APTN 1830 PRIME NEWS NORTH AMERICA
AP-APTN-1830 North America Prime News -Final
Monday, 3 May 2010
North America Prime News
UN Nuclear 02:46 AP Clients Only
REPLAY Sec-Gen opening comments, Iranian President Ahmedinejad
US Merger 02:25 AP Clients Only
REPLAY United Airlines and Continental announce merger
Iraq Recount 4 03:37 AP Clients Only
WRAP Vote recount, oil minister, UN rep sbites; Talabani, al-Maliki
China Kim 01:16 See Script
REPLAY Stills of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in China; Video
++US Oil Spill 3 02:35 AP Clients Only
NEW Latest on efforts to stop oil spewing into sea; dead turtles
Greece Crisis 5 03:34 AP Clients Only
WRAP Protests against govt; Papandreu, Tsipras; military protest
Europe Press Freedom 03:04 Part No Access Kosovo
REPLAY Memorial unveiled in Kosovo, protest in Paris on World Press Freedom day
France Polanski 2 01:16 AP Clients Only
REPLAY Polanski says US wants to serve him 'on a platter to media'; file
FILE Redgrave 02:07 See Script
REPLAY Actress Lynn Redgrave has died, her children have announced
B-u-l-l-e-t-i-n begins at 1830 GMT.
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AP-APTN-1830: UN Nuclear
Monday, 3 May 2010
STORY:UN Nuclear- REPLAY Sec-Gen opening comments, Iranian President Ahmedinejad
LENGTH: 02:46
FIRST RUN: 1630
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: English/Farsi/Natsound
SOURCE: UNTV
STORY NUMBER: 644574
DATELINE: New York, 3 May 2010
LENGTH: 02:46
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SHOTLIST:
1. Wide of United Nations Secretary-General at podium
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General: (++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH MID OF IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD++)
"With respect to the Iranian nuclear programme, I call on Iran to fully comply with the Security Council resolutions and fully cooperate with the IAEA. I encourage Iran to accept the nuclear fuel supply proposal put forward by the agency. This would be an important confidence building measure."
3. Mid of Iranian delegation
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
"There is also a need to ensure that the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes does not have unintended consequences. It should be unacceptable for countries to use the treaty as a cover to develop nuclear weapons, only to withdraw afterwards."
5. Wide of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at podium
6. Iranian delegation
7. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President:
"To start I would like to say a word about the statements by the Secretary-General. The Secretary-General said that Iran must accept the fuel exchange and that the ball is now in Iran's court. Well, I would like to tell you and inform him as well that we have accepted that from the start and I would like to announce once again that to us that is an accepted deal. Therefore we have now thrown the ball in the court of those who should accept our proposal and embark on cooperation with us."
8. United States delegation
9. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President:
++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH MID OF RUSSIAN DELEGATION++
"The nuclear bomb is a fire against humanity rather than a weapon for defence. The possesion of nuclear bombs is not a source of pride. Its possesion is disgusting and shameful. Even more shameful is the threat to use such weapons, which if used have a scale of destruction that is incomparable to any crime committed throughout history."
10. Close-up of UK delegation walking out on Ahmadinejad speech
11. Close-up of United States delegation walking out on Ahmadinejad speech
12. Close-up of empty France delegation chair
STORYLINE:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday rejected allegations his country is developing nuclear weapons, saying there was no credible proof to that effect.
In the first day of a monthlong conference reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the Iranian leader dismissed allegations that his country's uranium enrichment programme is designed to produce a bomb, prompting the US and other nations to call for sanctions.
He referred to the new US Nuclear Posture Review's provision retaining an option to use US atomic arms against countries not in compliance with the non-proliferation pact, a charge Washington lays against Iran.
As the Iranian president spoke, the US delegation, of working-level staff, walked out of the General Assembly hall. Ahmadinejad is the only head of state participating in the conference.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, opening the conference, directly challenged Tehran.
"I encourage Iran to accept the nuclear fuel supply proposal put forward by the agency, this would be an important confidence building measure," he said,
He called on the Tehran government "to fully comply with Security Council resolutions" demanding that it halt enrichment, which Washington and others contend is meant to produce the nuclear fuel for bombs in violation of Iran's NPT obligations.
Ahmadinejad later bandied the demands of the Secretary-General by saying Iran had already agreed to the fuel programme.
"I would like to tell you and inform him as well that we have accepted that from the start and I would like to announce once again that to us that is an accepted deal. Therefore we have now thrown the ball in the court of those who should accept our proposal and embark on cooperation with us," he said.
Although Ahmadinejad's presence meant the first-day agenda was dominated by the Iran issue, it was only the beginning of a four-week diplomatic marathon meant to produce a consensus final document pointing toward ways to better achieve the NPT's goals of checking the spread of nuclear weapons, while working toward reducing and eventually eliminating them.
The treaty is regarded as the world's single most important pact on nuclear arms, credited with preventing their proliferation to dozens of nations since it entered into force in 1970.
It was a grand global bargain: Nations without nuclear weapons committed not to acquire them; those with them committed to move toward their elimination; and all endorsed everyone's right to develop peaceful nuclear energy.
The 189 treaty members gather every five years to discuss new approaches to problems, by agreeing, for example, that the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear inspection agency, should be strengthened.
The only countries that are not treaty members are India, Pakistan, North Korea, all of which have nuclear arsenals or weapons programmes, and Israel, which has an unacknowledged nuclear arsenal.
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AP-APTN-1830: US Merger
Monday, 3 May 2010
STORY:US Merger- REPLAY United Airlines and Continental announce merger
LENGTH: 02:25
FIRST RUN: 1630
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 644573
DATELINE: Various, 3 May 2010/File
LENGTH: 02:25
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SHOTLIST:
FILE - date and location unknown
1. Mid of plane landing
2. Mid of United plane
3. Mid of Continental planes
4. Continental aircraft
New York City - 3 May, 2010
5. Wide of United and Continental press conference
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Glenn Tilton, United Airlines CEO:
"We have more opportunity together however than either one of us, as Jeff just said a moment ago, could realise independent of each other. As he said, this company is going to be able to serve our shareholders, our stakeholders, and our employees in ways that frankly neither Continental nor United could do if we weren't about to embark on this journey. But today the companies are ready for that journey."
7.Mid of photographers
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Smisek, Continental CEO:
"The synergies that we have projected for the combined company have no airfare increases whatsoever in those synergies. We do not set prices. We didn't set prices in the market before this transaction. We won't set prices in the market after this transaction. We respond to customer demand. This is a brutally competitive industry. What we are doing today is making ourselves more competitive on a global scale."
San Francisco, California - 30 April, 2010
9. Mid of man at a United ticket counter
10. Wide of United check-in
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Goetz, Continental Passenger:
"Well I hope bigger means better. I always felt that travellers with the airlines, I always felt like a second-class citizen. So if this merger is going to take place I hope it becomes more friendly for the passengers."
12. Tight of Continental Airlines sign
13. Mid of people at Continental check-in
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Fox, Continental Passenger:
"Ultimately I make my decisions about who to fly with, about price. It is not so much to do with the name, but I'm hoping that this kind of thing actually will be cost saving in general and maybe result in lower prices actually."
15. Mid of people at Continental counter
16. Mid of United sign
STORYLINE:
United Airlines has agreed to buy Continental in a three (b) billion-plus dollar deal that would create the world's largest carrier.
The new United would surpass Delta Air Lines in size, which should help it attract more high-fare business travellers.
It will fly to 370 destinations in 59 countries.
The companies insisted the deal is a merger of equals.
But United shareholders will hold a majority stake, the airline will be based in United's hometown of Chicago and it will be called United.
It would be run by current Continental CEO Jeffery Smisek, however.
United CEO Glenn Tilton, a longtime advocate of consolidation in the airline industry, will be non-executive chairman for up to two years before Smisek adds the chairman title.
The new parent company will be called United Continental Holdings Inc. and have about 29 (b) billion dollars in annual revenue based on 2009 results and 7.4 (b) billion dollars in unrestricted cash.
The airlines said combining would save them one (b) billion dollars to 1.2 (b) billion dollars a year by 2013, including between 800 (m) million dollars and 900 (m) million dollars in new yearly revenue.
The deal would create a giant with major hubs in key domestic markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and San Francisco and an international network stretching from Shanghai to South America.
It will leave three big US airlines with major international routes - the new United, Delta and American Airlines, with US Airways a distant fourth.
United is the third-largest US carrier by traffic, while Continental Airlines is No. 4.
Shares of both companies rose in morning trading Monday.
United parent UAL Corp. shares rose 39 cents, or 1.8 percent, to $21.99, while Continental shares rose 25 cents, or 1.1 percent, to 22.60 dollars.
Wall Street has pushed consolidation as a way to let airlines raise fares by reducing the number of flights and seats.
Antitrust regulators are likely to scrutinise the deal for its effect on fares, but Smisek and Tilton said even a larger United won't have power to boost prices because other carriers might undercut them.
"The synergies that we have projected for the combined company have no airfare increases whatsoever," Smisek said.
Two years ago, Continental walked away from a deal with United at the last moment. Smisek said in an interview that times had changed since 2008, when both airlines were low on cash and facing record fuel costs.
Continental shareholders will get 1.05 UAL shares in exchange for each Continental share.
The two carriers are similar in size. As of Friday's closing stock prices, UAL's had a stock market value of 3.6 (b) billion dollars, while Continental's was 3.1 (b) billion dollars.
The companies expect to close the deal in the fourth quarter, with approval needed from shareholders and regulators.
The deal came together in just three weeks after reports surfaced that United was in discussions with US Airways, the nation's No. 6 airline.
Labour issues have often been messy in airline consolidation. Smisek and Tilton said they had briefed their unions on the deal.
Both companies said their boards had approved the transaction unanimously, which would include a labour representative on the UAL board.
Pilots at both airlines are represented by the Air Line Pilots Association. People briefed on the negotiations said the two groups have not started negotiations on a joint contract.
The machinists' union, which represents 16,000 workers at United and more than 10,000 Continental employees, said it was concerned about the impact of the deal on pensions, benefits and job security.
Both United and Continental have been losing money first due to higher fuel costs, then a recession. Last year, UAL lost 651 (m) million US dollars, while Continental lost 282 (m) million.
Revenue plunged 19.1 percent at UAL and 17.4 percent at Continental.
They have eliminated flights to meet the new, lower demand - United cut capacity 7.4 percent last year, and Continental shrank 5.2 percent.
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AP-APTN-1830: Iraq Recount 4
Monday, 3 May 2010
STORY:Iraq Recount 4- WRAP Vote recount, oil minister, UN rep sbites; Talabani, al-Maliki
LENGTH: 03:37
FIRST RUN: 1530
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: Arabic/Natsound
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/Agency Pool
STORY NUMBER: 644571
DATELINE: Baghdad - 3 May 2010
LENGTH: 03:37
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AGENCY POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST
(FIRST RUN 1430 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 3 MAY 2010)
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1. Employees of Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) recounting votes
2. Various of recount
3. Close-up of ballot box
++NEW
(FIRST RUN 1530 NEWS UPDATE - 3 MAY 2010)
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4. Various of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani meeting Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nouri al-Maliki, Prime Minister:
"God willing, the meeting was fruitful as it will help solve all problems and hardships facing the political process. It (the meeting) is a step on the path of accelerating the formation of the next government."
6. Mid of al-Maliki and Talabani
(FIRST RUN 1430 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 3 MAY 2010)
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7. Wide of State of Law (Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition) official and Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani at news conference
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussain al-Shahristani, State of Law official and Iraqi Oil Minister:
"We do not believe what is going on today is accurate work and the IHEC has not complied with the decision of the review panel. So the State of Law has submitted a new complaint to the electoral review panel this morning, showing that the IHEC is insisting on not letting the results reflect the Iraqi voters' will on March 7."
9. Various of recount
10. Wide of news conference
11. SOUNDBITE (English, simultaneously translated into Arabic) Ad Melkert, UN representative in Iraq:
"It is an important moment in the election process in Iraq. The recount has started this morning and it has been set up in a very professional way and it is yet another reassurance to the Iraqi voters that their vote will be respected and therefore it is also important that those that have issued complaints now find a way through the recount to see whether these complaints are justified."
12. Cutaway of journalists
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Faraj al-Haidari, IHEC chief:
"The electoral commission's measures are according to the decision of the review panel. The decision of the review panel stressed the necessity of conducting the recount in the polling stations in which votes were discarded and not only in the disputed stations but all over Baghdad."
14. Various of news conference
STORYLINE
Iraqi election officials have argued publicly with supporters of the prime minister who demanded a halt to a partial recount of votes just as the process got under way.
The recount of 2.5 (m) million votes cast March 7 in the capital Baghdad was ordered at the request of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who narrowly lost to former prime minister Ayad Allawi with heavy Sunni support.
It has further delayed the formation of a government.
Al-Maliki demanded recounts in five provinces and got one in Baghdad, which started Monday morning.
But about an hour after it began, representatives of the prime minister's State of Law coalition arrived at the Rasheed Hotel in the walled-off Green Zone where the recount was in progress and demanded publicly at a news conference that it be halted.
The coalition complained the commission wasn't conducting the recount properly by not reopening voter records and checking voter signatures against ballots.
State of Law official and Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani also charged that election commission officials had manipulated the votes and demanded they be held accountable.
Election officials dismissed the charge, and the recount continued uninterrupted after the argument.
Election commission chief Faraj al-Haidari and al-Shahristani raised their voices and wagged fingers at each other as journalists crowded around.
State TV cut their live transmission of the event but the spat continued off-camera just a few yards from where the recount was taking place, with bodyguards trying to keep journalists away from the officials.
No party won a clear parliamentary majority in the election, and more than a month of haggling among political factions has not produced any clear indication of how a ruling coalition might look.
Al-Maliki has vociferously challenged the results which gave him 89 of 325 seats in parliament, trailing close behind Allawi's bloc with 91 seats.
On Monday, al-Maliki held talks with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad.
"It (the meeting) is a step on the path of accelerating the formation of the next government," al-Maliki told reporters after the meeting.
If the recount alters the results, it could infuriate Iraq's once-dominant Sunni Arab minority, which is already wary of al-Maliki's Shiite-led government and what they see as efforts to steal the election.
The United Nations, the US Embassy, and the Arab League as well as Iraqi election officials have all declared the election free of systematic fraud.
The United Nations representative in Iraq, Ad Melkert, called the recount process professional and urged people to be patient while it is carried out.
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AP-APTN-1830: China Kim
Monday, 3 May 2010
STORY:China Kim- REPLAY Stills of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in China; Video
LENGTH: 01:16
FIRST RUN: 1230
RESTRICTIONS: See Script
TYPE: Natsound
SOURCE: Various
STORY NUMBER: 644552
DATELINE: Dalian - 3 May 2010
LENGTH: 01:16
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SHOTLIST
++NEW
(FIRST RUN 1230 NEWS UPDATE, MAY 03, 2010)
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1. Security and officials outside hotel
2. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (wearing sunglasses) getting into car outside hotel - video filmed through window
3. Slow motion replay of Kim getting into car
(FIRST RUN 1130 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS, MAY 03 2010)
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4. STILL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il wearing sunglasses (++Same location as shots 1-3)
5. STILL - Wide of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il with Chinese guard saluting in the background
6. STILL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il getting into car
7. STILL - Close-up of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il getting into car
STORYLINE:
Reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong Il visited neighbouring China on Monday, reportedly arriving by a luxury 17-car train reports said.
Japan's NHK filmed Kim getting into a car at a hotel in the northern port city of Dalian, the broadcaster reported.
Earlier in the day, Kim's special armoured train arrived to a phalanx of soldiers and police in the Chinese border town of Dandong, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said.
Kim is known to shun air travel.
It is his first journey abroad in years as his regime faces a worsening economy and speculation it may have torpedoed a South Korean warship.
Kim met local Dandong leaders before moving on, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said in a release, citing sources in the border town who claimed they saw the North Korean leader.
The train then headed to Dalian, the Yonhap news agency said.
A convoy of 15 limousines was seen arriving at the city's five-star Furama Hotel, the report said, citing unidentified sources in Dandong and Beijing.
Kyodo News agency, citing unidentified sources knowledgeable about China-North Korea relations, also said Kim and his party were seen at the hotel.
A switchboard operator at the hotel, where the presidential suite runs more than 2,100 dollars a night, told The Associated Press that security had been tightened but she would not say whether Kim was expected.
Kim's visit comes at an awkward time for Beijing. The Chinese leadership has been trying to get Kim to agree to return to six-nation nuclear disarmament talks stalled now for a year, and believed that it had won the North Korean dictator's assent last October.
Since then, however, prospects for negotiations have dimmed. Pyongyang has been unwilling to comply with requests from the US to resume the talks, and tensions have risen between North Korea and South Korea, partly over the mysterious ship sinking in late March in which 46 sailors were killed.
Rumours of a Kim trip, the first since one to China in 2006 and since the 68-year-old leader reportedly suffered a stroke in 2008, have circulated for months since Chinese President Hu Jintao invited the notoriously reclusive leader for a visit to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the allies.
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AP-APTN-1830: ++US Oil Spill 3
Monday, 3 May 2010
STORY:++US Oil Spill 3- NEW Latest on efforts to stop oil spewing into sea; dead turtles
LENGTH: 02:35
FIRST RUN: 1830
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: English/Natsound
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 644572
DATELINE: Various, 2-3 May 2010
LENGTH: 02:35
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SHOTLIST:
Gulfport, Mississippi, 2 March 2010
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE AVAILABLE TO CONFIRM THAT THESE TURTLES DIED FROM THE OIL SPILL++
1. Various of dead turtles on beach
2. Various of Institute for Marine Mammal Studies officials placing turtle carcass in bag
Pass Christian, Mississippi, 3 March 2010
++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE AVAILABLE TO CONFIRM THAT THESE TURTLES DIED FROM THE OIL SPILL++
3. Wide of Institute for Marine Mammal official taking photos of dead turtle
4. Various of dead turtle
5. Turtle being placed in bag
Longbeach, Mississippi, 3 March 2010
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6. WIde of dead turtle
7. Close-up dead turtle
Gulfport,Mississippi, 3 March 2010
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gus Harris, Owner of Cajun Crawfish Restaurant:
"Well, we don't know how bad it's going to be and whatever impact it has on us, financially it's going to hurt us. Even if we are able to prepare shrimp or oysters elsewhere, the prices are going to go up and that's going to mean customers are going to come less often. Things are tight enough as it is, fuel prices are already high. How much money they have to eat out with, this is an area where we depend on the Gulf."
Longbeach, Mississippi, 3 March 2010
9. Various of US Environmental Services workers cleaning oil off beach
10. Wide of workers on beach
11. Various of bags full of oil being loaded onto US Environmental Services truck, truck drives away
STORYLINE:
BP PLC said on Monday it will pay for all the cleanup costs from a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico that could continue spewing crude for at least another week.
The announcement came as officials with the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies continued to find dead turtles on Mississippi beaches on Monday.
They were taken away for examination to determine whether oil was a factor in their deaths.
Necropsies have been completed on five of the 25 dead sea turtles that have been found in the past few days along Mississippi beaches with no evidence of oil found, said Brian Gorman of the National Marine Fisheries Service, which is overseeing the procedures being done in Gulfport.
At least six of the 25 turtles are the endangered Kemp's Ridley, which breed nowhere else in the world but on beaches in Mexico and southern Texas, and are considered among the most imperiled turtle species.
The oil spill has rattled fishermen as well as business-owners along the Mississippi Delta.
On Sunday, fishermen from the mouth of the Mississippi River to the Florida Panhandle got the news that more than 6,800 square miles of federal fishing areas were closed, fracturing their livelihood for at least 10 days and likely more as the prime spring season was kicking in.
"We don't know how bad it's going and whatever it impact it has on us, financially it's going to hurt us," Gus Harris, the owner of Cajun Crawfish Restaurant, said In Gulfport, Mississippi.
Meanwhile, workers shovelled oil into large trash bags on Longbeach, Mississippi.
BP posted a fact sheet on its website saying it took responsibility for the response to the Deepwater Horizon spill and would pay compensation for legitimate claims for property damage, personal injury and commercial losses.
BP's CEP said chemical dispersants put into the sea seem to be having a significant impact in keeping oil from flowing to the surface, though he did not elaborate.
The update on the dispersants came as BP was preparing a system never tried nearly a mile (1.6 kilometres) under water to siphon away the geyser of crude from a blown-out well.
However, the plan to lower 74-ton, concrete-and-metal boxes being built to capture the oil and siphon it to a
barge waiting at the surface will need at least another six to eight days to get it in place.
That could spill at least another (m) million gallons (3.8 million litres) into the Gulf, on top of the roughly 2.6 (m) million gallons (9.8 million litres) already estimated to have spilled since the April 20 blast.
Those numbers are based on the Coast Guard's estimates that 200-thousand gallons (757,060 litres) a day are spilling out, though officials have cautioned it's impossible to know exactly how much is leaking.
By comparison, the tanker Exxon Valdez spilled 11 (m) million gallons (42 million litres) off the Alaska coast in 1989.
Officials also were trying to cap one of three leaks to make it easier to place the first box on the sea floor.
Crews continued to lay boom to try to keep the spill from reaching the shore, though choppy seas have made that difficult and rendered much of the oil-corralling gear useless.
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AP-APTN-1830: Greece Crisis 5
Monday, 3 May 2010
STORY:Greece Crisis 5- WRAP Protests against govt; Papandreu, Tsipras; military protest
LENGTH: 03:34
FIRST RUN: 1630
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: Greek/Natsound
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 644569
DATELINE: Athens - 3 May 2010
LENGTH: 03:34
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++NEW
(FIRST RUN 1630 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS, MAY 03 2010)
1. Various of military personnel marching through historic Plaka district
2. Close-up of military decoration on officer's shoulder
3. Military personnel
4. Pan of protesting military personnel
5. Air Force officers
6. Military with Greek flag
7. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Anastassios Vytinidis, naval officer
"There is great indignation and something must be done. The Greek military personnel are reaching their limits."
(FIRST RUN 1230 NEWS UPDATE - 3 MAY 2010)
8. Various of garbage trucks being driven through streets by striking garbage workers
9. Wide of striking municipal workers, including garbage workers
10. Close-up of worker in orange vest, chanting
11. Wide of marching demonstrators
12. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Andreas, last name not given, striker:
"The strike will last indefinitely, until they take the measures back."
13. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Katerina, last name not given, worker for the municipality of Athens:
"They deceived us. They didn't tell us all this from the start. George (Papandreou) was telling us he would do one thing and he did another. He sold us out."
14. Wide of Parliament with garbage truck passing in front of it
15. Close-up of riot police
(FIRST RUN 1330 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 3 MAY 2010)
16. Papandreou leaving presidential palace
17. SOUNDBITE (Greek) George Papandreou, Prime Minister:
++SOUNDBITE ENDS ON PAPANDREOU LEAVING NEWS CONFERENCE++
"We will make a new beginning, a Greece that is more just, that is transparent, a Greece that is more humane, a Greece of development, competitive, a Greece of which we could all be proud. It is in our hands to make this crisis an opportunity."
18. Left Coalition party leader Alexis Tsipras crossing street and entering grounds of presidential palace
19. SOUDNBITE (Greek) Alexis Tsipras, Left Coalition party leader:
"We presented our recommendation for the need to have a democratic way out and for the people of Greece to select their future; our recommendation is for a referendum on these measures. We deem there is an alternative route, there is an alternate perspective."
20. Various of people demonstrating and holding protest banner, being stopped by police next to presidential palace
STORYLINE:
Members of Greece's military marched through Athens on Monday in a show of protest against the austerity measures announced by the government.
Greece announced more austerity measures on Sunday worth 40 (b) billion dollars through 2012 - including public service and pension pay cuts, higher taxes and a more streamlined government.
The measures are expected to exacerbate its recession, but a massive rescue plan announced at the weekend will include 13.3 (b) billion dollars for a "stabilisation fund" to support Greek banks.
Garbage workers also demonstrated, driving their trucks through the streets of the Greek capital.
About 1,000 garbage collectors and other striking municipal workers marched to the Greek parliament chanting "trash for parliament, not the landfill!"
"They deceived us. They didn't tell us all this from the start. George (Papandreou) was telling us he would do one thing and he did another. He sold us out," said one municipal worker.
A number of demonstrations against Greece's austerity measures have been taking place over the weekend.
The tough measures enabled the country to secure the loans from the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Unions have protested sharply, but Prime Minister George Papandreou insists the new measures are vital for Greece's financial survival.
"It is in our hands to make this crisis an opportunity," Papandreou said on Monday after meeting with the country's president, Karolos Papoulias.
Left Coalition party leader Alexis Tsipras also met with Papoulias and later called for a referendum on the measures.
"We deem there is an alternative route, there is an alternate perspective," Tsipras told reporters.
Greek labour unions and opposition parties reacted angrily to the new austerity package, accusing the government of breaking a pledge not to impose any further cuts after previous measures were announced in March.
Unions are planning a general strike on Wednesday.
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AP-APTN-1830: Europe Press Freedom
Monday, 3 May 2010
STORY:Europe Press Freedom- REPLAY Memorial unveiled in Kosovo, protest in Paris on World Press Freedom day
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STORY NUMBER: 644555
DATELINE: Various, 3 May 2010
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Vitina, Kosovo
1. Pan of guests seated for unveiling of memorial
2. Guests at memorial
3. John Lawton (closest to camera), father of journalist Kerem Lawton, who was killed in Kosovo in 2001 while working for Associated Press Television News
4. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Shyqri Halabaku, President of Kerem Lawton Journalist's Club:
"Today's unveiling of this monument on behalf of the Kerem Lawton Journalist's Club is a memorial that symbolises not only the enormous sacrifice but also the tireless work of journalists around the world."
5. Close-up of guest
6. Unveiling of memorial
7. Plaque with photo of Kerem Lawton
8. Inscription on memorial
9. Model camera hanging from memorial
10. Dignitaries including John Lawton and director of AP television's international news operations in London, Sandy MacIntyre, standing by memorial
11. Wide of people at unveiling
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12. Wide of Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) activists outside Iranian embassy
13. Emassay sign
14. Various of Reporters Without Borders activists throwing balls made out of newspapers into the courtyard of the Iranian embassy
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Reza, Iranian photographer working in Paris:
"This is one of the darkets times of our history in Iran, the darkest time because we are under a military coup, and not only the journalists but the whole nation is under this military coup. Iraq has become the biggest prison in the world, in a prison that has where there's no law, a lawless prison even."
16. Balls made out of newspapers in courtyard of the Iranian embassy
17. Various of activists chanting
18. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Francois Juillard, head of Reporters without Borders:
"We have chosen Iran because it is one of the worst countries for press freedom in the world, it is one of the biggest prisons for journalists in the world, it is the country where the biggest number of journalists have fled because they were threatened to death, threatened of arrest. In the last months, since the controversial elections of June 12th 2009, there is a wave of repression on Iranian journalists as never before. Today it is absolutely impossible to do the job of a journalist in Iran."
19. Activists chanting outside embassy
STORYLINE
Kosovo marked World Press Freedom Day on Monday with the unveiling of a memorial dedicated to Kerem Lawton, a producer for Associated Press Television News, killed in Kosovo in 2001.
Lawton died when a mortar shell slammed into his vehicle as he was covering border fighting between ethnic Albanian rebels and Macedonian government forces.
Both the Macedonian army and the rebel National Liberation Army denied responsibility for the attack and a subsequent NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) investigation failed to determine who was responsible.
"Today's unveiling ? symbolises not only the enormous sacrifice but also the tireless work of journalists around the world," said Shyqri Halabaku, president of the Kerem Lawton Journalist's Club, that initiated the project in the municipality of Vitina, an area bordering Macedonia.
The unveiling was attended by Lawton's father, John and Sandy MacIntyre, director of AP television's international news operations in London.
Over 1,500 journalists have died while covering stories in the last 14 years, according to International News Safety Institute (INSI) a group of news organisations, journalists and individuals committed to improving safety for media staff working in dangerous environments.
Forty-two journalists have been killed during 2010 alone, according to an April 28 INSI press release.
At least 27 of those deaths were confirmed to be connected with the victims' work as journalists, the press release said.
Most of the journalists were killed while covering corruption, crime and unrest in their home countries, INSI said on its website (www.newssafety.org).
Most of the cases remain unresolved.
Meanwhile, in Paris, a group of activists from Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) marked World Press Day by throwing balls made of newspapers into the courtyard of the Iranian embassy.
RSF on Monday released a list of what it claimed were the world's 40 worst "predators of the press".
The list - made up of politicians, government officials, religious leaders, militias and criminal organisations - included Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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AP-APTN-1830: France Polanski 2
Monday, 3 May 2010
STORY:France Polanski 2- REPLAY Polanski says US wants to serve him 'on a platter to media'; file
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FIRST RUN: 1630
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TYPE: French/Natsound
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 644580
DATELINE: Paris, Cannes, 3 May 2010/FILE
LENGTH: 01:16
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Paris - 3 May 2010
1. Wide of French newspapers with Polanski headlines
2. Pan of newspapers
3. Mid of Liberation's articles quoting Polanski "I ask to be treated as anyone else"
4. Close up of Figaro's articles
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Bernard Henri Levy, French philosopher who published Polanski's text:
"He believed in the fairness of justice. He let his lawyers work and in the dead end, where he is now, this text is a cry of rage."
6. Zoom in on newspapers
++NEW
(FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS, MAY 03 2010)
FILE - Cannes, 25 May 2005
7. Various of film director Roman Polanski on red carpet, being photographed
FILE - Paris, 28 February 2008
8. Film director Roman Polanski talking to reporter
STORYLINE:
Filmmaker Roman Polanski, breaking a months-long silence, said on Sunday that the US is demanding his extradition from Switzerland on a 33-year-old sex case largely to serve him "on a platter to the media."
Polanski, who is under house arrest in his Alpine Swiss chalet, laid out his case against extradition on an online magazine run by one of his staunchest supporters, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy.
On Sunday Levy said "in the dead end where he is now, this text is a cry of rage."
One of Polanski's complaints is that Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley, "who is handling this case and has requested (the) extradition, is himself campaigning for election and needs media publicity."
Cooley is running for California attorney general.
Swiss authorities are trying to decide whether to extradite Polanski to Los Angeles for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.
Polanski was arrested seven months ago as he arrived in Zurich to receive a lifetime achievement award at a film festival.
The Oscar-winning director of "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown" and "The Pianist" was put behind bars for more than two months before being transferred on 4.5 (m) million US dollar bail to house arrest in the luxury resort of Gstaad.
Polanski wrote in the online magazine, La Regle du Jeu, that he had mortgaged his apartment to pay the bail.
Three decades ago, Polanski was accused of plying his victim with champagne and part of a Quaalude pill, a sedative, during a modelling shoot and raping her.
He was initially indicted on six felony counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy. He later pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse.
What happened after that is a subject of dispute.
The defence says the now deceased judge, Laurence J. Rittenband, had agreed in meetings with lawyers to sentence Polanski to a 90-day diagnostic study and nothing more.
But the judge later changed his mind and summoned Polanski for further sentencing - at which time he fled to his native France, lawyers said.
Polanski claimed the judge "betrayed" him and wanted "to gain himself some publicity at my expense."
He said the request for his extradition is "founded on a lie."
Polanski said retired Deputy District Attorney Roger Gunson, who worked on the case three decades ago, has confirmed his take on events under oath.
The director's lawyers have argued that unsealing transcripts of Gunson's secret testimony would show the extradition request is based on false and incomplete statements by the Los Angeles district attorney's office.
Polanski added: "I can no longer remain silent because the United States continues to demand my extradition more to serve me on a platter to the media of the world than to pronounce a judgment concerning which an agreement was reached 33 years ago."
The filmmaker has kept largely silent under house arrest. In December, he released a message thanking his supporters for their letters.
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AP-APTN-1830: FILE Redgrave
Monday, 3 May 2010
STORY:FILE Redgrave- REPLAY Actress Lynn Redgrave has died, her children have announced
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STORY NUMBER: 644581
DATELINE: FILE
LENGTH: 02:07
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FILE: Beverly Hills, California, 8 March 1999
1. Pull out from close-up of actress Lynn Redgrave
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FILE: New York, 11 November 1976
2. STILL: Actress Lynn Redgrave at Sardi's restaurant
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FILE: Los Angeles, 31 August 1981
3. STILL: Actress Lynn Redgrave holds her 6-week-old daughter Annabel during a press conference
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FILE: New York, 27 December 1989
4. STILL: Lynn Redgrave and her husband, director-actor John Clark
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5. STILL: Actress Lynn Redgrave is shown with her daughter Annabel
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FILE: New York, 11 June 2007
6. STILL: Actresses Lynn Redgrave, left, and Vanessa Redgrave arrive at the premiere of "Evening"
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7. Lynn Redgrave speaking to reporter
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FILE: Los Angeles, 13 March 1997
8. Lynn Redgrave arriving and speaking to reporter
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FILE: New York, 27 January 1999
9. Lynn Redgrave arriving
10. Wide of Lynn Redgrave speaking to reporter
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Lynn Redgrave, actress:
"It feels awfully good. I'm still floating a little bit. I haven't quite come down. I'm working on a film here and my colleagues on 'The Simian Line,' William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. and the entire crew are still treating me with this wonderful sort of royalty thing, you know. They call me to the set by calling for a Golden Globe winner, not Miss Redgrave or Lynn, it's 'could the Golden Globe winner please come to the set if she wouldn't mind,' you know, things like that. So I'm really loving it."
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FILE: Hollywood, California, 16 November 1999
12. Lynn Redgrave speaking to reporter
13. Wide of Lynn Redgrave posing for photographers
STORYLINE:
Lynn Redgrave, an introspective and independent player in her family's acting dynasty who became a 1960s sensation as the unconventional title character of "Georgy Girl" and later dramatised her troubled past in such one-woman stage performances as "Shakespeare for My Father" and "Nightingale," has died. She was 67.
Her publicist Rick Miramontez, speaking on behalf of her children, said Redgrave died peacefully Sunday night at her home in Connecticut. Children Ben, Pema and Annabel were with her, as were close friends.
"Our beloved mother Lynn Rachel passed away peacefully after a seven year journey with breast cancer," Redgrave's children said in a statement on Monday.
"She lived, loved and worked harder than ever before. The endless memories she created as a mother, grandmother, writer, actor and friend will sustain us for the rest of our lives. Our entire family asks for privacy through this difficult time."
Redgrave was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2002, had a mastectomy in January 2003 and underwent chemotherapy.
The British actress' death comes a year after her niece Natasha Richardson died from head injuries sustained in a skiing accident and just a month after the death of her older brother, Corin Redgrave.
The youngest child of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lynn Redgrave never quite managed the acclaim - or notoriety - of elder sibling Vanessa Redgrave, but received Oscar nominations for "Georgy Girl" and "Gods and
Monsters," and Tony nominations for "Mrs. Warren's Profession," "Shakespeare for My Father" and "The Constant Wife."
In recent years, she also made appearances on TV in "Ugly Betty," "Law & Order" and "Desperate Housewives."
In theatre, the ruby-haired Redgrave often displayed a sunny, sweet and open personality, much like her ebullient offstage personality.
It worked well in such shows as "Black Comedy" - her Broadway debut in 1972 - and again two years later in "My Fat Friend," a comedy about an overweight young woman who sheds pounds to find romance.
Tall and blue-eyed like her sister, she was as open about her personal life as Vanessa has been about politics.
In plays and in interviews, Lynn Redgrave confided about her family, her marriage and her health. She acknowledged that she suffered from bulimia and served as a spokeswoman for Weight Watchers.
With daughter Annabel Clark, she released a 2004 book about her fight with cancer, "Journal: A Mother and Daughter's Recovery From Breast Cancer."
Redgrave was born in London in 1943 and despite self-doubts pursued the family trade. She studied at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, and was not yet 20 when she debuted professionally on stage in a London
production of "A Midsummer's Night Dream."
Like her siblings, she appeared in plays and in films, working under Noel Coward and Laurence Olivier as a
member of the National Theatre and under director/brother-in-law Tony Richardson in the 1963 screen hit "Tom Jones."
True fame caught her with "Georgy Girl," billed as "the wildest thing to hit the world since the miniskirt." The 1966 film starred Redgrave as the plain, childlike Londoner pursued by her father's middle-aged boss, played by
James Mason.
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