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UN humanitarian official appeals for help in East Africa
Baidoa
1. UN Special Humanitarian Envoy for the Horn of Africa, Kjell Magne Bondevik, getting out of the plane in Baidoa Airport, greeting officials
2. Bondevik walking with the Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi in the UN...
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Drought in north threatens agricultural damage, power cuts
Pavia, Nr Milan
1. River Ticino at low level
2. Mid shot bridge support
3. Wide of river at low level
4. Fisherman on bank
5. Fisherman in water
6. Two people walking under bridge over River Po
7. Mid shot bridge supports
8. Mid shot...
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Regional leaders attend Mekong River Commission Summit
NB: Story not on tape, website only
Chiangsaen Port, Chiang Rai province - 01 April 2010
1. Wide of fishing boats moored alongside rocky Mekong river bed
2. Close of moored fishing boats
3. Wide of fisherman on boat with exposed sand...
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Emergency stores plundered as Brazil's biggest city runs out of water
The worst drought to hit the Sao Paulo region in 84 years is forcing local authorities to take action so water can flow to the nine (m) million people living in Brazil's largest city.
The measures include putting water pumps below the...
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ISRAEL: NEW PROJECT HOPES TO BREAK CYCLE OF NEAR CONSTANT DROUGHT
English/Nat
A group of scientists are busy at work trying to turn Israel's parched Negev desert into a sea of blooming green vegetation.
Combining ancient methods with modern-day technology, they hope their initial success in their...
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INDONESIA: DEATH TOLL FROM FAMINE & DISEASE CLIMBS TO 271
Jambi, Sumatra Island, Indonesia - 23-24 September 1997
1. Various shots of fires on road between Pelambang and Jambi
2. Countryside covered in smoke
3. Various shots of school in Jambi town
4. Various shots of students going home
5....
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SUDAN: THOUSANDS SUFFERING IN DROUGHT RIDDEN YEI REGION
English/Nat
An estimated 100-thousand people are severely malnourished in the Yei region in war and drought-ridden Sudan.
People are afraid of cultivating crops because of mine fields and intense fighting has prevented the U-N from...
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Drought in California severely hits famers
Sierra Mountains, California, 2009
1. Various of hydrologists walking through snow on skis across the Sierra Mountains
2. Various of hydrologist inserting measuring pole into snow and recording measurements
3. SOUNDBITE: ( English)...
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7-month-old who weighs as a newborn is taken to field hospital
1. Close up of 7-months-old baby Mihag Gedi Farah
2. Wide of nurse nutritionist Sirat Amine talking to mother Asiah Dagane
3. Close up of baby Mihag being carried by his mother UPSOUND (Somali) "Please go to the scale"
4. Tracking shot...
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Philippines - Severe drought causes food shortages
Severe drought caused by the so-called El Nino weather pattern has reportedly caused mass starvation and deaths in the southern Philippines. Nearly 1 million people are believed to have been affected by the 9-month-long dry...
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Drought threatening wildlife in Australia's Murray Darling basin
AP Television News
Clayton, South Australia, 30 August 2009
1. Wide of jetties surrounded by grass on dry foreshore
2. Pull out from boat stranded on grass to wide of former wetlands
3. Wide of birds in small lake surrounded by grass...
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Harvest endagnered by widespread drought
Near Frankfurt, Hesse state, Germany
1. Wide dry field
2. Long shot of dry field
3. Close up of dried up wheat field
5. SOUNDBITE (German) Paul Karpf, farmer:
"On one side the problem is low plant density, which is a result of the low...
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Refugees continue to arrive from drought-stricken Somalia, sots
1. Wide of refugees arriving at the Hagadera reception centre
2. Wide of United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) staff registering new arrivals
3. Various of newly arrived family receiving registration tags
4. Wide of refugees waiting to...
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World Food Programme hands out food to residents plagued by drought
An ongoing drought in Haiti has wiped out much needed crops and livestock and caused malnutrition to spike across the northern part of the island country.
Farmers like Jean-Romain Beltinor in Bombardopolis, a desert region known as the...
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Heavy rains flood badly-built homes in West Africa
Medina Gounas - 11 September 2009
1. Donkey cart going through rain water
2. Floodwater on street in rain affected area
3. Motorcycles in flood water
Dakar - 10 September 2009
4. Exterior of Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian...
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Countrywide drought causing hardship
San Pedro
1. Bird
2. Wide shot of drought stricken fields
3. Various of fields
4. Sun reflecting on fields
5. Various of fields
6. UPSOUND: (Spanish) Farmer showing shrivelled cobs of corn "These were affected by the drought."
7. Farmer...
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Fears of record crop losses as severe drought hits Texas
AP Television
Lockhart Texas August 6, 2009
1. Wide shot of cattle
2. Medium shot and pan across cows
3. Mid shot and set up of Bill Hyman, Rancher
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill Hyman, Rancher:
"We normally get 35-38 inches a year - we've...
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Protesters march in Sao Paulo to demand an end to water crisis facing entire state
About 500 protesters marched in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo on Saturday to demand an end to the water crisis facing Sao Paulo state.
The Sao Paulo region is dealing with its worst drought in 84 years, which is causing water...
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AFGHANISTAN: US DROUGHT AID ARRIVES
Pashtu/Natsound
Aid donated by the United States has arrived in some of the worst affected areas of drought-hit Afghanistan.
Already shattered by two decades of war, Afghanistan is suffering its worst drought in 30 years.
The drought...
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Aid agencies increase efforts to supply much needed food to refugees
1. Wide relief food centre
2. Various of refugees receiving food aid parcels
3. Wide Halimo Hassan receiving food aid
4. Close of Halimo Hassan.
5. Close of bags of flour being put in a sack
6. SOUNDBITE: (Somali) Halimo Hassan, refugee...
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Drought threatens the future of Iraqs Marsh Arabs
Nasiriyah's marshes, Hor al-Hammar, south of Baghdad, April 2nd/3rd 2009
1. Two women walking with their children carrying reeds
2. Wide family carrying reeds
3. Various of canoes on hardened ground
4. Close up cracked ground as a...
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Saudi Arabia's Prince Al-Walid bin Talal donates US$1million to drought victims
6 June 2006
Garissa
1. Wide of nomadic pastrolist families receiving free medicine
2. Various of medication
3. Various of children queuing for medication
4. Saudi Arabia Prince Al-Walid bin Talal arriving at Adele feeding centre
5....
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Doctors "overwhelmed" by crisis, say up to 50 children die every day
1. Wide of man with malnourished child on his lap
2. Close up of malnourished child
3. Wide of man with malnourished child on IV drip
4. Close up of malnourished child
5. Mid of malnourished child
6. Wide of parents with their children...
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VOICED US troops help dig wells as drought enters fourth year
Kohe Safi (45 kilometres (28 miles) north-east of Kabul), Parwan province
0000 Villagers filling water from a small spring for drinking and agricultural use
0005 Girl carrying water in buckets
0011 Donkey at watering hole
0013 Girls...