Tributes pour in for former US President Jimmy Carter
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Joe Biden leads tributes to former President Jimmy Carter as his humanitarian legacy is celebrated. Also: uncertainty in Ukraine - we hear from the frontline, and 5 charged in connection with popstar Liam Payne's death.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.6 | I'm Bernadette Keough and at 1400 GMT on Monday the 30th of December, these are our main stories. |
| 0:13.2 | Tributes pour in for the former US President Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100 on Sunday. |
| 0:19.4 | The head of the World Health Organisation has called for an end of attacks on hospitals in Gaza. |
| 0:25.6 | Serbia indicts its former transport minister and others for a deadly accident which killed 15. |
| 0:33.3 | Also in this podcast, uncertainty in Ukraine over what lies ahead in 2025. |
| 0:39.3 | We report from the front line in the east. |
| 0:41.8 | If we're losing, I'm still willing to fight because at least I'll die trying to win |
| 0:47.7 | instead of just lying down and taking it. |
| 0:51.4 | And five people are charged in Argentina in connection with the death of the One Direction |
| 0:56.4 | star Liam Payne in October. |
| 1:02.1 | World leaders and American politicians have been paying tribute to the former US President |
| 1:06.9 | Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100 on Sunday. |
| 1:13.3 | As president, he brokered peace between Israel and Egypt. He later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work. That organization |
| 1:20.2 | said his work would be remembered for another hundred years or more. Joe Biden was the first |
| 1:25.8 | senator to endorse Carter for the presidency in 1976. He said Jimmy Carter |
| 1:31.3 | lived not just a good life, but the good life. He described him as an extraordinary leader. |
| 1:38.0 | Today, America and the world, in my view, lost a remarkable leader. He was a statesman and humanitarian. Jimmy Carter |
| 1:46.1 | lived the life measured not by words, but by his deeds. He worked to eradicate disease, not just at home, |
| 1:52.1 | but around the world. He forged peace, advanced civil rights, human rights. The incoming U.S. |
| 1:59.5 | President, Donald Trump, said Jimmy Carter did everything in his power to improve the lives of all Americans, |
| 2:06.0 | though Mr Trump said he strongly disagreed with him philosophically and politically. |
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