president biden touched down in the angolan capital luanda earlier today.ignificant — he's the first us president to visit the country. but it comes at a time of uncertainty over future us—africa relations — with donald trump taking his second term in office injanuary. dr alex vines is the director of africa programme at chatham house. thank you for coming on the programme. why do you think the us has chosen this stop for this visit?— this visit? the us has been investing — this visit? the us has been investing heavily _ this visit? the us has been investing heavily in - this visit? the us has been | investing heavily in angola, particularly a transport corridor or, but it's also because ankle is a contract to the current president that has shifted from being more ideologically inclines, probably more closely tied to russia and china to being more pragmatic and nonaligned which includes improved relations with united states, but with other western countries like france and the united kingdom. what kind of relationship is expected to come out of this? the an

president biden arrived at the presidential in luanda, angola, for the first visit of a u.s. president to the sub-saharan african nation. he was greeted with a ceremony before taking part in bilateral talks with angola in zhao lorenzo in his remarks, president biden discussed u.s. backing for angolan growth, including investment in a rail corridor connecting with other nations. and cars coming in from here. and then he'll walk. sir. circle walking behind him. yeah. take your time. yeah. what. have. he got. but. nobody. want to go to. countries under. way. all right. and. the president. why do you in your mind and part of your time. around the red carpet, don't want to talk. about the front. tv right here. so. oh. hey, still. come on. not from. the. but in. excuse me. and. oh, i'm sorry. did you get to try, but just leave it here.

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he'll also deliver remarks at the national slavery museum in the capital, luanda. president biden, seeking to highlight the united states commitment to sub-saharan africa and efforts to boost investment as china makes deep inroads into that region some of donald trump's cabinet picks are spending this week on capitol hill ahead of their confirmation hearings. they include attorney general pick pam bondi who met with senator lindsey graham of south carolina on monday. he's currently the top republican on the judiciary committee and likely to be chairman come january trump's choice for defense secretary, pete hegseth, is also expected to make the rounds on capitol hill and one of trump's most recent picks kash patel as fbi director is getting a lot of scrutiny. cnn's sara murray reports. >> donald trump's bombastic pick to run the fbi the fbi's footprint has gotten so freaking big. >> already has some controversial ideas for overhauling the bureau. >> i'd shut down the fbi. hoover building on day one and reopening the next day as a museum of the deep state and i take

minister in cape verde but he willjust be there for a few hours, we believe, before he then heads on to luandates in the region and the two countries have worked together to combat drug trafficking that comes in from latin america through the island nation and onto the united states. as we were hearing from anne soy earlier, a key focus for biden because my trip to the region is to counter the influence of china as well as russia which has invested heavily in the region. we will continue to follow that visit. as i say, this is a three—day tour, this is president biden landing in cape verde before he then goes on to angola. the german chancellor, 0laf scholz, is making an unexpected visit to the ukrainian capital, kyiv. mr scholz said he wanted to use this opportunity to express solidarity with ukraine and promise extra military aid worth more than 630 million euros. germany is currently the biggest european supplier of defence equipment to kyiv. 0ur diplomatic correspondent paul adams is in kyiv. i spoke with him earlier and asked him what we may expect from this military package. we don't kno

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nobody has met with his and golden carter part to lori and so in the capital luanda he was president, is on a 3 day visit to discuss a major round core door intended to showcase us investment. and the counter china is growing an influence on the african continent. president lori and so described the bible visit as a key turning point and us and goal that relations, as i said, may be in george's, thomas court has rejected and challenged the countries october elections. the countries outgoing president filed the lawsuit, seeking to have the parliamentary vote declared unconstitutional. the ruling comes after a 5th night of protest sparked by the government's decision to pause. a session talks with the european union to data cables connected and sweden and finland had been damaged near how, sinking, affecting thousands of internet users. initial port sparks alarm after the recent suffering of 2 baltic c cables. but authorities now say the new breaks at least were accidental revels and syria are closing in on the city of hama, pushing ahead with their assault against government forces. th

here is the president stepping off the plane in luanda.he final weeks of his presidency. as we said, that decision to pardon hunter biden — who'd been facing years in prison over firearms offences and tax violations — has caused intense controversy. in an announcement made at the end of the thanksgiving holiday, the president claimed the charges were politically motivated. but president—elect donald trump said the pardon was a miscarriage ofjustice, and one republican congressman called it a �*brazen display of nepotism.�* 0ur north america editor, sarah smith, is in washington and has this report for us. as the biden family gathered to celebrate thanksgiving this past weekend, hunter biden was there right alongside his dad. and it was here the president decided to give his son the gift of a full and unconditional pardon despite his previous promises not to do so. i'm extremely proud of my son, hunter. he has overcome an addiction. he has... he's one of the brightest, most decent men i know, and i am satisfied that i'm not going to do anyt

had them with us out of their luanda as the suspect in the high profile killing of a us health insurance executive has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism . would you mind joanie is accused of shooting dead unitedhealthcare ceo bryan thompson in new york. 2 weeks ago, the case attracted worldwide attention with many online criticizing the insurance industry and on affordable health care. now decade ago, leaders of the us and cuba made a both decision to enter the cold war that had kept them in a stale made for more than half a century diplomatic relations wherever he sold. and then you can all make him bother with ease. but less than a year later, the trump administration reversed the policy a lot in america, edison lucy in human resource. on december 18th, 2014 former us president for rock obama and cuban president and held cash to surprise the world with an unexpected announcement of instructed sector, carry to immediately begin discussions with cuba to reestablish and diplomatic relations that have been separate since january of 1961 the decision name.

some of china's influence on the african continent. biden is the 1st sitting us president to visit luanda. meanwhile, the white house is defending president biden's decision to pod and his son hum to bind in the decision is a reverse of abiding who repeatedly promised not to use his authority to pull it in his son or commute. his sentence of zeros. whitehouse corresponded. kimberly how could reports and as us president joe biden touch down and then go on monday, the decision to part in his son hunter dominated the headlines back home at a white house event in washington, 1st lady to live in, told reporters the so before the november election side and repeatedly insisted he'd do the opposite. 100 biden was convicted of gun crimes and tax evasion, and phase jail time. i said i'd by, by the turner decision. i would do that on my partner. that on sunday, the democratic president reverse this decision, arguing his son was the victim of political persecution, saying hunter was singled out because of who he is. republican president elect donald trump on his platform. truth, social, criticize the

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of china's influence on the african continent. biden is the 1st sitting us president to visit is luanda, to a judge in the us stage of delaware has upheld a decision to reject a loan. mosques must have $55800000000.00 compensation package at tesla shareholders. originally back to must compensation plan in 2018 june shareholders voted to ratify the compensation package. however, a lawsuit accused the shareholders of failing and the duties when they authorize the plan, alleging must dictated its own terms. those are the headlines. news continues here on out to 0 of to witness to stay with us the on the score of discipline and the ship. so apologize what your needs to be valuable. so having a technical glitch, but so what we have to shift comes to that was it was a duplicate sneeze. all of those people are spending renewal, but we don't need to renew my but i would say probably brow some up. so low the seats, gibson, magic boy, a little bit. it's boring, stuff. that's america. but i still when it got to me, but we just simply don't have solid levels of most any. and i was talking about the

wcap luanda helpto get many herl poverty.emarks of the trip and it should be noted -- no remarks as of yet, from president biden, about the controversial pardon of his son hunter, brian? >> brian: good luck in angola bureau. illegal immigrant from china has been arrested and charged with alleging shipping weapons. a lot of ammunition and military tech to north korea. chan wen overstay advice is a after entering the country from 2012 never deported after multiple run-ins with law enforcement. china migrants crossing other border is up 22,000% since joe biden took office. we still don't know why. here to react is former acting dhs secretary chad wolf. so focused on the border. illegal immigrants and gang members. when you went to work every day, where did illegal immigrant students who overstayed visas rank on priority list and what does this tell you? >> well, in the trump administration, certainly those last two years we started to focus just on those student visas, the individuals who overstays their visas. also just general

and effectively abolish is the right to demonstrate power, which also has moved from the capitol luanda. now rosa and today is 5 years old, cut by the adult 4 is 3. the drawing on top is also the family window altogether. the one below is of the father. he is in jail, for protesting against the goal is government. the mother gets the children to write to him every week. she sees a husband to sick and sometimes denied medical care. i tried not to find because for you to feel hot springs on that situation, it's very painful. sometime you're gonna think, thinking like up crying because this too much, but he felt so much pain. and you came up to nothing you have the right people to do something for them, but they don't listen to them. okay. rights group describing goal is government as repressive. similar to or she, me, we have to turn around is, you know, that does not respect human. right? that's good for being a preist. these no freedom of assembly, no press, freedom of detroit arrest and government critics. a silenced it's an accusation with no teeth tonight. the government also sees pe

cnn's arlette saenz is in luanda, the capital city of angola, where joe biden just touched down. arlette, i know you've been working your sources about what went on behind the scenes that led to this announcement last night. what are you learning well, dana, president biden has said that he wrestled with this decision to pardon his son, hunter biden. >> he said he ultimately made the decision as a father, but also as he firmly holds this belief that his son was maligned by republicans and that many of these charges were politically motivated now, president biden landed on this decision over the thanksgiving holiday in nantucket, massachusetts, and he informed his senior staff, i'm told, on sunday, on saturday night, when he returned to the white house, now, just a short while ago, white house press secretary karine jean-pierre spent about 25 minutes fielding questions from reporters exactly on this topic. she stuck very closely to president biden's statement, but at one point she did offer one hint of what factored into this decision, saying that president biden would not have pa