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WRAP Protest banner, Brown on China's human rights, Rogge
Watford, UK
1. Wide shot leaders at podiums for beginning of news conference at Progressive Governance Summit
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister:
"It's important that we recognise that the tensions between those...
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Pro-Tibet demo where Olympic torch relay will pass, effigies burned
New Delhi
1. Tilt up from Tibetan protestors holding banner reading: (English) ''No Olympic torch through Tibet'' to India gate, venue for the start of the torch relay in New Delhi
2. Protester holding Tibetan flag
3. Pan of protesters...
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Buddhists pray for China earthquake victims
1. Wide top shot of Tibetans praying and lighting butter lamps at Baudhanath Stupa, eastern part of capital Katmandu
2. Wide of people lighting butter lamps
3. Various of Tibetan monks praying
4. SOUNDBITE: (Nepali) Dhondup Lama,...
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STORY: When thousands of Tibetan Buddhists fled their homeland after
an anti-Chinese rebellion in 1959, many of them followed the Dalai
Lama to Dharmasala in northern India. Some of them later moved to
South East India, where 10,000...
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Peace prize winners call for unconditional release of Suu Kyi
1. Wide of the session at the Peace Summit of Nobel laureates
2. Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader, seated on podium
3. Cutaway of audience
4. Wide of Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel peace laureate and former chief of the...
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Spokesman says Bush will attend Beijing Olympics; comment on Russia arrests
1. US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack walking up to podium
2. Reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean McCormack, US State Department spokesman:
"We don't have a clear sense of how the Chinese government has reacted to specific...
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Officials are preparing for massive demonstrations during the Olympic torch's relay in San Francisco, its only North American stop on its journey to Beijing. Activists are protesting China's human rights record and its grip on Tibet
HEADLINE: Protesters march ahead of Olympic torch relay
CAPTION: Officials are preparing for massive demonstrations during the Olympic torch's relay in San Francisco, its only North American stop on its journey to Beijing. Activists are...
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WRAP Pro-Tibet freedom torch relay; human rts protests in Japan; Ppines
Dharamsala, India
1. Wide of crowd cheering while waiting for the Tibetan freedom torch
2. Tibetans carrying Tibetan flags waiting for torch
3. Tibetans selling Tibetan flags by the roadside
4. Motorcyclists with Tibetan flags leading...
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CHINA: BEIJING: BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR VISIT (2)
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been discussing human rights and the Asian financial crisis with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing.
This follows China's signing of the International Covenant on Civil and Political...
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Protests to mark 54th anniversary of Tibetan uprising
Katmandu, Nepal
1. Low angle of Boudhanath stupa, elderly Tibetan man feeding pigeons
2. Police officers in riot gear keep close watch in the area
3. Police talking to tourists visiting Boudhanath
4. Police patrolling area among...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lent her support to the Tibetan cause during a meeting with the Dalai Lama on Friday. Meantime, unrest continues in the region as Chinese officials try to calm the violence
HEADLINE: House Speaker Meets With Dalai Lama
CAPTION: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lent her support to the Tibetan cause during a meeting with the Dalai Lama on Friday. Meantime, unrest continues in the region as Chinese officials try...
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Reaction to postponement of France-China summit
1. Mid of French Parliament interior with waiting media
2. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, French Parliamentarian:
"It's too bad because Europe should be able to have discussions with a big country, like China. At the...
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US lawmakers calls for China to end crackdown in Tibet
1. Wide of House floor
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican Congresswoman from Florida:
"And madam speaker, if the present repression continues, the Beijing games will indeed become the genocide Olympics."
3. Wide of...
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Dalai Lama news conference on progress of negotiations with China
1. Wide of Dalai Lama at news conference
2. Cutaway of journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dalai Lama:
"Most important, inside Tibet, situation become much worse. Sometimes I describe now Tibetans passing through almost like death...
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REPLAY Last day of Chn govt-controlled visit by foreign reporters
1. Mid of Potala Palace, zoom out to show people spinning prayer wheels
2. Close old woman spinning prayer wheels
3. Close of hands spinning prayer wheels
4. Mid of people spinning prayer wheels
5. Long shot of street
6. Tilt up...
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WRAP Panda cubs born in US, leave for China, preps for arrival, second panda
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1. Fed Ex Panda Express Boeing 777 plane on tarmac
2. Various of crate with Mei Lan being pulled out onto the tarmac
3. Mid of Mei Lan pacing in crate
4. Various of crate being hoisted up and into plane
Washington,...
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WRAP Reax to London's torch relay protests; IOC Taiwan rep, IOC's Rogge
1. Wide of International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge walking up stairs
2. Rogge walking, journalist asks him a question, but Rogge declines to answer
3. Rogge walking away
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Craig Reedy, British...
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German and Croatian FMs meet, Steinmeier on Olympics
1. Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier walking in for news conference
2. Close up of Croatian flag
3. Wide of Jandrovic and Steinmeier at podiums
4. SOUNDBITE: (German)...
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Tibetans protest in front of Chinese embassy ahead of Chinese defence minister visit
Tibetan exiles burned the Chinese flag and chanted slogans in front of the Chinese embassy in New Delhi on Sunday to protest against Chinese defence minister General Liang Guanglie's visit to India.
"Free Tibet" and "Stop killing in...
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CHINA: BEIJING: FOREIGN MINISTRY PRESS CONFERENCE
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China's Foreign Ministry has spoken of a warming of U-S-Sino relations following the visit of American Vice President Al Gore to Beijing.
Even so the ministry has warned the U-S to abide by a "one China" policy on dealings ...
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WRAP Barroso meets Premier Wen; presser; Mandelson ADDS Hu, sots
1. Wide of European Commission office
2. Pan of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso walking past camera
3. Wide of press conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jose Manuel Barroso, European Commission President:
"After the very...
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WRAP Anti China demonstration in India ADDS embassy demo in Nepal
Katmandu, Nepal
1. Wide of Chinese Embassy building, Visa section
2. Various of Tibetan refugees protesting
3. Wide of Tibetan refugee holding green banner being pushed away from embassy by police
4. Various of police with sticks...
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Official says Dalai Lama declines call to stay on as ceremonial head of state
1. Tibetan Spiritual Leader the Dalai Lama, arriving for meeting with Tibetan delegates
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Samdhong Rinpoche, Outgoing Prime Minister of Tibetan government-in-exile:
"The general meeting's request to be a symbolic...
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WRAP Gansu, monks, Dalai Llama presser, India demo, DL praying
Dharmsala, India
1. Wide of Dalai Lama entering news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English): Dalai Lama, Tibetan Spiritual leader:
"Poor record of China, regarding human rights, and religious freedom, and that also we should take notice. So...