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World Bank President on Haiti Hurricane, Poverty
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim addressed the devastating impacts of Hurricane Matthew on the people of Haiti as the IMF's Annual Meetings take place in Washington on Thursday.Jim Yong Kim said the World Bank is providing necessary...
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Gates visits India; says more Haiti relief needed, US to send more ships
1. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates walking to table
2. Close of cameraman
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Gates, US Defence Secretary:
"As long as, more than two (m) million people in Haiti are still...
Curated Video
Tropical storm leaves devastation in its wake GRAPHIC PIX
1. People wading through floodwaters which rush past homes, some of the homes have people on the roofs
2. Various of long lines of people wading through flooded water, carrying their belongings on their heads
4. People walking in...
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Sec of State with PM, US military
1. Official US airplane taxis through runway
2. US officials
3. Various shots of US Secretary of State Collin Powell exiting airplane and greeted by US and Haitian officials
4. Military security reinforcements
5. US Secretary of State...
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Memorial service for victims of floods that killed 1,400
1. Pan right of destroyed home
2. Medium shot of destroyed home
3. Wide shot of destroyed homes in river bed
4. Resident looking at destruction
5. Destroyed home
6. Pan left mourners at church service
7. Father Hector Martinez...
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Anti-government protesters demand resignation of President Martelly and PM Lamothe
Thousands of anti-government demonstrators filled Haiti's capital on Friday to call for the resignation of the island's president and prime minister.
Some demonstrators set tyres on fire in the streets of Port-Au-Prince and threw rocks...
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A look ahead to the situation on the ground in Haiti on Sunday as relief efforts ramp up and the search for survivors continues.
HEADLINE: Haitians pray for aid, miracles
CAPTION: Haitians are going to church on Sunday to pray for help and more survivors from Tuesday''s massive earthquake. (Jan. 17)
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NY Mayor announces emergency team to be sent to Haiti
1. Wide shot of news conference
2. Cutaway of camera
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Bloomberg, New York City mayor:
"This program, hopefully, will not only do some good, maybe it will put back on everybody's radar screen that there...
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Clinton says talks are only path to Palestinian statehood
1. Wide of delegates in meeting room at UN General Assembly, zoom in to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shaking hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba
2. Mid of Genba handing Clinton a photo of her husband, Bill...
Crash Course
How Does Disease Move? Crash Course Geography
From outbreaks of measles in the United States and cholera in Haiti to patterns of lead poisoning near gold mines in Nigeria, medical geographers play an important role in tracking disease in the landscape. Today, we're going to look at...
TED Talks
Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide
At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets...
TED-Ed
TED-ED: Ugly History: The 1937 Haitian Massacre - Edward Paulino
When historians talk about the atrocities of the 20th century, we often think of those that took place during and between the two World Wars. But two months before the Rape of Nanking in China, and a year before Kristallnacht in Germany,...
TED Talks
Peter Haas: When bad engineering makes a natural disaster even worse
What did the world learn from the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010? That shoddy buildings and bad planning can make a terrible situation even worse. "Haiti was not a natural disaster," says TED Fellow Peter Haas. "It was...
Crash Course
What is space and how do we study it Crash Course Geography
Today we're going to talk about SPAAAAAACE, but not like stars and satellites and stuff. Instead, we're going to talk about geographic space. In geography, we can look at the world and the places and spaces we inhabit with four distinct...
TED Talks
TED: Inventing is the easy part. Marketing takes work | Daniel Schnitzer
Solar-powered LED lightbulbs could transform the lives of rural Haitians, but as Daniel Schnitzer found, they don't simply sell themselves. At TEDxPittsburgh, he shows how smart health and energy products for the developing world are...
TED Talks
Paul Conneally: How mobile phones power disaster relief
The disastrous earthquake in Haiti taught humanitarian groups an unexpected lesson: the power of mobile devices to coordinate, inform and guide relief efforts. At TEDxRC2, Paul Conneally shows extraordinary examples of social media and...
TED Talks
Michael McDaniel: Cheap, effective shelter for disaster relief
Michael McDaniel designed housing for disaster relief zones -- inexpensive, easy to transport, even beautiful – but found that no one was willing to build it. Persistent and obsessed, he decided to go it alone. At TEDxAustin, McDaniel...
Crash Course
Zora Neale Hurston: Crash Course Black American History
The Harlem Renaissance produced many remarkable artists, writers, and thinkers. Today we'll talk about one of the most interesting minds of the time, Zora Neale Hurston. Hurston was an anthropologist by training, and spent much of her...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: Can you solve the riddle and escape Hades? | Dan Finkel
The underworld is overcrowded, and Zeus has ordered Hades to let some spirits out. Hades arranges all the souls of the dead in a line before Cerberus. When one of his three heads bites down on the soul in front of it, they'll get...
TED Talks
TED: The surprising solution to ocean plastic | David Katz
Can we solve the problem of ocean plastic pollution and end extreme poverty at the same time? That's the ambitious goal of The Plastic Bank: a worldwide chain of stores where everything from school tuition to cooking fuel and more is...
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The first and last king of Haiti | Marlene Daut
The royal couple of Haiti rode into their coronation to thunderous applause. After receiving his ornate crown, Henry Christophe ascended his throne, towering 20 meters in the air. But little did the cheering onlookers know that the first...
SciShow
Spock, Hillary, Cthulhu & Other New Names for Pluto and Its Moons
Earlier this year, NASA put out a call for names for features on Pluto and its moons based on an established set of rules. Now, it's finally time to put those names on the map.
Curated Video
Why Haiti Is So Dangerous And The Dominican Republic Is Thriving
Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Two countries that share an island, and little else. Because while Haiti has been making international headlines of late surrounding its current anarchy, the Dominican Republic is an otherwise pretty...
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Living On the Edge
Cities near fault lines are at high risk of earthquakes. Can earthquakes be predicted, and how can these communities prepare for the worst? Earth Science - Geology - Learning Points. Cities near fault lines are at high risk of...