(25 Sep 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Mid of interview with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President:
"Every one of us is actually positive about the agreement, or the need to cement the agreement and make it work."
3. Cutaway of interview
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President:
"I don't see any reason why we can't work together as Zimbabweans. We are all sons of the soil, as we say, and the differences arise purely from own conceptions of what Zimbabwe should be and what the government of Zimbabwe should be."
5. Cutaway of interview
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President:
"The president never settles on the matter alone, we have always worked with the vice presidents. And now that we have a prime minister we rope him in and we discuss in the presidency, or whatever we call it, together, and we look at the issues and see what solutions can be applied to any problem that confronts us."
7. Cutaway of hands
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President:
"We don't expect investment from countries that are hostile. They can keep their investment, but we would hope in the first place that sanctions would be lifted. There is no reason for imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe at all. There has never been any reason for it, you see, except hostility."
9. Cutaway of interview
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President:
"They are waiting for a day when this man, this evil man, called Robert Mugabe is no longer in control. And I don't know when that day is coming."
(Reporter's question: So you have no thoughts of resigning?)
"Nor a thought of dying."
11. Cutaway of interview
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President:
"There is a man who has been in the seat for so many years as the father of the African National Congress and democracy in one stroke pulls him down. Democracy without morality is no democracy solo."
13. Cutaway of interview
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President:
"At the moment, the fight between us has been one between Britain and ourselves - Britain, of course, using as their front the opposition party. So it's Britain that must get reconciled with us."
15. Cutaway of interview
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President:
"I'm sure they forget I am not Mr. Bush who invaded Iraq, am I? Probably they mistake me for him. Isn't that the man who should be tried before I am tried?"
17. Cutaway of hands
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President:
(Reporter's question: What about Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International?)
"Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Let them keep out."
19. Cutaway of interview
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President:
"If only the West can leave us alone, you will certainly see us come up, it will take us time because we have lost quite some time because of sanctions."
21. Mid of end of interview
STORYLINE
Zimbabwe's president said on Wednesday he sees no obstacles to carrying out a power-sharing agreement with rivals and hopes it will lead the West to ease sanctions, which he blamed for devastating the country's economy.
In an interview with The Associated Press, the 84-year-old Robert Mugabe was sharp, quick and animated - and made clear he is determined to remain president despite what he said were efforts by Britain and the United States to oust him.
"They are waiting for a day when this man, this evil man, called Robert Mugabe is no longer in control," he said.
"And I don't know when that day is coming."
So he has no thoughts of resigning?
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