(16 Mar 2008)
Brussels, Belgium
1. Wide of Tibetan residents in Belgium demonstrating in front of the Chinese Mission to the European Union in Brussels, pan right to police with dogs
2. Various of police
3. Mid of protesters chanting slogans
4. Wide of protesters chanting slogans and waving Tibetan flag
5. Mid of protester chanting (English) "We want justice"
6. Wide of police watching protesters
7. Back shot of protesters
8. Close-up of protester's waistcoat with writing on it reading (English) "Tibet is for Tibetans, not for Red Chinese"
9. Police watching protesters
10. Wide of plaque outside Chinese mission's gate
11. Police outside Chinese mission
12. Back shot of protesters with police watching
13. Police with dogs watching protesters
14. Mid of dogs
15. Wide of protesters outside mission's building
Paris, France
16. Various of protesters holding Tibetan flags outside Chinese embassy
17. Man holding banner reading: (English) "Stop killing in Tibet"
18. Pan from riot police to protesters
19. Various of protesters holding candles and portraits of Dalai Lama
20. Close-up of monk holding candle, tilt up to monk's face
21. Wide of demonstration
STORYLINE:
About 250 Tibetan residents in Belgium gathered on Sunday in front of the Chinese Mission to the European Union in Brussels to demonstrate against the Chinese government's crackdown on protests in Tibet.
The crackdown has drawn negative publicity for China ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
Supporters of the exiled Tibetan government waved Tibetan flags and chanted slogans.
"We want justice," demonstrators shouted as police with dogs watched the peaceful protest.
In Paris on Sunday hundreds of pro-Tibet protesters gathered outside the Chinese Embassy to demonstrate, waving flags and lighting candles.
Later in the evening police had to use tear gas to repel protesters.
One protester managed to climb the front of the embassy building and take down the red Chinese flag that hangs there.
The man tried to hang a Tibetan flag in its place, but a police officer prevented him from unfurling it by snapping the flag pole.
A French official later returned the Chinese flag that was taken down to the embassy's Number two diplomat, police said.
Police estimated that 550 demonstrators took part in the protest.
They made several arrests and used tear gas when demonstrators tried to break through their lines.
Five days of protests in the Tibetan region's capital Lhasa escalated into violence on Friday, with Buddhist monks and others torching police cars and shops in the fiercest challenge to Beijing's rule over the region in nearly two decades.
Security forces patrolled Lhasa on Sunday enforcing a clampdown following the protests.
Earlier on Sunday, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama told reporters in Dharmsala, the north Indian hill town where Tibet's self-declared government-in-exile is based, that Tibet was facing a "cultural genocide".
It was not immediately clear if he was referring to China's overall policies in Tibet when he spoke of a genocide, or the recent crackdown.
The Dalai Lama said an international body should investigate the crackdown.
Supporters of the Dalai Lama say 80 people have been killed during protests in Lhasa.
The official Xinhua News Agency has said at least 10 civilians were burned to death on Friday.
The figures could not be independently verified because China restricts foreign media access to Tibet.
The violence on Friday erupted just two weeks before China's Olympic celebrations kick off with the start of the torch relay, which will pass through Tibet.

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