Biden administration hopes to increase aid for Ukraine before leaving office
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration plans to send as much aid as possible to Ukraine before it leaves office so it can hold Russia's military forces at bay. Also, the Archbishop of Canterbury resigns after an investigation found he failed to report physical and sexual abuse at Christian summer camps. And, an American defense contractor whose employees worked as interrogators at Abu Ghraib prison during the US occupation of Iraq has been ordered to pay $42 million dollars in damages to three Iraqi plaintiffs over the torture and abuse they suffered while in detention. Plus, a mobile health clinic tries to help patients in need of health services in South Africa.
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| 0:00.0 | In Germany, members of a far-right nationalist party are winning support, saying they want to end a culture of shame about German history. |
| 0:13.5 | They are creating an image of the good old past times which never existed. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:21.7 | And I'm Marco Wurman. |
| 0:26.2 | Also today, the head of the Church of England has resigned over his handling of sexual abuse allegations. |
| 0:27.3 | I mean, it's absolutely enormous. |
| 0:29.0 | There isn't really any historical precedent for an Archbishop of Canterbury to resign in |
| 0:33.8 | this way, certainly not in modern history. |
| 0:35.6 | We'll also hear how surfers might be a little bit safer from shark attacks, thanks to a bright idea. |
| 0:42.0 | While officials from World Cup soccer are working on a different problem. |
| 0:46.0 | I get people coming on to me all the time saying grass is grass. No, it's not. |
| 0:50.5 | FIFA, looking for the perfect pitch. All those stories and much more today on the world. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm Marco Wurman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Thank you for joining us. We start today in Germany where the governing coalition of Chancellor Olaf Schultz has collapsed. New elections are expected early next year and they will be closely watched across Europe because there's a good chance that parties from the far left and especially the far right will make big gains. |
| 1:18.9 | Germany has tried to be a model for the rest of Europe about reckoning with history, but as the far right gains wider support, more people are questioning what Germany should remember |
| 1:27.8 | and how. One memorial at a former concentration camp is trying to keep the historical record straight, |
| 1:34.2 | as Valerie Hamilton reports. |
| 1:37.3 | The Buchenwald Memorial spreads over a wooded hilltop outside the city of Weimar in a forest |
| 1:43.0 | of beech trees turning yellow in the fall sun. |
| 1:47.1 | Every day, dozens of groups tour the site where 280,000 victims of Nazi persecution were |
| 1:53.3 | imprisoned between 1937 and 1945, and where 56,000 of them died from disease, starvation, and murder. |
| 2:01.8 | After the war, Buchenwald became a Soviet prison camp with more of the same. |
| 2:08.9 | Cultural historian Uwe Rammel is showing my group a map of the site in its satellites. |
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