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Zambian family praises Chinese medical team after successful surgery

STORY: Zambian family praises Chinese medical team after successful surgery SHOOTING TIME: Jan. 31, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 10, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:51 LOCATION: Lusaka CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Mary Mbetwa 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): MARY MBETWA, Resident in Lusaka 3. various of a Chinese doctor doing medical check-up for Mary Mbetwa 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): MARY MBETWA, Resident in Lusaka 5. various of Chinese doctors training local doctors 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MARY MBETWA, Resident in Lusaka 7. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): MICHAEL MBETWA, Mary Mbetwa's husband 8. various of Mary Mbetwa talking with her Chinese doctor 9. SOUNDBITE 5 (English): MICHAEL MBETWA, Mary Mbetwa's husband STORYLINE: When Mary Mbetwa, a 46-year-old resident of Lusaka, the Zambian capital, started experiencing some discomfort in the right side of her nose in 2011, she did not pay much attention to it and dismissed it as one of those feelings that would go away. As the discomfort persisted, however, she decided to seek

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Fury boils over persistent U.S. sanctions on war-torn, now quake-hit Syria

STORY: Fury boils over persistent U.S. sanctions on war-torn, now quake-hit Syria DATELINE: Feb. 9, 2023 LENGTH: 00:03:18 LOCATION: ALEPPO, Syria CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the aftermath 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): MUHAMMAD HIJAZI, Chairman of the Aleppo Governorate Council 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): KAMAL JAFA, Political expert STORYLINE: Monday's massive earthquakes have killed 3,480 people and injured 3,000 others in Syria, a war monitor reported Wednesday. Syrian experts have denounced U.S. sanctions, which have made it difficult for quake-hit areas in Syria to get much-needed international humanitarian aid. Sanctions have been a main U.S. tactic toward Syria ever since the latter was listed as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1979. Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the U.S. and its Western allies have imposed a number of economic sanctions and restrictions that denied Syrians the means to pursue growth as well as access to daily necessities. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): MUHAMMAD H

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Animals in Fukushima no-go zone

TOMIOKA, Japan - A pig-boar hybrid searches for food in a house damaged by the March 2011 tsunami in a photo using infrared on the evening of Feb. 9, 2013, in a no-go zone in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

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75-yr-old reopens 'ramen' shop twice after 2 big disasters

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tsutomu Nozaki stands in front of his newly opened ramen shop in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture on Feb. 9, 2013. Nozaki was forced to close his ramen shop in Naraha as the prefectural town falls within an area designated as one where people are only allowed to stay during daytime due to fears of radiation in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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75-yr-old reopens 'ramen' shop twice after 2 big disasters

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Tsutomu Nozaki cooks ramen on Feb. 9, 2013 at his newly opened eatery in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, where he took refuge from the prefectural town of Naraha. Naraha is designated as within an area where people are only allowed to stay during daytime due to fears of radiation in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident triggered by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster.

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Abe visits tsunami-hit Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (3rd from R, standing) meets residents of temporary housing in Rikuzentakata, a northeastern Japanese city ravaged by the 2011 tsunami, on Feb. 9, 2013. The one-day visit to the city in Iwate Prefecture is Abe's third to a disaster-stricken area since assuming the premiership for the second time on Dec. 26. (Pool photo)

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Abe visits tsunami-hit Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and reconstruction minister Takumi Nemoto lay a floral tribute at a cenotaph for the victims of the 2011 tsunami, in Rikuzentakata, northeastern Japan, on Feb. 9, 2013. The one-day visit to the city in Iwate Prefecture is Abe's third to a disaster-stricken area since assuming the premiership for the second time on Dec. 26.

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Abe visits tsunami-hit Rikuzentakata

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C) on Feb. 9, 2013, visits Rikuzentakata, a northeastern Japanese city ravaged by the 2011 tsunami. The one-day visit to the city in Iwate Prefecture is his third to a disaster-stricken area since assuming the premiership for the second time on Dec. 26.

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Chocolates supporting disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - A woman shows chocolates (L) made with six different types of Japanese sake brewed in Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and chocolates (R) made with honey produced in Sendai, the prefectural capital, at the Fujisaki department store in Sendai on Feb. 9, 2012.

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Nuclear power plant in Fessenheim, France

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 2011 shows the Fessenheim nuclear power plant in Fessenheim, eastern France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the plant Feb. 9, 2012, and said before its workers he will not shut down the country's oldest nuclear plant that began operating in 1977.

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U.N. forest hero

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's fisherman-turned-environmentalist Shigeatsu Hatakeyama holds the English version of his book before a ceremony for six recipients including him of the United Nations Forum on Forests' Forest Hero award at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Feb. 9, 2012. Hatakeyama, from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, is founder and chairman of Mori wa Umi no Koibito (Forests are Lovers of the Sea), a nonprofit environmental conservation organization. Kesennuma is one of the areas hardest-hit by the March 2011 tsunami.

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Reconstruction minister Hirano

TOKYO, Japan - Tatsuo Hirano, minister in charge of reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, enters the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2012. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda the same day appointed Hirano as head of a new agency to bolster efforts to rebuild areas ravaged by the natural disaster.

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Canon Chairman Mitarai

NEW DELHI, India - Canon Inc. Chairman Fujio Mitarai speaks with reporters near New Delhi in India on Feb. 9, 2012, disclosing a plan to triple the company's sales in India to about 77.2 billion yen in 2015 from 23.4 billion yen in 2011.

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More Japanese deaths

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Ikuo Yamahana, parliamentary vice foreign minister of Japan, confirms two more deaths of Japanese missing after the Feb. 22 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 9, 2011. The two were among the 27 Japanese nationals who remained unaccounted for following the magnitude 6.3 quake.

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Akasaka Prince hotel holds farewell events

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors to Tokyo's Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka view photos on Feb. 9, 2011, at an exhibit showing the history of the hotel, which was one of the trendiest spots in town during the 1980s when Japan's economy boomed. The hotel is holding a series of farewell events ahead of its closure at the end of March.

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High-end Tokyo hotel to shelter nuclear evacuees

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken on Feb. 9, 2011, shows the main building of Tokyo's Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka, which is scheduled to be torn down in 2011, following the hotel's closure at the end of March. The hotel, which was considered ultra-chic in the 1980s, will be used as an evacuation center until the end of June for evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture affected by the March 11 quake-triggered troubles at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Some people spend time in a tent in Tahrir Square, where antigovernment demonstrations continue, in Cairo on Feb. 9, 2011.

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10th anniversary of U.S. sub-Ehime Maru collision

HONOLULU, United States - Bereaved relatives offer flowers as a ceremony is held at a cenotaph in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Feb. 9, 2011, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the collision between the Japanese fisheries school boat Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greenville off Hawaii. Nine of the 35 people on the boat -- four students, two teachers and three crew members -- were killed in the collision.

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10th anniversary of U.S. sub-Ehime Maru collision

HONOLULU, United States - A ceremony is held at a cenotaph in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Feb. 9, 2011, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the collision between the Japanese fisheries school boat Ehime Maru and the U.S. submarine Greenville off Hawaii. Nine of the 35 people on the boat -- four students, two teachers and three crew members -- were killed in the collision.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - People holding candles commemorate victims of clashes between antigovernment protesters and the military in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 9, 2011.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - People holding candles commemorate victims of clashes between antigovernment protesters and the military in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 9, 2011.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Women holding candles take part in a demonstration to commemorate victims of clashes between antigovernment protesters and the military in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 9, 2011. One woman holds the portrait of a victim.

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Crabs for imperial family

FUKUI, Japan - People wearing masks and gloves check boiled snow crabs which will be presented to the Japanese imperial family at Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, on Feb. 9, 2011. The custom of presenting crabs in the area to the imperial family has been continuing almost every year since 1922.

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Japan's U-22s lose to Kuwait in friendly

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Japan Under-22 forward Takashi Usami (R) seeks to escape his markers during the second half of a friendly soccer match against the Kuwait senior national team in Kuwait on Feb. 9, 2011. Kuwait won 3-0.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - Children take part in an antigovernment demonstration in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 9, 2011.

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Japanese PM Kan

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2011.

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Protest in Egypt

CAIRO, Egypt - An antigovernment protester wears a mask in a demonstration in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 9, 2011 over the assets held by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

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Japan, Uzbekistan to cooperate in resources development

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (R) and Uzbek President Islam Karimov shake hands at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2011, ahead of their meeting. The two countries agreed to cooperate in the exploration and development of mineral resources in the Central Asian country.

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Volcano in southwestern Japan

KIRISHIMA, Japan - Photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter shows the fuming crater of Shinmoe Peak on the border of Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures in southwestern Japan on Feb. 9, 2011. The area around the volcano is considered vulnerable to mudslides.

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Japan's U-22s vs. Kuwait in friendly

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait - Japan Under-22 striker Kensuke Nagai (R) fires in a shot during the first half of a friendly soccer match against the Kuwait senior national team in Kuwait on Feb. 9, 2011.

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Myanmar refugees at Thai camp

MAE SOT, Thailand - An official from Japan's Ministry of Justice (R back) talks to refugees from Myanmar in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Feb. 9, 2011, ahead of their departure for Japan under the ''third country'' refugee resettlement program.

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Commemoration of clash victims in Cairo

CAIRO, Egypt - People commemorate the victims of antigovernment demonstrations by lining up pictures at Tahrir Square in Cairo on Feb. 9, 2011.

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U.S. Marines exercise in Oita

OITA, Japan - U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa Prefecture conduct live fire drills at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Hijudai artillery range in Oita Prefecture on Feb. 9, 2011.

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U.S. Marines exercise in Oita

OITA, Japan - U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa Prefecture conduct live fire drills at the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's Hijudai artillery range in Oita Prefecture on Feb. 9, 2011.

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10th anniv. of fatal collision off Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - Members of a local group associated with Yamaguchi Prefecture clean a monument for the victims of a collision, in which a U.S. submarine hit and sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru, at a park in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Feb. 5, 2011, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the incident on Feb. 9. Nine people aboard the boat died in the incident.

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Uzbek President Karimov visits Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) speaks with Uzbek President Islam Karimov (3rd from L), while Empress Michiko (R) speaks with the president's wife Tatyana Karimova (3rd from R), during their meeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2011. (Pool photo)

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10th anniv. of fatal collision off Hawaii

HONOLULU, United States - A member of a local group associated with Yamaguchi Prefecture cleans a monument for the victims of a collision, in which a U.S. submarine hit and sank the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru, at a park in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Feb. 5, 2011, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the incident on Feb. 9. Nine people aboard the boat died in the incident.

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Emperor Akihito meets with Uzbek President Karimov

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Emperor Akihito (L) meets with Uzbek President Islam Karimov (R) at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2011. (Pool photo)

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Antitrust check on Nippon Steel-Sumitomo Metal merger

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Fair Trade Commission Secretary General Takashi Yamamoto speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2011. He said the antitrust watchdog will not only focus on domestic market share but also consider other factors when it decides whether to approve the planned merger of Nippon Steel Corp. and Sumitomo Metal Industries Ltd.

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Hakuho hurting over bout-rigging scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo grand champion Hakuho speaks during a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2011. The Mongolian yokozuna commented for the first time on the match-fixing sandal, denying any involvement and saying the cancellation of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament due to the scandal has put a ''hole'' in his heart. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Hakuho hurting over bout-rigging scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo grand champion Hakuho remains tight-lipped during a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2011. The Mongolian yokozuna commented for the first time on the match-fixing sandal, denying any involvement and saying the cancellation of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament due to the scandal has put a ''hole'' in his heart. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Hakuho hurting over bout-rigging scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo grand champion Hakuho arrives at a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2011. The Mongolian yokozuna commented for the first time on the match-fixing sandal, denying any involvement and saying the cancellation of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament due to the scandal has put a ''hole'' in his heart. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Grand champion apologizes over bout-rigging scandal

TOKYO, Japan - Sumo grand champion Hakuho bows at the start of a news conference in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2011, apologizing on behalf of all wrestlers to sumo fans over a bout-rigging scandal. The Mongolian yokozuna commented for the first time on the match-fixing sandal, denying any involvement and saying the cancellation of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament due to the scandal has put a ''hole'' in his heart. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Ryogoku Kokugikan arena

TOKYO, Japan - A security officer places a traffic cone at the entrance of Ryogoku Kokugikan sumo arena in Tokyo on Feb. 9, 2011.

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Ex-U.S. sub captain speaks on collision anniversary

CARY, United States - Scott Waddle, a former captain of the U.S. submarine Greeneville that was involved in a collision with the Japanese fisheries school boat Ehime Maru, speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Cary, North Carolina, on Feb. 4, 2011. The Feb. 9, 2001, collision off Hawaii killed nine people on the Ehime Maru -- four middle school students, two teachers and three crew members.

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Luxury seats on Hayabusa bullet train

TOKYO, Japan - Children try out leather reclining chairs in a corner reproducing the interior of East Japan Railway Co.'s Hayabusa bullet train's new luxury seats, during a promotional event at JR Tokyo Station on Feb. 3, 2011. The train, which debuts March 5 on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Aomori, will offer ''GranClass'' services using the chairs and also including meals, beverages, blankets, slippers, newspapers and magazines, intended to rank with airlines' first-class seats. They will be available for an additional 9,000 to 10,000 yen on top of regular fares.

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Tsunami in Japan: 5 years on

Combined photos show an area of Onagawa, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan on March 16, 2011 (top), shortly after the area was devastated by massive tsunami; and the same area nearly five years later on Feb. 9, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Disaster-hit prefectures see 23% fall in fishing industry workers

Oyster farmers work on Feb. 9, 2016, off Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. Miyagi and two other prefectures in Japan's northeast hard-hit by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disasters have seen a 23 percent fall in the membership of fishery cooperatives since the catastrophe, a Kyodo News survey showed March 2, 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Families in tsunami-hit town then and now

Combined photo shows Mayumi Sutou and her daughter Mimi on June 9, 2011 (L), holding up an album they found among the debris of their house in Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, in northeastern Japan, three months after their home was devastated by a massive tsunami, and six years later on Feb. 13, 2017, holding the same album with new photos at a new home. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. forest hero

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's fisherman-turned-environmentalist Shigeatsu Hatakeyama holds the English version of his book before a ceremony for six recipients including him of the United Nations Forum on Forests' Forest Hero award at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Feb. 9, 2012. Hatakeyama, from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, is founder and chairman of Mori wa Umi no Koibito (Forests are Lovers of the Sea), a nonprofit environmental conservation organization. Kesennuma is one of the areas hardest-hit by the March 2011 tsunami. (Kyodo)