announced that his signature immigration bill that will be his priority immigration bill that he will send to congress also includes a key bill called the no banning active bill that was introduced by senator coons and congresswoman chu that would change federal law the federal law that trump relied on to enact this ban in the 1st place so today is a big day but we still have our work cut out for us ok well. i mean you just touched upon this briefly but give us a sense of. combat that bad had on families wanting to come into the united states yeah absolutely so what the band did in practice is it meant that if there was a husband it was in the united states waiting to be reunited with his wife who was from one of the listed targeted countries iran syria yemen among them that he could not be reunited with his own wife we had dozens of stories appearance being

separated from minor children from grandparents not being able to visit and hold their newborn praying kids family members missing out on. key events in one's lives graduations weddings and even funerals i'm so the impacts were advance and by this action today president biden is beginning to repair that damage not allowing these families to be reunited all right we'll leave it there thank you so much for speaking to us from phoenix arizona great thank you. president biden of course begins his term during a pandemic as you've been hearing the u.s. is facing the world's worst outbreak recording 400000 deaths and biden says that the crisis is far from over we need all our strength to preserve to persevered

through this dark winter. we're entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus was set aside politics and finally faced this pandemic as one nation. one nation. and i promise you this. is the bible says we be man door for a night with joy cometh in the morning we will get through this together together. let's say to julie fisher who's the director of the elizabeth our reform program and sorenson university medical center she's joining us from washington d.c. thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera julie fisher so joe biden has already signed an executive order and what he's done is he's mandated masks in federal buildings how significant is that in the bigger picture in the fight against the coronavirus . mandating the basket and federal buildings is just that is what

the executive branch can do so the federal government really can only mandate public health actions on federal lands but i think it's part of sending a larger message sending a message that masking and other measures to try to stop the spread of this virus at a very at a time will recede in cases climb higher than ever before it is not shouldn't be for a little it's part of a joint action to do what we can together in the u.s. and globally to stop the spread of this virus in till we can get vaccines rolled out and protect the whole population and what about biden's pledge to vaccinate a 100000000 or or issue 100000000 doses of the vaccine in the 1st 100 days of office is that is that enough is it a realistic targets or what do you think. well it's acting within the reality of the number of doses that will be available and even then the number 100000000 is something that's going to be the ministrations going to be hard pressed to make

sure that we we hit that number but i think again in terms of commitment it's really about this administration and president biden committing to bringing federal resources to bear on making the vaccination rollout as if checked it as possible one of the challenges in these early days has been that where doses became available it's been difficult in some communities and in some states to see them distributed efficiently and by making this pledge by pledging to bring federal resources to help set up vaccination clinics and by providing technical expertise and resources to the states and the communities that really need them it's a signal that it's not just every state and every community on its own but it's trying to bring the scientific expertise that the u.s. has to bear on the problem of how to do this much more efficiently and it's not only the issue of the logistics so when it comes to the vaccine rollout so because so many people are saying well yeah sure there are issues there but also there's

the worry of the new strain off the coronavirus now in the u.s. how concerned are you about. variants that have emerged in the u.s. and the u.k. and south africa are very concerning because they do appear to be much more transmissible and we know just what increase transmissibility is increased number of cases and increased number of deaths so it's really important to get those interventions into place masking as much as possible doing what we can to prevent the spread of disease and being disciplined about. distancing and be aware of our risks and trying to contain them as much as possible while that vaccine rolls out so those variants are of great concern and we need to be paying close attention to how they're spreading in communities and really let people know what the. increased risk of transmission to people who are at high risk of serious disease all right julie fessor thank you very much for speaking to us from

washington thank you. the dawn of president joe biden's administration has already rippled through the u.s. economy so the stock market rallied to record highs with the $500.00 largest companies rising 1.4 percent across the board and it was buoyed by biden's proposals to pump $1.00 trillion more dollars into the struggling economy but the u.s. is still reeling from joblessness on business closers because of the coronavirus pandemic speak to robert scott who's a senior international economist a big anomic policy institute he's joining us via skype from parliament that's in maryland thanks for your time on al-jazeera so the message from public health experts is that the pandemic is going to get worse before it gets better so what does this mean for the economy from an economic policy perspective what can be done . i mean the 1st priority has got to be providing relief to workers to

communities to states to end to provide funding to to roll out this a vaccine delivery program at your last speaker talked about so these are really got to be the key priorities but relief is essential because we've got to be able to enable families to survive and stay home from work stay home from school if they need to do that to stay safe but do you agree with some who may who say that no amount of government assistance to individuals and small bit businesses can fix the american economy until the underlying causes of the problems are fakes and that's the cloven $1000.00 pandemic on top of that is defeated the nothing else can be fixed. well i think in some sense that those those claims are correct that corona virus will itself determine when the economy can restart we know right now that we're in the worst part of the penn demick we're at peak death rates 4000 a day were dying i'd like just last week so so we know it's going to be really bad

for a while until we can get this virus suppressed and we need to do follow the science follow the medical professionals and do what they tell us to do to mass to socially distance we cannot recover until we do that and that's why it is so important to provide relief to sustain people's ability to pay the rent to buy food and we saw it last year when congress congress provided the extra $600.00 a week to unemployed workers that in fact family incomes did not fall despite a tremendous increase in unemployment so we need to sustain that relief effort until such time that we can begin to recover so recovery comes later relief 1st so a so what is it that you expect to see from joe biden who right away when it comes the economy and do you think is going to have bipartisan support it's. i'm not certain about the bipartisan support but he's already proposed

a $1.00 trillion dollar bill to provide for increased unemployment benefits to provide aid to states and local governments to provide funding for rolled out of the back scene and distribution and getting shots in arms and so that's essential and i think whether it's attached to what's called a reconciliation measure that can pass the senate on 50 votes or whether they can find another 10 republican votes in the senate is an open question but what. i think what isn't beyond question is that they absolutely have to have that amount of funding to keep the economy going then i think in the state of the union message in february the president has suggested he's going to come forth with a much larger program to rebuild the economy once we get the virus under control all right robert scott thank you so much for speaking to us from maryland well now let's get reaction on the world reaction that is to buy ins and outs reduce will

u.s. allies are celebrating by a multilateral approach france germany and nato are welcoming that's hearts or donald trump a new commission president hailed it as a new dawn joe biden's a loss will be a message a feeling for a 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 honored said romany on the steps of the u.s. capitol will be a demonstration of the resilience of american democracy. and the resound ing proof that once again after all know years europe has a friend in the white house while there is hope across western capitals others are more cautious china's foreign ministry hopes for a collaboration beneficial to both sides it would protect its sovereignty russia is

ready constructive dialogue taking mutual interests into account palestine's president's expressed right in us for a comprehensive and just peace process hamas which controls gaza says it doesn't regret trumps departure because he was a real and direct partner of the israeli occupation the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is confident of continued u.s. supports congratulations president joe biden and vice president come allowance on your historic inauguration president biden you and i had a warm personal friendship going back many decades i look forward to working with you to further strengthen the u.s. is reliance to continue expanding peace between israel and the our group and to confront common challenges chief among the threat posed by iran i wish you the greatest success god bless the united states of america god bless israel and while

the iranian president hassan rouhani says they would welcome the u.s. returning to the 25th the nuclear pact adding that donald trump's decision to withdraw his aggressive policies since have been a complete failure to embryos that is immediate the ball is now in america's court if they return and apply their commitments we will also conduct our commitments trumps political career is dead and the nuclear deal lives on its entire efforts were put towards getting rid of the accord and he was unsuccessful. well the other big issue on the international level is the climate crisis and as we mentioned biden has signed an executive order to rejoin the paris accords here's what brunell has more from los angeles we're going about right now i don't want to get i have a lot of i want rejoining the paris accords is one step in president joe biden strategy to fight global warming biden plans to spend $1.00 trillion dollars on rapidly deploying clean energy technology around the country with an enforcement

mechanism to reach 1st stage goals by 2025 and the final goal of 0 emissions by 2050 biden says he'll pay for that by repealing some of the trump era tax cuts for corporations scientists say biden must also work hard to dispel climate change skepticism and convince people to act the basic answers to the problem or not in technological change there and changing human behavior i should do everything possible working with social psychologists to develop narratives that will people. in the direction of greater social responsibility and greater understanding of the existential threats biden says his plan will create millions of jobs and some economists who have studied it agree i asked debated that that the program could create between roughly 3 and 6000000 new

jobs in the united states permanent jobs as long as we continued investing at that level that's far more than the fewer than 200000 people who currently work in the oil gas and coal industries for every job created in manufacturing or instruction there are many additional jobs created in the economy from the spending of those workers are high wage jobs with excellent benefits in addition to ignoring global warming the trumpet ministration. drastically loosened environmental regulations and least protected federal lands for mining and drilling. is reversible but what you never get back is the years that you watched into things you know about climate change it's the 1st trouble we've ever come up against with real time now it is we do not still it shouldn't be near her school we just finished way 4 years that we could have been working on solving it there is much work to be done

and the climate clock is ticking rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles will be discussing by then rejoining treaties like the climate crisis in just a moment with our guests from washington d.c. but we'll move on to the news on a couple harris the vice presidents of course and her inauguration is being celebrated 14000 kilometers from washington d.c. that's in her ancestral village in south india kama harrison's mother was born in india and moved to the u.s. as a student at the age of 19 or villagers have hailed the day as a proud moment for any americans. come all santa maria from washington d.c. takes a look back at some of the previous inaugurations. traditionally

it is a day of ceremony i promise and obama do solemnly swear i like the idea or your solemn for. granted. right here and the. ritual stretching back to america's founding. joe biden says the 59th u.s. presidential inauguration and across the more than 200 years of history there have been some stand up. times when images have become iconic and words have captured moments of generational change and ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. moments of political transition. in this present crisis government is not the solution to our problem government is the problem and sometimes moments where

americans were told what they most wanted to hear and maybe needed to believe about themselves there is nothing wrong with america that cannot be cured by what is right with america. messages have been sent to both allies and adversaries we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend. oppose any foe to where you are the top and the success of liberty from this day forward it's going to be only america 1st and a funeral directions are remembered only because something bizarre happened like in 100 $41.00 when william henry harrison wanted to prove he was tough by speaking for 2 hours on a cold went day purposely without an overcoat he died of pneumonia exactly

a month later. and 12 years earlier when andrew jackson threw up in the white house to anyone and everyone it got so out of hand he had to escape his own party by climbing out a window. the ones who history most remembers are the ones that captured a moment and seem to bend it to the new president's will in 1933 a nation teetering on the brink of economic ruin heard these words let me or my belief that beyond what we have. heard. and by all accounts the national mood began to change perhaps appropriately the most famous inaugural address was delivered by the president often considered america's greatest in 1965 as the civil war drew to a close abraham lincoln called for unity with malice toward none he said with charity for all of us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the

nation's wounds words that once again resonate in this deeply divided america of 2021 come all santamaria al-jazeera washington. that's a look at some other news stories from around the world after this short break back in a moment. the health of humanity is at stake a global pandemic requires a global response. w.h.o. is the guardian of global health delivering lifesaving tools supplies and training to help the world's most vulnerable people uniting across borders to speed up the development of test treatments and of that city working with scientists and health workers to learn only we can about the virus keeping you up to date with what's happening on the ground in the ward and in the land advocating for everyone to have

access to essential health services now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthy a world for you. for everyone. or . let's just take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world in the united kingdom has reported a record number of cope with 1000 deaths for the 2nd day in a row and just 24 hours more than 800 people died more than 100-3000 people have

died since the pandemic began 39000 new cases have also been confirmed but more than 4 and a half 1000000 people in the u.k. have now received the 1st dose of a covert vaccine and britain's prime minister boris johnson expects the high number of daily faith to continue. to be more to come but is what we're seeing is the result of the wave the new variants that we saw i think just just before christmas and i think it was on the. 82 december there by so we we saw it coming through it really has been a very big peak of the infection it's been very quickly not just in the london in the southeast where it began but i actually all parts of the country all the coronavirus very and 1st scene in the u.k. has now been detected in at least 60 countries that's 10 more countries than

a week ago according to the world health organization there are fears the fast spreading strain could be a resistance of current vaccines but new research released by pfizer indicates its job is likely to provide protection against the mutation or the netherlands will ban all flights from south africa britain and all south american nations from saturday it's part of a string of new measures introduced to limit the spread of new coronavirus variants prime minister also proposed an 8 30 pm curfew beginning on friday if imposed it will be the country's 1st nationwide curfew since world war 2 a blunt. the most important measure is that we had the intention of introducing a curfew that means a ban for being outside between certain hours it is a severe measure nobody wants a curfew nobody's applauding this not to mean a minister juncker not the cabinet nobody and of course we can't and don't want to

take such a drastic step without the approval of parliament if there is sufficient support only then we make a final decision heavy rain and snow has destroyed large parts of a camp for syrian refugees and if it leaving one child dead 2 days of extreme weather has battered the camp and save the children's has a boy who was killed after a wall collapsed in heavy rain families displaced by syria's war effectively living out in the open with no heating aid workers say wintry conditions are affecting 200 camps in syria's north miami i wash there is no water here in application camp no food no heat where should we stay please for the sake of mohammed take this rain water. had him i was given we thought we were about 800 families in the camp our tents of been flooded people went to sleep at other people's houses and some people were stuck and could not leave their tents rescue teams did not come to help

us there were no heaters and children a severely cold. where in the. tents had been flooded and children to suffer and there was a lack of assistance the situation is really awful. egypt's foreign ministry says it's restoring diplomatic ties with cats are egypt along with saudi arabia bahrain and the u.a.e. ended their 3 year blockade of qatar earlier this month but ties between cairo and doha were fraught long before the blockade especially over al-jazeera which has its headquarters in qatar egypt slated the channel's coverage of the arab spring a decade ago and jailed several if its journalists well egyptian police have released others saying it's been held for 3 years without trial zimbabwe's foreign minister has died after contracting covert 19. it was the man who announced the coup that toppled late president robert mugabe in 2017. currently recording around

50 coronavirus related deaths per day at least 3 people have died and a large explosion in madrid caused by a gas leak the blast the story in several floors of a residence in the district emergency services have advised the public to avoid the . area the building is located next door to an elderly care home but no one there was hurt billionaire or chinese businessman jack ma has made his 1st public appearance in 3 months the founder of e-commerce giants alibaba hadn't been seen in public since he made a speech critical of china's financial system the country's regulator that opened investigations into his company's. we end this bulletin with images of what's been and event full day for the united states so just. take that by we love you we will be back in some tool.

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new. it's. the loss we carry a seed we must wait a leap braved the belly of the beast we've learned that quiet isn't always peace. great god bless america may god protect our troops thank you america.

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