cate blanchett was also in the un's security council. is an ambassador for the un's refugee agency and she was making an impassioned plea on behalf of the refugees she met in bangladesh. she travelled there and met women and children who had suffered crimes, who had had their villages burned, had seen members of their family killed before their eyes. she told the un security council that the rohingya people had been failed by the international community. she said that it was time to act to make sure that they are protected in the future and she laid out some of the vivid accounts she heard from some of those refugee camps. i have heard the gut wrenching accounts, stories of grave torture, of women brutally violated, people who have had their loved ones killed before their eyes, children who have seen their grandparents locked in houses that were set alight. lam a mother, and i saw the eyes my own children in the eyes of every single refugee child that i met. i saw myself in every parent. how can any mother endure seeing her child thrown

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goodwill ambassador cate blanchett speaks excsively to the bbc about the urgency of addressing the rohingya crisis. cate: when the tuation is impossible, you have to push harder. despair is something we cannot give into. >> ♪ r-e-s-p-e-c-t laura: plus, fitting farewell to the een of soul. thousands line up to pay tribute to aretha franin. laura: welcome to our viewers on publicio televin america and around the globe. president trump has long had a s contentilationship with the press, and today it was cial media companies he unleashed on. in an early-morning tweet he took aim at the likes of google, censorg they purposely conservative voices. it is a charge they deny. stuck with the theme. pres. trump: i think google has taken advantage of a lot of people and it is a very serious thing and very serious charge. google and twitter and facebook, they are treadinon very , very troubled territory and they have to be careful. it is not fair to large portioio of the popul laura:ef a bime ago i spoke to our technologyve correspondent ee. are the tech companies surprised by the president targeting th

heard today in what was a very open session we also heard not just the sec region rule we had cate blanchett in her role as a special representative on u.n.h.c.r. also giving her first hand account of the testimony this year she heard that those who have committed these crimes these heinous crimes against the ranger community must be held to account there can be no impunity and justice must be served and that was a very clear message coming through consistently consistently across many members of the security council today. and so obviously that me and my government and military will not willingly take responsibility for these actions so what are the next steps what actions can the un security council take. well if you look at the summary report that was issued by the fact finding mission a couple of days ago some of the steps are already being taken for example we've seen sanctions against military commanders we ourselves in the united kingdom have led the charge with colleagues with that in the european union to ensure that those leaders those military leaders who've been committing these

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the actor and un goodwill ambassador cate blanchett recently visited bangladesh where thousands of rohingyams have been forced to flee. she's been speaking to our correspondent nada tawfik. well, i think that, you know, part of the security council's remit is to highlight and to continually and unfailingly not give up, you know. i'm just coming from speaking to the secretary general and you know when a situation is impossible, you have to push harder, you know. and despair is something that we cannot give in to. and when you see the resilience of the refugees themselves and when you sit in a school with children who have lost parents, children who have seen their grandparents pushed back into burning buildings and set on fire. you know, i sat with one particular girl who was 1a who had her three—year—old brother dismembered and thrown into a fire in front of her. and when you see them, you know, moving forward positively, trying to go to school, it galvanises me and makes me want to not forget those individual faces in the magnitude of the numbers that we hear. and i think it's beholden upo

the actor and un goodwill ambassador cate blanchett recently visited bangladesh where thousands of rohingyarrespondent nada tawfik. well, i think that, you know, part of the security counci's remit is to highlight and to continually and unfailingly not give up, you know. i'm just coming from speaking to the secretary general and you know when a situation is impossible, you have to push harder, you know. and despair is something that we cannot give in to. and when you see the resilience of the refugees themselves and when you sit in a school with children who have lost parents, you know, children who have seen their grandparents pushed back into burning buildings and set on fire. you know, i sat with one particular girl who was 14 who had her three—year—old brother dismembered and thrown into a fire in front of her. and when you see them, you know, moving forward positively, trying to go to school, it galvanises me and makes me want to not forget those individual faces in the magnitude of the numbers that we hear. and i think it's beholden upon the international immunity to shine a spotlight

cate blanchett? oh, yeah. she was like bigfoot. >> i was going to say. >> stephen: that's b.f.oing this took submissions, and this photo-- this is me last year with a beard. this is the nomination for b.d.e. but it says down here, "with the beard. without the beard, not so much." ( laughter ) >> makes perfect sense. >> stephen: you have that on me. >> makes perfect sense. that was an honor. >> stephen: it is. >> yes, it is, it's an honor. a signal honor. ( laughter ). >> stephen: um... this is a bit-- bit of an odd question. >> yes. >> stephen: and you may not want to answer it. >> as opposed to all the questions we've had before? >> stephen: exactly. you started with the murder fan club. giamatti, obviously is an italian name. but you don't play italians. >> i never have played an italian. you threw me, and that's probably why. i think i don't seem italian. enused to go --: what do italiah teem >> s like. >> that's what i mean. i went on an audition to play an italian cop. and the woman running the audition said, "you're not being italian enough." and i said i was italian. and

secretary general antonio terrace and australian actress cate blanchett who is also a u.n. goodwill ambassador will be briefing the security council let's cross to mike hanna at un headquarters in new york for us what else do we know about this meeting mike . well this meeting had been previously shared jewel it is a monthly meeting on the situation to be briefed by the secretary general as you mention but obviously this is got added importance given that report that was released within the last forty eight hours commissioned by the human rights council which held the myanmar military primarily responsible for what it called or amounted to acts of genocide very strong words in this particular report now the security council is the body that would have to decide whether this matter does go to the international criminal court or some other tribunals be set up to investigate all the allegations made in that particular report now within the security council itself there has to be discussion about what form the investigative mechanism would take certainly be heard some very stro

in her role as the un refugee agency's goodwill ambassador, actor cate blanchett made an impassioned up, you know. this coming just from speaking to the secretary general, even when a situation is impossible you have to push harder and despair is something we cannot give in to. and when you see the resilience of the refugees themselves, and when you sit in a school with children who have lost parents and children who have lost parents and children who have lost parents and children who have seen their grandparents pushed back into burning buildings and set on fire... i mean, when you see them moving forward positively, trying to go to school, it galvanises me and makes me want to not forget those individual faces and the magnitude of the numbers that we hear. i think it's really... it's beholden on the international community to shine the spotlight on it. it may seem impossible but it's not an excuse for not doing anything. more now on our top story this morning: british fishermen are asking for government protection after being attacked by their french counterparts off the coast of

the actor and un goodwill ambassador cate blanchett recently visited bangladesh — where thousands ofu see it in a school with children who have lost pa rents, school with children who have lost parents, children have seen their grandparents pushed back into burning buildings, and set on fire. you know, isat burning buildings, and set on fire. you know, i sat with one particular girl who was 14 and she had her three—year—old brother dismembered and thrown into a fire in front of her. when you see them moving forward positively, trying to go to school, it galvanises me and makes me want to, not forget those individual faces me want to, not forget those individualfaces and me want to, not forget those individual faces and the magnitude of numbers that we hear, it‘s beholding upon the international community to shine a spotlight on it. it may seem impossible but it‘s not an excuse for not doing anything. have you been disappointed that aung san suu kyi, as de facto leader, and the nobel peace prize winner leiria, hasn‘t done more? leader, and the nobel peace prize winner leiria, hasn't d