the story of a committed parent turned activist a find this protest of the if you find asia series on al-jazeera. we have never ever ever ever failed in america we're back to the together and sort of day. at this time in this place let's start afresh. and he does joe biden begins his 1st day in office signing a series of executive orders reversing donald trump's controversial policies on climate change immigration and racial equality. a. calmer horace makes history as the 1st woman and the 1st woman of color to serve as

vice president. other than laura karl this is al jazeera live from doha a change of guard at the oval office has been met with optimism by leaders from europe and asia and a call a meaningful action by iran. and donald trump through all this his legacy as he exits the white house for the final time under the shadow of a looming senate impeachment trial. joe biden the 46th president of the united states has finally begun his term at the oval office after one of the most basically contested aisles chaotic elections in american history and he's spent the 1st few hours of his presidency undoing some of the most controversial actions of his predecessor donald trump biden signed

a series of executive orders they include rejoining the paris climate accord repealing trump's travel ban on 13 mostly muslim majority countries halting the construction of the us mexico border wall and steps to address the coronavirus pandemic in which more americans have now died and during the 2nd world war. there is exactly. promising very. long way to go. there. are more. for. the 1st order you're. right or have a far. more. proper promise and center

this is the 1st time. oh by means of vice president carla harris also began her historic stint as the 1st black woman in the nation's 2nd highest office by swearing in free new senate says flipping the control of the opera chamber to the democrats at a virtual celebration she had a message of hope and unity for struggling americans in many ways this moment embodies our character as a nation it demonstrates who we are even in dark times we not only dream we do we not only see what has been we see what can be we shoot for the moon and then we plant our flag on it we are bold fearless and ambitious we are undaunted in our belief that we shall overcome that we will rise up this is american

aspiration. well the momentous day in washington began with biden and horace taking a scaled back ceremony in the capital under the jewel threats of the pandemic and security failed. a correspondent mike hanna will have on biden's 1st order of business in just a moment but 1st particle hain rounds out the developments from a day that's as hopes will be attending point in u.s. history. they climbed the steps were just 2 weeks ago rioters stormed the capitol walked the halls where they spread fear ladies and gentlemen the president elect of the united states joseph robinette biden jr and dr jill biden and took the oath of office where they try to overturn democracy the riot now forgotten in this u.s. presidential inauguration like no other 2 weeks ago when an angry violent mob stage

an insurrection and desecrated this temple of our democracy it awakened us to our responsibilities as americans protected by tens of thousands of soldiers and police a pandemic raging the thousands of usual spectators replaced by flags the dignitaries spaced out history was made the 1st african-american of south asian descent and the 1st woman to become vice president to. protect and then just before noon joe biden became the new president of the united states the only guy congratulations mr president. the chaos of what happened here remembered just days after rioters mom thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people to stop the work of our democracy to drive a strong this sacred ground. it did not happen it will never happen not

today not tomorrow not ever mixing hope with the dark reality of this moment he pledged to be honest with the american people and he laid out a challenging agenda the dream of justice for all will. be deferred no longer. a cry for survival of planet itself a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now a rise of political extremism white supremacy domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat this was a rebuke of the last 4 years of president donald trump not mentioned by name trump was also not in the audience peppered with past presidents only the 4th president to refuse to attend but the very 1st to refuse to concede he left washington with only a small group to see him leave impeached twice and facing

a trial in the senate for the riot he inspired he's reportedly talking about creating his own political party to mount a political comeback so just. a goodbye we love you we will be back in some form a true sign of how much has changed the biggest celebrities who shun trump's inaugural. to. return to washington. was. was to celebrate a new president bush. the pandemic and security concerns meant traditions needed to be changed after the ceremony the new president and vice president flanked by their predecessors laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery and the parade was more of a televised motorcade but the traditional walk still happened down pennsylvania avenue and into the white house and it was. their new home and now his

oval office. al-jazeera. mike hanna live for us now in washington d.c. and mike not just a day of celebration for the new president but getting straight down to business joe biden very much so he promised that he would hit the deck running and certainly he has done so his 1st act on walking into the oval office signing a flurry of executive orders now views covered to berati of subjects of basically rolling back or beginning to roll back donald trump's policy legacy the executive orders signed in to the ban on travel from muslims from majority muslim countries. to the u.s. departure from the paris climate accord from the world health organization these

are major steps which along as well with legislation that has already been submitted to congress 'd concerning immigration reform concerning a new 1.9 trillion dollars coronavirus released package certainly is he's hit the ground running but his major policy his major aim to combat the coronavirus pandemic and this is something that he stated repeatedly it was the 1st executive order he signed a mosque mandate throughout federal property and his press secretary had this to say to combat the deadly virus the president launched his 100 day masking challenge asking americans to do their part and mask for 100 days he's doing his part as well issuing a mask mandate that will require anyone visiting a federal building or federal land or using certain moods of public transportation to wear a mask he sends an executive order reversing trump's decision to withdraw from the

world health organization this will strengthen our own efforts to get the pandemic under control by improving global health. but all these steps out taking place very quickly indeed for example with the world health organization dr anthony found she who's now part of joe biden's anti pandemic body is going to be taking part in a virtual meeting with the w.h.o. in the course of the next 24 hours so all of this moving very quickly indeed as joe biden hits the ground and starts implementing new policy absolutely and my he's already confirmed his 1st cabinet secretary how quickly can you get the rest of his team in place where he is hoping to be doing so very quickly indeed now the the new cabinet secretary this was quite

a significant moment because it was the 1st cabinet secretary that was confirmed and approved by the senate and it was andrea haynes the director of national intelligence but the significant thing was is that it was a bipartisan vote so already the senate showed some signs of working together in terms of a bipartisan agenda that joe biden has called for he's got a lot of other nominations still to go through that particular senate but that was a good beginning for him indeed and one must remember too the very significant fact that 3 new democratic party members 'd became members of that senate they were sworn in in the course of the day this means there's a 3050 split in senate which with the vice president having a constant vote mean democrats control both the house of representatives and the senate this is an incredibly critical thing for joe biden to be able to push his agenda particularly over his 1st 100 days mike hanna translate that from washington

d.c. thanks very much mike o'brien very much teaches a staff writer at the yacob in magazine and the also of yesterday's man it's a little biography of joe biden and he joins us via skype from clinton as an interesting choice of title apparently yesterday's man why did you call biden that . well anyways as someone who is the representative of the democratic party that you know is really out of touch with what has to happen to face on the crisis we're facing now in climate change and now the pandemic. by then was a guy who really was one of the leading democrats pushing the kind of reagan agenda of budget cuts shrinking government more foreign intervention and the like more kind of repressive powers a horror to go against criminals and and civil unrest and that kind of thing so he's he's in many ways he's

a strange kind of. suppose avatar leader for the particular time when so many of the problems that the u.s. is facing in the world is facing right now a kind of outgrowths of the ideology that he he and so many others pushed for for many decades but we will see he's shown some inkling that he has moved on certain issues and so there's hope that maybe he has he will change his mind on some of these factors as we move forward and do you do you not already see him changing his mind i mean he's proposed in the 1st few hours of his presidency a $1.00 trillion dollar package to rescue the american economy from covert fallout he's also signed executive orders that move to end the muslim ban halt the mexico border will strengthen the dream is that we enter the climate agreement is a very different man from the one you're describing. to some extent the reverse of

these or give orders just takes things back to obama i mean that is not anything new it's just reversing what tron did to under obama's was at the end of his presidency with a trillion $1.00 trillion dollars spending bill that is good said you know we have to stop caring about deficits and so that is a very good sign whether that will last for that type term i don't know one of the things that people have to be careful with with biden is whether he will eventually shift to a more steady mind so you know maybe once that initial flurry of spending is passed with the hill look to you know cuts and programs or maybe even to make what will be sold as progressive tweaks to things like social security it's a means test that so that's not available for the wealthy those are things that people should look out for but yes certainly there are encouraging signs that show that that in this kind of mormon has sort of moved him to take a different approach from the one that dominate his career and what about

bipartisanship a lot of talk about unity today on his inauguration day is this the right man to do that. if you ask me the lesson of suddenly the past at least decade if not longer is that this this attempt to find common ground with a republican party that is incredibly not just radical extreme but the obstinate refuses to compromise and that's a very successfully to poll its opposition closer to where those are i think does a fool's errand biden is someone who seems to have a genuine belief in kind of bipartisanship and deal making for their own sake not necessarily to achieve a legislative goal or political goal but just to be able to say hey we can still do this we can still come together. and that is another thing that will be a bit of a danger i think also has a bit of

a. divide between some of the rest of them accredits who i think have looked at the way that republicans behaved and operated during the obama years and alya and said well i don't know where i'm at these these guys are not really genuinely interested in bipartisanship the using the string us along so we'll see how that actually plays out but i think i do see. signs from the democrats that they even have biden is not really come to this point yet that they see that maybe there's not really going to be that much room for a while and he has come forward interesting in de frank a much he thanks for taking time to join us there from new zealand. now they know where ation was mocked by many firsts youth poet laureate amanda goldman was the youngest poet to ever perform at a presidential inauguration is the 22 year old reciting her poem of hope and courage and often a break we'll be continuing our coverage of the 1st day of the biden house

administration. so let us leave behind a country but of the one we were left with every breath of my bronze pounded chest we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one we will rise from the cold limp hills of the west we will rise in the wind swept north east were our forefathers 1st realized revolution we will rise from the lake when the cities of the middle western states will advise when the sun baked south we will rebuild reconciled and recover an every known knock over a nation in every corner called our country our people diverse and beautiful woman birds battered and beautiful one day comes we step out of the shade of flame and i'm afraid the new dawn blooms as we free it for there was always light if only were brave enough to see it if only were brave enough to be here.

after brighton breezy wednesday we're looking at the dry weather across eastern parts of the u.s. they say not fairing too badly we have got rather more active weather into central parts of canada but this little clipper rolling out of alberta moving across catch one manitoba went down toward the southwest of the u.s. quite an active area of low pressure here very strong winds recently across southern parts of california and that's increased the fire risk a few showers from a welcome showers into the far south of california they're going to continue pushing a further east was through arizona and into new mexico the deep south also seeing some rather wet weather as we go through thursday lake effect snow for the midwest and i little clipper that will make its way through ontario into quick back with

some snow pushing of which was eastern side of canada as we. go on into friday by friday just notice how we do have some wet weather just lingering southeast and colder just around the panhandle it's always up with a wet weather that we have moving across cuba some showers longer spells of rights was southern parts of mexico western side of the caribbean does look rather disturbed over the next day i'll say will be some showers grassy pushing across haiti and the dominican republic as we go on into friday plenty of sunshine i would say was yes but one of 2 showers coming. from the canyon journalists in pursuit of press freedom and justice i have a very desperate situation someone superbug hope you can afford investigating government corruption and the national health care system some of the transactions . of mine needed to be unexplained to africa on some sites and publish

those things that people don't want to publish even if it doesn't let me ask you this truth is it anyway on al-jazeera. movie. you are. again you're watching on who's there on your mind of our top story this hour on his 1st day in the white house president joe biden has signed a stack of executive orders to undo trump era policies they roll back an immigration ban that targeted muslims and bring the u.s. back to the paris climate accord is one is focusing on racial equality in tackling the credit virus and. earlier biden called for unity as he took an oath to become the 46th u.s. president it was

a scaled down $72.00 to the security and weight of our us concerns for president donald trump did not attend. biden's deputy kamel harris made history and has swearing in former california attorney general is the 1st woman to hold the post of vice president and the 1st black person and 1st person of south asian descent. president biden has said that tackling the pandemic will be his top priority 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 persevered through this dark winter we're entering what may be the toughest and deadliest period of the voters. were set aside politics and finally faced this pandemic as one nation one nation. and i promise you this. if the bible says we remain endure for

a night jory comet in the morning we will get through this together together. is the director of elizabeth agression program at georgetown university medical center she says there's hope the new administration could put forward an efficient plan to tackle the virus. but 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 is not shouldn't be political 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 it's really about this administration and president biden committing to bringing federal resources to bear on making the

vaccination rollout as effective 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 say they're 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 oh well made as i've been reacting to joe biden's integration traditional u.s. allies a celebration saying has multilateral approach france germany and nato all welcomes the paunch of donald trump the e.u. commission president held it as a new dawn joe biden will be a message

a feeling for deeply divided nation and it will be a message of hope farwell that is waiting for the u.s. to be back in the circle of like minded states. this time honored ceremony on the steps of the u.s. capitol will be a demonstration of the resilience of american democracy and the resoundingly prove that once again after 4 long years europe has a friend in the white house. while there is hope across western capital capitals others are more cautious china's foreign ministry hopes for a collaboration beneficial to both sides adding it would protect its sovereignty russia says it's ready for constructive dialogue taking neutral interests into account as presenters hope for a comprehensive and just peace process but hamas which controls gaza says it does

not regret trump's departure because he was a real and direct partner of israeli occupation. and the iranian president hassan rouhani says tehran would become would welcome the u.s. returning to the 2015 nuclear pact he added that donald trump's decision to withdraw and his aggressive policies of a sense have been a complete failure to lose that is immediate the ball is now in america's court and 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. north korea's nuclear program is one of the major foreign policy issues facing the new u.s. administration washington's approach to dealing with pyongyang changed considerably during jarring donald trump's 4 years in office but that did little to get the country to abandon its nuclear ambitions. james bays reports.

the usual a new submarine launch ballistic missile unveiled at a military parade in pyongyang further evidence that north korea continues to develop nuclear weapons and the missiles that could deliver them from your peers this despite the trumpet ministrations focus on north korea which amounted to a most unusual 4 year diplomatic rollercoaster ride this was september 27th team at the u.n. general assembly the united states has great strength and patience. but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. yet only 9 months later all had changed the historic meeting in singapore between trump and kim jong un after a thorough mainly engineer by south korea there was

a clear report of when the 2 leaders we know the very special clubs which led to a 2nd meeting in 2019 in one only though the u.s. wouldn't give ground on sanctions were discussing everything and north korea wouldn't agree to give up its nuclear arsenal despite this trump while at the g 20 summit in japan later in the year suggested on twitter he took a detour on the way home the 2 met again in a de-militarized trump becoming the 1st u.s. president to set foot in north korea. experts believe after all that the mecurio north korean leader will be skeptical about future diplomacy i think it will be much more cautious going forward which is not necessarily good for us the negotiations and i think you know the price of everything has gone up as well because. that the relationship can actually change in that

a different outcome is possible and the skepticism it's starting to. for the biden administration there are no easy answers on north korea they say they're going to work more closely with their allies in the region not approach will help but it doesn't solve the underlying problem which is getting more acute by the day and that is that north korea with toy is expanding its nuclear program james bays al-jazeera washington. i'll be back for the headlines and just a moment but 1st has a look back at some of the events of the momentous and unique inauguration day in the united states so just. take that by we love you we will be back in some to. joseph roe but it might not do to.

look up. close or grab it by your new songs where. the 46 president of the united states needs it was as a duty and a responsibility as a citizen as a merc especially as leader leaders who have pledged to honor our constitution to protect our nation to defend the truth and defeat the large. ways.

you can. see. the loss we carry see we must wait a week braved the belly of the beast we've learned that quiet isn't always peace. great god bless america. god protect our troops thank you america. here with al jazeera these are top stories on his 1st day in the white house

president joe biden has signed a stack of executive orders to undo trump policies they roll back and.