using the rules. for. the you. to get out of the. news and these are our top stories a day after being sworn into office u.s. president joe biden has unveiled his plan to get to grips with the coronavirus pandemic biden says his strategy is based on science not politics the measures include plans to increase vaccinations and mandate masks on planes trains and buses

negative tests will also be mandatory for travelers entering the united states. chancellor angela merkel has defended germany's decision to tighten and extend the national walk down by another 2 weeks. to many people are still dying but insists measures to bring down the number of covert 1000 cases are now paying off. 32 people have been killed in a double suicide bombing in the center of the iraqi capital baghdad more than 100 others were wounded in the attack at a busy street market it's the 1st such incident in baghdad for 3 years iraqi military officials blames the islamic state group which later claimed responsibility. this is news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram at news or visit our website dot com.

or. the moment joe biden entered the oval office for the 1st time as president he found the worries and woes of a nation stacked in waiting a mountain of executive orders to undo what he describes as the greatest damage done by his predecessor and yet it's all eclipsed by the pandemic the trump administration never shared its plan for vaccinating the country today president biden discovered why there never was a plane i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. that it's different that day. that. router and i to race and i wish you the greatest success god bless the united states of america. we

congratulate president biden things have not been easy between us for some time our job is always been through my kit with our relationships on behalf of our countries it's obviously a lot easier to do that when you have a few more she carries its good with the president biden there is simply much more scope for political consensus with you to say but instead we've got a lot of work to do a lot of work to do and thank you for being willing to join. by by. also coming up the hope of a nation in rhythm and rhyme delivered at the most opportune time a skinny black girl who for a new president put her words and her mind into a poem entitled the hill we clone our people diverse and beautiful woman birds battered and beautiful when they come so we step out of the shade of

the way men unafraid the new dawn blooms as we free it for there was always a. right if only we were brave enough to see it if only were brave enough to be it. we can get to dismiss overnight it's going to take months 1st to turn things around but let me be equally clear we will get through this we will defeat this pandemic into a nation waiting for action let me be the clearest on this point help is on the way today today i would believe the national strategy on covert 90 and executive actions to be to spend any u.s. president joe biden there putting the pandemic at the top of his agenda to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to our viewers all around the world well we begin the day the 1st full day

a very busy day of the presidency of job by the biden team had no illusions about a honeymoon after inauguration they knew there would be no time to savor this is storage moment because the weight of duty and responsibility are simply too great today president biden began laying out a national strategy to confront the coronavirus the president's covert team announcing that it has found a dozen major supply shortfalls in the trumpet ministrations pandemic plan the most glaring the trump strategy included no plan for distributing back scenes no blueprint for getting the vaccine from the lab into people's arms a mammoth logistical endeavor that hadn't been launched earlier could have saved lives. joe biden's 1st full day as president of the united states it began with a virtual inaugural prayer service in the white house but it will take more than

prayers to deal with the biggest problem facing the u.s. the coronavirus pandemic. the biden administration has laid out a program to limit the viruses spread at home and abroad. in a major shift in domestic policy facemasks are mandated in all u.s. federal owned facilities buildings and transportation biden has promised to ensure all americans have access to reliable and free testing and the new president has reversed his predecessor's decision to pull the u.s. out of the world health organization. this last point is an acknowledgment of the w. he chose key role in stopping the viruses spread globally i join my fellow representatives and. the world health organization for its role 'd in leading the global public health response to this pandemic. the united states also

intends to fulfill its financial obligations to the organization. stays in the w.h.o. shows the u.s. is preparing to reassert its weight on the world stage another of joe biden's promises. one of biden's 1st acts as president was for the u.s. to rejoin the parents accord on climate protection. but amid all the color and extravagance of the inaugural celebrations it was clear that joe biden is placed with the daunting task. first gain control of the coronavirus pandemic and then show the u.s. is unified enough to lead on the world stage. you know the world stage let me talk there he's a member of the german american parliamentary friendship group he's a member of i'm going miracles coalition partners the social democrats mr are very

good to see you again president biden he's focused we know all the pandemic at the moment but he has made it clear that u.s. foreign policy especially when it comes to europe will be at the top of his agenda soon what will that mean for germany. i braved a good series again i think your foreign policy wise we have to expect 3 things from your administration it's the one is the most important thing it's focused on on the united states 1st place i think they will. also because priorities of course 6 polarization in the population i would say going to we have problems we already had before all problems to nato iran then there could be up some new bigger challenges which we all should work together. and trust we know was a big issue can germany can europe trust the united states as it did before donald

trump came to power i mean do you see joe biden as a return to normalcy do you see donald trump as an anomaly well of course there's more trust than during the times of mr trump so there's been a change in this one because there's no trust with consultant. to the point of whether it's going to be like the old times things that change developments in china change in russia russia change so i think the trust is nothing that is this inherited you have to work on it each day and obviously it's going to be a lot easier to work on the trust issue this is very tense with mr trump i know that president biden is against the nords for him to natural gas pipeline project between germany and russia we know that saying sions are being slapped on companies by the united states who were involved in constructing the pipeline. when does this pipeline become a major liability for germany in its relations with the us. it is

a problem we have to be honest it with this one and then put it on sanctions the last days station doesn't it seems easier for president biden. nevertheless this is not the biggest problem i think the russia issue in russia generally is an issue others are as well but i think those are not going to be the big issues of this administration concerning the cooperation both with germany and the european union i think for comparison if you look at china i think that the challenges with china . it between the the it like your tween the atlantic between europe and the united states is much bigger much more challenging you know the future is a problem but we can deal with it is there a fear in the german parliament that president biden is going to push or maybe even force europe to have to choose between china or the u.s.

some people were talking about things like 5 g. technology but we're talking about a new cold war for example are you afraid the german going to be able you know that you're going to have to jeeps. we don't want to choose obviously part of the norm set in community coakley but that's a problem with china and it was a problem of the united states that creation so our own common goals should be how can work things out that there is a common approach will apply but we have to do was with this one the you debate about china is not as far as it is in united states that's what i see a bigger problem with china approaching the opinion in germany than all the other foreign affairs issues because we have to catch up a little bit in this issue in europe and germany i have to ask you we've got about a minute left mr verity we know that she's not going to run for office again later

this year who would be the ideal chancellor in your opinion there chancellor can that it later this year in terms of improving transatlantic relations. actually i believe will show it's not only because he is social democrat as we know but each has his is no putting individuals in the center of policy expense respect to respecting it once it were in that struggle and trying i think that's an area just to relate to as well as the especially when he looks at the over 70000000 voters of mr trump so i think there is something in common i think populism in those 2 countries and i think mr szell's can relate much better to that in any any other chance and you know we will keep our eye on mr shelton see what happens and we may have to invite you back to talk about that mr medlin not parity member of the german american parliamentary friendship group but a member of the s.p.d. in parliament thank you thank you.

donald trump's refusal to attend the inauguration of joe biden will go down in history it was yet another break with tradition for trump one of many during his 4 years in office and it did not go unnoticed the former u.s. presidents barack obama george w. bush and bill clinton who were all present at yesterday's inauguration used a video message to show that they stand with biden not only in his endeavors to lead the nation but also in his respect for tradition and for the office of the presidency good evening america obviously there was a personal element to see my former vice president become the 46 president to see. probably harris as our 1st woman vice president. but more broadly i think inaugurations signal a tradition of

a peaceful transfer of power that is over 2 centuries old but i think the fact that 3 of us are standing here talking about a peaceful transfer of power speaks to the in its occasional integrity of our country so this is an unusual thing we are both trying to come back to normalcy deal with totally abnormal challenges and do what we do best which is try to make a more perfect union it's exciting time is interesting to see those 3 former u.s. presidents let's take this now to the united states i'm joined now by mr denver riggleman he's a former u.s. congressman from virginia who served as a republican the u.s. house of representatives as it is congressman it's good to have you on the program you're not very far from washington d.c. give us the temperature of the country tonight after president biden's inauguration and after his 1st full day in the oval office. sure and again thanks for having me this is great my 1st time on german teller's i'm excited you know it's you know my

background wasn't just politics you know at 20 years of counterterrorism experience and now inviting this information you know one of the only republicans to come out against you and on so early which was almost a year ago now and i think the temperature is still not where it needs to be it's a little bit hot you know if you look in a polling right now almost 80 percent of republicans believe that this election was stolen and i think that's a shame and you know looking at conspiracy theories and looking at the dissent from ation that we've had to go through this social contagion or this digital virus but if you want to call it has not gone away it's just sort of migrating to other social network channel so when you're looking at the temperature here there's a feeling of sort of unsettled when you're looking at some of the republican constituency and and some of these districts are not quite as calm as we would hope it would what would you like to see the let's start with the republican party what would you like to see good the g.o.p. do now that donald trump is no longer president. but you know there

was mixed messages you know it wasn't that long ago a few days ago the republican leader a minority leader kevin mccarthy who i know said the president from some responsibility for the riots and then today or yesterday he backtracked on that which has us mixed message and here's what the message needs to be anon is fantasy the conspiracy theories around stop the steel and the capital c fantasy number none of it true there's not a systemic problem has to be very specific as we can only fight this i just information with facts and you have this sort of propaganda push and still going on by certain individuals even the republican show in congress right now and i think that's the thing that's bothering a lot of people that look at this not from a political sense but from an analytical or intelligence sense or military operations sense with a background that i haven't and i just don't see this 100 percent push to push this radical theory back when it comes to stop the studio and i think if we don't do that we're going to have this problem for years were to push back look who i. mean

would you include a big trial with conviction of donald trump being one and what about members of congress who have pushed these conspiracy theories a big you have john hall the ted cruz the mean should they be expelled from congress and expelled from the g.o.p. . it's a it's a hard question to ask you know for me i think censuring are looking at things that are that ridiculous i think there needs to be some kind of accountability for that kind of behavior especially you know with josh ali you know giving a sort of salute to the crowd just you know just just complete political pandering in such a dangerous fashion and looking at the president i think i'm one of those republicans i think we should go for with impeachment. based on what i've heard based on what i've seen a lot of people talk about just that speech on january 6th but you're talking about months of pushing just information and i want to remind people as president trumped that reach we did it president biden killed seal team 6 you reach we did that or that osama bin laden had

a body double and again looking at it from an intelligence or analytical perspective looking at it from just information and taking optics right after it the data speaks for itself and she disappears for itself and again i never thought somebody would die like ashley babbitt. believing the same thing the guy wearing horns believes. and that's again i just think this is so surreal to have the biggest conspiratorial gripped in history you know for that to lead to a siege on the capital there needs to be accountability does the republican party but i mean it is divided 3 you have all of these these fractions in functions in the in the party now does it even deserve a chance to continue on or were the best if it seems to exist and there was a founding of something different. well you know the 30 percent 25 to 30 percent that. you know didn't sign on to that ridiculous lawsuit from the i know if you're aware that the texas ag lawsuit to overturn the election and those individuals who

didn't vote you know to turn away the electors and there was only 10 to vote for impeachment weren't a real crossroads here and i'm going to shocks of people here now the people that voted for that don't believe in it and believe that there was a stop a steel movement they don't believe in any of that says the fund raising has been so good at the grassroots level and that's the issue with the g.o.p. right now said they would rather anger to crazy and say facts and the reason that's the case is they want to reelect an s. or that's the issue is that you are the system we have that's the issue of careers that's why i'm today you know i did things and said things i thought were fact i was going to lose i didn't need a check in and i knew other things you know i know you counterterrorism work and i know was still or so i i have a life outside of congress to try but a lot of people do not and the fact is it's dangerous to pander to these type of individuals and to weaponize insanity like we saw on january 6th former congressman denver riggleman joining us tonight from the great commonwealth of virginia

congressman we appreciate your time your insights tonight thank you thanks appreciate it sir. well the u.s. under president joe biden is set to strike a dramatically different course over iran's nuclear program from drums maximum pressure to biden's maximum diplomacy biden has said that if tehran resumes a strict compliance with the 2015 j c.p.o. a agreement restraining its nuclear program in return for relief from economic sanctions washington will return to the deal as well tehran is signaling that it is willing to work with the new administration here is iranian president hassan rouhani. 2 embryos that are today in the bowl is in the coat of the united states. and washington has to return and fulfill its obligations. chair arm more trump's

political career has ended but the j. c.p.o. way is still a life all of his efforts to destroy the j c p a way were unsuccessful and he failed as all right i'm joined tonight by now you are more mortazavi she is in washington d.c. she's a journalist political analyst and host of the iran podcast it's good to have you on the program let me ask you what would what would be the best thing in your opinion what would be the best thing that the biden ministration could do to turn down the volume turn down the temperature in these iranian u.s. relations. well i think that's exactly a great point you're making to turn down the volume because under president trump 4 years of maximum pressure as i call it 4 years of maximum failure because it didn't

achieve any of the stated goals of the trumpet ministration we saw tensions are also increased try to point out the 2 countries where the brink of war at least more than one time over the past year or so or so to basically did the volume and to reduce tensions and to resume diplomacy and as a president biden now as himself pledged i think we are entering of the day c.p.a. would be the 1st stab towards a more diplomacy and more talks on other issues that are of concern to the u.s. and also u.s. allies including partners in europe are you surprised that we're hearing this this is agreeable message from tehran the iranian president signaling that they would be willing to rejoin the deal if the u.s. comes back i mean does that surprise you. not from there on him president because we have to keep in mind this is his foreign policy legacy hassani iran and yes 1st

election he ran with the promise of making this deal and for a 2nd presidential election he ran with the success of this deal in holland as it was in his 1st term so this is something that he's made his foreign policy legacy and apos 4 years have actually been pretty terrible for the administration of hasan rowhani the team that they negotiated the deal that teamed up push back against the hardliners in iran who kept saying you can't trust the american basically president trump prove the hard liners that maybe those who say you can't trust the americans did have a point so i think this the positive reaction is something that we've seen at least from the prologue diplomacy cam ranh throughout the years and now that the administration and the u.s. is changing they have been quite watching this election a very closely into iran and i think they can't wait to basically restart diplomacy we know that they've been in violation of the j.c.b. away and they've been enriching more uranium if the incentive there are strong

enough to get them to pull back could be that you could be or closer than they were to being able to make a nuclear weapon i mean what's the incentive to give that up when incentive this ancient relief which is what it was and there president obama but we have to remember because under president trump also there were a lot of banks of well there was no path to real diplomacy and a lifting of the sanctions that was just the piling and piling of more sanctions but right now we hear the signal from toronto in fact president rouhani and said that they don't want to delay even for one minute the removal of same shares and at the same time like you're saying even violating the terms of the deal to sort of create leverage for when they return back to the negotiating table snigger more of the zombie it's good to have you on the program tonight we appreciate your insights as well thank you. thanks for having me.

robert frost maya angelo they are some of the great american poets who have shared their words and wisdom and presidential inaugurations well there is a new name to add to these titans of american literature her name is amanda gorman she spoke at yesterday's inauguration we want you to watch and listen as a star is born. mr president dr biden madam vice president mr m half americans and the world one day comes we ask ourselves where can we find lights in this never ending shade the loss we carry see we must wait we've braved the belly of the beast we've learned that quiet isn't always peace in the norms notions of

what just is isn't always just. and yet the dark hours before we knew it somehow we do it somehow we've weather and witnessed a nation that isn't broken but simply unfinished we successors of a country and a time were a skinny black girl descended from slaves in the raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president only to find herself reciting for one we've seen a force that would shatter a nation rather than share it would destroy our country if it meant delay in democracy in this effort very nearly succeeded but while democracy can be periodic only delayed it can never be permanently defeated who will not march of back to what it was but move to what shall be a country that is

a bruised but whole benevolence but bold fierce and free if we merge mercy with the mites in the might with the rights the love becomes our legacy we will rebuild reconcile and recover and every no knock over a nation in every corner called our country our people diverse. into beautiful and battered and beautiful when baby comes we step out of the shade of flame and unafraid the new dawn blooms as we free it for there was always lights if only we were brave enough to see it if only were brave enough to be a. brave enough to meet the day is almost on the conversation continues online and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see that i.

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