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Government promotes Cool Biz clothing to save energy
The Japanese government wants the country's suit-loving salarymen to be bold this summer.
Ditch the stuffy jacket and tie, and for the good of the country, go light and casual.
Japan's "Super Cool Biz" campaign kicked off on Wednesday...
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Schroeder and Fischer comments
1. Interior of German chancellery, Gerhard Schroeder, Chancellor and Joschka Fischer arrive
2. Media
3. SOUNDBITE: (German) Gerhard Schroeder, Chancellor of Germany:
"The catastrophe in South East Asia is the worst in the history of...
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In a crowded Seattle neighborhood, a plumbing contractor crew discovered the tusk of an ice age mammoth that died there 10,000 years ago. (Feb. 12)
In the crowded south Lake Union neighborhood where Amazon.com workers go out for espresso, an ice age mammoth died 10,000 years ago and remained until Tuesday, when a plumbing contractor crew uncovered its tusk.
It's the latest example...
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Reax as Japan nuclear crisis sparks debate over safety in EU
Berlin
1. Wide of German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arriving for a (party) press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (German) , Guido Westerwelle, German Foreign Minister:
"We want to form an independent investigating commission with a task...
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WRAP Supplies arrive in disaster zone, Italian field hospital
Galle, 31 December 2004
1. Two World Food Programme lorries arriving at a refugee centre based in a mosque
2. Supplies being unloaded and brought into mosque
3. Refugees watching
4. Various of refugees receiving meals
5. Italian Field...
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Asean foreign ministers'' sympathies with Haiti, bites
1. Wide of the Furama resort
2. Mid of security guards
3. Cutaway of ASEAN logo reading:" Vietnam 2010"
4. Close of ASEAN flag
5. Mid of Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem, ASEAN Foreign Ministers and officials walking to the...
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Additional aerials, hospital, devastation
1. Aerial of destruction
2. Aerial of coastline
3. Zoom in to aerials of destroyed buildings
4. Sunken ship in harbour
5. Various aerials of coastline
6. Ground shot of debris
7. People looking at pile of debris
8. Shops, pan down to...
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Pandemic could kill up to 150 million
1. Doctor David Nabarro, World Health Organisation, seated at press conference with UN official
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Doctor David Nabarro, World Health Organisation (WHO):
"We expect the next influenza pandemic to come at any time now...
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Plight of children orphaned by tsunami
1. Bismiya and Nashika Padma standing in the rubble of their home
2. Various of the Padma sisters walking through the rubble
3. Doll amongst the rubble
4. Padma sisters walking through the rubble
5. Various of the Padma sisters at the...
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Tsunami warning siren, evacuations, preps, reax
1. Various of early morning traffic, AUDIO: tsunami warning siren blaring across Honolulu ++NIGHT SHOTS++
2. Mid of car interior, AUDIO FROM RADIO: (English) Tsunami emergency announcement being broadcast:
"Recommend urgent action be...
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Disabled childrens home destroyed
1. Clean up at Sambodhi House which looks after disabled people
2. Sign on building reading: Sambodhi House
3. More of clean up with volunteers and monks
4. Various of furniture being dried
5. Various of debris
6. Book on ground
7....
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Elderly starving residents abandoned in nursing home after quake
1. Pan from hospice sign to elderly people
2. Mid of elderly woman sitting on ground
3. Close-up of elderly woman
4. Mid of elderly people sheltering from sun under tree
5. Mid of hospice administrator Jean Emmanuel talking to patient...
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Refugees, injured in hospital; Singaporean troops; a''math
1. View of Meulaboh from the sea
2. Various of destruction of the town
3. Woman seated surrounded by destroyed buildings
4. Close up woman seated
5. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Local resident:
"I am very sad because I lost my husband. I saw...
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Debate over whether Thailand is wrong to reject foreign aid
Nam Khen - January 10, 2005
1. Wide pan of tent city in Nam Khen
2. Mid shot makeshift tent
3. Set up shot of Sunthorn Kulekilm
4. Various of Kulekilm talking to other men in tent city
5. SOUNDBITE (Thai): Sunthorn Kulekilm, tsunami...
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Pope tours areas affected by earthquake, comments
Pope Benedict XVI visited the earthquake-ravaged area of central Italy on Tuesday to comfort survivors and give them hope to rebuild, visiting tent camps and a dormitory whose collapse epitomised the shoddy construction blamed for many...
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Annual earthquake drill in the capital
Mexico City - September 18, 2009
1. Wide of skyscraper called the Torre Latinoamericana (Latin American Tower) in central Mexico City
2. Wide of Red Cross workers and ambulances in preparation for earthquake drill
3. Various of people...
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Water distribution in Port au Prince ADDS food distribution
Carrefour, Haiti
1. Wide of damaged main street
2. United Nations truck in front of food warehouse
3. Wide interior of warehouse
4. Close of boxes labelled (English) ''Soyabean Oil. Gift of Switzerland''
5. Boxes being wheeled...
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WWF to pursue rogue developers building on land destroyed by fires
Athens - 27 September 2007
1. Wide of press conference
2. Medium of banner reads (Greek) "For a living planet"
3. Close-up of screen showing map of forests (red) and burnt areas (grey)
FILE/RECENT: Southern Peloponnese
4. Various of...
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Demo on Myanmar, minister gives latest death toll for India
1. Poster of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, pan to Burmese demonstrators on road
2. Placard reading: ''We express solidarity with Burmese''
3. Demonstrators shouting slogans
4. Pan from placards to children holding...
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Protests, inc Greenpeace take place at climate summit
1. Various of protesters gathering in Israel Square in Copenhagen
2. Pan of protesters
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dan Grass, organiser of 'Climate Justice Action' demonstration against European defence policy:
"Climate change and...
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PSI protest, briefing seismograph, defence meeting
AP Television
Seoul - 27 May 2009
1. Tilt down from exterior of Unification Ministry in Seoul to small demonstration against South Korea joining to the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI)
2. Close-up of panel denouncing the decision...
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Firefighters struggle to battle out of control fires
La Canada Flintridge
1. Mid of fire fighters battling blaze near house
2. Pan from flames to fire fighters battling flames with water hose
3. Close of fire fighter using water hose
4. Close of flames
5. Wide of house, pan to fire fighter...
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Ancient tribes bounce back from disaster
Car Nicobar - 17 November, 2005
1. Temple damaged in tsunami
2. Shift focus from house to plants growing over metal debris
3. Entrance gate to tsunami-destroyed Rajiv Gandhi park
4. Temporary shelter
5. Secretary of Nicobarese Tribal...
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The queen of orchids blooms amidst poverty and natural destruction
The cattleya orchid.
It's a welcome beauty in a land crushed by poverty and natural disaster.
Antoine Assali, or Toni as he prefers to be called, is a Haitian of Lebanese descent.
He's achieved the unexpected with his orchid-export...