SHOTLIST

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June 7, 2006

1. Wide shot of former Brazilian World Cup champion Pele walking through Pele Station holding football and waving to cameras

2. Round screen showing archive pictures of Pele as a player

3. Pele talking to fans

4. Wide shot of Pele in press conference

5. SOUNDBITE (English): Pele, former Brazilian World Cup champion:

"I think if I have to repeat everything, you know, I will do everything the same. I am very happy with what God has given to me."

6. Screen showing archive pictures of Pele as a player

7. Pan of video wall

8. Top shot of Mini cars with flags on their roofs parked at Berlin fair

9. Close-up of Mini car with German flag on roof, drivers and cars in background

10. SOUNDBITE (German): Kathrin Petersen, spokeswoman of 'Partner Berlin':

"As Berlinizer you can show everybody, to Berliners or their guests, 'We are happy to have you here and to assist you if you need our help'."

11. Drivers standing next to cars waving

12. Various shots of Mini cars driving away

13. Tilt down from Berlin Schoeneberg town hall to arriving 'Mini' cars

14. Cars passing

15. Wide shot of ambassadors near marquee

16. Ambassador of Costa Rica getting into car

17. SOUNDBITE: (English): Esteban Penrod, Ambassador of Costa Rica:

"It feels great because this means integration in the city but for all the people who live here and I'm very glad this initiative is taking place at this moment precisely."

18. Ambassador of Equador holding model of Mini car

19. SOUNDBITE: (English): Horatio Sevilla, Ambassador of Equador:

"Well, I feel proud to be part of this international city, this cosmopolitan city, as Berlin is, and I'm very grateful to the organisers of that event and Ecuador will receive this with great pleasure."

20. Ambassador of Equador driving away in his Mini

21. Wide shot of Reichstag, German Parliament building

22. Close-up of giant poster of Argentinean football player Juan Roman Riquelme, Reichstag building in background

23. Pan of Interior of Adidas arena

24. Row of seats, poster in background shows World Cup trophy and photo of players

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25. Wide shot of Olympiastadium Berlin, giant beach towel printed with England flag is spread on ground

26. People carrying towel

27. Unveiling towel on the stairs under the Olympic fireplace

28. Various of giant towel spread on steps

STORYLINE:

Brazilian football legend Pele visited Berlin on Wednesday to inaugurate an exhibition dedicated to his footballing career, one of several events taking place in the build up to the opening game of World Cup 2006.

The exhibition, PeleStation - the Legend in Action, contains two 40 metre (43 yard) wide projections of images highlighting Pele's remarkable playing career.

PeleStation was opened in a tunnel of a subway station in Berlin.

Pele's popularity cuts across generations and fans came in large numbers to see the Brazilian.

With football fever at a high, Pele turned nostalgic and told the media he was extremely satisfied with the way his career panned out.

PeleStation was designed and created by a Brazilian company with the close cooperation and support of Pele himself.

Meanwhile, the car manufacturer BMW gave 32 Mini cars to the ambassadors of the countries participating in the World Cup, part of the 'Berlinizer' campaign to promote Germany as a friendly host.

The cars will be driven until July 9 by the ambassadors or by people participating in the 'Berlinizer' campaign.

For the ambassadors who live in Berlin, the handover of the cars was a special moment.

The ceremony took pace in the same place that former US President John F Kennedy once said: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I'm a Berliner).

Marketing company Partner Berlin launched the campaign to encourage Germans to open up to guests and friends.

To become a 'Berlinizer', visitors have to log on to the Internet and answer some questions about Berlin.

Those who answer correctly win a badge marked with "I'm a Berlinizer please ask me for help".

Organisers hope that visitors to the city can approach those wearing the badges to ask for assistance or help.

Also in Berlin, the popular German sports brand Adidas has built a special arena where fans can experience an atmosphere similar to the city's famous Olympia Stadium.

The massive arena, built next to the spectacular Reichstag - the German Parliament building, will have live screenings of all World Cup games.

The English were also getting involved in publicity events in the run up to the tournament.

A British tabloid newspaper arranged for a giant beach towel, emblazoned with England's St. George cross, to be spread across a stand at the

Olympiastadium in Berlin.

The newspaper says the 7,578 square-foot (704-square-metre) towel is the world's largest, though the Guiness Book of World Records is still in the process of verifying this claim.

A team of ten unfurled the towel to send a message of support to the English World Cup squad.

The publicity stunt plays upon a popular British view that stereotypes German tourists as always seeking to reserve sun loungers with their towels before British holidaymakers can reach them.

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SHOTLIST:

1. Wide pan of coordination centre of Interior Ministry

2. Medium shot of military official

3. Screens on wall

4. Military officials looking at computer screen

5. Red light on ceiling, pull out to wide of room

6. SOUNDBITE (German) Christian Sachs, Interior Ministry spokesman:

"We Germans do not have to look as far as Warsaw or Basel, we have seen here in Berlin that there are problems, and that is very aggravating. For the World Cup though, we have to say that we expect to have a very secure situation in the stadiums through the personalisation (labelling with names of owners) of tickets."

7. Cutaway coordination centre

8. SOUNDBITE (German) Christian Sachs, Interior Ministry spokesman:

"Video surveillance, fencing, entry control are all segments that must be implemented there. Until now, the signs have been positive that the federal state police forces and communities plan to do so. We expect the fans to react in a certain way, namely to isolate potential violent people, and on the other hand, we have to make sure that there is a way to punish those who want to cause trouble."

9. Low shot of coordination centre

STORYLINE

The German Interior Ministry has expressed confidence that the security measures taken for the World Cup in Germany will prevent scenes of football violence similar to those seen in Warsaw, Basel and Berlin over the weekend.

Interior Ministry spokesman Christian Sachs spoke to AP Television News at the opening of the Interior Ministry's National Information and Coordination Centre (NICC) on Tuesday.

"We expect to have a very secure situation in the stadiums," Sachs said.

The NICC will be operational 24 hours a day, and is designed to facilitate the exchange of security-related information between various organisations and government bodies.

While Sachs showed concern about the escalation of violence in various cities, he said the personalisation, or printing of the rightful owner's name, on tickets would guarantee security.

Sachs appealed to the local authorities to implement security measures suggested by the federal government for the so called "Public Viewing" areas.

The police union has repeatedly expressed concern about some 300 such locations where safety measures are regulated by the local authorities.

Worry surrounding security at the World Cup has grown after scores of police and rioters were injured during clashes between police and violent football fans in Basel and Warsaw over the weekend, and a third league match had to be interrupted after clashes between fans broke out in Berlin.

Sachs also appealed to the football fans themselves: "We expect the fans to react in a certain way, namely to isolate potential violent people."

SHOTLIST

1. Tilt of painting on wall featuring members of Brazilian football team

2. Brandenburg gate, with massive football sculpture in foreground

3. Brazilian fans holding a banner

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Brazilian fans, voxpops (No names given):

Woman (not in shot): "It is just formality..."

Man: "To do, to play it, but we will win today."

Woman: "But it is nice to play against them because they really want to win so it will be a nice match to see."

5. Two Brazilian fans and one Croatian fan walking away together, pan to massive Brandenburg gate football

6. Various of Croatian fans singing

7. Various of Brazilian fans singing

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Croatian fans, voxpops (No names given):

"Last game was nil-nil I think so this is the time to beat them I think."

(Reporter: "You really think you have a chance?")

"Yes we have a chance, this is football, you never know."

9. Various Brazilian fans singing and playing guitar

10. Various of Brazilian supporters playing samba music outside the Kempinski hotel (place where the Brazilian team is staying)

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Croatian fan, voxpop (No name given):

"You can imagine if a nation of four (m) million people like Croatia wins against Brazil. It would be one week of holiday celebration in Croatia."

13. Croatian supporters and Brazilian supporters walking past each other

14. Dog wearing Brazilian shirt

15. Brazilian girls chanting and jumping

STORYLINE

The mood was festive and colourful on Tuesday morning as Brazilian and Croatian fans gathered in the German capital, Berlin, ahead of their teams' World Cup Group F clash later in the day.

Brazil are five-time champions and heavy favourites to win a record sixth world championship.

The Croats, third in the 1998 World Cup in France, have admitted a draw would be called heroic.

The match, scheduled for 9 p.m. local time (1900 GMT), is the first in the tournament to be played at the Olympiastadion.

A big screen has been set up at the Brandenburg gate for those fans not lucky enough to get tickets for the game.

Early on Tuesday morning fans of both teams wrapped in their nations' flags sang and danced in the sun while waiting for the game to start.

A Croatian fan said he thought his team stood a chance against the current champions, whilst Brazilian supporters appeared more certain, almost arrogant, about success.

"This is a formality," said one Brazilian fan.

Brazil's coach, however, has said he expects Group F to be decided only in the final round of games.

Australia, Brazil's next opponent on Sunday, beat Japan 3-1 on Monday in their group opener.

Brazil and Croatia have drawn the only two times they have played, including 1-1 in a friendly last year.

Both sides will be at full strength for Tuesday's match at the Olympiastadion.

Outside the Kempinski hotel where the Brazilian team is staying in central Berlin, around 40 Brazilian supporters were waiting and playing samba rhythms, hoping to catch a glimpse of their heroes.

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SHOTLIST:

1. Tilt of painting on wall featuring members of Brazilian football team

2. Brandenburg gate, with massive football sculpture in foreground

3. Brazilian fans holding a banner

4. SOUNDBITE, (English) Brazilian fans:

Woman (not in shot): "It is just formality..."

Man: "To do, to play it, but we will win today"

Woman: "But it is nice to play against them because they really want to win so it will be a nice match to see."

5. Two Brazilian fans and one Croatian fan walking away together, pan to massive Brandenburg gate football

6. Various of Croatian fans singing

7. Various of Brazilian fans singing

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Croatian fans:

"Last game was nil-nil I think so this is the time to beat them I think."

(Reporter: "You really think you have a chance?")

"Yes we have a chance, this is football, you never know."

9. Various Brazilian fans singing and playing guitar

STORYLINE

The mood was festive and colourful on Tuesday morning as Brazilian and Croatian fans gathered in the German capital, Berlin, ahead of their teams' World Cup Group F clash later in the day.

Brazil are five-time champions and heavy favourites to win a record sixth world championship.

The Croats, third in the 1998 World Cup in France, have admitted a draw would be called heroic.

The match, scheduled for 9pm (19:00 GMT), is the first in the tournament to be played at the Olympia stadium.

A big screen has been set up at the Brandenburg gate for those fans not lucky enough to get tickets for the game .

Early on Tuesday morning fans of both teams wrapped in their nations' flags sang and danced in the sun while waiting for the game to start.

A Croatian fan said he thought his team stood a chance against the current champions, whilst Brazilian supporters appeared more optimistic about success.

"This is a formality," said one Brazilian fan.

Brazil's coach has said he expects Group F to be decided only in the final round.

Australia, Brazil's next opponent on Sunday, beat Japan 3-1 on Monday in their debut in the group.

Brazil and Croatia drew the only two times they played, including 1-1 in a friendly last year.

Both sides will be at full strength for Tuesday's match at the Olympiastadion.

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Nelson Mandela, who became one of the world's most beloved statesmen and a colossus of the 20th century when he emerged from 27 years in prison to negotiate an end to white minority rule in South Africa, died on Thursday, 5 December.

He was 95.

South African President Jacob Zuma made the announcement at a news conference late Thursday, saying "we've lost our greatest son."

South Africa's first black president spent nearly one-third of his life as a prisoner of apartheid, the system of white racist rule that he described as evil, yet he sought to win over its defeated guardians in a relatively peaceful transition of power that inspired the world.

It was this generosity of spirit that made Mandela a global symbol of sacrifice and reconciliation in a world often jarred by conflict and division.

Mandela's stature as a fighter against white oppression and seeker of peace with his enemies was on a par with that of other men he admired: American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. and Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, both of whom were assassinated while actively engaged in their callings.

Mandela's death deprived the world of one of one of the great figures of modern history and set the stage for days of mourning and reflection about a colossus of the 20th century who projected astonishing grace, resolve and good humour.

At times, Mandela embraced his iconic status, appearing before a rapturous crowd in London's Wembley Stadium soon after his 1990 release from jail.

Sometimes, he sought to downplay it, uneasy about the perils of being put on a pedestal. In an unpublished manuscript, written while in prison, Mandela acknowledged that leaders of the anti-apartheid movement dominated the spotlight but said they were "only part of the story," and every activist was "like a brick which makes up our organisation."

He pondered the cost to his family of his dedication to the fight against the racist system of government that jailed him for 27 years and refused him permission to attend the funeral of his mother and of a son who was killed in a car crash.

In court, he described himself as "the loneliest man" during his mid-1990s divorce from Winnie Mandela.

As president, he could not forge lasting solutions to poverty, unemployment and other social ills that still plague today's South Africa, which has struggled to live up to its rosy depiction as the "Rainbow Nation."

He secured near-mythical status in his country and beyond. Last year, the South African central bank released new banknotes showing his face, a robust, smiling image of a man who was meticulous about his appearance and routinely exercised while in prison.

South Africa erected statues of him and named buildings and other places after him. He shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with F. W. de Klerk, the country's last white president.

He was the subject of books, films and songs and a magnet for celebrities. In 2010, Mandela waved to the crowd at the Soccer City stadium at the closing ceremony of the World Cup, whose staging in South Africa allowed the country, and the continent, to shine internationally.

It was the last public appearance for the former president and prisoner, who smiled broadly and was bundled up against the cold.

One of the most memorable of his gestures toward racial harmony was the day in 1995 when he strode onto the field before the Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg, and then again after the game, when he congratulated the home team for its victory over a tough New Zealand team.

Mandela was wearing South African colours and the overwhelmingly white crowd of 63,000 was on its feet, chanting "Nelson! Nelson! Nelson!"

It was typical of Mandela to march headlong into a bastion of white Afrikanerdom - in this case the temple of South African rugby - and make its followers feel they belonged in the new South Africa.

The moment was portrayed in "Invictus," Clint Eastwood's movie telling the story of South Africa's transformation through the prism of sport.

It was a moment half a century in the making. In the 1950s, Mandela sought universal rights through peaceful means but was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for leading a campaign of sabotage against the government.

The speech he gave during that trial outlined his vision and resolve.

"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people," Mandela said. "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.

But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." He was confined to the harsh Robben Island prison near Cape Town for most

of his time behind bars, then moved to jails on the mainland.

It was forbidden to quote him or publish his photo, yet he and other jailed members of his banned African National Congress were able to smuggle out messages of guidance to the anti-apartheid movement, and in the final stages of his confinement, he negotiated secretly with the apartheid leaders who recognised change was inevitable.

Thousands died, or were tortured or imprisoned in the decades-long struggle against apartheid, which deprived the black majority of the vote, the right to choose where to live and travel, and other basic freedoms.

So when inmate No. 46664 went free after 27 years, walking hand-in-hand with his wife Winnie out of a prison on the South African mainland, people worldwide rejoiced.

Mandela raised his right fist in triumph, and in his autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom," he would write: "As I finally walked through those gates ... I felt - even at the age of seventy-one - that my life was beginning anew."

Mandela's release, rivaled the fall of the Berlin Wall just a few months earlier as a symbol of humanity's yearning for freedom, and his graying hair, raspy voice and colourful shirts made him a globally known figure.

Life, however, imposed new challenges on Mandela.

South Africa's white rulers had portrayed him as the spearhead of a communist revolution and insisted that black majority rule would usher in bloody chaos.

Thousands died in factional fighting in the runup to democratic elections in 1994, and Mandela accused the government of collusion in the

bloodshed.

But voting day, when long lines of voters waited patiently to cast ballots, passed peacefully, as did Mandela's inauguration as president.

"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world," the new president said. "Let freedom reign. The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement! God bless Africa! Thank you."

Mandela also stood hand on heart, saluted by white generals as he sang along to two anthems now one: the apartheid-era Afrikaans "Die Stem," ("The Voice") and the African "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" ("Lord Bless Africa").

Since apartheid ended, South Africa has held four parliamentary elections and elected three presidents, always peacefully, setting an example on a continent where democracy is still new and fragile.

However, corruption scandals and other missteps under the ruling African National Congress, the liberation group once led by Mandela, have undercut some of the early promise.

President Jacob Zuma periodically observes that the South African white minority is far wealthier than the black majority, an imbalance that he regards as a vestige of the apartheid system that bestowed most economic benefits on whites.

When Mandela came to power, black South Africans anticipated quick fixes after being denied proper housing, schools and health care under apartheid.

The new government, however, embraced free-market policies to keep white-dominated big business on its side and attract foreign investment.

The policy averted the kind of economic deterioration that occurred in Zimbabwe after independence; South Africa, though, has one of the world's biggest gaps between rich and poor.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born July 18, 1918, the son of a tribal chief in Transkei, a Xhosa homeland that later became one of the

"Bantustans" set up as independent republics by the apartheid regime to cement the separation of whites and blacks.

Mandela's royal upbringing gave him a regal bearing that became his hallmark. Many South Africans of all races would later call him by his clan name, Madiba, as a token of affection and respect.

Growing up at a time when virtually all of Africa was under European colonial rule, Mandela attended Methodist schools before being admitted to the black University of Fort Hare in 1938.

He was expelled two years later for his role in a student strike.

He moved to Johannesburg and worked as a policeman at a gold mine, boxed as an amateur heavyweight and studied law.

His first wife, nurse Evelyn Mase, bore him four children. A daughter died in infancy, a son was killed in a car crash in 1970 and another son died of AIDS in 2005. The couple divorced in 1957 and Evelyn died in 2004.

Mandela began his rise through the anti-apartheid movement in 1944, when he helped form the ANC Youth League.

He organised a campaign in 1952 to encourage defiance of laws that segregated schools, marriage, housing and job opportunities. The government retaliated by barring him from attending gatherings and leaving Johannesburg, the first of many "banning" orders he was to endure.

After a two-day nationwide strike was crushed by police, he and a small group of ANC colleagues decided on military action and Mandela pushed to form the movement's guerrilla wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, or Spear of the Nation.

He was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' hard labour for leaving the country illegally and inciting blacks to strike.

A year later, police uncovered the ANC's underground headquarters on a farm near Johannesburg and seized documents outlining plans for a guerrilla campaign.

At a time when African colonies were one by one becoming independent states, Mandela and seven co-defendants were sentenced to life in prison.

The ANC's armed wing was later involved in a series of high-profile bombings that killed civilians, and many in the white minority viewed the

imprisoned Mandela as a terrorist. The apartheid government, meanwhile, was denounced globally for its campaign of beatings, assassinations and other violent attacks on opponents.

Even in numbing confinement, Mandela sought to flourish.

"Incidentally, you may find that the cell is an ideal place to learn to know yourself, to search realistically and regularly the process of your own mind and feelings," he wrote in 1975 to Winnie Mandela, a prominent activist in her own right who was in a separate jail at that time.

Mandela turned down conditional offers of freedom during his decades in prison. In 1989, P.W. Botha, South Africa's hard-line president, was replaced by de Klerk, who recognised apartheid's end was near. Mandela continued, even in his last weeks in prison, to advocate nationalising banks, mines and monopoly industries - a stance that frightened the white business community.

But talks were already underway, with Mandela being spirited out of prison to meet white government leaders. After his release, he took charge of the ANC, and was elected president in a landslide in South Africa's first all-race election.

Perceived successes during Mandela's tenure include the introduction of a constitution with robust protections for individual rights, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which he established with his fellow Nobelist, Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

It allowed human rights offenders of all races to admit their crimes publicly in return for lenient treatment. Though not regarded as wholly successful, it proved to be a kind of national therapy that would become a model for other countries emerging from prolonged strife.

Despite his saintly image, Mandela was sometimes a harsh critic. When black journalists mildly criticised his government, he painted them as stooges of the whites who owned the media. Some whites with complaints were dismissed as pining for their old privileges.

In the buildup to the Iraq War, Mandela harshly rebuked President George W. Bush. "Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly?" he asked in a speech. "All that (Bush) wants is Iraqi oil."

He suggested Bush and then British Prime Minister Tony Blair were racists, and claimed America, "which has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world," had no moral standing.

Until Bush repealed the order in 2008, Mandela could not visit the U.S. without the secretary of state certifying that he was not a terrorist.

To critics of his closeness to Fidel Castro and Moammar Gadhafi despite human rights violations in the countries they ruled, Mandela explained that he wouldn't forsake supporters of the anti-apartheid struggle.

To the disappointment of many South Africans, he increasingly left the governing to Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, who won the next presidential election and took over when Mandela's term ended in 1999.

"I must step down while there are one or two people who admire me," Mandela joked at the time. When he retired, he said he was going to stand on a street with a sign that said: "Unemployed, no job. New wife and large family to support."

His marriage to Winnie had fallen apart after his release and he married Graca Machel, the widowed, former first lady of neighbouring Mozambique.

With apartheid vanquished, Mandela turned to peacemaking efforts in other parts of Africa and the world and eventually to fighting AIDS, publicly acknowledging that his own son, Makgatho, had died of the disease.

Mandela's final years were marked by frequent hospitalisations as he struggled with respiratory problems that had bothered him since he contracted tuberculosis in prison.

He stayed in his rural home in Qunu in Eastern Cape province, where Hillary Clinton, then U.S. secretary of state, visited him in 2012, but then moved full-time to his home in Johannesburg so he could be close to medical care in Pretoria, the capital.

He is survived by Machel; his daughter Makaziwe by his first marriage, and daughters Zindzi and Zenani by his second.

POOL

London, UK - 29 August 2007

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1. Wide of the ceremony of unveiling of Mandela statue in London

2. Close up of Mandela

3. Wide of statue being unveiled in Parliament Square

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nelson Mandela, former South African president and Nobel laureate:

"When Oliver Tambo (fellow anti-apartheid leader) and I visited Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square in 1962, we half-joked that we hoped that one day a statue of a black person would be erected here." UPSOUND of applause

5. Mandela's wife Graca Machel smiling and clapping

AP TELEVISION

Johannesburg, South Africa - 27 October 2007

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6. Mandela wearing the South African Rugby team strip walking in to Nelson Mandela Foundation to meet the Springboks after they won the 2007 Rugby World Cup

7. Cutaway of photographer

8. Close up of Mandela's face

9. Mandela and Jake White, Captain of the Springboks holding the Web Ellis Trophy

10. Various of Mandela with the team holding the trophy

UK POOL

London, UK - 25 June 2008

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11. Various of Nelson Mandela and his wife meeting Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace

UK POOL

London, UK - 26 June 2008

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12. Left to right: Chelsea Clinton, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former US President Bill Clinton, Sarah Brown (Brown's wife), sitting down: Graca Machel (Mandela's wife), Nelson Mandela ++MUTE++

13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nelson Mandela, former South African president, Nobel laureate:

"We warned against the invasion of Iraq and observed the terrible suffering in that country. We watch with sadness the continuing tragedy in Darfur. Nearer to home, we have seen the outbreak of violence against fellow Africans in our own country and the tragic failure of leadership in our neighbouring Zimbabwe." (applause)

UK POOL

London, UK - 27 June 2008

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14. Wide of crowd at concert held for Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday

15. Will Smith on stage at concert UPSOUND "Ladies and gentlemen, the one the only, the birthday boy, Nelson Mandela"

16. Crowd clapping

17. Mandela walking out on the stage

18. Wide of stage

19. Nelson Mandela approaching podium

20. Woman holding up banner

21. Mandela struggling to get to podium

22. SOUNDBITE (English) Nelson Mandela, former South African president, Nobel laureate:

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"After nearly 90 years of life, it is time for new hands to lift the burden. It is in your hands now."

23. Various of Mandela waving as people applaud

AGENCY POOL

Qunu, South Africa - 18 July 2008

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24. Mid of Mandela's grandchildren giving three birthdays cheers to their grandfather UPSOUND (English) "Hip hip hurray!"

AP TELEVISION

Qunu, South Africa - 19 July 2008

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25. Mandela arriving for his Birthday party with ANC President Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki (right)

26. Close up of Mandela looking at Mbeki

27. Wide of Zuma on stage with singers

28. Various of guests raising a toast to Mandela

29. Mandela blowing out birthday candles on a cake

SHOTLIST:

Berlin, Germany, 2 May 2006

1. Wide of Berlin stadium

2. Police car in front of stadium

3. Police officer in front of police vehicle

4. Various of fans arriving for match of Berlin football club "Hertha BSC Berlin"

Duesseldorf, 5 May 2006

5. Michael Endler, Head of the German police unit in charge of hooliganism ZIS (Zentrale Informationsstelle Sporteins?tze/Central Sports Intelligence Unit), at desk

6. Office wall with German national team shirt with autographs

7. SOUNDBITE: (German) Michael Endler, Head of the D?sseldorf-based ZIS

"We wouldn''t intensively prepare for four years if we didn''t expect these kind of soccer fans and hooligans to come to Germany despite all security measures. But following information provided by Poland, England and other states known for hooliganism, our expectations can''t be compared at all with what is discussed by the public at the moment. Our level (of expectation) is considerably lower."

9. Cutaway of pennant of Israeli police

10. SOUNDBITE (German) Michael Endler, head of the D?sseldorf-based ZIS

"For the area covered by the ZIS for the state, we will ask for about 170 colleagues from abroad to be deployed in the different matches with German colleagues. Federal police will also need personnel for their tasks, which will be about 320."

Berlin, 1 May 2006

11. Various of police headquarters

Berlin, 5 May 2006

12. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Tadeuz Pawlaczyk, Police Commandant, Poland:

"Of course we can''t prevent brawls or clashes, but with the cooperation of the German police we hope that these cases can be limited to a minimum."

13. Cutaway of Pawlaczyk talking

14. SOUNDBITE (Polish) Tadeuz Pawlaczyk, Police Commandant, Poland:

"We have information about people with a stadium ban and we will make sure that these people will cause no trouble here."

Berlin, Germany, 2 May 2006

15. Police officers in front of stadium

16. Wide of fans and police in front of Berlin stadium

STORYLINE:

Word Cup hosts Germany are concerned that countries with a reputation for violence, including Eastern Europe will arrive en masse in just a few weeks time.

Polish, Croatian and Ukrainian fans, contributing to growing violence in their home leagues, are especially feared because German police find it difficult to tell the genuine supporter from the hooligan, owing to a lack of intelligence.

Whereas the British and Dutch have exchanged thick dossiers on troublemakers for years.

The German media have also criticised a series of errors in various disaster response exercises for the World Cup, although Deputy Interior Minister August Hanning said the point of training was to expose possible mistakes.

But German police are wary.

Michael Endler, head of the D?sseldorf-based ZIS, the police department that handles hooligans, told APTN: "We wouldn''t intensively prepare for four years if we didn''t expect these kind of soccer fans and hooligans to come to Germany despite all security measures. But following information provided by Poland, England and other states known for hooliganism, our expectations can''t be compared at all with what is discussed by the public at the moment. Our level (of expectation) is considerably lower."

However German strategy to combat fan violence and terrorism drew high marks at a two-day security conference of experts from the 32 countries playing in soccer''s showcase event from June 9-July 9.

Tadeuz Pawlaczyk, a Polish police commandant, thinks the German police can handle the situation, because there is good European cooperation.

"Of course we can''t prevent brawls or clashes, but with the cooperation of the German police we hope that these cases can be limited to a minimum," Pawlaczyk said.

The exact number of German police involved is unknown because the nine federal states with World Cup stadia coordinate their own security.

About 2,000 soldiers will provide support, but are forbidden from taking on police roles under the country''s constitution.

Concerned about the jumbo screen venues, the Interior Ministry wants each state to set up video surveillance, check backpacks and fence the areas like a sports arena.

Germany will also reinstate border controls for spot checks after they were dismantled for the European Union.

About 400 police and security officers from other World Cup nations will help German officers patrol stadiums, airports and train stations. England will send 45 uniformed officers abroad for the first time.

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SHOTLIST:

1. Pan of the Stuttgart "Fan Fest" with Spanish and Tunisian fans watching the football match on the big screen

2. Various of Tunisian and Spanish supporters with flags

3. Zoom in to Tunisian supporters cheering as Tunisia scores first goal

4. Various of Tunisian supporters

5. Fans standing in rain

6. Various of Spanish supporters

7. Various of Spanish supporters cheering as Spain scores penalty

8. Various of Spanish supporters cheering as Spain scores goal

9. Tunisian supporter crying

10. Various of Tunisian supporters

11. SOUNDBITE (French): Vox Pop: Tunisian supporter:

"The problem was that he (Tunisian coach Roger Lemerre) changed some players and put up a defensive wall. It was a tactical error, but there we go. We played well enough but we lost. The Spanish were stronger than us."

12. Spanish supporters celebrating

13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish/German): Jose and Miguel, Spanish supporters:

"(Spanish) We have won, we have won. 3-1, we are the best that there is. (German) Berlin, Berlin, we're going to Berlin."

14. People dancing to Spanish music

STORYLINE:

Thousands of Spanish and Tunisian fans gathered in front of a big screen in downtown Stuttgart on Monday evening to watch the World Cup Group H clash between the two teams.

Tunisian supporters roared and celebrated first as Jawhar Menari scored a goal in the eighth minute.

But Spanish substitute Raul Gonzalez and attacking partner Fernando Torres eventually scored within six minutes of each other to help Spain rally to a 3-1 win over Tunisia in Group H.

Raul scored in the 71st minute and Torres poked in the second in the 77th after being set up by substitute Cesc Fabregas.

Torres added a third goal from penalty spot in the 90th after he got pulled down by a defender.

"We played well enough but we lost," said one Tunisian supporter. "The Spanish were stronger than us."

Spain is emerging as a serious candidate to win the World Cup, and the result put the team in the second round and extended its unbeaten streak

under coach Luis Aragones to 24 games.

"Berlin, Berlin, we're going to Berlin," cheered a Spanish supporter in German.

Tunisia must beat Ukraine in its last match to have a chance to advance.

Spain has opened the World Cup with two wins twice before, but never with such a good goal margin.

Tunisia coach Roger Lemerre will have to restore morale to his squad to have any chance of beating Ukraine, which rebounded from its opening debacle to beat Saudi Arabia 4-0 earlier Monday.

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++PLEASE USE UPDATED SCRIPT - THE IAAF HAS CONFIRMED TWO ADDITIONAL DOPING CASES, LIFTING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF KENYANS BANNED SINCE THE LONDON GAMES FROM 38 TO 40++

SHOTLIST:

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Nyaramba, Nyanza Province, Kenya - 1 February, 2016

1. Various set-up shots of Kenyan athlete Lilian Mariita cleaning ground outside her house with daughter Lisa

2. Tea plantations

3. Various of Mariita with daughter in living room

4. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Lilian Mariita, athlete:

(Reporter: Let me get that clearly, every time you went for a race she gave you those tablets?)

"Yes when we went for races."

(Reporter: And when you finished the race did she give you anything?)

"When we went for a race she would give me. Even when I ran in that race she gave me three tablets and I took them. I don't know, they look like capsules and inside it looks like this (points to the floor painted with red oxide)."

(Reporter: And now when she was doing that, didn't you ask what the medicine was for?)

"I was asking her and she was saying it's multi-vitamin. All I knew is that when you are injected is when it is bad. Medicines taken orally are okay, it's injections which are bad."

(Reporter: You used to take the medicine because you knew as long you are not injected you are fine?)

"I just knew they were tablets of multi-vitamin, just that, but injections are drugs that would kill me."

5. Mariita's uncle explaining to Lilian what the anti-doping agency statement states in their local language of Kisii

6. Mariita crying

7. Various of Mariita with her daughter

8. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Lilian Mariita, athlete:

"I would tell Larisa 'if she knows that this thing you are giving us was bad, now see you have lied to me, because I did not know and I have been banned because of you'."

9. Pan from house to Mariita standing with relatives

10. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Lilian Mariita, athlete:

"Now I see that because I was not educated they took advantage of my lack of education and that's why they did that."

11. Various of Mariita and her daughter holding trophy

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Loxley, Alabama - 18 February, 2016

12. Set-up of Jynocel Basweti walking in city park

13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jynocel Basweti, one of three Kenyan athletes who tested positive for doping while managed by agent Larisa Mikhaylova:

"To me she was giving me some tablets."

14. Basweti walking in park

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Newport, Kentucky – 25 February, 2016

15. Skyline of Cincinnati from bridge in Newport

16. Set up shot of agent Larisa Mikhaylova with runners Peter Kemboi and Kennedy Kemei

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Larisa Mikhaylova, Lilian Mariita's agent:

(Reporter, off camera: "Did you ever give her (Mariita) anything to take?)

"No. Not, not. All of my runners, they take responsibility their self. They have to take responsibility their self."

18. Puzzle picture of Kremlin on wall

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Larisa Mikhaylova, Lilian Mariita's agent:

"Right now I'm thinking that this is not Lilian, not Lilian, because I know Lilian very well, she is a very, you know, nice person, but she cannot speak English very well. And I think that this is her relatives."

(Reporter, off camera: "That are telling her...)

"Yes, of course."

20. Kenyan runners jogging in street

21. SOUNDBITE (English) Larisa Mikhaylova, Lilian Mariita's agent:

"I'm not afraid. I'm not afraid because I know that my runners, they are doing everything is well. Everything is well."

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Kaptagat, Louisville, Kentucky – 27 February, 2016

22. Various of Anthem 5K race in Louisville ++TYPICAL RACE ENTERED BY MIKHAYLOVA'S RUNNERS, THOUGH NONE WERE IN THIS RACE++

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Iten, Rift Valley Province, Kenya - 30 January, 2016

23. Set up of athlete Ronald Rutto

24. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Ronald Rutto, athlete:

"The honest truth, you see where I come from, Marakwet, we are very poor people and that is why I went to him (a pharmacist). And he asked me if I wanted a better life and I told him 'yes, I do want a better life.'"

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Kapagat, Rift Valley Province - 30 January, 2016

25. Various of elite athlete Eliud Kipchoge and other athletes warming up

26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eliud Kipchoge, elite athlete:

"It's really frustrating to hear that people have been caught but all in all, in our group we normally (think), (that) you know, people dope because they need good performance and after you get good performance what will follow? Money, isn't it? But people forget that money cannot be harvested. So if you want to harvest the money, you need to plant the seeds and what are the seeds? The seeds is (are) hard training, working smart. That is not even working hard but working smart."

27. Various of Kipchoge and other athletes training

28. Kipchoge and athletes training

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Nairobi, Kenya - 8 March 2016

29. Set-up of Sarah Ochwada, international sports lawyer

30. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sarah Ochwada, analyst, lecturer and International Sports Lawyer:

"I think when it comes to the exploitation of Kenyan athletes, over the years it seems to be more rampant because between the year 2012 and now we've seen over 40 Kenyan athletes being banned for doping violations. Now, a very small percentage of that is actually what we would consider very high-profile elite athletes; the rest of them are relatively unknown."

31. Cutaway of Ochwada

32. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sarah Ochwada, analyst, lecturer and International Sports Lawyer:

"The funny thing about Kenyan society is you don't even have to be guilty of a doping violation for society to look at you as a cheat. For so long as you are suspected of doping you become sort of a bad influence or a pariah according to the society around you. Most likely no one will want anything to do with you."

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Kaptagat, Rift Valley Province - 30 January, 2016

33. Various of Kipchoge and other athletes setting their watches to begin running in darkness

34. Kipchoge and other athletes running at dawn

STORYLINE:

Lillan Mariita's home in the poor, muddy tea-plantation village of Nyaramba in western Kenya is built with winnings from racing on American roads.

Comfortable by village standards, it has sturdy brick walls, new metal roofing, concrete floors, an outhouse, a wood fire for cooking and a small front yard where banana trees and corn grow lustily in the rich, ochre-red soil.

Mariita is one of many second and third-tier Kenyan athletes who competed in races across the globe offering prize money that is powerful bait to the deep wells of poverty and running talent back in Kenya.

Such races attract a workforce of globe-trotting athletes whose methods and honesty now face intense international scrutiny because dozens of them have been busted for doping since Kenya won 11 track and field medals at the 2012 London Olympics.

Mariita was part of a stable of East African athletes in Newport, Kentucky, run by a former elite runner for Russia, Larisa Mikhaylova.

Her runners have won tens of thousands of dollars from smaller races across the American Midwest. But a string of positive drug tests among athletes she worked with put her camp on the radar of anti-doping investigators, who are now looking into her business.

Mariita failed not one but two tests in an eight-month span. Even after Athletics Kenya informed Mikhaylova by email that Mariita was suspended from competition, her agent continued to enter the petite runner for races, winning thousands more dollars before the 27-year-old's second failed test ultimately ended her running career.

Mariita told The Associated Press that Mikhaylova used to give her pills before races, saying "they were vitamins."

"Even when I ran in that race she gave me three tablets and I took them. I don't know, they look like capsules and inside it looks like this," she said, pointing to the red-colored floor, in an interview with The Associated Press.

After her second failed drug test last July, following a race in Kentucky, Mariita was banned from competition for 8 years. That is the longest punishment of any of the 40 Kenyan runners banned for doping violations since the London Olympics.

With little education and no income from races, Mariita sees no future in her village for her and Lisa, her daughter who was born in the United States.

The two-year-old's father is Jynocel Basweti, another Kenyan runner who worked with the Russian agent. He also tested positive for banned drugs. He has stopped racing since serving his two-year ban.

Basweti told AP that Mikhaylova "was giving me some tablets."

Speaking to AP, Mikhaylova emphatically denied ever giving drugs to athletes.

Mikhaylova boards runners from Kenya and Ethiopia in a two-story house in a working-class neighbourhood in Newport, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. It has a picture of the Kremlin hanging over the fireplace in the living room.

She described herself as nothing more than a service provider for East African athletes far from home, identifying and entering them in races she thinks they can win and looking after their other daily needs, in exchange for her 15-percent cut.

She told the Associated Press that she never gave pills to Mariita.

"All my runners, they take responsibility for their selves. They have to take responsibility for their selves," Mikhaylova said.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), which governs the sport, says it is looking into Mikhaylova's camp, working together with the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)

In the United States, some race directors are also taking precautions. Without waiting for the outcome of the IAAF probe, some say they are already giving Mikhaylova's athletes a wide berth.

When Mikhaylova emailed race organisers in Indianapolis last May to enter two athletes for their Monumental Mile, they responded with a copy of their new anti-doping policy. It specifies that athletes won't be eligible for prize money if they work with agents who have had two or more runners banned.

Many of Kenya's runners busted for doping were largely unknown journeymen and women, like Mariita, who pound out a living from races around the world, chasing cash prizes that can lift families out of poverty in Africa.

The majority took banned substances close enough to races for traces to still be detectable when they competed - an amateur mistake that former track stars like Marion Jones and others with access to savvy coaches and doctors, never made.

Ronald Rutto fits this bill. He was the world junior steeplechase champion in 2004.

But he tested positive in 2012 for the endurance-boosting hormone EPO at a race in Austria and was banned. He says he got an injection from a Kenyan pharmacist before he left for that overseas race, and that his life has gone downhill since.

His and Mariita's stories represent the underbelly of the top-to-bottom doping crisis in Kenya's thriving but ill-regulated running industry.

Some Kenyan athletes fear their country might be barred from international competition, like Russia, if the problem isn't solved. The World Anti-Doping Agency has given Kenya until 5 April to fall in line with global anti-doping rules.

World-beating athletes like Eliud Kipchoge are frustrated by the damage that doping is doing to Kenya's reputation.

He and other elite runners train and live together in Spartan conditions in their high-altitude camp in western Kenya, even taking turns with daily chores like mucking out toilets and doing the washing up. They say they are regularly drug tested.

Kipchoge, who has won the London, Berlin and Chicago marathons, thinks dopers are being short-sighted in pursuit of fame and fortune.

"People forget that money cannot be harvested," he says. "If you want to harvest the money, you need to plant the seeds. And what are the seeds? The seeds are hard training, working smart."

Dust clings to his eyelashes and hairs on his legs during a punishing training run through the forest that he and dozens of other athletes from separate training camps meet up for before dawn. By training together, the runners spur each other on.

They also party together before major competitions, buying sodas and roasting a sheep in a celebratory send-off. They are already planning their next one: before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August.

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SHOTLIST:

Addis Ababa - Recent

1. Runner Haile Gebrselassie stretching in gym

2. Various of Haile Gebrselassie training

3. SOUNDBITE (Amharic) Haile Gebreselassie, Ethiopian Olympic distance runner:

"I give advice to younger Ethiopian athletes who are aiming to be successful. We are the role models for the younger athletes. I make them follow training schedules, like mine, so that one day they can achieve as much as I have. I'd do anything to help them. If they ask me, I'll always give them advice. It's an Ethiopian tradition to help people, it's an obligation even - one that came from long ago."

4. Various of Haile Gebrselassie (front right with blue and white t-shirt) and training partners running

Near Sandafa - Recent

5. Various of countryside where Haile Gebrselassie trains

6. Various of Haile Gebrselassie stretching with young runners

7. Wide of younger athletes including Tariku Aboset Bukan (professional runner in red top) running towards camera

8. SOUNDBITE (Amharic) Tariku Aboset Bukan, professional marathon runner:

"It's very interesting to train with such a famous man. Other well-known athletes don't want to train with junior athletes like me. My performance has improved a lot since I started training with Haile, it improves every day in fact. In the future, I want to win marathons and break world records like him."

Addis Ababa - Recent

9. Wide of Haile Gebrselassie sitting at desk

10. Gebrselassie on mobile phone

11. Close up of Haile Gebrselassie on mobile phone

12. Wide exterior of Haile Gebrselassie's gym in Addis Ababa

13. Close up of sign for Haile Gebrselassie's gym 'Alem Fitness Center'

14. Close up of sign outside gym

15. Wide of building owned by Haile Gebrselassie

16. Wide of 'Alem Cinema' owned by Haile Gebrselassie

17. Close up of poster advertising film at cinema

Bahar Dar, northern Ethiopia - Recent

18. Wide of school owned by Haile Gebrselassie

19. Plaque dedicated to Haile Gebrselassie on wall of school

20. Close up of plaque dedicated to Haile Gebrselassie on wall of school

21. Various of schoolchildren sitting in classroom

22. School teacher conducting lesson

23. Wide of pupil Tizazu Tazebew sitting at desk in classroom

24. Tizazu Tazebew at desk

25. Close up Tizazu Tazebew's hands writing in book

26. SOUNDBITE (Amharic) Tizazu Tazebew, pupil at Haile Gebrselassie's school:

"If Haile wasn't giving me this education for free, I would be working - employed as a daily labourer and I would use half my money to buy food and the other half I would try to pay for evening school. It's thanks only to him that I'm getting a good education."

27. Wide of children in classroom

Addis Ababa - Recent

28. SOUNDBITE (Amharic) Haile Gebreselassie, Ethiopian Olympic distance runner:

"When I opened the schools, I didn't do it to make money. I opened it for satisfaction, the satisfaction in seeing children get an education. What's most rewarding is when I actually visit the schools and spend time with the kids, it's wonderful. When you own a school, the profits don't come immediately, they come when the children grow up and become useful to their country. This is a kind of satisfaction that money just can't buy."

29. Gebreselassie walking away from camera (on left in black and white) after training

30. SOUNDBITE (Amharic) Haile Gebreselassie, Ethiopian Olympic distance runner:

"My aim in the next two to three years is to be an Olympic champion and break the world record in the marathon. If God's with me, you never know - maybe I will do it."

31. Gebreselassie in gym talking to colleagues

32. Close up of Gebreselassie

33. Photograph in gym of Haile Gebrselassie winning race

34. Wide of Haile Gebrselassie (third from front in blue and white t-shirt) running on road with other athletes

35. Gebrselassie and other athletes running up hill on road away from camera

36. Various of banner in Meskel Square advertising 'Great Ethiopian Run'

LEAD IN :

Twenty-five thousand people are expected to take part in the 'Great Ethiopian Run' held in Addis Ababa on 26 November 2006.

The 10 kilometre event is organised every year by the country's double Olympic champion (10-thousand metres) Haile Gebrselassie - regarded as the greatest long distance runner in history.

But the genius of the track won't be competing in the race.

As his age increases, so do his running distances and he's now focussing on marathons.

As well as running Gebreselassie still has time to help the next generation of Ethiopian athletes prepare to break as many records as he has.

STORYLINE :

These legs are worth millions of dollars, and they belong to professional runner Haile Gebrselassie.

He has won two Olympic gold medals, broken 22 records, is four times outdoor world champion, five times indoor champion and in 1998 won a share of one million US dollars in the Golden League jackpot.

Born in the province of Arsi in central Ethiopia in 1973, Gebrselassie puts his success down to his daily 20 kilometre run to and from school - at altitudes of more than 2,500 metres.

His career as a professional athlete began at just 15 years old.

Gebrselassie has achieved most of his success at the five thousand and ten thousand metres distances.

Eighteen years later, he's hung up his track-shoes to focus on marathons.

He says he's too old to compete with the youngsters at short distances.

As Gebrselassie approaches 34 years of age, he has realised that he cannot go on forever.

Gebrselassie now spends his time running several businesses and mentoring the next generation of Ethiopian runners.

He says he now gives advice to younger Ethiopian athletes who are aiming for success.

Gebreselassie is proving to be just as successful at long distances runs and marathons as Olympic events.

In September 2006 he won more than $100,000 USD when he became the first Ethiopian to win the Berlin marathon.

Gebreselassie's training routine is intense as he runs up to 30 kilometres a day.

Distance runners have to have the drive and determination to succeed.

For Haile it's an obsession that's taken over his life.

Tariku Aboset Bukan is a young professional marathon runner.

He says his performance has improved since his training sessions with Haile Gebrselassie.

Running has made Haile Gebrselassie a hero not only in Ethiopia. Roads have been named after him and documentaries made about him worldwide.

Gebreselassie is now a successful businessman.

He owns a gym, a construction firm, hotels, a cinema, office buildings and has opened two private schools.

Most of the children in this school in the northern city of Bahar Dar must pay for their education.

There are many who cannot afford an education.

Tizazu Tazebew lost both his parents and says without Gebreselassie's support would not be able to afford an education.

Gebreselassie says when he opened the schools, he didn't do it to make money but to give children a quality education.

Despite owning numerous businesses, Haile's priority is still running.

He's aiming to break more world records at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and even jokes about competing in London's 2012 Olympics.

Gebreselassie says his aim in the next two to three years is to be an Olympic champion and break the world record in the marathon.

His next race is the Fukuoka marathon in Japan on the third of December of this year.

SHOTLIST:

Buehl, Baden Baden, Germany

1. Wide of forest, pan to Schlosshotel Buehlerhoehe (castle hotel Buehlerhoehe)

2. Terrace of Buehlerhoehe

3. Mid-shot of front desk

4. Tilt down circular entrance hall

5. Bed in one of the hotel rooms where England players will stay

6. Picture on the wall

7. Pan over presidential suite which is still being renovated

8. Close-up of tools for refurbishment

9. Wide of spa

10. Pool in spa

11. General manager of hotel, Michael Caspar, at reception

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Caspar, General Manager Schlosshotel Buehlerhoehe

"The teams looked at a lot of properties and it is my understanding that once Sven-Goran Eriksson showed up here, he made up his mind. I mean that was a spontaneous decision. This is it, that''s where we want to be."

13. Wide of hotel bar

14. Bottles in hotel bar

15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Caspar, General Manager Schlosshotel Buehlerhoehe

"There will be police, there will be a security company and they will be totally by themselves. I don''t know of any other hotel where you can do just that - be like in your own little world and focus on the tournament."

16. Restaurant with view

17. Wide of view from hotel

Baden Baden, Germany

18. Fans and journalists standing in front of tourist bus

19. Wide of villa in Baden Baden, pan to fans listening to tourist guide

20. Close-up of fans listening

21. Close-up of shoe with England emblem

22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dan Turner, England fan

"The place is magnificent. Good buildings and architecture. Nice gardens as well, here."

23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gordon Newell, England fan

"I knew a few words already. So, yeah. I think that the beauty of the language of football is that it transcends all, doesn''t it, whether its German, English, Spanish, French, whatever."

Buehl, Baden Baden

24. Fans arriving at Schlosshotel Buehlerhoehe, where they were to have dinner and spent the night.

STORYLINE:

The German state ministry of Baden-Wuerttemberg invited 12 England football fans and journalists to the city of Baden-Baden, Germany on Friday in an initiative to familiarise them with the England team''s hosts for the 2006 Football World Cup.

The 12 guests toured the city of Baden Baden, then went on to inspect the English team''s accommodation, a five-star castle known as Hotel Buehlerhoehe (Schlosshotel Buehlerhoehe).

The hotel - in the northern part of the Black Forest, 15 kilometres from Baden Baden in southwest Germany - is situated 800 metres up on a high rock, overlooking the Rhine Valley

The England squad will be based there until the semi-finals when they will relocate to Berlin - assuming they are still involved.

England have exclusive use of the 90-room hotel during their stay and security measures will be stringent.

"There will be police, there will be a security company and they will be totally by themselves. I don''t know of any other hotel where you can do just that - be like in your own little world and focus on the tournament," said the hotels manager Michael Caspar.

He said the decision for the team to stay there was an easy one.

"The teams looked at a lot of properties and it is my understanding that once Sven-Goran Eriksson showed up here, he made up his mind. I mean that was a spontaneous decision. This is it, that''s where we want to be," said Caspar.

The twelve fans got a peak at the hotels new colour scheme, the interior is being repainted in "champagne" colour.

New king size beds have been ordered at the request of the Football Association.

There is also a Michelin-starred restaurant, a pool with floor-to-ceiling windows, a spa and a �1,500-a- night (equivalent to Euro2161 or 2613 US dollars) presidential suite.

The most striking feature inside is the classical rotunda, a circular entrance hall.

The hotel, which was built in 1914 as a rest home for injured Prussian officers, was previously owned by technology magnate Max Grundig.

The English fans were impressed with the city of Baden Baden

"The place is magnificent. Good buildings and architecture. Nice gardens as well, here," remarked Dan Turner.

Gordon Newell another dedicated England fan, was confident that the language barrier would not present a problem during the forthcoming tournament.

"I knew a few words already. So, yeah. I think that the beauty of the language of football is that it transcends all, doesn''t it, whether its German, English, Spanish, French, whatever."