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President Obama says US in "winter of our hardship"
1. US President Barack Obama walks to podium
2. Cutaway of media
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"At this particular moment, with the private sector so weakened by this recession, the federal government is the only...
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Strikers march to protest government spending cuts
1. Wide of protesters marching waving flags
2. Protesters marching
3. Student waving a communist flag above heads of protesters
4. Protesters marching
5. Wide of protesters walking holding banners
6. Wide of exterior of Ministry of...
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In the Republican address, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, argued Obama's reduction plans are too timid. He said the president's proposal to freeze government spending "is a totally inadequate solution to our nation's spending problems."
HEADLINE: GOP Weekly Address: Obama is too timid
CAPTION: In the Republican address, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, argued Obama's reduction plans are too timid. He said the president's proposal to freeze government spending "is a totally...
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GERMANY: BONN: STUDENTS PROTEST AGAINST EDUCATION CUTS
German/Nat
Thousands of university students staged a protest in Bonn against government cuts in education which they say are destroying Germany's valued free-tuition university system.
Students from 25 universities made their plea to...
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Massive hike in food prices driving rising inflation
1. Wide of street with vendors
2. Various of street vendors
4. Close of street vendors
5. Close and pan of vendors selling food
6. Wide of people eating in the street
7. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Zhang Haichao, messenger, 23 years...
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WRAP Sarkozy and Barroso arrive for talks with Brown
1. French President Nicolas Sarkozy walks up to entrance of Number 10 Downing Street, where British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso are waiting - the three line-up for photographers, then...
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Italians are cutting their vacations to cope with tax rises
Financial pressures are causing an increasing number of Italians to holiday in their home country.
The Italian government's austerity drive is having a significant impact on the country's tourism industry.
In the first half of the year...
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France - Francois Hollande wins French presidential election / Jean-Marc Ayrault is named new French prime minister
France - Francois Hollande votes in presidential run-off election
Tulle, 6 May 2012
1. Mid of Hollande speaking to officials at table and then depositing his ballot in ballot box
2. Mid tracking shot of Hollande smiling as he leaves...
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Senate vote with Democrat officials saying that 'fiscal cliff' deal reached
1. Wide of US Senate floor
2. Mid of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid speaking
3. Wide of Senate floor, UPSOUND: names of senators read out
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Harry Reid, Democrat Senate Majority Leader:
"I'm disappointed that we...
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European markets stumble after elections in France and Greece
Paris, France
1. Wide of office interior at Assya brokerage in Paris
2. Set up shot of Marc Touati looking at a graph showing the CAC declining
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Marc Touati, Chief Economist, Assya:
"The CAC 40 opened 1.6 percent...
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COLOMBIA: PRESIDENT SAMPER ANNOUNCES NEW ECONOMIC STRATEGY
Spanish/Nat
Colombian President Ernesto Samper has said the government will enact decrees shortly to privatise some state-owned businesses, increase taxes and prevent tax evasion and smuggling.
The measures will be decreed under an...
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WRAP World leaders arrive at summit; ADDS Germany, Mexico, Italy, Canada
1. Plane taxiing on tarmac, bringing Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to G20 summit
2. Mid of top of plane stairs, Singh emerges and comes down stairs
3. Singh waves, goes to car, gets in
4. Limo drives away
5. Plane taxiing on...
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Reax to new five-year package of painful austerity measures
Athens - 10 June 2011
1. Wide of port workers protesting outside parliament with protesters holding black flags
2. Close-up of protester holding banner
3. Protesters with Greek flag
4. Wide of Greek Finance Minister George...
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Portugal launches more spending cuts, German economy forecast to grow in 2013
Lisbon, Portugal
1. Members of Portuguese cabinet arriving for news conference pull out to wide
2. Cutaway of media
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luis Marques Guedes, Minister for the Presidency and Parliamentary...
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Polling opens in elections set to test ruling party's popularity
1. Zoom into voter behind booth in polling station
2. Voter behind booth holding his baby
3. Electoral official opening ballot box
4. Voter putting ballots into box
5. Pull out of ballot box to man holding his baby
6. SOUNDBITE:...
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Goodyear workers burn tyres in protest at production moving to China
1. Wide of pile of tyres in front of plant with sign in background reading: (French) "Goodyear, Plant of Amiens"
2. Goodyear workers unloading tyres from truck and putting them on pile
3. Tracking shot of worker carrying two tyres and...
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Man arrested after throwing coins at troika mission chief
Police arrested a man after he threw coins on Tuesday in the direction of International Monetary Fund mission chief for Greece Poul Thomsen as he arrived for talks over on spending reforms.
Inspectors from Greece's bailout creditors were...
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Economy minister resigns after ultimatum
1. Wide shot Italian Economy Ministry building in Rome
2. Mid shot of Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti walking in the presser hall
3. Cutaway journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giulio Tremonti, Italian Economy Minister :
"The...
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Hundreds protest against government spending and corruption
1. Mid of anti-government protesters chanting: (Portuguese) "We don't need the Pope, we want money for health and education!"
2. Close of poster, reading: (English) "Pope, our Judas are Cabral & Paes" (referring to Sergio Cabral,...
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COLOMBIA: NEW PACKAGE OF AUSTERITY MEASURES ANNOUNCED
Spanish/Nat
In his first move to revive Colombia's ailing economy, President Andres Pastrana has announced a new package of austerity measures.
He has called for government spending to be cut by 730 million (m) U-S dollars.
But he said...
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Melenchon casts vote in presidential run-off election, comments
1. Various of far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon voting
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Luc Melechon, far-left leader:
(Responding to question about what role he might play in a Hollande administration):
"None. I am a leader of the left so I...
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Government officials on jobless rate, on delay of deficit targets
1. Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, Minister of the Economy Luis de Guindos and Minister for the Treasury Cristobal Montoro entering news conference
2. Ministers being photographed before news conference
3. Wide news...
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NORTH KOREA: TENSIONS RISE IN MILITARISED BORDER AREA UPDATE
English/Nat
Tensions have risen at the world's most militarised border area between North and South Korea after a group of North Korean soldiers ventured dangerously close to the South Korean side of the neutral strip of land.
For an...
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Ministers say no other option but to continue austerity drive
Spain's government on Friday approved new sweeping austerity measures that include wage cuts and tax increases for a country struggling under a recession and an unemployment rate of near 25 percent.
Spain is under pressure to get its...