president biden has finished his address saying that the united kingdom should work more closely with the double government to support northern ireland. he said that political violence should never be allowed to take hold again. mr biden is on a tour of the republic of ireland having visited northern ireland on wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the good friday agreement. when he entered the chamber he was met with a round of applause and open his speech by saying, when he is in ireland he feel he is at home. he said, his country was shaped by ireland highlighting the shared values between the two nations before praising ireland s role in internationalforeign praising ireland s role in international foreign policy. praising ireland s role in internationalforeign policy. you international foreign policy. you are internationalforeign policy. you are still looking at those images, let s speak now to senator who was in the parliamentjoining us live now from dublin. thank y
Official visit to the republic of ireland. we are just waiting for his official state banquet to begin at dublin castle and we were speaking to doctorjennifer cassidy who is giving us an overview of the historical significance of dublin castle. before i come back to you, doctor, i want to bring our audiences up to date on another developing story which of course, is those leaked pentagon documents will stop earlier in the suspect had been named by the new york times. saying that it was 21 year old, jack teixeira, and cbs news was also reporting that we just heard from the us attorney general, merrick garland who said that the united states has arrested jack teixeira in connection with transmission of classified defence information as we were reporting earlier. it is were believed that he reveal those documents on an online gaming chat
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For an official visit aimed at consolidating relations with china. ties worsened under his predecessor, jair bolsonaro. beijing is brazil s biggest trading partner. bbc world service asia pacific editor, michael bristow, has more. brazilian president was ill for some time. but the fact that he s here now, shortly after getting well shows just how much store he puts on this relationship with china. he s there for a couple of days. today, he s mainly looking at economic aspects of the relationship. he s already been to the new development bank. this is a bank set up by a group of countries, developing countries called the brics nations, including brazil, russia, china, india. and this bank essentially funds infrastructure projects and other kinds of projects in these developing economies. and mr lula da silva is already kind of commented that this offers an alternative to the more established banks