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AP-APTN-0630: Afghanistan Professor Monday, 15 June 2009 STORY:Afghanistan Professor- REPLAY Harvard professor leaves lab for Afghan deployment LENGTH: 02:50 FIRST RUN: 0130 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 609713 DATELINE: Wardak Province - 30 April 2009 LENGTH: 02:50 SHOTLIST: 1. Close of Kit Parker, Harvard professor and US Army major, inside armoured vehicle 2. Close of Parker's ISAF badge on uniform (International Security Assistance Force) 3. Close of Parker holding gun 4. Mid of driver inside armoured vehicle 5. Mid of Parker climbing out of vehicle 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kit Parker, Harvard professor and US Army major: "Not many people ask me about my experience over here. I think they are trying to respect my privacy. That's ok. I'd rather be known in Harvard for being a good teacher and being a good scientist than for being a gun slinger." 7. Tilt up of Parker on patrol 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kit Parker, Harvard professor and US Army major: "Here in Afghanistan all I really have to worry about is staying alive and keeping those around me alive. When you're back in the states I'm a professor, I run a research group, I run a business, I've got people on a pay roll, I've got students that need my attention, I'm trying to get experiments done, papers published, grants written and funded, patents filed, patents licensed." 9. Close of Afghan elders finishing praying on a meeting with US soldiers 10. Tilt down of Parker taking notes during meeting with Afghan elders 11. Wide of meeting 12. Close of pen and notebook, change of focus to close of gun 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kit Parker, Harvard professor and US Army major: "With this brigade combat team I fall in and conduct missions with them, and try to understand looking with a different lens than the people that are part of the unit, how they are doing it and what's working. And we try to get those lessons learnt, documented, so that the next unit that comes in here can learn without having to reinvent the wheel." 14. Close pan of Parker cleaning his weapon 15. Mid of Parker cleaning gun 16. Close of Parker 17. Close of Parker cleaning gun 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kit Parker, Harvard professor and US Army major: "If you take a look at the history, Genghis Khan, before him Alexander the Great, the Brits three times, the Soviets, they had a lots of invaders here. And we have to be very careful about doing a surge here because we don't want to be perceived in that long line of invaders that have come in here and eventually left Afghanistan. So, it's going to take more, but when the more gets here I'm undecided. If we surge too quickly Afghanistan might not be able to handle it." 19. Wide of Parker on base STORYLINE: Harvard professor Kit Parker has swapped life in the classroom, for life on the battlefield in Afghanistan, where the 43-year-old also works as US Army Major. Parker has spent his entire career juggling two unlikely professions: teaching and fighting. Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Parker first heard about Afghanistan as an undergraduate at Boston University in the 1980s. The university was running a training programme for Afghan reporters who wrote articles about the war between the mujahedeen and the Soviet Union's troops for the university newspaper. He got his bachelor's degree in biomedical engineering in Boston before moving to Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, where he earned a master's in chemical engineering and a Ph.D. in applied physics, and was also an army reservist at the time. Shortly before the attacks of September 11, 2001, Parker was considering getting out of the army, but when the attacks happened he was convinced he would stay with the army. About the same time, Harvard offered him a job as professor. Parker was first deployed with the US Army's 82nd Airborne division into southern Afghanistan - the Taliban's heartland - in 2002. As a captain, he patrolled the vast desert expanse of Kandahar and Zabul provinces, fought and had tea with villagers. After nearly being hit by a roadside bomb, he began research on traumatic brain injuries. Funded by the Defence Advance Research Project Agency, his team started looking into the molecular mechanisms of traumatic brain injury - what happens when blast waves penetrate the skull and go to the brain. He returned in December to Afghanistan, and is currently stationed with the 3rd Brigade of the New York-based 10th Mountain Division in the central province of Wardak, west of Kabul. "With this brigade combat team I fall in and conduct missions with them, and try to understand looking with a different lens than the people that are part of the unit, how they are doing it and what's working," Parker said, speaking on base. "And we try to get those lessons learnt, documented, so that the next unit that comes in here can learn without having to reinvent the wheel." Parker also warns against a full-blown surge in Afghanistan, drawing reference to the country's long history of "invaders", including Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Britain and the Soviets, he said. "We have to be very careful about doing a surge here because we don't want to be perceived in that long line of invaders that have come in here and eventually left Afghanistan," Parker warned. US President Barack Obama has increased the US focus on Afghanistan this year, ordering 21-thousand additional troops to the country as the US military begins to pull out of Iraq. As US General Stanley McChrystal takes up his command on Monday, the four-star US general, a former special forces commander, is expected to bring a fresh approach to an increasingly violent eight-year war. McChrystal will lead the largest international force in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion that ousted the Taliban regime in late 2001. A record 56-thousand US troops are in the country, alongside 32-thousand NATO-led forces. After his 2009 duty tour, Parker plans to leave the Army for his family and career. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com. (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 06-15-09 0233EDT ------END OF ITEM------ AP-APTN-0630: Argentina Cuba 2 Monday, 15 June 2009 STORY:Argentina Cuba 2- REPLAY Cuban dissident Hilda Molina arrives in Argentina, presser LENGTH: 02:37 FIRST RUN: 2330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Spanish/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 609721 DATELINE: Buenos Aires, 14 June 2009 LENGTH: 02:37 SHOTLIST (FIRST RUN 2030 LATAM PRIME NEWS - 14 JUNE 2009) 1. Close of Hilda Molina between members of her family, kissing grandson's cheek, pull out as she is given flowers 2. Close shot with zoom out of Hilda Molina talking with her grandson 3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hilda Molina, Cuban dissident: "Look, look what they were trying to take away from me." 4. Various of Hilda Molina between family and police ++NEW (FIRST RUN 2330 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 14 JUNE 2009) 5. Various setup shots of Hilda Molina and her son Roberto Quinones before the press conference in their home 6. SOUNBITE: (Spanish) Hilda Molina, surgeon and dissident: "I hope the government takes a step forward regarding this issue and gets to the final solution for this - which is allowing the Cubans to be free to leave or enter the country without asking anyone's permission. And this way the government would not be occupied by giving or not special permissions to Cubans to leave the country and we could finally become normal people, able to go in and out of the country as it occurs everywhere." 7. Cutaway of journalists 8. Cutaway of cameraman 9. SOUNBITE (Spanish) Hilda Molina, surgeon and dissident: "I sincerely wish to Fidel Castro, who was my family's hangman, but who is also an older and ill person, I wish that he gets better as much as possible, physically speaking and that during the next years, months or days because you never know when you going to die, he gets as much peace as possible. Peace that would be also very good for the Cubans, the peace of Mr. Fidel Castro. And about Mr. Raul Castro, who speaks about families and has a family himself, and loves them very much because he has shown his affection for them in public, and that, I think, it's good, because the leaded (referring to Cuba's citizens) we feel better when the leader seems to be more human, when they love their families. I hope he chooses the right path for the people of Cuba as he has expressed during his speeches." 10. Cutaway of media SHOTLIST A dissident Cuban surgeon who had been denied permission to leave the island for more than a decade has embraced her grandchildren for the first time after arriving in Argentina to an emotional family reunion. Doctor Hilda Molina, who quickly took advantage of the communist government's surprise decision to let her leave, was also met by her son, Robert Quinones, who she hadn't seen in 15 years. She plans to visit her ailing 90-year-old mother, who was already in Argentina, having been allowed to leave Cuba months ago. Molina, who once posed for high-profile photos with Fidel Castro, was a well-known physician at a government institution until 1994, when she resigned after questioning the ethics of using human stem cell tissue in studies on treating ailments like Parkinson's disease. That same year her son left Cuba with his Argentine wife. On Saturday she boarded a flight to Panama where she took the connecting flight to Argentina, arriving at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza airport on Sunday. Molina's travel documents are good for several months, but she said she had not decided whether to return to Cuba. At news conference at her house, she expressed hope the Cuban government's decision is a sign that Havana is changing its strict policy. "I hope the government takes a step forward regarding this issue", Molina said, and wished the best of health and luck to both Castro brothers. The surprise Cuban authorisation on Friday was seen as another government gesture of openness in the era after Fidel Castro, who ceded power to his brother Raul for health reasons in 2006. It was also seen as a nod to Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, a Cuba ally, who along with her husband and predecessor, Nestor Kirchner, had been asking the Castros since 2003 to allow Molina to leave. Molina filed paperwork periodically seeking for permission to travel outside Cuba for 10 years and recently began the process again, expecting to be turned down. International human rights groups for years lobbied the Cuban government to give Molina permission to leave. Washington-based Human Rights Watch in February featured Molina's case among examples of Cuba denying exit visas to several categories of applicants, including health care professionals. While Cuba has sent thousands of doctors abroad on official aid missions, it restricts individual foreign travel by physicians, arguing it has invested to heavily in training them to see them freely emigrate for higher salaries elsewhere. 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APTN APEX 06-15-09 0234EDT ------END OF ITEM------ AP-APTN-0630: Brazil Plane Monday, 15 June 2009 STORY:Brazil Plane- REPLAY Bodies from crashed Air France plane brought to Recife, stills of debris LENGTH: 02:10 FIRST RUN: 2330 RESTRICTIONS: See Script TYPE: MUTE SOURCE: Brazilian Airforce Handout/AP Photos STORY NUMBER: 609725 DATELINE: Fernando de Noronha/ Recife, 13/14 June 2009 LENGTH: 02:10 SHOTLIST: BRAZIL AIR FORCE HANDOUT - AP CLIENTS ONLY ++ MUTE FROM SOURCE++ Island of Fernando de Noronha - 13 June 2009 1. Various of soldiers loading refrigerated container with bodies onto plane 2. Cockpit with pilots 3. Soldiers with the container during flight to Recife BRAZIL AIR FORCE HANDOUT - AP CLIENTS ONLY ++ MUTE FROM SOURCE++ Recife, 13 June 2009 4. Police vehicles arriving at airport 5. Soldiers unloading the container 6. Forensic experts putting on white protective suits 7. Various of Scientific Police vehicle (forensics) leaving with the bodies 8. Member of the Scientific Police (forensics) signing papers AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE Recife, 14 June 2009 ++MUTE++ 9. STILL, Mid of workers unloading large piece of debris from Air France 447 flight, from a frigate 10. STILL, Wide of workers unloading debris of Air France plane 11. STILL, Mid of technician of France Bureau of Investigation taking pictures of the debris STORYLINE Bodies found in the Atlantic Ocean, believed to be from Air France Flight 447, were transported to Recife on Sunday, as investigators inspected large chunks of debris from the jet which crashed into the ocean on May 31 off Brazil's northeastern coast, with 228 people on board. An official of the French accident investigation agency, BEA, arrived in the northeastern city of Recife to begin examining some of the debris retrieved from the ocean, Brazilian Air Force Colonel Henry Munhoz said. He said the French investigator would probably begin with some of the larger pieces such as the nearly intact vertical stabiliser that was fished out of the water by Brazilian searchers. Munhoz said he did not know if the BEA would continue analyzing the pieces in Brazil or have them shipped to France. Military ships and planes that had suspended their search on Saturday due to bad weather, resumed operations on Sunday, a Brazilian Air Force spokesperson said. Coroners have said victims' dental records and DNA samples from relatives will be necessary to confirm the identities of the 16 bodies that have been examined. Brazilian authorities on Sunday revised the number of bodies they have retrieved downward, from 44 to 43, after a re-count. Meanwhile, a Dutch ship towing a high-tech, US Navy listening device, was set to troll the Atlantic on Sunday in search of data and voice recorders that investigators say are key to determining what caused the crash. The Navy device, called a "Towed Pinger Locator," or TPL, will try to detect emergency audio beacons, or pings, emitted by Flight 447's black boxes, which could be lying thousands of feet (meters) below the ocean surface. Without the recorders, it may be impossible to ever know what caused the Airbus A330 to crash. The locator device is capable of searching to a depth of 20,000 feet (6,100 meters). The first of two devices was towed in on Sunday by a Dutch ship contracted by France, said US Air Force Colonel Willie Berges, commander of the American military forces supporting the search operation. The search area includes some of the deepest waters of the Atlantic - and in two more weeks the boxes' signals will begin to fade. Investigators have so far focused on the possibility that external speed monitors - called Pitot tubes - iced over and gave false readings to the plane's computers. 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APTN APEX 06-15-09 0235EDT ------END OF ITEM------ AP-APTN-0630: Mexico Drug War Monday, 15 June 2009 STORY:Mexico Drug War- REPLAY Army captures 25 gunmen reportedly dressed as soldiers; 15 dead in violence LENGTH: 02:10 FIRST RUN: 2330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 609722 DATELINE: Ciudad Juarez, 14 June 2009 LENGTH: 02:10 SHOTLIST: ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 1. Wide of soldiers guarding the attorney general's office of Ciudad Juarez 2. Mid of soldier outside attorney general's office 3. Wide of military vehicles patrolling the surrounding area 4. Mid of Humvee manned by soldiers outside attorney general's office 5. Mid of soldier in humvee 6. Wide of vehicle 7. Various of soldiers at entrance to attorney general's office ++DAY SHOTS++ 8. Wide of 25 gunmen detained by police, who allegedly disguised themselves as soldiers 9. Various of detained men 10. Various of confiscated weapons 11. Wide of police at crime scene where two bodies were found with hands and feet bound by duct tape 12. Mid of police officer 13. Wide of police investigating at scene 14. Police car behind tape sealing off area 15. Wide of investigators 16. Wide of neighbourhood 17. Wide of another crime scene where body of a young male was found inside red vehicle after he bled to death from gunshot wounds 18. Various of soldiers at the scene 19. Close of officer, back to camera, police vehicle in foreground 20. Various of soldiers at scene 21. Mid of separate crime scene, two police vehicles and red duct tape across the road 22. Various of soldiers 23. Mid of dark blue minivan where man was shot to death 24. Various of helicopter overhead STORYLINE: The Mexican army captured 25 gunmen in northern Mexico who witnesses say disguised themselves as soldiers. The men were captured at a ranch in the state of Chihuahua, across from Texas, after the army received a complaint, the Defence Department said in a statement on Sunday. Soldiers also seized 29 automatic rifles during the Thursday raid in Nicolas Bravo. The gunmen were presented to the media on Sunday in Ciudad Juarez, the capital of Chihuahua State. In separate events, 15 people were killed in the violence-plagued border town across from El Paso on Friday and Saturday, according to the Ciudad Juarez attorney general's office. Two bodies were found shot in the head with their hands and feet bound with duct tape early on Saturday. Another victim bled to death after being shot multiple times inside his vehicle. In a third incident, a man was shot while driving a minivan as assailants followed him for two blocks, according to witnesses. On Sunday, soldiers were seen guarding the attorney general's office in Ciudad Juarez. Mexico's drug violence has claimed more than 10,800 lives since 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched his anti-drug campaign. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 06-15-09 0236EDT ------END OF ITEM------ AP-APTN-0630: Mexico Demo Monday, 15 June 2009 STORY:Mexico Demo- REPLAY Thousands of teachers march in Oaxaca, erect barricades LENGTH: 01:48 FIRST RUN: 2330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Spanish/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 609724 DATELINE: Oaxaca, 14 June 2009 LENGTH: 01:48 SHOTLIST: ++ NIGHT SHOTS++ 1. Wide of barricade on fire 2. Mid of people by burning barricade 3. Wide of man rolling tyre, burning barricade in background 4. Wide of protesters on the street ahead of march ++DAY SHOTS++ 5. Top shot of thousands marching 6. Zoom in to march 7. Wide of vehicle on fire in middle of road 8. Mid of people gathered around man lying on ground 9. Man being carried into ambulance on stretcher 10. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Azael Santiago Chepi, secretary general of one of the groups organising the march: ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++ "The death of comrade Alberto, we are not ruling out that this could be an attack from the state, and we will get to the bottom of it, we will demand an investigation and that those responsible are punished." 11. Low shot of bank branch damaged by protesters 12. Glass littering floor, pan up to debris 13. Various of smashed glass and debris inside branch STORYLINE: Thousands of protesters took part in a march on Sunday in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, some 480 kilometres south of the capital Mexico City. The protesters followed a five kilometre route along a highway to the city's main plaza, to mark the third anniversary of violent clashes between police and protesting teachers that gripped the popular tourist city in 2006. In the early hours of Sunday morning, some protesters erected several barricades around the city, in commemoration of the 2006 clashes. Some of the barricades, made from wood and tyres, were set ablaze. The unrest in 2006 began as a teachers' strike in May of that year, but quickly evolved into a broader protest as a coalition of leftist groups demanded the ouster of Oaxaca Governor Ulises Ruiz. Meanwhile, one person was killed and 23 injured on Sunday, according to state officials, after a station wagon carrying fireworks exploded as the march was commencing. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. Officials described the incident as "an accident", said subdirector of Civil Protection operations Cesar Narvaez. The secretary general of one of the groups organising the march, Azael Santiago Chepi, called for a full investigation of the incident. 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APTN APEX 06-15-09 0237EDT ------END OF ITEM------ AP-APTN-0630: US Arrest Monday, 15 June 2009 STORY:US Arrest- REPLAY Teenager faces charges in gruesome string of cat mutilations and killings LENGTH: 01:08 FIRST RUN: 0230 RESTRICTIONS: No Access N America/Internet TYPE: English/Part Mute SOURCE: ABC STORY NUMBER: 609726 DATELINE: Miami, 14 June 2009/FILE LENGTH: 01:08 SHOTLIST: ABC - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA/INTERNET 14 June 2009 1. Close-up of photo of suspect, Tyler Weinman ++MUTE++ 2. Various of complaint form ++MUTE++ 3. Quick pan of news conference ++MUTE++ 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eugene Flinn, Mayor of Palmetto Bay: "It's my hope that this arrest and the successful prosecution will bring closure." ABC - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA/INTERNET FILE, Recent, 2009 5. Various shots of police officers on scene after dead cat was found near house ++MUTE++ ABC - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA/INTERNET 14 June 2009 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Vrooman, Mayor of Cutler Bay: "This happened to happen in the town where I'm the mayor, but it's horrible no matter where it happens." 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, Local resident, vox pop: "I'm glad that it's over. Every day I lived looking for a dead cat." 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, Local resident, vox pop: "But I get goose bumps when I think oooh... What possessed him?" 9. Close-up of photo of suspect, Tyler Weinman ++ MUTE ++ 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Macey, Weinman's Lawyer: "I just had a meeting with him. And my client is one hundred percent innocent." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY FILE: 10 June 2009 11. Close-up of lamp post sign reading: (English) "Please keep your cats inside." 12. Various of a cat walking through grass STORYLINE: A teenager in South Florida is facing charges for a string of gruesome mutilations and killings that have shocked his neighbours and shaken animal lovers in two South Florida communities. Tyler Hayes Weinman, 18, was charged on Sunday with 19 counts each of animal cruelty and improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary related to the deaths. In the past month, residents in the Palmetto Bay and Cutler Bay neighbourhoods have reported finding the bodies of more than two dozen cats. Police said some were likely killed by dogs. Some were missing fur, neighbours said some had been skinned and appeared to have been cut with a sharp, straight instrument, police said. Weinman was taken into custody at a party and was being questioned at Miami-Dade police headquarters. Four of the confirmed cat killings were reported on the street where Weinman lived. His attorney, David W. Macey, claims that Weinman is innocent of the charges. According to online jail records, Weinman was being held on 154,500 US dollars bond. Jail officials said a court date was been set for July. Police said they investigated more than 30 cat deaths and received hundreds of tips from concerned citizens. Miami-Dade Police Department Major Julie Miller said more arrests might be coming, but she declined to name other suspects. Police said Weinman was twice arrested as a juvenile, though they said they could not provide details. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 06-15-09 0238EDT ------END OF ITEM------ AP-APTN-0630: Colombia Tomatina Monday, 15 June 2009 STORY:Colombia Tomatina- REPLAY People throw tomatos at each other as they celebrate Tomatina festival LENGTH: 02:27 FIRST RUN: 2330 RESTRICTIONS: No Access Colombia TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: RCN STORY NUMBER: 609723 DATELINE: Sutamarchan, 14 June 2009 LENGTH: 02:27 ++AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING++ SHOTLIST: 1. Pan left of huge pile of tomatoes ready to be thrown at each other 2. Various of children eating tomatoes 3. Pan across huge pile of tomatoes with people ready to participate in the "tomatina" 4. Children running, diving onto tomatoes, throwing tomatoes at each other 5. Various of children throwing tomatoes at each other 6. Mid of children jumping on tomatoes 7. Children throwing tomatoes at each other 8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Gerardo Lozada, a festival organiser: "We have collected 15 tonnes of tomatoes that remain at the municipal stadium for today's festival. Those tonnes of tomatoes were donated by peasants and those who cultivate tomatoes. The tomatoes that are going to be thrown are not good to be sold or eaten but we do something good which is taking them away to avoid them contaminating other tomatoes." 9. Various of people throwing tomatoes at each other 10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cristian Ramirez, participant: "The festival is very nice and good for all children." 11. Various of people throwing tomatoes at each other 12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fernando Cuervo, participant: "It was such a nice event and I invite people from Colombia and overseas to come here because this is such a nice event." 13. Mid of tomato-spattered men carrying clean man to be thrown onto tomatoes 14. Various of people throwing tomatoes at each other 15. Various of firemen spraying water onto participants STORYLINE: Revellers splattered each other with over ripe tomatoes on Sunday as about one thousand people took part in an annual festival in Colombia. People and children gathered in the township of Sutamarchan where they participated in the tomato food fight, or "tomatina". White T-shirts swiftly turned red as participants pelted each other with tomatoes inside cordoned off areas. "The tomatoes that are going to be thrown are not good to be sold or eaten but we do something good which is taking them away to avoid them contaminating other tomatoes," said Gerardo Lozada, one of the festival organisers. Twelve year-old Cristian Ramirez said: "The festival is very nice and good for all children." Over 15 tonnes of tomatoes were collected to be thrown at the fifth tomato festival. Locals came up with the idea five years ago, after prices in the flower trade dropped and many residents went bankrupt. Some had visited France and Spain, where similar festivals were held and they copied some ideas to improve the festival. They decided to go into the tomato export business, and launched the annual tomato festival to boost the trade. Sutamarchan is nowadays Colombia's biggest tomato producer. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 06-15-09 0239EDT ------END OF ITEM------ AP-APTN-0630: China Weather Monday, 15 June 2009 STORY:China Weather- REPLAY Storm batters Anhui with hailstones, floods in Guangdong LENGTH: 01:12 FIRST RUN: 0530 RESTRICTIONS: No Access China TYPE: Mandarin/commentary SOURCE: CCTV STORY NUMBER: 609727 DATELINE: Various, 14 June 2009 LENGTH: 01:12 SHOTLIST: Anhui 1. Wide of street with debris and wind blowing strongly 2. Wide of street with banner flapping in wind 3. Mid of destroyed crops 4. Close of destroyed crops 5. Wide of destroyed crops 6. Mid of woman looking at hail stones in crops 7. Close of hail stones in her hands 8. Close of hail stones on ground 9. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Sun Yongying, villager in Mengcheng County, Anhui: "The hail stones are almost as big as a ping pong ball, and almost as big as an egg yolk." 10. Wide of downed trees on road, as motorcycle drives off 11. Wide of branches on road 12. Mid of destroyed roof, pan to timber on ground 13. Wide of banners flapping in wind 14. Wide of trees blowing in wind 15. Wide of downed trees Henan, Kaifeng 16. Mid of man picking up branches and leaves from side of road 17. Wide of debris on road Meizhou County, Guangdong 18. Pan of flooded river 19. Wide of flooding 20. Mid of flooded river 21. Wide of destroyed houses on banks of river 22. Wide pan of flooding 23. Wide of people brushing away flood waters 24. Pull out from landslide 25. Wide of landslide blocking road STORYLINE: Eight people were killed and 120 others injured as a storm swept east of China's Anhui province, local officials told Chinese state media on Sunday. Xinhua reported the fatalities and injuries were caused from collapsed houses and fallen trees pummelled by the storm. CCTV broadcast footage of strong winds sweeping debris onto the streets, tearing down street banners. A gale wind with a maximum speed of 29 meters per second blew in Anhui late on Saturday, with hail stones in some parts of the province. One villager said the hail stones were almost as big as a ping-pong ball. The storm was the second this month, with the first affecting nearly four (m) million people, killing more than 20. Meanwhile, strong winds also brought down trees in Henan Province, Chinese state media reported. CCTV showed flooding in parts of Guangdong province. In Meizhou County, there were landslides, with some homes destroyed as river banks burst. 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APTN APEX 06-15-09 0240EDT ------END OF ITEM------ AP-APTN-0630: US Iran Reax 2 Monday, 15 June 2009 STORY:US Iran Reax 2- REPLAY US VP Biden comment on Iran election, analyst, protest outside Iranian emb LENGTH: 03:07 FIRST RUN: 2130 RESTRICTIONS: See Script TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/NBC/ABC STORY NUMBER: 609720 DATELINE: Washington DC, 14 June 2009 LENGTH: 03:07 SHOTLIST: (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 14 JUNE 2009) NBC MEET THE PRESS - MUST COURTESY: Meet the Press/NBC News; 24 HR NEWS ACCESS ONLY 1. Wide of Joe Biden, US Vice President ++ MUTE ++ 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Biden, US Vice President: "Well you know we don't have all the details. It sure looks like the way they're suppressing speech, the way they're suppressing crowds, the way in which people are being treated, that there's some real doubt about that. I don't think we're in a position to say. What's surprising is the assertion that he won by what 60 some percent of the vote, and so I think we have to wait and see. But it didn't seem on its face to be as clear cut as they made it sound." 3. Wide of Biden appearing on Meet The Press ++MUTE++ 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Biden, US Vice President: "Look that's what they are announcing. We have to accept that for the time being. But there's an awful lot of questions about how this election was run. And we'll see. We're just waiting to see. We don't have enough facts to make a firm judgment." (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 14 JUNE 2009) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY 5. Set up of Afshin Molavi, Fellow at New America Foundation 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Afshin Molavi, Fellow at New America Foundation: "I think right now, it's premature to tell how this will all play out because what is most important is how it's going to play out in the next two to three weeks. Are we going to see continued crackdowns? Will be there a Tiananmen Square type crackdown, if there is a Tiananmen Square type crackdown, what can and will President Obama do? Can he simply ignore it and say he's ready to reach out to Iran again. So the next three to four weeks are going to be crucial to the future of any potential US-Iran rapprochement." 7. Cutaway of Molavi 8. SOUNDBITE (English) Afshin Molavi, Fellow at New America Foundation: "So, what we're witnessing right now, is a more hardline second generation trying to expunge the old guard, pragmatic, mellowing conservatives from power. So this crisis is playing out on two levels; on the one level, you have the people, the Mousavi supporters who feel this election was stolen and are therefore taking to the streets and they will likely continue to take to the streets and we'll see clashes. And on the second level, we're seeing serious rifts within the ruling elite of the Islamic Republic that is posing a crisis of legitimacy for the Islamic Republic." 9. Cutaway of Molavi 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Afshin Molavi, Fellow at New America Foundation: "According to the election results, Ahmadinejad defeated Mousavi in Tabriz and Azerbaijan province. This stretches the imagination; it is the equivalent of Barack Obama winning Texas and George Bush winning Illinois." ++NEW (FIRST RUN 2130 NEWS UPDATE - 14 JUNE 2009) ABC - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA /INTERNET ++AUDIO AS INCOMING ++ 11. Mid of protesters holding signs and chanting 12. Various of protesters holding banners, flags and chanting 13. Close-up of Iranian flags 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) No name given, protester, vox pop: "Eighty-five percent of the people didn't go out on record voter turnout to vote for the status quo in Iran." 15. Protesters holding up signs, the closest reading: (English) "Where is my vote?" STORYLINE: US Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday he had doubts about whether Iran's presidential election was free and fair, as announced by winner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He said the US and other countries needed more time to analyse the results before making a better judgment about the vote. "We have to accept that for the time being. But there's an awful lot of questions about how this election was run. And we'll see. We're just waiting to see. We don't have enough facts to make a firm judgment, " Biden said during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." He said the Obama administration's interests regarding Iran were the same as before the disputed vote: persuading Tehran to stop development of a nuclear weapon. Tehran has maintained that its nuclear programme is designed to produce energy, not bombs. While Ahmadinejad insisted the results showing his landslide victory were fair and legitimate, Biden simply said, "You know I have doubts." "It sure looks like the way they're suppressing speech, the way they're suppressing crowds, the way in which people are being treated, that there's some real doubt about that," Biden said. "What's surprising is the assertion that he won by what 60 some percent of the vote, and so I think we have to wait and see. But it didn't seem on its face to be as clear cut as they made it sound." The vice president tried to follow a careful line, however, given the administration's attempts to engage Iran. US President Barack Obama has offered to open dialogue after a nearly 30-year diplomatic freeze. Meanwhile clashes flared around the Iranian capital, even as Ahmadinejad's supporters organised a huge rally backing the president. Protesters set fires and smashed store windows in Tehran in a second day of violence as groups challenging Ahmadinejad's re-election tried to keep pressure on authorities. Anti-riot police lashed back and the regime blocked Internet sites used to rally the pro-reform campaign. Ahmadinejad dismissed the unrest - the worst in the decade in Tehran - as "not important" and insisted the election results were fair and legitimate. In addition to Obama's diplomatic entreaties, Iran has been under growing pressure to make concessions on its nuclear programme or face possible more international penalties. There was no indication that Washington was pulling back from it's desire for increased contacts. But the outcome of the election and the crackdown on citizens' ability to protest was likely to be seen as a setback for Obama policy of engagement with the Islamic Republic, observers said. Afshin Molavi, a fellow at the New America Foundation, said the next few weeks were "going to be crucial to the future of any potential US-Iran rapprochement." Obama's reaction to any potential large-scale crackdowns in Iran in the near future would would play a key role in US-Iranian relations, said Molavi. "If there is a Tiananmen Square type crackdown, what can and will President Obama do? Can he simply ignore it and say he's ready to reach out to Iran again?" questioned Molavi. He also commented on what he said was "serious rifts within the ruling elite of the Islamic Republic ," which was separate from the issue of the differences between conservatives and reformists. "What we're witnessing right now, is a more hardline second generation trying to expunge the old guard, pragmatic, mellowing conservatives from power." Molavi also pointed out to some alleged irregularities in the elections. He said traditionally candidates carried their hometowns, whereas in these elections Ahmadinejad was announced as having won Tabriz, Mousavi's hometown. Molava disputed these results saying: "This stretches the imagination; it is the equivalent of Barack Obama winning Texas and George Bush winning Illinois." The main challenger to Ahmadinejad's election victory has sent a letter to the Guardian Council - Iran's powerful clerical group - calling for the election to be cancelled. Mir Hossein Mousavi has claimed that he was the real winner. Meanwhile in Washington on Sunday, a small group of Iranian demonstrators protested the election result outside the Iranian embassy. "Eighty-five percent of the people didn't go out on record voter turnout to vote for the status quo in Iran," said one protester. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 06-15-09 0248EDT ------END OF ITEM------ AP-APTN-0630: ++Australia Prisoner Monday, 15 June 2009 STORY:++Australia Prisoner- NEW Aboriginal prisoner 'cooked to death' in van LENGTH: 01:51 FIRST RUN: 0630 RESTRICTIONS: No Access Australia TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AuBC STORY NUMBER: 609734 DATELINE: Perth/Kalgoorlie - 12/13 June 2009/FILE LENGTH: 01:51 SHOTLIST: Perth - 12 June 2009 1. Wide of protesters holding signs and banners outside court 2. Close up protester holding sign reading (in English) "No More Deaths in Custody" 3. Mid of victim's family walking 4. Various of protesters shouting and waving flags 5. Wide of Western Australia state coroner Alastair Hope leaving building ++NIGHT SHOT++ FILE: Date and Location Unknown 6. STILL photograph of Mr Ward (First name cannot be released for cultural reasons) 7. Wide of highway FILE: Kalgoorlie - Date Unknown 8. Various of prison van which transported Mr. Ward 9. Various interiors of van Near Kalgoorlie - 12 June 2009 10. STILL of Daisy Ward, Mr Ward's cousin, with telephone graphic ++VIDEO OVERLAID BY AUDIO++ UPSOUND (English) Daisy Ward, Mr. Ward's Cousin: "We really want to thank the coroner for the findings, that really have been helpful to me and my family." FILE: Kalgoorlie - Date Unknown 11. Various of prison guards who were driving Mr. Ward Perth - 12 June 2009 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dennis Eggington, Chief Executive Officer, Aboriginal Legal Service, Western Australia: "People really need to be aware that there are a couple of departments that have got blood on their hands at the moment." Perth - 13 June 2009 13. Various of chairman of Death in Custody Watch Committee Marc Newhouse at news conference 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Marc Newhouse, Chairman of Death in Custody Watch Committee: "It's obvious that there is systemic discrimination, racism in the administration of justice in WA (West Australia) and we want a public inquiry into that." Perth - 12 June 2009 15. Wide of Western Australia State Attorney General Christian Porter 16. SOUNDBITE (English) Christian Porter, Western Australia State Attorney General: "It seems to me that if ever there were a case where an ex-gratia may well be appropriate, that this is one." 17. Various of new prison vans STORYLINE: An Aboriginal elder died of heat stroke in "inhumane" conditions while being transported in a prison van with no air conditioning on a scorching summer day in Australia's Outback, a coroner ruled. Western Australia Coroner Alastair Hope said Friday that he would ask state prosecutors to consider whether charges should be laid after finding the death of 46-year-old Mr. Ward - whose first name cannot be released for cultural reasons - was "unnecessary and wholly avoidable." The father of four, who was picked up for drunk driving, died of heat stroke on January 27, 2008, succumbing to temperatures of 112 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius) inside the van. The guards provided Ward with only a small bottle of water and did not check on him throughout the journey, Hope found in the coroner's hearing. The van had no air conditioning and little to no air flow. When Ward eventually arrived unconscious at Kalgoorlie hospital, his body was so hot that staff could not cool him down. He had a laceration to his head from falling in the vehicle and a third-degree burn to his stomach from lying on its hot metal floor. "In my view, it is a disgrace that a prisoner in the 21st century, particularly a prisoner who has not been convicted of any crime, was transported for a long distance in high temperatures in this pod," Hope said. Hope found the two guards, the Department of Corrective Services and Global Solutions Ltd, a company that rents the vans to the corrective services, had all contributed to Ward's "terrible death." Among his 14 recommendations, he said the state government must improve its handling of prisoners and review its justice system. Aboriginal Legal Services of Western Australia CEO Dennis Eggington said Ward's family was happy with the recommendations but wanted criminal charges laid against the government. "People really need to be aware that there are a couple of departments that have got blood on their hands at the moment," Eggington told reporters. Marc Newhouse, the Chairman of Death in Custody Watch Committee called for a public inquiry into the "systemic discrimination, racism in the administration of justice in WA (West Australia)." Western Australia Attorney-General Christian Porter said action had already been taken to prevent another "tragic incident" and pledged three (m) million Australian dollars (2.4 million US dollars) and a rollout of 40 new custodial vehicles by December 2010. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 06-15-09 0328EDT ------END OF ITEM------