(5 Sep 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Various exteriors of television studio
2. Snipers on rooftop
3. Challenger and leader of the Christian Democrats, Angela Merkel arrives at TV studio
4. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder arrives at TV studio
5. Wide interior of TV studio
6. SOUNDBITE (German): Gerhard Schroeder, German Chancellor:
"Trust is a wide ranging concept which relates to the whole political approach. I am asking for trust in the policies that I have carried out to date, policies aimed at readjusting the social security systems that were neglected in the 1990s under a previous conservative government."
7. Cutaway of man asking question
8. SOUNDBITE (German): Angela Merkel, Christian Democrats leader:
"I have steered the CDU (Christian Democrats) in the direction of modernisation which will make us fit for the 21st century and help us create more jobs for Germany and to be seen as an economically advanced power, and have the confidence to do that for Germany."
9. People watching debate in studio
10. SOUNDBITE (German): Gerhard Schroeder, German Chancellor:
"You always talk about Germany as a backward country. That is so wrong, Frau Merkel, and so dangerous in the face of international competition because it is a wrong attitude. We''ve talked about exports. We have the same number of patents as France and England together. We are the absolute champions of Europe when it comes to innovation."
11. People watching debate in studio
12. SOUNDBITE (German): Angela Merkel, Christian Democrats leader:
"Schroeder came to power with the promise, ''If I don''t manage to reduce unemployment significantly then I don''t deserve to be voted back in again.'' After seven years of Red-Green, the figures for July were higher than under (former Chancellor) Helmut Kohl."
13. People watching debate in studio
14. SOUNDBITE (German): Angela Merkel, Christian Democrats leader:
"It is now time to talk about the prospects for Turkey. I would like for them to achieve closer links with Europe, but I think the potential for their integration with Europe is not, in its present structure, there to accept Turkey as a full member. That''s what I tell people today and that''s what I''ve told the Turkish president."
15. Cutaway of debate
16. SOUNDBITE (German): Gerhard Schroeder, German Chancellor:
"All of us know the fraught situation in the entire region - Iran, Iraq, Caucasus. If we manage to bind Turkey so strongly to Europe that she can''t disengage herself, to combine a non-fundamentalist Islam with western enlightenment values, the increase in security for us is beyond any other consideration."
17. Pull out from giant screen in studio at end of televised debate
STORYLINE
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder reminded Germans of his opposition to the US-led war in Iraq while challenger Angela Merkel zeroed in on high unemployment on Sunday, in their only head-to-head televised debate, two weeks ahead of the election on September 18.
Schroeder, needing a knockout punch with his Social Democrats trailing Merkel''s Christian Democrats by a double-digit margin, launched straight into a defence of his welfare-state and labour-market reforms.
He also immediately sought to score points with his popular opposition to the US-led war in Iraq.
"I am asking for confidence in the policies that I have carried out, policies aimed at readjusting the social security systems that were neglected in the 90s" under a previous conservative government, Schroeder said.
"We are the ones who tackled the structural problems," he added.
"We must do everything to say: priority for jobs," Merkel said.
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