(26 Jan 2012) SHOTLIST
Pristina, Kosovo
1. Wide of people walking through blustery weather, girl in distance slips
2. Close of woman walking through inches of snow
3. Mid of benches on street covered by snow
4. Pan left to right from man outside kiosk shovelling snow to street
5. Wide of car on street
6. Wide of man clearing out snow from kiosk
7. Wide of people on snow covered street
8. Close of snow on branch
9. Wide of bus on street
10. Wide of man shovelling snow
11. Close of man shovelling snow
12. Wide of snow plough trucking clearing snow from street
13. Wide of people on street
Bucharest, Romania
14. Low angle shot of wind blowing snow on road
15. Wide of trucks stuck in snow
16. Mid of drivers shovelling snow
17. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Trucker, name not given:
"Mrs Udrea (Romanian Development and Tourism Elena Udrea) brought us truckers a cup of hot tea. I'm kidding. No one cares about us. Only my mum called to ask how I was."
18. Mid of police car in snow
19. Mid of man walking through blizzard
20. SOUNDNBITE (Romanian) Alex, no last name given:
"They should work harder to take the snow away where it's needed. But they don't do that. These authorities, I don't know what they're doing. They should have known a long time ago this was going to happen. We pay road taxes and all sorts of insurances and we endure all these crazy payments, but this is Romania, what can you do?"
21. Various of people walking in blizzard
22. Car driving down road, snow plough driving alongside
22. Close of snow plough moving to clear snow from tracks
23. Mid of workers clearing snow from road
24. Various of sparrows in the snow
STORYLINE
The Balkans and parts of eastern and central Europe were hit hard by heavy snow on Thursday, forcing Romania's prime minister to call in army tanks to clear roads and leaving a hundred communities in Bulgaria without power.
For two days blizzards have covered the area with as much as three metres (10 feet) of snow at a time.
Snowstorms swept through Kosovo, causing traffic chaos.
Classes have been cancelled in many schools in the snow-gripped regions.
Snow in Romania left hundreds of people stranded in cars, forced the cancellation of flights and appeared to derail a train.
Some 340 people were evacuated overnight from stranded vehicles on scores of roads across the country, Prime Minister Emil Boc said.
A train with 123 passengers derailed on icy tracks in southern Romania, but nobody was injured.
Ten flights to and from Bucharest were cancelled Wednesday night, and planes arriving from Dubai, Tel Aviv and Munich were diverted to other airports.
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