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Putin tells union leaders about importance of liberalising trade in the APEC region
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday stressed the importance of liberalising trade within the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) area.
At a meeting with leaders of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) in Moscow,...
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Albania - Protest banned
Albanian authorities on Sunday (2/2) banned a planned anti-government
demonstration scheduled for late morning in Tirana, the capital. It had been organised by independent trade unions.
One of the trade union leaders was taken away in a...
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Reax from union to the offer withdrawal
1. Various exteriors of Rome Airport
2. Close of airport control tower
3. Alitalia trade unions representative shouting slogans, UPSOUND: (Italian) "Better bankrupt than fall in the hands of those bandits!"
4. Wide of spontaneous...
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COLOMBIA: BOGOTA: NATIONAL STRIKE
Spanish/Nat
A national strike has cut off most normal activity in Bogota on Tuesday, and the widespread presence of the police and the military is apparent on many streets.
Many people heeded the call of four major labour unions who...
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Anti US protest at APEC summit
1. Protesters holding anti-APEC and anti-Bush banners, zoom out
2. Two protesters at Busan University
3. Mid shot of protest literature
4. Two protesters preparing for protest
5. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Roh Young-Ran, Civil Activist for...
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Portugal PM announces another $6.3 billion in spending cuts; opposition reax
1. Pan right of Portuguese Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, arriving at news conference for televised address to the nation
2. Wide of Passos Coelho speaking
3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Pedro Passos Coelho, Portuguese Prime...
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Unions stage large protest in the Italian capital
1. Wide pan right of protesters beginning a march in central Rome, giant letters forming word (Italian) 'Legality'
2. Mid of protesters with flags reading 'FIOM CGIL' (Federazione Impiegati Operai Mettallurgici and Confederazione...
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Trade Unions call for 24 hour strike and march in support of Medical workers
1. Wide of march called by the Central Obrera Boliviana (Bolivian Worker's Union)
2. Wide of protesters throwing firecrackers at the front of the march
3. Various of protesters marching with banners
4. Mid of protesters carrying...
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Thousands of workers in the Latin America region marked International Worker's Day on Thursday with marches asking for fair wages, salaries and dignified work.
Thousands of workers in the Latin America region marked International Worker's Day on Thursday with marches asking for fair wages, salaries and dignified work.
In Chile's capital, a May Day march that started out peacefully ended with...
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FRANCE: CALAIS: FUEL BLOCKADES LATEST
French/Nat
French farmers are continuing their blockade in Calais, although police have managed to divert traffic so the blockade doesn't affect those using the Channel Tunnel.
But farmers insist they will carry on their fight to lower...
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Highlights from Russia, Bosnia and Kosovo
Moscow, Russia
1. People walking near pond with Ostankino Church of Trinity in background
2. Various of marchers from "Movement Against Illegal Immigration" (DPNI) and other nationalist organisations marching with DPNI flags and...
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WRAP Strike at Grandpuits refinery; Waste centres blocked in Paris, Marseille; Senate
Marseille
1. Wide of uncollected rubbish swirling around on street
2. Various of uncollected rubbish piling up on street
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Melika Benslimane, 30, secretary:
"There is rubbish everywhere. The uncollected rubbish is...
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Kenya - Teachers demonstrate against legislation
Kenyan teachers walked off the job on Wednesday (15/7), angered by the government's failure to honour the pay rises they were promised last year and drawing up a proposed law designed to force them to agree. More than a thousand teachers...
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WRAP Workers strike, teacher joins stoppage ADDS health minister
1. Wide top shot of hospital workers protesting
2. Close of protest sign, reading (English) "It's look like Zuma has forgot about us. (sic)"
3. Wide of protesters singing, zoom into sign reading (English) "Public Service Strike, we...
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Preliminary 2010 growth figures for Germany released
1. Wide of news conference at German Federal Statistical Office
2. Mid of reporters
3. Close of reporter reading press release
4. Mid of President of Federal Statistical Office, Roderich Egeler, speaking
5. Wide of media
6. Set up shot...
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ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES: ECONOMY ONCE AGAIN IN DEEP TROUBLE
Spanish/Nat
Argentina's economy is once again in deep trouble.
Petrol prices have skyrocketed after last week's approval by Congress of a 20 percent increase and the government announced taxes will increase.
The move is aimed at...
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MEXICO: CRITICAL REACTION TO US RESCUE PACKAGE
Spanish/Nat
There has been a critical reaction in Mexico to the 20 (b)billion dollar US rescue package.
The agreement meets U-S demands that Mexico makes fundamental reforms to its economy and pledges its oil revenues in case it...
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Demonstration, scuffles, at least 46 injured and 488 arrested
1. Various of demonstrators starting to march from Place d'Italie with balloons and union banners, to protest at the CPE (Contrat Premier Embauche, the new youth employment contract)
2. Various of demonstrators holding anti-CPE banners...
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Public sector workers walk out over pay freeze
1. Close of Slovenian public works sector sign
2. Tilt down of poster advertising strike
3. People queuing inside Ljubljana city hall
4. Pull out from 'strike' poster to people at the counter
5. Wide of Ljubljana hospital with patients...
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Reaction to eurozone pledge of support for Greece
1. Mid of European Union and Greek flags on Greek Finance Ministry building, pigeon in foreground
2. Various of the Finance Ministry
3. Set-up of Nikolas Haritakis, professor of Economics at Athens University
4. Close of Haritakis...
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Profile on president Lula's hometown on eve of election
29 September 2006
1. Pull out of Mercedes factory to people walking in the street
2. Factory workers outside entrance
3. Various Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greeting and hugging factory workers
4. Factory workers...
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UKRAINE: NUCLEAR WORKERS DEMAND PAYMENT OF SALARIES
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Nuclear workers in the Ukraine have begun an indefinite protest to demand the payment of salaries and the settlement of debts to the industry.
Hundreds of protestors have marched through central Kiev and after coming off...
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Thousands of platinum miners down tools for higher wages
Tens of thousands of miners in South Africa downed tools on Thursday, demanding a higher minimum wage for all workers in a protest that is disrupting one of the country's major industries.
The strike was called by the Association of...
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Trains cancelled as transport workers join general strike over spending and job cuts
1. Wide of Larissa Station
2. Close of sign reading: (Greek) Larissa Station and (French) Central Station
3. Close of sign "Athens" over platform
4. Mid of empty tracks and platforms
5. Travellers being turned away
6. Wide of Syntagma...