this is good news coming to you live from the new u.s. president joe biden gets to work reversing the policies of his predecessor never married to rejoin the climate. as of today. 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 america's relations with china plunged to an all time low under donald trump what will the presidency mean for ties between washington and beijing. plus chief of staff talks to. a bail ability back scenes and whether germany will have to close its borders to prevent the spread of the new . hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us joe biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the united states and he's whole already gotten down to work undoing some of the policies of the previous administration shortly after entering the oval office president biden signed a stack of executive orders among them rejoining the paris climate of court and reversing an immigration battle in people from several mainly by. islam countries

he's also stepped up measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic and announced key appointments while his democratic party has taken control of congress. on wednesday biden took the oath of office promising to bring together a divided nation i live in 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 appealed 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 age of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as americans especially as leaders leaders who have pledged to honor our constitution and protect our nation to defend the truth and defeat the lives. what made this day truly extraordinary in the history of the us was the swearing in of come on how us the 1st black american the 1st asian american the 1st woman to hold the office of vice president. biden's. knocking on was her previous as a mike pence unlike donald trump he had come to the ceremony to honor the new administration. former presidents george w.

bush and bill clinton were there and say to barack obama and biden served us vice president to stop our always intensified with lady gaga singing the national anthem. jennifer lopez with a medley of this land is your land and america the beautiful. and country singer gulf 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 light 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. and joining us now from washington is our correspondents tough on zuma. stuck on joe biden's inaugural address was all about unity but the united states seems more divided now than ever how big of a challenge does joe biden face in trying to heal the nation. no our enormous enormous sentence not only because the coronavirus pandemic still raging through the united states tuesday evening 4229 people dead the 2nd highest in a single day. in the united states not only because that because of course there is 75 almost 75000000 people who had voted for donald trump and there is millions out of those who still believe who still believe now is i'm saying this to you and who

still believes on the day of the in order a should be for president biden. swore on the his family bible that he is not the legitimate president that he that they were election was stolen they bought totally into the lies of the trump administration and others in the universe that's how bad it is and that's how divided this country is and that's why a person like this wonderful amanda grossman this power youth poet made such a such an impact yesterday for hopefully not only the people who watched. right there on the podium what she said but on the t.v. on the t.v. sets across the nation. in that regard it is not to be underestimated of what the challenge of the by the administration is we saw joe biden right after being

inaugurated son a whole stack of executive orders this is his 1st full day in office today what's on his agenda. yet today more of the same so to speak but with the clear focus of the corona pandemic coronavirus pandemic in the united states and with that of course we're talking about money he wants more money for the states and for local authorities to actually spend on tracing the virus on vaccination there is a breakdown it's actually at the moment of the distribution system so this has to be fixed there is states who don't have enough vaccines anymore they're running short of vaccination of vaccines so the governor of the yorkshire said like he would have to wait for about 8 months to get in line to get his shot because it's 23 years old but everybody else before it needs months to actually fix it made them so this is a mess which biden has to clean up which the by the administration will have to try

to clean up but again here also the biden administration said and joe biden himself said there are dark dark dark weeks to come for the united states there's no quick fix for this speaking of the 7 executive orders that was shredding really shredding the trump administration's political. direction they had the united states in that's that was what this was about this was historic there was no other president who had signed in the 1st day on inauguration day 17. executive orders direct this a memorandum 7 thank you very much. in washington well germany is among the many countries hoping to see closer cooperation with the u.s. under the new administration chancellor angela merkel sent show biden and coming to her some message congratulating them on their when she said warmest congratulations on your inauguration joe biden and couple harris a true celebration of american democracy i look forward to

a new chapter german american friendship and cooperation. well china has also expressed cautious hope about the change in the white house saying it was looking forward to working with the new administration however biden's team has already condemned a decision by beijing to impose sanctions on a number of trouble officials including former secretary of state mike pompei oh over their criticism of china's mistreatment of its muslim minority will have more on the view from beijing in a moment but 1st let's take a look at how u.s. ties with china nosedived under. an expert team from the world health organization a rice in china of this it sparked yet another clash between beijing and washington on the coronavirus with the u.s. calling for a transparent investigation. team which finally arrived last week will be will

only be successful. with the following information is produced in china on the presence of the 2 related genetic sequence sequences in animals i don't know if those in results but ours are reaching studies. of nature we must. do to cope. alongside the coronavirus tensions it's an ongoing trade and tech war between the 2 countries president trump repeatedly accused beijing of unfair trading practices and intellectual property theft 1st of many. and what started as a tariff war also turned political from china's treatment of weak a muslim cinching john to a crackdown on pro-democracy protests in hong kong the trump administration pushed back against what it calls beijing's aggressive behavior. today the

chinese communist party is crushing freedom and. it's threatening a free taiwan. china considers taiwan as its internal affairs as it sees the island nation as a breakaway province. washington's recent moves to allow high level visits have hit a wrong note in beijing. u.s. should abide by the one china principle and stop deeds that interfere in china's internal affairs and undermine china u.s. relations. which has fallen to their lowest points in 30 years. the current situation in china u.s. relations is not what china decides to see and the u.s. is completely responsible for all of this. the chinese citizens only to see the chinese communist party support our free and open society following a 4 year freefall and by the to retire there will be left to biden to decide where

to steer this cell which relationship. joining us now from beijing is correspondent berlinger how has china reacted to the new president taking office in the u.s. . been very careful for now and has not been out and with the asked about the new president as many other countries in the world yesterday during the inauguration china has done something very interesting that has sanctions big number of high officials in the trump administration who are most at the to china and is said house sanctions them in a way that might harm their future korea's it has sanctioned them their family members and all companies that have ties to them which might potentially make it a lot harder for many of them to find a new job if the companies are involved in any kind of business with china this is a clear warning to that by an administration that china will fight back on anything

that it sees as. gresham to what's china or a confrontational politics against china so the cygnus they are they are sending not signals off a new start but of very wary position relations between beijing and washington materials have deteriorated in recent years there's trade tech taiwan hong kong the south china sea the treatment of winners the list is very long as we saw in the report do you see potential for change in sino american relations under president but. what it will be changed that's for sure but i don't think it will get back to what it was under the obama administration or under even more friendly administrations like the clinton administrations in the in the 90 ninety's. thereby administration seems to be under pressure to

continue a tough approach to which china and china itself is on its way to decoupling from the u.s. and to reduce its. pendants on the u.s. so i think both countries are also involved in in a game of influence with other countries with countries of the global south but also with europe so i don't think we're going to see a substantial change but we'll of course see it change of manners and of how this battle is for you say they're engaged in a game of influence while some say that the u.s. needs china more than china needs the u.s. is there truth in that latinos. i think that's hard to answer right now i think one thing that trump has demonstrated how is how dependent china is especially on u.s.

technologies he might have just remembered the sanctions the tech sanctions against huawei and z.t. 2 major chinese tech companies which always fall to. bad to sell chips to them he might have reached the opposite of what he wanted to reach he might have let china to strengthen its its own tech industry and reduce the liability on the u.s. but for the moment i don't think we can see a clear picture on and the country losing or. losing the dependency on the other country both countries are both economies are intertwined strategic interests meet and if there is any region where the u.s. has more power in the past few years it's the neighboring countries of china where which are some of them are the only ones where trump has been really popular

within the last few years thank you very much for your analysis that was spoiling a journalist in beijing. well the u.s. president's inauguration is not the only story making news around the world today here's more the headlines. staying with china state media there have reported that a worker trapped in a gold mine for more than a week has died as rescuers continue efforts to save 21 others still stuck deep underground rescuers have been in contact with 11 of the workers but the fate of the other 10 remains unknown. 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 troops in mali since 2013 on an anti terror operation. and hospitals in the

u.k. are under pressure as daily coronavirus deaths rise to record levels over $800.00 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 have converted cathedrals into mass vaccination centers as a vaccine continues. the number of daily coronavirus cases here in germany shows no sign of decreasing in the last 24 hours more than 20000 new infections have been recorded and more than a 1000 people have died chance so i'm going to medical is expected to hold a news conference today to talk about extending measures to curb the virus ahead of that. caught up with merkel's chief of staff headed to a bomb. and with me now is i'm going to medical staff on on thursday leaders will be gathering to discuss the next steps in corona will border closes and more border controls be on the agenda that.

in the end that would be the worst way to go because what is that 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 lockdown 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 and 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. we're sad ministration 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 we are.

just as we ordered the vaccine through the european union so too 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 our top at the european council on thursday and clued in the question of how we can still do more beyond this kovacs initiative. was the white. stuff a diamond i want markel thank you very much there. you're watching the news still to come we meet a football juggling star from nigeria this 12 year old's skills have gone viral online and he's already written his name in the guinness book of records. but 1st the drive to vaccinate as many people as possible against

a crowd of viruses set to top the agenda of the meeting today e.u. leaders they're also reported to be planning to discuss a proposal to allow e.u. wide travel with a coronavirus backs a nation card but. reports some fear this could be misused. no need for physical distance saying partying traveling this is what europe looked like before the pandemic are returning to normal life is what europeans are craving many here hope that getting vaccinated will bring that life back but slow vaccination rollout in many european countries means it will take months before jobs are available to all this raises questions about whether vaccinated people should receive privileges they've been able to travel freely greece's prime minister has made to tack is floated the idea of an e.u. wide vaccination certificate to help restore cross border travel and tourism in his

country his fellow party member mary espied aqib backs him it is a kind to finn son development to say for the people to go forward to proceed forward to nation we have to motivate people into hiv to explain to them but it is important to finally to create ost peace in order to protect ourselves in order to protect our way of life the e.u. executive says they will work with the e.u. states on a common approach is a political and a legal decision what you allow to do with this or to fix it and i think this is something that we will certainly discuss on the cover and european level to have common rules but i think it's also indeed important always to find the right balance for example you can always combine either a significant or and negative coverage test if you did not have access to a vaccination. opponents fear that this attaching rights to vaccination certificate

would divide europeans into 2 categories the vaccinated and the non vaccinated watchdogs are warning there is a risk that to certificate could be misused for example by potential employers. and the hind all humans which are dealing with we have to be read the that we will use them for certain purposes and only for this purpose the vaccines provide an amount of protection to those that have had them but it's still not clear whether they also prevent people from passing on the virus the fear is that giving people who have been vaccinated the freedom of movement could also pose a threat to those who are not. sports news now in the bundesliga season has reached the halfway mark and already life's a beat when you're in berlin one nil in midweek action on wednesday the only goal came in the 70th minute courtesy of emil force back it was the swedish wingers 3rd

of the campaign a quick 12 with dani olo and force backfired in an unstoppable shot to win keeps leipsic in 2nd place when your own beilin dropped to 60 after losing for the 1st time since early december. and here are the results of the midweek. games as you just saw life's a edged out on your own berlin and cologne left it late to be chock a bye and squeeze past out spork 50 share the spoils with frankfurt beautiful down stuttgart and on wednesday leave a cruise beat dortmund edged past braman hoffenheim how to bowl spork downed mine. now 12 year old freestyle soccer player from nigeria is already in the guinness book of records for his juggling skills he's now aiming to break his own mark and wants to become a professional footballer one day what makes his style so unusual is that he does

tricks with not just one but 2 balls. juggling one ball with your knees is hard enough but nigerian 2 none so does it while balancing another ball on his head. he's so good at it that he set a world record 2 years ago. 111 touches in one minute and not a single wobble from the ball on his head it looks like it's glued into place. he's only 12 and learned his skills from some footballing greats. nobody to me but my fight i made him part. of. and pitiful. he is now an online sensation videos of his football skills have received thousands of views but not everyone took him seriously.

his record changed all that. before reference was close enough not to me what. my friends say they want to be. and the king of multitasking is not satisfied he is now aiming for another world record 2000 touches all while balancing a ball on his head a career as a professional footballer is his ultimate dream you wouldn't bet against it. that's it for me in the news team we'll leave you now with some images of the biden harrison augur ation ceremony in washington.

conflict zone between sebastian the e.u. and britain klitschko free trade deal for the post red studio now at least in the u.k. there are some hard realities to deal with but just this week the nominee to scotland goes on to bali conservative m.p. and vice chairman of the conservative politics but as far as job soon so you can no

make over the truth of the monday break so many conflicts so far. mixed on to the good. fats bad or fat in money the food industry or in staggering sums of money from junk food and obesity is becoming a global health problem enough say activists in the us and latin america they're using a variety of different campaigns that big corporations find completely unpalatable . in 45 minutes on d w. i think is everything challenging 1st 100 make a muslim. so much different culture between here and there so challenging for him

to. lead. to some business and i think it was worth it for me to come to germany. my grandmother larcenous to work as a swimming instructor here to share knowledge to children $100.00 just one of us to just. what's your story take heart sheriff on info migrants dot net. might do it. with. a great understudy should. be expected. all year to go. through and getting everything up and running there's a little bit on there and it was right up to the last minute but on christmas eve the e.u. and britain clinched a free trade deal. in the u.k.

there are some hard realities to deal with and plenty of shots of the trial my guest this week from aberdeen in scotland is andrew.