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UN / PEACEBELL WRAP
STORY: UN / PEACE BELL WRAP
TRT: 3:19
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
16 SEPTEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, ceremony
3. Close up, Leonardo Di Caprio arriving
4. Wide shot, Leonardo Di Caprio greeting Michael Douglas
5. Wide shot, Secretary-General ringing the peace bell
6. Wide shot, messengers of peace and UN officials
7. Close up, Michael Douglas
8. Close up, Jane Goodall
9. Close up, Leonardo Di Caprio
10. Wide shot, photo-op messengers of peace and UN officials
11. Wide shot, performance by Vocabulary
12. SOUNDBITE (English)Michael Douglas, Actor, Messenger of Peace:
“So on three, loud cheer and happy peace day. You think you can do it? Alright, here we go. One, two, three…(screams)”
13. Wide shot, audience screaming
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jane Goodall, Primatologist, Messenger of Peace:
“I spend many years out in the forest in Tanzania, studying chimpanzees. And the greeting I bring you from them and it’s not the first time this greeting has been heard in this room… (chimp call) that’s hello everybody.”
15. Wide shot, Stevie Wonder walking to podium
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Stevie Wonder, Musician, Messenger of Peace:
“The future of this world is in your hands. For the roadmap of peace must be travelled with grace and a commitment of respect for every single human being. For we all live as one united under God.”
17. Wide shot, Leonardo Di Caprio approaching podium
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Leonardo Di Caprio, Actor, Messenger of Peace:
“So my friends my message to you today can be summed up by another messenger of peace, the great Mahatma Ghandi who said “a small body of determined spirits followed by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. “ Let today be the day we all become determined spirits together. I have faith that we can alter the course of our planets history before it is too late. But it is up to all of us.”
19. Wide shot, clapping
20. Med shot, Messenger of Peace Midori performing
21. Wide shot, Tawakul at podium
22. Close up, Tawakul at podium
23. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tawakul Karman, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate:
“The revolutionaries of the Arab Spring know the lesson well, and they know very well that they are able to face these counter-revolutions, but what remains is the failure of the international community which left them to struggle alone. However, they will stay steadfast until they achieve victory and God willing the international community will wake up to stand with them. If it does not stand with those people who are struggling for freedom, dignity, justice, and equality, there could never be any peace.”
24. Wide shot, General Assembly hall
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rang the peace bell today (16 Sep) at headquarters in New York marking the International Day of Peace.
UN Messengers of Peace actors Michael Douglas and Leonardo DiCaprio along with musician Stevie Wonder and primatologist Jane Goodall were there to honour the day.
Michael Douglas fired up the audience while Jane Goodall gave her greeting “gorilla call.”
Stevie Wonder said the future of the world is in your hands and that peace must be travelled with “grace and respect.”
Leonardo Di Caprio quoted Mahatma Ghandi, who said, “a small body of determined spirits followed by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. “
Later on at an interview, Nobel Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman from Yemen spoke about “the revolutionaries of the Arab Spring will never tire to achieve their goals.”
The Yemeni rights activist said they knew that the price of freedom is very high and what the region was now facing was counter revolutions. She said throughout history, every great revolution was followed by a “counter revolution” and Arab Spring revolutionaries knew this. She said if the international community did not stand with those people “who are struggling for freedom, dignity, justice, and equality, there could never be any peace.”
Every year, the UN calls on warring parties around the world to observe a 24-hour ceasefire.
The Day was established in 1981 by the UN General Assembly. Two decades later in 2001, the Assembly unanimously voted to designate the Day as a period of non-violence and ceasefire.
The UN invites all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities during the Day, and to otherwise commemorate the Day through education and public awareness on issues related to peace.
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