Protests overshadow May Day rallies around the world
(1 May 2008) Istanbul, Turkey 1. Wide of street filled with tear gas, a few demonstrators scattering 2. Armoured vehicle and police on the street 3. Wide of police running after demonstrators 4. Zoom of demonstrators throwing stones and police firing tear gas 5. Policeman firing tear gas at demonstrators Hamburg, Germany 6. Zoom in to burning police car 7. Wide of thick smoke rising, zoom to helicopter overhead 8. Two burning cars in car park 9. Burning cars 10. Wide of street with burning cars 11. Wide of police in riot gear moving into area 12. Zoom out of protesters walking along street in far-right National Democratic Party demonstration Paris, France 13. Close-up banner with picture of Nicolas and Carla Sarkozy, reading (French): "No to the bling-bling palace" 14. Wide of people marching with banners and balloons 15. Students demonstrating by jumping along with large banner 16. Various of illegal immigrants demonstrating with banners and flags Moscow, Russia 17. Various of marchers from the United Russia party and official labour unions carrying flags and banners walking down street 18. Wide of marchers carrying flags and banners down street, police vehicle in foreground 19. Wide of marchers with banner and red Communist flags 20. Marchers carrying portraits of Lenin and Stalin 21. Wide of Communist marchers with the Kremlin in backdrop Baghdad, Iraq 22. Various of young men on top of stone columns waving red flags 23. Workers with Iraqi flags and red banners 24. Various of workers dancing Palestinian side of Erez crossing, Gaza-Israel border 25. Pan as hundreds of demonstrators walk towards crossing 26. Young boy holding sign Ramallah, West Bank 27. Various of workers' rally Hong Kong, SAR 28. Various top views of May Day march 29. Demonstrators with placards marching and chanting 30. People banging drums at side of road 31. Wide of people marching Seoul, South Korea 32. Wide of thousands of protesters at rally with flags and banners 33. Mid of protesters holding placards reading: (Korean) "Abolish the irregular employment law" 34. Close-up of flags 35. Wide of rally 36. Wide of rally STORYLINE: Marches, parades and demonstrations took place around the world on Thursday, as part of events to mark May Day, also known as International Workers' Day. In Turkey, riot police used clubs, tear gas and water cannons on Thursday to break up crowds of workers and students trying to reach a main Istanbul square for a Labour Day rally banned by the government. Authorities said 530 demonstrators were detained and 38 people were injured. Thousands of police were on the street after Turkish unions said they would defy the government and hold May Day celebrations in Istanbul's Taksim square, which was the scene of violent protests decades ago. German police used water cannons to break up clashes between leftist and rightist groups in the city of Hamburg during Thursday's May Day protests. About seven-thousand leftist marchers gathered to protest in a march of the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD). The leftist protesters threw bottles and stones at officers trying to keep the groups apart and set several cars on fire, including one belonging to police. Several officers were injured. About one thousand far-right extremists travelled to Hamburg for the march and police said it was the worst violence the city had seen in recent years. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of people took the streets of Paris for the traditional May Day demonstrations. Also on Thursday, thousands of Palestinians held rallies in Gaza and the West Bank. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
