Good morning. Congress came to an agreement on a spending outline before their recess, but what will the specifics look like?

One of the principal objectives in our budget resolution and in the houses, as outlined by the speaker, is spending cuts.

That's ahead on Washington Wednesday.

Also today, World Tour.

And folk megastars, Mumford and Sons,

return to their musical roots

and rediscover the power of the banjo.

And world commentator Janie B. Cheney on the gift of garb.

Music commentator Janie B. Cheney on the gift of garb.

It's Wednesday, April 16th.

This is The World and Everything in it from listener-supported World Radio.

I'm Lindsay Mast.

And I'm Myrna Brown. Good morning. Up next, Kent Covington has

today's news. Fighter jets launching from the deck of the USS Carl Vinson. The Vinson and its

strike group is the second carrier group to arrive in the Arabian Sea. It will back up the USS Harrius Truman as

the U.S. pounds the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. But that also puts those carrier groups

in Iran's backyard with nuclear talks underway between American and Iranian negotiators. Special envoy

to the Middle East, Steve Whitkoff. We're here to see if we can solve this situation diplomatically and with dialogue.

The first meeting was positive, constructive, compelling.

But those carrier strike groups and the B2 bombers now at Iran's neighborhood send a clear message

that if diplomacy fails, the U.S. does have other

options to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. At Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei is speaking

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