PBS
How We Domesticated Cats (Twice)
A 9,500-year-old burial in Cyprus represents some of the oldest known evidence of human/cat companionships anywhere in the world. But when did this close relationship between humans and cats start? And how did humans help cats take over...
SciShow
This AI Doesn’t Need Any Help from Humans
Scientists have developed a new AI that can teach itself how to be the master of an ancient board game.
Crash Course
Serpents and Dragons: Crash Course World Mythology #38
This week, Mike is teaching you about the most mythic of mythological creatures: Dragons. Cultures across the world (and across Westeros) tell stories of dragons, and their power to destroy, their power to prop up kings, and their power...
Crash Course
Mythical Horses: Crash Course World Mythology #37
Horses have been human companions for thousands of years, and have been essential companions and tools for the development of human culture. So, it makes sense that horses would make their way into our most important stories. Today,...
Curated Video
EGYPT: RESTORED ANCIENT STATUE GOES ON DISPLAY
English/Nat
The completion of the work on a statue of the god Amun and the goddess Mut from Karnak was celebrated on Wednesday at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, where it will be displayed for the first time.
The project conserved and...
Curated Video
Hospital clashes and aftermath of El Salam office damage
1. Wide of police in Safaga port
2. Rear shot of police line
3. Close up of tear gas canister
4. Exterior of El-Salam building, housing offices of ferry that sank
5. Paper and furniture on the ground
6. Interior of building, paper and...
Curated Video
Egypt- Egypt and Israel patch up rift in relations
Egypt and Israel agreed in Cairo on Thursday (07/11) to patch up the rift in their relations and to step up efforts to save the troubled Middle East peace process. After holding talks with his Egyptian counterpart Amr Mussa, Israeli...
Curated Video
UPITN 31 8 78 RALLY IN CAIRO IN SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT SADAT'S PEACE EFFORT
Rally in Cairo in support of President Anwar El Sadat's Camp David peace conference effort.
1. various of crowd on square with banners and Sadat's pictures chanting slogans
2. ms man signing a book indoors, surrounded by people
3. gv...
Curated Video
Final phase of work on museum which will house Tutankhamun's mummy
While construction work on the main hall of the Grand Museum of Egypt continues, researchers are already benefiting from improved conservation facilities.
They've moved into a new centre, which is up and running as part of the museum...
Curated Video
British FM urges Hamas to agree to immediate humanitarian; UAE aid for Gaza
British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond on Thursday urged Hamas to agree on an immediate humanitarian cease-fire and said Israel and the Palestinian Authority could then come together to hold talks.
"Hamas must agree to a humanitarian...
Curated Video
US envoy Mitchell meets Pres Mubarak and FM, Gheit; presser
1. Exterior of Presidential Palace
2. Various of meeting between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and US Middle East envoy George Mitchell
3. Close-up of cameraman
4. Wide of Mitchell entering...
Curated Video
Protest over slaying of pregnant muslim woman in German court
AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately shut...
Curated Video
Israeli vice-PM says Saddam's execution was an "historic necessity"
1. Exterior of Prime Minister's office
2. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (in grey jacket) arriving at meeting
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shimon Peres, Israeli Vice Premier:
"After Hitler and Stalin, Saddam Hussein was the most cruel...
Curated Video
Tear gas fired as Morsi supporters clash with riot police
Egyptian security forces fired tear gas at dozens of protesting university students in Cairo on Monday in an attempt to prevent their protest from reaching the nearby Defence Ministry.
The students were protesting Monday outside their...
Curated Video
WRAP Demolition of homes, angry settlers in tent city, Palestinians celebrate
Gadid, former settlement in the Gaza Strip
1. Various of house being demolished by bulldozer
2. Female soldier looking at house being demolished
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yousef Al-Sayed, Arab Israeli contractor in charge of...
Curated Video
EGYPT: ARAFAT/PALESTINIAN GROUP PEACE TALKS
Arabic/Eng/Nat
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat held talks on Sunday with a Palestinian group which has been opposed to peace deals with Israel.
The meeting with the group, known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine or...
Curated Video
Abbas meets Norwegian PM, comments on truce
1. Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne's convoy arriving at Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's office
2. Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne entering meeting
3. Wide of Abbas with Magne
4. Various of meeting
5. Abbas and Magne leaving...
Curated Video
Gaza/West Bank - Palestinians Mourn Fatah Leaders
Palestinians mourn Fatah leaders killed by Israelis
More than 4,000 people gathered in the southern Gaza Strip town of
Rafiah on Wednesday (14/6) to mourn Darwish Abu Hatla, a local man
killed in an exchange of gunfire with Israeli...
Curated Video
SYND 7 2 78 WAFD PARTY IN EGYPTIAN PARLIAMENT IN CAIRO AND ITS REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKS TO PRESS
Egyptian new opposition party WAFD in Pparliament in Cairo and its representative, Doctor Helmi Mourat, addressing the parliament and talking to UPITN reporter.
1. gv parliament building
2. cu Mourat speaking SOUNDBITE (Arabic)
3....
Curated Video
Leaders of all main political parties sign a document renouncing violence
1. Exterior of office of Egypt's top Muslim cleric, the Grand Imam of al-Azhar
2. Wide of Nobel Peace laureate and head of the main liberal opposition National Salvation Front, Mohammed ElBaradei, at the podium during news conference
3....
Curated Video
IRAQ: BAGHDAD: SPANISH DELEGATION VISIT
Arabic/Eng/Nat
A Spanish delegation, including government envoys and representatives from non-government organisations has been visiting Baghdad to see for themselves how U-N sanctions and the recent U-S-British bombing have affected...
Curated Video
Memorial service for victims of balloon crash
1. Wide of scene of the balloon crash
2. Wide of Governor of Luxor Ezzat Saad and Japanese travel agency representative Okumura Hatsuko (woman walking behind Saad wearing sun glasses) arriving
3. Hatsuko and Saad laying flowers at the...
Curated Video
First Lady joins Egyptian Sesame St, visits school
1. Wide of Cairo
2. United States First Lady Laura Bush and Egypt's First Lady Suzanne
Mubarak meeting Sesame Street character
3. Laura Bush with Suzanne Mubarak, zoom in to Laura Bush
4. Pan from Sesame Street character to Bush and...
Curated Video
Security and election preparations ahead of voting
Cairo - 28 November 2011
1. Various of sunrise over city skyline
2. High shot of tents in Tahrir Square
3. Mid of banner reading: (Arabic) "Military Council step down"
4. Mid of men on ground in Tahrir Square covered with blankets
5....