made 4 minds. this is news coming to you live from berlin the new u.s. president gets to work reversing the policy of his predecessor. that we're going to rejoin in a climate of course. joe biden has taken his place in the oval office signing a string of executive orders and making key appointments to put his agenda into action. talks to you about the availability of

vaccines and whether germany will have to close its borders to prevent the spread of the new variant. good to have you with us a new chapter is beginning in the united states president joe biden has already started doing some of the policies of the trump administration on his 1st day in office he rejoined the paris climate accord and the world health organization he also ended a ban on travelers from mainly muslim countries. in his inaugural address he called for unity and a change in tone. you know how to get to work. with president joe biden arrived at the white house ready to roll back the policies of his predecessor.

within hours of taking over the oval office biden signed a stack of executive orders resetting the agenda only coronavirus pandemic immigration policy and climate change. we're going to. grow here. we're going to rejoin the climate of course. as a. fellow to wearing a mask he ordered all federal employees to do so as well biden moved quickly to fill key positions swearing in nearly 1000 new appointees and stuff virtually the new white house press secretary jens psaki heralded relations with the premise instead of attacking reporters and spreading so-called alternative facts i have deep respect for the role of a free and independent press in our democracy and for the role all of you play as i noted earlier there will be moments when we disagree and there will certainly be

days where we disagree for extensive parts of the briefing even perhaps i believe a common goal which is sharing accurate information with the american people meanwhile vice president come about how our us took up a post in the senate swearing in new members of georgia with the new law make is the senate is now split $5050.00 between democrats and republicans harris's vote to tip the scales there meaning the democrats now have control of both houses of congress and the power to push forward with president biden's agenda. joining us now from washington is our correspondent stefan siemens stuff and tell us more about the changes president biden is making with those executive orders he signed. you know they are really significant because this is basically derailing the. policies of donald trump so he's treading actually the legacy of donald trump with those executive orders he already signed yesterday 17 that's

a world record that he's tough make record it is for the united states nor the president has signed 17 direct this executive orders or memoranda on his 1st day actually on the in our world they ever before joe biden did it. today he will actually sign more executive orders and those are specifically going into or handling the coronavirus crisis in the united states we have to stay 4229 people that the 2nd highest single day death toll for the united states so there is a lot of work to do there's more executive orders coming from the by the administration from joe biden today as well as remarks from him and then we have a 4 pm local time white house press conference something i would have never said i would be astonished about but yes i am we're back to almost daily or daily white house press conferences ok so he's going to be signing some more executive orders we're going to be hearing from joe biden at

a press conference this is the new president's 1st full day in office what's he going to be focusing on in terms of policy. well that's one of this it is bringing in money to the states the states need money to combat coronavirus today it's all about the coronavirus and how the new administration and some are going to handle this more money for p.p. more money for communities to fight and trace the coronavirus and then next a nation vaccinations are well not that what they wanted to be and what the terms of this ration promise they would be the states are actually running out of make scenes and the governor of new york cuomo just said he would have to wait about 8 months to take his turn he's 63 years old because it takes so long to vaccinate all those who come before him so that's not working really well and by the administration and joe biden with executive orders will try to rectify this

a little bit but having said this very important to joe biden always said that biden mr snow or said there is no quick fix for anything here and they said loud and clear that we might in the united states look at the darkest weeks to come in terms of coronavirus death toll and infection rates the darkest weeks to come joe biden in his inaugural address he talked about domestic terrorism the united states is deeply divided on what are his prospects for healing the nation as it were. that's a tough question to answer i don't know his prospects are as good or as bad as anyone's guess this country as you point out is deeply divided 75000000 people voted for donald trump millions of those 75000000 belief still now as we speak here that joe biden is an illegitimate president and that the election were stolen from donald trump and from them that explains what happened 2 weeks ago when they

stormed and attacked the capital so what are his prospects the only chance he has is to try this administration has to try with changing the language and changing their approach it's not about finding things out it's trying to find the middle it's trying to compromise is try to have discourse that's what they're that's what they're trying to push forward here and that's the only chance they have 7 thank you very much that was our political correspondent stephanie siemens germany is among the many countries hoping to see closer cooperation with the u.s. under the new administration chancellor angela merkel sent joe biden a couple harris a message congratulating them on their when she said warmest congratulations on your inauguration joe biden in coming to harris a true celebration of american democracy i look forward to a new chapter of german american friendship and cooperation. well the

u.s. president's inauguration of course is not the only story making news around the world today here's some other headlines in china state media 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 on the. security forces in mali used tear gas to disperse dozens of demonstrators in the capital follicle 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 the variant of the virus

a variant of the virus believed to be more contagious spreads across the country health trusts have converted cathedrals into mass vaccination centers as the vaccine roll out continue us. here's a quick look at some other developments in the global pandemic china plans to impose strict code testing requirements during the lunar new year holiday season when millions of people are expected to travel the country is battling the worst wave of new infections since last march the netherlands will ban flights from the u.k. south africa and south america beginning saturday for a month the country is also set to debate a nationwide curfew aiming aimed at curbing infections and australia has recorded a 4th day of 0 cases this comes a day before new rules go into effect requiring international visitors to test negative for corona virus within 72 hours before departure. the number of

daily coronavirus cases here in germany shows no sign of do creasing in the last 24 hours more than 20000 new infections have been recorded and more than a 1000 people have died chance of going to medical is expected to hold hold a news conference today concerning new measures aimed at curbing the virus ahead of the nikkei the caught up with merkel's chief of staff. 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 controls be 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 effects of spring in the vaccine this allows us to return to normality and then 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. now the united states has been following a america 1st policy also when it comes to vaccination. that goes back to

a presidential order from the 8th of december it makes saw 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. 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 a 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. chief of staff for german chancellor angela merkel thank you very much there. so sports is down but this league season has reached the halfway mark and already beat you in berlin one nil in midweek action on wednesday the only goal came in the 70th minute courtesy of game if it was the swedish 3rd of the campaign a quick 12 with danny olmo and force backfired in an unstoppable shot. when keep 2nd place. to 6th after losing for the 1st time since early december. from dewalt to the battle of the bottom cologne defeated shocker to take home an

important 3 points in their fight for top flight survival but they suffered a scare when shaka equalized at the one hour mark through striker matthew hoppy that's 5 goals in 3 games for the american but months ford the lead for restored lead for cologne later in added time to one the final score there. well that's it for me in the news team for now we'll leave you with pictures of the celebrations in washington palling the inauguration of joe biden in kabul heris the you can always get all of his neighbors information anytime you want on our website at c.w. dot com thanks for watching. so

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