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1.22.25 President Trump’s initial actions, World Tour, and remembering the Battle of the Bulge
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Myrna Brown
Good morning. President Donald Trump is using the power of the pen to bypass the legislative process through dozens of executive orders. What's been done so far and is it a good idea?
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Graham Dodds
Executive orders can be overturned by courts, they can be reversed by Congress, and they can be reversed by future presidents.
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Lindsay Mast
That's ahead on Washington Wednesday. Also, our weekly roundup of international news on world Tour and the 80th anniversary anniversary of one of the most significant battles of World War II.
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Kent Covington
Here are the late developments. Furious fighting is in progress on the northern sector where the German counterattack has driven approximately 18 miles into Belgium.
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Lindsay Mast
And Janie B. Chaney on craftsmanship and the drive to create.
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Myrna Brown
It's Wednesday, January 22nd. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Lindsay Mast
And I'm Lindsay Mass. Good morning.
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Myrna Brown
Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.
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Kristen Flavin
Hello, everybody.
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Donald Trump
President Trump welcomed reporters in the Roosevelt Room on Tuesday.
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Kent Covington
Nice to see you. Some very familiar faces.
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Donald Trump
And on his first full day back in the White House, Trump announced what he called the largest AI infrastructure project in history. He said three major players in the technology space would work together on a joint venture, Stargate, a new American company.
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Kent Covington
That will invest $500 billion, at least in AI infrastructure in the United States.
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Donald Trump
At the front of the room, Trump was flanked by top executives from the companies forming that Joint Venture, Oracle, OpenAI and SoftBank. Stargate will begin building out data centers in Texas, along with the electricity generation needed for further development of AI. The president also welcomed Republican lawmakers to the White House to play referee and something of a friendly sparring session over how to deliver on the Trump agenda. Republicans have not seen eye to eye on strategy, specifically whether to package Trump's top priorities into one large bill or Two separate bills. GOP Congresswoman Lisa McClain.
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Graham Dodds
I think the Republicans have been known.
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Lindsay Mast
To have spirited debate, but debate doesn't mean disloyalty.
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Kristen Flavin
Debate means we talk about issues to get to a better place.
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Donald Trump
After the meeting, House leaders seemed satisfied the GOP leaders in both chambers had settled on the one bill approach. That means Republicans would work to shape one bill that would renew Trump's 2017 tax cuts alongside measures tied to border security, energy and defense. President Trump is getting some pushback from humanitarian aid groups about an immigration related executive order he signed this week. World's Kristen Flavin has more.
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Lindsay Mast
Amid the stack of executive orders Trump signed this week was an order pausing the US Refugee Admissions Program for at least 90 days that will give his administration time to evaluate it. The program has long served as a legal pathway for individuals to seek safety in the US and several nonprofit groups are urging Trump to protect it. Those include the Christian humanitarian organization World Relief. The group notes that persecuted Christians often benefit from the program. World Relief says in recent months it has resettled thousands of refugees with the help of local churches, and it released a letter signed by more than 20 Christian leaders urging Trump to support the program. For World I'm Kristen Flavin.
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Donald Trump
The president is also facing legal challenges to other executive orders, including one that seeks to reinterpret birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. Trump's order states that a child born to a mother in the country illegally is not automatically considered a US citizen. 22 states and some non governmental groups are suing to strike down that order. New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin Presidents.
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Scott Andrew
In this country have broad powers, but they are not kings. We all know this. They are not kings. They do not have the power to unilaterally rewrite the Constitution. They do not have the power to unilaterally dis regard our laws.
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Donald Trump
Other lawsuits challenge orders, including one halting enforcement of the US law banning TikTok and another creating an independent Department of Government Efficiency. Fire crews in Southern California are welcoming a calmer weather forecast today after wind gusts on Tuesday of up to 100mph in some parts of the LA area. Fortunately, officials did not see any significant worsening of wildfires yesterday. But LA City Council member Tracy park says there is another threat on the horizon possible mudslides when rain inevitably falls on hillsides, hillsides that are already prone.
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Scott Andrew
To slide and which have already absorbed a tremendous amount of water from firefighting.
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Lindsay Mast
Broken pipes and melted pools.
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Donald Trump
One resident who returned to check on her home, former Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Janie B. Chaney
We are some of the lucky ones.
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Lindsay Mast
Our home is still standing.
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Donald Trump
Harris and former President Joe Biden visited the region on Monday night after President Trump's inauguration. Meanwhile, along the Gulf Coast, a winter front is covering much of the south with a rare blanket of snow. One New Orleans resident said Tuesday, I.
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Lindsay Mast
Just had to get out and experience it because we don't ever get snows.
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Onize Odua
Like this, hardly ever.
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Lindsay Mast
And it was just so beautiful. The dogs wanted to get out here and play in it.
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Kristen Flavin
It makes you feel like a Kenyon.
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Donald Trump
But it's not all fun and games. The winter weather has shut down highways in the area and grounded nearly all flights. Houston Mayor John Whitmire we think maybe.
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Kent Covington
The freezing temperatures will never get above freezing until probably Thursday. This is a serious Arctic blast. It's dangerous.
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Donald Trump
The storm prompted the first ever blizzard warnings for several coastal counties near the Texas, Louisiana border. Winter weather is slamming much of the eastern United States right now. Residents around Boston are digging out from about five inches of snow. I'm Kent Covington. And straight ahead, President Trump has been busy signing dozens of executive orders on day one, plus remembering the last great German offensive of World War II. This is the World and Everything in it.
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Lindsay Mast
It's Wednesday, the 22nd of January. Glad to have you along for today's edition of the World and Everything in It. Good morning. I'm Lindsay Mast.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. Time now for Washington. Wednesday, President Trump got to work right away after his second inauguration, signing 115 personnel appointments and 42 executive orders on Monday. Those orders address significant issues for American energy, immigration policy and government bureaucracy.
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Lindsay Mast
Washington Bureau reporter Leo Braceno now on how the executive orders work and what they aim to accomplish.
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Scott Andrew
While President Trump is waiting on Congress to send bills to his desk to sign into law, he's not waiting to take action on his agenda.
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Graham Dodds
The American people have become attuned to the power of executive orders. And with Trump, the promise of doing so much so early, unilaterally has become a thing, a prominent thing in the way that I think it has not been for most other recent presidents.
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Scott Andrew
That's Graham Dodds, professor of political science at Concordia University, who studied the use of executive actions in past administrations. He believes that power is the path of least resistance to enacting changes for incoming presidents.
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Graham Dodds
It is legally binding. You don't need Congress, and it can be an attractive means to many different ends. Having said that, though, most presidents would rather have a law because laws tend to last longer than executive orders. Executive orders can be overturned by courts, they can be reversed by Congress, and they can be reversed by future presidents.
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Scott Andrew
In 2017, President Trump reversed many of President Barack Obama's executive actions and implemented his own. When President Joe Biden took office, he undid many of Trump's orders. And now Trump's day one executive actions continue that trend.
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Graham Dodds
So there are a number of these sort of policy areas that flip flop depending on which party takes over.
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Scott Andrew
Trump's first batch of executive orders replaced policies from the Biden administration, particularly policies on energy. I know people in the mining industry.
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Graham Dodds
Who will tell you about mining projects that have quite literally been in the.
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Scott Andrew
Process for 35 years. Richard Stern is director of the Grover M. Herman center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation. He says that the Biden administration's skeptical stance on leasing federal land for drilling compounded an existing problem. The government is not required to respond to permit applications in a certain amount of time for a project where they.
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Kent Covington
Should actually give you the permit.
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Kristen Flavin
They could wait 50 years if they wanted.
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Scott Andrew
Trump's orders aim to expedite energy production by removing restrictions on drilling for liquefied natural gas in Alaska and declaring a national energy emergency. At the same time, Trump canceled leasing permits for wind turbine developments on the outer continental shelf and ended the electric vehicle mandate.
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Graham Dodds
Part of what Trump's put out as.
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Kristen Flavin
Well is to expedite the process, to direct agencies to do their best, full faith effort to actually clear these applications.
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Scott Andrew
To review them for all manner of potential issues, whether it be environmental, public.
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Graham Dodds
Safety, that they're following other standards and laws. But then clear these, clear them quickly, resolve issues, and then we can have.
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Scott Andrew
Companies that start building. Trump is also taking steps to shift US Foreign policy away from commitments that he says hurt American interests, including the Paris climate Agreement, United nations refugee resettlement, and membership in the World Health Organization. Council of Foreign Relations senior fellow Charles Kupchen says this isn't surprising.
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Graham Dodds
Trump's brand, the America first brand, is kind of predicated upon this assumption that.
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Donald Trump
For many Americans there's too much world and there's not enough America. Why are we spending all this time.
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Graham Dodds
Spending problems abroad in Ukraine, in Gaza.
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Donald Trump
In Africa, when we got real problems right here at home?
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Scott Andrew
The biggest problems Trump sought to address on Day one were border security and a broken immigration system. He re implemented his 2019 remain in Mexico policy and declared a national Emergency at the U.S. mexico border. TRUMP also designated drug cartels as foreign terrorist entities.
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Graham Dodds
If someone has been a member of a terrorist organization, then many of the benefits under the immigration law will not be applicable to them.
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Scott Andrew
That's Scott Andrew folks, an immigration and asylum attorney with Deckard Law Firm in Pennsylvania. He says that many, although not all, of Trump's orders simply add urgency to enforcing laws already on the books.
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Graham Dodds
There is an intent to enforce our immigration laws in ways that, you know, over the last several years, there hasn't been great attempts to enforce them. On the other hand, I would also say that by these executive orders, they have overreached in ways that are unthinkable legally.
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Scott Andrew
One of Trump's executive actions would withhold citizenship upon birth if the child's parents are either in the US Temporarily or illegally.
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Graham Dodds
The reasoning is what they call anchor babies. They don't want people coming into the United States in order to have a child here who, by the immigration laws that child, when they turn 21 years of age, can in turn then file a petition, a family based petition on behalf of their immediate relative parent citizenship.
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Scott Andrew
By birth is enshrined in the Constitution's 14th Amendment, something that requires an act of Congress to change. More than a dozen states have already filed challenges to the order.
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Graham Dodds
I'm not sure that the reason for the executive action is to see how far they could push the limits. I just think that they've made political promises to their constituency which are not able to be fulfilled without the political process of actually having Congress change the law.
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Scott Andrew
Many of Trump's legislative priorities are expected to be rolled into one or two budget reconciliation bills in the coming weeks. In the meantime, Congress is working to pass the Lake and Riley Act, a bill that makes deporting illegal immigrants who commit crimes easier. That bill could hit the president's desk before the end of the week and be the first law that Trump signs in his second term. Reporting for world I'm Leo Briseno.
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Donald Trump
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Myrna Brown
Coming up next on THE World and Everything in It World tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Odua.
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Onize Odua
We start today in South Africa, where authorities have ended their search for people stranded in an illegal gold mine after a standoff turned deadly. At least 87 miners have died after police first surrounded the mine in the town of Stillfontein in August as part of an effort to clamp down on illegal mining. They cut off food and water supplies to the miners inside the 1.2 mile deep shaft, hoping to force them out. But rescuers last week used a cylindrical metal cage to pull out the victims after a court order mandated the operation. Community leader Johannes Cancase said many of the miners are driven by poverty.
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Kent Covington
There is no one on his right mind. We as everything can come and risk.
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Lindsay Mast
His life to go underground.
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Onize Odua
Rescue workers also assisted more than 240 survivors. They include nationals from Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Authorities have charged them with illegal immigration, illegal mining and other offences. Local community members and labor unions have also accused South African authorities of blocking the miners exit. But authorities insist that is not true, saying more than 1500 people found their way out of the mine. In France, several thousand pro lifers marched in the streets of Paris on Sunday to mark this year's march for Life. France first legalized abortion 50 years ago. Last year, it became the first nation to include a right to abortion in its constitution. Beatrice Eclacher says she joined the March to Defend Life. She says she had an abortion and would have done things differently if she had more information. Counter protesters chanting My Body, My Choice also gathered at the outskirts of the Sunday rally. The Paris March for Life began in 2005 and has continued annually since then. And in Colombia, renewed fighting has killed at least 80 people and sent thousands of others fleeing for safety. The latest fighting comes after authorities suspended peace talks with the rebel National Liberation army over fighting with another rebel group in the northeastern region. Andrea Figueroa is among the displaced who sought shelter at a stadium. She says many people fled in fear after the armed groups threatened to drive everyone out and kill people. General Luis Cardozo is the Colombian army commander. He says the armed groups are fighting for illegal control of the region's economy, which has more than 123,000 acres of coca. Colombian authorities have asked the group to cease operations and allow aid to enter the region. We end today in China, where authorities are reporting another drop in the population of nearly 1.5 billion people for the third straight year. Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics on Friday said the country is down by almost 1.4 million people from the year before. China has battled with falling birth rates over its one child policy that was officially scrapped in 2015. The country is now confronting an aging population and a shrinking workforce. Kangyi is the commissioner of the National Bureau of Statistics. He says that people aged 60 and older now make up 22% of the country's population. China and other East Asian nations like Japan and South Korea are grappling with falling birth rates as residents face rising living costs and expensive childcare, keeping many young people from starting families. That's it for this week's World tour. Reporting for WORLD I'm Onize Odua in Abuja, Nigeria.
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Lindsay Mast
Larry Anderson attended his first inauguration back in 1989 when George H.W. bush took the oath of office.
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Kent Covington
So my wife was a school teacher and she had class going. I said, okay, but me and girls are going.
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Lindsay Mast
So Anderson packed his daughters up and off they went on a road trip from North Carolina to Washington, D.C. after that, he went to each inauguration with his wife, Ingrid. He's been to everyone since 10 in all, if you're doing the math. But this year was different.
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Kent Covington
She got sick and we didn't, you know, didn't think it all the way through to get the tickets and everything.
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Lindsay Mast
So Ingrid died last February. That left Anderson with a choice.
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Kent Covington
I decided to come on up just to honor her memory. Yep. So it's. It's been bittersweet. I miss that girl.
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Lindsay Mast
Anderson says he's hopeful in Christ that he will one day see Ingrid again. And after visiting Washington Monday, he's hopeful for his country, too.
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Kent Covington
We live in a great country, you know, we still have problems, but we can work on those problems together.
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Lindsay Mast
So it's the world and everything in it.
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Myrna Brown
Today is Wednesday, January 22nd. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good. Good morning. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Lindsay Mast
And I'm Lindsay Mast. Coming next on the world and everything in it, Remembering the Battle of the Bulge 80 years ago, American and British forces retake positions they'd lost five weeks earlier along the Western Front in Belgium. The defensive victory pushes Nazi troops back into Germany, setting the stage for the end of the war.
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Myrna Brown
World's Paul Butler has a special midweek history book to mark the anniversary.
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Kent Covington
So we had no idea where we.
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Kristen Flavin
Are in September 1944. Alexander Kissi is 25 years old when he arrives in France. He goes by Sparky. Audio here from a video interview posted to YouTube by his son.
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Kent Covington
We just went where they sent us and fall of him.
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Kristen Flavin
Sparky is a Private First Class with the 112th Regiment of the 28th Division, Company F. He's what's known as a replacement. The unit he's been assigned to has been a pretty busy one, seeing action on D Day and the liberation of Paris.
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Kent Covington
Paris is free.
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Kristen Flavin
But Private Kissi missed all that. He's here to fill in the ranks left open by previous casualties. He remembers vividly his first taste of combat.
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Kent Covington
You're so scared, you don't know whether to run, sit down and cry or what. But once the fighting starts and you hear the bullets, fear just leaves you like that. It's nothing.
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Kristen Flavin
His unit is heading north. The Allies aren't just liberating France. They have an eye on Germany itself. Hitler knows he has to do something before it's too late. So he begins planning a winter offensive to knock the Allies down a peg or two. And to interrupt their plans.
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Kent Covington
The Americans have driven into Luxembourg at two points today.
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Kristen Flavin
Intense fighting breaks out as Sparky and his unit draw close to Germany's border. It's the battle of Hurtgen Forest. It's one of the longest single battles of the war. The company is soon decimated.
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Kent Covington
We got beat up so bad that they had to take us out, I think out of the Whole company, there was only six of us left.
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Kristen Flavin
What the Allies don't fully comprehend at this moment is that while this devastating battle is taking place, Hitler is carefully and secretly preparing for a surprise attack north of Hurtgen. By early December 1944, the winter weather is in full force. Heavy snow and dense fog. The Allies believe there'll be a break in the fighting, as neither side can really see what's going on. Air support for an offensive is impossible. The Americans send some battle weary troops back to France for some R and R. And it's exactly the conditions that Hitler has been waiting for.
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Kent Covington
Here are the late developments. Furious fighting is in progress on the northern sector, where the German counterattack has driven approximately 18 miles into Belgium.
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Kristen Flavin
The German surprise offensive begins. On December 16, 1944, German forces break through the American line and move forward about a mile an hour, creating a growing bump in the battle line into Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge has begun.
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Kent Covington
The attack was a complete surprise, which means that Allied units in its path were overrun.
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Kristen Flavin
In the days before the attack, Hitler had amassed nearly 250,000 forces under the COVID of darkness, shielded by the winter weather. The Germans know the 85 mile long line through the Ardennes forest is sparsely manned and very difficult terrain to defend.
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Kent Covington
Such an action would naturally result in heavy losses to the defenders. The greater the speed, the greater the losses, particularly in prisoners taken.
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Kristen Flavin
On December 17, German forces surprise and capture several key towns and roads. At least one division lines up captured American forces and executes them, killing 84. News of the massacre spreads quickly. American and British soldiers do everything they can to at least slow the Germans down. Sparky's unit heads north to help out.
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Kent Covington
You can hear the bullets going over your head and you can hear them cracking and popping and you see the shrapnel.
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Kristen Flavin
The bad weather keeps Allied air support from being able to offer any assistance. Each day the Bulge on the situation map keeps getting bigger.
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Kent Covington
The latest dispatches from supreme headquarters in Paris say that Nazi armor has advanced more than 20 miles into Belgium and Luxembourg.
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Kristen Flavin
On December 22, the Germans arrive at Bastogne, a strategic junction for Allied supply lines. German forces surround the town and the grounded 101st Airborne. They demand the Americans surrender, but they refuse. The same day, General George S. Patton, at this point more than 150 miles to the south, prints a Christmas card for his troops. It's a prayer that asks almighty God to restrain the immoderate weather and to hear the soldiers prayers so that they may crush the oppression and wickedness of the enemy. The cards Go out, as do Patton's forces. North to Bastogne. The weather changes on Christmas Day, and Allied air support conducts much needed supply drops and begins harassing German positions on the Western Front.
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Kent Covington
Today, the Germans have failed in their latest efforts to close the relief corridor to the highway town of Bastogne.
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Kristen Flavin
Patton's 3rd army arrives on December 27th after 11 days of German advancements. Now, nearly 50 miles into Belgium, the Allies begin driving the Germans back. The improving weather doesn't just benefit the Allies, though. It also means the Luftwaffe can see enough to support their troops successfully bombing Allied airfields. But it proves to not be enough. Nazis are forced to retreat against Hitler's orders. And on January 16, the allies relink their forces, gaining momentum as they rapidly push the Nazis back into Germany.
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Kent Covington
Large numbers of prisoners have been taken. Most of them are very despondent now in comparison with those taken when they were still attacking.
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Kristen Flavin
By January 25, the Battle of the Bulge is over. The Germans are once again contained on their side of the border. But the victory comes at a great cost. The US army reports roughly 19,000 US soldiers die in the defense of Belgium. More than 23,000 are declared missing, and more than 47,500 are wounded, including Alexander.
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Kent Covington
Kissey in one shot, and away I went. I got shot in the leg here and it flopped me on my back. So when I got hit, he come running up to me and I says, how bad the eyes hit? You just got a little hole in your leg and yeah, my foot was up under my arm here.
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Kristen Flavin
The significance of the Battle of the Bulge is sometimes overshadowed by the D Day invasion. But the Germans lost more than 100,000 troops through casualties and capture in those five weeks. It was Hitler's last major offensive during World War II. While the brave American and British men who repelled the German army at the Battle of the Bulge didn't end the war. They made the ultimate victory of the Allies certain.
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Kent Covington
I just did because I had to. I mean, I wouldn't want to do it again.
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Kristen Flavin
As for Sparky, he earned a purple heart as well as a bronze star for his bravery. He died in 2015 at age 97. That's this week's world history book. I'm Paul Butler.
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Myrna Brown
Today is Wednesday, January 22nd. Good morning. This is the world in every from listener supported world radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Lindsay Mast
And I'm Lindsay Mast. Up next, world commentator Janie B. Cheney reflects on the need to create and what it might tell us about our creator.
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Janie B. Chaney
Do you remember when scrapbook became a verb when craft stores played host to women pouring hours into a single scrapbook page, sometimes featuring only one or two actual photographs smothered in artistic expression, the fad soon gave way to digital scrapbooks that achieved a similar effect in a fraction of the time stores closed and papercraft supplies retreated to online outlets, which claim some of my disposable income at least once a year. My thing, though, is not scrapbooks but cards. Some are unique creations, and some, like the handmade Christmas cards I no longer have time for, were mass produced, assembly line style. These days, most of them are embellished cards out of a box. But even for those, craft makes its demands. For instance, my card box contains a stack of watercolor florals I like to decorate with butterfly stickers. I personalize the stickers, though, by inserting a small piece of vellum under each wing to make them pop. This takes time. First, section out a rectangle of vellum just large enough to cover one wing. Snip the antenna where it's attached to the wing. Apply the vellum and carefully cut around the wing to remove the excess. Repeat. Add a tiny glue dot to the body to make sure it will hold. And finally, apply the finished work to the card, not just anywhere, but in a spot that balances the overall composition. It's tedious to describe and also to do. Any creative act requires tedious craftsmanship, whether mixing paint or dyeing yarn or cutting boards or putting words together. Nevertheless, the Creator is compelled to persevere. I was in a hurry one morning and decided to forego the 3D butterfly effect. But no, it wouldn't do. I peeled off the sticker I'd already stuck and hunted down the vellum and scissors. I satisfied myself and hope the recipient of the card will be equally pleased. But all the time I was asking why the work itself seemed to demand it. Even though conceived and executed by me, it had a quality, a character, a life apart from me. This is as true of a handmade card as it is of a perfect loaf of homemade bread or a well turned chair leg, or a masterpiece like Beethoven's Third Symphony. Once created, the work has its own integrity. If it doesn't, the creator knows and will not rest until he achieves what the work demands. This should tell us something. The world is crammed with meaning not just because God made it, but because he equips us to embellish it. Some call this creativity, a word that unfortunately separates so called creatives from those who think they're no such thing. But everybody has their nagging center of beauty or perfection they can't leave alone. Is it too presumptuous to say that we are God's nagging center? We are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works. Paul tells us in Ephesians. God is shaping and carving us by means that are often tedious but necessary. He's aiming for perfection and won't leave us alone until he is satisfied. I'm Janie Buccaney.
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Lindsay Mast
Tomorrow, protecting sports opportunities for women and girls, we'll hear about a bill the House of Representatives passed last week that aims to do just that. We'll also check in on how the ceasefire might change humanitarian aid heading into Gaza. And a new study finds that drinking took off during the pandemic and it hasn't abated. We'll explore the problem. That and more tomorrow. I'm Lindsay Mast.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. The world and everything in it comes to you from where World Radio World's mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates and inspires. Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. Verses 6 and 7 of Psalm 20. Go now in grace and peace.