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USA: NEW YORK: HOMICIDE FIGURES DROP BY MORE THAN 50 PERCENT
English/Nat
Once known as the 'murder capital of the world' New York's homicide figures have dropped by more than 50 percent in the nineties.
Police estimates show that there were over 2-thousand murders in 1990, compared to less than...
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Closing speeches and ceremony at Aids Conference
1. Nelson Mandela standing before a cheering crowd
2. Sonia Gandhi, Congress Party Leader, Sudarat Keyuraphan, Thai Health Minister and Denzil Douglas, PM St. Kitts and Nevis applauding
3. Mandela waving
4. Side shot of Mandela on stage...
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WHO book about SARS criticises China's response
1. Wide of presser
2. Wide of World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director Shigeru Omi (left) and WHO Western Pacific Region Spokesman Peter Cordingley (right) sitting behind table
3. Close up WHO Regional Director Shigeru Omi
4....
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WRAP Demoltion ADDS Army crews disinfect quake ruins
1. Wide cranes and machinery demolishing Beichuan Middle School building, pan to residents watching demolition
2. Two boys watching as school is demolished
3. Arm of crane demolishing building
4. Wide of cranes demolishing building
5....
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Haitians prepare for presidential election
Cap Haitien
1. Various of crowd outside polling station waiting to get their ID election cards that will allow them to vote
2. Wide interior of the centre
3. Piles of ID election cards
4. Various of man searching a pile of...
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Tensions grow as anti-UN riots spread following cholera accusations
Cap-Haitien, Haiti - November 16, 2010
1. Wide of burning roadblock on bridge, flames and black smoke billowing
2. Mid of burning debris on bridge, man walking towards camera
3. Mid of Nepali peacekeepers in riot gear
4. Various of...
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President Bush meets South Africa President Mbeki
1. Pan view of car arriving at White House
2. Close-up Thabo Mbeki walking into White House
3. Pull back view of George W. Bush and Thabo Mbeki in Oval Office
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Thabo Mbeki, South African President: "A moment as...
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VENEZUELA: NATIONAL EPIDEMIC ALERT ANNOUNCED
Spanish/Nat
Venezuela's government has declared a national state of alert to prevent the outbreak of an epidemic of dengue.
The move comes in the midst of the country's rainy season which has already caused heavy floods and...
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SOUTH AFRICA: 15 PERCENT OF POPULATION HIV POSITIVE
English/Nat
Fifteen percent of all South Africans are H-I-V-positive.
But in the Eastern Province of KwaZulu-Natal the figure is far higher.
The province's infection rate is growing at a much faster rate. It is believed to be 10 years...
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Presser following UN special report on bird flu
1. Wide shot Dr. David Nabarro, the UN coordinator on avian and human influenza at briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. David Nabarro, UN coordinator on avian and human influenza:
"The figures that have been identified as the funds...
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Taiwanese delegation at bird flu meeting
1. Wide shot of conference
2. Wide shot of Dr. Steve Kuo, Director General of Taiwan Combat Disease Centre
3. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Dr. Steve Kuo, Director General of Taiwan Combat Disease Centre: (not verbatim)
"I think that it is...
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Govt. presser, hospital sealed
1. Medical staff carrying poster that reads: "Donation ceremony salute medical workers fighting on the frontline against SARS."
2. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Dr Chen, Hospital Worker:
"I think this (sealing of a hospital) is normal. No one...
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Latin American trade group holds annual summit, comments on Honduras
AP Television
1. Various exteriors of Mercosur summit venue
2. Flags outside
3. Various exteriors, armed guards outside venue, flags
4. Wide interior summit venue
5. Bolivian president Fernando Lugo with Paraguayan Foreign Minister...
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President: Govt to respond in a "much more aggressive way" to US Ebola cases
US President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday that his administration would respond in a "much more aggressive way" to cases of Ebola in the United States after a second nurse contracted the virus.
Obama warned that in an age of frequent...
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MEXICO: MEXICO CITY: CHOLERA ON THE INCREASE
Spanish/Nat
Growing poverty and a lengthy drought have raised the spectre of a cholera epidemic in Mexico.
More than 1,700 cases of the disease have been recorded this year and 36 people have died - three times the figures this time...
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Reaction to Pope's comment on the use of condoms
Vatican
1. Wide St Peter's square
2. Close of cross on cupola
3. Pilgrims and tourists in St Peter's square
4. Wide of newspaper stand
5. Newspaper spread open on display
6. Close of headline in La Repubblica newspaper reading:...
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WRAP Mexico City feels effects of flu outbreak, presser, Congress
1. Wide shot of the Angel of Independence monument
2. Wide shot exterior of the lower house of Congress
3. Medium wide interior chamber of lower house of Congress
4. Wide chamber
5. Medium of legislators sitting in their chairs wearing...
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Mexicans leaving quarantined hotel; plane leaving
1. Mid of ambulances transporting Mexicans who had been quarantined in Guomen hotel, driving away
2. Wide of ambulances driving through security gate
3. Close-up of medic in ambulance wearing full protective suit, pull out to wide
4....
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COLOMBIA: EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH: FOOD RIOTS (2)
Spanish/Nat
Soldiers are gradually taking control in western Colombia following a day of desperate food riots by survivors of Monday's earthquake.
Makeshift medical tents are receiving much needed supplies as aid trickles in, and...
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Funding group demands return of donation before releasing new cash
1. Wide of news conference
2. Mid of reporters
3. Mid of officials
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director, The Global Fund:
"We have about seven million US dollars still in the Reserve Bank, that the Reserve Bank...
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TAJIKISTAN: TYPHOID EPIDEMIC CLAIMS LIVES OF 46 PEOPLE
Russian/Nat
A typhoid epidemic, raging in the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan since January, has claimed at least 46 lives and left thousands sick.
Poor sanitation and the country's contaminated water are contributing to the...
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WHO news conference after two Shanghai men die from bird flu
1. Wide of news conference
2. Cutaway journalists
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael O'Leary, World Health Organisation's China representative:
"We know that there are recently these three cases of severe pneumonia caused by a novo, or a...
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A look at how village locals are tackling SARS crisis
Xiaotangshan, Beijing - May 1, 2003
1. High wide newly built Xiaotangshan SARS Hospital
2. Medium soldier guarding outside the disinfection room
3. Close face of soldier with mask
4. (Night) Wide ambulances transporting SARS patients...
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MSF: international community has failed to tackle Ebola outbreak fast enough; WHO warns of reaching critical number of cases
International relief organisations and health experts said on Monday that the deadly Ebola virus is outpacing the world's response to it and called on rich nations to do more to fight the outbreak in West Africa.
On the second day of the...