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Aid ship arrives, bridges reopen, peacekeepers
1. Wideshot of World Food Programme first aid ship arriving since outbreak of war
2. Various of US soldiers on guard
3. Wideshot of ship
4. US soldiers
5. Wideshot of Liberians on watching as ship begins unloading
6. Wideshot of...
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LIBERIA: PRO GOVERNMENT GROUPS TOLD TO STOP US EMBASSY PROTEST
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Liberian lawmakers have ordered pro-government groups to abandon plans to protest in front of the U-S Embassy, where a former warlord has taken refuge since weekend gun battles.
Fifteen civic groups had planned to march to...
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WRAP Alleged arms dealer in court for hearing ADDS wife, lawyer
1. Wide of van arriving at Bangkok's Central Criminal Court with police escort
2. Heavily armed police waiting for alleged Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout to get out
3. Bout, wearing bullet-proof vest, getting out of van and being...
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State Department briefing, comments on Taylor, Hezbollah
1. US State Department spokesman Phillip Reeker walking into briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Phillip Reeker, US State Department spokesman:
"It's certainly something that we called for, that we wanted to see. It was an important part of...
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Liberia - Ships Forbidden To Leave
Liberian faction leader Charles Taylor said Friday (17/5) that he
had forbidden any more ships from leaving the war-torn capital of
Monrovia..
0.00 Militiaman at roadblock firing rifle
0.07 Armed youths race along street in and on...
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Wife of arms suspect Viktor Bout proclaims his innocence
27 August 2010
1. Alla Bout, wife of suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, holding up copy of letter signed by six members of the US congress to the Thai ambassador to the US, in which they appeal for Thailand to extradite Bout to...
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WRAP US marines arrive amid fighting, US embassy shelled, casualties
1. Various of helicopters landing with non-essential staff members lining up to be evacuated
2. Cutaway of US military officer speaking on phone
3. Various of US military personnel disembarking from helicopter
4. Non-essential staff...
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Liberia's women soldiers now training for peacetime
Jacob's Town, Paynesville, Monrovia
1. Various general shots of marketplace
2. Exterior of CEP (Community Empowerment Programme)
3. Mid shot of CEP sign
4. Various shots of ex-soldiers in a sewing class
5. Close up of a female...
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Alleged Russian weapons smuggler arrives for extradition ruling
1. Wide of prison bus upon arrival at court
2. Cutaway of media
3. Various of alleged Russian weapons smuggler, Viktor Bout, exiting bus and walking into the court's detention centre through media
4. Pull focus through bars to Bout
5....
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Liberia - Massacre
Five years on, the civil war slaughter continues
December 25th, 1994 marked five years to the day that civil war
started in Liberia. The tenth and latest peace treaty was signed
last week, but the massacres continue. On the morning of...
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Mass burial of more than 60 victims of fighting
1. Wide shot burial site
2. Mid shot ICRC volunteers digging mass grave
3. Masked Red Cross worker with bodies in truck behind him
4. Relatives waiting
5. Close-up gloved hand, tilt up to ICRC worker
6. Close-up legs of bodies in...
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SIERRA LEONE: FREED UN TROOPS ARRIVE IN FREETOWN
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44 U-N peacekeepers, held hostage by the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, arrived in Freetown on Wednesday night after being freed.
Another eighty are said to have been moved to the Liberian border town of Foya to...
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Taylor's motorcade passes through demo outside his residence
1. Wide shot of the war veterans in front of the presidential mansion
2. Medium shot of the younger war veterans waiting for the Liberian President, Charles Taylor
3. Wide shot of the war veterans gathered together
4. Close up of an...
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President addresses rally, renews pledge to step down
1. Refugees and members of audience in the stands at stadium
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Charles Taylor, Liberian President:
"Let me reiterate: let nobody have any concerns about, 'Will the president step down?' I will step down. And you...
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VOICER Continuing fighting displaces yet more people
Monrovia - 18 July 2003
00 00 Wide shot of refugees (internally displaced people) crossing bridge into Monrovia
00 03 Refugees approaching Monrovia
00 07 Back shot of refugees walking into Monrovia
Near Monrovia - 17 July 2003
00 11 Jeep...
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Nigerian president arrives in Monrovia for talks with Taylor
1. Wide shot, plane taxiing on the runway
2. Liberia's President, Charles Taylor, walks past the cameras
3. Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo gets off plane
4. Taylor and Olusegun walking along the tarmac
5. Protest banner " Drop...
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US advance team sets off
1. Mid (side) shot of Hercules C-130 on tarmac at Rota US Naval base, southern Spain
2. Close up side of plane
3. Wider shot plane
4. Military personnel on tarmac
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant Corey Barker, Rota US Naval base...
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Russian alleged gun runner Victor Bout arriving and court exteriors
1. Wide of bus arriving
2. Cutaway of security
3. Wide of alleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout getting out of bus and walking into detention area, with legs in chains
4. Close up of bars then pull focus to wide of Bout seated inside...
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Ghana - African Ministers Meet For Talks
The foreign ministers of nine West African countries gathered on Tuesday (7/5) in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, to draw up the agenda for a two-day summit meeting aimed at restoring peace in Liberia. Speaking from Accra on Monday (6/5),...
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Thailand extradites accused Russian arms trafficker to the US on terrorism charges
1. Wide of media outside gates of Don Meaung airport, bangkok, from where accused arms trafficker Viktor Bout was flown out on an extradition flight.
2. Various of armed soldiers at airport
3. Wide of men carrying body armour (thought...
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State Dept briefing on Zimbabwe, Myanmar and Liberia
1. Wide shot of US State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher walking in
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Boucher, US State Department spokesman:
(Q: In think Mr. Tsvangirai has really been arrested this time, rather than merely being...
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LIBERIA: MONROVIA: HORRIFIC SCENES AS FIGHTING FLARES UP AGAIN
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Fighting has flared again in the Liberian capital Monrovia after two days of relative calm in the city.
Only a day after rival faction leaders shook hands - fighters loyal to Charles Taylor's N-P- F-L launched attacks around...
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LIBERIA: MONROVIA: AIRLIFT OF REFUGEES RESUMES AFTER SHORT HALT
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The airlift of refugees from the Liberian capital, Monrovia, has resumed after a temporary halt of more than a week.
US marines have already airlifted more than two-thousand people out of the war-torn Liberian city and are...
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WRAP Russian arrested in arms investigation appears in court, leaves court
1. Various of suspected Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout being escorted by Thai police into court
2. Bout being frisked by Thai authorities
3. Mid of Thai police
4. Wide of Bout being frisked
5. Close-up of Police Colonel Kittisak...