hello and welcome to the program i'm peter davi a new year and a new start for africa the world's largest single market has now opened enabling all but one of the 54 nations to begin trading the african continental free trade area is a landmark deal bringing together the continent's multi-trillion dollar economy into one bloc it's the culmination of years of work because ca sions and delays and while only $33.00 of the signatories support the deal into effect it's already being heralded as a turning point for africa's economic future committed wrist reports. workers at this garment factory rushed to deliver 1000 selfies masks the owner says more than 2 and a half 1000000. to control the spread of copied 90. but as the africa free trade agreement comes into effect he foresees trouble ahead for the continent's poor countries. small and poor economies will always be at a disadvantage hopefully as time goes on we can get special considerations otherwise it will be difficult to compete. businesses in poor countries may have their concerns but overall experts say the agreement will eventually b

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mercury watching al-jazeera mining's peter davi these are your headlines the u.k. has announced new restrictions on travel out of and into britain is trying to stop the influx of new strains of coronavirus people entering from high risk countries will have to quarantine for 10 days. the new has asked astra zeneca to publish the contract it signed with the e.u. on co with 19 vaccine supplies but the company's c.e.o. says a deal for 400000000 vaccine doses was quote not a contractual commitment. israel senior military commander says he's ordered his forces to speed up preparations for possible military action against iran is also urging the u.s. president joe biden against rejoining the iran nuclear deal. russia's lower house has ratified an extension to the nuclear arms control pact with the u.s. it's the last remaining arms control agreement between the 2 countries after donald trump withdrew from 2 others during his term now president biden has proposed a 5 year extension the deal was supposed to expire in about a week alexander golts ra is in moscow with more rea

davies peter villa doll is following the story for us hi peter as we heard inauguration day is going to be very different this time around very little pomp and circumstance tell us what we can expect. right i mean this really will be an operation unlike any other we've ever witnessed it was long clear that the penn demick was going to abandon preparations for the event but then the attacks on january 6th happened and that really quiet any remaining hopes of having me remotely traditional celebration washington d.c. actually known as the people's city has been all but closed to the public the national mall where tens of thousands of americans usually gather to welcome to new president has turned into a no go zone and you know the u.s. capitol really at this point more closely resembling a fortress we saw and heard in that report there some 25000 national guards have been deployed to protect against a threat of more violence from trump supporters refused to recognize by nasa legitimately elected president and really thing that may actually be the most important difference this time aro

shine the lights in the darkness along the sacred poor reflection remember all we will do davies peter valid is following the story for us hi peter as we heard inauguration day is going to be very different this time around very little pomp and circumstance tell us what we can expect right i mean this really will be an operation unlike any other we've ever witnessed was on syria that depend demick was going to abandon preparations for the event but then the attacks on january 6th happy and that really quiet any remaining hopes of having me remotely traditional celebration of washington d.c. actually known as the people's city has been all closed to the public the national mall where tens of thousands of americans usually gather to welcome to new president has turned into a no go zone and you know the u.s. capitol really at this point more closely resembling a fortress we saw and heard in that report there some 25000 national guards have been deployed to protect against a threat of more violence from trump supporters refused to recognize by an ass illegitimately elected president and re

davis. joined by peter by he's a lawmaker from the governing city and the coordinator of germany's transatlantic cooperation policies mr baez what do you make of the developments in washington of the past 2 days yeah we have seen an attack on the very democracy all that off the on the democratic structures the institutions and i don't think it's only a national thing sent shock waves around the globe and i fear that it's not over yet. are you surprised by the simple. yes i well we've seen over the past 4 years especially because prompted by the rhetoric of rhetoric yesterday the folks what they did for us today it's really horrible some of this embolden right wing extremists here in europe do you agree. i don't think so i mean we have the concern is is there any of the right wing populist movements or is there throughout many european union countries we have them in germany in the parliament even and in other you member states as well we have to fight to counter that the best way to do that it's not true you know counter violence or something but by you know seeing and convincing people that dem

peter bowes. dr mlamuli hlatshwayo davis is an infectious disease physician at the washington university school ofer, iasked her if president biden�*s aim of 100 million vaccinations in his first 100 days in office is achievable. we are happy to hear it. we are happy to see dr fauci at the helm and we're happy to see dr walensky at the cdc, and seeing the science come to the forefront. we need these vaccines. the initial roll—out was woefully inadequate. we are not nearly where we need to be. and the most challenging area that we are having is being black and brown communities who are the fewest as far as who has been getting this vaccine — even in healthcare workers. so what dr fauci says about communication, what president biden says about vaccine is exactly what is needed. and why is that the case? why are so few african—americans being vaccinated? this an issue of mistrust and vaccine hesitancy. i've been on the show before talking about long—standing history of mistrust and black and brown communities — this goes way back, even as far even as slavery, where abhorrent things were done in the n

davis. from the us elections team is with us hi peter we're now seeing several members of the trumpet ministrations stepping down make of this well we've seen at least a dozen members of strays now resigning right so we have reports of several others also who want to resign but fears that doing that would essentially rendered. the government unable to function so wednesday night we saw former chief of staff and current special in more than one ireland. mick mulvaney resigning thursday we saw 1st of 1st lady maloney a trance chief of staff resigning then we saw the transportation secretary elaine chao resign and then education secretary but sort of awesome she wrote in her resignation letter that the events that we saw on wednesday were censored simply unconscionable for our country see late the blame squarely at don't trump speak and say there is no mistaking the impact that his rhetoric on the situation and called it an inflection point for her she then went on to say that you know impressionable children are watching all of this in there that they're learning from this and that they have a moral