UNITED NATIONS YEAR IN REVIEW 2016 RT: 15’57” VIDEO AUDIO NARRATION CONFLICT COLLAGE 2016 - the hottest year on record ever. While some countries felt the direct threat of Climate Change, the Paris Climate ALEPPO FOOTAGE Agreement became the fastest UN treaty ever to enter into force. (13) PEACE TALKS NEW YORK 2016 – Yet Another year of challenges for the UN. With the Syria Conflict in its 6 th year, a FOOTAGE AIR DROPS, ENDS polarised Security Council and other VIEW OF AIR DROP FROM protracted conflicts, the UN tried to ease the PLANE, HATCH CLOSING plight of refugees and the ones left behind= 816: By the en. of the year, a quarter of a million UNICEF STORY JUDY “FEAR people were trappe. in Aleppo, while Syrian IN ALEPPO” government forces an. their allies bombe. JUDY ON WAY TO SCHOOL, rebel stronghol.s. Peace talAs seeme. to KIDS IN SCHOOL, LOUD lea. nowhere, not even to a humanitarian SHELLING NOISE, pause in the shelling. The Worl. Foo. Program an. its partners sent supplies to more than four million people insi.e Syria, even to har.-to-reach areas. Yet there has been little access to Aleppo since July. An estimate. 100.000 chil.ren still live in the 1 VIDEO AUDIO city ; where walAing to school can be a traumatiBing Courney. 834: BAN KI-MOON IN GENERAL At the Opening of the General Assembly, ASSEMBLY, OPENING OF GA Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hel. member states accountable for the trage.y: 8E: BAN KI-MOON ON CAMERA UN SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON 8ENGLIS : 8In English: "Powerful patrons that keep feeding the war machine also have blood on their hands. Present in this Hall today are representatives of governments that have ignored, facilitated, funded, participated in or even planned and carried out atrocities inflicted by all sides of the Syria conflict against Syrian civilians.” SECURITY COUNCIL, VETOS (2E: NARRATION The Security Council staye. paralyBe., veto after veto blocAe. every resolution to en. the war: 87: MATT EW RYCROFT ON Formatted: Line spacing: single CAMERA 8ENGLIS : UK Ambassa.or, Matthew Rycroft: 83: .E. MR. MATT EW RYCROFT 8In English: "Time and again, Russia has vetoed to prevent the Security Council from finding the unity necessary for ending the war. Therefore VITALY C URKIN ON CAMERA 8RUSSIAN: again I ask, what will it take?” (15) 2 VIDEO AUDIO Russian Ambassa.or Vitaly ChurAin: 83: .E. MR. VITALY C URKIN 8In Russian: "If our Western colleagues are truly concerned about the plight of civilians in DESTROYED OSPITAL, MSF eastern Aleppo, and indeed in the whole of FOOTAGE Syria, then they need above all to take genuine and practical steps — stop supporting terrorists and lift unilateral sanctions .” 815: SECURITY COUNCIL NARRATION In Aleppo an. elsewhere, even hospitals became targets of in.iscriminate bomb attacAs. 87: JOANNE LIU ON CAMERA 8ENGLIS : Me.ecins Sans Frontieres Chief Joanne Liu: 84: JOANNE LIU 8In English: IMAGES OF DESTROYED "Make your resolution operational. Stop CITY bombing hospitals. Stop bombing health workers. Stop bombing patients .” 810: NARRATION In Mi.-December, the siege of Aleppo en.e., when the Syrian military stoppe. the PAN OVER SC VOTE, OBSERVERS bombar.ment an. the insurgents agree. to with.raw. 8E: 3 VIDEO AUDIO An. finally, agreement in the Security Council over Aleppo, with a resolution to protect .esperate civilians evacuating the shattere. city, while UN monitors watch over them. 810: SMOKE OVER MOSUL, GRAVEYARD Similar images in Iraq: Government forces are fighting to .rive ISIS militants from their last stronghol. in Mosul. alf a million REFUGEES civilians in the city face bombings an. UN CR CAMP catastrophic water shortages. Thousan.s CONSTRUCTION were able to escape, seeAing shelter in freeBing temperatures. The UN’s Refugee Agency rushe. to set up 6 new camps in the REFUGEES ; GROUPS .esert, preparing for a massive new wave of .isplacement. 827: Refugees ; the .efining crisis of the year. More than 65 million people were on the move ; 5 million more than last year. 89: FOLLOWING NIGER MIGRANT T ROUG SA ARA, DRONE Most of them fle. war an. terror - Other S OTS, TRANSPORT ON BOAT S OTS refugees fle. from economic struggle or CROWDED BOATS, RESCUE climate change. Smugglers pile. up passengers in their boats to cross the Me.iterranean ; where more than 4500 people lost their lives this year. 815: LONDON PROTESTS, TRUMP RALLY, As some voters in Europe an. the US showe. signs of anxiety an. xenophobia, REFUGEES WELCOMED AT GREECE OTEL, or.inary citiBens an. communities in many 4 VIDEO AUDIO countries came to the rescue of refugees an. offere. them a warm welcome. In Vienna, a BAN KI-MOON VISITS VIENNA restaurant opene. where locals an. refugees REFUGEE RESTAURANT cooA together an. learn from each other ; buil.ing bri.ges, instea. of walls. (21) FOTO COLLAGE TEAM REFUGEES AT OLYMPICS For the first time, refugees participate. in the OPENING Olympics with their own team. One year ago, YUSRA SWIMMING Yusra Mar.ini pulle. a sinAing boat to safety ; now she compete. in freestyle swimming. In September, she a..resse. a Refugee Summit at the UN in New YorA: (20) YUSRA MARDINI ON CAMERA YUSRA MARDINI 8In English: 8ENGLIS : "I want to help change people’s perceptions of what a refugee is. For everyone to understand it is not a choice to flee from your home. And that refugees are normal people who can achieve great things if given the opportunity.” 816: US Presi.ent BaracA Obama: 83: PRESIDENT OBAMA ON CAMERA 8ENGLIS : BARACK OBAMA 8In English: “This crisis is a test of our common humanity -- whether we give in to suspicion and fear and build walls, or whether we see ourselves in another.” (11: ISTANBUL SUMMIT GROUP NARRATION FOTO Globally, more than 12E million people are COLLAGE UMANITARIAN AID, LIKE CRANES 5 VIDEO AUDIO DELIVERING GOODS affecte. by conflict, .isplacement an. natural ACROSS BORDERS .isasters. The first ever umanitarian Summit in Istanbul focuse. on chronic vulnerabilities ; urging to shift from .elivering ai. to en.ing nee.. LooAing ahea., the UN is appealing for a recor. amount of 22.2 billion .ollar for its humanitarian operations in 2017, to help 93 million people in 33 countries. UN Emergency Relief Coor.inator, Stephen O’Brien: 837: STEP EN O’BRIEN ON CAMERA 8ENGLIS : STEP EN O’BRIEN, UN EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR, 8In English: "More and more people are trapped in a cycle of vulnerability and need, protracted conflicts last longer, sometimes decades, as political solutions are nowhere to be found.” NIGERIA MALNUTRITION 813: NARRATION Largest African Ai. Crisis in Nigeria: A combination of .rought an. BoAo aram terror attacAs le. to a severe foo. shortage, prompting the UN umanitarian Agency to call for a One Billion Dollar Emergency Appeal. More than 100.000 chil.ren are treate. in UNICEF’s therapeutic fee.ing BABY UMARA BEFORE AND AFTER programs. Baby Umara arrive. with acute malnutrition ; after three weeAs of high calorie peanut paste he is laughing an. playing again. 830: 6 VIDEO AUDIO PEOPLE IN REMOTE YEMEN AREA, FOOD DELIVERY, War torn Yemen is also running out of foo. ; CLINIC millions of people are starving, especially in remote areas. The Worl. Foo. Program ha. to split rations to reach 6 million people every UN ENVOY ARRIVING IN month, but resources are beginning to run YEMEN out. Meanwhile the UN Envoy continues with his attempts at bringing the warrying factions together. 821: SOUT SUDAN In South Su.an, ethnically motivate. Aillings, ADAMA DIENG VISITING hate speech an. incitement of violence le. to growing concern where the country was hea.ing. A.ama Dieng, the Secretary- General’s Special A.visor on the Prevention of Genoci.e: 815: ADAMA DIENG ON CAMERA ADAMA DIENG, 8In English: 8ENGLIS : “Conversations with all actors have confirmed that what began as a political conflict has transformed into what could become an outright ethnic war .” 817: SOUT SUDAN PEOPLE IN NARRATION CAMPS More than a million people have fle. to neighbouring countries, some 200.000 foun. shelter in UN peaceAeeping bases. Women HAINAB BANGURA IN an. chil.ren are bearing the brunt ... rape is SECURITY COUNCIL often use. as a weapon of war. Special Representative on Sexual Violence an. Conflict, Hainab Bangura: 819: 7 VIDEO AUDIO HAINAB BANGURA ON HAINAB BANGURA 8In English: CAMERA 8ENGLIS : "Sexual Violence is the only crime that stigmatizes the victim rather than the perpetrator .” 87: GENERIC PEACEKEEPING NARRATION IMAGES As sexual exploitation also continue. to plague the reputation of PeaceAeepers, progress has been ma.e on Aey initiatives, liAe setting up court martials in situ an. a victims’ assistance fun.. 813: Dea.liest Mission in MALI: In their struggle to AERIAL S OTS MALI ensure the safety of civilians an. i.entify MISSION, ELICOPTERS, PATROLS, FUNERAL IN MALI, terrorist hi.eouts, more than 30 FORCE COMMANDER AND peaceAeepers have been Aille. this year ; COFFINS, TRUMPET more than in any other UN peaceAeeping mission. Force Comman.er MaCor General Michael LIllesgaar.: 81E: MIC AEL LOLLESGAARD ON CAMERA 8ENGLIS : MAJOR GENERAL MIC AEL LJLLESGAARD 8In English: "We are trying to grab the terrorists; we are trying to get to them before they are getting ICC SENTENCING, JUDGES to us. And of course, by being more proactive, we are taking more risks .” 8E: BENSOUDA IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL NARRATION COURT The International Criminal Court 8ICC: has sentence. a former Malian fighter to nine 8 VIDEO AUDIO years in prison for .estroying historic shrines CTBTO CONTROL ROOM in TimbuAtu. For the first time cultural VIENNA, CLOSE UP OF .estruction was consi.ere. a war crime. SEISMIC C ARTS SECURITY COUNCIL 2 Meanwhile support for the ICC starte.