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Added on the 13/07/2016 12:55:49 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The red carpet is rolled out for US President Joe Biden at Downing Street, and is briefly occupied by No. 10's chief mouser Larry the cat, before the feline is taken back inside by staff, to boos from assembled photographers. President Biden is meeting UK Prime Minsiter Rishi Sunak, and will later meet King Charles III at Windsor Castle, as the president makes his way to a NATO summit in Lithuania. IMAGES
Key British ministers arrive at 10 Downing Street for a cabinet meeting ahead of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announcing the Spring budget. Britain's Conservative government is expected to use the budget update to unveil tax cuts for millions of workers, in an attempt to woo voters before a general election. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's party, which has been in power since 2010, is well behind the main opposition Labour party in opinion polls and looks likely to be dumped out of office. IMAGES
Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska is welcomed at 10 Downing Street by Akshata Murty, wife of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The visit comes days after the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. IMAGES
Supporters of Julian Assange arrive outside 10 Downing Street to call for his release after a UK court hearing over whether to grant the WikiLeaks founder a fresh appeal against his extradition to the United States to face espionage charges concluded in London. Washington indicted Assange multiple times between 2018 and 2020 over Wikileaks's publication of hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic files on the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. IMAGES
Jordan's King Abdullah II is greeted at 10 Downing Street by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, as part of a tour which sees the monarch also visiting the US, Canada, France and Germany. King Abdullah, whose nation borders Israel, has called for a full and lasting ceasefire to the Hamas-Israel war in Gaza. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).