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March to protest against ban on American adoptions of Russian children
1. Various of protesters gathering ready to march and holding posters with portraits of Russian State Duma deputies
2. Mid of protesters talking
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir, No last name given, protester, aged 73:
"The government...
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President of Hague War Crimes meets survivors to mark 20th anniversary of tribunal
A number of civil rights activists and war victims protested on Wednesday during a speech by the president of the UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, at a conference dedicated to the court's 20th anniversary.
A group of young...
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+4:3 Rights advocates commemorate 4th anniversary of San Fernando massacre
Migrants' rights activists observed a minutes silence in Mexico City on Tuesday to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the massacre in San Fernando, when 72 Central and South American migrants were killed by the Zetas drug gang....
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Animal activists protest at start of fashion week
1. PETA activists wearing (fake) fur coats and covered in red paint, one carrying a pretend skinned fox, walking down the street
2. Various of activists falling on the floor screaming
3. Pan from face of demonstrator painted with red...
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Pro-Russian activists clash with Crimean Tatars outside local parliament building
Police struggled to keep apart rival groups holding competing rallies on Wednesday in Ukraine's largely pro-Russian Crimea region.
The regional parliament in the Crimean city of Simferopol was to hold a crisis session on the turmoil that...
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Former general says Western military strikes could strengthen al-Qaida forces in region
Hisham Jaber, a retired Lebanese army general warned on Thursday that military strikes against Syria could strengthen extremist groups such as al-Qaida and have catastrophic consequences for the whole Middle East region.
Fears of a...
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SK to send 3,000 troops to Iraq from August
Gwangju, File (April 8, 2004)
1. Various of South Korean troops in training, in drill simulating potential activity in Iraq
Seoul, June 18, 2004
2. Wide shot of Defence Ministry briefing room
3. Journalists at briefing
4. Defence...
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Mexican President meets dissidents before leaving
1. Wide shot of Mexican Embassy in Havana
2. Mexican Embassy seal
3. Human rights activist Elizardo Sanchez entering Mexican embassy
4. Wide shot of President Vicente Fox leaving Mexican Embassy
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Osvaldo Paya,...
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Leading human rights activist escapes death in failed assassinaton attempt
1. Exteriors of Carlotto's house
2. Various shots of police investigating
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Estela Carlotto, Human Rights Activist:
"What happened was from a car they fired shots and you can see what they did to the front of the...
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Merkel, Medvedev news conf, comment on Estemirova's murder
1. Wide of German Chancellor, Angela Merkel and Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, walking to podium, camera zoom in, Merkel starts to speak
2. Mid side view of Merkel and Medvedev on podium
3. SOUNDBITE (German) Angela Merkel, German...
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Trocadero demo over Iran stonings
1. Wide pan of demonstrators gathering at Trocadero square overlooking the Eiffel Tower
2. Wide of demonstrators holding banners in French, reading "Feminism never killed anyone, machismo kills every day"
3. Close of demonstrator...
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Recovered grandson of rights activist performs at former torture centre
Argentine musician Ignacio Guido Montoya Carlotto, who's the best-known recovered child from the country's dirty war, performed a free concert on Wednesday at the former site of a torture centre in the capital Buenos Aires.
DNA testing...
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Russian gay rights in spotlight as Moscow prepares to host Eurovision final
May 12, 2009
1. Wide pan of lesbian couple walking into the Civil Registry Office
2. Mid of Irina Shipitko applying for registration, pan to registry office worker
3. Close of hand writing
4. Close of media, tilt down to couple
5....
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THAILAND: ACTIVIST JAMES MAWDSLEY
English/Nat
The Myanmar government says it will take \"severe action\" against a pro-democracy activist from Britain, who was detained on Tuesday in a border town.
It's the third time that Yangon has arrested James Mawdsley, who's also...
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Cyber activists join forces to expose corruption, aim to take battle global
Meeting inside a building in one of Barcelona's run-down neighbourhoods, a group of cyber activists have joined forces to expose corruption in Spain.
Gathering at the Xnet headquarters - a non-profit Internet platform - they want others...
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EL SALVADOR PROTESTS STAGED OVER DISAPPEARANCE OF PRIEST
Spanish/Nat
Clergy members in El Salvador have staged a protest outside the U-S embassy to demand information on the disappearance of an American-born Jesuit priest.
James Carney disappeared in Honduras in 1983 when he entered the...
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SENEGAL: US PRESIDENT CLINTON VISITS DAKAR GRAND MOSQUE
Natural Sound
Winding up his historic six-nation tour of Africa, U-S President Bill Clinton
has paid his respects at the Grand Mosque of Dakar.
Clinton, along with his wife Hillary, toured the imposing green-and-white
tile building with...
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USA: CHING-LEE WU ASKS CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE HUSBAND
English/Nat
Ching-Lee Wu, wife of the human rights activist detained in China, is appealing to the U-S government, and the world, to pressure Beijing to release her husband.
China's government has sent mixed signals about how it will...
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Trial begins of activists who demanded Putin resign
1. Wide shot exterior of Nikulinskiy court in Moscow
2. Close up flags
3. Mid shot National Bolshevik party leader Eduard Limonov as he passes through police checkpoint
4. Wide shot of courtroom
5. Various of party activists inside...
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Tensions between countries, protesters outside
NB: wrong slate on tape, story correct
1. Anti-globalisation activists charging police barricade
2. Protesters spraying graffiti on bank
3. Protesters throwing stones at riot police
4. Close up of riot police, pull out to wide shot of...
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry is on his fourth trip to Iowa in eight months, meeting Saturday with veterans and conservative activists in the northern Iowa community of Algona. (July 19)
If Texas Gov. Rick Perry runs for president and loses Iowa to some other Republican again, it won't be for a lack of trying.
The 64-year-old Perry is on his fourth trip to the state in eight months, meeting Saturday and Sunday with...
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The number of abortions is increasing in Russia
Moscow - 28 January 2008
1. Wide shot of crosses as symbolic graves of unborn children
2. Mid shot of crosses showing dates and possible jobs of unborn children - for example:"Driver 2006-2006", "General 2006-2006"
3. Wide pan from...
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Puppets used on both sides of separation barrier to call for Palestinian state
Israeli and Palestinian activists have been protesting in the West Bank - calling for the creation of a Palestinian state.
They gathered on both sides of the separation barrier, just south of Jerusalem, looking at each other across a...
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ARGENTINA: PROTESTS FOLLOWING EMILIO MASSERA COURT APPEARANCE
Spanish/Nat
Demonstrations broke out in Buenos Aires on Friday following the court appearance of Emilio Massera - a former Admiral of the navy responsible for many deaths under Argentina's 1976-1983 military regime.
Massera was called to...