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USA: 50-THOUSAND ACTIVISTS EXPECTED AT W-T-O MEETING (2)
English/Nat
As an estimated 50-thousand protesters gear up to lobby the World Trade Organisation summit in the American city of Seattle, U-S President Bill Clinton has said the demonstrators have a right to be heard.
He told reporters...
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Security, protesters gather, EU, Indian minister comments
1. Wide shot Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre, venue of the WTO meeting
2. Police guarding Convention Centre
3. Police vans on standby
4. Barricade
5. Police checking badges of people entering venue
6. Group of police...
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(V) SWITZERLAND: WTO: BANANAS/SANCTIONS
English/Nat
The United States and the European Union have put their cases before the World Trade Organisation over hefty U-S sanctions imposed amid the bitter trans-Atlantic banana trade row.
The E-U denounces the U-S sanctions, but...
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Proposal on farm trade delayed, WTO comment
1. Exterior of the WTO headquarters in Geneva
2. Pull out from plate reading "World Trade Organisation" to security outside the WTO
3. Policemen guarding WTO's main entrance
4. Delegates leaving and entering WTO headquarters
5....
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Brazilian President visits India
1. Wide shot Presidential palace
2. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's car arriving at presidential palace
3. Photographers
4. Da Silva getting out of car, being greeted by Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Prime...
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EU Trade Commissioner and US Trade Representative on deal
1. Wide shot of EU trade chief Peter Mandelson press conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Mandelson, European Union Commissioner for External Trade:
"It's been a good week - I think we've enjoyed it, and I think - here and there -...
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Joint commission on commerce and trade meeting in Beijing
1. Wide of negotiators walking into conference hall
2. Close pan from US Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez to Chinese Vice Premier Madame Wu Yi, to US Trade Ambassador Susan Schwab
3. Wide of the two delegations facing each other...
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Demonstrations outside WTO talks
1. Pan shot of farmers and citizens at gathering at a Tokyo park
2. Medium shot of participants
3. Close up of farmers with English banner
4. Wide shot of South Korean dancers on stage
5. Close up of South Korean dancer
6. Medium shot of...
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APEC Women Leaders conference
1. Exterior of the Great Hall
2. Pan of delegates walking into meeting hall
3. Delegates sitting down
4. Delegates in the meeting hall
5. VIP delegates getting seated
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sarmite D. Bulte, Parliamentary Secretary to...
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USA: CONGRESS DEBATE OVER TRADE WITH CHINA
English/Nat
The annual debate over trade with China has begun in the U-S Congress.
Critics of China say it is wrong to have normal trade relations with a country with widespread human rights abuses, although they acknowledge that once...
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EU resumes last ditch farm susbsidy reform talks
1. Panning shot, building
2. Pull out from protesters
3. Miguel Arias Canete, Spanish Agriculture Minister getting out of car
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Miguel Arias Canete, Spanish Agriculture Minister
"We will try to see compromise this...
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Small businesses near ground zero get funds to rebuild
14 Feb 2002
1. Wide shot US Housing and Urban Development Secretary, Mel Martinez, at podium in Marriott Hotel near the World Trade Centre "Ground Zero" site.
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) US Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel...
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WRAP Bush, EU leaders on talks, Guantanamo, Iran
1. George Bush, US president; Wolfgang Schuessel, Austrian Chancellor; and Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission President, entering news conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Wolfgang Schuessel, Austrian Chancellor: (includes different...
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Sept 11 memorial at US embassy in London
1. US national anthem played as US flag flies at half mast on US embassy - pan out to show crowd in Grosvenor Square
2. US ambassador William S. Farish with hand clasped to heart
3. Pan across audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) (Part...
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VOICED S Korean protester kills himself during clashes with police
0000 Lee Kyung-Hae collapses
0013 Lee being taken away
0017 Two anti-WTO (World Trade Organisation) demonstrators embrace in front of hospital where Lee died
0021 Lee protesting
0028 Wide shot of Lee protesting
0034 Protesters pushing...
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NEW Business summit begins in Cannes ahead of G20
1. Wide exterior Martinez Hotel, venue for B20 summit of business leaders
2. Interior business leaders on stage of conference hall
3. Businessmen and women in audience
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade...
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CHINA: BEIJING: MINISTER FOR ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTING SPEAKS AT SUMMIT
Mandarin/Nat
A senior Chinese official on Wednesday attempted to calm Western worries that China's rapid economic growth will pollute the planet, send food prices soaring and create instability.
Li Tieying, the Minister for Economic...
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CHINA: BEIJING: US TREASURY SECRETARY ROBERT RUBIN VISIT
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
The U-S Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin has said relations between Washington and Beijing are improving - but he ended two days of talks without progress on trade issues.
At a news conference in Beijing he repeated...
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WRAP Mandelson and Lamy comment, plus security
10 December 2005
1. Exterior Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre, the venue of WTO meeting
2. Tall barricades at area surrounding convention centre
3. Street cleaners working on road barricades
12 December 2005
4. News conference...
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Moments of silence, bells ringing
1. Various of procession carrying US flag saved from the World Trade Centre on stage
2. Wide of ceremony
3. Mid shot of choir singing US national anthem
4. Close of memorial banner reading (English) "I love daddy"
5. Musicians...
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USA: SEATTLE: WTO: BARSHEFSKY PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
U-S Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky has officially announced the suspension of talks at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) conference in Seattle.
Barshefsky said delegates had decided to take time out to consult one...
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CHINA: AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DOWNER VISIT
English/Nat
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer ended a three-day visit to Beijing on Tuesday by lambasting the United States for its restrictive trade policies, most notably a new tariff on Australian lamb imports.
In...
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CHINA: TALKS CONTINUE WITH E-U OVER INCLUSION IN W-T-O
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China hoped to clear the biggest remaining hurdle in its intensifying campaign to join the World Trade Organization (W-T-O) in talks that resumed on Monday with the European Union.
Long Yongtu, a top Chinese trade...
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CHINA: CHINESE/EUROPEAN WTO TALKS WTO
English/Nat
Chinese and European trade negotiators met for a second day on Tuesday to clinch an agreement to help usher China into the World Trade Organization this year.
After two days of talks, including a 2 1/2-hour meeting Tuesday...