The World and Everything in It - July 14, 2022

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Good morning!

Astonishing images from outer space never before seen by man.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Also a story from Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the site of a pro-life protest.

Plus what one college student from Ukraine is doing to assist soldiers on the front lines in her country.

And Cal Thomas on President Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia. 

BROWN: It’s Thursday, July 14th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

BUTLER: And I’m Paul Butler. Good morning!

BROWN: Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Ukraine/Putin » Russian missile strikes killed at least five people Wednesday in the city of Mykolaiv. It was part of a series of missile and artillery attacks in southern and eastern Ukraine that killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said …

KULEBA: The deliveries of weapons have to be sped up. All of our friends and partners know that. Many are working to make that happen.

But Vladimir Putin may be shopping for reinforcements, as well. He’ll soon travel to Tehran to meet with Iranian leaders.

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan …

SULLIVAN: Russia deepening an alliance with Iran to kill Ukrainians is something the whole world should look at and see as a profound threat.

During his trip to Tehran next Tuesday, Putin will also attend a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Iran and Turkey for talks about Syria.

Biden in Middle East » AUDIO: [Trumpets]

President Biden, meanwhile, is already in the Middle East.

Trumpets greeted the arrival of Air Force One in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.

Biden stepped off the plane onto a red carpet where Israeli President Isaac Herzog greeted him with a handshake.

HERZOG: Mr. President, welcome to Israel… 

Biden’s arrival in Israel marked the start of his first Middle East trip as president.

He plans two more days of meetings with Israeli leaders. The growing threat of a nuclear Iran will top the agenda. He also plans to meet with Palestinian leaders.

BIDEN: We’ll discuss my continued support, even though I know it’s not in the near term, a two-state solution.

From Israel, Biden will travel to the oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia. That’s a visit that may be just as much about beating back inflation at home than it is about Mideast relations. The White House has not said if the president will directly ask the Saudi’s to ramp up their oil output.

Inflation » And speaking of inflation, it surged once again in June to a new four-decade high. WORLD’s Anna Johansen Brown has more.

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, REPORTER: A new government report says that, as of last month, prices have swelled 9.1 percent over the past year. And there’s no end in sight.

Prices are expected to continue climbing on everything from rent to food.

The Federal Reserve, in response, has promised a rate hike of three-quarters of a point later this month, with more to follow in hopes of curbing inflation.

The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year, and many analysts believe the trend continued in the second quarter.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown.

Footage of Uvalde police response » A new wave of anger swept through Uvalde this week after surveillance footage of the police response at Robb Elementary School leaked to the public.

The video showed armed police officers in the hallway.

AUDIO: [Gunfire]

When they heard gunshots from a classroom, they retreated back down the hall.

Later, officers arrived with rifles and bulletproof shields, but still, they waited.

Adam Martinez is the father of a student at the school.

MARTINEZ: Anybody see them do a good job? Just because they tried to go in there. Was that good enough? Was that good enough for the people that were bleeding out?

The footage has many Uvalde residents renewing their calls for accountability for what they feel was a poorly executed response.

Senate Republicans tour border in South Texas » A group of about a half-dozen Senate Republicans are touring the border in South Texas today. They plan to meet with leaders from the Border Patrol and other agencies.

At a news conference Wednesday, Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sounded alarms about a record surge at the border. Ranking Member James Risch …

RISCH: Since the new administration took over, 2.6 million illegal immigrants have been encountered by United States personnel.

GOP lawmakers have blamed President Biden’s policies and called on him to change course.

Vice President Kamala Harris on CBS’ Face The Nation countered that Biden has been focused on fixing problems …

HARRIS: What in particular under the prior administration was a badly broken system so that we can have a humane and appropriate approach.

But Florida Sen. Marco Rubio fired back …

RUBIO: There’s nothing compassionate about luring people into a trip where rapists and the worst human beings on the planet get their clutches into them and abuse them and their children, on women traveling alone. It’s a horrifying experience.

Border apprehensions set a record in the month of May, nearly a quarter of a million.

Sri Lanka President flees » AUDIO: [Protest]

Chaos continued in the capital of Sri Lanka on Wednesday as protesters demand new leadership.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the acting president, ordered the military to restore order by any means necessary. That after protesters stormed his office.

AUDIO: [Protest]

Security forces heard there firing tear gas at demonstrators.

Peaceful demonstrations over an economic collapse started in April. But those protests turned increasingly forceful as they demanded that both the president and prime minister resign.

Wickremesinghe said won’t step down until a new government is in place.

I’m Kent Covington. Straight ahead: pro-life protesters demand officials uphold a Michigan law.

Plus, how a student in Canada is supporting soldiers in Ukraine.

This is The World and Everything in It.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: It’s Thursday the 14th of July, 2022.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Paul Butler.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. First up today, pictures from space.

On Christmas day 2021, NASA and the Canadian and European Space Agencies delivered a gift to scientists and space enthusiasts around the world with the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope.

BUTLER: Six months and a million miles later, the Webb telescope arrived at its far-flung orbit and began delivering images back to Earth. On Tuesday, the world saw some of those images for the first time. WORLD reporter Bonnie Pritchett has the story.

MICHELLE JONES: [APPLAUSE] Good morning. Good morning everyone! We are live and this is it! Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for. So, let’s get excited! [APPLAUSE]

REPORTER, BONNIE PRITCHETT: That’s Michelle Jones, NASA Goddard Communications chief. She kicked off the James Webb Space Telescope First Images event like a head cheerleader.

JONES: I think you all can do better than that. Let me hear you again. [APPLAUSE]. There you go. There you go…

NASA and space industry leaders, congressmen, and the scientists who built and support the Webb filled the Goddard Space Flight Center auditorium. International partners from the European and Canadian Space agencies joined remotely.

NASA Director Bill Nelson reveled in the anticipation.

BILL NELSON: I didn’t know I was coming to a pep rally today. [CROWD HOOTS]. But that’s all the better. You’ve got a lot to be rallying for…

Until Tuesday, only about 30 scientists had seen the images downloaded from Webb. Except for a sneak preview from the White House the night before, the pictures had been a closely guarded secret.

The very first person to see Webb’s images was Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb project scientist. I spoke with him last week about Webb’s mission and waiting for the arrival of that first image.

PONTOPPIDAN: With experience, you can immediately tell if it's going to be good or not. And, and the first image that we got down, I could tell it's gonna be good. And it was a huge relief. So, I just kind of leaning back and looking at it and closing my eyes for a moment and going like, Okay…

A team of instrument scientists, graphic artists and graphic designers turned the infrared data into five true-to-life color images.

On Tuesday, those scientists took turns introducing the world to Webb’s views of the universe.

JANE RIGBY: There’s so much detail here. We’re seeing these galaxies in ways that we’ve never been able to see before. They’re galaxies here in which you’re seeing individual clusters of stars forming. Popping up like popcorn…

That’s scientist Jane Rigby explaining an image of a black field of the distant universe ablaze with stars of varying sizes and brilliance and thousands of galaxies of different hues.

In addition to higher resolution and infrared imaging, Webb can capture data in a fraction of time compared to its predecessor: The Hubble Telescope.

RIGBY: The Hubble Extreme Deep Field was two weeks of continuous work with Hubble. And it was just imaging. With Webb? We took that image before breakfast…

Representatives of the European Space Agency unveiled a picture of a galaxy cluster called Stephan’s Quintet. Giovanna Giardino described the image.

GIOVANNA GIARDINO: So, we are looking at five galaxies. This is a closer galaxy in the foreground and these four are a distance of about 300 million light years from us and they’re locked in a close interaction. Sort of like a cosmic dance driven by the gravitational force…

Two other images showed the birth and death of stars. In the Southern Ring Nebula, where a star is dying, Webb’s infrared technology revealed what scientists believed was there but had never seen—the system’s second star.

Amber Straughn profiled the star-forming Carina Nebula. It looks like a deep blue sky hanging above a rusty-colored mountain range. Countless stars pierce sky and mountain.

STRAUGHN: And in this view we see some great examples, first of all, of hundreds of new stars that we’ve never seen before. We see examples of bubbles and cavities and jets that are being blown out by these newborn stars. We see examples of structures that, honestly, we don’t even know what they are. Like, what’s going on here?

It's those questions that researchers like Cicero Lu hope to answer. She’s a PhD candidate at John Hopkins University. Her adviser and lead researcher is Dr. Christine Chen.

Their project is one of 400 already granted access to Webb.

CICERO LU: So, Dr. Chen's research group and our research group's interest has been in this really cool baby sort of solar system that is 200 times younger than our own Solar System age. So, it's a really cool place to be looking for young planets, what they're made of, what their composition is, like, what elements make have made them…

Two enormous planets and a debris field orbit the sun of the Beta Pictoris solar system. Researchers believe the system is hiding something.

LU: So, what's really particularly puzzling for us is that there is a big cloud of carbon monoxide… Why is there a cloud that's there? And, and one possible reason is that actually it shrouds a planet that we couldn't, we just couldn't see…

The James Webb Space Telescope gives scientists and space enthusiasts a lot to cheer about. Jane Rigby is among the cheerleaders. But Webb’s expansive view of the universe also reveals things that a camera lens can’t.

RIGBY: The universe, it's been out there. We just had to build a telescope to go see what was there. Yet, very similar feeling of maybe people in a broken world, managing to do something right. And to see some of the majesty that's out there.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Bonnie Pritchett.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Up next: protesters on both sides of the abortion debate have rallied across the country since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June. Most marches and demonstrations have targeted state capitals and other government buildings.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: But yesterday in Grand Rapids, Michigan, pro-lifers gathered for a different kind of protest right outside an abortion facility. WORLD’s Leah Savas was there as the action unfolded.

AUDIO: [Worker arrives]

LEAH SAVAS, REPORTER: At 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, a gray Toyota Prius slows down in front of 320 Fulton Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The driver, a woman with brown hair and bangs, wants to turn right, but she can’t. There are about fifteen people standing in the way of the driveway, and they don’t plan to move any time soon. Others stand on the nearby sidewalk, some of them holding signs with images of aborted babies. The building behind them is the Heritage Clinic, the only surgical abortion facility in Grand Rapids.

JORDAN SWEEZER: We're just all Christians who met along the way and want to work. We're all from multiple different churches, all these different ways, different places, and we just want to honor Christ.

That’s Jordan Sweezer. He’s young, bearded, a father of four—and a street preacher. He’s been coming to Heritage Clinic to preach the gospel for about two years.

Today, he’s here with about thirty other pro-lifers.

AUDIO: [SINGING]

They’ve gathered outside of the Grand Rapids abortion facility because of a controversy over a state law that existed before Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. That law protects all babies from abortion except to save the life of the mother. One pro-lifer reads it into a loudspeaker during the demonstration.

JOEL VANOYEN: …any person administered to any pregnant woman, any medicine, drug, substance...

Since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June, that law should be enforceable. A judge in May ruled to block the Michigan Attorney General from enforcing the law, but some county prosecuting attorneys have said they still intend to hold abortionists accountable. One of those is County Prosecuting Attorney Chris Becker. Here’s pro-lifer Jordan Sweezer again:

JORDAN SWEEZER: So we're going to try to uphold the law. We're thankful that Chris Becker, the Kent County prosecutor said he would prosecute, and we're going to make it easy for him.

Sweezer was outside of the facility two weeks ago, when the workers turned away all the women who had arrived that morning for appointments. That was the first day the facility had been open since the Supreme Court released its pro-life decision. By last week, it looked like business as usual. A couple women even confirmed to Sweezer that they had come for abortions. He said he called the police but they told him they wouldn’t send any cars. On Tuesday, he filed a police report.

JORDAN SWEEZER: What it will do is since we've shown them evidence that they're doing abortions, and since we've called them when we're witnessing that people are coming here for abortions, this is going to cause them to make a choice. Who are they going to serve?

About ten minutes after the woman in the Prius arrives, the first police car pulls up with two officers. Within twenty more minutes there are about half a dozen squad cards and 10 officers. The pro-lifers hand the police copies of the 1931 abortion law and explain to them that Chris Becker has stated his intent to prosecute under the law. But the police officers say …

SERGEANT ORT: The state is still figuring out whether or not that law is gonna stay out a law on the books. And right now, it's not enforceable.

Even if it was, Sergeant Alan Ort said that nothing was happening in the business at the moment that he could take enforcement action against.

SERGEANT ORT: There's nothing going on in there right now for me to take enforcement action on... 

JORDAN SWEEZER: Respectfully, truly respectfully I have called when they work and you guys have told me on the phone we will not send officers out to investigate.

Abortionist Thomas Gordon arrives a little after 8 o’clock in his black BMW. Eventually, some of the officers escort him to the entrance at the back of the building. They come back with three pro-lifers in handcuffs. The rest of the demonstrators are still on the driveway or nearby, so at around 8:20 Sergeant Ort makes the first announcement from his vehicle

SERGEANT ORT: This is the Grand Rapids Police Department. Please listen carefully. You're allowed to peacefully protest on the sidewalk in front of [inaudible]. You must stay on the sidewalk, not block the sidewalk for any pedestrian traffic. You may not block the driveway to 320 or any other driveway leading to private property. You must stay off private property and stay on the sidewalk.

Some of the pro-lifers continue to pace back and forth across the driveway. The police make three more arrests. By now, the driveway is open. Gordon drives his BMW in, and another vehicle follows him.

The pro-lifers are disappointed. Joel Vanoyen, the young man who read the 1931 law into the loud speaker, is standing by the police cars.

JOEL VANOYEN: We ask them to uphold the law that is on the Michigan State books. They say that's not what they're here for. So I called 911. Reporting multiple murders happening at this site. They did not do their due diligence.

By 9 o’ clock, most of the police officers are gone, and women have already started arriving for their appointments. Many of the pro-lifers stick around, praying, preaching, and handing out booklets, as they have done for years.

PRO-LIFER: Sweetie you don't have to do this today we're here in the name of Jesus to help you there's other options for you there's adoption there's people here that would adopt your baby. We'll help you. Whatever your need is, we'll come along beside you. We have people who will help you. If it's a financial need, housing, whatever it may be, please have mercy.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Leah Savas.

BROWN: To keep up with the latest news on the pro-life beat, subscribe to Leah's newsletter, Vitals, by going to wng.org/newsletters.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: This summer is one a Colorado boy will never forget, thanks to a call from a Marvel superhero.

It started when a Facebook post by the mom of 12-year-old Brody Ridder went viral.

She shared that most of her son’s classmates did not want to sign his yearbook. Brody even wrote a note to himself in his yearbook, writing: “Hope you make some more friends. – Brody Ridder.”

That’s when Ant-Man learned of the post and decided to reach out to Brody. Actually, it was actor Paul Rudd, who plays Ant-Man in the Marvel movies.

He got a hold of Brody’s mom and placed a FaceTime call to the young man.

RUDD: I heard about you, and I’m like, I gotta talk to this kid … Because this kid sounds like my kind of guy.

He also sent him an autographed Ant Man helmet and a note that read, remember that “even when life is tough … things get better. There are so many people that love you and think you’re the coolest kid there is - me being one of them!”

BUTLER: That is a Hollywood ending to Brody’s 6th-grade experience!

BROWN: It’s The World and Everything in It.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, July 14th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Myrna Brown.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: And I’m Paul Butler. A couple months ago many of our team spent two weeks in Sioux Center, Iowa, on the campus of Dordt University teaching at the WORLD Journalism Institute.

We had 12 students in our broadcast track during the second week of the program. We worked with each of them on either a podcast or video story.

BROWN: One of those students was Anna Mandin. She’s a senior at University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During WJI she had three different podcast stories fall apart on her. Everything from interviewees who changed their minds—to discovering a story wasn’t really a story after digging a little deeper. So we gave her an opportunity to return home, find a story, and submit it for consideration. That’s what we have for you next.

BUTLER: Last month, the United States Department of Defense announced that it would provide an additional $1 billion in security assistance for the war in Ukraine. Direct US military-related spending on the war has now topped eight billion dollars.

BROWN: Even so, some Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines lack basic equipment. WJI graduate Anna Mandin met an Ukrainian student studying in Canada who is doing her part to support the war effort. Here’s Anna.

ANNA MANDIN, REPORTER: On May 4th, 2022, twenty-year-old Anastasiia Kutulska boarded a plane for Warsaw, Poland. It was the beginning of her 4000 mile-long trip from Canada to bring her thirteen year old brother back from Ukraine. Along with a bag full of gifts for her family, she brought a camouflage tactical backpack.

Between Warsaw and Kyiv, Kutulska had to take several trains. As she walked, the friction of the backpack on her shoulder in the hot sun left a permanent mark. Kutulska met her dad in a bomb shelter near the Kyiv train station. The two of them drove 50 miles to her home in Bila Tserkva.

As she traveled, the skies above were silent.

KUTULSKA: If something flies over Ukraine, it will be shot. So there were no planes flying there.

Kutulska’s father can’t leave the country due to wartime restrictions. So, Kutulska agreed to bring her brother to live with her in Halifax, Canada where she studies chemistry and biochemistry at university.

The last few months have been challenging for Kutulska. Daily news from home is unsettling.

VIDEO CLIP: [President Zelensky speaking in Ukrainian]

On March 5th, bombs dropped on Bila Tserkva. Kutulska was in Canada, finishing her winter semester.

KUTULSKA: Literally my friends and like my family, like wake up from explosions and don't know if they will survive the night or the day. And I'm just here like laying in bed and in peace … I wanted to like, feel that, like have the war be an actual part of my life, not just look at it like a movie or on TV, or like read news.

Before heading to Ukraine, Kutulska bought three camouflage tactical vests, three military uniforms, some med kits and a large backpack.

AUDIO: [OLEG DESCRIBING THE EQUIPMENT IN UKRAINIAN]

Her dad’s friend Oleg volunteers on the frontlines in Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhya—300 miles southeast from Bila Tserkva. He sent her a list of needed equipment. She bought the supplies she could at a local surplus navy store.

She raised money by crocheting and selling two-inch wide yellow and blue flowers around her university. She got the idea in early March. She was trying to think of ways to support the war when she remembered a crocheted flower a friend made for her. She decided to learn how to make the flowers herself. Her friend agreed to teach her.

KUTULSKA: It wasn’t difficult, and it was like comforting, I guess.

She put up posters around campus and charged $2.30 per flower.

The first day, a woman messaged her asking for 10 flowers. By the time she left for Ukraine, she had raised over $570.

KUTULSKA: I was feeling like I’m actually doing something helpful for my country.

Tucked in her bag as she traveled to Ukraine was yarn for more flowers—though these were for Ukrainian soldiers.

KUTULSKA: That made every one of them smile, every one who I gave the flowers to…Those were probably some of the most sincere smiles I’ve seen in my life… It’s literally just like a bunch of yarn, tied into a flower, but it looked like it meant so much to them, when I gave it to them. That’s one of the things that also keeps me going still. 

Kutulska couldn’t personally deliver the military equipment, but she talked to her father’s friend by phone.

KUTULSKA: There was a lot of pain in his voice and he just wouldn't stop talking about like all the horrors that he saw and how they're like, just like young boys laying dead because they didn't have any, like proper protection gear or anything.

Kutulska hopes her equipment will prevent deaths like that.

Knowing that she is helping her country has helped Kutulska with her long term anxiety and depression. She is keenly aware that her country needs a lot more assistance than she can give, but she’s glad to do what she can.

KUTULSKA: The war gave me a lot of purpose.

AUDIO: [KUTULSKA TALKING IN UKRAINIAN TO HER LITTLE BROTHER]

Now back in Canada, Kutulska is the sole guardian of her brother. She’s working two jobs to cover the increased expenses and trying to save for her fourth year tuition.

But she also has her flowers. So far she’s sold about 200 of them. Most students have gone home for the summer, but Kutulska hopes the orders will keep coming in. She plans to sell the flowers until the war ends.

KUTULSKA: Life is hard, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do it. I think hardships make you who you are and it’s important to not give up, and keep fighting for whatever you think needs fighting for.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Anna Mandin in Halifax, Canada.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Today is Thursday, July 14th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Myrna Brown.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: And I’m Paul Butler. Commentator Cal Thomas now with some concerns over President Biden’s trip to the Middle East.

CAL THOMAS: Five years after calling the Soviet Union an “evil empire” in 1983, President Ronald Reagan visited Moscow where he addressed an audience of students from Moscow State University. At the heart of his speech, Reagan promoted the virtues and success of liberty and his vision that tyranny would ultimately be defeated (recall his other forecast made to the British Parliament in 1982 that the Soviet Union would end up “on the ash heap of history”).

Contrast those remarks with the current president and his trip to the Middle East. A headline in the Connecticut Post asks the right question: “Biden once wanted to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah”—so why is he playing nice with the kingdom’s repressive rulers now?”

Biden will meet with Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (affectionately known as MBS), who has been accused by U.S. intelligence of sending a hit squad to murder journalist Jamal Khashogghi. Apparently feeling the heat of criticism from people opposed to the trip, Biden felt the need to explain himself in an op-ed for The Washington Post.

In it, Biden makes this claim: “The Middle East I’ll be visiting is more stable and secure than the one my administration inherited 18 months ago.” He must have forgotten the Abraham Accords, which Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner cobbled together. It normalized relations between Israel and five Arab countries, including Bahrain, the UAE and Morocco, something never before achieved. Biden gives no credit to Trump.

Biden has said he will raise the issue of human rights with MBS. That is unlikely to produce positive results in a nation that has only recently allowed women to drive cars. Despite the public relations spin, this trip appears to be nothing more than an attempt to persuade Saudi Arabia to produce more oil so U.S. gas prices will come down to tolerable levels…just in time for the 2024 elections. What will the U.S. get in return?

Last February, Biden telephoned MBS to effectively ask him to pump more oil after he had curbed additional domestic oil production, reversing the energy independence (and much lower gas prices) during the Trump Administration.

Biden seemed to be offering him a deal—Biden would provide more so-called “defensive weapons” for the Saudis to fight the Houthis in Yemen in exchange for more Saudi oil. Reading between the lines of reports about the call, it appeared MBS turned him down.

When Reagan visited Moscow, his approval ratings were 53 percent, according to Gallup. He dealt from a position of strength and moral clarity. Biden’s approval numbers have declined to a record 33 percent, according to a New York Times/Siena College survey. A majority of Democrats want him to be replaced in 2024. Ninety percent of young Democrats want another candidate.

The Middle East has been relatively quiet in recent years. Biden’s trip is unlikely to enhance stability and more likely to stir things up again. It has the potential of being a lose-lose for America and for Israel.

I’m Cal Thomas.

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: Tomorrow: John Stonestreet returns for Culture Friday.

Plus, a review of the new Netflix adaptation of Jane Austin’s book: Persuasion.

And, Steve West previews a CD of lullabies for parents.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Paul Butler.

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown.

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