a supreme and black in its place the race for america coming soon on a. holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. sees role in the world on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian fell again this is that he was a live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. or anger on the streets of lebanon's poorest city tripoli over a failing economy made worse by a coronavirus lockdown plus it is illegal. to leave her to travel abroad but measure buses stricter rules for travelers schools to stay

shut the u.k.'s prime minister announces new measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic. iran dismisses an israeli general's warning of a possible offensive a psychological warfare. at a power struggle in the democratic republic of congo parliament passes a post of no confidence against the month old government. and in sports bosses say it's not if but how this year's tokyo games will happen i.o.c. president thomas back insists a plan for every possible scenario is being put together. patients all over the world are struggling to control the spread of the coronavirus as they deal with economic crises and logistical challenges of the pandemic is bringing protests and so forth with security forces in lebanon for the 3rd straight

night in the northern city of tripoli people there are angry over coronavirus measures which are impacting an already desperate economic situation. in the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has announced tougher restrictions on people entering and exiting the country he's been under growing pressure due to the rising number of infections and deaths we have also banned all travel from 22 countries where there is a risk of known variants including south africa portugal and south american nations and in order to reduce the risk posed by u.k. nationals and residents returning home from these countries i can announce that we will require all such arrivals who cannot be refused entry to isolate in government provided accommodation such as hotels for 10 days without exception. one of the most worrisome variants of the virus was discovered in south africa the country is

dealing with a surge in the number of infections the government that has just approved astra zeneca has vaccine for emergency use was thought this new saw though with the situation in lebanon al jazeera say the whole is live in the city of tripoli what's the situation that i was i know. another night of violence hundreds of protesters are clashing with security forces protesters trying to storm a government building in in a show of protest they've been gathering in one of the mains whereas the security forces have been responding with force they've also been using excessive amounts of tear guys more than once so what ok should we have to move away from from the square people are angry there is growing desperation they say that they can no longer survive the coronavirus the lockdown is just adding to their to their

struggles because the economic crisis is not new the economy collapse months before the pandemic was 1st detected in lebanon and there's a financial meltdown is that the stakes will really tell you the story more than half of the population is poor and this is a small nation of 5000000 people official say that 500000 families that's 2500000 people need assistance to survive and the government is passive strapped the state is near bankrupt is nearly bankrupt and now today the officials the caretaker government because there's still no government there's a caretaker government in place they've decided to increase the number of families who are going to receive 47 dollars 47 dollars to be able to survive a lockdown which is now in its 3rd week they still have this 1st disperse that money and there are very many questions about how they. the families because many say that many of the families that have been chosen are supporters of the different

political parties who hold power so it's a poor city it's been they collected for decades people here don't just want economic support they are reiterating what they've been granted i'm being poor for months now a new leadership and like i mentioned there is a caretaker government and there is there needs to be a reform minded government a government ready to carry out the forms to fight corruption in order for levanon to receive billions of dollars from the international community but politicians are fighting about seats in the next government instead of trying to kick start the economy create jobs one 3rd of the workforce is unemployed in this country 50 percent of the workforce are in for moral labors with no social security and that is why these people say they can no longer survive al-jazeera say to hold a reporting live from tripoli in the lebanon that many thanks indeed. let's hear

now from al-jazeera as warry chalons who's at gatwick airport just outside london with more who will be impacted by the new entry rules announced by britain's government. anyone entering the country from a certain number of countries a selection of countries that have basically been put on a red list because they are countries that have potential new strains or no use strains of corona virus circulating there and the u.k. does not want those strains arriving on british shores so essentially what the government has just done boris johnson and then proceed to tell outlined this in the commons saying that. there are bands already in place on people arriving from these countries. but there are also people in those countries who are u.k. residents or british his citizens if they're coming back to the country what they will have to do is put themselves straight into

a hotel like one of the hotels around here at that wake will be throw airports all their points of return essentially and stay there for 10 days this is a way i think for the government to try and answer the critics who are saying that you know the u.k. has borders a too open at the moment. the opposition party labor has said that this is a half baked policy and that it wants to see these gun restrictions placed on anyone who's coming into the country not just from certain parts of the world. in johannesburg has more details of south africa's vaccination challenges. many would argue that south africa has been left behind in that vaccination drive that too little has been done up till now the government had said that through the kovacs agreement they would be getting at least 10 percent of the doses of vaccine needed in the coming months and that they've also spoken to astra zeneca and they

expect to get 1500000 doses a 1000000 of those doses now in january we're in doing we're nearing the end of the month and then a further $500000.00 in february a head of that that approval has a now. is now in place to receive those vaccines and distribute them the government has said that the primary objective would be to vaccinate frontline workers health workers who really are most at risk in south africa especially given the wiring over the new strain that's been identified in south africa which appears to be spreading faster than the initial one south africa is now in its 2nd wave that approval has only come through now we are expecting those vaccinations to be given in the new week that the indication from the government is not certain if that plan will stay in place a 38 year old nurse has become the 1st person to get the covert biotene vaccine in

bangladesh vaccination campaign began in the capital city with russian occupation expected to begin next month 0 child free reports from dhaka. the 1st person to be vaccinated in bangladesh is a 38 year old veronique acosta now 12 other people in this hospital general hospital has been vaccinated all of them are emergency 1st responder there's a plan to vaccinate at least 5 to 600 more people across the capital city today what has been time as a vaccine diplomacy the government right now has 7000000 dosage of vaccine oxford estrogenic made by indian pharmaceutical company institute off india $2000000.00 of those vaccines were actually donated by the indian government the government planned to start mass vaccination program next month probably in the 1st week at least $1200.00 people mostly foster responder will be vaccinated in phases

now that dissimilar a lot according to critics in a country over a population of 165000000 as well as 1000000 refugees living in southeastern part of the country bangor that suffered quite a bit of economic slowdown when they went into a lockdown last year but the government took a strategic decision to open up the country there's a sense of normalcy in the country most of the businesses shops and government offices are open other than the school everything is open people are walking all about but they're cautious they're wearing masks and taking necessary precautions that's kind of you know from peter frank who's a professor of global history at the university of oxford he says that several countries have the capacity to better prepare for the pandemic. there's no question that there need to be some very serious questions asked in the u.k. or around the world about how global health works pandemics are a regular feature of world history and you know some of us in the morning that it

was a question of when not if the next onward would strike so i think that it's very important that every country works out to be more resilient and robust but i think all in good time i suspect that in some part of the world particularly richer wealthier more resource countries rollouts of axioms will take place and that it will take time for other part of the world so that will exacerbate the gaps between the developed and the developing world and i think a lot will depend on the timings a lot will depend on what happens with global financial markets and ability to support and prop up. debts in particular been taken on in all states so i think it's hard but my guess would be that the mortality rates have not actually been that bad i mean if if if coronavirus killed in the same level that the spanish flu had done a 100 years ago we'd be looking at 230000000 people dead around the world which is an astonishing number so i think that the big challenges here are about global cooperation they're about the ability and willingness of states to share best

practice and to pull resources totally warning systems but i think that there's a kneejerk reaction right now will be the world's should have been much more ready for this than it really was. there are the news out from al-jazeera still to come on the program new faces to reshape u.s. foreign policy is to have joe biden's nobody's take center stage we'll take a look at what it means for the rest of the world russian m.p.'s approve the extension of the only remaining arms treaty with the u.s. a week before it's due to expire. and later in sports pakistan's bats put their team in a strong position in the 1st test match against south africa. iran is dismissing threats made by israel's military chief of staff lieutenant general aviv he says that preparations are being made for

a possible offensive against iran he's urging u.s. president joe biden not to rejoin the 2015 iran nuclear deal iran's presidential chief of staff described the comments a psychological warfare. they just talk they are leading to psychological warfare and have practically no plan no capacity and are not able to stop the war our armed forces are trying to defend iran the different maneuvers that we have done are signs that we do not intend to attack nor go to war but that we are serious in defending our country. the new u.s. secretary of state has been sworn in ceremony by vice president. anthony blinken was officially sworn into office on tuesday at the state department he's promised to rebuild relationships with america's allies a move away from the america 1st policy which dominated president trumps administration let's go live now to washington for more serious white house correspondent kelly how could is with us so. is starting the job with

a pretty full entry. you know there's no question that he's got a lot on his plate and things are a lot different than 4 years ago when he was working as a top advisor to joe biden and joe biden was vice president now as secretary of state he finds himself he says inheriting more complicated situation in terms of international relationships as a result of the america 1st policies of donald trump now where he sees there being some difficulty is when it comes to north korea he believes that things have gotten worse not better the trumpet ministration disputed that and also they expect that they will take a harder stance on russia something that don't trump was reluctant to do what he has said in his confirmation hearings that he didn't think was at least in spirit the right policy was off hard line on china but the tactics is where they differ

and as well on the abraham accords this warming of relations between israel and arab nations he believed it was encouraging but the big problem that is imminent that we have been discussing here and al jazeera is how to handle iran the fact that the trumpet ministration pulled out of the j.c. p.o. era the pact the international agreement to live in iran's nuclear program in that time the concern from the united states has been that iran has as a result of these sanctions that were put in place when the united states pulled out tough economic sanctions on iran really hurt its economy that iran has in response i'm asked a large amount of uranium enriched uranium that could potentially build a nuclear weapon so what we've got now is this sort of power struggle that's going on between iran and the united states iran saying look at if you want to return to this agreement you're going to need to lift the sanctions the united states saying

look we're not sure you're following the agreement we can't even have discussions at this point it. well we get those assurances so iran really seems to be in more of a power position right now and that is a difficulty for this is ministration as it tries to move forward it says with its partners and allies to deal with this conundrum how to syria's chemical help reporting live from washington d.c. many thanks indeed will be united nations has urging calm and mediated dialogue between israel and iran let's go live now to the u.n. our diplomatic editor james pay is joins us what's the mood james there over these comments by israel's military chief of staff well it's not just those comments we saw in a meeting that was supposed to be about the israelis and the palestinians that took place 24 hours ago the israeli ambassador used his comments to attack iran worth remembering that prime minister netanyahu has been the strongest opponent of the iran nuclear deal his entire career has been built on this central issue the issue

of iran and the danger from iran and on the iranian side as kimberly said they are miffed about what has happened under the trump administration and there's also some tension within iran hardliners not sure they should go back into the iran nuclear deal and remember iran has elections coming up in june the u.n. though is concerned by the increase in the war of words and i asked the spokesman for the secretary general about it a short time ago the secretary general is is very keen to see a renewed commitment to their way in a renewed commitment to reviving it in a sense. rhetoric. that heightens tensions coming from any side is never very helpful. james earlier in washington there is a confirmation hearing for the new u.s. ambassador to the u.n. what's the feeling there about her. well i watched all of

it linda thomas greenfield she is a veteran of the state department a career diplomat for 35 years an expert on africa she even for a short period served on the trumpet ministration in fact it was president trump that fired as this system secretary of state for africa the only problem that she faced at the confirmation hearing was a speech that she gave in 29 t. when she was no longer a diplomat in which she talked about the situation in africa and the chinese investment in africa and the u.s. involvement in africa describe me as a win win situation for african nations now many senators are very worried about the rise of china and she strongly clarified her comments saying that she made a mistake in what she said in that speech and said that if she is confirmed she will push very strongly against china's role here at the united nations what is very clear from all who follow the united nations is with the trumpet ministration

for 4 years pursuing an america 1st policy and stepping back from multilateralism it was china in many ways that took their place our diplomatic effort to james bay is reporting live from the u.n. in new york many thanks james russia's lower house 1st ratified an extension to its nuclear arms control pact with the united states it's the last remaining arms control agreement between the 2 nations after donald trump withdrew from 2 others during his term new president joe biden had proposed a 5 year extension the deal was about to expire in a week alexander god for in moscow has more. this has been done basically in the last minute to extend the last standing and nuclear arms control deal between these 2 countries now russia is saying it is done on our terms which in essence is the truth of what they insisted on and the countries could not agree during the

presidency on the. at the at least the existing one prolonged and without conditions and that is exactly what is happening now and they are showing also been relation to the us russia relations some optimism some hope but they're very very very cautious what they are saying that people minister of foreign affairs said that they see biden as more inclined to have a responsible and comprehensive negotiation on this issue then the associates of trump showed well here's a closer look at this pact known as the new starter quarter precise and in 2010 by u.s. president barack obama and the former russian leader to be treated badly that it limits each country to an equal number of deployed warheads missiles and bombers it

also covers sweeping on site inspections to verify compliance russia had originally offered to extend it for 5 years but president trump of been pushing for major changes surely norman is a lecturer in politics at its national relations at the university college london she says that both countries are eager to keep a pact. this was the last nonproliferation treaty between russia and the us it was set to expire next week i'm february so there was urgency behind it obviously with nuclear weapons a nuclear agreement the whole idea is to be protecting against long term risks but the fact that this agreement went forward is notable it is important and it's important both russia and the u.s. to put this out it from the beginning that they don't want the arms race to x. other any further the kremlin reached out to the biden team last week saying they would like to have this conversation it did take place we've heard that it was put in quote frank which means there was probably pretty direct conversation going back

and forth but it did take place and what we understand and what you would expect in the biden administration is saying look we will take any action necessary to protect u.s. interests but we're also not looking to provoke or looking for a fight and we will cooperate on areas where there is mutual interest like the new start treaty like the j.c. the iran nuclear deal and other areas of mutual concern syrian government fighter jets of flown over the city of daraa for the 1st time since a truce deal with rebels in 2018 that's been fighting since tuesday because of government demands to hand of a formal former rebel leader. the fighter jets are seen as a warning for a city already devastated by bombardments the government has given central committee until thursday to be tips to moms or face attacks the democratic republic of congo's pala paused

a vote of the confidence to oust the prime minister and his government but it's being seen as a political victory for president felix should katie welcome web reports now from nairobi. this is the latest development in a power struggle between president felix difficulty and former president joseph kabila has been going on for just over or about 2 years so just over 2 years ago congo held elections president joseph kabila on the international and local pressure stepped aside he ruled beyond the constitutional term limits and he made way felix to see katie it was announced the winner but leaked documents showed that election result was rigged and the succession was widely understood to be a deal between the 2 men by which she said he would take over the presidency but kabila would remain as the most powerful person in congo not to see katie depended on the support of could be party to govern could be as party had a majority in parliament but the tensions of have clearly risen between the 2 men

over the course of the last 2 years in to security in recent weeks has managed to get a lot of those m.p.'s over to his side that's all and it was enabled him to push through this vote of no confidence in prime minister sylvester a longer he's a kabila loyalist so it looks now that she's a kerry has indeed taken control of parliament and the government finally from from joseph kabila his predecessor but certainly by no means do we expect this to be the end of the struggle spain's government says that it's opening new camps on the canary islands for undocumented migrants in preparation for a significant influx of new arrivals the government there is refusing to transfer the migrants to mainland spain to prevent more people reaching europe critics argue that the move won't be good for the migrants or the local population but it might even complicate their access to certain bribes the authorities there are still adamant on opening up more camps by mid february. an indian soldier has been killed

and 3 others injured by an explosion in indeed administered kashmir police say that an improvised device was used in the attack as soldiers were patrolling a school in the town of cool gum and they were targeted an army spokesman says the rebels are suspected of planting the bomb overnight. boeing has announced a loss of more than $8000000000.00 in the 4th quarter of 2020 boeing suffered its worst year on record after the covert $900.00 pandemic slashed demand for aircraft and in the aftermath of a safety crisis over its 737 max john hendren reports now from the company's headquarters in chicago. the good news for chicago based aircraft manufacturer boeing is that 2020 is over the company posted a loss of $11900000000.00 for the year that is its worst ever by far c.e.o. dave calhoun says i'm sure glad 2020 is in the rearview mirror that happened largely due to twin crises there was

a global pandemic that dramatically slowed air travel around the world and also the company's continued problems with its 737 max aircraft that was grounded for 2 years after crashes the killed 346 people the company made significant changes to that plane and it was recertified to fly in the u.s. in november and on wednesday it was announced that it was also recertified to fly in europe their continued concerns deliveries of that plane have been slowed because airlines have had slow business and also there's a concern of whether people want to get back on that plane so many airlines have decided if people realize they're on a 737 max and don't want to be they can cancel and rebook the company did relatively poorly compared to its rival airbus industry of europe airbus delivered 255 planes in the 4th quarter compared to 59 for boeing 2021 is looking up but only relatively speaking compared to 2020 he continued presence

of the pandemic and slow delivery of vaccines means 2021 could look historically slow as well. as. a potential breakthrough in mali to and violence that has killed far. out a way of life a source of wealth but the status of horses. is changing. as european football championships. we got plenty of writing the full cost across northern parts of the middle east over the next couple of days not a cloud sharing out through turkey that eastern side of the mediterranean winds

picking up here as we go through thursday will try to increase the unsettled and blustery showers rattling into syria lebanon jordan just rolling across cyprus through the course of the day i want to show us to just pushing across northern parts of syria into iraq for this line of showery rain down to central areas of the red sea to see some wet weather coming in here just pushing across towards mecca for example what's the weather setting into western iraq as we go through friday still that wet weather there just pushing back across syria a batch was at least inside of the med but to the south of that it's fine and dry some lovely pleasant sunshine here in concept temperatures around 22 celsius some pleasant weather coming through then pleasant weather to across northern parts of somalia a chance to send showers into central africa recall some big downpours there in so that's an eastern side of angola probably a showers through the democratic republic of congo some wet weather to into zambia and also some other heavy rain for

a time just pushing into botswana the remnants of tropical syphon elouise continue to push eastern parts of south africa in mozambique. north korea isolated and heavily sanctioned yet earning billions around the globe here and 39 is involved in everything that makes money for north korea. to carry defray the cost for its take on tyson. the money this year and it goes straight into the coffers as the leader said a 2 part people in power investigation. bureau $39.00 cash for kim part 2 on an. examining the impact of today's headlines it didn't matter you're rich or poor what your religion is you are battling this and you're staring at it in the face and you're dealing with it setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions with

it are unfolding on capitol hill international filmmakers and world class journalists bring programs to inform and inspire you each and every one of us in the responsibility to change out 1st place for them in a pan al-jazeera. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha with the news hour from al-jazeera the headlines security forces in lebanon have fired water cannons at protesters who are angry at coronavirus locked up measures hundreds of people have been out of the streets of tripoli. the u.k. is tightening coronavirus travel restrictions travelers from 22 red list countries

will have to hotel pouring tea in for 10 days arrival of those wanting to leave the u.k. will have to provide essential reason. but iraq is dispersing threats made by the israeli military chief of staff who says that preparations are being made for a possible offensive against iraq that country's presidential chief of staff described the comments a psychological warfare. hillary mann leverett a sea of strategy a political risk can cause consultancy and who previously served as a state department official she says that things have changed significantly for the israelis since president trump left office. to have both the new body ministration here in washington and the rouhani administration in iran both at the same time prepared and determined to pursue diplomacy that's a fundamentally new dynamic that the israelis do not want to happen they're trying to prevent that diplomacy from going forward the 2nd which does not get reported

nearly as much as i think it should are these really domestic politics particularly for the military the military has seen in israel has seen its budget depleted over the past year by having to help the country contain code that they've caught on their military to do that scene distribution etc and that has really shrunk the idea of budget so it's very interesting in the general's comments he not only talked about the iran threat but spoke even more specifically about the billions of shekels that it's going to require the israeli military to have in the new budget on top of that the prime minister netanyahu is facing elections in march now the previous elections that netanyahu had not yahoo has had to face over the past 4 years while trump was in office they were difficult but they were not impossible in part because trump was willing to give netanyahu all sorts of gets moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem recognizing israeli an extension of the golan heights well

president biden is not going to do that so you have the israelis both in the political side with netanyahu in trouble because they're not in good stead with the by the administration and israel's military with its resources depleted on top of that they have the very real prospect the united states and iran resuming negotiations at a very high level. the united nations mission in somalia says that it doesn't expect next month's elections to go ahead dear to a lack of security there as perhaps it out of reports from nairobi. somalia once again finds itself a crossroad due to the every cutting political agreements or electoral processes a quarrel between the government in mogadishu and a list 2 of the major regional administrations in the country has delayed an electoral process that was supposed to have begun months ago and that should have seen the election of members of parliament and also members of the senate who in turn should have elected

a president for somalia on the 8th of february presidential candidates from the opposition parties have been voicing their concern over the delay with some of them pointing a finger at president mohamed a life or mother who they accuse of usurping power and wanting to extend his stay in office of course this is not the 1st time this is happening every election since political disagreements like this one and this particular one is mainly based on disagreements over the composition of the electoral commission which the opposition parties are saying include government security officials who they want to be taken out of these commissions the u.n. secretary general special representative to somalia jim swan has called on somalia's political leaders to dialogue and find a way out of the current stalemate ethnic groups in central mali have signed peace agreements after months of mediation it's been years of violence between america

herders and farmers in mali and the white as a whole region tension has existed for generations but an upsurge in attacks began 5 years ago with the arrival of armed groups of the serious nicholas hockin dakar and they bring senegal explains the details of the deal. it comes at a time where there's been an intensifying of violence and attacks in that specific region and so this peace agreement is for specifically for the full lonny in the doggone community living in the core area which is in central mon the next and what was happening what has happened so far is that in the absence of the money and state and of security well these 2 ethnic groups have resorted to armed militias so the doggoned have resorted to our militias for protection and the following is have mostly sought protection from armed groups such as. the mean.

affiliate and at the heart of all of this is access to land for the full on these were mostly herders it's access to land to graze their animals and for dog owners who are mostly farmers it's access to land to grow food and because of these intensifying drought because of the changing climate it's become increasingly difficult for these 2 communities that have been living side by side to share these common resources and so this peace agreement that brings these farmers and herders together to find a way to live as a community is significant because 2 years ago we saw deadly violence for lonny villagers being killed decimated burned to the ground 170 people killed in one day and doggone villages as well being being affected and killed. india's government has type in security in new delhi after an unprecedented day of protests by tens of thousands of follow us police and they say that all of 200 people have been detained in connection with tuesday's violence and they warn that more arrests

could follow. reports. the large protest is over but the tension lingers in the indian capital farmers who rallied against the government's new agricultural laws are gone removed from new delhi's famous landmarks the red fort instead of demonstrators and now there are additional soldiers guarding the city. but the protesters are nearby planning their next move there back in the outskirts of the capital where many have camped for the last 2 months a day after the violence their demands still stand the farmers want the government to repeal 3 laws who they say will eliminate subsidies and ruin their livelihoods. all right we're going to take you live now to washington where president biden is delivering remarks on his administration's plans to tackle climate change let's listen in by saying i can't tell you how much i appreciate the 3 people standing next to me here for what they've greed to do to help particularly my best buddy

john kerry asking a former secretary of state to come back and do this and. as i know it was a big ask on the part of myself i was going to i was gonna blame comma for it as well for both of us and but with john's been deeply involved the sector has been deeply involved in climate issues as a senator and one of the leaders legislatively as well and i don't think anybody knows more about the issue and the damage has been done by some of the executive orders of previous administration and you run everything you do thank you very much let me get to it today in this climate that the white house and which means that today is jobs day at the white house we're talking about american innovation american products american labor we're talking about the health of our families and cleaner water cleaner air and cleaner communities we're talking about national

security american leading the world in a clean energy future it's a future of an enormous hope and opportunity it's about coming to the moment to deal with this maximum threat that we exist where that's now face you know scott climate change with a greater sense of urgency in my view we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis we can't wait any longer now we see it with our own eyes we feel it we know it in our bones and it's time to act and i might say no parent benteke lee if you notice the attitude of the american people toward greater impetus on focusing on climate change and doing something about it has increased across the board democrat republican independent. and so that's why i'm signing today and exit executive order to supercharge administration ambitious plan to confront the existential threat of climate change that is a nexus tensile thread last year while fires burned more than $5000.00 acres in the

west as no one knows better than the vice president from former senator from california an area roughly the size of the entire state of new jersey more intense and powerful hurricanes and tropical storms pummeled states across the gulf coast and along the east coast i can testify to that from delaware historic floods severe droughts of ravaged the midwest more american seen feel the devastation in big cities small towns coastlines and farmlands and red states and blue states and the defense department report at the climate change is a direct threat to more than 2 thirds of the military's operational critical installations 2 thirds and so this could we could we could this could well be on the conservative side and many climate and health calamities are colliding all at once it's not just

a pandemic to keep people inside it's poor air quality multiple studies have shown that air pollution is associated with an increased risk of death from cove and 19 and just like we need a unified national response to cover 19 we desperately need a unified national response to the climate crisis because there is a climate crisis we must keep we must lead the global response because neither challenge can be met as secretary kerry has pointed out many times by the united states alone we know what to do we've just got to do it. when we think of climate change we think of it this is a case where conscience and convenience cross paths where dealing with the sex a sense of threat to the planet and increasing our economic growth and prosperity are one in the same when i think of climate change i think of that and the answers to it i think of jobs a key plank of our build back better recovery plan is building

a modern resilient climate infrastructure and clean energy future that will create millions of good pain union jobs not $781012.00 an hour but prevailing wage and benefits you know we can put millions of americans the work modernizing our water systems transportation our energy infrastructure to withstand the impacts of extreme climate we've already reached a point where we're going to live with what it is now that's going to require a lot of work all by itself without it getting any worse we think in renewable energy we see american manufacturing in america workers racy to lead the global market we see farmers making american agriculture 1st in the world to achieve net 0 emissions and gaining new sources of income in the process i want to parent than a cli fact the secretary of agriculture for helping to put together that program during the campaign we see small business and master electricians designing

installing and innovating energy conserving technologies and building homes and buildings and we're going to reduce electric consumption and save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and energy cost in the process and when the previous administration reversed the obama biden vehicle standard. and pick big oil companies over american workers the biden harrison astray tional not only bring those standards back we'll set new ambitious ones that our workers are ready to meet we see these workers building new buildings installing 500000 new electric vehicle charges tastes across the country as we modernize our highway system to read back to the changes have already taken place we see american consumers switching to electric vehicles through rebates and incentives and the residents of our cities and towns breathing cleaner air and fewer kids living with asthma and dying from it and not only that the federal

government owns and maintains and i'm norma sleeted vehicles as you all know with today's executive order combined with the by american executive order i signed on monday we're going to harness the purchasing power of the federal government to buy clean 0 emission vehicles that are made is sourced by union workers right here in america with everything i just mentioned this will mean 1000000 new jobs in the american automobile industry 1000000 and we'll do another thing would take steps towards my goal of achieving 100 percent carbon pollution free electric sector by 2035 transforming the american electric sector to produce power without carbon pollution will be a tremendous spurt of job creation and economic competitiveness in the 21st century not to mention the benefits of our health and to our environment already 84 percent

of all new electric capacity planned to come on to the electric grid this year is clean energy clean energy watt because it's affordable because it's clean because in many cases it's cheaper and it's where we're keeping up they're keeping up. we're going to need scientists the national labs langridge universities historical black colleges universities to innovate the technologies needed to generate store and transmit clean electric clean electricity across distances and better technology in a whole range of other things we need engineers to design them and workers to mount a faction we need iron workers and welders install them technologies they invent design and build will only be ultimately become cheaper than any other kind of energy helping us dramatically expand our economy create more jobs with a cleaner cleaner environment and will become the world's largest exporter of those

technologies create even more jobs you know we're also going to build $1500000.00 new energy efficient homes and public housing units that are going to benefit communities 3 times over one by alleviate a formal affordable housing crisis 2 by increasing energy efficiency and 3 barbary doocy the racial wealth gap linked to homeownership also create more than a quarter 1000000 jobs to do things like plug the millions of abandoned oil and gas wells that pose an ongoing threat to the health and safety of our communities their abandoned wells are open now and we're going to put people to work not going to lose jobs and these are going to create jobs we're going to get prevailing wage to cap those over a 1000000 wells these are pie in the sky dreams these are concrete actionable solutions and we know how to do this you know obama biden ministration reduce the

auto industry rescue the auto industry and help them retool. we need solar energy cost competitive with traditional energy weatherize the more we made it become cost competitive weatherizing more than a $1000000.00 homes recovery act of our diminished last inist aardman the democratic administration made record clean energy investments $90000000000.00 the president asked me to make sure how that money was spent on everything from smart grid systems to clean energy manufacturing now the buy in harrison ministration is going to do it again and go beyond the executive order i'll be signed in establishing the white house office of domestic climate policy and i'll be led by one of america's most distinguished climate leaders former e.p.a. director gina mccarthy as the head of the new office and my national climate

advisor gina will chair the national climate task force made up of many members of our cabinet to deliver a whole of government approach to the climate crisis this is not it's not time for small measures we need to be bold so let me be clear that includes helping revitalize the economies of coal oil and gas and power plant communities we have to start pretty new good paying jobs kapinos abandoned wells reclaiming mines turning old brownfield sites in the new hubs of economic growth creating new good paying jobs in those communities where those workers live because they helped build this country were never going to read the men and women who dug the coal and built the nation. we're going to do right by them make sure they have opportunities to keep building the nation in their own communities and getting paid well for it while the whole of government approach is necessary though it's not sufficient we're going to work with mayors and governors and tribal leaders and business leaders who are

stepping up and the young people organizing and leading the way my message to those young people is you have your for the full capacity empower the federal government your government is going to work with you on today's executive order also directs the sectarian cheerier to stop issuing new oil and gas leases on public lands and offshore and have an offshore waters wherever possible we're going to review and reset the oil and gas leasing program like the previous administration will start to properly managed unlike it we're going to start to properly manage lands and waterways in ways that allow us to protect preserve them that the full value that they provide for us for future generations and then be clear and i know it always comes up we're not going to ban fracking we'll protect jobs and grow jobs including through stronger standards like controls for methane lakes and union workers and

willing to install the changes unlike previous administrations i don't think the federal government should give handouts to big oil to the tune of $40000000000.00 in fossil fuel subsidies i'm going to be going to the congress asking them to eliminate those subsidies we're going to take money and invest in the clean energy jobs and. millions of jobs and when solar and carbon capture in fact today's action is going to help us increase no one in the production from offshore wind and meet our obligation to be good stewards of our public lands and establishes a new modern day civilian climate corps. now i call for when i was campaign aide to heal our public lands and make us less vulnerable to wildfires in floods look this executive order i'm signing today also makes it official that climate change will be this center of our national security and foreign policy as secretary kerry as

our special presidential envoy for climate with him the world knows how serious i am about one of america's by point i want to america's most distinguished statesman and all my closest friends speaking for america and one of the most pressing threats of our time john was instrumental in negotiating the paris climate agreement that we started to then we should not be rejoining this administration rejoined on day one as i promised in today's executive order will help strengthen that commitment by working with other nations to support the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change and to increase our collective resilience that includes a summit. of world leaders that all convene to address this climate crisis on earth day this year in order to establish a new effort to integrate the security implications of climate change as part of our national security risk assessment and analysis will also be included with this

executive order environmental justice will be at the center of all we do addressing the disproportionate health and environmental and economic impacts on communities of color so call fenceline communities especially those communities brown black native american poor whites it's hard to hard hit areas like cancer alley in louisiana cancer alley in louisiana or the route 9 carter in the state of delaware . that's why we're going to work to make sure that they receive 40 percent of the benefits of key federal investments in clean energy clean water and wastewater infrastructure lifted up these communities makes us all stronger as a nation and increases the health of everybody finally as with our fight against covert 19 we will listen to the science and protect the integrity of our federal response to the climate crisis earlier this month i nominated dr eric lander

a brilliant scientist who is here today to be the director of the office of science and technology i also nominated another brilliant scientists dr francis arnold and dr maria zuber to co-chair the president's council of advisors on science and technology so call peak asked the president eisenhower started 6 weeks after the launch of sputnik it's a team of america's top scientists charge of that. in the most american of questions what next what's the next big breakthrough and then helping us make the impossible possible today i'm sign a presidential memorandum making it clear that we will protect our world class scientists from political interference and ensure they can think research and speak freely and directly to me the vice president and the american people to summarize

this if you're going to order it's about jobs good pay new jobs it's about workers building our economy back better than before it's a whole of government approach for climate change at the center of our domestic national security and foreign policy it's in mansingh conservation revitalizing communities and cities and in the fall on the farm lands and secure environmental justice our plans are in vicious. but we are america we're bowl or unwavering new pursuit of jobs and innovation is science and this government we can do this we must do this and we will do this i'm not going to sign an executive order to meet the climate crisis of american jobs and american ingenuity and i want to thank you all rover sign that now.

read this. further we're i'm sorry it is tackling the climate crisis hold of the world. this next one who's doing trust in government you science and integrity and evidence based policy. but as president biden. make delivering his plans to tackle climate change we've waited too long to deal with this crisis he said the u.s.

must lead global the bubble response to climate crisis we can't wait any longer listening to that was our white house correspondent kelly how could it washington what did you make of it kimberly. well it's clear that this is a turning of the page with respect to the trumpet ministration to the biden administration we knew and he campaigned on this joe biden saying that there was going to be a significant shift in terms of trying to address what he saw as a next excess stench will threat and as a result we saw on day one he the intention to rejoin the paris climate accord since then we have seen other actions he cut the sort of advancement of the keystone pipeline to the disappointment of many in not just the united states but canada now he's going a step further essentially establishing a white house climate policy office making this a central part of every government action whether it be in terms of the finance

policy or on whether it be in terms of foreign policy it's very clear that this is something that they want to be a component of every aspect of government that's why you heard joe biden there saying a whole of government but the other thing you heard joe biden say maybe even a little bit too much was jobs creating jobs and why is he doing that he's trying to convince his critics who are already saying now is not the time to be killing energy jobs in place of other jobs when we have so many unemployed as a result of the pandemic and this is why you heard him saying the so many times was this grave concern by so many of his critics that in trying to address the climate change issue many people could be out of work a white house correspondent kelly how could reporting live from washington can believe for the moment many thanks indeed so once again president biden said that we've waited too long to deal with this crisis we can't wait any longer the u.s.

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