part one just you know a lot of the stories that we cover all hardly conflicts so it's very important that we make them is on the standard well as we care it's all just a record of stress will be strong to do. we have never ever ever ever failed in america. we've acted together. and sort of day. but 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. lifting their psalmists let.

us make history as the 1st woman and the 1st woman of color to serve as vice president. i know that this is al jazeera live from. a change of guard at the oval office is met with optimism i need us from europe and asia and a call for meaningful action by iran. and donald trump his legacy as he exits the white house for the final time under the shadow of a looming senate impeachment trial. joe biden the 42nd president of the united states has finally begun his term at the oval office after one of the most basically contested and chaotic elections in american history it's been the 1st few hours of his presidency undoing some of the most controversial actions of his predecessor donald trump mike hanna reports from

washington. the 46th president of the united states arrives at his new residence and he kept his word and went immediately to work his 1st action in the oval office was to sign a series of executive orders striking at the heart of its previous s's policy legacy the mosque in the oval another striking departure in the 1st one to be signed. to. conclude. i have a far. distance in the camp on front property interstate commerce and center also among the orders the return of the united states to the paris climate accord a reversal of the decision to leave the world health organization the listing of the ban on travel from some muslim majority countries and an immediate cancellation

of the state of emergency that donald trump proclaimed in order to begin building a wall on the mexican border these are actions done at the stroke of a pen but other fundamental changes such as a new coronavirus relief bill and immigration reform will require the cooperation and participation of congress please raise your right hand and in the senate the new vice president's war in 3 new democrat senators in a chamber now is split 5050 it's the 49th vice president who will have the casting vote. as the new senate majority leader takes over today the threat to our democracy from the presidency itself has ended but the challenges we face as a nation remain in the wake of violence and division hatred mistruths and from the republican leader warm words for joe biden who came to this chamber as senator for

delaware 49 years ago so i can graduate my friend from delaware look forward to working with him as our new president wherever possible and as it gets to work the senate approves the 1st of the new cabinet appointments every hanes is confirmed as director of national intelligence by 84 votes to 10 marking a bipartisan start to the new senate bill then the renewal of an old tradition that had fallen into disuse in recent months the 1st of what i intended to be daily briefings by the new press secretary under this guidance from the president his objective and his commitment is to bring transparency and truth back to government to share the truth even when it's hard to hear and that's something that i hope to deliver on in this role as well as president biden and the 1st lady arrive at the

lincoln memorial for the final event of this inauguration day. a day that took place in the shadow of a pandemic and the threat of political violence. but which ended in the celebration of what the new president promises is the beginning of a better and kind of era. al-jazeera washington. let's take a look back at the day itself now and many hope it will be a turning point for the u.s. as passing calhoun reports the shadow of the recent attack on the cops the limbs launch over the proceedings. they climbed the steps were just 2 weeks ago rioters stormed the capitol walked the halls where they spread fear maybes 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 they are. protected and then just before noon joe biden became the new president of the united states the only god congratulations mr president. the chaos of what happened here remembered just days after ryder's mom thought they could use violence to

silence the will of the people the strong. the work of our democracy to drive a strong is sacred ground. it did not happen and 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 clearer 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. return to washington. was there. 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 it was. their new home and now his oval office. al-jazeera. now apart from steps to tackle a pandemic one of the flurry of executive actions on the 1st day of joe biden's presidency was to stop construction of trump's war but those south of the border are hoping that he'll do more to help asylum seekers and documented migrants gentleman reports from mexico city. one of president biden's 1st executive actions to stop the funds to build this. is pretty desists is one of his signature projects of course it won't leave the u.s. wide open there was already a significant amount of fencing and security on the border but activists say it's

an important gesture and law all the while that's their new. we can't spend a single penny more on the construction on a wall of hate of shame a racist wall. i mean it's comprised an under his man well lopez obrador is hoping for more a path to citizenship for undocumented migrants already in the united states the cases they were ready we've been proposing that our countrymen who have been working for years should be regularized contributing to the development of that great nation. president biden does have a plan from a path to citizenship for more than 10000000 people who haven't got legal status. but there are many more still trying to get there in the days before the inauguration thousands of from durance will stop think what moller before they could get near the u.s. border. others like me in a custody you have reached it but are still waiting amid scurry for their asylum hearing in her case it's been a year and

a half. we never thought we'd stay here in mexico and we still have hopes of making it to the united states that's a dream and we will wait to see what the new president will bring. president biden signaled to be more open handed with asylum seekers than president trump. same bunch these big plans to stop people fleeing the countries in the 1st place his place $4000000000.00 to help tackle poverty and boylan's and central america in partnership with governments their president biden has a plan to try and temper corruption in el salvador guatemala and honduras through a lot going to depend on whether that works and it's a tough one in those countries and if the money can get where it's needed john home and how does it make security the door of president joe biden's administration has already had an effect on some parts of the u.s. economy the stock market rallied to

a record high with the 500 largest companies rising 1.4 percent across the board and was point by proposals to pump $1.00 trillion more dollars into the struggling economy but the u.s. is still reeling from joblessness and business closures because of the coronavirus pandemic but scott is senior international columnist at the economic policy institute he says the pandemic is the largest hurdle to recovery. the corona virus will itself determine when the economy can restart we know right now that we're in the worst part of the pandemic 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 but he's already proposed a $1.00 trillion dollar bill to provide for increased unemployment benefits to provide aid to states and and local governments to provide funding for rollout of the vaccine and distribution getting shots and arms and so that's essential you know gratian was launched by many fast say he's putts laurette amanda goldman was the youngest poet to edit the full us a presidential inauguration has a 22 year old a sizing up in the hope and courage and off the bike will be continuing our

coverage of the fest a of the bike and hearth administration. so let us leave behind a country but of the one we were left with every breath my bronze pounded chest we will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one we will rise from the gold 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 of wind cities of the middle western states will advise when the sun baked south we will rebuild reconciled and recover and every no knock over a nation in every corner called our country our people diverse and beautiful will emerge 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.

hello there the weather looks rather cool for the middle east northern parts of the middle east particularly over the next couple of days ago this area snow sliding out of turkey it brought some rainfall across the levant syria lebanon jordan pushing into northern parts of iraq now heading towards the caspian so we are going to see some wet weather to northern areas of iraq before it gradually pushes over towards afghanistan temperatures falling away in the process around 5 or 6 celsius for a couple that also for iraq cool enough here in doha as well with a brisk wind blowing higher than around 80 degrees celsius so grabby would winter woolies as a result of that further south of this loss he tried with plenty of sunshine in that sunshine continue across a good part of eastern africa where the showers will continue there it's essential

parts around likely to be around the rift valley some more heavy downpours coming in here as we go on through the next couple of days but the really wet weather the weather that gives cause for concern trouble cycloid elway's making its way across northern parts of madagascar now weakening as a pushes across the land was moved out into the warm waters of the mozambique channel it will reinvigorate and then as we head towards the weekend some very heavy rain pushing towards central parts of mexico mozambique and also the northeast of south africa. the 2nd episode of the series exposed the rise of the major drug cartels and their reign of terror 19 sentenced a mexican government to little and told the traffickers we have to produce the body because they knew it was good. america's public enemy number one is drug abuse and the launch of the international war on drugs drug trafficking and politics and

power. of drug lords on al-jazeera. pool. hello again you're watching al-jazeera has a reminder of our main story this hour on his 1st day in the white house president joe biden has signed a stack of executive actions to undo trump era policies they roll back an immigration ban that targeted muslims and bring the u.s. back into the paris climber's accord as well as focus on racial equality and tackling the coronavirus and. vibrant call for unity as he took an oath to become the 46 us president it was

a scaled down ceremony due to security and coronavirus concerns former president donald trump did not attend. the bines deputy kamel harris made history in her swearing in a 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. who by the administration has called chinese sanctions on trump officials unproductive and cynical beijing announced measures against 28 officials including outgoing secretary of state. well as biden was taking the presidential oath part of biden's challenge comes from inherited trade tensions donald trump started a trade war with china and relations between the between 2 of the world's biggest economies since worsened domestically the issue of the week has become harder for washington to ignore and that he blinken who takes over might pompei as secretary of state has said he believes china is carrying out a genocide on ethnic minorities in. will taiwan is another potential flash point

out of the outgoing administration is last acts was one of the outgoing administration is last long standing restrictions on officials contacting the taiwanese counterparts. and he joins us from hong kong the nation how surprising was it that we had this announcement of sanctions against former officials even as the new administration is being sworn in. well not really because let's be honest relations between the united states and china are really at their lowest level in decades china feels that it's been you know repeatedly punched on the nose by president donald trump during the past few 4 years and it's really you know how to enough it's not prepared to turn the cheek any more in the way it might have done in years gone past so the slapping of these sanctions on officials was i guess not to be unexpected but it's interesting these sanctions

apply to outgoing white house officials as opposed to incoming officials and these sanctions are by and large symbolic lore i don't think that might prompt a 0 was planning to visit beijing you know any time soon but it's another reminder that you know president biden is facing an enormous challenge to try to repair patch up relations with china the question is will there be a reset in relations between china and the united states even a partial reset will many of the analysts you speak to say that is unlikely unlikely for a whole raft of reasons as you pointed out in your introduction the man who's likely to be the next u.s. secretary of state has basically said the trumps approach to china was the correct one although the tactics were wrong and he said that you know trump was right to call our china over what he said with the genocidal policies taking place in chin

chang the biden administration the biden team had said just as much several months ago so i think it's possible laura that the biden administration may hang on to part of the framework of chumps china policy because they feel that it's been working and remember while the biden team has now reversed some of trump's policies they haven't reversed policies that apply to the tariffs that still apply to chinese imports and what about hong kong where you are a gem canada expects the ports from the new biden administration the face they want to counter increasing increase from beijing. well i think the attitude of the government here in hong kong is a is a wait and see one i think what president xi jinping wants most of all is for relations to return to the way they were under president barack obama in other

words to give the illusion of a normal relationship now biden and she jinping actually know each other quite well they 1st met when they were respective vice presidents of each other's country and remember during his campaign for the presidency biden said that he knew she jingping better than any other leader in the world but i think if he's pumping early concessions from the chinese leaders some goodwill gestures on things like human rights i think it's going to be in for a big disappointment for one important reason this year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the chinese communist party a very big deal on the mainland and this is a year when china's president has to appear you know extra strong and day to age and brown many thanks for bringing us the view that from there thanks for joining us from hong kong. while north korea's nuclear program is also one of the major foreign policy issues facing the new u.s. administration washington's approach to dealing with pyongyang changed considerably

join donald trump's 4 years in office but that did little to get the country to abandon its nuclear ambitions. james bays reports the truth julius whether you will a new submarine launched 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 to you 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 patients 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 thought mainly engineered by south korea. there was a clear report of when the 2 leaders we know the very special plans which led to a 2nd meeting in 2019 in one or even though the u.s. wouldn't give ground on sanctions or 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 demille a try. 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 to negotiations and i think you know the price of everything has gone up as well because his skepticism that the relationship can actually change and that a different outcome is possible and the skepticism is starting to read 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 that approach will help but it doesn't solve the underlying problem which is getting more acute by the day that north korea with toy is expanding its nuclear program james. washington. but he does have been reacting to joe biden's inauguration traditional u.s. allies are celebrating biden's multilateral approach ballasts takes a look joe biden versus a president many nations it leads the news the u.s. inauguration was relayed in dozens of languages and leaders translated what it would mean for the country in the city

a kind of shine from the other give us and give him a donald trump frankly see that these have not been for easy years that we've had with donald trump someone who. as u.s. president because europe along with russia and china are the biggest opponents of the united states so a lot has gone wrong there with joe biden there is now someone in the white house who wants to repeat the transatlantic partnership. in russia t.v. networks focused on soldiers around the campus who with one channel comparing it to a private party inside a besieged trysts in a beijing news conference china's foreign ministry spokeswoman spoke candidly the challenging last 4 years really was a siege and i think the new administration should serve the wishes of the people view china in a rational and objective light and work for china on the basis of mutual respect equality and mutual benefit was what runs foreign ministry followed that seem to

mint in this video tweeted cooling trumps foreign policy diplomatic vandalism and tweeting the world knows that only the u.s. can fix itself in practice not just words. israel however whose hope for iran remains in america's crossness i look forward to working with you to further strengthen the us as reliance to continue expanding peace between israel and the our group and to confront common challenges chief among them the threat posed by iran was. common to harris's indian ancestry was celebrated by prime minister new ranger modi who did and historic occasion carries his maternal grandmother comes from this village near the southern indian city of chennai very happy we have already put out paris made history as the 1st person of south asian to seemed to become us vice president and a coward adelaide we are very happy right now being squeeze us hope that we can

also achieve whatever we want even being a woman she's a role model for the villagers and girls here. inside america. they were coonskin unity. there was hope of unity to have time to time a minute relations to tackle some of the woods biggest issues together. shall of dallas. i'll be back with headlines in just a moment but 1st here's a look at some of the events of the momentous other unique integration day in the united states so just. take that by we love you we will be back in something or. to shift rather to my doctor to.

look up. your browser to buy your new songs where. the 46 president of the united states needs it was active 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 law are. a goal. was.

an. the loss we carry see we must wade lead braved the belly of the beast we've learned that quiet isn't always peace. may god bless america very god protect our troops back you. know with al-jazeera this is all top story on his 1st day in the white house president joe biden has signed a stack of executive actions to undo trump era policies they rolled back an

immigration ban that targeted muslim.