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STORY: UN / BORIS JOHNSON TERRORISM
TRT: 01:52
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
23 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Secretary of State Secretary of State Boris Johnson walks up to podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Johnson, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom:
“The world is uniting to defeat the people who launched this attack, and to defeat their bankrupt and odious ideology. And I say that with confidence because our values are superior, our view of the world is better and more generous, and our will is stronger.”
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
4. Close up, reporter’s notepad
23 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Johnson, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom:
“There is a bankrupt, odious ideology that seeks to twist and to pervert the Muslim religion, and they need to be treated as criminals. And we need to see the very clear link between extremism of any kind, and the propensity to commit terrorist acts, and that’s the approach we follow in the UK.”
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
6 Close up, reporter’s notepad
23 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Johnson, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, United Kingdom:
“The cooperation between the UK government and the US administration, the US security services is intense and will continue. And we, of course, we both exercise our protections insofar as people coming into our countries is concerned. And it’s quite right that the UK should have its own system, the United States is introducing its own. We will cooperate to make sure that when we face a threat, when we have news of people who mean to do us harm, that we will work to share that information in order to follow whatever they may be preparing.”
8. Pan right, Johnson walks out
The Secretary of State of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, today (23 Mar) said that “the world is uniting to defeat” those who launched Wednesday’s terrorist attack in London.
After presiding a Security Council briefing, Johnson told reporters in New York that the international community is united in its will to defeat the terrorists’ “bankrupt and odious ideology.”
He added that “our values are superior, our view of the world is better and more generous, and our will is stronger.”
Johnson said this ideology “seeks to twist and to pervert the Muslim religion, and they need to be treated as criminals.”
Asked about the proposed US travel ban, the Secretary of State said “the cooperation between the UK government and the US administration, the US security services is intense and will continue. And we, of course, we both exercise our protections insofar as people coming into our countries is concerned. And it’s quite right that the UK should have its own system, the United States is introducing its own. We will cooperate to make sure that when we face a threat, when we have news of people who mean to do us harm, that we will work to share that information in order to follow whatever they may be preparing.”
According to news reports, on Wednesday a UK born man launched a vehicular and knife attack near London’s Houses of Parliament, killing four people and injuring 29, seven of them critically.
