(23 Nov 2006)
1. Wide of crowd in Martyr's Square surrounding foundations for a new building
2. Coffin being brought in draped in the Phalange flag
3. Coffin being raised up by crowd and shaken
4. Crowd with flags and photos of Pierre Gemayel
5. Pan of crowd
6. Various of coffin being carried through crowd - National anthem playing in background
7. Family members walking through crowd - Pierre Gemayel's brother, Sami and his mother on right
8. Various of crowd
9. Family members walking through crowd - Pierre Gemayel's father, Amin, raises hand and waves
10. Wide of crowd
11. Lebanese anti-Syrian Christian politician Samir Geagea coming into St George's Church, Beirut for funeral service
12. Coffin being carried into church
13. Wide aerial of coffin being carried through church
14. Various of coffin
15. Picture of Samir Shartuni and coffin being carried into church, Pierre Gemayel's bodyguard who was killed with him
16. Lebanese Prime Minister, Fuad Saniora and Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri, and Amr Moussa, Arab League Secretary General sitting
17. Various people sitting Saad Hariri, son of Rafik Hariri, on far right. Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon (third from right)
18. Pan down line Samir Geagea is sitting next to Saad Hariri
19. Wide aerial of church
20. Pierre Gemayel's father, Amin, greeting Fuad Saniora
21. Wide aerial of church
22. Pierre Gemayel's father, Amin, greeting Saad Hariri
23. Pierre Gemayel's father, Amin, greeting Samir Geagea
24. Maronite Patriarch Cardinal, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir reciting
25. Close up of family - left to right - brother, Sami, relative mother and father, Amin
26. Wide aerial of church
STORYLINE:
Lebanese dignitaries turned out in force on Thursday for the funeral of the assassinated government minister, Pierre Gemayel and his bodyguard, who was killed alongside him.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Arab League Secretary General, Amr Moussa joined Saad Hariri, son of assassinated former Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri at the service.
Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon and Lebanese anti-Syrian Christian politician Samir Geagea at St George's Church, Beirut for the funeral service also attended.
Pierre Gemayel's family greeted the mourners.
Tens of thousands of people flooded onto the streets in Beirut to pay their respects.
Martyr's Square in central Beirut was a sea of flags and some carried posters of the former Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in last year.
Pierre Gemayel's supporters had called for a massive turnout at his funeral, which many feared could be the first in a round of demonstrations that could bring the political standoff into the volatile streets.
Before Gemayel's slaying on Tuesday, Hezbollah had threatened to hold its own mass protests in an attempt to bring down the US-backed government of Prime Minister Fuad Saniora.
Hezbollah officials on Wednesday said the group would take no action in the coming days to allow emotions to cool.
Gemayel's assassination introduced new tensions into the already dangerous power struggle in Lebanon.
The polarisation has become as sharp and exposed as it has been since the end of the 1975-90 civil war which ripped the nation asunder, mainly along sectarian lines, but also ideological ones, and was also fuelled by intervention from Syrian and Israeli forces and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO).

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