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WRAP Bush's long-awaited speech on Middle East
1. Wide shot of US President George W. Bush approaching podium
2. Cutaway news reporters and photographers
3. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President:
"For the sake of all humanity, things must change in the Middle East. It is...
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SYND 1 4 77 INTERVIEW WITH FORMER LEBANESE PRESIDENT CAMILLE CHAMOUN IN BEIRUT
Interview with former Lebanese President Camille Chamoun in Beirut.
1. cu Chamoun speaking SOUNDBITE (English, transcript from old record): "as long as the agreement reached in Cairo has not been implemented, and those agreements have...
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MIDDLE EAST: SECOND DAY OF CLASHES WRAP (V)
Voice and effects
At least four Palestinians have been killed and dozens injured by Israeli police during a second day of clashes at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.
An Israeli soldier has also been killed and another wounded in...
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ISRAEL: US DEFENCE SECRETARY COHEN VISIT (V)
Voice and effects
VOICED BY: Megan Francis
The U-S Defence Secretary William Cohen pledged financial backing for peace in the Middle East during a visit to Jerusalem on Tuesday.
The money was committed by President Clinton after last...
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WEST BANK: JEWISH SETTLERS BUILD NEW SETTLEMENT WRAP
English/Nat
Jewish settlers built a new settlement in the West Bank early on Wednesday.
Ten families began constructing dwellings on a hill close to the settlement of Metzad.
The new settlement, called Metzad B, consists of prefabricated...
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International conference on the Palestinian question
1. Wide shot of "UN Meeting for Asia and the Pacific on the Question of Palestine" panel
2. Side shot of representatives
3. Ghassan Khatib, Minister of Labour, Palestinian Authority, being introduced
4. SOUNDBITE: (English), Ghassan...
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USA: FREE TRADE DEAL WITH JORDAN
Natural Sound
The United States and Jordan achieved a long-term goal on Tuesday with a precedent-setting, free trade deal that for the first time that aims to protect labor rights and environmental standards.
The deal, which would...
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Palestinian and Israeli comments on Rafah, Amnesty report
Ramallah, West Bank
1. Palestinian Labour Minister Ghassan Khatib at desk
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghassan Khatib, Palestinian Labour Minister:
"We believe that this particular escalation in Rafah which is responsible for this moment,...
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RAMALLAH: EMERGENCY CABINET MEETING
English/Nat
Palestinian ministers have responded angrily to the deaths of more Palestinians during another day of clashes.
Their comments follow an emergency cabinet meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday night in...
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Senate hearing on Palestinian gov't funding in wake of Hamas elex victory
1. Pan of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) James Wolfensohn, Middle East envoy:
"I have said and continue to believe that there is no way that we can accept the current Hamas charter. So I believe if...
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WRAP Japanese FM meets Livni, Barak, Olmert, visits Wailing Wall
1. Wide of hotel
2. Mid of Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso walking into room
3. Mid of Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak greeting Taro Aso and shaking hands
4. Various of Aso and Barak in meeting
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tzipi Livni,...
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USA: BILL CLINTON TO DISCUSS PEACE WITH ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER
April 3 and 4, Washington, DC and file
September 1978, Washington, D-C, Jimmy Carter Library:
1. Sadat, Carter and Begin at the signing ceremony for the Camp David Middle East accords at the White House
2. Sadat signing...
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ROVING REPORT 9921/A: ISRAEL: ELECTION OUTCOMES
Various, Israel, recent: Election night celebrations in progress on 17 May, 1999, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv; Jerusalem 18 May: Prime-Minister elect Ehud Barak at Wailing Wall, with his wife Nava laying wreath at grave of slain Prime...
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Jerusalem/W.Bank/Gaza - Ross finishes trip
US special envoy Dennis Ross wrapped up his 11-day Middle East peacemaking mission on Saturday evening (19/9) after inconclusive talks aimed at gaining agreement to a US package proposal centered on Israel withdrawing from 13 percent...
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Former president arrives to monitor vote
Ben Gurion airport
1. Former US President Jimmy Carter greeting Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom
2. Various, Jimmy Carter with Silvan Shalom
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Silvan Shalom, Israeli Foreign Minister
"We think that the...
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Israel/West Bank - Update on situation
As discussions continued on the future of the West Bank, tensions there continued to boil over onto the streets on Sunday night (21/6). Some Palestinian trucks were burnt by Jewish settlers in Hebron and the Israeli authority demolished...
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VOICED Israelis rename controversial West Bank barrier, reax
Abu Dis, East Jerusalem
0000 Panning shot, fence
0008 Pan of fence
0015 Nuns by barrier, pull out to wide of fence
0029 Nuns walking by fence
Ramallah, West Bank
0035 SOUNDBITE: (English) Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Spokesman for...
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Israel - Reaction to peace talks
As the London round of the Middle Rast peace talks get under way, both Israelis and Palestinians are finding it hard to generate enthusiasm for a possible breakthrough.
A small group of peace activists have erected a tent opposite the...
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WEST BANK: ISRAELI PREMIER NETANYAHU VISITS JEWISH SETTLEMENT
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Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu visited a Jewish settlement in the West Bank Tuesday and vowed settlements would continue to grow, despite pressure on Israel to halt their construction.
Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat...
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Aftermath of raid, Ramallah tension, Quartet reax, clashes
Khan Younes, Gaza Strip
1. Long shot of refugee camp
2. Various of destroyed houses
3. Various of Palestinians looking at debris
Ramallah, West Bank
4. Wide shot of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's headquarters
5. Various of cars being...
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Israel - Canaanite cemetery discovered
Archeologists have discovered a Canaanite cemetery 4,000 years
old in the sand dunes of the coastal region south of Tel Aviv.
It's a discovery which Israelis and Palestinians had hoped would
solve once and for all which of the two groups...
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Arafat meets EU envoy to discuss exiled Palestinians
Ramallah
1. Exterior of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's office
2. EU Middle East envoy Miguel Moratinos arriving
3. Various of Arafat and Moratinos photo op
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Miguel Moratinos, EU Middle East envoy
"The problem...
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France - Funds For Palestinians
Easing a budget crisis that threatened to undermine the
Palestinian autonomy process, donor governments on Friday (10/6)
promised to provide dlrs 42 million in the next few days for the
fledgling administration in Gaza and Jericho. "It...
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West Bank/Israel - Independence day celebration
Celebrations continued in West Bank towns on Thursday (14/11) to commemorate "Independence Day"; the day the PLO declared an independent Palestinian state eight years ago. Celebrations in Ramallah started with a march by the Palestinian...