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Preview to last round of presidential election with economic worries to the fore
On Monday the Greek parliament will decide if it is going to elect a new president or leave the country to early elections in January or February that could bring an anti-bailout opposition party to power.
Opinion polls show that most of...
Bloomberg
Samaras Calls for Early Presidential Election in Greece
Dec. 9 -- Greeces Prime Minister Antonis Samaras calls for a snap presidential election, moving the vote that had been scheduled for February to a week from tomorrow. Bloomberg's Hans Nichols reports on Countdown. (Source: Bloomberg)
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TV A'math, reax, grave, union strike, court
1. Wide top-shot pan of hundreds of people gathered for trade union rally outside Parliament's Syntagma Square in Athens city centre
2. Mid top-shot of police gathered
3. Wide top-shot pan of crowd
4. Wide top-shot of crowd
5. Mid of...
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WRAP Hundreds gather for gay pride parade
1. Low angle shot under massive rainbow pride flag being held by gay parade participants
2. Close-up people holding flag
3. Close-up of drums being played
4. Drummers performing during gay march
5. Close-up drummers marching and...
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Stocks open down after Greece's credit rating given junk status
1. Wide of Athens street
2. European Union and Greek flags
3. Various of streets
4. Interior Athens Stock Exchange, sign on wall
5. Various of electronic ticker showing information on stock index
6. Wide of screen showing graphs
7....
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New edition of history book that previously caused controversy
1. Wide of news conference room
2. Reporters in news conference room
3. Mid of cameraman
4. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Marietta Giannakou, Greek Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs:
"The Ministry of Education and Religious...
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IOC comments on Turin, Vancouver, Beijing readiness
February 28, 2004
1. Speakers arriving, sitting at press conference
2. Close up of banner reading "IOC Executive Board Meeting"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Giselle Davies, International Olympic Committee spokeswoman:
"Regarding Turin...
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Preview as austerity-hit nation faces electoral impasse
Athens - 27 April 2012
1. Mid of man playing lyre on pedestrian road with Acropolis in background, AUDIO: music
2. Close-up of container for money, tilt up to show man, AUDIO: music
3. Close-up of hand holding bow and playing lyre,...
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May Day demonstrations in Turkey and Greece
Istanbul, Turkey - 1 May 2011
1. Wide of demonstrators marching to mark International Workers Day
2. Mid of demonstrators with banners
3. Close-up of members of the Revolutionist Workers Union marching
4. Mid of demonstrators chanting...
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Forensic police search museum for clues into robbery
1. Pavlos Geroulanos, Greek Minister of Culture, arriving
2. Minister entering museum
3. Wide exterior of museum
4. Various of forensic equipment
5. SOUNDBITE: (Greek) Efthimios Kotzas, Mayor of Olympia ++ROUGH TRANSLATION++:
"Two...
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Anti-austerity protest as troika continues talks with government
1. Wide of students from music schools marching; students marching past camera
2. Close-up of drum being struck; pans right to show medium of students holding banner and chanting slogan (Greek) "Every year it's the same story: no...
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Greek finance min meets EU's task force chief, disabled demo
1. Disabled protesters in wheelchairs at top of demonstration
2. Pan right of legs of people in wheelchairs
3. High angle shot of demonstration
4. Close-up sign reading (Greek) "Cast a vote against those who rape the lives of people...
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Greece wakes up to another day of political uncertainty, vox pops
1. Wide shot of park by Syntagma Square
2. Close-up reflection of Greek parliament in the shop window, tilt to the parliament
3. Mid shot of tram station, people getting off the tram
4. Wide shot newspaper store, employee sorting...
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MEMBERS OF RIGHT-WING PARTY TAKE SEATS IN PARLIAMENT
The 300 legislators elected in Greece's inconclusive 6 May ballot were sworn in on Thursday - including 21 from the right-wing Golden Dawn party, one of the most extreme nationalist parties to have taken seats in a European parliament...
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Investigator says looted antiquities help finance insurgents
Athens, Greece - March 18 2008
1. Exterior of conference venue
2. Sign: "Athens International Conference on the the return of cultural objects to their countries of origin"
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel Matthew Bogdanos, US Marine...
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Briefing on doping cases and fire
1. Serafim Kotrotsos (Head of ATHOC press and media office), Michalis Zacharatos and Giselle Davies
2. Cutaway of Olympic emblems
3. Cutaway of journalist
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Giselle Davies
"The IOC announced that two athletes have...
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Decline of privatised port company a cautionary tale for future of Greek economy
The Greek government's privatisation drive took a knock on Thursday as it has been revealed that the Hellenic Ports company in Athens lost 40 percent of its permanent workforce and thousands of part time workers since being taken over by...
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UPITN 22 4 76 TRIAL OF MILITARY PERSONNEL ACCUSED OF TORTURE
Trial of Military personnel accused of torture during junta regime in Greece
1. judge enters court, rings bell and takes his seat, zoom to cu judge addressing court
2. pan along defendants sat in court listening
3. officers in uniform ...
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Labour unions, public servants strike
Athens
1. Athens Panteion University with banner in front reading (Greek): "Public alert! No to the bankruptcy of the people. Everyone out on strike on 22-23 April with PAME" (PAME = Trade Union Front linked to the Communist Party of...
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Local residents mourn century-old cinema burned down by rioters, vigil
1. Mid of people holding candles outside burnt out Attikon Cinema
2. Man lighting candle
3. Mid of people lighting candles
4. Tilt down from burnt out cinema to rubble on ground
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lycourgos Liaropoulos, Athens...
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Interview with architect of new Olympic stadium
June 8, 2004
1. Long shot of Olympic complex in Athens
2. Various mid shot aerial of stadium
June 17, 2004
3. Poster for stadium
4. Press at news conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Santiago Calatrava, Stadium Architect:
"I think...
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Newly married lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney will advise Greece in its attempt to get Parthenon artifacts back from the UK
Newly married British lawyer Amal Alamuddin Clooney will advise Greece in its attempt to get the Parthenon Marbles back from the U.K.
The barrister, who married actor George Clooney in Venice last month, will visit Athens next week to...
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Planned rubbish dump prompts protests by locals
FILE: 30 March 2011
1. Riot police, firebomb goes off among them, during clashes with local residents over planned landfill site, AUDIO explosion
2. Medium of local residents approaching to throw firebombs as one explodes near riot...
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Americans evacuated from Egypt comment on unrest
1. Wide exterior of Athens airport
2. Wide interior of arrivals lounge
3. Passengers inside airport
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Travis, US tourist evacuated from Cairo:
"We are very concerned that there was no warning from our State...