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AP-APTN-1130: Americas Iran Reax Monday, 22 June 2009 STORY:Americas Iran Reax- REPLAY Analyst, Chavez on Iran; protest at White House LENGTH: 02:48 FIRST RUN: 0230 RESTRICTIONS: Part no Access NAmerica/Internet TYPE: Eng/Nats SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/VTV/ABC STORY NUMBER: 610400 DATELINE: Various - 21 June 2009 LENGTH: 02:48 SHOTLIST: (FIRST RUN 0230 NEWS UPDATE - 22 JUNE 2009) ABC - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA / INTERNET Washington DC - 21 June 2009 1. Wide of protesters in front of White House, zoom in on Iranian flag held by demonstrator, pull out to wide of protest and man holding sign 2. Police standing in front of protesters 3. Mid of protesters holding flags and signs 4. Pan of protesters holding signs 5. Protesters holding large Iranian flag 6. Pan of protesters chanting in front of White House UPSOUND (English) "Human rights for Iran!" 7. Wide of protesters in front of White House 8. Aerial of protest (FIRST RUN 1930 ASIA PRIME NEWS - 21 JUNE 2009) AP TELEVISION - AP Clients Only Vienna, Virginia, US 9. Professor of Sociology and Iran Studies at Strayer University, Rasool Nafisi walking into home 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rasool Nafisi, Professor of Sociology and Iran Studies at Strayer University : "His assertions, the statements, are quite useful because if you go one way too far Iranians accuse you of interfering with their affairs. And also, the opposition may think we are coming to help them one way or another, that in reality, we are not." 11. Mid of Rasool Nafisi 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rasool Nafisi, Professor of Sociology and Iran Studies at Strayer University : "Mousavi, to me, is an accidental hero. And, he really doesn't have the credentials to be the leader for the Reformists or for the opposition because even up to the election, Iranian intellectuals and political leaders did not support him except one or two like (former President Mohammad) Khatami." 13. Wide of Rasool Nafisi (FIRST RUN 2130 NEWS UPDATE - 21 JUNE 2009) VTV - AP Clients Only Zulia State, Venezuela 14. Wide pan across audience 15. Mid pan right of audience listening to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez 16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela: "We ask the world to respect Iran. They are trying undermine the strength of the Iranian revolution. We ask for the world's respect. (Iranian President )Ahmadinejad's triumph has been a fair triumph. They are trying to muddy Ahmadinejad's triumph. And with that, weaken the Iranian government and the Islamic revolution. I know that they are not going to achieve that. From here, we offer our solidarity to our Iranian brothers." 17. Audience members applauding STORYLINE : Scores of protesters gathered in front of the White House on Sunday to show their support for demonstrations in Iran which followed the bitterly disputed presidential election on June 12. Protesters carrying signs and wearing the green of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi walked up Pennsylvania Avenue coming to a stop in front of the White House. As the demonstrations, particularly in the Iranian capital of Tehran, have continued and the death toll among protesters approaches 20, US President Barack Obama has been stiffening his response while trying to avoid giving Iran's theocratic leadership the opportunity to blame the US for the unrest that has swept the country since the vote. Iran's incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the victory by an overwhelming margin, but the speed with which the outcome was announced and Ahmadinejad's victory in areas where he was at a clear disadvantage have caused outrage among backers of challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi. Obama has come under pressure from Republicans to take a stronger stance. Obama's defenders, however, say his measured response speaks up for human rights while preserving US options and lessening the chance that he becomes a scapegoat for the cleric-led government, which has blamed the West for stirring up street protests that turned into bloody clashes with police and militia. Obama has tried to hold a middle ground as the crisis unfolds, and found the ground shifting by the day. His advisers say any thunderous denunciation of Iran's rulers would invite them to cry interference and might worsen the violence instead of end it. Professor of Sociology and Iran Studies at Strayer University, Rasool Nafisi said Obama's statements on Iran were well judged. But he called election challenger Mousavi "an accidental hero". "He really doesn't have the credentials to be the leader for the Reformists or for the opposition because even up to the election, Iranian intellectuals and political leaders did not support him except one or two like (former President Mohammad) Khatami." By contrast, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday offered words of support for Ahmadinejad and urged the international community to "respect Iran". Speaking on state television on his own show, "Alo Presidente", Chavez accused the world of trying to "undermine the strength of the Iranian revolution" and said that Ahmadinejad's victory in the election had been "a fair triumph". Meanwhile, Iran's government said on Sunday it arrested the daughter and four other relatives of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the country's most powerful men, in a move that exposed a rift among the ruling Islamic clerics over the disputed presidential election. State media said they were later released but their arrests appeared to be a clear warning from the hard-line establishment to a cleric who may be aligning himself with the opposition. 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APTN APEX 06-22-09 0729EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1130: Pakistan Attack Monday, 22 June 2009 STORY:Pakistan Attack- REPLAY Aftermath of airstrike that killed 21 after clashes on Sunday in Makeen LENGTH: 02:16 FIRST RUN: 0830 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Pashto/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 610419 DATELINE: Makeen, South Waziristan - 21 June 2009 LENGTH: 02:16 SHOTLIST 1. Wide pull out of valley 2. Pan across damage to shops in Makeen bazaar 3. Mid of men standing outside damaged buildings in Makeen bazaar 4. Various of damaged school building, debris littered across ground 5. A man walking up bank of crater 6. Mid of damaged building with collapsed roof 7. Close-up of debris on ground 8. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Tariq Khan, Makeen resident: "The whole world can see that today fighter jets dropped four to five bombs on this school. In the whole area we have only one school, children come from far away to study here. It was the only institution which was destroyed today." 9. Man inside classroom showing damage from explosion 10. Close of photos on wall in headmaster's office 11. Damaged chairs 12. Pull out of people walking through damaged shops at Makeen bazaar 13. Mid of damaged timber market 14. Various of damaged market 15. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Binyamen, Makeen resident: "Two bombs were dropped on this area. Here, poor men have businesses. The bombs were dropped here near the market. Poor people have had their businesses destroyed today. Due to this bombing we have lost our means of getting bread and butter." 16. Wide of damaged market STORYLINE Pakistan's army offensive in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan intensified on Monday, with militants attacking three security force bases and military jets responding with airstrikes that killed at least 21 people across the region, intelligence officials said. The overnight and early morning clashes followed artillery attacks on Sunday on suspected militant hide-outs in two towns in the northwest that killed 27 fighters, officials said. Local residents in the village of Makeen in South Waziristan, Pakistan, said on Monday the Pakistani military dropped bombs on a school and market. It was unclear if anyone was killed or wounded in the village of Makeen specifically. Tariq Khan, a resident of Makeen, located some 35 kilometres (22 miles) north of Wana, said "fighter jets dropped four to five bombs" on the only school in the area. "Children come from far away to study here. It was the only institution which was destroyed today," Khan said. Video shot at the scene also showed damage to Makeen bazaar and a timber market. Binyamen, another Makeen resident, said two bombs were dropped on the area near the market. Makeen was one of six villages reportedly targeted by security forces with artillery and air strikes against militant targets, including a suspected training camp where eight people were killed. The strikes were in response in to a militant attack on three military bases overnight in South and North Waziristan, according to five intelligence officials speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to talk with media. Their reports could not be confirmed due to lack of media access to the conflict zones, and official military spokesmen could not be reached for comment. While most of the dead appeared to be militants, three women and three children died when the house of a local tribal leader was hit in the Razmak area, one official said. The government announced last week that the military would go after Pakistan's Taliban commander, Baitullah Mehsud, in the South Waziristan tribal area. The area of Makeen, some 30 kilometres (19 miles) north of the area's main town of Wana is believed to be the base of Baitullah Mehsud, according to Pakistani intelligence. Baitullah Mehsud's stronghold is a chunk of the remote and rugged mountainous region where heavily armed tribesmen hold sway and al-Qaida and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding. Washington supports anti-militant operations in the region, seeing them as a measure of nuclear-armed Pakistan's resolve in taking on a growing insurgency. The battle in the tribal region could also help the war in Afghanistan because the area has been used by militants to launch cross-border attacks on US and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) troops. The Pakistani military is trying to avoid civilian casualties, worried about public backlash at a time when support for a crackdown on extremism has been gathering strength in anger over suicide bombings and other attacks. President Asif Ali Zardari claimed on Sunday that the entire country backs the battle against the extremists, citing the support as a key to the military's success so far. But there are fears public support for the army offensive could erode if the government is perceived to have failed more than two (m) million people displaced by the fighting. The first refugees are expected to start going home at the end of the week, the government said. 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APTN APEX 06-22-09 0730EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1130: Afghan Blast Monday, 22 June 2009 STORY:Afghan Blast- REPLAY Explosion at weapons cache kills 6-yr-old boy, wounds 20 LENGTH: 01:40 FIRST RUN: 0730 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Pashto/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 610414 DATELINE: Jalalbad - 22 June 2009 LENGTH: 01:40 SHOTLIST 1. Wide of soldier guarding Afghan military base where explosion took place 2. Mid of Afghan military tanks and personnel at base 3. Low-angle shot of crater at bottom of hill, building and soldiers standing guard in background 4. Mid of damaged building 5. Crater from blast 6. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) General Nasir Ahmed Ziaye, Chief of the Afghan Southern Army: "At around 5:00 a.m. (0030 GMT) an explosion happened, we are still investigating the circumstances surrounds this explosion. Two of our soldiers were wounded and according to some of the information some locals were wounded as well." 7. Wide exterior of hospital 8. Various of wounded in hospital ward 9. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Mahmoud Asilin, Doctor: "We have admitted 19 wounded, 10 of them received first aid and we discharged them. Nine of them need operations and three of them are in critical condition." 10. Young child lying on bed, heavily bandaged, believed to be the 6-year-old boy who later died from injuries 11. Wide of hospital ward STORYLINE An explosion in a weapons cache at a military base in eastern Afghanistan killed a six-year-old boy and wounded 20 others, police said. Two soldiers who guarded the cache were among the wounded. A number of residential homes in small village are located on the military base. The caves where the weapons were stored were about 100 yards (meters) away from a village, and the blast shot some shells or other items into the residential area, police said. It was unclear what sparked the chain reaction of explosions in caves used to store weapons and other material collected from insurgents on the outskirts of Jalalabad city, said police. General Nasir Ahmed Ziaye, Chief of the Afghan Southern Army said a number of people were wounded in the blast, but he did not give specific numbers. Doctor Mahmoud Asilin said 19 people were admitted with wounds, and 10 were discharged after being treated "Nine of them need operations and three of them are in critical condition," he said. The discrepancy in the number of wounded could not be immediately verified. Police said they are still investigating the incident and said it is possible that the explosives ignited on their own. 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APTN APEX 06-22-09 0731EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1130: Afghan Combat Monday, 22 June 2009 STORY:Afghan Combat- REPLAY US marines engage Taliban fighters in close combat in southern Afghanistan LENGTH: 03:53 FIRST RUN: 0330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 610388 DATELINE: Now Zad, Helmand Province - 20 June 2009 LENGTH: 03:53 ++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE THIS MATERIAL WAS SHOT BY AN ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEVISION NEWS CAMERAMAN EMBEDDED WITH THE US MILITARY++ ++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE MATERIAL INCLUDES SOME EXPLETIVES FROM US MARINES IN COMBAT++ SHOTLIST: 1. Tracking wide of US Marine running and taking up position 2. Mid of US Marine taking up position 3. Close up of US Marine gun and in the background US Marine taking up position at the corner of a house 4. Wide of US Marines entering Taliban area using metal detector to avoid mines and improvised explosives devices 5. Tracking shot of US Marines receiving Taliban gunfire 6. US Marine shooting to provide cover so other US Marines can cross alley into which Taliban are shooting 7. Tilt up of US Marine shooting to provide cover for other US Marines 8. Pan right from US Marines shooting to US Marines running across alley 9. US Marines taking cover from big explosion to make a hole in a wall 10. US Marine crossing alley and shooting 11. US Marine going through hole created by explosion 12 Tracking shot of US marine crossing alley 13. Wide of US marine looking watching explosion created to a compound in which Taliban are taking up positions 14. Mid of smoke after the explosion 15. Mid of US Marine aiming his gun over burning fields 16. Close up up US Marine's eyes through goggles 17. US Marine's boots with fire in background 18. US Abraham vehicle entering area with fire 19. Tracking shot of US Marines advancing with field on fire on the background. 20. Wide of US Marines walking behind troop carrier vehicle 21. Wide of US Marines taking up positions before entering a Taliban compound 22. Mid of US Marines getting ready to enter compound 23. US Marines entering compound 24. US Marine aiming his gun 25. Wide of US Marine taking up position on one knee on charred earth 26. US Marine providing cover at the entrance of Taliban compound with fire in background 27. US Marine on the ground 28. Close up US Marine looking through his gun 29. US Marines taking up positions 30. US Marines walking in Taliban compound 31. US Marines walking around bombed area using detectors to search for mines and booby traps 32. US Marine running and shooting and trying to avoid Taliban fire, UPSOUND (English) "It's right over there. There are opening in the windows. Gunner (marine trapped by Taliban fire), you good? You need to come back over and we're going to cover you...on three. One.. two... three." US Marines start firing and taking fire 33. US Marines trapped by Taliban fire jumps over wall 34. US Marine saying they need to get out 35. Silhouette of US Marine throwing a grenade 36. Wide of grenade exploding 37. Wide US Marine throwing a grenade and explosion 38. Various of US Marines running for cover under Taliban fire 39. Mid of US Marines firing in twilight 40. US Marine trying to help another US Marine injured with broken ankle meanwhile while escaping from Taliban fire STORYLINE Missiles, machine guns and strafing runs from fighter jets were filmed destroying much of a Taliban compound in Now Zad, Helmand province, in Afghanistan on Saturday. Dramatic pictures shot by an AP cameraman embedded with US troops, showed them engaging in a fierce gun and rocket battle, before Dutch fighter jets came in and strafed the area. Saturday's mission was aimed at gathering intelligence and drawing a response from enemy positions close to a street called "Pakistani Alley" because of one-time reports suggesting fighters from across the border had dug in there. US troop vehicles were heading to inspect a suspected tunnel when the Taliban struck, firing mortars that landed close by. Machine gunners atop the vehicles and troops in an open-sided truck scanned the scene for plumes from weapons fire. Hours of exchanges followed, with the Taliban opening fire with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades, machine-gun fire and rockets from the orchards or inside walled compounds. Dutch fighter jets were called in, and dropped laser-guided bombs on a compound, sending clouds of dust mushrooming into the air. The planes then strafed the position, leaving a line of fire and destruction 50 yards (metres) long. Later on Saturday, the compound was attacked by US missiles and US Harrier fighter jets, but the insurgents had a final surprise for a pair of US Marines who pushed into a smouldering building in the compound just before nightfall. The assault capped a day of fighting on Saturday in the poppy fields, orchards and walled compounds of southern Afghanistan, between newly arrived US Marines and well dug-in Taliban fighters. The Marines left their vehicles twice. Each time, they came under attack as they entered maze-like, high-walled compounds with ill-fitting, aging wooden doors and small windows, ideal for sniper positions. In the late afternoon, US forces fired two missiles from 55 miles (90 kilometres) away to hit a compound being used by the attackers. Minutes later, Marine Harrier jets strafed the compound, setting fire to a wheat field outside it but sparing an opium poppy patch - an irony not lost on the troops. After blowing a hole through the wall of the compound, US Marines were met by a hail of bullets as they pressed up an alley. "Gunner, you good? You need to come back over and we're going to cover you," one Marine shouted into the gathering gloom. The two man leapt to safety but one sprained his ankle as he jumped from a wall, but that was the only Marine injury. It was a foretaste of what will likely be a bloody summer as Washington tries to turn around a bogged-down, eight-year-old war with a surge of 21,000 troops. There were no confirmed Taliban casualties, but observers later spotted a funeral, and video images suggested others were killed in the aerial attacks. The fighting was on the outskirts of Now Zad, a town that in many ways symbolises what went wrong in Afghanistan and the enormous challenges facing the United States. It is in Helmand province, a centre of the insurgency and the opium poppy trade that helps fund it. Like much of Afghanistan, Now Zad and the surrounding area were largely peaceful after the 2001 invasion. The United Nations and Western-funded agencies sent staff to build wells and health clinics. But in 2006 - with American attention focused on Iraq - the insurgency stepped up in the south. Almost all the city's 35,000 people fled, along with the aid workers. British and Estonian troops, then garrisoned in Now Zad, were unable to defeat the insurgents. They were replaced last year by a small company of about 300 US Marines, who live in a base in the centre of the deserted town and on two hills overlooking it. The Taliban hold much of the northern outskirts and the orchards beyond, where they have entrenched defensive positions, tunnels and bunkers. The Marines outnumber the Taliban in the area by at least 3-to-1 and have vastly superior weapons but avoid offensive operations because they lack the manpower to hold territory once they take it. There are no Afghan police or troops there to help. Some 10,000 Marines are slowly spreading out in the first wave of the troop surge in Now Zad and other districts in Helmand and Farah provinces. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 06-22-09 0732EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1130: Iraq Blast 3 Monday, 22 June 2009 STORY:Iraq Blast 3- WRAP Violence ahead of US troop pullout deadline, 13 dead, hospital LENGTH: 03:54 FIRST RUN: 1030 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Arabic/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 610425 DATELINE: Baghdad - 22 June 2009 LENGTH: 03:54 SHOTLIST (FIRST RUN 0830 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 22 JUNE 2009) Sadr City, Baghdad 1. Tracking shot of plume of black smoke rising from blast site 2. Damaged minibus and US army vehicle nearby 3. Various of people, including Iraqi soldier, examining minibus 4. Pool of blood inside minibus 5. Various of ripped seat covered in blood 6. Papers and shards of glass covered in blood on car seat 7. Various of school books and student identification cards covered with blood strewn inside minibus 8. Mid of damage caused by blast 9. Close of crater in ground 10. Wide low angle shot of US and Iraqi troops at scene 11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saad Idan, Eyewitness: "What crime have those students committed to die like this? They were just on their way to take their final baccalaureate exams and bomb exploded." 12. Wide of US and Iraqi troops at site ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1030 NEWS UPDATE - 22 JUNE 2009) Karradah neighbourhood, Baghdad 13. Wide of the area where the blast occurred 14. Official convoy driving past site 15. Crater caused by blast 16. Various of damaged minibus 17. Iraqi soldier examining damaged car 18. Onlookers at scene 19. Various of wreckage of car bomb being towed away from blast site 20. Wide exterior of Ibn al-Nafis Teaching Hospital 21. Sign reading: (Arabic) "Ibn al-Nafis Teaching hospital" 22. Wide of injured people in hospital ward 23. Various of injured ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1030 NEWS UPDATE - 22 JUNE 2009) Baghdad's Ur district, Shaab neighbourhood 24. Wide of Iraqi troops at the area where blast occurred 25. Iraqi troops standing by damaged shops and stalls 26. Various of troops walking among damaged shops 27. Close up of fish from market strewn across ground 28. Various of debris among damaged stalls and soldiers 29. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ammar Nadhim, Eyewitness: "What crime have those people committed to die like this? This is a crime. What crime have those women committed to die like this, they were just trying to make a living." 30. Various of people gathered at blast site (FIRST RUN 0530 NEWS UPDATE - 22 JUNE 2009) Abu Dishir neighbourhood, Baghdad 31. Wide exterior of al-Ghadeer cafe where the blast occurred 32. Mid exterior, sign reading: (Arabic) "Al-Ghadeer cafe," damage visible 33. Iraqi soldier outside cafe, debris in front of building 34. Various of debris around cafe 35. Various damage to interior of cafe with wrecked furniture and broken glass 36. Iraqi troops at blast site 37. Damaged furniture 38. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Haider Hassan, Eyewitness: "Yesterday night, as we were sitting at home, we heard a big explosion, and we rushed outside. People told us that there was a bombing in Majid Abu al-Haleeb's cafe." 39. Sign reading: (Arabic) "Al-Ghadeer cafe," tilt down to rubble at entrance of cafe STORYLINE Deadly bombings killed at least 13 people in the Baghdad area on Monday as Iraqi officials braced for new violence ahead of a planned withdrawal next week of US troops from major cities and urban areas. The bombings, nearly all in Shiite areas of the capital, came just two days after the year's deadliest attack, a truck bombing that killed at least 75 people in northern Iraq. The escalating violence will put to the test the Shiite-dominated government's ability to provide security around the country without the immediate help of the US troops remaining in Iraq. Starting June 30, most of the 133-thousand US troops left here will be housed in large bases outside the capital and other cities - unable to immediately react unless called on for help. The withdrawal is part of an agreement that will see all US troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011. As the violence intensified, reclusive Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on the Shiite-led government to take whatever steps necessary to protect Iraqis from attacks. But in a statement, the anti-American cleric blamed the violence on the continued presence of US troops in the country and demanded a faster withdrawal. Last August, al-Sadr ordered militiamen loyal to his Mahdi Army to lay down their arms and take up social work. The edict came just after US troops working with Iraqi soldiers routed the militia in its stronghold in Baghdad's Sadr City. Meanwhile, a roadside bomb exploded in Sadr City next to a bus carrying high school students to their final exams on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding 13, including three of the students, police said. The bomb peppered the bus with shrapnel and blood-soaked textbooks covered the floor of the vehicle. In the deadliest bombing on Monday, police said at least five people were killed and 20 were wounded by a car bomb in the Karradah district of the Iraqi capital, on the east side of the Tigris River. It took place on a road leading to a checkpoint that controls access to a bridge into the Green Zone, which houses the Iraqi government and US Embassy. The injured were taken to Ibn al-Nafis Teaching Hospital for treatment. Another roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in a commercial area of eastern Baghdad's Ur district, killing three and wounding 25. In a fourth attack, a man wearing an explosive vest blew himself up at a checkpoint leading to the mayor's offices in Abu Ghraib, a predominantly Sunni district west of Baghdad, although no pictures from the scene are currently available. The suicide bombing killed two people and wounded another five, police said. The police officials all spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorised to release the information. In northern Iraq, rescue crews were searching for at least 12 people still missing in the massive explosion on Saturday near the ethnically tense city of Kirkuk that flattened a Shiite mosque and dozens of mud-brick houses around it. Iraqi police have blamed al-Qaida in Iraq for the attack, saying it was part of an insurgent campaign to destabilise the country and undermine confidence in the government. Another bomb exploded Sunday evening in a cafe in a Shiite enclave in a mainly Sunni area of southern Baghdad, killing at least two civilians and wounding 13, police said. Video filmed at the scene of the blast showed extensive damage to the interior of the cafe and debris on the street outside. Area resident, Haider Hassan, said he was at home with his family on Sunday night when the large explosion nearby drew people out on to the streets. 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APTN APEX 06-22-09 0748EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1130: Portugal Whaling Monday, 22 June 2009 STORY:Portugal Whaling- REPLAY Annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission opens LENGTH: 01:45 FIRST RUN: 1030 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 610428 DATELINE: Funchal, Madeira - 22 June 2009 LENGTH: 01:45 SHOTLIST 1. Wide of Pestana Casino the venue for the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting 2. Various interiors of delegates arriving for IWC meeting 3. Mid of Japanese delegation seated 4. Close-up of "Japan" sign on desk 5. Wide of delegates 6. Norway delegation 7. IWC president and US delegate, Dr. W. Hogarth 8. Wide of traditional Madeira Orchestra playing 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sara Holden, Greenpeace Whale Campaigner: "What I hope comes out of this meeting is a future for the whales. What I think will come out of this meeting is stalemate. My main concern is that the delegates here are simply going to sit on their hands content to talk for another year whilst whales continue to die." 10. Low angle shot of palm trees 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sara Holden, Greenpeace Whale Campaigner: "What we would like to see is the process that has gone on for the last 12 months completely changed so that it has much more focus on whale conservation and addressing the modern threats to whales and forgets about talking about quotas. What I fear will happen is the delegates will just keep on talking and not doing." 12. Wide of Funchal port STORYLINE The annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission opened in Funchal, Madeira, on Monday, where international delegations are set to debate Japan's practice of killing whales for scientific purposes. Japan, Greenland and Iceland are all committed to hunting of whales, even some species feared endangered. They say each country should have a right to certain number of catches or fins for scientific purposes. But Greenpeace whaling campaigner, Sara Holden, feared the session would end in a "stalemate" with no "future for the whales". "My main concern is that the delegates here are simply going to sit on their hands content to talk for another year whilst whales continue to die," Holden said. Holden said the IWC should focus more on whale conservation, and forget discussions about quotas. Australia and New Zealand announced on Thursday a non-lethal whale research expedition to the Antarctic, a direct challenge to Japan's research program that kills up to 1-thousand whales a year. The six-week expedition, to set sail in a New Zealand ship early next year, will prove that whales can be studied without killing them, the two governments said in a joint statement. Japan's whale hunt is allowed under international rules as a scientific program, despite a 1986 ban on commercial whaling. Whale meat not used for study is sold for consumption in Japan, which critics say is the real reason for the hunt. Australia and New Zealand said in the statement they are seeking to reform science management within the International Whaling Commission, and end Japan's "so-called scientific whaling." Militant environmentalists have clashed with Japan's whaling fleet in recent years to obstruct its whale hunt. Earlier this year, activists from the US group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society had violent confrontations with Japanese ships in the Antarctic. In the latest Japanese hunt that ended in April, its fleet killed 679 minke whales and one fin whale over five months, below its stated goals of up to 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales. The international whaling body, the IWC, holds its annual plenary sessions from June 22-26 in Madeira, Portugal. 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APTN APEX 06-22-09 0751EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1130: +Iran Tension Monday, 22 June 2009 STORY:+Iran Tension- WRAP Iranian FM spox on foreign govt and media ADDS Guard Council on elex LENGTH: 03:01 FIRST RUN: 1130 RESTRICTIONS: No Iran/No BBC Persian TV Service/VOA Persian TV TYPE: Farsi/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/IRINN/IRIB STORY NUMBER: 610433 DATELINE: Tehran - 22 June 2009 LENGTH: 03:01 ++PART NO ACCESS IRAN++ ++NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN TV SERVICE/ VOA PERSIAN TV++ ++SCHEDULED NEWS USE ONLY/NO RESALE/NO ARCHIVE++ ++AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately shut down that organisation in Tehran.++ SHOTLIST (FIRST RUN 0830 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 22 JUNE 2009) AP Television - NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN TV SERVICE/ VOA PERSIAN TV ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++ 1. Hasan Qashqavi, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman at podium 2. Cutaway of cameraman 3. Wide of news conference 4. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hasan Qashqavi, Foreign Ministry Spokesman: "We think that the people's glorious turnout and the 85-percent participation of 40 million people in this election is a beautiful diamond that shines from the pinnacle of Iranians' dignity. We will not allow the Western officials and media to turn this diamond into pieces of rock and give it to a bunch of opportunists to break the windows of our home." 5. Wide of news conference 6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hasan Qashqavi, Foreign Ministry Spokesman: "Iran has a high democratic capacity to settle its internal issues. Spread of anarchism and vandalism by western powers and western media is not acceptable to us at all." 7. Wide of Qashqavi at news conference (FIRST RUN 0830 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 22 JUNE 2009) IRINN - NO ACCESS IRAN/BBC PERSIAN TV SERVICE/ VOA PERSIAN TV 8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hasan Qashqavi, Foreign Ministry Spokesman: "We all remember two years ago after two French-African teenagers were killed in France, the amount of violence occurred in Paris and other cities was hundred times more than the violence they claim it's taking place in Tehran, but did BBC write (in its headlines): "France crisis?" the same as they wrote about Iran: "Iran crisis?" Did CNN stop its routine programmes and dedicate 20 hours of its programmes to France's crisis? This is from CNN (Qashqavi holds up paper), this openly teaches people how to hack the websites of Iranian government and foreign ministry, I can give you the English transcript of it, don't you think this is a cyber war directed by a media against an independent government?" 9. Cutaway of media 10. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hasan Qashqavi, Foreign Ministry Spokesman: "They have created a psychological war campaign on BBC and CNN. The situation with BBC Persian and VOA is clear, I have already said their officials are the children of Bahai faith followers, their identities are clear, they are the spiritual children of (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and (Israeli Foreign Minister) Mr. (Avigdor) Lieberman." 11. Wide of news conference ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1130 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 22 JUNE 2009) IRIB - NO ACCESS IRAN/BBC PERSIAN TV SERVICE/ VOA PERSIAN TV 12. IRIB newsreader in studio with screen behind him showing photo of Guardian Council Spokesman, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, UPSOUND (Farsi) Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, Guardian Council Spokesman speaking via telephone interview: "This irregularity (irregularities in 50 constituencies where it is claimed that the number of ballots was higher than the number of eligible voters) is a claim brought up by some candidates and we are following that. However, our preliminary follow-ups show that no major irregularities have taken place and it is better to say that there was no irregularity at all." 13. Wide of IRIB studio with news presenters STORYLINE The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday lashed out Monday at foreign media and Western governments, with ministry spokesman Hasan Qashqavi accusing them of spreading "anarchism and vandalism" in an effort to undermine Iran's government. Iranian cities were the scene of massive protests for the past week with at least 10 more people being killed on Saturday. The killings drove the official death toll up to at least 17 after a week of street demonstrations by protesters who say incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election through fraud. But searing images and witness accounts posted online, hinted the true toll may be higher. Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi on Sunday night vowed to keep up pressure in bold defiance of an order by the country's supreme leader, but it was unclear on Monday whether protesters would dare to continue massive demonstrations after the bloody crackdown by security over the weekend. Mousavi's website on Monday called for supporters to turn on their car lights in the late afternoon as a sign of protest, a somewhat muted response compared with the recent enormous gatherings. The move comes as Iran's most powerful security force threatened on Monday to crush any further opposition protests over the disputed presidential election, warning demonstrators to prepare for a "revolutionary confrontation" if they take to the streets again. It was the sternest warning yet from Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard. Police said 457 people were arrested on Monday alone, without saying how many have been arrested throughout the week of turmoil. Journalists for foreign media have been put under tight restrictions and assessing the extent of the protests and violence is difficult. Police and the feared pro-government Basij militia swarmed the streets of Tehran for the past few days to prevent more protests and the government intensified a crackdown on independent media, expelling a BBC correspondent, suspending the Dubai-based network Al-Arabiya and detaining at least two local journalists for US magazines. Authorities allow only telephone interviews and information from officials sources such as state television. Many websites have been blocked. Iran is particularly sensitive about news reports, blogs and Internet reports in Farsi. "We will not allow the Western officials and media to turn this diamond (the massive voter turnout for the June 12 election) into pieces of rock and give it to a bunch of opportunists to break the windows of our home," Qashqavi told the media on Monday. He also accused the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and US news broadcaster CNN of triggering a "cyber war...against an independent government." Qashqavi also said CNN was trying to teach its online audience how to "hack the websites of Iranian government and foreign ministry." Iran's English-language state television said an exile group known as the People's Mujahedeen had a hand in the street violence and broadcast what it said were confessions of British-controlled agents in an indication that the government was ready to crack down even harder. Iranian authorities have arrested at least 24 journalists and bloggers since post-election protests began, and a media watchdog says reporters are a "priority target" for Iran's leadership. During the past few days the government has blocked websites such as social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter as well as BBC Farsi and several pro-reform sites that are conduits for Iranians to tell the world about protests and violence. Meanwhile, the Guardian Council, which agreed last week to investigate some voting complaints, said on Monday that irregularities were found in 50 constituencies, but that this has no effect on Ahmadinejad's win. Council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei told state broadcaster, IRIB that "preliminary follow-ups show that no major irregularities have taken place." The acknowledgment of the irregularities was unlikely to mollify the opposition, who allege massive and systematic fraud. Former reformist President Mohammad Khatami threw his support behind the protesters on Monday, issuing a statement saying that "protest in a civil manner and avoiding disturbances in the definite right of the people and all must respect that." Khatami's statement also said that "taking complaints to bodies that are required to protect people's rights, but are themselves subject to criticism, is not a solution," in an obvious reference to the the Guardian Council's dismissal of the opposition's complaints. 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APTN APEX 06-22-09 0824EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1130: UK Zimbabwe Monday, 22 June 2009 STORY:UK Zimbabwe- REPLAY Zimbabwean PM Tsvangirai meets Brown, presser LENGTH: 03:40 FIRST RUN: 1030 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: UK POOL STORY NUMBER: 610420 DATELINE: London - 22 June 2009 LENGTH: 03:40 SHOTLIST 1. Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai walking into room for news conference pull out to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, two arrive at podium, and Brown starts speaking: (no cutaway) 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister: "Can I say first of all what a pleasure it is to welcome the Prime Minister to London this morning. Zimbabwe and its people have suffered a great deal over the last decade. There has been massive abuse of basic freedoms and rights; there has been widespread corruption; there's been a fundamental mismanagement of the economy - and we know that this must change, and today Prime Minister Tsvangirai, you and the reformers in your interim government, represent hope for the people of Zimbabwe. I'm glad to be standing together with you in Downing Street today - the first time that British and Zimbabwean prime ministers have done so for 25 years, and I pay tribute today to your courage, your determination, your strength of character, and your fortitude amidst tragedy. Let this meeting be a sign of our shared desire for change, and of our shared commitment to delivering it." 3. Cutaway wide Brown and Tsvangirai 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister: "We will work with you to deliver progress across the board, including steps on economic reform, such as implementation of the IMF recommendations and reform of the central bank; genuine progress on human rights; freedom of the media and the repeal of repressive legislation, and our support for reform in Zimbabwe does not mean we will turn a blind eye to human rights abuses, corruption and bad governance. We will continue to speak up for those who are intimidated, threatened and exploited. Political and constitutional reform is central to this agenda, and like you we want to see a new constitution within 18 months, and fresh elections as soon as possible after that. And of course an immediate stop to land seizures, which do nothing for the economic stability of the country." 5. Cutaway wide Brown and Tsvangirai 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean Prime Minister: "I am conscious of the shortcomings in the fulfilment of the benchmarks we have set for ourselves in terms of the global political agreement, but I can assure you that we will be working very hard to ensure that those conditions are fulfilled. I know that the world is anxious to see signs of progress, especially the fulfilment of the global political agreement, and I am in total agreement with the issues that you are raising. I want to take the opportunity to say that I'll be the last person to condone an action that has recently taken place in which women who were demonstrating were harassed, and I condemn that. I don't want to see Zimbabweans harassed, we want to see Zimbabwe enjoy their freedom and opportunity, and the that is the whole essence of the inclusive government, and on that remark I want to thank you once more for the support. Thank you." 7. When he finishes speaking, Tsvangirai thanks Brown and shakes hands with him 8. Tilt down from chandelier to Brown and Tsvangirai 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean Prime Minister "It is unfortunate that those who are living in Britain, because they don't see Mugabe disappearing and therefore conclude that nothing has changed. I want to assure you that that is not the case. I am accountable to Zimbabweans inside the country and I am hoping that, with time, those Zimbabweans living outside, will also share the confidence that Zimbabweans inside the country are sharing, and are experiencing." 10. Cutaway close up Brown 11. Close up Tsvangirai, pull out as they both shake hands, thank each other and leave STORYLINE: Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Monday he hoped to convince Zimbabweans living abroad that his country's coalition government was improving a dire humanitarian and economic crisis at home. Wrapping up a tour of the United States and Europe, Tsvangirai was speaking in London after talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street. He said that reforms were being carried out, and while his power-sharing government with President Robert Mugabe was not perfect, it was workable. Tsvangirai hopes to persuade many of the 1 (m) million Zimbabweans living in Britain, many of them professionals, to return. Speaking after their meeting, Brown pledged 5 (m) million pounds sterling (8.2 (m) million US dollars) in new aid for food security projects and textbooks. He commended Tsvangirai for the progress made in Zimbabwe since February's power-sharing deal between Tsvangirai and his old adversary President Robert Mugabe, and said further aid would be forthcoming if the country could show it was on the road to real democratic reform. Tsvangirai also held talks with opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron. Tsvangirai has been defending his decision to enter a power-sharing government with President Robert Mugabe, after being heckled offstage by protesters in London. The two bitter rivals joined in a coalition government in February, a move which has not gone down well with many Zimbabweans living abroad, who blame Mugabe for years of economic collapse and political repression, as well as a botched land reform program that saw seizures of white-owned commercial farms. Protesters jeered Tsvangirai at a London church on Saturday when he appealed to expatriates to return home and rebuild the southern African country. The United States, former colonial ruler Britain and others want Mugabe to step down, and remain reluctant to offer Zimbabwe major aid. But speaking on Sunday, Tsvangirai said Western governments had moved from being sceptical to accepting that there was progress, and on Monday addressed the issue again. "It is unfortunate that those who are living in Britain, because they don't see Mugabe disappearing and therefore conclude that nothing has changed. I want to assure you that that is not the case. I am accountable to Zimbabweans inside the country and I am hoping that, with time, those Zimbabweans living outside, will also share the confidence that Zimbabweans inside the country are sharing, and are experiencing," he said. Tsvangirai also condemned the actions of police who violently dispersed protesters in Bulawayo last wednesday, arresting at least nine. The activist group Women of Zimbabwe Arise said three protesters had been treated for injuries received at the hands of police. The protest was organised by the group, one of four they staged to mark International Refugee Day, which was on Saturday. Brown meanwhile laid out his demands of Zimbabwe, "including steps on economic reform, such as implementation of the IMF recommendations and reform of the central bank; genuine progress on human rights; freedom of the media and the repeal of repressive legislation." "Our support for reform in Zimbabwe does not mean we will turn a blind eye to human rights abuses, corruption and bad governance. We will continue to speak up for those who are intimidated, threatened and exploited. Political and constitutional reform is central to this agenda, and like you we want to see a new constitution within 18 months, and fresh elections as soon as possible after that. And of course an immediate stop to land seizures, which do nothing for the economic stability of the country," he added. Tsvangirai said he was "conscious of the shortcomings in the fulfilment of the benchmarks we have set for ourselves in terms of the global political agreement," referring to the agreement negotiated between him and Mugabe, laying out the programme of reforms to be carried out before fresh elections. "But I can assure you that we will be working very hard to ensure that those conditions are fulfilled. I know that the world is anxious to see signs of progress, especially the fulfilment of the global political agreement," he added. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 06-22-09 0825EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM -------------------