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WRAP Israeli planes drop leaflets for residents to leave, injured, aid
1. Various of the Tyre skyline with bomb explosions and smoke
2. Various of paramedics wrapping up a dead body and putting into coffin outside government hospital
3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Shadi Jradi, Lebanese Civil Defence worker:
"It...
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Refugees mark 2nd anniversary of conflict, UN issues warning, Brahimi meets Elaraby
Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan
1. Wide of hundreds of Syrian refugees marching inside the Zaatari camp and chanting pro-revolution slogans
2. Mid of protester being carried as he shouts into a speakerphone: (Arabic), "We've started the...
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US ship with aid supplies, aid worker comments, headlines
1. US naval ship docked in Beirut port carrying US aid shipment
2. Crew onboard
3. Pan of ship
4. Various of aid being unloaded
5. Fork lift trucks moving aid
6. Aid aboard
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) David Holdridge, Mercy Corps emergency...
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US navy ship unloads relief supplies in Black Sea port
1. Wide of Poti port
2. Various of Georgian coastguard boat patrolling the port
3. Various of port
4. Wide of USS Mount Whitney anchored outside Poti port
5. Mid of USS Mount Whitney
6. Various of Georgian Development Minister, Eka...
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US airstrikes against Islamic militants in Iraq have begun, a day after President Barack Obama authorized those strikes, and humanitarian aid in that country's north. (Aug. 8)
US airstrikes against Islamic militants in Iraq have begun, a day after President Barack Obama authorized those strikes, and humanitarian aid in that country's north.
A Pentagon spokesman says two F/A-18 jets dropped 500-pound bombs on a...
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KOSOVO: FINNISH PRESIDENT AHTISAARI VISIT
English/Nat
Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari has arrived in Kosovo to see for himself how peacekeeping operations and humanitarian assistance in the province are proceeding.
Ahtisaari, who currently holds the revolving presidency of...
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CHINA: NORTH & SOUTH KOREAN RED CROSS FOOD AID TALKS UPDATE
Natural Sound
North and South Korean Red Cross negotiators are hammering out the final details of a South Korean offer to ship food and other aid to the famine-stricken North.
Representatives from the two Red Crosses are embroiled in...
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Mother of five struggles to support her family in refugee camp
1. Somali refugee Kaltumo Barre sitting with her five children
2. Close of two children
3. Barre and her baby
4. Close of baby
5. Close of child''s hands, tilt up to child''s face
6. Wide of Barre and her children, cooking utensils in...
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CHINA: WFP FOOD AID FOR NORTH KOREA PRESS BRIEFING
English/Nat
The World Food Programme (W-F-P) has urged international donors to continue food aid to North Korea even if it goes ahead with the feared ballistic missile test.
North Korea is reportedly preparing to test-fire a long-range...
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is detailing plans for U.S. humanitarian aid to Pakistan, part of the administration's new strategy for countering the appeal of Taliban militants in the nuclear-armed American ally.
HEADLINE: U.S. to aid 1.5 million Pakistan refugees
CAPTION: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. will provide $100 million in humanitarian aid to Pakistan, part of the administration's new strategy for countering...
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NGO chiefs comment on plight of Syrians both in and out of the country
As international delegates met in Montreux in Switzerland on Wednesday to try and hammer out a Syrian peace accord, company executives and directors from some of the world's largest relief organisations met to discuss the humanitarian...
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UN reviews humanitarian assistance being provided to quake victims
1. Wide of cars carrying UN envoy arriving at camp
2. Close of Valerie Amos, United Nations Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, getting out of car and shaking hands with Haitian officials
3....
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Injured in hospital, vox pops; aid agency comments
1. Wide shot of seaside Beirut promenade
2. Exterior of Hariri Government Hospital
3. Wide shot of injured man in hospital bed
4. Various of injured man
5. Close-up of man's wife
6. Injured man in hospital bed
7. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hoda...
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Government soldiers on patrol to defend aid workers from militants
1. Various of Feisal Noor, Somali government soldier manning and loading a heavy machine gun mounted on the back of a pick up, commonly known as a technical
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Feisal Noor, soldier:
"Al Shabab are the enemies. They...
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BOSNIA: BIHAC: CRITICAL SITUATION CLAIMS
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The leader of a recently returned convoy to the besieged Bosnian enclave of Bihac says the people there have run out of food and the situation is critical.
The United Nations says it may be compelled to cut food aid to...
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ITALY: S. KOREAN PRESIDENT DAE-JUNG MEETS MAYOR & POPE
Korean/Nat
As part of a 10-day European tour, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung met the mayor of Rome, Francesco Rutelli, on Saturday before making a state visit to the Vatican.
Pope John Paul II praised President Kim Dae-jung for his...
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WRAP Injured in hospital, vox pops; aid agency comments; planes carrying aid
1. Wide shot of damage to area in southern Beirut suburb
2. Lebanese flag on top of rubble
3. Wide shot of badly damaged area
4. Close-up of cartoon showing man in front of US flag, kicking book entitled "International Law"
5. Man...
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First female president of SKorea, Park Geun-hye, addresses US Congress
1. South Korean President Park Geun-hye walking into joint meeting of Congress
2. Cutaway of US Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner applauding
3. Various of Park walking to front of room to speak
4. Cutaway of people...
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EU security chief meets exiled Afghan king
1. Wide shot Javier Solana, European Union's chief security envoy, arriving at former Afghan king's villa
2. Close-up Solana getting out of car and shaking hands with former king's nephew, Mostapha Zaher
3. WIde shot Solana entering...
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WRAP Bomb blast, al-Qaim aid, weapons found, pipeline fire
Baghdad - 12 May 2005
1. Wide of black smoke rising from several cars and stalls in flames
2. Various of cars in flames, black smoke billowing from them
3. People gathering at site of blast pointing to vehicles in flames
4. People...
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KOSOVO: NATO AND POLICE REMOVE SERB BLOCKADE
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Working before dawn on Tuesday, NATO soldiers and U-N police have removed a barrier outside of the Kosovo capital Pristina erected by nervous Serb and Albanian communities there.
Serbs set up one of the barricades after a...
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Reaction from organisers of Gaza flotilla who are based in Cyprus
1. Set up shot of Greta Berlin, Cyprus-based spokeswoman for Free Gaza Movement
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Greta Berlin, Cyprus-based spokeswoman for the Free Gaza Movement:
"We were not carrying any weapons. The only weapons that were on...
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Malnourished children at health clinic amid starvation fears
1. Wide of Medecins San Frontieres (MSF) clinic
2. People being screened at MSF clinic
3. Wide of women and children at the clinic
4. Close up of child at the clinic
5. Wide of severely malnourished child being weighed
6. Mid of...
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MEXICO: MITTERRAND'S WIDOW VISITS MEXICO TO ORGANIZE HUMANITARIAN AID
Spanish/Nat
The widow of former French President, Francois Mitterrand, has visited the Mexican state of Chiapas to organise international humanitarian aid for the region.
Danielle Mitterrand, who heads the "France Liberte" charity met...