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A team of investigators sent by the World Health Organization is preparing to leave the hotel quarantined in the chinese city of where they have begun their inquiry into the origins of the corona virus the independent scientists to interview people from Research Institutes hospitals and the Seafood Market linked to the initial outbreak a long awaited inquiry comes after months of negotiations between the double a show in beijing covered 19 was 1st detected in in late 2019 lets cross now to katrina you whos in katrina so how is the Chinese Government likely to be to this team and what are they hoping to find given that its been over a year is the virus was discovered that. Thats right daryn well there is certainly a lot of skepticism the Chinese Government has been tightly controlled the any information any doctor around the origins of this outbreak and the reason why a one of the reasons why the took so long to arrive on was because beijing was reportedly reluctant to bring fied access and of course many people are also questioning whether any key evidence around this point a Virus Outbreak will still be here more than a year after the outbreak 1st began and of course it doesnt help that this mission is highly politicized the u. S. And many other governments around the world have blamed china for what they say is a lack of transparency which they say led to this becoming a Global Pandemic now many of the health that that weve spoken to say that this is a key moment full day its an opportunity they say for beijing to redeem itself if the Chinese Government can clear the path for this investigation if they can cooperate fully with the pager mission they can prove to the International Community that theyre willing to be open about how this part of i think it did actually spread throughout the world now folks into some of the key members here in the waiting in the hotel behind it including dr brawley just marian she said that shes feeling quite optimistic that the team is in good spirits and that shes going to get any citizens of the team will do what it can but also she says that the public may need to temper its expectations this is only the very beginning of what is a deep dive into the origin of the war in a virus and to expect any conclusive blinding in the next few weeks is unrealistic this could in fact take years and katrina in terms of the Bigger Picture across the country its Chinese New Year in just a few weeks time is there a big worry that infections were wrong as with millions of people of course traveling across the country. This certainly is at the moment a few governments in the north of the country are battling resurgent outbreaks including in beijing and also in the provinces of halal john and in a province. There are dozens of regions now under lockdown and that of course is a huge concern for the aging because weve got Chinese New Year coming up and this is known as the Worlds Largest annual migration typically weve got hundreds of millions of people making their way across the country for a period of one to 2 weeks during this holiday and the Chinese Government really doesnt want this virus to spread this year and to to prevent that from happening the vaccine discourage people from traveling this year and theyve done that theyre imposing various policies including compulsory tests free refunds for any travel bookings made during this period and also some governments are even resorting to offering financial incentives to my good workers for example about 300. 00 for them to stay in the cities where they were during this holiday period and instead of going back home to visit family not as a result travel Bookings Agency said theyve seen a decrease in spring festival of Chinese New Year travel holaday bookings by about 40 percent this year all right to katrina you live for us there in katrina thank you for now the new man in charge of americas Foreign Policy says one of the Top Priorities of the Biden Administration will be how to handle iran and its 1st press briefings and taking office u. S. Secretary of state on tony blinken said washington wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal which donald trump pulled out of but lincoln called in iran to act 1st Shihab Rattansi reports argue the new u. S. Secretary of state once again pledged to rejoin the jury c. P. U. Or Iran Nuclear DealPresident Biden has been break clear in saying that if iran comes back into full compliance with its obligations under the j c p a way the United States would do the same thing. But there is still a great deal of ambiguity about the new administrations approach sometimes officials around biden appear to be saying the administration will rejoin the j. C. As it was with no change lifting the u. S. Is crippling economic sanctions concurrently with irans return to compliance while leaving open the option of follow on deals to address other issues of concern that did seem to be what lincoln said on wednesday but at other times they suggest the u. S. Will use its economic leverage to strike a tough a deal before it lift sanctions we are a long ways from that point iran is out of compliance on a number of fronts and it would take some time should it make the decision to do so for it to come back into compliance and time for us then to assess whether it was meeting its obligations both blinken and biden have repeatedly pledged unconditional military aid to israel and that the u. S. Embassy will remain in jerusalem despite the occupation and its clear that the Israeli Government understands biden will be a close ally and. We are in front of the era of a new American Administration that is friendly to israel and we will know how to start to correct a Strategic Dialogue in the near future we will use all the tools available to us politically economically intelligence and security. But some wonder if the Israeli Government is concerned about exactly where the bike ministrations stands they have the very real prospect the United States and iran with you mean negotiations at a very high level these are things that the israelis are trying to grapple with and theyre doing so by in my view really trumpeting a threat from iran that has not changed in the past ever. Iran meanwhile continues to reiterate that it will return to compliance with Iran Nuclear Deal once the signatories decide they really are prepared to abide by the agreement if they rejoin the deal will do so as well and for an entire year we kept Going Forward this way but weve always said as soon as you return to the deal will return to full compliance the next hour. In the meantime the biden ministration are sending conflicting signals even on tuesday sending a b. 52. 00 bomber on a round trip from the u. S. To the gulf in a show of force aimed at iran used by the trumpet administration several times in the dying days of its presidency. Of the state department when all of this says the u. S. Has temporarily frozen arms sales to saudi arabia and the u. S. Secretary of state and blinken says its typical for new administrations to review pending arm sales Donald Trumps administration had been doing deals down to the wire including one for 50 f. 35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin to the u. A. E. The u. S. Ambassador to the u. S. Says his country will work closely with the Biden Administration towards peace and stability in the middle east lets bring in William Lawrence hes a former u. S. Diplomat and currently professor of International Relations at the American University joins us via skype from washington d. C. We have great to have you back on the program so how significant then is this arms sales freeze by the u. S. And why is that bad ministration doing this now do you think. Well theres sort of 2 stories here one is that it is entirely normal as the administration is saying to review such weapons sales when a new administration comes in with im usual is all of these public statements and all of this turmoil including tweets by senators you know and all and all the brouhaha around it that thats quite a typical its very likely that these sales will go through but its the way in which the children ministration hastily went through a whole bunch of quid pro quos relating to the Abraham Accords and other he actions at the end of the ministration created a circumstance by which he even if the democrats and b. Vitamins trishna agree with the arms sales theres a kind of bitter taste in their mouth about the way in which trump went about it and thats regulations under review yeah and when i imagine for a 2nd of stay down from the brink and says nope this is just a normal pause for a new administration but lets remind ourselves that raw many in congress who want a permanent ban on mom sales to the saudis because of a humanitarian crisis caused by the war in yemen. Yeah and so what happened last year and the year before is to murder i showed him the war in yemen dumped him sort of into one issue at the level of the senate and there was a lot of comments by senators about getting cancer study review cancer c. M. S. Much as much of that was as much directed at the Trump Administration and their relationship with those countries as anything the countries were doing and then what happened after that is they got 55. 00 thoughts in the senate 55. 00 votes against the arms sales but they needed 60 votes to break the filibuster and thats still about the same ratio in the senate so if it came up for another congressional review the sales would go through again but the opposition to the conduct of the war him and worlds greatest humanitarian catastrophe is something the senate is going to continue to raise the alarm bells about the i know what in this comes on the heels of joe biden promising to reassess washingtons relationship with saudi arabia is this also about reviewing the very tight relationship that donald trump had with the saudis. Absolutely and so you remember well there was a 1st visit of the trucker ministration to saudi arabia and a picture with the horror of all that and again is a lot about troubled even more than about the sadness because theres a blink in is not going to rock the boat nor is biden. Regarding the Strategic Alliance with saudi arabia and you are a particularly after the ending of the blockade against qatar as long as the saudis and read and write is do the very things that the americans want them to do which is one dont give arms actual kind of link groups which happened in yemen and thats something that came up with the state Department Inspector general report and dont do humanitarian dont do work crimes in yemen and so she would vote against of saudi arabia and thats what lincoln says were not going to help saudi arabia and yemen anymore im just a final thought to you the Trump Administration signed many of these arms deals with the saudis and the u. A. E. Saying look it was to offset the threat posed by iran to israel how do you see bidens Foreign Policy toward saudi arabia playing out that. Well on the one hand and blinking and Jake Sullivan want to rejoin the j c p a way of the its going to be more difficult than they think but on the other hand the big problem with the j c p a way in terms of the gulf countries in israel was that they were consulted enough so the irony here is that to get back into the g c p a way im sure the divided look at mr sheen are going to consult with the saudis in the u. A. E. And thats going to raise all of the very issues were talking about and the whole u. S. Confrontation for its iran so the diplomacy is going to get very complicated very quickly womens right to get your thoughts as always thank you for talking to us here at aljazeera a pleasure. Time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back weve also been through travel from 22 countries where there is a risk of various new toughest frictions announced in the u. K. Forcing some travelers to isolate in hotels for up to 10 days and fears that rain the refugees in bangladesh will miss out on a Coronavirus Vaccine more on that stay with us. But. Weve got some cool but quiet weather just making its way across eastern parts of the u. S. Following on from violent tornadoes in the deep south just around 24 hours or so ago weve got this cold front same place has still its weakening as it bumps into this area of High Pressure that was responsible for the tornado that rattled its way across alabama with the damaging winds in the process quiet as i said across the good parts of the u. S. Added good day a good part of canada but cold temperatures starting to get above freezing in new york and in they say subzero there in chicago through weather actions over towards the west stay with us some very heavy rain coming into california for you on the burn areas that could cause some problems with debby being washed down off the mountains we are looking at the potential for some flash flooding and some disruption and some heavy snow too over the Sierra Nevada some snow warnings in force rest no warning around lake tahoe as a result of the system which will make its way further inland as we go through friday more snow over the rockies but you see pretty much all of california saying some of that wet weather when the the rate is thats not a bad thing but it will cause some disruption central and eastern parts well i say lassie fine dry sunny and co. Welcome. From every one of us. Even those working quietly behind the scenes. So you can relax enjoy a little break in your journey. And when you leave with a smile we know our days work is done. Welcome to our home. Welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this team of investigators sent by the World Health Organization of parents of the fallen teen in the chinese city of. Theyre looking into the origins of the coronavirus covered 19 was 1st detected in late 29 to meet. The new u. S. Secretary of state has laid out how Joe Bidens Administration plans to rebuild ties with the rest of the world Anthony Blinken says if iran returns to full compliance none of the 2050 nuclear deal the u. S. Will also come back to the increased brink and also announced a temporary halt in arms sales to saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Donald Trumps Administration had been doing defense deals down to the wire through the one for 50 f. 35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin to the u. A. E. U. S. President joe biden has signed executive orders to address the Climate Crisis that includes cutting fossil fuel subsidies and posing oil and gas leases on federal land biden says Climate Change is at the center of the u. S. Is National Security and Foreign Policy. And just like we need a unified National Response to cope with 19 we desperately need a unified National Response to the Climate Crisis because there is a Climate Crisis we must keep we must lead the Global Response because neither challenge can be met as secretary kerry has pointed out many times by the United States alone we know what to do weve just got to do it when we think of Climate Change we think of it this is a case where conscience and convenience cross paths where dealing with the sex the central threat to the planet and increasing our Economic Growth and prosperity are one in the same. 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