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and you want to al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up. we are undaunted in our belief that we shall overcome that we will rise. to make history by becoming the 1st woman and 1st black american to be sworn in as vice president. also the changing of the guard at the oval office is met with optimism by leaders from europe and asia and a call for meaningful action by iran. welcome to the program after a tumultuous transition joe biden the 46th president of the united states has begun his term in office vowing to press forward with speed and urgency within hours of being sworn in biden signed 17 executive orders and actions to reverse some of the former president donald trump s most content. just policies and they included repealing trump s travel ban on some muslim majority countries halting construction of the us mexico border wall and rejoining the paris climate accord biden s also installed a coronavirus response coordinator to oversee distribution ....
hello, i m samantha simmonds. the us military has blamed iranian backed militants for an attack on an airbase used by its forces in iraq. the us said the attack involved multiple ballistic missiles and rockets some were intercepted by air defences but others hit the al assad base. at least one iraqi service member was wounded and a number of americans are being assessed for brain injuries. attacks on us forces in iraq by militias linked to iran have increased since the gaza war began. the attack on the iraqi airbase came just hours after iran warned that an air strike on the syrian capital would not go una nswered . the iranian president, ebrahim raisi, claimed israel was to blame for the air strike which killed five senior members of iran s security forces. israel hasn t commented so far. live now to sydney where i m joined by dr ali mamouri who s a research fellow at deakin university. welcome to you, thank you for being with us. what is your assessment of the latest str ....
president biden said hamas and putin both want to annihilate a neighbouring democracy . he says he is sending an urgent israel and ukraine aid request to congress on friday. let s have a listen to what president biden has been saying. history has taught us that when terrorists do not pay the price for terror, when dictators do not pay a price for aggression they cause more chaos and death and more destruction. they keep going and the cost and the threats to america and the world keep rising. if we were walkway from ukraine or turner backs on israel, it isjust walkway from ukraine or turner backs on israel, it is just not worth it. that is why tomorrow i will send an urgent budget request to congress to fund america s massive security needs to support our critical partners including israel and ukraine. during his address from the oval office, president biden also expressed support for palestinians. the united states remains committed to the palestinian people and thei ....
but with many roads destroyed, getting the aid to survivors will be a big challenge. joe inwood reports. nothing could resist the waters. as the river derna swelled, then broke its banks, entire districts of the city were washed into the sea. those caught in its path didn t stand a chance. translation: people were asleep and no-one was ready. my whole family lived next door to each other. we were all neighbours. we lost 30 people so far, 30 members of the same family. we haven t found anyone. from above, you can see the devastation done to this city. more than 100,000 people lived here as the waters rushed through. as storm daniel swept across north africa, it dropped a huge amount of water onto the hills, swelling the river derna, and then causing two dams to burst. there used to be a dam, this man says. now it s just soil. it seems it was that failure that has caused such carnage. this is a disaster both natural and man made. libya has never really recovered fro ....
Hamas has had its day of reckoning over the violent October 7 attacks, but Israel's day of reckoning for its eight-month-long response is still to come. The question is, has its response been proportional? ....