Pre-War Peace Demonstrations, Nato Expansion, Serbia - Djindjic Assassination , Sweden - Lindh Murde

(31 Dec 2003) GLOBAL
PRE-WAR PEACE DEMONSTRATIONS
In unprecedented protests, millions of people worldwide showed their opposition to the impending war in Iraq. In major cities around the globe demonstrators took to the streets calling for a peaceful solution to the Iraq problem. Both U.S. President George W. Bush and his closest ally British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced huge opposition in their own countries. Despite the scale of the anti-war movement, the invasion of Iraq went ahead regardless.
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15.2.03 - New York, USA
Crowds of protesters
Effigy of US President George W. Bush with saying "no war"
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15.2.03 - London, UK
Wide overhead shot of march
People dressed as British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush kissing
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15.2.03 - Paris, France
Wide shot of demonstration
Pan from sign to demonstrator
Wide shot of street with marchers
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15.2.03 - Berlin, Germany
Banner in crowd of marchers with a picture of Bush
Various of crowd of marchers
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15.2.03 - Tel Aviv, Israel
Various of demonstrators
Demonstrators marching down road
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15.2.03 - Rome, Italy
Wide shot of Piazza Venezia full of demonstrators with banners
GLOBAL
NATO EXPANSION
In its largest expansion yet, NATO welcomed seven eastern European nations to the alliance. The foreign ministers from Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Estonia and Latvia signed their membership treaties in Brussels on March 26th. The seven are due to join the coalition in May 2004 following ratification in their respective parliaments. Once members, they will be covered by NATO's core security guarantee, which states that an attack on one member is considered an attack on all.
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26.3.03 - Brussels, Belgium
Wide shot of NATO council room
Mid shot of Lord Robertson, Secretary General of NATO addressing council
Various of accession countries foreign ministers signing protocols
SOUNDBITE: (English) Lord Robertson, Secretary General of NATO
"Colleagues, the accession protocols have now been signed by all of the existing nineteen members of NATO. The ratification can now begin."
Group photo opportunity
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SERBIA - DJINDJIC ASSASSINATION
Gunmen who ambushed his entourage near government headquarters assassinated Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic -a key leader of the revolt, which toppled former President Slobodan Milosevic - in March.
Djindjic had many enemies because of his pro-reformist and pro-Western stance and his crackdown on organised crime, which is rampant in Serbia and across the Balkans.
A government-imposed state of emergency followed the murder and the military were called in to assist in the search for the assassins.
Members of an underworld network, which bore a grudge against the prime minister, carried out the killing.
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File, July 1999 - Uzice, Serbia
Djindjic addressing crowd
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12.3.03 - Belgrade, Serbia
Wide shot of people and police gathering outside site of shooting
Wide shot of street and police outside the government offices where Djindjic was ambushed
Mid shot of police and vehicles
SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Nebojsa Covic, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister
"There was an assassination of the Prime Minister of Serbia, Mr Zran Djindjic, at 1225pm (1125 GMT). The Prime Minister died at 1330pm (1230 GMT) in the emergency unit of the Serbian clinical centre in Belgrade. Doctor Zoran Djindjic was hit in the chest and abdomen and the wounds were gunshot wounds."
Mid shot of the sign of government offices where Djindjic was ambushed
Close up flowers
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