UPOST SIRENS, MUSIC
Tunisia, birthplace of the Arab Spring, well
over a year after its revolution.
Police round up protesters in the capital,
playing judge and jury.
0.15 Upsot - Chanting,
tear gas explosion
Urban liberals in this crowd are fighting
what they say are attacks on civil liberties
and their right to protest, plus the a failure
to create jobs after the revolution.
0.30
Tear gas and truncheons in use once
more - as new freedoms are tested on an
inexperienced coalition government.
GRAB FEMALE PROTESTER (NO
SUPER) (FRENCH)
0.40
The government promises us they’ll act,
they’ll act... but nothing has changed!
Police beatings, demo
Police vans
Protesters running for safety
Tear gas clouds
Boy wiping tear gas from face
0.46 UPSOT unionist woman yelling
through megaphone
While balancing freedom with order, the
Islamist-led government which won last
year’s elections is also fighting a major
economic battle.
Sit ins are bringing sections of the
economy to near stand still, while GDP
shrank by 1.8 per cent last year, and the
country struggles to reassure international
1st May pictures, shouting protesters
Sit in pics at the front of ministry
investors.
1.12
Unemployment’s a whopping 18 per
cent - 5 per cent higher than before the
revolution.
On strike - everyone from doctors and
judges to refuse collectors, filling the
streets with rubbish.
1.27
But to add to their financial woes the
Ennahda party which leads the government
is now engaged in a fight for the soul of the
new Tunisia.
A recent decision not to include demands
for Islamic-sharriaa law in the constitution,
has drawn conflict with hardliners of the
religious right.
1.47
GRAB: RIDHA BELHAJ, HIZB-UT TAHRIR
- SUPER INCLUDED (ARABIC)
'What I see is that Ennahdha has reduced
its demands too much, as if it was still
monitored by a dictatorship. It is scared
of being accused of extremism. It is still
fearing the west will not be satisfied. That’s
why they rejected sharia law; just to please
the west'
UPSOT street chanting, drums (music)
2.14
And the split’s coming to a head.
Burning rubbish pics in front of viaduct
Close of flame - burning rubbish
Ennahda demo pics, Ennahda supporters
Rida Belhaj by Islamic caliphate map
and ‘Salafi’ style flag
YOUTUBE PICS fires and riots
Newly-emboldened extremists have rioted
across the country in protest at alcohol
sales and art galleries deemed to have
insulted Islam.
TEXT TOP LEFT - YOUTUBE.COM
2.27
Police stations and a courthouse were
recently attacked, and in June, the capital
once more came under curfew
Hizb Ut Tahrir seek an Islamic caliphate
and say Ennahda have let down their
Islamist voters.
2.41
RIDHA BELHAJ, HIZB-UT TAHRIR
'Many politicians didn’t understand this
change that happened . What happened
in Tunisia is the beginning of an Arabic
Islamic revolution in all Arabia'
2.57
UPSOT CAR NOISE
But head to the neglected interior, and
there are others who present a real
problem for the government
The regional, unemployed youth - those
who started the struggle to topple the
last government, say they’re still being
sidelined.
YOUTUBE RIOTS
Rioting taken from YouTube
Islamic paraphernalia in office
Inside car, shots of mountains, desert,
camels.
3.14
Tunisia’s regional inequality, is threatening
months, if not years, of unrest.
Police station burning in Medenine, police
station wreckage in Umm Alarais
Jobless young people are rioting and
attacking government buildings, like this
police station. They want work, and exregime
figures out of local authorities.
Police station burning in Medenine, police
station wreckage in Umm Alarais
3.33
A stone's throw from the Algerian border,
the town of Redeyef is dominated by its
phosphate industry.
Soldiers keep watch over the compound.
3.45
Grievances linked to the exploitation of
the region’s riches began years before the
revolution - and they continue.
Their importance to the economy can be
seen everywhere.
Shots of phospate mine right by the side of
the town....
soldiers inside
Mine/compound machinery, some new
some rusting
Rusting mining train as monument in town
square
3.56
In 2008, an uprising crushed by police
left at least four people dead - martyrs
remembered alongside those killed in the
2011 revolution.
4.10
Local unionist Adnan Hajji says this region
is where the fight to topple President Ben
Ali’s government truly began.
mining train in town centre next to clock
tower featuring the faces of martyrs of 2008
and 2011 side by side
Hajji smoking, standing in office
4.17
ADNAN HAJJI, UGTT UNION (ARABIC)
‘Of course 2008 was the first spark of this
revolution, it was the explosion that led
to this revolution. It was the first social
Hajji grabs
movement with such organisation and
important size that lasted for six months .
We are convinced that what happened is
the real start of the revolution.’
4.45
Over 28 per cent of people around here
are now jobless; the highest in the country;
fertile political ground.
And while the phosphate industry too
is struggling due to the turmoil after the
revolution, workers say they’d be stuck
without it- and now as ever, there’s a huge
supply of potential staff with the state-run
firm.
5.16
UPSOT cafe noise, youths singing
In the town’s coffee shops, the young men
are in high spirits today; the company’s
about to announce the names of hundreds
of new workers it will hire.
And it seems everyone wants in.
These applicants are clear on how much
has changed since the revolution
3.34
USPOT/GRAB
‘nothing’
Karim and his friends say other jobs don’t
pay enough to live off - and
they’re worried about corruption in the
recruitment process.
5.47
Various shots from within the phosphate
mining compound.
Workers talking to us (to fixer)
Phosphate conveyor belt
Youth in cafe
laughs and smiles in cafe
Karim and pals at table
Karim’s mate
At table
GRAB KARIM AND FRIENDS, REGIONAL
YOUTH (ARABIC)
‘A job with 100 dinars a month is not a job,
we congratulate those who were recruited
but we are afraid that some of the exregime
party will be recruited, or some
Ennahdha members, we are afraid that the
rich guy will be recruited and not the poor.
We are afraid that a similar scenario to
2008 will be repeated, when three people
from the same family were recruited.’
6.17
The previous weekend, youths in the
neighbouring town burnt down a police
station after being left out of the selection.
When we visit, our driver is not keen on
hanging around.
6.30
USPOT Motorbike
As the publication of the results comes
closer in Redeyef, we follow the friends to a
web cafe to see if they’ve been chosen.
We’re told that thousands applied for
hundreds of jobs, and there’s a buzzing
atmosphere.
5.45
But soon, disappointment lingers in the air.
UPSOT
Me; (Arabic) (You; yes or no? (in ref to job)
)
Karim (English): ‘No’
GRABS from Karim and friends
Shots of wreckage in Umm Alarais
Following Karim’s gang around streets
More pointing and faces looking at web cafe
screens
GRAB Karim
6.57
There’s little trust around here, and
accusations of corruption are quickly made.
Eventually, the government gets the blame
- whoever’s in charge.
7.06
KARIM, REGIONAL YOUTH (ARABIC)
I feel sorry for those guys who weren’t
recruited and the jobless in general. For
us ,in Redeyef, we are used to this, it is the
same system, Ben Ali and Ennahda are the
same system - playing the same games of
Ben Ali,
7.29
- We meet one successful candidate - this
man - but he’s keen not to gloat on camera
and opts not to speak to us.
DRUMS for this part
Moments later, the mood is tense as a
crowd gathers, and an untrusted state-TV
reporter is forced to leave.
UPSOT - arguing
7.47
Our camera begins to inflame the crowdand
we’re accused of planning to paint the
region in a bad light.
UPSOT
It’s time to move back from the action.
Angry faces looking at web cafe screens
Sheepish looking guy
Crowd in square -cameraman leaves
Ppl yelling at us, forcing us out
FADE TO BLACK
8.02
Some say for the interior to bloom like
the coastal regions do - in particular the
north - Tunisia’s imbalances need to be
addressed.
The most blatant corruption of the Ben Ali
era may be over, but for Fahem Boukados,
a journalist who was sentenced to six
years in jail for covering the 2008 uprising,
there’s much work to be done until the new
government convinces its detractors of its
credentials
8.31
GRAB: FAHEM BOUKADOS,
JOURNALIST (ARABIC)
‘It's not only about families who steal,, but
the development model that concentrates
the investments in the coastal zones ….as
a journalist I visited many cities in Tunisia
mainly in the centre and the south, and my
question to the youth that I met in the cafes
and street was always; ‘Did the revolution
change anything in your life? And the
answer was that nothing has changed.
UPSOT Wind
9.04
The country is facing huge problems, and
for those tasked with solving the economic
problems, taking a broader view of events,
could put the country on the right path.
Sequence of flowers on hill overlooking
prosperous Tunis (high rise buildings)
Fahem in home smoking
Moe wide desert and mountain
shots...winding road above benni khedech
Ali Chebbi cutaways
9.17
Ghannouchi in office reading the paper.
Like many of his contemporaries, Rachid
Ghannouchi spent years in exile .
For the Ennahda leader - branded one of
the world’s most important Islamists - good
things don’t come overnight.
UPSOT ME: DO YOU THINK TUNISIANS
NEED TO BE MORE PATIENT?
SHEIKH RACHID GHANNOUCHI:
ENNAHDA LEADER (ENGLISH)
9.33
‘Yes, Tunisians have to have more
patience because no government can
pretend that it is able to solve the problem
of high unemployment in a few months. It is
not fair to imagine that it is possible.’
9.51
He says the democratically-elected
government his party dominates is
determined not to repeat the mistakes of
the past, and is focused on the towns and
villages of the interior.
10.03
GRAB: SHEIKH RACHID GHANNOUCHI:
ENNAHDA LEADER (ENGLISH)
‘Our priority now is to develop the poor
regions where the revolution started’
10.16
Now, an expansionist budget is pledging
over US$600m more for the interior.
Shots above town of Gafsa panning down
from mountains.
The wealth gap between these regions
Rural village
and the coast would, according to experts,
have steadily worsened under the last
government’s five-year plans.
10.32
But now, Tunisians are being promised that
each region’s problems will be individually
considered for the first time - with the aim
of delivering the nourishment that many
areas desperately require.
Ali Chebbi is a respected economist
who has advised the government in an
independent manner.
10.52
GRAB: ALI CHEBBI, ECONOMIST
(FRENCH
"An allocation formula has
been invented, for the first time ever in
a budget since 1959....which takes into
account: Schooling levels, the poverty rate,
and investment needs..."
11.13
But in the restive cities, the question
now is which groups will be satisfied with
promises, and piecemeal achievements
like a small first quarter jump in growth and
foreign investment.
Sheikh Ghannouchi says any groups
rushing to violence - including Muslim
hardliners - will be dealt with.
11.36
GRAB: SHEIKH RACHID GHANNOUCHI:
Rural lady tending goats
Goats feeding on grass
Ali in office, talking
Rioting, tear gas, police vans
Police hauling away protesters
ENNAHDA LEADER (ENGLISH)
“So we dialogue with those who accept
peaceful means and refuse violence, but
who’s (sic) using violence, the government
will stop him”
But before their spiritual concerns, many, for
now at least, still simply want opportunity.
11.58
GRAB: ADNAN HAJJI, UGTT UNION
(ARABIC)
Now, you feel that people no longer trust
this government - principally
their trust in Ennahda; Ennahda is indirectly
targeted because the people know the
reality of those who just
promised and made a long political plan.
They will ask the authority to step down;
what happened under Ben Ali, is happening
now.
12.20 Upsot traffic
In Redeyef, the party offices have already
been targeted.
Youth across the country have tasted
freedom - and the respect that fighting for it
brought them - right across the Arab world.
Tunisia does stand as well positioned
as any country in the neighbourhood to
successfully embrace democracy.
12.41
Ennahda office burnt down pictures
Local youths in Redeyef at cafe
But giving these young people a stake
in society - while making the most of
their potential - will be the challenge for
whichever government is in place.
UPSOT HIGH SPIRITS - KIDS JOKING
AROUND
Youths drinking coffee, smoking
Sitting around -gives peace sign
Sitting around, fooling and joking.
12.56 - Credits
13.12 - Credits end
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