The World and Everything in It - June 1, 2022

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

President Biden returned from Asia with a new deal in hand. What’ll the Indo-Pacific Trade Alliance mean for America?

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead on Washington Wednesday.

Also today, World Tour.

Plus you’ll get to hear some of the work of our WJI student journalists.

And World commentator Les Sillars on the Christian calling of journalism.

REICHARD: It’s Wednesday, June 1st. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

REICHARD: Now the news. Here’s Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: EU bans most Russian oil imports » The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, says EU members have agreed to ban the overwhelming majority of Russian oil imports.

She said they reached an agreement after intense negotiations.

LEYEN: In the middle of the night, we decided then to have a ban now on de facto 90 percent of Russian oil imports to the European Union by the end of the year.

It is the biggest effort yet to punish Moscow for its war in Ukraine. Targeting Russia’s lucrative energy sector was a last resort in Europe and has proved hardest, since the EU relies on Russia for 25 percent of its oil and 40 percent of its natural gas. And some EU countries are far more dependent than that.

Ukraine estimated the ban could cost Russia tens of billions of dollars.

Russia shot back, saying it will simply find other buyers for its oil and gas.

The bloc is also hitting Russian communications in Europe.

LEYEN: The suspension of broadcasting in the European Union of three further Russian state outlets that were very typically spreading broadly the misinformation that we have witnessed over the last weeks and months.

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin hailed the new agreement as “a watershed moment.” And German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said “The sanctions have one clear aim: to prompt Russia to end this war and withdraw its troops.”

Russian forces seize half of Sievierodonetsk » Meantime in Ukraine, Russia has reportedly seized half a key city in the country’s east. WORLD’s Anna Johansen Brown has more.

ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, REPORTER: In Sievierodonetsk, the sound of rocket fire …

AUDIO: [Artillery]

… ground-quaking explosions and smoke-filled streets describe the new normal for the estimated 13,000 residents who remain.

They’re sheltering in place—in desperate need of food, water, and medicine.

A Ukrainian official said the city, once home to 100,000 people is—quote—“being destroyed ruthlessly block by block.”

Sievierodonetsk is key to Moscow’s goal of conquering all of the industrial Donbas region.

Also on Tuesday, the International Criminal Court called Ukraine a crime scene, and announced plans to open an office in Kyiv to investigate war crimes.

And three more nations have an international team probing war crimes in Ukraine. Estonia, Latvia, and Slovakia signed an agreement to join Lithuania and Poland on an E-U investigative team assisting Ukraine in the probe.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Anna Johansen Brown.

Biden meets with Fed chairman amid continued struggle with inflation » President Biden met with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell in the Oval Office on Tuesday to talk about continued efforts to beat back soaring inflation.

Biden told reporters he’s confident the Fed is committed to solving the problem.

BIDEN: They have a laser focus on addressing inflation, just like I am, and with a larger complement of board members now confirmed, I know we’ll use those tools of monetary policy to address the rising prices for the American people.

Consumer prices have rocketed 8.3 percent over the past year.

Biden hoped to demonstrate to voters that he is attuned to their worries about higher gas, grocery and other prices while still insisting the Fed will work independent from political pressure.

The president is running out of options on his own. His past attempts, like releasing oil from the strategic reserve, improving port operations, and calls to investigate price gouging haven’t accomplished much.

The Fed is enacting a series of interest rate hikes in an effort to slow inflation.

Biden hosts New Zealand prime minister at White House » President Biden on Tuesday also hosted New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in the Oval Office.

BIDEN: It’s good to see a not so old, but a good friend. And prime minister, welcome to the White House.

The two leaders discussed a range of issues including trade, the war in Ukraine and gun control.

Biden talked about the fallout from recent mass shootings in the United States.

BIDEN: So much of it is preventable, and the devastation is amazing.

Ardern discussed changes in gun laws in New Zealand after the 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks.

ARDERN: The New Zealand public had an expectation that if we knew what the problem was that we would do something about that. Now, the context I have to give is that our political system is very different.

She said her country’s parliament unanimously backed regulations banning military-style semi-automatic weapons.

Canada to cap the market for handguns with new law » Meanwhile in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government is set to cap the number of handguns in his country.

He made the announcement against the backdrop of families of shooting victims who joined him on stage.

Trudeau told reporters, “We are introducing legislation to implement a national freeze on handgun ownership.”

TRUDEAU: What this means is that it will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in Canada.

Canada already has plans to ban 1,500 types of military-style firearms and implement a mandatory buyback program that will begin at the end of the year.

Trudeau has long had plans to enact tougher gun laws, but recent mass shootings in the United States may have accelerated his timeline.

Bill Blair, minister of emergency preparedness, explained—quote—“In Canada, gun ownership is a privilege not a right. This is a principle that differentiates ourselves from many other countries in the world, notably our … friends to the south.”

I’m Kent Covington. Straight ahead: Washington’s new Indo-Pacific trade deal.

Plus, advice for aspiring Christian journalists.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s Wednesday the 1st day of June, 2022.

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

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Up first: the importance of the new Indo-Pacific trade deal.

President Biden recently made his first trip to Asia (as president), returning with a new trade deal in hand—or at least, the framework for one.

The president said he huddled with a dozen Indo-Pacific partners

BIDEN: To work together to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific that creates opportunity and prosperity for all the people in the region.

REICHARD: If you add the economic output of those Indo-Pacific countries with that of the United States, you’re talking about 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product.

The partnering nations still have to hammer out the details of the pact, which is no small task. But the president said it’ll reap long term rewards.

EICHER: The hope is also to counter China’s growing power in the region.

So, will this deal accomplish what the White House says it will?

Joining us now is Zack Cooper. He is an expert on U.S. strategy in Asia. He has served as an adviser at the Defense Department. He teaches at Princeton and Georgetown Universities.

REICHARD: Good morning, Zack.

ZACK COOPER, GUEST: It’s wonderful to be with you.

REICHARD: Zack, could you summarize for us what this agreement does and does not accomplish.

COOPER: It is really the beginning of a negotiation. So in fact, we're not going to see any trade deal anytime soon. This is really a framework for discussing now with 14 different countries some basic rules of the road. And there are four different areas in this economic framework. Countries are going to be allowed to sign up to any of those four that they desire. So, if they want to join on issues like intellectual property, or supply chains, they can do that. But that doesn't necessarily mean that they have to sign up to some of the digital standard that the agreement would regulate. But it's important to note here that it's not actually what a lot of the countries in the region wanted. What most of them want is for the United States to come back to the Trans Pacific Partnership, or the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership, as it's now known. And this is not that. This is really just a framework for discussing trade and investment. It doesn't go much beyond that.

REICHARD: So this is an alternative to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and that moved forward without the United States after President Trump pulled out. China is looking to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership. How would this deal differ from that deal, the TPP?

COOPER: Well, the TPP would have relaxed some trade and investment restrictions. That's unlikely in this economic framework. So this is not a trade deal as we would typically think of it. We're not going to see trade liberalization. So we're not going to see tariff rates decreasing. Instead, this is really sort of a framework for, I think, regulation in certain areas, and standards in others. So the downside of this approach is that we're not going to see greatly increased trade and investment across the region as a result of this deal. That's really what TPP was for and it's not what the Indo-Pacific economic framework is likely to do.

REICHARD: You’ve referenced this already but I’ll ask it more directly. Critics say the framework for this deal has gaping shortcomings. For example, it doesn’t offer incentives to prospective partners by lowering tariffs, it doesn’t provide them with greater access to U.S. markets. And for those reasons, they say it may not be an attractive alternative to the TPP. Do you think those are fair criticisms?

COOPER: I do. And you, in fact, hear them from many in the region. We now have 13 other countries signed up. But I'll tell you, in talking with officials from most of those countries, there's not a lot of excitement about this arrangement. There is a feeling that countries need to sign up both to continue encouraging the U.S. to have some forward looking trade deals in the region, and also to avoid the ire of Washington. But when you talk to foreign leaders, they're not really excited about this economic framework because, exactly as you noted, what they really want is they want trade liberalization. They want the restrictions on trade to go down and that's not really what's going to happen in the Indo-Pacific economic framework. So I think we're going to hear a lot of countries quietly expressing some degree of disappointment, even as they sign on to this new framework.

REICHARD: President Biden said the deal would help to protect supply chains and lower costs in the long run. Is he right or wrong about that? And why?

COOPER: I think we’ll have to see. We really don't yet know exactly what's going to be in the deal. And, in fact, there had been some talk that there might be more specifics released when Biden rolled this effort out. But in an effort to get more countries on board to get up to the 14 we have now, the Biden administration, they got away from a lot of the specifics, and instead, really just announced the economic framework without any of the details. So, first, we don't know which countries are signing up to which parts of the framework. We don't even know exactly what the framework is going to look like in certain areas. So there are just a huge number of details that still need to be worked out. We're really just at the very beginning of trying to figure out how this framework is going to work.

REICHARD: Given all that uncertainty, how effective could this deal be to counter China’s reach in the Indo-Pacific region?

COOPER: I do think it's important. And the reason it's important is because regional states, what they want most from the U.S.—especially countries in Southeast Asia—is U.S. investment and trade. And it's really that economic pillar of U.S. engagement with the region that's most prized. And so when the United States comes to the table, at least trying to talk about an economic framework, it reinforces the view in the region that the U.S. is actually trying to give the region what it wants. Of course, many countries would prefer the U.S. just rejoin CPTPP. But that doesn't look like it's in the cards. So I do think this is an important signal about U.S. engagement. And some people do talk about this as a possible ramp to a CPTPP membership for the United States. So there's a little bit of hope that this might turn into something more substantial and trade and investment oriented in the long term. I think we'll have to wait and see. That really depends on what the domestic environment looks like in Washington.

REICHARD: Final question here. You say that one of the most important things that happened during President Biden’s recent trips to Asia is something that didn’t get much attention: A maritime domain awareness program. Zack, briefly explain what that is and why it matters.

COOPER: Well, right now, if you’re a country in the Pacific Islands or even Southeast Asia, you've got thousands and thousands of foreign fishing vessels, which are sometimes encroaching on the territory that you're allowed to fish in, which is called your exclusive economic zone. But at the moment, it's very hard for countries to actually monitor all of these areas. They go out basically 200 nautical miles from the shore. So, if you imagine in the Pacific, which is just vast, these are huge areas, and they're very hard to monitor. And what the U.S. did, along with Australia, Japan, and India, is to announce a new maritime domain awareness framework. And what this will do is allow those countries to provide tracking data to countries in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, and that will help them to monitor illegal fishing. And this is really important in the region. A lot of people get a huge amount of their food from fish. It's also critical to livelihoods in much of the Pacific and Southeast Asia. And so I think this is going to be maybe one of the more lasting contributions from the president's trip to Asia.

REICHARD: Zack Cooper is a senior fellow with the American Enterprise Institute. Professor, thanks so much!

COOPER: Thank you for having me.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: World Tour with our reporter in Nigeria, Onize Ohikere.

ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER: Flooding in Brazil—Today’s World Tour takes off in Brazil, where torrential rainfall over the weekend caused a widespread disaster.

AUDIO: [Rescue teams working]

Heavy rain triggered landslides that washed away houses built on hillsides in poor neighborhoods.

Authorities say at least 91 people have died. State and federal rescue workers are still searching for 26 others.

Maria Lucia da Silva is one of the affected residents in northeastern Pernambuco state.

AUDIO: [Da Silva speaking in Portuguese]

She says she hasn’t been able to eat or sleep since the disaster.

The state’s civil defense authority says the flooding displaced about 5,000 people.

Plane crash in Nepal—Next, to a plane crash in Asia.

AUDIO: [Sounds of rescue mission]

Rescuers in Nepal have recovered the last victims from a plane that crashed into a mountainside on Sunday.

The Tara Air turboprop was flying on a scheduled 20-minute trip with 22 people on board when it lost contact.

AUDIO: [Army official speaking]

A Nepalese Army spokesman said the weather changes quickly in the mountains, creating difficult flying conditions.

The passengers included four Indians and two Germans. All on board died. Nepal has launched an investigation.

Israeli nationalists mark Jerusalem Day—Next, we head over to the Middle East, where Israeli nationalists marked Jerusalem Day on Saturday.

AUDIO: [Sounds of parade]

The crowds of mostly young, Orthodox Jewish men sang songs and chanted “Death to Arabs,” as they paraded through Jerusalem’s old City.

Jerusalem Day is an Israeli holiday marking the capture of the Old City during the 1967 war. Palestinians view the celebration as a provocation. The parade last year triggered an 11-day war with Gaza militants.

AUDIO: [Israeli nationalist speaking]

This participant said he didn’t want to spark any violence but only wave his flag proudly.

But authorities reported some scuffles between the Israeli nationalists and Palestinians, who threw chairs and bottles at the marchers.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said 62 Palestinians were injured. Israeli police said they detained more than 60 suspects, many of them Palestinians.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett defended the annual march on Monday and praised the police response.

Motorcyclist returns to Nigeria—Finally, we end today here in Nigeria.

AUDIO: [Sounds of bikers]

That’s Kunle Adeyanju, a Nigerian-born biker crossing the border from Benin into Nigeria.

The 44-year-old motorcyclist left London on April 19th, beginning a 40-day journey across 13 countries on his bike.

Adeyanju planned the 8,000-mile journey to raise funds for the nonprofit Rotary International in its fight against polio.

His Twitter account drew thousands of followers as he shared his experiences, from Senegal to Burkina Faso.

ADEYANJU: I discovered that African people are nice people. African people are hospitable people. Africa is a land of diversity, it is a land where everywhere you go through, you discover something new, something interesting. It is totally different from what I read about Africa in the media.

With one trip crossed off his bucket list, Adeyanju plans to ride next to Israel and across Asia.

That’s this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Ohikere in Abuja, Nigeria.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Wednesday, June 1st. Thank you for joining us for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It.

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Coming next: stories from WJI. 

We’re twelve days into this year’s collegiate WORLD Journalism Institute—held once again at Dordt University in Sioux Center, Iowa. Just a few days left—so our 28 students are hard at work: reporting, writing, and editing. These young journalists are getting a taste of everything we do at WORLD —whether online, in print, or on the air, television and radio.

For my part, it’s a highlight of the year for me to get to be part of the teaching team. We’ve had a dozen staff here from WORLD and WORLD Watch to work with the students—one of whom is Paul Butler, who joins us now. 

Morning, Paul. 

PAUL BUTLER, EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Morning. 

EICHER: Paul, your idea was to give them a good weekend break from being in the classroom and getting them into the field for something you called “the pocket-sized profile.” Tell about how that went.

BUTLER: This past Saturday we gave each student an audio recorder and sent them out into Northwest Iowa to find someone to profile. They needed to write and produce a short vignette—highlighting the truth that everyone has a story, or a mission in life, and they each experience obstacles to overcome. The students have 3-minutes to tell the story.

EICHER: A few students returned with stories they’ll flesh out a little more that can use as full-length features in the weeks ahead. But today, we’ll highlight two delightful short stories, the first comes from Koryn Koch—she’s from Barrington, Illinois. She discovered that sometimes stories from the past can be easily overlooked. But for two women, history isn’t just their past, it’s their pastime.

KORYN KOCH, REPORTER: The Sioux Center public library is in the middle of a small, predominantly Dutch community in northwest Iowa. It’s not just a modern library. It’s also the home of what’s known around here as the GSCGS – the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society.

MARJ: I’m Marjorie Bronstein and I'm the president of the greater Sioux county Genealogical Society.

WILMA: Wilma Vandeberg, and I'm currently corresponding Secretary researcher and art archivist

These two have been with the society almost since its founding in 1980. For Wilma, it was photos that first drew her into genealogy research.

WILMA: I would see an old photograph of mine, for instance, my husband's family and then I saw that our son look just like what would be his great grandfather…

For Marjorie, her interest in genealogy started very differently. She realized there were no records of the cemeteries in the county.

MARJ: And so a bunch of us started going out with a pencil and notebook before computers and went to the cemeteries and we just walked all through the cemetery and wrote down every name on every stone, with the dates and everything…

Marjorie and Wilma sit at a table between two shelves. On each shelf are what appear to be hundreds of books and folders all neatly packed together, surrounding the women with history. Everything is meticulously labeled with family names.

WILMA: And here we have some files with old pictures in them. And all of these files are surnames and research that we have done or it has family histories in it and there are probably well over 8000 files. And over here…

The society certainly finds interesting things—some they don’t necessarily want to find.

MARJ: I just think if people think they're going to do their family history and not find any skeletons, they maybe don't want to do it. Because you're gonna find something. You're gonna find first cousins that got married, you're gonna find children out of wedlock, you're gonna find people that maybe did prison time. I mean, there's all kinds of things you can find and if that's going to bother you, you probably shouldn't start.

But for those brave enough to jump in, learning new things about your family tree can be exciting, finding new relatives, discovering connections to historical events. It’s a real-life treasure hunt. But have our genealogy experts ever hit a dead end in their search?

WILMA: No, I never hit a dead end…

MARJ: (laughing) she lies. We call them brick walls. Sometimes you could have a frame with a picture and say it's all bricks and say this is my fifth-grade grandmother, because you don't know who she is. Yeah, you hit them but you learn more, you go to workshops, you listen to videos, and you work around it. There's usually some way you can get around it. Yeah, you don't always find it. But sometimes it takes years and you just keep going. It's just a mystery to be solved.

Learning about the past is a lot of work. These marriages, these deaths, these family lines—why are they so important to these women? Marjorie answers this question with one of her own.

MARJ: If you don't have any roots, then what do you have? If you don't know where you came from, how do you know a sense of yourself?

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Koryn Koch in Sioux Center, Iowa.

BUTLER: One more short profile. This one from Elizabeth Russell—she’s from Austin, Texas. While reporting on the annual Dutch Heritage Tulip Festival in Orange City, Iowa, she stumbled across a man who is the keeper of a well-loved piece of local history. Here’s his story.

KLEINWOLTERINK: Well, we’ll hope this book plays. Sometimes you don’t know. (Music)

ELIZABETH RUSSELL: That’s Galen Kleinwolterink. And this is his Dutch street organ.

Kleinwolterink was born and raised in Orange City, a sleepy little town of about 6000 people. He’s lived here for 68 years. As a boy, he participated every year in the town’s Tulip Festival. He’d scrub streets and dance in wooden shoes.

And, he’d come listen to the organ. The operator would wheel it out to the back of the courthouse. Kleinwolterink would crane his neck to look at the brightly colored front with its painted tulips and sunflowers. The carved lady in the center mechanically conducted the music as it switched from Yankee Doodle to the National Anthem.

The music book of patriotic songs has always been his favorite.

The organ was built in Paris and bought by the Netherlands in 1908. It’s been in Orange City since the 1950s. About eight years ago, the previous operator of the organ asked Kleinwolterink to take on the task.

KLEINWOLTERINK: And it's, it's a motorized thing that pumps up the ballasts, bellows here…And this kind of when this is running, this goes up and down, creates air, which goes into this chamber here. And then it comes out of this chamber, to these different tubes and hoses, which provides the different notes. And then when you're playing the book that we put in, each one of these slots will create a different note that goes into the pipes.

Kleinwolterink likes the music, but his favorite part is watching others enjoy it.

KLEINWOLTERINK: I think some of the funnest things I've seen, especially this year, was three little girls that they just couldn't help – they just had to dance with the music. They just, they just thought it was so cool.

But Kleinwolterink has been marked by more than Tulip Festivals and idyllic small-town life. In 20-12, he lost his wife Rebecca in a car accident.

KLEINWOLTERINK: I think she was killed instantly. I had—I didn't know—I had a little scratch on my forehead, but that was it. It's like God, what's what's happening here and how, why why is this happening? And why am I still alive? And why is she—she dead? …It’s, it’s tough. You keep going, but it takes time. It takes time.

He used to ask himself that question a lot. “Why am I still here?” But time has brought healing. A new role in the Tulip Festival. And a marriage to his second wife, Laurie.

KLEINWOLTERINK: I think I think God still has a reason for me that I'm here and then–I'll be married to my beautiful wife now as part of that, I think, and just, I just want to be a good witness to who I meet, too.

Does Laurie like the organ? He smiles and says, “She doesn’t mind.”

AUDIO: [ORGAN MUSIC]

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Elizabeth Russell in Orange City, Iowa.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Wednesday, June 1st. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher.

WORLD Correspondent and Patrick Henry College journalism professor Les Sillars was here teaching at World Journalism Institute last week.

And he has a few final words about what it means to be a Christian and a journalist.

LES SILLARS, COMMENTATOR: Hey, I hope you guys are having a good week there with Nick and Naomi and Lee and the rest of them. Koryn—commas inside the quote marks, OK? Always. Adele, we’ll keep praying for your family in Ukraine. Abi—remember, a limp and an eyepatch. Jack—don’t let’ em give you any shine about your hair, alright? You look good. I want you to know that.

There’s something else I’m not sure I was totally clear about. But let’s just review a bit first. We talked a lot about how the job of the journalist is to see the world clearly and to help others see it clearly too. You have to understand the people, the ideas, and the events that shape our culture. You have to be a student of human nature. You have to be part historian, part theologian, and part philosopher.

And we discussed how you have to be a storyteller at heart. We all live our lives as stories. We want or need things, so we make choices that lead to consequences that lead to more choices. That’s why we learn best through stories. That’s why the Bible is mostly stories and not mostly a theology textbook.

So, just remember, here’s what great journalists do: they tell the stories that help people understand their own stories. That help them understand the stories of their families, their culture, and their nation. And Christian journalists go one step further: they tell the stories that help people put themselves in the context of God’s Great Story: Creation, Fall, Redemption, Restoration.

And if the Bible is the only authoritative source of key truths about God, humanity, and reality, then a reporter can hope to tell true stories only insofar as Scripture informs his or her reporting and writing. To me, that’s what it means to be Biblically objective.

This matters so much. As the philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre put it, you can’t know what you’re supposed to do until you know what stories you’re part of. In fact, you don’t even really know who you are until you know what stories you’re part of.

So to my 28 new young friends: you guys are really sharp. I had a great week with you.

Some of you will intern with or work for World, and others are heading to jobs at secular publications. No matter where you end up, there’s one last thing that I hope sticks with you from this session of WJI. It’s this: Journalism is a profoundly noble and deeply Biblical calling. Stories shape people, and they shape cultures. So journalism matters. A lot. Sure, it’s easy to do it badly. But you have a chance to do it well. Don’t take it for granted. I’ll see you around.

I’m Les Sillars.

MUSIC: Sunday Times by London Wainwright

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: We’ll take you to California, where small business owners are feeling the effects of inflation.

And, we’ll find out how law enforcement agencies are working to protect the elderly from organized scams.

That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard.

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