(1 Mar 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of US President George W. Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai walking towards podium
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Wonderful moment for us in Afghanistan today to have our great friend, our great supporter, a man that helped us liberate, a man that helped us rebuild, a man that helped us move towards the future, President Bush, today with us."
3. Wide of two at the podium
4. Cutaway US First Lady Laura Bush standing with Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah
5. SOUNDBITE (English): George W Bush, President of the United States:
"One of the messages I want to say to the people of Afghanistan, it's our country's pleasure and honour to be involved with the future of this country. We like stories of young girls going to school for the first time, so they can realise their potential. We appreciate a free press, we are enthralled when we see and an entrepreneurial class grow-up where people are able to work and realise their dreams. We understand the importance of having a well trained military dedicated to the sovereignty of the country and to the peace of the people, and we are impressed by the progress that your country's making Mr President, a lot of it has to do with your leadership."
6. Cutaway wide of President answering reporter's question.
7. Cutaway of officials standing to one side, including Laura Bush, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Abdullah
8. Bush and Karzai shaking hands and walking away with Laura
STORYLINE
U.S. President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that the United States was please to be involved in Afghanistan's future and was happy with the recent progress.
"We like stories of young girls going to school for the first time," Bush said during a news conference in the capital, Kabul.
"We appreciate a free press. We are enthralled when we see an entrepreneurial class grow up," Bush said.
The U.S. overthrew the former Taliban government in late 2001. Since then, Afghanistan has held parliamentary elections and has opened up education to girls and women who were barred from it during the Taliban's hard-line rule.
US President George W. Bush made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Wednesday, flying here secretly to support its fledging government in the face of rising violence from al-Qaida and Taliban militants.

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