Presenter, Female #1
The Egyptian attorney general filed a complaint with the court in which he called for a criminal trial for the Egyptian president. Egyptians head to the square once again, under the slogan, "The revolution has people to protect it." They chanted calling for the downfall of the regime.

Reporter, Female #2
Thousands flooded Tahrir Square. They were not intimidated, despite the police tear gassing them. Lawyers and journalists took off from the headquarters of their syndicates, under the slogan, "The revolution has people to protect it." There was participation from the opposition, which is represented in civil society, political parties, and non-Islamist political movements that shaped the National Rescue Front.

Reporter, Female #2
Large white signs with red writing were hung around the square. They said: "Down, Down with the rule of the Guide," "The Muslim Brotherhood stole the revolution," "Down with the constitutional declaration," and "The president is forcing the people into civil disobedience." Egyptians again repeated chants against President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, but the chant, "The people want the downfall of the regime," once again dominated the situation.

Reporter, Female #2
Morsi had met with members of the Supreme Judiciary in an attempt to diffuse the crisis. After the meeting, Egyptian presidential spokesman Yasser Ali asserted that there were no amendments to the constitutional declaration that was issued by Morsi. The people then returned to the square to have a say, and to reject Morsi's decision, in which he protected himself from judicial supervision. He also protected the Constituent Assembly to draft the constitution and the Shura Council, which are both dominated by Islamists.

Guest, Male #1
It is not his right to issue a constitutional declaration. He must know and understand that. All of the legal scholars in the country have said that it is not his right, it is not his right!

Guest, Female #3
These were not Mohamed Morsi's decisions. These were the Guide's decisions. The Guide gives him orders, and he follows them. The Guide is ruling the country.

Reporter, Female #2
Clashes took place earlier, between party factions and the police at Simon Bolivar Square, which is located near Tahrir Square and the American Embassy's headquarters. However, older activists sought to keep them away from that square, and to convince them to maintain the peacefulness of the protests. In addition, Morsi's opponents have organized demonstrations in several governorates that coincide with the demonstrations in Tahrir. This comes at a time when the Muslim Brotherhood suddenly decided to cancel a demonstration it had called for in front of Cairo University, asserting that this decision was made to prevent bloodshed.

Presenter, Male #1
Last night, 253 Syrian refugees crossed into Jordan by land due to the escalation of violence in their country. The refugees were housed in al-Zaatari camp, raising the number of Syrian refugees there to 45,216. Media spokesman for Syrian refugee affairs, Anmar Hmoud, said that 16 refugees who left the Zaatari camp voluntarily have returned. Hmoud said the camp's authorities have sponsored 123 Syrian refugees who met the Jordanian Interior Ministry's sponsorship requirements. He added the number of refugees who voluntarily left the camp and returned to Syria has reached 138.

Presenter, Male #1
Human Rights Watch called on the Syrian regime to immediately stop using cluster bombs in its conflict with the Free Syrian Army. A joint NATO-Turkish force will begin conducting a site survey to assess the number of Patriot missiles to deploy along the Turkish-Syrian border.

Reporter, Female #1
Amid the November rain clouds persisting across the Syrian skies, regime planes continued to shower residents with fire and death. The northwestern parts of Syria were the scene of bombardment by regime planes, killing or injuring dozens of residents.

Reporter, Female #1
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Syrian regime fighter jets targeted an olive press factory west of Idlib. The Observatory added that the city of Maarat al-Numaan witnessed shelling from the air amid fierce clashes near the southern entrance of the city.

Reporter, Female #1
The Free Syrian Army confirmed that Syrian fighter jets shelled the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, and that several of the injured were transported to Turkey for treatment.

Reporter, Female #1
Fighter jets also shelled a Syrian refugee camp in the town of Atima near the Turkish border. Two days after 11 children were killed by cluster bombs in an air strike on the town of Deir Assafir south of Damascus, Human Rights Watch called on the Syrian government to immediately stop using these very dangerous and internationally-banned weapons. In another related development, three days before the Japanese capital, Tokyo, is due to host a meeting for the Friends of Syria Group, Japan expanded the number of Syrians subject to its sanctions, adding 36 individuals and 19 entities to the list.

An independent report shows over 70 percent of those who have disappeared in Indian-administered Kashmir over the past two decades were civilians. The recent study on families in the area, which was conducted by the Kashmir chapter of ActionAid International in association with Professor B.A. Dabla, says that the victims were either picked up by security forces or militants. The study, titled "Disappeared Persons and Conditions of Their Families in Kashmir," encompassed over 700 cases. It also said that 99.84 percent of those who disappeared were young males and the sole breadwinners for their families. Khurram Parvez of the J&K Coalition of Civil Society thinks that the government and religious clerics have stayed silent for fear of their implication in the disappearances, and because of a fatwa against wives whose husbands have disappeared, also known as "half-widows."

Presenter, Male #1
An intelligence operation that was described as exceptional was carried out in coordination between the Ministry of Defense and the Interior Ministry, and led to the arrest of two al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist cells.

Presenter, Female #1
The two groups have strongholds in south and north Baghdad, and are specialized in killing religious scholars and government employees, as well as visitors going to Karbala. Tthey use silencers on their weapons.

Reporter, Male #2
Two terrorist groups were arrested through the full coordination of the intelligence directorates at the ministries of interior and defense and the General Intelligence. The first was arrested in northern Baghdad and the other in the southern part.

Guest, Male #3
This was necessary to put an end to these criminal groups that are killing Iraqi citizens. There is a detailed plan of action, and there is a daily, weekly, and monthly plan that is studied and discussed at the highest level. So there was follow-up on leads to two crimes in northern and southern Baghdad.

Reporter, Male #2
The first group is centered in the area of Sulair, in the northern part of the capital. It worked on eliminating religious figures and government employees. They used weapons with silencers under the direction of a group of terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda.

Guest, Male #4
The traffic officer was standing under the overpass, near the Hay Tunis neighborhood. We received information through Omar Majid, who received it from Ahmed Hantoush.

Guest, Male #5
We headed toward the Gamea al-Monzar street, where he handed us a pistol, he told us, you see this officer? When he comes, open fire at him. I fired four rounds. He was hit in the chest, and he fell to the ground, so we fled the scene.

Reporter, Male #2
Targeting visitors in the southern part of the capital during religious occasions was the target of the second group, which also executed other organized operations, such as renting expensive cars and luring drivers inside the house by asking for help, then killing them with weapons with silencers, and burying them in the backyard of the house.

Reporter, Male #2
According to officials, deciding to move against the targets and collecting the largest amount of intelligence information was in the forefront of the contributing factors that made the pre-emptive operations successful. However, other terrorist and criminal cells remain. From in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Baghdad, Alaa al-Khafaji, Iraqiya.

Presenter, Male #1
The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was reburied in the city of Ramallah after samples were taken from his remains for testing to find out if he was poisoned with polonium. It is expected for the samples to be examined for many months before being able to determine if Arafat, who died in 2004, was poisoned. French authorities had opened an investigation into Arafat's death in response to a request by his window Suha Arafat.

Reporter, Female #1
The late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's tomb was closed in Ramallah after samples were taken from his remains for testing in an attempt to solve the mystery of his death over eight years ago. Russian, French, and Swiss experts gathered required samples from the body without removing it from its place, with the approval and consensus of all the experts. The procedure was attended by three French judges tasked with investigating the possible murder after Suha Arafat, the window of the late leader, submitted a complaint in France. International experts will try to know if Arafat was poisoned with the radioactive polonium substance.

Reporter, Female #1
The hypothesis was put forward again after a satellite channel broadcast a documentary in August revealing that Lausanne's Institute of Radiation Physics found an abnormal amount of polonium in Arafat's personal belongings. Tawfiq Tirawi, the head of the Palestinian investigation committee, confirmed in a press conference that the committee has the data and evidence that prove that President Arafat was assassinated by Israel.

Guest, Male #2 (Tawfiq Tirawi, Head of the Palestinian Investigation Committee)
The data and the evidence that we have, as well as our convictions, point to Israel committing this act, so we need conclusive proof. All the investigations aim to find this proof so that we can take the culprits to the International Criminal Court.

Reporter, Female #1
The Palestinian people's feelings were a mix of sadness and anger, and a determination to find out the truth of the departure of their historic leader.

Guest, Male #3
He is a symbol because Abu Ammar represents the entire Palestinian cause, and all the Palestinian people. He is a symbol of the entire Arab nation. Everyone responsible for the assassination of President Abu Ammar must be held accountable.

Guest, Female #2
The hospitals in France must check these tests to find out if Abu Ammar was martyred by poison or not. But for them to dig up Abu Ammar's body is unacceptable. Dead or alive, Abu Ammar is a red line. We won't allow anyone to cross that line.

Guest, Male #4 (Nabil Shaath, Former Adviser to Late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat)
Look, I love the man, and I really believe he is the man who embodied the aspirations of the entire Palestinian people to regain their rights and freedoms, and land, and independence. He is an influential figure, only comparable to somebody like Gandhi, and Nehru later, or somebody like Mandela.

Reporter, Female #1
Arafat passed away when he was around 75 years old on November 11, 2004 in a military hospital in Paris. He was moved there with the consent of the Israelis who had been besieging Arafat for over two years in his compound, the Mukataa. No clear medical information was released explaining the cause of death. A large number of Palestinians accuse Israel of poisoning Arafat; Israel denies the claim. Some believe there was Palestinian complicity in light of the internal struggle over the leadership. Roula Zaher al-Deen, BBC.

Two days before Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas presents a proposal to the UN General Assembly for a vote on Palestinian non-member statehood, Palestinians across the West Bank and Gaza Strip are publicly backing the bid. The vote would implicitly recognize Palestinian statehood, and could also grant access to bodies such as the International Criminal Court. A bid for Palestinian statehood was thwarted by US opposition last year. The United Kingdom, which has urged European countries to abstain on the vote, has requested that Palestinians forgo an application to the ICC in exchange for changing their vote into a yes, a request that Palestinian officials have refused. France, meanwhile, says it would vote in favor of the bid.

In Israel, former Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni announced that she is running for the 19th Knesset at the helm of a new center-left party called "The Movement by Tzipi Livni." Livni pressured Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid in recent days to combine their lists, but was turned down. Labor leader Shelli Yachimovich pleaded with Livni not to form another fragmented party that would further divide the left. Meanwhile, results from the Likud Knesset primary are in, and the list includes MKs who are part of the right-wing faction of the party.

Presenter, Female #1
Iranian cinema distinguishes itself with the production of films inspired by religion, or containing religious themes through state funding, despite the objection of Muslims in many countries. However, the production of films and their performance have recently decreased but they are still popular in Iran and abroad.

Reporter, Male #1
With a headscarf and an Islamic stamp on the screen; that is how Iranian cinema started in the Islamic republic. Iran produces over 100 films annually. Most are financially supported by the government that censors scripts before filming starts. Iranian cinema has faced many challenges and difficulties, but its determination led it to overcome some of them, and become a main player on the international scene.

Guest, Male #1 (Mohammad Hosseini, Iranian Minister of Culture)
We can say that Iranian cinema is among the top ten in the world. It tries to promote the Islamic identity, and it proved its presence internationally. We don't impose any restrictions on it, but we have regulations, so the features of our society are taken into consideration.

Reporter, Male #1
Some directors occasionally disregard these so-called regulations. As a result, the movie industry's production and performance pays the price. Even the sanctions imposed on Iran have impacted movie production, while politics are also to blame.

Guest, Guest #3 (Qasim Muhammad Bor, Film Critic)
Iranian cinema is very weak today, and has clearly declined. The mindset of the officials is to blame. When politics can impose anything on the film industry, then we move away from creativity and the audience.

Reporter, Male #2
Iranian women are present on the movie screen. They fought hard, but imposed their presence in the industry, and gained international awards. The latest was an Oscar for the film The Separation of Nader from Simin. However, the reality of Iranian cinema doesn't seem acceptable for the ambitions of women.

Guest, Female #2 (Manijeh Hekmat, Film Director)
Women have a great presence in Iranian films, but the problem is the mode of thinking. A film will not face any problems if it follows the regulations, but if it is produced with complete freedom, then it will be negatively impacted.

Reporter, Male #2
Many pushed the so-called "seventh art" in Iran to maintain the popularity of the Iranian film industry inside and outside the country by directing, producing, and acting. They aspire to a future liberated from political restrictions. Iranian cinema seeks to be out of the ordinary, but it hits the wall of politics. Officials call it "regulations," but critics respond that these regulations hinder the development of films. This reality pushes Iranian cinema to face many challenges to maintain its place locally, and grow its status internationally. Abdel Hadi Taher, Al Jazeera, Tehran.

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