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about what it has been like running the social media company. >> it has not been boring. dave: and coronation but leaving his plus one behind, prince harry is set to see his father crowned king. welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. president biden has concluded a whirlwind tour of northern ireland, set to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement, which america helped to broker. and that the agreement brought to an end decades of violence. mr. biden hailed the

achievements of thace, but his visit came in a difficult time with the parties there and the northern ireland assembly suspended, as it has been since the dup walked out over post brex trade arrangement 14 months ago. since leavin the u.s. on tuesday, mr. biden has had a hectic schedule. on wednesday, he delivered a speech at ulster university before traveling to the republic of ireland. there, he will the exploring his family's roots before heading to dublin. we start our coverage with the present's visit with this report. >> preparing for a president to pass by, every inch of the root is accounted for, a site worth getting up for as the cloc struck midday, the beast on belfast street, president

biden's limo wh no shortage of other cars intel -- tow. >> there it is. yes, it is about security but it is also a projection of power. the president was headed for ulster university to reflect on northern ireland now and then, before the good friday agreement. >> every prison tilt left an empty chair at the dining room table and a hole in the heart that was never felt of the ones they lost. peace was not inevitable. we cannot forget that. >> listening inside, the good friday agreement generation, born in an era of relative peace, but people here have been

without devolved government for over a year. president biden told us what he thought about this, but listen to how carefully he waited his words. >> is a friend, i hope it is not too presumptuous to say that i believe democratic institutions established in the good friday agreement remain critical to the future of northern ireland. ineffective, devolved government their execs the people of northern ireland and is accountable to them, a government that works to find ys to solve problems together and will draw even greater opportunities. i hope the assembly and the executive will soon be restarted. that is a judgment for you to make, not me, but i hope it happens for dave: so does the einthe president and rishi sun met for talks and tea. they spoke in particular about the incredible economic

opportunities in store for northern ireland and they talked about investment potential, and companies that want to invest in northern ireland. there will be growth, jobs and prosperity in northern ireland. he just my ambition to see these institutions back up and running. >> the prospect of this visit has been talked about for months but lasted only hours. there is no such thing as a low-key trip by the american president but this feels like it has come pretty close. the message was unmistakably clear -- restoring devolved government is absolutely essential to northern ireland's future. by midafternoon, president biden's irish heritage had lured him to the republic. he is near the border in a pub and reflecting on his sense of belonging. >> coming here feels like coming home. every time i have come, the

welcome is so gracious. >> there was a time also for a walk in the street. dave our island correspondent has also been keeping tabs on the presidential erage in belfast. i spoke with her earlier. you tiptoed around the subject somewhat, but what difference, if any, will joe biden's visit make as far as the restoration of a power-sharing agreement is concerned? >> the president took an encouraging tone. he set out why he believes power-sharing would be an advantage. he believes there would be prosperity for northern ireland at the end if there was political stability here, but he stayed away from the details and

problems tt lay underneath the current political crisis. and for good reason. he wanted to come away without upsetting any party, certainly not wanting to deepen the crisis. will it ke a difference? it is not going to change democratic union's position, that is the party that is walked out. they have specific concerns about brexit. that is something they will have to work through and with the eu. they will not do anything to change their position, but in northern ireland, a lot of people did feel optimistic to see the president come here despite that impasse and to bring some words of optimism for the future. because outside of this, as a the realm of politics, most people here feel fed up that there is not a government of the moment. i think they did welcome seeing the president today. dave: this visit has been talked

about for months but lasted just a matter of hours. it was that inevitable, given the impasse over the power-sharing agreement? >> what i am hearing from behind the snes is that a few months ago a figure visit was hoped for and starting to be planned. there was hope that the government might have been back up and running but that was not up -- but that was not to be. that visit was scaled-back. think about the optics. if president biden had gone to northern ireland and the ground buildif stormont, it would've just drawn attention to the political problems. people would potentially have stayed longer if there had been a government up and running. it was a short visit, about 15 hours. dave: many thanks. this visit has been described as

part diplomacy and part homecoming. mr. biden has since adventured south. a short while ago, he arrived in republic of ireland where i was joined by our north america editor. the politically thorny part of his trip is now over. president biden gets to spend some time tracing his ancestral roots. what is on the agenda? >> today already, he has been to the places that some of his forefathers hailed from and has delved deeper into his family history andxplored where it was that the finnigan family set off to escape poverty and famine to go to america. on friday, he will be on the other side of the country following the blue family and looking at their roots, which is another of his ancestors, but there are some official engagements in between. tomorrow, he will be meeting the

irish president. he will be dining. it is not the most diplomatically significant presidential visit, but they do have some things to talk about. earlier today, i caught up with the national security council spokesperson john kirby and asked him what was on the agenda. how personally does joe biden feel his involvement in the good friday agreement was? >> he is proud that heat was a strong supporter. he obviously nominated george mitchell for the nobel peace prize. he isroud of the role he played in the u.s. senate in helping us get to the good friday agreement. he is also proud that it has held for 25 years and has opened up more opportunities for peace and prosperity. it has been said that joe biden is far from the first u.s.

president to embrace his irish ancestry, but heat milk -- he may well be the most exuberant. there was exuberance on the part of those who turned out to greet him today. >> the atmosphere changed when the president crossed a duty republic. he was careful with what he said in northern ireland. once he was south of the border, he could relax and soomggree.ld e c b ompletelytheos was c different. despite the grisly weather earlier, he was saying to people, i do not know why anybody ever left ireland. he cannot understand why his ancestors had gone to america. he never stopped talking about how proud he is of his irish roots and is telling people he may be the most irish american president with the possible exception of john f. kennedy.

he says it feels like coming home. he is not the only american who can claim irish roots. over 30 million americans would describe themselves as irish. although this is largely a personal trip, has played well with a large part of the electorate who also associate themselves with ireland. dave: many thanks. he is one of the world's richest men, the owner of spacex, tesla and twitter. when elon musk speaks, his words have the ability to move money markets. last october, he bought twitter for around $44 million. he immediately said the company was losing money and would have to cut staff. in an exclusive interview with the bbc, he has confirmed that of the 8000 workers employed when he took over twitter, just

1500 remain. he told us second people was not easy and he described his time in charge as a roller coaster. elon musk has been speaking to our technology correspondent, james clayton, who joins me from san francisco. >> i did not think we were going to get an elon musk interview. at this time yesterday, i.e. mailed him very speculatively. then i got a response. i started setting up and just before the interview started, he said he wanted to go live on twitter spaces. we said if you go live, we will go live. it was a chaotic start to the interview. then from there, elon musk answered the questions. he seemingly wanted to engage, that there were also times of

levity. and a ton of news lines, things he had never said. here are some highlights. is that every day you find yourself invited by a rich and is a wind chill person to a sit-downnterview. the inevitable curveball -- we are about to go live. go live on twitter. we did not know about that, but you never know with elon musk. where he sat down, he was in the mood to check. how do you think it has gone? >> it has not been born. it has been quite a roller coaster. the pain level of twitter has been extremely high. this has not been some party. it has been quite a stressful situation.

where their mistakes made on the way? of course. >> when you put that initial bid in, you sent, i did not want to buy twitter and market then you changed your mind and decided to buy it. did you do that bause he was a court would make you? >> yes. that is the reason. >> so you were still trying to get out there? >> yes. >> interesting. so you do not actually want to purchase it? >> not at that price. dave: -- >> almost immediately, you sacked a lot of workers. what premature everyone said is that it felt haphazard and uncaring. >> i would not say in caring. the issue is like the company is either going to go and corrupt

if we do not cut costs immediately. this is not a caring/uncaring situation. i know the bbc is not thrilled about being labeled state media. >> [laughter] i was going to get to that later, but let's go for it now. do you want to respond? >> you have to be as truthful and accurate as possible. i think we are adjusting the label, which is perhaps not too objectionable. i want to try to be accurate. tiktok has been in the news. there is talk of potentially banning it. what is your view? >> it would help twitter if tiktok was banned. people would spend more time on

twitter, but even if that would help twitter, i would be generally against the banning of things. stand down as chief executive. >> i already have. i am not the is he your putter. my dog is. >> after an hour, he hung around to answer more questions. it was an unconventional end to an extraordinary evening. dave: one final note on twitter -- the american broadcaster national public radio has decided to quit the platform after twitter labeled npr as government-funded. npr says twitter has refused repeated requests to remove the description and that it implies the station is not editorially independent.

elon musk told james clayton that he would update that label. inflation, it is the scourge of economies around the world. for more than a year now, the federal reserve has bent raising interest rates in an intent to: inflation. new financial data suggests the policy might now be paying off. prices rose 5% in march, the smallest increase in almost two years. does that mean we are out of the web? -- out of the woods? what do you make of these numbers? >> inflation continues to be the scourge, not just in the u.s. but globally as well. we have been hearing a lot from finance ministers from the imf and world bank meetings. they have been talking about how important it is to fight inflation. the numbers we got recently, what they are saying is that

inflation is coming down, but if you strip it to court inflation -- you take out things that are voluntarily energy and food prices, actually inflation went up just a bit -- and that is somewhat wrying for policymakers. dave: despite all that has been set, it does appear that the federal reserve is poised to raise interest rates yet again next month. when do you see rates going down? >> that is forever the qstion. went from an era of low interest rates do not we have interest rates at 4.25%, but the is suggesting that this era of heightened interest rates they are not going to last forever. i asked when are we going two-seamers go down? answering that question was the deputy director of the imf. >> our eectation is that it is going to take more time to bring

court inflation down in many of the economies of the world. it has been stubbornly high. if you think of the u.s., we expect interest rates to stay at around 5-5.25% until the end of the year. for now, we think interest rates will have to stay high for several more quarters to be able to durably bring inflation down. dave: any decision is presumably contingent on getting inflation down to 2%? >> ectly. that is the target. they are saying that regardless of other potential risks that economies can face, because of these higher interest rates, you still need to do that because inflation is the biggest oblem. dave: many thanks. more than 100 people are

reported to have died in myanmar from airstrikes launched by the military regime in a village in the northwest of the country. they have told the bbc that attacks have continued disrupting efforts to collect and count the dead. the military has increasingly used airstrikes since seizing power two years ago. armed resistance groups have sprung up since the army overthrew the elected government more than two years ago. moving to the u.k., buckingham palace has confirmed that prince harry will attend the coronation in london next month. his wife will not be making the trip. sheep will stay in the u.s. with their children. our royal correspondent has more details. >> they have not met since the state funeral of queen elizabeth last september.

even then, it was clear that the relationship between harry and his father and brother was straight and much has happened since then to make matters worse. first, there was the netflix series in which harry and megan set out their account of what they regarded as an unfeeling family andhy they felt compelled to leave. >> we know the truth. >> then there was harry's book which revealed many private family moments. in an interview, harry had said he hoped there would be an interview to talk. >> i hope they are willing to sit down and talk. >> now harry says he is coming to the coronation though without megan. she is staying in california. how will harry's family receive him? >> there are still tensis with his brother and we have had a t from harry over the last few

months. it is going to be tricky for william and the rest of the family, but the king will be pleased at the end of the day that his youngest son will be by his side on coronatioday. >> terry will have a ringside seat in westminster abbey. officials hope his presence does not become too much of a distraction. dave: america's only black republican senator, tim scott, has launched an exploratory committee for present of the united states. he has had a listening tour in february and has made frequent trips to iowa. he plans to hold more events in the early voting state. he has $21 million in his campaign account, which he could use in his run for president. meanwhile, a trio of other u.s. senators were in kyiv today to

meet welenskyy. they were briefn the support you can is looking for, including what kind of weapon and weapon systems the nation needs. the delegation included maha kelly of arizona and joe manchin of west virginia. it also included lisa murkowski and the country start brad paisley. before we go, going to mars. nasa is putting four crewmembers through a 3d printed mars simulation to prepare for human exploration of the red planet. there is red sand, four small rooms and a gym four crewmembers. they will participate in different types of ignition activities, like robotic operations and simulated expect they will have environmental stressors thrown at them such as what to do if resources are

limited or else -- four equipment fails. the experiment is supposed to be as realistic as possible. thanks for watching. narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursui solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions tohis pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪

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♪ amna: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. on the “newshour” tight, americans get some much needed relief from rising food and gas prices, but uncertainties persist in the u.s. and global markets. amna: the environmental protection agency paves the way for more electric vehicles by proposing strict limits on tailpipe emissions. >> it's a dream come true for those of us who know we need to decarbonize our society and certainly our cars and trucks. geoff: and president biden visits ireland to promote peace, push for economic growth, and celebrate his own ties to the region.