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SOUTH KOREA: PROTESTS AT DAEWOO MOTOR FACTORY
Korean/Nat
Violent scenes outside a Daewoo Motors factory near Seoul in South Korea continued on Tuesday, as student and labor activists hurled gasoline bombs at police during a protests against a police raid on striking workers a day...
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Colombia - Protests against government
Talks between the government and the National Federation of State Workers were suspended after the killing of a top union leader, Jorge Ortega, in the capital, Bogota. There were several clashes between police, workers and university...
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SOUTH KOREA: SEOUL: IMF SATISFIED WITH FINANCIAL REFORMS
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The International Monetary Fund's (I-M-F) top official said on Monday he is satisfied with South Korea's efforts to carry out IMF-ordered financial reforms.
During a two day visit to South Korea, Michel Camdessus will...
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Lukashenko favoured in presidential vote
1. Wide shot of streets of Minsk
2. Young people on the street
3. Mid shot of young people
4. Exterior of polling station
5. Interior of polling station
6. Man gets a voting ballot
7. Close up of voter singing
8. Two elderly people...
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Writers Guild begins picketing broadcaster in rights dispute
1. Close up sign pull out
2. Close up sign
3. Wide people on strike
4. Close up woman holding sign
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Cindi Ramer, Vox pop:
"I think what there are doing is a good thing, drawing attention to their field of work....
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ARGENTINA: RIVAL UNION DEMONSTRATORS CLASH DURING MARCH
Spanish/Nat
Rival unions in Argentina clashed during a march to protest a recent corruption scandal in the customs department.
Protesters from the truck drivers', construction and metal workers' unions took part in the demonstration.
A...
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Writers Guild of America President Patric Verrone says Hollywood writers would go on strike for the first time in nearly 20 years to fight for a bigger piece of the television and movie industry action.
HEADLINE: WGA: Hollywood writers vote to strike
CAPTION: Writers Guild of America President Patric Verrone says Hollywood writers would go on strike for the first time in nearly 20 years to fight for a bigger piece of the television...
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AP look at how township anger threatens to spoil World Cup
Rabbie Ridge township - 17 March 2010
1. Wide of burning rubbish during a service delivery protest in Rabbie Ridge
2. Wide of protesters dancing and chanting
3. Roadblock made of burning rubbish
4. Wide of police armoured vehicle...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: ANTI GOVERNMENT PROTESTS UPDATE
Russian/Nat
Tens of thousands of Muscovites have taken to the streets to protest the failed policies of the Yeltsin government.
Angry workers and other Russians crowded the capital waving red banners and shouting anti-Yeltsin slogans. ...
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President George H.W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev held their final news conference of Summit
1. WS White House Chief of Protocol Joseph Verner Reed leads Mrs. Raisa Gorbachev and Mrs. Barbara Bush to their seats in the White House's East Room
2. MS Raisa Gorbachev takes her seat next to Soviet Union Foreign Minister Eduard...
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Alitalia staff sit-in at airport ahead of announcement on future of airline
1. Wide of Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci airport
2. Airport control tower seen through window with protest signs
3. Alitalia flight attendants talking to each other
4. Flight attendants sticking banner onto wall
5. Mid of steward...
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Alitalia stoppage affects flights
1. Wide shot of 'Leonardo da Vinci' airport
2. Wide of airport control tower
3. Wide shot of international arrivals gate
4. Close up of international arrivals sign
5. Wide shot of international arrivals terminal
6. Various of...
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Unions ask for state of emergency to be lifted
1. Exterior of Palais du Peuple (parliament) venue of negotiations
2. Union leader, Rabiatou Serah Diallo, walking to parliament
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Rabiatou Serah Diallo, union leader:
"We are going to the table (negotiation table)....
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Thousands in limbo after accepting early retirement but unable to receive pension
FILE: April 13 2012
1. Mid of protesters walking then banging their helmets on the ground
2. Mid of protesters holding up flags close to Colosseum
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Maurizio Landini, Union leader:
"We are here today because it''s...
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Court drops charges against some WTO protesters
1. Pan from Kwun Tong court building to Korean WTO protesters and local supporters at street
2. Hunger strike Korean protesters and supporters in tents
3. Korean protesters sitting and chatting inside tent
4. Korean trade union leader...
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Strikes and demos kick off across the EU in Spain, Belgium and Portugal
Barcelona - 13 November
1. Various of workers stood behind fire blocking entrance to market
2. Close-up of burning tire
3. Wide of material being burned in street
Madrid - 13 November
4. Wide of Puerta del Sol Square filled with...
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COLOMBIA: PROTESTS AGAINST GOVERNMENT'S AUSTERITY MEASURES
Spanish/Nat
Negotiations to end Colombia's 15-day-old labour strike have suffered a major blow.
Talks between the government and the National Federation of State Workers were suspended after the killing of a top union leader in the...
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Union leaders on fate of threatened steel works
1. Various exteriors of ArcelorMittal steel factory in Florange
2. Pan left from factory to road sign reading "ArcelorMittal" with graffiti reading (French) "Mittal Out" and "CGT," the name of a French trade union
3. Fires burning at...
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General strike brings public transport to a halt, adds protest
1. Various - demonstrators and singing slogans against government and marching with red flags and banners.
2. UPSOUND: (Italian) demonstrator singing
3. Woman marching with big red banner
4. Wide of trade unions stage with banner...
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COLOMBIA: STRIKING TEACHERS STAGE PROTEST
Spanish/Nat
300-thousand teachers took to the streets of the Colombian capital Bogota on Wednesday to force the government to reconsider union demands.
Seven million students stayed at home as schools and colleges remained closed for a...
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EL SALVADOR: ALLEGATIONS OF ILL TREATMENT OF FACTORY WORKERS
Spanish/Nat
In El Salvador, claims that workers at foreign owned assembly plants are being ill- treated have prompted questions about the government policy of marketing the country's cheap labour abroad.
Many foreign companies have...
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VENEZUELA: NEW ECONOMIC MEASURES MAKING LIFE DIFFICULT
Spanish/Nat
The draconian new economic measures introduced by the Venezuelan government on 15 April are not helping to ease the numerous protests by workers asking for salary rises.
Venezuelan teachers have been on strike for more than...
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Tens of thousands attend national demonstration against austerity cuts
1. Wide of protesters marching, holding flags of Italy's main labour unions
2. Mid of protester whistling and marching
3. Protesters holding flags and marching
4. Policemen monitoring protesters
5. Protesters yelling (Italian) "Work!"...
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GERMANY: METALWORKERS STRIKE EXPECTED TO ESCALATE
German/Nat
Germany's crippling metalworkers strike is expected to escalate with no immediate solution in sight.
Another factory was hit by the dispute Monday with 12 more scheduled to be affected Wednesday.
The walkout by the giant I-G...