(26 Mar 2013) SHOTLIST
PLEASE NOTE: SHOT 6 CONTAINS AN OBSCENE GESTURE
1. Wide of South African president Jacob Zuma arriving for summit
2. Wide of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff arriving
3. Various of Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh getting out of car and going into building
4. Various of Russian president Vladimir Putin arriving
5. Mid of South African security officers ejecting Russian security officers from the building
6. Various of Russians leaving, one making an obscene gesture to the camera
STORYLINE:
Heads of state from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa began to arrive in Durban, South Africa, on Tuesday for the fifth summit of the five-nation BRICS forum of emerging market powers.
It is the first BRICS summit since Vladimir Putin was returned to the Kremlin as president of Russia, and Chinese President Xi Jinping's first official trip to Africa.
The first four countries established the forum in 2009, amid the economic meltdown in the West, saying they were uniting to work toward a more equitable world economic order and one that makes them less dependent on the volatility of the US dollar and the euro.
South Africa joined the forum two years ago.
As the euro crisis continues and the West shows little signs of growth, the World Bank says that global economic growth is increasingly dependent on the BRICS countries, which account for 27 percent of global purchasing power and 45 percent of the world's workforce.
China already has become Africa's biggest trading partner, overtaking traditional colonial partners from Europe, and BRICS countries aim to continue increasing trade among themselves.
Intra-BRICS trade flows have ballooned to 282 (b) billion US dollars last year from 27 (b) billion US dollars in 2002.
This week's fifth BRICS summit is concentrating on Africa with the theme "BRICS and Africa: A partnership for development, integration and industrialisation" and South Africa has invited more than 20 African leaders to join the discussion.
The forum will be working to boost and enrich ties with Africa, yet at the same time all non-African members are competitors for Africa's resources, especially oil and coal for energy.


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