1. Tilt-down from the presidential office side to crowd in street

2. Protesters holding sign on top of
bus
3. Crowd of protesters gathered ar
ound bus
4.
Wide of crowd
5....

French/Nat

European concern over the spread of B-S-E or mad cow disease continued to grow on Tuesday with the French President Jacques Chirac appealing publicly for the banning of...

The European Union's Beef Management Committee has agreed to buy 50,000 tonnes of beef this month, a European Commission spokesman said in Luxembourg on Tuesday (2/4), as part of efforts aimed at halting the slide in sales...

1. Zoom out from sign reading 'British Beef' to various attendees at the food salon

2. Pan of cuts of British beef at the Meat and Livestock Commission
stand
3. Pull down from sign reading British Beef to...

A day after the European Union announced a plan (2/4) to save the European beef industry reeling from the BSE scare, French farmers say their opinion has been overlooked. French cattle farmers say compensating British...

French/Nat

Forty exhausted French cattle breeders and their cows have arrived in Versailles, ending a three-week trek to highlight the crisis brought on by Britain's problems with ...

The slaughter of 64,000 calves, which had been imported into the Netherlands from Britain, started on Thursday (11/4) amid fears over "mad cow" disease. The move came after the European Commission imposed a...

Washington DC - 31 December 2003

1. Dr. Ron DeHaven, US Department of Agriculture Chief Veterinarian, and other officials at news confer
ence.
2. Cutaway reporters and pho
tographers
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Ron...

Spanish/Nat

The Argentinian government decided this week to ban all imports of beef products from most European countries and other countries which have experienced Mad Cow dise
ase.
The move...

1. Wide of South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon at podium

2. Close-up of Kim spe
aking
3. Cutaway of pho
tographers
4. Pan right of
briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Kim...

German/Nat

The European Commission has proposed a six-month ban on meat and bone meal in fodder in an effort to eradicate mad cow disease and restore consumer confidence in...

French/Nat

Angry French farmers blocked the path of British trucks thought to be carrying cattle into France Saturday mor
ning.
Around 50 farmers took part in the protest at the northern port town of...

British consumers remain confused about the safety of eating British beef in the wake of the EU's decision on Wednesday (3/4), not to lift the ban on British beef exports.

Exterior of Somerfield superma
rket;
Trolleys...

1. Pan of protesters with ladders trying to climb over wall

2. Protesters breaking down
wall
3. Mid of protesters breaking away sectio
n of wall
4. Protester cli
mbing over wall
5....

Italian/Nat

Farmers in Italy have been stopping trucks carrying French beef into the cou
ntry.
The farmers are blockading three passes between France and Italy in a bid to enforce the Italian...

German/Nat

German retailers say they've managed to rebuild consumer confidence in beef following the "mad cow disease" -- or B-S-E -- scare by buying and selling only the...

Tokyo - 12 December 2005

1. Various of press conference at Japanese Agriculture Mini
stry
2. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Mizuhiro Miyakoshi, Japanese Deputy Agriculture
Minister:
"Following the...

1. Pan from police buses to protesters pulling them with ropes

2. Mid of protesters trying to drag the parked b
uses
3. Wide of police firing water cannon at p
rotesters
4. Mid of water cann
on...

1. Protesters trying to pass through riot police blockade in front of presidential office in Seoul

2. Police trying to stop prote
ster
3. Riot police taking prot
ester away
4. Wide of riot...

Eng/French/Nat

The spiralling debate over mad cow disease, or BSE, has plunged France into what commentators are calling a kind of generalised panic or psycho
sis.
Schools across the country have taken...

1. Cecchini butcher shop in Panzano in Chianti, 23 km

from Flor
ence
2. Butcher, Dario Cecchini,
on podium
3. Auction of Florentin
e T-bone steak
4. Butcher holding steaks
to be auctioned off...

European Union farm ministers ended 12 hours of haggling late on Monday (29/4) and hinted they may be willing to see a modest easing of the worldwide ban on British beef exports.

But they warned any...

English/Nat

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (F-A-O) has called for action to protect the human population, the new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (N-V-C-J-D), the human form of...

1. Wide of South Korea President Lee Myung-bak walking into news conference

2. Various cutaways of m
edia
3. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Lee Myung-bak, South Korea's P
resident:...