i learned a d w. this is deja vu news a live from far away a new u.s. president and a new plan to combat the current virus joe biden signs orders increasing vaccinations and testing and expanding mass for firemen across the country but he warns the pandemic will likely get worse before it gets better paul says matt on the show europeans are being asked to stop traveling e.u.

leaders are strongly discouraging non-essential trends and tougher travel restrictions could be on the way as the conscience struggles to contain new coronavirus variance an update from brussels. and the islamic state claims responsibility for twin suicide bombings in baghdad that killed more than 30 people in the deadliest attack on the iraqi capital in more it's in 3 years. hello i'm claire edges and welcome to the show u.s. president joe biden has unveiled his administration's covert 19 action plan in contrast to his predecessor he has laid out a coordinated federal response masks must assume be worn on most forms of transport and travelers to the u.s. will have to test negative for covert 19 and quarantine upon arrival biden also plans to massively step up vaccinations but says the previous administration left

no clear vaccine distribution system he's warns the pandemic a could get worse in the coming weeks. joe biden promised to take action against the coronavirus so the 1st full day of his presidency was bound to be dominated by a get out and told americans that help was on the way but he also had a stark warning take a few moments to think let me be very clear things are going to continue to get worse before they get better the death toll will likely top 500000 next month the cases will continue to move. the stage of the coronavirus pandemic in the us is indeed very bad over 400000 americans have died from the virus. vaccination centers such as this one in new jersey have been inundated several states have reported they are running out of vaccine despite the huge task ahead

biden told americans the pandemic would eventually come to an end we will get through this we will defeat is pandemic into a nation waiting for action let me be the clearest on this point help is on the way biden signed a raft of executive orders most of which are aimed at kickstarting his vaccine plan but it will be months before the plan will make a dent in the number of americans catching the virus and falling ill. it has not been helped by the news that the trumpet ministration had not developed any comprehensive program to get the vaccine from warehouses into people's arms. and joining us now from washington d.c. is our correspondent all of us al it's all over by then clearly has his work cut out for him and i said he's putting science above politics what do you make of that . certainly no surprise clara yes always made clear that he will

put science 1st and shift to a science based approach when combating the coronavirus pandemic but it's all of course a very powerful approach to leave politics aside what's concerning of course is that this has apparently not been the case in the last 4 years what we also learned is that the trump administration did not provide a seam distribution plan for the incoming biden administration so they will have to start from scratch joe joe biden president biden now assigned several executed orders for that matter to speed up the vaccine supply also the testing supply 1 issued a mask mandate with the overall goal to reach 100000000 backs in nations in the 100 in the 1st 100 days of office another promise he made is transparency and anthony the leading infectious diseases expert who will remain active for president biden was also among the team and let's listen what he had to say one of the things that

was very clear as recently as about 15 minutes ago when i was with the president is that one of the things that we're going to do is to be completely transparent open and honest if things go wrong not point fingers but to correct them and to make everything we do be based on science and evidence and echoing that call for decisions made on science and evidence but do you think joe biden it can really convince all americans to play along. yeah that will be off course one of his biggest challenges as he takes office right now with just one example of wearing a mask the mask mandate and asking americans to wear a mask that has been a political statement to wear one and the united states are very polarized after 4 years of donald trump many supporters of the former president do live in a parallel reality of misinformation of conspiracy theories and

a lot of former trump supporters do question the legitimacy of joe biden's victory and certainly he will have to deal with that put on mind biden of course emphasize the unity in his inaugural speech so how realistic do you think that message is going to be to actually put into action given that there's about to be an impeachment trial of former president donald trump. yeah that will certainly be one of the points when you look back in a couple years and assess the success of the biden presidency and then this will be one of the important and crucial points how do you overcome that kind of division and that divisive rhetoric you certainly the right person to do that he is in office for 50 years as a politician lawmaker a congressman he has credibility on both sides of the political aisle but of course the question is if he can appeal to the more radical side of trump's supporters that will be very tough. certainly also offers

a very different rhetoric and told him and that are that is the right prerequisite all of his knowledge in washington d.c. as always thank you so much. when european countries are struggling to contain the spread of new variant of the krona virus now e.u. leaders are strongly discouraging people from traveling across the continent for non-essential trips and they've warned of tougher restrictions could be decided in the coming days meeting in a virtual summit to leaders from the $27.00 member states also discussed creating a common standard for vaccine certificates but they have delayed talks about any possible easing its moments on deliver is that those commitments have to be respected and they also said that they want that summations to be accelerated across the european union and there's also been some talk about introducing a vaccination of passes to allow people to travel to anything come out of that he used leaders agreed such certificates are important as

a medical document and that they wants to have the common elements there so that you know you can make sure that if you get your certificate in germany it's going to be accepted in greece for example as well at the same time on the more important and interesting question of whether you can use such and such if it gets to travel or to get more rides to go to concerts or to restaurants that is something that e.u. leaders wants to decide on later on a center phenomena in brussels thank you. and the number of deaths from kofi 1000 here in germany has just passed 50000 it comes as chancellor angela merkel has defended her decision to extend and tighten the national walk down she says too many people are still dying from the virus and she's urging germans to take the new variants seriously or face a 3rd wave of infections. some unusual january sunshine in berlin

arrive for journalist questions with a more sober message declining in fiction writes fewer people in icy use just not good enough when still so many people are dying in germany from cars at 19. today alone we have lost over 1000 people this is terrible these are not just numbers these are people who have died all alone these are families who are mourning we have to keep reminding ourselves of this. the big worry now comes in the form of variant strains of covert 19 have been isolated cases of them in germany so far they're one of the major reasons locked down marriages were extended to meet february and some rules tightened he you leaders want to stop these strains from spreading across the block without having to close borders pongal americal says germany isn't planning to do that yet bosh. be quite frank if

a country with an infection rate twice as high as germany's opens all their shops and we still have ours closed then of course there's a problem. and when it comes to vaccinations another call for patience and enormous global demand and not enough doris's has led to a slower than expected rollout in germany uncle americal says things will improve repeating a promise that everyone in germany should be offered a vaccine by the middle of september. let's take a look now at some of the other stories we're following for you european parliament members have passed a resolution demanding a stop to the construction of the north to stream to gas pipeline russia and germany it comes in response to russia's imprisonment of opposition leader alexei navalny massive a baltic sea pipeline is about 90 percent of finnish a faces opposition from the united states climate change activists. google says it will block its internet search engine in australia. if it's forced to pay news

organizations for their content representatives at a parliamentary hearing and new regulations intended to make tech giants pay publishers for using new staff it's australia's prime minister said he would not respond to google's threat. the release of the latest a bond film has been postponed again no blow to movie theaters across the globe that have been hard hit by the pandemic no time to die was originally scheduled for release in april last year but has now been pushed back to october it's the 3rd time the film has been delayed. and the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for double suicide bombings in the iraqi capital which killed 32 people and wounded more than 100 others it's the 1st major attack in baghdad in 3 years and with an election looming tensions are running high. security forces assess the damage from the deadly suicide blast and are met with

pools of blood and widespread destruction. medical workers tend to dozens of injured victims. and we were there by the stands someone came and fell to the ground and started complained that his stomach hurt then he pressed the detonator in his hand and it exploded immediately people were torn to pieces many died and were injured. these kinds of attacks were once common in baghdad but have been rare since the islamic state was driven out in 2017 tensions have heightened over forthcoming elections and an economic crisis. forces are on high alert in case of further attacks. and before we go here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you u.s. president joe biden has unveiled his administration's strategy to combat the coronavirus tend to take measures include ramping up vaccinations and testing

americans both the required 2 air masses on most forms of transport and travelers flying to the united states will need to be tested and find on a write off 1st step as your news update at this hour don't forget you can always get the latest around the clock on our web site www dot com and claridge and berlin from the entire team thanks for watching. the. good life on earth one of the kind and. a joy to coincidence. were the total happened. as a bit like winning the lottery. or unique starts feb 11th on t.w. .

long before homo sapiens began to populate the earth another human species had established itself across much of the eurasian continent the neanderthals. fossils discovered during the last 2 centuries in the atlantic ocean and in siberia have shed some light on these mysterious archaic humans. culture i had shoshu system as i have enjoyed every church. recent archaeological finds in england and france have helped researchers find out more about these early inhabitants of eurasia so there's on t.v.

for a master their environment and understood it perfectly the. neanderthals managed to survive for some $300000.00 he is and then they disappeared how did they overcome makes the stench will threats such as extreme climate change and walked in the end of phil's and modern humans have in common. after the 1st archaeological evidence of neanderthals was discovered in the 19th

century many experts described the species as a plight. a more realistic picture of the neanderthals evolved decades later. analysis of their remains and various artifacts provided details about the way they lived the survival skills that they developed and the climate in which they lived. in that climate was extremely harsh during the millennia that neanderthals inhabited the eurasian continent. this was the ice age and there were periods of extreme cold with temperatures dropping to minus 20 degrees celsius and sea levels

were much lower than they are today. the evidence indicates that the neanderthals adapted well to these particularly difficult conditions. paleoanthropologist professor chris stringer of london's natural history museum stache eliza's in the physical and anatomical development of early humans. the neanderthal face is very different to the shape of a modern face and many arguments about how that phrase evolved wired evolved and i think the view now is that certainly that face it's partly to do with count adaptation so we know neanderthals evolved in conditions that were largely. colder and drawa than the present day in europe and it's wrong actually that the face was

absolutely the ninety's or because the nose is very large and it's pulled forwards it has a very large internal volume. so partly it seems that it's there as acting like a radiator it's warming up and humidifying the air that's coming in. and this are true for all of these are huge huge all of them really have around nice of apparatus the more you wish to but never tries to take it to another level where they really are pumping huge amount of air through their noses and i've got huge lungs barrel chest then each night they're blond they're burning more energy to study room as well. these physical characteristics helped the neanderthals

survive in an inhospitable ecosystem. they also developed an important skill making tools out of flint and other materials. this was groundbreaking technology. it's known as the level one technique and involves using a role called bone to chip off thin sharp edged flakes from the cool material. here archaeologist van son last tour demonstrates the technique. because i think about him shaping the core and then i'll remove pieces that could be used as till it. gets. this is what's called

a liver point little it runs along these ridges on your record now i'll break off a piece on this one. it's a long slow process now he has to sharpen the edges. and some as a player you can see at the distinctive features of this process is about going after 2 ridges that come to a point and the beveled cutting edge. there's a concave ledge could be used to attach the pointed flake to a spear. the level wire technique helps neanderthals create weapons to hunt large animals that would provide them with meat

for food and skins for clothing. this allowed the neanderthals to spread across the continent despite the cold weather. they were also way built to adapt to a brief interglacial periods that were marked by significant increases in temperatures and. there are only a few sites where experts have been able to study thousands of years of neanderthal history. one of them is on the island of jersey in the english channel excavations over the course of the last century have revealed new details on the lives of these early humans. archaeologist becky scott is a researcher at the british museum she and her colleagues have spent several years

studying the neanderthal site but like quote does sound braille are. the settlements preserved within the bush and begin accumulating at least 240000 lasik and safety we have dates now round about $40000.00 and there were lighter settlements as well so actually that catches that entire time span. but what it also captures is she changes in climate an environment. so there are times when it's warm you know it's nearly as well mr day in the sea is quite close there are other times when it's cold dipping down into a glacial period in and then the same is locked up a long way north of the site and a completely different landscape 6 pages. in prehistoric times jersey was not

an island it was part of the european mainland one of its most prominent geographical features is a rock formation that towers 150 meters over a broad plain neanderthals may have used it as a lookout post. finance to people that. gives them control of that so you can maybe imagine somebody sat up there perhaps directing that the grapes perhaps spotting. maybe other people coming through maybe herds of animals coming through so by getting out they're actually able to control and work with their landscape in a way that you can't when you're just download and moving through it. scientists mapped out the ocean floor around the island to find out what the area might have looked like in prehistoric times. a few years ago my colleague richard

bates and martin bass actually started t. conduct about the metric so they both the bank that surrounds the cart and up to 5 kilometers off shore so that was kind to me in the landscape that we can't say say there's little bits of it still visible is a scary reason reefs and eroded cease that this. debate brothers investigation showed that the seabed was not very deep they also found canyons where neanderthals could trap bison wild cattle known as all rocks all mammoths. here at the university of reading archaeology professor stephen mithun has been researching how early humans learn to develop survival skills and adapt to their environment. i think in many ways you know intel's were wild people but i mean wild

in a way in the best sense the word they were very sensitive emotional caring people but they were engaged in the wilderness wilderness voices tundras of into place of force of coasts and had a great understanding of nature and were very much part of nature in the whether or not today so much. rivers and streams were vital to the neanderthals survival. they used these bodies of water to help find their way through dense into glacial forests they also hunted animals who gather there to drink. excavations that cow who are in northern france revealed evidence of big game hunts

that took place there an estimated 123000 years ago. experts from france's national institute for archaeological research in rap have been working at the site for more than a decade is a new move to go back to paula mold all the animals were probably killed on the riverbank at that time the river was about 10 meters from here not where it is today the ground was soft which made it difficult for the animals to move around it would have been too dangerous to hunt them on open hard ground. or. the lives of the neanderthals were focused on hunting they developed skills that eventually made them the most dangerous predators in the region. and you know that that they were expert hunters that we usually associate neanderthals with sites where the remains of medium sized animals have been found in various species of deer and reindeer to be more but they were also apparently. able to kill wild cattle which were nearly 2

meters tall. the woolly rhinoceros was also huge they were very aggressive and dangerous animals but they also provided a rich source of food including meat and bone marrow on the. excavation direct to luke launched says the scientists yielded important new information on how neanderthals adapted to their environment and this has changed our perception of these primitive humans. for the coerced site was discovered in 2002 experts believe that neanderthals could not adapt to interglacial environments it was thought that they inhabited only the colder step sounds and moved out of our region during interglacial periods of. evidence from the site indicates that neanderthals spread their activities over several locations for

example the current takes give asian was set up at a place where these elite humans butchered the animals they killed. this was an intermediate site they used for slaughter and they killed the animal somewhere else and then brought the carcasses hear it on afterward they probably took the meat to a base camp that was a little further away who called a basket pusher stamp a pretty well. we've recovered items that indicate that these people made their weapons very quickly without a lot of extra work the idea was to complete them in what was for them a short period of time. scientists have now determined how these sites were used and how.