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JAPAN: HOMELESS PEOPLE
1. Shinkuju at night
2. Shinkuju station with homeless
3. Cardboard alley
4. SOUNDBITE Toshimasa Takahasi
5. Cutaway homeless
6. SOUNDBITE Chikara Kato
7. Volunteer distributing blankets
8. Homeless
9. SOUNDBITE Takao Ito
10. Cutaway...
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Trenches being dug in Pakistan controlled Kashmir
0000 Wide shot civil defence volunteers digging trench
0004 Mid shot civil defence volunteers digging trench
0008 Close up shot volunteers digging trench
0013 Women and children walking from house into trench (practising emergency...
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Wildlife officials in the San Francisco Bay Area are baffled by a mysterious substance that is coating the feathers of birds, which looks and feels like Rubber Cement. (Jan. 20)
The death of 100 birds in the San Francisco Bay Area has baffled wildlife officials who say the feathers of the birds were coated with a mysterious substance that looks and feels like rubber cement.
The birds began turning up on a beach...
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New York authorities assess number of homeless
1. Volunteer on street
2. Volunteer speaking to man
3. Man pushing shopping cart filled with bags
4. Volunteer writing notes
5. Volunteer talking to man
6. Volunteer looking at shopping cart with bags
7. Person sleeping on cardboard box...
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Men flock to army recruiting centre, vowing to defend their country from ISIL fighters
Volunteers flocked on Friday to an army recruitment centre in the southern Shiite city of Karbala, showing their readiness to join armed troops in combating the Islamist militants, who seized parts of northern Iraq earlier this...
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Skiers call for more disabled facilities in France
Morzine (Haute-Savoie region) - January 28, 2008
1. Various of man in seated skiing chair going down slope
2. Car drives up to ski lift
3. Disabled man Yohan gets out of car and into wheelchair
4. Yohan talking to snowboarder
5....
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HONG KONG: CHIEF EXECUTIVE FALLS OFF PODIUM DURING VOTER CAMPAIGN
Cant/Eng/Nat
Hong Kong's chief executive Tung Chee-hwa took a tumble on Saturday as he helped kick off preparations for the region's Legislative Council elections next May.
He fell off a podium as he launched a Voter Registration...
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Fires in Chios, firefighter says lack of funds means lack of preventative measures
Firefighters battled two major fire fronts in central and southern areas of the Greek island of Chios on Wednesday as a massive rekindling of previously extinguished areas early in the morning fuelled the flames.
Whipped on by gale-force...
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Changing Face of China, AP focus on China's growing illiteracy problem
Jidao Village, Guizhou Province - 17 December, 2007
1. Wide pan from school building to a group of middle-aged Miao tribe women in ethnic costumes walking towards camera with children
2. Mid of the middle-aged Miao women walking
3. Pan...
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WRAP US Sec of State visits, presser, arrives at ASEAN; ADDS ASEAN Sec Gen
1. Wide of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Indonesian Foreign Minister Hasan Wirajuda walking to the podium
2. Cutaway of media
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State:
"Building a partnership, a...
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Democrat and Republican supporters asking people to vote
AP Television
Washington, DC - 5 November 2006
1. Close shot of Moveon.org volunteer on phone
2. Shot of two women on phones at Moveon.org's Washington phone bank
3. UPSOUND: (English) Man on phone
"Good morning, my name is Terry... I'm...
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Volunteers help cut crime on Table Mountain
1. Wide of Cape Town
2. Hikers walk in Table Mountain National Park
3. Mike Scott walks along path
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Mike Scott, Hiker:
"..and I heard a sound behind me, and I though, uh, mountain runners? But before I could even...
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Bakers celebrate holidays with huge Rosca de Reyes bread
1. Wide top shot of Zocalo, main square in Mexico City
2. Wide top shot of people waiting to get a piece of the traditional 'Rosca de Reyes' sweet bread
3. Various of bakers covering bread with plastic
4. Mid of children waiting to get a...
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BELGIUM: BRUSSELS: CAR BUNGEE JUMP
English/Nat
The world's first ever car-bungee has taken place in the Belgium capital, Brussels.
A 'Smart Car' was lifted by crane and dropped from a height of 60 metres.
The event was organised by 'Benji Fun Belgium', one of Europe's...
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Iranian doctors sign up to help the injured in Gaza
Hundreds of Iranian doctors, nurses and paramedics say they want to travel to Gaza to volunteer their help, but they are banned from crossing the border.
In just over four weeks, the war has killed more than 1,900 Palestinians - the...
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INDIA: BOMBAY: STREET CHILDREN BEING TRAINED IN FIRST AID & HYGIENE
Bombay, Maharashtra State, India, August 21 and 22, 1998 and file
1. Various of volunteer teaching street children a song based on importance of hygiene
2. Various of sketches used in training the street children
3. Volunteer at...
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PHILIPPINES: FORMER US PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER VISIT
Maragondon, Philippines, 22 March 1999
1. Habitat volunteers doing construction work
2. President Joseph Estrada and Jimmy Carter (wearing straw hat) working on a house
3. Estrada putting cement on a concrete block
4. Carter putting...
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Egypt - Sand art
An American artist has won one of the most prestigious art prizes in the Middle East for her work which is mostly inspired by the desert.
Lita Albuquerque, who was born in Tunisia but now lives in California, was awarded the prize in...
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IRAQ: DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO RESOLVE UN/IRAQ CRISIS CONTINUE (2)
Arabic/Nat
Diplomatic efforts to find a peaceful settlement to tensions in the Gulf continued on Wednesday with envoys of Russia, Turkey and France shuttling around Baghdad.
The flurry of diplomatic activity, coupled with Russian...
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HONG KONG: WORLD'S OLDEST PASSENGER LINER IS FLOATING BOOK SHOP
English/Nat
Their mission is to help young people find their place in today's world.
But as missionaries go, the Christian crew of the M-V Doulos are spreading the word with a difference.
The ship, which is currently berthed in Hong...
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WRAP Australia begins world's 1st human trials of vaccine; ADDS UK, EU on situation
AuBC - No Access Australia
Adelaide, Australia
1. Tilt down of Royal Adelaide Hospital to entrance
2. Wide of Royal Adelaide Hospital sign
3. Close up Flu Clinic sign
4. Various close ups of vaccine boxes and bottles
5. Various of...
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Train spotters turn to technology
Crewe, UK - 17 February 2012
1. Wide of trainspotters watching as train drives by
2. Close of trainspotter Will Snook, making an audio recording of the train engines onto his iPhone. UPSOUND: "33-68-49-30-79 check six. 49-09-392-check...
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AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY OLYMPICS: SUCCESS
English/Nat
Sydney has been judged to have staged an Olympics which will set the gold standard for the third millennium.
Organisers have been given top marks by the International Olympic Committee even before the official closing...
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Plastic surgeon volunteer from Beirut helps Gaza injured
A reconstructive surgeon working in Gaza says treating the injured in this latest war is the hardest role he's had to date.
Ghassan Abu Sitta volunteered in Gaza in 2008 and 2012, but he says this conflict is "tougher".
War is not a new...