Anti-Bush protest ahead of US president's visit

Описание: (1 Mar 2006) SHOTLIST :
1. Pan across massive crowd at protest rally
2. Protesters waving placards and flags
3. Protesters beating with shoes a poster showing Bush with the body of a wolf
4. Tighter shot of the poster reading: "Bush is biggest terrorist of the world"
5. Crowds at the rally
6. Police standing behind barricades put up to keep protestors in check
7. Protesters on a tree
8. Close of an old man behind a wire fence
9. Wide of dais area
10. Background banner on dais reading: "Bush, the greatest terrorist and killer...Go back
11. Demonstrators raising hands
12. Close of a poster reading: "Devil Bush, whose guest?"
13. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Sirajuddin Asadi, protester:
"Bush has bad intentions in visiting India. He is coming to interfere in the politics in the garb of a guest. His only intention is to cast an evil eye on India and meddle in her internal affairs."
14. Police watching protesters
15. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Sheikh Alimuddin Asadi, protester:
"We condemn the killing of innocent Muslim children in Iraq by Bush."
16. Close of poster reading: "Son of devil Bush go back"
17. Various of crowd shouting and waving flags
18. Protesters running towards dais after jumping over barricades
19. Various of protesters being told to sit down
20. Mid of demonstrators wearing hats reading: "Go back Bush"
21. Police
22. Wide of protesters chanting
STORYLINE :
Tens of thousands of Indians waving black and white flags and chanting "Death to Bush!" held a protest on Wednesday in New Delhi against a visit by US President George W. Bush.
Crowd estimates varied, but one police officer said as many as 100,000 people, most of them Muslim, had gathered in a fairground in central New Delhi ordinarily used for political rallies.
Bush was to arrive later on Wednesday in India, a predominantly Hindu nation of more than one (b) billion people that also has one of the world's largest Muslim populations.
Wednesday's protesters carried placards that read: "Bully Bush, Go Home," and "Death to America, Death to Bush."
The demonstrators were objecting to US foreign policies, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan, and said they didn't want Bush to visit.
"His only intention is to cast an evil eye on India and meddle in her internal affairs," said one protester.
Police, some of them armed with rifles, were deployed heavily around the fairground, but as the rally grew, protesters charged a stage where about 200 Muslim leaders were waiting to speak, knocking over television cameras.
Bush's three-day visit is focused on strengthening the emerging strategic partnership between India and the United States.
Dozens of protests have been planned by Islamic leaders and communist politicians.
Some mosques in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, where Bush will visit on Friday, have already unfurled banners protesting his arrival and plan to chant verses from the Quran in hopes that it will drive him away.
Muslim groups also have called for a day-long strike to protest Bush's visit to Hyderabad, a key centre of India's booming information technology industry.
Muslims account for nearly 40 percent of the city's seven million people.
The communists, who are key allies of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government, also plan to protest on Thursday at India's Parliament in New Delhi, a few kilometres (miles) from where Bush and Singh will meet.
Communists and Muslims oppose a deal the two countries are working out under which India would buy nuclear fuel from the United States in return for opening its civilian nuclear facilities to international inspectors.

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