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Afghan FM comments on Britain's Ashdown
1. Wide of news conference at Foreign Ministry in Kabul
2. Mid of cameras
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Afghan Foreign Minister:
"The negative issue and reaction by Afghan public opinion and political elites from...
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Women languish in squalid jail for what most countries wouldn't consider crimes
1. Female prisoner Sharifa trying to comfort her 50-day-old daughter, Kareshma, who was born in Kabul prison
2. Female prisoner Siyamoi holding her 20-day-old daughter, Nahida, born in Kabul prison
3. Close up of Nahida
4. Bars on...
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WRAP Explosion as voting continues
Kabul
1. Mid of women in burqas walking outside polling station for nomads living in Kabul
2. Various of nomad (Kuchi) man registering to vote
3. Mid of man leaving after voting
4. Close-up of hand putting ballot paper into ballot box
5....
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Interior minister, intel chief resign over peace conference attack
Kabul - 6 June 2010
1. Wide of Intelligence Ministry news conference
2. Mid of intelligence officials
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amrullah Saleh, Chief of Afghan National Directorate of Security:
"Our explanations did not convince...
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WRAP 4:3 OSCE summit family photo; opening speeches
1. Wide of OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) conference centre, various flags blowing in wind ++MUTE++
2. Various of President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev, greeting Australian Foreign Minister,...
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Presidential candidates campaign ahead of Saturday's elections
Ghazni, 5th October 2004
1. Various of Sufi Islam sect, supporters of Presidential candidate Syed
Ishaq Gilani, chanting on road in desert
2. Gilani mobbed by crowd
3. Supporters doing tribal dance
4. Supporters kissing the hand of...
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Afghan Pres spokesman comments following Obama's visit
1. Wide of news conference given by presidential spokesman Humayun Hamidzada
2. Cutaway of reporters
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Humayun Hamidzada, Afghan presidential spokesman:
"The discussion also focussed on the difficulties we are...
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French soldiers train local troops and assist at clinics
Kabul - 12 December 2002
1. Zoom out from Afghan army being trained by French troops to show destroyed war-torn building and mountains
2. Various of Afghan army battalion in training running outside the military academy
3. Ground level...
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WRAP UK PM meets British troops and Karzai
1. British Prime Minister Tony Blair getting out of plane and shaking hands with interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai
2. Blair and Karzai posing for press, Cherie Blair behind
3. Blair and Karzai inspecting guard of honour
4. Various of...
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WRAP Opposition candidates plan to boycott election, adds new comment
1. Various of opposition leaders walking to meeting
2. Three security officials standing outside the front of building
3. Opposition leaders at press conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdul Satar Sirat, Uzbek presidential...
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Afghanistan on US narcotics blacklist still receives aid
1. Briefing room
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rand Beers, Assistant Secretary of State:
"This is not a judgment with respect to the current administration in Afghanistan. It is a judgment with respect to the past. The national interest...
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Row over law that allows men to refuse food, money to wives if they deny them sex
1. Wide of neighbourhood in Kabul
2. Various of busy streets
3. Woman walking along street
4. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Local female resident, vox pop:
"Some of the woman were not satisfied with the law because some of the articles were...
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US Defence Secretary Gates arrives for visits, joint Karzai presser
1. Various of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai ++MUTE++
2. Wide presser ++MUTE++
3. Medium of both men at presser
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Gates, US Defence Secretary:
"The most...
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WRAP Leaders comments on withdrawal from Afghanistan
1. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen walking into news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General:
"First and foremost we will do more together to help...
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President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday for a firsthand look at the 8-year-old war he inherited and dramatically escalated.
HEADLINE: President Obama makes surprise stop in Afghanistan
CAPTION: President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday for a firsthand look at the 8-year-old war he inherited and dramatically escalated. (March...
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IMF team says USD should temporarily become Afghan currency
Kabul, 29 January 2002
1. Various of hand shake between Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, first deputy and acting governor of Afghanistan's central bank and IMF delegation
2. Various shots of news conference
3. Cutaway journalists
4. SOUNDBITE...
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Coalition reax to bin Laden and Karzai meets coalition commander
1. Wide shot of news conference
2. Reporters
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major Scott Nelson, Coalition spokesman:
"Even though we don't have time frame when bin Laden will be captured we have firm confidence that he will be and I will tell...
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Secretary of state meets counterpart, comments
1. Wide of group photo with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Philippine cabinet members, zoom in to mid of Clinton and Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary
2. Rear shot of Clinton and Romulo approaching lecterns for news...
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Sarkozy visits troops; wounded return home to France
Kabul
1. Wide of French President Nicholas Sarkozy getting out of vehicle, greeted by Afghan President Hamid Karzai
2. Close-up of photographer
3. Various of Sarkozy and Karzai walking on red carpet
4. Close-up of Sarkozy and Karzai...
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Pakistani PM Ashraf, Afghan President Karzai and UK PM Cameron meet
1. Mid of British Prime Minister David Cameron, Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, flanked by officials and security
2. Various of Cameron, Ashraf and Karzai posing for group photo, holding...
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Breakfast speech at the Council of Foreign Relations
1. Hamid Karzai arrival at Council on Foreign Relations
2. Close up Karzai
3. Cutaway Richard Holbrooke, former US Ambassador to United Nations
4. Karzai at podium
5. Security detail and Karzai at podium
6. Karzai at podium
7. SOUNDBITE:...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai hung onto his 54 percent to 28 percent lead over his closest rival Sunday in the presidential contest as the vote count ground on in the face of fraud allegations.
HEADLINE: 'No winners' yet in Afghan poll, Karzai ahead
CAPTION: Afghan President Hamid Karzai hung onto his 54 percent to 28 percent lead over his closest rival Sunday in the presidential contest as the vote count ground on in the face...
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4:3 Veteran diplomat Richard Holbrooke dies after surgery to aorta
AP Television
Islamabad, Pakistan - 5 June, 2009
1. Close up, Richard Holbrooke
2. Mid of US delegation, with Holbrooke
AP Television
New York, United States - 19 November, 2005
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Holbrooke, US diplomat...
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Warlord Massood's brother named as Moscow ambassador
1. Various exteriors of Afghan embassy in Moscow
2. Sakhi Gairat, Spokesman for the Afghan Embassy in Moscow
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sakhi Gairat, Spokesman for the Afghan Embassy in Moscow:
"I think at this time it's very important...