will be motivated to learn a bit of English. If they get to know this country a bit and learn a bit of English then it would be a success," he says

"But of course it would also be really great if the public would notice us a bit."

The Royal Family will arrive in Berlin on Wednesday morning.

Prince William will start the day by holding talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Then the Duke and Duchess will visit the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust memorial, in the centre of the capital.

The memorial was built in 2004 and consists of 2711 individual concrete slabs arranged in rows.

The memorial commemorates the millions of Jewish people that were murdered by the National Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler before and during the Second World War.

There are other memorials for other targeted groups in the city, but this one is fully focused on the murdered Jews.

Architect Peter Eisenmann designed the memorial to be open, and without information texts and pictures.

"It is a space for free associations," says Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance'

"That means that you enter the memorial and you can let the memorial make an impression on you."

The memorial is one of most visited tourist sites in Berlin.

The ground is slanted, so when the visitors reach the centre of the memorial, the surrounding world slowly disappears.

"Many people feel lost in the memorial," says Kerpel-Fronius

"They feel like they can't find a way out. Other people think that because the rows are relatively straight, and you can always see the exits and that life continues outside with the noise of the city, they start thinking about how they are her in 2017 and about what the Holocaust has to do with us now."

The Royal family will also visit Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday.

The 18th-century neoclassical gate is one of the best know landmarks in Germany.

Here Prince William and Princess Catherine will "greet the crowds that will have gathered at the gate," according to a press release by Clarence House.

The royal trip started on July 17 in Poland where the family visited Warsaw, the former Nazi concentration camp Stutthof, and Gdansk.

After the visit to Berlin, the Royal family will visit the German cities of Heidelberg and Hamburg before returning to London on July 21.

Berlin - 17 July 2017

1. Children and staff at the "Youth house Bolle" that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

2. Close of British flags on table

3. Various of children and staff making British flag bunting

4. Various of child colouring British flag

5. Dean Vorpahl cutting British flag for bunting

6. SOUNDBITE: (German), Dean Vorpahl, 10-year old:

"We make bands with English flags. We have also bands around our wrists with the English colours: white, red and blue."

7. Vorpahl cutting British flag

8. Various of children making bunting

9. SOUNDBITE: (German), Dean Vorpahl, 10-year old:

"On Wednesday Prince William will come with his Duchess Kate to the youth Club Bolle. There are going to be a lot of police here. And lots of people doing interviews with cameras."

10. Vorpahl and boy holding bunting and British flag

11. Close of Vorpahl and British flag

12. Youth house worker Stefanie Milios putting up bunting

13. SOUNDBITE: (German), Stefanie Milios, Youth worker:

"Many of them are really excited. It is something big when a real prince comes. It is really great"

14. Children playing table football, pan to poster on wall with British flag and photos of Prince William and Princess Catherine

15. Close of poster

16. Children playing table football

17. SOUNDBITE: (German), Eckhard Baumann, founder of "Youth house Bolle":

"First of all, we are thinking that maybe the children will be motivated to learn a bit of English. If they get to know this country a bit and learn a bit of English then it would be a success. But of course, it would also be really great if the public would notice us a bit."

18. Exterior of "Youth house Bolle"

19. British flags in window

20. Various of 'Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe' in central Berlin, that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

21. Wide of man walking among concrete slabs in memorial

22. Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance', walking along concrete slabs

23. SOUNDBITE: (German), Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance':

"It is a space for free associations. That means that you enter the memorial and you can let the memorial make an impression on you."

24. People walking in memorial

25. Pull focus from slab of concrete to back of boy walking in memorial

26. Various wide of memorial

27. Moving shot inside memorial

28. SOUNDBITE: (German), Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance':

"Many people feel lost in the memorial. They feel like they can't find a way out. Other people think that because the rows are relatively straight, and you can always see the exits and that life continues outside with the noise of the city, they start thinking about how they are here in 2017 and about what the Holocaust has to do with us now."

29. Wide of Brandenburg Gate that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

30. Close of Brandenburg Gate

31. Man playing a street organ in front of Brandenburg Gate

32. Organ grinder taking hat off

33. Wide of German Parliament building, Prince William and Princess Catherine will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday

34. Close of writing on building reading: (German) "The German Peoples"

35. Close of German flag on Parliament building

LEADIN

Royal excitement is building in Berlin as Britain's Prince William and Princess Catherine, with their children George and Charlotte, are set to arrive on Wednesday (19 July).

Children at a social centre in the east of the capital are busy with a special British tradition: making Union Jack bunting to make the Royals feel welcome.

STORYLINE

The children at the "Youth house Bolle," a social centre for children from disadvantaged backgrounds in the east of Berlin, are working hard.

They are printing Union Jack flags and hanging them on strings to make bunting - a very British way to get ready for a party.

Germany does not have its own royal household, but on Wednesday Price William and Princess Catherine - also known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - will visit the centre on their first day in the German capital.

They might even bring their children George and Charlotte with them.

The children at Bolle House have been learning about the United Kingdom to prepare for the visit.

Ten-year-old Dean Vorpahl lets everyone know that he knows the colours of the Union Jack flag.

"We make bands with English flags. We have also bands around our wrists with the English colors: white, red and blue," he says.

Around 100 children, from young school children to teenagers, visit the centre each week.

The district is one of the poorest in the German capital, and most of the children in the centre come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

At the centre they get healthy food, can do their homework and of course play.

But on Wednesday there will be no homework, the children are going to show their flags and enjoy the commotion that comes with a celebrity visit.

"On Wednesday Prince William will come with his Duchess Kate to the youth Club Bolle," says Vorpahl.

"There are going to be a lot of police here. And lots of people doing interviews with cameras."

The children have watched videos from the Royal wedding in 2011.

They have also tried to learn a bit of English.

"Many of them are really excited. It is something big when a real prince comes. It is really great," says Stefanie Milios who works at the centre.

Youth house Bolle was founded in 2010 and is a part of an organisation called "Strassenkinder" which translates to "street children."

It is a place for the children to spend their afternoons after school before returning to their homes.

Youth house Bolle runs on donations, and a royal visit can help with fundraising, says Eckhard Baumann who founded the centre.

"First of all, we are thinking that maybe the children will be motivated to learn a bit of English. If they get to know this country a bit and learn a bit of English then it would be a success," he says

"But of course it would also be really great if the public would notice us a bit."

The Royal Family will arrive in Berlin on Wednesday morning.

Prince William will start the day by holding talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Then the Duke and Duchess will visit the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust memorial, in the centre of the capital.

The memorial was built in 2004 and consists of 2711 individual concrete slabs arranged in rows.

The memorial commemorates the millions of Jewish people that were murdered by the National Socialist regime of Adolf Hitler before and during the Second World War.

There are other memorials for other targeted groups in the city, but this one is fully focused on the murdered Jews.

Architect Peter Eisenmann designed the memorial to be open, and without information texts and pictures.

"It is a space for free associations," says Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance'

"That means that you enter the memorial and you can let the memorial make an impression on you."

The memorial is one of most visited tourist sites in Berlin.

The ground is slanted, so when the visitors reach the centre of the memorial, the surrounding world slowly disappears.

"Many people feel lost in the memorial," says Kerpel-Fronius

"They feel like they can't find a way out. Other people think that because the rows are relatively straight, and you can always see the exits and that life continues outside with the noise of the city, they start thinking about how they are her in 2017 and about what the Holocaust has to do with us now."

The Royal family will also visit Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday.

The 18th-century neoclassical gate is one of the best know landmarks in Germany.

Here Prince William and Princess Catherine will "greet the crowds that will have gathered at the gate," according to a press release by Clarence House.

The royal trip started on July 17 in Poland where the family visited Warsaw, the former Nazi concentration camp Stutthof, and Gdansk.

After the visit to Berlin, the Royal family will visit the German cities of Heidelberg and Hamburg before returning to London on July 21.

Berlin - 17 July 2017

1. Children and staff at the "Youth house Bolle" that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

2. Close of British flags on table

3. Various of children and staff making British flag bunting

4. Various of child colouring British flag

5. Dean Vorpahl cutting British flag for bunting

6. SOUNDBITE: (German), Dean Vorpahl, 10-year old:

"We make bands with English flags. We have also bands around our wrists with the English colours: white, red and blue."

7. Vorpahl cutting British flag

8. Various of children making bunting

9. SOUNDBITE: (German), Dean Vorpahl, 10-year old:

"On Wednesday Prince William will come with his Duchess Kate to the youth Club Bolle. There are going to be a lot of police here. And lots of people doing interviews with cameras."

10. Vorpahl and boy holding bunting and British flag

11. Close of Vorpahl and British flag

12. Youth house worker Stefanie Milios putting up bunting

13. SOUNDBITE: (German), Stefanie Milios, Youth worker:

"Many of them are really excited. It is something big when a real prince comes. It is really great"

14. Children playing table football, pan to poster on wall with British flag and photos of Prince William and Princess Catherine

15. Close of poster

16. Children playing table football

17. SOUNDBITE: (German), Eckhard Baumann, founder of "Youth house Bolle":

"First of all, we are thinking that maybe the children will be motivated to learn a bit of English. If they get to know this country a bit and learn a bit of English then it would be a success. But of course, it would also be really great if the public would notice us a bit."

18. Exterior of "Youth house Bolle"

19. British flags in window

20. Various of 'Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe' in central Berlin, that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

21. Wide of man walking among concrete slabs in memorial

22. Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance', walking along concrete slabs

23. SOUNDBITE: (German), Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance':

"It is a space for free associations. That means that you enter the memorial and you can let the memorial make an impression on you."

24. People walking in memorial

25. Pull focus from slab of concrete to back of boy walking in memorial

26. Various wide of memorial

27. Moving shot inside memorial

28. SOUNDBITE: (German), Adam Kerpel-Fronius, project leader for 'European sites of remembrance':

"Many people feel lost in the memorial. They feel like they can't find a way out. Other people think that because the rows are relatively straight, and you can always see the exits and that life continues outside with the noise of the city, they start thinking about how they are here in 2017 and about what the Holocaust has to do with us now."

29. Wide of Brandenburg Gate that Prince William and Princess Catherine will visit on Wednesday

30. Close of Brandenburg Gate

31. Man playing a street organ in front of Brandenburg Gate

32. Organ grinder taking hat off

33. Wide of German Parliament building, Prince William and Princess Catherine will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday

34. Close of writing on building reading: (German) "The German Peoples"

35. Close of German flag on Parliament building

STORY

1994 WTN News Review

SD version available in \\Source_Clips\WNR

SHOWS

Titles / Opening Sequence:

00:03 :Graphics and animation illustrating Missing Link to DNA

SOUTH AFRICA

(Mandela wins first multi-racial elections)

01:58 :Nelson Mandela sot being sworn in as President,

02:09 :high ws of dancing crowd; planes fly in formation;

:cu Mandela dancing; night shot cu young whites, celebrating;

02:18 :Mandela sot about the end of oppression;

02:22 :Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mandela dancing;

02:33 :ls Robben island;

02:38 :Mandela in jail corridor, walking into his cell, cell door

closing; Mandela sot about greater sacrifice of

others;

02:54 :F.W. de Klerk locks hands with black African singing ANC

(African National Congress) anthem;

03:07 :de Klerk being awarded honorary tribal blanket

by black Africans;

03:14 :cu King Mangosuthu Buthelesi in Zulu dress, pan to other Zulu

dignitary;

(Clashes)

03:22 :Johannesburg street, armed Zulu protestors clashing:

armed Zulu protestors shooting; white police shooting;

03:32 :dead and wounded protestors lying on street and pavement;

03:36 :neo-nazis in ARM uniform, Eugene Terreblanche on horse,

demonstrating;

03:39 :Terreblanche sot underlaid "we will never stop;

it's better to die as a free and independent man";

children in ARM uniforms marching;

03:45 :ls smoke rising above town in distance;

03:48 :Bophutaswana civil unrest: looting and rioting;

03:59 :young rioter being shot, falling to ground screaming;

04:06 :ms car, white passengers trying to avoid gunfire;

cut to same car cu two inert men, zoom in on ARM insignia

on sleeve; one man starting to crawl away, one

asking for help;

04:26 :same three men lying on ground, inert, apparently dead;

04:32 :Mandela, part underlaid sot on freedom; man walking in slum,

man sitting behind barbed wire;

04:42 :crying mother carrying wounded infant;

04:46 :street clashes: burning shop, looters juming off roof

onto car;

04:50 :voting slip, cu hand sticking on candidate's voting strip;

04:55 :highshot pan over long queue of voters;

05:03 :vox pop part underlaid on those who died;

05:09 :Mandela voting; ANC (?)flag being hoisted

JORDAN/ISRAEL

(Peace accord)

05:20 :King Hussein of Jordan, partially underlaid sot on the

end of the war between Jordan and Israel

05:32 :Hussein and Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands,

Bill Clinton looking on;

05:37 :Treaty signing in Cairo: group shot of Rabin

Hosni Mubarak and Yasser Arafat on rostrum;

05:41 :Arafat objecting to signing part of treaty documents;

Rabin demanding Arafat should sign first;

05:55 :Mubarak, Arafat, Israeli(?) unidentified person talking;

06:00 :group shot after signing, Rabin, Mubarak, Arafat and

Warren Christopher;

06:08 :cheering plo supporters, one raising Arafat photo;

06:10 :tents in Gaza, Israeli soldiers folding Israeli flag;

(Protests & Violence)

06:17 :Arafat kissing ground in occupied territory Gaza

:high shot of Arafat being welcomed by cheering palestinians;

06:42 :Hamas activist writing slogan on wall in arabic;

burning photo of Arafat;

06:51 :night shot israeli demo against peace accord conditions;

06:55 :burnt-out vehicle, man pushing palestinian flag into fire;

israeli poster of Rabin wearing plo head-dress;

07:04 :armed israeli soldiers under attack in army truck;

07:09 :israeli soldiers overpowering palestinian, all three

kicking him;

07:16 :street clashes: shot palestinian crawling away;

07:20 :israeli soldier punching palestinian;

07:22 :palestinian rioters running as teargas hits, little boy

looking on stock-still;

07:26 :escaping palestinian youth being shot, screaming, falling;

07:34 :israeli soldier aiming gun and shooting;

07:45 :Hebron mosque massacre victim being transported on

bonnet of car;

07:49 :orthodox jewish settler looking;

07:55 :palestinians burning israeli flag;

07:58 :aftermath of Hamas suicide bomb in northern israel;

wrecked car and bus;

08:03 :rescue workers holding up drip-feed;

08:07 :night-shot Buenos Aires destroyed high-rise; salvage

and emergency workers drawing back as wall of rubble

crashes down;

08:13 :still of young israeli soldier kidnapped by islamic

fundamentalists;

08:16 :his mourning mother lighting candle on candle-holder

08:26 :high shot of bus wreckage in Tel Aviv/aftermath of

Hamas bomb;

08:32 :Hamas video of suicide bomber;

08:35 :funeral of israeli victims; mourners in distress;

08:43 :Gaza clashes: hamas supporters running, being shot at,

carrying wounded, ls vehicle on fire;

08:59 :plo flag being hoisted;

Arafat standing to attention;

UK/IRELAND

(Cease-fire)

09:10 :Sinn Fein supporters cheering along Belfast road; supporters

lining street holding up Gerry Adams posters; (ITN)

09:22 :Adams, Sinn Fein President, sot 'to join with us... to join

with all of the people of this island';(ITN)

09:29 :former uvf (ulster volunteer force) leader Augustus "Gusty"

Spence sot on the ceasefire;(ITN)

09:35 :civilians celebrating ceasefire, banging metal lids against

doors and onto pavement;(ITN)

(Bombings)

09:44 :british armed soldiers running along Belfast street

towards smoke of explosion

in building in middle distance;(ITN)

09:50 :night shot roped off telephone booth, pan down to covered

body; car with smashed rear windscreen; covered body

lying on ground; (ITN)

09:59 :ms policemen searching Heathrow airport for bombs, air-uk

airbus rolling past in background; (ITN)

10:03 :Belfast wedding attack: cu bride and groom in church int

turning towards siren sound, ducking; (ITN)

10:15 :army barracks next door on fire from mortar attack, man in

church forecourt, lying on ground, blown off wheelchair;

man and woman rushing forward to cam (woman pushing disabled

woman on wheelchair) to cam; wedding guests sot

commenting on attack; (ITN)

10:30 :anti-terrorist advertisement: gunman entering pub & spraying

it with bullets; (ITN)

10:42 :funeral cortege advancing along village streets; (ITN)

10:54 :Loughisland pub: int of bombed bar; (ITN)

11:04 :cu mourners, boy holding flower; high shot of funeral

procession; (ITN)

11:12 :Gerry Adams arriving in USA at airport;

cheering supporters; (ITN)

11:22 :anti-Adams protestors holding up placards; (ITN)

11:25 :protester sot to Adams about being tortured; (ITN)

11:33 :British soldiers on Belfast streets wearing

berets (instead of helmets); (ITN)

11:44 :marauding youths on roof being targeted

by water-cannon; (ITN)

11:51 :commercial promoting prosperity and peace (ITN)

CHINA

(Trade)

12:11 :high shot trading floor, brokers bidding;

12:15 :factory yard full of containers & trucks carrying containers;

:int trading floor, stock brokers dealing frantically;

12:19 :models in fashion show walking on catwalk;

12:22 :factory int., workers working, machinery;

12:27 :automobile show, paper dragon being moved about; female

dancers promoting cars;

(Human rights issue)

12:51 :american secretary of state for human rights John Shattuck

sot on China's status as "Most Favoured Nation" being

dependent on human rights progress;

12:57 :cut to officials at table including William Perry

at American table, pan to facing table of chinese republic

officials;

13:06 :film of political prisoners eating cake;

13:15 :Tiananmen Square anniversary demo and police;

:policeman running towards cam forbidding filming;

:us president clinton part underlay sot on us decision

to back down on human rights demands;

SOUTH KOREA (TRADE)

13:32 :high shot of demo, farmers protesting against foreign

imports;

protestors hitting out at heavily protected riot police;

fire from petrol bomb, black smoke;

EUROPE

13:46 :Fish stock battles: fishermen throwing projectiles

onto other trawler; fishermen throw burning object towards

trawler (but missing);

14:03 :confrontations in France over minimum wage: young

demonstrators facing riot police; wall of police shields;

police running after demonstrators;

14:15 :anti-fur campaign in fashion world: models (incl. Naomi

Campbell) naked behind anti-fur banner, models

singing sot on better to be naked than wearing fur;

RUSSIA

14:27 :Capitalism and corporate crashes: crowd of investors (losers

in collapse of MMM); man holding up paper money, ripping it

apart, throwing it away; ls crowd chanting

14:42 :Group of seven summit: group shot zoom in on Yeltsin sot

'today we are eight'

Yeltsin in "high spirits":

14:50 :in Berlin, joining in 'Kalinka' song (slurring words);

USA

(Trouble for the President)

(Mid-Term Elections)

15:22 :republican sen. Mitt Romnay sot

'the tide of change is rising';

15:26 :Clinton sot 'no,no,no';

15:29 :republ. sen. William Cohen sot on cloud over presidency

15:36 :republ.congressman Bill Archer sot promising fairness

towards democrats;

15:51 :Clinton sot accepting share of responsibility in election

results;

15:57 :night shot Bill and Chelsea Clinton and other girl;

(Assassination attempts)

16:05 :Whitehouse plane crash: entrance to White House, pan/zoom to

plane wreckage against white house wall;

16:15 :gunman's bullet hole in White House wall;

:perimeter fence and guards;

16:25 :Clinton jokes sot 'it was nice to be home in the security

and safety of the White House after going to

the Middle East';

(sexual harassment case)

16:29 :Paula Jones cu Jones sot description of

alleged incident with Bill Clinton;

(Whitewater affair)

16:43 :protestors sot 'stop the cover-up';

:plane pulling banner slogan "Reveal Your S & L Income!";

16:48 :rep.sen. Phil Gramm demanding answers;

16:53 :av of Arkansas territory;

17:01 :Hillary trying and at first repeatedly failing to break

bottle against hull of ship at launching ceremony;

17:07 :Bill Clinton sot on Hillary's innocence;

17:14 :Hillary sot admitting she'd made mistakes;

17:18 :Bill Clinton sot '...the American people can worry about

something else..';

(Mid-Term Election Results)

17:24 :winner governor elect of Texas George Bush Jnr sot on

victory;

17:33 :winner governor elect of N.York George Pataki sot on victory;

17:39 :republ. congressman Newt Gingrich sot on historic night;

17:54 :loser Oliver North sot on normal people of Virginia;

18:08 :Charles Robb, senator for Virginia, sot lambasting North;

18:26 :Jackie Onassis obit :still;

:pall-bearers carrying coffin;

:file Jackie with JF Kennedy at wedding, dancing with JFK;

:coffin being pushed into hearse; file of Dallas motorcade

before JFK shooting; Jackie in mourning; av of cemetery;

19:37 :Richard Nixon obituary: coffin being carried to cemetery;

:file b/w Nixon being cheered;

:Nixon sot on resigning presidency;

:Ronald Reagan at funeral; Jimmy Carter and wife at funeral;

(Ronald Reagan Alzheimer's diagnosis)

20:05 :Reagans up stairs

:Ronald Reagan still; cu his letter announcing he has

Alzheimer's;

ENTERTAINMENT

20:19 :Forrest Gump: clip (restricted)

20:39 :Lion King clip; (restricted)

20:48 :bus jumps over ramp clip; (restricted)

20:51 :unidentified film clip; (restricted)

20:53 :Hugh Grant & Elizabeth Hurley arrive at premiere;

20:57 :Godzilla clip; (restricted)

21:02 :camera crew film actors performing; (restricted)

21:04 :Pret-A-Porter film clip; (restricted)

21:19 :Stephen Spielberg speech accepting Oscar; (restricted)

21:27 :Jessica Tandy obituary: film stills; (restricted)

21:37 :Melina Mercouri obituary: film stills; (restricted)

21:43 :Joseph Cotten obituary:stills; (restricted)

21:52 :Burt Lancaster obituary: film posters; (restricted)

:film stills; (restricted)

22:08 :George Peppard obituary: stills; (restricted)

22:22 :John Candy obituary: still;

22:33 :Raul Julia obituary: (restricted)

:film poster; still;(restricted)

22:46 :Peter Cushing obituary: film stills; (restricted)

22:56 :Cab Calloway obituary: still; (restricted) :

(Michael Jackson marriage, child sex allegations)

23:06 :Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley out of house and

greeting press;

23:15 :Michael on stage performing; (restricted)

23:23 :Michael kissing kids;

23:26 :lawyer sot "...no admission of guilt..."

(Trials)

23:33 :Lorena Bobbitt enters court;

:Mrs Bobbitt in witness box sot

:celebrations outside court;

23:55 :Heidi Fleiss in court, rear shot dropping her head on

table in despair, lifting head turning to cam;

24:04 :Fleiss flanked by policemen walking;

24:08 :Waco Branch Davidian survivors hug each other; (No re-use/re-sale)

24:14 :file Waco on fire; (No re-use/re-sale )

24:17 :David Koresh speaking in seminar;

24:20 :cu weeping man '...we lost 85 of our friends and family';

24:30 :Tonya Harding goes to court;

24:36 :female court official sot on Harding's probation;

:Harding signs document;

24:53 :Harding exhibition, pan to Harding; cu of Harding's portrait;

25:01 :Los Angeles District Attorney Garcetti sot Mr Simpson is a

fugitive; (No re-use/re-sale)

25:10 :av of OJ Simpson car chase, police cars in pursuit;

25:28 :OJ Simpson and wife still;

25:33 :media, tv van and satellite dishes etc outside court room,

tv crew;

25:37 :OJ Simpson in court sot '...not guilty'; (No re-use/re-sale)

25:44 :prosecution lawyer sot 'these two young victims

have been murdered;

(World Soccer Championship)

25:58 :fans cheering;

:unident. men clapping; fans driving past in car

holding Italian flag;

26:10 :night shot cheering fans in fountain celebrating

:vs soccer player stills;

CUBA

26:49 :refugees setting sail for USA;

26:59 :men carrying home-made craft;

27:03 :ms of sailing craft; ship's crew, pan down to

refugees in boat;

27:12 :young refugee woman with crying infant;

27:14 :Havana street protest, cubans sot shouting 'Libertad!';

overturned garbage containers, men on bicycles ;

27:21 :Fidel Castro looking glumly determined;

27:25 :av overloaded boat;

27:27 :empty raft in sea;

27:30 :f/g barbed wire of camp, refugees walking past behind it;

27:37 :high shot anti-us rally; Uncle Sam effigy being burned;

HAITI

27:52 :Jean-Bertrand Aristide and Clinton listening to anthem;

27:58 :Clinton sot about America championing other countries' cause;

28:12 :cu Haitian soldiers;

28:14 :high shot Raoul Cedras beside other high official;

28:19 :cu dust-covered hand, rope around wrist, on ground;

28:21 :bodies (bloody) on street;

28:28 :skull and bones strewn on ground

28:31 :ms Cite Soleil slum, children playing in garbage;

28:36 :cu distended belly of child;

28:40 :emaciated infant sitting up in hospital cot;

28:43 :overloaded sailing vessel in rough seas;

28:45 :refugees spilling out of boat alongside rescue ship

and climbing up;

(USA troops sent in)

28:54 :us helicopter approaching landing;

us marines off helicopter, lying down on ground and aiming

guns;

29:04 :haitians cheering and clapping, welcoming us troops;

29:09 :police violence: policeman pursuing man and clubbing him;

29:15 :man crouching in gutter being clubbed by policemen as he tries

to get up, limping away;

29:23 :us marine sot on witnessing police brutality;

29:30 :pro-Aristide signs being held up in rally;

29:34 :Aristide arriving, off plane;

29:39 :high shot cheering crowd; us marines looking on

SOMALIA

(US intervention)

29:51 :ms us marines, carrying their kit, stand in line;

29:54 :pro General Aydid demo, cheering and clapping supporters;

:cu Aydid in walkabout, having garland hung around neck;

(18 US soldiers killed and troop withdrawal)

30:03 :us military landing craft in water;

30:08 :gunship, city in background;

30:14 :rear shot following gunmen on dusty road, some running, one

with machine gun on truck;

IRAQ/KUWAIT

Gulf crisis averted

30:25 :monument of tank;

30:29 :Clinton sot on Iraq misjudging American power;

30:33 :up shot long row of tanks; tank turning around;

30:39 :int government building, Saddam Hussein smiling, pullout to

reveal delegates in meeting;

NORTH/SOUTH KOREA

30:50 :av pan along border;

30:55 :Jimmy Carter visiting Pyongyang, shaking hands with Kim

Il-Sung

30:59 :staged rally glorifying Kim Il-Sung;

31:02 :Il-Sung kissing little girl;

31:09 :mass mourning on death of Kim Il Sung: frenzied public grief;

31:14 :cu little girl crying

31:17 :Kim Jong Il int walks at head of visiting mourners

31:19 :cu body of Kim Il-Sung

31:27 :Deng Xiao Ping looking frail, shaking hands with man;

CAMBODIA

31:36 :King Norodom Sihanouk arriving in Beijing, off plane

supported by helper;

(Government troops take Khmer stronghold)

31:42 :rear shot government troops firing artillery gun;

31:44 :target in jungle to left of hut being hit by

shelling, exploding;

31:50 :government troops driving past in tank in Paillin;

(Khmer Rouge counter-offensive)

31:57 :van bogged down; refugees walking to cam on jungle road;

32:07 :King Norodom Sihanouk sot on deteriorating situation;

32:14 :western hostages Mark Slater,David Wilson

and Jean-Michel Braquet;

32:29 :cu hostage Mark Slater sot '...it seems like the bombing is

aimed at us...'

VIETNAM

(Relations Restored With USA)

32:44 :men digging trench;

32:54 :file Vietnam war battle, stretchered us casualties;

:pan over graves in cemetery;

33:09 :us servicemen placing casket with remains on bier

at airport, aircraft in background;

:caskets being carried into aircraft;

JAPAN

33:25 :Korean "comfort women" street protest

33:35 :assassination attempt on PM Morihiro Hosakawa; pile of men

overpowering armed man;

33:43 :Hosakawa walking amidst media and waiting crowd;

33:47 :Tsutomu Hata sitting between others in gov reception room;

33:54 :Tomiichi Murayama sideshot sot Japanese apology for

Japan's war record

34:02 :"comfort women" performing show on stage

AFGHANISTAN

34:11 :mortar launched towards Kabul;

34:14 :little girl scrambling in ruins; women wearing yashmak, ruins

in b/g;

34:19 :rear shot of guerilla shooting from behind lookout;

34:24 :cu crying child

34:27 :girl with bandaged leg-stump lying on hospital bed;

34:29 :girl in distress;

ANGOLA

34:34 :people fleeing: crowd scrambling onto airplane,

gangway having been removed, people being pulled up;

34:40 :guards clubbing someone in crowd;

34:51 :young woman in distress;

CHECHNYA

34:55 :crowd shot, barrell of gun sticking out above heads;

34:58 :rebels in truck shooting a round;

35:02 :fighter plane flying;

35:04 :oil refinery on fire; ms damaged planes,

column of black smoke in b/g;

BOSNIA

35:13 :Painting: quill being extracted from ink-pot;

drawing picture of face in pain;

35:35 :woman being comforted, weeping people hugging;

young woman lying on hospital bed crying;

36:13 :explosion of ruined buildings;

39:19 :cu spent shell on ground; old woman tentatively leaving

doorway;

36:23 :cu young girl in hospital bed looking up;

36:36 :ls young boys on street, sound of shots, boys screaming,

falling, zoom in to boy in pain;

36:41 :family being reunited;

36:48 :cu detail of painting, pullout;

civilians running on street;

36:59 :painting illustrating war;

37:02 :dead bodies (gruesome);

37:13 :cu painting of carnage;

37:15 :badly wounded in hospital ward;

37:22 :Haris Siladzic, Bosnian PM, SOT on

NATO planes monitoring genocide;

37:31 :un warplanes at airport; lift-off; un tanks;

37:53 :wildly gesticulating protestor in anti-UN demo,

Boutros-Boutros Ghali coming out of meeting,

Rose & other un military in background;

38:00 :mortar hitting target, exploding, debris falling;

38:07 :high shot of CSCE negotiating hall;

38:10 :zoom in on painting of man;

RWANDA

(Presidential plane shot down)

38:15 :AV jungle, waterfall,zoom in on dead human bodies in water;

38:31 :man covering nose in foreground, man loading body onto

truck in background;

38:35 :man standing looking at black smoke rising from behind huts;

38:46 :ls of Kigali target being hit by shell;

38:49 :market traders and shoppers scrambling

away to sound of shots

38:39 :Rwandan pres. Juvenal Habyarimana shaking hands with

unidentified white man;

38:54 :street strewn with rubble, ms armed man gesticulating

with weapon to cam to move away;

39:00 :shot from un truck with un peacekeepers shooting; following

vehicle convoy;

39:09 :truck with foreign nationals being evacuated;

39:13 :cut to bodies of dead civilians on ground;

39:19 :ls of group of people, one man clubbing another,

victim falling to gorund, man clubbing

him again;

39:23 :evacuee sot on how rwandans kill each

other worse than animals;

39:32 :covered bodies of dead lying on ground pan up to

building with religious motif above entrance;

39:41 :refugees clamouring behind wire fence, little boy

crying;

39:45 :refugees, holding out paper money trading with salesman;

39:49 :armed men jogging past cam;

:RWANDA/TANZANIA/BURUNDI/ZAIRE

39:54 :mass of refugees laden with possessions along road

as far as the eye can see, zoom towards end;

40:06 :soldiers supervising small crying boy carrying rolled

up bedding;

40:14 :group of scrambling refugees, retreating cameraman filming at

their head; refugees rushing towards border bridge; pan to

bridge and armed soldiers monitoring crossing;

40:23 :ws crowded camp, smoke rising, littered with garbage;

40:37 :little boy carrying baby;

40:41 :sick boy being laid next to other boy in truck by

Medecins Sans Frontieres worker;

40:46 :aid worker carrying child's corpse;

40:54 :shot from back of truck containing wrapped bodies;

aid workers wearing face masks roll body

onto pile of other bodies;

40:58 :mass of covered bodies, pan down to

infant holding onto dead body

41:01 :mechanical digger digging mass grave;

41:02 :men carrying body;

41:06 :child and very emaciated (dying?) woman on mat;

41:12 :cu of hand off edge of cover going limp;

41:18 :weak young boy leaning back onto rope of tent;

41:22 :cu child pan up to mother scooping water

out of can and pouring drops over her head;

41:27 :av camp, crowded and smoky;

41:36 :cut to walking feet of refugees;

41:41 :cut to refugees along road carrying possessions;

41:44 :little girl in front of mother carrying water

container;

41:48 :bent over old lady with stick precariously walking being

supported by soldier;

41:51 :cu little boy, tears running down face

GERMANY

42:00 :Erich Honecker obituary: face of dead

Honecker visible through

glass panel of coffin;

42:09 :file Hoenecker side shot ca to room showing officials, &

cameramen filming;

42:18 :Berlin street news vendor; cu newspaper front page

showing pix of sick Hoenecker and headline on his death;

42:30 :Berlin vox pop on Hoeneker doing much for the people;

42:36 :Hoenecker meeting Gorbachev, shaking hands, kissing;

42:42 :file wwII cannon firing, house being hit;

42:45 :soviet soldiers, one looking through binoculars,

the other on field telephone;

42:48 :soviet soldiers firing up artillery gun;

42:52 :Brandenburg Gate, Berlin in ruins;

(Allied Forces Withdrawal From City)

42:54 :night (high) shot Brandeburg Gate, crowd

:John Major, Helmut Kohl and Klaus Kinkel;

43:02 :torches, military insignia being carried by german soldiers

marching;

43:11 :Russian troops "returning home": cu boots marching;

FRANCE

(D-Day Anniversary Commemorations)

43:27 :soldiers in landing craft holding canadian,

british and us flags;

43:32 :side shot landing craft speeding towards land;

43:36 :military bandsman blowing bugle;

43:41 :veterans standing to attention

43:48 :us pres Clinton sot 'we stand on sacred soil...'

44:59 :still Eisenhower;

(Recreation Of Normandy Landings)

44:08 :cu military bandsman blowing bugle;

45:15 :ls parachutes dropping, plane flying;

45:20 :veterans wearing medals, watching display;

45:25 :ls landing craft on beach, soldiers marching in formation,

45:30 :soldiers bearing flags of different countries;

45:32 :planes flying in formation;

45:35 :av Bayeux cemetery, monument to fallen soldiers;

44:42 :veterans listening to speech;

44:49 :british officer sot "age shall not weary them etc."

Douglas Hurd standing nearby;

44:52 :pan of graves;

(Paris Ceremony Of Liberation)

45:06 :ms parade young people running in formation through

Paris avenue carrying white, blue & yellow cloth and

balloons; through Arc de Triomphe;

45:27 :Nazi collaborator Paul Touvier convicted:

night shot demo protestors shouting, holding up

placards, chanting;

45:36 :Touvier in court;

UK/FRANCE

(Channel Tunnel Opens)

45:45 :Queen Elizabeth II and Francois Mitterrand

chatting; (ITN)

45:49 :train driving slowly towards cam, pan driving past; (ITN)

45:53 :control panel in train engine room, driver pressing button;

driving into tunnel, shot from engine room; (ITN)

45:58 :train emerging from tunnel; av train approaching station;

arriving in station; (ITN)

46:10 :engines apparently driving towards each other from

opposite directions; (ITN)

ITALY

(Election Campaign)

46:14 :Silvio Berlusconi, jubilant in crowd, being congratulated;

46:24 :night shot supporters in car celebrating, driving past;

supporter on motorbike; crowd jumping up and down;

pan to supporters giving neo-fascist salute;

46:39 :Gianfranco Fini holding megaphone;

46:45 :ls parliament, zoom to Berlusconi holding speech;

(Anti-Government Demonstrations)

46:56 :high vs demo, demonstrators clapping;

47:01 :protestors carrying coffin bearing anti-government

slogan;

GERMANY

47:06 :Chancellor Kohl re-elected for 5th time: being

handed flowers by party functionary; supporters clapping;

Kohl pats unident.man on shoulder, pullback to audience;

IRELAND

(Albert Reynolds Resigns)

47:22 :cu Albert Reynolds in car sot about

never being disappointed; (restricted)

47:26 :high shot Dublin parliament; (restricted)

47:29 :Reynolds holding speech (restricted)

SWEDEN/ESTONIA

(Ferry Estonia Sinking)

47:37 :cloudy sky,cut to av windswept sea, red object floating

in water;

47:44 :printouts of sonar images of Ferry Estonia

47:51 :underwater cu writing visible on body of ferry;

SEYCHELLES

(Achille Lauro Fire)

47:55 :file av of Achille Lauro

48:00 :people evacuated: lifeboats half-way down side of

boat; one lifeboat being rowed away;

48:05 :rescue boat with crew blowing up and throwing

life-boat into water;

48:07 :av burning Achille Lauro;

UK (DOMESTIC)

(Titanic exhibition)

48:17 :file still of newsboy holding up newspaper with

headlines 'titanic Disaster Great Loss of Life'; (ITN)

48:21 :still of Titanic; (ITN)

48:23 :underwater of Titanic; lifejacket from Titanic (ITN)

(DISASTERS)

48:35 :4-way split of forthcoming shots

AUSTRALIA

48:42 :bush fires burning;

48:48 :av Sydney, thick pall of smoke;

48:54 :woman trying to fight fire with hosepipe

49:07 :firefighters at work;

49:09 :plane drops water onto burning house;

49:13 :kangaroos fleeing up charred embankment;

49:17 :small marsupial in white towel being nursed;

49:19 :koala bear lying down, with bandaged paws, lifting head;

EGYPT

49:23 :Darnaka disaster: black smoke rising from plant in b/g;

flooded village;

49:30 :villagers wending their way along muddy road,

woman wailing and crying;

49:38 :waters rushing through streets

CHINA

49:36 :(Typhoon Fred) strong waves battering houses on sea front,

pedestrians wading in water;

49:42 :harbour aftermath: boat stranded and wrecked on land;

USA

49:48 :Los Angeles earthquake: seismograph needle moving violently;

49:51 :cam advancing in between earth fissure pan up above ground;

cut to collapsed highway;

50:06 :Malibu rainstorms and mudslides: av rubble of house

swept down embankment above highway;

50:14 :tornadoes: lighting on horizon;

av aftermath of devastated housing;

50:26 :cu crying child being comforted;

SWITZERLAND

50:35 :Cult mass suicide: high shot of smoking gutted

house, valley in b/g;

50:37 :smoking debris and car wreck in woodland;

50:41 :salvage workers moving wrapped body from stretcher

onto grass next to two other bodies; int of cult house;

COLOMBIA

50:53 :Andres Escobar (shot by angry football fan) : still of

Escobar; (restricted)

still of fans holding up

banner "...stop coward killers" (restricted)

SPORT

51:03 :Ayrton Senna obituary: stills (restricted)

51:14 :Vitas Gerulaitis obit: funeral;

51:19 :Gerulaitis playing tennis;

51:24 :Martina Navratilova retires: stills; (restricted)

51:29 :George Forman (having won World heavyweight Championship)

sot "I'm going to kill one of these fools"

51:39 :file Forman 1969 at presser, poster of Forman vs Muhammad

Ali in background, sot '...you can't brag about tomorrow...'

UK (ROYALS)

(House Of Windsor On The Brink Of Collapse?)

51:50 :front covers of magazines and books showing members of

royal family; (ITN)

52:57 :pack of playing cards showing members of royal family;

house of cards collapsing; (ITN)

:queen Elizabeth II on balcony waving (also Prince

Phillip, Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother); (ITN)

WORLD POPULATION CONFERENCE - PAKISTAN

52:52 :Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto sot 'we are a planet

moving towards catastrophe';

ls audience in conference centre;

53:01 :cut to pres Mubarak and Boutros-Boutros Ghali sitting

listening; delegates clapping;

53:05 :Phillipines Cardinal Syn puts torch to

pornographic literature

:"No to abortion" banner, pullback to show Filipino

anti-abortion rally;

53:19 :Cardinal Syn sot on point of rally

VATICAN

53:26 :(Pope ill) cu Pope John Paul II's trembling hands

in prayer; pan up to his face, pained expression;

53:40 :display showing pope's record, cd and book on theology

SPACE

53:47 :earth from space;

53:49 :file JF Kennedy's moon speech sot '...we chose to go to the

moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but

because they are hard...';

1969 NASA commentary sot '...we have lift-off'

54:13 :Neil Armstrong speech on moon sot 'this is one small

step for man, one giant leap for mankind',

b/w stills of moon;

54:32 :computer-enhanced shots of supernova

54:37 :computer-enhanced shots of spiral galaxy

54:43 :animation of black hole

54:49 :volcano on Earth erupting seen from space,

54:56 :animation of comets colliding with Jupiter

55:30 :scientists cheer watching monitor (presumably of

Jupiter shots);

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

55:35 :Information Super Highway animation & graphics;

55:42 :cu fibre optic cables being unreeled by workmen

composite of screens, panel, keyboard, operators,

graphics;

56:04 :California University prof. Ben Stein sot '...we

already have a giant information super-highway

called a library...'.

World News Review 2002

00:00 Titles

Terrorism

10:00:30

Bali bomb

In October, terrorists with suspected links to Al Qaida struck in the heart of Indonesia's tourist centre, setting off two enormous bombs outside two busy nightclubs. More than 180 people, many of them Australians, were killed. Dozens were injured

Following the blast, the popular Sari club and other nightspots around it were a mass of smouldering ruins. Witnesses described scenes of terror immediately after the explosion in the town of Kuta. Bloodied survivors fled the club, some with limbs blown off. Cars and motorbikes on the road in front were alight, forming a wall of flames blocking people's escape.

For the first time, Indonesia's government acknowledged Al Qaida was active on its soil, prompting a huge crackdown on extremists.

A week after the bombing, family and friends of those who died joined in a memorial service near the site of the blast. Relatives took the opportunity to survey the damage, stopping to pray in front of the hundreds of flowers left in memory of those who died.

APTN

Kuta, Bali

13/10/2002

Night shots -

Pull out burning building

Various shots of corpses

Firemen with hose

Various shots of burnt out cars with blackened corpses

Various shots of corpses

Various shots rescue workers remove body

Pan burnt out vehicles

Day shots

Various shots burning buildings

Zoom in burnt arm hanging our of car window

Two shots of bomb/fire damaged buildings

Various aerials of the blast site

Wide shot through wreckage of firefighters spraying water at smoking remains of building

Area destroyed by blast and fire

Various shots of emergency workers carrying Western woman on stretcher

(in hospital) SOUNDBITE (English) Ryan James (16), Injured holiday maker from Sydney

"I was in the club, the Sari club, we heard a loud noise, an explosion and then we turned round to see what it was and then before we could say anything there was another huge explosion right next to us and I was on the ground."

Tilt down wall register of patients in hospital

20/10/2002

Various people walking around bomb wreckage before memorial service for victims of the bombing

People praying in front of flowered shrine

SOUNDBITE (English) Rob Lewis, Father of victim

"A lot of different mixed emotions running through me. Anger, sadness - words just can't explain it, you know. I lost my son over there. Sorry man."

10:03:39

The Faces of Indonesian Terrorism

The Bali bombings threw the spotlight on Indonesia's main fundamentalist Islamic group, Jemaah Islamiyah. APTN obtained pictures of fighters from the group in training - alongside members of the Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group which operates in the Philippines In an interview, the man said to be the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Dakar Bashir, spoke out strongly against the United States.

APTN

Indonesia, 2001 (exact date and location unknown)

Lines of Jemaah Islamiyah fighters marching with weapons

Fighters stepping on each others bodies

Fighters watch martial arts demonstration

Cianjur, West Java, 23 September, 2002

Alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Dakar Bashir reading magazine

SOUNDBITE (Bahasa Indonesia) Abu Dakar Bashir, alleged leader of Jemaah Islamiyah

"My message to Americans is to warn their arrogant government. The current American president is the worst American president ever. The actions of the American government at the moment may bring harm to the American people."

10:04:25

The Moscow Siege

Terrorism also hit Europe in October, when Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theatre during the staging of a musical, taking hundreds of people captive. 18 of the attackers were women. They mined the theatre and threatened to blow it up unless Russian President Vladimir Putin withdrew troops from Chechnya. On the day the theatre was seized, some people managed to escape, as seen in dramatic footage filmed by Moscow's rescue services.

Three days later, in a pre-dawn raid, Russian special forces stormed the building, killing the 41 militants. At least 129 of the hostages also died, most of them felled by a narcotic gas used to knock out the rebels before the special forces stormed in. Russia held a national day of mourning for the victims amid rising criticism of the authorities over the number of hostages killed in the operation. Doctors treating the survivors complained their work had been hampered by not knowing exactly what gas had been used by the special forces. Many of the survivors were loaded unconscious onto buses outside the theatre after their rescue.

APTN

Moscow 23 and 24 October 2002

Various armoured personnel carriers encircling the theatre that was under siege

Mid shot elite Russian troops

Moscow Rescue Services

Moscow 23, October, 2002

(Night shots and mute)

Wide shot armed security officers in cover beside wall one officer takes aim with handgun

Three women run out of building, along wall and take cover with security officers

Three women running

APTN

Moscow 26, October, 2002 - Night shots

Various emergency vehicles, lights flashing, moving in to receive the wounded

Various troops milling around

Various wide of theatre with gunfire and explosions inside

Troops move into position inside building

Exterior shot of soldiers with arrested person

Russian Federal Security Bureau

Moscow 26, October, 2002 - Interior shots of theatre (mute)

Mid shot floor covered in shattered glass

Various dead female hostage takers slumped in theatre chairs

Various of dead man in civilian clothes lying on floor

Grenades, explosives and other military equipment

APTN

Moscow, 26, October, 2002

Close shot of notice saying the name of the play, Nord Ost, that was playing when the siege began

Various shots of man hugging crying woman outside hospital

Doctors in hospital attending to a former hostage

Various night shots of scene after special forces raided theatre

APTN

Moscow 28, October, 2002

Wide shot theatre, pan to flowers and tributes outside

Close up flowers and candles

SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nadeshda, Muscovite

"People need to know the whole truth - what kind of gas was used, what is the treatment against its side effects and what consequences it could bring. People have the right to know the truth."

10:06:58

Iraq

The United States mounted pressure on Iraq, saying the country was part of an axis of evil supporting and funding terrorism. The topic was an important part of discussions in Texas between US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who agreed the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein in power.

Then, the Washington Post newspaper reported it had uncovered a leaked White House plan to topple Saddam with US special forces troops and CIA agents. The plan won wide support from US political leaders. In September the British government consolidated its position of cooperation with the US when Blair released a dossier of evidence of the military capabilities of Saddam Hussein. The document claimed the Iraqi leader was trying to acquire nuclear weapons and had extended its range of ballistic missiles.

Iraq responded by taking international journalists to sites that the US believed were used to develop weapons of mass destruction, in a bid to discredit the claims.

Iraq maintained that one site, suspected by the US of being a factory for the production of chemical and biological agents, 100 kilometres west of Baghdad, was nothing more than a pesticide factory. And Iraq announced on September 16th that it would allow UN weapons inspectors back into the country.

Meanwhile, the US media war was also mounting. In Defence department briefings, journalists were shown video of Iraqi anti-aircraft missiles being fired at US and British warplanes patrolling over the no-fly zones. US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said it was proof Iraq regularly violated UN resolutions.

While the United States went on the diplomatic attack, Saddam Hussein tried to remain defiant. But he could not ignore a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for the disarmament of Iraq under the observation of United Nations weapons inspectors. The resolution, which was approved by every member of the council, said if Iraq did not disarm it would face 'serious consequences' that would almost certainly mean war. The leaders of the US and Britain hailed the resolution.

Iraqi TV

Baghdad - April 7, 2002

Mid shot Saddam Hussein during meeting with top military brass

POOL

Crawford, Texas - April 6, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister

"Would the region, the world and not least the ordinary Iraqi people be better off without the regime of Saddam Hussein? The only answer that anyone can give to that question would be 'yes.'"

SOUNDBITE (English) George W Bush, United States President

"He's a man who obviously has something to hide. He told the world that he would show us he would not develop weapons of mass destruction and yet over the past decade he's refused to do so."

APTN

Washington DC - June 16, 2002

Various shots of Washington Post article covering the leaked White House plan

Iraqi TV

Baghdad - January 20, 2002

Close up Saddam Hussein

Pan to Iraqi officials

APTN

London - September 24, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Beaver, Military Intelligence Expert (talking about British dossier of evidence against Iraq)

"There was no single killer fact in this document which I was looking for but what there is is a body of evidence that leads me to conclude that Saddam Hussein is a threat militarily."

APTN

Nassr/Taji Steel Fabrication and Military Production Facility, 25 kilometres north of Baghdad - 10 October, 2002

Exterior factory with military being escorted inside

Wide pan interior factory

Iraqi factory, 100 kilometres west of Baghdad - August 28, 2002

Various of reporters entering the site, suspected of being chemical and biological agents factory

Pan of barrels containing pesticides

SOUNDBITE (English) Husam Mohammed Ameen, Head of the Iraqi National Monitoring Commission

"The monitoring inspection teams visited this site tens of times, I can say more than 250 times visited this location and it has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction."

APTN

Washington DC - Septmber 30, 2002

Predator video showing an Iraqi two-missile battery swivelling in a circle and then firing on a coalition plane in the southern no-fly zone (July 2001)

London - November 8, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister

"Saddam must now make his choice and my message to him is this, disarm or face force, there must be no more games, no more deceit, no more prevarication, obstruction or defiance."

POOL

Washington DC - November 8, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) George W Bush, US President

"The resolution approved today presents the Iraqi regime with a test - a final test."

Cutaway

SOUNDBITE (English) George W Bush, US President

"The outcome of the current crisis is determined - the full disarmament of weapons of mass destruction by Iraq will occur."

10:10:05

Pakistan

In January 2002 Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl, was kidnapped while trying to interview the leader of a radical Muslim faction with purported links to the al Qaida network. A month later the US State Department announced his death in captivity after Pakistani authorities received a video containing footage of Pearl in captivity and his death. In July, four men, including British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, were convicted of the slaying.

Then, in June, an attacker crashed a bomb-laden vehicle into a guard post outside the US consulate in Karachi, killing himself and 11 other Pakistanis. A month later, Pakistani paramilitary commandos stormed residences in the city, arresting and charging three people with the bombing. Major General Salahuddin Satti, Director General of the Pakistan Rangers, said the trio were members of Islamic group Harkat-ul-Mujahedeen, also responsible for a suicide bombing at the city's Sheraton hotel in which 11 French engineers and three other people died.

In August there was yet another attack believed to be directed towards Western interests in Pakistan because of the government's involvement in the war against terror. Masked gunmen firing Kalashnikov rifles stormed the campus of a Christian school, killing six. Days later attackers hurled grenades at people leaving a church near a Christian hospital in Islamabad, killing three nurses. One of the attackers died in the assault.

APTN

New York - February 21, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Steiger, Wall Street Journal Managing Editor

"We know believe that, based on reports from the US State Department and police officials in the Pakistani province of Sindh, that Danny Pearl was killed by his captors."

Karachi, Pakistan - February 21, 2002

Various of suspect Fahad Naseem taken from an armoured vehicle into the court, surrounded by heavy security

APTN

Karachi, Pakistan - June 14, 2002

Tilt down from US consulate with flag to car damaged after attack by suicide bomber

Low angle shot of road outside consulate showing bomb damage

Various of damaged car

Pan from debris in road to compound

APTN

Karachi, Pakistan - July 8, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) Major General Salahuddin Satti, Director General of the Pakistan Rangers

"They wanted to damage the USA, its interests, and all the people, all the agencies which were supporting it or were friendly to it."

Various shots suspects Mohammad Hanif and Imran Rafiq at press conference

Various weapons found in raid on Karachi residences

APTN

Murree, Pakistan - August 5, 2002

Exterior of Murree Christian School, which was attacked by masked gunmen

Broken window

Bullet hole in window

Bloody sheet

Man adjusting sheets around a body

APTN

Islamabad, Pakistan - August 8, 2002

Various interiors of church showing debris and damage after attack, broken furniture, broken windows, glass on floor and benches

Shoes on ground

Dead body of attacker in mortuary

10:11:48

The Philippines

The United States sent troops to the Philippines for joint anti-terrorism exercises, designed to help the Philippines government fight its home-grown Islamic fundamentalist group, Abu Sayyaf. But there were violent clashes between police and protestors demonstrating against the US military presence. The exercises, on the southern Island of Mindanao, involved about 600 US troops. Abu Sayyaf separatists kidnapped and killed scores of Filipinos and many foreigners in the previous few years.

An American missionary couple, Gracia and Martin Burnham, was kidnapped on May 27 2001. In April 2002, the surrender of 18 Abu Sayyaf rebels raised hopes the Burnhams would be released unharmed. It followed another anti-terrorism success for the Philippines when an Indonesian man who allegedly planned a series of almost simultaneous bombings that killed 22 people in Manila in 2000 pleaded guilty to illegal possession of explosives. Fathur Al Ghozi is believed to be a key leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah, the Southeast Asian based group also believed to be behind the Bali nightclub bombings later in the year.

But, in June, more than a year after they had been kidnapped, Martin Burnham and a Filipino nurse also being held captive were killed in a shootout when US-trained commandos launched a rescue operation. Gracia was rescued. Four Abu Sayyaf members were killed and seven soldiers were wounded in the operation by Philippine commandos outfitted by the US with silencers, night vision equipment and high-tech headsets.

In August, Filipino troops raided a hideout of a kidnap gang on a US list of terrorists, rescuing two captives unharmed and killing one of the gang's leaders. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo rushed to the scene of the raid in Magallanes town in the Cavite province, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of Manila, to show her commitment to her government's campaign against criminality and insurgency. Police identified the slain kidnapper as Faisal Marohombsar, a leader of the Pentagon gang, who escaped from the National Anti-Kidnapping Task Force's detention center in Manila last June 19. The gang's kidnap victims, four-year-old Patricia Chong and her nanny, managed to escape and were rescued unharmed.

APTN

Zamboanga File

Various of US soldiers arriving for joint anti-terrorism exercises with Philippine Army

Manila - January 23, 2002

Various of anti-US protest

Manila - January 31, 2002

Protestors clashing with riot police, hitting each other with sticks

Various of protestors shouting at riot police

Protestors charging police, protestors beaten back

APTN

Zamboanga, Philippines - April 17, 2002

Abu Sayyaf prisoners alighting from military truck

Wide shot group of Abu Sayyaf prisoners

Detainees walk past in a row

Abu Sayyaf prisoners getting onto truck

APTN

Manila - January 19, 2002

Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi being escorted into news conference

Identity card

Close up Al Ghozi

APTN

Manila - December 30, 2000

Wide shot damaged light rail transit after explosion, with yellow "police line" barricade in foreground

Broken glass on the ground being cleared

APTN

Manila - June 7, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Philippine President

"I am deeply saddened over the death of Ediborah Yap and Martin Burnham who were slain in an encounter with our troops and the Abu Sayyaf this afternoon after more than a year of captivity."

Philippines Government VNR

Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo standing in front of body of slain kidnapper Faisal Marohombsar

Various of dead man

Arroyo talking to government soldier wounded during the shootout

10:13:34

The Anthrax Scare

The anthrax scare in the United States was not over either. In May, the U-S Federal Reserve reported about 20 pieces of mail tested positive for traces of anthrax in an initial screening. The tainted mail was discovered as part of routine mail testing by the Federal Reserve in a mobile trailer stationed in a courtyard at the Federal Reserve's main buildings in downtown Washington. Fed spokesman David Skidmore said some of the mail was addressed to Chairman Alan Greenspan as well as other officials.

Five people died and 13 others were sickened in autumn 2001 when anthrax-laden letters were mailed to NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, the New York Post and the Washington, D.C., offices of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Senator Patrick Leahy. A year later, the FBI had yet to name a suspect.

APTN

Washington DC - May 7, 2002

Exterior view of Federal Reserve

APTN

File

Close up slide of anthrax bacteria

Close up film of antrax

Workers sorting mail

10:14:05

Various (Richard Reid/The Pipe-bomber/ Moussaoui /Lindh/Lockerbie)

In January, US authorities declared a further victory in the war against terrorism when shoebomber Richard Reid was indicted on eight charges. The British-born man was alleged to have tried to blow up an American Airlines flight using a bomb concealed in his shoes.

Authorities also caught up with Luke Helder, suspected of planting bombs in mailboxes across the United States. The FBI says Helder placed 18 bombs in mailboxes in five states along with anti-government messages. Six people were injured in the attacks. 21-year-old Helder had six bombs with him when he was arrested. Federal government officials described the crimes as 'acts of domestic terrorism.'

From the point of view of the US authorities, one of the greatest successes in the post-September 11 anti-terrorism drive was the arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui. Moussaoui was the first person to be charged as an accomplice in the September 11 attacks. He had taken flying lessons in the United States but his family protested his innocence.

The Bush administration also announced it would charge the American man who fought with the Taliban, John Walker Lindh, with conspiracy to kill US citizens in Afghanistan. Lindh told prosecutors that he joined a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan last May and spent seven months there. Osama bin Laden visited the camp several times and on one occasion allegedly met Lindh. Lindh was taken into custody in December 2001 by US forces after a prison uprising in a fortress in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif.

Meanwhile in a Scottish court in the Netherlands Libyan intelligence agent Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi failed in his appeal against his conviction for the Lockerbie bombing. All 259 people on board Pan Am flight 103, as well as 11 people on the ground, were killed when the jet blew up in the skies over the town of Lockerbie.

POOL

Washington DC - January 16, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) John Ashcroft, US Attorney General

"This morning a Federal Grand Jury in Massachusetts returned a nine count indictment against Richard Colvin Reid. Reid is charged as an Al Qaida trained terrorist who attempted to destroy American Airlines Flight 63 with explosive devices concealed in his shoes."

APTN

Boston, Massachusetts

Slow-motion close of shoebomber Richard Reid in custody

APTN

Boston, Massachusetts - January 28, 2002

Various court sketches of Richard Reid and judge in court

POOL

Reno - May, 10, 2002

Pipe-bomber suspect Luke John Helder walks out and gets into bomb

APTN

Washington DC - January 15, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) John Ashcroft, US Attorney General

"Today I'm announcing the filing of charges against John Walker Lindh, an American citizen, who was captured in Afghanistan, fighting for the Taliban."

File - Afghanistan - December 2001

John Walker Lindh sitting with other Taliban after his capture

10:15:13

Peru Bomb

A car bomb exploded outside the U.S. Embassy in the Peruvian capital Lima just days before US President George W Bush was due in the city for meetings with his Peruvian counterpart.

Nine people were killed in the bombing and tens injured. The blast occurred at about 10:45 p.m. (0345 GMT Thursday), in front of an upscale shopping centre, in an area with popular late-night restaurants and cinemas.

APTN

Lima March 21, 2002

Building damaged by car bomb which exploded outside the US embassy

Windscreen of car shattered by bomb, pan to body covered with plastic on the street

Crowd of people in front of bank building

Police walking in debris following the explosion

10:15:40

Spain Bombs

Basque separatist group ETA continued its campaign of terror in Spain. In June there were five explosions in two days, timed to coincide with the Seville EU summit. A British man was critically wounded and five others injured in one of the explosions, in Fuengirola, 150 kilometres (90 miles) southeast of Seville.

APTN

Fuengirola - June 22, 2002

Fire officer putting out fire after bomb

Smoke and burnt vehicles

Police gathered next to fire engine

Burnt out vehicle

10:16:11

Greece Bombs

In Greece, authorities said they were close to dismantling the November 17 terrorist group, which eluded Greek, American and British authorities since 1975, when it first emerged with the killing of the CIA station chief in Athens, Richard Welch. The anti-American group has used guns, bombs and anti-tank rockets to carry out 23 killings - including those of four US military officials, two Turkish diplomats and Greek businessmen and politicians. In July 2002 prosecutors in Athens charged two suspected November 17 terrorists over a series of robberies and killings, including those of American and British military officials. At the same time, an investigating magistrate arraigned the first three November 17 suspects arrested after a police sweep began three weeks ago. They were jailed pending trial, but no court date was set. Those in custody included an alleged leader of the extreme left-wing November 17 group, which carried out bombings, assassinations and robberies with impunity for 27 years.

APTN

Athens - July 21, 2002

November 17 (Greek terrorist group) suspect Christodoulos Xiros (large man in grey t-shirt) is walked into court

Xiros, followed by his brother Vassilis Xiros (long hair), and Dionissis Georgiadis (black t-shirt)

Police officer

Suspects Iraklis Kostaris (grey t-shirt) and Costas Karatsolis are lead into court

APTN

Athens - July 10, 2002

'November 17' flag

various guns and grenades found by police

10:17:02

Bin Laden Video and Fax

Over a year after the September 11 attacks, the man widely thought to be behind them continued to elude US authorities. In September Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera broadcast new footage of the alleged leader of Al Qaida, Osama bin Laden, saying the US should brace itself for further attacks. And in October a fax purportedly from bin Laden was shown on the channel. The writer praised the attack on a French oil tanker on October 6. APTN could not independently authenticate the signature on the fax, nor confirm that the sender was indeed the world's most wanted fugitive.

APTN

Date and location unknown

File of Osama Bin Laden warning US of further attacks (Arabic with English subtitles)

Bin Laden praising September 11 hijackers (audio overlaid with stills)

Al Qaida training camp in Afghanistan (English commentary)

Reconstruction of hijackers studying maps of September 11 targets (English commentary)

APTN

October 14, 2002

Wide shot showing all six pages of fax

Pan across text - highlighted in yellow - stating as follows: "We congratulate the Islamic community for the heroic operations which our holy warriors carried out in Yemen against the oil tanker and in Kuwait against the American forces. By blowing up this tanker in Yemen, they cut the pipeline that supplies oil to the crusaders of the West, in order to remind the enemy of the heavy price they will pay in blood if they continue their crusade against our community and steal our resources. The heroic operation in Kuwait also showed the danger that American forces will face wherever they are based in Islamic countries."

Signature (highlighted in yellow) at end of document, purporting to be that of Bin Laden

Pan from previously-published signature (in green) across to signature (yellow) in this document

Afghanistan

10:19:07

The Continuing Fight

At the beginning of the year, allied troops continued to rout out Al Qaida and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

In March, allied troops took the Shah-e-Kot valley, south of Gardez. After a withering aerial barrage, they prowled the rugged mountain area to hunt out any entrenched enemy troops.

In former Taliban strongholds, pro-Taliban fighters still resisted allied troops. In Kandahar in January four suspected former Taliban fighters were captured after an hour-long gun battle in the city centre. Later that month an eight-week stand-off in Kandahar Hospital ended when allied troops blasted their way into a hospital ward and killed six al Qaida fighters who had been holed up there, refusing to surrender.

In the Gardez region, in eastern Afghanistan, heavy fighting highlighted the fragility of Afghanistan's new-found peace. The battle pitted troops loyal to Bacha Khan - a warlord aligned to Afghanistan's interim administration and working with US special forces - against troops for the local government council. The fighting broke out after the locals opposed Khan's taking of the provincial governorship. The support for Al Qaida in the area posed a real problem for allied troops as it became clear locals here were still supporting enemy troops entrenched in the surrounding mountains. Local officials even took to handing out fake money to the citizens of Gardez as a representation of the reward they would receive if they handed over Al Qaida fighters.

In Kabul, the highest figures of authority were not immune to the continuing violence. In February the minister of civil aviation was attacked and killed at Kabul airport. At first it was thought those responsible were angry pilgrims, whose journey to Mecca had been delayed. But days later the interim president Hamid Karzai announced Abdul Rahman's death was linked to a blood feud dating back to the struggle against the Taliban. Five men were wanted in connection with the killing. Two were generals and others were members of the justice ministry and the intelligence service.

In July the new administration was targeted again, this time with the assassination of Vice President Abdul Qadir. The attack took place as Al Qadir was being driven through the capital. Two gunmen fired Kalashnikovs at the car, killing Qadir and his driver.

Then in September, in the bloodiest attack in the capital since the fall of the Taliban, a powerful car bomb rocked a busy market area near the Ministry of Information. At least 22 people were killed. On the same day, in Kandahar, there was a failed assassination attempt against President Karzai. His US bodyguards wrestled to the ground and shot dead the uniformed gunman.

APTN

Shah-e-Kot, South of Gardez - March 13, 2002

Northern Alliance soldiers flying over battle area

Commander looking through binoculars

Various fighters observing fighting area with AK-47 and rocket launchers

APTN

Kandahar January 3, 2002

Anti-Taliban soldier walking with gun

Anti-Taliban soldier pointing gun

Various pro-Taliban being led away

Man being lead away

APTN

Kandahar - January 8, 2002

Close up mortar aimed at window where other Al Qaida members are barricaded in hospital

APTN

Kandahar - January 28, 2002

Various of hospital AUDIO gunshots

Various of dead fighters inside the hospital

APTN

Gardez - January 31, 2002

Wide shot of smoke rising from mountains - AUDIO gunfire and explosions

Men on truck with gun secured to back

APTN

Gardez - February 8, 2002

Soldier speaking into radio

Long shot of soldier manning gun position

APTN

Gardez - March 3, 2002

US warplanes flying over Gardez

APTN

Gardez - March 6, 2002

Close up coalition Afghan fighter standing with weapon behind back

Men standing on building throwing paper money to the crowd

Various close ups of money

Soldier aiming mortar

Hillside cave being mortared

Tilt from gun to soldier

Soldier firing mortar

Troops on ground, pan to explosion on mountainside

APTN

Shah-e-Kot - March 14, 2002

Soldiers looking at B52 planes

Road between Gardez and Kabul - March 14, 2002

Wide shot tanks driving through mountains

POOL

Bagram - April 6, 2002

Captain Lou Bauer pointing to diagram of cave complex

APTN

Kabul - 15 February 2002

Various shots of pilgrims at Kabul airport

APTN

Kabul - January 2002

Afghan Aviation Minister Abdul Rahman congratulating the crew of the first commercial flight

APTN

Kabul - July 6, 2002

Soldier standing next to wrecked vehicle

Various of front of wrecked vehicle with bullet holes in the windscreen

Various interior of vehicle

Side of wrecked vehicle against wall

APTN

Jalalalabad - April 11, 2002

Haji Abdul Qadir, Afghan Vice President who was assassinated

APTN

Kabul - September 5, 2002

Overturned car amid wreckage following blast in market which killed at least 22

Men beside fire engine pouring water near burnt out yellow car

Injured in hospital room

Police and soldiers near overturned cars

10:22:16

Prisoners

Allied troops in Afghanistan faced the difficulty of looking after and punishing the enemy troops captured over the past year.

Detainees in Sheberghan prison, the largest Taliban detention facility in Afghanistan, endured a grim reality. The cells were damp, wet underfoot and freezing cold. The US army identified every prisoner using DNA and photographs. In March several hundred prisoners were freed after spending five months in Sheberghan The US said they were young men recruited by the Al Qaida network, but who had never actually taken part in fighting.

The worst offenders were sent to the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The camp, which became known as 'Camp X-ray', was of growing concern to human rights groups. Inmates, dressed in bright orange jump suits and knitted caps, were kept in open cages and interrogated for long periods of time. They were not allowed access to their families or lawyers. But officials who visited the camp said they were in good health and able to talk freely and openly.

APTN

Sheberghan - January 19, 2002

Close up prisoners peering out of prison doors

Prisoners staring out from behind prison bars

Prisoners' footwear

Prisoners standing in pools of water in cells

APTN

Sheberghan - March 22, 2002

Prisoners looking through bars and barbed wire

APTN

Guantanamo, Cuba - January 16, 2002

Watch tower

US Defense Department

Guantanamo, Cuba - January 19, 2002

Various stills of Al Qaida prisoners at Camp X-ray

APTN

Guantanamo, Cuba - January 26, 2002

Wide of US soldiers in formation

APTN

Guantanamo, Cuba - February 10, 2002

Guard Tower

Prisoner being taken to interrogation room

10:23:12

War on Heroin Growers

The new Afghan administration was keen to prove to the world that it was taking action against the country's notorious heroin trade. Following the fall of the anti-drugs Taliban, tens of thousands of farmers rushed to start growing poppies again. Afghanistan regained its title as the world's biggest opium producer. When Karzai took office, he was quick to introduce a poppy ban, and moved to crack down on violators.

POOL

Kandahar - February 15, 2002

Various of Kandahar police standing with pile of confiscated drugs

Close up heroin

Police setting fire to the pile of drugs

APTN

Outside Jalalalabad, Nangrahar Province, Afghanistan - April 11, 2002

Various of crops being destroyed, including soldiers using rocket-propelled grenade to knock heads off poppies

10:23:39

Refugees and hunger

A combination of the years of Taliban control and a devastating drought left many people in remote areas on the brink of starvation. In the Hindu Kush area, thousands of people were found living on grassy roots and plants to survive. Abdul Ghias was one of those who had nothing with which to feed his family before aid arrived in the villages further down the mountain. He was able to fetch a sack of wheat for his family. But other more remote villages remained out of the reach of aid.

Those displaced by the years of war faced a long struggle to rebuild their lives. Despite the new administration and a fragile peace, for many life continued as before, inhabiting sprawling refugee camps, their homes destroyed.

APTN

Bonavash, Balkh Province - January 6, 2002

Man on donkey moving slowly along barren hillside

Cracked barren ground

Woman pours food into large bowl and stirs

Woman holding up the shirt of small child to show swollen stomach

APTN

Zari, Balkh Province - January 6, 2002

Abdul Ghias taking grassy clovers and eating them

Zari, Balkh Province - January 7, 2002

Abdul Ghias taking sack of food from free wheat distribution

APTN

Tasadi Refugee Camp - January 27, 2002

Various wide shots of the camp

Close up little girl

APTN

Siakhak village - January 19, 2002

Wide of aid truck passing through crowd

Villager carrying sack of wheat

Donkey with wheat on its back

Donkeys walking across snowy field

10:24:50

Disasters

Natural disaster also plagued Afghanistan, with its vulnerable geology.

In March, a massive earthquake hit the north of the country, and north-western Pakistan, killing hundreds of people and destroying homes. Road access was lost to the remote area, difficult to navigate in normal circumstances.

In February, an avalanche near the newly-reopened Salang tunnel connecting north and south Afghanistan killed five motorists. Rescuers managed to save hundreds of others trapped in the tunnel.

APTN

Nahrin - March 27, 2002

Mid shot aerial of damaged houses after earthquake

Various of land and trees moving during aftershock

People walking over destroyed buildings

Two men praying next to grave

APTN

Near Salang - February 7, 2002

Various of snow on mountain after avalanche in the region

Man walking up mountain taking water to his family

APTN

Near Salang - February

Various cars and trucks unable to get through the tunnel following the avalanche

Various of rescue vehicles

10:25:52

Return to democracy

In January, US President George W Bush received interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai in the White House. Although Bush ruled out participating in a multinational peace-keeping force in Afghanistan, the two leaders did stress the partnership between the US and Afghanistan in fighting terrorism. It was a meeting which consolidated Afghanistan's progress to democracy. In February a ceremony was held to introduce the country's new national flag. The new red, green and black flag drew comparisons to that which was flown during the reign of exiled King Zaher Shah.

But, in many ways, the country has a long way to go before becoming a stable democracy. Economically, the fragility of the local currency was highlighted when rumours of dollarisation caused its value to drop 25 percent in a day. In September Karzai announced the introduction of new 500 and 1000 afghani (Afghan currency) banknotes in a bid to boost growth and make transactions easier. Before, even small purchases in Afghanistan required the buyer to carry large bundles of notes.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan's last monarch returned to the country. King Shah spent 29 years in exile. Many Afghans hoped his return would help bring peace and prosperity. One of the reasons for his return was to preside over the grand council of tribal leaders and other Afghan representatives, or loya jirga, which took place in June.

APTN

Washington DC - January 28, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) Hamid Karzai, Interim leader of Afghanistan

"The war will go on against terrorism until we are sure that they are finished completely. Until we are sure that they are finished as an organisation, until we are sure they are finished as people hiding in caves and in the mountains, until we make sure the menace is gone."

POOL

Washington DC - January 28, 2002

Karzai listening to President George W Bush in the White House's Rose Garden

APTN

Kabul - February 5, 2002

Variuos of interim leader Hamid Karzai walking in procession ahead of ceremony to raise new Afghan flag at the presidential palace

Various of flag being raised

Long shot of new flag

APTN

Kabul - January 30, 2002

Money changing market packed with street traders

Bundles of afghanis - national currency

APTN

Kabul - September 4, 2002

Close up specimen of new 500 afghani banknote, then 1000 afghani note

APTN

Kabul - April 18, 2002

Banner of the king to welcome King Shah back to Afghanistan

Various King Zaher Shah and Hamid Karzai walking past the camera

Zaher Shah praying at tomb

APTN

Kabul - August 4, 2002

Karzai walking through the palace gardens with King Shah

10:27:26

Return to civilization

The new Afghan authorities, to a greater extent in the capital Kabul, gradually reversed social changes that had been imposed by the Taliban. Schools that had been closed reopened. Girls, who had been banned from study beyond the age of eight, returned to the classrooms. The United Nations helped launch special catch-up classes for girls who had missed education under the Taliban.

And the Kabul Weekly, post-Taliban Afghanistan's first independent newspaper, was launched. The editor said the newspaper would test the government's commitment to media freedom and help lead the country towards democracy.

Women were also able to enjoy simple freedoms that had been banned under the Taliban; going to a beauty salon, buying pictures of their favourite film stars, and not wearing a burqa. Confirming this new-found freedom was the release this year of 'Roz', a new women's magazine, funded by the French magazine, Elle.

Kabul's National Theatre also reopened for entertainment after being closed for six years under the Taliban. Damage that the building sustained during heavy fighting in 1992 was still visible but it didn't stop the audience enjoying the performance.

Music too, was heard again in Kabuls streets. At the Pamir Hotel in the heart of Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold, dozens of men quickly took up the custom of going every night to share their appreciation of music.

And more modern forms of entertainment also quickly found their way into post-Taliban society. Video arcades for games junkies and film hire outlets also sprung up across the country.

APTN

Herat - January 10, 2002

Close up entrance to girl's school gates

Various young women with faces revealed talking to each other outside school

SOUNDBITE (Dari) Zahra, School Student

"From today we can go to school again. Once again we are free to further our knowledge and education and we are very happy about this."

APTN

Kabul March 23, 2002

SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, Afghan leader

(breaking into tears) "The children at this school are the future of Afghanistan."

APTN

Kabul - January 27, 2002

Various close ups of the Kabul Weekly

Sign outside the offices of Kabul Weekly

Journalist reading the Kabul Weekly

Close up Kabul Weekly

APTN

Various shots of first edition of women's magazine 'Roz' coming off printing press

Various close-ups of magazine's front page

Various pages of the magazine

APTN

Kabul January 8, 2002

Exterior National Theatre building showing damage suffered during fighting in 1992

Destroyed roof

Audience sitting in open-air theatre

Performance on stage

APTN

Kandahar - January 21, 2002

Musicians playing together in the Pamir Hotel

Various of musicians

APTN

Kandahar - January 22, 2002

Entrance to video arcade

Video store

Man looking at DVDs

Close up DVDs

Video stall

The Middle East

10:29:43

Suicide bombs

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

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

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

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

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

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

APTN

Jerusalem - January 27, 2002

Scene of attack after first female suicide bomber hit

Debris from blast

Woman holding injured woman

Police at scene

APTN

Ramallah - January 30, 2002

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

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

APTN

Jerusalem - June 18, 2002

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

Bodies on ground covered with black plastic, pan to bus

Wide of damaged bus

Body bags beside road, pan to bus

Israeli Arab girl injured in blast

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

APTN

Al-Faraa Refugee Camp, near Nablus, West Bank - June 18, 2002

Naima Al-Ghoul, mother of bomber Mohammed Al-Ghoul, seated with women mourners

Close up photograph of attacker, tilt up to Naima weeping

APTN

Netanya - March 27, 2002

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

Various destruction inside hotel

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

APTN

Jerusalem - March 9, 2002

Body bags in street outside café where suicide bomber blew himself up (opposite prime minister's residence), killing 11

Investigators at entrance to café

Various exteriors of café

Various of café interiors seen through broken windows

APTN

Rishon Letzion - May 8, 2002

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

Various bombed building and investigators sifting through debris

10:31:53

Israeli attacks on Palestinian headquarters

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

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

APTN

Ramallah, West Bank - January 18, 2002

Tank blocking road near Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters

Tanks parked

APTN

Ramallah - January 19, 2002

APC drives into carpark in front of the Palestinian Broadcasting Centre

Explosion, lights go out

Wide of PBC building in flames

Wide PBC building entrance

Various interiors of damage

Various of tanks surrounding Arafat's office

APTN

Ramallah - February 20, 2002

Missiles hitting Arafat's office

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

Various firefighters dousing flames outside Arafat's residence

APTN

Ramallah - February 21, 2002

SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader

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

10:33:24

Operation Defensive Shield

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

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Nablus - April 7, 2002

Wide shot of Nablus, with AUDIO gunfire

Various of gunmen firing on Israeli position from behind the wall

Body of gunman

Gunmen firing

Injured man being dragged to safety

Injured man being carried on stretcher

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Jenin - March 1, 2002

Wide of Jenin refugee camp with minaret and AUDIO call to prayer and explosions from the battle

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Jenin - April 13, 2002

Destroyed street in Jenin

Woman carrying bottle

Women entering home which has been half destroyed

Street littered with debris from buildings

Old man looking through window

Buildings with bullet and shell holes, destroyed homes

Charred body

Women salvaging possessions

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Jenin - April 16, 2002

Woman drinking from tap in the rubble

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

Old woman sitting on doorstep of destroyed house

Various of people searching through rubble

Woman standing on first floor of destroyed house with her children

Pan of destroyed houses

10:35:27

The Battle of Manger Square

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

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

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

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Bethlehem - April 2, 2002

Various of Bethlehem, AUDIO gunfire

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Bethlehem - April 3, 2002

(telephone interview over still of Church of the Nativity)

SOUNDBITE (English) Marc Innaro, Correspondent of Radiotelevisione Italia (RAI)

"The situation in and around the Nativity Church in the heart of Bethlehem is still unchanged. There are inside more or less 200 Palestinian gunmen from all the Palestinian factions, Hamas, Jihad, the Al Aqsa Brigade and so on."

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Bethlehem - April 2, 2002

Tank driving towards camera, drives over car in street

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Bethlehem - April 8, 2002

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

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

Various water hosing down fire, AUDIO gunfire

Various shots scene with smoke

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Bethlehem - April 25, 2002

Wide shot Manger Square with tank in front

Blindfolded prisoners leaving church

Israeli soldiers checking coffins

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Bethlehem May 4, 2002

Israeli soldier standing guard

Church bells ringing, zoom out to church

Pakistan/India/Kashmir

10:37:19

Build up of troops

There was no let up in the tensions between Pakistan and India over Kashmir. Pakistan denied Indian allegations that it supported anti-India militant groups operating in Kashmir and India.

The two countries came close to their third war in January after an attack the previous month on the Indian parliament. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf launched a crackdown on militants, closing the border between Pakistan and Kashmir.

Both countries amassed troops along the Kashmiri line of control. In May again, intense international diplomatic efforts were needed to avert a war. India stepped up pressure on Pakistan following a raid on an Indian army camp. India fired its guns across the border, triggering an exchange of fire.

A security summit in Almaty, Kazakhstan was the setting for more diplomatic efforts to get the two leaders off a war footing. While their troops fired at each other in Kashmir, Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Bihari Vajpayee, sat at the same table, exchanged angry statements blaming each other.

The Almaty meeting came just a week after Pakistan launched missile tests in an undisclosed location. The missile was a locally-made medium range surface-to-surface ballistic missile called the Ghauri, capable of carrying both a conventional and nuclear warhead. The tests further angered India.

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Jammu, (near border with India) - January 13, 2002

Indian soldiers passing sign saying 'Kashmir, paradise on earth'

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Wagah, Pakistan - December 31, 2002

Pakistani border guard performing ceremony to close border with people watching in the background

Pakistani and Indian guards performing ceremony

Indian (on left of picture) and Pakistani flags lowered

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Almaty, Kazakhstan - June 3, 2002

Indian Prime Minister Bihari Vajpayee at street naming ceremony

Vajpayee and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev at ceremony

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf walking off plane

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Athmkam, on Pakistani side of Line of Control - May 27, 2002

Wide of Pakistani commander giving briefing

Briefing board

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Athmkam, on Pakistani side of Line of Control - January 2, 2002

Pakistani soldiers overlooking river valley marking line of control

Gun pointing out of bunker

Soldier in bunker

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Samba sector, Jammu-Kashmir - January 2, 2002

Indian soldiers camouflaging mortar position

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Ranbir Singh Pura Sector, on Indian side of Line of Control - January 8, 2002

Indian soldiers standing inside bunker

Close up Indian soldier's face

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Near Nursarhy village, on Pakistani side of Line of Control - January 16, 2002

Various Pakistani troops on patrol near Line of Control

Various Pakistani troops on guard with machine guns looking into Indian village of Tethwal, across the Line of Control

Pakistani Army Video

Undisclosed location, Pakistan - May 25, 2002

Test missile blasts off

10:39:08

Kashmir

Violence was ever present on the streets of Kashmir as separatists fought their own war against the Indian authorities. Civilians were often caught in the crossfire. A crackdown on the separatists by the unpopular Indian authorities often only served to increase tensions with the majority Muslim population.

Supporters of separatist leader Yasin Malik resisted his arrest in Srinagar, the Kashmiri capital, by Indian police. Scuffles ensued between the stone-throwing supporters and police wielding tear gas. Malik's arrest came a day after police caught a woman carrying 100 thousand US dollars in cash allegedly intended for him. After his arrest, Malik was hospitalised to undergo treatment for a heart ailment. More protests were sparked when activists from the Hindu nationalist group Shiv Sena allegedly barged into the hospital.

In May, three masked men shot dead separatist leader Abdul Ghani Lone as he sat on a platform at a memorial rally in Srinagar. Lone was one of the leaders of the All Party Huriyat Conference, a legal group which advocated Kashmir's separation from India. He was considered a moderate and as such had been threatened by both Hindu nationalists and Islamic militants.

Violence surged ahead of elections in the troubled province. Independence groups called for a boycott of the vote, which they said would be rigged in favour of the state's pro-India ruling party.

Indian Law Minister Mushtaq Ahmad Lone was killed in September by suspected Islamic rebels.

As the elections approached the violence increased. At the end of September suspected Islamic militants blew up a vehicle carrying election candidate Khaleda Mushtaq, killing her father, two supporters and one police escort. More than 120 political activists and candidates were killed in two months leading up to the elections.

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Srinagar, Kashmir - March 25, 2002

Policeman tells separatist leader (leader of group Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, JKLF) Yasin Malik he is being arrested at briefing given by Malik

Scuffles between police and Malik's supporters

Malik being led out of building, surrounded by supporters shouting 'We want freedom'

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Srinagar, Kashmir - March 26, 2002

Yasin Malik's supporters chanting slogans, burning tyres

Protestors pelting stones at security, tear gas shells explode amongst them on the street

Security forces running towards protestors

Protestors pelting stones

Policeman throwing stone back at protestors

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Srinagar, Kashmir - May 9, 2002

JKLF leader Javed Mir and other protestors chanting slogans in support of Yasin Malik (after hospital invasion)

Demonstration being stopped by security forces

Police firing tear gas shells

Protestors pelting policemen with stones

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Srinagar, Kashmir - May 21, 2002

Wide shot bodies of separatist Kashmiri leader Abdul Ghani Lone and his bodyguard

Various mourning relatives

Close up body

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Srinagar, Kashmir - 1996 FILE

Various file of separatist Kashmiri leader Abdul Ghani Lone

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Sogam, Kashmir - September 12, 2002

Body of Mushtaq Ahmad Lone

Wide of body

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Srinagar, Kashmir - September 28, 2002

Close up injured candidate Khaleda Mushtaq

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Pahloo Pulgam, outside of Srinaga - September 28, 2002

Close up damaged car

Photograph of injured candidate Mushtaq

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Jammu - September 24, 2002

Security outside polling station for Kashmir elections

Voters marked with indelible ink

Man casts vote

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Srinagar, Kashmir - September 20, 2002

Protestors shouting 'Pakistan' at march against state legislative elections in Kashmir

Tracking shot security force members running through street, firing tear gas at fleeing protestors

Various security force members firing tear gas at protestors

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Kupwara District - March 17, 2002

Wide shot dead suspected Islamic militants, surrounded by Indian security forces who killed 10 of them

Arms and ammunition recovered from militants on display

10:41:22

Ayodhya

The Indian town of Ayodhya, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, became the focus of tensions between Hindu nationalists and Muslims. The Hindus remained intent on building a temple in the town, near the site of a 16th century mosque destroyed by rioters in 1992. Thousands of Hindus visited the city as the campaign mounted. They rejected court orders saying they were not to build the temple, saying they would go ahead anyway. In the communal strife that followed, hundreds were killed.

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Ayodhya, India - February 25, 2002

City of Ayodhya

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Delhi, India - February 26, 2002

Replica of Ayodhya temple intended to be built

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Ayodhya, India - February 26, 2002

Women offering flower to sacred Saryu river during morning prayer

Hindu pilgrims praying at river

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Ayodhya, India - March 15, 2002

Hindu procession with World Hindu Council leader Ramchandra Das Paramhans

Das with consecrated pillar the Hindus want to use in the temple

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Ayodhya, India - February 17, 2002

Close up flower garland

Wide of prayer meeting near temple pillars

Hindu priest making offering

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Ayodhya, India - March 1, 2002

Various of Ayodhya train station as Hindus leave because of violence in town

Hindu pilgrims waiting for train, chanting 'We will be back on March 15 to build the temple'

10:42:19

Gujarat riots and religious killing

Religious tensions also ran high in the state of Gujarat where religious rioting claimed thousands of lives, most of them Muslim. The riots were sparked when a Muslim mob burned a train carrying Hindu nationalists. Then, Hindus went on a killing rampage, burning down Muslim homes and businesses. The police and army were accused of standing by, watching Muslims, including women and children, be burnt alive. The city of Ahmadabad saw some of the worst violence.

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Gujarat State - March 2, 2002

Armed police telling people in Hindi area to get inside or they will be shot

Crowd running (crowd had been watching people trying to salvage their possessions from burning buildings)

Policemen with stick chasing two men

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Ahmadabad, Gujarat - April 26, 2002

Policeman shouting for tear gas to be fired

Policemen firing gas shells

Flaming torch thrown at building by rioter

Building on fire

Police squad firing tear gas

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Kalupur, South of Ahmadabad, Gujarat - April 29, 2002

Flames rising from burning building, petrol bombs hurled through air

Police firing

Burning building

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Ahmadabad, Gujarat - April 30, 2002

Various shots police leading away arrested men, said to have been part of a group which attacked a house with homemade firebombs

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Ahmadabad, Gujarat - March 2, 2002

Young Muslim girl being treated for burns

Girl covered in bandages

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Ahmadabad, Gujarat - March 1, 2002

Various crowd looking at smouldering human remains

Close up name badge lying on ground

Various of Gurbarg residential society - burnt cars and bicycles lying around

Various large fire-damaged building

Dead body covered with cloak lies in road

Burnt shops

Remains of burnt cars and bicycles

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Ahmadabad, Gujarat - March 23, 2002

Various riot damage

Various police standing behind grill

Other Asian News

10:44:20

East Timor

The world's newest country, East Timor, continued on the path of democracy.

In January East Timor launched a truth and reconciliation commission to heal deep rifts in society and promote national unity. The commission focused on atrocities committed between 1974, when Portuguese colonial rule collapsed and 1999, when Indonesia finally pulled out following a UN-sponsored plebiscite. Interim foreign minister and nobel peace prize winner Jose Ramos Horta opened the commission.

Meanwhile in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, seven senior officials were charged with genocide committed in East Timor in 1999, before, during, and after the referendum. The atmosphere surrounding the 2002 presidential vote could not have been more different to that of the referendum. The two rival candidates hugged. The result was a foregone conclusion. The only rival to independence hero Xanana Gusmao was Xavier do Amaral, who said he only joined the race to educate the East Timorese in the meaning of democracy.

On May 19, East Timor officially became a nation, when Xanana Gusmao was inaugurated as president and the United Nations handed over power to the fledgling government.

APTN

Dili, East Timor - January 21, 2002

Audience at truth and reconciliation commission hearing

SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Ramos Horta, East Timorese Interim Foreign Minister

"Our past, present and future can never be separated. We are committed to reconciliation."

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Jakarta, Indonesia - February 21, 2002

Exterior Jakarta human rights court

Sidabalok, the court's secretary, receiving documents

Close up documents, tilt up to Sidabalok

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Dili, East Timor - April 14, 2002

Presidential candidates Xanana Gusmao and rival Xavier do Amaral hug outside polling station

Cutaway polling station sign

Gusmao and do Amaral come out together to vote

SOUNDBITE (English) Bishop Carlos Belo, East Timor Bishop and Nobel Peace Laureate

"It's an historical moment. The people of East Timor are voting for the first time for their president."

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Taci Tolo, East Timor

Parliamentary speaker Francisco Guterres puts sash around Gusmao's soldiers and his inauguration as president

SOUNDBITE (English) Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General

"I have the honour to transfer executive authority from the United Nations Transitional Administration to the institutions of the Democratic Republic of East Timor."

10:46:03

Indonesia

Religious strife between Christians and Muslims continued in Ambon and the surrounding Maluku islands. Up to 9,000 people were killed and tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes in two years of fighting in the archipelago, known as the Spice Islands during Dutch colonial rule. A fragile peace deal between the two communities was frequently undermined by violence. At the beginning of April a deadly blast killed four people. Later in the month 12 were killed in a Christian village by a raid of suspected paramilitary Muslims.

In Jakarta, the country's best-known Islamic militant went on trial. Jafar Umar Thalib, leader of militant group Laskar Jihad, was accused of inciting violence against Christians in the Maluku province. In his first court appearance, Thalib's supporters rallied for his cause. But when his trial began in October, in the wake of the Bali bombing, his extremist group had apparently disbanded.

APTN

Ambon, Indonesia - April 3, 2002

Various people in street after bomb blast shouting, 'Fire, fire'

People throwing rocks at government building

People shouting at army

Various of burning governor's office building

Police shooting in the air to disperse crowd

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Ambon, Indonesia - April 28, 2002

Pan from house to people fleeing

Church on fire

Wounded person being carried away by people

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Jakarta, Indonesia - August 15, 2002

Jafar Umar Thalib walking into court and sitting, supporters chanting 'Allah u Akhbar' (God is great)

10:47:06

Cambodia Statuettes

In Cambodia, a stash of ancient Buddha statues was uncovered by chance after centuries buried in the ground. There were 31 statues in all - 27 of them said to be made of gold. They were found during construction work in the grounds of Po Pich temple in Komphong Thom province, 130 kilometres north of Phnom Penh. Workers digging out foundations for a new temple discovered a jar and found the statues inside. Some are only as big as a man's thumb. Hundreds of pilgrims and tourists flocked to see them.

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Kompong Thom - August 2002

Wide shot monks in grounds of temple

Grounds of temple, showing excavation area

Close up statues

Pilgrims looking at statues

Statues

10:47:29

Myanmar Suu Kyi released

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was freed from house arrest in May after 19 months. She immediately pledged to do all she could to bring back democracy to military-ruled Myanmar. Suu Kyi arrived at the ramshackle building housing her National League for Democracy party to a tumultuous welcome by thousands of cheering supporters, only a few hours after the junta announced her release.

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Rangoon, Myanmar - May 6, 2002

Various Burmese Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi walking through street swamped by crowd

Suu Kyi on stage being cheered by crowd

SOUNDBITE (English) Burmese Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi

"The party was founded in order to bring democracy to Burma, so that is our task, that is what we have to do. And I, as general secretary of the party, must do everything I can to make sure that democracy comes to Burma quickly and comes in the right way."

10:48:00

Pakistan Rape

There was international outcry when news emerged about the gang-rape of a woman in rural Pakistan. A tribal council apparently ordered the rape as punishment against the woman's family. The four rapists went on trial in the remote Pakistani village where the rape happened. Ten other men also went on trial in the same court for allegedly ordering the rape. Eight of the 14 were acquitted; the other six were sentenced to death.

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Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan - July 26, 2002

Exterior court - men accused of gang-raping woman after tribal council ordered it to punish her family

Pan of accused

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Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan - August 3, 2002

Close up rape victim Mukhtaran Mai, pull out to victim standing with defence team and family

Close up victim's face

Accused in chains

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Meerwala, Punjab Province, Pakistan - July 6, 2002

Rape victim Mukhtaran Mai and her brother Shakoor Mai

SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mukhtaran Mai, Rape Victim

"I was dragged by the people, I begged them not to do this, I begged them to stop, but they would not. My uncle and my father tried to stop them but they did not stop."

Father crying

10:48:51

Pakistan Referendum

Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf won a controversial referendum to endorse his rule for a further five years, ending a three-year military dictatorship. He won the referendum by 98 percent, although it was marred by accusations of widespread manipulation.

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Rawalpindi, Pakistan - April 30, 2002

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf voting

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf at polling station

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Islamabad, Pakistan - April 30, 2002

Men emptying ballot box

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Islamabad - May 1, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) Imran Khan, Former Prime Ministerial Candidate

"The reason my party supported him was that we feel he should now clean up Pakistani politics - our judicial system and our election commission."

10:49:17

Russia Clashes

Clashes broke out in Moscow between police and leftist radicals calling for a revolution. Police responded with clubs and batons when the protestors tried to force their way through police cordons.

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Moscow - September 15, 2002

Ultra-leftist youth chanting slogans at protest calling for revolution

Line of riot police

Protestors pushing past police cordon

Police fighting with protestors

SOUNDBITE (Russian) Leader of demonstrators

"If the proletariat seize power, we will be in a better position to deal with the bourgeoisie and restore order. Thanks comrades, long live the revolution."

10:49:44

Koreas

South and North Korea embarked on cabinet level talks to revive a reconciliation process that thrived after a historic summit in 2000, but stalled amid US-North Korean tension. A 29-member North Korean delegation flew into Seoul aboard a Soviet-built plane for the three-day talks. The talks focused on previous agreements reached since relations thawed between the two Koreas. Among those was the demining programme in the demilitarised zone (DMZ) which divides the two countries. Demining the area will clear the way for rail and road links across the two sides.

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Seoul, South Korea - August 12, 2002

Head of North Korea delegation, Kim Ryong Song, shaking hands with South Korean counterpart, Jeong Se-hyun, at high-level talks aimed at reviving reconciliation process

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Paju, Near demilitazised zone between the two Koreas - September 19, 2002

Wide shot South Korean soldiers opening wire door at border line in southern part of DMZ

Land mine breaker inside DMZ

Border line where Gyeongui railway was disconnected

Close up road sign directing Seoul and Pyongyang

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Pyongyang, North Korea - September 23, 2002

Various central Pyongyang with pictures of North Korean leader Kim II Sung pictures

Various of statue of Kim II Sung in square named after him

Disasters

10:50:31

Volcanoes

The Congolese town of Goma was all but swallowed up when the nearby volcano of Nyiragongo sent down three major flows of lava. Between 50 and 100 people died in the initial lava flows, and another 60 died when a petrol station exploded. An estimated 300 thousand people fled east following the eruption, taking refuge in already overflowing refugee camps in neighbouring Rwanda.

When the Kilauea volcano erupted in Hawaii, thousands of tourists flocked to see the nightly light show as the lava flowed into the sea. Officials warned the lava was giving off noxious gas but there were no reported injuries. Kilauea is the world's most active volcano.

Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna, erupted in October. The violent and devastating flank eruption took place after only a few hours of seismic activity. The airport was closed as ash poured into the nearby town of Catania. People living in the town were given gas masks while those from hamlets further up the mountain were evacuated to tents in the valley.

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Goma, Congo - January 18, 2002

People carrying belongings evacuating town

Goma, Congo - January 20, 2002

Night shot of lava flowing in to Lake Kivu, hissing and steaming

Goma, Congo - January 18, 2002

Man pulling aside piece of burning lava with a stick

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Hawaii - September 13, 2002

Two shots of lava flowing into ocean at night

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Sicily, Italy - October 31, 2002

Various night shots of Mount Etna spewing lava (south side)

Santa Venerina, north side of Mount Etna - October 31, 2002

Tented city where local resident displaced from hamlets further up mountain are staying

Sicily, Italy - October 30, 2002

Smoke rising in the distance

Rock in foreground, lava slowly moving in background

Various burning lava

10:51:35

Earthquake

In April a strong earthquake hit Georgia, killing three people in the capital Tbilisi when a building collapsed. Residents poured into the streets and slept in their cars rather than risk returning to their homes.

A 6.0 magnitude quake struck north-west Iran in June, killing at least 500 people. Survivors who had lost their homes stayed in tents. According to the International Red Cross, almost a hundred villages were destroyed.

Italy was in mourning after an earthquake hit the small town of San Giuliano di Puglia, causing its school to collapse. 26 children and three adults were killed. Angry questions were raised about the enforcement of laws governing building safety in the region.

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Tbilisi, Georgia - April 26, 2002

Day shot of crushed car with rubble all around it

Night shot of body being carried onto stretcher from rubble

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Tabalkash village, Northern Iran - June 24, 2002

Two shots of damage caused by earthquake

Various of tents where earthquake survivors were living and people in camp

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San Giuliano di Puglia, Italy - November 1, 2002

Shot from top of hill above town immediately after quake struck

Close up body covered in green blanket being carried out by firemen and paramedics

Pan from pile of rubble to crying couple walking

Various of collapsed houses

Rescuers as they bring up a survivor

Rescue workers lifting small child's desk

10:52:36

Forest fires

Forest and peat-bog fires raged in woodlands across Russia in August. The worst of the fires burnt in the area east of Moscow, causing a thick smog to drench the capital.

APTN

Shature, Near Moscow - August 2, 2002

Close up fire on forest floor, tilts up to trees and smoke

Various man in military uniform spraying ground with hose

Wide pan of firemen wetting smouldering ground

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Moscow - September 4, 2002

Moscow river in smog with silhouettes of buildings

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Moscow - August 15, 2002

Church domes in smoke

10:53:04

Crashes

In September, 23 people were killed when a bus in Guatemala plunged down a steep ravine and into a river below. Witnesses told police that the driver of the bus lost control after speeding to beat another bus to the next stop.

Earlier that month in Bolivia dozens of people were killed when a bus crashed off Bolivia's infamous 'road of death' near the capital La Paz.

There were echoes of September 11 when in April in Milan a small plane with only the pilot on board crashed into a downtown Milan office skyscraper. Four people were killed and 60 injured. The impact destroyed two floors of the Pirelli building, once the headquarters of Italy's tyre manufacturer.

In the Ukraine in July, tragedy hit the Western city of Lviv, when a fighter jet crashed into the crowd at an airshow killing 83 people and injuring 116. The Su-27 warplane clipped the ground while performing aerobatic moves and sheared through a crowd of hundreds before exploding in a ball of fire. Officials announced two days of national mourning.

The small duchy of Luxembourg suffered its worst air disaster when a twin-engine plane coming from Berlin crashed in dense fog close to Luxembourg airport. 20 people were killed.

In Tanzania in June a horrific train crash left more than 170 people dead. More than 1200 people were on the train when it rolled backwards and collided with a freight train going in the same direction.

Another train crash, this time in Egypt, claimed the lives of 363 people. Over one hundred of the victims were too badly burnt to be recognised and were buried after a mass funeral service in Cairo.

In the UK, a high-speed express train derailed on its way through a station north of London. One carriage leapt onto the platform, scattering waiting passengers and killing seven on board. The accident, the sixth fatal accident since 1997 on Britain's widely criticised rail network, raised more questions about rail safety.

Eight people were killed and dozens injured when a train derailed in northeastern Sicily. The express train was travelling from Messina to Palermo when it crashed into a bridge.

APTN

Huehuetenango, Guatemala - September 30, 2002

Aerial of crash area

Two shots of dead bodies of victims being rescued by fire department rescue team

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Sacramento, Bolivia - September 2, 2002

Pan from rescue workers on side of road to ravine into which the bus slid

Various of rescue workers pulling a rope lifting victims out of the ravine

Various rescue worker scaling cliff face with victim on stretcher tied to a rope

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Milan - April 18, 2002

Side view of Pirelli building with smoke coming out of side, pull out to street

Building with smoke coming out

Street covered in paper and emergency vehicle

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Lviv - July 28, 2002

Various lists of injured at hospital

Relative with head in hands outside hospital

Relatives in car mourning

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Lviv - July 30, 2002

Various funeral ceremony

Mothers crying on coffins

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Luxembourg - November 6, 2002

Tail fin

Rescue workers

Crane above tail fin

Firemen carrying body

Rescue workers with crane

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Igandu, Tanzania - June 25, 2002

Wide shot crash site

Derailed carriages

Rescue workers crawling through wreckage

Rescue workers examining wreckage

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Ayyat, Egypt - February 20, 2002

Burnt out train

Rescue workers in carriage

Barred window

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Potters Bar, Near London, England - May 10, 2002

Carriage of train wedged in between platform and canopy

Police standing next to wreckage on track

Wide shot platforms

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Rometta, Sicily - July 21, 2002

Various derailed train

Police near train wreck

10:55:42

Hurricane/Typhoons

Hurricane Lili caused massive damage in October as it tore its way through the Caribbean. Thousands of people in Western Cuba fled their homes as the hurricane hit the island. There were no casualties in Cuba although the storm killed seven people in Jamaica and St. Vincent.

A week earlier, Hurrican Isidore passed by Cuba causing only heavy rains before it tore up to Mexico, its wind speeds increasing to up to 200 kilometres per hour (125 miles per hour). In Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, the hurricane caused massive damage, ripping up trees, tearing away roofs and blocking highways. Thousands were left homeless.

And in August over a hundred people died in unprecedented flooding across Europe. Rains unleashed raging waters that swept away Russian tourists, triggered landslides in Germany and Switzerland and shut down shipping on the Danube in Austria.

Saxony state capital Dresden was hit by high waters, which flooded the famed Semper Opera and the Zwinger palace.

The floods also devastated the Czech capital Prague. 250 residents and tourists had to be evacuated from the city's Old Town as the rain-engorged river Vltava crested.

In August in China, rising river levels killed more than 200 and threatened 10 million people. More than 250 thousand people were evacuated from areas around Dongting Lake.

APTN

Pinar del Rio, Cuba - October 1, 2002

Two shots of heavy rain falling on road during hurricane Lili

Top of trees blown by strong winds

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Las Canas, Cuba - October 1, 2002

Roof of home damaged by winds

Various homes destroyed by Hurricane Lili

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Merida, Yucatan, Mexico - September 23, 2002

Street blocked by fallen trees

Various debris in the streets

Fallen trees in Merida streets

10:56:27

Floods

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Steyr, Austria - August 12, 2002

Buildings and flooded river

Building arch above flooded river, zoom out

Car in river

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Deutschen Area, Germany - August 18, 2002

Various aerials flooded streets and fields near area where dyke collapsed

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Bitterfeld, Germany - August 18, 2002

Various aerials Torgau town surrounded by lake of floodwater

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Dresden, Germany - August 14, 2002

Flooded street with half submerged cars, rescue vehicles passes along

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Prague, Czech Republic - August 14, 2002

Zoom into man struggling in flood water underneath Prague bridge

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Prague, Czech Republic - August 14, 2002

Various submerged river club

Various flooded part of the road, with water up to level of street signs

Various two men in dinghy in flooded road, water covers some ground floor windows

Various man in canoe, passing shops with water halfway up ground floor windows

Various of military unloading sandbags from trucks and making barrier by river

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Lao Jie, Near Yueyang, China - August 22, 2002

Flooded town of Lao Jie, near Dongting Lake

Man on makeshift raft

Man in water opening door

Houses submerged in water

10:57:46

Oil Spills

A terrorist attack was responsible for a blast on the French supertanker the Limburg off the coast of Yemen in October. One Bulgarian member of the Limburg's crew died in the explosion that started a blaze aboard the tanker and spilled 90,000 barrels of oil.

And environmental disaster struck in Spain in November when the Prestige tanker sunk off its northern coast. Officials waited for the worst as oil leaked from the tanker's cargo. The ship first started leaking on November 13 after cracking its hull in a storm in the Atlantic Ocean. After six days, it finally sunk. The oil spilled contaminated a region that suffered another big spill a decade ago. The oil blackened hundreds of kilometers (miles) of beach and rocky shore and forced a ban on fishing and seafood harvesting along a 500 kilometer (300 mile) stretch. Tens of thousands of fishermen and other sea-dependent workers were forced to live off government handouts.

APTN

Mukalla, Yemen - October 8, 2002

Various aerials of Limburg supertanker with damage visible

Various oil washed up on the beach

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Cape Finisterre, Northern Spain - November 20, 2002

Various aerials of area threatened by slick

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Camarinas, Spanish coast - November 17, 2002

Various oil on rocks

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Arteixo beach, Galicia, Spain - November 18, 2002

Oil slick on beach

Cormorant covered in oil flapping its wings

World Politics

10:58:37

World leaders signed the momentous NATO-Russia pact in Rome in May, hailed as the beginning of a new era in international relations. Leaders gathered at a military base near Rome for the signing of the agreement, which effectively made Russia junior partner in NATO by creating a NATO-Russia council.

In November, NATO leaders met in Prague where, in an historic shift, the organisation expanded its membership beyond the borders of the former Soviet Union. NATO invited seven ex-communist countries - Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia - to become members.

The summit, NATO's first beyond the old Iron Curtain, was marred slightly when two young Russian protestors threw tomatoes at the alliance's secretary general during the closing news conference. The protestors, shouting, 'Nato is worse than the Gestapo' missed George Robertson as he was shielded by officials.

In June, Rome played host to the United Nations World Food Summit. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe skirted a travel ban to attend the conference amid complaints his policies were worsening the food crisis in the country. He said the future of agriculture in the country was improving and that his controversial land reform programme was a force for positive change. Zimbabwe's opposition accused the government of withholding food aid from its supporters even as the country was experiencing a major food crisis. By November, more than half the population of 12.5 million was facing famine.

In June, world leaders from the Group of Eight met in a remote mountain resort in Canada, avoiding the kind of mass anti-globalisation protests that in previous years have accompanied such summits. While the protests took place in the valley below, and in the Canadian capital, the leaders held bilateral and group meetings, discussing terrorism., economic growth and the Middle East.

Johannesburg was the setting for the ten-day Earth Summit, last held in Rio, Brazil, a decade earlier. World leaders and extensive delegations arrived with the aim of agreeing a world plan to tackle poverty and save the environment. The summit was billed as the largest UN gathering ever. US President George W Bush was notable by his absence from the summit, a fact denounced by environmental groups. But US delegates at the conference dismissed scepticism that the US was not committed to sustainable development. Daily protests, taking place at the perimeter of the UN convention centre, accompanied the summit. A group calling themselves "Indian and African farmers" held a colourful protest against the Common Agricultural Policy which gives European farmers subsidies. But not all the protests were peaceful. One night anti-globalisation protestors clashed with police at a Johannesburg university. The police fired stun grenades at the crowd. On another night riot police used water cannons against pro-Palestinian activists who tried to storm a police station to rescue companions arrested earlier in the day for trying to confront Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres.

APTN

Rome, Italy - May 28, 2002

Exteriors of military base where summit was held

NATO Secretary General George Robertson and Russian President Vladimir Putin walking

Overhead interior of round table

Leaders at table

Putin

SOUNDBITE (English) George W Bush, US President

"Two former foes are now joined together as partners, overcoming 50 years of division and a decade of uncertainty, as this partnership takes us closer to an even larger goal - a Europe that is whole, free and at peace for the first time in history."

Various Putin signing

Pan of leaders posing for a photo

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Prague, Czech Republic - November 21, 2002

Conference Hall

Various delegates at NATO conference

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Prague, Czech Republic - November 22, 2002

Two men standing and throwing tomatoes and starting shouting

Protestors start shouting at Robertson, one wearing an arm band takes off his coat

Protestors being escorted by security

Robertson standing with conference officials in blue coats

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Rome, Italy - June 10, 2002

Exterior Food and Agriculture Organisation headquarters where the UN World Food Summit took place

Various Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arriving

South African President Thabo Mbeki arriving

Interior conference - Various UN Secretary General Kofi Annan meeting Mugabe

Conference

Mugabe walking to podium

SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President

"Contrary to widely disseminated misrepresentations by our detractors, there is now a brighter future for our farming community across colour, gender, and ethnic divides. Our land reform programme is indeed a firm launching pad for your fight against poverty and food insecurity."

POOL

Calgary, Canada - June 25, 2002

Canadian flag

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder refusing to put on welcoming white cowboy hat, instead placing it on official

Pan view as helicopters head to Kannanaskis

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Kannanaskis, Canada - June 26, 2002

Wide interior meeting room

Leaders at family photo opportunity with mountains in the background

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Johannesburg, South Africa - September 2, 2002

Various aerials of Johannesburg

Former South African President Nelson Mandela, walking

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe arriving

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Johannesburg, South Africa - August 29, 2002

Puppet of US President George W Bush at mock theatre event to protest his absence from the summit

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Johannesburg, South Africa - August 28, 2002

Various farmers holding banners reading "freedom to trade" and "trade not aid"

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Johannesburg, South Africa - August 24, 2002

Various of protestors marching with candles

Audio of stun grenades exploding, crowd running away

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Johannesburg, South Africa - September 2, 2002

Tracking shot along line of riot police with water cannon tenders behind

Water cannon trucks spray mob of chanting pro-Palestinian activists outside police station where other activists earlier in the day had been taken

US Politics and Economics

11:02:25

The US justice department opened an investigation into collapsed energy firm Enron. Many Enron employees lost their life savings when the company filed for bankruptcy on December 2. Arthur Anderson, the firm responsible for checking Enron's books, fired the man who handled the Enron account. David Duncan shredded documents after learning Enron was under government investigation. He said he was acting on the advice of an Andersen lawyer. The situation brought into question the practice firms like Arthur Andersen acting as auditors as well as advisers on how to maximise a company's profits.

Telecommunications giant WorldCom joined the list of spectacular corporate collapses in June when it too applied for bankruptcy. A month earlier, it had disclosed it had inflated profits by nearly four POOL billion dollars through deceptive accounting. It was the largest bankruptcy in US history. WorldCom, based in Clinton, Mississippi, announced it would lay off 17 thousand workers, or 20 percent of its global workforce. A US Congressional panel launched an investigation into WorldCom's accounting irregularities.

In a bid to restore investor confidence President George W Bush signed into law a far-reaching government crackdown on business fraud. Bush said the new legislation should act as a warning to corporate criminals. The measure tightened regulation of companies' financial reporting and provided a new oversight of independent auditors.

Share prices on Wall Street tumbled, increasing fears about a US recession.

Meanwhile, the FBI warned Al Qaida could be planning another terrorist attack. The White House said Americans should remain vigilant.

But the FBI also came under fire. FBI director Robert Mueller told a Congressional hearing into FBI failures that the organisation was aware of the need for massive change, especially in its cumbersome bureaucracy.

APTN

Houston, Texas - November 29, 2001

Exterior views of Enron office

APTN

Houston, Texas - November 29, 2001

Close up employees loading boxes into car

Pan up from employees to Enron building

APTN

Washington DC - January 15, 2002

Various investigators looking at Enron documents

APTN

Washington DC - February 2002

Enron Chief Executive Office Kenneth Lay entering Senate Committee hearing

Wide shot committee hearing

Chicago, Illinois - File

Arthur Andersen headquarters

Interior Arthur Andersen headquarters

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Ashburn, Virginia - June 28, 2002

Various exteriors of WorldCom offices

APTN

Washington DC - June 28, 2002

Various subpoena sent to WorldCom CEOs by House Financial Committee

POOL

Clinton, Mississippi - File

Pan of WorldCom employees at terminals

Close up fibre optic device

POOL

Washington DC - July 8, 2002

Witnesses raise their right hand and are sworn in at congressional hearing into WorldCom

SOUNDBITE (English) John Sidgmore, WorldCom's president and chief executive officer

"We are fighting for our life. I think that should be clear to everybody if you read the newspapers."

POOL

Washington DC - July 30, 2002

US President George W Bush walks into room in White House

SOUNDBITE (English) George W Bush, US President

"This law says to every dishonest corporate leader, you will be exposed and punished. The era of low standards and false profits is over. No boardroom in America is above or beyond the law."

APTN

New York City - July 22, 2002

New York Stock Exchange exterior

NYSE interior pan across floor

NYSE closing bell

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Washington DC - FILE

FBI headquarters

CIA headquarters

POOL

Washington DC - June 6, 2002

Congressional hearing into FBI failures

SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mueller, FBI Director

"The need for change was apparent even before September 11. It has become even more urgent since then."

European Politics and Economics

11:04:50

12 European countries ushered in the New Year with the introduction of a new currency, the euro. As firework displays in the capitals celebrated the new year and the new currency, revellers flocked to the cash machines for their first look at the brightly coloured new notes. At a ceremony in Vienna, Austria, EC President Romano Prodi, said the euro would strengthen the European Union. More than 15 billion notes and 52 billion coins were produced for the switchover.

European Union expansion came closer to reality. 2004 was set as a date for eight east European nations, and Malta and Cyprus, to join the union. EU Commission President Romano Prodi said the move would be an historic achievement.

There was shock and anger in France when far right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen came second in a first round presidential vote, ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Lionel Jospin who had been expected to go head to head with President Jacques Chirac in the second round run-off. Anti-Le Pen demonstrators clashed with police in Paris and in other French cities. In the event, Chirac won re-election by a landslide, but the first round results were a stark warning about the rise of the far right, both in France and the rest of Europe.

In July, Chirac survived an assassination attempt after a man fired at him from the crowd during Bastille Day celebrations. The attacker, who was described as an emotionally disturbed Neo-Nazi, pulled a rifle from a guitar case and fired off one shot before he was wrestled to the ground. Chirac was riding an open-topped jeep just tens of metres (yards) away. Cries of alarm from the crowd alerted police, who wrestled him to the ground with the help of spectators.

In the Netherlands, right-wing leader Pim Fortuyn was gunned down outside a radio station in Hilversum where he had been giving an interview. The killer was animal rights activist Volkert van der Graaf who was caught moments after the killing with the gun still cocked. The killing shocked the Netherlands and thousands of mourners gathered outside Fortuyn's Rotterdam house to pay their respects.

VNR

FILE

Euro notes being printed

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Vienna, Austria - January 1, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) Romano Prodi, European Commission President

"Our wish is that the euro is the beginning of a stronger European Union. We shall be the best in the world, the best in the world."

APTN

Athens, Greece - January 1, 2002

Fireworks being launched into the sky

Euro pyramid

Euro pyramid being lit up

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Maastricht, The Netherlands - January 1, 2002

Acrobat swinging from euro tree

Various of performer in giant euro coin

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Paris, France - January 1, 2002

People spraying champagne in the Champs Elysee

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Paris, France - July 16, 2002

Wide shot Eiffel Tower

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Paris, France - May 5, 2002

Boards outside polling station, swastika on Jean-Marie Le Pen poster

Far right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen voting

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Paris, France - April 21, 2002

Noel Mamere, protest leader and defeated presidential candidate for the Green Party, chanting "Down with the National Front"

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Paris, France - April 22, 2002

Demonstrators scuffling with police, one having tear gas sprayed in his face

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Paris, France - July 14, 2002

Close up Jacques Chirac in jeep with audio of gunshot

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Rotterdam, The Netherlands - May 10, 2002

Mourners at grave of murdered Dutch right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn

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Rotterdam, The Netherlands - May 6, 2002

Mourners approach house, man salutes Pim Fortuyn's house

Africa politics

11:06:16

Zimbabwe in March held presidential elections. Incumbent Robert Mugabe won by a landslide, but there were widespread reports of vote-fixing and political violence. The Commonwealth suspended Zimbabwe from its councils for one year because of the violence. Meanwhile Mugabe continued his drive to evict white farmers from their land, as part of his land reform campaign. About 95 percent of Zimbabwe's white-owned farms were earmarked for redistribution to blacks. The land seizure policies, combined with a massive drought, contributed towards massive food shortages. Farmers who resisted eviction often fell victim to militia violence, ignored by the police.

The Miss World competition was moved to London after religious rioting in Nigeria killed more than 200 people. The rioting began in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna after a newspaper published an article that said the Muslim prophet Mohammed would have approved of the event.

In Madagascar, there was political upheaval following a disputed presidential election in December 2001. Popular Marc Ravalomanana, the mayor of the capital, Antananarivo, claimed he'd won more than half of the vote, and that therefore it shouldn't go to a second round. In February Ravalomanana declared himself president. Incumbent Didier Ratskira proclaimed martial law that sparked violence on a massive scale. 11 people were shot and killed in one day by Ratskira's supporters. Eventually, after a six-month struggle, the US and France recognised Ravalomanana as the legitimate leader. Ratsiraka flew to France and his forces on the island switched sides.

In the Ivory Coast a month long rebellion came to an end when rebels signed a truce to open talks with the government. Tuo Fozie, a rebel official, signed the cease-fire with West African mediators in the city of Bouake, in rebel hands since the uprising began with a bloody coup attempt on September 19.

The rebels seized much of the northern half of the country. At the core of the insurgency were 750-800 ex-soldiers, many dismissed from Ivory Coast's army for suspected disloyalty. The uprising, which killed hundreds of people, gathered support from Ivorians in the north, who complain that the country's southern-based government treats them poorly.

There was international outrage as news emerged that a woman in Nigeria had been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. Safiya Hussaini was sentenced in October by an Islamic court after she conceived a child with a married neighbour. An appeal court eventually acquitted her.

APTN

Harare, Zimbabwe - March 9, 2002

Journalists, pan to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe putting paper in ballot box

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, of the Movement for Democratic Change, walking towards camera outside his home

Various of MDC supporters with bandages on their faces speaking to journalists saying they were attacked

APTN

London, England - March 19, 2002

Round table of Commonwealth troika (with Australian Prime Minister John Howard, South African President Thabo Mbeki and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo) and Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon

APTN

Marondera, Zimbabwe - August 16, 2002

Wide shot of belongings on lawn after farmer Althea Morgan was forced to leave her farm at gunpoint

SOUNDBITE (English) Althea Morgan, Farm owner

"They just said you've got five hours to get out, and they stood and watched over us with their guns."

APTN

Darwendale, Zimbabwe - September 9, 2002

Farmer Debbie Swales being comforted after being evicted

Various trucks leaving Swales' farm with their belongings

APTN

Abuja, Nigeria - November 23, 2002

Beauty queens in hotel lobby

Kaduna, Nigeria - November 23, 2002

Fire in the street during violence in Kaduna which erupted because of Miss World competition

Building with smoke billowing out

Zoom into church

Body on ground

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Antananarivo, Madagascar - February 4, 2002

Various shots of thousands of protestors in Antananarivo's Independence Square, calling for Marc Ravalomanana to be president

APTN

Antananarivo, Madagascar - March 3, 2002

Armed soldiers in the street

Various crowd standing in front of flames

Audio tear gas being fired, opposition supporters running through the streets

Soldiers in street

APTN

Bouake, Ivory Coast - October 17, 2002

Tuo Fozie, rebel official, arriving with rebel delegation

Wide of mediators

Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio and Fozie signing

Handshake

APTN

Sokoto State, Nigeria - March 25, 2002

Court room hearing stoning case

Safiya Hussaini laughing as she hears of acquittal

Interior court

Various of Hussaini and 15 month old baby girl Adama

Muslim judges leaving court after acquittal

Latin American News and Politics

11:09:06

Colombia's 38-year civil war continued into 2002. Bogota was wracked by a wave of terrorist attacks, most of them blamed on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. In January a blast in the capital Bogota killed four policemen and a child. The bomb exploded in a restaurant often frequented by police officers from a nearby police station. Then, on the day of President Alvaro Uribe's inauguration in August, at least six small bombs exploded in several Bogota neighbourhoods. No one was killed but the blasts caused massive damage to property. Uribe, the survivor of several assassination attempts, took the oath of office in the parliament building, foregoing the usual outdoor inauguration ceremony. In September police announced they had captured four people involved in the August 7 assassination attempt.

Unrest continued in Argentina over the economic crisis which lead to the collapse of President Fernando de la Rua's government in December. Protestors demanding better employment rights and the end of a bank freeze, clashed with riot police in the capital and other cities.

Farmers' protests forced the Mexican government to back out of plans to build a new six-runway airport on the capital's outskirts. In an explosive five-day standoff in July, the farmers, who said they would not receive sufficient compensation for having the airport built on their land, blocked roads and took 15 hostages, threatening to kill them. They handed over the hostages in exchange for the release of several fellow protestors. And afterwards the government said it would cancel plans to build the airport in San Salvado Atenco.

APTN

Bogota, Colombia - January 25, 2002

Street where bomb exploded

Police truck and dead body

Restaurant where bomb exploded

Police working around police truck and damage

APTN

Bogota, Colombia - August 7, 2002

Various shots of cars with smashed windows following explosion on the same day as Uribe's inauguration

Soldiers looking at blast area

Broken window of building

POOL

Bogota, Colombia - August 7, 2002

Various Colombian President Alvaro Uribe receiving presidential sash

APTN

Bogota, Colombia - September 13, 2002

Various people accused of being behind Uribe assassination attempt, being displayed to the press

Various weapons seized

APTN

Buenos Aires, Argentina - January 15, 2002

Protestors

Casa Rosada (presidential palace) with guard at fenced gate, pan to protestors wearing bandanas covering their faces

APTN

Buenos Aires, Argentina - January 11, 2002

Riot police

Shirtless rioters throwing rocks and missiles at riot police

Various of riot police throwing tear gas

Pull back from smashed window of bank with graffiti

APTN

San Salvador Atenco, Mexico - July 12, 2002

Road blocked by trucks in protest at planned airport

Farmer making club

Burnt car being used as a barricade

Boxes filled with petrol bombs

APTN

Outside San Salvador Atenco, Mexico - July 12, 2002

Various youths with machetes sitting in the back of a pick-up truck

Various state police trucks

APTN

San Salvador Atenco, Mexico - July 13, 2002

Farmers at roadblock

Graffiti saying 'No airport'

Wide of hostages being held by farmers

APTN

San Salvador Atenco, Mexico - July 15, 2002

Farmers gathered, raising their machetes

Wide hostages being released

Pope John Paul II

11:11:36

Despite his age and frailty, Pope John Paul II showed no sign of moderating his schedule. His travel in 2002 included tours places as far flung as Mexico, Canada and Azerbaijan.

In Italy he held a day of prayers for world peace in Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis. He also made a one-day visit to Ischia, an Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea near Capri. He used that occasion to make an appeal for peace in the Middle East, an appeal he repeated throughout the year as the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis escalated.

In May, the 82-year-old pope looked increasingly exhausted during a trip to Bulgaria and Azerbaijan. Throughout the visit, the Pontiff was wheeled around on a special trolley. Nonetheless he had a packed schedule which included a visit by helicopter to the Rila Monastery, one of Bulgaria's holiest sites.

In August the Pope attended the World Youth Day celebrations in Toronto, Canada. He surprised many by walking down the stairs of his plane. But a week later, in Guatemala, he used a lift to disembark.

Later that month, the Pope made an emotional trip, possibly his last, back to his native Poland. Following mass in Krakow, he stopped at the house he once shared with his father. Residents of Tyniecka Street chanted, "Welcome home" as the popemobile stopped outside No. 10, the grey two-storey building that used to be his home.

POOL

Assisi, Italy - January 24, 2002

Pope seated in train

Pope being met by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi

Exterior church

Various Christian prayer session with the Pope and Orthodox representative

POOL

Ischia Island , Italy - May 5, 2002

Marquee and Island

Pope entering mass

Pope singing prayer, then crossing himself, doves being released

Doves flying away

APTN

Baku, Azerbaijan - May 22, 2002

Pope meeting Azerbaijan's president Geidar Aliev

APTN

Toronto, Canada - July 23, 2002

Pope blessing children

POOL

Toronto, Canada - July 25, 2002

Pope walking onto stage

Pope smiling on stage

APTN

Guatemala City, Guatemala - July 29, 2002

Band playing national anthem

Pope standing

Pope waving to crowd

Close up Pope

POOL

Mexico City, Mexico - July 31/August 1, 2002

Aztec horn player

Pope blessing bread for ceremony

Woman taking bread from Pope

Various Indian women approaching altar and blessing him

APTN

Krakow, Poland - August 17, 2002

Plaque outside house

'Tyniecka 10' sign

Pope in popemobile arriving at house where he used to live with his father

Pope waving

The British Royal Family

11:14:05

2002 was the 50th jubilee for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. But it was a year tinged with sadness for the Queen, with the loss of her sister Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, within weeks of each other.

Princess Margaret died aged 71 in February, having suffered at least two strokes in previous years.

Weeks later, on March 30th, the Queen Mother also passed away, aged 101. The Queen Mother held an unshakeable place in British affections for more than half a century, and thousands lined the streets of London to catch a glimpse of her funeral cortege. Her grandson, Prince Charles, paid tribute to her.

The public outpouring of grief following the deaths appeared to increase sympathy and support for the Queen and there was a genuine sense of celebration surrounding the jubilee in June. One of the highlights was a massive rock concert held at Buckingham Palace and relayed on massive screens to tens of thousands of fans in the plaza below the palace. The next day one million people turned out for a day of pomp, pageantry and carnival to crown the jubilee.

The trial of Princess Diana's former butler Paul Burrell collapsed after an intervention by the Queen. Burrell had been accused of stealing Diana's personal belongings after her death. Police removed around 300 items belonging to the princess from Mr. Burrell's home and it was a central part of the prosecution that he had told no one about the items. However the case fell through when the Queen mentioned to her son Prince Charles that Mr. Burrell had told her he was looking after some of Diana's things.

APTN

London, England - February 6, 2002

Queen Elizabeth II signs a large picture of herself while opening cancer centre at a hospital on the 50th anniversary of her father's death

POOL

London, England - August 4, 2000

Princess Margaret, Queen and Queen Mother walk out onto balcony of Buckingham Palace for Queen Mother's 100th birthday

APTN

London, England - August 4, 2001

Close up Princess Margaret in wheelchair

APTN

London, England - February 9, 2002

Buckingham Palace with flag flying at half mast to mark death of Princess Margaret

POOL

Windsor, England - February 15, 2002

Various Royal family walking down road towards the chapel doors for funeral of Princess Margaret

Coffin being carried down castle stairs

Coffin being carried towards hearse, coming to a halt

Queen, Prince Philip, and Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto watching from castle steps, the Queen wipes a tear from her eye

APTN

Windsor, England - March 31, 2002

Exterior Windsor Castle where Queen Mother died

APTN

London, England - March 31, 2002

Various of horse guards trotting along road

Various of floral tribute to the Queen Mother

APTN

London, England - April 1, 2002

Close up picture of Queen Mother on Union Jack left next to flowers

41 gun salute in Hyde Park

POOL

Windsor, England - April 1, 2002

Various shots of Queen Mother's coffin in chapel

POOL

London, England - April 1, 2002

SOUNDBITE (English) Prince Charles

"Ever since I was a child, I adored her. Her houses were always filled with an atmosphere of fun, laughter and affection."

POOL

Windsor, England - April 2, 2002

Queen Mother's coffin being carried out of Royal Chapel of All Saints

Coffin being loaded onto hearse

APTN

London, England - April 2, 2002

Dawn shot of Westminster and Big Ben

POOL

London, England - June 3, 2002

Night shots

Aerial of Buckingham Palace with crowd in grounds for jubilee concert

Close up, pan round Brian May, formerly of the rock group Queen, playing guitar

Pull out from May playing the British national anthem on guitar on top of the palace

SOUNDBITE (English) Prince Charles (on stage with the rest of the royal family)

"Mummy."

POOL

London, England - June 4, 2002

Wide of crowds in Mall

Flags waving

Queen and Prince Philip look up

APTN

Angola - File

Princess Diana and Paul Burrell during visit to Angola

30 Second Features

11:16:32

Boxers Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis exchanged punches at a pre-fight press conference in New York City in January. After Tyson was introduced he walked on stage then faced the wing where Lewis was to enter. When Lewis stepped onto the stage, Tyson rushed him. After a tussle lasting several minutes, order was restored.

APTN

New York City, United States - January 22, 2002

Confrontation at news briefing between boxers Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis, zoom into fight, pull out to wide shot of fight with cameramen surrounding the boxers

UPSOUND (English) Mike Tyson, shouting expletives

11:17:03

A group of young artists from Austria introduced a new strain of music to Europe. Spectators packed a concert hall in Brussels to hear 'The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra', who makes all its music with vegetables. Carrots and cucumbers are handcrafted into wind instruments, pumpkins and leeks are the percussion, cabbage covers the strings.

APTN

Brussels, Belgium - September 21, 2002

Brochure reading 'The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra'

Band arriving on stage

Various of band playing music using various vegetables as instruments

11:17:33

In January, fanciful ice sculptures of all shapes and sizes transformed one of China's northern-most cities into a winter wonderland. Harbin city is known for its subarctic climate. It really comes into its own when artisans gather for the annual Ice Lantern Festival. From January 5 to February 14 ice sculptures in the shape of animals and people line the streets. The largest display of sculpted ice and snow was this year located on the north bank of the Songhua River. 80-thousand cubic metres of ice and 120-thousand cubic metres of snow were used to create the frozen fantasy land, which spans an area of roughly 300-thousand square metres. At night the sculptures were illuminated from the inside with coloured lights. This year saw the 16th International Ice Sculpting Competition take place. Artisans from eleven different countries competed in the contest, which this year was won by Japan.

APTN

Harbin, China - January 2002

Night shots of fireworks exploding over Harbin

European-style ice building

Chinese-style ice building

Buddha snow sculpture at Zhaolin Park

Large mosque ice sculpture

Various people sliding down illuminated green ice ramp on side of mosque

Ice sculptures from competition

Winning ice sculpture

11:18:02

An internet website in Taiwan gave new meaning to the phrase 'news in brief,' because its three female presenters read the news wearing only their underwear. The 'Underview News,' was launched on January 7th on the website run by Taiwan's largest telecom company, Chunghua Telecom. The anchors, in their 20s, appear in carefully selected underwear.

APTN

Taipei, Taiwan - January 28, 2002

UPSOUND (Mandarin) Cameraman

"Four, three, two.."

Anchor reading news in underwear

Various clips from news broadcast on internet

APTN

Taipei, Taiwan - January 30, 2002

People sitting in front of monitors in an internet café

SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Vox pop

"People would lose interest in this if the anchors didn't take their clothes off."

APTN

Taipei, Taiwan - January 28, 2002

Various editors at work in the studio

11:18:23

A Thai woman set an unofficial world record in October for spending 32 days in a roomful of 3400 scorpions. Kanchana Ketkeaw, a performance artist, was stung nine times during the attempt but she was not put off. She was already used to scorpions because she performs with them as part of a tourist attraction, putting them in her mouth and dancing with them.

APTN

Pattaya, Thailand - September 21, 2002

Kanchana Ketkeaw, in room full of scorpions

Scorpions on Kanchana

APTN

Pattaya, Thailand - October 23, 2002

Scorpion on Kanchana's neck

Various of Kanchana kissing scorpion

Last day of countdown calendar being peeled off

Kanchana stepping out of glass room with scorpions on shirt

11:19:02

Egyptian archaeologists made a startling discovery - six tombs dating back some 3,500 years to Egypt's golden age. The tombs were found near the house of the Old Kingdom near Cairo.

APTN

Saqqara - June 6, 2002

Wide of site and pyramid in background

Various of archaeologist brushing inscriptions

Close up inscriptions

Tilt down tomb

Various of site

Close up small statue found in one of the tombs

11:19:35

About 50 artists and architects displayed their visions for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site at an exhibition in New York. While many designs had memorial aspects, only a few actually called for the entire 16-acre site to be made into a memorial.

APTN

New York City - January 25, 2002

Various shots of Max Protetch Gallery and close ups of works submitted

11:20:04

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA celebrated the 30th anniversary of Landsat, a photo-imaging programme that has been pictorially mapping the Earth's geographical changes over the decades. The 30-year archive of imagery, a scientific partnership between NASA and the USGS, provides historical detail that can help scientists understand and protect the planet.

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the first Landsat launch, NASA and the USGS assembled an exhibit with 41 images taken over the last 30 years.

NASA

NASA - pictures taken from space

Aleutian clouds

Kalahari desert, Namibia

Terkezi Oasis, Chad

Iraqi emplacement

Great Salt Desert, Iran

Whirlpool in the air off Greenland

Richat structure, Mauritania

Lena Delta, Russia

Ganges River Delta

Volga River Delta

Enlarged portion of US showing smoke from Arizona wildfires (June 21, 2002)

Stop Press

11:20:54

Indonesian police announced they'd caught up with the two prime suspects for the Bali bombing in September. Amrozi, who like many Indonesians only uses one name, was displayed before the media. Police said Amrozi admitted owning a L3000 Mitsubishi minivan that was filled with at least 50 kilogrammes (110 pounds) of explosives.

APTN

Bali, Indonesia

Amrozi in handcuffs being brought into room

Indonesian police chief Da'I Bachtiar showing Amrozi to media, Amrozi sits down

Amrozi smiling

Amrozi's handcuffs being taken off

Close up Amrozi

Amrozi waving to media outside

11:21:44

Terrorists struck again in November, targeting holidaying Israelis in Mombasa, Kenya. A jeep packed with explosives smashed into a hotel lobby, just minutes after a large group of Israelis had left. Two Israeli boys were killed, along with their 61-year-old Israeli tour guide and 10 Kenyans. Minutes before the hotel bombing, two Strela missiles were fired and narrowly missed an Israeli charter plane departing from Mombasa's airport.

APTN

Paradise Hotel, Kikambala, Near Mombasa - November 29, 2002

Various of explosion site

Close up burnt out car

Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi walking round site of the explosion

Two rocket launchers being unveiled

SOUNDBITE (English) Daniel Arap Moi, Kenyan President

"I want to tell you Western people, don't welcome anybody as a friend - there are no friends, accept those who love you. Kenya's government is going to pursue it. I cannot say much, but we'll do the best we can."

APTN

Kikambala, Near Mombasa - November 29, 2002

Three dancers in hotel lobby before attack (these three women were all killed), pan round to show Noy an Dvir Anter, two Israeli boys who were killed, with their father Rami Anter (in black and white top), who survived

Fire visible from round corner of building

Smoke rising

Injured person being carried

People wrapping bandages round wounded man's eyes

11:23:07

End

World News Review 2003

Sound: Nat Sot

IRAQ

PRE-WAR

10:00:30

Despite the pressure being applied by the international community for Iraq to disarm, President Saddam Hussein remained defiant. At a meeting with commanders of the Al-Quds volunteer army in January, Saddam warned any invaders they would face formidable opposition.

Iraqi TV

8.1.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

Mid shot Saddam Hussein's son, Qusay Hussein, head of the Republican Guard, sitting with military commanders

Zoom in to Saddam Hussein addressing commanders

Saddam's son Qusay listening

Saddam Hussein speaking (smoking cigar)

10:00:50

The discovery of 11 undeclared but empty chemical warheads at an ammunition depot south of Baghdad led to debate as to whether this constituted a breach under U.N. Resolution 1441. The U.S. saw the discovery as further evidence supporting their case for war. But the Iraqis claimed they had declared the warheads in an earlier report to the U.N.

A war of words developed between Washington and Baghdad - both sides refusing to back down in the standoff.

Iraqi Government Video

16.1.03 - Ukhaydir depot, Iraq

Close up pan of warhead still in protective wrapping

Various of inspectors taking a closer look at an artillery shell

UN inspector screws open the nose cone of the shell and looks inside

10:01:07

APTN

21/1/03 - Washington DC, USA

SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President

"He's been told to disarm for eleven long years. He's not disarming. This business about more time - how much time do we need to know that he's not disarming? As I said, this looks like a rerun of a bad movie and I'm not interested in watching it."

10:01:26

Iraqi Youth TV

23.1.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Uday Hussein, son of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

"If they used air strikes against us, then what happened on September 11th, it will look like a joke. They will know the real price they are going to pay."

10:01:52

U.S. Marines patrolling the Persian Gulf as part of the Amphibious Ready Group remained on standby, ready for the call to go into combat. Some had already been away from home for five months.

POOL

27/28.1.03 - Onboard U.S.S. Nassau

Harrier takes off

Ch 46 Helicopter

27/28.1.03 - Onboard U.S.S. Tortuga

Hovercraft exits

Hovercraft at sea

27/28.1.03 - Onboard U.S.S. Nassau

Dusk deck

27/28.1.03 - Onboard U.S.S. Tortuga

Ship at sea

Navigator on bridge

Sailor checks settings

Marines

10:02:40

While calling for international support and a second U.N. Security Council resolution, British Prime Minister Tony Blair made clear time was running out for Saddam Hussein to comply with weapons inspectors. After a Washington meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush, Blair said matters would come to a head within weeks, not months.

POOL

31.1.03 - Washington DC, USA

SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister

"The original resolution 1441 we made it clear that failure to disarm would lead to serious consequences."

10:02:51

In a show of military might, Iraqi soldiers marched through the streets of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, commemorating the graduation day for recruits of the Al-Quds Army Training Facility. It served as a clear demonstration of the force an invading army would have to encounter. Looking on were Saddam Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay.

APTN

4.2.03 - Mosul, Iraq

Wide shot of thousands of soldiers marching

Militia marching

Special forces running in parade

Vice Chairman Revolutionary Command Council Izzat Ibrahim saluting

Soldiers dressed up as suicide bombers marching

10:03:15

Iraqi TV

4.2.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

Saddam Hussein with son Qusay (seated to his right in tan suit)

Close up Uday Hussein

Saddam smiling and smoking his cigar

Pullout from Uday to Saddam

Qusay with aide

10:03:38

Perhaps in another effort to sway international opinion, foreign journalists were invited to visit a missile factory outside Baghdad that had recently been searched by U.N. weapons inspectors. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell had claimed the Fath missiles based there exceeded the 150-kilometre range limit set out by U.N. resolution 687. Iraqi authorities denied the allegation.

APTN

7.2.03 - El Mutasim - 70 km (45 miles) south west of Baghdad

Missile on tail fin

Pan over missile

10:03:51

UN inspection teams visited the Al-Muthanna factory, which had once been Iraq's main chemical weapons research and production facility. There they encountered a number of mustard-filled shells. Nothing new about the discovery though - they'd previously been inventoried by weapons inspectors in 1998.

APTN

13.2.03 - Al-Muthanna Missile and Chemical Facility, 70 kilometres northwest of Baghdad

Various of barrels of chemicals

Wide of barrels (blue) containing mustard gas

Wide barrels and canisters where mustard gas was destroyed

10:04:02

Relations between key members of the U.N. Security Council became increasingly strained. While the U.S. and Britain sought support for a second resolution allowing military intervention, a stalemate was reached when the French President Jacques Chirac said his government would veto military action. Hopes of achieving a consensus became ever more remote.

APTN

18.2.03 - Washington DC, USA

Cutaway of Bush

SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President

"We are working with our friends, as I said a second resolution (of the UN Security Council) would be useful, we don't need as second resolution. It's clear this guy couldn't even care less about the first resolution."

10:04:15

POOL

10.2.03 - Paris, France

SOUNDBITE: (French) Jacques Chirac, French President

Question: "What's your main position at the moment?"

Chirac: "No matter what circumstances we will vote 'no', because we consider, at this time, that there is no place for going to war to achieve the objective that we all want at the moment, that is the disarmament of Iraq."

10:04:33

POOL

11.3.03 - London, UK

SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister

"If France or any other country is simply going to say we will veto, no matter what, that's obviously a very difficult situation."

10:04:45

At an emergency summit held in the Azores, the leaders of the U.S., Britain, Spain and Portugal issued a call for unity among members of the U.N. Security Council. Bush said the time of diplomacy was entering its "moment of truth".

But the anti-war nations led by France, Germany and Russia were not to back down. They maintained there was no justification for war while weapons inspectors were continuing their work in Iraq. If war were to come, it would be without the endorsement of the United Nations.

SIC/White House Pool

16.3.03 - Terceira, The Azores

US President George W. Bush, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Durao Barroso, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar

SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President

"We concluded that tomorrow is a moment of truth for the world. Many nations have voiced a commitment to peace and security and now they must demonstrate that commitment to peace and security in the only effective way, by supporting the immediate and unconditional disarmament of Saddam Hussein."

Leaders at podium

SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President

Reporter: "When you say tomorrow is the moment of truth does that mean that tomorrow's the last day that the resolution can be voted up or down and at the end of the day tomorrow one way or the other the diplomatic window has closed?"

Bush: "Yes, that's what I'm saying."

10:05:30

APTN

16.3.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

Iraqi officials listening to Bush addresses at the Azores summit on TV at ministry of information

Close up of TV set

Cutaway of minders

10:05:41

On the 17th March, President Bush gave his final ultimatum to the Iraqi leadership - leave the country within 48 hours, or face war. To the Iraqi people he promised liberation.

POOL

17.3.03 - Washington DC, USA

SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President

"All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached an end. Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict, commenced at a time of our choosing. For their own safety, all foreign nationals, including journalists and inspectors, should leave Iraq immediately."

Pull back view of reporter looking at TV monitor

SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President

"If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed against the lawless men who rule your country (Iraq) and not against you. As our coalition takes away their power, we will deliver the food and medicine you need. We will tear the apparatus of terror and we will help you to build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free. In a free Iraq, there will be no more wars of aggression against your neighbours, no more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more torture chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your liberation is near."

IRAQ

WAR

++BROADCASTERS PLEASE NOTE UNDER US/UK EMBEDDING RULES AND THE GENEVA CONVENTION THE FACES OF POWS SHOULD BE DISGUISED WHERE IDENTIFIABLE++

10:07:04

It was no longer a matter of if, but when the order to strike would come. Final preparations were being made among the British and American troops waiting across the border in Kuwait.

POOL

19.3.03 - Kuwait

Soldier in tank taking off goggles and mask

Line of vehicles

10:07:13

In Baghdad, people awaited with fear and trepidation the inevitable aerial bombardment.

APTN was aboard the U.S.S. Constellation in the Gulf and broadcast live pictures of the first take-offs of U.S. jets on bombing missions over Iraq.

APTN

19.3.03 - Kuwait

Various of soldier packing ammunition

Low shot underside of tank as it moves off

10:07:31

APTN

19.3.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

Wide shot of traffic on the streets of Baghdad

Various of men locking up shop fronts

Various of shops locked up

10.054

APTN

19.3.03 - Aboard U.S.S. Constellation in the Gulf

Vice Admiral Timothy J. Keating, U.S. Fifth Fleet commander walks on to stage, greets assembled troops with a victory gesture

Audience applauding

SOUNDBITE: (English) Vice Admiral Timothy J. Keating, U.S. Fifth Fleet commander

"Make no mistake, when the president says go, look out - it's hammer time - okay? It is hammer time."

10:08:11

In Washington, President Bush announced the start of hostilities.

Live pictures were already being broadcast by APTN showing the first wave of bombs landing on Baghdad. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein wasn't given the opportunity to finish his address to the nation - his broadcast on terrestrial Iraqi television was cut short by a U.S. bomb attack. Viewers on other Arab networks were able to see the whole message. In it Saddam claimed his forces would be victorious.

POOL

19.3.03 - Washington, DC, USA

SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President

"At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger."

10.08:34

US Navy

20.3.03 - Unknown location

Various of Tomahawk cruise missiles being launched from the USS Donal Cook

10.08:39

Iraqi TV

20.3.03 - Iraq

Graphic of Iraqi flag

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq

"Just before dawn on the 20.3.03 the aggression has started." (TV signal drops out)

Colour bars appear on screen

In the coming days, Baghdad was to experience a massive aerial bombardment. All part of the Pentagon's "shock and awe" campaign designed to bludgeon the Iraqi military into surrender. Saddam and his palaces were a key target for the onslaught. Despite using the latest guided missiles, U.S. bombs failed to take out the Iraqi leader - much to the satisfaction of his supporters.

APTN

20.3.03 - Baghdad

Pull out from girl looking at camera, girl and boys run, AUDIO siren

10:09:12

POOL

20.3.03 - Gulf

F-117 approaching to land

F-117 Landing and deploying drag chute

10:09:20

APTN

20.3.03 - Baghdad

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Information Minister

Question: "Was Saddam Hussein near any of those places?"

Al-Sahaf: "We said those villains, in particular the villain Bush, he said and the British Defence Minister, they said, the Pentagon said, they have striked Iraq with 40 cruises missiles in order to assassinate President Saddam Hussein. The natural answer came when his Excellency Saddam Hussein delivered his speech. So, not only they are disappointed, I think they are now hysterical."

10:09:55

In northern Iraq, Kurdish militiamen prepared to join in the fight against Iraqi troops within hours of the aerial strikes getting underway.

APTN

20.3.03 - Kalaq, northern Iraq

Militiamen looking through binoculars at Iraqi checkpoint in distance

Fighters standing with weapons

10:10:03

As the aerial bombardment on Iraqi targets continued, allied troops made their first incursions into Iraqi territory. It was not long before the first Iraqi troops began surrendering.

APTN

21.3.03 - Baghdad

Night vision footage missiles hitting Baghdad building, AUDIO of missile fire, large plumes of smoke coming from building

Explosion over Baghdad skyline

Explosion lights up skyline

Presidential palace on fire, black smoke pouring out

10:10:40

APTN

21.3.03 - northern Kuwait (near border with Iraq)

Various of 155 mm Howitzers firing shots into Iraq

Various British artillery troops preparing for action

Troops lying down, aiming guns

10:10:53

Iraqi TV

21.3.03 - southern Iraq

Iraqi man kneeling down and holding white flag in surrender, British soldier motions for him to walk forward, then to turn and kneel to be searched

British soldier searching surrendering Iraqi

Low shot of line of about ten Iraqis in civilian clothing walking with their hands on their heads

Iraqi man with white flag

Close shot British soldier holding rifle in foreground surrendering Iraqis walking in background

10:11:19

In the southern town of Safwan, U.S. Marines tore down giant street portraits of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, to the cheers of some local residents.

British commandos, meanwhile, were able to secure oilfields in the south, a priority during the early stages of the war for the coalition.

POOL

21.3.03 - Safwan, Iraq

U.S. marines driving in Safwan, zoom in to huge picture of Saddam Hussein on roadside

10:11:25

US Army and Airforce Hometown News Service

21.3.03 - Unknown location, the Gulf

Wide shot of Tornado taxiing

Close up Union Jack flag

Wide shot of fighter taking off

10:11:48

POOL

22.3.03 - southern Iraq

42 Commando Royal Marines firing wire-guided missile before they move in to secure oil fields

Marines looking through binoculars

Various of 42 Commando marines on sandbanks

10:12:02

An APTN crew aboard the U.S.S. John McCain had a near miss while filming the launch of Tomahawk missiles. They were nearly hit by a misfired missile that came within two metres of them before exploding over the sea.

APTN

22.3.03 - U.S.S. John . McCain, northern Persian Gulf

Various shots of Tomahawk missiles being launched

10:12:18

Iraqi officials, keen to score points in the propaganda war, took the international media to visit civilian sites hit by the bombings. One site visited was a leisure complex for newly wed couples to honeymoon.

APTN

22.3.03 - Baghdad

Tracking shot past buildings with plumes of black smoke in background

Tracking shot on highway with plums of black smoke

UPSOUND: (Arabic) "Bush, Bush, the criminal", men chanting

Wide shot of damage to building

10:12:35

In the south, U.S. marines of the Fighting 61st Marine Reconnaissance Company advancing into Iraq were clearly too late to stop departing Iraqi soldiers torching oilfields, before they could seize them intact.

In a boost for the coalition, American and British troops captured the Iraqi town of Umm Qasr. The port was to become a vital staging post for bringing aid and military supplies into Iraq.

As U.S. troops continued the push northwards, British troops tried to clear the al-Faw peninsula after several days of skirmishes with Iraqi resistance.

Oil fires were still burning at the Rumeila oil field - a day after U.S.-led coalition troops captured the area whose daily output of one point three SIC/White House Pool million barrels made it Iraq's most productive.

POOL

22.3.03 - southern Iraq

Welcome to Iraq - from the Fighting 61st. (US Marine Reconnaissance Company) 'Have a Nice Day' sign at side of road

Various driving past burning oil wells

10:12:52

POOL

22.3.03 - Umm Qasr, Iraq

Allied soldier standing beside picture of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

Sign that reads "You are approaching the DMZ"

Umm Qasr police station sign

Pan from building to soldier with gun sitting on top of military vehicle

Various of tanks and gunfire

10:13:23

POOL

22.3.03 - southern Iraq

Various of U.K. Royal Marines in motorboats with Iraq prisoners

Pan line of prisoners

Various more prisoners held in desert

Mid shot Iraqi weapons

10:13:46

APTN

22.3.03 - Iraq

Elevated shot of U.S. convoy

10:13:55

POOL

22.3.03 - Umm Qasr, Iraq

Mid shot troops firing missile from launcher

Explosion in building UPSOUND troops cheering and shouting

10:14:04

POOL

21.3.03 - Al-Faw, Iraq

Various of troops in position, then advancing

Various of troops advancing, firing guns

10:14:23

POOL

23.3.03 - Al-Rumeila, Iraq

Low shot oil pipeline on ground, fire in distance

10:14:28

From the Central Command centre at Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar, U.S. led coalition forces claimed to be making "rapid and in some cases dramatic" progress in Iraq. On a daily basis, fresh images were released showing the success of precision bombing runs. In the battle for hearts and minds, also on display were leaflets to be dropped over Iraq giving Iraqi soldiers advice on how to surrender.

POOL

24.3.03 - Qatar

Various showing video footage of precision bombing of Iraqi positions

Leaflet dropped telling Iraqi soldiers to abandon their weapons

Leaflet dropped telling Iraqis not to poison their waterways by dumping oil

Leaflets telling Iraqi soldiers how to surrender

10:14:53

Night vision video showed a handful of soldiers from the 4th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment on foot patrol in the desert, carrying assault rifles and wearing night-vision equipment.

The Australian Department of Defence did not identify where the soldiers were operating, only that they were in the "theatre of war" as part of Australia's Special Forces Task Group.

Australian Department of Defence

23.3.03 - Undisclosed location

Australian coalition soldiers on night patrol (nightscope)

Close up Australian soldier

10:15:03

APTN

24.3.03 - Baghdad

Top wide shot pans across to damaged buildings

10:15:07

By March 25, British troops deemed the town of Umm Qasr secure. Desperate Iraqis were able to come forward to claim food and water from the first aid shipments to enter the town.

POOL

25.3.03 - Umm Qasr and DMZ, Iraq

Various of truck with aid and people taking packages

Boy looking though binoculars

10:15:16

British forces on the outskirts of Basra targeted Iraqi tanks and artillery. In what was to become their stiffest test so far, troops were to encounter stiff resistance from the Iraqi forces defending the city. APTN was the first to broadcast live from Basra Bridge as the battle for the city raged for several days. Clients also gained exclusive footage from Rumeila of the oil fires and U.S. and Kuwaiti efforts to cap the flames. Our cameras were also there to broadcast live pictures from Safwan as Iraqis rioted on the arrival of food aid to the town.

POOL

25.3.03 - Outskirts of Basra, southern Iraq

Various British troops firing shells towards Basra

Wide shot tank exploding (controlled explosion by British troops)

10:15:24

POOL

24.3.03 - Rumeila, Iraq

Wide of arms cache

Soldier standing guard near captured weapons

10:15:30

APTN

26.3.03 - Baghdad

Newspaper "The Republic" headlines "Fight them, God will punish them through your hands and curse them and will make you victorious"

10:15:34

APTN

26.3.03 - Safwan, southern Iraq

Various of food being distributed from trucks

10:15:49

APTN had dramatic pictures of a U.S. Army Paladin artillery vehicle misfiring a shell and catching fire during an artillery engagement with Iraqi forces north of Najaf. The 1st Batallion of the 41st Field Artillery had been engaged in some of the heaviest fighting of the war so far.

APTN

27.3.03 - Najaf, Iraq

Various wides of U.S. troops in dust storm, north of Najaf - light appears very red due to dust

Battalion's flag on one of the vehicles

Various of troops inside U.S. command post preparing to attack Iraqi positions

Wide exterior of another Paladin vehicle misfiring, small fire flares at end of gun barrel

Various of vehicle on fire, smoke

10:16:26

APTN

27.3.03 - Kifi, north of Najaf, Iraq

Wide shot of broken window (reflection of A.P.C. passing), zoom in to painting of New York skyline with World Trade Centre on interior wall

Close up of gunner on moving vehicle pan to gun barrel

10:16:42

APTN

27.3.03 - Baghdad

Aftermath of missile strike

Burnt out car

Burnt out car in front of damaged building

10:16:57

Two United States Navy "mammal marine systems" - better known as dolphins - were brought in to Umm Qasr to help with the hunt for marine mines.

The dolphins were trained in San Diego to detect marine mines with their natural sonar. When mines are discovered, the dolphins are removed from the area before the mines are detonated. With their help, coalition forces were able to deem the port safe and the task of shipping in supplies and aid could begin.

POOL

28.3.03 - The Gulf

Dolphin surfaces beside U.S. Navy rubber boat, handler checks it, it dives again

Dolphin jumping and diving

Wide shot of channel with British Royal Navy ship, Sir Galahad, coming into port carrying aid

10:17:15

In Baghdad, a stray U.S. missile landed in the Al Naser market in a residential district killing 14 and injuring a further 30 people.

With coalition forces making major inroads in the south, Iraqi authorities began to show signs of denial. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraq's Information minister, was soon dubbed "Comical Ali" for his wildly implausible claims of victory.

APTN

28.3.03 - Baghdad

Night shop of wrapped bodies in wooden coffins being carried from back of truck

POOL

28.3.03 - southern Iraq

View over makeshift bridge

Various of soldiers firing mortars

Blazing rockets in the air

POOL

28.3.03 - Basra, Iraq

Pan from smoke rising over city of Basra to bridge

Various of British soldiers checking people and vehicles coming from Basra

10:18:00

APTN

28.3.03 - Baghdad

SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Information Minister

"It's a fair belief that we are winning this war and we will win the war. The final (result) will be an Iraqi victory."

10:18:12

APTN

29.3.03 - Rumeila Oil Field, Iraq

Soldiers guarding wells

Camels in front of oil well fires

10:18:23

U.S. and U.K. forces continued their efforts to secure areas in southern Iraq by destroying abandoned Iraqi munitions and conducting dawn raids on the homes of suspected Iraqi militants.

Acting on tip-offs from informers, British Royal Marines from 42 Commando unit raided houses in the Um Kayal region at daybreak.

They were searching for Iraqi soldiers, secret police or other members of Saddam Hussein's regime.

POOL

29.3.03 - Um Kayal, southern Iraq

+++PLEASE NOTE: Shots contain obscene language+++

British troops taking occupants prisoner, making them sit on ground with hands on head

10:18:36

British forces targeted Iraqi communications facilities and symbols of Saddam Hussein's rule.

In towns captured by the coalition forces the clean up operation continued. At this stage, the Iraqi civilian population largely welcomed the invading forces.

POOL

30.3.03 - near Basra, Iraq

British Challenger tank firing shells at TV mast, after the last one is fired the tower begins to topple

10:18:45

APTN

30.3.03 - Umm Qasr, Iraq

Wide shot of Saddam mural splashed with red paint

10:18:49

Iraqi TV

29/30.3.03 - Najaf area, Iraq

Masked tradesmen with weapons singing next to captured equipment

10:18:57

The air attacks on Baghdad continued unabated in preparation for an assault on the city by ground forces. By March 30, coalition forces had dropped six thousand precision-guided bombs since the start of hostilities. The U.S had also launched some 675 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

APTN

30.3.03 - Fairford Air Force base, UK

B52 bomber taking off

10:19:11

Troops from the Brigade Reconnaissance Force of the Royal Marines' 3 Commando exchanged heavy fire with a civilian force of Ba'ath Party militia fighters and Fedayeen paramilitaries at Abu Al Khasib, a few kilometres from Basra.

Abu Al Khasib was one of the last Iraqi defensive positions before the gates of Basra.

POOL

30/31.3.03 - Abu al Khasib, near Basra, Iraq

Night vision - tilt up of marine firing flare, mortar and gunshot into the air

Shot of Royal Marine firing automatic weapon

10:19:27

POOL

30/31.3.03 - Abu al Khasib, near Basra, Iraq

Daylight shots - Various of British artillery pieces firing

Various of mobile British 155 mm guns on move

10:19:45

While searching a school building in Zubayr, coalition troops found an arms cache including guns, rocket propelled grenades, hand grenades and mortar rounds.

The classrooms were still decorated with children's artwork and portraits of President Saddam Hussein.

POOL

31.3.03 - Zubayr, Iraq

Close shot of soldier's boots walking on portrait of Saddam Hussein labelled "Please wipe feet" in marker pen

10:19:48

As British troops advanced towards Basra, the Royal Engineers were using an armoured bridge layer to allow vehicles to cross obstacles on the way to the city. Bulldozers were used to dispose of Iraqi vehicles, toppling them over to prevent them from being used again.

POOL

31.3.03 - near Basra, Iraq

Engineers' bulldozer pushing Iraqi vehicle backwards

10:19:58

A U.S. led air assault bombarded Iraqi positions in the north, near the Kurdish town of Kifri.

APTN

1.4.03 - Kifri, Iraq

Three Iraqi soldiers walking near fortification, massive explosion erupts behind wall, shock waves sweep out

Skyline of town, explosion in distance on frontline Iraqi positions

10:20:21

Further inroads, as members of the U.S. 101st Airborne entered the city of Najaf. Their primary aim was to clear out the Fedayeen, the paramilitary fighters leading resistance to the coalition invasion.

The search led to sporadic firefights in the city's sprawling suburbs.

APTN

3.4.03 - Najaf, Iraq

Mid shot of U.S. military convoy passing through Najaf

10:20:27

APTN

3.4.03 - 30 kilometres south of Baghdad

Burning tank by roadside, black smoke

10:20:34

In a major exclusive, APTN filmed U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division as they seized Saddam International Airport. The battle produced some of the most dramatic footage of the entire conflict. The airport, just 15 kilometres (nine miles) from central Baghdad, was to become a crucial base for coalition forces staging the final assault on Baghdad.

APTN

4.4.03 - Baghdad

Truck on road to airport

Close up airport sign

Picture of Saddam with tank in front at airport entrance

Soldiers sheltering behind fortification

Missile launched, soldier with launcher runs back

Explosion behind wall with soldiers sheltering in foreground

Pan of destroyed Iraqi aircraft

10:21:09

Shortly after broadcasting what appeared to be an address read by Saddam Hussein, Iraqi television a few hours later showed footage from Baghdad in which the Iraqi president appeared. He was shown walking in the street with a small entourage.

There was no independent confirmation of when the video was shot, though it led to speculation that Saddam was still in Baghdad.

Iraqi TV

4.4.03 (broadcast date) - Baghdad

Various crowd surrounding Saddam

Close shot of Saddam

Saddam standing on car bonnet, crowd cheering

10:21:28

APTN

5.4.03 - Baghdad

Plumes of smoke over Baghdad

10:21:32

British soldiers pulled down a massive statue of Saddam Hussein at the gates of Basra.

Britain's 7th Armored Brigade - the famed Desert Rats - and the Royal Marines were positioned around Basra awaiting orders to launch a final push into Iraq's second-largest city.

POOL

5.4.03 - Basra, Iraq

Various of Saddam statue crashing down at the gates of Basra

10:21:56

U.S. soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Division fought with Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guards in suburbs southwest of Baghdad.

Members of the U.S. infantry moved towards the Republican Guard barracks from Baghdad's international airport - and were met with resistance from small ammunition arms and snipers.

APTN

5.4.03 - Baghdad

U.S. troops on the ground running between buildings

Various tanks firing, smoke rising

Various thick columns of smoke rising

Mid shot of tank in position, then firing at Iraqi positions

10:22:20

British forces near Al Zubayr in the south discovered shocking evidence of the brutality of Saddam's regime. Hundreds of coffin-sized boxes were discovered containing human remains. The site was sealed and treated as a mass grave.

POOL

5.4.03 - Zubayr, southern Iraq

Wide pan of coffins on floor, soldier walks past

Tracking shot of bags containing human remains

Various of Captain Jack Kemp, Royal Horse Artillery leafing though book containing notes and photographs of dead people

10:22:46

British forces stormed into Basra, a column of more than 40 armoured personnel carriers and tanks plowed deep into the city. British forces and

Iraqi fighters had waged exhaustive battles for control of the city since the war began.

POOL

5.4.03 - Basra, Iraq

Anti-tank missile released

Missile hits Iraqi tank and blows it up

10:23:05

6.4.03 - Basra, Iraq

Wide of soldiers by sandbags with poster of Saddam Hussein in background

10:23:12

APTN pictures showed the full opulence of the V.I.P. buildings in the terminal used by top Iraqi officials at Baghdad's airport.

As well as the public areas, access was also given to a bedroom inside the V.I.P. section. Saddam Hussein had previously used the room.

APTN

6.4.03 - Baghdad airport

Wide tracking shot of airport

Tilt down from terminal sign revealing wrecked interior

Troops walking through building, pan to picture of Saddam

10:23:27

US troops stormed into the heart of Baghdad taking control of one of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces on the Tigris River.

U.S. troops burst through Iraqi defences with more than 70 tanks and 60 Bradley fighting vehicles under cover of tank-busting A10 aircraft.

A few hours later, U.S. Marines entered from the east of the city after incurring heavy fire on the outskirts of the city.

APTN

7.4.03 - Baghdad

Wide of Baghdad

Iraqis (under fire) rolling down the river bank towards the reeds in the river, possibly after being shot

Iraqis running along the bank of the river

Wide of two Iraqi tanks

10:24:00

British marines stormed the presidential palace compound in Basra, once a headquarters of the Fedayeen militia.

They entered the complex on the banks of the Shatt Al-Arab waterway at dawn in the culmination of a massive operation to take control of Basra.

POOL

7.4.03 - Basra

UPSOUND Jeep crashing through front door

Wide of marble floor, tilts up to show ceiling

10:24:13

U.S. army troops sweeping through Baghdad captured one of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces.

An embedded APTN crew filmed soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division wandering around the huge Qasar Al Faw complex, a favourite haunt of Saddam.

APTN

7.4.03 - Baghdad

Wide of dining room

Bathroom with golden taps

View from palace onto river Tigris

10:24:20

The Pentagon released pictures of American firefighters tackling some of the fires in the Rumeila oilfields.

At the time, according to the U.S. military, American and British forces had secured 600 out of one thousand wells in the southern Iraqi oil fields.

Pentagon

8.4.03 - Rumeila, Iraq

Burning well

Fire in sunglasses of a fire fighter

Fire fighters looking at the burning well from up close, behind corrugated tin shields

Fire fighters squirting water onto the burning well

10:24:37

U.S. troops mounted an air and tank assault on Baghdad to repel an Iraqi counter attack, sending Iraqi troops fleeing across the River Tigris.

APTN

8.4.03 - Baghdad

Various of A10 ground attack plane dropping flares

Gunfire on Planning Ministry

US tank fires

10:24:54

POOL

8.4.03 - Basra

Child bites picture of Saddam on money

10:25:00

Basra citizens showed journalists through the charred remains of the city's secret police headquarters, which had been hammered by coalition bombs.

Hidden in the basement were corridors of cages, cells and torture chambers.

Locals said that for 30 years many ordinary Iraqis were tortured in the building.

APTN

8.4.03 - Basra

Wide shot of Iraqi Secret Police headquarters in Basra, damaged in war

Various of men recreating torture techniques - showing different ways they were beaten and tortured

10:25:12

An image that came to symbolise the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime - jubilant Iraqis tearing down a giant statue of President Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad.

APTN beamed the pictures live worldwide as the historic events unfolded.

APTN

9.4.03 - Baghdad

Tilt up from Iraqi man hammering statue base to Saddam statue

Wide shot of crane pulling statue down

Long shot of Iraqi men running down a street with statue head, one man rides on head

10:25:48

As word spread of the regimes fall, chaos reigned as Iraqis looted government buildings. Opportunists seized whatever they could - looking for an easy windfall, revenge against the regime or even battlefield mementos.

APTN

9.4.03 - Baghdad

Pan around to man bashing Saddam picture

Looter with large vase leaving compound

Looters walking along street with goods

Man and boy outside ministry dragging chairs

Boy with flags walks up to camera, saying "OK, OK, no Saddam, yes boss, no Saddam"

10:26:11

Another bomb-blasted remnant of Saddam Hussein's regime was found on the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, beside Basra's dockyards.

Saddam's presidential yacht was still afloat, but drifting aimlessly with the tide.

Just the yacht's name - still visible in blue paint on its stern - together with a singed Iraqi flag hanging from a bent mast, were all that was left to identify the liner's owner.

Ironically, Saddam Hussein had christened it "Al Mansur", which means in Arabic "The Victor".

When it was launched in 1982, it was one of the largest and most impressive private yachts in the world.

POOL

10.4.03 - Basra

Wide of yacht wreckage

Wide pan of young man paddling past wreckage

Various Iraqis dragging Saddam statue down the street

Iraqi men riding on top of the Saddam statue being dragged down street

10:26:35

Kurdish guerrilla fighters entered the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a clear indication that the Iraqi regime's control in the north of the country had crumbled.

Residents and militia toppled statues and destroyed images of President Saddam Hussein and looted government offices as more than 100 vehicles laden with Kurdish "Peshmerga" fighters drove through Kirkuk's streets, flying the flags of the two major Kurdish factions.

APTN

10.4.03 - Kirkuk, Iraq

Various of Kurdish militia fighters firing their automatic rifles at a mural of Saddam Hussein

10:26:40

APTN

10.4.03 - Baghdad

Various of people carrying out furniture from building and packing it into cars

Tractor pulling trailer full of furniture

10:26:49

U.S. President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair used a new television station to get their message across to the Iraqi people.

The station, "Towards Freedom TV," broadcast from a U.S. C-130 Hercules aircraft circling in the skies over Iraq, using the frequency of the former Iraqi state TV terrestrial channel.

Towards Freedom Movement

8.4.03 - Various

SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:

"This is Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. I'm glad to be able to speak to you today, to tell you that Saddam Hussein's regime is collapsing, that the years of brutality, oppression and fear, are coming to an end; that a new and better future beckons for the people of Iraq".

SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President:

"This is George W. Bush, the President of the United States. At this moment, the regime of Saddam Hussein is being removed from power, and a long era of fear and cruelty is ending. American and coalition forces are now operating inside Baghdad, and we will not stop until Saddam's corrupt gang is gone. The government of Iraq and the future of your country will soon belong to you".

10:27:38

Looters again ransacked government buildings and defaced images of Saddam Hussein as U.S. troops took control of the northern city of Mosul.

APTN

10.4.03 - Mosul, Iraq

Mid shot of Saddam mural being stoned

Wide shot of Saddam mural being stoned

Tilt up from group of men to Saddam mural being stoned

10:27:50

APTN

11.4.03 - Baghdad

Tilt up local men in front of hospital with Kalashnikovs as hospital is looted

Local men acting as hospital guards outside compound

Interior ransacked hospital X-ray room

10:28:04

British troops in Basra struggled to gain control of the city a week after its fall. As well as looters, forces had to contend with a lack of water and electricity. Some of the public frustration against the invaders was taken out on the English department of the city's university.

APTN

11.4.03 - Basra, Iraq

Children pulling carts with furniture looted from Basra University

Close up books on ground outside English department, tilt up to university

Various interior of people taking books from university library

10:28:19

APTN

11.4.03 - Al-Doura, 20 kilometres outside Baghdad

Various of burned out cars and trucks by highway

10:28:25

POOL

11.4.03 - Doha, Qatar

SOUNDBITE: (English) Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, U.S. Central Command

"The key list has 55 individuals who may be pursued, killed or captured and the list does not exclude any leaders who may have already been killed or captured."

10:28:37

U.S. military officers held meetings with Baghdad civil authorities, including members of the Iraqi police force, about essential services such as water and power in the city.

Regular water supplies had been cut off during the war, leaving Iraqis to queue for hours at the few remaining clean water sources.

APTN

12.4.03 - Baghdad

Shots of children queuing for water in street

Man filling bucket in street, woman hauling bucket up to her apartment balcony two floors above the road

10:28:47

APTN cameras were there to record U.S. marines discovering a cache of multi-million dollar luxury automobiles. The cars belonging to high figures in the Iraqi regime were found in Baghdad's City Hall. Some of the vehicles were valued at as high as 10 million U.S. dollars.

APTN

13.4.03 - Baghdad

Marine walking down stairs at basement of Baghdad's City Hall

Pan across luxury cars

Various of luxury cars

10:29:08

Local Iraqis took matters into their own hands in Baghdad, forming vigilante groups to protect homes and property from further looting.

Armed with rifles, men fired rounds at looters who appeared about to cross the Tigris River to reach Baghdad's once up market Karada district.

APTN

13.4.03 - Baghdad

Group of vigilantes walking through neighbourhood

10:29:21

The plight of Ali Ismail Hassan moved millions of people around the world.

Aside from his severe injuries, Ali lost most of his immediate family in the raid - including his father and pregnant mother. Ali was later taken to the United Kingdom for treatment.

APTN

14.4.03 - Baghdad

Staff pull back his covering to show Ali Ismail Hassan's injuries

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ali Ismail Hassan

"Do you want to liberate us, but why are you killing us? Where will all this pain go?"

10:29:38

U.S. soldiers entered the palace where Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday had lived.

While most Iraqis bent under the brunt of U.N. sanctions that drove their country into poverty, the tour through his bombed house showed that Uday lived a life of fast cars and expensive liquor.

APTN

15.4.03 - Baghdad

Various of US army around crates of weapons said to have been found in house of Uday Hussein

Various of gold plated weapons

10:29:49

U.S. marines foiled a robbery attempt on a Baghdad bank. They recovered some four million U.S. dollars worth of cash, taken from a branch on of the Rafidain Bank near the Marine headquarters at City Hall.

APTN

15.4.03 - Baghdad (marines foil bank robbers)

Pan from marine to suspects

Marines removing stacks of US soldiers in white and orange sacks

Various of marines piling up US dollars

10:30:05

APTN

16.4.03 - Baghdad

US soldiers storming bank, UPSOUND of shouting

US soldiers putting suspects up against outside wall of bank

US soldier taking money out of bag with suspect on floor beside

Suspects up against wall with piles of money behind

US soldier with stacks of Iraqi bank notes

Plaque with banks name

10:30:41

Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated against the U.S. occupation of Iraq following Friday prayers held by a leading cleric. They called for the immediate withdrawal of coalition forces. It was an early indication of the opposition the allies were to face in the "post war" era.

APTN

18.3.03 - Baghdad

SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdullah Salah, Islamic opposition member and former Iraqi exile

"This rally is against he invasion of Americans in Iraq. We want the American troops basically to leave Iraq completely and leave the Iraqi people to rule Iraq."

IRAQ

POST WAR

10:31:01

Twelve days after U.S. forces seized Iraq, retired U.S. Lieutenant General Jay Garner arrived to take up his duties as Iraq's postwar civil administrator. His main priorities included restoring basic services such as electricity and water as well as civil order. In Baghdad, he visited the Yarmouk hospital, which had been overwhelmed with casualties of the fighting. Looters had stripped many wards of even their most basic equipment.

POOL

21.4.03 - Baghdad

Retired US Lieutenant General Jay Garner arriving at airport greeting troops

Garner walking with staff of Yarmouk hospital

10:31:12

On a tour of the northern Kurdish region, Garner met with prominent Kurdish leaders to discuss the future administration of the region.

POOL

22.4.03 - Sulaymaniyah, Iraq

Jay Garner, Tim Cross, Massoud Barzani and Jalal Talabani holding hands at photo op

10:31:16

Thirteen people were killed and 75 others injured after U.S. Army soldiers opened fire on Iraqi demonstrators in Fallujah. The soldiers claimed they opened fire after shots were aimed at them from the crowd. The protesters were objecting to the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq.

APTN

29.4.03 - Fallujah, Iraq

Damaged car with bullet holes

Wide shot of the entrance to Fallujah on the motorway

10:31:31

APTN

30.4.03 - Fallujah, Iraq

Funeral procession - coffin being carried through crowd

Various of US soldiers in defensive positions around building

Close up of banner reading: "Sooner or later, US killers, we'll kick you out"

10:31:41

APTN

1.5.03 - Fallujah, Iraq

Mid shot of banner outside American post reading "USA leave our country"

Iraqi flag covered in blood outside hospital

10:31:48

Coalition forces began to find shocking evidence of the brutality of Saddam Hussein's regime. Mass graves were found at sites across the country. By far the largest was the Al-Mahawil site near Babylon, where up to 15 thousand bodies were feared buried.

APTN

4.5.03 - Babylon, Iraq

People at site of mass grave

Remains, woman clapping in background

Close ups of remains

Woman holding photo of her missing son, Akil Hassanali

10:32:07

Excavation teams found a further 2,200 bodies at a mass grave in Hillah, 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Baghdad. Other major sites were found in Kirkuk, Basra, Muhammed Sakran and Najaf. Many of the victims died during the Shiite revolt against the Saddam Hussein government that followed the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War.

APTN

14.5.03 - Hillah, Iraq

Wide shot of crowd standing around earth mover digging up grave

Various of women wailing with bags of remains

Pile of remains

10:32:22

Coalition forces faced growing opposition from Iraq's ethnic groups. In June, Sunni Muslims rallied in the streets of Baghdad, accusing U.S. troops of entering the city's Hothaifa bin al-Yaman mosque and taking money. The U.S. military denied the allegations, saying they'd merely been searching for weapons. Coalition forces were increasingly criticised for inflaming a volatile situation with their sometimes heavy-handed approach to maintaining security.

APTN

13.6.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

Wide of protesters in street chanting with banners

Wide of marchers chanting

Protesters hold up banner of Koran

Wide of protesters with tank and mosque

10:32:42

More evidence of Saddam's opulent lifestyle was unearthed. At a farmhouse not far from Saddam's birthplace outside Tikrit, American troops unearthed a stash of his treasure valued at some 8 million U.S. dollars.

APTN

19.6.03 - Tikrit, Iraq

Wide shot of Saddam palace

US soldier carrying box of treasure in room inside Saddam's palace, puts box on desk

Various of treasure being laid out on table

Various of broach holding picture of Saddam

Various shots of treasure

10:33:14

The first meeting of the U.S. appointed Iraqi governing council met in July in what was hailed as the first step on the path to democracy. The council was made up of leaders from Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious groups. The panel was selected after two months of consultations and faced the difficult task of convincing the Iraqi people that it represented them. This was despite the fact the population never had a chance to vote on its members.

APTN

13.7.03 - Baghdad

Wide shot exterior of building where meeting was held

Entrance to building with security guard in front

Wide interior of council seated around table in meeting room

Mid shot Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani (on left) talking to Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum, cleric from Najaf

Close up Ahmed Chalabi gesturing to council members

Close up Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani

SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Bremer, US Administrator for Iraq

"Once that constitution is approved by the Iraqi people, we'll have the place to hold elections for a sovereign government."

10:33:51

Crowds of Iraqis gathered outside the mansion in Mosul where American soldiers killed Saddam Hussein's two eldest sons.

Some of them were shouting in delight, others cursing in anger.

Uday and Qusay Hussein were regarded as two of the cruelest men in Saddam's regime. For the coalition it was a major boost, evidence they were closing the net on Saddam Hussein. Supporters of the former leader promised retaliation.

APTN

23.7.03 - Mosul, Iraq

Exterior of villa

US soldier

Window on villa damaged by gunfire and with smoke billowing

Villa with smoke still billowing out

Damaged side of house

10:34:12

US Department of Defense

Still image corpse with full head of hair and beard of Qusay Hussein

Still image corpse with shaved head and full beard showing facial injury Uday Hussein

10:34:24

APTN

25.7.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

Wide shot of bodies of Qusay and Uday Hussein

10:34:31

APTN

23.7.03 - near Ramadi, Iraq

Wide shot of Iraqi insurgents wearing masks

SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Iraqi insurgent

"If this news is true that Qusay and Uday are dead, we shall raise hell on Americans."

Close up of man holding RPG

Close up small child holding assault rifle

10:34:54

APTN

2.8.03 - Tikrit, Iraq

Wide shot of burial site of Qusay and Uday

Mourner approaches grave with a banknote with Saddam's image and glues it with mud to the grave

Mourner with cap praying in front of mosque

10:35:06

As the months passed, the death toll continued to rise as insurgents launched a series of attacks on a variety of targets throughout Iraq. A massive car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad in August, killing a dozen people and injuring over 50 more.

Later in the month, another bomb hit the United Nations compound in Baghdad, killing Sergio Vieira de Mello, the head of U.N. operations in Iraq. He was among 23 people killed in the blast.

APTN

7.8.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

Wide shot aftermath of bomb

Fire burning outside embassy - pan to soldiers

Burnt out car

US soldiers standing on vehicle

10:35:24

APTN

19.8.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

Wide shots of UN headquarters with smoke billowing out

Burning cars

10:35:42

International organisations were not the only target. Iraq's holiest Shiite shrine in Najaf was hit by a bomb killing 125 people including Shia cleric, Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim. Al-Hakim had only recently returned to Iraq after two decades of exile.

APTN

29.8.03 - Najaf, Iraq

Mosque with damage from explosion

Crowds of people surrounding wrecked car

Various of rubble and damage

10:35:53

APTN

10.5.03 - Basra, Iraq

Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim addresses crowd

10:36:00

Friendly fire incidents only served to complicate relations between the coalition troops and the Iraqis they were meant to be helping.

In September, an American patrol opened fire on an Iraqi police patrol by mistake. Nine people were killed including a Jordanian security guard. The U.S. military was forced to apologise for the incident, which was to trigger a new cycle of bloodshed in the country's most troubled region.

The supposed "post-war" period was proving more costly in terms of lives than the war itself.

APTN

12.9.03 - Al-bu Al-wan, near Fallujah, Iraq

Various exteriors of one of the Jordanian Hospital buildings at Al-bu Al-wan

Cartidge cases from 40 mm grenade launcher lying in the foreground with building behind

Various of locals shouting and dancing around burned out US "humvee"

10:36:22

APTN

13.9.03 - Fallujah, Iraq

Various of coffins of Iraq policemen shot by US soldiers being carried through crowd

10:36:27

APTN

12.10.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

Wide shot of scene of car bombing

Close up injured man being taken away on police pick-up

Stretcher being loaded into ambulance

10:36:46

The Al Rasheed Hotel in central Baghdad was home to many Americans and seen as a symbol of the U.S.-led occupation. A rocket attack in October killed an American colonel and injured a further 18 people.

APTN

26.10.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

Hotel

Various of damaged hotel

10:37:05

A dozen people were killed in an attack on the Red Cross complex in Baghdad, also in October. The attack led to calls for non-governmental organisations to pull out of Iraq as the situation became ever more dangerous. Most of those killed were Iraqi employees of the aid organisation.

APTN

27.9.03 - Baghdad, Iraq

Various of smoke rising over city following suicide bombing attack on Red Cross building

10:37:24

Fifteen U.S. soldiers died when a U.S. Chinook helicopter was shot down near Fallujah. It was one of the deadliest strikes against American troops since the start of the war. Public support for the war back home was rapidly eroding as more and more people began to ask the same question - was it all worth it?

APTN

2.11.03 - near Fallujah, Iraq

Helicopter on ground

Soldiers at site of crash

Close up of crash site, pull out to wide of site

TERRORISM

INDONESIA - TRIAL OF BALI BOMBERS

10:37:57

Indonesian authorities continued their search for members of the al-Qaida linked Islamic group Jemaah Islamiyah, blamed for the Bali bombings of October 2002, which killed over 200 people. Two suspects were taken to the Kuta nightclub district as part of their interrogation in January. At a press conference, one of the chief suspects, Ali Imron, confessed his involvement and demonstrated the type of pipe-bomb vest used in the attack.

APTN

16.1.03 - Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia

Bali bomb suspect, Ali Imron, being lead out of police station and taken to cell

Wide shot of Mubarok, alias Hutomo Pamangkas taken into a police car

Various shots of some of the other suspects being brought out of vehicles

10:38:41

APTN

11.2.03 - Bali, Indonesia

SOUNDBITE: (Bahasa Indonesia) Ali Imron, Bali bomb suspect

"I swear in the name of God and Islam that the bombing in Bali is purely the work of our group. There is nobody backing us up and supporting us, unlike what we often hear in recent news reports."

Cutaway of press

Close up of Imron showing jacket with explosives

Pan from computer to Imron putting jacket on

10:39:17

The trials of the 33 suspects finally got underway in May. Also on trial was the Indonesian justice system, as the international community looked on to see its effectiveness in dealing with the threat of terrorism. Many of the ringleaders of the attack were later convicted and given the death sentence - only those who showed remorse were spared and given life imprisonment.

APTN

12.5.03 - Bali, Indonesia

Amrozi bin Nurhasyim is brought into court and soldiers put him in seat in front of judges

Tilt down on Amrozi in court

Wide shot of court

10:39:54

APTN

File November 2002 - Denpasar, Bali

Shot of Amrozi and Da'i Bachtiar, Indonesian Police Chief

Close up of Amrozi's face

10:40:00

APTN

2.6.03 - Bali

Imam Samudra being lead to seat

Samudra sitting down, UPSOUND: Samudra shouts "Allah u-Akbar" (God is great), defence lawyers (out of shot) respond with own cries of Allah u-Akbar (God is great)

Judge banging gavel

10:40:26

APTN

16.5.03 - Denpasar, Bali

Various Mukhlas, under guard, enters court and taken to seat

UPSOUND Mukhlas chants "God is Great"

Tilt down Mukhlas

TERRORISM

INDONESIA - BOMBS

10:40:53

Despite the crackdown and the best efforts of the authorities, the terrorist attacks continued. Indonesia's parliament and police headquarters were both targets for bomb attacks. Foreign interests targeted included a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant and the J.W. Marriott hotel. Twelve people were killed and 150 injured in the Marriot bombing.

APTN

3.2.03 - Jakarta, Indonesia

Wide shot of Jakarta police compound with media in the foreground

Mid shot of bomb damaged building

Close ups of blasted roof

Zoom in to police investigators bagging debris as evidence

Police standing guard at blast sight cordoned off

10:41:13

APTN

27.4.03 - Jakarta, Indonesia

Entrance from within airport of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant where explosion occurred - glass on ground

Various shots of investigators at scene

Broken glass and debris

10:41:35

APTN

14.7.03 - Jakarta, Indonesia

Wide shot of Indonesian parliament building

Various shots of explosion site

Various shots of forensic team with a dog at site

10:41:52

APTN

5.8.03 - Jakarta, Indonesia

Exterior of hotel

Police, tilt up to smoke

Exterior of J.W. Marriott hotel, zoom in on shattered windows

Various of fire fighters trying to extinguish car on fire

Various of dead body being put into the back of an ambulance

10:42:21

APTN

19.8.03 - Jakarta, Indonesia

Indonesian national detective Erwin Mapasseng holding a photo list of fugitives wanted in connection with Marriott bombing

Fugitives list

TERRORISM

SAUDI ARABIA - BOMB

10:42:39

Saudi Arabia was also the target of terrorists when in May a housing complex used by Americans working in Riyadh was hit by a truck bombing. Over 90 people were killed in the attack described as "terrorism at its worst" by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell during a visit to the site. The attack was again linked to the al-Qaida network.

POOL

13.5.03 - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Piles of debris

US Secretary of State Colin Powell looking at devastation

Tilt down destroyed building

Close up US flag, pull out to destroyed building

Close up piece of debris

Destroyed buildings pull out

Sandstorm blows up around wrecked buildings

Close up Powell walking with group in sandstorm

TERRORISM

MOROCCO - BOMBS

10: 43:44

A series of terrorist attacks occurred in Casablanca in May, with bombs going off at a number of sites in the city including a Jewish Community Centre and the Belgian consulate. Over 40 people were killed, 13 of whom were believed to be the suicide bombers. In the aftermath, authorities rounded up members of local extremist Islamic groups Salafia Jihadia and Attakfir wal Hijra in connection with the blasts. Again, al-Qaida were suspected of involvement.

APTN

17.5.03 - Casablanca, Morocco

Police stand guard outside bombed nightclub

High shot of wrecked outdoor dining area

Various of burned tables and chairs, blood and left shoes at Casa de Espana

Exterior of damaged Belgian consulate

Man sweeping up broken glass at restaurant opposite consulate

Close up of restaurant sign with blood splattered walls

Various exteriors of damage to Hotel Farah

Close up of hotel sign

Body is put into waiting van

Woman crying

SOUNDBITE: (French) Mustapha Sahel, Moroccan Interior Minister

"These attacks were committed by a cell made up of 14 members split into five groups, and these five groups are the ones that carried out the attacks in Casablanca."

10:44:59

APTN

18.5.03 - Casablanca, Morocco

Wide shot of news stand with people looking at papers

Close up headline "The Horror" in French

Various shots of King Mohammed IV of Morocco viewing the bomb-damaged interior of Jewish community centre

ISRAEL/PALESTINE

10:45:33

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

APTN

7.3.03 - Ramallah, West Bank

Abu Mazen, Palestinian Prime Minister Designate, sitting at desk

SOUNDBITE: (English) Saeb Erekat Palestinian Senior Official

"President Arafat has made the choice to appoint Mr. Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen) as the Prime Minister. It is the right choice and it is a good choice. I believe in the end of the day Mr. Abu Mazen will be the credible and the empowered prime minister of the new Palestinian cabinet."

10:45:59

APTN

18.3.03 - Ramallah, West Bank

Various of Palestinian Legislative Council meeting in chamber

Various of council members voting on resolution

10:46:16

POOL

8.4.03 - Hillsborough Castle, Northern Ireland

SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, U.S. President

"We're committed to implementing the road-map toward peace, to bring closer the day when two states, Israel and Palestine, live side-by-side in peace and stability. Peace in the Middle East will require overcoming deep divisions of history and religion. Yet we know this is possible."

10:46:40

APTN

9.4.03 - Gaza

Various shots of bodies being carried through crowd

Various shots of masked paramilitary fighters with guns in burial parade

9.4.02 - Jenin

Damaged empty classroom, pan to blood on floor

Close up of broken light and blood splattered floor

Pockmarks on ceiling and walls

10:47:07

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

APTN

File, 20.4.96 - Gaza

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

Abbas greets man

APTN

16.4.03 - Baghdad

Wide shot of exterior Mohammed Abbas' house

APTN

File

Achille Lauro

10:47:32

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

APTN

23.4.03 - Ramallah, West Bank

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

SOUNDBITE: (English) Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Planning Minister

"We have now a cabinet blessed by President Arafat and accepted by Mr Abbas - Abu Mazen - and we are going to proceed. Our assumption is that the road map will be declared very soon with all its requirements."

10:48:01

APTN

1.5.03 - Ramallah, West Bank

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

APTN

1.5.03 - Gaza City, Gaza Strip

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

Various shots of ruined buildings

Blood visible on wreckage

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

10:48:30

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

APTN

4.6.03 - Jerusalem

Various of Jewish settlers protesting with banners

Various wides of protest rally

10:48:48

POOL

4.6.03 - Jordan

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

10:48:56

POOL

4.6.03 - Jordan

Leaders walking to podium

Bush and Abbas sitting in garden

10:49:10

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

APTN

21.7.03 - Jayous, West Bank

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

Bulldozer and truck seen working over barbed wire fence

APTN

18.7.03 - Bethlehem, West Bank

Shot of fence warning sign

10:49:23

APTN

29.7.03 - West Bank

Fence snaking along for kilometres

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

10:50:06

APTN

19.8.03 - Jerusalem

Wide shot of ambulances at scene

Various of bus and wreckage at site

10:50:18

POOL

19.8.03 - Jerusalem

Zoom in to front of bus where blast happened

10:50:28

APTN

9.9.03 - Hebron, West Bank

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

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

Apartment block being demolished

10:50:58

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

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

APTN

9.9.03 - Ramallah, West Bank

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

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

10:51:11

APTN

7.10.03 - Jerusalem

SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew) Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister

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

SARS

10:51:38

SARS or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, caused a worldwide health scare. The virus infected over 8-thousand people and killed more than 700 people worldwide. The outbreak began in the Guangzhou region of China late in 2002, but by mid 2003 had spread throughout Asia. Face masks became commonplace, as was the sight of planes being disinfected at airports.

Hong Kong was among the worst affected cities. A huge clean up operation was launched to try and contain the spread of the deadly virus.

The scare affected the region's economy with western travellers and businessmen afraid to visit the region.

VNR

May 2003 - Atlanta, Georgia

Shots of researchers in Centre for Disease Control labs studying SARS

Shots of SARS virus on computer screen

Close shot of SARS virus in a lab dish

10:51:54

APTN

27.3.03 - Beijing, China

Pan from different types of face masks

Man pulls out disposable face mask from packet

Man demonstrates putting on face mask

APTN

28.3.03 - Beijing, China

Long shot of Hong Kong tourists wearing face mask at baggage hall

10:52:13

APTN

2.4.03 - Manila, Philippines

Wide shot of Philippine Airlines plane docked after landing

Passengers arriving from Hong Kong coming out of airport tunnel wearing masks

Airline staff spraying disinfectant inside plane

10:52:31

APTN

5.4.03 - Guandong, China

Various of people looking at notice board with information on SARS prevention

10:52:39

APTN

12.4.03 - Hong Kong

Wide shot of doctor checking patient with flashlight

Doctor writing

Close up on prescription as its being written

10:52:54

APTN

14.4.03 - Shenzhen, China

Wide shot of people walking into Hong Kong from mainland China

Mid shot of health declaration

Mid shot of health declaration

10:53:05

APTN

17.4.03 - Hong Kong

Man checking passenger's ear

Man walks to security, zoom in to close up of ear being checked

Close up on device showing temperature at 36 degrees Celsius

10:53:24

APTN

19.4.03 - Hong Kong

Exterior shot of Bowrington Street Market in Wanchai district of Hong Kong

Woman pushing large cleaning machine on cart through street

Low shot of mopping, pan to Yeoh Eng-kiong and others mopping

Close up high pressure water hose cleaning market

Wide shot of man cleaning using hose

10:53:49

APTN

April 2003 - Hong Kong

Doctors looking at x-ray

Pan from doctors to x-ray

Doctor with child in hospital

Pan from doctor to child

Kid looking through comic book on hospital bed

10:54:11

APTN

28.4.03 - Beijing, China

Tilt up on 29th dormitory of the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing (Zhao Jun Doing Li), which was isolated due to resident students with SARS

Mid shot of apartment windows

Woman cleaning window sill

Wide shot of security at apartment entrance

Mid shot of guards with face masks talking to doctors

Pan right of banner saying in Mandarin: "We expect that those infected will recover soon and that this isolation order frees us from this disease sooner"

10:54:36

APTN

1.5.03 - Xiaotangshan, Beijing

High wide newly built Xiaotangshan SARS hospital

Medium soldier guarding outside the disinfection room

Night shot wide of ambulances transporting SARS patients on road to Xiaotangshan hospital

A round table used as a signboard with Chinese characters reading: "No entrance to people from other villages and places"

GLOBAL

PRE-WAR PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS

10:55:04

In unprecedented protests, millions of people worldwide showed their opposition to the impending war in Iraq. In major cities around the globe demonstrators took to the streets calling for a peaceful solution to the Iraq problem. Both U.S. President George W. Bush and his closest ally British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced huge opposition in their own countries. Despite the scale of the anti-war movement, the invasion of Iraq went ahead regardless.

APTN

15.2.03 - New York, USA

Crowds of protesters

Effigy of US President George W. Bush with saying "no war"

APTN

15.2.03 - London, UK

Wide overhead shot of march

People dressed as British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush kissing

APTN

15.2.03 - Paris, France

Wide shot of demonstration

Pan from sign to demonstrator

Wide shot of street with marchers

APTN

15.2.03 - Berlin, Germany

Banner in crowd of marchers with a picture of Bush

Various of crowd of marchers

APTN

15.2.03 - Tel Aviv, Israel

Various of demonstrators

Demonstrators marching down road

APTN

15.2.03 - Rome, Italy

Wide shot of Piazza Venezia full of demonstrators with banners

GLOBAL

NATO EXPANSION

10:56:15

In its largest expansion yet, NATO welcomed seven eastern European nations to the alliance. The foreign ministers from Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Estonia and Latvia signed their membership treaties in Brussels on March 26th. The seven are due to join the coalition in May 2004 following ratification in their respective parliaments. Once members, they will be covered by NATO's core security guarantee, which states that an attack on one member is considered an attack on all.

NATO TV

26.3.03 - Brussels, Belgium

Wide shot of NATO council room

Mid shot of Lord Robertson, Secretary General of NATO addressing council

Various of accession countries foreign ministers signing protocols

SOUNDBITE: (English) Lord Robertson, Secretary General of NATO

"Colleagues, the accession protocols have now been signed by all of the existing nineteen members of NATO. The ratification can now begin."

Group photo opportunity

EUROPE

SERBIA - DJINDJIC ASSASSINATION

11:57:17

Gunmen who ambushed his entourage near government headquarters assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic -a key leader of the revolt, which toppled former President Slobodan Milosevic - in March.

Djindjic had many enemies because of his pro-reformist and pro-Western stance and his crackdown on organised crime, which is rampant in Serbia and across the Balkans.

A government-imposed state of emergency followed the murder and the military were called in to assist in the search for the assassins.

Members of an underworld network, which bore a grudge against the prime minister, carried out the killing.

APTN

File, July 1999 - Uzice, Serbia

Djindjic addressing crowd

APTN

12.3.03 - Belgrade, Serbia

Wide shot of people and police gathering outside site of shooting

Wide shot of street and police outside the government offices where Djindjic was ambushed

Mid shot of police and vehicles

SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Nebojsa Covic, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister

"There was an assassination of the Prime Minister of Serbia, Mr Zran Djindjic, at 1225pm (1125 GMT). The Prime Minister died at 1330pm (1230 GMT) in the emergency unit of the Serbian clinical centre in Belgrade. Doctor Zoran Djindjic was hit in the chest and abdomen and the wounds were gunshot wounds."

Mid shot of the sign of government offices where Djindjic was ambushed

Close up flowers

APTN

13.3.03 - Belgrade, Serbia

Close shot of candles, pan to flower tributes

EUROPE

SWEDEN - LINDH MURDER

10:58:25

One of Sweden's most popular and charismatic politicians, the Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, was murdered outside a Stockholm department store. The killing shocked one of Europe's most open and liberal societies. Lindh, who did not have bodyguards, was stabbed several times in the stomach, chest and arm while out shopping on September 10th and died the next day after several hours of surgery.

Her death cast a shadow over an impending referendum in which Swedes rejected the euro.

Many Swedes feared a repeat of the 1996 murder of Prime Minister Olaf Palme, which has never been solved. But after a massive manhunt, police detained 24-year old Mijailo Mijailovic, a Swedish man of Yugoslav origin who was later charged with the murder.

APTN

6.9.03 - Lake Garda, Italy

Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh during "family photo" at EU Foreign Ministers meeting

APTN

11.9.03 - Stockholm, Sweden

Various shots of people laying flowers and candles by photo of Anna Lindh

APTN

12.9.03 - Stockholm, Sweden

Queue outside the store where Lindh was attacked

EUROPE

EU EXPANSION SUMMIT AND VIOLENT PROTESTS

10:58:56

The 15 current European Union leaders met in Athens in April to discuss a range of topics from E.U. expansion to the war in Iraq. They agreed on elements of future U.N. Security Council resolutions designed to give the organisation a firm footing in the rebuilding of Iraq. The meeting was marred by anti-war demonstrations. The protesters anger was aimed at E.U. leaders from Britain, Spain and Italy who supported the war.

APTN

16.4.03 - Athens, Greece

Wide shot of protesters

Protesters in stand off with police - some throw paint bombs

Wide of police in riot gear

EUROPE

GREECE - THE AURORA

10:59:20

A mystery stomach virus struck down 500 out of 1,800 passengers aboard the cruise ship Aurora during a 17 day Mediterranean voyage. The ship was refused entry to a Greek port and Spanish authorities closed the border to Gibralter during the scare. The ship finally returned to Southampton by which time most of the passengers had recovered from the norovirus that caused vomiting and diarrhea but was not fatal.

APTN

31.10.03 - Piraeus, Athens, Greece

Various of cruise ship "Aurora" approaching Piraeus docks

Police checkpoint in the docks

Pan of cruise ship "Aurora"

Vessels around the "Aurora"

EUROPE

CONCORDE -END OF AN ERA

10:59:58

After 28 years, Concorde finally bowed out of service bringing an end to the era of supersonic commercial flights. British Airways suspended flights in October saying Concorde was no longer economically viable. Tens of thousands of people turned out to see the final three scheduled flights come in to land at London's Heathrow airport. It was a bittersweet day for fans of perhaps the most majestic plane ever to grace the world's skies.

Air France, the only other airline to operate Concorde, grounded its supersonic fleet in May.

APTN

File (black and white) - UK

Plan of model 2, exterior view

Plane in production

APTN

File (colour) - France

Concorde unveiled, ribbon cutting ceremony

POOL

24.10.03 - Heathrow airport, London

Wide shot of three Concordes all coming in to land (New York plane faint in background)

Various of Concorde plane coming from New York landing at Heathrow

Concorde dipping its nose

Pilots waving Union flags out of cockpit windows of Concorde

AFRICA

CIVIL WAR

11:01:05

APTN was there to cover the bloody fighting between rebels and government troops in Liberia. Hundreds of civilians died and thousands were forced to flee their homes as the rebels encircled the capital of Monrovia in June. LURD rebels (Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy) had been fighting troops loyal to President Charles Taylor for three years in a war that displaced more than one million Liberians.

APTN

File 2000 - Monrovia, Liberia

Liberian President Charles Taylor

APTN

29.6.03 - Monrovia, Liberia

Military vehicle with soldiers on back of truck

APTN

26.6.03 - Tugmanburg (35 miles north west of Monrovia), Liberia

Mid shot of rebel Chief of Staff, Seeya Shariff Cobra, walking towards Monrovia

Fighter on van firing

APTN

26.6.03 - Monrovia, Liberia

Crowd running out of building as rebels fire in the air to stop them looting

APTN

27.6.03 - Monrovia, Liberia

Various close shots of fighters on foot firing

As fighting reached a climax, Taylor vowed to fight to the last man in Monrovia, his last stronghold. But international pressure meant he was soon forced to step down and make way for a West African peacekeeping force, supported by the U.S., to move in.

Liberian Government Video

20.7.03 - Monrovia, Liberia

Government fighters firing their weapons wildly

President Charles Taylor passed power on to his designated successor Moses Blah during a long-promised resignation ceremony. His departure marked the end of an era of bloodshed.

Outside, Monrovia's beleaguered people cheered the Nigerian peacekeepers part of a vanguard peace force meant to build to 3,250 West African soldiers - but reserved celebrations over the warlord's resignation until it was official.

APTN

11.09.03 - Executive Mansion, Monrovia

Mid shot of Charles Taylor praying

Moses Blah, Liberian Vice President

With the arrival of 200 American troops to support the West African peace force, rebels finally lifted their siege of the capital. The rebels had pledged to pull out of Monrovia as soon as their demands that warlord president Charles Taylor leave Liberia and that West African peacekeepers deploy had been met. U.S. President George W. Bush - authorising the first U.S. peace mission in Africa since fighting in Somalia killed 18 US troops in 1993 - likewise had ruled out deploying any significant American force until Taylor departed.

APTN

14.09.03 - Roberts International Airport, Monrovia, Liberia

US troops disembarking from helicopters

Various of troops carrying gear

APTN

11.9.03 - Roberts International Airport, Monrovia, Liberia

Taylor boarding plane ready to leave Liberia

In October, businessman Gyude Bryant was sworn in as leader of a two-year transitional government charged with leading Liberia out of 14 years of bloodletting. Elections are due for 2005.

APTN

14.10.03 - Monrovia, Liberia

Gyude Bryant swearing oath

SOUNDBITE: (English) Gyude Bryant, Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia

"My people, the war is over" (Ends on upsound of applause)

AFRICA

SOUTH AFRICA - WALTER SISULU

11:02:20

Walter Sisulu, a charismatic, quiet leader who brought Nelson Mandela into the African National Congress and helped lead the fight against apartheid for five decades, died in May aged 90.

Sisulu, mentor of President Nelson Mandela even before the two were part of a group jailed for life in 1964, had been suffering from a long illness, according to the A.N.C. Throughout the fight against the racist white regime, Sisulu and Mandela stood together. They went on trial together, went to jail together and worked together to

transform the organization from a banned liberation movement to the nation's governing party.

Mandela looked up to the older Sisulu for advice and support through their heady days as political firebrands, during the long, lonely years in prison and finally into South Africa's first democratic government.

Born four months after the formation of the African National Congress in 1912, Sisulu introduced Mandela to politics and later while the two served life sentences in jail, groomed him for the inevitable presidency of South Africa.

After his release from jail in late-1989 Sisulu was elected Deputy President of the A.N.C. but stepped down from high political office in December 1994.

While Mandela became the public face of resistance - and eventually the nation's first black president - Sisulu, perhaps his closest confidant, remained the clear-thinking strategist in the background.

APTN

File - Johannesburg, South Africa

Close up of Walter Sisulu and his wife

APTN

File - Blomfontein, South Africa

Sisulu greeting Nelson Mandela on stage and then greeting Joe Slovo

6.5.03 - Johannesburg, South Africa

SOUNDBITE: (English) Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa

"He was no threat to anybody and as a result rose far, head and shoulders far above us."

APTN

18.5.03 - Johannesburg, South Africa

Wide of podium with VIPs

Framed photo of Walter Sisulu

AFRICA

IDI AMIN DIES