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Thousands rally as opposition tries to force election rerun
1. Wide shot protesters gathering pan to police running
2. Mid shot police running
3. Wide shot protesters with orange flags and banners march to square
4. Mid shot opposition leaders Ali Kerimli (second from right) and Isa Gambar...
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Interview with opposition leader ahead of today's demo
1. Baku landscape
2. Giant portrait of former Azerbaijani president Heidar Aliyev
3. Wide of street
4. Election posters on wall
5. Panakh Huseynov, campaign coordinator for the main opposition bloc Azadliq (Freedom)
6. Close up of...
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Officials says one result annulled, riot police on duty
1. Wide exterior of Central Electoral Commission
2. Close up of sign reading "Central Electoral Commission"
3. Wide shot of policemen in front of building
4. Mid shot of policemen
5. Close up of policemen sitting on bus
6. Mid shot of...
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OSCE on the legitimacy of the elections, plus opposition
1. Wide shot of Baku city
2. Wide shot of Azadliq (Freedom) opposition party headquarters
3. Wide shot of opposition leader speaking at a press-conference
4. Cutaway press
5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Isa Gambar, Head of the opposition...
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Hostages released by Islamic State group arrive in Ankara
Dozens of Turkish hostages seized by Islamic militants in Iraq three months ago safely returned to Turkey on Saturday.
Turkish leaders gave only limited details of the release and the hostages declined to answer all but the most general...
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West-leaning ex-Soviet alliance's summit underscores tension with Moscow
1. Kiev city square
2. Flags in the square
3. Limousine arrives at meeting, Ukraine President Viktor Yuschenko gets out and shakes hands with officials
4. TV monitor screening the Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova (GUAM)...
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Aftermath of deadly market roof collapse, reax
1. Wide aerial over collapsed market
2. Excavator digs out rubble
3. Rescuer sifts through rubble
4. Excavator dumps rubble onto truck
5. Rescuers look up to ruined building
6. Police standing by barrier
7. Immigrant workers greeting...
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Preview to presidential elex in Azerbaijan
14 Oct 2003
1. Wide shot Baku
2. Baku mosque, with oil derricks in the background
3. Various shots of Baku harbour
4. Street showing campaign poster for Azeri prime minister Ilham Aliev in background
5. Campaign poster, showing Ilham...
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Azerbaijanis unsurprised by President Aliyev's landslide election victory
Azerbaijanis in the capital Baku greeted the news of President Ilham Aliyev's landslide election victory without surprise on Thursday morning.
"There is no, and cannot be an alternative, to our President Ilham Aliyev," said Baku resident...
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State closes one of its own newspapers, detains two staff for anti-Azeri cartoon
AP Television
1. Wide of Tehran
2. People walking along in street
3. Newspapers laid out for sale
4. Close-up of Iran Newspaper
5. Kazem, university student reading newspapers
6. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Kazem, university student:
"I...
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Row over women voters' headscarves defused
1. Wide pan of Baku
2. Wide of street in Baku
3. Close up of election posters on wall
4. Wide shot, zoom in from street scene to election poster on balcony
5. Wide of street scene
6. Close up of baby in pram
7. SOUNDBITE: (Russian)...
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Interview with former president
1. Street scene
2. News conference with former Azerbaijan president Ayaz Mutalibov
3. Cutaway microphones
2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ayaz Mutalibov, Former Azerbaijan president
"If you compare what is written in the constitution and what...
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PROTESTORS USE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST AS BACKGROUND FOR HUMAN RIIGHTS DEMO
A few dozen human rights activists tried to demonstrate in Baku, the capital of oil rich Azerbaijan on Wednesday, ahead of the country's hosting of the Eurovision song contest.
The activists tried to demonstrate in a main square but...
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RUSSIA/AZERBAIJAN: GOVERMENTS SIGN OIL PIPELINE AGREEMENT
Eng/Russ/Nat
The governments of Russia, Kazakstan, Oman have signed an oil pipeline agreement with seven oil companies, which has been described as the energy sector's deal of the century.
It took five years of work and the personal...
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Massacre Of Imperial Family, Former Soviet Republics, Azerbaijan - Nagorno Karabakh, Afghanistan
RUSSIA (Massacre of Imperial Family)
Soviet flags & Kremlin; Russian flag;
skulls (found in cellar); skull being put in plastic bag
bones laid out on tables; scientists at computer;
int US Senate; cms Boris Yeltsin receiving...
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WRAP Polls close in parliamentary elections, CEC comment
1. Wide of Baku street ++NIGHT SHOT++
2. Wide polling station officials sitting around table
3. Various of international observers taking notes
4. Wide of the chair of the election commission carrying ballot box
5. Wide of observers...
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PREPARATIONS FOR THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST FINAL
As Azerbaijan's capital prepares to hold the Eurovision Song contest, security around the Baku has been tightened to ward off any possible anti-government protests.
The finals - in which British crooner Engelbert Humperdinck is touted as...
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Georgia's traditional dish wins new fans
Iakob Kekelidze is the chef at the Machakhela restaurant, in Tbilisi.
He's baking from scratch a Khachapuri (cheese filled bread dish), one of the most famous traditional dishes in Georgia.
Each Georgian region has its own version of...
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Aliyev supporters take to the streets as exit polls give him the win
Azerbaijan's president won a third five-year term by a landslide in Wednesday's election, according to early results and exit polls, extending decades of dynastic rule in the oil-rich Caspian Sea nation allied with the West.
Supporters...
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Iran demands Azerbaijan release Russian nuclear shipment
1. Wide of Mohammad Ali Hosseini, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson at news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mohammad Ali Hosseini, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman
"We have asked the Azerbaijan Ambassador to Iran to make the...
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4:3 US military cargo plane crashes, nine dead
1. Pan of debris from NATO cargo plane which crashed on the mountain top in Ghorband district of Parwan province
2. Close of plane part
3. Pan from debris to two local men
4. Various of debris on ground
AP Television footage filmed on...
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CLINTON COMMENTS ON SYRIA UNREST
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that efforts were underway to impose new sanctions against Syria in order to "pressure" President Bashar Assad and "alleviate suffering."
She was speaking at a news conference in...
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Erdogan meets Saakashvili
1. Georgian dignitaries waiting at Tbilisi Airport as Turkish plane taxies across runway
2. Plane turning
3. Wide shot Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and officials getting off plane
4. Mid shot Georgian and Turkish...
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Armenia, Azerbaijan leaders begin talks on disputed enclave
1. External view of Rambouillet Castle
2. Close shot of French flag
3. Republican guards in castle court yard
4. Medium shot of Republican guards
5. Azeri delegation's car arriving at castle
6. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev getting out...