have shot the shaky relationship. oh and by richardson welcome to the show joe biden has become the united states of 46 presidents and he s already gone down to work reversing some of the policies of the previous administration shortly after entering the oval office president biden signed a stack of executive orders among them rejoining the paris climate accord and reversing an immigration ban on people from several muslim countries has also stepped up measures to fight the coronavirus and announced key appointments while his democratic party has taken control of congress. on tuesday biden took the oath of office promising to bring together a divided nation i was in a sea change in u.s. politics. this is america s day this is democracy day. a day of history and hope are no unresolved. through a crucible for the ages america has been tested a new america has risen to the challenge. in his inaugural speech as president of the united states joe biden appealed to americans to ove
and what s not to be scared about look at all the bankruptcy s the people out of work i m happy i m not in the hospitality sector and then i didn t start a business at any time in this crisis and of any type but what s going to happen to all those empty hotels and restaurants and the people who did launch a new business smack bang in the middle of a pandemic. kirillov least a hotel during the pandemic most of her rooms are empty. no one s checking in today tonga heading has just opened a restaurant but she has no guests are sick a crisis brings opportunities and as a team we want to just seize the moment. and we can keep this up much longer. having her own hotel was a dream come true for kiran and she enjoys chatting to the few guests that come. despite the pandemic lloyd took the plunge and invested a lot of money. but her hotel s occupancy rate is now just $0.12. we didn t expect things to be this bad and of course we re unsure we re worried about what the future will bring
action also coming up america s relations with china plunged to an all time low under donald trump what will the presidency mean for ties between washington and beijing. plus chief of staff talks to. a bail ability back scenes and whether germany will have to close its borders to prevent the spread of the new . hello i m terry martin good to have you with us joe biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the united states and he s whole already gotten down to work undoing some of the policies of the previous administration shortly after entering the oval office president biden signed a stack of executive orders among them rejoining the paris climate of court and reversing an immigration battle in people from several mainly by. islam countries he s also stepped up measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic and announced key appointments while his democratic party has taken control of congress. on wednesday biden took the oath of office promising to bring together a divid
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 effort
rejoin the paris climate accord. when we meet and prime there is executive action. vikki been promising for me to be one way to go. back and they are important but we re going to move her. and the 1st word around here is. to. come. and record. more. or i have a. 100. 100 property and they promise to center. the 1st. couple hours has made history and her swearing in breaking both gender and racial barriers the former california attorney general is the 1st born vice president and also the 1st black and south asian person in the role. we ve got some breaking news coming in now at least 3 people are being killed and 16 injured in an explosion in iraq s capital police say it happened in a market in baghdad s tyrian square they death toll is expected to rise the wounded are in a critical condition we ll bring you more of that once we get it china has expressed concern over twitter s decision to lock the account of its u.s. embassy the social media giant blocked the account after it