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Portuguese union leaders and businessmen hold talks with troika representatives
1. Various of Jurgen Kroger, representative of the European Commission, and Abebe Selassie representative of the International Monetary Fund, arriving at meeting along with union leaders and businessmen
2. Various of Armenio Carlos,...
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More than two thousand workers stayed away from venue construction sites for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics as a strike that began last week continued without an end in sight. (April 8)
More than two thousand workers stayed away from venue construction sites for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics on Tuesday as a strike that began last week continued without an end in sight.
The strike began on Thursday in a dispute over...
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Funeral service for anti-strike teacher killed with an ice pick
1. Wide of interior of church
2. Wide of priest next to the coffin of killed teacher Jaime Rene Calvo Aragon
3. People inside the church attending mass
4. Medium of priest next to Aragon's coffin
5. Wide of interior of church
6....
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Disappointed tourists after Eiffel Tower workers decide to strike after talks fail
1. Wide tilt down of Eiffel Tower
2. Wide of lower section of Eiffel Tower
3. Visitors passing the Eiffel Tower
4. Wide of empty East Pillar entrance
5. Screen announcements reading (English) "Thank you for your comprehension. Eiffel...
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General strike disrupts transport, traffic, health services in Italy
1. Wide of bus terminal
2. Various of signs on buses reading: (Italian) "Depot" indicating that buses were out of service
3. Mid of buses at terminal
4. Various of people waiting for buses
5. Various of empty train station
6....
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How the teachers strike is affecting life in Oaxaca
Oaxaca, 25 August 2006
1. Wide of cathedral
2. Graffiti on the wall reading: "Tourists go home"
3. Wide of graffiti showing Governor Ulises Ruiz with bags of money
4. Wide shot of coffee shop
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Will Tee,...
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Mass protest against fuel and power price rises
1. Wide of rally on Independence Square in Kiev
2. Rally
3. Close-up protester
4. Wide of rally
5. Protesters
6. Protesters with miners trade union flag
7. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Maya Medvedeva, member of Public Catering trade...
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Thousands of workers protest against privatisation plans
1. Various overhead shots of people taking part in protest
2. Various ground shots of flags, banners being carried in protest
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Bernard Thibault, trade union leader:
"At a time when social differences are huge and,...
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FRANCE: RAIL WORKERS END 3 WEEK STRIKE
French/Nat
French employees of the SNCF, the state railroad company, are claiming victory after ending a three-week paralyzing strike.
Train drivers can still retire at age 50, rather than step down at age 60 or 65.
Their refusal to...
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Rice and US lawmakers meet union officials to discuss trade
1. Helicopter flying up above
2. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arriving at Science & Technology Centre, greeted by mayor Jorge Alonso Salazar and other people
3. Rice talking with people
4. Spectators standing on the bridge...
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SERBIA: KRAGUJEVAC: ELECTIONS BACKGROUNDER
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
An industrial city in the heartland of Serbia is one of the few places in which the opposition coalition's win in the November elections has not been annulled by the Serbian regime.
But Kragujevac's success is only...
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TV writers protest in solidarity with striking Hollywood writers
1. Wide of writers' protest at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin
2. Close-up of protester holding banner reading (English) "Uni - Global Union" (writers' association)
3. Mid of banners reading (English) " We support writers guild of...
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RUSSIA: KOSOVO CRISIS: LABOUR DAY: ANTI-NATO PROTESTS
Russian/Nat
Thousands of communists, nationalist and trade union supporters have taken to the streets of Moscow as Russia marked its traditional May 1st public holiday.
Central Moscow was sealed off as demonstrators converged on the...
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American Ambassador to IAEA holds media roundtable on Iran's nuclear programme
1. Various exterior shots Residence Palace, Brussels
2. Wide shot press conference
3. Cut away press
4. Medium shot Ambassador Gregory Schulte - US Ambassador to the IAEA in Vienna
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ambassador Gregory Schulte, US...
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MEXICO: FORMER FINANCE MINISTER CLEARED OF INVOLVEMENT IN MURDER
Spanish/Nat
A former Mexican Finance Minister has been cleared of any involvement in the murder of an outspoken judge highly critical of the government's plans for judicial reform.
Pedro Aspe was called to testify Monday at a hearing in...
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Austerity-hit Greeks gear up for general strike over government's proposed measures
Unions have called for a nationwide general strike on Wednesday to protest against new austerity measures being hammered out between the government and Greece's international creditors to ensure the country continues receiving emergency...
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Executives from car makers face House panel's questions on alternative vehicles
1. Executives from car makers taking their seats in the hearing room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ron Gettelfinger, United Auto Workers Union President:
"The UAW believes that climate change and energy security are serious problems. We urge...
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Prominent labour leader is latest slain in series of suspected political killings
1. Dead body of labour leader Chea Vichea lying in temple
2. Various close ups of people weeping
3. Close up of Vichea's blood-stained shirt
4. Close up of Vichea's hands
5. Women weeping around body
6. Vichea's body being covered with a...
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Grammy Awards to go ahead as normal after WGA agree not to picket
AP Entertainment
Los Angeles, 11 February 2007
1. Wide of arrivals line at Grammy Awards 2007
2. Mary J. Blige posing for photographers
3. John Mayer posing for photographers
4. Wide of KT Tunstall speaking to reporter
5. Wide of Samuel...
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Reaction to the cancellation of the Golden Globes awards
Los Angeles - 7 January, 2008
1. Exterior of Mann's Village Theatre
2. Actor T.R. Knight speaking to reporter
3. SOUNDBITE (English) T.R. Knight, Actor:
"It's very sad that the Golden Globes are cancelled, because we have a lot of...
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Demonstrators gather for May Day protest
1. Wide shot brass band playing at trade union demonstration
2. Close up band leader
3. Wide shot trade union demonstrators marching
4. Wide high shot of demonstrators marching
5. Mid shot demonstrators marching
6. Wide shot police...
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Striking action against austerity in Barcelona and Madrid
Madrid
1. Tilt down of group of protesters, wide of bus in background
2. Mid pan of protesters
3. Wide mounted police by row of stationary busses
4. Pan from strikers to bus, AUDIO: cheering as bus is not permitted to depart
5. Mid...
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Latest on president's vow not to eat until electoral law approved
La Paz, Bolivia - April 10, 2009
1. Wide exterior of presidential palace
2. Wide pan left of hunger strikers inside palace
3. Various of Bolivian President Evo Morales with fellow hunger strikers
4. Various of protest signs, tilt down...
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Local residents mourn victims of clashes in the city
Odessa residents laid flowers on Saturday and mourned those who died in the violent clashes that shook the city the previous day.
At least 43 people lost their lives during the violence that erupted late on Friday between pro-Russians...