(19 May 2010)
1. Wide of burning barricade of tyres, soldiers in foreground
2. Crouching troops looking down road at barricade
3. Wide of fire engine and Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) with burning barricade behind
4. Troops preparing to fire from cover behind APC, AUDIO: gunfire from elsewhere
5. Wide of APC rolling into road junction
6. Close up of gun barrel as soldier shoots from turret of APC
7. Soldier with gun behind sandbags
8. APC driving into barricade, pan to follow second APC crashing into barricade, AUDIO: gunfire
9. APC driving over part of collapsed barricade, AUDIO: gunfire
10. Soldier holding gun ready to shoot
11. Wide of APC driving over partially-collapsed barricade
12. Tilt up from soldier's weapon to APC
13. Close up of soldier lying on ground with gun
14. APCs driving over part of barricade
STORYLINE:
Thai troops opened fire into the fortified encampment of anti-government protesters in downtown Bangkok on Wednesday, in what appears to be a final crackdown after a week of deadly clashes.
The Thai government said the crackdown will continue throughout Wednesday.
Protesters set fire to tyres in part of the barricade surrounding the encampment as the army closed in.
Two armoured personnel carriers rammed into the barrier made of tyres and sharpened bamboo spears, and succeeded in destroying part of it.
The vehicles made no attempt to drive through the large holes made in the barrier and stayed outside.
Troops fired sporadically into the protest zone on Wednesday.
An army commander said a group of protesters were about 200 yards (metres) away.
Troops are trying to disperse some 3-thousand protesters inside the encampment, which they have occupied for weeks.
At least 39 people have been killed and more than 300 people wounded in seven days of clashes in Bangkok.
All but one of those killed were civilians who were shot.
The demonstrators, known as the Red Shirts, marched into Bangkok in mid-March to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, the dissolution of Parliament and immediate elections.
They created an encampment in Bangkok's upmarket Rajprasong district in April, surrounding themselves with a barricade of tyres and bamboo spears.
Wednesday's troop movement came after Abhisit rejected protesters' unconditional offer to negotiate on Tuesday and insisted there would be no talks until the dwindling anti-government movement abandoned its protest zone.
The government estimated that only 3-thousand people remain in the encampment, down from 5-thousand on Sunday and 10-thousand last week.
The troops appeared to be pushing from the southern border of the encampment in a bid to force the protesters still holed up inside into buses waiting at the northern exit.

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