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of wrote 20 years ago from personal experience, and then it s been extrapolated out from there. but in a nutshell, it s set on a remote monastery in the 1940s, so the backdrop is the second world war. and the monastery is being presided over by a nun, who i play, who s officiating mass, the priest is dead. and one night, unceremoniously, a young indigenous boy is dumped on the doorstep of the monastery to be cared for as part of the reprehensible government policy of assimilation of indigenous children, in order to separate indigenous children from their culture. and this powerful spirituality of this young boy destabilises the surety of the catholic faith there, and these strange miracles start to happen. which we see so vividly in the performance by this little boy, by aswan reid, just nine years old, and you can t take your eyes off him when he s on screen. he s absolutely magnetic. erm, i mean, we were so lucky to find him. i remember warwick. warwick thornton and i ....
gaza. injerusalem, there is an uneasy calm, as palestinians mark easter and ramadan. our international editor jeremy bowen reports. injerusalem, where tension and worse are normal, there is always the consolation of religion. this ramadan, many of those ending a day of prayer at the aqsa mosque were palestinian israelis, around a fifth of israel s population. israel, citing security, restricts access to jerusalem for palestinians from the occupied west bank. just down the road, palestinian christians were deep in their celebration of easter, walking to the old city from the garden of gethsemane, where they believejesus prayed on the night before he was crucified. but in this city, sacred for christians, jews and muslims, religion and politics always mix. all the palestinian people are suffering today. they are suffering from occupation, they are suffering from apartheid, they are suffering from genocide. and today, what we are praying is to stop this disaster situat ....
most successful actors. she s won notjust one but two academy awards. brought up originally in australia, she s returned to her roots for her latest film, the new boy, which she s also produced. it s the story of a young boy from an indigenous background who s kidnapped and then forced to live in a catholic orphanage. cate blanchett, welcome to the arts interview. thank you. so i wanted to begin byjust getting you to explain the whole idea of new boy. well, it s a film by warwick thornton, who s one of australia s great directors. he s a cinematographer, he s a writer, and this is a film that s intensely personal that he s sort of wrote 20 years ago from personal experience, and then it s been extrapolated out from there. but in a nutshell, it s set on a remote monastery in the 1940s, so the backdrop is the second world war. and the monastery is being presided over by a nun, who i play, who s officiating mass, the priest is dead. and one night, unceremoniously, a young ....
we will shortly show you first hand testimonies, but before that, top united nations officials met today, saying the war has plunged the country into one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history . edem wosornu, director of operations and advocacy at the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, told the un security council of the severity of the situation in sudan. sue dan is on sue dan is on course sue dan is on course to become one of the worlds worst hunger crisis. already 80 million people and one third of the country are facing food insecurity. by the time the season arrives in may, people could face what we term ipc phase five level acute food insecurity. we call this stage a catastrophe. since april last year, sudan has been torn apart by fighting between these two men. one is the head of the country s military, general abdel fattah al bur han and the other is his former ally, general mohammed hamdan dagalo, who leads a paramilitary ....
following the deaths of their relatives in the early days of the covid pandemic. the families argue that human rights were breached because not enough was done to protect family members from the virus. the government says it tried to safeguard care home residents using the best evidence available at the time. here s our social affairs editor, alison holt. very happy days. that s my mother and father on a cruise. for liz, these photos provide special memories of her mother, margaret. when her mum found it hard to get around, she moved to a care home but she was still sharp. and this is also i think a lovely photograph. this is my mother in her care home. margaret died there during the first wave of the pandemic, aged 95. she had always kept a diary so documented the details of her last days, big and small. this was a particularly special diary for me because it is the last one that she wrote. liz is one of the relatives taking legal action against the government and ot ....