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Greek lawmaker, Yannis Michelogiannakis, joins a group of Syrian refugees on a hunger strike to protest against the government's refusal to help them move to other European countries. Vanessa Johnston reports.
Athens (Greece), March 1 (EFE), (Camera: Alberto Borreguero).- Thousands of people demonstrated Monday in several cities of Greece to demand that the government transfers Dimitris Kuofondinas, one of the leaders of the terrorist organization November 17, whose life is at serious risk after 53 days of hunger strike. FOOTAGE OF THE DEMONSTRATION IN ATHENS.
Brussels, Oct 30 (EFE), (Camera: Leopoldo Rodríguez).- French European Parliament member Pierre Larrouturou started a hunger strike on Wednesday to call out the lack of funding for issues such as climate, health and research policies in Europe. SOUNDBITES OF FRENCH EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT MEMBER Pierre Larrouturou:"The European system is somewhat strange. Generally, in each country, both in Spain and in France, the budget is made every year. Tax reforms can be made every year. At the European level, treaties are a bit strange, they are negotiated by a period of 7 years. If money for health is not included it is for 7 years, if money for research is not included it is for a period of 7 years, if there is no money for the fight against climate change it is for 7 years and in 7 years time it will be too late to act. "
Berlin (Germany), Sep 7 (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Hayoung Jeon).- Activists from the international initiative"Seebrücke, which includes many civil society organizations, and the NGO Sea-Watch placed 13,000 chairs on Monday in front of the building that houses the lower house of the German Parliament (Bundestag) in Berlin. The action aims to symbolize the people currently living in Moria, a refugee camp located on the Greek island of Lesbos.FOOTAGE OF THE EVENT IN FRONT OF THE BUNDESTAG.
Vucjak (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Dec. 4 (EFE / EPA).- Hundreds of refugees at a camp in northwestern Bosnia remained on hunger strike Wednesday for a second consecutive day to protest conditions at the makeshift facility, which is without electricity or running water and offers no protection from winter weather.Red Cross vehicles laden with food for the refugees returned to the nearby city of Bihac with their cargo untouched, as the occupants of the Vucjak camp refused to collect their rations.The camp, built on a former landfill and surrounded by minefields dating from the 1992-1995 war, has long been the target of criticism from aid groups and a representative of the Council of Europe called Tuesday for its immediate closure. (Camera: FEHIM DEMIR).FOOTAGE SHOWING B-ROLLS OF THE VUCJAK REFUGEE CAMP OUTSIDE BIHAC, NORTHWESTERN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, IN WINTER.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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