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Two one-hundred-year-old African American World War One veterans were honoured on Monday.

The two men became Knights of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, France's highest award.

The awards were presented as part of French President Jacques campaign to commemorate the end of the first World War by honoring surviving American military personnel who served in France.

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Better late than never, thought the French, who just recently started a campaign to honour surviving American military personnel who served in France.

The occasion marks part of the 80th Anniversary of the Armistice that ended the war on November 11th 1918.

Having waited most of their lives, Herbert W. Young, who is 104, and Robert Thomas, who is 113, were awarded medals by the French Consul General, Richard Tuque, and made Knights of the French Legion of Honour.

[SOUNDBITE: (English)

"Robert Thomas, on behalf ot the President of the French Republic, and by virtue of the powers vested in me, I hereby make you a Knight of the Legion of Honour."

SUPER CAPTION: Richard Tuque, French Consul General]

Both men, who served in France during the war, received France's highest award.

SOUNDBITE: (English)

"...and by the virtue of the powers vested in me, I hereby make you a Knight of the Legion of Honour."

SUPER CAPTION: Richard Tuque, French Consul General]

There are an estimated three thousand American World War One veterans, half of whom are believed to have served in France during the war.

The Legion of Honour will not be given posthumously to American veterans.

To date more than 300 World War One veterans have filed applications for the award.

New York City, USA, 22 February 1999

1. Wide shot exterior French Consulate

2. Close shot consulate sign

3. Two French soldier with flags

4. Interior of consulate, playing

5. Close shot soldier saluting

6. Cutaway cameramen, pan to Herbert W. Young and Robert Thomas, being honoured

7. Family of veterans

8. Close shot medals

9. French Consul General taking medal from pillow

10. Cutaway media

11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Tuque, French Consul General

12. Close shot Herbert Young

13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Tuque, French Consul General

14. Cutaway media

15. Glass of champagne, pullout to side view of ceremony

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A remembrance ceremony was held on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the Second World War's bloodiest battles.

Dozens of US veterans, now in their 80s and 90s as well as US and Japanese officials flew to the island, where the US invasion began on 19 February 1945, and lasted 36 days.

The battle claimed 6,821 American and 21,570 Japanese lives.

Speaking at the ceremony, Ray Mabus, United States Secretary of the Navy said the "inferno of Iwo Jima" brought the two nations together.

"Our partnership developed in a wake of war and has grown ever stronger in the years since. Today the Unites States and Japan are inter dependent - they have cooperation from everything from international security to free trade. We depend on one another so that each nation may live in peace and prosperity," said Mabus.

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani pledged to work hard to strengthen the US-Japan alliance which is "based on the sacrifice of those who perished" on Iwo Jima.

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Iwo Jima, Japan - 21 March 2015

1. US war veterans and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus laying wreath

2. Close of flowers

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ray Mabus, United States Secretary of the Navy:

"Rising from the inferno of Iwo Jima our partnership developed in a wake of war and has grown ever stronger in the years since. Today the Unites States and Japan are interdependent. They have cooperation from everything from international security to free trade. We depend on one another so that each nation may live in peace and prosperity. America and Japan stand together today as sailors, marines, soldiers airmen, as nations and as friends."

4. Various of veterans, military and officials listening

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ray Mabus, United States Secretary of the Navy:

"As partners we will face together whatever challenges the future brings, but we will never forget the lessons of our past. To overcome trying times we will invoke the character traits demonstrated by the battle for Iwo Jima - honor, courage, sacrifice."

6. Wide of military holding Japanese and US flags

7. Ceremonial gun salute

HEADLINE: A look inside the control room of the Predator

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CAPTION: One of the world's most mysterious military aircraft is flown into war zones from an air-conditioned trailer in Southern California nicknamed the Dumpster. The AP's John Mone visited a control room for the Predator unmanned aerial vehicle, an increasingly large part of U.S. military force. (Aug 6)

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March Air Reserve Base, CA

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[[VO: opening shot, a wide of what looks like a dumpster, but inside are controls for UAVs]]

[[SUPER: March Reserve Base, CA]]

INSIDE WHAT LOOKS LIKE A DUMPSTER ARE THE CONTROLS TO ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST MYSTERIOUS AIRCRAFT--

[[SOT]]

[[SUPER: Lt. Col. Kirby R. Colas// Cmdr. 196th Reconnaissance Squadron, 163rd Reconnaissance Wing]]

"We fly the Predator Drone."

[[VO: Colas inside the dumpster...shots of crew members pointing out controls for UAVs, dissolve to exterior of hangar at March ARB iin Riverside]]

AIR NATIONAL GUARD LIEUTENANT COLONEL KIRBY COLAS SHOWED US A CONTROL ROOM FOR THE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE OR DRONE AT THE MARCH AIR FORCE RESERVE BASE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

"we are flying airplanes that are on the other side of the world. we control them from right here at March."

[[VO: Images of the drone in the hangar. Cuts to video downloaded from the USAF of declassified drone missions, you see what look like people walking around car...a street...and then explosions...(from a hell fire missile ]]

[[SUPER: Date: April 11 2008 Video Source: US Air Force]]

ALSO KNOWN AS THE PREDATOR...IT IS QUICKLY BECOMING A MILITARY MAINSTAY IN BOTH IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN. FROM HIGH ALTITUDES DRONES CAN SPY VIRTUALLY UN-NOTICED FOR UP TO 20 HOURS AND DELIVER DEADLY FORCE WITH HELLFIRE MISSILES...AS SHOWN IN THIS DECLASSIFIED RECORDING FROM A MISSION IN BASRA IRAQ...

[[SOT]]

[[SUPER: Col. Albert Aimar//163rd Reconnaissance Wing]]

" this is the wave of the future. the unmanned aerial system is going to be increased a number of caps. what we have going on right...sec. gates wants even more."

[[GRAPHIC...TEXT WITH A BUILD? USE PHRASES IN QUOTES SOURCE: USAF]]

AIR FORCE STATISTICS SHOW DRONES LOGGED MORE THAN "79,000 FLYING HOURS"...

"20 THOUSAND MORE" THAN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.

[[VO: Scott Lindlaw with Lt. Col. Colas at a simulator]]

ASSOCIATED PRESS HOMELAND SECURITY WRITER SCOTT LINDLAW GOT TO SIT IN A TRAINING "COCKPIT"

[[NATS POP OF LINDLAW INTERACTING WITH LT. COL COLAS]]

[[VO: tight shot of the nose cone of the aircraft...dissolve to more declassified video]]

AT THE NOSE OF THE CRAFT IS A CAMERA WITH A LONG ZOOM. IT'S THE ONLY VISUAL A PILOT HAS...

IT MAY LOOK LIKE A VIDEO GAME...BUT OPERATING THE PREDATOR IS VERY COMPLEX.

[[SOT]]

[[SUPER: Lt Col. Kirby Colas//]]

"...the physical reaction time is a couple of seconds from when you tell the airplane to do something and when it tells you it's done it. "

[[GRAPHIC]]

[[STARTS WITH VO OF THE CONTROL ROOM...THEN DISSOLVES TO graphic descriptor-- usa map, California highlighted maybe...globe rotates to Germany...satellite on top of Germany beams information up to another satellite down to drone']]

FROM CONTROL ROOM THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY AN AIR NATIONAL GUARD PILOT CONTROLS THE DRONE. THEY SIT AT A CONTROL STATION LIKE THIS ONE IN CALIFORNIA. THE STICKS AND BUTTONS SEND SIGNALS THAT TRAVEL THROUGH FIBRE OPTIC CABLES TO A GROUND STATION IN GERMANY. THE DATA GETS BEAMED UP TO A SATELLITE THAT CAN "SEE" IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN. THE INFORMATION GETS BOUNCED DOWN TO THE LITTLE DRONE.

[[SOT]]

[[SUPER: Lt. Col. Kirby Colas//]]

"you're also deprived of all the sensory keys that pilots normal have. the feel smells sounds and sights of an airplane."

[[VO: Different angles of the still drone...cuts to the dumpster control room][]

A MILITARY REPORT ON A PREDATOR CRASH UNDERSCORES THE STRANGE ENVIRONMENT PILOTS OPERATE IN...

[[GRAPHIC, BUILD WITH BULLET POINTS USING TEXT IN QUOTES]]

*IN KANDAHAR AIR BASE AFGHANISTAN...A DRONE TOUCHED DOWN NOSE FIRST ON THE RUNWAY...AND THEN "BOUNCED INTO THE AIR SEVEN TIMES BEFORE SKIDDING TO STOP."

*IT CAUSED ALMOST TWO MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGE.

THE REPORT BLAMED A PILOT AT A NEVADA AIR FORCE BASE...FOR THE CRASH. BUT DID SAY THE "UNIQUE FLIGHT CONTROL" CONTRIBUTED TO IT.

[[SOURCE: USAF]]

[[VO: declassified video, shots of the drone from different angles]]

[[TRACK]]

IN LAST YEAR AND A HALF THERE HAVE BEEN FIVE PREDATOR MISHAPS...BUT THE OFFICIALS WE SPOKE WITH ARE QUICK TO POINT OUT THE FAILURE RATE FOR DRONES IS MUCH LOWER THAN "MANNED" AIRCRAFT.

THE U-A-V IS EXPENDABLE...NO PILOT TO WORRY ABOUT IF IT GETS SHOT DOWN OR CRASHES....BECAUSE THAT PERSON IS IN A CONTROL ROOM FAR AWAY. JOHN MONE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MARCH AIR RESERVE BASE, CALIFORNIA

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Washington - 2 June 2015

1. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"Today, America honors two of her sons who served in World War I, nearly a century ago. These two soldiers were roughly the same age, dropped into the battlefields of France at roughly the same time. They both risked their own lives to save the lives of others. They both left us decades ago before we could give them the full recognition they deserve. But it's never too late to say, 'Thank you.'"

2. Wide of audience with African American servicemen

++SOUNDBITE COVERED BY SHOT 2++

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"We can't change what happened to too many soldiers like him (Pvt. Henry Johnson) who went uncelebrated because our nation judged them by the color of their skin and not the content of their character but we can do our best to make it right."

4. Obama presenting Medal of Honor to New York Army National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. Louis E. Wilson on behalf of the belated Pvt. Henry Johnson

++SOUNDBITE COVERED BY SHOT 4++

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"Today we present America's highest military declaration, the medal of honor to Pvt Henry Johnson and Sgt. William Shemin."

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"It has taken a long time for Henry Johnson William Shemin to receive the recognition they deserve. And there are surely others whose heroism is still unacknowledged and uncelebrated. So we have work to do as a nation to make sure that all of our heroes stories our told, and we will keep at it no matter how long it takes."

STORYLINE:

President Barack Obama is awarding the Medal of Honor to two World War I U.S. Army soldiers who may have been denied the top military honor in the past due to discrimination.

Correcting a long ago wrong, Obama posthumously recognized Sgt. William Shemin, a Jewish soldier, and Pvt. Henry Johnson, an African American serviceman, for their heroism nearly a century ago.

Obama says "they both risked their own lives to save the lives of others." And he adds: "It's never too late to say thank you."

Shemin's two daughters, Elsie and Ina, received the award on behalf of their father. New York National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. Louis Wilson accepted the medal on Johnson's behalf.

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Washington - 2 June 2015

1. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"Today, America honors two of her sons who served in World War I, nearly a century ago. These two soldiers were roughly the same age, dropped into the battlefields of France at roughly the same time. They both risked their own lives to save the lives of others. They both left us decades ago before we could give them the full recognition they deserve. But it's never too late to say, 'Thank you.'"

2. Wide of audience with African American servicemen

++SOUNDBITE COVERED BY SHOT 2++

3. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"We can't change what happened to too many soldiers like him (Pvt. Henry Johnson) who went uncelebrated because our nation judged them by the color of their skin and not the content of their character but we can do our best to make it right."

4. Obama presenting Medal of Honor to New York Army National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. Louis E. Wilson on behalf of the belated Pvt. Henry Johnson

++SOUNDBITE COVERED BY SHOT 4++

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"Today we present America's highest military declaration, the medal of honor to Pvt Henry Johnson and Sgt. William Shemin."

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"It has taken a long time for Henry Johnson William Shemin to receive the recognition they deserve. And there are surely others whose heroism is still unacknowledged and uncelebrated. So we have work to do as a nation to make sure that all of our heroes stories our told, and we will keep at it no matter how long it takes."

STORYLINE:

President Barack Obama is awarding the Medal of Honor to two World War I U.S. Army soldiers who may have been denied the top military honor in the past due to discrimination.

Correcting a long ago wrong, Obama posthumously recognized Sgt. William Shemin, a Jewish soldier, and Pvt. Henry Johnson, an African American serviceman, for their heroism nearly a century ago.

Obama says "they both risked their own lives to save the lives of others." And he adds: "It's never too late to say thank you."

Shemin's two daughters, Elsie and Ina, received the award on behalf of their father. New York National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. Louis Wilson accepted the medal on Johnson's behalf.

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Washington - 2 June 2015

1. President Barack Obama walks into ceremony

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"Today, America honors two of her sons who served in World War I, nearly a century ago. These two soldiers were roughly the same age, dropped into the battlefields of France at roughly the same time. They both risked their own lives to save the lives of others. They both left us decades ago before we could give them the full recognition they deserve. But it's never too late to say, 'Thank you.'"

3. Wide of audience

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"We can't change what happened to too many soldiers like him (Pvt. Henry Johnson) who went uncelebrated because our nation judged them by the color of their skin and not the content of their character but we can do our best to make it right."

5. Various of Obama presenting Medal of Honor to New York Army National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. Louis E. Wilson on behalf of the belated Pvt. Henry Johnson

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"Today we present America's highest military declaration, the medal of honor to Pvt Henry Johnson and Sgt. William Shemin."

7. Various of Sgt. William Shemin's daughters, Elsie and Ina, accepting medal on his behalf

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"It has taken a long time for Henry Johnson William Shemin to receive the recognition they deserve. And there are surely others whose heroism is unacknowledged and uncelebrated. So we have work to do as a nation to make sure that all of our heroes stories our told."

9. Obama leaves ceremony

STORYLINE:

President Barack Obama is awarding the Medal of Honor to two World War I U.S. Army soldiers who may have been denied the top military honor in the past due to discrimination.

Correcting a long ago wrong, Obama posthumously recognized Sgt. William Shemin, a Jewish soldier, and Pvt. Henry Johnson, an African American serviceman, for their heroism nearly a century ago.

Obama says "they both risked their own lives to save the lives of others." And he adds: "It's never too late to say thank you."

Shemin's two daughters, Elsie and Ina, received the award on behalf of their father. New York National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. Louis Wilson accepted the medal on Johnson's behalf.

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SHOTLIST:

AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY

Washington - 2 June 2015

1. President Barack Obama walks into ceremony

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"Today, America honors two of her sons who served in World War I, nearly a century ago. These two soldiers were roughly the same age, dropped into the battlefields of France at roughly the same time. They both risked their own lives to save the lives of others. They both left us decades ago before we could give them the full recognition they deserve. But it's never too late to say, 'Thank you.'"

3. Wide of audience

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"We can't change what happened to too many soldiers like him (Pvt. Henry Johnson) who went uncelebrated because our nation judged them by the color of their skin and not the content of their character but we can do our best to make it right."

5. Various of Obama presenting Medal of Honor to New York Army National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. Louis E. Wilson on behalf of the belated Pvt. Henry Johnson

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"Today we present America's highest military declaration, the medal of honor to Pvt Henry Johnson and Sgt. William Shemin."

7. Various of Sgt. William Shemin's daughters, Elsie and Ina, accepting medal on his behalf

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Barack Obama:

"It has taken a long time for Henry Johnson William Shemin to receive the recognition they deserve. And there are surely others whose heroism is unacknowledged and uncelebrated. So we have work to do as a nation to make sure that all of our heroes stories our told."

9. Obama leaves ceremony

STORYLINE:

President Barack Obama is awarding the Medal of Honor to two World War I U.S. Army soldiers who may have been denied the top military honor in the past due to discrimination.

Correcting a long ago wrong, Obama posthumously recognized Sgt. William Shemin, a Jewish soldier, and Pvt. Henry Johnson, an African American serviceman, for their heroism nearly a century ago.

Obama says "they both risked their own lives to save the lives of others." And he adds: "It's never too late to say thank you."

Shemin's two daughters, Elsie and Ina, received the award on behalf of their father. New York National Guard Command Sgt. Maj. Louis Wilson accepted the medal on Johnson's behalf.

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Rushes of Donald Trump’s rally in Macon, Georgia.

Donald Trump: (02:24)

I love Georgia. I love being with you. This is Georgia. This is Macon, Georgia. We won Macon, Georgia. We’re going to win it again. It’s great to be back in the heart of this incredible state with the thousands of loyal, hardworking, unbelievable American patriots. Thank you very much. In 18 days from now, we’re going to win the state of Georgia. We’re going to win four more years in that beautiful and incredible in so many ways… That beautiful white house, right? And just remember, early voting is underway. Get out and vote, go out and vote. So we’re running against perhaps the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics. Can you believe this?

Donald Trump: (03:20)

Did you watch last night? I mean, give me a break. But actually I wish he was a good candidate because it actually puts more pressure on you running against a guy like this. Sleepy Joe Biden is the living embodiment of the corrupt political class that enriched himself while draining the economic life and soul from our country. You know what’s happened. You know very well in Georgia, what happened. For the last 47 years, Joe Biden, he shipped away your jobs, shut down your factories, threw open your borders and ravaged our cities while sacrificing American blood and treasure in endless and ridiculous foreign wars.

Donald Trump: (04:09)

In places you’ve never even heard of before. How ridiculous. He’s a servant of the wealthy donors, globalists and special interests who got rich bleeding America dry. And by the way, I could call these guys. Every one of them would give me millions. I’m President. I called heads of Wall Street firms. I’d say, “Hey, do me a favor. Could you give me 5 million every single day?” I can’t do that though, because you know what? If I do that, I got to do things for them. And I don’t want to do… I want to do what’s right. I could call… I could raise more money…

Donald Trump: (04:45)

I could raise more money. I’d be the world’s greatest fundraiser, but I just don’t want to do it because then they call you and your son and say, “Hey. They treated me good. I got to treat them good.” I know you don’t think that’s the way the system works, but that’s the way the system, I guess, works, unfortunately. But it doesn’t work that way for me. In 2016, you voted to fire this corrupt and decrepit political establishment and you elected an outsider as president to finally put America first.

Donald Trump: (05:18)

And we’ve learned over the last couple of months, Joe Biden is a corrupt politician. He’s a corrupt politician. And the Biden family is a criminal enterprise. Frankly, it makes crooked Hillary Clinton look like an amateur.

Donald Trump: (05:40)

Now whoever saw anything like this? He goes to China. The kid is followed like a vacuum cleaner. He follows and follows of follows. And unfortunately it sounds like he left his laptop behind, or they have thousands…

Donald Trump: (05:58)

This is the guy didn’t have a job, but now he’s taking in millions and plenty of it goes to Joe Biden, too. Don’t kid yourself. It goes to Joe… But did you see the one today? The guy gets 10%. 10%. I wonder who the guy is. This was not a good between Anthony Wiener’s laptop and this laptop. These are two beauties. I think this one could be worse than the Wiener laptop. Yet, this massive scandal is being covered up by the media and big tech, right? All those people, look at them.

Donald Trump: (06:40)

So here we have… Think of it. Here we have the biggest scandal going on anywhere in the world, the corruption of Joe Biden and the Biden family. And he’s interviewed last night by Stephanopoulos and ABC. And they don’t even ask him the question about it. No, no. Think of it. They don’t even ask him a question. Like, ” How come your son got three and a half million dollars from Moscow?” Right From Moscow, Russia. Because they were the ones involved with Russia, it turns out. Not me. It was the opposite.

Donald Trump: (07:11)

But why did you son get three and a half million from the wife of the mayor of Moscow? Think of it. Think of it. A little question like that. Remember Chris Wallace said, “Oh, well you shouldn’t ask him that question.” Why not? Why is that, Chris? Tell me. He’s no Mike. He’s no Mike. Chris is no Mike. But then the other one. How about this? A billion dollars, get rid of the prosecutor. Otherwise you don’t get the billion dollars from the United States, but that’s turning out to be peanuts compared to what we’re finding now. Now he wants $10 million from China to make an introduction. Would anybody here take 10 million to introduce somebody to your father?

Donald Trump: (07:51)

I’d do it, Dad. I’d do it for 10 million bucks. I’d love to introduce… I would do it, Pop, and he’d want me to do it. 10 million, Dad, please? I had a great father. I’m not just running against Biden and that corrupt family. I’m running against the left wing corrupt media. And we’re running against big tech. [crosstalk 00:08:11]

Donald Trump: (08:11)

This is a hell of a big crowd. Look at it. It goes all the way back there. But the media, they never show it. You ever notice? You go home. They show me and about three people behind me. People left, right. Four stars. They end up three plus one.

Donald Trump: (09:23)

I love that. But no politician, I believe, has ever heard that chant. Really. We love somebody. No, think of it. Reagan. I love Reagan. He was a wonderful guy. You never heard the chant, “We love Reagan.” You never heard that. This started a few weeks ago and it’s amazing. And I appreciate it very much. I do. I appreciate it.

Donald Trump: (09:45)

And I love this state. I love Georgia. When you had the hurricane overdrive, where it came in and wiped out a lot of your area… David Purdue, who is a fantastic guy who may be here someplace, but David Purdue called me. He said, “You got to do me a favor. You got to help us with our farmers.” And we gave them a hell of a lot of money. They got wiped out by a hurricane. You don’t hit too many hurricanes, right? But this was a big monster that hit Florida, hit a lot of different areas. Hit Alabama. We took care of Alabama. We took care of Georgia. We took care of Georgia. Took care of our farmers. I’ll never forget. I stood. I came here and I stood and I was with 32 farmers. All of them got hit hard. And one of them said, “Sir, I was a week away from having the best crop I’ve ever had. And it got ripped apart. Just ripped apart.” It wasn’t his fault. And we took care of him. We took care of all of them. Okay? That made me feel good. It made me feel good. Great people. And they never asked for anything. They just want a level playing field. That’s all they ever wanted. And I raised, by the way, 28 billion. Thank you China, because they targeted our farmers. 12 billion and then the next year, $16 billion. Frankly, you did better without even working, if you want to know the truth. Came from China and we did a hell of a job and those farmers are all happy today, but they were targeted by China. We got $28 billion in tariffs and we gave it to your farmers and everybody’s doing just fine today, right? But the radical left is doing everything in their power to protect their chosen candidate, who has no clue where he is. He’s gone. They have nothing but disdain for you and for your values and the values of Georgia. I know Georgia very well. They flood your communities with criminal aliens, with drugs, crime, while leaving behind. And you see what they do. They live in gated communities, but they flood you out. They complain about guns and they complain about everything. And then they want to end your second amendment, but they want protection for themselves. They oppose school choice while sending their families to the best private schools. We need school choice, by the way.

Donald Trump: (12:25)

They demonize our great… And you see this… Hello. Look how beautiful. So beautiful. They demonize our great police and law enforcement while hiring private security for themselves. They attack the second amendment every single day while employing armed guards. And let me tell you, I am the only thing standing in the way of you and your second amendment. It’s under siege. That’s a big deal. They support crippling lock downs while their jobs remain totally exempt. It’s time we sent a message to these wealthy, liberal hypocrites. I could have every one of them. By the way, I mean, just like I said before I know these guys. I could call them all. “Hey, do me a favor. Irving, send me 5 million.” “Okay. I’ll do it. Donald, I’ll do it, if you want it.” Oh man, I got to do it. Do you mind if I take one week and just do it? I will set the all time record on fundraising. Man, would I be good at that. It’s so easy. I wouldn’t have to explain a thing. But they come from Washington. They come from New York. They come from Silicon Valley. And by the way, those Silicon Valley guys are sort of getting caught, aren’t they? Huh?

Donald Trump: (13:52)

Section 230. I’m sure most of you don’t know what that means. Section 230. These guys, they’re given powers. They’re given rights by Washington. And then they claim free speech, right? They claim… But no, but they’re given an exemption. They’re given a total exemption and they can’t abuse that power. And there’s a lot of things going on right now. And a lot of your people are looking. We have some of those people here, your great congressmen senators, and we’ll be introducing them in a second. But they’re looking very hard at section 230. On election day. You can send a message that the fake news media, right there. Boy, there are a lot of them. Look at that. It looks like the Academy awards. It’s a lot of people. There are a lot of people. Look at those cameras that are all running with us red lights. But every time I mention their name, those red lights go off. The red lights… That means you’re live.

Donald Trump: (14:49)

And then I start talking about him. They say, “Get the light off.” Turn it off. Go to a break. Let’s go to a break right now.” And fake news, CNN, they don’t know what they are. So fake. They really are. They’re just disgusting. NBC is no better. Did you get to see last night? They did a good job. But look, I mean, I could have had somebody else, they’re all the same. I mean, they ask you a question. You give them an answer, right? But I want to tell you that she’s disappeared. Everybody thought it was so inappropriate. Here they give this guy softballs. Did you see a week ago, Lester Holt? Lester Holt. Another genius. Lester Holt. “Here, Mr. Vice-President, sir, what did you have for dinner, sir? Was it good?” And in Savannah, [inaudible 00:15:42] faced the anger, the craziness. I mean, the craziness last night. And I said, goodbye.

Donald Trump: (15:48)

I said, “Great job, Savannah. You did wonderfully. Good job.” But we got very high marks for that last night. But they thought it was very unfair that Sleepy Joe who cannot answer a question… He really can’t answer a question. Well, Chris Wallace protected him with me. I talked about the Moscow three-and-a-half million payment. I talked about the billion dollars. Chris Wallace wouldn’t let that… He said, “No, that’s not appropriate.” Why? You mean the guy’s allowed to take three and a half a million bucks and we’re not allowed to talk to him about it? I’m telling you, that Biden family… And others, but that Biden family is corrupt. It’s a corrupt family.

Donald Trump: (16:29)

And with me and my kids… Let me tell you, my kids… I’ll tell you something. Lock them up. You should lock them up. Lock up the Bidens. Lock up Hillary. Lock them up. Can you imagine if my kids did what this guy Hunter’s doing? Ivanka… Ah, my beautiful, my wonderful Ivanka. She’s a good kid. Can you imagine?

Donald Trump: (17:03)

And she’s much smarter, much sharper. She could, if she wanted to. Oh, could she do well. And Don and Eric and Tiffany, they’re good kids. But we don’t do things. Boy, they’d make a fortune. Just think of it. And when you look at what they get away with… And by the way, Biden’s brother, try that one. I won’t go too deep in the family. I’m not looking to insult everybody. But honestly, in my opinion, it’s a criminal enterprise. It’s a criminal enterprise. He’s like a vacuum cleaner. The father goes through and the son comes in, a vacuum. Cleaner millions of dollars pouring in. And take a look at the way they live. 47 years, he’s a politician. He lives very well. Almost as well as Maxine Waters. You ever see her house? Maxine. Maxine Waters. What a beautiful house she lives in. I wonder how that happened. On election day, you can send a message that the fake news media can’t get away with any longer. We can’t let them get away with it any longer.

Donald Trump: (18:09)

And these big tech companies… It’s funny because I’ve heard about the big tech companies. I didn’t care too much. And I heard the power was unbelievable. And it’s 99% for the other side. And I kept hearing about big tech, the power, the power, the power. I ran. I kept hearing it. What the hell? In one ear, out the other. But I kept hearing and we won. So I kept hearing after that. We won. And I said, “Well, wait a minute. If they’re so powerful, how come we won?” Right. They were 100% against us. But now it’s gotten worse and worse. And now they’ve gone crazy. They’ve gone crazy. How about our magnificent Kaylee? Right? So Kaylee…

Donald Trump: (18:53)

I don’t know what the word would be. I guess, suspended, but they suspended her account because she posted an article from the New York Post, which is one of the largest papers in the country… Which by the way, I want to thank them. The one paper… They’ve really got guts. They’re printing this stuff. They got to be making a fortune, as much as they can make in that industry nowadays. But when you look at the failing New York Times and the Washington Post, they don’t want to write about it. They don’t want to write. This is the biggest political scandal. No, I’m sorry. It’s the second biggest political scandal. The biggest political scandal, we caught them. That’s when they spied on our campaign and tried to take down your President. But this is the second biggest political scandal. These are a bunch of bad people. And you think it’s fun doing what I do, right? No. I had a great life. I want to tell you. I was doing well. I was having a lot of fun, but you know what? I would never give up what we’ve achieved. Think of what we’ve achieved.

Donald Trump: (19:56)

I mean, honestly, there are a lot of successful people. There are a lot of people, their success. We’ve got a lot of them right here. A lot of successful people, but nobody in first three and a half years… Nobody. First three and a half years, nobody has achieved the history of our country what we’ve achieved with our military, with our tax cuts, with our regulation cuts. With all of the things that we’ve done, nobody has done as much as we’ve done. Things like Right To Try, things like Space Force. Thank you very much. No, I always get them. I said, “Turn the cameras. Turn the cameras.” So we just left Florida. We had a crowd that was like this. It was massive. It went on forever. I said, “Turn the cameras, show the crowd.” They don’t realize it’s actually good for them because it’s exciting. It’s like being at a Florida state, Florida, Ohio State, if you want to say. It’s a massive football game. Before we had to socially distance, we have all these empty seats. Right? You’ll be back very soon. You’ll be back very soon. And then of course, Georgia. Not bad. You’re doing okay.

Donald Trump: (21:25)

And who’s the greatest of them all from Georgia? Who’s the greatest of them all from Georgia? Herschel. Herschel.

Donald Trump: (21:37)

By the way, how good was Herschel Walker? Right?

Donald Trump: (21:45)

He made a lot of quarterbacks look good. Here, Herschel. Run it. Ball. Six yards, nine yards, 10 yards, 100 yards. And he’s on our side and he’s an incredible guy. Herschel Walker. I remember when he was playing here. They had the ballad. The ballad to Herschel Walker. He was just a legendary guy. Remember? From the time he started. Just boom, six yards, eight yards, 10 yards. And then the quarterback goes, he says, “I think I’m going to sign with the NFL.” It’s amazing. But Hershel’s been great. And Herschel loves his state and the fact that we have his endorsement so strongly, I mean, so strongly, we love it. But what a great football player, he was. What a great winner. We want to thank Herschel. The ballad to Herschel Walker. On November 3rd, show the people, the great American people that we’re charge, that we’re delivering Sleepy Joe Biden and that whole group of radical left crazies. And by the way, he’s not really radical left, but he’s got no choice. He’s got absolutely nothing going. They’re running the party. How about Kamala? Kamala? How good did Mike Pence do?

Donald Trump: (22:57)

So how good did Mike Pence do a week ago against Kamala? That was easy. Mike is great. He’s doing a great job. And he really did. He did a great job, but it’s very unfair. It’s so unfair when you watch… Okay. You watch last night and you see the anger and the hatred. I’m saying, “Well, look, let’s just do this thing. Just take it easy. Relax. Just relax. Take it nice and easy. Okay? Okay?” She said, “But I told you it true.” I said, “I don’t believe you. Why would I believe you?” You see that, where she’s screaming? I said, “Well, who told me?” “I told you.” I said, “Who cares if you told me. What are you telling me?” But we got very high marks. But compare that. Could you imagine if Joe Biden was treated like Savannah Guthrie treated us? Not me. It’s us. Could you imagine? He would be freaked out?

Donald Trump: (23:59)

He would probably be under the table. He would be under the table. And she’s easy compared to president Xi and Putin and Kim Jong-Un and plenty of others. She’s easy pickings. But could you imagine if she came at him? Did you see? Now, I was interviewed a couple of weeks back by George Stephanopoulos and it was a tough interview, but it was fine. I don’t say, “Give me the answers of the questions.” Do you ever see where they ask him a question and then he starts reading the… That means he has the answers to… I’d never saw anything like what’s going on in my entire life. They ask, “Did you see that a week ago where he said, “Move it up a little close. I can’t read the damn answer.” This is the fake news. I’ve been saying it. I am so proud of the fact that I’ve exposed these people for what they are. I’m telling you.

Donald Trump: (25:00)

Look at all that equipment. It’s millions of dollars worth of equipment. And you know what? If they were truthful, our country would come together so fast. It’s really true. They’re a big part of the problem. I was saying today, I was telling… When I was in Florida, I was telling the story that, our people, we’re going to bring it all together. And they said, “How are you going to do it through success?” Because we were ready. We had the most successful economy we’ve ever had. We never had an economy… African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, women, people with high school diplomas, people without high school diplomas, people from MIT, top of their class, geniuses, physicists, chemical engineers, everybody was doing better than they’ve ever done.

Donald Trump: (25:48)

And then we had the plague sent to us by China. We’re not going to forget that. We’re not going to forget that. We’re not going to forget it. And they know we’re not going to forget it. They know it damn well that we’re not going to forget it. And now we closed it down, we saved millions of lives. They don’t say that. We’re over 200,000, that’s terrible. But compared to other nations, it’s amazing what we’ve been able to do. But we saved millions. It was supposed to be 2.2 million lives, right? And we saved millions of lives. And now we’re rebuilding it back and our economy is setting records. What we’re doing is setting records.

Donald Trump: (26:29)

But if I don’t sound like a typical Washington politician it’s because I’m not a politician. And if I don’t always play by the rules of the Washington establishment and it would make… It would make my life a lot easier, to be honest. I know how to play those rules. Remember, they used to say, and I used to play the game about acting presidential. I’m a smart guy, we’re a lot of smart people here. I’m smart. And I always said, “It’s much easier to be presidential than to do what I do.” Right? Remember? And I said-

Donald Trump: (27:03)

Tell Lyn to do what I do. Right? Remember? And I said, “I’m more presidential if I wanted to be, but I got to get things done. I don’t have enough time. There’s so many stupid things that happened with bad deals, stupid deals, bad trade deal. But do you remember, I used to go and I would have fun, but I’d used to go and I’d imitate a president who’s playing presidential, that’s so easy compared to what we do, what we do is much more difficult. I said, “I can be more presidential than any president in our history with a possible exception of Abraham Lincoln when he wore the hat. That was tough beat.” That was tough to bit.

Donald Trump: (27:38)

But you remember, we had fun with it, we’d say, “Ladies and gentlemen of Georgia, this is your president. And it is a great honor to be with you tonight. Things are going very well with our country. Our military is building.” So I could do that and within about three minutes, everybody would pick up and they say, Let’s get that loud here. This guy is…” Now we’re doing a great job. We’re renegotiating these horrible trade deals. We’re bringing up people back home. Our soldiers are great heroes, because I was elected to fight for you, and I fight harder for you than any president has ever fought for the people of this country. Thank you very much.

Audience : (28:40)

USA. USA.

Donald Trump: (28:54)

Thank you. By the way, I have to tell you, the spirit in this country is unbelievable, but the spirit in these rallies are unbelievable. And Hey, we are in Minnesota, we’re going to win Minnesota. Minnesota, I think hasn’t been one since 1972, we’re going to win Minnesota. We’re going to Minnesota. Opened up the INR. We opened up areas of Minnesota that they closed in. In Maine, Obama took away 5,000 square miles of ocean. Can you believe it? I gave it back to the people of Maine. We’re doing things that nobody’s ever thought about doing, ever done. We went into you… take a look at Minneapolis, the place was burning down. The national guard goes in 30 minutes. Would you say, remember they formed that beautiful scene after watching this for a week and a half. And we want to do it with Portland. Portland would be so easy.

Donald Trump: (29:55)

Wise, guys. They’re just wise guys. These are wise guys in there. You had the one who killed somebody in the street, took them three days to arrest. I sent in the US marshals, 15 minutes later, it was over. I said, “Why hasn’t that guy been…” They all knew who, they were putting this picture up. I said, “Why hasn’t he been arrested?: Well, sir, they haven’t…” I said, “Really you got another day.” We sent him the US marshals in 15 minutes, we had the greatest law enforcement people in the world. 15 minutes later, it was all over for him. But the forces opposing me in Washington, are the same people who are responsible for every disastrous trade deal, foreign policy, blunder and border security betrayal. Look at our border, our Southern border is so great. By the way, we’ve topped 400 miles of wall.

Donald Trump: (30:55)

Building 10 miles a week it’ll be finished very soon, but it’s had an incredible impact. Our border has never been as good. We got rid of catch and release all this stuff that everybody said would be impossible, but it’s been incredible. And Mexico is paying for the wall, you do know that, okay? They like to say, “Now finally, okay, he’s building the wall. But Mexico is not paying for it.” No. Mexico is paying for it. They know that, but they don’t like to say it.

Donald Trump: (31:20)

We’re doing some incredible things. This is the most important election in the history of our country. And I used to even, two, three months ago, say, “Well, this is like very important, but 2016 was important.” This is more important. Success will bring us together as I was saying, but you know what else is going to bring us together? A victory, because they’re just going to finally say, “Let’s just give up.” They’re going to say, “These people can’t be beaten. They’re going to say, “These people can’t be beaten. And many of them were so happy. Two weeks ago, “They heard Trump tested positive,” they were so happy. And then I got out, right away here I am, like a long time I could have done.

Donald Trump: (32:23)

They said, “Can you imagine he won’t be able to hold any more rallies? He’ll be recovering or worse. He’ll be recovering or worse.” And 12 minutes later, here we are. Don’t forget I’ve been doing this for a long time, this is not my first rally, right? But all these rallies are like this. The spirit of this country is unbelievable, and that’s what we have. And even the fake news admits we have more enthusiasm than any candidate in the history of this county. True. And he has less enthusiasm in my opinion than any candidate. I think he’s the weakest candidate in the history of presidential politics. I really mean it. Now with all of that being said, they have a corrupt media, they have big tech, they have all of this stuff, it’s a very powerful party. And they have advantages. They automatically win New York. I don’t know why New York is doing so badly. They automatically win California. I don’t know why, California is doing so badly, the forest fires, no water, no this, no that, minor little problems. They automatically, win Illinois. I mean, we got to run the table. It’s automatic because it’s just the way it falls. Winning the electoral college is a very, very hard thing to do. And we just ran the string. Right? But it’s a very hard thing to do. But we’re winning in Florida. We’re winning here. It’s amazing. If he came here, sleepy Joe, if he came here, honestly, if they announced, he’d work really hard to try and find people. Now, I really mean this. We have tens of thousands… This thing goes back way, way back. I wish they wouldn’t give these guys a good… I wish they’d moved them back a hundred yards. And I’m telling my people, I’ll save a little time, “My people please from now on, could you please move the fake news media back, another hundred yards?” I hope you’re listening too. Now because you know what, those cameras they have magnifiers on, they can be back and you can get a lot of people. So instead of standing behind the camera and looking at the camera man’s ass, we don’t need that, okay. Just move them back and we get more people up here because it goes back forever. Thank you back there. We love you. Thank you. But we’re going to move it back. Move them back.

Audience : (35:02)

Move them back. Move them back. Move them back

Donald Trump: (35:15)

This can only happen in Georgia. I have an idea. You just gave me an idea. We’ll have a new T-shirt tomorrow morning, “Move Them Back.”

Donald Trump: (35:27)

Well, we did it with his crazy Hunter, Hunter Biden. Remember? Where’s Hunter. I kept saying, “Where the hell is Hunter,” because he was gone, they caught him stealing a lot of money, so he disappeared. Remember? And we, I said, “Where’s Hunter.” And then I said, “Wait a minute. That’s a great idea for a T-shirt.” We came out with a T-shirt, “Where’s Hunter.” It became one of the big successes of the year. Where’s Hunter.

Donald Trump: (35:54)

We were talking today about drug prices. And in this country we have a very bad system and we have middlemen that are very rich. And I was talking about how we’re cutting out the middleman or these are not people that like me very much. And we’re going with favored nations and all that stuff. We’re getting your drug prices down 60%, 70%, 80%. But the middleman and making all of this money tremendous, they’re very wealthy. They don’t even do anything frankly. At least the drug companies, they make the drug, so we’re talking about the middlemen. And I said, “Wait a minute, I think I know one of the middlemen, it must be Hunter. Hunter Biden is a middleman.” On top of everything else, China, Ukraine, Russia, plus he’s a middleman. What a family.

Donald Trump: (36:39)

Biden’s made a corrupt bargain in exchange… And that’s what he’s done. It’s a corrupt bargain in exchange for his party’s nomination, which by the way, should have gone to Bernie. Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas, if she would have left a day before super Tuesday, Joe Biden would not have won any of those States. They split up the vote. It was super liberal, her and it was crazy Bernie. And I say it all the time, I think Bernie Sanders is the nicest, greatest loser I’ve ever seen because… No, it’s true, and I mean this. We’re going to get a lot of their votes because they love us on trade because the one thing Bernie is right on is, every country in his world, including our so-called allies… Excuse me. Are there any children in the house? Okay close your ears. Children, screws us on trade. And Bernie’s people know that, and Bernie’s into it. The problem is, Bernie, wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. I’ve done a lot about it. I’ve done a lot about it.

Donald Trump: (37:42)

But that’s why we got a big percentage of Bernie people. And because they didn’t like Hillary, but they don’t like Joe. And we’re going to get a lot of Bernie people, so I have to be nice to Bernie, but I consider him a really good loser because he loses with such…. he’s so nice about it. He loses. I mean, what she did to him was bad, but this was in a way worse, because all Elizabeth Warren had to do is, leave the campaign. Didn’t even have to endorse him, and he would have gotten votes and he would have won every single state on super Tuesday, and that didn’t happen. And so now we have a guy with a little bit larger base, but no energy. Here, we would have had somebody with a smaller base, but with tremendous energy, but not as much energy as we do. And we have a big base. So I like that [inaudible 00:11:28].

Donald Trump: (38:27)

A long complex story, but what the hell? I have nothing but time. Right? What the hell. In exchange for his party’s nomination, is a handed control. And you know that, in exchange to the socialists and the Marxists and the far-left lunatics, if he wins, the radical-left will be running this country. They’re addicted to power, and God help our country if that happens. I really mean it. You’ll never make a comeback. It’ll be a large scale version of Venezuela. I’ve been saying that for a year, but I’ve never meant it like I made it now. The only difference is the size because the ideology is the same. Venezuela 20 years ago or less, was so wealthy. One of the wealthiest countries, it had oil, it had everything, very, very magnificent. Now they don’t have water. They don’t have medicine. They don’t have food. Everyone’s fleeing the country. The only difference is the size. But the ideology….

Donald Trump: (39:28)

When you look at Portland, I want them to let us in. I said, “Governor of Oregon, let us come in. I want to solve your problem.” But they’re radical left Democrats, it’s just like the craziest thing, but that’s what Venezuela is. They’re anarchists. You look at some of these cities, they’re anarchists and they don’t want to say, and the press wants to call them peaceful protests. And we originally had a hard time. We had a hard time. They didn’t want us to have any rallies in certain States. And then I realized you’re not allowed to go to church. You’re not allowed to have dinner with people. You’re not allowed to do anything. Unless in Michigan, you happen to be married to the governor because her husband… You’re not allowed to go sailing unless you’re married to the governor of Michigan, in which case you can go sailing. Remember that? Did she get caught or what?

Donald Trump: (40:18)

Now she’s blaming me because people were whatever… I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know. And it was our people that caught them. Right? It’s Trump’s fault. Always Trump’s fault. Isn’t it incredible. And yet we did her a favor. Who knows? I mean, they’d have to look at that whole thing too, but we are doing an incredible job in this country. This country is great. And we have spirit like nobody’s had spirit and there’s going to be a red wave next week. It’s going to be unbelievable. And they are talking about it. Look at them.

Donald Trump: (40:52)

It’s millions of dollars worth of equipment. And they’ll never turn it around to show those people back there because they want to say, ” Donald Trump had a rally in Georgia. There was a smattering of people, a small smattering.” No, it’s amazing. Nobody’s ever had what we’ve had, and you’re going to have a red wave. They call it a red wave. One of these characters standing right there. He said, “It could be a red wave, and don’t say, there could be, there will be. It’s going to be a wave.”

Donald Trump: (41:27)

And they don’t want to the phony unsolicited ballot. They send ballots out by the millions. They don’t have no idea, well, they do actually have an idea where they’re going, that’s what really… But we say, “Who’s sending them, where are they going, who’s getting them, who’s delivering them, who’s signing them.” What the hell are they doing? And if you say that they go, ‘He’s not for freedom. He’s not for freedom.” And they know better than you do. It’s a big con job. So we have to be very, very careful with the ballots because they find ballots in a garbage can last week. Military ballots, it had the name Trump on them, and they were in a garbage can. They found 50,000 ballots from Ohio. They find them from North Carolina dumped in a river. They find them, I think, 500,000 ballots in Virginia. They were incorrect. They’re printing them wrong. They had one little problem on one set of ballots, thousands and thousands, thousands. They forgot to put the name of Donald Trump on the ballot. Other than that, the ballot was quite good.

Donald Trump: (42:38)

No, this is serious. And I’m being serious about this. These people are doing a tremendous disservice and they using COVID as the reason. They’re using this as a reason, not to go out and vote. So we voted in world war one, where by the way, you had a pandemic that made this look like peanuts, okay? World war one. They voted in world War II, they voted in world War II, they voted during the Great Depression, they’ve voted, voted, voted. But we can’t do that, you got to send in a ballot, so complicated too. They have instructions, you do the ballot, then you do this.

Donald Trump: (43:19)

But some of them make it nice and simple. You don’t have to sign. You don’t have to verify. But what they don’t tell you is we’ve won a lot of court cases. How about, you put your ballot in, and it has to be in by November 3rd, but you have two weeks in which… So wait a minute, you have two weeks to count them. Does that mean we have to hold up the whole election, because you know what I want to find out who won or lost. I want to find out, legitimately, who won or lost on November 3rd. I’m not looking to find out on November 19th or on December 1st or on two years from now. And if you take a look at some of these ballot schemes… In New York, we had one of, third great politician named, Carolyn Maloney, who I know very well. She used to come to my office all the time for campaign contributions, but you want to race, the number of ballots missing. They have no idea.

Donald Trump: (44:13)

Her opponent who could have won, it was very close, but they declared let her the winner. But her opponent has gone totally nuts. And you know what he should. He should. But you look at that. You look at Patterson, New Jersey, you look at what happened in Virginia, these are all races that took place recently. And I must say, even in 18, they had a lot of disasters, and even in 16. I didn’t even know it, but they had a lot of ballots. I promise you, it will be against us, okay. It will be against us. It will be against us. But you look at Nevada, we have a good chance to win Nevada, but they’re sending ballots to everybody. And the governor was a backroom politician, and I don’t want him having the fate of an election. I don’t think it’s right that he has the fate of our most important election ever in his hands, I don’t want that.

Donald Trump: (45:06)

So if you see anything wrong law, enforcement’s watching, us marshals are watching, the same type of guys. These are no games people. One thing I would say law enforcement they’re on our side. And I have said it. I said it during the debate with Joe. I said, “Joe, name one law enforcement group that’s supporting you.” He couldn’t do it. And then he was bailed out by Chris Wallace. I said, “Name one law enforcement.” Then I said, “Hey Joe, just say the words, law and order. Say those words, Joe,” he didn’t want to say it. I said, “Joe, just say the words, law and order. And that’s not hard, Joe law and order.” He couldn’t say it. He wouldn’t say it. Then he tried, I think he said, law and order and safety and security, because he has to get the vote of the radical left and they don’t like law and order. And you know who likes Trump, because of law and order, the suburban women, who’ve [inaudible 00:19:06].

Donald Trump: (46:05)

I keep hearing, because they want law and order, and I got… Oh, look at that. Thank you. Same thing happened four years ago. Same thing They said, “Women will not vote for Trump. Women will not,” then the election’s over they said, “Man, the women really came out and voted for Trump, right?

Donald Trump: (46:24)

Suburban women. I keep saying suburban women, and I got rid of a regulation that would have destroyed the value of your homes. Okay. And would have made your homes very unsafe with low-income housing being built all over the place right next to your house. I terminated it. And even my people, they said, “Sir, you don’t have to terminate it, we can make it much weaker.” I said, “No. No, you don’t understand. I want it terminated. Terminated.” And I terminated it. Suburban women, please. Thank you very much. Okay. I heard, they like my policy, but they don’t like my personality. I said, “They don’t care about my personality. They want to be safe and they want to keep their American dream. They don’t care about it, which I think is okay. They like my personality. I like them. I like them. I love them.

Donald Trump: (47:31)

The radical left is hell bent on destroying everything that we love and cherish, it’s that culture stuff. Cancel culture. They want cancel culture. They want to get rid of our great heroes from the past. They want to get rid of our history. They want to get rid of our culture.

Donald Trump: (47:48)

I was at Mount Rushmore. They want to blow a Mount Rushmore up. I said to our great governor of South Dakota Christie, I said, “Christie it’s never happening Christie. Don’t worry about it.” She said, ” We don’t even need your help on this one.” It was so beautiful Mount Rushmore, but they want to blow it up. I said, “Not going to happen. None of that stuff is going to happen.” But I will tell you a few months ago, if I weren’t your president, you would have had the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial… How about Lincoln, they want to attack even Lincoln. He’s probably looking down and he’s saying, “What the hell did I do. I was on their side, I think. What did I do?” They want to attack the Lincoln. If I wasn’t your president, they would have attacked the Jefferson Memorial. And I stopped it. I stopped a lot of things. I also saved your second amendment, by the way.

Donald Trump: (48:39)

They want to punish the middle-class, expunge every last trace of traditional values and replace the American dream with a socialist nightmare. The Democrat party has gone crazy, but they have contempt for America. They have contempt for the United States. And I don’t think Biden does, but Biden has no power. He’s gone. He’s gone. Up here, he’s gone.

Donald Trump: (49:04)

The Republican party is proud of America. We’re proud of America. We love America. We celebrate American values, American history and American culture. And we’re working to deliver a truly extraordinary American future. But I want the Republican party to get tougher, because the Republican party, they’re very good people, but they’re not tough enough in terms of our values or what we stand for. They let these other people, these lunatics get away with things like, you can’t spy on a campaign, you can try and take over a duly elected president of the United States and get caught. And when you get caught, you have to suffer the consequences. It’s very simple.

Donald Trump: (49:57)

Joe Biden and the Democrats socialists, will kill your jobs, dismantle your police departments. And you see that going all over with Seattle and all. And by the way, Seattle, so they knew we were going in the following day. The night before they raised their hands and they left. Okay, very simple, I said, “That’s it? Whether they like us in there or not we’re going. And they took over a big piece of the city and they weren’t going to do anything. They knew we were going in. And so the night before they said… these are little facts that I give you… Just to give you because that’s the way it works. They’re supposed to ask us, the governors are supposed to ask us, but these radical left… if you look at Republican run States and cities, they’re doing phenomenally well, never done better.

Donald Trump: (50:40)

But if you look at these radical left, look at what happened to my beautiful New York. Since I left, three and a half years, it was doing great. And I left. I’m not saying because, but maybe it is. But I left, I came to Washington. What’s happened to New York, what they’ve done to that incredible city and State is so sad. Look at Chicago, look at what’s going on there. Look at what’s going on at Atlanta. Look at Atlanta, it’s so sad what’s going on. And these are radical left, no bail, no cash bail, no nothing. I mean you kill somebody, no problem. No problem. They’re going to have to get their act together. They’re going to have to get their act together because we’re not going to put up with it much longer. They want to dissolve your borders, released criminal alliant, raise your taxes, and by the way, I’m cutting your taxes big. Biden this guy…

Donald Trump: (51:39)

Biden, wants to substantially raise your taxes. And then he says, “Well, I’m only talking about people…” I said, “No, no, no. He wants to terminate the tax cuts that we gave you,” so that’s 2000. And then you look at the energy cuts and you look at the child tax credit… it’s a thousand dollars each. And you look at… It’s $7000, $8,000, $9,000 a family. Well, if you’re going to terminate it, that means it’s $9,000. “Well, I don’t know about that,” then he pulls out a piece of paper and he starts reading it out of his… Did you see that? He did that yesterday. They pulled out a piece of paper because he couldn’t remember any of the numbers, and George Stephanopoulos, is sitting there watching this. He didn’t treat me as nice. So I did him two weeks ago too. And he was okay. He was fine. It is what it is. He’s going to ask me a question.

Donald Trump: (52:26)

You know the expression, “He asks you a question, I give him an answer.” That’s all you can do, you can’t do any better than that. But they were nasty, pretty nasty and not terrible, but pretty nasty. Last night she was out of line, I mean, in my opinion. She was out of line. And it’s like as I said, “Just relax, take it nice and easy.” But when you watch the one the week before, it’s such a difference. The beauty is, the people of our country get it. They’re smart, they get it. They get it. They get it better than NBC on by Comcast CON. I’d call it, Con Cast. It used to be calm. They spend a fortune on public relations and I come along and call them Con Cast all the time. It’s a con job. They want to confiscate your guns, drive God from the public square and abolish the suburbs. That’s what they want to do.

Donald Trump: (53:22)

To defend our constitution from this badness, I proudly nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, to the united states Supreme court.

Audience : (53:30)

Amy. Amy. Amy.

Donald Trump: (53:49)

She’s great. She’s so smart. She’s so smart. She’s done a great job. She’s done a great job. And she went through it, with no problem. And they came at her, they came at…

Donald Trump: (54:03)

She went through it, no problem. And they came at her, they came at her. It was like your Atlanta team when they were good a couple of years ago. How the hell did they lose that Super Bowl? Could you … How the hell did that happen? I keep thinking, man, if you own that team or you worked for that team, that was a long shot. But it’s one of those things. But that was like that team playing a high school football team, right? She was so much more talented than those people that were trying to embarrass her. And she was cool as hell. The coolest was, “Do you have notes? Do you have notes?” What? A blank. She doesn’t need to write down notes. I don’t have notes either, right?

Donald Trump: (54:49)

Most of this has been off this teleprompter because if was on the teleprompter, many of you would say, this is a little boring let’s get out of here, Sam. Last night, Biden refused to rule out court packing. In other words, they may take 16, 17, 18 people. He’ll pack the court with radical left judges, who will shred your Second Amendment, disarm law-abiding citizens, and protect terrorists and violent criminals. I won the ban from jihadist countries or other countries. If people are bad, we don’t want them in. So I went for the ban. Everybody said, but I won, I won in the Supreme Court. And you know what? We don’t want people that can’t love our country. We don’t want people that are going to hurt our country. So I have a ban, very controversial.

Donald Trump: (55:37)

And we won at the United States Supreme Court. And we don’t let people in from certain countries that are going to look to do bad things to us. Pretty amazing what’s happened, isn’t it? Biden’s agenda would also be a catastrophe for Georgia seniors, seniors. Do we have any seniors in the house? We’re proud to be seniors, right? For years, Biden tried to cut your social security, you know that and your Medicare. Now Biden is pledging mass amnesty and free healthcare for illegal aliens, decimating Medicare, and destroying your social security, because that’s what’s going to happen. We all have a heart, and I said this all the time, I mean, I have a heart. I don’t want to hurt people. But once you say, come in, you’re going to get free healthcare, you’re going to get free education. The whole world is going to want to come into our country and we’re not going to be able to even come close to affording it. I have to take care of our seniors. I can’t take care of millions of people that had no intention of coming here before these maniacs made these pledges.

Donald Trump: (56:45)

He’ll bankrupt these programs to finance the last, open borders. They want to take … actually, we’re just finishing up the wall as I said, they want to take the wall down, some of them. They want to take down the wall. This wall is a dream, goes deep and it goes high. A lot of bad people aren’t coming in because of that. They want to take it down, many of them. While I’m president, no one will touch your Medicare. No one will touch your social security. Under my leadership, we’re delivering a safe vaccine and a rapid recovery. I love the recovery because here I am. I’m mean, that’s … Yeah, two weeks ago I wasn’t exactly feeling great. And when you’re president, I told this today, when you’re president, you got a lot of doctors. You get guys, Johns Hopkins, Walter Reed, you get all the great hospitals. And you got these geniuses, they’re all over the place. “Sir, let me do this. Let me do that. Let me do …” “Just leave me alone, fellas, get the hell out of here.” But I wasn’t feeling too great.

Donald Trump: (57:52)

And they gave me something, Regeneron, and a day later I felt like Superman. I said, “Hey, whatever the hell1 that stuff was.” And it’s brand new, developed because of this. And we’re going to do something very special. We’re going to get it for every person that we think is appropriate for, in other words, every person that needs it. But I tell you what, they could call it a therapeutic but to me it was a cure. Because the following day … our doctors are here. When you’re president, they follow you. We got more doctors. If anyone gets sick, this is a great time when I’m around, because you’ll have about 15 doctors standing over you in about nine seconds. It’s happened, it’s happened many times. Somebody gets not so well, and all of a sudden, they got the greatest doctors you’ve ever seen. They do a fantastic job, but this was all developed just very recently, months ago for this.

Donald Trump: (58:45)

It’s incredible, the strides that we’ve made. If you vote for me, prosperity will surge, normal life, that’s all we want. I want a normal life like we had seven months ago. We don’t want any … we want a normal life. That’ll resume and next year will be one of the greatest years economically in the history of our country because that’s where we’re going. This election is a choice between a Trump recovery and a Biden depression. Let me tell you something. He’s going to quadruple your taxes. He’s going to raise taxes on businesses. All the businesses that have moved into a country are going to move out. They’re going back where they came. You’re going to have a disaster. You will have a depression the likes of which this country has never seen before if these crazy rules get in with a Green New Deal. The Green New Deal, the real number is $100 trillion, 100 trillion. They say, well, we could do it for like nine trillion. Well, nine doesn’t work either, but the real price is 100.

Donald Trump: (59:47)

They want to rip down buildings and build new buildings in their place with tiny little windows. No, if you don’t mind, I’d like to keep my window. I’d like to have a nice view of Georgia. No, they want to, they want to … think of it, think of it. $100 trillion dollars. So if we had a unbelievable economic surge that lasted 100 years without a problem, we wouldn’t make $100 trillion. This is the craziest thing done by AOC plus three, who knows nothing about the environment. She doesn’t know. She’s got a great line of bullshit, that’s about it. No, it’s true. She knows nothing about the environment. AOC plus three, these were not great academics. How about Ilhan Omar?

Audience: (01:00:38)

Boo!

Donald Trump: (01:00:40)

You know I’m going to win Minnesota because of Ilhan Omar. She hates our country. I mean, you see the way she talks, she hates our country. No, please don’t tell her to leave. That happened once before I got in a lot of trouble. They start screaming, she should leave. And they got me in trouble. They said, “Why didn’t he protest?” But she doesn’t like our country, you see what she says. And I’m going to win … remember this, Minnesota hasn’t been one since 1970, that’s a long time, 1972. And we’re going to win Minnesota because of Ilhan Omar. Well, having Minneapolis ripped down, burned down. And then we come in at the end and they should’ve called us on day one, day one. The problem is they keep waiting. They wait until … how about the CNN reporter? I think his name is Velshi, the shaved head, the nice shaved head. Maybe I’ll try that someday. I don’t know.

Donald Trump: (01:01:41)

My poll numbers might go down or they might go up. You never know, right? Maybe they’ll go up. But he’s standing there. “This is a friendly protest.” And behind him, the fire is like nine blocks long. It looks like Berlin during the worst days of their lives. The fires are raging. “This is a friendly protest.” Oh boy, oh boy. Then the National Guard started moving forward. He got hit in the knee with a canister of tear gas and he went down. “I’ve been hurt. I’ve been injured.” These people are crazy. They don’t report the violence, they don’t report the looting on CNN, MSDNC, all these different networks. They don’t report them. They don’t want to talk about them. They want to think everything’s wonderful. It’s not, and the reason it’s not, a lot of it is because of them. But I will deliver optimism, opportunity, and hope and that’s what we’re doing. And this is why we have this kind of spirit. And I hate to say it, because I don’t want to insult Georgia, but it’s this way all over our country. We have the biggest rallies in the history of politics.

Donald Trump: (01:02:48)

Nobody has rallies like this. Look at that, look at the people. No look, I mean, you can’t see this, this goes all the way back so you can’t even see how far back. I can’t even see the end of it. We have the greatest enthusiasm, the biggest crowds in the history of politics. And they don’t talk about them. They’ll say, “Yes, there were a smattering, a smattering of people.” That’s true. I asked the First Lady, “How did you like it?” “It was good.” “Were there many people there?” I said, “A lot, didn’t they show it?” “No, they don’t show it. They just showed your face. They never go …” She said, “But I could hear it.” When you go to a Georgia football game, when they’re doing well, you can’t imitate, you can imitate thousands and thousands of people with hundreds of people. I mean, Biden had a rally today. Like 13 people showed up and they don’t talk about it.

Donald Trump: (01:03:53)

They say, Biden is here. The one guy actually made a mistake, he called him Sleepy Joe, he’s an announcer, that guy’s job is gone. But Vice President Biden is here today, he’s making a speech on the environment. He has no idea what he’s talk … They don’t say that there’s nobody there. He’s got the circles, right? The circles. Do you ever see? He’s got like five circles. And he goes there and people are standing. And the reason that … and the circles, not only are they big, although I love the artistry because the guy really does a nice job. You know I’m into that stuff. It’s very neat, very round, beautiful, solid. I mean, it would be impossible to catch anything if you’re in one of those circles because you’re so far away. But I never joke about it. I mean, I don’t think it’s necessary for Sleepy Joe to constantly … he walks onto a stage, the people are … number one, there’s no people there. And the few people that are there are like what, 50 yards away.

Donald Trump: (01:04:51)

And the mask is always so large, it covers the whole … I shouldn’t joke, I shouldn’t joke. Because you know what? Running against the worst candidate in the history of presidential politics puts pressure on me. Could you imagine if I lose? My whole life, what am I going to do? I’m going to say I lost to the worst candidate in the history of politics. I’m not going to feel so good. Maybe I’ll have to leave the country. I don’t know. Biden will deliver pessimism, poverty, and decline. Our nation will decline very seriously. And again, he’s been doing this for 47 years. He said, “Why didn’t Trump move faster?” Well, when I put in the ban on China, because they were heavily infected and then Europe shortly thereafter, Biden called me xenophobic. I said, “Tell me what it means, Joe, please tell me.” I want you to know he was unable to define it. They wrote it down, xenophobic. And he called me a racist, I think, because it was so early. Now time goes by and he said, “He should have done it earlier. He should have done it earlier.”

Donald Trump: (01:06:02)

But he was months behind me, remember? He thought it was terrible that we closed down to China. And Fauci said, and he said very nicely, he said, “Trump saved thousands of lives by making that decision.” And to be honest, I was like just about the only one that wanted to do it. Joe Biden would terminate our recovery, delay the vaccine, prolong the pandemic, and annihilate Georgia’s economy. And you’re doing a great job, and you have a governor that’s working hard, and he’s doing a great job. I don’t even know if he’s here but he’s working hard and he’s doing a great job. We’re going to find out. And you’ve got a great First Lady. And we’re working to safely reopen our schools, reopen the schools, get those schools open all over our country. It’s so bad. You know Barron, right? Barron tested positive, my son. I said, “Are you okay?” ” Yeah, I’m okay.” Like about two seconds later, “How’s he doing? “Oh, he’s okay now, sir.” Because they have a great immune system, I guess. Who the hell knows?

Donald Trump: (01:07:08)

I mean, they have an immune system, 99.9 something percent, right? They’re young and they’re strong. I mean, for this particular disease, the flu they have problems with young children, real problems, real, real death problems. But for this, it’s 99.99 something, I mean, it’s like incredible. But no, Barron tested positive. The First Lady’s doing great, she’s doing great. She’s doing a great job. And she didn’t do the Regeneron thing. She did it the old-fashioned way, she got better. But Barron, Barron, young kid, healthy kid, but he tested positive. And by the time I got to speak to the doctor the next time, it was like, “How’s he doing, Doc?” “He’s okay, now, sir, he’s gone.” I said, “It’s gone, that quick?” But this is what happens. And then you’re immune. It could be a long time. Barron’s … everyone loves Barron. Do you think he’s tall enough? He’s a tall, young guy, but he’s doing good. But it’s an amazing thing, the children. That’s why they have to get back to school. We have to protect our seniors very much. We have to protect our seniors and that’s what we’re doing. But we have to protect our seniors. We have to protect certain groups, especially our seniors, where they have a heart problem or they have a diabetes problem.

Donald Trump: (01:08:28)

But we got to get our businesses open. Now, in your case, your governor was very early, he did a great job. But you look at what’s happened, you look at what’s happened in New York. You look at what’s happening in Michigan. We won the case. The court ruled, it was unconstitutional. She was keeping everybody like in prison, except her husband. She was keeping everybody … no, she was keeping everybody in prison. Pennsylvania, they got to open this state. We’re going to do well in Pennsylvania too by the way, watch. North Carolina, we have Mark Meadows here, by the way, from North Carolina, our great chief of staff. Where’s Mark? Our great chief of staff, he’s working. He said, “Boy, this is …” He was a very successful congressman and he’s been doing a fantastic job. Where’s Mark? He’s doing a great job. Is it an easy job, Mark? No problem.

Donald Trump: (01:09:25)

But Biden will close your classrooms and you know that. He actually said the other day, he’ll follow science. So that means if Fauci says, “Close it up.” He’s going to close up the country, it’s not going to happen, it’s not going to happen. And if you look at the numbers, the numbers are great. And we’re going to go over that. He wants to throw your children out of the school, close up your schools, and shut down your workplace. And we’re now setting records for employment, unemployment. We’re setting all sorts of records economically. Europe, which has imposed punishing, punishing, horrible, really strong lockdowns is now experiencing a massive surge in cases. The fake news would say, “Well, look at Europe.” I said, “We’re doing better than Europe.” But now Europe is exploding and they’ll be okay, but they’re exploding. Biden’s plan will crush America. My plan will crush the virus, and America will be stronger than ever before.

Donald Trump: (01:10:27)

So our early and aggressive action saved, I think at least two million lives. We pioneered life-saving therapies and reduced the fatality rate. 85%, think of that. That’s over a six month period. And I’m working to make the antibody treatment and I’ve said it and I got it. And I said, “Listen, for me, it was great.” And I bet for a lot of people, it’s great. These are the great scientists. They came up with some of the other incredible medicines of the last 10 years, this particular firm. But also Eli Lilly, it’s very similar. And we’re going to make it available free to anybody that needs it, free. Should be getting the final approvals very soon. By the way, I’m getting approvals from the FDA that people would have taken three years to get. And those vaccines are coming out, but it’s political. Even now, I could have had them faster, but we had little action. Nobody wanted me to get the approval before the election. And you know what, I’m not thinking about the election. I’m thinking about saving lives, the hell with the election. I’m thinking about saving lives. So that got a little political. Through Operation Warp Speed, we will have 100 million vaccine doses before the end of the year and maybe substantially before that. The vaccine will end the pandemic once and for all. And they hate it when I say it, we got the vaccine, it’s really looking great. Numerous companies, Johnson and Johnson, Moderna, Pfizer, [inaudible 01:11:52] others too, many companies, all of them, they’re great. But you know what, without the vaccine it’s ending too. We’re rounding the turn, it’s ending without the vaccine. But the vaccine is going to make it go quicker. Let’s get rid of it. We want to get it the hell out of here. So we’re joined tonight by a man who I am so proud that I gave a very early endorsement to, and I did it because of David Purdue. David said, “Donald … Mr. President, I have somebody who’s running for governor.” I said, “Governor of where?” He said, “The great state of Georgia.” I said, “Tell me, what’s his story?” He said, “Could you endorse him?” I said, “Well, tell me about him.” I did a little research.

Donald Trump: (01:12:42)

And the only thing that mattered to me, I mean, to be honest with you, he’s all Trump all the way, before I knew him, I didn’t know him. He had a very successful past, but I didn’t know him. But he was very … he was like Trump, he likes Trump. And it’s hard to endorse people that don’t like you, somehow I have a little problem with that. But his name … I said, “What’s his name?” “Brian Kemp, but he’s a really smart guy, really good guy.” And I endorsed him and he went on to win. And his wonderful wife, Marty, is even better than him. But I have to tell you, we campaigned together. We campaigned together. And I mean, I’ve never seen, we campaigned against, I guess Stacey, and we had Oprah. Oprah used to be a friend of mine before I went into politics. She’d be down in Mar-a-Lago a lot. She liked our key lime pie. She liked our key lime … but Oprah was great, she was a friend of mine.

Donald Trump: (01:13:40)

But once you do this stuff, you lose a lot of friends very quickly, but that’s okay. We’re got to do the right thing. And we had Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, they practically lived in Georgia and all Brian had was Trump, and Brian won fairly easily, it wasn’t that close. Brian Kemp. Great guy, and Marty, thank you very much, that’s great. He’s a great governor and he was ahead of the curve. He said, “We got to get this thing open here”. And those are the states that are doing the best, the ones that are doing these lockdowns, not to mention the problems caused with depression, drugs, alcoholism, all of the other things. So I just want to thank Brian and Marty and it’s great and you’re doing good. How am I doing by the way, Brian, are we going to win it? Because if we’re not, I’ll tell you what, I’m going to take my endorsement away from him if I don’t. No, you’re doing a great job as governor, thank you very much. Brian Kemp, thank you everybody.

Donald Trump: (01:14:42)

Another guy, he’s been a friend of mine for a long time. He’s a very, very successful man. And he did what I did, he wanted to do something, he wanted to give back. He loves this state like crazy. He loves our country and he’s central casting. If I’m casting a movie and I want to pick a senator, you know what I do? I say, “I got to get David Perdue to play the role.” But he is respected by everybody in Washington. He is respected and revered, and he brings back the bacon to this state, I want to tell you. He came to see me … David, stand up. He came to see me about the farmers when they got … that’s how I got involved in the whole thing and the hurricanes and all the damage. And we brought in a lot of money for our farmers in Georgia, right, David? So thank you very much, great job. You’re doing a fantastic job. And come to think of it, I can’t even believe … The guy that’s running against him, I beat him once before. Two years ago, he was running against a very good woman, Karen, right, Karen Handel. And she’s doing very well. But he was running against her and we defeated him.

Donald Trump: (01:15:49)

And then he said he’s running against David. I said, “This guy’s not in the same league with David Purdue.” I mean, that puts a lot of pressure on David, just like I have pressure on me. You’re running against these people. It puts more pressure on you, David. It would be easier to run against somebody that was good. But he’s a radical left Schumer, Pelosi guy. He’s bad on the Second Amendment. I remember when he was running, he didn’t even live in the district. He’s running for Congress. I said, “What’s going on?” But we defeated them once and I hear you’re going to defeat him again. Thank you, David. So a person who’s become a friend of mine and Brian thought she was fantastic. And I met her and I said, “The only thing is, how would you handle pressure? You never know, this is a rough, mean business.” And I found that she can handle pressure. She has been fantastic. She was with me 100% on the impeachment hoax. She’s been with us all the way.

Donald Trump: (01:16:49)

And she’s a great woman and her husband is a great man, and a very successful man. That’s a good thing not a bad thing, by the way. Some people would like to say, “Oh, the husband’s a great failure. It’s much better.” No, no, no, he’s a really respected person. And he loves his wife and she’s a terrific person, Kelly Loeffler, Kelly. Thank you, great job. Great job, Kelly. Great job. I mean, my only problem she’s running against another great guy. I just said, run it out. I’m backing both of them because Doug Collins is here. Where’s Doug? Boy, am I in a lousy position. I like them both. I love them both. He’s been unbelievable with the impeachment hoax and everything else. He’s a warrior, she’s a warrior. But you know what I like, they’re both going to the polls. They’re going to bring their people with them. And you know that the biggest winner is going to be, Trump, because everybody that votes for both of them is going to vote for me.

Donald Trump: (01:18:07)

But honestly, regardless of what happens, they’re both going to be winners because whoever doesn’t officially win is going to have an unbelievable future. And I’m going to make sure of it because these are two incredible people. You, you, and I mean it. But what a lousy position to be in, David, right? I like both of them, oh boy. So we have somebody, Jody Hice, you know Jody? Stand up, Jody, what a job, a warrior, a warrior. Thank you very much for everything, Jody. Jody’s only leading his district by about 5,000 points, so we don’t have to worry too much. We don’t have to spend too much time. You’re doing a great job, Jody, we appreciate it very much. Barry Loudermilk, Barry, thank you very much. Great job, great job. These are warriors, these are incredible people. Rick Allen, Rick, thank you, thank you. And another one who wanted a guy … he knows more about the farming industry. When I was picking the Secretary of Agriculture, they had all these political people come in. I said, “Do you know anything about farms?” “No, sir. I don’t, but I’m a quick learner.” I said, “Oh, that’s great.” I’m interviewing these people. And I went through about nine of them. And so far I didn’t have any guy. I said, “Do you know what corn looks like? Do you know anything?” No, some of them had absolutely zero. I said, “Have you ever been to a farm?” “No, sir. But I’m willing to learn.” I said, “Oh, this is what I want.” And then I meet this guy named Sonny Perdue. Somebody said … And Sonny came, I remember that meeting so much. And Sonny came into my office. And by the way, David called and Sonny called also about Brian, right, you know that, Brian, both of them.

Donald Trump: (01:20:01)

But he comes into my office and I’m telling you to this day, I learned more about farming in that 45 minute meeting that I learned ever in my life. I learned it all from you and you have done a great job and you’ve delivered $28 billion and I hear another 13 billion is coming to our farmers. Right, he loves our farmers. He’s been great. He’s been an incredible Secretary of Agriculture, stand up again Sonny, come on, they like you. By the way, I guess he was also your governor like for eight years, right? I don’t even count that. I don’t care about that. But he was a very popular governor, Brian, you know that, he was very popular. He did a great job. But he was your governor for eight years, but he has been a fantastic Secretary of Agriculture. Thank you, Sonny. I’m glad I could say it in front of your home friends, okay. And state representative Vernon Jones. How about Vernon, how about Vernon?

Donald Trump: (01:21:03)

… Vernon Jones. How about Vernon? How about Vernon? Where’s Vernon? Man, what a guy. Look at this. I saw him on television a few months ago and he’s talking about Trump is the greatest, he’s the strongest, what he’s done for our military, what he’s done on the… And I say, “Well, this is a great guy. I wonder where he…” And obviously, I said, “He’s a Republican.” And they put the thing on the bottom. It says Vernon Jones, Democrat from wherever the hell he comes from. I said, “There must be a typo. He’s better than any Republican. I can’t believe it.” And then I checked him out and he’s a Democrat who likes Trump. And we love him. Vernon, thank you. And he’s a popular guy. Amazing. Amazing. He spoke at our convention.

Donald Trump: (01:21:59)

And somebody who’s doing a fantastic job, Insurance Commissioner John King. John, thank you. Great job, John. Appreciate it. Public Service Commissioners Bubba McDonald, and Tricia Pridemore. Thank you very much, both. Thank you, Bubba. Thank you, Tricia. Thank you, Tricia. And somebody who better lead us to victory or I’ll never speak to him again. We’ll have a new State Chairman of the Georgia GOP if we don’t win, but we’re going to win. David Shafer. David, thank you. How are we doing, David? How are we… Good? Way up? I saw a poll, we’re way up. Don’t just pretend we’re even. You know what they do in politics? David Perdue taught me this. Pretend you’re one point down and then work your ass off, and then just sit home and watch. That’s what happened four years ago. Was that the greatest evening ever? But this is going to be better. This is going to be better. This is, in its own way, even more important.

Donald Trump: (01:23:06)

Candidates for Congress. Andrew Clyde. Andrew, thank you, Andrew. That’s great. Good luck. I heard you’re doing really well. And somebody that I just think is fantastic. This one, I never ever want to have her as my enemy. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Where is she? She is so unbelievable. You are so unbelievable. Thank you. And I looked at some poll numbers here. You’re really up, but just pretend you’re one point down, please. Okay? But you’re doing great. They love you. Thank you very much. Congratulations. Great job. And finally, Angela Stanton King. Angela, great. It’ll be another great victory. That’s going to be a great victory. Thank you very much, Angela. Great job. Congratulations.

Donald Trump: (01:24:07)

And last but not least, we have a woman that won us the state of Michigan, Ronna McDaniel. Ronna, she was the chair of Michigan, and she kept bringing me back and back and back. And I said, “Who is this woman?” And then we won Michigan, which hadn’t… And by the way, we’re up in Michigan, it was just announced. We have a lot of car companies moving into Michigan. Thank you. Thank you. She’s done a fantastic job.

Donald Trump: (01:24:39)

Now, when it came time to pick the head of the Republican National Committee, I said, “Who is that woman in Michigan that kept getting me back there?” Every week, I’d get a call. “Sir, you have to come back. You can win Michigan.” I said, “Michigan hasn’t been won in 38 years.” She said, “I’m telling you, you’re going to win.” All right. So I went back and back, and each time I’d say, “Look, that’s it. Okay? That’s it.” It’s a big deal. She said, “No, that’s okay.” So that’s it.

Donald Trump: (01:25:03)

The next day I get a call. “You have to come back once more.” And it was actually my last stop. It was at one 1:00 in the morning now, actually, election day. We had 32,000 people show up at 1:00 in the morning in Grand Rapids, right? Grand Rapids, Michigan. And we ended up winning the state of Michigan. First time in many decades. And now we’re doing well. A poll just came out, Ronna, we’re up in Michigan. You know why? Because they had no car companies, they had no plants, they had no nothing for 44 years. And they’re building plants all over the state of Michigan because of me. And they’re coming in from Japan and they’re coming in from Germany. They’re building plants all over and expanding plants. So I think Michigan likes us. We’ve done the job.

Donald Trump: (01:25:47)

Thank you very much. Congratulations. Thank you. Done a great job. And get out there, these three candidates for Senate, you got to get out there. Really get out there and go. They’re unbelievable people. They’re unbelievable. Three unbelievable people. And we appreciate it.

Donald Trump: (01:26:07)

Under my administration, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world, which is true. There’s never been anything like it. And now we are doing it again. I see these hats, make America great again. So you know what I say? Make America great again again. Make America great again again. We had it done and then the plague came in from China. We’re not forgetting that. You watch. We’re tariffing the hell out of them. We’re getting so much money. Our farmers were targeted, we gave it to our farmers, so that’s fine.

Donald Trump: (01:26:47)

In my first three years, family income increased by $6,000. Think of that. $6,000 a family. More than five times the gains in all eight years under the Obama-Biden administration. Remember this. And I said it today. I never even thought of it. If they were good, I wouldn’t be your president. I wouldn’t have run. If they were good, I wouldn’t have even run. But they were horrible, so I won. If they were good and I did run, I wouldn’t have won because they would have done a good job and I wouldn’t have won. They were horrible. They had Ferguson. They had all of the problems in different places. Oakland. They had tremendous… Baltimore. They had nothing but problems. It was a disaster. And the trade deals were the worst. And the Iran deal with $150 billion. We got nothing. And $1.8 billion in cash. African-American income grew nine times more, nine times, than it did under Biden and Obama.

Donald Trump: (01:27:54)

They called up David today. They said, “Sir, we have bad news.” “What’s the bad news?” “Obama’s going to start campaigning for Sleepy Joe.” I said, “Is that good or bad? Why is it bad?” Because he campaigned harder for Hillary than she did. He was very ineffective as a campaigner to be. I thought he was very ineffective. So I think that’s good news. But if you remember, remember this. He was the vice president for eight years to Obama and Obama refused to endorse him. You know why? Because he knows he’s mentally shot. He shot. And Obama, look, he’s a Patriot. And he says you can have a guy like this. And then he ended up lucking out because Warren wouldn’t get out of the race, and so they were splitting up the vote. And what did he do? He wouldn’t do it.

Donald Trump: (01:28:43)

It took him forever to make the endorsement, David. Right? It took him forever. And finally, because he couldn’t believe it. He couldn’t believe this guy won. But they said he’s going to be campaigning for him. Just remember what I said. He never thought it was possible that he won. And then even after he won, he couldn’t do it. But he finally got it done.

Donald Trump: (01:29:02)

To bring opportunity, security, fairness, and prosperity to black communities, I recently announced the Platinum Plan, which is a big deal. We will create 3 million new jobs for black Americans, increase access to capital, restore safety to every neighborhood. And we will deliver school choice, which is the most important thing. We’re doing that. That’s all done.

Donald Trump: (01:29:35)

And remember this. And I say this, and some people think it’s a lot, but it’s true. They don’t challenge me. With the exception of Abraham Lincoln, nobody has done more for the black community than Donald Trump. It’s true. It’s true. I got criminal justice reform. That was me. That was not anybody else but me, and they came to see me. I got criminal justice reform done, prison reform. Opportunity zones done with Tim Scott from South Carolina. Great senator, great man, great person. He’s a great, great person. And I got all of this stuff done. Opportunity zones.

Donald Trump: (01:30:18)

And we did historically black colleges and universities. Every year, they would come up, the heads of these colleges and universities, black colleges and universities, really good people. And after the third year, I said, “How come you keep coming?” Because they didn’t have any deal. So every year, they had to come. I said, “What do you feel like?” He said, one man, great guy. He said, “I feel like a beggar because every year, we come up and beg for money.” I got them 10 year absolute funding. Historically black colleges. Obama wouldn’t do it. Biden wouldn’t do it. Nobody did it. I did it. Just remember criminal justice reform. That’s the biggest thing.

Donald Trump: (01:31:04)

Biden has vowed to ban school choice and charter schools, devastating the black community. We’ve spent the last four years reversing the damage that Joe Biden inflicted over the last 47 years with his stupidity. He backed NAFTA, he backed TPP, which would have been a disaster if I didn’t stop it.

Donald Trump: (01:31:24)

And China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, one of the worst things that’s ever happened to our country. For decades, our politicians spent trillions of dollars rebuilding foreign nations, fighting foreign wars, countries that you’ve never even heard of, and defending foreign borders, but we didn’t defend their own borders. But now we’re finally protecting our nation, rebuilding our cities. And we are bringing our jobs, our factories, and our troops back home to the USA. About time. About time. They’re all coming home. They’re all coming home.

Donald Trump: (01:32:11)

We invested $2.5 trillion in the US military and launched the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces in 75 years. So necessary. The Space Force, and they helped us get it approved. And for our great veterans, we passed VA Choice and VA Accountability. And you heard two weeks ago, we got a 91% approval rating from our vets. First time this ever happened.

Donald Trump: (01:32:47)

We took over 100% of the ISIS caliphate in Iraq and Syria. And when I took over, it was a mess. And we killed the leader of ISIS, who was trying to reform ISIS. Al-Baghdadi is dead. We took out the world’s number one terrorist and the mass murderer of American troops and troops all over the world and many, many people. Soleimani is dead. I withdrew from the last administration’s disastrous Iran Nuclear Deal. They spent $150 billion to Iran that they used for terror. $1.8 billion in cash. I terminated. By the way, my first phone call, if we win, will be from the head of Iran saying, “Let’s make a deal.” Their economy is in tatters right now. They went down 27% GDP. I’ve never even heard of such a thing. But you know what? We don’t want that. We want them to do fine, but they can never have a nuclear weapon.

Donald Trump: (01:33:59)

I recognized the true capital of Israel and opened the American Embassy in Jerusalem. And it’s all built. It’s all built. It’s all built. It’s all built. Not only did we get it approved, I got the building built. I said, “Find the building on the site that we own.” And they came to me. You know that story? They were going to spend $2 billion to build an embassy. I said, “That sounds like a lot.” And I called our great ambassador. I said, “David, do we have any land in Jerusalem?” He said, “Yeah, we have a great site.” I said, “Take a look at it. Call me.” He calls me, he said, “There’s a building on the site. We can renovate it. Now, we’re going to spend anywhere from $1 billion to $2 billion.” I said, “Well, let’s do this. Can we do something?” “Yes, sir.”

Donald Trump: (01:34:46)

He calls me back a week later, he said, “Sir, we can renovate the building fully for $350,000 [inaudible 01:34:50]” It’s the first time in my life or in my business career I ever did this. I said, “David, it’s too cheap. It doesn’t sound good.” Normally I’d say, “Let’s make it $250,000.” I said, “David, make it $500,000 and use Jerusalem Stone.” I have a friend, Ron Baron, smart guy. He’s so proud. He’s got Jerusalem Stone in his lobby of his office building. And I said, “Can you get Jerusalem Stone?” He said, “Yeah, we’re in Jerusalem.” I said, “That’s good.” The whole place is Jerusalem Stone and it was cheap as hell, I’ll tell you. So we built this building for under $500,000 and it’s been open for a long time. And every president for many, many decades has said they were going to do it, and not one of them got it done. And I got it done and got the building built.

Donald Trump: (01:35:44)

I also recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. 52 years, they were working on that. They were working on it for 52 years, I got done in about two and a half hours. And instead of endless war, we are forging peace in the Middle East without blood all over the sand. You see what’s going on. UAE, Bahrain. And we have countries lined up to sign.

Donald Trump: (01:36:09)

The fact is, I did more in 47 months than Sleepy Joe Biden did in 47 years. And now the Democrats are pushing the most far left agenda ever put forward by a presidential nominee. The Biden plan would destroy Social Security and destroy protections for pre-existing conditions. People with pre-existing conditions are never going to get it. Their plan, and this Green New Deal, will destroy our country. It’s crazy. When I first heard it, I thought they were joking, actually. I thought, oh, not even cows do they want. They don’t want cows. I think they gave up on that one, but they didn’t really give up. They will never give up.

Donald Trump: (01:36:55)

Biden’s running mate sponsored a bill to outlaw private health insurance, 180 million people that love their private plans. They love their private plans. Those plans are going to be gone. Biden vowed to terminate our travel bans on jihadist regions and surge refugee admissions 700%, opening the flood gates to radical Islamic terrorism. Your state and your country will be overrun and overwhelmed. We’ll have no money and we will, indeed, be another Venezuela, very large scale version.

Donald Trump: (01:37:33)

A vote for Republicans is a vote for safe communities, great jobs, and a limitless future for all Americans. It’s a vote for the American dream. It’s the American dream, and we’re going to have it bigger and better than we ever had before.

Donald Trump: (01:37:50)

And in conclusion, over the next four years, we will make America into the manufacturing superpower of the world. And we will end our reliance on China once and for all. It’s already taking place. We will hire more police, increase penalties for assaults on law enforcement, and we will ban deadly sanctuary cities. We will uphold religious liberty, free speech, and the right to keep and bear arms. Second Amendment. We will strike down terrorists who threaten our citizens. And we will keep America out of these absolutely ridiculous, endless foreign wars. Our troops are coming home. We will maintain America’s unrivaled military might, and we will ensure peace through strength.

Donald Trump: (01:38:54)

And I want to tell you, we have the greatest weapons, much of it built ever in the history of any country in the world. We are the envy of China and Russia and North Korea and everybody. And when I came here, one of our most overrated generals in the world told me, one of the most overrated generals, he said, “Sir, we have no ammunition.” And I said, “No president should ever, ever hear that.” And now we have ammunition like you wouldn’t believe. But we have rockets and we have missiles and we have tanks and we have F-35s and all sorts of aircraft tankers and bombers. Only hope to God we never have to use it. That’s all. But we are the envy of the world. We have rebuilt our military, $2.5 trillion, and we have never had anything like it. So just hope we never have to use it.

Donald Trump: (01:39:49)

We will end surprise medical building, require price transparency, and further reduce the cost of prescription drugs. They’ll be coming down 80%, 90%, 70%. We will strongly protect Medicare and Social Security, and we will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions. So important. America will land the first woman on the moon and the United States will be the first nation to land an astronaut on Mars. And that’s moving along rapidly.

Donald Trump: (01:40:25)

We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic education to our schools. We will teach our children to love our country, honor our history, and always respect our great American flag. And we will live by the timeless words of our national motto: in God we trust. In God we trust.

Donald Trump: (01:41:03)

For years, you had a president who apologized for America. Now you have a president who is standing up for America and standing up for the great state of Georgia. I love Georgia. Early voting is underway. So get your friends, get your family, get your neighbors, get your coworkers, get your boss if you have a boss. Say, “Boss, you come with me right now.” And get out and vote early. Get out and vote. A giant red wave is coming from Atlanta to Augusta, from Savannah to Columbus, and from Marietta to right here in Macon, Georgia. I love you, Macon. Macon, Georgia.

Donald Trump: (01:41:53)

We inherit the legacy of Georgia patriots who gave their blood, sweat, and tears for this beloved nation. We stand on the shoulders of American heroes who crossed the oceans, blazed the trails, settled the continent, tamed the wilderness, dug out the Panama Canal, laid down the railroads, raised up the giant skyscrapers, won two World Wars, defeated fascism and communism, and made America the single greatest nation in the history of the world. And we are making it greater every single day. Proud citizens like you helped build this country, and together we are taking back our country. We are returning power to you, the American people.

Donald Trump: (01:42:49)

With your help, your devotion, and your drive, we are going to keep on working, we are going to keep on fighting, and we are going to keep on winning, winning, winning. We are one movement, one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God. And together with the incredible people of Georgia, we have made America wealthy again, we have made America strong again, we have made America proud again. We will make America safe again, and we will make America great again. Thank you, Georgia. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Speaker 2: (01:43:43)

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2016 marks the 75th anniversary since the attack on Pearl Harbor, 25 years since the hostages Terry Waite and John McCarthy were released from captivity and 20 years since 'Dolly the Sheep' was cloned.

It's also 70 years since the Cannes Film Festival opened for the first time, and fifty years since England won the World Cup against Germany.

STORY-LINE:

On January 20, 1981, Iran released 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

The 52 Americans were taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Iran in the fall of 1979. President Jimmy Carter's public standing tanked amid the crisis, and the hostages weren't freed until after Carter lost his 1980 re-election bid to Ronald Reagan.

A decade later a new enemy had emerged for the United States, Iraq, which had invaded neighbouring Kuwait.

On Jan. 17, 1991, a five-month buildup called Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm as allied aircraft attacked Iraqi bases and Baghdad government facilities.

The six-week aerial campaign climaxed with a massive ground offensive on Feb. 24-28, routing the Iraqis from Kuwait in 100 hours before U.S. officials called a halt, leaving Saddam Hussein in power in Baghdad.

The Sept. 11 2001 terror attack on the U.S. focused attention on Saddam Hussein as a sponsor of terrorism. His refusal to meet U.N. demands for full disclosure of his illegal weapons program provided a justification for war.

An American-led force invaded on March 20, 2003. Within three weeks, Iraq's army had collapsed. Saddam was captured the following December.

A century ago, "all changed, changed utterly" in Ireland, in the words of the poet W. B. Yeats.

On April 24 1916, some 1,600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin.

Thousands were killed and injured in the revolt. The 15 rebel leaders whom the British army executed in the weeks following what, by any measure, had been a military disaster for the rebels.

They had seized several buildings and a central park, then waited for superior numbers of British troops many of them Irishmen to surround, shoot and shell them into submission.

But the 15 men's deaths by firing squad inside Dublin's Kilmainham Jail inflamed public opinion against the British and in favor of a successful 1919-21 war of independence for the predominantly Catholic south of Ireland.

Irish poet W.B. Yeats summed up the impact of the British executions in his "Easter 1916" poem, naming Pearse and three other prominent commanders who died, warning: "A terrible beauty is born."

On July 5 1996 an unusual birth took place. A lamb named Dolly was born at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland.

The achievement of her creation - announced Feb. 23, 1997 - sparked an international sensation.

Dolly was named after Country singer Dolly Parton, because she was derived from mammary cells.

Researchers had previously cloned sheep from foetal and embryonic cells, but until Dolly, it was unknown whether an adult cell could reprogram itself to develop into a new being.

Dolly, a Finn Dorset sheep, bred normally on two occasions with a Welsh mountain ram called David, first giving birth to Bonnie in April 1998 and then to three more lambs in 1999.

The births were good news, showing that clones can reproduce.

But in 1999, scientists noticed that the cells in Dolly's body - cloned from the breast cell of a 6-year-old adult ewe - had started to show signs of wear more typical of an older animal.

Then in January 2002, her creators announced she had developed arthritis at the relatively early age of 5 1/2 years, stirring debate over whether cloning procedures might be flawed.

Some geneticists said the finding showed that researchers could not manufacture copies of animals without the original genetic blueprint eventually wearing out.

Many attempts to clone animals have ended in failure.

However there have also been successes. There are now hundreds of animal clones around the world, including cows, pigs, mice and goats, many of them appearing robust and healthy.

Dolly was put to sleep on Feb. 14 2003 after developing a lung disease.

Soon after assuming full power in 1991, Slobodan Milosevic triggered a bloody break-up of the former Yugoslavia.

On June 25 1991, the western Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence.

Slovenia a country of 2 million people, squeezed in between Austria and Croatia, became in 1991 the first Yugoslav republic to declare independence on June 25 1991, starting a 10-day war.

After negotiations, the Yugoslav army withdrew three months later.

Croatia declared independence from the former Yugoslavia in June 1991, sparking a four-year war with rebel Serbs who were supported by the Serb-led Yugoslav army.

About a third of the country's territory was occupied by the Serbs, and many areas were reduced to rubble before a U.N. peacekeeping force moved in.

The war ended in 1995, when Croatia retook territories in an offensive.

The Serb bombardment of Dubrovnik lasted until early December 1991, about 1,000 artillery shells fell on the ancient town from the hills of Montenegro and from naval ships in the Adriatic.

Dubrovnik had just 670 defenders facing as many as 35,000 army troops.

At least 43 civilians were killed and 563 buildings destroyed or damaged in the Old Town, formerly a U.N. World Heritage Site.

July marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the First World War's most deadly battles.

Four months of vicious trench warfare ravaged the Somme region and left more than 1.2 million on both sides dead, wounded or held prisoner.

Britain felt the battle's scars most deeply. July 1, 1916, was the deadliest day the British army ever saw, leaving 20,000 victims.

Britain led allied forces into battle hoping to end 18 months of deadlock with a decisive Allied victory over German forces and relieve pressure on the French army at Verdun.

Yet when it ended Nov. 18, Britain had only advanced about six miles.

July 18 marks the 80th anniversary of the rebellion by General Franco and his nationalist forces which set off the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War.

Franco urged Spain's soldiers to revolt against the leftist democratic government, sparking the Spanish Civil War in which some 500,000 were killed, and put him in power for nearly four decades.

Franco's supporters see him as the man who held Spain together and saved it from Bolshevism. His critics call him a dictator who kept fascism alive in Spain for 30 years after World War II.

Fifty years ago England won the World Cup against Germany.

Geoff Hurst scored three times against Germany in the men's 1966 final on July 30 at Wembley.

August 19 1991, marked the start of the attempted coup that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The coup attempt was initiated by a group of Communist hard-liners who placed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest at his vacation home, fearing that his pending agreement to allow wide sovereignty for Soviet republics would lead to the USSR's disintegration.

But public opposition quickly weakened the coup, notably the tens of thousands who gathered around the Russian government headquarters where President Boris Yeltsin famously defied the coup while standing atop a tank.

The coup collapsed three days later and Gorbachev returned to Moscow, but his power and credibility were fatally dissipated. The republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were allowed to split off from the Soviet Union within weeks, and the entire USSR was signed out of existence in December 1991.

The collapse led to severe economic hardships for tens of millions and to a long period of political chaos and the rise of politically powerful tycoons who became known as oligarchs.

On April 17th, 1986, John McCarthy - a producer working for Worldwide Television News - was on his way to Beirut Airport after a temporary posting to Lebanon.

It was a journey he was never to complete. Kidnapped, it was to be 1943 days before he was to gain his freedom on August 8 1991.

The British army introduced tanks into warfare for the first time during World War One in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September 1916 according to the UK's Imperial War Museum's website.

On September 20 1946 the very first Cannes Film Festival began.

Since its first edition Cannes has been associated with glamour and celebrities such as Sophia Lorean, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau.

The 1956 Hungarian student protests began on the afternoon of Oct. 23, and by nightfall had turned into an armed uprising.

Around 2,800 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops were killed in the Red Army offensive to crush the revolt, which was launched on Nov. 4, 1956.

After the military defeat, strikes and protests continued for several weeks until a Soviet crackdown definitively ended the uprising in January 1957.

Some 200,000 Hungarians fled the country and at least 225 Hungarians accused of participating in the revolution were executed including Imre Nagy, the communist-turned-democrat who was briefly returned to power in 1956.

The communists were in power in Hungary until 1989.

Renowned journalist Anna Politkovskaya, 48, was fatally shot in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building in October 7 2006. Her work in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper was sharply critical of Kremlin policies in Chechnya and of human rights violations there.

In 2014 a court convicted five men, most of them Chechens, of involvement in the murder. However, Russia's Investigative Committee has said it is still trying to determine who ordered the killing.

In 1985, American educator Thomas Sutherland was kidnapped in Lebanon by members of Islamic Jihad; he was released on November 18 1991 along with fellow hostage Terry Waite.

Sutherland later said that he spent much of his 6 1/2 years as a hostage in a dark room in Lebanon, reciting Robert Burns' poetry to maintain his sanity.

Sutherland was held with Terry Anderson, then-chief Mideast correspondent for The Associated Press, and Terry Waite, an Anglican Church envoy seized while trying to free the hostages. They were held by a paramilitary organization supported by Iran.

Sutherland and Waite were released in November 1991 and Anderson was freed 16 days later on Dec 4. after 2,455 days in captivity, the last of 13 U.S. hostages to go free in Lebanon.

American hostages Joe Cicippio and Alann Steen had been freed earlier in the same week.

June 6 1956, Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula, Anglo-French forces occupied the Suez Canal, then withdrew, all parties agreed to a cease-fire, and a United Nations Force took over the canal.

On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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2016 marks the 75th anniversary since the attack on Pearl Harbor, 25 years since the hostages Terry Waite and John McCarthy were released from captivity and 20 years since 'Dolly the Sheep' was cloned.

It's also 70 years since the Cannes Film Festival opened for the first time, and fifty years since England won the World Cup against Germany.

STORY-LINE:

On January 20, 1981, Iran released 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

The 52 Americans were taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Iran in the fall of 1979. President Jimmy Carter's public standing tanked amid the crisis, and the hostages weren't freed until after Carter lost his 1980 re-election bid to Ronald Reagan.

A decade later a new enemy had emerged for the United States, Iraq, which had invaded neighbouring Kuwait.

On Jan. 17, 1991, a five-month buildup called Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm as allied aircraft attacked Iraqi bases and Baghdad government facilities.

The six-week aerial campaign climaxed with a massive ground offensive on Feb. 24-28, routing the Iraqis from Kuwait in 100 hours before U.S. officials called a halt, leaving Saddam Hussein in power in Baghdad.

The Sept. 11 2001 terror attack on the U.S. focused attention on Saddam Hussein as a sponsor of terrorism. His refusal to meet U.N. demands for full disclosure of his illegal weapons program provided a justification for war.

An American-led force invaded on March 20, 2003. Within three weeks, Iraq's army had collapsed. Saddam was captured the following December.

A century ago, "all changed, changed utterly" in Ireland, in the words of the poet W. B. Yeats.

On April 24 1916, some 1,600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin.

Thousands were killed and injured in the revolt. The 15 rebel leaders whom the British army executed in the weeks following what, by any measure, had been a military disaster for the rebels.

They had seized several buildings and a central park, then waited for superior numbers of British troops many of them Irishmen to surround, shoot and shell them into submission.

But the 15 men's deaths by firing squad inside Dublin's Kilmainham Jail inflamed public opinion against the British and in favor of a successful 1919-21 war of independence for the predominantly Catholic south of Ireland.

Irish poet W.B. Yeats summed up the impact of the British executions in his "Easter 1916" poem, naming Pearse and three other prominent commanders who died, warning: "A terrible beauty is born."

On July 5 1996 an unusual birth took place. A lamb named Dolly was born at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland.

The achievement of her creation - announced Feb. 23, 1997 - sparked an international sensation.

Dolly was named after Country singer Dolly Parton, because she was derived from mammary cells.

Researchers had previously cloned sheep from foetal and embryonic cells, but until Dolly, it was unknown whether an adult cell could reprogram itself to develop into a new being.

Dolly, a Finn Dorset sheep, bred normally on two occasions with a Welsh mountain ram called David, first giving birth to Bonnie in April 1998 and then to three more lambs in 1999.

The births were good news, showing that clones can reproduce.

But in 1999, scientists noticed that the cells in Dolly's body - cloned from the breast cell of a 6-year-old adult ewe - had started to show signs of wear more typical of an older animal.

Then in January 2002, her creators announced she had developed arthritis at the relatively early age of 5 1/2 years, stirring debate over whether cloning procedures might be flawed.

Some geneticists said the finding showed that researchers could not manufacture copies of animals without the original genetic blueprint eventually wearing out.

Many attempts to clone animals have ended in failure.

However there have also been successes. There are now hundreds of animal clones around the world, including cows, pigs, mice and goats, many of them appearing robust and healthy.

Dolly was put to sleep on Feb. 14 2003 after developing a lung disease.

Soon after assuming full power in 1991, Slobodan Milosevic triggered a bloody break-up of the former Yugoslavia.

On June 25 1991, the western Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence.

Slovenia a country of 2 million people, squeezed in between Austria and Croatia, became in 1991 the first Yugoslav republic to declare independence on June 25 1991, starting a 10-day war.

After negotiations, the Yugoslav army withdrew three months later.

Croatia declared independence from the former Yugoslavia in June 1991, sparking a four-year war with rebel Serbs who were supported by the Serb-led Yugoslav army.

About a third of the country's territory was occupied by the Serbs, and many areas were reduced to rubble before a U.N. peacekeeping force moved in.

The war ended in 1995, when Croatia retook territories in an offensive.

The Serb bombardment of Dubrovnik lasted until early December 1991, about 1,000 artillery shells fell on the ancient town from the hills of Montenegro and from naval ships in the Adriatic.

Dubrovnik had just 670 defenders facing as many as 35,000 army troops.

At least 43 civilians were killed and 563 buildings destroyed or damaged in the Old Town, formerly a U.N. World Heritage Site.

July marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the First World War's most deadly battles.

Four months of vicious trench warfare ravaged the Somme region and left more than 1.2 million on both sides dead, wounded or held prisoner.

Britain felt the battle's scars most deeply. July 1, 1916, was the deadliest day the British army ever saw, leaving 20,000 victims.

Britain led allied forces into battle hoping to end 18 months of deadlock with a decisive Allied victory over German forces and relieve pressure on the French army at Verdun.

Yet when it ended Nov. 18, Britain had only advanced about six miles.

July 18 marks the 80th anniversary of the rebellion by General Franco and his nationalist forces which set off the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War.

Franco urged Spain's soldiers to revolt against the leftist democratic government, sparking the Spanish Civil War in which some 500,000 were killed, and put him in power for nearly four decades.

Franco's supporters see him as the man who held Spain together and saved it from Bolshevism. His critics call him a dictator who kept fascism alive in Spain for 30 years after World War II.

Fifty years ago England won the World Cup against Germany.

Geoff Hurst scored three times against Germany in the men's 1966 final on July 30 at Wembley.

August 19 1991, marked the start of the attempted coup that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The coup attempt was initiated by a group of Communist hard-liners who placed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest at his vacation home, fearing that his pending agreement to allow wide sovereignty for Soviet republics would lead to the USSR's disintegration.

But public opposition quickly weakened the coup, notably the tens of thousands who gathered around the Russian government headquarters where President Boris Yeltsin famously defied the coup while standing atop a tank.

The coup collapsed three days later and Gorbachev returned to Moscow, but his power and credibility were fatally dissipated. The republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were allowed to split off from the Soviet Union within weeks, and the entire USSR was signed out of existence in December 1991.

The collapse led to severe economic hardships for tens of millions and to a long period of political chaos and the rise of politically powerful tycoons who became known as oligarchs.

On April 17th, 1986, John McCarthy - a producer working for Worldwide Television News - was on his way to Beirut Airport after a temporary posting to Lebanon.

It was a journey he was never to complete. Kidnapped, it was to be 1943 days before he was to gain his freedom on August 8 1991.

The British army introduced tanks into warfare for the first time during World War One in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September 1916 according to the UK's Imperial War Museum's website.

On September 20 1946 the very first Cannes Film Festival began.

Since its first edition Cannes has been associated with glamour and celebrities such as Sophia Lorean, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau.

The 1956 Hungarian student protests began on the afternoon of Oct. 23, and by nightfall had turned into an armed uprising.

Around 2,800 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops were killed in the Red Army offensive to crush the revolt, which was launched on Nov. 4, 1956.

After the military defeat, strikes and protests continued for several weeks until a Soviet crackdown definitively ended the uprising in January 1957.

Some 200,000 Hungarians fled the country and at least 225 Hungarians accused of participating in the revolution were executed including Imre Nagy, the communist-turned-democrat who was briefly returned to power in 1956.

The communists were in power in Hungary until 1989.

Renowned journalist Anna Politkovskaya, 48, was fatally shot in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building in October 7 2006. Her work in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper was sharply critical of Kremlin policies in Chechnya and of human rights violations there.

In 2014 a court convicted five men, most of them Chechens, of involvement in the murder. However, Russia's Investigative Committee has said it is still trying to determine who ordered the killing.

In 1985, American educator Thomas Sutherland was kidnapped in Lebanon by members of Islamic Jihad; he was released on November 18 1991 along with fellow hostage Terry Waite.

Sutherland later said that he spent much of his 6 1/2 years as a hostage in a dark room in Lebanon, reciting Robert Burns' poetry to maintain his sanity.

Sutherland was held with Terry Anderson, then-chief Mideast correspondent for The Associated Press, and Terry Waite, an Anglican Church envoy seized while trying to free the hostages. They were held by a paramilitary organization supported by Iran.

Sutherland and Waite were released in November 1991 and Anderson was freed 16 days later on Dec 4. after 2,455 days in captivity, the last of 13 U.S. hostages to go free in Lebanon.

American hostages Joe Cicippio and Alann Steen had been freed earlier in the same week.

June 6 1956, Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula, Anglo-French forces occupied the Suez Canal, then withdrew, all parties agreed to a cease-fire, and a United Nations Force took over the canal.

On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

AP TELEVISION

Exact date and location unknown (January 1981)

1. Hostages alighting from plane

2. Hostages waving

3. Jubilant crowd

4. Hostages greeting families and friends

US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Al-Hatidah hydro-electric plant in Iraq - January 21 1991 MUTE

5. TV pictures from SLAM missile nose-cone camera above al-Hatidah hydro-electric plant in Iraq

AP TELEVISION

Baghdad Iraq - January 21 1991 MUTE

6. Wreckage of US cruise missile strewn over ground

US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Over Iraq - January 21 1991

7. F-18 jets approach tanker

AP TELEVISION

Washington, US - January 23 1991

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) George H. W. Bush, US President

"Operation Desert Storm is right on schedule"

AP TELEVISION

Southern Kuwait - February 24, 1991

9. Mid of convoy of APCs

10. Kuwaiti soldier shouting from APC: UPSOUND: (English) "We're going back to our country, our country and freedom OK? And I give thanks to all the friends who help us, thanks. "

AP IMAGES

11. Irish prisoners march along a Dublin quay under a British guard during the bloody Irish insurrection that began on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, in Dublin, Ireland.

12. This view shows the damage caused by the Irish Republican Army's armed rebellion against British rule in Dublin, Ireland on , April 24, 1916.

AP IMAGES - NO ACCESS UK

13. Seven-month-old Dolly, the genetically cloned sheep, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland Feb. 25, 1997

AP IMAGES

14. Dr Ian Wilmut, who co-ordinated the cloning work at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Feb. 25, 1997

AP TELEVISION

Port Said, Egypt - June 1956

15. Various ships moving along canal MUTE

ENGLISH NARRATION (audio from original source)

16. Various army trucks across land attacked by Israeli forces

17. Mid tank

18. Wide planes take off from aircraft carrier

19. Various parachutists falling from the sky

20. Various troops wade through water to shore

21. Wide large plume of black smoke billows from land over canal

22. Wide travelling pan building on bank

23. Mid soldiers walk along quayside, in background is Port Authority building in Port Said

AP TELEVISION

Slovenia - July 2 1991

24. Bulldozer approaches burning tank

25. Close up soldier

26. Krakowski bulldozer trying to push tank

AP TELEVISION

Near Ljubljana, Slovenia - July 2 1991

27. Convoy of federal army APCs on road

28. Various of Yugoslav troops

UPSOUND: (English) Soldier

"No more killing. Yes, we've had to (fight)..if we don't they are going to kill us"

AP TELEVISION

Lazearci Nr Italian-Slovenian border - July 2 1991

29. Wide of troops erecting "Republic of Slovenia" sign

AP TELEVISION

Dubrovnik, Croatia - 5/6 - December 1991

30. Various of siege of Dubrovnik

31. Various of people fleeing

32. Close up of two women weeping

AP IMAGES

33. Australian artillery operating a large caliber gun at the Somme front, France in 1916

34. A British military photographer examines the bell of a French village church destroyed by shell fire at the Somme front during the Great War, 1916.

35. This is the burial ground of troops who fell in the battle of Somme, France, 1916.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL

Barcelona, Spain - 1936

ENGLISH NARRATION

36. Various of Barcelona during civil war in 1936

37. Various trainloads of troops loyal to left wing government leave to stem the rebel (Franco's supporters) advances into Aragon.

AP TELEVISION

London, UK - 30 July 1966

38. Wide of Geoff Hurst scoring goal for England

39. Mid of scoreboard reading: "England 4 - West Germany 2"

40. Mid of Bobby Moore, England Captain, receiving Jules Rimet trophy from Queen Elizabeth

AP TELEVISION

Moscow, Russia - August 1991 (exact date not available)

41. Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev leaves for post-G7

AP TELEVISION

Moscow, Russia August 19, 1991

42. Boris Yeltsin outside Russian parliament building

43. Yeltsin gets on to tank to address crowd

44. Yeltsin speaking

45. White House barricaded

AP TELEVISION

Moscow, Russia - August 21, 1991

46. Various of tanks leaving Moscow at end of coup

47. Yeltsin waves Russian flag

AP TELEVISION

Damascus, Syria - 8 August 1991

ENGLISH NARRATION

48. Various of John McCarthy at news conference in Damascus after release

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL

no exact date and location available

49. Various of tanks on battlefield in World War One MUTE

AP TELEVISION

Cannes, France - 1964 MUTE

50. Sophia Loren at Cannes film festival

51. Wide of Cannes beachfront

52. Woman posing on terrace

AP IMAGES

53. Wearing a fur-lined leather jacket over a velvet suit and with a bow tie, Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, strolls arms in arm with Vera Clouzot, wife of the director of the film "Wages of Fear" at the Fifth International Film Festival in Cannes, France on April 15, 1953. At left French actor Yves Montand and French film director Georges-Henri Clouzot at right.

54. Jean Cocteau, left, and Jean Maris kiss Michele Morgan whilst holding their awards at Cannes Film Festival in France on April 8, 1951.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL

Hungary, October 1956 (please note AP is not responsible for narration that accompanies these images)

ENGLISH NARRATION

55. Various of people in the aftermath of uprising

56. Wide of road with Budapest sign

57. Burnt out Soviet tanks

AP TELEVISION

Budapest, Hungary - November 1956 MUTE

58. Hungarian resistance fighters behind tank, tending wounded man

59. Wounded carried on stretcher

60. Close up man fires machine gun down street

61. Mid man on ground fires machine gun

62. Wide building with shell damage

63. Mid Hungarians burning Soviet flag

64. Soviet tanks drive through street

65. Mid damaged building, people walking past

66. Interior damaged building, tilt down from dome ceiling

AP TELEVISION

Moscow, Russia - 23 Oct 2004

67 Demonstrators holding banner reading (in Russian): 'Chechnya forgive us.'

68. Close up of candle

69. Wide shot of Anna Politkovskaya speaking on stage

AP TELEVISION

Moscow, Russia - 9 Oct 2006

70. People walking past street-side memorial near entrance to the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya's house

71. Poster showing portrait of Anna Politkovskaya on wall, flowers

72. Close-up poster

73. Close-up mourner holding candle

74. Various of memorial

POOL

RAF Lyneham, England and Wiesbaden, Germany - 19 November 1991

75. Windswept, Terry Waite, leaving plane:

POOL

Wiesbaden - November 1991 (no exact date available)

76. Freed American hostage, Thomas Sutherland, onto hospital balcony with wife and daughters

POOL

Wiesbaden, Germany - Dec 4 1991

77. Terry Andersen on balcony, waving flag, flanked by Joe Cicippio and Alann Steen:

AP TELEVISION

Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, US - December 1941

78. Various of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

LEAD-IN :

2016 marks the 75th anniversary since the attack on Pearl Harbor, 25 years since the hostages Terry Waite and John McCarthy were released from captivity and 20 years since 'Dolly the Sheep' was cloned.

It's also 70 years since the Cannes Film Festival opened for the first time, and fifty years since England won the World Cup against Germany.

STORY-LINE:

On January 20, 1981, Iran released 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

The 52 Americans were taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Iran in the fall of 1979. President Jimmy Carter's public standing tanked amid the crisis, and the hostages weren't freed until after Carter lost his 1980 re-election bid to Ronald Reagan.

A decade later a new enemy had emerged for the United States, Iraq, which had invaded neighbouring Kuwait.

On Jan. 17, 1991, a five-month buildup called Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm as allied aircraft attacked Iraqi bases and Baghdad government facilities.

The six-week aerial campaign climaxed with a massive ground offensive on Feb. 24-28, routing the Iraqis from Kuwait in 100 hours before U.S. officials called a halt, leaving Saddam Hussein in power in Baghdad.

The Sept. 11 2001 terror attack on the U.S. focused attention on Saddam Hussein as a sponsor of terrorism. His refusal to meet U.N. demands for full disclosure of his illegal weapons program provided a justification for war.

An American-led force invaded on March 20, 2003. Within three weeks, Iraq's army had collapsed. Saddam was captured the following December.

A century ago, "all changed, changed utterly" in Ireland, in the words of the poet W. B. Yeats.

On April 24 1916, some 1,600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin.

Thousands were killed and injured in the revolt. The 15 rebel leaders whom the British army executed in the weeks following what, by any measure, had been a military disaster for the rebels.

They had seized several buildings and a central park, then waited for superior numbers of British troops many of them Irishmen to surround, shoot and shell them into submission.

But the 15 men's deaths by firing squad inside Dublin's Kilmainham Jail inflamed public opinion against the British and in favor of a successful 1919-21 war of independence for the predominantly Catholic south of Ireland.

Irish poet W.B. Yeats summed up the impact of the British executions in his "Easter 1916" poem, naming Pearse and three other prominent commanders who died, warning: "A terrible beauty is born."

On July 5 1996 an unusual birth took place. A lamb named Dolly was born at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland.

The achievement of her creation - announced Feb. 23, 1997 - sparked an international sensation.

Dolly was named after Country singer Dolly Parton, because she was derived from mammary cells.

Researchers had previously cloned sheep from foetal and embryonic cells, but until Dolly, it was unknown whether an adult cell could reprogram itself to develop into a new being.

Dolly, a Finn Dorset sheep, bred normally on two occasions with a Welsh mountain ram called David, first giving birth to Bonnie in April 1998 and then to three more lambs in 1999.

The births were good news, showing that clones can reproduce.

But in 1999, scientists noticed that the cells in Dolly's body - cloned from the breast cell of a 6-year-old adult ewe - had started to show signs of wear more typical of an older animal.

Then in January 2002, her creators announced she had developed arthritis at the relatively early age of 5 1/2 years, stirring debate over whether cloning procedures might be flawed.

Some geneticists said the finding showed that researchers could not manufacture copies of animals without the original genetic blueprint eventually wearing out.

Many attempts to clone animals have ended in failure.

However there have also been successes. There are now hundreds of animal clones around the world, including cows, pigs, mice and goats, many of them appearing robust and healthy.

Dolly was put to sleep on Feb. 14 2003 after developing a lung disease.

Soon after assuming full power in 1991, Slobodan Milosevic triggered a bloody break-up of the former Yugoslavia.

On June 25 1991, the western Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence.

Slovenia a country of 2 million people, squeezed in between Austria and Croatia, became in 1991 the first Yugoslav republic to declare independence on June 25 1991, starting a 10-day war.

After negotiations, the Yugoslav army withdrew three months later.

Croatia declared independence from the former Yugoslavia in June 1991, sparking a four-year war with rebel Serbs who were supported by the Serb-led Yugoslav army.

About a third of the country's territory was occupied by the Serbs, and many areas were reduced to rubble before a U.N. peacekeeping force moved in.

The war ended in 1995, when Croatia retook territories in an offensive.

The Serb bombardment of Dubrovnik lasted until early December 1991, about 1,000 artillery shells fell on the ancient town from the hills of Montenegro and from naval ships in the Adriatic.

Dubrovnik had just 670 defenders facing as many as 35,000 army troops.

At least 43 civilians were killed and 563 buildings destroyed or damaged in the Old Town, formerly a U.N. World Heritage Site.

July marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the First World War's most deadly battles.

Four months of vicious trench warfare ravaged the Somme region and left more than 1.2 million on both sides dead, wounded or held prisoner.

Britain felt the battle's scars most deeply. July 1, 1916, was the deadliest day the British army ever saw, leaving 20,000 victims.

Britain led allied forces into battle hoping to end 18 months of deadlock with a decisive Allied victory over German forces and relieve pressure on the French army at Verdun.

Yet when it ended Nov. 18, Britain had only advanced about six miles.

July 18 marks the 80th anniversary of the rebellion by General Franco and his nationalist forces which set off the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War.

Franco urged Spain's soldiers to revolt against the leftist democratic government, sparking the Spanish Civil War in which some 500,000 were killed, and put him in power for nearly four decades.

Franco's supporters see him as the man who held Spain together and saved it from Bolshevism. His critics call him a dictator who kept fascism alive in Spain for 30 years after World War II.

Fifty years ago England won the World Cup against Germany.

Geoff Hurst scored three times against Germany in the men's 1966 final on July 30 at Wembley.

August 19 1991, marked the start of the attempted coup that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The coup attempt was initiated by a group of Communist hard-liners who placed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest at his vacation home, fearing that his pending agreement to allow wide sovereignty for Soviet republics would lead to the USSR's disintegration.

But public opposition quickly weakened the coup, notably the tens of thousands who gathered around the Russian government headquarters where President Boris Yeltsin famously defied the coup while standing atop a tank.

The coup collapsed three days later and Gorbachev returned to Moscow, but his power and credibility were fatally dissipated. The republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were allowed to split off from the Soviet Union within weeks, and the entire USSR was signed out of existence in December 1991.

The collapse led to severe economic hardships for tens of millions and to a long period of political chaos and the rise of politically powerful tycoons who became known as oligarchs.

On April 17th, 1986, John McCarthy - a producer working for Worldwide Television News - was on his way to Beirut Airport after a temporary posting to Lebanon.

It was a journey he was never to complete. Kidnapped, it was to be 1943 days before he was to gain his freedom on August 8 1991.

The British army introduced tanks into warfare for the first time during World War One in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September 1916 according to the UK's Imperial War Museum's website.

On September 20 1946 the very first Cannes Film Festival began.

Since its first edition Cannes has been associated with glamour and celebrities such as Sophia Lorean, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau.

The 1956 Hungarian student protests began on the afternoon of Oct. 23, and by nightfall had turned into an armed uprising.

Around 2,800 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops were killed in the Red Army offensive to crush the revolt, which was launched on Nov. 4, 1956.

After the military defeat, strikes and protests continued for several weeks until a Soviet crackdown definitively ended the uprising in January 1957.

Some 200,000 Hungarians fled the country and at least 225 Hungarians accused of participating in the revolution were executed including Imre Nagy, the communist-turned-democrat who was briefly returned to power in 1956.

The communists were in power in Hungary until 1989.

Renowned journalist Anna Politkovskaya, 48, was fatally shot in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building in October 7 2006. Her work in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper was sharply critical of Kremlin policies in Chechnya and of human rights violations there.

In 2014 a court convicted five men, most of them Chechens, of involvement in the murder. However, Russia's Investigative Committee has said it is still trying to determine who ordered the killing.

In 1985, American educator Thomas Sutherland was kidnapped in Lebanon by members of Islamic Jihad; he was released on November 18 1991 along with fellow hostage Terry Waite.

Sutherland later said that he spent much of his 6 1/2 years as a hostage in a dark room in Lebanon, reciting Robert Burns' poetry to maintain his sanity.

Sutherland was held with Terry Anderson, then-chief Mideast correspondent for The Associated Press, and Terry Waite, an Anglican Church envoy seized while trying to free the hostages. They were held by a paramilitary organization supported by Iran.

Sutherland and Waite were released in November 1991 and Anderson was freed 16 days later on Dec 4. after 2,455 days in captivity, the last of 13 U.S. hostages to go free in Lebanon.

American hostages Joe Cicippio and Alann Steen had been freed earlier in the same week.

June 6 1956, Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula, Anglo-French forces occupied the Suez Canal, then withdrew, all parties agreed to a cease-fire, and a United Nations Force took over the canal.

On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

LEAD-IN :

2016 marks the 75th anniversary since the attack on Pearl Harbor, 25 years since the hostages Terry Waite and John McCarthy were released from captivity and 20 years since 'Dolly the Sheep' was cloned.

It's also 70 years since the Cannes Film Festival opened for the first time, and fifty years since England won the World Cup against Germany.

STORY-LINE:

On January 20, 1981, Iran released 52 Americans held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

The 52 Americans were taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Iran in the fall of 1979. President Jimmy Carter's public standing tanked amid the crisis, and the hostages weren't freed until after Carter lost his 1980 re-election bid to Ronald Reagan.

A decade later a new enemy had emerged for the United States, Iraq, which had invaded neighbouring Kuwait.

On Jan. 17, 1991, a five-month buildup called Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm as allied aircraft attacked Iraqi bases and Baghdad government facilities.

The six-week aerial campaign climaxed with a massive ground offensive on Feb. 24-28, routing the Iraqis from Kuwait in 100 hours before U.S. officials called a halt, leaving Saddam Hussein in power in Baghdad.

The Sept. 11 2001 terror attack on the U.S. focused attention on Saddam Hussein as a sponsor of terrorism. His refusal to meet U.N. demands for full disclosure of his illegal weapons program provided a justification for war.

An American-led force invaded on March 20, 2003. Within three weeks, Iraq's army had collapsed. Saddam was captured the following December.

A century ago, "all changed, changed utterly" in Ireland, in the words of the poet W. B. Yeats.

On April 24 1916, some 1,600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin.

Thousands were killed and injured in the revolt. The 15 rebel leaders whom the British army executed in the weeks following what, by any measure, had been a military disaster for the rebels.

They had seized several buildings and a central park, then waited for superior numbers of British troops many of them Irishmen to surround, shoot and shell them into submission.

But the 15 men's deaths by firing squad inside Dublin's Kilmainham Jail inflamed public opinion against the British and in favor of a successful 1919-21 war of independence for the predominantly Catholic south of Ireland.

Irish poet W.B. Yeats summed up the impact of the British executions in his "Easter 1916" poem, naming Pearse and three other prominent commanders who died, warning: "A terrible beauty is born."

On July 5 1996 an unusual birth took place. A lamb named Dolly was born at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland.

The achievement of her creation - announced Feb. 23, 1997 - sparked an international sensation.

Dolly was named after Country singer Dolly Parton, because she was derived from mammary cells.

Researchers had previously cloned sheep from foetal and embryonic cells, but until Dolly, it was unknown whether an adult cell could reprogram itself to develop into a new being.

Dolly, a Finn Dorset sheep, bred normally on two occasions with a Welsh mountain ram called David, first giving birth to Bonnie in April 1998 and then to three more lambs in 1999.

The births were good news, showing that clones can reproduce.

But in 1999, scientists noticed that the cells in Dolly's body - cloned from the breast cell of a 6-year-old adult ewe - had started to show signs of wear more typical of an older animal.

Then in January 2002, her creators announced she had developed arthritis at the relatively early age of 5 1/2 years, stirring debate over whether cloning procedures might be flawed.

Some geneticists said the finding showed that researchers could not manufacture copies of animals without the original genetic blueprint eventually wearing out.

Many attempts to clone animals have ended in failure.

However there have also been successes. There are now hundreds of animal clones around the world, including cows, pigs, mice and goats, many of them appearing robust and healthy.

Dolly was put to sleep on Feb. 14 2003 after developing a lung disease.

Soon after assuming full power in 1991, Slobodan Milosevic triggered a bloody break-up of the former Yugoslavia.

On June 25 1991, the western Yugoslav republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence.

Slovenia a country of 2 million people, squeezed in between Austria and Croatia, became in 1991 the first Yugoslav republic to declare independence on June 25 1991, starting a 10-day war.

After negotiations, the Yugoslav army withdrew three months later.

Croatia declared independence from the former Yugoslavia in June 1991, sparking a four-year war with rebel Serbs who were supported by the Serb-led Yugoslav army.

About a third of the country's territory was occupied by the Serbs, and many areas were reduced to rubble before a U.N. peacekeeping force moved in.

The war ended in 1995, when Croatia retook territories in an offensive.

The Serb bombardment of Dubrovnik lasted until early December 1991, about 1,000 artillery shells fell on the ancient town from the hills of Montenegro and from naval ships in the Adriatic.

Dubrovnik had just 670 defenders facing as many as 35,000 army troops.

At least 43 civilians were killed and 563 buildings destroyed or damaged in the Old Town, formerly a U.N. World Heritage Site.

July marks the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, one of the First World War's most deadly battles.

Four months of vicious trench warfare ravaged the Somme region and left more than 1.2 million on both sides dead, wounded or held prisoner.

Britain felt the battle's scars most deeply. July 1, 1916, was the deadliest day the British army ever saw, leaving 20,000 victims.

Britain led allied forces into battle hoping to end 18 months of deadlock with a decisive Allied victory over German forces and relieve pressure on the French army at Verdun.

Yet when it ended Nov. 18, Britain had only advanced about six miles.

July 18 marks the 80th anniversary of the rebellion by General Franco and his nationalist forces which set off the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War.

Franco urged Spain's soldiers to revolt against the leftist democratic government, sparking the Spanish Civil War in which some 500,000 were killed, and put him in power for nearly four decades.

Franco's supporters see him as the man who held Spain together and saved it from Bolshevism. His critics call him a dictator who kept fascism alive in Spain for 30 years after World War II.

Fifty years ago England won the World Cup against Germany.

Geoff Hurst scored three times against Germany in the men's 1966 final on July 30 at Wembley.

August 19 1991, marked the start of the attempted coup that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The coup attempt was initiated by a group of Communist hard-liners who placed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest at his vacation home, fearing that his pending agreement to allow wide sovereignty for Soviet republics would lead to the USSR's disintegration.

But public opposition quickly weakened the coup, notably the tens of thousands who gathered around the Russian government headquarters where President Boris Yeltsin famously defied the coup while standing atop a tank.

The coup collapsed three days later and Gorbachev returned to Moscow, but his power and credibility were fatally dissipated. The republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were allowed to split off from the Soviet Union within weeks, and the entire USSR was signed out of existence in December 1991.

The collapse led to severe economic hardships for tens of millions and to a long period of political chaos and the rise of politically powerful tycoons who became known as oligarchs.

On April 17th, 1986, John McCarthy - a producer working for Worldwide Television News - was on his way to Beirut Airport after a temporary posting to Lebanon.

It was a journey he was never to complete. Kidnapped, it was to be 1943 days before he was to gain his freedom on August 8 1991.

The British army introduced tanks into warfare for the first time during World War One in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on 15 September 1916 according to the UK's Imperial War Museum's website.

On September 20 1946 the very first Cannes Film Festival began.

Since its first edition Cannes has been associated with glamour and celebrities such as Sophia Lorean, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau.

The 1956 Hungarian student protests began on the afternoon of Oct. 23, and by nightfall had turned into an armed uprising.

Around 2,800 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops were killed in the Red Army offensive to crush the revolt, which was launched on Nov. 4, 1956.

After the military defeat, strikes and protests continued for several weeks until a Soviet crackdown definitively ended the uprising in January 1957.

Some 200,000 Hungarians fled the country and at least 225 Hungarians accused of participating in the revolution were executed including Imre Nagy, the communist-turned-democrat who was briefly returned to power in 1956.

The communists were in power in Hungary until 1989.

Renowned journalist Anna Politkovskaya, 48, was fatally shot in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building in October 7 2006. Her work in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper was sharply critical of Kremlin policies in Chechnya and of human rights violations there.

In 2014 a court convicted five men, most of them Chechens, of involvement in the murder. However, Russia's Investigative Committee has said it is still trying to determine who ordered the killing.

In 1985, American educator Thomas Sutherland was kidnapped in Lebanon by members of Islamic Jihad; he was released on November 18 1991 along with fellow hostage Terry Waite.

Sutherland later said that he spent much of his 6 1/2 years as a hostage in a dark room in Lebanon, reciting Robert Burns' poetry to maintain his sanity.

Sutherland was held with Terry Anderson, then-chief Mideast correspondent for The Associated Press, and Terry Waite, an Anglican Church envoy seized while trying to free the hostages. They were held by a paramilitary organization supported by Iran.

Sutherland and Waite were released in November 1991 and Anderson was freed 16 days later on Dec 4. after 2,455 days in captivity, the last of 13 U.S. hostages to go free in Lebanon.

American hostages Joe Cicippio and Alann Steen had been freed earlier in the same week.

June 6 1956, Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula, Anglo-French forces occupied the Suez Canal, then withdrew, all parties agreed to a cease-fire, and a United Nations Force took over the canal.

On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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Exact date and location unknown (January 1981)

1. Hostages alighting from plane

2. Hostages waving

3. Jubilant crowd

4. Hostages greeting families and friends

US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Al-Hatidah hydro-electric plant in Iraq - January 21 1991 MUTE

5. TV pictures from SLAM missile nose-cone camera above al-Hatidah hydro-electric plant in Iraq

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Baghdad Iraq - January 21 1991 MUTE

6. Wreckage of US cruise missile strewn over ground

US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Over Iraq - January 21 1991

7. F-18 jets approach tanker

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Washington, US - January 23 1991

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) George H. W. Bush, US President

"Operation Desert Storm is right on schedule"

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Southern Kuwait - February 24, 1991

9. Mid of convoy of APCs

10. Kuwaiti soldier shouting from APC: UPSOUND: (English) "We're going back to our country, our country and freedom OK? And I give thanks to all the friends who help us, thanks. "

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11. Irish prisoners march along a Dublin quay under a British guard during the bloody Irish insurrection that began on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, in Dublin, Ireland.

12. This view shows the damage caused by the Irish Republican Army's armed rebellion against British rule in Dublin, Ireland on , April 24, 1916.

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13. Seven-month-old Dolly, the genetically cloned sheep, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland Feb. 25, 1997 (NO ACCESS UK)

14. Dr Ian Wilmut, who co-ordinated the cloning work at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Feb. 25, 1997

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Port Said, Egypt - June 1956

15. Various ships moving along canal MUTE

ENGLISH NARRATION (audio from original source)

16. Various army trucks across land attacked by Israeli forces

17. Mid tank

18. Wide planes take off from aircraft carrier

19. Various parachutists falling from the sky

20. Various troops wade through water to shore

21. Wide large plume of black smoke billows from land over canal

22. Wide travelling pan building on bank

23. Mid soldiers walk along quayside, in background is Port Authority building in Port Said

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Slovenia - July 2 1991

24. Bulldozer approaches burning tank

25. Close up soldier

26. Krakowski bulldozer trying to push tank

Near Ljubljana, Slovenia - July 2 1991

27. Convoy of federal army APCs on road

28. Various of Yugoslav troops

UPSOUND: (English) Soldier

"No more killing. Yes, we've had to (fight)..if we don't they are going to kill us"

Lazearci Nr Italian-Slovenian border - July 2 1991

29. Wide of troops erecting "Republic of Slovenia" sign

Dubrovnik, Croatia - 5/6 - December 1991

30. Various of siege of Dubrovnik

31. Various of people fleeing

32. Close up of two women weeping

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33. Australian artillery operating a large caliber gun at the Somme front, France in 1916

34. A British military photographer examines the bell of a French village church destroyed by shell fire at the Somme front during the Great War, 1916.

35. This is the burial ground of troops who fell in the battle of Somme, France, 1916.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL

Barcelona, Spain - 1936

ENGLISH NARRATION

36. Various of Barcelona during civil war in 1936

37. Various trainloads of troops loyal to left wing government leave to stem the rebel (Franco's supporters) advances into Aragon.

AP Television

London, UK - 30 July 1966

38. Wide of Geoff Hurst scoring goal for England

39. Mid of scoreboard reading: "England 4 - West Germany 2"

40. Mid of Bobby Moore, England Captain, receiving Jules Rimet trophy from Queen Elizabeth

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Moscow, Russia - August 1991 (exact date not available)

41. Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev leaves for post-G7

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Moscow, Russia August 19, 1991

42. Boris Yeltsin outside Russian parliament building

43. Yeltsin gets on to tank to address crowd

44. Yeltsin speaking

45. White House barricaded

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Moscow, Russia - August 21, 1991

46. Various of tanks leaving Moscow at end of coup

47. Yeltsin waves Russian flag

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Damascus, Syria - 8 August 1991

ENGLISH NARRATION

48. Various of John McCarthy at news conference in Damascus after release

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no exact date and location available

49. Various of tanks on battlefield in World War One MUTE

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Cannes, France - 1964 MUTE

50. Sophia Loren at Cannes film festival

51. Wide of Cannes beachfront

52. Woman posing on terrace

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53. Wearing a fur-lined leather jacket over a velvet suit and with a bow tie, Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, strolls arms in arm with Vera Clouzot, wife of the director of the film "Wages of Fear" at the Fifth International Film Festival in Cannes, France on April 15, 1953. At left French actor Yves Montand and French film director Georges-Henri Clouzot at right.

54. Jean Cocteau, left, and Jean Maris kiss Michele Morgan whilst holding their awards at Cannes Film Festival in France on April 8, 1951.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL

Hungary, October 1956 (please note AP is not responsible for narration that accompanies these images)

ENGLISH NARRATION

55. Various of people in the aftermath of uprising

56. Wide of road with Budapest sign

57. Burnt out Soviet tanks

AP TELEVISION

Budapest, Hungary - November 1956 MUTE

58. Hungarian resistance fighters behind tank, tending wounded man

59. Wounded carried on stretcher

60. Close up man fires machine gun down street

61. Mid man on ground fires machine gun

62. Wide building with shell damage

63. Mid Hungarians burning Soviet flag

64. Soviet tanks drive through street

65. Mid damaged building, people walking past

66. Interior damaged building, tilt down from dome ceiling

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Moscow, Russia - 23 Oct 2004

67 Demonstrators holding banner reading (in Russian): 'Chechnya forgive us.'

68. Close up of candle

69. Wide shot of Anna Politkovskaya speaking on stage

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Moscow, Russia - 9 Oct 2006

70. People walking past street-side memorial near entrance to the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya's house

71. Poster showing portrait of Anna Politkovskaya on wall, flowers

72. Close-up poster

73. Close-up mourner holding candle

74. Various of memorial

POOL

RAF Lyneham, England and Wiesbaden, Germany - 19 November 1991

75. Windswept, Terry Waite, leaving plane:

POOL

Wiesbaden - November 1991 (no exact date available)

76. Freed American hostage, Thomas Sutherland, onto hospital balcony with wife and daughters

POOL

Wiesbaden, Germany - Dec 4 1991

77. Terry Andersen on balcony, waving flag, flanked by Joe Cicippio and Alann Steen:

AP TELEVISION

Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, US - December 1941

78. Various of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Leaders and dignitaries from countries that participated in World War One gathered on Tuesday to mark the centenary of the first large scale battle at Flanders Fields.

The battle helped set the stage for four years of bloodletting on the Western Front.

Leaders gatheredon Tuesday first in Nieuwpoort, where Belgian King Philippe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian gave speeches.

They also observed a minute of silence as King Philippe laid a wreath.

WWI claimed an estimated 14 million lives, including five million civilians and nine million soldiers. At least seven million troops were left permanently disabled.

Both sides dug in along a line of fortified trenches that extended from the North Sea to Switzerland. It was a front line that remained essentially unchanged throughout the war.

Nieuwpoort, Belgium, 28 October 2014

1. German Chancellor Angela Merkel arriving at ceremony and taking place next to Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian

2. Le Drian, Michel, Merkel, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and Queen Mathilde of Belgium

3. King Philippe of Belgium saluting troops

4. King Philippe walking to the tribune

5. Wide of tribune

6. Screen displaying poppy

7. King Philippe going on stage

8. SOUNDBITE (French) King Philippe of Belgium:

"I kneel respectfully before those who died and who are resting in our grounds for ever sacred. Belgium is grateful and will piously maintain their memories."

9. Tribune listening

10. Screen showing file pictures of WWI

11. Medium pan to right shot of Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, Special representative of UK Prime Minister Andrew Murrison, Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco, Hungarian President Janos Ader, French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg, Queen Mathilde and King Philippe of Belgium and Princess Beatrix of Holland

12. Merkel going on stage

13. SOUNDBITE (German) Angela Merkel, German Chancellor:

"After the (end of the) Second World War Germany had unleashed, Belgium were among the first to to extend their hand to reconciliation towards the German leaders. Since that time, for over than six decades, Belgians and Germans have built and foster a friendship that is unparalleled. For that too I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the people of Belgium today."

14. Cutaway of memorial

15. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Yves Le Drian, French Defense Minister:

"This commemoration aims to gather the fighters from 1914 towards a common ideal: the one of a united Europe, the one of peace which should never be taken for granted as current events are severely reminding that to us."

16. Leaders listening to music

17. Singer dressed in red walking and singing in the memorial

18. Medium of singer

19. Singer entering water

20. Singer in front of leaders

21. King Philippe laying wreath

22. Leaders standing up silently

23. Wide of memorial

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Kiev - 9 May 2015

1. Various of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with officials, officers and veterans walking to Tomb of the Unknown Soldier memorial, AUDIO: Music

2. Poroshenko with flowers walking to memorial, AUDIO: Music

3. Poroshenko kneeling by memorial, making sign of the cross, bowing head, standing up

4. Officials saluting, AUDIO: Music

5. Wide of Poroshenko and officials, AUDIO: Music

6. Various of veterans placing flowers at memorial

7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Mykola Uvarov, 94-year-old WWII veteran:

"We have to make Ukrainians the winners, because there is an invasion of some very ideological Russians which are ruining Ukraine."

8. Close of medals

9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Olha Slobodyanuk, 89-year-old WWII veteran:

"I wish peace and health to all, for everything to be all right, for silence and no war, to live in peace."

10. Various of 500 Ukrainian Army recruits at oath swearing ceremony, AUDIO: Music

11. Close of sign with poppy flower reading (Ukrainian): "1939-1945. Remember. Victory." AUDIO: Music

12. Various of recruits marching, AUDIO: Music

13. Pan from recruits on the square to the monument of Motherland

14. Close of monument decorated with poppy flowers on top

STORYLINE

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Kiev on Saturday as Ukraine marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.

One World War II veteran said Ukraine has to win in the face of an "invasion of some very ideological Russians", referring to pro-Russia separatists in the country's east.

Another elderly veteran said she wished for peace and an end to the conflict.

Poroshenko also oversaw the oath swearing ceremony for 500 Ukrainian Army recruits.

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Dozens of Taiwanese gathered behind Japan’s de-facto embassy in Taipei on Friday to mark the international memorial day for the so-called “comfort women” and the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Attendees held a one-minute silence to commemorate women from across Asia who were exploited by Japan as prostitutes for troops during World War II, especially those who sacrificed their lives in foreign countries.

During that time, Taiwan itself was under Japanese rule.

Many Taiwanese men were forced to fight for Japan and women were forced to serve as prostitutes or "comfort women" for the Japanese Army.

Dozens of Taiwanese gathered behind Japan’s de-facto embassy in Taipei on Friday to mark the international memorial day for the so-called “comfort women” and the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Attendees held a one-minute silence to commemorate women from across Asia who were exploited by Japan as prostitutes for troops during World War II, especially those who sacrificed their lives in foreign countries.

During that time, Taiwan itself was under Japanese rule.

Many Taiwanese men were forced to fight for Japan and women were forced to serve as prostitutes or "comfort women" for the Japanese Army.

Taipei - 14 August 2015

1. Memorial gathering at a park behind the Japan Trade office

2. Various of members of Taiwan women’s rescue foundation holding one-minute silence to commemorate so-called "comfort women" (women from across Asia exploited by Japan as prostitutes for troops during World War II)

3. Huang Shu-ling, president of Taiwan Women’s Rescue Foundation giving a speech

4. Close-up sign on backdrop reading (English) "#Comfortwomen never be forgotten"

5. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Huang Shu-ling, president, Taiwan Women’s Rescue Foundation:

++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

"The Japanese Prime Minister gave a speech today at five o’clock in the afternoon. He has apologised over the damage caused by war. But he still refused to recognise that the(Japanese military’s) comfort women system was the persecution of women’s human rights.”

6. Woman listening

7. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Huang Shu-ling, president, Taiwan Women’s Rescue Foundation:

++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

"We will continue to emphasise and let Taiwan’s people and society understand that the (Japanese military’s) comfort women system was the oppression of women’s rights. This kind of wartime sexual violence shouldn’t exist in the society of human beings.”

8. Girl playing cello

9. People listening to cello performance

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Kanoya Japanese Self-Defence Force Base - 27 January, 2016

1. Skip Holm, former US Air Force pilot, getting inside the plane

2. Various of Holm in cockpit

3. Holm surrounded by media before flight

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Skip Holm, former US Air Force pilot:

“We have all the pilots wanting to fly here pretty soon. Everybody wants to be a Zero pilot.”

5. Masahiro Ishizuka, owner of plane, surrounded by media

6. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Masahiro Ishizuka, owner of plane:

“People say this is a symbol of war but this is just a machine and nothing more. Each individual engineers built this machine using their skills during the eras such as Meiji, Showa and Taisho (Japanese original period system in reference to the name of Japanese Emperor at that time). So, I found it unfair to put the blame of war on this Zero fighter.”

7. Various of people pushing fighter jet on Tarmac

8. SOUNDBITE (Japanese): Masahiro Ishizuka, owner of plane:

“I wanted for the people of Japan and especially young people to know about this Zero airplane as well as those who are old who remember the past. Each of them should have different thoughts and perspectives on this, but I just want people to know how Japan has developed its technology.”

9. Ishizuka surrounded by media

10. Plane taxiing for take-off

STORYLINE:

A vintage Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane made its first-ever flight over the skies of Japan since World War II on Wednesday.

The Zero, considered one of the most capable long-range fighter jets of the period and as an to equivalent the legendary British Spitfire, made its successful take off from a Japanese Self-Defence Force base in Southern Japan.

The flight holds some significance for the Japanese people with many regarding the aircraft as a symbol of Japan's technological prowess, while also serving as a reminder of an unpleasant period in the country's history.

The plane was known for its use in Kamikaze attacks during the final phases of the war.

Kamikaze pilots took off for their missions from the very same location as Wednesday's flight - Kanoya Naval Air Base.

Taking place over 70 years after the war against the Allies ended, the flight was piloted not by a Japanese pilot but by a highly decorated former US Air Force pilot, Skip Holm.

This plane piloted by Holm was found in disrepair in Papua New Guinea in the 1970s.

Under the ownership of a US citizen, the Zero was eventually restored to flying condition.

The plane supposedly made an appearance in the Hollywood film "Pearl Harbor" and is oftern seen at various event in the US.

Masahiro Ishizuka, a Japanese businessman, purchased the plane from the former US owner with the hope to fly it over Japan for the first time after the war.

However, fulfilling his dream didn't come cheap.

Ishizuka and a group of others set up an online campaign to collect donations that could be used to fund the shipment of the aircraft to Japan.

The Zero arrived in Japan last September and, following an arduous process to get flight approval, Wednesday's flight finally became possible.

Around four to six Zero fighters are said to be operational throughout the world, but Ishizuka's aircraft is the only one owned by a Japanese person.

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British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon laid a wreath on Thursday at a memorial in New Delhi in honour of Indian soldiers who lost their lives in the First World War.

Fallon is in India on a one-day visit to commemorate the contribution of the Indian Defence Forces in WW1, on the occasion of its centenary year.

He laid the wreath and paid his respects at India Gate, which is a monument in Central Delhi built as a memorial to the Indian soldiers who fought in WW1.

Fallon will also meet with Indian ministers and senior government officials whilst in India as part of a commemoration programme.

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New Delhi - 30 October 2014

1. Wide of India Gate, a monument built as a memorial to Indian soldiers who fought in the First World War

2. British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon walking behind Indian soldiers carrying a wreath

3. Soldiers walk up to flames, stop and then hand wreath to Fallon

4. Soldier standing to attention, with memorial flame in the foreground

5. Fallon laying the wreath

6. Close of soldier, soldiers stand to attention UPSOUND: Music

7. Fallon along with Indian and British army officers paying their respects UPSOUND: Music

8. Close of Fallon UPSOUND: Music

9. Cutaway of a soldier's gun

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Fallon, British Defence Secretary: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

"This is an extremely important year also to mark the beginning of the First World War in which so many Indians volunteered to fight for freedom and for the principle that one country should not be allowed to invade the sovereignty of another."

11. Fallon talking with officers

12. Fallon getting into car

13. Wide of the wreath at India Gate