Crash Course
How World War I Started: Crash Course World History 209
In which John Green teaches you about World War I and how it got started. Crash Course doesn't usually talk much about dates, but the way that things unfolded in July and August of 1914 are kind of important to understanding the Great...
Crash Course
Who Started World War I: Crash Course World History 210
In which John Green teaches you WHY World War I started. Or tries to anyway. With this kind of thing, it's kind of hard to assign blame to any one of the nations involved. Did the fault lie with Austria-Hungary? Germany? Russia? Julius...
Curated Video
USA: SANDY BERGER COMMENTS ON BALKAN STABILITY SUMMIT
English/Nat
As 60 nations gathered in Brussels on Wednesday to pledge aid for Kosovo, the White House said it wanted to make it clear there is also a recovery plan in mind for the larger Balkan region.
U-S officials say their half (b)...
Curated Video
Bosnian presidency meet in emergency session
Sarajevo - 2 November, 2007
1. Bosnian presidency building
2. Bosnian flag on the roof of the presidency
3. Bosnian three-man presidency meeting inside presidency building
4. Close up of Haris Silajdzic, Muslim member of presidency
5....
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Serbia - Demonstrations continue
Serbia's opposition movement insisted on Monday (16/12) that authorities must recognise all of its winning results in November's municipal elections before talks to resolve the country's political crisis can begin.
The opposition leader,...
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ICTY on Mladic arrival, convoy, helicopter escort
1. Aeroplane carrying Ratko Mladic landing at Rotterdam airport
2. Cutaway of police officer and car at side of airstrip
3. Plane taxiing on runway
4. Various of plane taxiing past airport terminal
5. Wide of plane outside hangar
6....
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WRAP Kosovo Serbs and Albanians react to proposed delay for UN plan
Pristina
1. Exterior of Kosovo government building
2. Wide of roundtable meeting
3. Mid shot of Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu
4. Various of meeting
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Thierry Reinard, top French diplomat:
"All EU countries were...
Curated Video
HONG KONG: BRITISH & FRENCH NAVY SHIPS VISIT
English/Nat
Four naval ships, three British and one French, have arrived in Hong Kong for a four day visit to the territory.
The visit is the first time there has been a British and French navy presence in the region since NATO's...
Curated Video
YUGOSLAVIA: BELGRADE: MASS OPPOSITION RALLY
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
Students in Belgrade staged a mock celebration of President Slobodan Milosevic's 58th birthday on Friday.
A cake representing Yugoslavia was cut into pieces and handed round to demonstrators to symbolise the break up...
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Reaction in towns on border with Serbia, Dep PM in Strpce
Merdare, 60km north of Pristina, on Serbia-Kosovo border
1. Medium of border checkpoint
2. Medium of Kosovo policemen at border
3. Rear view of Kosovo policeman
4. Close up on sign reading: "Stop customs"
5. Medium of policemen...
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Relatives visit Polish tourists injured in bus crash
1. Various of relatives disembarking bus
2. Mid of relatives walking towards the hospital
3. Mid of relatives seated inside hospital
4. Various of relatives being briefed by doctors
5. Various of relatives walking down hospital...
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RUSSIA: SERB OPPOSITION LEADER DRASKOVIC VISIT
Russian/Nat
Serb opposition leader Vuk Draskovic has warned that there could be a new civil war in the Balkans if Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic continues to demand federal-wide elections across Serbia and Montenegro.
He warned...
Curated Video
YUGOSLAVIA: SPYING ALLEGATIONS WRAP
English/Nat
British and Canadian diplomats in Belgrade gained access to four of their citizens held by the Yugoslav army for the first time on Thursday, more than a week after they were arrested in Montenegro.
Bob Gordon of Great Britain...
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YUGOSLAVIA: BELGRADE: OPPOSITION SUPPORTERS RALLY
English/Nat
Thousands opposition supporters gathered in Belgrade Saturday night to hear their leaders announce a general strike for Monday and a limited road blockade on Sunday as a "dress rehearsal".
Opposition leaders, using figures...
Curated Video
Bosnia - Milutinovic Statement
Colonel Milovan Milutinovic, the Bosnian Serb Army spokesman and
close aide to General Ratko Mladic, denied on Thursday evening
(23/5) all rumours that Mladic had been forcefully detained in
Belgrade.
vs military headquarters in Bosnian...
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WRAP War crimes fugitive Zdravko Tolimir arrested; scene, file, reax
Banja Luka, Bosnia - 31 May 2007
1. Various of policeman standing outside police headquarters
2. Cutaway of cameras
3. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Tamara Despenic, Spokeswoman of the Bosnian Serb police in Banja Luka:
"Police forces of Bosnian...
Curated Video
Bosnia - Tensions Continue
Bosnian Federation authorities on Wednesday (24/5) refused to allow more than 600 Bosnian Serb refugees to visit their former homes and a cemetery in the town of Glamoc, now held by Bosnian Croats. The authorities said there were too...
Curated Video
UK/SERBIA: CROWN PRINCE KARADJORDJE WATCHING EVENTS IN SERBIA
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
The daily massed protests on the streets of the Serbian capital Belgrade are a godsend for the man born to be king of Yugoslavia.
Crown Prince Alexander Karadjordje is watching events in Serbia closely from his exile...
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KOSOVO: DUKAJIN VALLEY: SERB FORCES CONTINUE BATTLE WITH KLA
Albanian/Nat
Fighting between Serbian forces and Kosovo Liberation Army separatists continued in the Dukajin Valley area of Western Kosovo on Tuesday.
While Serb forces were battling K-L-A members, forcing them back into the hills, the...
Curated Video
Spanish and Serbian FMs presser, comment on Somalia
1. Wide of news conference at Spanish Foreign Ministry
2. Mid of flags
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Angel Moratinos, Spanish Foreign Minister:
"Serbia is one of the essential countries in the Balkans so it is logical, as my colleague...
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YUGOSLAVIA: STRIKING MINERS CLASH WITH POLICE
Serbo-Croat/Nat
Striking miners from the Kolubara mine came head to head with Slobodan Milosevic's riot police on Wednesday.
Police blockaded a bridge leading to the mine, but backed down when miners forced their way through.
After...
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Albanian and Serb children settle differences on tennis court
1. Pan right of tennis courts with children warming up before tournament
2. Mid of Albanian and Serbian organisers at registration desk
3. Close of children's birth certificates (in Serbian Cyrillic) used for registration
4. Mid of...
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Aftermath of clashes between Serbs and police, injured
1. Moving video of NATO and police convoy on other lane heading toward Kosovo-Serbian border crossing
2. Car in convoy on road
3. Border post sign reading "Stop"
4. Various of NATO soldiers at border crossing
5. Wide Kosovo border...
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Kosovo's president condemns Serbia's resolution on the province as "aggression"
1. Exterior of Presidential building
2. Mid of flags
3. Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivailo Kalfin walking towards President of Kosovo Fatmir Sejdiu, shaking hands
4 Mid of cameramen
5. Kalfin (left) and Sejdiu (right)...