TED Talks
TED: Life on the frontlines of war reporting | Jane Ferguson
Covering global war stories can be hard and thankless — but it's critical work if the rest of us are to understand what's really going on in the world. For nearly two decades, journalist Jane Ferguson has reported on hostilities across...
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TED: The danger and devotion of fighting for women in Afghanistan | Tamana Ayazi and Kat Craig
The women of Afghanistan are being persecuted under Taliban rule, but they're not standing down. Filmmaker Tamana Ayazi chronicles the harrowing reality of one women's rights advocate -- Zarifa Ghafari, Afghanistan's youngest female...
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US hands over Herat to Italian ISAF forces, Karzai with Abizaid
Agency Pool
Herat
1. US and Italian soldiers carrying flags - US, Afghan, Italian - in ceremony to hand over Herat PRT (Provincial Reconstruction Team) from US troops to Italian ISAF troops at PRT headquarters
2. Wide shot ceremony
3....
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Doctor on his contact with captors of Korean, German hostages
1. Wide exterior of Wahaaj Clinic
2. Close-up of sign reading: (English) "Wahaaj Diagnostic Clinic"
3. Afghan Doctor Mohammad Hashim Wahaaj speaking during news conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammad Hashim Wahaaj, Afghan Doctor:...
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FM spokesman reax as up to 20 killed in suspected US strike in Pakistan
1. Wide Exterior of Pakistan foreign office
2. Set up shoot of Pakistan foreign office spokesman Mohammad Sadiq
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammad Sadiq, Pakistan foreign office spokesman:
"Well, the position of the government of...
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Gunmen kill several women working on polio vaccination campaign
Karachi
1. Tracking shot of body of UN-backed polio vaccination team member being carried on stretcher at Abbasi Sheed Hospital, other bodies around
2. Mid of body on stretcher, hospital staff and cameraman around it
3. Wide of bodies on...
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REPLAY Last day of rallies, elex commision, ballot distribution, Abdullah rally
17 August 2009
1. Wide of rally with cheering supporters of former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's main rival in upcoming presidential elections, supporters holding banners, chanting
2. Abdullah...
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Four girls killed in mayhem after accidental explosion at school
1. School students walking
2. Mid shot students and their relatives in front of the school
3. Students leaving the school
4. Mid shot police inside the school
5. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) General Mohammad Ayoob Salangi, Herat police chief...
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Car bomb targets Western convoy, three Afghans killed
Kandahar
1. Wide shot car tilted on ground with steam rising
2. Fire fighters standing around wrecked car
3. Fire fighters spraying water on car
4. Various soldiers and firefighters around burned out car
Kabul
5. Wide shot Defence...
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PAKISTAN: ISLAMABAD: HIJACKED AIRPLANE - U-N INVOLVED
English/Nat
The United Nations is getting involved in the effort to end the hijacking of an India Airlines plane.
The hijackers are demanding that India free a Pakistani religious leader and several Kashmir fighters.
They have been...
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AFGHANISTAN: QARABAH: FIGHTING CONTINUES ON EVER-CHANGING FRONT-LINE
Natural Sound
Fighting continued unabated Tuesday as Taliban forces fought on the ever-changing front-line, north of the capital Kabul.
Anti-Taliban forces have been shelling the Taliban's positions for several days, and spent Monday...
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UK Prime Minister arrives for visit to Pakistan
1. British Airways plane taxis in
2. Ground crew guide plane in
3. Tony Blair appears, descends steps, meets British & Pakistan officials
4. Military Guard of honour
5. Blair meets more officials, walks away
6. Close-up guard stands...
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Afghanistan - Air attacks
Houses in the Afghan capital, Kabul, were destroyed in a series of air attacks on Wednesday (6/11), part of a string of bombing raids launched from planes belonging to an alliance of forces fighting the Taliban.
00.00 WS Afghan...
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Adds Abdullah saying Alliance troops within six km from Kabul
Bagram - 12 Nov 2001
1. Tanks moving forward
2. Rocket launcher firing
3. Rocket launcher firing
4. Soldier firing mortar
5. Rocket launcher firing
6. Heavy field gun firing
Rabat - 12 Nov 2001
7. Soldier and truck mounted rocket...
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Imams with US army help with local outreach
Sangin District, Helmand province - 3 Sept 2011
1. Mid shot of Muslim leader, US Navy Lieutenant Asif Balbale praying
2. Mid shot of US Navy Lieutenant Asif Balbale
3. Wide of US Navy Lieutenant Asif Balbale
4. Tilt up from hand to of...
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Reax from lawmakers to blast which killed at least 28 inc 5 parliamentarians
FILE - May, 10, 2007
1. Various shots of Afghan lawmakers in the Afghanistan lower house of parliament
2. Close of Afghan member of parliament, Sayed Mustafa Kazimi, who is believed to have been killed during the blast, speaking in the...
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Parents of Guatanamo inmate David Hicks arrive
1. Wide shot of Terry Hicks, Mrs Hicks, and lawyer Stephen Kenny arriving at Los Angeles International Airport/close shot of Mr Hicks (left) and Mr Kenny (right)
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Terry Hicks, Father of David Hicks:
"My best hopes...
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More Taliban soldiers are captured as mop-up continues
1. Wide shot gathered around suspected Taliban collaborator
2. Various of suspected Taliban collaborator (bleeding from head wound) being arrested by Northern Alliance fighters
3. Close up suspected Taliban collaborator- being put in...
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Several hundred women protest the kidnapping of US aid worker
1. Wide of women at protest
2. Various of the women protesters
3. Woman holding child
4. Various, women protesters
5. SOUNDBITE: (Pashtu) Rona Tareen, Kandahar Women's Association Director:
"All of us Kandahar women got together and we...
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Defence Sec visits Whiteman Air Force base
Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri 19 October, 2001
1. Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld walks off plane at
2. Rumsfeld walks through receiving line
3. cutaway - Rumsfeld on plane
4. cutaway - reporters
5. SOUNDBITE: ...
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GRAPHIC At least 12 killed, 200 hurt in attack on government compound in east
The Taliban struck a government compound in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday in a dawn attack that included two suicide truck bombings.
The attack, which took place in the provincial capital of Ghazni. left at least 12 people dead,...
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Comprehensive coverage of anti-US protests
Karachi
1. Wide shot of huge crowd or protesters cheering
2. Speaker addressing crowd
3. Police on the streets as protesters walk past
4. Police running and firing tear gas at protesters
5. Police running and firing through fence
6....
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Karzai wishes people a happy and peaceful Eid
1. Wide exterior of Presidential court
2. Former Afghan King Zahir Shah and Hamid Karzai walking
3. Various of Zahir Shah
4. Karzai inspecting guard of honour
5. Close-up of guard
6. Back view of Karzai inspecting guard of honour
7....
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TED: My 105 days in Taliban prison -- and a call to aid Afghanistan | Safi Rauf
Sharing his experience of being held captive in a Taliban prison for 105 days, humanitarian Safi Rauf talks about his life's mission to get food, medicine and other critical supplies to Afghans in need -- and urges the world to bolster...