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THAILAND: BANGKOK: U-N-C-T-A-D DEMONSTRATIONS
English/Nat
Disharmony is increasing at the United Nations Conference of Trade and Development, with in-fighting among ministers, protesters marching and a pie-throwing demonstrator scoring a direct hit on the IMF chief.
Third World...
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PHILIPPINES: MOSLEMS ACCUSED OF BOMBING APPEAR IN COURT
1. Police car in front of courthouse
2. Court building entrance
3. Police standing by outside
4. Muslim women, relatives of accused arriving
5. Exterior and arrival of Judge Inventor
6. Accused enter courtroom with police escorts
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Protesters at ASEM summit in clash with police, police storm building
1. Riot police in street with reporters
2. Riot police with arrested protester
3. Police armoured car driving off
4. Riot police running towards protesters
5. Police cars on road/ AUDIO: sound of breaking glass
6. Ambulance on road
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CUBA: HAVANA: GROUP 77 SUMMIT
Spanish/Nat
Leaders and ministers from the world's developing countries have been arriving in Havana, Cuba today to attend the Group 77 summit.
The Group of 77, set up 34 years ago, is made up of 144 of the worlds developing...
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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM OPENS IN BANGKOK
The Director General of the World Trade Organisation Pascal Lamy attended the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Bangkok Thursday morning.
In opening remarks to the conference, Lamy said he expects growth in the...
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Non-governmental groups rally at summit
1. Exterior conference centre
2. Wide of NGO protesting new round of talks
3. NGO's shouting "No Arm Twisting"
4. Close up "No Arm Twisting" sign
5. NGO play satirising Western trade leaders
6. Signs reading women's rights are human...
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BRUNEI: APEC DEVELOPMENTS
Natural Sound
Pacific Rim nations on Thursday reached a compromise to call for a new round of world trade talks that would consider the needs of developing countries, which fear they are being left behind in the new global economy.
The...
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NEW ZEALAND: APEC SUMMIT: ARRIVALS
Natural Sound
Foreign Ministers began arriving in Auckland on Wednesday for special talks on the crisis in East Timor ahead of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting.
Canada's Lloyd Axworthy will chair the talks which will also...
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Ministers arrive for global free trade talks as WTO deadline looms
1. Exterior of WTO (World Trade Organisation) headquarters
2. Tilt up WTO logo on gate pillar - pan to people and security at entrance
3. Mid shot security
4. Cars being checked
5. Members of delegations arriving at WTO headquarters
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USA: US/JAPAN TRADE DISPUTE
English/Nat
Japan expressed confidence Thursday it would win any showdown with the United States before a world trade body.
It followed president Clinton's decision to take an unfair trade complaint to the World Trade Organisation and...
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BRUNEI: LEADERS MEET FOR APEC SUMMIT
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Leaders from the 21 members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum met in Brunei on Thursday for their last day of discussions.
This summit is the last that Bill Clinton will attend since hosting the very first...
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USA: CHINESE PREMIER ZHU RONGJI VISIT
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji arrived in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning on the first leg of his nine day American tour.
The Premier is hoping to lobby the Clinton administration to allow China's entry into the World Trade...
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+4:3 AP talks to former NY mayor about his 9/11 memories
FILE: New York, New York - 22 September 2001
1. Wide of former NYC Mayor Giuliani walking at "Ground Zero", the site of the attacks on the World Trade Centre
FILE: New York, New York - 10 October 2001
2. Close-up of American flag at...
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Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou visits Ground Zero
1. Mid of Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou walking in to the 9/11 Memorial
2. Tilt down from Ma and Allison Blais, Chief of Staff of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum to names of victims
3. Zoom in to Ma from across the pool
4. Close of name...
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Excerpts of newser on cross-Straits relations
1. Wide shot, Zhang Mingqing, Spokesman of the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office walking to the podium
2. Mid shot, journalists
3. Mid shot, Zhang Mingqing at the podium
4. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Zhang Mingqing, Spokesman of the...
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JAPAN: NEW WTO GENERAL SECRETARY RENATO RUGGIERO VISIT
English/Nat
The incoming General-Secretary of the World Trade Organisation is in Tokyo on a three-day visit ahead of his taking up his new position on May 1.
A major issue Renato Ruggiero will be facing is the current dispute between...
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Abe, Badawi news conferences at end of APEC summit
1. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe walks to podium
2. Cutaway of media
3. SOUNDBITE: (Japanese) Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister:
"In order to achieve the continuation of the Japanese Self Defence Forces' refuelling mission (in the...
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NEW ZEALAND: APEC - CLINTON & ZEMIN TRADE TALKS
Mandarin/Nat
After months of worsening tensions between the United States and China, President Bill Clinton and President Jiang Zemin are looking to improve relations over their stalled trade talks.
In their first face-to-face...
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CHINA: US TRADE REPRESENTATIVE CASSIDY PRESS BRIEFING
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Washington says Chinese and U-S trade officials will be reassessing their bargaining positions as talks on China's bid to enter the World Trade Organization resume Monday after a four-month hiatus.
Robert Cassidy, assistant...
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UK: EUSTON: WTO ANTI CAPITALIST PROTEST
English/Nat
Almost 40 people have been arrested following violent clashes between riot police and anti-capitalist demonstrators in London.
A police van was burned and seven people injured in Tuesday's skirmishes - the second time in...
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First steel column erected for 9/11 WTC memorial and museum
1. Wide of flagpole with American flag on beam lifted by crane, pull out to wide
2. Workers at bottom steadying beam as it is hoisted by crane
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Joe Daniels, President of the National September 11 Memorial and...
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Various G7 leaders arrive meet Brown, Greenspan attends
1. International Monetary Fund president Rodrigo Rato and US Treasury Secretary John Snow entering 11 Downing Street.
2. Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean Claude Juncker, who chairs the euro-zone group of finance ministers, arrives
3. US...
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CHINA: BEIJING: NEGOTIATIONS TO JOIN W-T-O CONTINUE
English/Nat
A meeting in Beijing between senior U-S negotiators and Chinese officials could be the last and best chance for China to join the World Trade Organisation (W-T-O) before new talks start in Seattle on November 30.
Wishing for...
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Trade ministers meet in bid to patch up free trade deal; security, chairman comments
Security was tight in Indonesia's island of Bali on Tuesday as top trade officials from the World Trade Organisation began talks that will either produce an eleventh hour deal that could boost the global economy by 1 (t) trillion US...