(27 Nov 2011)
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of protesters, police officers next to them
2. Various of police officers moving protesters from rail track and camp
3. Wide of protest site, police officers
4. Close-up of protesters sitting on ground
5. Mid of police officers moving protester
6. Mid of protesters applauding
7. Wide of protesters and police officers
8. Mid of police officers moving protester
9. Pan of police officers beside railway track
10. Wide of police at protest site
++NIGHT SHOTS++
11. Wide of police officers standing alongside railway track
12. Mid of activist chained to track
13. Close-up of activist's arm
14. Mid of police attempting to unchain activist
15. Close-up of chain being cut
16. Pan across two activists chained to track
17. Close-up of activist
18. Close-up of box containing drill
19. Close-up of activist
20. Various of activist in tree with banner
21. Tilt up from police officers to activist in tree
++NIGHT SHOTS++
22. Close-up of rubbish-strewn railway track
23. Policeman abseiling down tree after removing activist
24. Activist removed from tree talking to emergency services
25. Mid of activists
26. Police extinguishing fires
27. Police removing activists
28. Mid of police lined up
29. Police removing activists
30. Wide of police walking down track to check and clear railway
31. SOUNDBITE (German) Heiner van der Werp, police spokesman:
"We arrested about 900 demonstrators, who are being held in temporary confinement. The arrested people have to undergo the first juridical procedures. In general, we had only a few incidents and I can say now in the morning the railway track is free again."
32. Wide of police beside rubbish-strewn tracks
++DAY SHOTS++
33. Various of emergency services, including police surrounding activists who have attached themselves to concrete pyramid on railway track
STORYLINE:
German police started clearing protesters from a railway line near the village of Harlingen on Sunday morning, ahead of the arrival of a controversial nuclear waste delivery.
The so-called 'Castor' (cask for storage and transport of radioactive material) train carrying the shipment entered western Germany on Saturday morning after delays in France, where activists damaged rail tracks in an attempt to halt the cargo.
The waste is bound for a storage facility near the northern German town of Gorleben.
In Harlingen, police say up to three thousand protesters blocked the railway line.
Two activists chained themselves to the tracks, while another climbed up a tree and unveiled a banner.
Officers started moving individuals at around 03.30 a.m. local time (0230 GMT).
The removal operation is expected to take around six hours to complete.
Police were struggling to clear protesters from a local farmers group who attached themselves to a concrete pyramid built on the tracks in order to block the route of the train.
Many of the demonstrators left the site peacefully, although police spokesman Heiner van der Werp said around 900 people were arrested.
Nuclear energy has been unpopular in Germany since fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine drifted over the country.
The annual shipment from France has been a traditional focal point for protesters.
This is the first shipment, however, since Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to speed up shutting down all of Germany's nuclear plants, with the last one scheduled to go offline by 2022.
Questions were raised about nuclear safety after a disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan earlier this year.
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