Six-day state funeral for Jimmy Carter begins in Georgia
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janat 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-backed 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.
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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, 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 record that you do every day.
Pastor Tony Loudon remembered cherished times with the former president.
Today's Saturday, and usually every Saturday I'm making the pilgrimage down to Plains, Georgia, and sitting beside President Carter in the compound. And you walk in the room, he's wrapped in a blanket that has Psalms 23 on it, one of his favorite psalms.
Then the former president's son, Chip Carter, paid tribute to his father and also his late mother, Rosalyn.
He was an amazing man. And he was held up and propped up and soothed by an amazing woman. And the two of them together changed the world. Because it was an amazing thing to watch from so close and to be able to be involved in. And I thank you for your service.
Earlier, the cortege carrying the former president's coffin, accompanied by his children, his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren, passed by the small farm in the town of Plains where he grew up. Our correspondent, Carl Nasman, has been covering events throughout the day from Atlanta.
We're right outside of the Carter Presidential Center and Library here in Atlanta. This is really the headquarters, if you want to think about it that way, of his post-presidency, where over many decades, far longer, of course, than when he was in the White House, Jimmy Carter, along with his wife, Rosalind Carter, worked to combat many different things. They worked to promote democracy across the world, combat imperialism. infectious disease, worked towards all kinds of different diplomatic missions. This really is the center of his life after 1981 when he left the White House. But what we're seeing today is an outpouring of tributes and memorials for the former president. Just watching that motorcade go through these
very rural areas of Georgia, Plains, Georgia, where he grew up, his boyhood town, the boyhood farm where he grew up, where there was no running water or electricity back in 1924 when Jimmy Carter was born there. Many people remembering his legacy and what he meant as a president, but also as a diplomat, as someone who advocated for civil rights, someone who advocated for health care and vaccines around the world. So Jimmy Carter left quite the legacy behind. And those are the stories and memories that, of course, are being shared today here, not only in Georgia, but across the country.
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Janet Jalil 8 min
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Narrator 1 min
Miranda 1 min
Jimmy Carter's Grandson 1 min
Grant Ferrett 1 min
Bethany Bell 1 min
Karl Nehammer
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