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A number of Egyptians are living in exile in Turkey because of their political activities.

They fear returning to their country could mean imprisonment - or even death.

STORY-LINE:

Abdelrahman Saied is sculpting metal in a workshop in Istanbul - and he's lucky he's free to do this.

The 24 year-old Egyptian has fled his homeland over fears he will end up in prison.

He took part in numerous protests after the January 25 revolution and was arrested in April 2016 after demonstrating against the handover of the islands of Tiran and Sanfer to Saudi Arabia.

There is a jail sentence and fine outstanding against him.

"We were arrested in El Bouhous metro station. We stayed at the police station for two days then we went to a camp of the central security forces 10.5 kilometres outside Cairo on the desert road to Alexandria for two days," he recalls.

"After that they released the students. They were about 44 to 48 of the arrested, and I was among those released. Ten days later, the court issued a ruling of five year sentences and 100,000 Egyptian pound (5,400 US dollars) fines for the arrested people."

Egyptian writer and political activist Sherif Diab has also been forced to leave Egypt.

Among a number of charges, he's been accused of starting an illegal revolutionary movement.

Before illegally fleeing the country, Diab was arrested by police, interrogated and spent two months in prison.

He claims he was treated very badly.

"During my detention period in Banha jail, they were and insulting and swearing me everyday. They used to say things like: "you think you are like heroes in the streets, but here we will show you what you really are"," he says.

"It was a sort of revenge, not law enforcement at all."

One day he hopes to go back.

But returning to Egypt could be deadly for journalist Asmaa Elkatib.

She worked for the pro-Morsi new network Rassd.

She claims the security forces have "fabricated" charges against her and other journalists who oppose Egyptian President El-Sissi.

"After I came to Turkey there was another case against me also because of my journalism work that opposed the military ruling, and I was sentenced to death in this case," she says.

Ibrahim Abdelraouf was an active freelance filmmaker in Egypt. He worked for Al Jazeera - several of whose staff have been arrested by the Egyptian authorities.

He was named as providing accommodation and financial support for Ahmed Ali Abdo, a man accused of being involved in espionage for Qatar.

The case means he feels he is safer in exile in Turkey rather than back in his homeland.

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Istanbul - 9 December 2016

1. Various of Abdelrahman Saied, Egyptian metalwork designer who lives in Turkey, sculpting metal

2. Pan from his Turkish manager Qadir Bai to Saied

3. Saied working in designs on computer

4. Mid of Saied

5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdelrahman Saied, Egyptian metalwork designer who lives in Turkey:

"We were arrested in El Bouhous metro station. We stayed at the police station for two days then we went to a camp of the central security forces 10.5 kilometres outside Cairo on the desert road to Alexandria for two days. After that they released the students. They were about 44 to 48 of the arrested, and I was among those released. Ten days later, the court issued a ruling of five year sentences and 100,000 Egyptian pound (5,400 US dollars) fines for the arrested people."

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Istanbul - 11 December 2016

6. Various of Sherif Diab, Egyptian writer and political activist living in Turkey, working on laptop

7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sherif Diab, Egyptian writer and political activist living in Turkey:

"During my detention period in Banha jail (in Nile Delta region), they were and insulting and swearing me everyday. They used to say things like: "you think you are like heroes in the streets, but here we will show you what you really are". It was a sort of revenge, not law enforcement at all, or justice, as they claim on their TV channels."

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Istanbul - 10 December 2016

8. Various of Asmaa Elkatib, Egyptian journalist living in Turkey, holding her son Fares

9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Asmaa Elkatib, Egyptian journalist living in Turkey:

"To start with, I was a journalist in Egypt. And after the Rabaa event (when government forces killed 638 while clearing protest camps), there was persecution of journalists, especially the journalists who working in the places that support Mohammed Morsi or the journalists who are against the military coup and El-Sissi. And because of my work with Rassd news network, one of the biggest news networks that opposed El-Sissi, the security authorities fabricated lots of charges against us, especially after the hidden documents (relating to Morsi) were stolen. They arrested three of my colleagues, and after they were arrested I was required to appear before a military court in a case. So I had to leave Egypt because of this. After I came to Turkey there was another case against me also because of my journalism work that opposed the military ruling, and I was sentenced to death in this case."

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Istanbul - 14 December 2016

10. Ibrahim Abdelraouf, Egyptian freelance film director living in Turkey, catching a bus

11. Abdelraouf on bus

12. Various of Abdelraouf on film shoot with colleagues

13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Abdelraouf, Egyptian freelance film director living in Turkey

"In the beginning of the year 2014, my name was mentioned in a case known in media as "The case of collaborating with Qatar", the leading accused was Mohammed Morsi, the ousted president, and eight other people. My name was mentioned in the case alleging that I was supporting one of the eight accused persons by offering him a place to live and giving him money on daily basis. This accusation was based on his confessions, documented by a video, he mentioned my name and that I was working for Aljazeera Mubasher Misr at that time."

14. Abdelraouf walking with camera

15. Abdelraouf walking home

Taqadum al-Khatib, an Egyptian academic in Berlin, is living in exile.

Ten years after Egypt's pro-democracy uprising, he's one of an estimated thousands who have fled abroad to escape the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi that is considered by some even more oppressive than its predecessor.

He first protested, and then worked in the nascent political scene after 2011.

He was researching Egypt's former Jewish community in Germany when he learned that returning to his homeland was no longer an option.

The Egyptian cultural attaché in Berlin summoned al-Khatib for a meeting, and an official questioned him about his articles, social media posts and research.

He was asked to hand over his passport, which he refused to do, and shortly after was fired from his job at an Egyptian university.

The Egyptians who took to the streets on January 25, 2011, knew they risked arrest and worse.

But as their numbers swelled in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, they tasted success.

Police forces backed off, and within days, former President Hosni Mubarak agreed to demands to step down.

But their success did not last, with interim military rulers following Mubarak into power.

In 2012, Mohamed Morsi, a member of Egypt's most powerful Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, was elected as the first civilian president in the country's history.

But his tenure proved divisive.

Amid massive protests, the military - led by then-Defence Minister el-Sissi - removed Morsi in 2013, dissolved parliament and eventually banned the Brotherhood as a "terrorist group."

A crackdown on dissent ensued, and el-Sissi won two terms in elections that human rights groups criticized as undemocratic.

No one knows exactly how many Egyptians like al-Khatib have fled political persecution.

Data from the World Bank shows an increase in emigres from Egypt since 2011.

A total of 3,444,832 left in 2017 - nearly 60,000 more than in 2013, the years for which figures are available, but it's impossible to tell economic migrants from political exiles.

Some relocated to Berlin, Paris and London, others have settled in Turkey, Qatar, Sudan and even Asian countries like Malaysia and South Korea.

Human Rights Watch estimated in 2019 that there were 60,000 political prisoners in Egypt. The Committee to Protect Journalists ranks Egypt third, behind China and Turkey, in detaining journalists.

El-Sissi maintains Egypt has no political prisoners, but the arrest of a journalist or a rights worker makes news roughly every month.

Many people have been imprisoned on terrorism charges, for breaking a ban on protests or for disseminating false news. Others remain in indefinite pretrial detentions.

El-Sissi maintains Egypt is holding back Islamic extremism so it doesn't descend into chaos like its neighbours.

"Sissi wants not only to abrogate the rights of the opposition and to prevent any critical voice from being uttered, Sissi doesn't actually believe, not only in the opposition, but he doesn't believe in politics," says Khaled Fahmy, an Egyptian professor of modern Middle Eastern History at Cambridge University.

Fahmy believes this is the worst period in Egypt's modern history for personal rights.

He's seen outspoken expatriates have their Egyptian citizenship revoked.

"It's much more serious, it's much deeper and much darker, what Sissi has in mind," he said.

Journalist Asma Khatib, 29, remembers the heady days of 2011, when young people thought they could bring change.

A reporter for a pro-Muslim Brotherhood news agency, Khatib covered Morsi's short presidency amid criticism the group was using violence against opponents and seeking to monopolize power to make Egypt an Islamic state.

After Morsi's ouster, his supporters held sit-ins for his reinstatement at a square in Cairo. A month later, the new military leaders forcibly cleared them out, and more than 600 people were killed.

Khatib documented the violence. Soon, colleagues started being arrested, and she fled Egypt - first to Malaysia, then to Indonesia and Turkey.

She was tried in absentia on espionage charges in 2015, convicted and sentenced to death.

Now, she and her husband Ahmed Saad, also a journalist, and their two children are seeking asylum in South Korea.

They expect they'll never return, but also realise they're lucky to be free.

On the day the ruling was announced, she remembers telling herself: "You don't have a country anymore."

The exiles have had ample time to think about where Egypt's uprising failed.

The broad alliance of protesters - from Islamists to secular activists - fractured without a common enemy like Mubarak, and the most extreme voices became the loudest.

The role of religion in society remained largely unanswered, and liberal secular initiatives never gained traction.

No one accounted for how many people would embrace former regime figures, especially in a crisis.

Most Egyptians abroad have not been politically active, fearing for family and friends back home.

But some have continued on the path begun on January 25, 2011.

Ahmed Saad has a theory about how many of them are now abroad - of those who protested on January 25 take those who are now inside prison. The rest, he says, are the fortunate ones who could leave.  

They are trying to cope in strange lands. Asma Khatib and her husband aren't sure what to say to their young children when they ask where they're from.

Al-Khatib, the academic, feels lucky to be able to work toward his doctorate in Germany but misses Cairo's bustle.

"I couldn't go back to my home, it's a very difficult situation and it is hard to describe it, in a way, it's very hard, actually," he says.

Berlin - 18 January 2021

1. Various of Egyptian academic Taqadum al-Khatib walking near a river in Berlin  

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Taqadum al-Khatib, Egyptian academic :

"I had a meeting with the chief of the cultural attaché in Berlin, and he bombarded me with several questions related to my work, related to my political activities."

3. Cutaway of al-Khatib's face

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Taqadum al-Khatib, Egyptian academic :

"And he wanted that I hand over my passport, and I refused to do so, and after that he submitted a security report about me to the Egyptian intelligence and after that I was fired from my job at the university in Egypt."

ARCHIVE: Cairo - 1 February, 2011

5. Various of anti-government protests in Tahrir square, demanding former President Hosni Mubarak step down

ARCHIVE: Cairo - 4 February, 2011

6. Wide of Muslim Brotherhood representative speaking to the crowd of protesters in Tahrir square

London via video link - 5 January 2021

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Fahmy, an Egyptian professor of modern Middle Eastern History at Cambridge University:

"Sissi wants not only to abrogate the rights of the opposition and to prevent any critical voice from being uttered, Sissi doesn't actually believe, not only in the opposition, but he doesn't believe in politics."

ARCHIVE: Cairo - 11 February 2011

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8. Various of protesters celebrating after former President Mubarak announced he would step down, chanting: "The people and the army are one hand."

ARCHIVE: Cairo - 28 January 2011

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9. Various of Egyptian army tanks moving into Cairo, being welcomed by protesters

ARCHIVE: Cairo - 30 January 2011

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10. Wide of tanks on street

Seoul via video link - 13 January 2021

11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Asma Khatib, Egyptian journalist living in exile after she was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian court:

"The feeling spread through me, my whole view of it, is that 'you don't have a country anymore.' I kept thinking,  'you don't have a country'. It's over, everything is closed."

ARCHIVE: Cairo - 25 January 2011

12. Various of protesters marching in the streets, cheering: "Down with Mubarak, down with Mubarak." And "Where are the Arab people, where are the Egyptian people?"

Seoul via video link - 13 January 2021

13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Saad, husband of Asma Khatib and journalist:

"If you were able to determine the number of the people who were there, on January 25 only, if you were able to determine how many people where in the square, take the number of the people who are now in prison, and you'll find the rest is the number of people who are abroad."

ARCHIVE: Cairo - 28 January 2011

14. Protesters facing off with Egyptian central security police forces

London via video link - 5 January 2021

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Fahmy, an Egyptian professor of modern Middle Eastern History at Cambridge University:

"This is much more serious, much deeper and much darker, what Sissi is having in mind."

ARCHIVE: Cairo - 28 January 2011

16. Various of police forces clashing with protesters, firing tear gas at a crowds on a bridge

ARCHIVE: Cairo - 2 February 2011

17. Clashes between protesters and Mubarak supporters   

ARCHIVE: Cairo - 28 January 2011

18. Wide of a crowd of protesters being held back by a line of police

Berlin - 18 January 2021

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Taqadum al-Khatib, Egyptian academic:  

"I couldn't go back to my home, it's a very difficult situation and it is hard to describe it, in a way, it's very hard, actually."

20. Wide of al-Khatib walking away

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Jordan, Amman

1. Men praying

2. Various of protest in support of Egyptian demonstrators, red flags are communist flags

3. Flag of King of Jordan King Abdullah II

4. Various of protest

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Beirut, Lebanon

5. Wide of people outside Egyptian embassy

6. Various protesters

7. Protesters waving Egyptian flag

8. Guard, protesters in background

9. Mid of security

10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Farouk (only one name given), protester:

"The situation in Egypt should not go on forever, 80 million Egyptians should not be ruled by a small group of people who are benefitting from its resources."

11. Tilt down from embassy to protesters

12. Lebanese army convoy

13. Convoy driving past protesters

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Istanbul, Turkey

14. Various of protest

15. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Recep Goker, demonstrator:

"We want to show our support for the revolt in Egypt. We send our regards, hopefully the oppression of the past 30 years will end today."

16. Protesters with banners

17. Protesters with anti-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak banners

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Tehran, Iran

18. Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami walking towards podium

19. Wide of worshippers shouting slogans

20. Side shot of cameraman filming Khatami speaking at podium

21. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami, Senior Iranian cleric:

"An Islamic Middle East is being formed. A new Middle East is being shaped around the axis of religion, people and religious democracy."

22. Wide of worshippers chanting (Farsi) "Death to US, death to Israel."

STORYLINE

Protesters gathered together across much of the Arab world on Friday, as regional unrest spread beyond Tunisia and Egypt.

More than 3,500 opposition activists from the main Islamist opposition group, trade unions and leftist organisations gathered in Jordan's capital Amman shouting for the government's resignation.

The rallies marked the third consecutive Friday of protests after Muslim prayers inspired by unrest in Tunisia and Egypt.

Jordan's King Abdullah II has promised reforms in meetings with members of parliament, former prime ministers, civil society institutions and even Jordan's largest opposition group, the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood Movement.

Elsewhere, dozens of Lebanese and Egyptians protested outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut in support of the tens of thousands out in the streets of Cairo.

"The situation in Egypt should not go on forever, 80 million Egyptians should not be ruled by a small group of people who are benefitting from its resources," said one Egyptian protester in Beirut.

And close to 200 members of various Islamic organisations demonstrated against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after Friday prayers in Istanbul on Friday.

"We want to show our support for the revolt in Egypt," said one demonstrator there.

Meanwhile, a top Iranian cleric hailed on Friday the recent protests by people in the Arab World and called them an Islamic uprising taking over the region.

Ahmed Khatami, Tehran's Friday prayer leader and a member of the Experts Assembly, said a greater Islamic Middle East is being formed pivoting around Islam and religious democracy.

He reiterated that these uprisings resemble the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 and will lead to the ouster of West-backed dictators of the region.

The unrest has been ripping across the Arab world for two weeks after the people's revolt in Tunisia that ousted the country's autocratic president.

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Tehran, Iran

1. Wide of worshippers gathered in Tehran's Palestine Square after Friday prayers

2. Close of poster with photos of (left to right) Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and King Abdullah II of Jordan with title reading (English) "Wanted Dead or Alive"

3. Wide of demonstrators shouting (Farsi) "Down with Israel"

4. Mid of demonstrators shouting (Farsi) "The blood in our veins is a gift to our leader (Ayatollah Khamenei)"

5. Close of Mubarak's photo with caption reading (English) "1,000,000 $ award for killing Mubarak"

6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) (No first name given) Nasiri, Protester:

"The Western countries will surely play tricks to divert them (Egyptian protesters) from their path and make them satisfied with lower objectives (than toppling Mubarak). They should try to keep their firm line and press forward with their movement until this government, whose key supporters are America and Israel, is overthrown."

7. Close of placard with photos of (from left to right) Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, United States President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres, being burned by protesters

8. Mid of protesters shouting (Farsi) "Death to America"

9. Close of placard reading (English) "Bye Bye Mubarak, See You in Hell"

10. Wide of protesters marching and shouting (Arabic) "O Muslims! Unite. Unite."

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Istanbul, Turkey

11. Wide of protesters exiting mosque

12. Female protesters holding anti-Mubarak and pro-Islamic signs

13. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Gulden Sonmez, Protester:

"People want the Mubarak regime to end and we are with them. Today will be the final day. And we hope that the people in Egypt will witness a historic day where the people of Egypt win their freedom."

14. Mid of sign reading (English) "No to Dictatorship, Long Live Global Intifada, Long live Islamic Resistance"

15. Wide of crowd praying in memory of those killed in Egypt demonstrations

16. Mid of crowd praying in memory of those killed in Egypt demonstrations

17. Various of crowd chanting (Turkish) "God is Great and God is one"

18. Wide of Bulent Yildirim, IHH (The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief) president, the Islamic organisation that organised the aid flotilla, which was raided by Israeli soldiers in May 2010, addressing crowd

19. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Bulent Yildirim, IHH:

"In Cairo the streets and square are filled, the people will move soon and you will see the Middle East will wake up to a brand new day."

20. Pan across demonstrators gathered outside the mosque

21. Mid of protesters holding signs and chanting (Turkish) "God is great"

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Amman, Jordan

22. Various of Friday prayers in Amman

23. Mid of protest march

24. Pan from banner along protest march

25. Wide of protest march

26. Pull out from the Prime Minister's office to protesters

27. Various of protest, demonstrators holding flags and banners and chanting

28. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Dr Sufyan Al-Tal, Political Analyst:

"We say no Rifa'i (former prime minister) nor Bakhit (the new prime minister), the prime minister should be elected. This is a government ploy. The people are saying "you have replaced the thieves but the game is still the same" and "110 snakes are in the parliament and the game is the same". It is time to stop fraud and cheating the people. The people have become aware of all these manoeuvres. Either they amend their ways or resign. There is no longer an acceptance of these political manoeuvres."

29. Exterior of the Egyptian Embassy in Amman

30. Mid of Egyptian flag

31. Mid of protesters outside the embassy

STORYLINE

As protesters demanding Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's ouster packed Cairo's central square by the tens of thousands on Friday, similar demonstrations were held in several other countries including Iran, Turkey and Jordan.

In Tehran's Palestine Square, thousands voiced their opposition to Mubarak and vented anger over what they saw as interference from United States President, Barack Obama.

The Obama administration was in talks with top Egyptian officials about the possibility of Mubarak immediately resigning and handing over a military-backed transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman.

"The Western countries will surely play tricks to divert them (Egyptian protesters) from their path and make them satisfied with lower objectives (than toppling Mubarak). They should try to keep their firm line and press forward with their movement until this government, whose key supporters are America and Israel, is overthrown," said one protester in Tehran.

Protesters holding a demonstration outside the Egyptian Embassy in Istanbul also voiced their support for the anti-government protesters in Egypt.

"People want the Mubarak regime to end and we are with them," said Gulden Sonmez, who joined Friday's rally in Istanbul.

Hundreds of Jordanians, meanwhile, staged a protest against Jordan's new prime minister who was named just days earlier in response to anti-government marches.

The leader of Jordan's main Muslim opposition group has said he wants to give the new prime minister a chance to form his Cabinet.

However, more than 1,000 of his followers and other government opponents marched in the capital of Amman on Friday, calling for the ouster of Marouf al-Bakhit.

"We say no Rifa'i (former prime minister) nor Bakhit (the new prime minister), the prime minister should be elected," said political analyst Dr Sufyan Al-Tal.

"It is time to stop fraud and cheating the people. The people have become aware of all these manoeuvres. Either they amend their ways or resign. There is no longer an acceptance of these political manoeuvres."

Islamist and leftist activists protested near the prime minister's office before marching downtown to the Egyptian Embassy.

Jordan has been the scene of several large protests against rising prices in recent weeks, one of the issues that sparked the Egyptian uprising.

The scenes of mass protests in Egypt have riveted the Arab world, and unrest has spread to other countries, most recently Yemen where tens of thousands on Thursday called on their long-time president to step down.

However, expectations of large-scale protests in Arab countries after Friday's noon prayers, the highlight of the Muslim religious week, did not materialise.

Protests were also held in Iraq and Syria.

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Many Egyptians who publicly protested in the years following the 2011 revolution were forced to escape the country for their safety.

Large numbers took sanctuary in Sweden, but learning the language and finding jobs has proved difficult for many.

STORYLINE

Amr Faraq takes a relaxed stroll through the streets of Stockholm.

Here in Sweden he is free to shop, go out for dinner and express his opinions.

But life could have been very different if he'd have stayed in his home country, Egypt.

Faraq is the founder of Egypt's Rassd News Network, which was particularly critical of president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and his government.

Things escalated for Faraq in 2013.

After a 2011 uprising removed president Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood rolled to victory in a series of Egypt's first democratic elections, bringing Mohammed Morsi to the presidency.

But opposition quickly grew.

A year after Morsi's inauguration, millions joined protests against him, prompting then-army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to remove and detain Morsi on 3 July 2013.

It was during these events that friends of Faraq warned him that he was wanted for items broadcast on Rassd News Network.

He initially escaped with his wife to Turkey where he stayed for 18 months.

After his son was born he got a permit to Sweden where he and his family applied for political asylum, which was granted after 18 months.

The Egyptian authorities went to Faraq's house in Egypt numerous times after he left and removed things including his laptop.

He now feels it's too dangerous to return and advises others to leave for their safety too.

"Actually, no-one would think of returning back to Egypt in the current circumstances and I advise anyone living in Egypt to leave it," he says.

"Egypt is a great country but the current government needs to give justice to the people. If this happens, no doubt the people will love to live in Egypt and will sacrifice anything for their country. But in the current situation it's impossible for me to return back."

The "current situation" Faraq refers to is the potental jail or even death sentence he faces if he returned to Egypt.

"I knew that my name was mentioned in two cases. The first one is a military case. This case was because of leaks of documents about the military authorities and Abdel Fattah El Sisi (when he was Defence Minister) which Rassd News Network broadcast. In this case I was sentenced to three years in prison. In the second case, called 'Rabaa Operations', I was sentenced to life imprisonment and some of my mates were sentenced to death."

He says that his name has also been added to a list of people belonging to extremist groups which means he cannot apply for a new passport from the Egyptian embassy or deal with Egyptian embassies in any country in the world.

But life in Sweden isn't easy for Faraq.

He's stayed in 11 different places since arriving including refugee camps.

He finds it difficult to learn the language which means he also hasn't been able to get a job.

Since the spring of 2016, the number of asylum seekers reaching Sweden has remained at approximately the same level according to the Swedish Migration Agency.

29,000 people applied for asylum during 2016, and so far just over 13,000 people have applied this year.

This development is expected to continue with approximately 28,000 asylum seekers predicted in total by the end of this year.

Since Egyptians do not require a visa to travel to Lebanon many refugees travel to or via there when seeking sanctuary.

So was the case with sisters Sarah and Shaimaa Elbana, former members of the April 6 Youth Movement - an Egyptian activist group set up after the 2011 Arab Spring.

They were active in raising human rights awareness in working-class neighbourhoods in East Cairo as well as organising and participating in peaceful protests against military rule, arbitrary detention, torture and enforced disappearances.

They were among 227 protesters that were arrested on 25 January 2014, during the third anniversary commemorations of the Egyptian revolution.

During the demonstration police used firearms to disperse protesters.

Six people died and dozens more were injured during the chaos.

Among those killed was a member of the April 6 Youth Movement.

The sisters and others were charged with murdering those who protested with them, as well as carrying weapons and explosives.

They and eight other defendants attended the first hearing, the rest either fled the country or avoided being present.

The trial sessions were held in the court at the Police Academy at Tora, which normally handles political cases rather than ordinary criminal cases.

According to Shaimaa Elbana, the cases were not held in public.

In view of this, the sisters decided to leave Egypt before the verdict was issued as they feared a life sentence.

They headed first to Lebanon then travelled to Sweden in August 2017.

But Shaimaa says she wishes they could go home.

"We all had hope that the country would become better. We all hoped that the 25th January Revolution would improve the situation. In the years 2013 and 2014 we were still full of hope and didn't feel defeated yet," she says.

"For sure there is nothing compared to being with family or friends, even being in a better country or having a better future. If I could choose, I would stay in Egypt to make it better not the country that I live in now."

The final verdict, issued on February 2017, sentenced them in absentia to 10 years in prison.

When they arrived in Sweden, they applied for asylum and are currently waiting to see if their request will be accepted or not.

They initially lived in a refugee centre for a week, then moved to their friend's apartment.

The sisters have now started to learn Swedish and will try to find jobs.

Stockholm, Sweden - 2 September 2017

1. Various of Amr Farag walking through Stockholm

2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amr Farag, Rassd News Network Founder and Egyptian refugee in Sweden:

"Actually, no-one would think of returning back to Egypt in the current circumstances and I advise anyone living in Egypt to leave it. Because this is not the country we were living for. Egypt is a great country but the current government needs to give justice to the people. If this happens, no doubt the people will love to live in Egypt and will sacrifice anything for their country. But in the current situation it's impossible for me to return back. I will return back if the situation changes for the better."

3. Wide of road in Stockholm

Gothenburg, Sweden - 3 September 2017

4. Wide of boat on river in Gothenburg

5. Pan from people sitting on steps to river and square

Stockholm, Sweden - 2 September 2017

6. Various of Farag in supermarket

7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amr Farag, Rassd News Network Founder and Egyptian refugee in Sweden:

"I knew that my name was mentioned in two cases. The first one is a military case. This case was because of leaks of documents about the military authorities and Abdel Fattah El Sisi (when he was Defence Minister) which Rassd News Network broadcast. In this case I was sentenced to three years in prison. In the second case, called 'Rabaa Operations', I was sentenced to life imprisonment and some of my mates were sentenced to death. The judgment of my mates was then reduced to life imprisonment. Also, my name was listed on a list of terrorism: a list for individuals who belong to terrorism groups. So, I cannot apply for a new passport from the Egyptian embassy or even deal with the Egyptian embassies in any country in the world."

8. Close of Farag's hand

9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amr Farag, Rassd News Network Founder and Egyptian refugee in Sweden:

"I came to Sweden in November 2014 after a year and a half in Turkey. I stayed in Turkey for one year and a half before I came here to apply for asylum because my Egyptian passport had nearly expired and there was no chance to renew it. I applied for political asylum and it was accepted in July 2016."

Gothenburg, Sweden - 3 September 2017

10. Various of Shaimaa Elbana

11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shaimaa Elbana, Egyptian asylum seeker in Sweden:

"We all had hope that the country would become better. We all hoped that the 25th January Revolution would improve the situation. In the years 2013 and 2014 we were still full of hope and didn't feel defeated yet. For sure there is nothing compared to being with family or friends, even being in a better country or having a better future. If I could choose, I would stay in Egypt to make it better, not the country that I live in now."

12. Various of Elbana walking home

13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Shaimaa Elbana, Egyptian asylum seeker in Sweden:

"The choices for my family were few because we are two girls. When you compare between prison and exile, exile is better. At least we can contact our family any time and there is no one restricting our freedom. Since we joined anything that relates to politics or revolution, we did not exclude anything (happening) such as prison or exile or anything else. So our family have faith that we believe in what we do and they are supporting us."

14. Various of Shaimaa and her sister Sarah Elbana at home

15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sarah Elbana, Egyptian asylum seeker in Sweden

"I left Egypt because my name was mentioned in a case called Anniversary of 25 January 2014. We were arrested and stayed in prison for four days, then they released us on bail. In April 2015, the case was deliberated as a terrorism criminal case (at the Police Academy at Tora) and a hearing was set for April but they kept postponing until November and the judge didn't give us a "good face" which was not the usual. So we decided to leave Egypt. In February 2017 we were given a 10 year sentence and one year of monitoring."

16. Various of Shaimaa and Sarah at home

17. Various street scenes

WORLD NEWS REVIEW 1995

Duration 46:58

Sound: Ch 1 M&E

10:00:00 Opening sequence and Headlines

ASIA

10:00:50

Kashmir - Bombing During Governor's Speech

Jammu, India

Governor of Kashmir Rao salutes

Rao inspects the guard of honour

Rao speaking as bomb goes off in background (Dramatic shot)

Debris flying into the air

People removing victims on stretcher

10:01:12

Japan - Kobe Earthquake

Kobe, Japan

Street scene

Kobe flower sign

Collapsed building

VS Workers clearing up

Tracking shot of collapsed buildings along road

VS Clear-up operation

Workers carrying stretcher from collapsed building

WS of refugee centre

Woman eating rice - zooms in

10:02:16

Pope's Visit To Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia

Manila, Philippines

Pope John Paul II in popemobile

WS huge crowd

WS altar ready for Mass

Pope gives communion

Pope raises goblet

Evening overhead view huge crowd gathered for youth vigil

Popemobile through crowd

Pope in popemobile

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

MS dancers at Port Moresby airport

Pope coming out of plane

10:02:56

Pakistan - Mosque Massacre

Karachi, Pakistan

Top view marchers on street

Banners showing solidarity with Kashmiri rebels

Crowd scatters as shots ring out

MS exterior of Abu Al-Abbas mosque

MS walls ridden with bullets and blood on floor

MS of mourners sitting on ground - one man being cradled

WS of body being carried in procession

10:03:28

Japan - Subway Gas Attack

Tokyo, Japan

Subway train enters a station

Newspaper front page

People reading newspaper on train (headlines about attack)

People riding the trains

Shots of the leader of Aum Supreme Truth group, Shoko

Asahara

10:03:47

Philippines - Muslims Take 50 People Hostage

Ipil, Philippines

Pan devastated town

People poking through burning wreckage

Pan of morgue interior with charred and dead bodies

Helicopter taking off from temporary air strip

Helicopter lands

Wounded and dead guerillas in helicopter

More GVs of wounded

President Fidel Ramos touring city

10:04:29

Bangladesh - Agricultural Workers In Violent Demonstrations

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Demonstrators march to rally

Police behind riot shields

Cutaway protestors chanting

Sheikh Hasina Wajed addressing the rally before the siege

Police clashing with protestors

Tear gas exploding

10:04:58

India - Delhi Fire

Delhi, India

Firefighters and civilians hauling hose

Smouldering ruins

High-shot smoke billowing over zone

10:05:14

South Korea - Student Riots At Anniversary Of Liberation

Seoul, South Korea

Marchers with flags

Police in wait and pan to view protest

Police charge into protestors

AV of police action

Fighting

Police drag off protestors

Students throwing Molotov cocktail

Bombs hit police

Confrontation lines as clashes continue

Masked man throws Molotov cocktail, pulls back to police

Police respond with tear gas cannons

Students retreat under tear gas

10:06:11 South Pacific - Nuclear Tests

Papeete, Tahiti

Woman with "no more tests" sign

Mururoa Atoll

AV Mururoa Atoll

WS of Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace ship (d)

Pan nuclear testing equipment

Papeete, Tahiti

Ms of Air New Zealand plane wing - pullout to show whole

plane

Airport terminal building on fire

Young men smashing cars

Car being overturned

Tear gas fired by police

Riot police marching

Man being arrested

WS street with buildings burning

Papeete, Tahiti

Wide view peaceful mass anti-nuclear march along road

10:07:10

Dalai Lama's 60th Birthday Celebrations

Buddha Jayanti Park, New Delhi, India

Monks blowing horns

Opening prayers

Statue of Buddha

Dalai Lama kisses prayer plate

CA locals in traditional dress

Dalai Lama planting and watering tree

Dalai Lama leaves park with Indian Foreign Secretary M.K.

Rasgotra

Dalai Lama addressing crowd

WS painted elephant

Dalai Lama receives flowers at birthday celebrations

10:07:55

South Korea - Moonie Wedding

Seoul, South Korea

Stage of Olympic Stadium for mass wedding

Pan couples

Moon Sun-Myung and his wife Han Hak-Ja

O/H Couples

Moon and wife blessing the couples

10:08:13

India - Milk For The Gods

New Delhi, India

Milk being spooned to statue

Queues of people outside temple

Milk being spooned to statue

Newspaper headlines

10:08:31

Sri Lanka - Violence From Tamil Separatists

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Flames in the night sky billowing skywards

GVs of fires blazing

Soldiers coming under fire and running away

Morning pictures of soldiers carrying corpse on stretcher to

car

VS Smoke clouds

SCIENCE & MEDICINE

10:09:16

Osteoporosis - Trial Of New Drug

CS Women's head on scan table

Pull out to show scan machine

Monitor screen showing results of scan

Another woman on bed

Doctor show patient x-rays

CS hand on x-ray

Doctor showing elderly patient x-rays

10:09:40

Breast Cancer - New Technology To Detect Growths

Washington, USA

Spy satellite images.

Woman at computer

Breast images on screen

Woman being scanned

Hands pointing on images

Doctor showing images

Presser. Dr Susan Blumenthal, from the Women's Health

Section of the US Department of Health and Human

Services, SOT: "surely we should be able to detect small

lumps on women's breast right in front of us."

10:10:13

Hubble Telescope Pictures

Stills

The rings of Saturn (g)

Vs of collapsed planet (g)

10:10:28

Eclipse Of The Sun

Fatephur Sikri, Agra District, Uttar Pradesh State, India

Sunrise at Fatehpur Sikri fort monument

Sun

Fatehpur Sikri fort monument

Partial eclipse

Fatehpur Sikri fort monument in twilight

Film cameraman

Fort monument in twilight zooms into full eclipse

AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST

10:10:58

Israel/Palestine - Arafat Promises Continued Struggle

Nablus, West Bank, Occupied Territories

Troupe of Palestinian dancers on stage

Man dancing in crowd

Women singing and clapping

Gaza

PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on stage, addressing crowd

WS Crowd

Arafat on stage, gesticulating

Crowd waving Palestinian flags

Arafat planting olive tree

Arafat saluting as he walks past supporters

Nablus, West Bank

Youths gathering as Israeli soldiers approach

Israeli soldiers kicking youth

Man with gun running through traffic

10:11:53

Israel/Palestine - Peace Talks; Arafat In Paris

Cairo, Egypt

Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres off

plane, shaking hands with Egyptian counterparts

Rabin and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak meeting in

palace

CU Mubarak

CU Rabin

Palestinian Leader, Yasser Arafat, arriving

Arafat meeting with Mubarak in palace

King Hussein of Jordan arriving

Hussein and Mubarak walking

Four leaders seated in palace and chatting

Mubarak alongside Arafat

Rabin alongside King Hussein

Four leaders chatting

Paris , France

Arafat greeted by French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe

Arafat and Juppe talking

Guards on roof by presidential palace

Arafat and French President Francois Mitterrand exiting

after talks, shaking hands and chatting on steps

10:12:46

Israel/Palestine - Further Deadlock In Talks

West Bank

MS youths running in streets

Soldier firing tear gas

Tear gas canister

Tear gas exploding

Jenin, West Bank

Man being kicked

Man on floor, dragged by police

Gaza

Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat

shaking hands at meeting table

Jenin, West Bank

Jenin rooftops

Nablus

AV Nablus

WS cars honking and flying flags

Efrat

Pan settlers, two men praying

Soldier with machine gun in jeep

10:13:24

Israel/Palestine - Transference Of More Power To Palestinians

Alexandria, Egypt

Two-shot Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Yasser Arafat seated - Zoom in Arafat

Pull out two shot Shimon Peres and Mubarak

Sidon, Lebanon

Protestors in front of closed shops

Cairo, Egypt

CU PLO negotiator Jamil Tarifi signing agreement

WS Table, shaking hands, applauding

West Bank

Soldier checking car

Two men in car receiving documents from soldier

Jericho, West Bank

Youths throwing stones at Police

LS Israeli flag being burnt

Palestinian flags raised aloft

10:14:12

Somalia - Withdrawal Of UN Troops

Somalia

US Marines walking on beach

Warship at sea

Soldier on radio

APC/Tanks roll past

People looting house

Pick-up truck full of Somali militia-men with machine guns

and bazooka

Looter with loaded wheelbarrow running

Inflatable boats with US flags approaching shore

MS marine unrolling barbed wire

Demonstration against Operation United Shield

Banner and chanting demonstrators

US Marines as stray bullet goes overhead

Marines behind shield

Explosion and smoke

Cobra attack helicopters rising over airport runway

Mogadishu, Somalia

Mohamed Farah Aideed raises arm to lead chant

Children with wreaths

Aideed with wreath around neck smiling and holding flag

Mothers seated in food queue with malnourished children

Children by mother's side

Faces of children

10:15:45

South Africa - Winnie Mandela Sacked From Government

Cape Flats Township, Near Cape Town, South Africa

Winnie Mandela out of car and greeted by crowd

Crowd chanting

Winnie Mandela chanting "Freedom" slogan

Soweto, South Africa

Exterior of Winnie Mandela's house

Front of house and police

Cape Town, South Africa

President Nelson Mandela SOT: "This decision has been taken

both in the interest of good government and to ensure the

highest standards of discipline among the leading

officials of the government of national unity."

10:16:24

Zaire - Ebola Virus

Kikwit, Zaire

MS men pushing body on trolley

CU microscopic view of virus

Map of Zaire highlighting Kikwit and Mosango

Kikwit, Zaire

AV of Kikwit

Masked doctor with patient

Nursing staff testing blood

Ill man lying outside hospital

VS Patients

10:16:54

Sudan - Tension With Egypt

Kassala, Sudan

General Hassan Al-Bashir

Motorcade

Bashir shaking hands with soldiers on parade

Women raising rifles in the air

Gun exercises

WS pan of parade/crowd with flags

Horsemen with flags

Al-Bashir arrives in jeep

Men holding defaced photographs of opposition leaders

Single photo and tilt down

Armed women run past

10:17:49

Iraq - Defection Of Hussein Children

Baghdad, Iraq

Iraqi flag flying

Saddam Hussein seated in office

Lieutenant General Hussein Kamel Hassan (Saddam's son-in-law

viewing parade)

Amman, Jordan

Kamel SOT (in Arabic): "We are working for toppling the

regime but as far as secrets we won't reveal any unless

it is in the interests of Iraq."

Baghdad, Iraq

Cabinet meeting

Saddam chairing meeting

The Gulf - Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln

Jet taking off

AV aircraft carrier

Jet taking off

10:18:39

Pope In South Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa

Pope emerging from plane

Pope being presented with a basket of earth by children,

kissing it and blessing the children

CU of Pope turning to greet Mandela, two shake hands

10:18:51

Rwanda - Massacre At Refugee Camp

Kibeho Camp, Rwanda

Aerial of camp

Bodies being carried away

MS of onlookers

Carrying away body

LS of bodies carried away

Body tipped into grave

10:19:25

Israel - Run Up To Rabin's Assassination

Jerusalem, Israel

WS Dome of Jerusalem

WS Damascus Gate

WS Old city

Washington, USA

Yitzhak Rabin SOT: "I believe what has happened in the last

two years is remarkable progress of tranquility and

stability and peace".

10:19:52

Israel - Rabin Assassination

Tel Aviv, Israel

Rabin smiling at peace rally (a short time before he was shot)

Rabin addressing crowd

**GVs of police surrounding suspect and hustling him away**

Jerusalem, Israel

Leah Rabin and family crying at funeral

Israeli President Weizmann laying wreath

Cabinet members standing silently around table

Shimon Peres SOT: "The real wish in the last minute of his

life was that the peace process will be continued."

10:20:39

Nigeria - Execution Of Ken Saro-Wiwa

Nigeria

Ken Saro-Wiwa addressing rally

Trial judge pan to Saro-Wiwa and colleagues in dock

Auckland, New Zealand

Nigerian foreign minister, Tomi Ikimi, with officials after

Nigeria's suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations

meeting in New Zealand

Ikimi onto bus (refusing to comment to reporters)

10:21:06

Ivory Trade - Demonstration By Kenyan Government Against Trade

Nairobi National Park, Kenya

WS of burning ivory

People with banner reading:" wildlife clubs of Kenya

support conservation"

Wildlife officer throws tusks on fire

CU fire

CU ivory burning

Poster reading: "only elephants should wear ivory"

Burning tusks

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

10:21:49

Barings Bank Collapse- Nick Leeson's Trial

Singapore

Futures trader Nick Leeson escorted to car

Leeson driven away

WS press scrum

Singapore lawyer, John Koh, arrives

WS Prison tower

10:22:13

Dow Jones Reaches 5000

New York City, USA

New York Stock Exchange ticker as Dow Jones reaches 5,000

points at 10:20am

GVs floor trading

Closing bell, date board and hammer signifying end of trading

10:22:30

Car Wars - USA Vs Japan

USA

Prospective buyer examines a new Lexus/price tag shows

$55,000

US trade representative Mickey Kantor sot "The U.S. is the

largest car market in the world and the most lucrative.

That's why everyone wants into this market. We're asking

Japan to play fair. If we buy their products, they

should buy our products."

EUROPE

10:23:07

Bosnia - Summary Of Events

Bihac, Bosnia

Man firing rocket launcher

Man runs from building to trench

Soldier in trench with rocket launcher

House on fire

Man firing rocket launcher

Tanks fires and moves off

Munich, Germany

Meeting of Bosnia's Croats and Moslems round table

CU Bosnian Moslem Prime Minister Hans Silajdzic

Croatian representatives (pan to) Croatian Prime Minister

Ejup Granic

SOT Silajdzic "Let's hope we will use the rest of the

ceasefire period in Bosnia-Herzegovina to try to make

peace."

Sarajevo, Bosnia

WS Sarajevo

WS town pan to cemetery

UN observation post overlooking Sarajevo

Aviano, Italy

F-16 Aircraft taking off from Nato air base

Over Bosnia

Nato plane in sky

Pale, Bosnia

Smoke from hills pulls out to children running at sound of

siren

Sarajevo, Bosnia

Old people dust themselves off

Girl holding head

UN armoured vehicle returning fire

Pale, Bosnia

Jovan Zametica (Bosnian Serb spokesman) SOT: "You call those

troops hostages. We call them enemies,for that is what

they are."

VS Hostages (UN military observers)

Adriatic Sea

Loading missiles on plane

CU plane with USS Roosevelt on the side

Naples, Italy

Nato pictures of air raid on monitor

Second air strike on monitor

Washington D.C., USA

US President Bill Clinton SOT: "About an hour ago I spoke

with Secretary Christopher in Dayton, Ohio. He informed

me that the Presidents of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia have

reached a peace agreement to end the war in Bosnia."

10:25:25

Belarus - First Free Elections

Minsk, Belarus

Exterior of polling station

Citizens casting their votes

The present Belarussian emblem

Interior polling station

Speaker of the Parliament, Micheslav Grib casting his vote

President of Belarus, Alezander Lukashenko signing the

voters list.

Lukashenko exiting voting booth and casting his vote

10:25:55

Denmark - World Development Conference

Copenhagen, Denmark

Aircraft on tarmac

UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali shaking hands

with officials

French President Francois Mitterrand speaking

Delegates listening to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl speaking

Chinese representative on podium

South African President Nelson Mandela SOT "The dimensions and

the effects of poverty are all too familiar: hunger,

unemployment, homelessness, disintegration of the social

fabric."

10:26:30

France - Presidential Elections

Paris, France

Woman entering polling station

Queue of voters in polling station

Premier Edouard Balladur voting

CU Conservative Paris mayor Jacques Chirac walking through

crowds chanting "We are going to win" (in French)

CU of Chirac speaking to his supporters

CU of InfoMatin newspaper with headline "Jospin - the

surprise" tilt up to La Tribune with headline saying the

social crisis at the heart of the second round.

Balladur, French SOT: "Please quiet down.....for weeks I

have fought for my convictions....but I don't want to

see what happened in 1986 and 1988 and in the second

round I will vote for Jacques Chirac."

LS Elysee Palace

WS Chirac walking on red carpet

Chirac meets Former President Francois Mitterrand outside

Elysee Palce

Chirac signs for handover

CU Signed book

Chirac and Mitterrand farewell outside Elysee Palace

10:27:25

France - Metro Bomb

Paris, France

WS aftermath scene

Rescuer holding up intravenous drip

Bandaged, injured victim stretchered up steps

Station sign, pb and pan across to damaged carriage

Newspaper headlines

10:27:46

Italy - Elections

Rome, Italy

Prime Minister Lamberto Dini through doors and walking to

podium

Ceremonial guard

Dini speaking from podium

10:28:14

Italy - Mafia Trial

Caltanissetta, Sicily

Heavily-armed police patrolling outside courthouse

Salvatore Riina entering cage

CU Judge

CU Riina in courtroom cage

MS judges on bench

Riina gesticulating behind glass screen and saying he

wanted to be able to consult with his lawyer

10:28:38

Germany - Artist Christo Wraps The Reichstag

Berlin, Germany

WS of Reichstag all wrapped up

Crowd - man wearing t-shirt "Wrapped Reichstag 1971-95"

Christo and wife, Jeanne-Claude, at press conference

GVs of Reichstag

10:29:01

Chechnya - Summary Of Events

Grozny, Chechnya

WS Presidential palace under fire

Russian tank passes presidential palace watched by Chechen

fighter

(Night) LS burning tank

Khasavyurt, Chechnya

CU Yeltsin on TV screen making speech

Moscow, Russia

Woman carrying poster that reads "Return our Sons from

Chechnya"

Alexander Rutskoi speaking to crowd

Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan

Boris Yeltsin and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev

greeting each other and walking into building

WS flags in corridor

Grozny, Chechnya

Woman looking anxious

LS plume of smoke over fields

SOT Chechen commander, Aslan Maskhadov, saying that the war

hasn't ended just because Grozny has fallen

Line of bodies laid out on ground

WS damaged "Grozny" town sign and scrubland

Chechen fighter sheltering in corner of building

VS Houses being demolished

Russian troops behind APC

Soldiers on tank

Soldiers running

Budennovsk, Russia

Shattered windows of police headquarters building

Hospital facade

Soldier on ground with telescopic sight

CU hospital facade with white flags

Woman with white flag followed by a woman and child

10:31:05

Turkey - Riots Against Discrimination

Ankara, Turkey

Riot police confronting massive crowd

WS water cannon firing into crowd

Zakho region, Northern Iraq

Turkish soldiers marching up hill

Tank driver and tank reversing

Turkish soldier looking through field glasses

Atrush Refugee Camp, Northern Iraq

Turkish soldiers body-searching Kurdish men

Zakho region, Northern Iraq

CU of bullets and ammunition on ground

10:31:38

Belgium - Spanish/Canadian Fishing Dispute

Brussels, Belgium

Canadian and EU flags in front of Canadian Embassy

EU spokesman for Fishing, Marco Zattarrin, at press

conference

Pull-out from date on EU document accusing Canadians of

violating agreements to full page of document.

Jacques Roy, Canadian ambassador and EU negotiator Pierre

Luigi Giola signing agreement Emma Bonino, EU fisheries

commissioner looks on

Exchange of documents

Delegates shake hands

10:32:30

Russia - Gas Pipeline Explosion

Ukhta, Russia

Flames engulf tree

Sun hidden behind dark pall of smoke

Flames

CU Severed pipeline belching flames

Billowing smoke

Workers welding pipes

Tilt down from charred trees to WS of devastation

10:33:06

Russia - Earthquake

Neftegorsk, Russia

Rescue workers on ruins of collapsed building

Grieving woman

AV Pan of town

Ground-level pan of destruction

Woman survivor helped out of rubble

10:33:32

VE Day Celebrations / VJ Day Celebrations

Moscow, Russia

WS Red Square

Veterans marching

Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin and Chinese President Jiang

Zemin looking up

London, England

Queen Elizabeth in St Pauls Cathedral

Overhead view: Queen heads procession inside St Pauls

Aerial view of Buckingham Palace with crowds outside gates

Queen Mother, Queen and Princess Margaret walking onto

balcony of the palace

Flypast of the red arrows

Royal family listening to music

WS Main stage in Horseguards Parade

O/H outside Buckingham Palace

Stage

Veterans seated

Lancaster bomber drops poppies

10:34:33

Russia - Yeltsin Drunk And Playful

Moscow, Russia

Yeltsin entering door

Aide steers him in right direction (because he is drunk)

Line of journalists waiting for him

Introduced to line of journalists

Shakes hands with journalist

Walking across room

Playfully touches seated woman

Tries to touch second woman

Seated at table with journalists, gesticulating

PEOPLE & ANIMALS

10:35:19

The Beatles - Work Together Again

London, UK

Ringo Starr SOT: "Brought back a lot of good memories, and it

also gave me the chance to hang out with Paul and George

again."

Press conference for the Beatles Anthology

George Harrison SOT: "Yeah, it was fun because enough time

had gone between 1969 and now."

Int Record shop in America (a)

Beatles Anthology CD in rack (a)

Paul McCartney SOT: "It's just amazing to me because I'm

still here and it's me looking at that story......it's a

question of 'is that me..is that us...god, we were so

young."

10:36:07

Dogs - Moscow Show

Moscow, Russia

Vs of Dogs on show

10:36:27

Mike Tyson - Released From Jail

Indiana, USA

Tyson at press conference SOT: "there has been a lot of

speculation about my plans. They are: I will fight again."

Tyson, King and Boston fighter Peter McNeeley - King SOT

"Everybody be waiting for you."

10:36:48

Crocodile - Attacks Handler In Australia

Townsville, Australia

Keepers attempting to put noose around crocodile.

Crocodile "Hot Lips" being led away by handlers with rope

attached to its mouth.

CU crocodile, followed by rapid zoom-out as crocodile breaks

free of noose and grabs keeper Charlie Finn's hand,

twisting around with keeper still attached.

Injured keeper being carried away on the shoulder of

colleague.

10:37:11

Princess Diana

Paris, France

Diana out of car and greeted by officials

Diana with Jacques Chirac

Tokyo, Japan

Diana speaking from Podium

Diana picking up child

Argentina

Diana with Argentine President, Carlos Menem

10:37:49

The Cyberia Cafe - Internet With Coffee

London, UK

Window of Cyberia cafe

Cafe Counter

Man sitting at computer

People sitting at computers

Ava Pasco (manager) SOT: "You can buy things on it, you can

sell - like record companies are using to sell records -

it's actually quite functional in everyday terms."

AMERICAS

10:38:33

USA - Republicans Take Over House

Washington D.C., USA

CU flag pull out to LS Capitol Hill

WS Congress

Newly-elected speaker Newt Gingrich SOT: "You can't believe

in the good samaritan and explain that as long as

business is making money we can walk by a fellow American

who is hurt and not do something."

Newt meeting senetors to applause

US President Bill Clinton welcome speech

10:39:14

Record World Leader Gathering For UN 50th Anniverary

United Nations, New York City, USA

VS of World Leaders

10:40:09

USA - John Major Visit

Washington DC, USA

CU British Prime Minister, John Major

Major with members of Senate Foreign Relations Committee

seated at table

Newt Gingrich and John Major seated on sofa

Major's limousine arrives at White House

Photocall with Bill Clinton and Major at White House

10:40:34

USA - Auction Of French Impressionists

New York, USA

CU Van Gogh's "Jeune Homme a la Casquette."

Christie's auctioneer taking bids

CU price board at $12 million

10:40:44

Space - Mir-Atlantis: Americans And Russians Join In Space

Space

Astronaut opening hatch

Cosmonaut reaching down and greeting astronaut

Cosmonauts and Astronauts posing for photographic session

Pan around cabin as astronauts and cosmonauts put on

headsets

Woman astronaut doing rolls in the air

WS Mir with earth moving behind it

10:41:26

USA - Launch Of Windows '95

New York, USA

Computer Screen with Windows '95 logo

Microsoft flag flying

Labels being put on Microsoft boxes

Placing CD-Rom in player

Bill Gates, head of Microsoft SOT saying it is a major

milestone for the industry

Computer disks on production line

Man looking at computer

Screen

10:41:52

Brazil - Rio Carnival

Rio de Janiero, Brazil

Fireworks

VS of parade

10:42:24

USA - Oklahoma Bomb

Oklahoma City, USA

Wreckage of federal building, smoke and dust

Shocked and injured survivors led away

Rubble

Washington DC, USA

US President Bill Clinton SOT: "...the US will not tolerate

being intimidated by evil cowards."

Oklahoma City, USA

VS of rescue workers

Perry, Oklahoma, USA

Timothy McVeigh leaving courthouse surrounded by FBI agents

to bus

10:43:11

Peru - Elections

Lima, Peru

Candidate Raoul Diez Canseco carried on people's shoulders

Ex-President Fernando Beliunde, with Canseco in front of

flag

CU Canesco at microphone

Pamplona Alta, Peru

Candidate Ezrqueal Atavesi (Frepip), at rally of his

religious party offering fish to followers

Lima, Peru

Susie Diaz, a stripper, rolling along in pick-up truck

President Alberto Fujimori placing finger in ink

Fujimori waving to crowd

Javier Perez de Cuellar waving ballot paper and voting

Fujimori supporters celebrating in the streets

Fujimori waves to jubilant supporters

10:43:41

USA - Pizza Thief Lands Life Imprisonment

California, USA

WS of court room.

CU Pizza Thief, Jerry Dewayne Williams

Prosecuting Attorney Speaking

CU judge

10:44:18

Haiti - Election

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali arriving at

airport being greeted by Prime Minister Smarck Michele

US President Clinton, Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide

and Boutros-Ghali watching ceremony

UN flag handed over and raised

GVs Haitians outside polling station that opened late

Votes into boxes

Ballot sheet

Aristide wiping brow

Aristide voting

10:45:02

Canada - G7 Summit

Halifax, Canada

US President Bill Clinton jogging

British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd arrives

Franch President Jacques Chirac arriving

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arriving

Bill Clinton arriving and greeted by Canadian leader, Jean

Chretien

CU UK Prime Minister John Major

WS Conference table surrounded by world leaders

10:45:21

Cuba - Elections

Santiago, Cuba

Fidel Castro out of voting booth and greets children

CU Castro speaking

10:45:41

Canada - Quebec Secession

Montreal, Canada

High shot federalist supporters waving flags

People arriving for rally

AV rally

LS Crowd

Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien speaking at rally

Separatist Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard arriving for

his rally, walking down steps with cane

Separatist Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau placing vote in

box

Federalist leader Daniel Johnson placing vote in box, leaves

followed by press

Anti-separatist crowd cheering

Skinhead with Quebecois flag

Line of riot police

10:46:31 End Titles

10:46:58 End

WTN or Pool unless stated

(c) = WTN - ABC

(d) = French Military

(g) = Nasa

(Please note: Music must be cleared with David Muddyman if required - email dmuddyman@loopguru.demon.co.uk)

00:00:00

Madrid university faculties join forces against virus

4262610

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Madrid - 1 April 2020

1. Nurses from Complutense University medical department taking nasal samples from people

2. Laboratory of veterinary faculty

3. Test tubes

00:11:23

US Navy preps hospital ship for non-virus patients

4262648

US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Los Angeles - 30 March 2020

4. Various, interiors of hospital ship USNS Mercy preparing for patients

00:23:14

Eerie scene in NY as virus looms and city empties

4262668

ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York - 1 April 2020

5. Empty streets in Chinatown, Manhattan

6. Various of empty streets in Downtown Manhattan

00:23:14

Eerie scene in NY as virus looms and city empties

4262668

ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York - 1 April 2020

7. Empty streets in Chinatown, Manhattan

8. Various of empty streets in Downtown Manhattan

00:35:12

ONLYONAP Spanish hospital lab ramps up virus testing

4262690

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Badalona - 1 April 2020

9. Various of technician handling samples to be tested for the virus

00:47:03

Egyptian violinist plays from balcony amid lockdown

4262739

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cairo - 31 March 2020

10. Man holding phone to record university student Mohamed Aly playing violin from his balcony

11. Aly playing violin from balcony

12. Children clapping

00:58:21

Coffins of virus victims in Barcelona car park

4262814

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Barcelona - 2 April 2020

13. Various of coffins lined up in funeral home parking lot

01:06:18

Seoul Buddhist temple livestreams prayer amid virus

4262914

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Seoul - 3 April 2020

14. Mid of monk reading Buddhist scripture

15. Mid of staff working on online live streaming of service

16. Exterior temple

01:20:09

Drone footage of deserted Athens in lockdown

4262933

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Athens, Greece - 1 April 2020

++MUTE++

17. Tracking drone shot of Monastiraki and Plaka area below Acropolis

18. Tracking shot of Monastiraki Square

19. Tracking shot down usually busy commercial Ermou Street with closed shops

01:32:09

Istanbul engineers using 3D printers to make masks

4262974

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Istanbul - 3 April 2020

20. Mid of 3D printer generating plastic face shield

21. Worker checks progress on one printer

22. Masked workers preparing visors for distribution

01:44:06

More than 600 new graves dug in Ukraine town

4263031

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dnipro - 2 April 2020

23. Workers digging graves

24. Cemetery

25. Excavator

01:55:07

India villages erect barricades to keep visitors out

4263203

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Siroli, Uttar Pradesh - 4 April 2020

26. Person walking through barricade put up by villagers

Jammu - 4 April 2020

27. Various of villagers manning barbed wire barricade

02:06:11

Palm Sunday: monks throw palms to faithful

4263210

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jerusalem - 5 April 2020

28. Mid of man throwing olive branch to Christian on balcony

29. Close of man praying outside closed Church of Holy Sepulchre

02:19:15

Venice canals empty amid virus lockdown

4263338

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Venice, Italy - 6 April 2020

30. Workers disinfecting streets and bridges

31. Wide pan of empty St. Mark's Square

32. Wide of empty Grand Canal

02:32:22

Trump-touted virus treatment lacks evidence

4263470

US DEFENSE DEPT, ASSOCIATED PRESS

US DEFENSE DEPARTMENT

New York - 5 April 2020

33. Military medical personnel caring for coronavirus patient at New York City Javits Center

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Las Vegas - 6 April 2020

34. Still - Hydroxychloroquine pills

New Orleans, Louisiana - 2 April 2020

35. Two Tulane University School of Medicine employees processing coronavirus tests in the school's molecular pathology lab

02:43:17

Colombian Army hands food during virus lockdown

4263800

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Southern Bogota - 8 April 2020

36. Truck of the Colombian Army, driving on highway on a hill

37. Soldiers walking uphill in a country road, carrying bags of food.

38. Soldiers walking uphill in unpaved road

02:55:01

Flamenco prayers sung from balcony despite pandemic

4264063

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Aguilar de la Frontera, Cordoba- 9 April 2020

39. Various of people clapping from their balconies and simulating the holy procession

40. Singer "El Peluso" singing a 'Saeta' (the "flamenco" prayer song)

03:07:10

Masks, gloves for bride and groom in Rome wedding

4264264

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rome - 11 April 2020

41. Bride Tatiana Datolla and groom Armando De Rosa slide down their masks to kiss

42. Bride giving documents to police

43. Rows of empty chairs

03:19:13

Rome priest holds Easter mass on roof of church

4264342

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rome - 12 April 2020

44. Families following Mass from windows and balconies

45. Women listening to Mass from balconies

46. Drone AERIAL of Mass on the roof

03:28:08

Nigeria faithful attend Easter Mass by video

4264356

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lagos, Nigeria - 12 April 2020

47. Various shots of Easter Mass inside nearly empty Holy Cross Cathedral, Lagos

48. Family watching live telecast at home on television set

03:39:18

Portugal priest takes church on the road

4264373

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Oeiras - 12 April 2020

49. Pan from Father Nuno Westwood on top of car speaking, UPSOUND (Portuguese) "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, a Holy Easter to all", to building

50. Westwood holding a cross and blessing people from a distance UPSOUND (Portuguese) "May you all be blessed in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. A Holy Easter to all. Long live Jesus."

03:53:02

Trump argues he has 'total' authority over shutdown

4264574

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington DC - 13 April 2020

51. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:

(Responding to question on state authority to decide when to 'reopen' after lockdown conditions)

"The president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do, which is very powerful. The president of the United States calls the shots."

04:03:17

Colombia scientists develop low cost ventilators

4264780

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bogota - 14 April 2020

52. Top shot of mechanical engineers inside work areas testing ventilator prototype for COVID-19 patients

53. Mechanical engineer testing air ventilator prototype

04:13:09

G7 leaders meet via video conference

4264951

ASSOCIATED PRESS VIA AGENCY POOL (REUTERS)

AP via AGENCY POOL (Reuters)

Paris - 16 April 2020

54. Various of French President Emmanuel Macron and ministers joining G7 video teleconference from Elysee Palace

04:25:04

Rio accelerates cemetery expansion amid virus

4265598

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rio de Janeiro - 20 April 2020

55. Graves and crosses at Caju Cemetery and burial niches in construction behind

56. Workers building the niches

57. Man working inside a niche

04:36:09

ONLY ON AP: NY emergency room battles COVID-19

4265818

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Yonkers, New York - 20 April 2020

++AP PHOTOGRAPHER GRANTED ACCESS TO SHOOT THROUGH CURTAIN++

58. ER nurses and doctors working to resuscitate a COVID-19 victim UPSOUND: "Pull the curtain, please. Pull the curtain."

59. Defibrillator being used to bring COVID-19 patient back UPSOUND: "Move! Everybody move!"

04:47:14

Queue at Paris suburb foodbank as lockdown goes on

4265913

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Clichy-sous-Bois, outside Paris, France - 22 April 2020

60. Various of people queuing for food distribution

61. Food distribution

04:58:16

Cruise ship 37 days at sea finally docks in Genoa

4265956

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Genoa, Italy - 22 April 2020

62. Costa Deliziosa entering port

63. Passengers on deck

64. Ship's name on hull

05:11:08

General Motors workers step up to make masks

4266142

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Warren, Michigan - 23 April 2020

65. Various of workers making masks at GM's Warren Transmission plant

66. Workers producing masks

05:22:20

Statues in Brazil wear face masks amid pandemic

4266199

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rio de Janeiro - 23 April 2020

67. Singer Dorival Caymmi statue with a mask and gloves at Copacabana beach, and Sugar loaf behind

68. Statue of Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond de Andrade, with a mask at Copacabana beach, and Sugar Loaf behind

69. Statue of Princess Isabel of Brazil with a mask

70. Statue of Brazilian singer, Cartola, with a mask at Mangueira favela

05:24:15

Brazil dead buried.

4266903

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Manaus - 28 April 2020

71. Cemetery workers carrying a coffin wrapped with plastic

72. Relatives of a suspected COVID-19 victim attending a short ceremony at the cemetery

73. Drone images of crosses on the graves and relatives attending a burial ++MUTE++

05:47:20

UK PM gives first briefing after COVID recovery

4267189

UK POOL

London - 30 April 2020

74. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister:

" And I want to thank the NHS for so much, including getting me back here and I might add, for a much happier hospital visit yesterday.

05:58:22

US shipment with 211 ventilators arrives in Mexico

4267931

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Toluca International Airport - 5 May 2020

75. FEDEX flight, taxiing on runway

76. Various of ventilators being unloaded from the plane

06:10:11

ONLYONAP Ukraine medics forced to improvise PPE

4268648

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chernivtsi - 4 May 2020

77. Various of health workers treating patient in an Intensive Care Unit for COVID-19 using improvised oxygen machine made from snorkelling mask UPSOUND (Russian):

Pochaiv - 1 May 2020

78. People in special protective suits and fire engines spraying disinfectant on streets

06:21:24

Rio screens movies outside for cooped up citizens

4269172

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rio de Janeiro - 13 May 2020

++NIGHT SHOTS++

79. Institutional video against COVID-19, launched by Rio's City Hall, being projected on a giant screen in the middle of car park for building complex

80. Various of people in the windows of apartments watching a short film projected in a giant screen installed in the middle of car park for building complex

06:33:10

ONLYONAP An exclusive look into a besieged Rio ICU

4269602

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil - 16 May 2020

81. Health workers carrying a woman (COVID-19 patient) on a stretcher, from the ambulance to inside the hospital

82. Various of health workers moving a patient from one stretcher to another

83. Nurses and doctors speaking and checking documents

06:44:22

Kenya nurses dance to boost morale amid pandemic

4269644

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nairobi - 17 May 2020

84. Various of nurses and a Zumba dance instructor dancing

06:56:03

Largest cemetery in Latam growing with virus victims

4270206

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sao Paulo - 20 May 2020

85. Various of aerial shots of "Vila Formosa" Cemetery, the largest in Latin America ++ MUTE++

86. Relatives around the coffin as Daniela dos Santos places a vase with flowers on her mother's coffin

07:07:20

Spanish obliged to wear masks in public spaces

4270254

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Madrid - 21 May 2020

87. People walking down the street wearing masks

88. Young woman without mask sneezing

07:17:00

Peru doctors honour 36 colleagues killed by virus

4271585

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lima - 29 May 2020

89. Exterior of Peru's medical college with photos of medical workers who have died of COVID-19 outside on sticks

90. Photos of medical workers who have died of COVID-19

91. Photos of medical workers who have lost their lives to COVID-19

07:29:24

Opera singer performs from his balcony in Havana

4271961

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Havana - 31 May 2020

92. Pan to opera singer Andrés Sánchez singing "Por ti Volare"

93. Man on balcony applauding

94. Medical staff listening to Sánchez singing "El Rey Leon"

07:44:05

Long queues as shops reopen in the UK

4273993

ASSOCIATED PRESS

London - 15 June, 2020

95. People queuing outside shop

96. Various of people, some wearing masks, queueing outside shops not observing social distancing

97. People trying to push towards shop entrance

07:58:11

UK's Prince William meets ambulance staff

4274249

UK POOL

King's Lynn, Norfolk - 16 June 2020

98. Wide of Prince William arrives at ambulance station

99. William takes his temperature using in-ear thermometer

100. Various of Prince William meeting ambulance staff

08:18:01

Coffin makers struggle to meet demand in Chile

4274705

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Santiago - 18 June 2020

101. Various of man making coffins in Bergut factory

08:32:11

Rio favela musicians play to cope with quarantine

4274922

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rio de Janeiro - 19 June 2020

102. Tilt down from Turano shantytown to musicians playing samba on the terrace of a house

103. Man on balcony clapping

104. Jacqueline de Jesus and her family dancing while watching the concert on a screen via the internet

08:48:05

Prince William visits Oxford vaccine development

4275581

UK POOL

Oxford, U.K. - 24 June 2020

105. Various of Duke of Cambridge meeting patient

106. Various of Duke of Cambridge talking in lab

09:05:17

Clash over virus face masks turns deadly in Kenya

4275928

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lessos, Nandi County - 25 June 2020

107. Armed police facing off with protesters as they protect police station AUDIO: gunfire

108. Police in front of building on fire

109. Protesters in front of barricade on fire

110. Protesters

09:21:04

Fauci: 'We're going in the wrong direction'

4276443

POOL

Washington, DC - 30 June 2020

111. Wide of witnesses seated at table

112. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:

" So I'd have to say the numbers speak for themselves. I'm very concerned, and I'm not satisfied with what's going on because we're going in the wrong direction. If you look at the curves of the new cases, so we've really got to do something about that and we need it would quickly. Short answer to your question is that clearly we are not in total control right now.

00:00:00

Madrid university faculties join forces against virus

4262610

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Madrid - 1 April 2020

1. Nurses from Complutense University medical department taking nasal samples from people

2. Laboratory of veterinary faculty

3. Test tubes

00:11:23

US Navy preps hospital ship for non-virus patients

4262648

US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Los Angeles - 30 March 2020

4. Various, interiors of hospital ship USNS Mercy preparing for patients

00:23:14

Eerie scene in NY as virus looms and city empties

4262668

ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York - 1 April 2020

5. Empty streets in Chinatown, Manhattan

6. Various of empty streets in Downtown Manhattan

00:23:14

Eerie scene in NY as virus looms and city empties

4262668

ASSOCIATED PRESS

New York - 1 April 2020

7. Empty streets in Chinatown, Manhattan

8. Various of empty streets in Downtown Manhattan

00:35:12

ONLYONAP Spanish hospital lab ramps up virus testing

4262690

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Badalona - 1 April 2020

9. Various of technician handling samples to be tested for the virus

00:47:03

Egyptian violinist plays from balcony amid lockdown

4262739

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Cairo - 31 March 2020

10. Man holding phone to record university student Mohamed Aly playing violin from his balcony

11. Aly playing violin from balcony

12. Children clapping

00:58:21

Coffins of virus victims in Barcelona car park

4262814

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Barcelona - 2 April 2020

13. Various of coffins lined up in funeral home parking lot

01:06:18

Seoul Buddhist temple livestreams prayer amid virus

4262914

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Seoul - 3 April 2020

14. Mid of monk reading Buddhist scripture

15. Mid of staff working on online live streaming of service

16. Exterior temple

01:20:09

Drone footage of deserted Athens in lockdown

4262933

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Athens, Greece - 1 April 2020

++MUTE++

17. Tracking drone shot of Monastiraki and Plaka area below Acropolis

18. Tracking shot of Monastiraki Square

19. Tracking shot down usually busy commercial Ermou Street with closed shops

01:32:09

Istanbul engineers using 3D printers to make masks

4262974

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Istanbul - 3 April 2020

20. Mid of 3D printer generating plastic face shield

21. Worker checks progress on one printer

22. Masked workers preparing visors for distribution

01:44:06

More than 600 new graves dug in Ukraine town

4263031

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Dnipro - 2 April 2020

23. Workers digging graves

24. Cemetery

25. Excavator

01:55:07

India villages erect barricades to keep visitors out

4263203

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Siroli, Uttar Pradesh - 4 April 2020

26. Person walking through barricade put up by villagers

Jammu - 4 April 2020

27. Various of villagers manning barbed wire barricade

02:06:11

Palm Sunday: monks throw palms to faithful

4263210

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jerusalem - 5 April 2020

28. Mid of man throwing olive branch to Christian on balcony

29. Close of man praying outside closed Church of Holy Sepulchre

02:19:15

Venice canals empty amid virus lockdown

4263338

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Venice, Italy - 6 April 2020

30. Workers disinfecting streets and bridges

31. Wide pan of empty St. Mark's Square

32. Wide of empty Grand Canal

02:32:22

Trump-touted virus treatment lacks evidence

4263470

US DEFENSE DEPT, ASSOCIATED PRESS

US DEFENSE DEPARTMENT

New York - 5 April 2020

33. Military medical personnel caring for coronavirus patient at New York City Javits Center

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Las Vegas - 6 April 2020

34. Still - Hydroxychloroquine pills

New Orleans, Louisiana - 2 April 2020

35. Two Tulane University School of Medicine employees processing coronavirus tests in the school's molecular pathology lab

02:43:17

Colombian Army hands food during virus lockdown

4263800

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Southern Bogota - 8 April 2020

36. Truck of the Colombian Army, driving on highway on a hill

37. Soldiers walking uphill in a country road, carrying bags of food.

38. Soldiers walking uphill in unpaved road

02:55:01

Flamenco prayers sung from balcony despite pandemic

4264063

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Aguilar de la Frontera, Cordoba- 9 April 2020

39. Various of people clapping from their balconies and simulating the holy procession

40. Singer "El Peluso" singing a 'Saeta' (the "flamenco" prayer song)

03:07:10

Masks, gloves for bride and groom in Rome wedding

4264264

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rome - 11 April 2020

41. Bride Tatiana Datolla and groom Armando De Rosa slide down their masks to kiss

42. Bride giving documents to police

43. Rows of empty chairs

03:19:13

Rome priest holds Easter mass on roof of church

4264342

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rome - 12 April 2020

44. Families following Mass from windows and balconies

45. Women listening to Mass from balconies

46. Drone AERIAL of Mass on the roof

03:28:08

Nigeria faithful attend Easter Mass by video

4264356

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lagos, Nigeria - 12 April 2020

47. Various shots of Easter Mass inside nearly empty Holy Cross Cathedral, Lagos

48. Family watching live telecast at home on television set

03:39:18

Portugal priest takes church on the road

4264373

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Oeiras - 12 April 2020

49. Pan from Father Nuno Westwood on top of car speaking, UPSOUND (Portuguese) "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, a Holy Easter to all", to building

50. Westwood holding a cross and blessing people from a distance UPSOUND (Portuguese) "May you all be blessed in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. A Holy Easter to all. Long live Jesus."

03:53:02

Trump argues he has 'total' authority over shutdown

4264574

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington DC - 13 April 2020

51. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:

(Responding to question on state authority to decide when to 'reopen' after lockdown conditions)

"The president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do, which is very powerful. The president of the United States calls the shots."

04:03:17

Colombia scientists develop low cost ventilators

4264780

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Bogota - 14 April 2020

52. Top shot of mechanical engineers inside work areas testing ventilator prototype for COVID-19 patients

53. Mechanical engineer testing air ventilator prototype

04:13:09

G7 leaders meet via video conference

4264951

ASSOCIATED PRESS VIA AGENCY POOL (REUTERS)

AP via AGENCY POOL (Reuters)

Paris - 16 April 2020

54. Various of French President Emmanuel Macron and ministers joining G7 video teleconference from Elysee Palace

04:25:04

Rio accelerates cemetery expansion amid virus

4265598

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rio de Janeiro - 20 April 2020

55. Graves and crosses at Caju Cemetery and burial niches in construction behind

56. Workers building the niches

57. Man working inside a niche

04:36:09

ONLY ON AP: NY emergency room battles COVID-19

4265818

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Yonkers, New York - 20 April 2020

++AP PHOTOGRAPHER GRANTED ACCESS TO SHOOT THROUGH CURTAIN++

58. ER nurses and doctors working to resuscitate a COVID-19 victim UPSOUND: "Pull the curtain, please. Pull the curtain."

59. Defibrillator being used to bring COVID-19 patient back UPSOUND: "Move! Everybody move!"

04:47:14

Queue at Paris suburb foodbank as lockdown goes on

4265913

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Clichy-sous-Bois, outside Paris, France - 22 April 2020

60. Various of people queuing for food distribution

61. Food distribution

04:58:16

Cruise ship 37 days at sea finally docks in Genoa

4265956

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Genoa, Italy - 22 April 2020

62. Costa Deliziosa entering port

63. Passengers on deck

64. Ship's name on hull

05:11:08

General Motors workers step up to make masks

4266142

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Warren, Michigan - 23 April 2020

65. Various of workers making masks at GM's Warren Transmission plant

66. Workers producing masks

05:22:20

Statues in Brazil wear face masks amid pandemic

4266199

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rio de Janeiro - 23 April 2020

67. Singer Dorival Caymmi statue with a mask and gloves at Copacabana beach, and Sugar loaf behind

68. Statue of Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond de Andrade, with a mask at Copacabana beach, and Sugar Loaf behind

69. Statue of Princess Isabel of Brazil with a mask

70. Statue of Brazilian singer, Cartola, with a mask at Mangueira favela

05:24:15

Brazil dead buried.

4266903

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Manaus - 28 April 2020

71. Cemetery workers carrying a coffin wrapped with plastic

72. Relatives of a suspected COVID-19 victim attending a short ceremony at the cemetery

73. Drone images of crosses on the graves and relatives attending a burial ++MUTE++

05:47:20

UK PM gives first briefing after COVID recovery

4267189

UK POOL

London - 30 April 2020

74. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Johnson, UK Prime Minister:

" And I want to thank the NHS for so much, including getting me back here and I might add, for a much happier hospital visit yesterday.

05:58:22

US shipment with 211 ventilators arrives in Mexico

4267931

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Toluca International Airport - 5 May 2020

75. FEDEX flight, taxiing on runway

76. Various of ventilators being unloaded from the plane

06:10:11

ONLYONAP Ukraine medics forced to improvise PPE

4268648

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chernivtsi - 4 May 2020

77. Various of health workers treating patient in an Intensive Care Unit for COVID-19 using improvised oxygen machine made from snorkelling mask UPSOUND (Russian):

Pochaiv - 1 May 2020

78. People in special protective suits and fire engines spraying disinfectant on streets

06:21:24

Rio screens movies outside for cooped up citizens

4269172

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rio de Janeiro - 13 May 2020

++NIGHT SHOTS++

79. Institutional video against COVID-19, launched by Rio's City Hall, being projected on a giant screen in the middle of car park for building complex

80. Various of people in the windows of apartments watching a short film projected in a giant screen installed in the middle of car park for building complex

06:33:10

ONLYONAP An exclusive look into a besieged Rio ICU

4269602

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil - 16 May 2020

81. Health workers carrying a woman (COVID-19 patient) on a stretcher, from the ambulance to inside the hospital

82. Various of health workers moving a patient from one stretcher to another

83. Nurses and doctors speaking and checking documents

06:44:22

Kenya nurses dance to boost morale amid pandemic

4269644

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nairobi - 17 May 2020

84. Various of nurses and a Zumba dance instructor dancing

06:56:03

Largest cemetery in Latam growing with virus victims

4270206

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sao Paulo - 20 May 2020

85. Various of aerial shots of "Vila Formosa" Cemetery, the largest in Latin America ++ MUTE++

86. Relatives around the coffin as Daniela dos Santos places a vase with flowers on her mother's coffin

07:07:20

Spanish obliged to wear masks in public spaces

4270254

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Madrid - 21 May 2020

87. People walking down the street wearing masks

88. Young woman without mask sneezing

07:17:00

Peru doctors honour 36 colleagues killed by virus

4271585

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lima - 29 May 2020

89. Exterior of Peru's medical college with photos of medical workers who have died of COVID-19 outside on sticks

90. Photos of medical workers who have died of COVID-19

91. Photos of medical workers who have lost their lives to COVID-19

07:29:24

Opera singer performs from his balcony in Havana

4271961

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Havana - 31 May 2020

92. Pan to opera singer Andrés Sánchez singing "Por ti Volare"

93. Man on balcony applauding

94. Medical staff listening to Sánchez singing "El Rey Leon"

07:44:05

Long queues as shops reopen in the UK

4273993

ASSOCIATED PRESS

London - 15 June, 2020

95. People queuing outside shop

96. Various of people, some wearing masks, queueing outside shops not observing social distancing

97. People trying to push towards shop entrance

07:58:11

UK's Prince William meets ambulance staff

4274249

UK POOL

King's Lynn, Norfolk - 16 June 2020

98. Wide of Prince William arrives at ambulance station

99. William takes his temperature using in-ear thermometer

100. Various of Prince William meeting ambulance staff

08:18:01

Coffin makers struggle to meet demand in Chile

4274705

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Santiago - 18 June 2020

101. Various of man making coffins in Bergut factory

08:32:11

Rio favela musicians play to cope with quarantine

4274922

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Rio de Janeiro - 19 June 2020

102. Tilt down from Turano shantytown to musicians playing samba on the terrace of a house

103. Man on balcony clapping

104. Jacqueline de Jesus and her family dancing while watching the concert on a screen via the internet

08:48:05

Prince William visits Oxford vaccine development

4275581

UK POOL

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106. Various of Duke of Cambridge talking in lab

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Clash over virus face masks turns deadly in Kenya

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Lessos, Nandi County - 25 June 2020

107. Armed police facing off with protesters as they protect police station AUDIO: gunfire

108. Police in front of building on fire

109. Protesters in front of barricade on fire

110. Protesters

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Fauci: 'We're going in the wrong direction'

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Washington, DC - 30 June 2020

111. Wide of witnesses seated at table

112. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases:

" So I'd have to say the numbers speak for themselves. I'm very concerned, and I'm not satisfied with what's going on because we're going in the wrong direction. If you look at the curves of the new cases, so we've really got to do something about that and we need it would quickly. Short answer to your question is that clearly we are not in total control right now.

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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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Washington DC - 10 Jan 2007

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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++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

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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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Baghdad - 18 April 2007

SADRIYAH - AT LEAST 112 KILLED

1. Thick plumes of smoke rising from scene of blast

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

SADR CITY - AT LEAST 30 KILLED

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

5. Crowd attempting to move wrecked car

6. Fire-fighters alongside cars, spraying water

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Baghdad - 19 April 2007

Sadriyah - Baghdad

7. Wide pan of burnt out minibuses

10:03:44

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Baghdad - 1 May 2007/File

AP PHOTO: (made available by US military)

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

++AP TELEVISION HAS NO MEANS OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT OF THE VIDEO BEING PLAYED TO REPORTERS AT THE NEWS CONFERENCE++

AP Television

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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Baghdad, 3 May 2007/File

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

10:04:42

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

4. Wide of smoke rising over mountains surrounding village ++MUTE++

5. Wide village ++MUTE++

10:04:56

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

ISRAEL / PALESTINE

10:05:27

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

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Jebaliya, 4 Jan 2007

++NIGHT SHOTS++

1. Ambulance arriving with body of Colonel Mohammed Ghayeb

2. Close up of Ghayeb's face

10:05:36

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

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Nablus - 28 Jan 2007

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

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

3. Gunmen putting Hamas official in vehicle outside

10:05:56

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

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

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Gaza City - 3 Feb 2007

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

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

10:06:10

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

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

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AP TELEVISION

Jerusalem - 6 Feb 2007

1. Wide of Old City and Al-Aqsa mosque

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AP TELEVISION

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

++PLEASE NOTE: VIDEO QUALITY AS INCOMING++

2. Medium of demo outside Shawa building

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

10:07:59

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

No one claimed responsibility

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Gaza City - File

FILE: Gaza City - 3 November 2006

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

10:08:06

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

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

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

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

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

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

Security forces later said they lost control of the town.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Gaza - 14 June 2007

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

2. Wide of skyline/ UPSOUND: Gunfire

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Gaza City - 13 May 2007

3. Two women crying

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

5. People grieving around body

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

Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip

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

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

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

Gaza City's Shojaiyeh District, Gaza Strip

9. UPSOUND: gunfire, people scatter

Gaza City, near the Egyptian Representation Office, Gaza Strip

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

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

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

Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 15 June 2007

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

Ramallah, West Bank - 15 June 2007

13. Close-up on Palestinian flag

14. Mid of Abbas at Friday Prayers

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Nablus, West Bank - 13 June 2007

15. Gunfire exchanged with Al Aqsa Brigades gunmen

16. Mid of gunmen

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Khan Younis - 13 June 2007

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

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Rafah, Gaza Strip -14 June 2007

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

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

20. Masked Hamas gunmen carrying away computers from scene

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Gaza city, Gaza Strip - 15 June 2007

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

22. Close-up of masked fighter

10:10:15

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They placed Fatah and Palestinian flags on the building.

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

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Nablus, West Bank - 14 June 2007

1. Fatah gunman gathering in city centre

2. Mid of gunman aiming weapon

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

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

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Nablus - 16 June 2007

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

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

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

8. Zoom in to more gunmen on rooftop

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Ramallah, West Bank - 16 June 2007

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

10. Various of Fatah gunmen approaching another building

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

10:11:22

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

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

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

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

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

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

10:12:03

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hamas said its rockets were retaliation for Israeli violence.

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

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

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

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Gaza City - 20 June 2007

Jebaliyah refugee camp

1. Hamas supporters burning Israeli flags

Gaza City

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

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3. Rocket being launched

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Sderot, Israel - 15/16 May 2007

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

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

6. Various of damaged house

7. Various of damaged furniture and household items

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Gaza City - 17 May 2007

8. Wide of smoke rising over Gaza skyline

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

10. Top shot of rubble and rescuers

11. Body being carried out on stretcher

10:13:14

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

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

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

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

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Gaza City - 4 July 2007

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

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Gaza City - 4 July 2007

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

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Jerusalem - 4 July 2007

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

10:13:40

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

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

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

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

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Ramleh, near Tel Aviv - 9 September 2007

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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

Tel Aviv - Recent

Police Handout

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

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

8. Cell members beating man

9. STILL of man giving Nazi salute

10. Various of cell members beating up a man

10:14:08

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

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Jerusalem - 28 Sep 2007

Mount of Olives, Jerusalem

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

2. Wide of mourners marching in funeral

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

4. Mid of man crying

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

LEBANON

10:14:34

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

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Beirut - 23 Jan 2007

++PRE DAWN SHOTS++

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

2. Wide shot of protesters and tyres on fire

3. Wide shot of military vehicles arriving at the scene

4. Strikers protesting

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Beirut - 23 Jan 2007

5. Lebanese army arresting a protestor

6. Various of clashes in the street

7. Lebanese army shooting in the air

10:15:17

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

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

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Beirut, 30 Jan 2007

1. Wide shot of building with Nasrallah speaking from balcony

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

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

3. Crowd of women chanting

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

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

10:15:47

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About 1-thousand fled on Wednesday morning.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dozens of people have been killed since then.

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

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

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Tripoli - 20 May 2007

1. Tanks and soldiers in the streets of residential area

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

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

Tripoli

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

4. Soldier firing at building

Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp

5. Tank firing missile on target inside refugee camp

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Nr Nahr El-Bared - 21 May 2007

6. Wide of Tripoli skyline, building explodes

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

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Nahr El-Bared - 21 May 2007

8. Wide of skyline with smoke rising

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Near Nahr el-Bared, Lebanon - 22 May 2007

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

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Nahr el-Bared - 23 May 2007

10. Various of refugees leaving camp

11. Refugees getting out of red truck

12. Refugees in red truck

13. Various of damaged buildings inside camp

14. Pan across destroyed vehicle

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Nahr el-Bared - 2 June 2007

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

16. Lebanese army helicopter flying over camp

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Nahr el-Bared - 1 June 2007

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

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Nahr el-Bared Palestinian refugee camp - 13 June 2007

18. Various of shelling at camp

19. Various of shelling

10:17:57

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Nahr El-Bared - 5 July 2007

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

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Nahr el-Bared - 12 July 2007

2. Sparks flying from explosion AUDIO gunfire

3. Various of explosions and sparks flying AUDIO gunfire

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Nahr el-Bared - 12 July 2007

4. Tanks and armoured vehicles UPSOUND: Gunfire

5. Various of tanks and army vehicles moving into position

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Nahr el-Bared - 14 July 2007

6. Lebanese army Jeep coming out of the camp

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

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

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La Celle Saint-Cloud - 14 July 2007

9. Pan of delegates sitting at round table

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Nahr El-Bared - 15 July 2007

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

11. Lebanese army soldiers patrolling inside camp

12. Wide of explosion, sending debris into the air

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Nahr El-Bared - 17 July 2007

++NIGHT SHOTS++

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

14. Flashing light from explosion inside camp UPSOUND: explosions

++DAY SHOTS++

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

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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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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

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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

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Islamabad - 4 July 2007

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Islamabad - 6 July 2007

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