SOUTH KOREA-BUSAN-U.S. BIOLOGICAL LABS-PROTEST

SOUTH KOREA-BUSAN-U.S. BIOLOGICAL LABS-PROTEST

(220413) -- BUSAN, April 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Civic groups and local residents take to the streets to protest against the U.S. biological labs near a U.S. military base in Busan, South Korea, April 5, 2022. TO GO WITH "World Insights: South Korea gripped with fear over U.S. bioweapons labs" (Photo by James Lee/Xinhua)

SOUTH KOREA-BUSAN-U.S. BIOLOGICAL LABS-PROTEST

SOUTH KOREA-BUSAN-U.S. BIOLOGICAL LABS-PROTEST

(220413) -- BUSAN, April 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Civic groups and local residents take to the streets to protest against the U.S. biological labs near a U.S. military base in Busan, South Korea, April 5, 2022. TO GO WITH "World Insights: South Korea gripped with fear over U.S. bioweapons labs" (Photo by James Lee/Xinhua)

U.S. deliberately shirks responsibility in bioweapon prohibition: experts

STORY: U.S. deliberately shirks responsibility in bioweapon prohibition: experts DATELINE: March 15, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:37 LOCATION: Damascus CATEGORY: MILITARY/POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (ARABIC): OSAMA DANURA, Syrian political researcher 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (ARABIC): MUHAMMAD OMARI, Syrian political expert STORYLINE: The United States has been refusing to fulfill its commitment to prohibiting the spread of biological weapons, deliberately shirking its due responsibility, Syrian experts have said. With reports emerging about the U.S. running bioweapons lab in Ukraine, Syrian experts said the U.S. policy of setting up such labs in other countries poses risk to world security. Experts in Syria also said the U.S. has a recorded history of using nuclear and chemical weapons during its wars and has been avoiding any commitment to international agreements regarding the limitation of the spread of biological weapons. SOUNDBITE 1 (ARABIC): OSAMA DANURA, Syrian political researcher "It's obvious that the doub