(28 May 2007)
1. Riot police in street with protesters, AUDIO: Breaking glass
2. Riot police and armoured vehicle moving towards protesters
3. Wide shot of riot police and police car
4. Police firing water cannon from truck at protesters, riot police running towards protesters as water cannon is fired
5. Group of protesters hiding from riot police beside wall
6. Various of riot police running down road
7. Riot police surrounding small group of protesters in street
8. Riot police moving forward on pavement
9. Arrested protesters sitting on pavement guarded by riot police
10. Wide of police van by rising smoke
11. Close up of burning paper
12. Police by fire being doused
13. Water canon and armoured vehicle moving along road
14. Protesters standing in road with their hands behind their heads
15. Various of arrested protesters being detained by police
16. Riot police walking down street
17. Police vehicles passing and police walking onto road
STORYLINE:
Anti-globalisation protesters, some throwing bottles and firing flares, briefly clashed with police in Germany on Monday, in demonstration against this week's Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM).
Police used water cannon to disperse the 4,000 protesters after they had gathered outside a left leaning cultural centre in Hamburg.
AP Television pictures showed police detaining several protesters.
Demonstrators were kept well clear of the EU-Asia venue after Germany's highest court upheld a ruling that they must stay at least 500 metres away.
Police cordoned off a large part of Hamburg's historic centre, around the city hall where ministers were gathering for the talks.
Authorities had expected thousands of anti-globalisation protesters in what could be a taste of bigger demonstrations planned for next week's Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm, northern Germany.
The EU launched its regular Asia-Europe Meeting, or ASEM, in 1996.
Since then, the growth of India and China as major economic and political players alongside Japan has given new impetus to efforts by the 27-nation EU to boost ties with Asia and offer itself as an alternative Western partner to the United States.
The EU agreed last month to open negotiations on free-trade pacts with India, South Korea and the 10-nation ASEAN group.
However, the move raised fears that Europe was altering its trade policy, downgrading its priority to reach a global trade deal through negotiations at the World Trade Organisation, which remain stalled.
The 43 nations attending the Hamburg talks will also address efforts led by China and the U.S. to get North Korea to suspend its nuclear weapons programme.
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