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WRAP Third day of funerals for siege victims
1. Various wide shots of funeral processions carrying coffins to graves
2. Women walking with photos and flowers
3. Child in open casket being carried to grave
4. Russian Orthodox Priest comforting crying woman
5. Various of women with...
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Russian inmate plays professional football, but returns to cell each night
The latest star of Santiago Morning, a football team in Chile's second division, is a Russian citizen jailed for drug smuggling.
Maxim Molokoedov was sent to prison for carrying six kilos of cocaine that he planned to smuggle to Europe...
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ISRAEL: YELTSIN JOINS ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE
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Boris Yeltsin continued his visit to the Middle East on Thursday by taking part in a service to mark Russian Orthodox Christmas Eve.
He joined the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church, Alexy at the celebration in...
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MOSCOW: CHRISTMAS IN RUSSIA
Russian/Nat
For most countries the Christmas celebrations were over nearly two weeks ago.
But in Russia, they're only just beginning them.
It is Christmas Eve in the country where the holiest holiday is still determined by the ancient...
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Doomsday cult still in their underground hideout, MP comment
1. Wide of Nikolskoye village in snow covered valley
2. Wide of the sect's church
3. Close-up of cross
4. Water flowing in snow covered brook
5. Wide of valley, police post in the distance
6. Location of dug-out
7. Wide of officials and...
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WRAP Pope visits church of Holy Sepulchre, departure
Jerusalem
1. Top shot of Pope Benedict XVI entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
2. Pope kissing stone where Jesus' body is believed to have been laid after being crucified
3. Top shot of the Pope standing near the stone where Jesus...
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Hundreds march through the capital to celebrate Orthodox Christmas
Hundreds of worshippers walked through the streets of Tbilisi on Tuesday in a traditional parade to mark Orthodox Christmas day.
Children and adults dressed in national costumes marched through the streets holding white-and-red national...
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YUGOSLAVIA: ANTI MILOSEVIC PROTESTS CONTINUE
Serbo-Croat/Nat
The opposition in Yugoslavia is keeping the pressure on President Milosevic to resign.
While protesters continue to rally in the streets, a group of intellectuals has drawn up detailed plans for a transitional government...
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Voxpops at Serbian church on the death of Milosevic
1. Wide shot of "Saint Peter and Paul" Serbian Church in Moscow
2. Wide shot people on the porch
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Boris (no surname provide), Moscow resident:
"I think the death that happened on the territory of the Hague...
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Demonstrations in support of jailed Pussy Riot punk band, lawyer, Kasparov, relatives
A Moscow judge sentenced three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot to two years in prison on hooliganism charges on Friday, following a trial seen around the world as an emblem of Russia's intolerance of dissent.
Nadezhda...
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UPDATE The son of the former king of Greece marries on a Greek island
AP Television
Spetses, Greece, 25 August 2010
1. Wide exterior of St Nicholas Church with guests arriving
2. Mid of Denmark's Queen Margrethe arriving with Spain's Queen Sofia
3. Close up of Queen Sofia
4. Spain's Crown Prince Felipe...
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New Greek Orthodox Patriarch greets wellwishers
1. Narrow street in the Old City near the Greek Orthodox church
2. Close up of street sign reading: "Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Rd"
3. Church spokesman and senior cleric Atalla Hanna walking on the street
4. Flags near Patriarch''s...
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KOSOVO: PRISTINA: SERB LEADER TRAJKOVIC SHOT IN LEG
English/Nat
A top moderate Kosovo Serb leader has been shot in the leg at his Pristina apartment - reportedly by assailants who spoke Albanian.
Momcilo Trajkovic says he suffered a thigh injury when he opened his apartment door to the...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: CEMETERIES IN CAPITAL ARE FILLING TO CAPACITY
Russian/Nat
Muscovites are used to shortages but now there's even a queue for a final resting place.
Most of the cemeteries of the Russian capital are filled to capacity and spare land is hard to come by.
The government is giving...
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WRAP Chinese President meets Putin, plus war memorial
1. Pan from Russian Orthodox church to museum complex on Poklonnaya Hill
2. Pan from statue to group of people inside museum
3. Wide shot of Hu Jintao and wife with officials
4. Cutaway of bronze bust
5. Mid shot of museum guide with Hu...
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Wrap Pope Mass in Syria plus vox-pops
1. Aerial of Pope's motorcade
2. Motocade in Damascus streets
3. Aerial of stadium
4. Pan of stadium
5. Various of crowd and flags
6. Various of Pope in Popemobile
7. Various of congregation
8. Close up of crucifix
9. Wide of...
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Kerry urges Turkey to speed up rapprochement with Israel
1. Mid of US Secretary of State John Kerry
2. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kerry, US Secretary of State
"First of all we talked about the importance of completing the task with respect to the renewal of relationships between Turkey and...
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KOSOVO: PRISTINA: EXPLOSION DAMAGES CHURCH (2)
English/Nat
A large explosion damaged a Serbian Orthodox Church under construction in the heart of Kosovo's capital early Sunday in the latest sign of ethnic hatred threatening the
province's fragile stability.
The blast came just hours...
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Reax to French bill on mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during WW1 era
1. Various skyline shots of city
2. Various street scenes
3. Exterior of newsagent
4. Man reading newspaper
5. Close-up of Turkish newspaper headline (in French) "J'accuse!"
6. Close-up of newspaper photograph showing Turkish...
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WRAP - Voting, Hariri's son, widow, comments from observers
1. Soldier standing in street
2. Army vehicle parked on the street
3. Mid view of soldier watching traffic from the turret of the army vehicle
4. Various of EU monitoring team entering polling station
5. Exterior of polling station
6....
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Egyptian Coptic Pope Tawadros II arrives in Alexandria
1. Exterior of the Saints Church in Alexandria
2. Interior church, top shot Egyptian Coptic Pope Tawadros II entering and being greeted
3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Pope Tawadros Il, head of the Egypt's Coptic Christian church:
"Happy New...
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Orthodox Christians observe holiday associated with bees and honey
1. Wide top shot believers gather around candles stuck to jars of honey, arranged as a Holy Cross, during mass for the 'sanctification of honey' at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin church
2. Mid shot people seen around their honey...
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Fresco in Serbian Orthodox Church strikes a controversial political tone
A brightly-coloured newly painted fresco in a Serbian church in Montenegro's capital has triggered much attention and public controversy in the tiny former communist country.
The fresco on the wall of the Serbian Orthodox Church of...
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Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas in Gaza Strip
Orthodox Christians in the Gaza Strip celebrated Christmas on Tuesday.
The Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas day on 7 January because they follow the Julian Calendar, which was replaced in Western Europe by the Gregorian calendar...