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Traditional theatre festival in Tehran
RESTRICTIONS: No Access VOA Persian/ No Access BBC Persian
AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media...
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Computer giant fined under anti-trust regulations
1. Wide shot of the briefing room at South Korean fare trade commission
2. Medium shot of government officers
3. Close up a document
4. SOUNDBITE (Korean), Kang Chul-kyu, Fair Trade commission chairman
"When, Microsoft release their...
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Taxi drivers strike in Italian capital over austerity measures
Rome, January 18th
1. Wide shot Coliseum with taxi roof light in foreground
2. Camera entering taxi
3. Close up taxi's rear vision mirror and meter
4. Taxi leaving and driving toward the Coliseum
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Massimo...
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Latest on plan to ban smoking in all workplaces in New York City
1. Wide shot exterior of Emerald Inn, a bar on Upper West side of Manhattan
2. Various inside of bar with customers
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kenneth Leopold, General Manager of Peter's bar in New York:
"The employees have a choice of...
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The transition from analog to digital television broadcasting will be pushed back by four months, after members of Congress became concerned too many viewers would see their sets go dark next month
HEADLINE: Delay coming to digital TV switch
CAPTION: The transition from analog to digital television broadcasting will be pushed back by four months, after members of Congress became concerned too many viewers would see their sets go...
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Protest as president arrives ahead of vote on bank deposits levy
1. Wide tracking shot of Cypriot President, Nicos Anastasiades entering Cypriot parliament building, protesters shouting in background
2. Protesters chanting and shouting as Cypriot President arrives
3. Various of hands of protesters...
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UN: "Tobacco epidemic"could kill 1 billion unless govts act now
February 7, 2008
1. Pan of news conference
2. Photographer
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation:
"You can't manage a problem if you cannot measure the problem. I have a similar...
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Health warning over popular Hong Kong food
1. Busy street
2. Close-up of restaurant sign
3. Exterior of a Chinese restaurant
4. Busy Chinese restaurant interior
5. Waitress placing bamboo steamers on a big table
6. Close-up of steamed dim sum (filled dumpling)
7. Several bamboo...
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Lower house votes in favour of plan to create legal marijuana industry
1. Various of lower house of Congress debating marijuana plan
2. Pan of audience seated in balconies above
3. Mid of audience
4. Various of legislators
5. Wide pan of legislators raising hands to vote
6. Tilt up of legislators voting
7....
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Protest against anti-smoking law
27 October, 2007
1. Tilt down from buildings to group of protesters against smoking ban in Frankfurt Roemer Square
2. Group of protesters in square, holding poster of Marlene Dietrich with a cigarette in her mouth
3. Men standing with...
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Privately owned daily newspapers return to Myanmar for first time since 1964
March 31, 2013
1. Exterior of office of one of the new daily newspapers, "Golden Fresh Land"
2. Layout editor editing in the newsroom
3. Layout page of newspaper on computer screen
4. Close of editor
5. Chief editor, 81-year-old Khin...
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Central Bank chief on suspension, missing petrodollars
The internationally respected banker whose passport was seized by authorities last week said on Tuesday he remains the governor of Nigeria's central bank, and questioned the legal justification for his suspension from the post.
Lamido...
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Cuban govt expects tourism to grow despite new US travel bans
1. Wide shot beach front hotel in Varadero
2. Various of tourists on beach
3. Sailboat
4. Hotel sign
5. Wide shot golfers
6. Golfer taking a swing
7. Wide convention centre exterior
8. Close up flags of many countries
9. Medium...
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Congress tried closing the National Flood Insurance Program's $24 billion debt by eliminating low-cost policies on older homes and businesses. Now more than 1 million residents and businesses are facing huge premium increases. (March 24)
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"My wife and I did it ourselves, gutted everything out."
SOUNDBITE: Mike Portanova, business owner:
"My wife said, guess how much it is? I said, well, $10,000. She said higher. I said 15. She said higher. I said, OK, 20. And then...
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US House Speaker Boehner cautions Obama not to act unilaterally to change immigration system
In his first post-election news conference, US House Speaker John Boehner said the Republican-controlled Congress will act to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, make changes in the health care law and encourage businesses to hire more...
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US rice shipments to Cuba down 50 per cent this year
1. Press conference at Hotel Nacional de Cuba
2. President of Alimport Pedro Alvarez and and President of US Rice Federation Lee Adams seated at conference table
3. Tilt of sign
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lee Adams, President of U.S. Rice...
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JAPAN: POSSIBLE BAN ON EU BEEF IMPORTS
Japanese/Nat
Reacting to the threat from Europe of B-S-E, or "mad cow disease", Japan's Agricultural Minister said Thursday that it may ban imported beef and related products from the European Union as a precautionary measure to protect...
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The longest serving member of the U.S. House says there was a time when Congress worked. Representative John Dingell, who will soon retire, says those working for the greater good used to be the hallmark of the institution, but not any more. (June 27)
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The longest serving member of the U.S. House says there once was a time when Congress could and did work.
Rep. John Dingell, a Michigan Democrat who will retire at end of his current term,...
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Training a zebra as a racehorse
AP Television
UK, Sigwells Farm, Dorset UK July 10th 2009
1. Wide shot Bill Turner galloping with Zebedee the zebra
2. Bill Turner passing car UPSOUND (English) "Alright Ed? You going home are you?" (Laughter) Come on Zeb Come on." ...
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Washington State's law legalizing marijuana took effect early Thursday, and some celebrated by violating the law, lighting up in public under Seattle's Space Needle.
HEADLINE: Smokers celebrate as Wash. legalizes marijuana
CAPTION: Washington state's law legalizing marijuana took effect early Thursday, and some celebrated by violating the law, lighting up in public under Seattle's Space Needle....
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: DUMA URGED NOT TO RATIFY START II TREATY
Russian/Nat
Russian Communist leaders on Thursday urged lawmakers not to approve the START-II treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of Russia and the United States.
The Communists oppose the treaty, which goes before parliament for...
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WRAP Saakashvili steps down to trigger election, opposition
24 November, 2007
1. Wide Georgian Chancellery
2. Cabinet ministers seated
3. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia:
"The Parliament Speaker will be acting President for the next 40 days when I will be...
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Business leaders comment on dissidents, Xmas row
December 15 2004
1. Convention Centre of Havana
2. Various of American delegates registering in lobby for conference
3. Auditorium with delegates
4. Sign in auditorium with title of conference
5. US Senator Max Baucus arriving, followed...
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Automakers and their union worked feverishly Wednesday to sell a skeptical Congress on a $34 billion aid plan, promising labor concessions and restructuring in advance of a second round of hearings.
HEADLINE: UAW grants concessions to automakers
CAPTION: Automakers and their union worked feverishly Wednesday to sell a skeptical Congress on a $34 billion aid plan, promising labor concessions and restructuring in advance of a...