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Winner of the news awards, solan kolli, was part of the afp team, the first independent media to reach ethiopia s northern tigray region, after the national government launched a major military operation against dissident regional authorities. the government cracked down on foreign media, especially ethiopian journalists working for foreign outlets. as the media were kept away from the fighting during the conflict, there was no coverage of the actual war. instead, kolli documented the aftermath, filming mass graves and interviewing victims, survivors and witnesses. and after the war, i saw many funerals in which they were firing rounds of bullets into the air and women crying out loud at the top of their lungs. ....
Rentals new york, this is an air soft gun. it s not a real weapon, but whenever i m on a set, i make sure that i hold it up for the talent and anyone else who wants to inspect to mange sure this is a safe weapon. i never load a weapon unless we are actually going to be firing rounds, actually firing blanks, and on top of that, i only put the appropriate amount of blanks in. if the scene calls for two shots to be fired, i only put two rounds in. nothing more, and i announce to the cast, i announce to the crew, the whole set, live weapon on set, discharge two rounds. it seems like there was no communication on the part of this armorer to put the crew at any ease. and the fact that there were supposedly accidental discharges previously in this production, that s a huge red flag, why nobody jumped on that. i have no idea. what you re referring to, and this is according to the new ....
Playing the long game. he sees this thing as, listen, november s around the corner, then it s going to be winter, people are going to be thinking about covid. i m going to seal myself, not get emotional, go out and read the tell prompter and almost psychologically convince myself that it s not as bad as it seems and he thinks he can get through this. i don t think he can get through this. there s a huge disconnect right now between the people and the president and he s lost it. he s lost control and everybody can see that now. you set a deadline at the 31st. and then he says, oh, you know, we might have to move the deadline. so he sends the cia director to kabul to negotiate extending the deadline. taliban says screwoff. we re not going to extend the deadline and if you extend the deadline we will e start firing rounds and by the way, from now on we re not going to let anymore afgans reach the airport. joe biden says okay. we re going to keep to the deadline. he s boxed himself in. ....
Fighters all around approaching us, shouting. one man shouting at me to cover my face or he wouldn t talk to me. he was carrying this huge makeshift whip. it was a bicycle lock that had basically been split in two. the heavy metal padlock was in the middle. he was using it to get anybody out of his way that gets in his way. there was a consistent stream of gunfire. we also were just accosted by people. john, it s so heartbreaking, everybody coming up to us with their papers and passports saying i worked at camp phoenix, i worked at this camp, i was a translator. help me get to america, get my siv to get out of the country. the taliban would come through at one stage this one fighter lifted his gun up in the air as if he was about to start firing rounds, so we had to run and take cover. then the most frightening moment for our team came when our ....
Makeshift whip. it was a bicycle lock that had basically been split in two, so the heavy metal padlock was in the middle. and he s just using it to just get anybody out of his way who gets in his way. there was a consistent stream of gunfire. we also were just accosted by people. john, it s so heartbreaking. everybody coming up to us with their papers and passports, saying, please. i worked at camp phoenix. i was at this camp. i was a translator. help me get in, help tme get to america, i have my siv. the taliban would come through. at one stage this firefighter lifted his gun in the air as if he was about to start firing rounds. so we had to run and take cover. and then, you know, the most fright ming moment for our team came when producer brent swales was taking some video on his iphone. two taliban fighters just came up with their pistol ands they were ready to pistol whip him. we had to intervene and scream. ....