APTN 2330 PRIME NEWS AMERICAS
AP-APTN-2330 Americas L Prime News-Final
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Americas L Prime News
++Kyrgyzstan Opposition 01:12 Ap Clients Only
NEW Opposition leaders declare they have seized power after clashes
US Kyrgyzstan 01:14 AP Clients Only
REPLAY US State Dpt appeals to Kyrgyzstan govt and protesters to show restraint
Chile Fishermen 01:34 No Access Chile/Internet/CNN
REPLAY Fisherman struggling after the tsunami offer tourists boat tours
Brazil Floods 3 03:21 AP Clients Only
REPLAY At least 119 people die after torrential rain causes landslides and flooding
Pakistan Blast 01:03 AP Clients Only
REPLAY Explosion in capital only caused minor damage, no casualties
India Maoists 02:19 Pt No Access India
REPLAY India says it will push on with Maoist offensive; coffins at airport
Thailand Protest 3 02:04 Pt No Access Thailand
REPLAY Thai PM declares state of emergency in Bangkok
++Venezuela Uruguay 02:30 See Script
NEW President Pepe Mujica on official visit to Venezuela
++US Obama 02:30 See Script
NEW US President Obama departs enroute to Prague
Russia Katyn 01:13 No Access Poland
REPLAY Russian, Polish leaders mourn Stalin-era atrocity
France Spiderman 02:31 AP Clients Only
REPLAY French climber scales building in business district of Paris
B-u-l-l-e-t-i-n begins at 2330 GMT.
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AP-APTN-2330: ++Kyrgyzstan Opposition
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
STORY:++Kyrgyzstan Opposition- NEW Opposition leaders declare they have seized power after clashes
LENGTH: 01:12
FIRST RUN: 2330
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: Russian/Kyrgyz/Nat
SOURCE: MIR TV
STORY NUMBER: 642313
DATELINE: Bishkek - 7/8 April 2010
LENGTH: 01:12
MIR TV - AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST
07 April 2010
1. Wide of burning truck near main square
08 April 2010
2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Rosa Otunbayeva, former foreign minister and head of the Central Executive Committee of the opposition government:
"Both the National Security Service and the Interior Ministry - all of them are already under the management of new people. We had to take control here because the question of security is a question of top priority."
07 April 2010
3. Mid of truck burning near main square
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Omurbek Tekebayev, leader of Ata-Meken opposition party:
"The head of the temporary government is the Central Executive Committee. We decided that the Central Executive Committee, which was formed by the national assembly, will temporarily head the executive branch of authority. Until the elections, which undoubtedly will be held in the nearest future."
5. Close up of blood, glass and broken umbrella on the ground
6. SOUNDBITE (Kyrgyz) Name not given, opposition representative speaking at Kyrgyz National TV broadcast shortly after it was taken over by opposition:
"First, we demand to free the opposition leaders, which are imprisoned at the moment. Second, in order to preserve peace in the Republic and to avoid bloodshed, we demand that the authorities begin the negotiations. Third, we appeal to all law enforcement agencies, the police and the prosecutor's office to take the side of the people."
7. Close up of pool of blood on the ground
STORYLINE
Opposition leaders declared they had seized power in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday, taking control of security headquarters, a state TV channel and other government buildings after clashes between police and protesters left dozens dead in this Central Asian nation that houses a key US air base.
President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who came to power in a similar popular uprising five years ago, was said to have fled to the southern city of Osh, and it was difficult to gauge how much of the impoverished, mountainous country the opposition controlled.
"The security service and the Interior Ministry, all of them are already under the management of new people," Rosa Otunbayeva, a former foreign minister who the opposition leaders said would head the interim government, told the Russian-language Mir TV channel.
The opposition has called for the closure of the US air base in Manas outside the capital of Bishkek that serves as a key transit point for supplies essential to the war in nearby Afghanistan.
A senior US military official says some flights were briefly diverted at the base, but as far as military officials in Washington know, the base was never closed.
Scheduled troop movements in and out of Afghanistan were not affected.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because base operations are sensitive.
Opposition leaders have said they want the base closed because it could put their country at risk if the United States becomes involved in a military conflict with Iran.
Closing it would also please Russia, which has opposed the basing of US troops on former Soviet turf.
During the day, protesters who were called into the streets by opposition parties stormed government buildings in Bishkek and battled with police amid volleys of tear gas.
Groups of elite officers then opened fire with live ammunition.
The Health Ministry said 40 people died and more than 400 were wounded.
Opposition activist Toktoim Umetaliyeva said at least 100 people were killed by police gunfire.
Crowds of demonstrators took control of the state TV building and looted it, then marched toward the Interior Ministry, according to Associated Press reporters on the scene, before changing direction and attacking a national security building nearby.
They were repelled by security forces loyal to Bakiyev.
After nightfall, the opposition and its supporters appeared to gain the upper hand.
An AP reporter saw opposition leader Keneshbek Duishebayev sitting in the office of the chief of the National Security Agency, Kyrgyzstan's successor to the Soviet KGB.
Duishebayev issued orders on the phone to people he said were security agents, and he also gave orders to a uniformed special forces commando.
Many of the opposition leaders were once allies of Bakiyev, in some cases former ministers or diplomats.
Bakiyev may have fled to Osh, the country's second-largest city, where he has a home, Duishebayev said.
Since coming to power in 2005 amid street protests known as the Tulip Revolution, Bakiyev had ensured a measure of stability in the country of five (m) million people, but the opposition says he has done so at the expense of democratic standards while enriching himself and his family.
He gave his relatives, including his son, top government and economic posts and faced the same accusations of corruption and cronyism that led to the ouster of his predecessor, Askar Akayev.
In the past two years, authorities have clamped down on the media, and opposition activists say they have routinely been subjected to physical intimidation and targeted by politically motivated criminal investigations.
Like its neighbours Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan has remained impoverished since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and has a history of stifling democratic institutions and human rights.
Kyrgyzstan is a predominantly Muslim country, but just as in Soviet times, it has remained secular.
There has been little fear of the spread of Islamic fundamentalism as in other mostly Muslim regions of the former Soviet Union.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin denied any involvement in the uprising.
The anti-government forces were in disarray until recent widespread anger over the 200 percent increase in electric and heating bills unified them and galvanised support.
Many of Wednesday's protesters were men from poor villages, including some who had come to the capital to live and work on construction sites.
Already struggling, they were outraged by the high cost of energy and were easily stirred up by opposition claims of official corruption.
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AP-APTN-2330: US Kyrgyzstan
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
STORY:US Kyrgyzstan- REPLAY US State Dpt appeals to Kyrgyzstan govt and protesters to show restraint
LENGTH: 01:14
FIRST RUN: 2030
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: English/Nat
SOURCE: DOS TV
STORY NUMBER: 642310
DATELINE: Washington DC, 7 Apr 2010
LENGTH: 01:14
DOS TV - AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST:
1. Wide shot of US State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley walking into State Department briefing room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) P.J. Crowley, State Department Spokesman:
"Clearly, we are monitoring very closely the situation in Bishkek regarding these protests. We are deeply concerned about reports of civil disturbances and possible loss of life. We deplore the violence and encourage full investigation and accountability in any incidents of death or mistreatment. We have reached out to government and civil society leaders to urge calm, non-violence and respect for the rights of citizens, especially under emergency situations."
3. Cutaway of reporters
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) P.J. Crowley, State Department Spokesman:
"We have no indication that the government has ceased to function. We are in contact with the government and obviously, the situation is difficult, but to the extent that there are claims that the government has fallen, we don't have that information."
5. Cutaway of reporter asking question
STORYLINE:
US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the US deplored the violence and urged all to respect the rule of law in Bishkek after thousands of protesters seized internal security headquarters, a state TV channel and other levers of power in Kyrgyzstan.
"We are deeply concerned about reports of civil disturbances and possible loss of life," Crowley said.
"We deplore the violence and encourage full investigation and accountability in any incidents of death or mistreatment. We have reached out to government and civil society leaders to urge calm."
Thousands of protesters furious over corruption and spiralling utility bills seized internal security headquarters, a state TV channel and other levers of power in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday after government forces fatally shot dozens of demonstrators and wounded hundreds.
A revolution in the Central Asian nation was proclaimed by leaders of the opposition, who have called for the closure of a US air base outside the capital that serves as a key transit point for supplies essential to the war in nearby Afghanistan.
Crowley said transport operations at the Manas base were "functioning normally."
"We have no indication that the government has ceased to function. We are in contact with the government and obviously, the situation is difficult, but to the extent that there are claims that the government has fallen, we don't have that information," he added.
Protesters called onto the streets by opposition parties for a day of protest began storming government buildings in the capital, Bishkek, and clashed with police. Groups of elite officers opened fire.
The Health Ministry said 40 people had died and more than 400 were wounded. Opposition activist Toktoim Umetalieva said at least 100 people had died after police opened fire with live ammunition.
The opposition and its supporters appeared to gain the upper hand after nightfall, and an Associated Press reporter saw opposition leader Keneshbek Duishebayev sitting in the office of the chief of the National Security Agency, Kyrgyzstan's successor to the Soviet KGB. Duishebayev issued orders on the phone to people Duishebayev said were security agents. He also gave orders to a uniformed special forces commando.
Duishebayev told the AP that "we have created units to restore order" on the streets.
He said President Kurmanbek Bakiyev may have fled to Osh, the country's second-largest city, where he has a home.
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AP-APTN-2330: Chile Fishermen
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
STORY:Chile Fishermen- REPLAY Fisherman struggling after the tsunami offer tourists boat tours
LENGTH: 01:34
FIRST RUN: 2030
RESTRICTIONS: No Access Chile/Internet/CNN
TYPE: Spanish/Nat
SOURCE: CH7
STORY NUMBER: 642307
DATELINE: Talcahuano - Apr 2010
LENGTH: 01:34
CHANNEL 7 - NO ACCESS CHILE/INTERNET/CNN
SHOTLIST
1. Overturned ship in port area
2. Various of tourists aboard ship during tour
3. Pan from tour guide to water
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Sergio Rodriguez, Tour guide and boat captain:
"We thank God that there are so many people coming to Talcahuano and that helps us because we need cash to stay in Talcahuano."
5. Various travelling shots of boats and port area destroyed by tsunami
6. Mid of Carrasco
7. Travelling shot of destroyed port
8. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Miguel Caceres, Tourist:
"I wanted to see the damage left by the strength of tsunami, I had already seen a lot of what the earthquake did."
9. Travelling shot of overturned ship
10. Travelling shot of destruction in port
11. Caceres during tour
12. Mid of tourists during tours
13. SOUNDBITE: (spanish) no name given, Talcahuano resident:
"So that people who come from elsewhere know what really happened here, and so that we can get more help."
14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) no name given, Talcahuano resident:
"I do not think this is something worthy of being shown to people."
15. Various of boat tour
16. Travelling shot of overturned containers
17. Tourists on tour
18. Travelling shot of destroyed boats
STORYLINE
Weeks after a tsunami destroyed their livelihoods, some of Chile's struggling independent fishermen are offering boat tours of the devastation.
Sergio Rodriguez, a boat captain in the port city of Talcahuano, 300 miles (483 kilometres) south of the capital, Santiago, found tourists were eager to pay 3 US Dollars for half-hour boat trips around the battered bay.
The idea began as "a semi-sarcastic way of inviting people for a cruise and showing them what has happened," Rodriguez told the local news program 24 Horas on Wednesday.
In the past two weeks, he has sold more than 600 tickets for his half-dozen daily tours.
Some neighbours expressed dismay at how he turned tragedy into opportunity.
"I do not think this is something worthy of being shown to people," a local resident said.
For thousands of out-of-work fishermen, though, there are few other opportunities to earn a living.
Port authorities have only just begun to lift dozens of stranded fishing boats out of the streets and return the 50-ton vessels to the sea.
An estimated 1-thousand small-scale fishing boats were destroyed when the tsunami slammed them against the coastline after the February 27th earthquake.
Those that remained intact have struggled to unload their catch given the devastation of the area's piers and processing facilities.
Rodriguez says boat tours are his best chance to "keep some cash in Talcahuano."
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AP-APTN-2330: Brazil Floods 3
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
STORY:Brazil Floods 3- REPLAY At least 119 people die after torrential rain causes landslides and flooding
LENGTH: 03:21
FIRST RUN: 2030
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: Portuguese/Natsound
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 642298
DATELINE: Rio de Janeiro, Niteroi - 7 Apr 2010
LENGTH: 03:21
AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST:
++NEW
(FIRST RUN 2030 LATAM PRIME NEWS - 7 APRIL, 2010)
Rio de Janeiro
1. Mudslide in Morro dos Prazeres shantytown
2. Rescue workers on scene, man carrying his dead 8-year-old son away
(FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 7 APRIL, 2010)
Rio de Janeiro
3. Firefighters carrying body in body bag
4. People in neighbourhood crying
5. Firefighters placing body in Civil Defence van
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luciano Sarrento, firefighter:
"We arrived early this morning and it was still raining very hard. We began our search and rescue operations in one of the affected areas, but a lower risk area. We have not been able to send a firefighter up to the high risk areas yet. There is still too much debris falling."
++NEW
(FIRST RUN 2030 LATAM PRIME NEWS - 7 APRIL, 2010)
Rio de Janeiro
7. Exterior of Maracana soccer stadium
8. Pan of field
9. Various of clean up
10. Various of water dripping onto stadium seats
++NEW
(FIRST RUN 2030 LATAM PRIME NEWS - 7 APRIL, 2010)
Niteroi
11. Pull out from Christ the Redeemer statue to wide of Morro de Boa Vista shantytown where landslides occurred
12. Starting point of a landslide
13. Various of people moving out of threatened homes
14. Street scene, with landslide
15. Close up of people trapped by landslide
16. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Jose Carlos Ribeiro, local resident:
"The first avalanche hit my house and knocked out the walls and hit my children and my wife. Then I went to my mother's house and found her trapped. Then I tried to help my neighbours and a wall collapsed and hurt my leg. As I was returning to my mother's house, a second avalanche hit even harder and caused the accident. It killed my nephew and my children."
17. Pull out from damaged home to wide of shelter entrance
18. Various of people inside shelter
19. Various of people in shelter sorting donations of clothing
20. Pan of people sleeping
21. Wide of people in shelter
22. Close up of men in shelter
STORYLINE
Flooding and mudslides from the heaviest deluge ever recorded in Rio de Janeiro state killed at least 119 people and left many more homeless, officials said on Wednesday as the rains finally began to ease.
At least 60 people are reported missing after the heaviest rains on record hit the city and surrounding area.
Although the rain that poured down without interruption from Monday afternoon through Wednesday morning had finally begun to let up Wednesday afternoon, it was raining again Wednesday night and more rain was expected through the weekend.
The Morro dos Prazeres shantytown, in the neighbourhood of Santa Teresa, was one of the worst hit with 18 dead and 26 missing, according to local media reports.
One of the victims was eight-year-old Marcos Vinicius Viera.
AP Television footage showed his father carrying away Marcos' lifeless body.
The death toll is expected to rise as rescue workers pick through tons of mud that swept through precarious, hillside shanty towns, where most of the deaths were registered.
Most of the deaths were caused by landslides that left concrete and wooden homes crushed while others hurtled downhill onto other structures.
Rio de Janeiro firefigthter Luciano Sarrento said intermittent rains and unstable construction have made it difficult to search for survivors in the most affected areas.
Officials said potential mudslides threatened at least 10-thousand houses in the city of six (m) million people and 1,200 people were left homeless.
The rains didn't only affect Rio de Janeiro's hillside shanty towns.
Football officials cancelled a Libertadores tournament match between local club Flamengo and Chile's Universidad de Chile team at the Maracana Stadium on Thursday.
Rain dripped through the stadium roof, forming puddles on the seats as workers struggled to get the pitch ready for play.
The stadium is scheduled to host the opening game of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic events but officials downplayed the possibility of similar downpours derailing World Cup and Olympic fixtures, all due to be held outside Brazil's rainy season.
In Niteroi, many people living in Morro de Boa Vista shanty town took refuge in local shelters.
But Jose Carlos Ribeiro and his family were not so lucky.
Two consecutive mudslides destroyed his home and killed his mother, his children and his nephews.
Many schools stayed closed for a second day and Rio de Janeiro state Governor Sergio Cabral declared three days of mourning.
Forecasters predict more rain through the weekend, though not as much as the 11 inches (28 centimetres) which drenched the city in less than 24 hours.
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AP-APTN-2330: Pakistan Blast
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
STORY:Pakistan Blast- REPLAY Explosion in capital only caused minor damage, no casualties
LENGTH: 01:03
FIRST RUN: 1930
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: Nats
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 642306
DATELINE: Islamabad - 7 Apr 2010
LENGTH: 01:03
AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST
1. Various shots of forensic expert examining small explosion spot
2. Close up of shard of glass and piece of metal on ground
3. Investigators at scene
4. Damaged wall
5. Mid of investigator examining debris
6. Ambulance passing by
7. Police at the scene
8. Long shot of presidential residence
STORYLINE
An explosion in the parking lot of a market in the centre of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, went off on Wednesday causing minor damage but no casualties.
The acting Islamabad police chief said investigators found no traces of explosives on the scene, and that it appeared a gas cylinder in a car had exploded. He said police had still not found the car.
Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik told local television a bomb was not suspected.
Police immediately cordoned off the area and bomb disposal units rushed to the scene.
The market is one of the busiest places in the federal capital.
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AP-APTN-2330: India Maoists
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
STORY:India Maoists- REPLAY India says it will push on with Maoist offensive; coffins at airport
LENGTH: 02:19
FIRST RUN: 1930
RESTRICTIONS: Pt No Access India
TYPE: English/Nats
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/NDTV
STORY NUMBER: 642301
DATELINE: Jagdalpur/New Delhi - 7 Apr 2010
LENGTH: 02:19
AP TELEVISION - AP Clients Only
NDTV - NO ACCESS INDIA
SHOTLIST
AP TELEVISION: AP Clients Only
New Delhi, India - 07 April 2010
1. Pan from aircraft to coffins lined up on tarmac
2. Various of soldiers laying wreath and saluting
3. Lined up media
4. Pan right of coffins
5. Mid of coffins with soldiers in background
NDTV - NO ACCESS INDIA
Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India - 07 April 2010
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Palaniappan Chidambaram, Home Minister of India:
"To our offer of talks, they have replied by savage and brutal act of violence. To talk of talks now will be to mock at the supreme sacrifice made by 76 jawans (soldiers). Nevertheless, as I said we must remain calm, we must hold our nerve. If a militant group abjures violence, gives up violence, we can consider talks but at this moment I think we should, while we grieve the dead, we should hold our nerve and continue to do what we are doing, namely to rid India of the gravest threat to internal security, which is the Naxalite threat."
7. Wide of coffins covered with Indian flag
8. Wide of Chidambaram walking and laying wreath and saluting
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Palaniappan Chidambaram, Home Minister of India:
"But I don't think there should be a knee jerk reaction. This is a long drawn struggle, it will take two to three years, perhaps more. We must remain calm and hold our nerve."
AP TELEVISION: AP Clients Only
New Delhi, India - 07 April 2010
10. Wide of security personnel at airport
11. Mid of coffin being carried to vehicle
STORYLINE:
India will push ahead with an offensive against Maoist rebels despite the death of 76 government troops in an ambush by insurgents in the east, the country's top security official said on Wednesday.
The ambush in a dense forest on Tuesday was the deadliest single attack on government fighters in the 43-year-old insurgency.
It stunned Indians, highlighted the growing threat posed by the Maoists and showed that the rebels appeared uncowed by a government offensive aimed at crushing them.
The bodies of some of the paramilitary soldiers killed in the attack were flown into New Delhi on Wednesday.
Earlier on Wednesday , the Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram flew to the area and laid a wreath near the coffins of the slain security forces.
He insisted the government would not back down.
"I think we should, while we grieve the dead, we should hold our nerve and continue to do what we are doing, namely to rid India of the gravest threat to internal security, which is the Naxalite threat," he said, referring to the Maoists by their nickname.
The rebels, who have tapped into the rural poor's growing anger at being left out of the country's economic gains, are now present in 20 of the country's 28 states.
About 2-thousand people - including police, militants and civilians - have been killed over the past few years.
Last year, the government announced its "Operation Green Hunt" offensive aimed at flushing the militants out of their forest hide-outs.
Both the insurgents and government forces have been accused of using violence and intimidation against local villagers to coerce their cooperation.
The government has said it is willing to talk with the rebels if they give up violence, but the rebels say there should be no preconditions for negotiations.
Chidambaram took a harder line on Wednesday.
"To our offer of talks, they have replied by savage and brutal act of violence. To talk of talks now will be to mock at the supreme sacrifice made by 76 jawans (soldiers), " he said.
Part of the difficulty with the offensive is that it is being carried out by various state police agencies and national paramilitary forces loosely coordinated by the central government.
Critics have said the troops are poorly trained and underequipped and are essentially canon fodder for rebels fighting on their home turf in the jungles.
More than 500 Maoists launched the attack early on Tuesday morning on a group of soldiers who set out from a temporary base in Chhattisgarh state's Dantewada forests, said G.K. Pillai, the federal home secretary.
More soldiers were killed when they stepped on land mines the Maoists planted throughout the ambush zone, he said.
Two separate groups of reinforcements rushed to the area to help but came under fire as well, Chidambaram said.
The casualties came from bombs, grenades, bullets and land mines, he said.
The rebels, who rarely speak to the media, did not issue a statement on the attack.
Named after Naxalbari, the village in West Bengal state where their movement was born in 1967, the Naxalites have an estimated 10-thousand to 20-thousand fighters.
While many are poorly armed - often going into battle with handmade weapons forged from plumbing pipes - they regularly launch bloody attacks on government forces.
In February, they killed at least 24 police officers in West Bengal state in an attack on a police camp.
The government dismisses the Naxalites' claim to speak for the country's poor, arguing they do little but wreak havoc in some of India's most impoverished regions.
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AP-APTN-2330: Thailand Protest 3
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
STORY:Thailand Protest 3- REPLAY Thai PM declares state of emergency in Bangkok
LENGTH: 02:04
FIRST RUN: 1930
RESTRICTIONS: Pt No Access Thailand
TYPE: Thai/Nat
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/CH5
STORY NUMBER: 642287
DATELINE: Bangkok - 7 Apr 2010
LENGTH: 02:04
AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY
CH 5 - NO ACCESS THAILAND
SHOTLIST:
(FIRST RUN 0930 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 7 APRIL 2010)
AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY
1. Member of parliament Karun Hosakul who supports Red Shirt protesters, facing military policeman inside parliament building, UPSOUND (Thai) Karun Hosakul, Parliamentarian: "You're holding a gun? This is the office of our legislature."
2. Various of military policeman holding rifle walking out of parliament building
3. Policeman trying to open car door, tilt up to Karun Hosakul and crowd stopping policeman, pushing him to ground
4. Crowd pulling pistol out of grip of military policeman, tilt down to policeman on ground
5. Mid of Red Shirt protester holding automatic rifle and clip of ammunition taken from military policeman
6. Close of pistol taken from military policeman being held up in air, later shows protester walking with pistol towards crowd
7. Close of pistol taken from military policeman being held up in air, with crowd of Red Shirt protesters at gate of parliament compound cheering
(FIRST RUN 1130 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 7 APRIL 2010)
CH 5 - NO ACCESS THAILAND
8. Wide of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva sitting with cabinet
9. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Abhisit Vejjajiva,Thai Prime Minister:
++Audio partly overlaid with pan of cabinet ministers listening++
"The protesters are breaking more and more laws. Especially in the past few days, they disobeyed law enforcement officers on duty, and today they even trespassed on an important government location that is the case where they trespassed into the parliament. Therefore I called for a special cabinet meeting this afternoon. The meeting has decided to declare a state of emergency in Bangkok and adjacent areas."
10. Wide of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his cabinet ministers
STORYLINE:
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in Bangkok on Wednesday, handing the army broad powers to restore order after weeks of disruptive street protests by anti-government demonstrators.
The announcement came after protesters broke into Parliament and senior government officials had to be evacuated by helicopter.
Some lawmakers scaled the compound's walls to escape.
"Red Shirt" protesters led by one of their hardcore leaders smashed through the Parliament compound gate with a truck and rushed to the second floor while Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban and other lawmakers were still inside.
But the protesters later withdrew from the building at the request of opposition lawmakers.
"The protesters are breaking more and more laws. Especially in the past few days, they disobeyed law enforcement officers on duty, and today they even trespassed on an important government location ... the meeting has decided to declare a state of emergency," Abhisit said.
The government already had placed Bangkok under the strict Internal Security Act.
But a state of emergency includes more sweeping powers.
It gives the military authority to restore order and allows authorities to suspend certain civil liberties and ban all public gatherings of more than five people.
The so-called "Red Shirt" protesters - many of whom are supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was removed in a 2006 coup on corruption allegations - are demanding that Abhisit dissolve Parliament within 15 days and call new elections.
He has offered to do so by the end of the year.
They have been camped in Bangkok since March 12 and have ignored all other decrees for them to stop their protests.
Abhisit has become the target of harsh criticism for failing to take strong measures to end the protests.
He has tried negotiations, and has had security forces pull back from possible confrontations.
In a statement broadcast on all television stations on Tuesday, he explained that "the current fragile situation demands careful manoeuvring."
"We need to plan and implement everything to the last detail and with thorough care. The last thing we want is for the situation to spiral out of control," he has said.
In an incident reflecting unwillingness of security forces to get tough, a scuffle broke out between a lawmaker from a pro-Thaksin party and a soldier carrying an M-16.
The lawmaker shouted at the soldier, "You're holding a gun? This is the office of our legislature" and then chased the soldier out of the building where Red Shirts wrestled him to the ground and seized his rifle and a pistol.
The protesters then turned the guns over to authorities.
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AP-APTN-2330: ++Venezuela Uruguay
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
STORY:++Venezuela Uruguay- NEW President Pepe Mujica on official visit to Venezuela
LENGTH: 02:30
FIRST RUN: 2330
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: Commentary/Spanish/Nat
SOURCE: VTV
STORY NUMBER: 642300
DATELINE: Caracas, 7 Apr 2010
LENGTH: 02:30
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SHOTLIST
1. Pan left of Uruguayan President Pepe Mujica arriving at Miraflores and hugging his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez
2. Wide of Mujica and Chavez on podium, with Chavez hugging Mujica
3. Close of Mujica and Chavez listening to national anthem
4. Wide Mujica and Chavez inspecting guard of honour
5. Both Presidents looking at an exhibit
6. Various of Mujica and Chavez during meeting
7. Wide of Mujica and Chavez on podium
8. Various of Mujica and Chavez signing bilateral agreements
9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela:
"(Those are rumours) that the right (wing) sets in motion in order to create conflict. They are speculating whether Pepe (Mujica) will follow Lula's model (referring to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil) or Chavez' model. Pepe will not follow Lula's or Chavez' model, the same way Chavez does not follow Fidel's (Cuban leader Fidel Castro) model, or Putin's (Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister) model. Each of us follows our own momentum."
10. Wide of people applauding
11. Mayor of Caracas, Jorge Rodriguez, listening
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela:
"I hope they find a lot of gas. And a lot of oil as well, for the people of Uruguay. But, if they don't find it, all the oil and gas that Uruguay needs for the rest of this century is here in Venezuela. It just has to be taken there."
13. Wide of people applauding
14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Pepe Mujica, President of Uruguay: ++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOTS OF CHAVEZ LISTENING, SEATED NEXT TO MUJICA++
"Hugo (Chavez) represents and symbolises the liberators of the historic times that lie ahead. I have nothing to say, other than thank you, for the passion, the memory, the dedication and the enthusiasm."
15. Chavez giving replica of Venezuelan liberation hero Simon Bolivar's sword to Mujica as a gift
16. Mid of people applauding
STORYLINE
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered on Wednesday to help Uruguay expand a refinery and supply it with crude oil.
Chavez and visiting Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, popularly known as "Pepe," signed accords pledging to deepen trade and energy ties between the two South American nations.
Venezuela's president expressed admiration for the 74-year-old Mujica, a former leftist guerrilla leader who took office last month.
Chavez embraced Mujica when he arrived at the presidential palace, affectionately calling him "a mentor."
Chavez presented Mujica with the Order of the Liberator - Venezuela's highest honour - and gave him a replica of a sword used by South American independence hero Simon Bolivar - the namesake of Chavez's socialist-inspired "Bolivarian Revolution."
Chavez said Venezuela will renew a deal to sell Uruguay up to 40-thousand barrels of oil a day under preferential terms.
Chavez said he and Mujica also would discuss Venezuelan help in expanding Uruguay's La Teja refinery.
He said it should be upgraded with equipment allowing it to refine heavy crude from Venezuela's eastern Orinoco River basin.
Uruguay also plans to export one-thousand vehicles to Venezuela under the accords.
Since 2005, Venezuela has shipped 17-thousand barrels a day of oil to Uruguay.
Under the 2005 agreement, Uruguay pays for 75 percent of the oil in cash.
It can purchase the remaining 25 percent of the bill over a 15-year period at 2 percent interest.
Since the shipments commenced five years ago, Uruguay has run up a 524 (m) million US dollars debt, Uruguayan Economy Minister Fernando Lorenzo said.
The previous agreements were the product of Chavez's friendly relations with Mujica's predecessor, Tabare Vazquez.
While Mujica shares some of Chavez's leftist views, he has vowed to take a more moderate approach to politics.
Prior to his election in November, Mujica denied he would radically reform Uruguay's stable parliamentary democracy and push the country toward socialism - like Chavez.
Mujica says he's more inspired by the performance of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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AP-APTN-2330: ++US Obama
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
STORY:++US Obama- NEW US President Obama departs enroute to Prague
LENGTH: 02:30
FIRST RUN: 2330
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: Natsound
SOURCE: US POOL
STORY NUMBER: 642293
DATELINE: Maryland, 7 Apr 2010
LENGTH: 02:30
US POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST
1. Helicopter with US President Barack Obama preparing to land
2. Helicopter taxiing
3. Pull out of helicopter
4. Obama emerging from helicopter
5. Obama running up steps of US Air Force One, turns and waves
6. Wide of Air Force One
7. Officers saluting as plane taxis away
8. Wide of plane taxiing
STORYLINE
US President Barack Obama left Washington on Wednesday night, heading for the Czech capital Prague to sign a new arms-reduction treaty with Russia.
Obama arrived at Andrews Air Force Base by helicopter, transferring to the Air Force One for the flight to a signing ceremony described as his first major step in his push toward a nuclear-free world.
The deal with Russia reduces both countries' nuclear arsenals but is also seen as giving Obama a chance to repair relations with Moscow and pursue more dramatic cuts in global nuclear weapon stockpiles.
The new treaty, to be signed on Thursday by Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, will shrink both nations' arsenals of strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550 over seven years, about a third less than the 2,200 currently permitted.
It was a year ago nearly to the day, also in Prague, that Obama outlined his agenda to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in US security strategy, with a long-range goal of eliminating nuclear arms.
The agreement, known as 'new START' follows disputes between Washington and Moscow over US missile defence plans, Moscow's 2008 invasion of Georgia and NATO's expansion to the Russian borders.
The Prague trip is sandwiched in between two other significant nuclear events which have had the President focusing almost exclusively on weapons security for the better part of a week.
On Tuesday, Washington released the results of a comprehensive nuclear strategy review that described the spread of atomic weapons to rogue states or militants as a worse threat than Cold War fears of nuclear Armageddon.
Then next week, Obama welcomes to Washington the leaders of 46 nations for a two-day summit, the largest in the United States since the 1940s, on locking down nuclear material that could fall into the hands of militants.
Prague, the choice for Obama's seminal nuclear weapons-free world speech last year, also is the capital of a former Soviet satellite and now-NATO member, part of the former Czechoslovakia where the 1989 Velvet Revolution was one of the few peaceful overthrows of communism behind the
Iron Curtain.
Obama is also hosting a lavish dinner in Prague for leaders from 11 central and Eastern European nations, the so-called new democracies
and new NATO allies who fear Russia's muscle-flexing and worry about Washington's focus on placating Moscow.
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AP-APTN-2330: Russia Katyn
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
STORY:Russia Katyn- REPLAY Russian, Polish leaders mourn Stalin-era atrocity
LENGTH: 01:13
FIRST RUN: 1630
RESTRICTIONS: No Access Poland
TYPE: Natsound
SOURCE: TVN
STORY NUMBER: 642282
DATELINE: Katyn - 7 April 2010
LENGTH: 01:13
TVN - NO ACCESS POLAND
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SHOTLIST:
1. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk arriving at the Katyn cemetery
2. Religious ceremony in front of monument
3. Pan of Russian army orchestra playing Polish national anthem
4. Media
5. Soldiers marching
6. Close up of former Polish President and leader of Solidarity movement Lech Walesa
7. Various shots of Putin and Tusk approaching platform and giving briefing
8. Audience holding banner in the colours of the Polish flag reading (Polish) "Siberian Poland"
9. Putin and Tusk leaving the platform
10. Putin greets Walesa and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the first non-Communist prime minister of Poland
STORYLINE:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended a memorial ceremony on Wednesday for 22-thousand Polish prisoners who were killed by Soviet secret police during World War II in an unprecedented gesture of good will and reconciliation to Poland.
Putin - accompanied by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk - became the first Russian leader to ever commemorate the Katyn massacres with a Polish leader, and said the two nations' "fates had been inexorably joined" by the atrocities.
The 22-thousand Polish officers, prisoners and intellectuals, were massacred by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's secret police in 1940 in Katyn, a village near Russia's border with Belarus.
In what appeared to be his harshest condemnation of Stalin's rule to date, Putin said: "In our country there has been a clear political, legal and moral judgment made of the evil acts of this totalitarian regime, and this judgment cannot be revised."
But his speech stopped short of offering any apology to the Polish nation or calling the massacres a war crime, as some commentators in Poland had expected.
Also, while giving the go-ahead to a joint historic commission on the matter, Putin gave no concrete pledge that all Soviet archives documenting it would finally be unsealed.
Tusk used his emotional speech about the Polish victims to push Putin on this point.
For half a century, Soviet officials claimed that the mass executions had been carried out by Nazi occupiers during the Second World War.
But the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev's rule admitted in 1990 that the crimes had been committed by Stalin's NKVD secret police, a precursor to the KGB.
The disclosure opened the floodgates of historical consciousness across the Soviet Union, speeding its demise as nations across the Eastern bloc awoke to the horrors of the Soviet regime and sought independence.
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AP-APTN-2330: France Spiderman
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
STORY:France Spiderman- REPLAY French climber scales building in business district of Paris
LENGTH: 02:31
FIRST RUN: 1330
RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only
TYPE: French/Natsound
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION
STORY NUMBER: 642260
DATELINE: Paris - 7 Apr 2010
LENGTH: 02:31
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SHOTLIST
1. Wide exterior of entrance to GDF-Suez headquarters building in La Defense, Paris
2. Wide of Alain Robert up the climbing up the GDF-Suez tower's facade
3. Mid Robert climbing
4. People inside GDF-Suez tower watching through window
5. Robert pausing to look down then continuing to climb
6. Close of Robert's feet as he climbs
7. Robert climbing GDF-Suez tower
8. People on ground watching Robert
9. Wide long-angle shot of GDF-Suez tower, Robert is a speck on the upper half of building
10. Various of Robert climbing upper section of tower
11. People on ground watching Robert
12. Robert reaching the top of GDF-Suez tower, head of one of the firemen waiting at the top becomes visible
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Alain Robert, "French Spiderman":
"It's the same situation as for a tennis player. If he is injured, he is not going to be in top form. Me, what I am going to do, I have to be able to perform because it's a question of life or death. It's true that for me the aim, what counts, is to get up to the top safely, so I'm going to climb steadily, without rushing, and really study the structure (of the building)."
14. Robert talking with woman
STORYLINE
A French climber famous for climbing nearly 100 buildings worldwide came home to Paris on Wednesday where he scaled the GDF-Suez office tower in the business district of the French capital.
Alain Robert, 48, who is nicknamed the "French Spiderman," was arrested when he reached the top of the 185 metre (607 foot), 36 storey office building.
The building is the third tallest in Paris' business district, La Defense.
Robert has also climbed the Empire State building in New York, the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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