04/09/2023: The Origin of Everything, Sportswashing, The Resurrection of Notre Dame

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🗓️ 10 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Scott Pelley explores images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s most powerful space telescope. Speaking with astrophysicists and astronomers, Pelley reports on the telescope’s discoveries of distant galaxies, including one that’s over 33 billion light years away, and an observation that, if confirmed, could upend the belief on how the universe formed and more. In the days of the Roman Coliseum, they called it “Bread and Circuses”—leaders using entertainment to distract citizens from genuine problems. Today, Saudi Arabia is accused of using the same tactic with a different name: "sportswashing." Is the Kingdom diversifying its economy, as they insist, or covering up human rights abuses and political repression? Jon Wertheim traveled to Saudi Arabia to find out. Four years after the Cathedral of Notre Dame was nearly destroyed by fire, Bill Whitaker returns to Paris to witness the resurrection of the medieval structure and powerful symbol of France.

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0:00.0	Prime members, you can listen to 60 minutes ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:05.5	Download the app today.
0:07.5	What does the origin of everything look like?
0:18.6	That's what NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is trying to discover.
0:23.3	We call it space because we thought there was nothing out there.
0:26.7	There is no empty sky with James Webb.
0:29.5	The telescope is sensitive to the faint light that reaches us from the dawn of time.
0:35.5	Then this team turns data into images that look like this and this and this.
0:48.5	The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has ignited a revolution in global sports,
0:52.7	and it's not easy to apply a price tag.
0:55.8	Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has just signed a $200 million contract for one year.
1:02.4	Golfers who left the PGA make more than $100 million to play in a new Saudi-backed circuit.
1:08.6	Is the Kingdom simply resetting the market in sports or using sports to launder its image?
1:18.0	Almost exactly four years ago, the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris caught fire and the world watched in horror.
1:27.6	On this Easter Sunday, 60 minutes gets rare access to the painstaking restoration of Notre Dame,
1:34.8	as workers and artisans revive every part of this medieval masterpiece.
1:42.4	I'm Leslie Stahl.
1:44.0	I'm Bill Whitaker.
1:45.2	I'm Anderson Cooper.
1:46.4	I'm Sharon Alfonci.
1:47.6	I'm John Worthi.
1:48.8	I'm Nora O'Donnell.
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