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INTRO: Award-winning Mexico film released in Mexico. 


STORY: After capturing dozens of international awards and circling the globe, the Mexican film "El Violin"(小提琴革命曲) was finally released in its home country on Friday (April 27). 

"El Violin" is an independent film by Mexican director Francisco Vargas(法朗西斯柯‧瓦蓋斯). It tells the story of a poverty-stricken elderly violinist, Don Plutarco(唐‧普魯塔克), who joins his fellow townspeople in opposing the federal government with an armed struggle. An army attack forces the villagers to flee and leave behind their weapons. But with only his violin and his music, Don Plutarco makes a perilous journey past the army to recover the weapons.

Vargas said that the violin had long fascinated him, and represented far more to him than merely an instrument. "There are things in the violin that concern me, interest me, hurt me, questions without answers - it's a topic that I believe can go from fiction to documentary, to radio, to press - I believe that this combination and touching on themes of our reality is possible," he said.

The movie was shot entirely in black and white in a rural community of Mexico, using a mix of professional and amateur actors taken from impoverished areas of Mexico. 

"El Violin" premiered in Cannes in 2006 and met with rave reviews from some of the world's most prestigious festivals. "The film has won 33 awards so far and, according to our research, is now the second most awarded Mexican movie in history, and that makes us very happy," said Vargas.【8. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) VARGAS SAYING: "The film has won 33 awards so far and, according to our research, is now the second most awarded Mexican movie in history, and that makes us very happy."】

"El Violin" is based on Vargas' 2005 short film of the same name and is his first feature-length film.

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INTRO: Denmark's Crown Princess gives birth to second child.


STORY: Denmark's Australian-born Crown Princess Mary gave birth to her second child on Saturday (April 21), a healthy baby girl, her husband, Crown Prince Frederik said. 

39-year-old Frederik said the birth at Copenhagen University Hospital took six hours and had been as beautiful and impressive as that of the couple's first child, Prince Christian, in October 2005. The baby princess, third in line to the Danish throne after her father and her older brother, had been expected at the beginning of May.In a statement the royal court said the baby princess weighed 3,350 grams (7.4 lbs) at birth and was 50 cm (20 inches) long.

35-year-old Princess Mary, was Mary Donaldson, a real estate agent from Tasmania, until she married Frederik in May 2004 after a romance that began when they met in a bar in Sydney during the 2000 Olympics.

Frederik's mother Queen Margrethe and the royal family, said to be Europe's oldest royal house, are highly popular in Denmark.

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INTRO: U.S. President Bush repeats he will veto any war spending bill that sets withdrawal timetables. 


STORY: U.S. President George W. Bush used his weekly radio address on Saturday (March 31) to repeat that he will veto any war spending bill that ties funds to a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. 

The U.S. Senate on Thursday (March 29) defied earlier veto threats by President George W. Bush and joined with the House of Representatives in backing a timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops from Iraq.  In a mostly party-line 51-47 vote, the Democrat-controlled Senate told Bush to start withdrawing the troops this year with the goal of getting all combat soldiers out by March 31, 2008. 

Democrats took control of Congress in January, after elections that largely focused on Republicans' handling of a war that has now claimed more than 3,200 American lives and at least 65,000 Iraqi soldiers and civilians.

Now, House and Senate negotiators will try to work out a compromise from their two bills. Their most notable difference is that the House bill contains a mandatory Sept. 1, 2008, deadline for redeploying combat troops.The Senate's shorter timetable is a goal, not a requirement on Bush and is designed to win the support of centrist Democrats.  The House bill also requires Bush to certify that troops are properly trained, equipped and rested before being sent into combat. 

Democrats insist they are enforcing existing standards at a time when the military is stressed after four years of fighting. The House and Senate hope to negotiate a compromise bill by the week of April 16 and quickly pass it and send it on to Bush. 

Bush argues that setting a deadline encourages the enemy to wait it out and hurts military commanders' flexibility. He has promised to veto any legislation that sets withdrawal timetables, which Democrats have attached to about $100 billion in war funds for the next six months. 

If Bush does veto the bill, Democrats are not expected to have the two-thirds support in the House and Senate to overturn him. As a result, Congress quickly would have to come up with a new war-spending bill, with Democrats in a high-stakes gamble over whether to send Bush another bill with conditions on the duration of U.S. troops fighting in Iraq.

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INTRO: Japan's PM vows prompt action on earthquake rescue and condolences to those affected.


STORY: Japanese Prime minister Shinzo Abe was rushed into his official residence in the capital Tokyo on Sunday (March 25) after a strong earthquake with a preliminary(初步的) magnitude(強度) of 7.1 jolted(使驚慌) the coastal area of central Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring at least 110, Japanese officials and media said.

While the quake was felt in Tokyo the hardest hit region was some 300 kilometres (190 miles) west of the capital. The prime minister called for prompt safety and rescue measures.  "I have order all to ensure the immediate safety of all the residence and if need be prompt and thorough rescue. However at this point, I hear one person has died. I offer her family my condolences," he told reporter after heading in to the emergency crisis room.

Japanese broadcaster NHK also said at least nine houses had collapsed when the quake struck at 9:42 a.m. (0042 GMT). NHK said about 30 troops were to head for the site of the quake to give assistance.

The focus of the tremor was at a depth of 50 km (30 miles) below the seabed off the Noto peninsula(能登半島) in Ishikawa(石川縣) prefecture(縣行政區). In Nanao, a city with a population of around 60,000 on the peninsula, ambulance services were flooded with calls to help people who had suffered burns and injuries, Kyodo news agency said.

Some trains in the area were halted and people were trapped in elevators. A tsunami warning for waves of up to 50 cm (20 inches) was issued for Ishikawa prefecture and NHK said small tsunami had already hit in some areas.

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