(21 Nov 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of protesters running from tear gas, towards camera
2. Protester holding Egyptian flag; riot police in the far background
3. Wide of protesters throwing rocks at riot police
4. Mid of protesters throwing rocks
5. Protester standing on top of a car surrounded by other protesters; riot police in the background
6. Tear gas grenade bouncing along road towards protesters
7. Protesters carrying injured colleague
8. Tight shot of protesters and police
9. Protesters standing on vehicles, shouting (Arabic) "enough" at police
10. Protester with a head injury and blood on his clothes
11.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Mohmed, protester:
"We need a civil presidential council elected by Tahrir (protesters) and elected by the Egyptian people. Figures that are politically agreed by the people, so that those figures rule the country and create a transitional government and conduct fair and free elections, that will lead to a president and constitution."
12. Wide of protesters in Tahrir Square
STORYLINE
Security forces fired tear gas and clashed with several thousand protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square in a third straight day of violence.
The unrest has led to the deaths of at least 24 people and turned into the most sustained challenge yet to the rule of Egypt's military.
Throughout the day, young activists demanding the military hand over power to a civilian government skirmished with black-clad police, hurling stones and firebombs and throwing back the tear gas canisters being fired by police into the square, which was the epicentre of the protest movement that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February.
The night before saw an escalation of the fighting as police launched a heavy assault that tried and failed to clear protesters from the square. In a show of the ferocity of the assault, the death toll leaped from Sunday evening until Monday morning.
A constant stream of injured protesters - bloodied from rubber bullets or overcome by gas - were brought into makeshift clinics set out on sidewalks around the square where volunteer doctors scrambled from patient to patient.
The eruption of violence, which began on Saturday, reflects the frustration and confusion that has mired Egypt's revolution since Mubarak fell and the military stepped in to take power.
It comes only a week before Egypt is to begin the first post-Mubarak parliamentary elections, which many have hoped would be a significant landmark in a transition to democracy.
Instead, the vote has been overshadowed by mounting anger at the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which will continue to hold power even after the vote.
Activists accuse the generals of acting increasingly in the same autocratic way as Mubarak's regime and fear that they will dominate the coming government, just as they have the current interim one they appointed months ago.
The military says it will hand over power only after presidential elections, which it has vaguely said will be held in late 2012 or early 2013.
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