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Hong Kong - 19 July 2025

1. Various of scaffolder Daisy Pak carrying bamboo poles from a truck to building

2. Various of Pak climbing out of a tiny window

3. Close of Pak securing safety equipment

4. Various of Pak setting up the base of the bamboo platform

5. Various of Pak putting up the bamboo scaffolding platform, using nylon strips, tying knots securing the bamboo poles

6. Tilt down from Pak working on the platform to narrow alleyway between two industrial buildings

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Hong Kong – 18 July 2025

7. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Daisy Pak, scaffolding worker:

“It feels so amazing to build bamboo scaffolding just from each bamboo pole, whether it’s a big bamboo scaffolding for a whole high-rise or just a small scaffolding platform for repair works. It’s not only a piece of art, it’s also very iconic for Hong Kong.”

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Hong Kong – 22 March 2025

8. Various of a group of male scaffolding workers building a bamboo scaffolding for an old residential building in Wan Chai, downtown Hong Kong

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Hong Kong – 18 July 2025

9. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Daisy Pak, scaffolding worker:

“When I first started doing the job, physical strength was my main challenge. It took about a year for my body to get used to the physical requirement of this job. The job expects male and female to work equally, just like the pay we get. There’s no excuse for a woman to work less. So, I just told myself to hang in there and I gradually worked it out.”

10. Various of bamboo poles being craned from boat to shore

11. Various of Daisy Pak and Sam Wai dismantling a scaffold platform in the rain

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Hong Kong - 19 July 2025

12. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) Sam Wai, bamboo scaffolding worker:

“If you use bamboo, it’s more flexible. If you use metal, what’s available in the market from outside, normally it’s rather long, when we bring it in, we have to cut it. Bamboo is already available in three different lengths and it’s so easy to cut on site. Bamboo for safety, is much more short-term, than metal, so I hope bamboo and metal can co-exist and they can complement each other”

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Hong Kong – 12 July 2025

13. Various of workers building large bamboo scaffolding covering a resident block in a housing estate for repair works

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Hong Kong - 14 July 2025

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14. Time lapse video of scaffolding works building bamboo scaffolding covering a resident block in a housing estate for repair works

STORYLINE:

LEAD-IN:

An iconic Hong Kong building technique could be phased out.

Traditional construction methods using bamboo might be replaced by metal, the government says.

STORYLINE:

31-year-old Daisy Pak is one of the very few women who works with bamboo scaffolding.

It’s a heavy and intensive job, and you need to have a head for heights.

In Hong Kong, it’s still traditional to hang outside buildings, strapping bamboo poles to walls for major or mino... [truncated]

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Moscow - 23 June 2025

1. STILL of Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin

++OVERLAYS AUDIO IN SHOT 2++

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Moscow - 29 July 2025

2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin:

“We have taken note of President Trump’s statements yesterday. The special military operation is continuing and we also remain committed to a peace process to resolve the conflict around Ukraine while ensuring our interests as part of this settlement.”

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Moscow - 13 March 2025

3. STILL of Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin

++OVERLAYS AUDIO IN SHOT 4++

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Moscow - 29 July 2025

4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin

Journalist: “When President Trump says he is no longer interested in talking to President Putin, how much does that bother the Kremlin?”

Peskov: “Honestly, I would like to avoid making any judgments here. I just repeat once again, we have taken note of President Trump’s statements.”

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Moscow - 19 December 2024

5. STILL of Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin

++OVERLAYS AUDIO IN SHOT 6++

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Moscow - 29 July 2025

6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin:

“There is a slowdown indeed, and for now the normalization process has proceeded in a sluggish way. Of course, we would like to see more dynamics, we are interested in this. But impulses from both sides are needed in order to move forward. That is why we continue our interest and hope that this process will nevertheless gain greater momentum.”

++BLACK FRAMES++

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Moscow - 19 December 2024

7. STILL of Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin

++OVERLAYS AUDIO IN SHOT 8++

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Moscow - 29 July 2025

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8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin

Journalist: “Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of deliberately striking a penal colony in the Zaporizhzhia region last night. How could the Kremlin comment on this statement?”

Peskov: “The Russian army doesn’t launch strikes on civilian targets. The strikes are launched on military facilities and the infrastructure linked to the military.”

STORYLINE:

Asked to comment on U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement that he would move up a 50-day deadline for Russia to agree to a peace deal, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow has taken his statement into account and continues to adhere to peace efforts.

“We have taken note of President Trump’s statements yesterday,” Peskov told reporters. “The s... [truncated]

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Aberdeen, Scotland - 29 July 2025

1. U.S. President Donald Trump cutting ribbon

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:

"This has been an unbelievable development. The land, they said, it couldn't get zoned. It was an impossibility. And Sean Connery said, 'let the bloody bloke build his golf course.' Once he said that, everything came into line. it's gonna be great. I look forward to playing it today. We'll play it very quickly. And then I go back to D.C. and we put out fires all over the world."

3. Wide of coloured smoke over golf course

4. Trump playing golf

STORYLINE:

U.S. President Donald Trump opened a new golf course bearing his name in Scotland on Tuesday, capping a five-day foreign trip designed around promoting his family's luxury properties and playing golf.

“Let's go. 1-2-3,” Trump said before he cut a red ribbon and fireworks popped to mark the official opening of the new Trump course in the village of Balmedie on Scotland's northern coast.

Immediately after the opening, Trump, Eric Trump and two professional golfers in the foursome teed off on the first hole.

They planned to play 18 holes before Trump returns to Washington.

The overseas jaunt let Trump escape Washington’s sweaty summer humidity and the still-raging scandal over the case of Jeffrey Epstein.

It was mostly built around golf — and walking the new course before it officially begins offering rounds to the public on Aug. 13, adding to a lengthy list of ways Trump has used the White House to promote his brand.

Trump used his trip to meet with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and reach a trade framework for tariffs between the U.S. and the European Union’s 27 member countries — though scores of key details remain to be hammered out.

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Istanbul, Turkey - 29 July 2025

1. Wide of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I speaking at podium

2. Close of audience

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I:

"The crisis of modernity is not an abstract philosophical condition. It is a tangible reality that takes on flesh and bones in two, seemingly unconnected between them, but profoundly related phenomena that haunt the global community: the unliftable weight of global debt and the uncontrolled emergence of artificial intelligence."

4. Cutaway, attendees

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I:

"These are not simply technical problems that demand technocratic solutions. They are the symptoms of a deep spiritual pathology, the phantoms that the earthly city gives birth to when it attempts to build itself in God’s absence."

6. Cutaway, attendees

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I:

"We are not called, therefore, to compose a new global religion of consensus. We are called, each from the standpoint of his faith, her faith, to constitute a global alliance of conscience, a prophetic testimony that will keep open the horizon of transcendence in a world threatened with asphyxiation, within the confines of the material."

8. Cutaway, attendees

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I:

"Our unity is not founded on what we believe in common, but on our common love for humanity and on our common reverance to the mystery of the one God. This is the only viable peace."

10. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I walking away from podium

STORYLINE:

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I delivered on Tuesday a keynote address at the opening ceremony of a council of global religious leaders advocating for peace.

The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians spoke to dozens of members of the “Religion for Peace” council who have gathered in Istanbul.

The meeting was scheduled to focus on the global debt crisis and on promoting the "ethical development" of artificial intelligence, according to a press release.

“These are not simply technical problems that demand technocratic solutions; they are the symptoms of a deep spiritual pathology,” said Bartholomew I.

Bartholomew I is considered first among equals among Eastern Orthodox patriarchs, which gives him prominence but not the power of a Catholic pope.

He oversees Greek Orthodox and some other jurisdictions, although large portions of the Eastern Orthodox world are self-governing under their own patriarchs.

AP video shot by Mehmet Guzel

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Southern Israel - 29 July 2025

1. Large plume of smoke rising in Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel

STORYLINE:

A large plume of smoke was seen rising into the sky over the Gaza Strip from southern Israel on Tuesday.

The cause of the heavy smoke was not immediately clear.

Over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in the 21-month Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Tuesday.

The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, said the death toll has climbed to to 60,034, with another 145,870 people wounded since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

It did not say how many were civilians or militants, but has said women and children make up around half the dead.

The ministry is staffed by medical professionals. The United Nations and other independent experts view its figures as the most reliable count of casualties.

Israel’s offensive has destroyed vast areas of Gaza, displaced around 90% of the population and caused a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, with experts warning of famine.

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Muwasi, Gaza Strip - 29 July 2025

1. Wide of city pan to aid drops, track down to people on ground around truck with aid, zoom out to wide

STORYLINE:

As more aid was dropped into Gaza on Tuesday, the leading international authority on food crises said the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip", predicting “widespread death” without immediate action.

The alert, still short of a formal famine declaration, follows an outcry over images of emaciated children in Gaza and reports of dozens of hunger-related deaths after nearly 22 months of war. The international pressure led Israel over the weekend to announce measures, including daily humanitarian pauses in fighting in parts of Gaza and airdrops. The United Nations and Palestinians on the ground say little has changed, and desperate crowds continue to overwhelm and unload delivery trucks before they can reach their destinations.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said Gaza has teetered on the brink of famine for two years, but recent developments have “dramatically worsened” the situation, including “increasingly stringent blockades” by Israel.

A formal famine declaration, which is rare, requires the kind of data that the lack of access to Gaza and mobility within has largely denied. The IPC has only declared famine a few times — in Somalia in 2011, South Sudan in 2017 and 2020, and parts of Sudan’s western Darfur region last year.

But independent experts say they don’t need a formal declaration to know what they’re seeing in Gaza.

“Just as a family physician can often diagnose a patient she’s familiar with based on visible symptoms without having to send samples to the lab and wait for results, so too we can interpret Gaza’s symptoms. This is famine,” Alex de Waal, author of “Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine” and executive director of the World Peace Foundation, told The Associated Press.

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Bogota, Colombia - 28 July 2025

1. Ivan Cepeda during press conference

2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ivan Cepeda, Senator and plaintiff against Alvaro Uribe:

++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3-5++

"Today we call on our counterpart to respect and abide by the institutions and, above all, to respect justice. That is why today is a day to recognize justice as the guarantor of democracy and as an effective check on the most powerful politicians and their crimes."

3. Posters stuck on the wall saying (Spanish) 'Uribe to prison.'

4. Banner with the face of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe placed on the wall in front of the Judicial Complex reading (Spanish): 'Uribe Guilty'

5. Protester with a sign reading (Spanish) 'Uribe to prison'

6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ivan Borquez, supporter of senator Ivan Cepeda:

++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PART OVERLAID BY SHOT 7++

"We hope it will be a guilty verdict because there is all the evidence and everything points to it."

7. Supporters of Ubribe arguing with anti-Ubribe group

8. Various of supporters of former President Álvaro Uribe with cardboard cutouts of his face

9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sandra Forero, supporter of former President Uribe:

++PART OVERLAID BY SHOTS 8 AND 10++

"The trial has been public, all the evidence has been shown that there has been manipulation here, but there is a second instance and it will be appealed, as Uribe always does in a democracy and respecting the institutions to that second instance, but today Uribe has already proven his innocence."

10. Supporters of former President Álvaro Uribe

STORYLINE:

Supporters and opponents of Alvaro Uribe clashed briefly outside a court in Bogota where the former Colombian President was found guilty of bribery and witness tampering on Monday.

The ruling was announced by a judge following a nearly six-month trial in which prosecutors presented evidence that Uribe attempted to influence witnesses who accused the law-and-order leader of having links to a paramilitary group founded by ranchers in the 1990s.

Uribe, 73, was not in court for the verdict as the judge has so far not ordered his arrest.

He followed the ruling from his home outside the city of Medellin but did not immediately make any comments about it.

Uribe faces up to 12 years in prison but a sentencing will be delivered in a separate hearing.

He is expected to appeal the ruling.

The former president, who governed from 2002 to 2010 with strong support from the United States, is a polarizing figure in Colombia, where many credit him for saving the country from becoming a failed state, while others associate him with human rights violations and the rise of paramilitary groups in the 1990s.

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Southern Israel overlooking Gaza - 29 July 2025

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1. Various of smoke rising across Gaza skyline

STORYLINE:

Smoke was seen rising Tuesday morning on the Gaza skyline from southern Israel as the Palestinian death toll in the enclave nears 60,000.

It comes as Israel said over the weekend that the military would pause operations in Gaza City, Deir al-Balah and Muwasi for 10 hours a day and designate secure routes for aid delivery.

International airdrops of aid have also resumed.

Israel said it would continue military operations alongside the new humanitarian measures.

Gaza's authorities on Monday reported a death toll of 59,921, with 145,233 others injured, since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on October 7, 2023.

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Southern Israel overlooking Gaza - 29 July 2025

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1. Various of smoke rising across Gaza skyline

STORYLINE:

Smoke was seen rising Tuesday morning on the Gaza skyline from southern Israel as the Palestinian death toll in the enclave nears 60,000.

It comes as Israel said over the weekend that the military would pause operations in Gaza City, Deir al-Balah and Muwasi for 10 hours a day and designate secure routes for aid delivery.

International airdrops of aid have also resumed.

Israel said it would continue military operations alongside the new humanitarian measures.

Gaza's authorities on Monday reported a death toll of 59,921, with 145,233 others injured, since the conflict between Hamas and Israel erupted on October 7, 2023.

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Bogota, Colombia - 28 July 2025

1. Posters stuck on the wall saying (Spanish) 'Uribe to prison.'

2. Banner with the face of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe placed on the wall in front of the Judicial Complex reading (Spanish): 'Uribe Guilty'

3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ivan Borquez, supporter of senator Ivan Cepeda:

"We hope it will be a guilty verdict because there is all the evidence and everything points to it."

4. Protester with a sign reading (Spanish) 'Uribe to prison'

5. Various of supporters of former President Álvaro Uribe with cardboard cutouts of his face

6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sandra Forero, supporter of former President Uribe:

"The trial has been public, all the evidence has been shown that there has been manipulation here, but there is a second instance and it will be appealed, as Uribe always does in a democracy and respecting the institutions to that second instance, but today Uribe has already proven his innocence."

7. Supporters of former President Álvaro Uribe

8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ivan Cepeda, Senator and plaintiff against Alvaro Uribe:

"Today we call on our counterpart to respect and abide by the institutions and, above all, to respect justice. That is why today is a day to recognize justice as the guarantor of democracy and as an effective check on the most powerful politicians and their crimes."

9. Ivan Cepeda during a press conference

10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ivan Cepeda, Senator and plaintiff against Alvaro Uribe:

"In our case, this ruling has established the truth about the sinister apparatus led by Uribe Velez and composed of numerous witnesses who tried to deceive justice."

11. Various of Uribe and Cepada supporters arguing

STORYLINE:

Supporters and opponents of Alvaro Uribe clashed briefly outside a court in Bogota where the former Colombian President was found guilty of bribery and witness tampering on Monday.

The ruling was announced by a judge following a nearly six-month trial in which prosecutors presented evidence that Uribe attempted to influence witnesses who accused the law-and-order leader of having links to a paramilitary group founded by ranchers in the 1990s.

Uribe, 73, was not in court for the verdict as the judge has so far not ordered his arrest. He followed the ruling from his home outside the city of Medellin but did not immediately make any comments about it.

Uribe faces up to 12 years in prison but a sentencing will be delivered in a separate hearing. He is expected to appeal the ruling.

The former president, who governed from 2002 to 2010 with strong support from the United States, is a polarizing figure in Colombia, where many credit him for saving the country from becoming a failed state, while others associate him with human rights violations and the rise of paramilitary groups in the 1990s.

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