(9 Jun 2007)
Rome, 9 June 2007
1. Wide of Piazza Venezia
2. Carabinieri military police walking
3. Carabinieri patrolling streets, shot through fence
4. Pan right of street in centre of Rome with Carabinieri trucks
5. Wide exterior of Quirinal palace, Italian presidential palace
6. Flags on palace
7. Security official walking with dog
8. Finance police walking past Quirinal palace
9. Wide of Quirinal Palace's courtyard, red carpet
10. Close-up United States President George W. Bush walking down red carpet
11. Bush entering Quirinal palace
12. Bush and US First Lady Laura Bush greeting Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and his wife Clio
13. Mid of Bush and Napolitano
14. Cutaway US, Italian and European Union flags
15. Wide of Bush, his wife, Napolitano and his wife greeting officials
16. Mid of Bush and Napolitano shaking hands in front of flags
17. Mid of Bush and Napolitano seated chatting
18. Close-up Bush
19. Napolitano and Italian delegation including Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema
Vatican City, 9 June 2007
20. Wide of St Peter's Basilica across river
21. Various of Carabinieri on Tiber river
22. Various of Carabinieri carrying out security checks
23. Wide of St. Peter's Square
24. Mid of policeman on walkie talkie
25. Wide of visitors going through security check
26. Wide of sealed-up rubbish bin
27. Wide of entrance to US Embassy
28. Close-up of seal on gate
29. Pan right of security official walking with dog
30. Mid of man walking up to newspaper stand
31. Newspaper headlines
32. Close-up front page of La Repubblica newspaper reading: (Italian) "Bush, a day of high security"
STORYLINE
Carabinieri military police lined the roads of Rome as US President George W. Bush began his official visit to Italy on Saturday.
The first appointment of the day was at Quirinal Palace, home of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.
Security was high around the palace, where bomb-sniffing dogs were checking the piazza outside a half-hour before the arrival of the US President's motorcade.
Bush walked down the red carpet in the courtyard in front of a 30-man honour guard, the Lancers of Montebello, before entering the palace.
Inside Napolitano and his wife, Clio, warmly greeted Bush and his wife, Laura.
Thousands of security forces were deploying on Saturday morning in central Rome ahead of Bush's meetings with the Italian President, Pope Benedict XVI and Italian Premier Romano Prodi, also just returned from the Group of Eight meetings in Germany.
Large protests against Bush are planned for Saturday.
The main boulevard leading to St. Peter's Square and the Vatican was closed to traffic, with police and helicopters guarding the area.
News reports said as many as 10-thousand officers would provide security during the day, as anti-globalisation groups and far-left parties planned to stage two separate protests against Bush's visit in downtown Rome during the afternoon.
Italian-U.S. relations are busy right now - and a bit strained.
Just hours before Bush's arrival on Friday, the first trial involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition programme opened in a Milan courtroom.
Along with the 26 Americans on trial for the abduction of an Egyptian cleric, a U.S. soldier is on trial in Rome for the March 2005 slaying of an Italian spy in Baghdad.
In both cases, the U.S. citizens are being tried in absentia.
Meanwhile, a report out on Friday from European investigator Dick Marty accused Italy and Germany of obstructing his probe into alleged secret prisons run by CIA in Europe.
Despite differences, Bush and Prodi have said they want good ties.
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