This is the Global News Podcasts from the BBC World Service.

I'm Jean-Ut Jalil, and in the early hours of Sunday, the 5th of January, these are our main stories.

The six-day state funeral of the former US President Jimmy Carter has begun in his home state of Georgia.

Coalition talks between Austria's two biggest centrist parties have collapsed.

The Chancellor has said he'll resign.

Rwandan-Bat rebels have made rapid advances in the mineral-rich Democratic Republic of Congo,

capturing two towns in two days.

Also in this podcast, if you thought typewriters were obsolete,

they weigh between five and a half and six kilos.

It's there for learning to read and for writing.

We tell you about one type that's still very much in use.

We begin in the US state of Georgia,

where America has begun bidding a long farewell to the former president, Jimmy Carter.

The band of the 282nd Army played America the Beautiful in Atlanta as the coffin was carried into the Carter

Presidential Center for a service and prayers. Jimmy Carter's eldest grandson was the first

to address the congregation. All of us have been thinking about this day and planning for it

for a long time, but it is obviously still

hard for all of us. For us in my family, and I'm sure I can see on your faces for many of you,

I appreciate that. But just know that while we mourn my grandfather's passing, I know in my heart,

and you all do, that his legacy

will live on, not only because of the millions of people that he touched across the globe,

but very specifically because of your spirit and your knowledge and the work and the track

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