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  • Deep below-decks, we see the highly-classified Conflict Direction Center or War Room on the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-fly zone at an unknown location in the Persian Gulf. This top secret office is used for planning and executing sophisticated tactical electronic warfare that fighter jets and surveillance aircraft engage in from air operations mounted from the carrier. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south.
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  • Deep below-decks, we peer through a striped window of the highly-classified Conflict Direction Center or War Room on the aircraft carrier US Navy USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-flyzone in the Persian Gulf, near the Kuwaiti coast. This top secret office is used for planning and executing sophisticated tactical electronic warfare that fighter jets and surveillance aircraft engage in from air operations mounted from the carrier. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.
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  • The below-deck highly classified Conflict Direction Center or War Room on the aircraft carrier US Navy USS Harry S Truman. This top secret office is used for planning and executing sophisticated tactical electronic warfare that fighter jets and surveillance aircraft engage in from air operations mounted from the carrier. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000-ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.
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  • Ahmad Sidiqqi, photographed in the laboratory that he runs,  has worked at Afghan Film for many years. “During the Mujahideen years the building was attacked. I was here when it was shelled, The archives were saved from the Taliban who wanted to burn them. They were hidden in a secret room”<br />
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His boss is Engineer Latif Ahmadi, who explains how, even with the allied occupation of Kabul, filming is still difficult:<br />
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“We were filming a hundred yards from a suicide bombing, one hundred metres from the Ministry of Culture, five people were killed. We actually felt the force of the explosion and heard the shots. It took two minutes for the dust to clear but I told the director, ‘please continue’, because what can we do but carry on?”
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  • The long meeting table in the Locarno Room at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. In 1925 the Foreign Office played host to the signing of the Locarno Treaties, aimed at reducing tension in Europe. The ceremony took place in a suite of rooms that had been designed for banqueting, which subsequently became known as the Locarno Suite. During the Second World War, the Locarno Suites fine furnishings were removed or covered up, and it became home to a foreign office code-breaking department.
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  • Sameer Iqbal,10, holding the chewing gum he sells on the street, with his social worker, Shafiq, at Ashiana headquarters in Kabul. This charity works with vulnerable children. <br />
“I make almost a dollar a day selling chewing gum, half as much as my mother, my father Is crippled”<br />
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Ashiana, a charity working with vulnerable young people, is run by Mohammed Yousef who set it up in 1995.<br />
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They  work with 4500 children in Kabul, Parwan, Mazar-e-Sharif, and Heart  running activities for street and working children, returnees, displaced child soldiers and similar vulnerable children offering education recreation and respite.<br />
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“Life for the working children is very stressful. They are at risk from abusive adults, dangerous traffic, suicide explosions and their dysfunctional families. They are stressed at home and on the street there is no room for them to be children. We are here to provide them with some respite.”
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  • Interior of the Physicians Room at the WW2-era Franja Partisan Hospital, on 20th June 2018, near Dolenji Novaki, Slovenia. From December 1943 until the end of the war as part of a broadly organized resistance movement against the Fascist and Nazi occupying forces, the hospital was set in a deep gorge in rural Slovenia where fighters were brought in from many areas to be treated in this secret location. 578 were treated here but the mortality rate were only 10% and the site was never discovered by German forces. Franja is in the UNESCO Tentative List of World Heritage sites.
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  • A WW2-era German secret Enigma code machine is displayed in the Locarno Dining Room, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The Enigma machine is a piece of hardware invented by a German and used by Britains codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two. It has been claimed that as a result of the information gained through this device, hostilities between Germany and the Allied forces were curtailed by two years. An estimated 100,000 Enigma machines were constructed.
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  • A WW2-era German secret Enigma code machine is displayed in the Locarno Dining Room, in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO, on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. The Enigma machine is a piece of hardware invented by a German and used by Britains codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two. It has been claimed that as a result of the information gained through this device, hostilities between Germany and the Allied forces were curtailed by two years. An estimated 100,000 Enigma machines were constructed.
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  • Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir is seated against a gold leaf backdrop of Islamic texts in a reception room of his palace in central Khartoum. Al-Bashir is head of the National Congress Party and has been in power since October 1993. In 2009 he was indicted for war crimes by the ICC, (International Criminal Court) and represented as a bloodstained dictator by elements of the international media though is seemingly loved and respected for his role in empowering women. Secretary General of the National Council for Children’s Welfare, Amira Elfadil, says “He comes from within us all. He has a military background but he is a simple man, a man of the people, with good Islamic values. He speaks from his heart.”
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  • Jordan . Amman. Refugees from Syria. April 15th 2013. Kareem aged 6 , injured in a car accident. He is in the room where 18 people sleep.
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  • Exterior of the Magic Lantern cinema - formerly known as the Assembly Rooms 1893, on 12th September 2018, in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales. The Magic Lantern Cinema has shown films right at the start of Cinema in the UK, 9 years earlier than any other operating Cinema in the Britain. It was re-christened as The Assembly Cinema after World War 1 and subsequently as The Ritzy, Tywyn Cinema and now, as a nod to its historic past, The Magic Lantern.
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  • A crew member walks through the engine room of CMA CGM SAs Benjamin Franklin container ship as it sails off the coast of southern China, on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016. The Benjamin Franklin is the largest container ship ever to have docked at a U.S. port.
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  • A crew member walks through the engine room of CMA CGM SAs Benjamin Franklin container ship as it sails off the coast of southern China, on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016. The Benjamin Franklin is the largest container ship ever to have docked at a U.S. port.
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  • Jordan . Amman. Refugees from Syria. April 15th 2013. Zeinab and her cousin.
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  • Jordan . Amman. Refugees from Syria. April 15th 2013. Zeinab has a tantrum
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  • Old War Office Building in London, England, United Kingdom. Former office building with 1,100 rooms used by Churchill as a headquarters during World War II.
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  • Police vans parked outside the Old War Office Building in London, England, United Kingdom. Former office building with 1,100 rooms used by Churchill as a headquarters during World War II.
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  • Police vans parked outside the Old War Office Building in London, England, United Kingdom. Former office building with 1,100 rooms used by Churchill as a headquarters during World War II.
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  • Police vans parked outside the Old War Office Building in London, England, United Kingdom. Former office building with 1,100 rooms used by Churchill as a headquarters during World War II.
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  • Golsher, has 4 children, is married and lives with her family in two rooms, they have no proper sanitary conditions sewage is throw out on the street. She works seven days a week and earns 90 dollars a month. she is saving to buy her own home, the loan from Arianna a micro finance company helped buy her a generator to power the machine, before she would sew by hand, she wants to buy another machine and teach her daughter. The small loan has had a tremendous impact on her life and she is saving to buy her home she will need a loan of 10 000 dollars at least.
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  • Golsher, has 4 children, is married and lives with her family in two rooms, they have no proper sanitary conditions sewage is throw out on the street. She works seven days a week and earns 90 dollars a month. she is saving to buy her own home, the loan from Arianna a micro finance company helped buy her a generator to power the machine, before she would sew by hand, she wants to buy another machine and teach her daughter. The small loan has had a tremendous impact on her life and she is saving to buy her home she will need a loan of 10 000 dollars at least.
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  • The stern of Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory at Portsmouth. We look up at the rear of Britain's most famous warship from the Napoleonic war era and see the windows of Nelson's cabins and rooms - the location where the battle of Trafalgar was planned and where Nelson died on that day in 1805. Victory took Nelson's body to England where, after lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 6 January 1806.<br />
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1759 and launched in 1765. After Trafalgar, she served as a harbour ship, moved in 1922  to a dry dock at Portsmouth, England, and preserved as a museum ship. She is the flagship of the First Sea Lord and is the oldest naval ship still in commission
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  • Van Gogh as a Banksi-like criminal by artist Mr Brainwash, an adaptation on Norman Rockwell at the old sorting office in new Oxford Street, London. The reference is from a 1943 Norman Rockwell poster promoting the purchase of war bonds to "save freedom of speech" during World War II; image depicts several town's people seated in a school class room for a meeting as a male stands in audience attempting to speak set against a large black board located in the background. Mr. Brainwash is the moniker of Los Angeles-based filmmaker and Pop artist Thierry Guetta.
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  • Bernhardt "Buddy" Elias, Anne Frank's cousin at home in Basel, Switzerland. Elias runs the Anne Frank fund donating to good causes in her name.Bernhardt "Buddy" Elias, Anne Frank's cousin at home in Basel, Switzerland. Elias runs the Anne Frank fund donating to good causes in her name.<br />
Elias, 93, sits on the bed in the room that was occupied by Otto, Frank's father after World War Two. Behind him are photographs of Frank and himself before the war.
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  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force RAF and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britains air defence history which flew over central London, guardsmen march up steps between the Foreign Office and the Churchills War Rooms, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force RAF and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britains air defence history which flew over central London, guardsmen march up steps between the Foreign Office and the Churchills War Rooms, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • Chinese text printed onto a cloth in a prayer room at Longhua Temple in the south of Shanghai. This is a working temple where public come to burn incense, offer gifts and to eat. Located on Longhua Road, the temple was first built in 242 AD, during the period of the Three Kingdoms. This is the oldest temple in Shanghai and also the largest at 20,000 square metres including it’s grounds. Because of several destructions by the wars, most of the buildings in Longhua Temple were reconstructed during the reign of the Emperor Tongzhi and Guangxu during the Qing Dynasty.
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  • A football game plan on the wall of one of the changing rooms at the national Sylvio Cator Stadium in the capital Port-au-Prince. In 1974 Haiti won a place at the World Cup Finals. 33 revolutionary years later the impoverished country's under 17 team played at the FIFA U-17 World Cup Finals in South Korea...In disaster areas, war zones and urban wastelands, football keeps humanity alive. It brings nations together and promotes unity. It encourages equality and generates pride and self-belief. It has the power to heal and to help, to motivate, to give freedom to dreams and empower a generation. There are millions of people playing the game or helping it to flourish who find that football brings a positive dimension to their lives...Away from the billionaire owned clubs with it's multi-million dollar players, Football's Hidden Story is a series of emotive human interest photographs showing the positive impact football has had at grassroot level on individuals and communities all around the world.
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