Students block highway, dump red paint in Rome fountain

Описание: (22 Dec 2010) SHOTLIST
1. Wide top shot of demonstration
2. Top shot of students carrying banner reading: (Italian) "You are alone in the red zone. We are free throughout the city"
3. Student shouting through loud-hailer while other students hold banners of famous book titles
4. Wide of demo with banner reading (Italian) "The Mafia is thankful for the death of education"
5. Students holding flares
6. Students marching on highway and waving at bystanders
7. Students marching and singing: (Italian) "If they block our future, we will block the city"
8. Student protesters looking down on city from highway
9. Zoom in to students walking along the highway
10. Various of students on highway
11. Wide of police vans blocking road
12. Wide of students on highway
13. Wide of fountain where protesters poured red paint
14. Mid of fountain water coloured red
15. Close of red water
16. Various of cleaner walking through red water
17. Cleaners talking
18. Close of water valve
19. Wide of demonstrators passing in front of fountain
20. Various of students with painted white hands holding banners and chanting slogans
21. Various of police in front of Ministry of Education
STORYLINE
Students in cities across Italy took to the streets on Wednesday to protest against university budget cuts that are expected to be approved by parliament.
In Rome, police were out in force following violence at a demonstration last week, during which protesters torched cars, smashed shop front windows and destroyed bank ATMs in the historic city centre.
Thousands of students marched through the streets and along Rome's main highways, causing traffic to come to a standstill.
"If they block our future, we will block the city," sang some students as they marched.
One of Rome's most famous fountains on Gianicolo Hill ran red after demonstrators poured red paint into the water.
Students said the red colour symbolised both the blood spilt in last week's violent protests, and the budgets of Italy's education system.
Cleaners had already begun to drain the fountain and said that no permanent damage had been done.
Many of the students in Rome who had begun marching early on Wednesday morning made it clear that they intended it to be a peaceful demonstration.
Some carried flags and banners emblazoned with non-violent slogans, and many had painted their hands white as a representation of their peaceful intent.
Forty-one people were taken into custody and almost 100 were reported injured in last week's protests.
The ANSA news agency said students clashed with police in Palermo, but that protests in Rome, Milan and Sardegna were so far peaceful.

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