Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur live at the White House. Here's what's coming up.

I'm very confident that we will follow ahead in the process of rebuilding Brazil

and while we rebuild our good alliance with the US.

After his dramatic return to power, Lula, Brazil's president joins me for an exclusive interview.

At the White House, he'll discuss democracy with President Biden after his country experienced its own

capital insurrection. Plus Russia's new missile attacks on Ukraine

underscore President Zelensky's plea for Western fighter jets.

Will Washington do it?

I ask John Kirby of the National Security Council.

Anne, I just want to think about black people as human.

Professor Tara Bynum shares her reading pleasures,

untold stories of early black Americans

experiencing joy despite the horrors of slavery. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wancour at the White House

where today the US and Brazilian presidents meet to kick start a new relationship after the divisive

Trump Bolsonaro era.

Joe Biden and Luis Inaccio Lula de Silva agree that they need to bolster democracy, advance human rights, and tackle climate change.

But that's tough work ahead.

They each lead countries roiled by right-wing extremism stirred by their predecessors and indeed just days

after Lula de Silver's inauguration last month Brazil suffered its own January 6th style

attack on government buildings. On Ukraine though they differ

with Lula de Silver calling for non-intervention and peace talks now just as Kieve

weathers yet another Russian assault on its infrastructure.

...