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AP-APTN-2330 Americas L Prime News-Final Friday, 16 April 2010 Americas L Prime News Iceland Volcano 02:13 No Access Iceland REPLAY Scientists view erupting volcano +World Ash Impact 05:00 Part No Access Portugal NEW Volcanic cloud causes disruption around world; airports, Merkel, Guttenberg Europe Ash 04:01 See script REPLAY Eurocontrol comment, pilot describes incident, scientific plane takes off Malta Abuse 02:56 AP Clients Only REPLAY Alleged abuse victims ask to meet Pope during visit Mexico Drugs 02:30 AP Clients Only REPLAY Drug cartels use fear tactics to empty towns near US border ++Colombia Arrest 01:49 Part No Access Colombia NEW Brazilian police arrest suspected Colombian druglord Chaparro MidEast Tension 2 03:17 AP Clients Only REPLAY March ahead of Palestinian Prisoners Day, clashes, funeral B-u-l-l-e-t-i-n begins at 2330 GMT. APEX 04-16-10 1956EDT -----------End of rundown----------- AP-APTN-2330: Iceland Volcano Friday, 16 April 2010 STORY:Iceland Volcano- REPLAY Scientists view erupting volcano LENGTH: 02:13 FIRST RUN: 2130 RESTRICTIONS: No Access Iceland TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: RUV STORY NUMBER: 643241 DATELINE: Near Eyjafjallajokull, 16 Apr 2010 LENGTH: 02:13 RUV - NO ACCESS ICELAND SHOTLIST 1. Various aerials of cloud from erupting volcano 2. Cloud as seen from cockpit of Icelandic coast guard aircraft 3. Various aerials of eruption clouds 4. Various aerials of ground near volcanic site showing muddy lagoons and water runoff from melting ice 5. Various aerials of eruption clouds 6. Various ground shots of smoke cloud as seen from nearby Vestmann Islands STORYLINE A cloud of ash hovered over Europe on Friday, casting a pall over an interwoven world. Made up of microscopic particles as hard as a knife's blade, the dust cloud coughed up by an Icelandic volcano crept across the industrial powerhouses of Europe, into the steppes of Russia and as far south as Hungary. It left behind stranded travellers, grounded cargo flights, political confusion and even fears the cloud of grit settling on Earth will endanger the lungs of children, asthmatics and others with respiratory ailments. How long it lasts and how far it spreads depends entirely on two unpredictable events - whether the volcano beneath Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH'-plah-yer-kuh-duhl) glacier keeps pumping tons of dust into the air and what wind patterns do. A team of scientists flew over the volcanic site aboard a Icelandic coast guard plane on Friday to monitor the activity. Aerial video from Icelandic broadcaster RUV showed thick cloud reaching heights of 20 to 30-thousand feet (6 to 9-thousand metres). It's feared the invisible cloud could now split, reaching down into northern Italy, and perhaps break apart over the Alps. Scientists say the volcano could also continue erupting for months, with more chaos ensuing with each big belch of basalt powder and gas. 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 04-16-10 1932EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-2330: +World Ash Impact Friday, 16 April 2010 STORY:+World Ash Impact- NEW Volcanic cloud causes disruption around world; airports, Merkel LENGTH: 05:00 FIRST RUN: 2330 RESTRICTIONS: Part No Access Portugal TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/RTP STORY NUMBER: 643235 DATELINE: Various, 16 Apr 2010 LENGTH: 05:00 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY RTP - NO ACCESS PORTUGAL (FIRST RUN 2130 NEWS UPDATE - 16 APRIL, 2010) RTP - NO ACCESS PORTUGAL Lisbon, Portugal 1. Plane taxiing past terminal buildings 2. Man with binoculars 3. Officials including Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates (in red tie) waiting, zoom in to Angela Merkel, German Chancellor, walking past, smiling at camera, into car, pan to security, Socrates greeting official ++NEW (FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL, 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Karachi, Pakistan 4. Top shot of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) cargo complex at Karachi International Airport 5. Staff unloading cargo 6. Various of cargo staff handling meat products due to be exported 7. Set up shot of acting General Manager of PIA's cargo division Mamoom Rashid 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Mamoom Rashid, Acting General Manager of PIA's cargo division: "Since, you know, this is a natural disaster, a phenomena which is beyond the control of any human being." 9. Various of PIA call centre 10. Set up shot of the Managing Director of PIA Captain Muhammed Aijaz Harron 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Captain Muhammed Aijaz Harron, Managing Director of PIA: "All of the flights which were supposed to go and which are now delayed flights, they said that they will not allow those flights to land. So, you know, we were basically be left with no choice but to cancel those flights." 12. Various of PIA planes on tarmac ++NEW (FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL, 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Nairobi, Kenya 13. Various exterior shots of Siginon Cargo Centre at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport 14. Warehouse workers bringing in perishable cargo that was bound for Europe 15. Wide pan of stranded cargo 16. Set up shot of the freight manager for Siginon Freight, Dinah Achilla 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Dinah Achilla, freight manager for Siginon Freight: (part overlaid with cutaway of cargo) "We're also talking in terms of millions of dollars that has been lost, that has gone down the drain. This is not going to be recovered because once flowers go bad, they're bad. There's nothing like getting money from the buyers, we have to compensate them." 18. Cargo that was bound for Europe being moved back into the warehouse ++NEW (FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL, 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY New York, New York 19. Wide of Times Square 20. People crossing a street in Times Square 21. SOUNDBITE (English) Halen Cowen, stranded British tourist: "Next Wednesday. We've been booked on a flight for next Wednesday. We're on standby for one for this evening, but other than that, it'll be next Wednesday. We're just going to be living off McDonald's and be sitting in the pub." 22. Wide of a McDonald's restaurant in Times Square 23. SOUNDBITE (English) Jean-Marc Anfossi, stranded French tourist: "If we are delayed, it is going to be such a pleasure to stay a few days more here in New York, so no problem at all." 24. Broadway street sign 25. Set up shot of florist Meredith Waga-Perez 26. SOUNDBITE (English) Meredith Waga-Perez, Florist: "The flights are not coming in, and this is causing complete hysteria in the floral business. And I know we'll get through this. It's wedding season. There are a lot of other countries that are exporting." 27. Close up of flowers ++NEW (FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL, 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Los Angeles, California 28. Wide of international terminal at Los Angeles International Airport 29. Various of international departure board showing cancelled and delayed flights 30. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Vieten, stranded British tourist: "There is nothing we can do. The airline are in a no-win situation. They don't know what's happening. So, what contingencies can they make based on what they don't know what's going to happen? So, it's the die-hard British spirit - smile through it all." 31. Wide of people in check-in line ++NEW (FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL, 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Mexico City, Mexico 32. Various of ticketing area at Mexico City International Airport 33. Medium of screen reporting cancelled flights 34. Set up shot of stranded Belgian tourist Gesse Vos 35. SOUNDBITE (English) Gesse Vos, stranded Belgian tourist: "No information, that's the frustrating thing. You don't know when you can get another flight or no flight, or we all have to stay here for one day, a week." 36. Stranded passengers in airport ++NEW (FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL, 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Buenos Aires, Argentina 37. Two women checking departure board at the Buenos Aires International Airport 38. Travellers at the British Airways ticketing counter 39. SOUNDBITE (English) Stranded British tourist (no name given): "No one knows anything. Our travel agent told us to go down to British Airways. British Airways told us to call our travel agent." 40. Travellers at ticketing counter STORYLINE A cloud of volcanic ash hovered over Europe on Friday casting an ominous shadow over world wide trade and aircraft travel. Made up of microscopic particles as hard as a knife's blade, the dust cloud coughed up by an Icelandic volcano crept across the industrial powerhouses of Europe, into the steppes of Russia and as far south as Hungary on Friday. It left behind stranded travellers, grounded cargo flights, political confusion and even fears the cloud of grit settling on Earth will endanger the lungs of children, asthmatics and others with respiratory ailments. Even German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to be put up at a Lisbon hotel on Friday, after being stranded in Portugal. Her plane was diverted there as she flew home from a US visit. Merkel had been scheduled to land in Berlin on Friday afternoon after a trip to Washington and California, but both Berlin airports were closed. Polish officials worried on Friday that the ash cloud could threaten the arrival of world leaders for Sunday's state funeral for President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria in the southern city of Krakow. So far, President Barack Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are among those coming and no one has cancelled. Kaczynski's family insisted on Friday they wanted the funeral to go forward as planned but there was no denying the ash cloud was moving south and east. The airline industry said it was losing 200 (m) million US dollars (148 million (m) euros) a day in cancellations, not counting additional costs for rerouting or taking care of grumpy passengers. Almost two-thirds of Europe's usual 28-thousand flights were grounded on Friday, twice as many as a day earlier, according to the air traffic agency Eurocontrol. Air space remained closed in Britain and across large chunks of north and central Europe. However the phenomenon had truly global consequences as it also grounded passengers at airports in almost every corner of the world. For some, like the tourists visiting New York on Friday, the delays were nothing more than an excuse to relax and catch a few more days sightseeing. "If we are delayed, it is going to be such a pleasure to stay a few days more here in New York, so no problem at all," said Jean-Marc Anfossi, one stranded French tourist in Times Square. However for the thousands of travellers camped out at stalled airports from Britain to Buenos Aires on Friday it was a very different story. "You don't know when you can get another flight or no flight, or we all have to stay here for one day, a week" said one Belgian tourist in Mexico City. The groundings also had major ramifications for cargo flights. In Karachi airport staff worked tirelessly to try and preserve perishable items bound for Europe. It was a similar story in Kenya as exporters began counting the cost of failed deliveries and ruined cargo - especially fruit and flowers. "We're also talking in terms of millions (m) of dollars that has been lost, that has gone down the drain," said the freight manager at the Nairobi airport, Dinah Achilla. Aviation experts said it was among the worst disruptions Europe has ever seen. How long that pain lasts now, and just how far the cloud spreads, depends entirely on two unpredictable events - whether the volcano beneath Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH'-plah-yer-kuh-duhl) glacier keeps pumping tons of dust into the air and what wind patterns do. The invisible cloud could split, reaching down into northern Italy, and perhaps break apart over the Alps. Scientists say the volcano could even continue erupting for months, with more chaos ensuing with each big belch of basalt powder and gas. Iceland, a nation of 320,000 people, sits on a large volcanic hot spot in the Atlantic's mid-oceanic ridge and has a history of devastating eruptions. One of the worst was the 1783 eruption of the Laki volcano, which spewed a toxic cloud over Europe, killing tens of thousands. 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Pan exterior of Airberlin planes on tarmac (FIRST RUN 0830 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL 2010) AuBC - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA Sydney, Australia 2. Wide exterior of Quantas plane on tarmac 3. Mid of Qantas containers next to plane 4. Wide interior of people waiting at check-in desks (FIRST RUN 0830 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Paris, France 5. Wide of Air France planes on tarmac 6. Mid of Air France plane tails ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL 2010) AP Photos - No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only - Strictly No Access Online or Mobile Brussels, Belgium - 16 April 2010 7. STILL showing computer display at the European Air Navigation Agency, the coloured dots representing aircraft in flight in European airspace ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL 2010) PA - NO UK/COMMERCIAL USE London, UK - 29 January 1982 8. STILL British Airways 747 Captain Eric Moody receiving an award for landing safely in Jakarta, Indonesia, after volcanic dust caused total loss of power in all four engines ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL 2010) SKY NEWS - No Access UK/RTE/CNNi/Al Jazeera English 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Moody, Former 747 pilot: (The 'He' that Captain Moody refers to is the cabin steward) "We'd gone from down around 15, 16 thousand feet and I knew that the oxygen masks had now dropped down in the cabin and I wanted to speak to him and I tried to talk to him on the telephone system on board but that wasn't working and that was part, we were confused because lots of things we had been trained, that would work in these situations weren't working and vice versa so all three of us on the flight deck admitted to being very confused during the whole thing however, the only way I could speak to him was to use the passenger address and I thought well I've always been an honest sort of a bloke, let's tell them the truth. And I just said 'Good evening again ladies and gentlemen, this is Captain Eric Moody here, we've got a small problem in that all four engines have failed we're doing our upmost to get them going, I trust you are not in too much distress.'" ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Brussels, Belgium - 16 April 2010 10. Wide of news conference 11. Close up of map showing european airspace 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Sultana, Deputy Director of Central Floor Management Unit at Eurocontrol: "I think the decision made by each state and each air navigation service provider was taken in the interests of safety of air travel. There is guidance from the International Civil Aviation Authority. I cannot say whether it is an overreaction - undereaction, I think everyone is working in the interests of safety." ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL 2010) EUMETSAT - AP CLIENTS ONLY/ MUST COURTESY EUMETSAT Satellite image of Europe - 16 April 2010 13. Satellite image of volcanic ash cloud (peach coloured) stretching from northern Finland to the United Kingdom ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 16 APRIL 2010) SKY - NO ACCESS UK/RET/CNNI/AL JAZEERA ENGLISH Cranfield Airfield, UK - 16 April 2010 14. Scientific plane taxiing on tarmac 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Gratton, Scientist: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS UNDER PREVIOUS SHOT++ "We're going to be flying to the North and Northeast of London, operating over East Anglia and the North Sea, between about 5 thousand and 15 thousand feet. The intention is to identify where the edges of the ashcloud are and I certainly expect to be finding it this time. The Met office are currently seeing a thin layer of ash over Cardington, which is just a few miles from here between 6 and 8 thousand feet and the satellites are showing the bulk of the ash running down the east side of the North Sea and over Denmark so we're going to be looking at the edges of that, refining the model the Met office have got and hopefully putting them in a good position to make the best possible advice with regard to whether and when it's safe to reopen the London airports." 16. Research plane taking off from Cranfield Airfield to collect data on volcanic ash over UK STORYLINE: Eurocontrol, the European air navigation safety agency, said on Friday that travellers should brace themselves for more disruptions because of ash from Iceland's volcano. Deputy Director of Central Floor Management Unit at Eurocontrol, Joe Sultana, said that they had no option but to err on the side of caution. "There is guidance from the International Civil Aviation Authority. I cannot say whether it is an overreaction - undereaction, I think everyone is acting in the interests of safety," he told reporters in Brussels. Eurocontrol predicted only 12,000 flights in all of Europe on Friday, down from 28,000 on a normal day. On Thursday, when the air traffic emergency gradually spread across Europe, there were 20,334 flights. Twelve countries have been affected by the no-fly ban on Friday: Britain (excluding Scotland), Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, northern France (including all Paris airports), northern parts of Germany, parts of Poland (including Warsaw airport) and the Czech Republic. On Friday, trans-Atlantic flights, normally 300, were severely curtailed. Only about 120 flights arrived from across the Atlantic, said Eurocontrol. Former British Airways pilot, Eric Moody, told British broadcaster Sky just how dangerous volcanic ash can be to a plane after one of his flights almost crashed. "And I just said 'Good evening again ladies and gentlemen, this is Captain Eric Moody here, we've got a small problem in that all four engines have failed we're doing our upmost to get them going, I trust you are not in too much distress,'" he explained how he was forced to tell his passengers of the danger they were in. Captain Moody was later given the Hugh Gordon Burge award for managing to land the plane safely in Jakarta. Meanwhile, in a bid to learn more about exactly where the perimeter of the ash is and how quickly it is spreading around the United Kingdom a group of scientists took a special research plane up into the sky on Friday to take samples. "The satellites are showing the bulk of the ash running down the east side of the North Sea and over Denmark so we're going to be looking at the edges of that, refining the model the Met office have got and hopefully putting them in a good position to make the best possible advice with regard to whether and when it's safe to reopen the London airports," Scientist Guy Gratton told British broadcaster Sky. The information brought back from the mission, due to land back at Cranfield Airport in Bedfordshire at 9pm (2000 GMT), will be given to the Met Office to help with its forecasting. 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APTN APEX 04-16-10 1932EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-2330: Malta Abuse Friday, 16 April 2010 STORY:Malta Abuse- REPLAY Alleged abuse victims ask to meet Pope during visit LENGTH: 02:56 FIRST RUN: 1630 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 643212 DATELINE: La Valletta - 16 April 2010 LENGTH: 02:56 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: 1. Wide pan of La Valletta grand port 2. Long shot of fort and Maltese flag 3. Mid shot of street 4. Flags 5. Photo of Pope Benedict XVI in shop window 6. Mid of self-declared child abuse victim, Lawrence Grech in his living room, tilt-down to newspapers 7. Close up Grech's T-shirt with "Justice!" written on it 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lawrence Grech, self-declared child abuse victim: "What happened to me it's past, after 20 years, you know everybody is human and everybody can do mistakes, but what upset me is after 20 years this same priest is in the same convent and still doing the same." 9. Close up newspapers showing Grech when he was in a nuns' orphanage and headlines related to his case 10. Close up photos of Grech when he was a child and in a nuns' orphanage 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lawrence Grech, self-declared child abuse victim: "We want to meet the Pope, or at least if there is no time to meet the Pope, at least during the Mass he apologises to us, not in generally, to us, the victims." 12. Wide shot of Malta Catholic Church headquarters where the child abuse response team is based 13. Detail on front gate of church headquarters 14. Tilt down from cross to response team questioning room 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Victor Caruana Colombo, retired judge and former head of child abuse response team: "In every case, in every single case, I make it clear to the person who comes, to the victim, the alleged victim, that he is at liberty to go to the police and to report the matter to the police himself." 16. Close up Code of Canon law book 17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Victor Caruana Colombo, retired judge and former head of child abuse response team: "In my experience the very great majority of people who made allegations insisted that the matters would not be divulged to the press or to the police. They insisted that it be kept in secret." 18. Close of page reading: (English) "On cases of sexual abuse in pastoral activity" 19. Wide shot Granary square, where Pope is going to hold mass 20. Mid shot workers preparing altar 21. Mid shot Paul Cremona, archbishop of Malta 22. Close up cross 23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Cremona, archbishop of Malta: "It is a humiliation for us and we, as bishops of Malta, have put a declaration before our people, explaining our sorrow at this sin, especially since it was on minors, and which the lord Jesus Christ told us to treasure so much, and because it was also done by priests." 24. Wide shot of archbishop in his office STORYLINE: Ten men who testified that they were sexually molested by priests at an orphanage in Malta said on Monday want to meet with the pope when he visits the country this week, as the local Catholic church announced that church tribunals have convicted four priests in separate cases of abusing minors. The 10 men, speaking at a news conference on the island, promised they would not protest the pilgrimage by Pope Benedict XVI that begins on Saturday in the predominantly Catholic nation. Lawrence Grech told reporters that he and the other nine want justice done and seek a meeting with the pontiff so that what they call a "hurtful chapter" can be closed. The men say they were abused in the 1980s and 1990s by four priests at a Catholic home for boys and want Benedict to condemn the abuse. They have alleged that, if they resisted sexual advances by priests, they were asked to leave the home, which was their only shelter. Meanwhile, in separate cases, four Maltese priests have been found guilty of sexually abusing minors after their cases were referred to the Vatican by the Maltese Catholic Church Response Team, local church officials said. Punishment ranged from not being allowed to exercise their ministry to limiting their pastoral assignments so they would not work with minors. All were placed under supervision, local church officials said, updating statistics it gave last week, when it had reported that it had received 84 abuse allegations against 45 priests since the team was set up in 1999. Some of those cases date back to the 1970s. No details were immediately released on the cases that ended in church tribunal convictions. Maltese Catholic church officials also said that a tribunal appointed by the Holy See is currently hearing cases against three Maltese priests, while the cases of another four are expected to be heard soon at the Vatican. The Maltese response team said it found grounds against two other priests, but those clergymen had since died. Of the 45 cases, no basis for allegations was found in 19 cases, while the remaining 13 cases are still pending, the curia said. "In every single case, I make it clear to the person who comes, to the victim, the alleged victim, that he is at liberty to go to the police and to report the matter to the police himself," Victor Caruana Colombo, the former head of child abuse response team said. The Maltese church said in a statement it "feels that even one case of abuse is one too many." Grech, 37, who claims he was sexually abused during the early 1980s and in the 1998s, said that, besides the pope, the men also want to meet with Malta's archbishop, as well as with the Vatican's prosecutor for abuse cases, Monsignor Charles Scicluna, who is Maltese. The years-long court case based on the allegations of Grech and the nine other men involves four priests who worked at St. Joseph Home for boys, an orphanage in Malta. The Catholic church's influence is heavily felt in the European Union nation, which doesn't allow divorce or abortion. 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APTN APEX 04-16-10 1932EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-2330: Mexico Drugs Friday, 16 April 2010 STORY:Mexico Drugs- REPLAY Drug cartels use fear tactics to empty towns near US border LENGTH: 02:30 FIRST RUN: 2030 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Spanish/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 643238 DATELINE: Juarez Valley - Recent LENGTH: 02:30 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST 1. Wide of truck with family's belongings tied to back as they prepare to leave their home 2. Close up of mattresses on back of truck, Mexican flag flying 3. Little girl running past truck 4. Young girl hugging stuffed animal 5. Truck driving out of front yard 6. Various of 14 year-old Christian (no surname given to conceal his identity) chaining the gate 7. Various of sign welcoming people to town of Praxedis G. Guerrero 8. Various of empty streets, closed businesses 9. Various of sign on the ground belonging to food store 10. Wide of burnt house, truck 11. Mid of burnt out truck in front of home 12. Inside of burnt house 13. Close up of toy car left at burnt home 14. Pan of fa?ade of damaged church in El Porvenir 15. Close up of damaged window 16. Wide of burnt out church 17. Various of damage to church 18. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Salvador Salgado, Priest: "I had never lived through something like this. There have been executions and burnt out homes but I never imagined they would burn down the church." 19. Vehicle parked in front of local municipality building 20. Close up of sign on the wall of municipality building 21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Laura (no surname given to conceal his identity), Resident: ++FILMED FROM BEHIND TO CONCEAL HER IDENTITY++ "When you go out to a store, you are already scared. We are here, in fear, every night. We spend every night worried. We barely sleep because we have to be looking out the window." 22. Various of empty park STORYLINE Hundreds of families are fleeing the cotton-farming towns of the Juarez Valley, a stretch of border 50 miles (80 kilometres) east of Ciudad Juarez. In a new strategy, Mexican drug cartels seeking to minimise interference with their operations are using fear tactics to empty the entire area. They have burned down homes in Esperanza ("Hope") and torched a church on Good Friday in El Porvenir ("The Future"). Wherever they strike, they leave notes ordering residents to leave. Fourteen year-old Christian, who would give only his first name for fear of reprisal, chained the gate to his family's home as they prepared to leave. Among the belongings the family brought along were a few mattresses and a bedstead, loaded in the back of a pick up truck. Then he drove off with his family, which was abandoning home, jobs, school and country for a new life in Texas. All along the valley, burned-out concrete-block houses dot the roads. The exodus appears to be the work of the Sinaloa cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug organisation. The Associated Press, citing US intelligence, reported last week that the group has seized control of smuggling corridors through the region after a bloody, two-year battle with the Juarez cartel. The cartel, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is now trying to show locals who's in charge, experts and Mexican officials say. Mexican soldiers who arrested four men on Tuesday for allegedly torching more than 20 homes in the valley said all are connected to the Sinaloa cartel. Some are fleeing to Fort Hancock and Fabens, another nearby Texas farming community. US Customs and Border Protection officials say requests for asylum have jumped since the fiscal year started in October, with 47 people asking for the protection of the American government, up from 11 the previous year. Those numbers don't count the people who didn't seek asylum or crossed illegally. The region is perfect for smugglers, with miles (kilometres) of dirt roads that federal police and soldiers seldom patrol. The Rio Grande in the area is often so shallow that smugglers can walk or drive across. At least one handwritten note, copies of which were tossed around the nearby town of Praxedis, denied the Sinaloa cartel was behind the abuses. It claimed a rival cartel, apparently Juarez was staging the campaign in an effort to frame the Sinaloa gang, perhaps in an attempt to poison its victory. The note was signed, "Sincerely, the Sinaloa cartel." Smugglers have sent gunmen to tell government workers to halt plans for a highway extending from El Porvenir along the border to the east. The trouble in El Porvenir reached its height on Good Friday, when gunmen tried to break down the door of the church. They kicked in one panel of the door and set the facade ablaze. Locals managed to keep the fire from spreading. Soldiers and federal police stepped up patrols after the church attack, but few residents took heart. 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 04-16-10 1932EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-2330: ++Colombia Arrest Friday, 16 April 2010 STORY:++Colombia Arrest- NEW Brazilian police arrest suspected Colombian druglord Chaparro LENGTH: 01:49 FIRST RUN: 2330 RESTRICTIONS: Part No Access Colombia TYPE: Spanish/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/RCN STORY NUMBER: 643244 DATELINE: Bogota, 16 Apr 2010/FILE LENGTH: 01:49 ++CLIENTS PLEASE IGNORE EDL SENT EARLIER AND REPLACE WITH THIS ONE WHICH CORRECTS AUDIO LEVELS++ AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY RCN - NO ACCESS COLOMBIA C SHOTLIST RCN - No Access Colombia FILE: Exact date and location unknown 1. Various of suspected Colombian drug kingpin Nestor Caro Chaparro (on the left) at a party AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Bogota - 16 April 2010 2. Media at news conference 3. Wide of Police Chief Oscar Naranjo 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Oscar Naranjo, Colombian Police Chief: "This individual acted with over-confidence and thought he would not be identified on that beach. Federal Police, jointly with international services detained him on Copacabana beach, where it was confirmed he was, in fact, Nestor Ramon Caro Chaparro." 5. Close up of badges on uniform 6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Oscar Naranjo, Colombian Police Chief: "Over the last few years he, alias Felipe, worked very independently. He was able, through his criminal band, to create fear among drug trafficking organisations. We could say he was one of the few remaining autonomous drug lords in Colombia." 7. Wide of news conference STORYLINE Colombian police have confirmed that a man arrested in Brazil is a suspected Colombian drug kingpin wanted in the US on smuggling and money laundering allegations. A statement from police in Sao Paulo described Nestor Caro Chaparro as "one of Colombia's top four drug traffickers." At a news conference in Bogota on Friday, Colombian police chief Oscar Naranjo said authorities had been following leads on Chaparro since 2001 and that he hadn't been in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for long. Chaparro was arrested on Friday at his home in Rio de Janeiro on a warrant from the Brazil Supreme Court. The US had offered 5 (m) million dollars (37 (m) million euros) for Chaparro's capture and asked for his extradition. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has accused Chaparro of smuggling more than 5,000 kilograms (11,000 pounds, five metric tons) of cocaine from Brazil to the US in the late 1990s. The agency also accuses him of money laundering. Chaparro, also known by the alias Felipe "was one of the few remaining autonomous drug lords in Colombia," Naranjo said at the news conference. 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APTN APEX 04-16-10 2016EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-2330: MidEast Tension 2 Friday, 16 April 2010 STORY:MidEast Tension 2- REPLAY March ahead of Palestinian Prisoners Day, clashes, funeral LENGTH: 03:17 FIRST RUN: 1430 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 643184 DATELINE: Various - 16 April 2010 LENGTH: 03:17 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: Nabi Saleh, West Bank, 16 April 2010 1. Wide of Israeli forces approaching village 2. Israeli troops firing tear gas 3. Wide of Palestinian protesters 4. Israeli soldier firing tear gas, pan to street 5. Mid of Israeli solider crouching with gun 6. Wide of Palestinians chasing tear gas canister 7. Wide of street with protesters and troops 8. Display of what appears to be spent ammunition (tear gas canisters, stun grenades) fired by Israeli troops Gaza City, Gaza Strip, 16 April 2010 9. Wide of funeral procession of militant killed on Friday 10. Various of funeral procession and chanting Jebaliya, Gaza Strip, 16 April 2010 11. Various of Hamas demonstration 12. Wide of masked man guarding mock-up of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit in cage 13. Tilt down from masked militant to cut out of Schalit's face 14. Mid of mock Israeli soldiers guarding mock prison 15. Mock Israeli soldier in mock outpost 16. Mock Palestinian soldiers attempting to get out of jail and being beaten back by mock Israeli soldiers 17. Various of mock masked militants taking over outpost and killing mock Israeli soldiers on ground 18. Mid of men behind bars wearing masks of Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 19. Close up on Barak mask 20. Close up on Netanyahu mask Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, 16 April 2010 21. Pan of Islamic Jihad demonstration 22. Various of demonstration STORYLINE: Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops in the West Bank on Friday during a regular protest over a spring claimed by both Palestinians and Jewish settlers. Palestinians in the village of Nabi Saleh hurled rocks at troops who responded with tear gas. No injuries were reported. Meanwhile, in Gaza on Friday a funeral procession was held for a Palestinian militant killed earlier in the day by Israeli troops along the border fence between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The military said troops spotted the gunman early on Friday as he planted a bomb along the fence, a tactic used often by Gaza militants. An official at the Gaza Health Ministry confirmed that a militant was killed by Israeli troops. None of Gaza's militant factions immediately claimed the militant as its member. Palestinian rocket attacks and violence along the Gaza-Israel border have dropped since Israel's devastating offensive in the Palestinian territory ended in early 2009. But some attacks have continued. They are usually claimed by small militant factions and not by Gaza's Hamas rulers, who have been trying to rein in violence to avoid provoking an Israeli response. Also on Friday, thousands of people in Gaza marched in the streets ahead of Palestinian Prisoners' Day on Saturday. At a Hamas rally in Jebaliya, participants acted out a scene which depicted Israeli soldiers guarding mock Palestinians prisoners. After a takeover by 'Hamas militants', the 'soldiers' were killed and the 'prisoners' released. In Khan Younis, around 1,000 people marched in an Islamic Jihad rally to mark Palestinian Prisoners' Day. Israel and the Iranian-backed Hamas have held multiple rounds of prisoner swap talks, most mediated by Egypt, ever since militants affiliated with the Islamic group dragged Sergeant Gilad Schalit into Gaza following a cross-border raid in June 2006 that also killed two other soldiers. Israel has been reluctant to meet Hamas' demand to release dozens of Palestinians involved in deadly attacks on Israelis including some of the most notorious suicide bombings of recent years. It also wants some of the prisoners deported outside the West Bank, for fear they would resume their violence against Israel, as Israel claims has happened following previous releases. Prisoner swaps are controversial in Israel because of their potential to encourage militants to take more hostages. But the plight of the quiet, gangly tank crewman has touched the hearts of many Israelis, where military service is compulsory and most families have relatives who serve. For the Palestinians, the release of hundreds of men, women and teenagers would be a major victory. Most Palestinian families have had relatives in Israeli jails at one time or another, and the prisoners have come to achieve near-iconic status in Palestinian society. 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 04-16-10 1939EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM -------------------