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West African nation hit hard by rainy season
1. People walking and vehicles driving in flooded street
2. Close of feet walking on brick line in flooded street
3. Tilt down from woman carrying a bowl on head to her feet walking in flooded street
4. Low angle shot of car driving...
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Three months since quake, Preval and WFP comments
1. Wide partially demolished Presidential Palace and bulldozer, with United Nations (UN) soldier in foreground
2. Half demolished facade of palace
3. Various of damaged palace
4. Haitian President Renee Preval arriving for news...
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INDONESIA: SUMATRA: FOREST FIRES & AIR POLLUTION
Indonesian/Nat
Officials in the provincial centre of Pekan Baru have started handing out surgical masks to passersby after rain failed to disperse a thick smoky haze above Sumatra island.
Fires have been raging in the jungles for weeks,...
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EU Development Minister visits Haiti, meets Preval to offer aid
1. Wide of signing ceremony at destroyed Presidential Palace, attended by European Union and Haitian government representatives
2. Close of Haitian Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive signing aid pledge, zoom out to wide of signing...
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Food imports rise as farmers cope with weather, govt controls
FILE: Achacachi - 25 May 2011
1. Various wide shots of oat fields
2. Various of farmers picking up oats and loading into truck
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Avelino Miranda, Farmer in Achacachi, Bolivia:
"Yes, we were badly affected by the...
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Quake survivors unlikely to be relocated from tents before rainy season
1. Wide of United Nations bulldozer grading land
2. Mid of bulldozer at work
3. Wide of US soldiers in foreground with UN bulldozer working
4. Close US soldiers walk by as bulldozer works
5. Mid of US Ambassador Kenneth Merten (in...
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Residents celebrate festival of dry season despite heavy floods
1. Various of people floating 'krathongs', small candlelit offerings, to celebrate Loy Krathong, an annual full-moon festival
2. Moon reflected on water
3. Wide of child setting afloat a floral krathong
4. Mid of child waving
5....
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Safe housing still elusive for many, 2 months after quake
Port-au-Prince - 12 March 2010
1. Wide of tent camp for homeless affected by earthquake by the airport
2. Wide of camp, people walking on unpaved street next to it
3. Mid of people in camp
4. Mid of Marie Nicole Francisse, woman living...
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PERU: TOURIST AUTHORITY TO LAUNCH PUBLICITY DRIVE
Spanish/Nat
Peru is launching a publicity drive to woo tourists back in the wake of devastation wrought by the El Nino weather phenomenon.
The number of visitors to the Inca ruins of Machu Picchu, perhaps Peru's best known tourist...
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BOLIVIA: COLLAPSED ROAD LEAVES HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE STRANDED
Spanish/Nat
Hundreds of people were stranded on Friday, as a result of a collapsed road in Bolivia.
The El Nino weather phenomenon has consistently hit Bolivia with heavy rains, and the road was swept away after torrential floods caused...
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PHILIPPINES: EL NINO SUMMIT WARNS OF FAMINE ON 3 CONTINENTS
English/Nat
There could be food shortages in South Africa, Asia and Latin America if countries affected by the El Nino weather phenomenon do not take steps to curb its consequences.
That was the warning from officials attending a...
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Somalia - Severe flooding devastates
Torrential storms in southern Somalia have killed scores of people and left thousands homeless. Heavy rains have swept through the region causing the Juba river to break its banks in several areas.
The first rains came in the middle of...
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Hurricane Ike remains a category one storm, as it has now exited Cuba. Forecasters expect it to make landfall along Texas' Gulf coast sometime this weekend
HEADLINE: Ike exits Cuba, eyes Texas
CAPTION: Hurricane Ike remains a category one storm, as it has now exited Cuba. Forecasters expect it to make landfall along Texas' Gulf coast sometime this weekend. (Sept. 10)
[Notes:ANCHOR...
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Hurricane preps in Galveston
1. Cars backed up on highway
2. Sign giving instructions on evacuation
3. Rolling shot of military amphibious vehicles on side of road
4. Ambulance convoy with sirens
5. Luggage tied on tops of cars
6. Men boarding up buildings with...
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GS 09 06 1982 RAINY SEASON IN EL SALVADOR, FIGHTING CONTINUES
The Civil War in El Salvador continues as the rainy season starts.
1. ws tilt down collapsed bridge
2. vs collapsed bridge
3. ms man and woman seated in cable bridge car
4. ms armed guards
5. ms pan man and woman cross river using...
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With the June 1st start of hurricane season, is the Katrina-battered Mississippi gulf coast prepared for another storm?
HEADLINE: Gulf region braces for another hurricane season
CAPTION: With the June 1st start of hurricane season, is the Katrina-battered Mississippi gulf coast prepared for another storm? AP correspondent Jason Bronis traveled to the...
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USA: STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED IN 31 STATES AFTER FLOODS
English/Nat
A state of emergency has been declared across Northern California - where floods have caused extensive damage to property.
U-S Vice President Al Gore has been visiting the affected and said the American government would...
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Frustration and prayers a year after Superstorm Sandy swept through
On the one-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, officials say more work is needed to rebuild the area and prevent future storms from causing similar damage.
"I think by next hurricane season we'll be much better prepared than we were...
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Indonesia - Drought caused by El Nino
Dry weather conditions, brought on by the El Nino phenomenon, are wreaking havoc on the lives of the people of Samarinda in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. There has been no rain since January and the Mahakam River, an important source of...
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Sudden dramatic increase in cholera cases
1. Wide of cholera patient being carried on stretcher into Doctors without Borders centre
2. Various of cholera patients on camp beds in centre
3. Close of intravenous fluid bags
4. Various of Doctors without Borders doctor Elaine...
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Named storm downgraded, after slowing to 40 mph
1. Various of houses partially submerged in flood water
2. Set up of Bill Pate, local resident
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Bill Pate, Resident for 30 years
"Yeah, kind of get used to it, that is how it is when you live near the water,...
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Rumsfeld on troop deployment for border security
1. Wide of committee hearing room
2. Various of US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence:
"The Department...
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Anti NKorea protest; SKor companies react to Kaesong talks cancellation
1. Wide of protesters burning an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, zoom in
2. Wide of effigy burning, protesters chanting
3. Mid of police extinguishing fire
4. Mid of protesters setting fire to picture of Kim Jong Un
5. Close...
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4:3 Hundreds of new cases as outbreak spreads through country
1. Various of woman with drip lying on stretcher in the corridor
2. Woman and her sick daughter taking a nap sitting on the hall
3. Various of patients at cholera ward
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Doctor Guillermo Hernandez, director of...