As Jimmy Carter is lain to rest, his human rights legacy is remembered
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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A state funeral for Jimmy Carter is being held on Thursday in Washington. When the 39th US president was sworn into office in 1977, he pledged to elevate human rights in American foreign policy. We look into that legacy. Also, the last time Japan’s army came to the Philippines in big numbers was during World War II, amid an invasion that left the country in ruins. That was 80 years ago. Now, the Philippines wants Japanese forces back on its bases. And, Russia’s war in Ukraine has included an assault on the country’s cultural sites. We meet Ukrainians fighting to protect their heritage in wartime.
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| 0:00.0 | A nation remembers President Jimmy Carter as a man of faith, integrity, and good works at home and abroad. |
| 0:12.6 | He built houses for people that needed homes. He eliminated diseases in forgotten places. |
| 0:19.9 | He waged peace anywhere in the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler, |
| 0:24.7 | will reflect on President Carter's legacy on human rights, and in Southeast Asia, the Philippines |
| 0:30.5 | is working with a former enemy to confront a common rival. This is a big counterbalance on |
| 0:36.5 | China's aggression. Plus, Canadian pilots battling |
| 0:39.7 | wildfires in L.A. and an American orchestra performing compositions from the Arab world. |
| 0:45.9 | Now, with everything that's going on in the Middle East, an homage to the people who lost their |
| 0:50.0 | lives and to all of the places in the Middle East that have been destroyed. That's all ahead today on the world. |
| 0:59.3 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. This is the World. Today, in Washington, laying to rest an American president. |
| 1:06.1 | The Lord in your heart as the whole is that's the choir at the national cathedral, part of the |
| 1:16.4 | national cathedral, part of the state funeral for James Earl Carter Jr. |
| 1:22.9 | There were heartfelt tributes for the 39th president from family members, |
| 1:27.1 | including one of his grandsons, |
| 1:28.9 | Joshua Carter. |
| 1:30.2 | My grandfather spent the entire time I've known him helping those in Neen. |
| 1:34.6 | He built houses for people that needed homes. |
| 1:38.0 | He eliminated diseases in forgotten places. |
| 1:42.0 | He waged peace anywhere in the world, wherever he saw a chance. |
| 1:48.2 | Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100, outliving most of those who served with him in government. |
| 1:53.2 | But one remaining member of his inner circle spoke at the funeral this morning, his former |
| 1:58.6 | campaign manager and White House advisor Stuart Eisenstadt. |
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