good to get a bit of. a . busy job you news wire from berlin donald trump makes his final farewell to the nation as west president our agenda was not about right or left it was about republicans or democrats. good combination we've got a hold. trumpet tout his achievements and wishes biden luck without mentioning him by name. also coming up germany's coronavirus restrictions will stay in place until the middle of february the recent drop in infection rates wasn't enough to ease for

stretch and stricter mass forms will now come into force as part of tougher measures to control new variants of cope at 19. plus a smells like teen spirit 17 year old florida invites scores the game winner against top names to list laver cruising to 2nd place in the bundesliga just 2 points behind to beat leader inspired munich. hello i'm claire richardson welcome to the show donald trump has made his final farewell speech after 4 to mulch u.s. years as u.s. president 2 weeks ago the world watched in horror as a mob of his supporters storm to the u.s. capital president trump is breaking with a longstanding american tradition and will not attend the inauguration of his successor president elect joe biden on wednesday and a 20 minute recorded speech he wished the next administration luck and defended his america 1st legacy. 4 years ago i came to washington as the only true outsider

ever to win the presidency i had not spent my career as a politician but as a builder looking at open sky lines and imagining infinite possibilities i ran for president because i knew there were towering new summits for america just waiting to be scaled i knew the potential for our nation was founded as long as we put america 1st america had given me so much and i wanted to give something back together with millions of hardworking patriots across this land we built the greatest political movement in the history of our country we also built the greatest economy in the history of the world it was about america 1st because we all wanted to make america great again we restored the principle that a nation exists to serve its citizens our agenda was not about right or left it

wasn't about republican or democrat but about the good of a nation and that being the holding. washington correspondent joins us now with the latest all over this is trying to last her off at least as sitting president what were the key points he wanted to get across. well he's certainly trying to rewrite history to some extend we'll also volatile this is only the beginning the question is the beginning of what is it really because he's banned from social media you no longer will get the attention of a u.s. president of course and then he has this impeachment trial looming so he might even be banned from future office other than that that was very much a teleprompter speech he delivered there a teleprompter try praised his own achievements of his presidency also some kind of a new sound in there wishing joe biden good luck that was definitely a new also no word of his baseless claims of voter fraud here so we will have to

see then what we will hear from donald trump in the future all over senate republican leader mitch mcconnell on tuesday explicitly blamed trump for provoking the insurrection at the capitol in which 5 people died and that was 2 weeks ago already why did he wait until now to speak up. well he had made some references before to his thinking that he has a critical take on the role president trump played in inside thing this violent mob so it didn't come as a big surprise to hear from him of course one day before his departure is a special moment in time it means also that mitch mcconnell has been back pedaling from his old position because he used to be a very loyal supporter of president trump throughout his whole presidency throughout the 1st impeachment proceeding also he supported his baseless claims of voter fraud or at least remained silent throughout this whole aftermath of the

presidential election so we'll have a lot of impact really because mitch mcconnell is the most influential republican in congress and as you know with the republicans or the democrats of better will need some 17 republican senators to change the political aisle to convict trump and mitch mcconnell plays a crucial role here and washington d.c. has been on high alert in these days leading up to biden's inauguration with law enforcement a fearing a potentially insider attack and we now know is that 12 members of the national guard have been removed from providing security for the event after they were found to have ties to right wing militia groups what can you tell us about that. well you know 1st of all it's important to know that there are some 25000 national guard troops deployed draw down of course you have soldiers from both sides of the political aisle within the body and of course some could potentially be radicalized

if you get if you consider the political atmosphere in the country right now also the f.b.i. was considering an insider attack some 12 members have been removed there were vetted of course some were replaced also there were some arrests some civilians have tried to enter. the capitol compound with fake credentials so you can really see there is a tense atmosphere here in washington d.c. as we go into an inauguration ceremony that will be unlike any other that we've seen before. in washington d.c. thanks so much for your reporting. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world and rescuers in china are stepping up efforts to try to reach some 22 miners trapped in a gold mine in eastern china the men have been stuck underground since an explosion damaged the entrance to the mine in shandong province 10 days ago authorities have managed to establish contact with some of the miners the fears for their survival

are growing. protesters have rallied in tunisia capital tunis after several nights of violence mostly young protesters demanding jobs and the release of detainees a 3rd of the north african nations young people are on floyd demonstrations come as tunisia marks 10 years since its part arab spring uprisings. and turning to germany now which is getting tougher on the coronavirus despite a drop in new infections the government has just announced measures that will see the current lockdown extended to made february and imposes stricter mask roles the country's leaders hope the restrictions can stem the spread of new coronavirus variants believed to be more transmissible. just as infection numbers were starting to decline in germany variant strains of covert 19 believed to be more contagious couldn't do all the hard work there have been isolated cases of some

strains and authorities want to get on top of the threat. it isn't just the scientists tell us that it's is not yet dominant this still time so to speak to contain the dangerousness of course it would be wrong to conclude that we still have all the time in the world to act we have to act now. so just over a month into germany's current shutdown the chancellor and the 16 state premiers agreed to extend the existing measures until mid february large parts of public life will remain closed like schools and day cats but also shops museums theaters and dine in restaurants there will be a lot more of these to be seen medical masks will be compulsory on public transport and in shops f f p 2 masks offer greater protection a common surgical masks will also be allowed and there's to be much more working

from home the government is imposing stricter rules to stop office workers from commuting as much reducing the infection risk on public transport germany's leaders are once again appealing for patience. it's hard what we have to expect of people but the precautionary principle has priorities that's what we have to take into account and that is what we have taken into account today for now the public is mostly on side recent polling shows 40 percent are happy with stricter measures while just over 20 percent would prefer things to stay as they are but around a 3rd one tristrem actions to be eased or and completely. before that happens there's likely to be some hard weeks ahead infection rates are still nearly 3 times the preferred level but with patience persistence and sticking to

the rules authorities hope the pandemic will start to loosen its grip over germany . and for more let's bring in chief political editor michelle who was at that press conference where medical spoke and stricter measures have been just cited what is germany's strategy here well now is shifting into a preventative strategy in fact a lot of those measures won't even deepen that terribly much only on schooling really there's no longer a requirement for children to be present anywhere in any in schools the real significance here is that there's an extension until moved forward despite the fact that there is a downward trend in terms of the rate of new infections so that's positive news and yet german chancellor angela merkel insisted that now was the time to prevent those mutations of viruses taking over she cited particularly britain also ireland

but potentially also brazil and south africa and the fear is with those strains believed to be way more contagious than because at 19 we know so far that they could be simmering underneath those decreasing figures those positive signals and that there then could suddenly be exponential growth so for now it's a message just hold out there and continue this lockdown here and many now what do you imagine chancellor angela merkel's mood will be after making this announcement . well she was trying to be a bit of beat but now germans will be required to wear a medical mask when they go into shops and on public transport there's also a legal requirement now for employers to allow for people to work from home unless there's a significant reason for them not to so this is yet another change she knows that this is a strain also on the patients of germans and yet she really signals that it is worth it and that she is once again simply following what the scientists have

mapped out for her she's never really happen coming out of these hours long meetings with the state premiers because it's a difficult one they are the ones who will the power in the end to implement these lockdown measures but she was trying to be upbeat and speaking of patience the meeting did take longer than expected what exactly was the hold up well there's something like a traditional sticking point here which is schooling because because that clearly is within the or storage of the individual federal states here in germany and there has been quite a patchy scene in terms of which children must not go to school at all some were still required to go well that has now been evened out there's no requirement for kids to go to school but as much as there is a looming fear of the move taishan of viruses there's also a growing tangible concern amongst decision makers that the social factor could get

just as pressing as the medical factor here in this pandemic our chief political editor michelle thank you very much. thank you now let's turn to some german football now laver cruzan defeated barista dortmund in the big a midweek a boon this legal showdown floor invites was the man or should we say the teenager of the hour who helped leverkusen a notch an important 3 points and keep their shot at the league title alive after not winning since mid december. both leverkusen and dortmund wanted to get back to winning ways the mid-week action. labor because in fired the 1st warning shot in just the 2nd minute. 17 year old thought he invests launched a rocket that was almost too hot for roman burkey and his defense to handle. 12 minutes later leon bailey sent a beautiful long pass to mossad dia b. who coolly slotted it into the next nice job controlling the ball before taking his

shot. dortmund equalized midway through the 2nd half thanks to you leon brunt a powerful effort from long range for his 1st goal of the season. but laver cozen had the last word late teenage of vets hitting the target this time with a shock that was faster than burkey 21 the final score. a refusing get their 1st win since mid december and remain very much in the title race. and cloud back were hoping to get back to winning ways after their draw on saturday but they 1st have to get past a stubborn fact of bremen nico obeidi broke the deadlock around the one hour mark the clock offender used his head to latch on to an incoming free kick for his 1st opponents take a goal of the season. take away an important 3 points in their quest for

a top 4 finish. that's a news update at this hour stay tuned for deja vu news africa and play richardson in berlin if you want latest news you can of course go to our web site t w dot com or check out our social media asked. for me and told seen in berlin thanks so much for watching just. imagine how many forces homeless. us right now in the world climate change is a whole story this is my plan same way from just one week. we're going to really get it. we still have time to act i'm doing. it. plus a. high value meal and i'm game did you

know that 17 trillion land animals are killed worldwide but it's not just the animals little suffering it's the environment if you want to know how always lift up the priest and the cultural change to us as we think is listen to our podcast on the green and. this is d w news africa coming up on the program. in the streets of london i'll say election results are going for the stock contrast to the despair felt by office in the central african republic forced to flee the country as rebels try to take down the government also coming up. keenly following calls proceedings a former president for hamas to express pentacle swaddle to court by the legitimacy of his presidency.

i am eddie mica jr and you are welcome to the program it's now official in the central african republic president faustina conj has been reelected he managed an absolute majority in the 1st round of voting. in the country's constitutional courts funded beach at the provisional results on monday seeing. why there i received over 53 percent of the whole. election was mobbed by new votes out 10 out but i call it rejected arguments the results were fraudulent. everything outside the constitutional court here is a bit of what people on the streets of bungie have to say. he's a man who started to do well here and will continue to do well i'm so happy when you are so great you see what's going on people have no problem with him despite

the rebels despite the coalition the president's been reelected they're going to. want to spoil these elections and we stood firm means appears there but were central africans and the country belongs to one it's not the country of a single individuals and it's the country of all central africa to now if you had the vote in the 2 place despite a coalition of rebel groups staging a field coup that would be for the rebels have websense them to disrupt security just monday they killed 2 united nations peacekeepers in an ambush the violence extends to attacks on civilians and that has led to an exodus of thousands from the central african republic into neighboring countries including. reports that he's a young reports now form that god the refugee come just across the border from the central african republic. lucy arrived here in cameroon on friday after fleeing an attack on her village by central african republic rebels she

walked in the forest with her husband for 3 days before reaching the border. but she doesn't know what's happened to her 2 children she believes they managed to escape with her parents. what you saw started on the. the rebels came out at night they came with weapons and that's the reason why we fled they were shooting everywhere and people started running away many people died and they burned houses. physical exhaustion and psychological trauma are taking a toll on these new arrivals the united nations says about $60000.00 ca are refugees have fled to neighboring countries since the most recent conflict began after december's election more than 5000 of them are in cameroon like abbott who fled fighting with his wife and 3 children want to use the mob we saw fighting in the city center of boy we saw

a corpse and the young man was there for probably 2 days we saw bodies after the fighting between rebels and soldiers i saw 3 people dead at around about. continued fighting in the ca our new refugee shelters are being constructed here at gado refugee camp these men refugees themselves are helping the u.n. h.c.r. to build new makeshift homes gado was already the biggest camp for ca are refugees in cameroon now it's expecting more people. in the past 3 weeks close to $300.00 of these tents how many cost talked at by u.n. to c o u n n justice here see by the end of the month they're expecting at least $5.00 times and more if from the central african republic. resources are quickly drying up as thousands of people continue to cross over to eastern cameroon from the central african republic the majority are children. in the camp is being

overwhelmed. as you continue. on only if the conflict continues we have seen another site. up to the government will provide us with another site to settle new arrivals. to the camp where we are at the moment was designated 426000 but we're close 227500. so you can see that with the conflict this camp will become extremely saturated it will be good to create other camps to take the pressure off this one. lucy is uncertain where her children might be she can only hope they're safe with her parents for now she's too frightened to return and will try to rebuild from a distance while in cameroon like thousands of her compatriots forced to flee their homes. and now many are glued to television sets across the country people are following

what's happening at the supreme court because the court started hearing it to sion about the december presidential elections precedents on their father was declared when i by the electoral commission and is continuing his 2nd and final term in office bought former president john muhammad is challenging the election results he believes that no candidates got more than the 50 percent needed to win and that it was unconstitutional for the electoral commission to be clear. so what do some think about the court process well we took our comrades of the streets in the crowd to fish they are thoughts we experts and the judges to give. us to open fire to the issue and also get the country running a small fast as we want to speak to and that's the big question both today writes with us then give us information on how credible claims of the n.t.

is this would give us. this shit out and. show us that everything detail information and what is wrong and what happened and how come all these happened. while the n.p.t. everyone is fighting for peace but we are not looking at this level ok so i think. korean favorite. will bring this. country remove us. and. i think. it is their right to seize improves things do you think. the outcome should be that. went on. the pitch right so that. the report. from knowledge

joined by some of. the university for professional studies who is closely monitoring for students time. who is thinking who to call it and what exactly. former president john muhammad's high speed supreme court had the president of the florida. elected and. he's asking for a runoff between him and the current president ok. his demands about what are some of the humans made by the respondents against the petition so far. the president says that there's no merits in the petition in the supreme court to dismiss the action believed to details they seem to be said by day in the truck commission full of them to be read as a shelf to fill my present job mama that's a lesson she go into every one. ok whether they are in agreement or not called for

says house began but here's what i want to understand in 2012 it took about 8 months for your credit to be reached in a similar case but this time a ruling is expected in 42 days what's changed and how realistic is the timeline. what the changes is because in the 1st time in 20 states who was the face time gallows going through such an election petitions to the we've led to last fall from the time that we spend and realize that economically and politically to good for the country and also they've been if you change the chief justice it's only keys in 20 states and it's you just similarly case they judges who sits on the case not only one case and that she just says is that one was part of the $22.00 petition. been reduced from night to 7 so everything is being done to ensure that the able to

meet a spot of 42 days and then lose have also been changed slightly the i love them to team on this issue objections and and to lead by lawyer is everything to gulu smooth be as pretty as possible ok and now what the benefits of such you called for seating to the electoral or democratic process. obviously there is that. harrington rule of law instead of disagreeing and cheese or. people mover so to court. that we please because it's justice and also a hell seem to violate trust system we get to know some of the mistakes and then correct it just like in 20 to take we knew a lot of mistakes and this time around they were corrected by. copying or sight

ok quickly what's the possible outcomes from this petition in court. to plausible outcomes you. say. to just raise b t you and the president and the defense about 500000. even if they were any come out of the tail that the president was. but if you have which established that indeed there were lots of figure he said it affects the. way. ok i guess only time will tell how things will go. on academic thank you for your time. and i was all time well our on the show for more boss stories you can go to our websites d.w. dot com slash africa or you can also check out our facebook and twitter pages

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. what secrets lie behind teams will. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. b.t.w. world heritage 360 get the maps now. the power of the american purse could soon be in her hands and janet yellen says she's ready to use it the nominee for treasury secretary telling senators today the u.s. needs to spend big now to push recovery and following a tough line on chinese trade practices. also on the show he employs more than $50000.00 americans and was initially a fan of donald trump's tax cuts we asked seamon c.e.o. joe peyser for his appraisal of the trump years. who are welcome to the show i'm

stephen beers in berlin it's good have you with us oh u.s. president elect joe biden's nominee for treasury secretary janet yellen is pushing for a big stimulus package to save the u.s. economy a former federal reserve chair woman spoke to a senate committee on tuesday she would be the 1st woman in the position and one of the 1st few and one of the few rather treasury secretaries with an economics and policy background rather than a career on wall street yellin wants congress to approve close to 2 trillion dollars in pandemic rescue funds in the face of a ballooning deficit. and here's what she said to justify the spending to the committee on tuesday. needed to precede intellect. relief. was there i didn't appreciate the clink. but right now with interest rates at historic lows and smartest thing we can do is act. in the long run i believe the benefits will far outweigh the costs especially if we have helping

people who've been struggling for a very long. or have more on this let's go to our financial correspondent in new york yes korda hi there yes. debt used to be a bad word in the u.s. is that changing well i mean it's definitely quite mind blowing if you look at the debt level in the united states the wall st john of by the way erased the question how much debt is too much debt by that judy also the join or did not really have a clear answer to that what we do know is that it's a government debt that jenny increased by about 7 trillion dollars in the past them for a years and it is going to increase even further and janet yellen was obviously a convinced that at this point there is no other way but to go big care to increase the debt level to get the economy going and by the way that she was supporting the

aid package that joe biden proposed them last week in the amount of $1.00 trillion dollars and she's already talking about a 2nd picture it's coming maybe later this year so for now the debt level is clearly increasing and nobody really has an answer right now how to get rid of that debt for the foreseeable future or yes i want to look at something else that yellen said during that panel. we need to take a long train it's abusive unfair and practices and these practices clue to china. it's our practices appear to use the full rate tools to redress he's important. work with iced. saying they're the full a ray of tools to address chinese trade behavior we could take that to mean tariffs

potentially is this just a continuation of trump policy well i mean what we definitely see is that this is the big rivalry of our current times between the 2 biggest economies some on the planet and that's not going to change anytime soon what is probably going to change is the way how those 2 nations battle the position out for being number one why us president donald trump mainly was looking at tariffs and actually that didn't quite do the trick the trade deficit between the united states and china today is bigger than it was him for a years ago and the biden and administration and to generate yellen as the head of the treasury will be a key figure in that battle between the 2 nations they might try to form multinational alliances to somehow stop the rise of china if that's going to work

remains to be seen the biden administration was not really happy when the european union just recently signed an agreement with china sold it when it comes to tariffs and that's what joe biden hinted recently they are to stay for the moment and then they will try to find a global alliance is said to have better the position of the united states of but clearly the heat is still on between the 2 nations all right there the latest from new york. and here in europe hopes are high that u.s. president joe biden will scrap the record tariffs donald trump imposed on goods made in the e.u. so far biden hasn't said anything on the topic or porridge and looks at what comes next for the u.s. after america 1st. and certainly as his 1st election campaign in 2016 donald trump has called the e.u. unfair citing the trade deficit at the start of his presidency the amount of goods

the e.u. sold to the us was worth about $147000000000.00 more than the goods the us sold to the e.u. to punish the e.u. for perceived trade abuses washington slapped the bluff with steel and aluminum tariffs in 2018 and here's a related occupation that the high share of e.u. exports destroys american jobs trump singled out german carmakers in particular that's even though german automakers have long since stopped exporting their cars from europe and instead produce them locally employing thousands of american workers despite repeated threats car tariffs never did materialize but the tariffs that did didn't accomplish much. i think there will be a lot more. you know mending relationships with previous allies such as to your in union but also multilateral approaches for common problems at the w t

o level the world trade organization so overall a much more consistent a more predictable presidency in terms of trade and engagement ok so at the very least the tone is going to change under biden which is a start but it's also important to realize that transatlantic trade tensions did not start with donald trump in fact the e.u. and the u.s. have the longest running trade dispute in the world the boeing airbus aviation subsidies dispute has been going on. and for 16 years the european union and the united states claim that each others' airplane manufacturer is unfairly subsidized by the government therefore skewing competition in fact the 1st big move in trade policy after biden's election when it was announced was a further escalation of this conflict on november 9th the e.u. moved to start imposing tariffs on u.s. imports worth $4000000000.00. the target list includes airplanes wa and

spirit frozen fish tractors suitcases and produce from onions to carry so for now it looks like america 1st will be followed by america 1st for now but its allies have come knocking already anyway hoping at the very least for america and friends sooner rather than later or at there's a look at the future but we're also coming to an end of 4 years of donald trump zeman c.e.o. joe kayser met trump several times praised his tax cuts later criticize his divisiveness now earlier i asked case or its business got what it wanted out of donald trump as u.s. president. the world does not really only consist of business it consists of people you know prisons these are made of people and just some artificial and the prices i believe that president started out will in the beginning he said they're going to tear down the red tape the bureaucracy which is always complicated in

terms of speed. he was you know saying i've got to cut down taxes so that the treatment jobs that companies you know bring back the benefactor in from other places the spirit that i like the most he was bringing business people into his cabinet rex tillerson for example whom i've known really built a former c.e.o. . has seen the world who knows how things work and how to execute carry codes different each and. so that was actually a good thing unfortunately you know those business people didn't last long and that was the 1st sign. towards. you know what are actually the actions that day that helping the people of the united states and the people in america that maybe is that individual preferences he might have had 30

i believe. certainly a big challenge for people who will be writing their members about the president do you think that businesses should have done something earlier should they have reacted earlier should they have drawn a line earlier. well you know as easier to discuss that after the fact for tyneside to earlier i mean i've been congratulating him through the tax cuts opus leaper there was a say that the year ago he said well it concerned about seeing the most powerful. you know at the face of the most powerful office in the room to be associated with france's. complicated 4 years. you know a lot of things happening but certainly the contrary is primo divided in india and then in the beginning right seaman c.e.o. joe kayser talking to me there earlier and it's time now for

a look at some of the other business stories making headlines. new york based investment bankers goldman sachs says its 4th quarter profits more than doubled year on year goldman profits soared to $4400000000.00 in the final quarter of 2020 the bank but the results downs were surge in trading and reduce expenses due to the pandemic restrictions. unions of fresh drug makers sanofi held the one day strike the company's covert $1000.00 vaccine last year the company said it would cut $1000.00 jobs over 3 years to improve productivity the striker said the plant job cuts would slow vaccine production. was one president makes way for another washington d.c. souvenir shops selling presidential merchandise have to adapt trump dolls t. shirts hats it's all got to go and it's being sold at low low prices from shop floor bargain bins to make room for a new product range. the shopkeeper says joe biden coming to harris merchandise is

selling like hotcakes although he says more customers ask for harrah's stalls than biden figurines. it's all right make what you want out of that that wraps up our show that's it for me and the business team thanks as always for watching to check us out online dot com slash business thanks for joining. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. how has the rate of infection been developing. measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information and context. the coronavirus an update to the code that seems special monday to friday on t.w. . in the height of climate change. africa's.

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well the clock is now ticking down the last hours of the donald trump presidency but the divisions and fears that trump stoked have left an indelible mark on the united states and its artists and his 4 years at the white house trump did away with norms and conventions and so did american artists becoming more vocal and political the men been in decades. yellow hair orange face. the 45th u.s. president like a warning sign. yes sort of or but it was also to link it to you know whenever you're. driving on a road or this structure. you see these very bright orange orange stickers warning. political cartoonists have often reduced donald

trump to a figure of fun. even born it was stranger he wrote reagan's never used humor in his work about him right from the start he didn't think there was anything to laugh about. as a thumbs up or at the time. something that was gonna win the presidency and i saw. as a very. and i sort of work that. that maybe. i created. rodriguez reacts to current events in his illustrations and like many of his fellow cartoonists he could barely keep up with the news cycle made

headlines nearly every day especially with statements that immediately polarized people and forced many to take a clear stance against him many celebrities joined ordinary citizens in demonstrations. being inclusive being diverse. fairness these are the things that americans want to be what we resonate in new york author siri hustvedt and paul auster set up the group writers against the pressure of living under the truck. and watching day to day they're. an institution that i think many americans thought. has been a shocking experience and it's affected me personally. public spats. she called 3 time oscar winner meryl streep one of hollywood's most overrated actresses and a few did with lady gaga and bruce springsteen mostly via twitter his preferred medium

. in hollywood were open in their support for him one of those was actor jon voight whom trump awarded the medal of arts in 2019. great nations produce great thinkers artists musicians and scholars who make our world a more beautiful than joyful place but trump wasn't willing to invest in that more beautiful world in the middle of arts is sponsored by the national endowment of the arts because funding he reduced the trumpet ministration saw a little use in public arts funding. for his part. hopes he'll never again have to create a magazine cover with donald trump. well trump may be leaving the white house but the infamous baby trump protest but we're sticking around the giant helium blimp of trump with a diaper and a smartphone is set to outlive trump's presidency as a display in the museum of london

a crowd funded balloon 1st appeared at protests against the president's visit to the british capital in $28.00 team before going on to tour several other countries . and of course the new u.s. president joe biden is said to be inaugurated on wednesday the event is going to be very different from what we saw 4 years ago with trump my colleague adrian kennedy if you're from or what can we expect yes well as you said most people remember that tom had some trouble getting performance together for his inauguration show it seems this time around there is no shortage of people lining up to take parts at wednesday morning swearing in ceremony we will get lady ga cost interpretation of the u.s. national am from the star spangled banner as well as a performance from jennifer lopez now lady gaga of course was regularly seen

on the biden campaign trail supporting the presidential candidates ahead of last year's election the singer took to twitter to say she was honored to be performing at the event and was also campaigning for as yet we don't know what she will be singing can't wait to see now the theme of course is unity do you have to be do the artists have to be members of the democratic party to perform of course there is a country singing a golf broke so it is a republican and he will be performing he has stressed though that he is performing for the president for the presidency it's not a political statement but rather a statement of unity where we've got a clip of him talking to members of the inaugural committee you let's hear what he had to say. so i would say unity i would say we're more divided than ever so that bridge that brings us together. i don't know if i might be you know republican at

this place but it's reaching across loving one another because that's what's going to get us through probably the most divided times that we have i want the divided times to be behind us i want to be able to differ in opinion and hug each other at the same foot ok and interestingly of course books performed at one of the bomb a inaugurations but he skipped trump's swearing in citing shapeshifting problems oh well maybe we should read too much into the head adrian it's not just going to be music though no that's right the youth poet laureate amanda coleman will be the youngest poet so ever read at you know gratian she will be reciting own inaugural poem the hill be climb which she had apparently half finished when the u.s. capitol was stormed on january the 6th and she completed it on the same night in

a search of creativity interesting backgrounds like president biden coleman overcame a speech impediment before becoming a confident public speaker wow now of course the public ceremony has also been scaled back because of the coronavirus pandemic and security concerns there is still a t.v. and online inauguration show though as well as like there will be a prime time special intitled celebrating america i would a wednesday evening with john legend demi lovato bruce springsteen justin timberlake and the food fight us well ok lots of big names plenty of good entertainment and good vibes to usher in this new political era adrian kennedy thanks so much thank you. now one instrument you probably won't be hearing a joe biden's inauguration is the fair i met some early form of synthesizer that many people see as more of a party trick than

a real instrument but musician i was helping to change that. catalina ike is among the world's best serenade players the award winning musician performs regularly as a soloist the world over as here in concert with the brussels philharmonic 2. she also plays her own electronic music composition. the pheromone creates an electromagnetic field that can be influenced by the human body. change the sound. upright antenna determines the pitch

when i move towards the antenna the pitch rises. and this little 1010 you're on the other side controls the volume so if i move further away the sound gets louder. russian physicist leon theremin 1st presented the instrument in 1920 some of the musicians and bands who have experimented with it since are the beach boys led zeppelin tom waits and john mission asia. the movie going public is familiar with the sound of this 4 runner at a sympathizer from a horror inside. action films. it's still used occasionally on soundtracks even now . because this tradition came about because when the pheromone was 1st developed musicians played with lots of abroad even on the violin and other instruments.

among us if you apply that to the thera men it sounds a bit spooky. how lina ike got her very 1st there a minute each 7 she learned to play from among others the inventor's own grand niece. by age 16 she developed a new technique that's now in general use worldwide it allows the musician to play with far greater precision a challenge because the instrument reacts to this latest movement. ever if i so much as breathe. changes the sound. so to play a very precise note i have to stay completely still things but if i play notes more freely in an experimental performance for instance i can move my entire body

up and. found them was one of the 1st electronic instruments now more than 100 years after its invention it still sounds futuristic. well that's almost it for this edition of arts and culture but before we go one of the few figures in the united states who most americans can agree are dolly parton the legendary singer songwriter and funder of code 19 research is turning 75 i'll leave you now with her 974 classic jolene. joey joey joey. please don't take my.

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