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to start your journey been given by the business detail. the news live from berlin, former us president jimmy carter has died at the age of 100 after a rocky single term presidency and 19 seventies. with some major foreign policy successes, he devoted his life to humanitarian work and was awarded the nobel peace prize for his efforts. plus, south re observes a week of national morning following the worst ever plane crash on us soil. investigators are searching for the cause of the disaster. they've left a 179 passengers and proved that the
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i'm on east of welcome former us president jimmy carter has died at the age of 100 . he passed away in a hospice care center in his hometown of plains, georgia. president biden has declared a national day of morning on january 9th for his state funeral, and called for flags to fly. hast staff for 30 days. carter's achievements and office included brokering a landmark peach tree between israel and egypt, but the end of his presidency in 1981 was by no means the end of his public service career. the jimmy counselor was a president. he found his true cooling off to his time in office how to grew up in the southern united states. he began his career in the u. s. navy. when he reached the rank of lieutenant on his father's death, called to, to cope with the families peanut from he was a deeply religious man and a supporter of the civil rights movement. his political career began in these
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native georgia where he eventually became state governor. he was one of the 1st politicians in the conservative south dakota for the end of racial segregation, the democrats, he became president in 1976, despite being a relative political and no. it's a long white plains to watch them, they say, but we've had a great deal of progress lately. solving the worst case of the america wanted to see a political out. slater in the white house, a jimmy carter was the perfect candidate for the job. i. jimmy carter do solemnly swear. i jimmy call to do solemnly swear that i will. he wanted his presidency to break the cycle of political entry and so prevalent in washington and famously pronounced. i will never lie. he made human rights the focus of his foreign policy . one of his greatest diplomatic successes was the camp david accords in 1978
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under causes mediation, then is really prime minister and the addiction presidents signed that this piece agreement would contest to him was also plague, but economic was an energy crisis. and his approval ratings plummeted. a dea ron hostage crisis from 1979 to 1981 sealed his political fate costs or failed to secure the release of dozens of american hostages, held by radical students at the u. s embassy in the uranium capital. that was something that the american voters would not forgive. he lost the 1980 elections in what was a landslide victory for ronald reagan solving those trouble, sandy beaches in the pacific. after his presidency, jimmy caustic, concentrated on his humanitarian work, became and i'm about to death, the peace and equality together with his wife. rosa lynn who died in late 2023. he
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set up the cost of center for the advancement of human rights as a form of us president. his diplomatic influence on the international stage was unique. one of his successes was a peace mission to north korea, where we help diffuse a crisis around p on young's nuclear weapons program. jimmy casa was awarded the nobel peace prize in 2002 even though of to being diagnosed with cancer, he continued to work on his many humanitarian projects, called his presidency, may not have been the most pivotal in us history. but his time later gave him the diplomatic clout to promote su, military and values, something which gained to him great respect and admiration around the world. and current us president joe biden has paid tribute to carter. he said he lost a dear friend of 50 years. when i find extraordinary amount to record of
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millions of people all around the world, all over the world to have a lost a friend as well. even though they never minutes to this because jimmy carter lived a life measured not by words, but buys deeds, sucking his wife as vice work. he worked eradicate diseases. oh, how nice of, oh, but around the world you force peace, the best civil rights? human race promote a free and fair elections around the world. build houses homeless for the homeless because okay, it is compassion and more clarity, clarity to people up and change lives and save lives all under the clothes. and president biden isn't alone in mourning the loss of jimmy carter tributes for the for president and his life of service have come from around the world just how some of his fellow americans remember him. most honest presidents that in my lifetime i
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knew and he had a great legacy, and i'm sorry it hear he's past, but i'm sure his legacy will continue after his presidency. so the world then during his presidency, the wonderful man he, he just became such a wonderful humanitarian afterwards. anyway, here's one of the best presidents afterward, system, even before he was a fantastic human. he cared about everybody of his habitat for humanity, which was a wonderful gift to people who needed homes. so he's a wonderful man and we're really going this and and let's take a look now at some more stories making headlines. a serious new leader of metal shadow says it could take 4 years to hold new elections and up to 3 years to rewrite the constitution. he made the remarks and interview with saudi broadcasts
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are all out of the. he also said he hoped that the trump administration will lifted us sanctions on syria gracious zoar, on milan, of which has nearly missed out on outright victory in the countries presidential election official results show the u. n. nito critic took less than 50 percent of the vote, heal, now have a run off with conservative rival drug and for march. in 2 weeks time. thousands of people have protested in the spanish city of valencia over the local governments reaction to the recent deadly floods. protesters accused the authorities, evasion, flood warnings far too late, and are demanding. the regional leaders resign more than 220 people died in the flood disaster. south korea is observing a week of national morning after a jetliner crash, killed 179. people, people have been paying the respects at a memorial in the city of milan, where the plane went down. south korea's acting president is also attending the
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ceremony. it's the deadliest plane crash ever on the country soil. only 2 people survived the disaster on sunday and both were members of the crew. investigators are now analyzing the flight data coming the wreckage in search of bodies and answers. recovery workers have now located both of the aircraft flight recorders. they will help determine what causes one of south korea's worst aviation disasters. this is the moment, the j. u airplane skids down the runaway at one airport. after failing to deploy its landing gear, it crashes into a wall and burst into flames. only to flight attendants who are in the plains pill section, survived. inside the airports, family members had been in during an agonizing wait as the remains of their loved ones are slowly identified. john j young lost his daughter
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and it's a catastrophe. it should not have been this bad 2 months, no one lived except for the 2 flight attendants, in the title, 6 shopping. and i don't understand why the pilot had to attempt the landing on the runway to crush into the wall. south korea's acting president said the government is assisting recovery efforts. he expressed his deep remorse, put the fingers, and when i opened my deepest condolences to those who tragically lost their lives, i also feel deeply sorry and extend my sympathies to the families as the acting head of government responsible for the safety and lots of our residents are feeling indescribable, slower and profound regret. one moment authorities think of the plane likely struck
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a flock of birds as it prepared to land despite the control tower warning to the pilots, a former football or miss hale. a couple of she really was sworn in as president of georgia on sunday. that's the spite allegations that the election was fraudulent cover. this really is allied with the far right georgia dream party, which has close ties to russia. thousands of people gathered in the capital to the leasing to protest. you know, your ration georgia. i've seen months, a political turmoil over plans for the georgia dream party suspend membership talks with the georgias main opposition group say they don't recognize calculus really as president. and let's bring in renata scott to to cuz codice of carousel lived there. she is the deputy director at the georgia institute of politics and she joins us from to police. the thanks for being here. georgia inaugurated this the new president yesterday. but the former president has not conceded her position. so
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what grounds does she have to do that is indeed the constitution jarda could be described as a constitutional crisis. is the president so long as that obviously the clear that you will not be leaving the office. uh, on the grounds of uh, the parliamentary elections of georgia and not being considered legitimate uh, reimbursed there. uh you have seen a months of protests on the street uh already with it more than a month. uh, hundreds of thousands of people gathering into the list and other cities to protest the problem into action as well as the current for sticking by the georgia and government. uh, would clear the uh, the r and seizing the negotiations for the you membership for the you
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sounds, how long does that obviously, the claim is that by staying as presidents uh, she will strive to safeguard georgia. so you won't be in force. we just insurance and georgia's constitution and it is aiming to bring forward, snap and actions to solve the kind of crisis in the country. but what kind of impact is this going to have going forward on the functioning of the government? that's a georgia essentially has to presence 2 people saying that the president of the country right now in georgia is being driven by uh the to keep palletization and split but also monitoring discontent and the societies because of the current to the political course of the ruling party,
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uh and uh, having 2 presidents with this uh, continuation of much cheaper political crisis in the country. uh, already now a number of, uh, the businesses are joining the protests uh public institutions. uh will probably not be able to function as well as they used to uh, on the other hand, uh, having the president who was much more loyal to the ruling party is allowed to jordan agreed into past last the sake of wanted to pass much faster and much more efficiency already yesterday the new president signed uh, in the number of new los angeles relations. one of them is uh, increasing defines for the products uh for, for example, for sufficient new rules and then not being able to cover the phases of uh,
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those for processing so that they would be uh much more easily identified major uh, an increase them define this um sometimes tenfold um you trying to disperse the people in the street and dis highest them from being there. so this kind of actions will be much more easy to, to continue for their own in particular the new president of, but she doesn't have to upload an image to a cnn popular support in the society. and we can only expect the tensions of the country to grow. okay, we're not this go to, to try to sell it to deputy director at the georgia institute of politics. thank you. thank you. and here's a reminder of our top story. former us president jimmy carter has died at the age of $100.00. carter died in
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a hospice in his hometown of plains and the state of georgia. his achievements as the 39th president's include, brokering the camp david accords which brought peace between israel and egypt. garage indeed, only new stay with us. the disruption is the goal. k us is the goal. it's a wrecking crew is radically, they want to bring the system the stream lines comes from the donald trump will be the next president of the united states. vision works for him, he wants to increase pay.

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