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welcome, everyone. the u.s. president biden going full-steam ahead in his first full week in office, he's planning a new wave of executive orders to dismantle more of donald trump's policies. but fighting coronavirus pandemic tops the new president's agenda, white house officials say he plans to reinstate international travel restrictions that trump had planned to lift. the white house also trying to get bipartisan support for nearly $2 trillion covid relief package. >> i believe president biden has made it very clear, the -- the plane is in a nose dive and we gotta pull it up, we're not going to do it overnight but we're going to pull it off,
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failure is not an option, so the president has a rescue plan, followed by a recovery plachb. -- plan. first you have to rescue the people and the economy and the president will bring everyone into the game. >> now more on president biden's plans to tackle the coronavirus. >> reporter: the white house is trying to drum up bipartisan support for president biden's $1.9 trillion covid relief package and over the weekend the president dispatched his e economic adviceor brian dies to speak with 16 senators, 8 republicans and 8 democrats as they look for bipartisan sign-on on the bill and some expressing unease about the size of the package, maine senator says it's too premature to be talking about a $2 trillion package and believes that bipartisan group could find a more targeted
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approach. one item deemed a priority on that call was money for covid vaccinations. but many of the senators wanted to see more details and find ways to ensure that americans who needed the money most would be the ones receiving it. now biden has been clear, he wants this to be tackled in a bipartisan manner but some democrats are pushing for him to pass the measure through reconciliation which would only require a simple majority. this was one of many meetings the white house is having on the topic as they've made it clear is a top priority item. on monday president biden will reinstate covid travel restrictions on non-u.s. citizens from brazil, uk, ireland and other european countries and he will also extend those restrictions to those who have recently travelled from south africa. this is just the latest attempt from the biden administration to try to curve the spread of the
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coronavirus pandemic which they've said is a top priority. cnn, the white house. >> just barely a year after recording its first case of covid-19, the u.s. is now past 25 million infections, it is by far the highest total in the world, of course, and it accounts for a quarter of all global cases. the good news some states are starting to see a dip in the infection race and experts say they could keep the numbers going lower if they move quickly on vaccinations but the head of the centers for disease control prevention is worried about the country's vaccine supply, noting that some states have run out of doses, even so, at this race vaccines are still expected to save thousands of lives in the months ahead and experts say they will likely protect against new variants of the virus however they warned the strain first found in the uk could be
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more deadly. >> we need to assume now that was has been circulating dominantly in the uk does have a certain degree of increase in what we call virulence, the power of the virus, to cause more damage, including death. >> that of course was dr. anthony fauci who also spoke of the personal struggles he faced in this crisis, telling the "new york times" he and his family has received death threats since the he spring and revealed the previous administration sometimes tried to discredit him whenever he contradicted the president. california is 9 the biggest who the spot in the u.s., they've seen some success in trying to fight it but there's still far more bad news then good. now powell the latest. >> reporter: the latest release of covid-19 is numbers out of california, mixed. there are a lot of new cases, more than 24,000 of them.
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the deaths still up there, 429. but the hospitalization have dipped below 18,000. perhaps a very good sign. but with all of these deaths there's extreme pressure on mortuary, in is one here for 90 years an the funeral director telling us she's had to hire more employees and put in a 24-hour answering service and mandate all viewings to be outside. it is daily stress. >> it's been really hard turning people away and just, you know, especially when they're upset. and you -- you have to tell them that, you know, i can put you on a wait list and -- and, you know, we'll get to you, you know, when your number comes up, which is, i don't think -- that's unheard of in our history.
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i've been doing it 25 years and i've never had this happen. >> all of california still trying to ramp up and get more shots into people's arms, more of those covid-19 vaccines. dodgers stadium closed down today by design but are hoping for a much better week as california is lagging way behind when it comes to getting the vaccinations for the people of this state. from los angeles, now back to you. michael? >> joining me from los angeles, cnn medical analyst jorge rodriguez good to see you, we're seeing dipping of numbers in u.s. and parts of europe, good, encouraging news but the numbers themselves are still frighteningly high, where do you stand as vaccines start to roll out. >> well, as vaccines start to roll out people need to realize vaccines are not the end all, and be all.
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they will definitely help us decrease transmission but we're not going to see their full effect for two to three months and in the interim we really need to do what we've always done, wear the mask, social distancing and washing our hands. so it's a great start. boy, we have a long way to go. >> yeah, i guess, do you see the number drop? do you think it's just the end of the holiday surge and we're going back to what has become quote/unquote normal numbers which of course is still devastating or do you see this as hopefully a sustainable trend? >> well, i think it is a trend, i think it's the ends of the holiday surge, we're now seeing a dip. my concern is we get too complacent with a little bit of success. we're yearning to get out into fresh out, but even a little bit
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of success shouldn't be taken as a excuse. i was reading something from canada president saying stay home we are still so high t saying stay home we are still so high r saying stay home we are still so high u saying stay home we are still so high trud saying stay home we are still so high e saying stay home we are still so high au saying stay home we are still so high . >> when we talk about variants, which could mean more deaths in the long term, one things that striking is the u.s. lags the world in genomic sequencing, showing the prevalence like 33 in the world we don't know how wide-spread statics are in the u.s. >> we don't, and it's embarrassing, we need to step it up, because one way of control
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the virus is knowing where it is going, in order to effectively change it. we've stepped up a little bit byu we need to lead the world with other countries like the uk and germany that are really on top of all of this. >> yeah they're leading in sequencing. interesting listening to dr. fauci talk about the hurdles he faced in the previous administration. makes you wonder how different the death rates in the u.s. might have been had they been done differently, do you look at it that way? >> i do. from the beginning i've been saying the problem was leadership and no real data. as much as i admire, right, i've been working in long-distance with dr. fauci, you know, i think there had been a time where i wished he had stepped up
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and said this is not true. but who knows. he could have been replaced with someone who was a trump loyalist and thing costs have been worse and things could have been worse. so they've been doing a great job, from the top down, biden out of the gate said we're going to beat this, speak honestly about it, we're going to do tough things in the next hundred years, i mean, hundred days, and that in and of itself was leagues ahead of what we had. >> yeah, one thing we learned is politics has no business being in the realm of science. doctor, got to leave it there, always good to see you. thank you so much. >> likewise, michael. as cases rise, countries around the world considering new restrictions to keep those new mutations of the virus at bay. the mexican president, andre manual lopez
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announced on twitter that he tested positive for the virus and -- in england there's early evidence that lockdown is making a difference. and to israel where a temporary ban on flights from all non-israel an airlines from the benurin airport will go into effect until the end of the month. it's now been a year since wuhan, china, saw the first of many coronavirus lockdowns around the world. since then nearly 100 million people have been infected with covid-19. now we report from the original epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. >> reporter: a city of mystery, cover up, agony, wuhan.
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cnn returning to the oregon metropolis of more than 11 million residents locked down. we left hours before. beginning a two-week quarantine in beijing. . for 76 days wuhan remained sealed. >> here we are again back one year later, to the seafood market that at one point was believed to have been by chinese authorities the ground zero of this outbreak. >> this time last year security ushered us away within minutes of reporting. now january 2021. no security. we've been walking around several minutes. they don't seem to care. >> that was until we started looking inside, and some random passer byes shouted and said don't be sneaking and vaguely identified himself as working for the government. told us to walk around to try the entrance. he said apparently we can go in.
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so we'll see if we can actually get inside the market. i'm going to ask this guy? can you go in? tell him we have a negative covid test. >> can't take the picture. >> okay no pictures. so clearly a bit sensitive. perhaps because we're foreigners or because we're journalists. >> the virus's otherin has been highly politicized, u.s. saying china allowed the virus to spread. and china saying the trump administration deflecting the own mishandle and i team now in wuhan tasked with trying to find the truth. with geo politics aside, the human suffering, it is universal. young woman spoke with us knowing she could face pressure from officials but a mother who lost her only daughter has no more to lose. >> when i sat down you thanked
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me for getting the truth out. what is the truth as you know it. >> translator: the local officials did not tell us about the pandemic, she said. measures were taken i would not have sent my child to the hospital, which was the source of the infection. last january her 24-year-old daughter had been receiving treatment for cancer and contracted covid-19 and died in early february. >> translator: when i speak about this some parts of my heart still ache. >> amid the deep pain we had moments of hope. this woman at a market told me she was terrified but stayed fearing the financial burden. 12 months later we met again. at that time, i was crying all the time. we were suffering and scared. the pain still visible in her eyes. she says the people of wuhan are resilient, liking them to heros. >> i'm so glad to see you 345id
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it through the lockdown and you're healthy. >> the market mood remarkably different from last year. business bustling. people much more at ease. >> would you say wuhan is back open and on the path to recovery? >> it's no the just start from now, he says, it started very early, to be honest. in my opinion wuhan had already began to recover from mid to late march. the delivery driver here has become well-known on social media as he chronicled life during the lockdown. the then and now are striking, a city amid the lockdown, next to images that shocked the world outside of china. and a new year's celebration that brought wuhan residents shoulder to shoulder. but with outbreaks across china many wearing masks and cautious of the unknowns and haunting memories of the
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lockdown kept millions of residents along with their grief sealed inside. for some, only now, 12 months later, it is just beginning to surface. cnn wuhan. >> u.s. lawmakers are bracing for the second impeachment trial of former president trump, when we come back we'll have details on the big move house leaders are set to make in just a few hours. we'll be right back. d i'd like your best new smartphone deal. oh do ya? actually it's for both new and existing customers. i feel silly. but i do want the fastest 5g network. oh i want the fastest 5g network. are we actually doing this again? it's not complicated. only at&t gives everyone the same great deal. like the samsung galaxy s21 5g for free when you trade in.
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out. >> reporter: it's history in the making once again as capitol hill prepares for the second donald trump impeachment trial, a bit different from the first, he's now out of office, he's out of town, and he's off twitter, very different from last time. nonetheless there's still some similarities. for example, once again the house impeachment managers will take the long walk across the united states capitol to deliver the one article of impeachment to the united states senate and read the article before the united states senate. normally after such things occur the impeachment trial is supposed to start in earnest at 1:00 p.m. the next afternoon but the united states senate has bought itself some time, in fact, they're going to stay out two weeks before they begin the trial in earnest, coming back february 9th. there's been a lot of suggestion that this trial will be quicker than the last one but that's not clear simply because republicans are all over the place on what
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to do. >> i think the trial is stupid. i think it's counter productive. we already have a flaming fire in the country and like pouring gas on the fire. >> i think it's a moot point because donald trump is no longer the president, he's a former president. constitution and, i think -- others may disagree but article one i think sections 6 and 7 specifically point out that you can impeach the president and it does not skate does not indicate you can impeach someone not in office. >> the preponderance of impeaching someone not in office is constitutional i think it's clear the effort is pretty constitutional. >> the united states senate is divided 5050 between democrats
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and republicans, two-third majority is needed to convict it all democrats vote to convict, 17 republicans will have to vote with them. back to you. >> thanks to jones. as you heard many republicans are against this impeachment. cnn correspondent spoke with senate democrat elizabeth warren. >> i can't imagine how republican opposition to insurrection would fade over the space of a couple weeks. we are talking about a president who stood in front of a mob and told them to go to the capitol and invade. told them to go to the capitol and stop the lawful business of government so that he could try to stay in the white house. that is so fundamentally wrong. i just -- we have to think about
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what's at issue. you know, donald trump for years has broken so many norms and had people say over and over they are shocked by what he does, but this one, insurrection. this is the first time since the civil war that we have seen someone a politician encourage people to take up arms against the united states government and it's lawful actions. we need accountability. accountability for donald trump and accountability for everyone who participated in that insurrection. >> you know, now republicans are talking about unity, that was big theme of president biden's address, and they think unity means compromising on policy. how do you see it? >> let me start with how about if we're unified against insurrection. how about if we're unified for
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accountability. unity starts with accountability. and then unity is about doing the work that the american people want done. it's not about ideology. it's not about helping just the richest americans or some interest group. unity is about doing things that the american people want to see us do, like a $15 hour minimum wage, like cancelling student loan dead and expanding social security social security security and universal child care, things needs across this country, if we want unity get on board with what american people want. meanwhile trump's former press candidate returnings a candidate, sarah sanders running for governor of arkansas. her father mike huckabee was
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governor between 1996-2007. a number of republicans have announced their bid because she's seen as a early favorite, sanders was trump's second press secretary. she left the white house in 2019. less than a week into the job, u.s. president joe biden moving quickly on a major campaign promise to tackle climate change. we'll talk to one expert about some of the president's ambitious plans and whether rejoining the paris agreement will be enough to help. we'll be right back. we were the first to bring 5g nationwide. and now that sprint is a part of t-mobile we're turning up the speed. upgrading over a thousand towers a month with ultra capacity 5g. to bring speeds as fast as wifi to cities and towns across america. and we're adding more every week. coverage and speed. who says you can't have it all?
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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and
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around the world i'm michael holmes, you're watching ""cnn newsroom"" hasn't taken biden long to tackle i climate change. in his call to french president emmanuel macron hope that the return to paris climate change he signed to rejoin on wednesday his first day in office and voted to revoke can key stone pipeline and put halt on -- compared to trump rolled back 175 actions related to climate change according to researchers at columbia university. clearly the international community is happy to hear biden's commitment to the environment with european union reps tweeting a net zero pledge by the u.s. would mean more than
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half the world's emissions would be accounted for. now i want to bring in a former climate advisor to the u.n. secretary general moon good to see you. how much time was lost in this fight. >> thank you so much michael and for having me. i any it's excellent i think it's excellent that the administration placed climate change as one of its top four priorities. you're absolutely right the administration has catch up and confidence-building to do. timeout indeed has been lost in this very important issues. >> often to curb emissions and economic impact are seen as a economic burden, isn't it the
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fact that they're job creators. >> absolutely. many think tanks have proven that there's loads of opportunity to be had with rene renewables, the smart grid, infrastructure, rebuilding, retrofitting buildings, et cetera, with really green transition that is not only needed but inevitable at this point. so there's loads of opportunities. in fact, it's the fastest growth sector. and there's shortages in many of the labor opportunities. so in engineering. electricians. many of the skills that are needed, there are shortages in those fields, and so anybody looking ahead recognizes the opportunities in skill sector in training but also in in investment. >> yeah solar panels are in short supply. it's interesting when it's an economic benefit and a no-brainer for the environment as well.
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rejoining the paris accord, rolling back changes to environmental regulations is a start. but what more needs to be done? this is getting to the point of no return if stuff doesn't change immediately zbrx yeah, y -- >> yeah, yeah. it's no small feat, there's a lot to be done and they're going to be very welcome when they return to the table in glass go at the end of the year and they've done a lot of smart maneuvers, respective to the former head of the epa as well, very welcome and intelligent people in it space. so they're reaching out to the various leaders in this space right out of the gate, however, i think, they'll be welcome but soon afterwards there's going to be high expectations to be
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delivering on ambition. >> right. >> so currently, the last obama administration's plans which were naturally determined contributions that were expected to be ramped up in glass go that plan is only halfway being met. it was ramped up -- sorry, the expectation was 28% of reductions of emissions of 2005 levels by 2028. the united states has not delivered to that and there will be expectations for them to do much more. so they're going to be welcomed but there's going to be expectations, welcome back, but we expect you to do much more. >> time is short and so is our time so real quick. there's still a lot of big money in political power that fights the climate action how strong is that lobby even as the evidence mounts of damage done. >> well, of course, there's a lot of -- lot of entrenched interest in the united states and around the world on
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infrastructure and interests in old ways, things that have been done, so i think it's going to take -- the biden/harris administration will have to be very transparent how they do business and who they do business with. they're going to go forward with humility and and transparency. that will need to be front and center to be trusted actors in this space. >> powerful forces. thank you so much. appreciate your time. >> absolutely. thank you. we're going to take a quick break. when we come back, economic recover y from the pandemic will take year for many, but for the world's billionaire's not so much. it was a nine-month blip in their pocket. the growing divide between the rich and poor when we come back.
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at least two people in the state of washington were sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a police officer drove through a crowd. warning, this video of that incident is disturbing. you will see the car running over at least one person and seems to strike several others as it goes through the crowd. there's another angle too. that officer responded to reports that a large group gathered to watch street racing. the officer drove through the crowd after the crowd surrounded the vehicle and began hitting its windows and you can see the police car rolls over one of the people. the incident under investigation and the officer is placed on administrative leave. now billionaires around the globe have already recovered from the coronavirus pandemic while poor looking at years to
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catch up. billionaire's weather grew by $3.9 trillion in 9 months through the pandemic. but the number of living in poverty might have increased up to 500 million last year. for the first time ever the pandemic can increase economic inequality in nearly every country at once. we'll have more on that in the hours ahead. i'm michael holmes, for our international viewers, "world sport" is next, for everyone else in the united states, the news continues, i'll be back after the break. ew smartphone deal. oh do ya? actually it's for both new and existing customers. i feel silly. but i do want the fastest 5g network. oh i want the fastest 5g network. are we actually doing this again? it's not complicated. only at&t gives everyone the same great deal.
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welcome back. the coronavirus outbreak in the u.s. is taking a disproportionate toll in native americans in both cases and deaths, cdc analysis found native americans in 14 states died at twice the rate of white-americans. homes in some reservations lack basic infrastructure like electricity and running water making it harder to combat the
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virus. not all tribal lands are rural, take this jurisdiction in oklahoma including the city of tulsa not everyone is nate-american there but there's been more than 101,000 cases, about 13% of the population. as native americans lose lives to covid, tribes are losing irreplaceable knowledge. now the press secretary for that nation joins me now. tell us how covid has effected your community, we hear of hospital beds and ventilators and many in your community in tough locations, how tough has it been. >> first of all, thanks for having me. it's been devastating for us because of a two-sided loss. when we have people that are contracting this virus and the demographic its hitting we're
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seeing it be a lot of our elderly population, you're talking about traditional knowledge and ceremonial information is that you can't find anywhere in the world but in that person, oral traditions and histories passed down for years and-years and years and that goes away with them as well and each of these people are specific to each ceremonial ground they attend. so there's a lot of different specific information that is, you know, inherent to those places and those people and it's just an incredible loss. >> as you say, it's a tragic loss of life to start, but you're talking about cultural loss as well. i read that some tribes are putting fluent indigenous language speakers to the front of vaccination lines. that's just one things. just try to give people who don't know the native american culture a sense of how important
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it is when you lose things like that. >> well, michael, i think what a general audience that it wouldn't be privy to native culture wouldn't understand mostly is that moskogee language and custom and tradition, the religion handed to us from the creator, not taught from a missionary or anything like that, those very archaic principles and history are what make us muskogee. you go anywhere in the world there's specific place that know the language. it is what makes us who we are, the identifying uniqueness is the thing we can't lose because we if if we don't have
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the language that separate us from others then the culture is dissolved an the culture is everything. >> absolutely. what steps are taken to, sort of, both mitigate the loss of life but also to preserve the culture and community. i know there's a history of mistrust of the government and vaccinations but what's being done to mitigate and preserve. >> thank you, michael. that gives me a chance to talk about all of the good news since the vaccination is available. we've already vaccinated over 6,000 citizens and as you mentioned in that tier group, the first tier group, we're talking about language speakers, cultural-knowledge, whether it be in storytelling, songs, histories, things like that, our traditional elders, but also our first responders, the people who are charged with taking care of those folks on
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the front lines of this. we have two community hospitals that serve all people not just natives but we serve the entire community as well as our health care service clinics and we're vaccinating teachers, specifically of the language as well. so what we're doing is we're taking that tier one group, that's our most vulnerable, that has our elders, our people with pre-existing, longstanding medical conditions, also that, like i said, that ceremonial knowledge, we're bringing all of that together in that first tier. and that's the first batch of vaccinations. you're right, there is a lot of mistrust we've had to combat with really sound messaging. we've had to show some of our elders getting their vaccine. we've had to show people going and saying, here's what's happening. here's the side effects. pleads, we cannot afford to lose anybody else. i know there's mistrust. but if you won't trust the government, trust our people
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that are there taking it and saying, let's all get vaccinated and let's be safe. >> right. it's so important, and i really appreciate you coming on and talking about the challenges but also the successes. and wish you well. i mean preservation of culture, it couldn't be more important. jason salsman, thank you so much. >> thank you. and in our language, it's there is no good-bye. we'll see you again. >> i appreciate that. and we'll see you again. now, the former coordinator for donald trump's white house coronavirus task force, dr. deborah birx -- remember her -- she said she always considered quitting the job because her colleagues believed she'd become too political. in an interview with cbs news, birx also said she had no idea where trump was getting some of his information. >> i saw the president presenting graphs that i never made, so i know that someone or
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someone out there or someone inside was creating a parallel set of data and graphics that were shown to the president. i know what i sent up, and i know that what was in his hands was different from that. you can't do that. you have to use the entire -- >> who was doing that? >> to this day, i don't know. >> dr. birx says contradicting statements from political leaders derailed her team's response to the virus, which is why she began traveling across the u.s. to spread accurate information without being censored. now, this year's world economic forum is meeting virtually. it's usually held, of course, in davos, switzerland with a lot of fanfare and nice meals. we're still expecting to hear from the world's political and financial leaders but of course covid changes everything. kristie lu stout is covering the forum from hong kong, no davos. no swiss ski resort for you this
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year. what should we expect? >> reporter: no fondue this year at all. it's not happening in the town of davos, but it is taking place. the world economic forum this year is virtual. it's showcasing a virtual davos all this week, showcasing about 2,000 global political and business leaders who will be speaking, including the german chancellor angela merkel, include christine lagarde, the ecv chief, as well as the indian prime minister, the japanese prime minister, and a headline speaker who will be speaking later tonight, xi jinping, the chinese president. they will all be speaking on the theme this week, a crucial year to rebuild trust. the key note speaker is chinese president xi jinping. he is due to speak 8:00 p.m. beijing time. he's set to address china's success in reining in the coronavirus and china's call for global cooperation in pandemic response and global health as
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well as in climate change. this will be xi jinping's second davos appearance after he made his debut in 2017 just days before the inauguration of u.s. president donald trump. and in that speech, xi jinping hailed china as a leader of multilateralism. he hailed china as a leader of economic globalization, and he also issued a warning about a trade war. take a listen to what he said back then. >> translator: say no to protectionism. pursuing protectionism is like locking oneself in a dark room while wind and rain are kept outside. so are light and air. no one will emerge as a winner in a trade war. >> reporter: again, that was xi jinping speaking back in 2017. trade experts say the trade war has caused collateral damage on both sides. all lies on what xi jinping will say in a few hours from now, believed to be an address given to the biden administration as he's giving these remarks just days after the inauguration of
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joe biden. >> and to that point, where does the u.s./china trade war stand now? what could come next on that front? >> reporter: well, at the beginning of 2020, that so-called trade war truce was announced. both sides, u.s. and china, announced an end to trade war and china pledged that it would purchase hundreds of billions of u.s. goods. that really hasn't panned out yet, and there are also plenty of loose ends. the trade war never really dealt with the issue of china's preference, its favoritism towards state-owned enterprises and the lack of intellectual property rights inside the country. we know joe biden when he was still president-elect back in december, said that he would allow the trade war tariffs to remain in place as his administration undergoes a review of its strategy in regards to china. but given just the widespread popular support and bipartisan support in america for a tough
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on china trade policy, it's not expected for the war to end anytime soon. michael. >> absolutely. good to see you, kristi, covering it from there. no fondue for you and no snow boots. you're stuck at home. all right. before we go, super bowl lv is now set. the kansas city chiefs will look to repeat as champs and they'll face tom brady and the tampa bay buccaneers february 7th in tampa. that makes it the first time in nfl history that a team will play for the title in their home stadium. it will be brady's tenth appearance in a super bowl. all the others, of course, came with the patriots. the nfl giving free tickets to the game to thousands of health care workers fighting the pandemic. never forgiven tom brady for beating the atlanta falcons. thank you for watching cnn newsroom. i'm michael holmes. i'll be back with more news in just a moment.
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we are just hours away from the article of impeachment being delivered to the senate, beginning the process of putting donald trump on trial for an historic second time. meanwhile, president joe biden tackling the coronavirus pandemic with even more restrictions in place. plus much of the world's population has plunged deeper into poverty because of the pandemic, but the rich are seemingly unaffected. we'll take a closer look at why that is. hello and welcome to "cnn newsroom," everyone. appreciate your company. i'm michael holmes.

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