and the pacific on the jersey land. more details emerge about the executive orders us president elect joe biden will sign it is it takes office. i'm sam is a dan this is a live from doha also coming out in his final hours as u.s. president donald trump issues 73 pardons among them former aides steve bannon. some of biden's key cabinet picks outline how they plan to steer the u.s. out of the trump era plus. italy's prime minister clings on to his position as he grapples with a pandemic and an economy in freefall. it's

1100 hours g.m.t. 6 o'clock in the morning in washington d.c. where at noon local time joe biden will be sworn in as the u.s. is 46 president he plans to hit the ground running with 15 executive orders they include reversing the trans travel ban on some muslim majority nations cutting funding for construction on the border war and bringing the u.s. back into the paris climate a cord with a pandemic is another priority recorded deaths in the u.s. have passed 400000 the final hours of trans frozen sea have been focused on a recorded farewell speech in which he outlined his legacy he also issued more than a 140 pardons and commutations including this man steve balun the

former chief strategist was charged with duping thousands of tram donors and misusing the cash they provided. well surely will speak to diplomatic editor james bases on capitol hill but 1st to alan fischer in our washington bureau when alan is still in the early morning there but overnight a whole raft of pardons have come out how controversial is this going to be when people start to take it in. what we're now in the final hours of donald trump being in the white house if you look over my shoulder you can see just in the corner of the building the lights are on there the president is going to leave sometime after 8 o'clock is heading to joint air force base andrews just on the outskirts of washington d.c. world there will be a short military ceremony he will walk up the red carpet to air force one and head off to florida leaving behind some controversy over those pardons which he issued

in the alley hours of his last few hours in the white house alley on wednesday morning yet there are going to be pardons for the likes of steve bannon someone who is charged with defrauding people who are raising money for the border wall and also eliot brody who is a well known republican fundraiser big problem of course is that this just adds to the number of people who had to be pardoned by donald trump who were either involved in his 2016 presidential election campaign or were separately around the orbit of the number of republican politicians who were jailed for corruption they are also receiving pardons and commutations there are a number of ordinary people who perhaps feel that their sentences were too long given the crimes that they committed the also have received pardons but the headlines definitely the people enter own the trump orbit and also the rapper little wayne who took a viral picture with donald trump during the campaign and 2020 the idea was that he

would sure that he supported donald trump big name in the black community don't trump certainly want to shore up support there he has no being given a pardon for federal gun offenses there were some people who either julian a sound or edward snowden might receive pardons but in the end donald trump decided that they were perhaps to talk to one thing he was very careful about was not giving pardons to people that might leak them support from republican senators because of course in the next few weeks at a date still to be determined he's still facing an impeachment hearing and he needs every republican vote he can get it's not just the outgoing president who's got is less to have also got joe biden's list we could call it the un do list tell us how much of a rolling back of the trump era that represents. well there's a huge ruling back in the way that the trump. administration carried out ordinary

business starting in a few hours time later today there will be a press briefing and we're told the daily press briefing will return so we'll get an idea of what the president is thinking on numerous issues but not through twitter it will come from the podium of the the white house pressure and yeah joe biden is going to start with a series of executive orders we knew some of them but just to recap he is going to sign an executive order which reverses the decision to pull the united states out of the potus climate accord he is going to sign an executive order which will revoke the permissions for the keystone pipeline he is going to sign an executive order that will say that if you're on federal property then you have to wear a mask it will also cover interstate travel he will sign an executive order overturning donald trump's ban on people traveling from predominantly muslim countries is going to unveil the fact that he will put a comprehensive immigration bill sending it to congress hopefully he says within

the 1st month so a whole slew of actions that are going to overturn some of the actions that donald trump has taken not just in the last few days but also in the last 4 years what is very interesting is just before midnight donald trump signed an executive order revoking one of his all in executive orders that was one he signed very airlie days of his administration that was to stop people involved in the administration going straight into law being revoked which means that people who leave many of the departments where they've been saddling when they leave it 12 o'clock because there's a new administration they will be able to start lobbying immediately essentially people who are in the trunk administration can start making money from the departments where they said almost immediately after joe biden becomes the $46.00 president. or i that's thanks alan fischer and talking about joe biden becoming the $46.00 frozen is where we can bring in now james bays is live for us in capitol

hill and james you'll be watching that inauguration process very carefully for us talk us through what exactly is going to happen today and how this is going to be a very different process than previous ones right. yes it's all going to play out very close to where i am and the key moment is 6 hours from now that is the podium where you are going to see then president joe biden speaking in about 6 hours time after being sworn in but as you say sammy this is a very different inauguration from normal it will make history like normal but obviously 1st it was always going to be different i'm wearing a mask because of code there's all sorts of precautions in place because of covert but the more important thing that's changed things is what happened almost at this very spot 2 weeks ago because this is the very point at the steps of the tappable

where those rioters broke in 2 weeks ago security extremely tight and the other thing which is so different which is goes against all the convention is the fact that the outgoing president donald trump will not be here normally presidents are here there's a handover of power there both physically present for them but for the 1st time for our 152 years a sitting president is saying no i'm not coming to the inauguration and by the time joe biden is here at that podium and is sworn in donald trump will be in his resort more or largo in florida james you're someone who has watched not only what's happening in america but has been happening in terms of world diplomacy for so long for us and we have a situation now where we have more than 4 times the number of u.s. troops in the u.s. capitol than we have in iraq and afghanistan talk us through not only the security of this event but what does that say. well i mean i have lots of

comparisons have been made i know by journalists talking about washington d.c. is like the green zone in iraq was having spent a lot of time in iraq and in afghanistan it's not really that there are no war conditions and the soldiers are certainly not with their fingers on the trigger as they were for much of the time and still are when they're serving in afghanistan certainly though this is a time when america's allies are watching what's going on here extremely closely and i'll be honest with you i've spoken to many they won't say it publicly but they're breathing a deep sigh of relief they see this as business as normal they see this as a. white house coming in that's going to reverse many of the things they didn't like for example going to sign up to climate change is going to get back on board with the iran nuclear deal bots and it's

a big bartz they will be what looking over their shoulder because i think the trust that's been built that mocks the alliances that the u.s. has for the last 75 years since world war 2 or based on trust and some of that trust is now gone and i think there are allies who'll be going great job is now in power but what happens in 4 years time could there be trump back or another trump like figure in the white house is fascinating times that's for sure thanks so much james bays there from capitol hill now earlier on capitol hill joe biden's nominees for key cabinet positions laid out how they plan to steer the u.s. through some of the most pressing challenges during those confirmation hearings there was also further recrimination of dark triumph for the riots that spilled into the capital on january the 6th here's heidi joe castro. within a fortified u.s. capitol. the senate reconvene for the 1st time since

a violent mob stormed the building on january 6th leading to 5 deaths and republican leader mitch mcconnell once a close trump ally pointedly denounced the president on his last full day in office the mob. there were provoked by the president and other powerful people we are and as plans for trump's upcoming impeachment trial take shape already senate committees are on to the next order of business the confirmation of joe biden's cabinet secretaries retired 4 star general lloyd austin is biden's nominee for secretary of defense who opened his remarks by valuing to address right wing extremism in the military the job of the department of defense is to keep america safe from our enemies but we can't do that if some of those enemies lie within our own ranks. if confirmed hill be the 1st african-american to lead the u.s.

defense department widely respected for his 4 decades of military service austin oversaw the u.s. withdrawal from iraq the general's confirmation is expected but because he recently served in uniform he'll need a congressional waiver allowing him to assume the civilian post of defense secretary in another hearing room secretary of state nominee antony blinken a career diplomat was deputy secretary of state under former president barack obama after his expected confirmation lincoln will be tested to rebuild the u.s. has diminished global leadership when we're not engaged when we're not leading then one of 2 things is likely to happen either some other country tries to take our place but not in a way that's likely to advance our interests and values or maybe just as bad no one does and then you have chaos besides immediately having the us reengineer the paris climate accord and the world health organization blinken will have to take on strained relations with iran russia and china as we look at china there is no

doubt that it poses the most a given challenge of any nation state to the united states biden will take office wednesday with few if any senate confirmed cabinet secretaries a democratic push to waive some senate rules to expedite the process has already met republican resistance then there's trump's impeachment trial still to be scheduled and urgently demanded the senate now looking to balance those priorities in coming days. castro al-jazeera washington. well you heard there from joe biden's pick for secretary of state who also addressed middle east policy he reiterated biden's campaign promise to end u.s. support for the saudi led coalition fighting in the m. and lincoln says he recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel and the u.s. embassy will stay there he also wants to build on recent u.s.

brokered normalization deals between israel the united arab emirates bahrain morocco and sudan while on iran blinken wants to consult israel and gulf allies to return to the 2015 nuclear deal he wants a longer and stronger agreement raney and president has not rouhani says that would welcome the u.s. returning to the 2015 nuclear pact adding that donald trump's decision to withdraw and these aggressive policies since been a complete failure to embryos that is immediately the ball is now in america's court and if they return and apply their commitments we will also conduct our commitment trumps political career is dead and the nuclear deal lives on his entire efforts were put towards getting rid of the accord and he was unsuccessful so your absolve so looking to reset us relations commission president the sort of on the lions says the incoming administration offers a new door and says biden's commitment to rejoin the paris climate agreement is

a very good start joe biden will be a message are fueling short deeply divided nation and it will be a message of hope for a world that is waiting for the u.s. to be back in the circle of like minded states this time are not ceremony on the steps of the u.s. capitol will be a demonstration of the resilience of american democracy. and the resoundingly proof that once again after 4 long years europe has a friend in the white house well still ahead of al jazeera the u.s. state department delivers its most damning assessment the ads of china's treatment of muslim leaders and other minorities. and russia boasts of a 2nd covert 19 vaccine that's 100 percent effective.

it's time for the perfect janet. sponsored plan qatar airways however saying some nasty wintry weather across northern parts of japan recently hopefully things improving as we go through the next couple of days some heavy snow has caused widespread disruption just around the parts of conscious into hokkaido but you can see that the wintry flourish should just ease off as we go on through thursday process guys coming back in behind tokyo at around 11 degrees celsius we've got west of weather moving through the east china sea the yellow sea into the korean peninsula north korea will see some snow has to be said as we go through thursday whether that wintry weather will make its way across the sea of japan there will still be a little bit wintry weather just coming in here as we go through friday but as temperatures rise they begin to be more concerned with the increased avalanche risk the rapid snow melt and the risk of flooding as

a result of fact showers all the spells of rain stretch their way into central parts of china for the southeast it should be lousy dry hong kong getting up to around $22.00 degrees celsius well as you try to across much of india but we do have some showers into the far north east of india through bangladesh bhutan seeing some showers and down towards the southeast a want to 2 showers there into time will not do some showers to into a good part off for lanka for a time pushing further north into the northern plains we have the orange warnings for fog for new delhi. sponsored by qatar airways frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for 2200 people informed opinion as to how big this foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bomb in this rush he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it live get

a back seat when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for inside story are now just 0. you're watching al-jazeera let's recap those headlines now the u.s. president elect joe biden has just revealed more about the executive orders he will sign on day one in office there will be 15 of them include halting construction on the border war with mexico and ending the travel ban and targeting muslim majority countries. biden says containing the pandemic is his number one priority the u.s. has now recorded more than 400000 deaths from the corona virus outbreak. and

in the final hours of his presidency outgoing u.s. president donald trump issued more than $140.00 pardons and commutations they include former chief strategist steve bannon. ahead of his swearing in joe biden will attend a church service alongside leading republicans has invited top ranking figures from both parties as part of his push to bridge the political divide but outside the cathedral since the largest military presence since the american civil war john hendren reports. joe biden a ride in the capitol on the eve of his presidency to his solemn tribute to those lost in the global pandemic it's hard sometimes to remember. but that's how we feel. it's important to do that as a nation that's why we're here today. shut down and just.

to shine a light. the darkness along the sacred pull of the reflection remember all we lost it was a dramatic split screen moment on one screen the outgoing president congratulating his administration for its accomplishments via video where no one could ask about his status is the 1st president ever to have been impeached twice we achieve more than anyone thought possible on the other the incoming president lamenting the exorbitant cost of that administration's greatest failure democrats now with an ally entering the white house held their own moment of silence on the capitol steps for covert victims and perhaps for those who died in the attack on congress inspired by the outgoing president biden bid a tearful farewell to his home state for now look.

you know you've. kind of motion. with him our whole career. and through the good times in the back. thank you very much for the 1st time in modern history there will be no handover from president to president no handshake no tour of the white house a place to which former vice president biden hardly needs an introduction with trump skipping the ceremony here at the capitol the closest the 2 presidents will ever get to a handover is sharing the night on pennsylvania avenue with donald trump in the white house joe biden across the street at blair house a metaphor for 2 administrations with very little overlap. the national guard dismissed a dozen guardsmen protecting the capital including 2 suspected of having ties to right wing militias now the lengthy sometimes hostile takeover of the u.s. government comes to

a close with the incoming and outgoing. president is distinct physically as they are ideologically john hendren l.g. 0 washington now i'll go in u.s. secretary of state mike pompei i was accusing china of committing genocide and crimes against humanity against we go muslims it's believed around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in camps in recent years mostly in the region activists have documented atrocities including rape torture and the sterilization of women china says the camps are centers for education and training pompei issued this statement after what he said was a careful examination of the facts or you also said i believe this genocide is ongoing and that we're witnessing the systematic attempts to destroy by the chinese party state by then secretary of state nominee anthony blinken echoed his statement at these senate confirmation hearing secretary pump. the chinese

communist party as having engaged in general regarding the weaker more muslim population do you agree with the judges well you do agree yes. as we mentioned earlier joe biden will take the oath under the shadow of a pandemic that's hit the u.s. harder than anywhere else a mutation strains been detected in the state of california different from a more contagious variant 1st identified in the u.k. and the gallacher reports from miami. california in the time of the corona virus a state hit so hard that bodies are being moved to temporary storage containers. newly confirmed cases arising at a dizzying rate despite lockdown restrictions now health experts are warning that a more contagious variant 1st discovered in the u.k. could fuel another wrenching surge of cases and deaths could and likely will get

worse in the next couple of weeks or at least maintain this very terribly high level of infections and deaths that we're seeing vaccinations are rolling out albeit too slowly but the u.s. is nowhere close to reaching herd immunity. i have recovered from how they talk about the fake discovered covered president donald trump continually play down the pandemic politicize the wearing of masks and blame states for moving too slowly now with his presidency in its final days it's trump who is being blamed for failing to act and allow the virus to spread so fast in may the u.s. recorded 100000 deaths by september that figure doubled now it's doubled again with the new administration promising to ramp up vaccinations to a level of a so far come nowhere near close to what was promised work our plan is as clear as it is bought get more people vaccinated for free create more places for them to get

facts. what will eyes more medical teams to get shots in people's homes. increase supply get it out to do issues pass. for many 2021 was a year that would bring reduce hope stead new cases threaten to cripple already overwhelmed hospitals claymore lives and leave many wondering when this nation will turn the corner according to the journal of the american medical association covert 19 is now a leading cause of death in the u.s. outpacing both cancer and heart disease one leading epidemiologist says the u.s. will be covert but only after it's been through hell with vaccines on the horizon the end may be in sight but for many it will be too late to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida corona virus infections have been on the rise again in beijing prompting tougher restrictions the 1st cases of the so-called u.k.

variant of also been detected their authority say they'll investigate anyone who came into beijing from abroad after the 10th they want to get on top of it before the chinese lunar new year season when hundreds of millions of people travel corona virus strain 1st detected in the u.k. has now been detected at least 60 countries that's 10 more than a week ago that's according to the world health organization it believes the new variant is up to 70 percent more infectious than the original strain the w.h.o. also announced the south african strain has been reported in $23.00 countries. russia's health watchdog has announced a 2nd coronavirus vaccine developed there is 100 percent effective russia began mass trials of epi valve corona in november it's made by siberia's veg thaw

institute the announcement comes as the european medicines agency begins reviewing the sputnik vive corona virus vaccine also produced in russia steverson has more from amsterdam. the russian producers called put an increase in the world's 1st certified vaccine against cope with 19 but it may take a while before it use it and will use it but countries like russia argentina and serbia have already massively been faxon aiding people using this vaccine do you mean medicine agency here in amsterdam has held a meeting with the russian producer gum a layer to see if it matches european standards worldwide scientists have criticized the early registration of the vaccine in russia early in september after it was only tested on a very small group of people well at that time i founded very early and certainly not according to standards as they are in place here in europe so because the

number of participants at the moment was very small very little information about safety about possible side effects maybe in only use some of the participants but if the number of participants is very small you might not be able to pick them up to detect them so at that moment i. was astonished that prove that it was already given to people she says the hasty procedure in moscow has led to a lot of suspicion in and outside of russia but if the european medicine agency approves put big fee it is safe to use she says a will now have to go through hundreds of documents before it can advice the producer to seek market or 3 sation a process that can take weeks or even months to finish sputnik he is using a similar technology as astra zeneca which is produced by oxford university dyspraxia and will likely be approved at the end of next week and that shortly

after millions of doses will be available soon within the european union how much appetite there will still be for sputnik 3 will depend on the scarcity of taxis at that moment zimbabwe's foreign minister has died after can trying to cope with 19 in 2017 civil suits or more you announced the coup that toppled president robert mugabe zimbabwe is currently recording around 50 coronavirus related deaths a day. italy's prime minister just epic survived a confidence vote in the senate allowing him to remain in office it was triggered when former pros prime minister matthew renzi pulled his party from conti's coalition last week over his handling of the corona virus pandemic contrary appealed to senators ahead of the vote defending its leadership through the crisis . says it's transporting thousands of migrants back to the border with honduras after they were blocked on their way to the u.s.

about 2000 people were cleared from a village in eastern guatemala on done days they tried to advance towards the border with mexico police used tear gas and battens to stop the crowds moving forward some fled into the mountains to avoid boarding buses back home. let's bring you up to speed with all the headlines here now just syria now a stew us president elect joe biden have just revealed more about the executive orders he will sign on day one in office there will be 15 of them including halting construction on the border war with mexico and ending the muslim travel ban alan fisher has more.