11.27.24 Washington Wednesday, World Tour, and the Great American Songbook

The World and Everything In It

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On Washington Wednesday, competing priorities for Republicans in Congress; on World Tour, news from Angola, Uruguay, Laos, and France; and a hostage's story of survival. Plus, a presidential turkey pardon, introducing a new music feature, The Great American Songbook, Janie B. Cheaney on the relative calm since the election, and the Wednesday morning newsSupport The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate.Additional support comes from Dordt University, where students are invited into God’s story of restoration; to live, learn, and work together with joyful purpose in all of life - until all is made new.And from Knox Theological Seminary. Reformed, flexible, integrated certificate and post-graduate degree programs designed for you and your calling in ministry. Request more information about our fully online, accredited programs at Knoxseminary.edu/world.

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0:00.0	On November 26, 2023, Hamas released Israeli hostage of Eva Siegel.
0:09.8	The 63-year-old grandmother tells us what happened that day in just a few minutes.
0:14.3	Stay with us.
0:20.3	Good morning. Congress is about ready to tackle tax policy and government funding.
0:25.4	It's a significant lift. It's a huge lift. That's ahead today on Washington Wednesday.
0:30.9	Also, today, World Tour and part two of our story on the ordeal of an Israeli hostage.
0:37.2	Today, her main message.
0:38.9	This needs to stop immediately, and they need to come home immediately,
0:43.0	because this cannot continue.
0:45.5	Later, a preview of a new music segment on the American Songbook
0:49.3	and World Commentator Janie B. Cheney on the political doomsday that wasn't.
1:07.1	It's Wednesday, November 27th. This is the world and everything in it from listener-supported World Radio. I'm Lindsay Mast. And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
1:13.1	Up next, Kent Covington with today's news. A ceasefire officially took effect this morning
1:20.1	between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon across Israel's northern border.
1:25.3	The deal calls for at least a 60-day pause in the fighting,
1:29.1	but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says exactly how long that ceasefire lasts is up to
1:34.3	Hezbollah. A good deal is a deal agreement that one enforces and we will enforce it.
1:42.3	Instead of Hezbollah violates the deal's terms, Israel will not hesitate to strike.
1:47.2	But at least for now, Israeli troops are believed to be a withdrawing from Lebanon,
1:51.0	and Hezbollah has agreed to move its forces about 20 miles away from the Israeli border.
1:55.7	U.S. Secretary of State, Tony Blinken, told reporters,
1:58.8	This has been an intensive diplomatic effort by the United States, partners like France, working
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