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STORY: YEAR IN REVIEW 2008
TRT: 9.21
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: FILE
FILE: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
1. Med shot, rebel soldier with RPG
FILE: SOMALIA
2. Med shot, baby
FILE: SERBIA
4. Wide shot, riots
FILE: MYANMAR
5. Various shots, cyclone
FILE: MALDIVES ISLANDS
6. Wide shot, ocean waves hitting the coast and houses.
FILE: GREENLAND
7. Wide shot, iceberg crushing and falling into the sea
FILE: NEW YORK CITY
8. Various shots, Wall Street Stock Exchange
9. Various shots, financial market, scenes in wall street
FILE: TOKYO
10. Med shot, financial numbers and figures
FILE: UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2008
12. Wide shot General assembly, United Nations
13. SOUNDBITE (English), Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General:
"Poor people around the world look to the United Nations for help and solidarity. We are accountable to them. Here in this house, everyone counts. So let us live up to our responsibility."
FILE: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
14. Med shot from UN vehicle, soldier
FILE: SUDAN
15. Various shot, soldier with dog, land mine removal
FILE: HAITI
16. Various shots of people rebuilding
FILE: COTE D'IVOIRE
17. Med shot, voter being registered using a fingerprint machine
FILE: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
18. Wide shot, people throwing stones at tanks
19. Close up, UN soldier inside vehicle
20. Med shot, overcrowded camp
21. Various shots of camp
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Ibrahima Coly, UNHCR Officer:
"There is a sentiment of panic here. The security is the first priority here, the second priority is food, as you may know."
23. Wide shot of camp
24. Med shot child in the camp
25. Med shot, people carrying firewood
FILE: UN SECURITY COUNCIL, NEW YORK CITY
26. Wide shot, Security Council voting for more troops
FILE: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
27. Med shot, Obassanjo visiting
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Olusegun Obassanjo, UN Special envoy:
"... just let them fight and struggle for peace."
FILE: DARFUR, SUDAN
29. Various shots, burned out huts and buses
30. Wide shot, convoy of vehicles
31. Various shot, people in camps
30. Various shots of rebels
FILE: SECURITY COUNCIL, NEW YORK CITY, 22 APRIL 2008
32. Wide shot, Security Council chamber
33. SOUNDBITE (English) John Holmes, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator:
"In the absence of any real progress towards a solution, whatever the efforts of the international community and the Council, profound human suffering will continue to grow in Darfur."
FILE: DARFUR, SUDAN
34. Wide shot, UNAMID convoy
35. Various shots, UN troops helping villagers pumping water
36. Med shot, soldiers in a UN vehicle
37. Med shot, Georges Clooney visiting and talking to women and soldiers
FILE: UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY
38. SOUNDBITE (English) Georges Clooney, american actor:
"When I stood in a hospital next to women who'd been raped and set on fire two days earlier, they look up to me and said: 'please send the UN.', not the US or China or Russia...just the UN. You're their only hope."
FILE: SOMALIA
39. Med shot in vehicle, soldiers in pickup cars
40. Med shot, soldiers around camp
41. Various shots, women and children in camp
42. Various shots, food distribution
FILE: NEW YORK CITY
43. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Bowden, Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia:
"After 3 years of drought and this prolonged crisis, we are at a point where the population could face total destitution."
FILE: SOMALIA
44. Various shots navy vessels against piracy
45. Med shot, vessels in high sea
FILE: ZIMBABWE
46. Various shots, food distribution
47. Med shot, woman picking up food from the ground
48. Various shots, cholera hospital
49. Med shot, baby with mother in hospital
FILE: GEORGIA
50. Med shot, tanks driving on street
51. Pan right, refugees on the road
52. Med shot, soldiers
53. Med shot, burning house
54. Various shots, UNHCR refugee camp
55. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Calivis, UNICEF:
"These children cry at night, are worried, are more insecure and keep on asking: When are we going back?"
FILE: AFGHANISTAN
56. Wide shot refugee camp
57. Close up elderly
58. Various shots, fightings
59. Wide shot, burnt buildings in Kabul
FILE: IRAQ
60. Wide shot, people in street, lining for assistance
61. Med shot, bread distribution
62. Clsoe up, children
FILE: GAZA, OPT
63. Med shot, burning car in street
64. Med shot, man carrying injured child
65. Wide shot, rocket in field
66. Med shot, man carrying a rocket launcher
67. Med shot,closed border to Israel
68. Wide shot, people demonstrating with torches
69. Med shot, sign reading "no more hunger"
70. Med shot, bakery
71. Med shot, dark street
72. Med shot, generator
FILE: UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY
73. Pan left, room
74. Med shot, Livni shaking hands with Mahmoud Abbas
75. SOUNDBITE (English) Shimon Perez, President of Israel:
"If there is a will, there is a way. What there was today demonstrated is the will, we know that we have to work for the way."
76. Wide shot General assembly Chamber
77. SOUNDBITE (English) Mahmous Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority:
"We remain committed to international legitimacy and extend our hands for dialogue."
FILE: MUMBAI, INDIA
78. Med shot, soldiers in street, lying down
79. Various shots, hotel burning
80. Med shot, bleeding victim
81. Various shots, funeral of police chief
FILE: UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY
82. Various shots, meeting between King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Shimon Perez and others, with Ban Ki-Moon at culture and peace meeting.
83. Med shot, Pope Benedict in lobby, blessing UN Baghdad flag
84. Med shot, pope walking down center aisle in the General Asssembly chamber with Ban Ki-moon
85. SOUNDBITE (English) Pope Benedict XVI:
"Recognition of the transcendent value of every man and woman favors conversion of heart, which then leads to a commitment to resist violence, terrorism and war and to promote justice and peace."
FILE: KOSOVO
86. Wide shot, balloons being released
87. Med shot, fireworks
88. Med shot, sign reading "new country born"
89. Various shots, people demonstrating in the street
90. Med shot, UN police
FILE: THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS
91. Med shot, Radovan Karadzic walking in the street
92. Med shot, Karadzic in court of the Hague
FILE: HAITI
93. Various shots, people walking in flooded streets
94. Various shots, UN peacekeepers assisting school collapse
FILE: MYANMAR
95. Various shots, buildings being destroyed by storm
96. Various shots, people seeking shelter
97. Wide shot, aerial view of the flood
98. Med shot, Ban ki-moon looking out the plane window
99. Med shot, Ban-Ki-moon meeting with politicians
100. Med shot, kid being vaccinated
101. Med shot, water delivery
102. Med shot, drive-by devastation
FILE: UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY
103. Wide shot of General Assembly chamber, MDG summit
104. Various shots, panel on poverty
FILE: INDIA
105. Various shots, kids in school
FILE: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
106. Med shot, crowded train
107. Various shots, people in UNHCR refugee camp
FILE: HAITI
108. Various shots, people in prison
FILE: UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY, 1948
109. Various shots, archive of declaration of human rights
FILE: DARFUR, SUDAN
110. Various shots, people in market, UNAMID aid workers
FILE UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY
111. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General:
"The need for global solidarity is more important than ever. Crisis has brought us to this new multilateral moment. In crisis lies opportunity. From the economy to peace and security, from climate to energy and food – the time has come to take multilateralism to a new stronger and more inclusive level."
112 Med shot, college of partnership and aid delivery
113. Med shot, Ban Ki-moon in Myanmar with flood victims and baby
114. Wide shot, convoy in DRC
115. Med shot, vaccination in Latin america
116. Med shot, school feeding in Bhutan
117. Various shots, peacekeepers in DRC
118. Med shot, woman installing solar power panels in Swaziland
119. Wide shot, wind energy windmills at sunset.
2008 was a year of conflicts, hunger, political crises, natural disasters and the continued effects of climate change. But it was the meltdown of the world's financial markets that sent shock waves around the globe.
Worldwide, stock prices have fallen sharply, credit is tight and major financial institutions have collapsed. Many developed economies are already in recession, and growth in most developing countries is slowing significantly.
The economic slowdown, combined with soaring food prices and rising unemployment is threatening people's basic security in many parts of the world.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that poor people around the world were looking to the United Nations for help and solidarity.
Also this year, the United Nations marked sixty years of Peacekeeping.
One hundred and ten-thousand blue-berets from across the globe – more than ever before - are deployed in nineteen peacekeeping missions worldwide.
From protecting civilians to removing dangerous land mines, to rebuilding shattered nations and registering people to vote, they're often on the frontline.
And there are heavily present in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where heavy fighting in the country's eastern region between the army and Tutsi rebels displaced a quarter of a million people. Many of the conflict's victims were desperate for shelter.
UNHCR Officer Ibrahima Coly said there was a sentiment of panic in Congo and that the security is the first priority, the second being food.
Safety is a huge challenge, even in camps for the displaced. Women face a constant threat of rape or being beaten, even when going out to collect firewood for cooking.
The Security Council authorized 3,000 more peacekeeping troops and the UN sent Special Envoy Olusegun Obasanjo to the region for peace talks.
Meanwhile, security is deteriorating elsewhere in Africa, jeopardizing the UN's efforts to bring aid and to protect civilians.
In war-torn Darfur, nearly five million civilians are caught up in the conflict between rebels and government troops
John Holmes, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said that in the absence of any real progress towards a solution, whatever the efforts of the international community and the Council, profound human suffering would continue to grow in Darfur.
UNAMID, the joint mission between the UN and the African Union is building up strength but less than half of the 26,000 peacekeepers approved by the Security Council have been deployed and attacks on aid workers have doubled since last year.
Despite the challenges, the role of the UN is critical here as Messenger of Peace actor George Clooney said: "When I stood in a hospital next to women who'd been raped and set on fire two days earlier, they look up to me and say: "Please send the UN.", not the US or China or Russia…just the UN. You're their only hope."
Another humanitarian crisis continues In Somalia, where violence has claimed more than 1000 lives this year alone. The UN is helping the 3.2 million people who need food after three years of drought.
Mark Bowden, Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia said that after 3 years of drought and this prolonged crisis, the population could face total destitution.
International navy vessels have to protect the food deliveries from rampant pirate attacks.
And in Zimbabwe, inflation rates of 231 million percent have left the country on the verge of collapse. Once considered the bread basket of Africa, now two million people in Zimbabwe depend on food assistance – soon the number could double but access to the country is restricted.
Making matters worse, a cholera outbreak that began in the open sewers of urban townships has infected nearly 14.000 people and claimed some 800 lives.
Crises were not limited to Africa. In Georgia, two hundred-thousand people were uprooted when the country's military clashed with Russian and separatist South Ossetian troops. The UN's Refugee Agency and its Children's Fund provided services for the refugees before the harsh winter set in.
Maria Calivis, of UNICEF said children cried at night, were worried, more insecure and kept on asking: "When are we going back?"
And the plight of refugees around the world continues to be a high priority for the UN in places like Afghanistan, where insurgent attacks have intensified and where about 2 million Afghanis are still unable to return home.
In Iraq, levels of violence constantly fluctuate, the UN continues to offer development and humanitarian assistance in a dangerous and complex environment.
Five months of ceasefire between Israel and Palestine ended in November with renewed rocket attacks and air strikes. When Israel closed the border, a million and a half people in Gaza faced acute food and fuel shortages.
The international community meanwhile continued its efforts to bring the two parties to the Negotiating Table.
Simon Peres, President of Israel said in a press conference that if there is a will, there is a way and that having dealt with the will, Israel and Palestine have to work for the way.
Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas said Palestine remained committed to international legitimacy and that they extended their hands for dialogue.
While India and Pakistan were delicately moving toward improved relations, terror attacks in Mumbai shocked the world. Nearly two-hundred people were killed and more than three hundred injured.
At a meeting to promote the Culture of Peace and Interfaith Dialogue, world leaders agreed to reject the use of religion to justify terror.
Earlier in the year, Pope Benedict visited the United Nations and expressed his hope for dialogue between religions to build a 'common world'
Pope Benedict told members that recognition of the transcendent value of every man and woman favored conversion of heart, which then leads to a commitment to resist violence, terrorism and war and to promote justice and peace.
With Kosovo unilaterally declaring independence in February, the UN's peacekeeping role there is coming to an end.
But tensions remain; the country's Serb minority protested fiercely against the decision and UN police were called to restore calm
Also in the Balkans, one of the world's most wanted men, Radovan Karadzic, was arrested after more than a decade on the run. He was indicted by the UN Tribunal for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia.
2008 was also a year in which catastrophic natural disasters hit some of the poorest people in the world. Haiti was slammed by four consecutive hurricanes… causing almost 900 deaths, including ninety people who died after this school collapsed due to the rain.
But the biggest disaster, Cyclone Nargis, hit Myanmar in early May, leaving some one-hundred and forty-thousand dead or missing and causing suffering for more than two million people
With international aid agencies unable to get rapid access to those in need, the UN Secretary General traveled to Myanmar to pave the way for the full and unrestricted flow of aid
With so many developing countries affected by disaster, climate change and now the twin crises: food and finance, world leaders met to renew their commitment to the Millennium Development Goals, – a set of targets and time-frames endorsed eight years ago to address the most crucial issues facing humanity in the next decade.
While some targets, like universal education are on track, others lag behind, like ending extreme poverty and hunger, especially in Africa
World leaders pledged sixteen billion dollars - But at year's end, there are fears that the financial crisis will reduce international donations.
In 2008, for all too many, respect for the dignity and rights of all human beings still remained a distant vision.
This despite the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which is the standard against which all societies, and all governments must be measured
Sixty years on, it remains a shining example of what can be achieved through global solidarity
For Ban Ki-moon, the need for global solidarity is more important than ever. From the economy to peace and security, from climate to energy and food, he said that time has come to take multilateralism to a new stronger and more inclusive level.
With the food and finance crises now threatening the basic security of millions around the world, the United Nations is called upon once more to help -- to build partnerships with governments and the private sector to help turn potential disaster into new opportunities.