Heavy security around Japan embassy as protesters burn flags, pelt building

(16 Sep 2012)
1. Zoom out to wide of anti-Japanese protesters in Beijing burning Japanese flag
2. Close-up of protestors and smoke
3. ++LONG SHOT++ Wide of protesters burning flag, zoom in to mid of protesters and flag
4. Wide of police line with protesters on far side throwing bottles, pan to Japanese embassy with bottles landing near gate
5. Close-up of security fence dripping with broken egg, police officer wipes yolk with paper
6. Wide of paramilitary police line behind anti-riot barricades, crowd on far side
7. Paramilitary agent cleaning other agent's riot helmet, tilt up to egg yolk on barricade
8. Wide of protesters burning another Japanese flag
9. Close-up of loudspeaker playing government announcement, UPSOUND: (Mandarin):
++UPSOUND OVERLAID ACROSS SHOTS 10 AND 11++
"The government has already given very clear response. We will not stand action-less and allow the territory and sovereignty to be invaded. Follow the laws and regulations. Don't show extreme reactions and don't disturb the social order."
10. Protesters standing in tree watching demonstration
11. Wide of demonstration, viewed from behind police barricades
12. Wide of protestors carrying big Chinese national flag pushing up against tightly grouped formation of security forces
13. Protesters shouting and pushing up against police line
14. Protestor being pulled from a security barricade by a paramilitary agent

STORYLINE:
Chinese paramilitary police formed a protective wall around the Japanese embassy in Beijing on Sunday as protesters outside showed their anger at Japan's stance over disputed islands claimed by both countries.
Rows of police lined the perimeter of the embassy as protesters in groups of up to about 100 were permitted to walk past the building.
Some of the protesters burned Japanese flags and hurled water bottles, tomatoes and eggs over the barricades towards the embassy gates.
Others chanted slogans asserting Chinese sovereignty over the islands, which are in the East China Sea.
Dozens carried portraits of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong.
Despite the unruly nature of the protest, security personnel outnumbered the demonstrators and loudspeakers carried messages from the government urging them "not to disturb the social order".
"We will not stand action-less and allow the territory and sovereignty to be invaded," said the female voice on the loudspeakers.
Anti-riot police stood on nearby streets and around 20 of their heavy vehicles were parked behind the embassy.
Anti-Japanese sentiment, never far from the surface in China, has been building for weeks, touched off by moves by Tokyo and fanned by a feverish campaign in Chinese state media.
Passions grew more heated this past week after Japan's government purchased the contested islands - called Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan - from their private Japanese owners.
On Saturday, protesters turned out in more than two dozen cities and thousands gathered in the capital in front of the embassy, where people burned Japanese flags and clashed with Chinese paramilitary police before order was restored.

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