Carter went on to become an international statesman and human rights campaigner. Also: South Korea mourns the victims of its worst-ever air disaster. And incumbent in Croatia elections fails to avoid second round.
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This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Danny Cox and in the early hours of Monday 30th December, these are our main stories.
The former US President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.
South Korea begins a period of mourning for victims of its worst, a disaster.
Also in this podcast.
The man who stood beside me
and said Ukraine is a sovereign independent nation state which will make its own decisions is now the man who says
that it is not and that it's got to be wiped off the face of the earth.
We look back on 25 years of Vladimir Putin's leadership of Russia.
The former American President Jimmy Carter has died.
He was 100 years old.
He was the longest living president in U.S.
history.
A Democrat, he was the 39th president of the United States and spent four years in the White House from 1977 to 1981.
He went on to gain an international reputation for his work in promoting human rights.
The BBC's Sarah Smith looks back at his life as a candidate and as a president.
I'll never tell a lie.
That was the essence of Jimmy Carter.
People may have questioned his ability, but not his honesty,