Barack Obama Visits Slave Outpost Goree Island
ANDERSON: Well, a federal grand jury in the United States has indicted Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzohkar Tsarnaev. The 30 counts involve his alleged role in using weapons of mass destruction. Now the double bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April killed three people and injured more than 260 others.</s>CARMEN ORTIZ, UNITED STATES ATTORNEY: His alleged conduct forever changed lives. The victims, their families and this community have shown extraordinary strength and resilience in the face of this senseless violence.</s>LU STOUT: Meantime, U.S. President Barack Obama has kicked off his African tour in Senegal. The president visited a former slave trade post on Goree Island, calling it a powerful reminder to keep human rights in focus. He earlier met with Senegal's president. Vladimir Duthiers has been following President Obama. He joins us live now from Daka. So what's the narrative from the U.S. president?</s>VLADIMIR DUTHIERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Becky, the president spent today meeting with leaders of the judiciary, again stressing the importance of the rule of law across Africa, but specifically in Senegal -- one of the reasons he chose to come to Senegal is Senegal is one of the few countries in Africa that has never suffered a coup. He pointed to the Senegalese way of government as a model of success across the continent. He stressed how important the rule of law was by meeting with the judiciary. He spent some time at a press conference, a joint press conference with President Macky Sall of Senegal where he answered on a wide range of issues ranging from the treatment of homosexuals in Africa and in Senegal to questions regarding the fugitive Edward Snowden. So pretty jam packed day for the president, but I would say the most emotional part of his visit today came when he visited Goree Island. This was an island just a few miles off the coast of Dakar that was a strategic trading post used during the Atlantic slave trade. Thousands of men, women and children were taken to this island and held captive on the island for many, many months. The president and the first family took a visit to the island and visited what is called a slave house. This is -- and a structure that still exists today where these tiny rooms where -- there was one room that's literally just 12 feet across where they would stuff 20 human beings in those rooms where they waited for months at a time before being shipped off to a life of unimaginable horrible, Becky.</s>ANDERSON: Vladimir Duthiers on the trip. While in Senegal, Mr. Obama addressed matters a little closer to home. He said he won't be making deals with foreign governments to capture self- avowed NSA leader Edward Snowden. He added that he won't be taking any extraordinary measures.</s>OBAMA: I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker.</s>ANDERSON: Well, meanwhile a top official in Ecuador says her government never granted a refugee travel document to Edward Snowden and it has not dealt with a request for his asylum. Senior international correspondent Matthew Chance is in the capital Quito and he joins us live. This sort of gets murkier and murkier, doesn't it at this point?</s>MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, it does. And I think that one of the reasons why Edward Snowden, perhaps, hasn't turned up here as expected in Quito, the Ecuadorian capital, is that it has emerged now that he doesn't have the kind of travel documents that it was previously believed he did have. Obviously the United States has revoked his U.S. passport. It was believed because WikiLeaks said so, that the Ecuadorian government had given him a refugee document that would have enabled him to move out of Moscow and go on to Quito to claim refugee status. But the Ecuadorian authorities here, and we've spoken to a number of officials earlier on here today, categorically denying that, saying that they have not authorized any issuing of a refugee document to Edward Snowden. They understand there is a document that's been put out there, but they say that was not authorized by the central government here in Quito. And that the person who -- and they haven't named that person -- but the person who issued it will be responsible for it themselves. And so they're extremely angry it seems that this document has been circulated. And again, they're saying they haven't given any kind of travel documents to this wanted fugitive.</s>ANDERSON: The latest on what seems to be this story of chasing shadows around the world. Matthew Chance in Quito for you this evening. Family friends and fans have paid tribute to the Sopranos star James Gandolfini. He had his funeral in New York today. A service held at a Manhattan church a week after the 51-year-old actor died of a heart attack while in Italy. Hollywood celebrities and past members of the show turned out to pay their final respects to him. Venezuelan authorities have announced they found the remains of a crashed plane that carried Italian fashion boss Vittorio Missoni. The plane went missing six months ago during a journey from Los Roques Archipelago Resort to an international airport just outside Caracas. Now the plane was carrying Missoni, his wife and four others. Officials said they found the plane underwater just north of the Los Roques islands. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd faces his first full day back in office ousting his long-time rival Julia Gillard. Mr. Rudd was sworn in at a ceremony in Canberra earlier today. A day earlier than that, he defeated Ms. Gillard in a leadership vote within Australia's ruling Labor Party. Three years ago, Ms. Gillard forced him out of the top job. Live from London, this is Connect the World. It's 21 minutes past 9:00 here. I'm Becky Anderson for you. Coming up, a royal bonus. We'll have details on Queen Elizabeth's pay rise. And...</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I studied four years for really nothing, because at the end I'm going to be working in a cafeteria or, I don't know, it's like, there's no point. I've lost four years.</s>ANDERSON: The lost generation, how slow economic growth leaves millions of young Europeans out of jobs.