(7 Nov 2012) SHOTLIST
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Protester throwing petrol bomb, then moving back as police fire tear gas
2. Police moving forward, petrol bombs exploding around them
3. Wide of police with petrol bombs being thrown, stun grenades going off
4. Wide pan of protesters and police
5. Mid of police with stun grenade going off
6. Pan from police with water cannon to protesters, tear gas being fired
7. Police moving forward, stun grenade going off
8. Wide of smoke and protesters, stun grenade going off
9. Water cannon spraying protesters
10. Group of police with fireball behind them from exploding petrol bomb
11. Wide of police with water cannon
12. Wide of fire from petrol bomb on street
13. Pan of police officer throwing stun grenade towards protesters; pan back to police
14. Pan of protesters throwing petrol bombs, police throwing tear gas canisters
15. Mid of petrol bomb exploding
16. Wide of another petrol bomb exploding in front of police; pan to protesters throwing more petrol bombs; pan back to police
17. Mid of police behind lines of flame
18. Wide of police officers moving forward; pan of police officer throwing stun grenade at protesters
19. Mid of petrol bomb exploding
STORYLINE
Greek protesters and police clashed in Athens on Wednesday night after an anti-austerity demonstration degenerated into violence.
Hundreds of protesters hurled rocks and petrol bombs at lines of riot police guarding Parliament, who responded with volleys of tear gas and stun grenades, and the first use of water cannon in Greece in years.
Running battles broke out with police on the second day of a 48-hour general strike.
Earlier, more than 80-thousand people marched through the Greek capital ahead of a crucial parliamentary vote on new spending cuts.
The vote is the toughest test yet for the country's fragile four month-old coalition government, which must pass the 13.5 billion euro (17 billion US dollar) package of measures to ensure Greece continues receiving bailout funds from its international creditors to avoid bankruptcy.
The austerity package is expected to scrape through when the vote is held later in the night.
But any defections or abstentions could severely weaken the conservative-led coalition formed in June.
The measures being debated are for for 2013-14 and include new deep pension cuts and tax hikes, a two-year increase in the retirement age to 67, and laws that will make it easier to fire and transfer civil servants who are currently guaranteed jobs for life.
The country is suffering a deep recession set to enter a sixth year, and record high unemployment of 25 percent.
Greece's next bailout loan instalment of 31.5 billion euros, out of a total of 240 billion euros, is already five months overdue.
Without it, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says, Greece will run out of money on November 16.
If Athens cannot raise sufficient funds otherwise, it will quickly find it impossible to pay its huge debts.
As well as pushing the country out of the 17-country group that uses the euro, this could trigger a nightmare of bank runs, hyperinflation and currency depreciation that would eliminate savings and put many basic goods out of the reach of many Greeks.


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