(3 Jun 2008)
1. Wide of Rome city hall
2. Protesters holding Israeli flags and posters
3. Jewish Rome resident reading newspaper
4. Iranian refugees with pictures of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Adolf Hitler attached to their shirts
5. Close-up of poster with Ahmadinejad as Adolf Hitler
6. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Adol, Iranian Refugee:
"A religious country like Iran, you see, Islam did not evolve in any way, did not accept to change. He (Ahmadinejad) believes he was sent to rule over Iran, if you listen to his speeches he sounds like he wants to rule over the whole world."
7. Wide of crowd in front of City Hall
8. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Gianni Alemanno, Rome's mayor:
"This is a demonstration where all Rome, beyond any political and social rivalry, is with this protest against the Iranian president, who says intolerable things for the whole of mankind."
9. Mid-shot of stage
10. Banner reading: (English) "Iran is hungry for freedom", protesters in foreground
11. Mid-shot of people with Israeli flags
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Riccardo Pacifici, Jewish community spokesman:
"This demonstration is not a demonstration against Ahmadinejad, it is a demonstration to support Iranian people. We want to tell Iranian people that they are not alone, that we know that they live in a country that his regime is a totalarist (sic) regime, that is a tyrannic activity against homosexuals, against Iranian students and we want to ask him to work for his freedom. This is our priority from this square, from Campidoglio square."
13. Mid-shot of people waving Iranian flags
14. Wide of crowd
STORYLINE:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad renewed his vitriolic anti-Israel rhetoric on Tuesday when he arrived in Rome for a visit that sparked protests by Jewish groups and condemnations by Italian politicians.
He told a summit news conference that Israel was "doomed to go."
The Iranian leader spoke out against Israel as soon as he touched down at the capital's small Ciampino airport, Italian news reports said.
"European peoples have been most hurt by the Zionists, and today the economic and political costs of this false regime are on the shoulders of Europe," the ANSA news agency quoted him as saying.
Echoing previous remarks that predicted the destruction of Israel, Ahmadinejad said that "the people will be saved from Zionist oppression," ANSA reported.
The Iranian leader was in Rome to attend a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) summit on the global food crisis.
Jewish groups and others staged protests against Ahmadinejad across Rome.
"This demonstration is not a demonstration against Ahmadinejad, it is a demonstration to support Iranian people. We want to tell Iranian people that they are not alone, that we know that they live in a country this his regime is a totalarist (sic) regime," said Riccardo Pacifici, a Jewish community spokesman.
"He believes he was sent to rule over Iran, if you listen to his speeches he sounds like he wants to rule over the whole world," said Adol, an Iranian refugee.
Another group of Jewish demonstrators marched toward the site of the three-day summit at the Rome-based United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.
Jewish youths climbed up the lower tier of the Colosseum about a kilometre (half-mile) from the summit site and sent anti-Ahmadinejad leaflets floating down.
Italian politicians expressed outrage at Ahmadinejad's remarks as well as his previous threats of destruction of Israel and frequent denials of the Holocaust.
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