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AP-APTN-0130: World Iran
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
STORY:World Iran- WRAP Students condemn UK, Tehran bazaar, Netanyahu, Ebadi, Makhmalbaf sots
LENGTH: 04:32
FIRST RUN: 1830
RESTRICTIONS: NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN TV SERVICE/VOA PERSIAN TV
TYPE: Farsi/English
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/Fars News Agency
STORY NUMBER: 610564
DATELINE: Various, 23 June 2009
LENGTH: 04:32
++PART NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN TV SERVICE/ VOA PERSIAN TV++
++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 1530 NEWS UPDATE - 23 JUNE 2009)
AP Television - AP Clients Only/NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN TV SERVICE/ VOA PERSIAN TV
Tehran, Iran
1. Wide of podium set up outside the building formerly occupied by the United States embassy in Tehran
2. Reverse shot of students and speakers at news conference
3. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mehdi Abbasi Mehr, Secretary of Student Solidarity movement:
"(It is intolerable that) that Britain insults Iranian public opinion with its evil approach by pulling out family members of its diplomats and staff at its Tehran embassy. It is important that the diplomatic apparatus of the country - including the foreign ministry and the parliamentary foreign policy and national security committee - takes serious action against European countries, especially against Britain. We have no interest in having relations with Britain."
4. Wide side shot of news conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Ehsan Yavari, Secretary of Tehran branch of student Basij:
"We can refer to the key role of the British media, especially the BBC, in organising and fomenting recent unrest and clashes, as well as Britain's harbouring of MKO (referring to banned Iranian opposition group, People's Mujahedin of Iran) terrorists who were masterminding recent turmoil and clashes. We urge the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to cut its diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom as soon as possible."
6. Wide of speakers at news conference held by hardline students, they stand up and raise arms and join hands and shout: (Farsi) "God is Great! God is Great!
(FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2009)
Fars News Agency - No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only - Strictly No Access Online or Mobile/NO ACCESS BBC PERSIAN TV SERVICE/ VOA PERSIAN TV
++EDITORIAL USE ONLY. EDITOR'S NOTE: AS A RESULT OF AN OFFICIAL IRANIAN GOVERNMENT BAN ON FOREIGN MEDIA COVERING EVENTS IN IRAN, THE AP IS OBLIGED TO USE IMAGES FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES++
Tehran, Iran
7. STILL: protester waves Iranian flag in front of the British Embassy, in background ranks of riot police guard embassy wall and gate, protesting against "western countries meddling in Iran's domestic affairs"
8. STILL: protesters burn representations of flags of some western countries, including the US, France, Britain and Italy, also of Israel, during demonstration outside British Embassy
9. STILL: Protester holding an anti-British placard, as he kicks the burnt representations of flags of some western countries, including the US, France, Britain and Italy, also of Israel, during demonstration outside British Embassy
(FIRST RUN 1330 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2009)
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Tehran, Iran
10. Wide of people in Tehran's grand Bazaar
11. Mid of people passing by shops
12. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Reza, No last name given, shop owner:
"Several days ago because of the unrest people were scared to come to Bazaar and business was not good at all and we were not doing anything here. We had no income at all. But it is two or three days now that the situation has got better and people are less scared now."
13. People in Bazaar
14. Wide exterior Bazaar
(FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2009)
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Rome, Italy
15. Wide shot Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi entering room
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister:
"I believe that the courage shown by the people of Iran in facing bullets in the streets for the sake of freedom is something that deserves the salute of free men and women everywhere."
17. Wide shot press room
(FIRST RUN 1230 NEWS UPDATE - 23 JUNE 2009)
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Brussels - Belgium
18. Wide of news conference, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate arriving
19. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate:
"The government should immediately halt the violence against the people, and give the people the right to hold demonstrations, and this right has been recognised by our constitutional law for the people."
20. Cutaway of media
21. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate:
"I don't believe in economic sanctions because it only makes the people suffer and it will not weaken the government, but want I want is political sanctions."
(FIRST RUN 1330 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2009)
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Rome, Italy
22. Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf speaking to demonstrating Iranian students holding placards reading: "Ahmadinejad is not Iran President" and "where is my vote"
23. Close up Makhmalbaf speaking
24. Pan left from placard reading "where is my vote" to Makhmalbaf and demonstrators
25. Pull out from Makhmalbaf to demonstrators applauding
26. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Iranian film director:
"The Iranian people before had their mouth, ears and eyes covered, now they have covered their entire faces. Either the Iranian people will die, or they will liberate themselves."
27. Wide of news conference
STORYLINE:
Hardline students protested outside the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, as Iran expelled two British diplomats and accused Britain of meddling and spying.
The government also dealt a fresh blow to the opposition by making clear it will not hold a new vote despite charges of fraud.
Iranian state television said hard-line students protested outside the British Embassy in Tehran to protest at what they said was interference by the British in Iran's internal affairs.
Witnesses said about 100 people took part, and protesters burned US, British and Israeli flags, pelted the building with tomatoes and chanted: "Down with Britain!" and "Down with USA!"
The Iranian Fars News Agency released photographs of protesters burning flags.
Iranian state English-Television, Press TV said on Tuesday that the government had refused to grant a permit for a protest by university students outside the British embassy in Tehran, but it appeared that refusal had been flouted.
Also in Tehran on Tuesday, a group of hardline students held a news conference outside the building formerly occupied by the US embassy, and called on the government to cut off relations with the United Kingdom.
The US embassy building in Tehran has been empty since formal relations were broken off after hardline students stormed it in 1979, sparking the Iranian hostage crisis.
Iran's Foreign Ministry said it expelled the two Britons for "unconventional behaviour," state television reported, and Britain announced it was sending two Iranian diplomats home in retaliation.
Tensions between Iran and Britain have soared in recent days.
During Friday prayers at Tehran University, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out against Western countries he said were displaying their "enmity" against Iran, "and the most evil of them is the British government."
And Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has accused Britain of sending spies to manipulate the June 12 election.
Iran's expulsions came a day after Britain sent home 12 dependents of diplomatic staff because the unrest had disrupted their lives.
The US and many European countries have refrained from challenging the election outcome directly, but have issued increasingly stern warnings against continuing violence meted out to demonstrators.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday praised the courage of Iranian protesters and called Iran the greatest threat to peace.
Speaking in Rome on his first visit to Europe as prime minister, Netanyahu said the courage of the protesters "in facing bullets in the streets" deserved the praise of everyone around the world.
Netanyahu said the images being shown of the violent crackdown on the protesters showed the true nature of the Iranian regime, and was making governments everywhere reassess their relations with Tehran.
Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi claims he was the true winner of the June 12 election, but the electoral commission declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won by a landslide.
Mousavi has been out of sight in recent days and there were no reports of violent clashes Tuesday, possibly a measure of the effectiveness of the crackdown.
Residents in Tehran thronged the city's grand bazaar on Tuesday, as Iran's rulers stiffened their stance against protesters, firmly rejecting demands to annul the presidential election over fraud allegations.
Authorities have in recent days set up a special court for detained demonstrators, and are keeping troops in riot gear on the streets to break up any gatherings.
Shop owners in the bazaar said people were now returning, after several days in which customers had been too scared to venture out of their homes due to the demonstrations.
In Italy, two prominent Iranian opposition figures took their case to Europe on Tuesday.
Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi called on European Union countries to impose political sanctions against Iranian authorities to press for an end to the crackdown on demonstrations.
Ebadi said she asked EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and other EU officials to condemn the violent measures taken by Iranian government in dealing with its citizens.
Iranian film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf also said on Tuesday that the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was trying to silence the Iranian people.
"Either the Iranian people will die, or they will liberate themselves," he said, speaking at the Foreign Correspondent's Association in Rome.
Makhmalbaf, who directed the film Kandahar, said he is a close friend of Ahmadinejad's main challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and was speaking on his behalf even though he is not an official spokesman for the opposition.
He called on western embassies in Tehran to provide shelter to those injured in violence or seeking to avoid Iranian authorities following street confrontations.
He said he had been asked by Mousavi's aides to spread the word on what is happening in Iran.
Severe restrictions on reporters have made it almost impossible to independently verify reports on demonstrations, clashes and casualties.
Iran has ordered reporters for international news agencies to stay in their offices, barring them from reporting on the streets.
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AP-APTN-0130: Greece Iran
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
STORY:Greece Iran- REPLAY Anti Iran government protest outside Greek parliament
LENGTH: 01:35
FIRST RUN: 2130
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: English/Natsound
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 610604
DATELINE: Athens, 23 June 2009
LENGTH: 01:35
SHOTLIST:
1. Wide of protesters chanting, holding placards reading (English): "We want freedom"
2. Mid of protesters holding up placards
3. Close of placard showing image of alleged injured student protesters in Iran
4. Close of placard showing map of Iran with colours of Iranian flag
5. Close of placard reading (English): "This Persian President doesn't know English," tilt up to protester wearing cloth over his mouth with the word "No" written on it
6. Wide of protest outside Greek parliament
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) name unknown, protester, vox pop:
"We are Iranian people, we want to say to all people in the world - we want freedom, we don't want dictatorship in Iran, we want to be free. We cannot think in Iran, we cannot speak, we cannot go everywhere. They are dictators, they are fascists, they are killing people, without reason, without reason killing people. Iran is in blood now. You should help to Iran, you should help to Iran now, after you cannot do anything for us."
8. Mid of protesters clapping and chanting, holding green balloon
9. Close of protester with face painted in colours of Iranian flag
10. Close of banner reading (English): "Free Iran"
11. Wide of protesters, waving Iranian flag
STORYLINE:
About 250 Iranians living in Greece held a peaceful protest in Athens on Tuesday over the contested presidential election in Iran.
Protesters held up banners with slogans including "Free Iran" outside the Greek parliament.
One protester urged the international community to help Iran.
"They are dictators, they are fascists, they are killing people, without reason," said the protester.
At least 17 people have been killed in protests in Iran since the disputed presidential election on June 12.
Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi claims he was the true winner of the election, but the electoral commission declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won by a landslide, which sparked angry demonstrations over the past 10 days.
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AP-APTN-0130: US Obama 3
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
STORY:US Obama 3- REPLAY President Obama news conference, comment on Iran
LENGTH: 03:42
FIRST RUN: 1830
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: English/Natsound
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 610588
DATELINE: Washington DC, 23 June 2009
LENGTH: 03:42
SHOTLIST:
(FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2009)
1. Wide shot briefing room, US President Barack Obama walking in
2. Side shot Obama at podium
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, and the beatings, and imprisonments of the last few days. I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join with the American people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost. I have made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not interfering with Iran's affairs, but we must also bear witness to the courage and the dignity of the Iranian people, and to a remarkable opening within Iranian society. And we deplore the violence against innocent civilians anywhere that it takes place."
(FIRST RUN 1830 NAMERICA PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2009)
4. Cutaway reporters
(FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2009)
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President: +++includes cutaway side shot Obama+++
"Some in the Iranian government in particular, are trying to avoid that debate by accusing the United States and others in the West of instigating protests over the election. These accusations are patently false. They're (accusations) an obvious attempt to distract people from what is truly taking place within Iran's borders. This tired strategy of using old tensions to scapegoat other countries won't work any more in Iran. This is not about the United States or the West; this is about the people of Iran, and the future that they - and only they - will choose."
(FIRST RUN 1830 NAMERICA PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2009)
6. Rear shot Obama and journalists as one asks question
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"We didn't have international observers on the ground. We can't say definitively what exactly happened at polling places throughout the country. What we know is that a sizeable percentage of the Iranian people themselves, spanning Iranian society, consider this election illegitimate. It's not an isolated instance, a little grumbling here or there; there are significant questions about the legitimacy of the election."
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Chip Reid, NBC reporter
"Were you influenced at all by John McCain and Lindsey Graham accusing you of being timid and weak?"
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"What do you think?" (laughter)
10. Cutaway of reporters laughing
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"Yeh, I think that all of us share a belief that we want justice to prevail, but only I'm the president of the United States, and I've got responsibilities in making certain that we are continually advancing our national security interests, and that we are not used as a tool to be exploited by other countries."
12. Wide shot of press
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Suzanne Malveaux, CNN Reporter
"Have you seen this video and what's your reaction to it?" (referring to the video of death by gunshot of Neda Agha Soltan during protest in Iran)
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"It's heartbreaking. It's uh, it's heartbreaking. And I think that anybody who sees it knows that there is something fundamentally unjust about that."
15. Side shot of Obama ending news conference and walking away
STORYLINE:
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared the United States and the entire world "appalled and outraged by the threats, and the beatings, and imprisonments of the last few days," referring to Iran's efforts to crush dissent.
"I strongly condemn these unjust actions," Obama said in a news conference at the White House.
But Obama insisted that "the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not interfering with Iran's affairs," but "must also bear witness to the courage and dignity of the Iranian people, and to a remarkable opening within Iranian society."
He said the Iranian government's strategy of blaming Western governments for instigating protests was "a tired strategy."
"The Iranian people are trying to have a debate about their future. Some in Iran, some in the Iranian government in particular, are trying to avoid that debate by accusing the United States and others in the West of instigating protests over the election," he said.
"This is not about the United States or the West; this is about the people of Iran, and the future that they - and only they - will choose. The Iranian people can speak for themselves," he said.
His speech appeared to mark a toughening of his rhetoric after Republican critics at home pounded him for being too passive.
When asked by a reporter whether his apparent toughening was influenced by Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham, Obama laughingly said "What do you think?"
In Tehran, chaotic images of riot police beating and shooting protesters have seized the world's attention and heightened pressure on Obama to act - or at least speak out more strongly.
At least 17 people have been killed in protests since Iranian elections last week.
Protesters in Iran have demanded that the government there cancel and rerun the elections that ended with a declaration of overwhelming victory for hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi says he won and has claimed widespread fraud.
Obama was asked the killing of a young woman, Neda Agha Soltan, whose apparent shooting death was captured on video and circulated worldwide.
Asked if he had seen the video and what his reaction was, Obama said it was "heartbreaking", and that anybody who saw it would see there is "something fundamentally unjust about that."
Five months into his presidency, Obama defended his response to the Iranian tumult and pushed lawmakers to deliver on ambitious overhauls of health care and energy.
Obama's appearance comes as his approval rating, while still high, and a little above average for news presidents, is slipping according to recent polls.
The president took the podium after a troublesome week for the new administration.
He's seeking to frame the Washington debate on his own terms after a stretch in which he saw even Democrats fret about the jaw-dropping cost estimates of reforming health care, a series of polls underscoring deep unease among independents and moderates over the soaring deficit, and Republicans challenge him to be stronger in his response to post-election turmoil in Iran.
Obama didn't rule out shifting the US strategy toward Iran, which calls for an opening of dialogue with the reclusive regime.
Obama said the United States has provided a path for Iran to reach out to the international community and engage with global powers.
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AP-APTN-0130: US Train
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
STORY:US Train- REPLAY Investigation into cause of train crash which killed nine, NTSB presser
LENGTH: 01:41
FIRST RUN: 0030
RESTRICTIONS: Part No Access NAmerica/Internet
TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/ABC
STORY NUMBER: 610614
DATELINE: Washington DC, 23 June 2009
LENGTH: 01:41
SHOTLIST:
++NEW
(FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 24 JUNE 2009)
ABC - No Access NAmerica/Internet
1. Wide of locomotive attached to damaged train
2. Medium of locomotive towing damaged train
++NEW
(FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 24 JUNE 2009)
AP Television - AP Clients Only
3. National Transportation Safety Board Investigator Debbie Hersman walking with officials
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Debbie Hersman, National Transportation Safety Board Investigator:
"We've made recommendations about putting recorders on these cars. We've made recommendations about retro-fitting for crashworthiness purposes for these cars and to date those recommendations have not been accomplished."
++NEW
(FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 24 JUNE 2009)
ABC - No Access NAmerica/Internet
5. Medium of Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty walking to news briefing
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Adrian Fenty, Washington DC Mayor:
"We now have final confirmation that nine people have died as a result of yesterday's accident. All of those people are now pulled from the wreckage."
(FIRST RUN 1330 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2009)
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7. Medium shot officials working on impact area of metro crash
++NEW
(FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 24 JUNE 2009)
ABC - No Access NAmerica/Internet
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Debbie Hersman, National Transportation Safety Board Investigator:
"They found in the operator's control area that the mushroom, the emergency brakes, the emergency mushroom was found in a depressed condition, that it was pushed in. "
(FIRST RUN 1830 NORTH AMERICA PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2009)
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9. Wide of recovery efforts at site of crash
10. Tight of emergency workers working on crash site
11. Medium of officials watching recovery effort
12. Wide of workers and search dog at crash site
13. Medium of wreckage
STORYLINE:
Investigators looking into the deadly crash of two Metro transit trains in Washington DC focused on Tuesday on why a computerised system failed to halt an oncoming train, and why the train failed to stop even though the emergency brake was pressed.
At the time of the crash, the train also was operating in automatic mode, meaning it was controlled primarily by computer.
In that mode, the operator's main job is to open and close the doors and respond in case of an emergency.
Debbie Hersman, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), said it was unclear whether the emergency brake actually was engaged when Monday's crash occurred.
Hersman told reporters in Washington, DC on Tuesday that the mushroom-shaped button that activates it was found pushed down in the operator's compartment.
Hersman said it was not clear when the button was pressed or how it got that way, and also said there was evidence of braking on the train's rotors, indicating it was likely that the operator tried to slow down.
The train ploughed into a stopped train ahead of it at the height of Monday's evening rush hour, killing nine people and injuring more than 70 in the deadliest accident in the 30-year history of the Metro.
Crews spent Tuesday pulling apart the wreckage and searching for bodies.
Washington's mayor, Adrian Fenty, confirmed that all of the deceased had been pulled from the wreckage.
Authorities also worked to determine why the train's safeguards apparently did not kick in.
Investigators want to examine the mobile phone and texting records of the train operator, identified as Jeanice McMillan, to determine whether she was distracted before the crash, Hersman said.
Safety officials were also investigating a passenger's statement that the train had stopped briefly then started again before the crash.
On Tuesday, all Metro trains were running on manual control as a precaution against computer malfunction.
The cars in the moving train were some of the oldest in the transit network, dating to the founding of the system.
Federal officials had sought to phase out the aging fleet because of safety concerns, but the transit system kept the old trains running, saying it lacked money for new cars.
Hersman told the Associated Press that the NTSB had warned in 2006 that the old fleet should be replaced or retrofitted to make it better able to survive a crash.
"To date those recommendations have not been accomplished," she said.
Metro has long pleaded for more funding to ensure the system's safety.
The transit network is supported by the District of Columbia, Maryland and the Virginia jurisdictions that it serves.
However, unlike other major systems, Metro has no dedicated funding source.
Metro officials have long argued that the federal government should contribute because the trains serves the capital, and some 40 percent of rush-hour riders are federal workers.
Metro General Manager John Catoe said last year it would take seven (b) billion US dollars just to maintain current service and keep the system running safely and reliably from 2010 to 2020.
That includes replacements for aging rail cars.
It would take (b) billions more, he said, to deploy longer trains and more buses to meet the projected increase in demand.
The number of trips taken on Metro trains is expected to grow 22 percent to about one (m) million a day by 2020.
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AP-APTN-0130: Mexico Storm 3
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
STORY:Mexico Storm 3- REPLAY Andres grows into first hurricane of Pacific season, at least 1 dead
LENGTH: 03:05
FIRST RUN: 2330
RESTRICTIONS: Part No Access Mexico
TYPE: Spanish/Nat
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/ TV Azteca
STORY NUMBER: 610608
DATELINE: Various, 23 June 2009
LENGTH: 03:05
SHOTLIST:
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
(FIRST RUN 2130 NEWS UPDATE - 23 JUNE 2009)
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Manzanillo, Colima State
1. Traffic in principal avenue
2. Various of people walking in streets
3. Wide of beach and waves
4. Wide of boat in the sea
5. Mid of waves
6. Mid of palm trees
7. Rain drops on floor
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Juan Francisco Gonzalez, tourist:
"Since this morning we have been watching the news and we determined that we were going to avoid leaving the hotel and try to store water, food - at least the most essential things - try going out (of the hotel) as little as possible and avoid unfortunate consequences."
9. Strong waves and boat in the sea
(FIRST RUN 1730 NEWS UPDATE - 23 JUNE 2009)
AP Television - AP Clients Only
Manzanillo, Colima State
10. Wide of palm trees moving with the wind
11. Boat in the sea with rain and mist
12. Close of sign outside store reading: (Spanish) "Closed"
13. Wide of sign
14. Tracking shot from inside of car of army trucks and soldiers
15. Various of beach and waves
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Martin Sanchez Munoz, Owner of El Caribe Restaurant:
"Yes, waiting with calm, the rain is normal and is necessary right? So, here we are waiting to arrive and take us with the alert and precaution."
17. Rain falling from roof
++NEW++
(FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2009)
TV Azteca - No Access Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan State
18. Wide of street as it rains
19. Close of rain falling on car
20. Various of cars driving through flooded streets
STORYLINE:
The tropical tempest Andres strengthened into the Pacific season's first hurricane on Tuesday, flooding homes, toppling trees and killing at least one person as it swiped Mexico's southwestern coast with wind and rain.
Andres packed maximum winds near 75 mph (120 kph), just over the threshold of hurricane strength, but was expected to weaken over the next day or two, the US National Hurricane Center said.
The centre of the storm as of 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) was about 65 miles (105 kilometres) west-southwest of the port city of Manzanillo.
Moving near 13 mph (21 kph) toward the northwest, it was forecast to pass very close to or over the southwestern coast later on Tuesday.
Mexican authorities had posted a hurricane warning for the coastal strip from just south of Manzanillo to near Puerto Vallarta, and heavy rain flooded homes and wind blew down trees in the states of Jalisco, Colima and Guerrero.
Rain poured down on Tuesday on the port of Manzanillo, where authorities opened 14 shelters amid forecasts that the storm would likely graze the city.
Forecasters said Andres would then churn past tourist towns such as Barra de Navidad that are home to some American and Canadian expatriates.
It was raining lightly in Barra de Navidad on Tuesday afternoon but hotels were already preparing for the storm.
To the south, rain on Monday caused flooding in the resort of Acapulco that forced about 200 people to evacuate their homes.
A fisherman drowned when choppy currents overturned his boat in a lagoon in Tecpan de Galeana, between Acapulco and Zihuatanejo, a state police report said.
The sun peeked through cloudy skies in Acapulco on Tuesday, but the government closed all schools.
The US National Hurricane Center said Andres could bring a coastal storm surge as much as three feet (nearly one metre) above normal while dumping as much
as 8 inches (200 millimetres) of rain in a few spots.
The forecast track showed the storm then weakening as it continued northwest along the coast before veering west into the open Pacific and just south of the Los Cabos resorts at the tip of the Baja California peninsula on Thursday morning.
Late on Sunday, Andres became the first named storm of the eastern Pacific hurricane season, which began May 15 and ends November 30.
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AP-APTN-0130: Turkey Crash
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
STORY:Turkey Crash- REPLAY Boy mown down by runaway car walks away unscathed
LENGTH: 02:16
FIRST RUN: 1730
RESTRICTIONS: No Access Turkey/ROJ TV
TYPE: Turkish/Nat
SOURCE: DHA
STORY NUMBER: 610590
DATELINE: Sanliurfa, 20/22 June 2009
LENGTH: 02:16
SHOTLIST
DHA - No Access Turkey
Sanliurfa, 20 June 2009
1. CCTV showing boy standing at bottom of steps, smaller boy standing at top of steps, car comes flying towards him, hitting smaller boy who is thrown down steps and then gets up and walks off
2. Various of car after crash, where it has come to rest at bottom of steps outside shop
3. Close-up of damaged car bonnet covered in glass from shattered shop window
4. Various of car being towed back up steps to road, crowd watching and helping
DHA - No Access Turkey
Sanliurfa, 22 June 2009
5. Various of small boy, Muhammet Dirlik, who was hit by car, playing on slide in playground
6. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Muhammet Dirlik, boy who was hit by car:
(Reporter question: Were you hit by the car when you were playing on the street?)
"Yes."
(Reporter question: What were you doing when it hit you?)
"I was wandering around."
(Reporter question: You were looking around and the car came and hit you, is this correct?)
"Yes."
(Reporter question: Did you get hurt?)
"No."
7. Mid of Dirlik and his father, Ibrahim Halil Dirlik
8. Close-up of boy and his father
9. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) Ibrahim Halil Dirlik, boy's father:
"We understood that there was an accident when we heard the noise. I saw my son coming towards me crying. We were not aware that he had been hit by the car. We thought that he just freaked out and was crying because the car had crashed into the shop. We only realised the next day that the car hit my son."
10. Muhammet Dirlik walking down steps, zoom out to mid
11. Mid of Muhammet Dirlik being photographed
STORYLINE
CCTV images broadcast on Turkish television showed a small boy being hit by a car and flying through the air, before getting up and walking away.
The accident happened on 20 June in the town of Sanliurfa in the south east of the country.
The CCTV video showed a car flying off the street and hitting four-year-old Muhammet Dirlik, knocking him down a flight of steps.
He then picked himself up and walked off.
A second taller boy can be seen running away from the fast-moving vehicle.
The car crashed through the front window of a shop and was hauled back up onto the street with the help of a crowd of onlookers.
In an interview on Monday, the boy, Muhammet Dirlik, said he had been wandering around on the pavement when the car knocked into him, but he had not been hurt.
The boy's father Ibrahim Halil Dirlik, said the family had not realised until the next day that Muhammet had actually been hit by the car, and has assumed he was crying because he had been upset at witnessing the accident.
The car's driver reportedly said he swerved to avoid running over a puppy and lost control of the car.
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AP-APTN-0130: Peru Protest
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
STORY:Peru Protest- REPLAY Talks to end protests by indigenous people
LENGTH: 01:47
FIRST RUN: 2330
RESTRICTIONS: Pt No Access Peru
TYPE: Spanish/Natsound
SOURCE: Channel 9/AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 610567
DATELINE: Various - 22/23 June 2009
LENGTH: 01:47
SHOTLIST:
AP TELEVISION - AP Clients Only
La Oroya, Junin Province - 23 June 2009
1. Wide of protestors blocking road covered in rocks, chanting
2. Mid of protestors blocking road with rocks
3. Zoom out of blocked road covered in rocks by protestors
4. Protestors pushing rock onto road
5. Protestors pushing large rock down hill onto road
6. Rock falling onto road
7. Various of small fire lit on top of rock
8. Various of ambulance trying to get past road blocked by rubble
9. Zoom out of line of vehicles in standstill by roadblock
10. Two people in wheel cart being pushed past roadblock
11. Motorcycle driving past
12. Various of people walking past road covered by rocks
13. Protestors rolling rocks onto road
14. Wide of rocks blocking road
CHANNEL 9 - No Access Peru
Cusco region - 22 June 2009
15. Wide of anti riot police standing outside Cusco Airport
16. Various of protestors
17. Wide of people sitting on side of road
18. Wide of Cusco Airport
19. Wide of tourists exiting airport
20. Mid of people coming out of airport
21. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) name unknown, airport security guard:
"Previously two people had been stopped, they said they were just going through, then when they (police officers) went through his backpack, they found armaments (home made bombs)."
(Q: "Are they Canchinos?" (Indigenous people from the Province of Canchis, located in Department of Cusco))
"Yes, they are Canchinos from Sicuani."
(Q: "How many home made bombs did you find?")
"Seven."
22. Wide of anti riot police at the airport
STORYLINE:
Peruvian miners in the Province of Junin blocked a major road on Tuesday as they demanded the government provide financial help to the mining industry, which is threatening to close a major operation in the region, leaving thousands unemployed.
Protesters covered the road with large rocks and boulders, bringing traffic to a standstill.
A day earlier, farmers gathered in front of Cusco's Airport to protest the privatisation of water sources.
A man carrying seven home made bombs in a backpack was arrested at the protest, an unidentified airport security guard said.
Meanwhile, the government on Tuesday authorised the use of military force in the country's south eastern region where anti-government protesters have blocked highways and burned down a local customs house.
A declaration announcing the government decision was published in Tuesday's official gazette.
The document also suspended a state of emergency in Peru's jungle provinces, where police clashes with Amazonian Indian protesters in early June left at least 30 dead.
Indigenous protesters started blocking highways, rivers and a state oil pipeline in the Amazon beginning in early April, and violence erupted on June 5 when police broke up one road blockade.
The protests eased after Congress revoked decrees that opened Amazonian tribal lands to private development.
Peru's Indigenous people have been opposing the 11 decrees since last year that they fear would make it easier for private oil, logging and biofuel companies to acquire their traditional lands.
The government argued the decrees were needed to bring investment and development to Peru's impoverished jungle.
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AP-APTN-0130: Portugal Whaling
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
STORY:Portugal Whaling- REPLAY Whaling Commission talks on number of whales to be hunted
LENGTH: 02:19
FIRST RUN: 1530
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/Greenpeace VNR
STORY NUMBER: 610560
DATELINE: Various - 23 June 2009
LENGTH: 02:19
SHOTLIST
GREENPEACE VNR - AP Clients Only
Southern Pacific Ocean - Recent
1. Wide aerial of Japanese ship hunting whale, zoom in as whale is harpooned
2. Mid of whale thrashing in water after being harpooned
3. Mid of two whales being pulled up into ship
4. Wide aerial of several captured whales on ship, zoom out
AP TELEVISION - AP Clients Only
Funchal, Madeira - 23 June 2009
5. Wide of International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting
6. Mid of delegates listening to speeches
7. Mid of journalists and NGO members listening to speeches
8. Wide of meeting
9. Wide of Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett walking into news conference
10. Mid of photographer
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Garrett, Australian Environment Minister:
"There are great economic benefits from whale watching. That whale watching is an industry which is growing right around the world and that the potential for communities to generate sustainable livelihood from watching whales - not killing them, but watching them - is significant."
12. Mid of journalist
13. Wide of Australian swimmer and anti-whaling campaigner Leisel Jones handing petition poster to Garrett, UPSOUND (English) Leisel Jones: "Each one of these names represent an individual Australian who signed the petition, and we have about 10-thousand signatures on here, but we got about 15-thousand signatures, so we're very pleased with the result."
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Leisel Jones, Swimmer and anti-whaling campaigner:
"No, there's certainly no humane way to kill a whale and that is what we thoroughly believe in and Australians believe in that as well. I mean, these whales take an hour to die, they are using harpoons that denote inside the whales body."
15. Wide of news conference
STORYLINE
The International Whaling Commission on Tuesday met for a second day of talks on a possible deal which would reduce the number of whales killed each year.
As the IWC continued its discussions, Australia's Environment Minister Peter Garrett joined representatives from the NGO: the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to release a report about the growing popularity of whale watching.
IFAW said during the last year 13 (m) million people around the world took whale watching tours, generating over 2.1 (b) billion US dollars in income.
Garrett supported the findings of the report, and said it was possible to generate a "sustainable livelihood" from watching whales, rather than killing them.
Anti-whaling campaigner Leisel Jones, who is an Australian Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer, presented Garrett with a poster displaying the names of 10-thousand Australians who rejected whale hunting.
Japan, Iceland and Norway run commercial whaling operations which kill around two-thousand whales a year and they are reluctant to give up the trade.
Anti-whaling countries including the United States, the European Union and Australia want to tighten the restrictions introduced by a 1986 moratorium.
The Japanese fleet hunts in Antarctica and the northwestern Pacific Ocean under an IWC exemption for scientific research.
Japan's government also argues that the international ban on commercial whaling violates its cultural traditions.
Critics say the research programme is merely a cover for commercial whaling and that technological advances make it unnecessary to harpoon the whales.
Militant environmentalists have clashed with Japan's whaling fleet in recent years in attempts to thwart its whale hunt.
Delegates from more than 80 countries are examining an IWC compromise proposal under which Japan would swop at least part of its Southern Ocean research quota for permission to hunt in its coastal waters.
The IWC last year asked a group of experts to seek a compromise deal on stock management and conservation.
But in a report published last month the experts conceded an agreement on key issues was still beyond reach.
Australia and New Zealand announced last week they will conduct a non-lethal whale research expedition to the Antarctic, a direct challenge to Japan's research program that kills up to one-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.
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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AP-APTN-0130: ++Mexico Environment
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
STORY:++Mexico Environment- NEW Environment ministers from 30 countries discuss climate change
LENGTH: 01:29
FIRST RUN: 0130
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: English/Natsound
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 610568
DATELINE: Morelos, 23 June 2009
LENGTH: 01:29
SHOTLIST:
1. Various of delegates at climate change conference
2. Wide of US envoy for climate change, Todd Stern, taking seat at conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Todd Stern, US envoy for climate change: ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++
"Our proposal involves about a 14 or 15 per cent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020, rising up to over an 80 per cent reduction by 2050. The legislation that I referred to a few minutes ago, the so called Waxman-Markey legislation would envision about a 17 per cent reduction from 2005 levels, again ramping up year by year all the way up to over 80 per cent by 2050. So, we will continue working with congress, trying to get legislation passed."
4. Mid of attendees at conference
5. People gathered in foyer
6. Wide of delegates at conference
7. Mid of conference sign reading (Spanish): "Third preparatory meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate."
STORYLINE:
US President Barack Obama's climate envoy dismissed recommendations that the United States and other developed countries reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases 40 per cent by 2020.
"Our proposal involves about a 14 or 15 per cent reduction below 2005 levels by 2020, rising up to over an 80 per cent reduction by 2050," Todd Stern said on Tuesday at a conference on global warming in Morelos, just south of Mexico City.
Stern was speaking at the end of a two-day meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, a gathering of 19 nations and the European Union that together produce 80 per cent of the world's greenhouse gases.
The group, called together by Obama, was trying to build a replacement climate change treaty for the expiring Kyoto Protocol.
A panel of United Nations scientists had recommended that industrial countries cut carbon emissions by 25 per cent to 40 per cent by 2020 to avoid a catastrophic rise in sea levels, harsher storms and droughts and climate disruptions.
Some poorer and island countries are pushing for reductions of as much as 45 per cent.
After rejecting that idea, Stern pointed to progress on legislation before the US Congress that would require lesser reductions.
He said the Waxman-Markey bill was expected to move to the floor of the US House this week for debate.
The bill calls for a 17 per cent cut in US emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 2020 from 2005 levels, and an 83 per cent reduction by mid-century.
Carbon dioxide, produced by burning coal and other fossil fuels, is the leading manmade greenhouse gas that scientists have linked to global warming.
Such measures may not be enough to bring agreement on a climate change accord, which the United Nations hopes will be agreed on at a conference in Copenhagen next December.
Stern said there were "still significant differences between the parties" on emissions levels at the talks.
But the final document from the Mexico talks indicated only that "many leaders' representatives expressed support for agreeing to a long-term goal by 2050," indicating there wasn't even complete agreement on the idea of emission caps by that late date.
Somewhat more progress was made on financing for emissions reduction, technology and adaptation to climate change.
Mexico's proposal for a "green fund" to which all but the very poorest countries would contribute, and then receive funding for clean energy and environmental projects, appeared to be gaining traction.
Stern voiced support for the proposal, adding that "there are a number of countries that sat around the table that also think it's an interesting idea."
Unlike the current, largely private carbon credit market in which polluting companies pay to offset their emissions, the new, 10 (b) billion US dollar fund would be financed through government contributions and run by a multilateral agency, possibly the World Bank.
Mexico's government said on Tuesday that it was open to including carbon credits in the framework of the proposed fund, to make more money available to poor countries to develop cleaner technologies and prepare for climate change phenomena like floods and droughts.
Environmental activists said that while Mexico's proposal lacked compliance mechanisms to ensure that wealthy countries contribute, it was preferable to the current carbon credits market.
Stern agreed there would be a need for "some sort of mechanism for a more regular provision and a more dependable provision of funding to poor countries."
Norway has suggested a fund financed by proceeds from auctioning emission permits, but Stern said that proposal was "more amenable to some countries than others," without offering any specifics.
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