(21 Sep 2006) SHOTLIST
++ NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide exterior of parliament
2. Police outside parliament
3. Protesters holding Hungarian flags
4. Various of protesters
5. Reverse shot of speaker addressing protesters
6. Mid of banners, pan down to protesters
SOUNDBITE (English) Vox Pop, protester:
"We want this government is (to) go down from parliament and we want (a) new government here in Hungary and we want this only in (by) peace(ful) demonstration."
7 Wide of Hungarian flags
8. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Vox Pop, protester:
"Every evening after work we demonstrate. (Question: what are you waiting for?) We wish to have new elections. (Question: why do you need elections?) We need a new government."
9. Protesters
10. Various of police arresting protesters
11. Various of police and protesters
STORYLINE
Demonstrators gathered for a fourth night in Kossuth Square by Hungary's parliament building on Wednesday, continuing their calls for Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany to step down from office.
The crowd at the main protest had grown to 15,000 by late evening.
Their numbers were bolstered by the arrival of a number of farmers from the countryside who prepared food for the demonstrators.
One man said he supported peaceful demonstrations calling for a new Hungarian government.
"We want this government is (to) go down from parliament and we want (a) new government here in Hungary and we want this only in (by) peace(ful) demonstration," he said.
Around Budapest security forces braced themselves for another night of more disorder after police using water cannons and tear gas were involved in violent clashes with protesters on Monday and Tuesday nights.
AP television showed police arresting more protesters on Wednesday evening.
The disorder was sparked by Gyurcsany's leaked admission that his government had repeatedly lied to the public about the economy.
Authorities say that since the violence began, a total of 140 officers have been injured, including 38 in the early hours of Wednesday, and that 137 people have been detained.
The most violent clashes involved splinter groups that had broken off from a larger demonstration of about 10,000 people and marched to the headquarters of the Socialist Party and to the Hungarian state radio building.
Police have said that many of the troublemakers were linked to hooligan groups associated with two local football teams.
The Hungarian leadership has appealed for calm and Gyurcsany has so far resisted all calls for him to resign insisting that his government will push through with his reforms.
The violence has shaken a country that for much of the last two decades has been held up as a model of progress following the collapse of communism in eastern Europe.
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