AP embed pix of British troops and Danish reconstruction teams

Описание: (1 May 2007)
++PLEASE NOTE THE AP CREW WERE EMBEDDED WITH THE BRITISH MILITARY AND SUBJECT TO BRITISH MILITARY RESTRICTIONS++
April 26, 2007
1. Various of British soldiers from Second Royal Regiment of Fusiliers securing area and patrolling
2. Tracking shot of British soldiers securing the area
3. Pan from close-up of British soldier pointing and looking through his rifle, to tracking shot of soldier as he moves away from position
4. Various of British soldiers on patrol
5. Wide of British soldier patrolling area around crater from aerial bombing
6. Wide of British soldiers patrolling area destroyed by bomb
7. Various of British soldiers patrolling in fields
8. Pan of Danish and British soldiers (members of the Civic-Military Cooperation - CIMIC) meeting with a local leader of Sangin District
9. Mid of female British soldier taking off helmet
10. Close-up of local leader
11. Mid of CIMIC members talking to local leader
12. Wide pan of CIMIC members and local leader during their meeting
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Katherine Fisher, British Member of Civic-Military Cooperation in Helmand:
"Well what we're looking at is Sangin's quite heavily destroyed at the moment and there is high reliance on poppy cultivation. So what we are trying to do is trying to sort of redevelop Sangin so that we can sort of input money into the economy so that they can start to regenerate their own economy for themselves and build."
April 22, 2007
14. Wide of British soldiers patrolling destroyed and uninhabited area
April 26, 2007
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Katherine Fisher, British Member of Civic-Military Cooperation in Helmand:
"Well at the moment it's very difficult. Sangin's been sort of heavily populated by Taliban up until quite recently and they've got, they're still a little bit scared that the Taliban will come back. Although we have a relative amount of security at the moment they're still fearful that the Taliban will comeback, so they don't really want to cooperate to heavily with us."
April 22, 2007
16. Various of British soldiers patrolling destroyed and uninhabited area
April 26, 2007
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Allan Holum, Danish Member of Civic-Military Cooperation in Helmand:
"We can't go on working and sending the kids to school and pretending everything is normal if there's still fighting going on. So of course the security issue is the first priority down here and that's why things are going little slow at the moment I think because we are still in a situation where we don't know if the fight is going to return or if there's going to be stability."
18. Mid of solider pointing gun
19. Close-up of soldier looking into gin
20. Mid of solider pointing gun
21. Pan of young person walking in street
STORYLINE:
British troops have been patrolling near deserted streets of Sangin in Afghanistan's Helmand province amongst the damaged houses and debris left by fighting between themselves and the Taliban.
The soldiers were reportedly there to keep the Taliban out of the town and to show the local population that they can provide them with security, but the few civilians who are trying to get back to or have remained in the city, complain that large number of civilians have been killed as a result of the fighting.
After the start of operation Silver on 4 April, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) troops recovered control of Sangin from the Taliban as well as the main streets of Sangin bazaar.
An AP Television crew embedded with British troops showed British and Danish soldiers from the CIMIC team meeting with a local leader of the Sangin District.

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