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Senior video journalist covering the UK, with approximate knowledge of many things and a disgruntled eye on the MENA region. Ex 
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Reportage à Yampil, petite ville dans l'est de l'Ukraine, où le bruit de l'artillerie résonne à travers la vallée gelée - un rappel constant des combats en cours avec l'armée russe pour le contrôle de la campagne environnante.
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"Nulle part où aller": la petite ville ukrainienne de Yampil redoute une nouvelle offensive russe
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Dans des champs de la région du Donbass, un char T-64 émerge de sa cachette sous un filet de camouflage. Les troupes attendent de pouvoir remplacer ces carcasses rouillées de l'ère soviétique par des nouveaux chars promis par les occidentaux
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So clever!
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Fun little trick in the Sunday New York Times crossword yesterday: the central theme clue was "The better of two sci-fi franchises", and regardless of whether you put Star Wars or Star Trek, the crossing clues worked
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Pour l', je suis allée en Irlande du Nord pour parler avec des témoins du Bloody Sunday et des proches de victimes. La colère et l'émotion y sont toujours aussi vives, un demi-siècle plus tard.
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Cinquante ans après, en Irlande du Nord, la douloureuse mémoire du "Bloody Sunday" #AFP #AFPTV
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Job alert!
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#AFP is is offering an exciting opportunity to operate as a Video Producer in #London.
Starting date: January 2022
Closing date for application: 25/11/2021
u.afp.com/jobsEN
#JoinUs #Journalism #job
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A beautifully-filmed feature on renewable energy innovation in Scotland's Northern Isles ahead of the #COP26, by 's .
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Scotland’s Northern Isles, #Orkney and #Shetland, have long benefited from North Sea oil revenues. But with reserves declining and climate change forcing a transformation of energy policy, the islands have become a hotbed of #renewables innovation
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Scotland’s Northern Isles, #Orkney and #Shetland, have long benefited from North Sea oil revenues. But with reserves declining and climate change forcing a transformation of energy policy, the islands have become a hotbed of #renewables innovation
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Heartbreaking... "We are supposed to give hope in a country where hope does not exist."
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"We are just doing damage control."
The phones at #Lebanon's only suicide hotline hardly stop ringing: a father unable to feed his children says he is thinking of taking his own life, a man recently made homeless says he has lost all hope.
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Please join and for a conversation on "The Future of Journalism in Afghanistan"
We'll hear from people on the ground, living this story, and look at the #mentalhealth considerations and talk about specific ways to help.
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📣 L’#AFP recrute un #journaliste francophone disposant d'une excellente maîtrise de l'arabe et d'un bon niveau d'anglais pour son bureau de Beyrouth.
🗓 Dès que possible
📍 Beyrouth 🇱🇧
Pour postuler, c'est ici 👉 u.afp.com/offres
#MENA #job #presse
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My latest video for , featuring , a brilliant initiative to reduce waste. We need more of this!
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VIDEO: Driving the streets of London in an old milk float, Ella Shone delivers food and household products sold without packaging and without plastic
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A statue of a woman by Lebanese artist Hayat Nazer -- made out of broken glass, rubble and a damaged clock marking the time (6:08 PM) of the mega explosion at the port of Beirut -- is placed opposite the blast site in the Lebanese capital
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Left: an Iraqi protester during an anti-government demonstration in Karbala on October 27, 2019. Right: a Lebanese protester during clashes in Beirut on August 8, 2020. Two different countries, a similar fight.
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I still can't wrap my head around the extent of the damage... For specific updates on #Lebanon, follow
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VIDEO: Aerial shots of blown-out buildings in the vicinity of the Beirut port as the estimated number of people wounded in the monster explosion has shot up to 6,000, the health ministry has said
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#Lebanon protesters put up gallow and hang cutouts of the country’s political class, including the leader of Hezbollah, the president, the speaker of parliament, and so on.
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Such a powerful image 🇱🇧
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#Lebanon protesters stage mock executions of politicians after the #BeirutBlast
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With Hafez al-Assad's death anniversary coming up tmrw, takes a retrospective look at the 20 years that followed this seismic event, during which Syria has gone from bad to worse. w/ & comments from
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My images of the full "Strawberry Moon" for . Filming it offered a very brief respite from this week's doom and gloom 🌖
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#VIDEO June's full moon, also known as a "Strawberry Moon" since it occurs during strawberry season, rises over the British capital, London. It's accompanied this year by an astronomical phenomenon known as a penumbral lunar eclipse 
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Crowds gather outside the U.S. Embassy in London for #BlackLivesMatterUK protests. #blacklivesmatter #ICantBreathe #blmldn #BLM
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In these times of hardship, it's heartwarming to see that so many people want to help those most affected by the pandemic, like the volunteers of London-based charity Family Meal. My video for :
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VIDEO: Volunteers and chefs chop vegetables and cook healthy meals to distribute for free to medical staff, essential workers and vulnerable people around London, as the #coronavirus pandemic continues to rage in the UK.
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Volunteers and chefs chop vegetables and cook healthy meals to distribute for free to medical staff, essential workers and vulnerable people around London, as the #coronavirus pandemic continues to rage in the UK.
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Music to soothe the soul in these times of uncertainty. My video for of the lovely performing "l'amour est un oiseau rebelle" on her balcony in east London:
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VIDEO: British mezzo-soprano Phoebe Haines sings from her balcony to entertain her neighbours in London amid the coronavirus lockdown
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VIDEO: Chennai policeman Rajesh Babu has found a creative way to get people to take precautions against the COVID-19 outbreak: a helmet made to make people think of the coronavirus
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Life in confinement -- in photos.
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These Italian mayors are all of us.
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"I stopped him and said, 'Look, this isn't a movie. You are not Will Smith in I Am Legend. Go home."
This is the updated compilation of Italian Mayors losing it at people violating #Covid19 quarantine. Yes, subtitles are accurate.
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