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Candidates react to presidential run-off between FM and former PM
1. Wide of Czech Republic presidential candidate Milos Zeman arriving at news conference
2. Cutaway of cameras
3. Pull out of Zeman arriving
4. Cutaway of cameras
5. SOUNDBITE (Czech) Milos Zeman, presidential candidate:
"I said it many...
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Czechs vote in historic first for ex-Communist Europe
1. General views of Prague and Prague castle
2. European Union and Czech Republic flags
3. Wide shot, streets and cars
4. Interior, set up shot of polling station
5. Various of people collecting ballot papers and voting
6. SOUNDBITE:...
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GERMANY: BERLIN: CZECH PRESIDENT HAVEL THREE DAY VISIT
Czech/Nat
Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel is in Germany for a three day visit.
On Wednesday he was welcomed by German President Johannes Rau and his wife with a military ceremony at the Schloss Bellevue.
Later in the day Rau...
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USA: IOWA: PRESIDENT OPENS NEW FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY MUSEUM
English/Nat
US President Bill Clinton joined hands with the presidents of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in opening a museum in Iowa which he dedicated to freedom and democracy.
Clinton attended the opening ceremony at Cedar Rapids with...
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CZECH REPUBLIC: GYPSIES CLAIM RACISM IS FORCING THEM TO LEAVE
Eng/Czech/Nat
Authorities in the British port of Dover were on Friday waiting anxiously to see if there would be a new influx of Gypsy asylum-seekers from eastern Europe.
Some 130 people arrived last Friday on a ferry from Calais...
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Milos Zeman inaugurated as new Czech president
1. Milos Zeman, President of the Czech Republic being sworn in
2. Cutaway of cameraman
3. Honour guards marching past people attending ceremony
4. Cutaway of cameraman
5. SOUNDBITE: (Czech) Milos Zeman, President of the Czech...
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USA: WASHINGTON: CZECH PRESIDENT VACLAV HAVEL VISIT
English/Nat
Czech President Vaclav Havel has begun an official visit to the United States.
The trip started with a meeting between Havel and U-S President Bill Clinton at the White House.
U-S President Clinton welcomed his Czech...
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Czech Republic - Reconciliation accord
Leaders sign pact to consign wounds to history
Czechs and Germans turned a page in their history on Tuesday (21/1), when their leaders signed a reconciliation accord that settles the last remaining dispute between Germany and the...
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Blair meets leaders of Visegrad Four group
1. British Prime Minister Tony Blair greeted by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany
2. Cutaway media
3. Wide of Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz arriving
4. Gyurcsany shaking hands with Marcinkiewicz
5. Blair and...
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Czech president visits Rome, meets political leaders
1. Quirinale (Italian presidential palace) courtyard
2. Czech President Vaclav Havel arriving at Quirinale
3. Italian President Ciampi greeting Havel
4. Ciampi and Havel listening to the Czech national anthem
5. Military band, Ciampi and...
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FM warns Moscow that Ukrainian people ready to fight if Russia invades
Ukraine's foreign minister on Thursday blasted the Russian decision to start military manoeuvres along Ukraine's border and said his country will fight any invading troops.
Andriy Deshchytsia said Russia's decision to launch the military...
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Czech Republic - Kohl visit
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl on Wednesday (22/1) ended a visit to the
Czech Republic after meetings with President Vaclav Havel and Prague Archbishop Miloslav Vlk.
Ext German Chancellor Helmut Kohl arrives;
shakes hands with archbishop...
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President Hollande says France will host international conference on security situation in Iraq
French President Francois Hollande will travel to Iraq on Friday to offer France's support to Iraqi leaders in combating violent extremists advancing in the country, a statement from his office said.
France will also host an...
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Czech president arrives on official visit
1. Wide exterior of Presidential Palace
2. Czech President Vaclav Klaus convoy arriving
3. Klaus getting out of the car, shaking hands with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet
4. Klaus and Triet step on podium for national anthems....
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Tattooed candidate in upcoming Czech presidential race speaks ahead of vote
1. Zoom out from presidential candidates to wide of Vladimir Franz (presidential candidate) standing among them
2. Close up of Franz sitting next to one of the front running candidates Milos Zeman (left of screen), leader of the Party...
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Political artist's work makes obscene gesture just days before elections
A Czech artist known for his anti-communist stance has floated a huge statue of a hand making an obscene gesture on Prague's main river.
The ten-metre purple middle finger by sculptor David Cerny was placed on a pontoon on the Vltava...
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Czech Republic-Radio Free Europe & Radio Liberty
New headquarters were opened in Prague on Friday (8/9) for Radio
Free Europe and Radio Liberty, the two U.S. sister stations which
broadcast into communist countries throughout the Cold War. Czech
President Vaclav Havel welcomed the...
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Winners and losers announced
Prague
1. Various of celebrations at headquarters of Social Democrats
2. SOUNDBITE: (Czech) Vladimir Spidla, President of Social Democrats:
"Obviously this is a great success for the Social Democrats. We are a party orientated for the...
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USA - Havel meets clinton
Czech President Vaclav Havel was on Wednesday (16/09) welcomed
to the White House where he will will hold talks with President
Bill Clinton on the Czech Republic's scheduled entry into NATO,
and other European security issues.
Clinton...
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CUBA: CZECH SENATE PRESIDENT PETR PITHART VISIT
Spanish/Nat
The president of the Czech senate Petr Pithart met with Cuban leader Fidel Castro for six hours on Saturday in Havana.
He headed home without the two Czech citizens he had hoped to help free during his stay.
The Czechs that...
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Zeman wins first directly elected presidential vote, Schwarzenberg concedes
1. Close of car with photo of Milos Zeman, the winner of the Czech presidential elections in front of a convention centre in Prague
2. Mid of cameraman next to poster of Zeman
3. Mid of Zeman supporters at convention centre
4. Close of...
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Govt of technocrats loses confidence vote
1. Wide of lawmakers during vote
2. Close up of screen registering the vote
3. President of the lower chamber of the parliament Miroslava Nemcova during the vote
4. Various of lawmakers during the vote
5. Nemcova during voting
6. Various...
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Reaction to EU report from Polish and Czech FMs
1. Exterior shot of Schloss Bellevue Berlin
2. Various of arrival Polish Foreign Minister
3. SOUNDBITE: (Polish then English) Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Foreign Minister of Poland:
"First of all, we're not surprised. The report was based...
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Ukraine's governing coalition collapses, parliament, Tymoshenko, voxpops
1. Wideshot of Ukrainian parliament (Rada) building
2. Flags outside building
3. Wide of parliament speaker
4. Wide top shot of Rada session
5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Arseny Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Parliament speaker:
"I officially...