VARIOUS: YASSER ARAFAT, BORIS YELTSIN AND HEADS OF STATE FROM SEVERAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES JOIN TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM

Record ID: 976766

  • Title: VARIOUS: YASSER ARAFAT, BORIS YELTSIN AND HEADS OF STATE FROM SEVERAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES JOIN TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM
  • Date: 6th January 2000
  • Summary: BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (JANUARY 7, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. SLV/SV: FORMER RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS YELTSIN ARRIVING (2 SHOTS) 0.23 2. SLV/SV: PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT ARRIVING IN MANGER SQUARE (2 SHOTS) 0.35 3. SV: SUHA ARAFAT, WIFE OF PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT YASSER ARAFAT, ENTERING CHURCH 0.40 4. SV: CHRISTMAS MASS INSIDE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY 0.45 5. SLV: WORSHIPPERS AT MASS 0.48 6. SV: YELTSIN, ARAFAT AND SUHA ARAFAT AND THE PRESIDENTS OF ORTHODOX COUNTRIES, BELARUS, GEORGIA, GREECE, MOLDOVA, ROMANIA AND THE UKRAINE, ATTENDING MASS 0.53 7. CU: ARAFAT AT MASS 0.55 8. CU: YELTSIN AT MASS 0.58 9. VARIOUS OF MASS (4 SHOTS) 1.23 10. SLV: WORSHIPPERS INSIDE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY (6 SHOTS) 1.40 BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA. (JANUARY 6 AND 7, 2000) (REUTERS) 11. SLV: VARIOUS OF PEOPLE ARRIVING IN FRONT OF BELGRADE'S MAIN CHURCH TO ATTEND THE ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS CEREMONY 1.46 12. GV: CHURCH 1.52 13. CU: CROSS PAN DOWN TO CHRUCH GOERS 2.04 14. SV: PEOPLE LIGHTING CANDLES (3 SHOTS) 2.19 15. VARIOUS OF THE CHRISTMAS LITURGY (3 SHOTS) 2.37 16. SV: PEOPLE ATTENDING THE LITURGY/ MASS (2 SHOTS) 2.50 17. CU: ICON 2.53 GRACANICA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (JANUARY 6, 1999) (REUTERS) 18. LV: PEOPLE ON THEIR WAY INTO THE MONASTERY 3.00 19. SV: PEOPLE LIGHTING CANDLES (2 SHOTS) 3.12 20. SV: PEOPLE KISSING ICONS 3.17 21. SV: PRIESTS AND BISHOP ARTEMIJE COMING OUT OF THE MONASTERY FOR THE SECOND PART OF THE CHRISTMAS TRADITION (2 SHOTS) 3.30 22. SCU: BISHOP ARTEMIJE THROWING SWEETS AND NUTS TO CHILDREN 3.36 23. SV: SOUNDBITE (Serbo-Croat), BISHOP ARTEMIJE SAYING "May we expect this year as well as the forthcoming years in peace and happiness." 3.42 24. SV: PRIESTS AND LOCALS BURNING OAK BRANCHES, SHARING BREAD 3.51 25. SV: CHILDREN SHOWING THE SERB THREE FINGER SIGN 3.57 26. SV: A LOCAL SERB ADDING HAY TO THE FIRE 4.02 27. SLV: SECURITY AT THE ENTRANCE-SWEDISH KFOR SOLDIERS 4.09 28. SV: SOUNDBITE (SERB0-CROAT) LOCAL SERB LEADER, MOMCILO TRAJKOVIC SAYING "I want to address to all those of bad will, to get over it, and as we're here tonight filled up with contentment and happiness in spite of the sorrow we have, they should join our holidays, and we should join theirs, in order to live together and achieve the aim for a multi-ethnical Kosovo, democratic Kosovo, happier and richer than we were up until now." 4.37 29. SLV: CHILDREN PLAYING IN THE SNOW 4.42 30. LV: PEOPLE IN FRONT OF THE MONASTERY AFTER THE TRADITIONAL PART WAS OVER 4.48 GRACANICA, KOSOVO,YUGOSLAVIA (JANUARY 7, 1999) (REUTERS) 31. EXTERIOR OF THE ENTRANCE TO THE MONASTERY IN GRACANICA GROUP OF SERBS AT THE ENTRANCE WAVING SERB FLAG 4.59 32. SV: SECURITY GUARDS (2 SHOTS) 5.05 33. SV: UNITED NATIONS KOSOVO ADMINISTRATOR BERNARD KOUCHNER ARRIVING AT THE MONASTERY 5.09 34. SV: KOUCHNER SHAKING HANDS WITH THE HEAD OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, BISHOP ARTEMIJE, WISHING HIM 'HAPPY CHRISTMAS' 5.14 35. SV: KOUCHNER, ARTEMIJE, FOLLOWED BY OTHER PRIESTS GOING INSIDE THE MONASTERY CHAMBERS/MEDIA (2 SHOTS) 5.23 36. SET UP SHOT/SV: SOUNDBITE (SERBO-CROAT), BISHOP ARTEMIJE SAYING "In the cities like Prizren, Pristina, Pec, for instance, Christmas was not celebrated at all, because there are no people. Without people there's no celebration. Even if there were any celebrations, they were sad like funeral services rather than a celebration of the birth of Christ." (3 SHOTS) 6.02 37. SV: SOUNDBITE (English) KOUCHNER SAYING: "There was something here between the people, a real fight, murders, mass graves, a lot of things and people fighting each other. Now we want them to live in peace but we can't forget that it has happened. So we have to transform the people, the spirit, the heart of the people, that's why we are together, also with the Albanians." 6.24 38. CUTAWAY: PRESS GATHERED AROUND THE BISHOP AND KOUCHNER 6.29 39. GV: EXTERIOR OF THE MONASTERY 6.35 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK/BELGRADE, YUGOSLAVIA/GRACANICA, KOSOVO
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