winning the lottery. or unique. d w. this is news coming to you live from new u.s. president joe biden gets to work. of his predecessor. george. he's taken his place in the oval office signing a string of executive orders and making key appointments to put his agenda into action also coming up the reaction from europe that. is one of

a number of leaders once again have a friend in the white house but she warns it will not all be smooth. and. talks to. close its. new variant of the bar. hello i'm good to have you with us joe biden has been sworn in as the 46 president of the united states and he's already gotten down to work doing some of the policies of his previous administration shortly after entering the oval office president biden signed a stack of executive orders among them rejoining the paris climate accord.

reversing an immigration battle on people from several mainly muslim countries is also stepped up measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic and and else key appointments while his democratic party has taken control of congress. on wednesday took the oath of office promising to bring together a divided nation i was a sea change in u.s. politics. this is america's day this is democracy day. a day of history and hope are no i resolved. through a crucible for the ages america has been tested a new america has risen to the challenge. in his inaugural speech as president of the united states joe biden appeal to americans to overcome their divisions without mentioning his predecessor by name he sounded the beginning

of a new era in which he said truth would prevail. and recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson there is truth and our lives lies told for power and for profit and each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as americans and especially as leaders leaders who have pledged to honor our constitution and protect our nation to defend the truth and defeat the lies. what made this day truly extraordinary in the history of the us was the swearing in of tom on a harris the 1st black american the 1st asian american the 1st woman to hold the office of vice president. it's. knocking on was her predecessor mike pence unlike donald trump he had come to the ceremony to honor the new

administration. of former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton were there. and so to barack obama and biden served as vice president the star power was intensified with lady gaga singing the national anthem. am i am jennifer lopez with a medley of this land is your land and america the beautiful was. and country singer got brooks asked everyone to join in amazing grace. but the future was heralded by 22 year old poet amanda goldman who took up the themes of biden's inaugural speech in a poem addressing the problems of the divided nation and offering hope for there was always like if only were brave enough to see it if only were brave enough

to be it. and joe biden $46.00 president of the united states is taking up that challenge. joe biden's inauguration has been welcomed around the world and the european union and nato are hoping his administration will help rebuild alliances that were strange during donald trump's time in office w. spoke to the president of the european commission or on july 20 said i would but i am so pleased that we once again have a friend in the white house come on i'm also very pleased that incoming the harris we have the 1st woman vice president of the united states of america or not it is certainly the case that we have much in common begin by the independent that begins with the task of managing the pandemic. of combating climate change as well as digitalisation but there are other issues where we have differences of opinion for

example on the question of additional tax on big tech and digital platforms there will certainly be tensions there but the good thing is if we are friends if we are like minded then we can have welcome discussion of these issues and we can hold them fairly openly and above all reliably and then develop a common approach together and on the also talking i'm done under the minds of men . and we can offer more and joined now by richard walker d.-w. is chief international editor richard the e.u. is clearly happy to have a more cooperative part of back in the white house but it's not also for travel that relationship will return to the way it was before the troll era is a. you know that's right terry i mean the relief in the words from underlined there and also from other leaders around europe is pretty powerful but it is also true that the scarring that was left by the last few years is really going to be here to

stay now let's just think about what really did to the western alliance he really threw the whole question of its logic of its viability into question this was the 1st time that an american president had done this and there were real fears that if he had been reelected that the nato alliance you know would the united states under him in a 2nd term actually just pull out of nato leaving the europeans without a leg to stand on in terms of defense and that sort of fear is something that really kind of drives debate here in europe about should europe really start to stand more on its own 2 feet in matters of defense but also matters of strategic outlook you know really important political issues now to some extent that is something that the americans want but to another it is a sign that the europeans might start deciding to do things that the americans don't like and that could cause drift in the alliance what's topping the to do list

for the e.u. and the us as the biden administration gets down to work richard well i would point to a couple of things climates we've seen that biden has already signed the paris climate agreement again rejoining that and iran we could be facing a new crisis over iran's nuclear program in the weeks ahead even biden has signaled that he wants to return to diplomacy on that you'll see close cooperation between the 2 sides on that so there are definitely parts of places where the u.n. the u.s. overlap but there are also points of contention what are some of those. yeah we heard from from the line talking about in attacks on big tech which is one issue but there are even bigger issues than that take for example china now china has become the superpower really challenging the united states more than any power before biden wants to rally democracies behind a kind of common line seeing it really as a as the beginning of

a struggle between democracy and autocracy on the other side but the europeans have started going their own way on china and even just recently agreed a new investment treaty with the chinese side despite the by the ministration publicly saying could you please hold off so we can talk about this so that was an early sign of this independence that we've just talked about this debate in europe driving the idea that europe needs to think its own way on big issues that could really cause big the transatlantic rift even with the kind of healing presence that we see in job on in the white house talk of strategic autonomy not going away here in europe richard walker our chief international editor thank you so much. well u.s. president's inauguration is not the only story making news around the world today here are some other headlines security forces in mali used tear gas to disperse dozens of demonstrators in the capital bamako on wednesday police also used roadblocks and motorbike convoys to stop people gathering protestors were rallying

against the ongoing presence of the french military france has deployed over a 1000 over a 1000 troops in mali since 2013 on an anti terror operation. hospitals in the u.k. are under pressure as daily coronavirus deaths there rise to record levels over $1800.00 people died of the virus on tuesday this comes as a variant of the virus believed to be more contagious spreads across the country health trusts converted cathedrals into mass vaccination centers as the back scene rollout continues. health officials in chile have given emergency approval to a vaccine made by a chinese company sin of back but authorities said the corona of back jab should initially only be given to people under 60 experts said they wanted to see more data on safety and efficiency effort to see for older people chileans over 60 will get the biotech pizer vaccine. the number of daily coronavirus cases

here in germany shows no sign of decreasing either in the last 24 hours more than 20000 new infections have been recorded and more than a 1000 people have died chances are going to markell is expected to hold a news conference today concerning new measures aimed at curbing the virus ahead of that coast are caught up with michael's chief of stuff. and with me now is i'm going to medical staff. on thursday. gathering to discuss the next steps in corona will border closes in more border. on the agenda that. in the end that would be the worst way to go because what is it we're trying to achieve we want to bring down the numbers in germany we want our health authorities to regain control over the chains of

transmission and then we want to reopen. that is exactly what made us successful last year. after the lock down we had incidence rates of 2345 a lot of people forget that now and there are people who are saying they can't believe it's possible to get the infection rate below 50 i believe it is possible. i believe that with the measures we're now taking we can do it and then we will need to defend that success we need to make sure that it can be sustained that in conjunction with the effective spring in the vaccine this allows us to return to normality and that we don't face renewed problems especially through a highly infectious virus mutation that is even harder to control i believe we all want to avoid that and that's why stricter immigration measures when a neighboring region has become a host a mutation simply can't be avoided by now the united states has been following a america 1st policy also when it comes to vaccinations that goes back to

a presidential order from the 8th of december it makes so that every american has to be off the vaccination before any of these vaccines leave the country so what will your request be on this issue to the newly inaugurated president joe biden. the european commission is currently in talks with the companies involved and if that helps us find a solution then of course we will discuss that with the u.s. administration there is no question about that now the world health organization is criticizing that it's the rich countries who are getting access to vaccines fast what are you doing for poor countries. but when you just as we ordered the vaccine through the european union so to we are taking part in a joint initiative together with the european union. the european commission will address this topic how to provide the vaccine to 3rd party states especially poor

countries will be a top at the european council on thursday including the question of how we can still do more beyond this kovacs initiative. in the halls of the white. stuff and. thank you very much they're gonna. sports news down the bundesliga season has reached the halfway mark and beat in your own bad one nil in midweek action on wednesday night the only goal came in the 70th minute courtesy of emile back it was the swedish wingers 3rd of the campaign a quick 12 with dani almost and force back fired in an unstoppable shot the wind keeps life say in 2nd place when your own berlin dropped his 6th after losing for the 1st time since early december. from the top dual to the battle at the

bottom of cologne defeated childhood to take home an important 3 points in their plight for top flight survival but they suffered a scare when shock equalized the one hour mark through striker matthew hoping that 5 goals in 3 games for the american but. restored the lead for cologne late in added time to one the final score. that's it for me coming up next all the business news with chris cover thanks for watching. it's about billions. it's about hour. it's about the foundation of the new food order the silk road. china wants

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