SNTV Features

The Olympic Stadium in Berlin has already held its fair share of momentous events, starting with American sprinter Jesse Owens winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.

Now after a 242 million Euro facelift, on July 9th a global audience of well over a billion is set to follow the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final live from the stadium on TV.

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After a turbulent history Berlin, the country's largest city, has once again become the capital of a united Germany, the Brandenburg Gate symbolising this re-unification.

The city became the political centre of Brandenburg, Prussia and the German Reich.

After the foundation of the German Reich in 1871, the city progressed quickly to become Germany's largest industrial and cultural centre. The Second World War (1939-1945) triggered by the National Socialists, the Nazis, had a devastating effect on Berlin and led to the destruction of large parts of the city. Subsequent political developments divided the country and its capital: The building of the Wall in 1961 brutally completed this separation.

The Wall did not come down again until 1989, when the people from West and East Berlin were finally reunited.

Berlin is not only the seat of the government and cultural capital, but also Germany's sports city. More than 525,000 male and female athletes are registered in about 1,900 clubs.

Like the city the The Berlin Olympic Stadium has a long and distinguished history. Originally designed by architect Werner March it was built between 1934-36 for the 1936 Olympic Games.

American sprinter Jesse Owens won four gold medals at those games and today, one of the avenues leading to the ground and a VIP lounge bear the great runner's name.

SOUNDBITE:

"Of course this stadium is special because it is old. It is more than 70 years old and if you look at it from the outside it was originally built in 1936. This is because it is protected by landmark protection, it is a monument. So this is part of the impression that you have when you go inside the stadium. From the outside you have a historical building and you get information by our tourist guides or the information points. But when you go inside you have one of the most modern arena in Europe."

SUPERCAPTION: Christoph Meyer, press officer Olympic Stadium

Reconstruction at a cost of 242 million Euro began in the summer of 2000 and was officially re-opened in July 2004.

It has a total capacity of over 74,000, but will be restricted to 66,000 for the World Cup.

The new roof, a vast oval interrupted as before by the listed Marathon Gate, provides a delicate contrast to the robust muscularity of the historic tectonics.

The lightweight cantilever construction is borne by an intricate web of 20 beam supports ranging over the gallery, and 132 steel pillars.

The roof is literally the crowning glory of a harmonious solution incorporating past, present and future.

SOUNDBITE:

"242 million Euro were spent to renovate this stadium and of course Berlin is the capital of Germany. So this is a very good place and a place like Berlin really is a vibrant city to host a final of the world cup. It is the biggest media event in the world and I think the capital is the right place for this."

SUPERCAPTION: Christoph Meyer, press officer Olympic Stadium

This spectacular stadium is due to host six matches during the tournament but the final on July 9th will of course be the biggest. A global audience of well over a billion is set to follow the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final live on TV.

SHOTLIST: Berlin, Germany Recent

1. 00:00 Wide shot of the Brandenburg Gate

2. 00:05 Close up of Brandeburg Gate, pan down to mime artist

3. 00:16 Wide shot of "Straße des 17. Juni" ("road of June 17th") and the "Siegessäule " ("victory Säule")

4. 00:22 Close up of the roof of the Reichstag

5. 00:27 Wide shot of the Reichstag

6 00:33 Close-up of a section of the Berlin Wall

7. 00:38 Wide shot of the Wall

8. 00:44 Wide shot of some historical buildings

9. 00:49 People in a restaurant

10. 00:55 Exterior of the Olympic Stadium, pan from the Olympic rings to stadium

11. 01:04 Closer pan of the outside

12. 01:17 SOUNDBITE: Christoph Meyer, press officer Olympic Stadium

13. 01:52 Pan from roof to pitch and track around the field

14. 02:00 Zoom out from the halfway to wide shot of stands and roof.

15. 02:12 Zoom out from the back of the arena

16. 02:22 Wide shot from the middle stand

17. 02:34 SOUNDBITE: Christoph Meyer, press officer Olympic Stadium

18. 02:53 The Olympic Stadium by night

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After suffering their first defeat in the Bundesliga last weekend, RB Leipzig coach Ralph Hasenhuttl is hoping his side can bounce back on Saturday (17th December) against Hertha Berlin who lie one place below them in the table.

Second hosts third in the Bundesliga on Saturday with this season's surprise package RB Leipzig welcoming Hertha Berlin.

Ralph Hasenhuttl's Bundesliga new boys were top of the table after eight consecutive victories but their first defeat of the campaign at FC Ingolstadt last Saturday allowed champions Bayern Munich to move back in front of them but only on goal difference.

RB Leipzig and Hertha have never met in a competitive match with the home side unbeaten at their Red Bull Arena so far this season.

Hertha are six points behind the leaders with Vedad Ibisevic their topscorer on eight goals this season.

The 32-year-old Bosnian striker has scored against 17 of the 18 current Bundesliga sides and needs one against RB Leipzig to complete his collection.

Leipzig, Germany. 15th December 2016.

1. 00:00 RB Leipzig coach Ralph Hasenhuttl, and defender Marcel Halstenberg arriving for news conference

2. 00:10 Cutaway

3. 00:14 SOUNDBITE: (German) Ralph Hasenhuttl, RB Leipzig coach:

"We now have a task against the team ranked third. They are coming here for an absolute top match. We're a team that has developed greatly in the past two years, and we put the entire focus, the whole energy into it. This is possibly a new series here in this home match, this is the goal we're having."

4. 00:38 Cutaway

5. 00:43 SOUNDBITE: (German) Ralph Hasenhuttl, RB Leipzig coach(on defeat in their last match against Ingolstadt):

"It wasn't so much an issue this week. We very, very quickly settled, and I don't want to discuss it anymore because the focus since Tuesday is so much on the match against Hertha. We do not think about the defeat anymore."

6. 00:58 Cutaway, Hasenhuttl and Marcel Halstenberg

7. 01:03 SOUNDBITE: (German) Marcel Halstenberg, RB Leipzig defender:

"Of course, we want to play our game, and play differently to the match against Ingolstadt where we brought our game on the pitch in the last 15 minutes. We had the chance to score and were a bit unlucky. Well, we will see how Hertha plays and makes our life hell."

8. 01:26 Cutaway

9. 01:30 SOUNDBITE: (German) Ralph Hasenhuttl, RB Leipzig coach:

"We'll see if they surprise us. We know which team to expect, and it is an opponent changing a lot anyway in the course of the game. So therefore for us it is about acting very flexibly and being very alert, finding a solution for everything and ideally forcing our game on them so that they have to try to find solutions. That's actually our plan."

10. 01:59 Cutaway

11. 02:03 SOUNDBITE: (German) Ralph Hasenhuttl, RB Leipzig coach:

"We are a new team in the league, one forgets this sometimes. We haven't played against all teams. We want to see what it's like to play against these teams, and we want to prove to ourselves that we can stand our ground. We don't see ourselves as favourites because we have a home match against Hertha. As some occasionally portray us, we know where we are coming from and we have humility towards the tasks waiting for us. But we also have, and I can promise this, a lot of courage and a lot of confidence in what we do."

12. 02:40 Cutaway, painting of RB Leipzig players on the wall

13. 02:44 Cutaway, media conference

14. 02:51 RB Leipzig logo, outside building

15. 02:56 External shot of RB Leipzig ground

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DURATION: 03:03

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

Recent

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. Exterior of brothel "Artemis"

2. Sign "Artemis"

3. Pan interior of pool in "Artemis" brothel

4. Pan brothel lounge

5. Bar with champagne

6. Medium shot couch

7. SOUNDBITE: (German) Eike Wilmans, Artemis spokesman:

"We are looking forward to the World Cup and we are prepared and relaxed. We expect more guests to come and of course we will have more prostitutes working here during World Cup."

8. Pan picture to bed

9. SOUNDBITE (German) Coco, sex worker:

"We are looking forward to the World Cup and we hope that many more men will come here than they do right now. It will be a lot of stress, but that's what we like."

10. Brunhilde Raiser, head of National council of German women's organisation with colleagues

11. Campaign whistles

12. SOUNDBITE: (German) Brunhilde Raiser, head of National council of German women's organisation:

"We want to point out that forced prostitution exists and it is a heavy violation of human rights. We have to fight against it and to stop it if possible. That's why we have very clear demands to politicians and the people in charge, which we have to follow up in detail after the World Cup."

13. Zoom in banner of campaign "stop forced prostitution," pull focus

STORYLINE:

As soccer's best players prepare to square off this summer at the World Cup, businesses across Germany are anticipating a huge windfall with the arrival of an estimated 1 (m) million fans from around the world.

The sex industry is no exception, and just down the street from Berlin's Olympic Stadium, which hosts the final, stands the city's largest brothel.

Artemis, which cost 8.2 (m) million dollars to build was established in September with an eye on capitalising on the influx of World Cup visitors.

The four storey, 40-bedroom bordello is decorated with fake animal prints and velvet on beds, walls and furniture, as well as Greek and Roman statues under North African style arches.

The establishment has been averaging 130 visitors a day, many from the nearby convention centre, and was planning to blitz the Olympic Stadium and Berlin hotels with leaflets during the World Cup.

Eike Wilmans, PR Manager of the "Artemis," said he expected demand to increase during the World Cup.

Prostitution is legal in Germany, with about 400,000 people registered in the trade - the women who work in Artemis pay taxes and receive social benefits like people in any other job.

However, the anticipated World Cup sex-trade boom has raised fears of an increase in forced prostitution - an estimated 40,000 women from poorer Eastern European countries were expected to be heading to Germany for the World Cup, some against their will.

Already, the European Union estimates more than 100,000 women in Europe each year are forced into prostitution.

A Berlin women's group has started an information campaign against forced prostitution to coincide with the World Cup, endorsed by German Soccer Federation President Theo Zwanziger.

Brunhilde Raiser, head of National council of German women's organisation, said forced prostitution was a violation of human rights.

"We have to fight against it and to stop it if possible. That's why we have very clear demands to politicians and the people in charge, which we have to follow up in detail after the World Cup."

Police in Berlin have said they are planning raids to uncover illegal prostitution rings during the World Cup.

SHOTLIST:

1. Pan interior of pool in "Artemis" brothel

2. Pan of entrance hall

3. Pan brothel lounge

4. Bar with champagne

5. Medium shot couch

6. Bar

7. SOUNDBITE: (German) Eike Wilmans, Artemis spokesman:

"We are looking forward to the World Cup and we are prepared and relaxed. We expect more guests to come and of course we will have more prostitutes working here during World Cup. We want to fulfil the guests' wishes and therefore we also offer our guests to watch the play's live here."

8. Zoom out lamp to bed

9. Pan picture to bed

10. SOUNDBITE: (German) Coco, sex worker:

"We are looking forward to the World Cup and we hope that many more men will come here than they do right now. It will be a lot of stress, but that's what we like."

11. Sign: (English) "Artemis"

12. Exterior of brothel "Artemis"

13. Brunhilde Raiser, head of National council of German women's organisation with colleagues

14. Pan whistles

15. SOUNDBITE: (German) Brunhilde Raiser, head of National council of German women's organisation:

"We want to point out that forced prostitution exists and it is a heavy violation of human rights. We have to fight against it and to stop it if possible. That's why we have very clear demands to politicians and the people in charge, which we have to follow up in detail after the World Cup."

16. Zoom in banner of campaign "stop forced prostitution," pull focus

STORYLINE:

As soccer's best players prepare to square off this summer at the World Cup, businesses across Germany are anticipating a huge windfall with the arrival of an estimated 1 (m) million fans from around the world.

The sex industry is no exception, and just down the street from Berlin's Olympic Stadium, which hosts the final, stands the city's largest brothel.

Artemis, which cost 8.2 (m) million dollars to build was established in September with an eye on capitalising on the influx of World Cup visitors.

The four storey, 40-bedroom bordello is decorated with fake animal prints and velvet on beds, walls and furniture, as well as Greek and Roman statues under North African style arches.

The establishment has been averaging 130 visitors a day, many from the nearby convention centre, and was planning to blitz the Olympic Stadium and Berlin hotels with leaflets during the World Cup.

Eike Wilmans, PR Manager of the "Artemis," said he expected demand to increase during the World Cup.

Prostitution is legal in Germany, with about 400,000 people registered in the trade - the women who work in Artemis pay taxes and receive social benefits like people in any other job.

However, the anticipated World Cup sex-trade boom has raised fears of an increase in forced prostitution - an estimated 40,000 women from poorer Eastern European countries were expected to be heading to Germany for the World Cup, some against their will.

Already, the European Union estimates more than 100,000 women in Europe each year are forced into prostitution.

A Berlin women's group has started an information campaign against forced prostitution to coincide with the World Cup, endorsed by German Soccer Federation President Theo Zwanziger.

Brunhilde Raiser, head of National council of German women's organisation, said forced prostitution was a violation of human rights.

"We have to fight against it and to stop it if possible. That's why we have very clear demands to politicians and the people in charge, which we have to follow up in detail after the World Cup."

Police in Berlin have said they are planning raids to uncover illegal prostitution rings during the World Cup.

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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1961-1963 A

1961/01/05 U.S. Breaks Relations With Cuba DESCRIPTION:

00:00:00

(1) Castro military parade in Cuba to mark his 2nd anniversary; Ike broke off diplomatic relations; Hagerty speaks

00:01:13

(2) "Threat To Peace. World Watches Crisis In Laos" - fighting intensifies in buffer state Laos, government troops oust rebels (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-3 National Archives, College Park MD

1961/01/23 Inauguration. Kennedy Sworn In, New Era Begins DESCRIPTION:

00:02:26

(1) JFK in Oval Office, goes to inauguration, sits with Ike in stand, LBJ sworn in as VP by Sam Rayburn, JFK sworn in by Chief Justice Warren, JFK speaks "let the Word go forth ... torch been passed .. proud of our ancient heritage ... committted today at home and around the world ... to our sister republics south of the border in a new alliance of progress join with them to oppose subversion anywhere in the Americas" - lunch in the Capital - procession to the White House riding in car, watch parade ended by replica of PT boat on float; night inaugural balls with Jackie (complete newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-8 National Archives, College Park MD

1961/02/09 NATO War Games. Germany Is Stage For Big Winter Maneuvers DESCRIPTION:

00:08:27

(1) NATO maneuvers and war games in West Germany, helicopters land troops, march in snow, Honest John missile fired; tanks fire; drone target plane drops to ground (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-13 National Archives, College Park MD

1961/03/13 Peace Corps. Kennedy Outlines Global Program DESCRIPTION:

00:09:44

(1) American exchange students already overseas helping with construction projects; JFK speaks about the Peace Corps (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-22 National Archives, College Park MD

1961/03/20 Kasavubu Hailed. Congo Federation Plan Target Of Controversy DESCRIPTION:

00:12:31

(1) Red China rally in Peking in protest of death of Lumumba in Congo, "giant propaganda shows" against UN (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-24 National Archives, College Park MD

1961/03/27 Laos Crisis. Kennedy-Gromyko Voice Peace Hopes DESCRIPTION:

00:13:51

(1) Laos crisis brings Macmillan to meet JFK; Gromyko arrives at White House, pose with JFK, Gromyko speaks to the press in Russian, translated into English, speaks about Laos and policy of neutrality; Gromyko responds in English to reporters questions (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-26 National Archives, College Park MD

1961/04/06 Anglo-U.S. Amity. U.S.-British Pledge United Front DESCRIPTION:

00:14:25

(1) At White House, Macmillan meets with JFK; Wise Men pose

00:17:58

(2) Soviet films of rocket test, animals, mice, dogs; capsule parachutes to ground; high altitude test only, not space orbit

00:18:49

(3) Siberia visited by Khrushchev, given sheep, corn

00:19:48

(4) B-47 bomber test of remote control system

00:20:53

(5) Bonx Zoo

00:21:43

(6) Sports - Germany vs Holland women's soccer (complete newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-29 National Archives, College Park MD

1961/04/13 Cosmos Pioneer. Soviets Orbit Man In Space DESCRIPTION:

00:23:22

(1) JFK speaks (but no pictures of Gagarin)

00:23:53 (2) Eichmann trial for Holocaust crimes; judges speak indictments as Eichmann listens (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-31 National Archives, College Park MD

1961/04/19 First Pictures. Soviets Hail Space hero DESCRIPTION:

00:25:42

(1) Yuri Gagarin arrives at Moscow airport in his first public appearance, greeted by Khrushchev, hugged, then stands on Lenin's tomb

00:26:59

(2) Ike's return to Pennsylvania

00:27:27

(3) "Cuba Invaded. Foes of Castro Open Offensive" - B-26 used by Cuban pilots; landed in Florida; in Cuba, rocket shells shown; Adlai Stevenson in UN denies any aggression; Guatemala training base; Castro in Cuba (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-32, National Archives, College Park MD

1961/05/05 Reds Celebrate May Day DESCRIPTION:

00:29:34

(1) May Day parade in Moscow, Yuri Gagarin featured guest, on Kremlin stand with Khrushchev; Castro picture on float in parade (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-37 National Archives, College Park MD

1961/05/08 As World Watched. Spaceman Hailed After U.S. Triumph DESCRIPTION:

00:31:16

(1) Alan Shepard flight on Mercury, given medal by JFK at White House, Jackie had to remind him to pin the medal on, parade up Pennsylvania Ave, Shepard as "space pioneer" (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-38-1, National Archives, College Park MD

1961/05/11 Russia DESCRIPTION:

00:33:07

(1) Aviation display in Moscow, helicopter carries model of Gagrin spacecraft, new swept-wing bomber, jet fighter with rocket booster (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-39, National Archives, College Park MD

1961/08/07 Cosmonaut. Russian Orbits Globe17 Times DESCRIPTION:

00:33:59

(1) Titov returns from orbit, newspaper headlines, stock footage of rocket liftoff, recording equipment picked up Titov's voice, animation of space craft orbiting earth (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-64, National Archives, College Park MD

1961/08/31 World Shocked. Reds Threaten H-Bomb Tests DESCRIPTION:

00:35:13

(1) H-bomb explosion from stock footage, Adlai Stevenson speaks from UN, announcement is a "profound shock" and is "a dangerous tack"

00:36:32

(2) News in Brief story on Berlin, showing pictures of US soldiers and tanks and British troops who convoy boy going to school, building Berlin Wall, young couple waves from window (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-71, National Archives, College Park MD

1961/10/16 Civil Planes Grounded in Defense Alert DESCRIPTION:

00:38:21

(1) Civil Defense test closed airports for 12 hours, Operation Sky Shield

00:39:21

(2) "News in Brief" - Chiang Kai shek parade with rockets and soldiers, troops form sign of double 10 , in Nationalist China

00:40:12

(3) "France" - Shah of iran visits DeGaulle in France with wife, formal dinner (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-84, National Archives, College Park MD

1961/10/19 50 Megatons. U.S. Protests New Red Test DESCRIPTION:

00:41:02

(1) Russian H-bomb test announced by Khrushchev speech at 20th party congress; Dean Rusk speaks from UN that

00:42:35

(2) "Animal Corner" in Siberia (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-85, National Archives, College Park MD

1961/11/30 Chimp into space (no title, story begins without beginning) DESCRIPTION:

00:43:01

(1) Enos chimp prepared for space flight, rocket blastoff, capsule recovered, chimp examined in hospital

00:44:44

(2) "News in Brief - New Mexico" - at Carlsbad Caverns where nuclear bomb to be exploded, tunnel for Project Knome as prelim for Project Plowshare in future, "a major step in peaceful atomic use" (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 34-97, National Archives, College Park MD

1962/02/22 Space Triumph! Glenn Flight Thrills World DESCRIPTION:

00:45:49

(1) whole issue on Friendship 7 Mercury space flight of John Glenn; Glenn getting ready, puts on space suit, walks to launch pad, 6 am EST, 10 months after Gagarin, gets into his capsule on top Atlas missile, rocket blastoff, animation of capsule turning around, go for 7 orbits, "actual pictures of Glenn in the capsule" and animations of Glenn's orbit around earth, destroyer Noah lifts capsule aboard, Glenn rests and then lifted aboard helicopter for flight to carrier USS Randolph (complete newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 35-17, National Archives, College Park MD

1962/03/22 Uneasy Peace. Algeria Tense Under Cease-Fire DESCRIPTION:

00:52:01

(1) Algeria rebels have signed peace with France, but right wing army still fighting

00:52:58

(2) Argentina election

00:53:49

(3) Jackie Kennedy rides elephant in India

00:54:21

(4) Russia trying to close access to West Berlin, U.S. army sends tanks on autobahn in Germany

00:55:18

(5) Fashions

00:56:17

(6) Skating world championships (complete newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 35-25, National Archives, College Park MD

1962/07/12 A Day in History. Telstar Brings World Closer DESCRIPTION:

00:58:14

(1) Telstar satellite, 170 lbs, receives signal from Andover Maine, retransmit to Cornwall in Europe, launched on Delta rocket for ATT at cost of $50 million, pictures of ground station (either Maine or Cornwall), 1st TV pictures of dome at Andover transmitted (partial newsreel) SOURCE: 200 Universal 35-57, National Archives, College Park MD

STORYLINE:

SNTV take a look at the 2018 World Cup nation Germany, with Joachim Loew's men hoping to overcome injuries and a surprise run of poor as they prepare to defend their World Cup title in Russia.

SCRIPTING INFORMATION:

Germany coasted through World Cup qualifying with 10 wins out of 10 and a European record 43 goals before getting a reality check.

The World Cup holders haven't won any matches since qualifying for Russia.

After drawing friendlies against England, France and Spain, Joachim Loew's team lost 1-0 to Brazil to end a 22-game unbeaten run.

Becoming the first team since Brazil in 1962 to defend their World Cup title now looks even trickier for the Germans.

The recent slump in friendly matches could be a blessing in disguise if it eradicates any complacency going into the World Cup.

But if any coach in international football has the experience and nous to successfully guide Germany through this period, it's Loew.

The 58-year-old has overseen steady progress since taking over following the 2006 World Cup, reaching the final of the 2008 European Championship, claiming third place at the 2010 World Cup and reaching the semi-finals at Euro 2012 before finally winning a title in convincing fashion at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

A disappointing semi-final exit to France at Euro 2016 followed, but Loew laid the groundwork for a successful World Cup title defence by winning the 2017 Confederations Cup in Russia with a young team of promising talent.

Loew hasn't been afraid to test young prospects, and Germany's strength in depth means one of his hardest tasks is leaving players out of the 23-man squad.

Though injury threatens to make some of those decisions for Loew.

The biggest concern is captain Manuel Neuer's fitness.

The Bayern Munich goalkeeper sustained a repeat of the hairline metatarsal fracture in his left foot while training last September and hasn't played since.

Marc-Andre ter Stegen could well establish himself as the with doubts over Neuer's fitness.

The Barcelona goalkeeper has overcome a shaky start to his international career and helped Germany win the Confederations Cup.

Bayern defender Jerome Boateng faces a race to be fit with a thigh injury sustained in the Champions League semi-finals against Real Madrid in April.

And Borussia Moenchengladbach captain Lars Stindl has been ruled out of the tournament after suffering a left ankle injury playing for his club.

There is also no room in the squad for 2014 World Cup final goalscorer Mario Goetze after an underwhelming season at Borussia Dortmund.

Germany kicks off its title defence near its tournament base in Moscow at the Luzhniki Stadium, playing Mexico on 17th June.

The side then faces a long trip south to Sochi for its second game against Sweden on 23rd June 23, before wrapping up their Group F campaign against South Korea in Kazan four days later.

Loew's side will be aiming to top Group F to avoid a likely second-round clash against Brazil.

_Various. FILE - Recent. Belfast, Northern Ireland - 4th October, 2017.1. 00_00 Various of Germany training.2. 00_11 Germany attacker Leroy Sane.3. 00_16 Germany training.4. 00_24 Germany defender Mats Hummels.Berlin, Germany – 15th July, 2014.5. 00_32 Various of Germany players celebrating with the World Cup trophy.6. 00_48 Germany head coach Joachim Loew.7. 00_52 Various of Germany players celebrating.Munich, Germany – 24th April, 2018.8. 01_02 Various of Germany and Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng.Doha, Qatar – 10th January, 2016.9. 01_13 Various of Germany and Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.Cologne, Germany – 13th November, 2017.10. 01_28 Joachim Loew at training.Leverkusen, Germany - 25th January, 2018.11. 01_37 SOUNDBITE (German)_ Julian Brandt, Germany midfielder_(On Germany's chances at the World Cup)_I think (we have) good chances. If you're going there as the current world champion then you're a favourite anyway, that's for sure. And of course, it is also clear that means you are the hunted. Everybody wants to knock you out. That's why I think we need to be aware that we are one of the favourites._Cologne, Germany – 13th November, 2017.12. 02_11 Various of Germany training13. 02_26 Germany attacker Mario Goetze (centre) - not included in Germany's 2018 World Cup squad selection 14. 02_37 Germany trainingLeverkusen, Germany - 25th January, 2018.15. 02_48 Various of Julian Brandt training with Bayer Leverkusen16. 03_04 SOUNDBITE (German)_ Julian Brandt, Germany midfielder_(On playing in Germany's successful 2017 Confederations Cup win)_(The 2017 Confederations Cup) was actually - when you take out the Olympics Games - the first international men's tournament for me. I will never forget the experience, even if it is considered a relatively small tournament in the media, but nevertheless it was worth the three weeks. And the good thing is if you do something like playing in the Confederations Cup and you end up winning a cup like that, you're hungry to win more._Munich, Germany – 24th April, 2018.17. 03_38 Various of Bayern Munich training.18. 03_50 Bayern Munich and Germany attacker Thomas Mueller.Leverkusen, Germany - 25th January, 2018.19. 03_55 SOUNDBITE (German)_ Julian Brandt, Germany midfielder_(On Germany's squad)_We really do have a huge range of players in Germany I think that makes Germany a little bit unique. We don't have a (Cristiano) Ronaldo, (Lionel) Messi, Neymar or someone like that who is a real star player. We have a lot of (big players) but maybe not to the same level as those guys. But we are a collective. I think that's how Germany became world champion in 2014, we won the final 1-0 and I think the way Germany does it, the German national team, the DFB with the young players, that works well._Belfast, Northern Ireland - 4th October, 2017.20. 04_42 Various of Germany training.Leverkusen, Germany - 25th January, 2018.21. 05_12 SOUNDBITE (German)_ Julian Brandt, Germany midfielder_(On head coach Joachim Loew)_(He is) even hungry himself. I think he still wants to stand on the sidelines, to be a part of these games, to lead a team through tournaments. It's not that he lacks desire, he's always full of action just as the players and therefore, as long as he is like that, I believe he deserves his position as coach._Berlin, Germany – 9th November, 2017.22. 05_49 Various of Germany training.23. 06_07 Pan of Germany players to Mesut Ozil.24. 06_17 Germany training.Berlin, Germany – 3rd May, 2018.25. 06_57 Various of Brandenburg gate.26. 07_08 Berlin wall.27. 07_13 People sitting by river.28. 07_18 Various of Musicians playing instruments by the street.29. 07_28 German parliament.30. 07_33 German flag.SOURCE_ SNTV.DURATION_ 07_37_

STORYLINE:

Reaction from Germany head coach Joachim Low and DFB (German Football Association) President Reinhard Grindel after the country was chosen as hosts of Euro 2024 ahead of Turkey at the UEFA's headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland on Thursday (27th September).

SCRIPTING INFORMATION:

Germany won the right to host football's 2024 European Championship on Thursday, beating Turkey following a politically charged campaign.

Germany, which hosted the 2006 World Cup, was the long-time favourite and won the UEFA executive committee vote 12-4. There was one abstention.

Three months after FIFA members picked a North American bid over Morocco to host the 2026 World Cup, UEFA also opted for a more proven and profitable option.

Unlike FIFA, UEFA does not publish who the voters picked.

Turkey is now a four-time losing candidate after failed bids to host Euro 2008, 2012 and 2016.

This was the first time UEFA built human rights assessments into the process.

UEFA relies on its signature national-team competition to help fund 55 member federations.

Revenue from the first 24-team Euro, hosted in 2016 by France, was almost 2 billion euros ($2.35 billion).

UEFA  received 850 million euros ($1 billion) in profit.

Germany should have about 400,000 more tickets to sell than the Euro 2016 organisers - they also had 300,000 more seats than Turkey's bid.

The UEFA voters were given confidential revenue projections for each candidate's plan.

Germany plan to use 10 stadiums for the 51-game tournament and play the final in Berlin or Munich.

Turkey proposed its strongest, government-backed bid yet with eight of 10 stadiums already completed and owned by the sports ministry.

Yet it was likely to struggle in the first UEFA hosting vote with a human rights assessment.

The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has become increasingly authoritarian and a UEFA report into the candidates published last week noted Turkey's lack of a tournament plan to address human rights.

A currency crisis in Turkey has also seen the lira lose almost half its value against UEFA's working currency, the Euro, in the past year.

Germany will look to recapture the positive feeling of its month-long 2006 World Cup, which became known as the nation's "Summer Fairytale."

A well-liked and underrated national team helped Germans express a fresh pride in their national identity and symbols more than a decade after reunification with East Germany.

Europe's signature competition was hosted in 1988 by West Germany, one year before the Berlin Wall came down.

The election victory on Thursday is a welcome revival for the German football federation and its leader after four months of turmoil.

The federation and fans have had troubled relations with national team players Mesut Ozil and Ilkay Gundogan, whose roots are Turkish, before and after a poor showing at the World Cup as defending champions in Russia.

The issue flared after the players posed for photos with Erdogan in London in May - Ozil then became a scapegoat for the team's early World Cup exit.

Bid officials from Turkey quickly left UEFA headquarters and avoided international media.

Their compensation is that the same UEFA voting panel in May decided the 2020 Champions League final will be played at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul.

House of European Football, Nyon, Switzerland. 27th September, 2018.

1. 00:00 UEFA headquarters

2. 00:06 UEFA Champions League and European Championship trophies

3. 00:12 UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin arrives for Euro 2024 host country draw

4. 00:17 Germany head coach Joachim Low arrives for Euro 2024 host country draw

5. 00:24 SOUNDBITE (English): Joachim Low, Germany head coach:

(About why Germany's bid to host Euro 2024 was successful)

"Of course, yesterday and today (Wednesday and Thursday), we were really excited for this decision. Now, at the moment, we are very happy because I think we did everything over the last few months and years to get this chance to host this tournament - (Euro) 2024. So we are happy and we will do everything to have a good tournament. We saw in 2006 (World Cup), in Germany, the people were so emotional. All the world came together and it was really a big party. We will do our best to feel the same in six years."

6. 01:12 Germany delegates, including Oliver Bierhoff and Celia Sasic, arrive for Euro 2024 host country draw

7. 01:26 Reinhard Grindel arrives for Euro 2024 host country draw

8. 01:32 SOUNDBITE (English): Reinhard Grindel, DFB President:

(About why Germany's bid to host Euro 2024 was successful)

"I think that we had a very good bid book with a clear concept for the world of football, to share with other FA's (Football Associations) our experience, which we get in the following months and years and to also be the country at the heart of Europe where you can celebrate football without being anxious, where you can live the values of football also for every human being."

9. 02:06 Franz Beckenbauer, Joachim Low and Germany delegates enter Euro 2024 host country draw hall

10. 02:22 SOUNDBITE (English): Joachim Low, Germany head coach:

(About the importance of Germany hosting Euro 2024 and whether he will still be in charge of the national team at that time)

"I think for the whole federation and for our country, it's important. It's the next step in the future, for the future and, of course, it will be a great motivation for our young players, for the youth, for the kids, because they see six years later on that their will be a (home) tournament, so this is a big motivation. For my work, at the moment, nothing will change now because in the next few weeks, we have two important games. We were too disappointed in the summer (at the World Cup), of course, but our way in the last 10 years, was very good. We will continue and we have the confidence and everything. So yeah, we will see. At the moment, I am happy that, in six years, there will be a tournament in our country. But we have to look, for me as a coach, at the next month and the next European Championship (in 2020)."

Q: Can you see yourself there in Euro 2024 leading the team?

"I don't know. As a coach, you can't plan for six years. But I would love to be involved in whatever capacity. But, as a coach, I don't know at the moment."

11. 03:40 European Championship trophy

12. 03:46 SOUNDBITE (German): Reinhard Grindel, DFB President:

"I sense a great trust from my colleagues here in the UEFA ExCo (Executive Committee). We already heard that we won with a clear majority of 12 votes to 4. That shows a trust in the power of our organisation. That shows that our bid had a great appeal. So I must say a big 'thank you' to my colleagues at the DFB (German Football Association) who have been meticulously working on this over a long time. We also must thank the Bundesliga who have made sure their stadiums are in such a good condition. That also contributed to our success today."

13. 04:24 SOUNDBITE (German): Reinhard Grindel, DFB President:

(On the importance of a clean bid after the corruption allegations around the successful German bid for the 2006 World Cup)

"That's always alluded to with the so-called '"Summer Fairytale" (the nickname for Germany 2006). It's a massive compliment for UEFA and shows how good UEFA is set up that that we have received such a big support in the UEFA ExCo with a concept based on facts, sustainability, transparency and good arguments. It's also a victory for our new integrity. That's very important for us at the DFB, that's what I'm responsible for and we have achieved that."

14. 05:08 SOUNDBITE (German): Reinhard Grindel, DFB President:

"I battled, not for me, but for the DFB. For the big goal of being successful in our bid for Euro 2024. After the World Cup it's been the motivation driving our colleagues, members and fans that we have, most importantly, a good perspective. On the one hand to develop a nice story around Euro 2024 but also with the Bundesliga and the DFB to working together to produce a team which is absolutely ready to play a European Championships on home soil. But further than that, it will give a boost to grassroots football, which I am always particularly interested in. So that's why I am really looking forward to the task ahead of us."

15. 05:52 Joachim Low talking to reporters in mixed zone

16. 05:59 SOUNDBITE (German): Joachim Low, Germany head coach:

"This has got nothing to do with my progress or the progress of the team. We must concentrate on what's coming up over the next few weeks. No question that we had a bad World Cup but I think we had a good start at the DFB (winning the 2014 World Cup and 2017 Confederations Cup). Within our ranks over the last few weeks and months there's been a total focus on what this bid means for us. I know that we have done everything we possibly can in the build-up to this to win this tournament and it's a good step forward for the next few years."

17. 06:39 SOUNDBITE (German): Joachim Low, Germany head coach:

(Will he still be the German national team manager in 2024?)

"Everyone who is responsible for this in our organization can now start planning for it. But that doesn't concern me as coach because my position here is totally dependent on the success I have over the next months or at the next tournament. It's difficult as a coach to look so far ahead."

18. 07:01 Joachim Low leaves UEFA headquarters

19. 07:08 Reinhard Grindel leaves UEFA headquarters

20. 07:23 Various of Turkish delegates leaving UEFA headquarters

SOURCE: SNTV

DURATION: 07:34

SHOTLIST:

Berlin

1. Wide of octopus called Ophira crawling along goal wall in aquarium at Berlin's Sea Life aquarium

2. Mid shot of Ophira choosing hole with German flag first

3. Cutaway of photographer

4. Close up of Ophira on hole with German flag

5. Mid shot of Ophira swimming through aquarium

6. Close up of Ophira on German flag PAN to Ophira swimming to hole with Canadian flag

7. SOUNDBITE (German) Sandra Schmalzried, general manager of Berlin Sea Life aquarium:

"Today at 11 o'clock there was the kick-off for the competition on the first Women's soccer World cup match that takes place on Sunday, and our Ophira was here for us today and actually chose Germany as a winner."

8. Wide of octopus Ophira in aquarium

9. SOUNDBITE (German) Sandra Schmalzried, general manager of Berlin Sea Life aquarium:

"Ophira is Hebrew and means 'Gold'. Ophira is our 'golden girl' that hopefully will get the cup for Berlin. She is six months old and comes from France. She has been with us for one month now, she is developing well and is very agile."

10. Close up of Ophira sitting in vase in aquarium

11. Mid shot of Ophira in vase and aquarium decoration with German flag

12. Mid exterior shot of Berlin flags of FIFA Women's Soccer World Cup

13. Wide of Berlin flags of FIFA Women's Soccer World Cup in front of Brandenburg Gate

Oberhausen

14. Wide of octopus called Paul II approaching goal wall in aquarium at Oberhausen's Sea Life aquarium

15. Mid shot of Paul II on hole with German flag

16. Wide of Paul II approaching hole with Canadian flag afterwards

STORYLINE:

Two days ahead of the start of the 2011 Women's Soccer World Cup in Germany, octopi across Germany strove for to be recognised as the country's latest psychic cephalopod by predicting the result of the opening match in Berlin on Sunday.

Octopi at eight Sea Life aquaria however were divided in their picks for Sunday's match: Three chose Germany, two took Canada and three made no choice at all.

Octopus Ophira in Berlin and Paul II, the successor of famous octopus oracle Paul in Oberhausen, chose Germany to be the winner.

Konstanz Sea Life Aquarium's octopus Paula though went out on one of her eight limbs and chose underdog Canada to beat Germany in the opening match of the Women's World Cup.

She shot quickly into a tube marked with Canada's flag to grab a morsel of food in an event broadcast live on national television.

All are trying to become successor to the revered Paul, who passed away in October at Sea Life's Oberhausen aquarium.

Paul gained fame by predicting eight matches correctly at last year's World Cup, including Germany's run to the semifinal and Spain's victory over the Netherlands in the final.

The octopus with the most correct choices at the end of the nearly month-long tournament will be anointed the next "official" oracle.

wacky animals

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AP Archive Instant Library - World News Review 2007

Tape Number: WNR/IL 2007

Sound: Nat Sot

Duration: 80 minutes 48 seconds

IRAQ

10:00:13

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

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

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

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

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

10:00:54

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

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

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FILE: Baghdad, Iraq - 2006

1. Wide of defendants in dock

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

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

4. Wide shot of defendants in the dock

10:01:15

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

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

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Baghdad - 4 Feb 2007

al-Sadriyah Neighbourhood

1. Various of bomb site, people gathered among rubble and wreckage

10:01:37

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

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

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

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1. Man picks up more explosives and crawls back under tank - zoom out to wide shot - red circle graphic overlaid on to video claims to indicate nearby US soldiers - zoom in as man crawls away from vehicle.

2. Wide of vehicle explosion ++first seconds replayed three times++

10:02:01

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

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

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

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Baghdad, 19 March 2007

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

2. Mid of patient

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

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

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

10:02:22

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

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

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Baghdad - February 12, 2007

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

10:02:39

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

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

No-one claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Baghdad - 12 April 2007

1. Mid shot of parliament in session with members voting

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Baghdad - 12 April 2007

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

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

10:03:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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SADRIYAH - AT LEAST 112 KILLED

1. Thick plumes of smoke rising from scene of blast

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

SADR CITY - AT LEAST 30 KILLED

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

5. Crowd attempting to move wrecked car

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Sadriyah - Baghdad

7. Wide pan of burnt out minibuses

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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FILE: Baghdad - 1 October 2006

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

10:03:54

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10:04:04

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Baghdad/Halabja - 24 June 2007

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

2. Chief Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa

3. Ali Hassan al-Majid

4. Ali Hassan al-Majid (Chemical Ali)

Halabja north of Baghdad

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

6. Gravestones and monument representing man disfigured due to chemicals

7. Man reciting verses from Holy Quran

10:04:30

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

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

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

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Sirnak - 8 Oct 2007

1. Wide of military at gate to Sirnak Military Compound

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dera loc, Iraq - 9/8 Oct 2007

Dera Loc, Iraq - 9 October 2007

1. Smoke rising from mountains around Dera Loc village

2. Wide of village

3. Various of craters in ground

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sirnak - 12 Oct 2007

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

2. Soldiers searching for mines

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

4. Armoured vehicle driving over camera on road

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

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Jebaliya, 4 Jan 2007

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1. Ambulance arriving with body of Colonel Mohammed Ghayeb

2. Close up of Ghayeb's face

10:05:36

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

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Nablus - 28 Jan 2007

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

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

3. Gunmen putting Hamas official in vehicle outside

10:05:56

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

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

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Gaza City - 3 Feb 2007

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

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

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

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

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Jerusalem - 6 Feb 2007

1. Wide of Old City and Al-Aqsa mosque

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Jerusalem, 8 Feb 2007

2. Bulldozer working near site

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Jerusalem - 9 Feb 2007

3. Protester being arrested by police

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

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Jerusalem - 9 Feb 2007

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

6. Man praying in midst of clashes

7. Policemen firing tear gas at protesters, storming mosque

8. Various of clashes

10:07:19

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

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Gaza City - 17 March 2007

Gaza city, Gaza strip

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

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

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

10:07:35

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

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Gaza City, 7 Jan 2007

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

2. Close-up of Razuri

10:07:44

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

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

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Gaza city - 12 March 2007

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

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Gaza City, 17 March 2007

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2. Medium of demo outside Shawa building

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

10:07:59

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

No one claimed responsibility

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FILE: Gaza City - 3 November 2006

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

10:08:06

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

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

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

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

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

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

Security forces later said they lost control of the town.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Gaza - 14 June 2007

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

2. Wide of skyline/ UPSOUND: Gunfire

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Gaza City - 13 May 2007

3. Two women crying

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

5. People grieving around body

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

Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip

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

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

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

Gaza City's Shojaiyeh District, Gaza Strip

9. UPSOUND: gunfire, people scatter

Gaza City, near the Egyptian Representation Office, Gaza Strip

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

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

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

Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 15 June 2007

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

Ramallah, West Bank - 15 June 2007

13. Close-up on Palestinian flag

14. Mid of Abbas at Friday Prayers

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Nablus, West Bank - 13 June 2007

15. Gunfire exchanged with Al Aqsa Brigades gunmen

16. Mid of gunmen

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Khan Younis - 13 June 2007

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

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Rafah, Gaza Strip -14 June 2007

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

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

20. Masked Hamas gunmen carrying away computers from scene

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Gaza city, Gaza Strip - 15 June 2007

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

22. Close-up of masked fighter

10:10:15

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They placed Fatah and Palestinian flags on the building.

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

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Nablus, West Bank - 14 June 2007

1. Fatah gunman gathering in city centre

2. Mid of gunman aiming weapon

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

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

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Nablus - 16 June 2007

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

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

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

8. Zoom in to more gunmen on rooftop

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Ramallah, West Bank - 16 June 2007

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

10. Various of Fatah gunmen approaching another building

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

10:11:22

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

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

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

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

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

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

10:12:03

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hamas said its rockets were retaliation for Israeli violence.

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

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

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

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Gaza City - 20 June 2007

Jebaliyah refugee camp

1. Hamas supporters burning Israeli flags

Gaza City

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

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3. Rocket being launched

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Sderot, Israel - 15/16 May 2007

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

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

6. Various of damaged house

7. Various of damaged furniture and household items

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Gaza City - 17 May 2007

8. Wide of smoke rising over Gaza skyline

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

10. Top shot of rubble and rescuers

11. Body being carried out on stretcher

10:13:14

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

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

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

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

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Gaza City - 4 July 2007

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

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Gaza City - 4 July 2007

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

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Jerusalem - 4 July 2007

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

10:13:40

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

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

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

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

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1. Members of Neo Nazi suspects getting out of car

2. Members of cell walking in court room

3. Courtroom symbol on wall

4. Mid of Neo Nazi suspects

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

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

8. Cell members beating man

9. STILL of man giving Nazi salute

10. Various of cell members beating up a man

10:14:08

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

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Jerusalem - 28 Sep 2007

Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

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

2. Wide of mourners marching in funeral

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

4. Mid of man crying

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

LEBANON

10:14:34

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

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Beirut - 23 Jan 2007

++PRE DAWN SHOTS++

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

2. Wide shot of protesters and tyres on fire

3. Wide shot of military vehicles arriving at the scene

4. Strikers protesting

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Beirut - 23 Jan 2007

5. Lebanese army arresting a protestor

6. Various of clashes in the street

7. Lebanese army shooting in the air

10:15:17

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

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

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Beirut, 30 Jan 2007

1. Wide shot of building with Nasrallah speaking from balcony

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

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

3. Crowd of women chanting

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

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

10:15:47

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About 1-thousand fled on Wednesday morning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dozens of people have been killed since then.

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

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

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Tripoli - 20 May 2007

1. Tanks and soldiers in the streets of residential area

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

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

Tripoli

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

4. Soldier firing at building

Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp

5. Tank firing missile on target inside refugee camp

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Nr Nahr El-Bared - 21 May 2007

6. Wide of Tripoli skyline, building explodes

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

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Nahr El-Bared - 21 May 2007

8. Wide of skyline with smoke rising

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Near Nahr el-Bared, Lebanon - 22 May 2007

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

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Nahr el-Bared - 23 May 2007

10. Various of refugees leaving camp

11. Refugees getting out of red truck

12. Refugees in red truck

13. Various of damaged buildings inside camp

14. Pan across destroyed vehicle

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Nahr el-Bared - 2 June 2007

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

16. Lebanese army helicopter flying over camp

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Nahr el-Bared - 1 June 2007

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

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Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp - 13 June 2007

18. Various of shelling at camp

19. Various of shelling

10:17:57

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Nahr El-Bared - 5 July 2007

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

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Nahr el-Bared - 12 July 2007

2. Sparks flying from explosion AUDIO gunfire

3. Various of explosions and sparks flying AUDIO gunfire

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Nahr el-Bared - 12 July 2007

4. Tanks and armoured vehicles UPSOUND: Gunfire

5. Various of tanks and army vehicles moving into position

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Nahr el-Bared - 14 July 2007

6. Lebanese army Jeep coming out of the camp

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

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

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La Celle Saint-Cloud - 14 July 2007

9. Pan of delegates sitting at round table

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Nahr El-Bared - 15 July 2007

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

11. Lebanese army soldiers patrolling inside camp

12. Wide of explosion, sending debris into the air

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Nahr El-Bared - 17 July 2007

++NIGHT SHOTS++

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

14. Flashing light from explosion inside camp UPSOUND: explosions

++DAY SHOTS++

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

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Nahr El-Bared - 23 Aug 2007

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

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Nahr el-Bared area - 2 Sep 2007

15. Soldiers searching (AUDIO gunfire)

16. Medium of soldiers searching in fields

17. Woman celebrates (AUDIO)

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

PAKISTAN

10:20:04

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

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Quetta - 17 Feb 2007

++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: GRAPHIC MATERIAL++

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

2. Fire burning inside court room

3. Damage at bomb blast site

4. Police tape cordoning off area

5. Dead bodies on floor of hospital

10:20:24

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Okara - 23 June 2007

+++QUALITY AS INCOMING+++

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

2. Chaudhry on a stage UPSOUND: applause

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Lahore - 7 June 2007

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

4. Lawyers chanting slogans against Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf

5. Protesters burning effigy of Musharraf

6. Riot police watching protest

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Karachi - 14 May 2007

++NIGHTSHOTS++

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

8. Protesters running away from tear gas

10:20:56

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Peshawar - 29 May 2007

1. Policemen moving wreckage of car from blast area

2. People surrounding wreckage of car

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

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Peshawar - 15 May 2007

4. Wide of people at scene of the blast

5. Police officers searching through rubble

6. Wide of rubble

10:21:32

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the mosque.

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

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

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Islamabad - 3 July 2007

1. Wide of religious students outside the Lal Masjid mosque

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

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

4. Wide pan of female students on rooftop

5. Mid of student with gun

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

7. Armed students AUDIO: Gun fire

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Islamabad - 3 July 2007

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

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

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Islamabad - 4 July 2007

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

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Islamabad - 6 July 2007

11. Wide of Red Mosque, AUDIO: Gunfire

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

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

14. Soldier's gun barrel, AUDIO: Gunfire

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Islamabad - 10 July 2007

15. Mid of dawn over mosque

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Islamabad - 11 July 2007/FILE

FILE: Islamabad, 6 April 2007

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

17. Students on rooftop lookout position

18. Wide of people at prayer

FILE: Islamabad, March 2007 (exact date unknown)

19. Various of Abdul Rashid Ghazi addressing a news conference

FILE: Islamabad - 4 January 2002

20. Ghazi with worshippers

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Dera Ismail Khan - 15 July 2007

21. Wide of scene of the bomb attack

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

23. Close up of relative crying

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Islamabad - 17 July 2007

++ NIGHT SHOTS++

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

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

26. Wounded woman sitting down

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

28. Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry enters Supreme Court

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Islamabad - 27 July 2007

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

30. People at scene of blast

31. Protesters throwing stones at armoured personnel vehicle

32. Protesters throwing stones

33. Policemen arresting student

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Islamabad - 3 July 2007

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

FILE: Islamabad, March 2006

35. Musharraf shaking hands with President George W Bush

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AP TELEVISION

FILE: London, UK - 19 October 2006

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

10:24:25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Peshawar and Karachi - 6 Oct 2007

Peshawar

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

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

Karachi

3. Various of protesters burning tyres

4. Various of police arresting protesters

5. Police firing teargas

10:24:54

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

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

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

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English/Nat

Part No Pakistan

SHOTLIST

++NIGHT SHOTS++

18 October 2007

1. Various of injured at scene

Karachi - 19 October 2007

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

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

10:25:27

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

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

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

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

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

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Islamabad - 3 Nov 2007

1. Wide of people sitting in cafe

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

3. Close up of Musharraf on television

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Islamabad/Karachi - 4 Nov 2007

Islamabad

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

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

6. Police in front of Supreme Court building

7. Paramilitary troops beside road

8. Wide pan of troops walking behind barbed wire

Karachi

9. Paramilitary troops on streets

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

AFGHANISTAN

10:26:36

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

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Kajaki, 13 Jan 2007

Night (pre-dawn)

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

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

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

Day shots

3. British soldier watching commandos marching in line

4. Close up of soldier firing UPSOUND: gunshot

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

6. British soldier firing machine gun towards compounds

7. British soldiers firing machine guns

8. British soldiers entering compound, zoom in

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

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

10:27:23

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

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

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Bagram/Kabul, 27 Feb 2007

Bagram

1. Wide of area near blast site

2. Various shots of relatives carrying bodies

Kabul

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

10:27:45

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Date and Location Unknown

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1. Two explosions take place

10:27:56

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

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

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

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

The official was not authorised to give his name.

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

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Kandahar - File/13 May 2007

AP Television

Kandahar - 13 May 2007

1. Man pulling sheet to reveal body of Mullah Dadullah

2. Mid of body

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As-Sahab - Insurgent video

FILE: Date and Location unknown

3. Mullah Dadullah firing rocket propelled grenade

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

5. Mullah Dadullah greeting members of the Taliban

10:28:22

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Kabul - 10 June 2007

AFGHAN GOVERNMENT HANDOUT (Audio as incoming)

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

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

AP TELEVISION

2. Exterior of Afghan presidential palace

10:28:32

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

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

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

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

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

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AP TELEVISION

near Spin Boldak, 5 July 2007

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

2. Pan of badly damaged building

3. Building being demolished

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AP TELEVISION

Khost - 18 July 2007

4. Wide exterior of Khost provincial police station

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

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Suicide car bomber kills 15, wounds 26

AP TELEVISION

Kandahar - 18 Aug 2007

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6. Afghan police at the blast site

7. Various of damaged and burnt out cars and vans

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

AP TELEVISION

Kabul, 29 Sept 2007

8. Wide of people beside the destroyed bus

9. Rescuers dragging away a body

10:29:13

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

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

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

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

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Taliban spokesman says militants to kill 'a few' South Korean hostages immediately

AP TELEVISION

Ghazni/Unknown - 21/25 July 2007

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FILE: Ghazni, 21 July 2007

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

Location unknown - 25 July 2007

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

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

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Police discover body of 2nd slain South Korean hostage

AP TELEVISION

Ghanzi - 31 July 2007

3. Wide of police inspecting body

4. Police carrying body into the back of police vehicle

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Taliban hands over two female South Korean hostages

AP TELEVISION

Ghazni, 13 August 2007

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

6. Freed South Korean hostages being escorted into ICRC car

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Taliban free three South Korean hostages

AP TELEVISION

Qala-E-Kazi, 29 August 2007

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

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Taliban releases 5 more South Korean hostages

AP TELEVISION

Ghazni City - 29 August, 2007

8. Red Cross vehicle driving into ICRC office

9. Guard closing gate

10:29:57

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

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

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

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Baghlan - 7 Nov 2007

1. Police guarding attack site

2. Cutaway of gun

3. Victims blood stained belongings on ground

4 Close up of blood stained sandal

5. Students notebooks stained with blood

6. Police at scene

TERRORISM

10:30:30

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

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

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

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

10:31:16

(Cuba - Guantanamo Bay / David Hicks conviction)

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

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

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

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Guantanamo Bay - FILE

FILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - date unknown

1. Close-up of sign at Camp Delta

2. Mid view of corridor between cells

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Guantanamo Bay, 27 March 2007

3. Guard in watchtower

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Guantanamo Bay - 30 March 3007

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4. Wide of US naval base

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

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

10:31:47

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

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

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

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Manila, 17 Jan 2007

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

2. Cutaway of cameras

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

4. US poster showing most-wanted terror suspects

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

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

10:32:12

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

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

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

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

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

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

people and injured 118, citing civil defence authorities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Algiers - 11 April 2007

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

2. Various of victims being helped into helped into ambulance

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

4. People connecting clocks and wires

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

10:32:51

(Indonesia - Police Arrest Jemaah Islamiyah Leaders)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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AP TELEVISION

Jakarta -13 June 2007

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

2. Police diagram with photographs

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

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AP TELEVISION

Jakarta - 15 June 2007

4. Pictures on screen of JI members arrested last week

5. Close-up of picture if JI leader Zarkasih

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AP TELEVISION

Yogyakarta - 20 June 2007

6. Dujana with his wife and child

10:33:20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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AP TELEVISION

London - 29 June 2007

1. Pan of Piccadilly Circus

2. Mid of police vans on cordoned off street

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London - 29 June 2007

Haymarket area - June 29, 2007

3. Side shot of car

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

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Glasgow - 30 June 2007

5. Wide of Glasgow airport

10:33:50

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10:34:57

(Yemen - Bomb Aimed at Tourists)

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

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

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

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

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

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Marib - 2 July 2007

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

2. Various of damaged vehicle, debris

3. Various of damaged vehicles

IRAN

10:35:22

(Iran - Nuclear Dispute)

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

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

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

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Iran - date unknown

Bushehr, Iran - date unknown

1. Tracking shot of Bushehr plant

2. Exterior of plant

3. Employees at work inside the plant

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Isfahan - 3 February 2007

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

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

6. Wide facility worker in control room

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

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Tehran - 5 Feb 2007

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

9. Close-up of petition

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

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

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

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

10:36:21

(Iran - 15 British sailors held by Iran)

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

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

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Basra, 24 Mar 2007

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

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

10:05:11

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1. Wide of HMS Cornwall sailing down Suez Canal

2. Pull-out of HMS Cornwall

10:36:53

(Iran - British Sailors Released)

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

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

He held brief conversations with each sailor through a translator.

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

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

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

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

Tehran said the crew was in Iranian waters.

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

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

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

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Tehran - 4 April 2007

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

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

3. Ahmadinejad with operator maintainer Arthur Batchelor

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London -5 April 2007

4. Plane taxiing with helicopter in foreground

5. Close pan across sailors

10:37:28

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Tehran - 1 April 2007

1. Wide of demonstration in front of embassy

2. Boy throwing stone toward embassy

3. Protesters taking stones from a passing van

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

10:37:48

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

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

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

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Tehran - 3 June 2007

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

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

10:38:24

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ASIA

MYANMAR

10:38:48

(Myanmar - Protests)

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

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

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

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Yangon - 20 Sept 2007

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

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Yangon - 24 Sept 2007

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

3. Top shots of protesters in street

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Yangon - 26 Sept 2007

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

5. People running away

6. Monks surrounded by civilian protestors marching down street

7. Military troops climbing into trucks

8. Wide of protestors throwing stones at passing military convoy

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

10. Wide of troops holding guns

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

KASHMIR

10:39:45

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

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

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

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Braw Bandina, 23 Jan 2007

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

2. Soldiers on top of upturned vehicle

3. Various shots of soldiers around upturned vehicle

10:40:00

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

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

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Srinagar, 6 Feb 2007

1. Protestors pelting stones towards police

2. Various of police firing tear gas towards protesters

3. Wide of police charging towards protestors

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

10:40:18

(Kashmir - Tourist Bus Bomb)

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

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

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Srinagar - 29 July 2007

1. Pan of bus

2. Various of body of a victim

3. Wide shot of injured being taken towards operation theatre

INDIA

10:40:32

(India - Bomb Attacks Kill 42 in Hyderabad)

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

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

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

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Hyderabad - 26 Aug 2007

1. Various of forensic team at the blast site

2. Pan from debris to forensic team

NEPAL

10:40:49

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

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

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

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Biratnagar - 27 Jan 2007

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

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

3. Police officer firing tear gas shell at protesters

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

5. Riot police running down street

10:41:15

(Nepal - 26 dead after clashes in southern Nepal)

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

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

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Gaur, 22 March 2007

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

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

(Nepal - Four Bombs Hit Nepalese Capital)

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

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

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts.

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Kathmandu - 2 Sep 2007

1. Various of damaged bus and security men at work

2. Various of damaged bus stop

BANGLADESH

10:41:39

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dhaka - 22 Aug 2007

Dhaka University Campus - 22 August 2007

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

2. Wide of riot police firing rubber bullets

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

4. Mid of police throwing stones at protestors

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

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6. Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina, in white

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Dhaka - 16 July 2007

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

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

CAMBODIA

10:42:24

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

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

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

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

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

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FILE: Pailin - 3 July, 2006

1. Mid of Chea's house

2. Close-up of Chea putting sunglasses on

3. Chea sitting at table with radio

4 Cutaway of close-up of radio

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

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

6. Chea standing outside his house

7. Close-up of Chea's face

TURKEY

10:42:54

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

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

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

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Istanbul - 19 January 2007

1. Body of murdered journalist Hrant Dink

2. Body on the ground

3. Woman crying on the street

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

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Istanbul -12 October 2006

5. Exterior of Agos daily newspaper building

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

7. Dink at his desk

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Istanbul, 23 Jan 2007

8. Wide funeral procession, hearse carrying coffin

9. Funeral procession

TAIWAN

10:43:29

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

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

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

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

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

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Jakarta, 21 Jan 2007

1. Various of poultry

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Maioli, 29 Jan 2007

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

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

3. Various of researchers in laboratory

GEORGIA

10:44:01

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Tbilisi - 2 November 2007

1. Mid of crowd of protesters walking

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

3. Mid of flags

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

5. Mid of protest rally

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

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

NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA

10:44:28

(Two Koreas meet at first summit for seven years)

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

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

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Pyongyang - 3 Oct 2007

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

2. Various of Roh and Kim exchanging words

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Pyongyang - 3 Oct 2007

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

EUROPE

FRANCE

10:45:03

(France - Presidential Elections and Riots)

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

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

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Paris - 29 April 2007

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

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Paris - 29 April 2007

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

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Various - 6 May 2007

AP Television

Melle, Western France

3. Segolene Royal casting her ballot

POOL

Neuilly, Paris

4. Nicolas Sarkozy casting his ballot

POOL - No Access France

Correze, Central France

5. French President Jacques Chirac coming out of voting booth

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Anti Sarkozy protesters clash with police

AP TELEVISION

Paris - 6 May 2007

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

7. Demonstrator throwing rocks

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

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

10. Riot police with fire burning in background

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Paris - 6 May 2007

11. Sarkozy on stage waving at crowds celebrating victory

CYPRUS

10:45:50

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

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

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

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Nicosia - 9/10 Jan 2007

Turkish Cypriot north

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

2. Men working on bridge

3. Aerial shot of street and footbridge

Greek Cypriot south

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

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Nicosia - 9 March 2007

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

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

7. Wide of flags flying

BULGARIA / ROMANIA

10:46:15

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

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

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

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

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Various, 31 Dec 2006/1 Jan 2007

Sofia, Bulgaria

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

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

3. People waving Bulgarian flags (AUDIO: Music)

Bucharest, Romania

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

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

EUROPEAN UNION

10:46:35

(EU - 50th Anniversary celebrations)

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

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

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

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Germany - Cakes baked to mark European Union 50th anniversary

AP TELEVISION

Berlin, Germany - 21 March, 2007

1. Pan across cakes from various EU states

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

AP TELEVISION

Rome - 23 March 2007

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

3. Wide of stage, choir singing

4. Mid of EU member country's flags

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

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

RUSSIA

10:47:14

(Russia - Former President Boris Yeltsin Dies)

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

He was 76.

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

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

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

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

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

He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery

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Various, File

AP Television News

Moscow - 21 August 1991

1. Yeltsin waves Russian flag

AP Television News

Kremlin - October, 1995

2. Yeltsin pinches secretary in Kremlin

AP Television News

USA - October 1995

3. Yeltsin and Clinton share a joke

Russian Pool

Rostov - June 1996

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

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Moscow - 25 April 2007

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

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

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

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Moscow - 26 April 2007

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

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

10. Naina Yeltsin stands by her husband's grave

10:47:56

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

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

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

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

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

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Moscow - 1 June 2007

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

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

10:48:38

(Russia - Zubkov Becomes Prime Minister)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Moscow - 14 Sept 2007

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

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

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

10:48:53

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Moscow - 29 August 2007

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

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

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

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Moscow - 17 September 2007

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

10:49:11

(Russia - Trial of Moscow Serial Killer)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Moscow - 11/12 Sept 2007

Moscow - 11 September, 2007

1. Wide shot Moscow's Bitsa park

2. Wide shot pan Bitsa park

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Moscow - 13 Sept 2007

3. Exterior shot of Moscow City Court

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

PORTUGAL / UK

10:49:36

(Portugal / UK - The Search for Madeline McCann)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Praia da Luz - 31 Aug 2007/ File

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POOL - Date and location unknown

1. Various stills of Madeline McCann released after her disappearance.

Praia da Luz, Portugal - 31 August 2007

AP Television

2. Shot of exterior and sign: 'The Ocean Club'

3. Mid of villa where she vanished from