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the article of impeachment will be sent to the senate so. he roused the troops. the urge them like hell he sent them on their way to the capitol he called upon lawlessness he showed a path to the capitol and that the lawlessness took place i'm not going to be telling you when it is going but it what we had we had to wait for the president the senate to be fashion they've now informed us they're ready to receive the question is are there questions about how the trial will proceed but we have we are ready at least 32 people have been killed and dozens have been wounded in twin suicide attacks in iraq's capital they splurges happened in a central baghdad market suicide attacks have become rare in the city the last one happened in 2019. thousands of syrian families living in refugee camps in egypt

have lost their shelter after days of torrential rain and snow aid groups are now working to rebuild and protect their homes from floods cover nineteen's also spreading through the camps the u.n. envoy to the central african republic is calling for a substantial increase in peacekeeping operations in de made the appeal at a u.n. security council meeting following a wave of violent attacks by rebel groups operating in the country at least 5 people have died in india after a fire broke out of the world's largest vaccine manufacturer the building was being a record to boost manufacturing of covert 19 vaccines serum institute of india has been contracted to manufacture a 1000000000 doses of the astra zeneca oxford university vaccine the company says production won't be affected those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story c. in half an hour of i.

rolling back trumps legacy joe biden move to scrap many of his predecessors policies on his 1st day but after 4 to mull to his years of trump can the new president bring some normality back to the white house and repair fractured relations around the world this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. after one of the most bitterly contested and

chaotic elections in american history joe biden the 46th president of the united states has begun his term in office valen to press forward with speed and urgency within hours of being sworn in biden kicked off his term signing 17 executive orders to reverse some of his predecessor donald trump's most contentious policies they included repealing trump's travel ban on some muslim majority countries halting construction of the border wall with mexico and rejoining the paris climate accord mike hanna begins our coverage from washington d.c. . the 46 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 his precesses policy legacy the mask in the oval another striking departure the 1st order.

to. have authority. from. 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 lifting 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. 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 way 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 a 49 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 congratulate 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 everal haynes is confirmed as director of national intelligence by 84 votes to 10 marking

a bipartisan start to the new senate then the renewal of an old tradition that had fallen into disuse in recent months the 1st of what are 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 era. mike hanna al-jazeera washington. all

right let's bring in our guests in washington we have rena shah founder of republican women for biden and if iran and morocco is arm a sorry associate professor of international studies at the university and also in the united states in atlanta jill cartwright writer and george organizer at southerners on new ground power welcome to the program let me start with you today in his inaugural address president biden made a sweeping call for unity he said we must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue rural versus urban conservative versus liberal with america being as divided as it is right now do you believe this is possible. i believe it's absolutely possible the american experiment hinges on that very thing is that we are very different nation we are one that is diverse in so many ways whether you

talk about the g. geography you talk about different demographics of course much has been made about the new americans people who look like myself people who are the kids of immigrants and i will say with this changing fabric of the country i believe that now more than ever we can look back to the words of our founders about how all of us can really do our part to be part of the great american experiment as it's often so i really hope will i believe this is the dawn of a new era one that comes at a time where we need it most this is look this is a long time in the making this division one would argue that it's always been this way but what we saw over the past few years was an acceleration that led us to what felt like an uglier place for many of us though many are sad today that their favorite is no longer in the white house others of us 81000000 some of us are extremely excited for what's to come biden i believe is the best person to lead us

forward he's someone who's faced great adversity in his lifetime and overcome it wakes up every day with a smile who better to lead this nation when we had so many dark days in the past and want shining new days ahead jill to pick up on some of what reno was saying if we're talking about the polarization in american culture if we're talking about the divisions in the united states we need to talk about the deep divisions over issues like racial justice and police brutality what do president joe biden and vice president kamel harris have to do to overcome these divisions and can they be overcome. you know so. just living through systemic very systemic racism excuse me an injustice every day can feel suffocated and so to have it hurled at you in your face every day on facebook on instagram on twitter from the oval office for 4 straight years is extremely suffocating and humanizing and so right now

black americans are definitely feeling some sort of sigh of relief taking a breath to be able to recognize that this transition of power is definitely the start of something great and so right now with racial injustice at the forefront of the many issues that abide in here is a ministration has to tackle we're expecting bold and relentless policy we cannot set a lot gets that the united states has owed for over 400 years to the black community without reparations we can't do that without setting policy in place with lee and immediately while we can take advantage of a democratic control of the thin it and while we can take advantage of this don of hope and progress and a promise of correcting 400 years a racial injustice we have to take advantage of that moment to be able to show decisively and definitively that this will be a moment where black women and black immigrants and black people broadly will

finally have their efforts recognized as both the base in the face of the democratic party as it has been said but also as people who actually have meaning behind representation as our president biden didn't waste any time in signing executive orders trying to reverse some of the more contentious policies of the trumpet ministration these are directives that will reverse the so-called muslim ban he has rejoined the paris climate accord he ended the process of the u.s. withdrawing from the world health organization how much is all this going to help america's standing on the world stage right now. well these are very important signs president biden his son into the rest of the world do us is ready to work through international organizations through through multilateral organizations. do we're in for solutions that are

good for the u.s. obviously but also for the rest of the world so multilateralism is buckin but i think one of the main conclusions of the 2 acts are going back to the bears and the climate change agreement and stopping the withdrawal from the world health organization multilateralism is back and that's a very positive sign and many were leaders have agreed to debts with positive note themselves but. here. also expects act and not only words we expect actions that really show that the u.s. is seen is really the back. some of the. risotto until very recently we've got change in under president biden but this is a moment off hope and i think that many people many neat word leaders around were

are relieved to see a new he's got a new kind of leadership new all good who are shipped i'm not referring to age in you or readership in the sense of multilateralism. in the u.s. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell has said that he looks forward to working with president biden whenever possible he also said that he if there will be disagreements they he looks forward to them being disrespectful disagreements of course joe biden you know he he has said that he believes that he understands the senate that he's a deal maker at heart and that he can get beyond these contentious politics and that exist in america right now do you think that will be the case is biden so well studied in the ways of the senate that he can reach across the aisle effectively and get legislation passed right now. well the very reason i thought joe biden was going to be the best person for this job is because of his experience in the senate

as well as in the role of vice president frankly i mean there's nobody else that has this much experience on day one he is not right now sort of sitting in the oval office relishing just the view like 4 of many former presidents did you know just the awesomeness of being in the job he's very well acquainted on day one we saw on minute one frankly that he hit the ground running and look many can be divided about how that work looks is it in the form of executive orders which both sides of the political spectrum have had many disagreements about of about the role of the executive and its ever expanding role frankly but looking at a president now who has this vast experience from the senate and who really can be the negotiator in chief that we need right now because right now there is one very very huge task ahead of him and the head of the president as well as the leaders in congress and that is to negotiate a coronavirus relief package something that brings economic relief to the people as

well as to do what is needed for the states to take care of its people we're going to need tracking entry thing once a vaccine is properly distributed waking up in the us this morning if you were reading the headlines you may have been shocked to see that what we learned as americans is that the trump administration had literally no vaccination plan no plans to distribute it no plans to acquire it no plans to manage it we are literally starting at square one today biden knows that i believe that he has assembled around him in these past few weeks a very competent team a team of people who are experts in their. individual fields that was not something the trumpet mr ation did he put largely loyalists as well as party favorites in a variety of roles some very nonsensical i will add one of the most nonsensical ones on day one was ben carson a neurosurgeon. who ran for president himself under the republican banner. pointed

housing and urban development so it was things like that that just didn't make sense in the trumpet ministration i realize that's a very small example but it tells you right there that when a president leads it matters how they lead and i think right now what we really need the boast is truly a plan in place to take care of the coronavirus pandemic on our shores because it's been exactly one year that's been your jail as an activist an organizer on the ground in georgia someone who worked so hard to ensure that black voters came out and voted in this past election cycle what do you hear most from the folks that you speak with what do they want to see most from a biden harrison ministration yes many of the people that fought with us and organize with us leading up to the biden hearing this campaign victory have some of the same concerns that we are hearing but in an address and many folks mention

right now thank you rena for bringing up the importance of having a very clear plan uncle bid that's an asian role out not just in the u.s. not just domestically but also being able to use the u.s. as power as global force and a global influence or to be able to get that seen ocelots to low income countries who have had the access thus far we see the vaccines primarily going to more influential more affluent countries across the globe and so we definitely want to understand that injustice home is it has been married to aggression abroad and so that needs to go that needs to always be working in tandem and so domestically what u.s. citizens what black folks in the united states are looking at is why and these triple pandemics that we're dealing with we're dealing. with a pandemic of racism and white supremacy which joe biden president joe biden called

out and his message probably more explicitly than we've seen many presidents do explicitly recognize the origin role white supremacy and many of the united states systems and so now what we need is no longer lip service but to see that kind of action put into place to see that kind of lip service turn into a promise realized and so racial injustice and white supremacy is number one i already talked about reached reparations but that the legislation and the recommendations for the breed act for example are out there we already have blueprints of what policy that will recognize the value of black lives can look like and we just need biden here is administration to understand it and so clearly in place to champion it we also know that call that it is the number one factor in the billy morris campaign to win but also in what's happening across the world

racine black holes in georgia specifically where the number one demographic to pass away from coke at 19 and so we're looking at regional injustice in that level as well not just systems like police but systems like health care how are we going to transform that system so that blacks also not all are no longer at the brunt of every issue i think that is extensive climate change a sense of basic things like monthly cash assistance people needing cash assist need actual support for small businesses and so we're looking at high hopes for the bad and here's a ministration and again we need that policymaking to continue to be bold sweet and remember there's are from your vantage point where in the world will joe biden face his biggest challenges as president you know on the foreign policy front which countries will pose the biggest obstacles for his administration. thing that.

china is the 1st challenge that president by than when we have to face china has experienced some freedom there is no such a thing as a void of power and with. the withdrawal of the united states from the world stage on their president trump or at least a different way of acting on the world stage and the president trumps china to advance in and defend its interests in in a bold lead so received china present to see russia increasingly also present and we see regional. powers so the 1st one so you ask where the 1st main challenge is i see china as a meant challenge and i think that president biden will be working with. japan and south korea as the allies he has mentioned he mentioned yesterday and he

has been mentioned over and over again so to strengthen the links of the u.s. we. asian as the u.s. a 1000000 that the u.s. mint. asia you know that to. be able to face china and compete with china so this is something that will continue china is a challenge the other murder charge is in our region and the you mean here iran iran is certainly. one doesn't buy them was vice president he was part of the obama administration managed to strike a very promising deal with iran a deal that president trot trump left very shortly after becoming president and now we are we hear of. lincoln's same.

even though. a couple of days ago the sentence that the u.s. will be going back to the agreement to neuron if iran comes by. a does again to. the agreement so there are conditions there but this is a very important. condition one area i don't see president biden giving a lot of attention or despise the the statements of. of all the appointees of the president and even in some of is the israeli palestinian conflict something that just left your bum administration. by the administration. or far from from the palestinian israeli conflict. because it is. mine field and no it's. harder

for them to make a difference if you'd be easier to make a difference with iran it to be easier to somebody. the laws are some relation i'm sorry to interrupt you let on a bit to be consistent let me go back to you in let me talk about you in a minute more specifically about iran because we're starting to run out of time re not let me go to you and ask you this kind of harris became the 1st black american and the 1st person of south asian descent to hold the office of vice president what does this historic achievement say to you about where america is at right now and does it make you feel hopeful. it's absolutely and a moment of wow i have no words i'm speechless eye to see this woman ascend to power in the role that before her have been nothing but older white men there is nothing wrong with older white men and i'm not saying that but we as a country put people in boxes far too much and so while i applaud that she is a daughter of immigrants much like i am her mother is from india like my parents or

ancestrally from i i can look at that i can and say that's a great thing but i can also say let's look at what who she is as a woman as a person 1st was a 1st woman in that role that's a fantastic thing but beyond that she comes with the most traditional experience of any former vice president any by president that has held this role has never had what she has and i think we ought to start to look at people for who they are rather than the things that they cannot change like gender or ethnicity or the color of their skin i really look forward to this era where we can celebrate her for who she is while also applauding those those very many firsts that are so important so yes i'm i'm jubilant i'm excited i have 2 young daughters myself they will never see when they grow and they will never have grown up in an era where there wasn't a woman in the in such a high position of power in our country this was a long time coming we needed it and so i think she'll be an incredible partner to joe biden in this journey but look i mean i voted for biden and i want to try about

it all costs but that doesn't mean that i won't hold joe biden as well come lehrer's in there administration accountable during their term nobody gets a free pass and that's america we have the right to criticize our leaders and it's a beautiful thing that is what this democracy and this republic is about really going to the republican congress i'm starting to read here we only have about a minute left i just want to give jill the last point here jill i do want to talk very quickly about another challenge that joe biden is facing there's millions of americans who don't believe that he won the election how much is that going to undermine his legitimacy as president going forward. you know the last time that we spoke we addressed that in the sense that we know that this violent response on capitol hill to the outcome of the election as well as the response that we're seeing across the nation people rioting and trying to do to take a siege on state capitals across the u.s.

is a response to black people and other people of color actually using our voice overcoming the barriers the historic bidding wars that have kept us out of american system of democracy and usenet to make a decisive stance on where we need to go and what we will not accept from the u.s. government and so that response i think is to be expected when you're used to getting your way no matter what and for many years and being told honestly by the head of state that you respect even when you write it that you are loved even when you are denigrating other officials and entire groups of people in the united states well if you do it it was a delusion and we're seeing many of those same people still because they're still disillusioned on cunanan others sort of protractor. message boards and online that misinformation that they were that was being spread you know this is a reckoning mark in the lives have to stop and i think that they're starting to

realize that while we need it is where lives maybe were wrong if anything i think the bill looking there was and others are grasping for straws but we have definitively seen lance from the majority of the truck camp and so i hope that going forward we can see some sort of unity in the form of accountability ability as rina mentioned but also an understanding that free and fair election where people of color are able to actually show their power that we've been over 400 years are not a threat. all right we've run out of time to get. how to leave the conversation there thank you so much to all our guests rena shah is arma sorry and jill cartwright and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter our handle is at a.j. inside story for me mohammed i'm joined the whole team here by for now.

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