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Lula on his second day of visit; signs energy agrmnt
1. Wide of ceremony
2. Bolivian President Evo Morales giving Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a present
3. Lula and Morales shaking hands and hugging
4. Lula giving Morales a present
5. Lula and Morales seated during...
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Brazil - Cardoso
37th president is sworn in
Brazil's former finance minister, credited with taming raging
inflation, took office on Sunday (1/1) as Brazil's 37th president.
In his inaugural speech, Fernando Henrique Cardoso urged
Brazilians to work...
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ARGENTINA: MERCOSUR MEMBERS ARRIVE FOR TRADE BLOC MEETING
Portuguese/Nat
Leaders from the Mercosur member countries have arrived in Argentina for the trading bloc's 10th meeting.
On Tuesday the presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay will sign a formal agreement for Chile's...
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President Sarkzoy and Carla Bruni inaugurate Year of France
1. Wide exterior of Vivo Rio arena
2. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (left), French President Nicolas Sarkozy (centre) and French First Lady Carla Bruni standing as audience applaud
3. Pan from sign reading "France.Br" to...
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Foreign ministers arrive for first LatAm Arab summit
1. Pull out from army truck to wide of congress building
2. Exterior congress building
3. Pull out from mounted police
4. Police road barricade
5. Wide of road with checkpoint and police on motorcycles
6. Coastguard boat at lake
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UK: BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT CARDOSO MEETS PRIME MINSTER TONY BLAIR
Natural Sound
British Prime Minister Tony Blair greeted the Brazilian President, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, at Downing Street on Thursday.
They met to sign a statement of intent to strengthen political, economic and academic ties...
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Reactions in Brazil as President Rousseff secures re-election
Brazil's newly re-elected leader Dilma Rousseff took 51.6 percent of votes to win the right to lead the world's fourth-largest democracy.
But analysts say the closest presidential election since Brazil's return to democracy gives...
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BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO: LAST DAY OF CARNIVAL
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In Brazil the Rio carnival is in its last day before the Lenten season begins tomorrow on Ash Wednesday.
It's a chance for everyone to forget economic woes, especially the rising inflation that is creeping up on the...
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BRAZIL: NATIONAL DEBATE ON HUMAN RIGHT ABUSES
Portuguese/Nat
Brazil's President Fernando Henrique Cardoso has lifted the lid on human rights abuse during the country's 21-year dictatorship, paving the way for investigations.
Congress recently approved a bill granting compensation to...
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Presidents Lula and Bachelet meet on second day of World Economic Forum
1. Wide shot of Chilean President, Michelle Bachelet, and Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, walking down red carpet during welcoming ceremony
2. Close-up of presidents walking
3. Wide shot of ceremony
4. Bachelet and Lula...
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Police stage a protest in Copacabana Beach to highlight the levels of violence they face at work
Police officers demanded tougher laws for crimes against police forces at a protest in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.
Demonstrators were calling for stiffer sentences for killers of police forces.
According to police, 151...
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Brazil's President Lula meets Central American leaders
1. Various of opening of Central American Integration System (SICA) summit
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Elias Antonio Saca, President of El Salvador:
"Central America is different, it has changed. Central America is a convenient region to do...
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Lula and Alckmin rallies amid final preps for run-off elections
Sao Paulo
1. Wide of President Luiz Inacio Lula supporters rallying in the street
2. Medium of women who support Lula's Workers Party dancing samba in the street
3. Medium of flags
4. Close up of pro-Lula stickers
5. Various of Lula...
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Uribe, Correa, Lula reax at Unasur agreement
1. Wide of foreign ministry
2. Security
3. Medium of Bolivian President Evo Morales walking into foreign ministry building
4. Medium of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet arriving
5. Wide of press conference
6. Cameramen
7. Mid of...
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Memorial in capital for late architect who helped design the city
1. Zoom in to fire truck arriving at Presidential Palace, carrying Oscar Niemeyer's coffin, with National Congress building in background
2. Mid of firefighters taking coffin down from truck, AUDIO: applause
3. Various of pallbearers...
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Rio mayor says Brazil will be ready for 2016 Olympics
Officials organising the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, told journalists on Friday that it was still too early to estimate the cost of 2016 Olympic Games.
But the city's mayor, Eduardo Paes, said everything was on course...
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Fidel Castro arrives in Brasilia
1. Tilt-down hotel building
2. Wide of hotel
3. Wide of Fidel getting out of car and walking surrounded by security
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fidel Castro, President of Cuba
"To arrive in Brazil is a beautiful visit. This is the...
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BRAZIL: UPDATE ON TWO DAY SUMMIT
Portu/Span/Nat
The presidents of South American nations are meeting in Brasilia for a two-day summit which aims to address issues of economic integration and improving educational and technological ties.
But the consequences of the...
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Duhalde meets with Mercosur partners to discuss economy
Buenos Aires - 18 February
1. Wide shot of Mercosur presidents sitting at table at Olivos presidential residence gardens
2. Medium shot of Cardoso and Duhalde
3. Cutaway to media outside
4. Cutaway to media
5. Medium shot of presidents...
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Brazilian president attends business seminar
1. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva walking into conference hall with audience of business executives applauding
2. Silva waving to audience and sitting down
3. Cutaway of audience members
4. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Luiz...
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+4:3 More than 15-thousand protest calling for land reforms
About 15-thousand protesters staged a rally on Wednesday in Brazil's capital to demand land reform, swamping the government esplanade and engaging police in sharp clashes that injured at least 32 people, most of them police...
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Russian and Brazilian FM meet, Ivanov on Iraq
1. Wide shot exterior of Russian Foreign Ministry's guesthouse
2. Wide shot Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov shaking hands with Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim
3. Mid shot of two ministers walking
4. Wide set up shot
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President Lula Da Silva in Bogota for meeting with Uribe
1. Mid of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Colombia President Alvaro Uribe walking along red carpet
2. Various of Lula Uribe greeting officials
3. Mid of Lula and Uribe heading towards Uribe's house
4. Lula and Uribe...
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High cost and corruption claims mar Brazil World Cup
Allegations of corruption over the rising costs of the Brazil World Cup resurface.
The cost of building Brasilia's World Cup stadium has nearly tripled to 900 million US Dollars in public funds, largely due to allegedly fraudulent...