President Carter dies at 100
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The former US President Jimmy Carter - who came to politics after a successful career as a peanut farmer – is credited with bringing peace between Egypt and Israel for which he received a Nobel prize. We hear from those who worked with him and those who prepared catfish suppers for the late president. Also in the programme: Agony and anger in South Korea over the country’s worst plane crash.
(Photo: Former President Carter holding peanuts in a field. Credit: Jimmy Carter Library/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.6 | We're coming to live from our studio in London. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Leis Ducet. |
| 0:12.2 | In about 10 minutes, we'll hear from our correspondent reporting from the scene of Sunday's terrible plane crash in South Korea. |
| 0:19.7 | And in half an hour, we look ahead to what |
| 0:22.0 | maybe in the news in 2025. That's, of course, if our correspondence, predictive powers are |
| 0:28.9 | strong, including my own. But first, to the tributes that are pouring in today for Jimmy Carter, |
| 0:36.4 | the peanut farmer who rose to become one of the |
| 0:38.8 | world's most powerful men, the former US President, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who |
| 0:44.4 | dedicated his entire life to the fight for democracy and human rights. His death at the age of |
| 0:50.5 | 100 has led many around the world and in his own hometown to reflect on his life |
| 0:56.3 | and legacy. President Joe Biden has led the tributes calling President Carter an extraordinary |
| 1:03.0 | leader, a statesman, and humanitarian. Jimmy Carter lived a life measured not by words but by |
| 1:09.3 | his deeds. Just look at his life, his life's work. |
| 1:13.6 | He worked to eradicate disease, not just at home, but around the world. He forged peace, |
| 1:20.3 | advanced civil rights, human rights, promoted free and fair elections around the world. |
| 1:26.4 | He built housing and homeless for the homeless with his own hands. |
| 1:30.2 | And his compassion and moral clarity led to people up and changed lives and saved lives all over the globe. |
| 1:37.3 | Joe Biden. |
| 1:38.7 | Well, in this program, we'll hear from several people who cross paths with him in different walks of life. |
| 1:44.5 | Someone who served him catfish in his hometown in Plains, Georgia, |
| 1:48.3 | someone who saw his skill during the difficult Camp David peace talks between Israel and Egypt, |
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