Nobel committee announcement, President' first comments on his win

Описание: (10 Oct 2009)
Oslo, Norway
1. Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, walks to podium,
SOUNDBITE: (Norwegian) Thorbjoern Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee:
"Good morning, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace prize 2009 will go to the US President Barack Obama (gasps of surprise) for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
Oslo, Norway
2. Close of podium with Alfred Nobel effigy
Oslo, Norway
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Thorbjoern Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee:
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama's vision of, and work for, a world without nuclear weapons. Obama has created a new international climate."
Washington DC, USA
4. Wide of US President Barack Obama walking to podium,
SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"Good morning."
Washington DC, USA
5. Cutaway of media
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"Well, this is not how I expected to wake up this morning. After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, 'Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!' And then Sasha added, 'Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up.' So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective."
Washington DC, USA
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"I am both surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel committee. Let me be clear, I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people in all nations."
Washington DC, USA
8. Cutaway of Obama
Washington DC, USA
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"And I know that throughout history, the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honour specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes."
Washington DC, USA
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"And that is why I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st century."
Washington DC, USA
11. Cutaway of Obama
Washington DC, USA
12. Obama leaving podium
STORYLINE
US President Barack Obama said on Friday he was honoured and humbled to win the Nobel Peace Prize and would accept it as a "call to action" to work with other nations to solve the problems of the 21st Century.
Obama told reporters in the White House Rose Garden that he was not certain he had done enough to earn the award or deserved to be in the company of the "transformative figures" who received it before him.
But, he said, "I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the challenges of the 21st century."
Obama will travel to Oslo, Norway, in December to accept the award on the birthday of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite whose will established the award series in his name.
Obama has said he will donate the 1.4 (m) million US dollars cash award that comes with the prize to charity.
The 48-year-old, is the third US president to win the prize while in office, after Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Woodrow Wilson in 1919.
Obama acknowledged that, while accepting an award for peace, he was commander in chief of a country engaged in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Bo is the family dog.

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