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SYND 26/04/72 SOVIET TECHNICIANS SALVAGE SHIPS
Soviet tugs and technicians move damaged ships in harbour in Chittagong.
1. vs Zoyenko and aide watch from shore
2. vs Golden City with tug
3. ms Soviet tug alongside ship
4. vs Soviet technicians working on board ship
5. ws and pan from...
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Aid for cyclone victims being loaded, Mongla area
1. Bags of aid on truck
2. Various of workers transferring bags of aid from one truck to another
3. Close-up of of aid bags
4. Wide of area where aid trucks are parked
5. Truck loaded with aid
6. Close-up of Saudi Arabia logo on aid...
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Clashes during general strike, explosion near hotel where visiting Indian president staying
1. Jamaat-e-Islami activists setting fire to cotton sacks in the road and chanting slogans, AUDIO of gunfire, pan to firing rubber bullets advancing along road
2. Wide of police firing rubber bullets and chasing Jamaat-e-Islami...
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SYND 11-12-71 BANGLADESH OFFICES OPEN IN DELHI
The rebel government of Bangladesh opens offices in the Indian capital.
1. vs diplomats and wives
2. ms schoolchildren
3. ms Shukla Deputy Home Minister
4. ms Krishna Menon (ex-Defence Minister)
5. ms mission head Choudhury embraced
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Foreign ministers arrive for talks ahead of leaders' summit
Foreign Ministers from a number of Commonwealth countries gathered in Colombo on Wednesday for a meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG).
The group deals with serious or persistent violations of the Harare...
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Bangladesh opposition's latest shutdown over elections leaves 1 dead, many hurt
Opposition activists in Bangladesh clashed with police and ruling party members on Sunday, on the first day of a four-day general strike.
At least one man died and scores were injured across the country as the opposition enforced the...
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Protests continue in capital amid reports army deployed to quell unrest
1. Various of student activists affiliated with Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh's largest Islamic party, chanting slogans as they set fire to waste material lying in road
2. Various of activists marching in procession and chanting slogans
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Lawyer says court orders former PM Hasina to jail to await trial on extortion charges
1. Wide of police barricade controlling access to former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's residence in Dhaka, police
2. Mid shot of policemen checking car before it enters road to Hasina's residence
3. Various of police...
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Flooding in southern Bangladesh after heavy rain from Cyclone Mahasen
1. Wide of huts submerged in floodwater
2. Mid of people knee-deep in floodwater trying to uproot bushes
3. Various of rushing floodwater
4. Mid of people wading through floodwater
5. Close of rushing floodwater
6. Wide of people...
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Bangladesh police, Islamic activists clash; 27 die
1. Various top shots of police chasing activists in Narayanganj
2. Wide of a mini-truck on fire
3. Police officer throwing a teargas shell
4. Top shot of riot police in street
5. Wide top shot of activists setting small fires in the...
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SYND 18/12/71 INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL NIAZI IN DACCA
Interview with commander of pakistani troops, General Niazi in Dacca
1) ms General Niazi speaking to press and UPITN reporter Michael Nicholson (no audio)
2) General Niazi with cheering crowd
3) Niazi into jeep and away
Film: Pos -...
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SYND 16-11-72 MALIK ON TRIAL
Former Governor of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) Abdul Motaleb Malik before a special tribunal in Dacca.
1. ms judge takes seat on bench
2. ms Malik takes seat in dock with pull out to ws
3. ms and pan crowd in courtroom
4. ws and zoom...
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Opposition Party supporters clash with police
Violence erupted in Dhaka on Sunday as Jamaat-e-Islami supporters exploded home-made bombs and clashed with police.
The Islamist political party had launched a campaign to force Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina out of office and form a...
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Visiting Bangladesh FM meets Indian counterpart
Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali met with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi on Saturday.
Mahmood Ali and Swaraj are due to co-chair the third India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission (JCC)...
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BANGLADESH: 25 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE CELEBRATIONS
Natural Sound
Bangladesh has celebrated 25 years of independence from Pakistani rule with a huge celebration in the capital Dhaka.
From Victory Day 1995 has come a pledge to uphold the spirit of the liberation war.
While there were...
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SYND 18/12/71GENERAL AURORA AND PAKISTANI COMMANDER NIAZI, SIGN SURRENDER DOCUMENTS
Indian General Aurora And Pakistani Commander Niazi, sign surrender documents in Dacca
1) ms India's General Aurora And Pakistani Commander Niazi at table, sign surrender documents (Shaky camera)
2) cu of document and Niazi signing...
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France - How A Snow Machine, Bangladesh - Floods, Germany - Flooding In Dresden, Usa - Hurricane Katrina
France - How a snow machine is combating the warm winter in the French Alps
French Alps - recent
Global warming poses a serious threat to Alpine ski resorts and the regional economies that depend on them according to a recent report by...
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UPITN 27 7 79 SCENES OF AIRCRAFT HIJACK
A Bangladesh Biman Airlines, official carrier of Bangladesh, was hijacked by three young boys as the plane took off from Jessore Airport. The plane is carrying forty three passengers including crew. The plane, BG 462 now landed at...
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Clashes after Islamic party leader sentenced to death for crimes in 1971 war
1. Moving shot of Jamaat-e-Islami activists on street setting off firecrackers and homemade explosive devices
2. Various of police firing rubber bullets
3. Various of small fire on road AUDIO: small explosions
4. Police vehicle driving...
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Bangladesh - End Of Post-Election Strikes
Calm returned to Dhaka on Wednesday (14/9) after four days of
anti-government protests and strikes left hundreds of people
injured or arrested and the national economy crippled, but made
little impact on Bangladesh's political impasse....
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Bangladeshi Home Secretary meets Indian counterpart for security talks
1. Wide of Bangladesh Home Secretary Monzur Hussain (left) and Indian Home Secretary Raj Kumar Singh shaking hands
2. Mid of Hussain sitting down at meeting
3. Mid of Indian delegation
4. Mid of Bangladesh delegation
5. Mid of...
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Monks and civilians protest recent attacks on buddhist temples
1. Mid pan of civilian protesters holding placard reading: (English/Burmese) "Stop violence against buddhist people"
2. Various of police security outside Bangladesh embassy
3. Wide of buddhist monks holding banners and placards at...
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SYND 07/01/1972 BANGLADESH MINISTER MEETS GANDHI AND GIRI
The Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad meets with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President V V Giri.
1. ws of the exterior of the foreign ministry2. ms Gandhi and Azad seated3. mcu Gandhi with pan to Azad4. ms Gandhi...
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CAN 026 PRINCESS MARGRETHE OF DENMARK VISITS KURALI
Princess Margrethe visits the Indian village of Kurali in the Punjab district of India.
1. cu village sign post Kurali
2. ms princess receives garlands
3. ms princess walking through crowd as they throw flower petals
4. ws reception...