Soldiers killed in rebel ambush + latest on peace talks
APTN Skopje:
1. Pan across interior of Skopje army hospital morgue from one line of bodies in body bags to more bodies on stretchers and on the floor
2. Zoom in on blood stain on body bag
3. Pull out to wide shot of body bags on stretchers and floor
4. Pull out from soldier's helmet in bag to wide of the helmet resting on one of four body bags
APTN Police Checkpoint, Skopje-Tetovo Highway:
5. Various of checkpoint
6. Various military police APC
APTN Skopje:
7. Various street scenes
8. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) Voxpop: We should not negotiate with them (the Albanians). We can only talk with them through our weapons.
9. SOUNDBITE: (Macedonian) Voxpop: We will not talk with them. They have done the same thing in Serbia and will do the same thing again in Macedonia.
APTN Kumanovo:
10. Exterior hospital
11. Various interiors of hospital
12. Wounded road workers, kidnapped on Tuesday by the National Liberation Army
13. Various of letter M carved into backs of road workers
14. Various of wounds
APTN Skopje:
15.Various of Wide shot of Macedonians marching
16. Wide shot of US embassy
17. Armed American soldiers on roof of guardhouse
POOL -Orhid:
18. Francois Leotard walking to press
19. SOUNDBITE (French) Francois Leotard, European Union Peace Envoy:
Jim Pardew, Max van der Stoel and myself, we would first like to express our utmost sadness at the tragedy in the Republic of Macedonia today. We have, and we still condemn, the acts of violence that have been committed in this country and which threaten the cause of peace. The political process will continue until next Monday, the 13th of August, when the political agreement will be formally signed in Skopje by all parties. Thank you.
APTN Skopje:
20. Zoom in on blood stain on body bag on morgue floor
21. Pull out to wide of body bags
22. Pan from line of body bags on floor and stretchers to another part of the room with more body bags
23. Zoom from wide of body bags to helmet resting on body bag
STORYLINE:
Macedonia's rival parties reached a tentative peace deal on Wednesday after the government said an ethnic Albanian rebel ambush killed 10 soldiers, forcing negotiators to act before the crisis deteriorated into all-out civil war.
Macedonian and ethnic Albanian parties pledged to sign the agreement next week, E.U. envoy Francois Leotard said after the slayings and fighting in the Balkan country's second-largest city added a sense of urgency to the talks.
The insurgents took up arms in February, saying they were fighting for greater rights for minority ethnic Albanians, who account for about a third of Macedonia's two (M) million people.
Jim Pardew is the United States' envoy to Macedonia and Max van der Stoel is from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
Meanwhile five Macedonian workers were freed late on Tuesday after being kidnapped by suspected Albanian guerrillas on the main road between Tetovo to Skopje.
The men had been slashed and beaten.
Even as the peace deal was being struck, several hundred Macedonians started gathering in the capital, Skopje, to protest against the deaths of the soldiers.
The crowd, mostly Macedonian refugees from Tetovo, demanded military action against the rebels.
They also set up barricades in downtown areas.
The protesters also tried to march on the US embassy but were stopped by Macedonian police.
US Marines took up positions on the embassy's roof in case of any attempt to attack the building.
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00:01:14 1 Name
00:02:52 2 History
00:03:01 2.1 Iron Age and Classical Antiquity
00:09:14 2.2 Byzantine period
00:12:00 2.3 Empire of Trebizond
00:17:45 2.4 Ottoman era
00:23:26 2.5 Modern era
00:30:19 3 Population
00:30:29 4 Geography and climate
00:31:44 4.1 Climate
00:34:02 5 Economy
00:35:49 6 People
00:40:07 7 Main sights
00:44:12 8 Culture
00:46:23 9 Education
00:47:17 10 Cuisine
00:48:36 11 Sports
00:50:01 12 Notable residents
00:50:10 13 International relations
00:50:21 13.1 Twin towns and sister cities
00:50:34 14 See also
00:51:02 15 Notes and references
00:52:03 16 Further reading
00:53:10 17 External links
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Trabzon (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈtɾabzon]), originally the Greek city known as Tραπεζούς in Greek, and Trebizond in English, is a city on the Black Sea coast of northeastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon, located on the historical Silk Road, became a melting pot of religions, languages and culture for centuries and a trade gateway to Persia in the southeast and the Caucasus to the northeast. The Venetian and Genoese merchants paid visits to Trebizond during the medieval period and sold silk, linen and woolen fabric.
Both republics had merchant colonies within the city – Leonkastron and the former 'Venetian castle – that played a role to Trebizond similar to the one Galata played to Constantinople (modern Istanbul). Trabzon formed the basis of several states in its long history and was the capital city of the Empire of Trebizond between 1204 and 1461. During the early modern period, Trabzon, because of the importance of its port, again became a focal point of trade to Persia and the Caucasus.