1. Wide of members of Parliament of the Tibetan government-in-exile sitting on a day-long hunger strike 2. Tilt up from placard reading (English) 'China Stop Genocide In Tibet' to close up of woman's face 3. Close up of poster of Tibetan spiritual leader The Dalai Lama 4. Wide of protest 5. SOUNDBITE: (English): Karma Choephel, Speaker, Tibetan Parliament in exile: "The Chinese are using this as a propaganda to quell the on-going demonstrations and uprising in Tibet, saying that if you don't stop then the Dalai Lama will resign. What his holiness has actually said is that if Tibetans resort to violence to vent their rightful sentiments then...if the majority of the Tibetans resort to violence, if the majority of the Tibetans feel that violence is the way to solve the Tibetan issue then he will resign." 6. Cutaway of reporters 7. SOUNDBITE: (English): Karma Choephel, Speaker, Tibetan Parliament in exile: "We resolved that to show our solidarity and support to the ongoing movement in Tibet from now onwards...from yesterday onwards we will now centralise all the Tibetan movements Tibet. Tibetans who are outside Tibet in India, in Nepal, in Bhutan, in foreign countries, in other foreign countries, they will carry out the solidarity movement under a particular committee. We have set up a committee which is called the Tibet Crisis Committee." 8. Pan of Burmese students and Tibetan monks seated with posters in foreground reading (English) 'Burmese Support Tibet Issue' and 'We support Tibet' 9. Close up of Burmese man seated 10. Mid of Tibetan monks 11. Wide of Former Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes arriving 12. Mid of Dolma Gyari, Deputy Speaker Of Tibetan Parliament in exile talking to Fernandes, crying 13. Wide of Gyari and Fernandes with cameras in foreground 14. SOUNDBITE: (English): Dolma Gyari, Deputy Speaker of Tibetan Parliament in exile: "The government in exile has taken a joint decision, the parliament and cabinet jointly, that at such a time of crisis we are not going to talk about independence or autonomy, we are just going to put all of our efforts together to find a solution to restoration of human values inside Tibet, to protect human lives inside Tibet and to see that there is an independent, international investigation into the happenings inside Tibet." 15. Shift focus from leaves to monk STORYLINE : Members of the Tibetan government in-exile observed a day-long hunger strike in New Delhi on Wednesday to protest against the Chinese crackdown in Tibet. At the strike Karma Choephel, the speaker of the Tibetan parliament-in-exile alleged that the Chinese government was using the Dalai Lama's reported threat of resignation as propaganda to quell the on-going demonstrations and uprising in Tibet. "The Chinese are using this as a propaganda to quell the on-going demonstrations and uprising in Tibet saying that if you don't stop then the Dalai Lama will resign,'' Choephel said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the Dalai Lama said that he will resign as leader of Tibet's government-in-exile if violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out of control. While the situation inside Tibet remained unclear, much of last week's violence appeared to have been committed by Tibetans - a fact that clearly troubled the 72-year-old leader, who has long called for Tibetans to have significant autonomy within China. An aide later clarified that the Dalai Lama meant he would step down as the political leader - not as the supreme religious leader of all Tibetan Buddhists. The turmoil in Tibet has also laid bare Tibetans' inability to capitalise on the intense exposure to their cause or to extract concessions from China. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d8ffae270b83f9512db9d2915709b6ce Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

• published: 21 Jul 2015
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